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Today’s Lesson: Professors Proffer Personal Recipes Begin the Cuisine: Campus
Food Service Goes Upscale
Lucky Jim: Honoring
Provost Lakso with $800,000 Endowment
Jerusalem Diary:
Two Researchers Describe Experience in Holy Land
Larry’s Legacy: Coach Bock Leaves Juniata
Campus Conversations: Juniata faculty and students weigh in on issues of the day. Reporting by: Erin Kreischer ’13, Aaron Adams ’12, Joseph Aultman-Moore ’12, Thanh Nguyen ’14, Mary Munion ’12, Kelly Russo ’14 and Joyce Eveleth ’11
—Nicole Houck ’12, Hollidaysburg, Pa., on how she spent Valentine’s Day.
“I don’t care about Jennifer Aniston’s opinion on any matter. If I’m watching the game, it’s because
I love football. I’d rather hear more about the players and coaches then the personal
opinion of pop stars and the like.”
—Erica Thieman ’13, Williamstown, W.Va., on the seemingly endless Super Bowl pregame show.
“I don’t think we know enough to support it either way. I’m not exactly against it, but I think we should use the precautionary principle by slowing down, seeing the effects, monitoring, and making sure there are no
serious health or ecosystem problems, such as radon, which
are difficult, if not impossible, to fix.”
—Environmental scientist Neil Pelkey, on using fracturing, or “fracking” technology to drill for natural gas.
“Social media has played an important part in these protests— they were actually first organized on a Facebook page. The
government shut down the Internet and cellphone service to try to slow the organizers—trying to spin news
to their advantage. But a satellite news company based in Qatar, Al Jezeera, has been providing coverage critical of the government and most importantly, this criticism is not from Americans. If it had not been for satellite TV and social networking, these protests never would’ve happened.” —Emil Nagengast, professor of politics, on the revolutions in the Middle East.
“I am going to Greece. I
am mostly excited to see all of the historic ruins and to travel to all of the Greek Islands.
I’m so excited that I would do back flips if I knew how!” —Toni Harr ’13, Johnstown, Pa., on her study-abroad assignment
“I go to Standing Stone, Mimi’s, and OIP for dinner a lot. I go for runs throughout the town. I wish
that I had more time so I could volunteer around the community.
I feel that it is important for college students to give back to
the community that gives them so much in return.” —Emma Ruggery ’13, Duncansville, Pa., on where she likes to hang out.
“Graduate school should not be something that should be a goal for every student at a fouryear college. Graduate school requires from the moment you enter a conviction that this is the profession that you want to be in. (As) a graduate student, you are
not just a student. You are a member of that profession as
well. If you have any serious doubts about it, I would say that graduate school is probably not the place for you.”
—Peter Goldstein, professor of English, on whether every student should apply to graduate programs.
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to tie your main points together, repeat and come back frequently during your
presentation. Well-constructed organization can help your audiences understand what you are talking about and remember the key points about your presentation. Good organization lets you keep going even when you get into trouble with computers, visual aids or any other problem.”
—Donna Weimer, professor of communication, on the most important thing to remember when preparing a presentation. One way to take part in an abundance of campus conversations is to try and dine locally at Standing Stone Coffee Company. The sodas, water and conversations all are sparkling.
Photos: Jason Jones; Opposite page (left): Michael Black
“I celebrated Valentine’s Day by writing a 10-page paper, eating a lot of chocolate, and taking an LSAT practice test. I also had a nice Valentine’s Day dinner with some friends.”
President’s Note Dear Friends, The cover of this magazine has a picture of a goat, a family, and a torte. Not, at first, a combination that makes much sense, until you know the family raised the goat, the goat gave them milk, and the milk became the cheese in the torte. At the core of all that activity is care and nurturing, hope for the future, and a reward for long commitment. One of the main stories is about reward for long commitment. In April, Provost Jim Lakso, 41-year veteran Thomas R. Kepple Jr. at Juniata, learned that friends, former students, colleagues, President and family members raised more than $800,000 to establish kepplet@juniata.edu an endowment in his name. The Lakso Endowment builds on Jim’s legacy of teaching and commitment to students: by supporting faculty development, it ensures Juniata’s faculty have the means to build on the College’s defining tradition of excellent teaching. Jim’s influence as provost is all over the content of this magazine—from the teaching spirit evidenced in the faculty recipes included to Don Braxton’s ambitious project to Kathy Westcott’s work with the Center for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning—even to the alumni profile of one of Jim’s students, Casey Craig ’97. But the Lakso Endowment announcement also kicks into gear our efforts related to Changing Lives to Change the World, an initiative to build Juniata’s endowment. Our goal is to build support for activities that define Juniata: student access, faculty excellence, and programs that enhance what we do in the classroom and on campus. In a way, each magazine is a reminder of the Juniata that is worth our individual and collective investment. But in the next two years, as we prepare for the transition in leadership that my retirement in 2013 will bring, you will hear more about opportunities to help build Juniata’s endowment. Our financial resiliency will help attract a great next leader, and investment in our character—through endowed programs, professorships, and scholarships—will ensure Juniata’s inimitable work with students continues to be innovative, challenging, and effective. As the stories in this and other magazines show, Juniata changes the lives of students who come here, and those students, because of the character of this place, very often leave Juniata and work to change the world around them. That is why we have named this endowment effort Changing Lives to Change the World, a reminder that we are focused on endowment not simply for financial reasons, but to strengthen our longstanding character for the benefit of those yet to come. I look forward to working with you on this next advance for Juniata. In the meantime, enjoy the magazine! Warm regards,
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Juniata students have a discerning artistic eye in addition to their academic gifts. Check out the winner (left) and the runners up. For more photos go to the Juniata College photo contest page on Flickr.com or follow the progress of the contest week by week on our website.
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“I think the trombone player is a good picture since every time I look at it I am able to hear some music. It makes me extremely happy and I hope people who look at this man can hear some music too, and feel the joy that fills New Orleans’ streets every year at Mardi Gras.” —Violaine Jurie, international student, France
“This photo is of Alisha Gray ‘11 and Heather Ewing (UMass-Amherst) bungee jumping in Baños, Ecuador while we studied abroad. It only cost $15 to walk on the wild side and jump off of this really sketchy bridge. I wanted to capture everyone’s looks of pure excitement or fear when they jumped. This photo represents all of the new things we tried and the risks we took while we were in Ecuador. That semester was the experience of a lifetime and I’m really glad I had the opportunity to study abroad.”—Alison Rihs ’11, wildlife conservation
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“This picture was taken in Imperial Beach, Calif., which is the southwestern-most point in the continental U.S. That’s my brother, Kevin. We had gone out for breakfast and we saw this building on the way back which had murals all over it. Of course, once I saw the shark one, I had to make Kevin put his head in it. This photo brings back really good memories of my summer internship in California and the time I was able to spend with my brother. Living in Pa., I don’t get to see him that often, but that summer was my big opportunity to spend every weekend with him.”—Nora Davidson ’12, history
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“This was one of the first snows on campus this past winter and classes had been canceled so my friend and I thought it would be appropriate to celebrate by taking some pictures. I had been experimenting with a new technique that I had learned from a friend that caused the lens to appear cloudy. I thought it added an extra bit of personality to the photo, while highlighting some of the most beautiful aspects of our campus.”—Elaina Robins ’12, art and art history
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Contents Campus Conversations . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover President’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Campus News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Begin the Cuisine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The days where surly lunch ladies dump lumps of potatoes on your plate are long gone. Sodexo, Juniata’s food service provider, offers more dining options than Bobby Flay’s Rolodex while always seeking student feedback and improving its product.
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A longtime Juniata tradition revolves around College faculty sharing meals with students. A wide range of College faculty “foodies” have agreed to share savory recipes ranging from simple cupcakes to a marathon two-day beef brisket.
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After 30 years and a dedication to excellence that literally put Juniata on the map as a volleyball power, Larry Bock is now plying his trade at the U.S. Naval Academy. By taking a look back at Larry’s career we can see how far the College has come and how much one man can influence students, a college and a sport.
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Most student-faculty research projects begin and end in a lab somewhere, but Caleb Gwinn ’11 found himself taking his first-ever plane trip accompanying religion researcher Don Braxton on a weeklong pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Here are their impressions of research, religious fanaticism, and residential hotels.
Faculty Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Faculty Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Alumni Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Class Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Recruit a Student (Alumni Gold Card) . . . . . . . . . . Juniata Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Homecoming and Family Weekend . . . . . . . . . . . . 360° . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Comedy on Campus: Office Hours Skewers Academia Videos produced by colleges and universities are typically straightforward affairs—a tour of the campus, a film of the president talking about how great the college is, sometimes a lame Glee parody. Indeed few, if any, make fun of academic culture to the point where the videos could qualify as a situation comedy. Welcome to Juniper College. Juniper College is a fictional liberal arts college—one that looks suspiciously like Juniata College—where gossip, oneupmanship, condescending behavior and gastrointestinal upset compete with the educational aspects of college life. Juniper College is the setting for Office Hours, a six-episode situation comedy webisode series that debuted in October 2010 and recently finished its three-episode second “season.” The series is a collaborative effort between Juniata College’s digital media program and a creative team comprised almost entirely of Juniata alumni, faculty and staff. “I saw this first as a comic strip like Dilbert set at a university,” says Nathan Wagoner, who is considered the show’s producer. Although Wagoner is in charge of creating the College’s marketing videos and teaching parts of the College’s digital media curriculum, the Office Hours project was created and completed during off-time for its many participants. “It’s a huge, long-term training exercise for all of us and a community building project that has students working side-by-side with faculty, staff and alumni,” Wagoner says.
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Blowtorches And Ray Bans: Juniata’s Glass Class
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David Reingold casually fires up one of the torches and holds a piece of glass to the flame. It starts to lose shape and turns white hot. As the tube starts to melt inward and collapse on itself he puts it to his lips and blows a quick breath into it. A molten glass bubble forms. So that’s why it is called glass blowing. Juniata’s studio is tucked away in a small room in a nondescript corner of the basement in the science center. Five blowtorches face the wall, a few stools and industrial-looking machinery fill up the rest of the room. Juniata currently offers two sections of glassblowing each spring, making the class available to 10 students each year. Glass blowing is a skilled art form put into practical scientific application. Most university science departments used to have in-house glass blowers. These artisans would make repairs on cracked or broken glass equipment and also create specialty items that were either very expensive or not available on the market. The College has had a glass blowing shop since at least 1965. “Are there mishaps very often? Or are we just talking an occasional singed eyebrow?” Reingold
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says jokingly. His tone turns serious as he adds, “If you look on the ground you’ll probably see blood. A student sliced his thumb open pretty bad on a piece of glass last week. Everyone will burn and cut themselves at least once. It comes with the territory.” All students have to wear safety glasses at all times. The glasses are not those awkward, clunky, cover-threequarters-of-your-face plastic frames. They are kind of a strange Ray-Ban sunglasses knock-off. The sunglasses are necessary not just to protect your face from the occasional sparks, but also because without the tint of the glasses the glass turns such a brilliant white no one would be able to see what they are working on. Students start work by learning how to make or repair basic lab glassware. One of the first things they make is a condenser, which is basically several tubes fused together. “It’s not something most people get to do every day. I just really want to move forward so I can make a fish and say, look what I did!” says Hannah Frank ’11, of Altoona, Pa. —By Caitlin Bigelow ’11, marketing intern from La Mesa, Calif.
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My Coffee With Mike Trim: Notes on Hollywood Mike Trim ’76, who recently won an Emmy Award for the Showtime series Weeds, returned to campus in January to talk to prospective students at an enrollment Open House and work with digital media and communication students. His main point? How to break into the all-elusive world of Hollywood—the Industry. Trim, an Emmy-winning cinematographer, explained in a public talk how his modest start at Juniata gave him the freedom to explore and cultivate the passion he found in film. He just didn’t realize it at the time. As Trim got older he started traveling to Manhattan to see the movies. “As far as I was concerned there was no film too weird for me. The weirder the better. But, I watch almost no TV. Which is actually good for me.” He pauses, and chuckles, “I make better TV by not watching TV.” During his time at Juniata he often tried to bring in racy, controversial films for the students and was often shot down. He laughed, “They said no to Pink Flamingos. (A low-budget dark comedy starring a plus-sized drag queen.) Hey, it was the ’70s!” Shortly after Trim arrived at Juniata he developed a reputation as the ‘film guy’ and became the head of the Film and Cinema Club, something, he notes, “I only would have done at a place like Juniata.” Now, as an
Michael Trim ’76, who recently won an Emmy Award for the Showtime drama Weeds, returned to Juniata in January to talk to current and prospective students. Here, Michelle Bartol ’84, dean of enrollment, introduces Trim before an Open House enrollment event. Trim later offered an internship on Weeds to Andrew Waplinger ’13.
Emmy-winning “TV guy,” he has the opportunity to influence future filmmakers. Anne Wakabayashi ’11, of El Cajon, Calif., who recently took Juniata’s Politics and Film class, summed it up perfectly when she said, “It’s really beneficial for students interested in cinema and film to have a real-life model in front of them. Juniata has such a great community. I thought it was cool that someone who has gone as far and done as much as he has is still coming back to campus and involved in Juniata.” —By Caitlin Bigelow ’11, marketing intern from La Mesa, Calif.
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Erin Dodson, a member of the Class of 2008, passed away May 1 after a seven-year battle with brain cancer. The talented multisport athlete was stricken less than a month after starting her freshman year as a member of the Juniata women’s volleyball team. Erin was a member of the 2004 national championship team and cheered on her teammates at the championship game in Rochester, Minn. Erin returned to Juniata in 2005 and 2007 to resume her studies and also worked as a volleyball assistant. Ultimately, though, she had to withdraw from college to concentrate on her treatment. Her jersey, No. 12, was retired in 2008.
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likely be incomprehensible to many people and perhaps not of much interest even if it did make sense. However, the inspiration that led me to my career began with an interest in the natural world, which still provides much enjoyment in my daily life. Complementing the natural world, music provides both relaxation and an outlet for expression for my entire family. Also, as a mother of a teenager with an autism spectrum disorder, much of my emotional energy is channeled to guiding him in his everdeveloping sense of his relationship to the people in the world around him. With this background, here are my top 5 inspirations: The Mozart Horn Concertos All of Mozart’s music resonates with me. I find the musical structure fulfilling and satisfying. As a horn player, the horn concertos are some of my favorite works. How Sweet the Sound, Chanticleer
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The Burpee Seed Catalog I spend much of my free time in my garden, a trait I inherited from my maternal grandfather, Jacob Moore. I love experimenting with different varieties of vegetables and flowers, simply watching them grow and blossom through the season. My favorites are zinnias. Bringing Nature Home, by Douglass W. Tallamy
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This book clearly lays out why introduced landscaping plants are so devastating to our local habitats, and why the idealized American lawn is one of the most widespread environmental threats in our culture. I was introduced to this book last summer. It inspired my sabbatical adventure of learning to identify common plants and start the long-term project of clearing our small property of invasive species.
Historians frequently argue that the French revolution was the “touchstone of the modern world.” Although women were at the forefront of the revolution, it is striking to me how often scholarship marginalizes or ignores their importance. This thoughtprovoking and highly readable novel brings to life three women who took prominent roles during the revolution, making it clear that both women and men made the past.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon
Unknown Soldiers, by Neil Hansen
This book, a novel written in the first-person, gives the reader an understanding of the workings of a non-typical, yet curiously logical, mathematical mind. The author never uses the word “autism” in the novel, but many of the elements of the character’s thoughts and actions resemble an autism spectrum disorder. The book provides a readable venue to understanding a highfunctioning autistic mind.
In this book, Hansen uses quotes from the letters, diaries, and family papers of three soldiers who fought and died on (World War I’s) Western Front. He brings their experience vividly alive, highlighting for the reader the cost of war to the soldiers who fought, to the loved ones they left behind, and to the wider society. In May Claude Choules died, aged 110, the last known combat veteran of the Great War, 1914-1918, bringing the past right into our present.
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Potiki, by Patricia Grace Grace is a Maori writer, little-known outside New Zealand. This novel takes the reader into the Polynesian world to explore how a community tries to balance ancestral allegiance with modern reality. What is fascinating for a historian is that, because of the way Maori conceptualize time, they view the past as being in front of them, as well as behind. To My Children’s Children, by Sindiwe Magona The author says that she writes about African women because she knows that “one day they will come into their own.” This is her own story, a beautifully written autobiography about growing up in South Africa under apartheid. She demonstrates for students that African women are not passive victims of their circumstances but rather that they are guided by love of family and that they meet challenge with resilience and courage. Safe Area Goražde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-95, by Joe Sacco
reading these books would be a prerequisite for earning the right to vote in the U.S. 1984, by George Orwell Orwell gives us a nightmarish depiction of big government. The torture of Winston Smith is the best analysis of communism I have ever read. “How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?” Unfortunately, thought control didn’t die with Orwell or the USSR. Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck Steinbeck gives us a nightmarish depiction of small government. The desperation of the Joad family is the best analysis of laissez-faire capitalism I’ve ever read. All Tea Party supporters should read this book so that they can see the nightmare they dream about. Good debate topic: Who suffers more, Winston Smith in the totalitarian dystopia or Tom Joad in the libertarian utopia? In Retrospect, by Robert McNamara McNamara offers a valuable reflection on Vietnam and how the “best and
the brightest” Americans took the U.S. into a disastrous war. He describes how U.S. decision-making was blinded by ideology and could not even ask simple, rational questions about foreign policy. Fiasco, by Thomas Hicks Hicks attacks the ignorance and stubbornness of the civilian policy makers who led us into the current Iraq War. He shows how President George W. Bush’s team repeatedly overruled the wisdom of American military commanders prior to and during the war. The whole world has suffered due to the ignorance and arrogance of Donald Rumsfeld and company. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak A spoiled, misbehaved child (see him as Uncle Sam) escapes his domestic problems by creating a fantasy world. In this dream world, he travels to a land of savages. He tames the wild things with his confident stare. They make him their king. He dances the rumpus with the beasts, then returns home to a warm supper and patriotic parade. My dad read me this book when I was five so that I would understand America’s place in the world. The wild things still scare me.
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Written by Joe Sacco, a journalist who covered the war and genocide in Bosnia, this graphic book (it’s written in comicbook style) explores what happened in a town in one of the UN-declared “safe areas.” Students frequently say that this was a book they could not put down, even though the depiction of the effect of war on the individual and community is as deeply disquieting as it is compelling.
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Letters to Four Students: Commencement Speaker Goes Unconventional
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Commencement speaker Maryanne Wolf, professor of child development at Tufts University, points out one of the students to whom she wrote an individual letter as part of her unique commencement address.
their worth…based on your own honed ability to think for yourself with all your intelligence.” Wolf ’s final letter, addressed to Tyler Morelli ’11, of Huntingdon, and Erin Schillinger ’11, of Fogelsville, Pa., both education POEs, focused on two future teachers because “society’s teachers at every level are the guardians and transmitters of the best of human knowledge.” She told the two fledgling educators that they “must teach the next generation all that they need to survive in a digital world and all that they need to think critically, analytically, and at their deepest levels.” She concluded her address by reminding the graduates, “You who will lead us further into the 21st century, never let the distinctions among information, knowledge, and wisdom be lost to the next generations: we must preserve all three … only a society capable of virtuous action can move our species into future stages of human development that are grounded in both intelligence and compassion for each human being.”
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Not many college students get the chance to be singled out by the commencement speaker. In Juniata’s case in 2011, this is a good thing. Maryanne Wolf, professor of child development and director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, turned the traditional commencement speech on its head by reading three short letters to individual members of the assembled graduating class at Juniata’s 133rd commencement ceremony May 14. Wolf dedicated her letters to four graduating seniors and titled them “On Being a Decent Person,” “On Using All Your Intelligence in the Real World,” and “On Conquering the World ‘One Child at a Time.’” The graduating class of 319 students was awarded bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degrees at the ceremony. President Kepple also awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree to David Goodman ’74, CEO of D.C. Goodman and Sons. Wolf opened her address by dedicating her first letter to Yao Li ’11, an international student from Chengdu, China, saying, “How do today’s choices fit within two ongoing perspectives: the larger perspective of your potential contributions to the larger society, and the smaller but equally essential perspective of being good and decent to those you love and who love you?” Wolf ’s next letter, addressed to Jaclyn Johnson ’11, a psychology POE from Altoona, Pa., urged the class to take a look at its own psychological outlook. “Look at your own thinking and the differences it has undergone over your own lifetime,” she said, adding, “You learned how to hold several contrasting viewpoints in mind at one time and evaluate
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uniata honored five graduates during the Alumni Awards Assembly, part of Juniata’s “Alumni Weekend 2011.” Kunio Sayanagi ’00, postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, was awarded the Young Alumni Achievement Award; John Stauffer ’66, a retired executive at Rohm and Haas Co., received the William E. Swigart Jr. Alumni Humanitarian Award; Joan Van Note ’66, a retired guidance counselor, received the Harold B. Brumbaugh Alumni Service Award; Christopher Peterson ’74, professor and Nowlin Chair of Consumer-Responsive Agriculture at Michigan State University, was awarded the Alumni Achievement Award; and Dr. William Olstein Jr. ’02 received the Health Professions Alumni Appreciation Award. Kunio Sayanagi has been a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA since October 2010 and currently researches atmospheric jetstreams and turbulence on Saturn and Jupiter. The planetary scientist also maintains a side career as a freelance science writer for Ars Technica. Before moving to UCLA, he Photography by: Aaron McCoy ’12
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worked at the California Institute of Technology from 2008 to 2010. While at CalTech, Sayanagi was named as one of 50 scientists nationwide to be part of the National Academies Planetary Science Decadal Survey, a team of researchers tasked with making recommendations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the planetary exploration strategy in the coming decade from 2013 to 2023. Sayanagi earned a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Juniata and went on to earn a master’s degree in 2004 and a doctoral degree in 2007, both in physics, from the University of Arizona. John Stauffer retired as the technical director for the Paint Quality Institute of the Rohm and Haas Co., a supplier of raw materials to paint companies based in Spring House, Pa.. He started with the company in 1968, specializing in the marketing of raw materials to paint manufacturers. He eventually became market manager for the company’s acrylic latex business for exterior paint. As director of the Paint Quality Institute, he created training manuals, sales CDs and conducted training sessions for sales staff and professional painters. Before joining the corporate world, Stauffer served as a Peace Corps volunteer immediately after graduation from Juniata. He spent two years teaching science, English and art to youngsters in Eritrea, then a province in northern Ethiopia. He retired from Rohm and Haas in 2006. After talking to his former Eritrean students in 2005 Stauffer and some Eritrean friends started The America Team for Freedom for Eritrea “to eliminate, through peaceful means, the practice of the current regime, of cruelty, torture, rapacity and murder visited on the population of Eritrea.” In early 2010 the group dedicated its focus to helping Eritrean refugees with college
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scholarships in Ethiopia, and assisting refugees recently resettled to the United States. They renamed the group The America Team for Displaced Eritreans and launched www.EritreanRefugees.org. Joan Van Note, a retired guidance counselor from New Jersey High School in the Buena School District, graduated from Juniata with a bachelor ’s degree in elementary education and went on to earn a master’s degree in 1971 from Glassboro State College, now Rowan University. Van Note received the Brumbaugh Award in recognition of the four-decade career as class fund agent for her graduating class. Since 1967 she has personally contacted every member of her class every year. Her career began as an elementary school teacher, but after three years she switched to teaching high school earth science. In the early 1970s, she earned a master’s in student personnel services and became a guidance counselor. She retired from Buena Regional School District in 2005. She remains active in her community, serving on the administrative council for Kemble Methodist Church. She has been a member of the Greater Woodbury Kiwanis Club since 2005, serving as its president and currently as Lieutenant Governor for Division 2 of the New Jersey District of Kiwanis. She also served as a member of the college’s Alumni Council from 1981 to 1983. Christopher Peterson is an agribusiness economist as well as the Homer Nowlin Chair of Consumer-Responsive Agriculture and professor of agricultural, food and resource economics at Michigan State University. He also is director of the Michigan State University Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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Peterson’s research and outreach interests include strategic management, entrepreneurship, business innovation, vertical coordination strategy, supply chain management and value-added ventures and differentiated product development. He also is weaving sustainability into his work based on creating “futuring” scenarios within the agri-food and bioeconomic systems. His emerging work in sustainability issues brought him to serve on the Executive Committee of the Sustainable Michigan Endowed Project, as well as on the international advisory board of TransForum, a consortium dedicated to scientific and practical discoveries to enhance sustainable agriculture in the Netherlands and around the world. Peterson’s wife, Debra, also graduated from Juniata in 1974. Peterson earned an M.B.A. in 1981 from the Harvard University Business School. In 1981 he returned to Juniata to teach in the Department of Economics and Business Administration. He earned a doctoral degree in agricultural economics in 1991 from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He left Juniata to join the Michigan State faculty in 1991 to lead the university’s agribusiness management program. While at Michigan State, Peterson received the Teacher Scholar Award from the university in 1998 and was named the Nowlin Chair in 2002. He was named director of Michigan State’s Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources in 2003. In 2010, he was named a Fellow by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association.
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Dr. William Olstein Jr. has been an attending physician at J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital since 2009, serving as a hospitalist and emergency department physician, prior to opening a family practice office with J.C. Blair Medical Services. Recently he was named chairman of the Department of Medicine in 2011. He has remained active at Juniata, acting as a mentor for health professions students enrolled in the Rural Health Care course. In 2009, he also served as a reviewer for Juniata’s Health Professions academic program, a process the College goes through every five years. Olstein earned his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2006. He served his internship and residency with the Altoona Family Physicians Residency Program at Altoona Regional Health System from 2006 to 2009. He was named Resident of the Year and Osteopathic Resident of the Year, both in 2009, by the Altoona Family Physicians Residency Program.
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Am I Blue? Well, not everybody is as dedicated as these blue-hued fans, but the men’s volleyball team always engenders rabid excitement among students, a feeling that should only increase as the team moves permanently to compete in Division III. 16
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Kevin Moore ’02 maintained a hectic schedule of teaching, volleyball, studies and balancing off-time with work before accepting the head-coaching job at his alma mater.
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Imagine this life. You zip out the door at 6 a.m. to get to school by 7 and spend the whole day teaching special education students at a Fairfax, Va. elementary school. When school ends at 3 p.m., you jump into a car and drive to George Mason University, where, as assistant men’s volleyball coach, you help run practice until evening. When you get home around 7, it’s recruiting calls to prospects. For Kevin Moore ’02, the past two years of his life has been busier than a ballboy at a spiking contest. Because we didn’t even mention that he also coached at USA High Performance Volleyball events. Still, it was a price he gladly paid to stay involved in volleyball. “I probably earned 90 percent of my income from teaching and 10 percent from volleyball, while volleyball took up at least 50 percent of my time,” Moore estimates. But as a former collegiate athlete there was an incessant itch he had to scratch. He had coached volleyball non-stop since leaving Juniata—first in Rochester, N.Y. at his old high school, and then at George Mason. Although his career in elementary special education was satisfying for him, he just couldn’t bring himself to cut back on his commitment to volleyball. “The opportunity at George Mason was important to me because I wanted to challenge myself at a higher level,” Moore says. “The next challenge I had been preparing for was being a coach full-time and when the Juniata job came open, it was really an opportunity to go for my passion.” 2011 Spring-Summer
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Moore was so excited to get an interview— he was out on the road coaching—that he flew from Colorado Springs to Rochester to borrow a sportcoat for the interview, and then flew to Harrisburg to drive to Huntingdon. “It was like coming home,” Moore says of hearing he had snagged his first head coaching position at his alma mater. But not all homecomings are perfect and as it turns out Kevin Moore’s challenges are far, far from over. Things change, as David Mamet says, and the Juniata men’s volleyball program, starting next year, will not be the same program it was when Moore played here, or really when anybody played here. Starting in 2011-2012, men’s volleyball will compete in Division III only, a sea-change that is somewhat akin to making Penn State’s football team play only in the Ivy League. “At Juniata we say we’re a small college that plays big volleyball because we played against (Division I teams) Penn State, Ohio State and George Mason,” says John Almquist ’12, starting setter for the team. “We came (to Juniata) not just to play these big schools; we came here to compete and win.” Juniata has been able to compete against these big programs in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association. Explained simply, teams from Divisions I, II and III all play each other within the league.
“I will continue to go after the high-profile student athlete who can help us win. We will emphasize the opportunity to perform on a bigger stage and appear on TV, but Juniata sells itself—the community, the academics.”
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Ross Madden ’14, of Richmond, Va., unleashes a spike in a game against Division I Harvard University at right. At far right, John Prout ’13, of Evanston, Ill. makes a kill.
The Division III teams compete in the Molten Championship, which for all but one lucky college, would be the end of the line. Typically, only Juniata, Springfield College and New York University had a chance to compete through the EIVA tournament and the subsequent NCAA tournament. Starting next year, the Eagles will play in a Division III conference and compete for the NCAA Division III National Championship. That is not to say that Juniata will never schedule Division I programs, but the opportunity and dates to play would be greatly diminished. “Having the opportunity to compete for a national championship and getting NCAA sponsorship for our program is a great thing for our sport,” Almquist explains. “But for the 15 or so upperclassmen it’s not so great, because we came to Juniata to test ourselves against top teams.” With inclusion in Division III comes rules both Moore and the team must get used to, like reduced preseason practices and games and having to play two matches in one day at some tournaments. In addition, historic powerhouses such as Juniata and Springfield College might have a hard time in a conference if other institutions fear inviting a dominating volleyball program to their “party.” To date there are about 60 Division III men’s teams and Moore says once the NCAA officially
At near left, setter John Almquist ’12, of York, Pa., creates plays for his team. At far left, Ben Wolff ’12, of Meadville, Pa., elevates to make a crucial spike.
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sanctions the D-III changes, then, in theory, more he says. “We will emphasize the opportunity to perform men’s volleyball programs may spring up at colleges on a bigger stage, but Juniata sells itself—the community, and universities. the academics.” That said, the switch to Division III leaves Although he leaves his teaching career behind, he more unanswered questions than a Bill Belichick takes great pains to emphasize that the teaching methods press conference. How will Juniata fare in the new he gleaned from education professors Fay Glosenger and Continental Volleyball Conference? Will Juniata Sarah DeHaas set him apart from many coaches. “As a be able to keep it’s competitive edge when its two teacher there are some things you take for granted, but biggest rivals, Springfield and NYU, are not in in special education you go in assuming there is a clean their conference? slate, so you are more thorough and clear.” Moore also Like all teachers, acknowledges that Moore expects his team to recruiting will require a be as disciplined as their different sales pitch, but peers in Juniata classrooms, the former Juniata standout but he also expects that believes that the long track there will be an occasional record of success and the mistake or wrong step. traditional welcoming “As long as they learn atmosphere of the College from their mistakes, our will continue to attract expectations of them as excellent volleyball players. athletes are the same going Not to mention a new locker forward,” Moore says. “Our room worthy of inclusion goal is to compete for a in Architectural Digest and national championship computer-aided film study every year and we will usually seen at much larger continue to provide the athletic programs. best opportunity in the Kevin Moore ’02, who has spent much of his time “I will continue to go country for students to in school classrooms after graduation as a special after the high-profile student reach their academic and education teacher, finds that the lessons of sports are athlete who can help us win,” athletic potential.” >j< not dissimilar to classic educational techniques.
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It’s 7:15 a.m. and the first students trudge into Baker Refectory fueling up for the classes to come. Their sleepy gaze stops at the hot line of scrambled eggs, bacon, potatoes. Sandy Bard is at her station making omelets to order. Those with less robust appetites can grab some bagels, pastries, fruit or cereal. Not a bad way to start the day, right? Well, unbeknownst to most of the students blearily gathering for their morning meal, most of the people serving them have been up working a few hours before the morning rush. Bard, the breakfast cook has been at her station since 6 a.m., as has Sharon Glenny, the baker who makes fresh cookies, pies and desserts every day. In all some 88 employees of Sodexo Inc., Juniata’s food service provider, work in tandem every day to provide Juniata students, faculty and staff with everything from lasagna to burritos in dining facilities in Ellis Hall and two other locations. Sodexo brings to bear equipment such as a $10,000 icemaker, knives sharper than President Kepple’s Juniata tie collection, and more golf carts than your average pro-am in its mission to deliver freshly made food every day at every location.
Sode xo employ ees Patty Henne y (left) and Linda Cousins prepare a vegeta ble dish for the Jump Asian cuis ine line in Eagl e’s Landing.
“When I was in college, they plopped the food on the plate and you ate it whether you wanted it or not,” says Hal McLaughlin, general manager for Sodexo. “These days students come in here with cooking experience, or at least seeing how food is prepared on these TV cooking shows, and they expect to see that in dining facilities.” While no college cook is expected to create haute cuisine like veal cheeks with truffle oil, students expect a vastly wider variety of choices than those eating a decade ago, and they expect that their food will be fresh, available and done to their taste. For the most part, Sodexo succeeds in those missions, although few professional cooks can replicate Mom’s (pick one) (a) goulash, (b) scalloped potatoes, or (c) any home recipe—mainly for the 2011 Spring-Summer
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Cook Sandy Bard, who takes care of almost all the breakfast cooking, spends the rest of her day creating pans of lasagna to be heated up as needed for the lunch and dinner crowds.
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same reasons that would send Mom screaming from the room if she had to feed 500 people. That said, Sodexo has asked students to bring in home recipes and the cooks will make the dish (if they can) as one of the day’s entrees. “It’s a nice way to make them feel at home and we put the recipe and the student’s photo on a sign,” says Patrick Goodman, executive chef and known across campus as “Chef Patrick.” “I find our students have more advanced palates. Cooking has become cool.” Cooking has not only become cool, the College also has inspired a few students to cook their meals at Baker. A feature called Wok Your Way gives students the chance to whip up their own stir-fry and students cook at a new feature called LOVE (Local, Organic, Vegetarian, Ethical) Line. Indeed, personal choice has become a mantra for Juniata’s food service options. Diners can opt for one of five stations at Baker Refectory, one of seven stops at the Eagles Landing Café (a more casual experience designed like a shopping mall food court), in addition to satellite food options such as Jitters Café in the von Liebig science center, and Café ala Carte in the Brumbaugh Academic Center. The array of choices has made Eagle’s Landing more popular than Baker, according to Sodexo. “My friends tend to complain a bit but I’m pleased with Baker,” says Hannah Miller ’13, of Hanover, Pa. “They work hard to give us lots of options and it’s a lot 24
healthier than (Eagles’ Landing). I wish they had even more vegetables—even if they’re canned or frozen.” Students also have a definite say in what ends up on their plate. There is a Food Committee that includes seven students, as well as Chef Patrick and College administrators, that help bring in more options for student dining. One recent change brought about by the committee is the LOVE Line, which features local, organic vegetarian fare. Elly Engle ’12, the force behind Juniata’s student garden and president of the Student Food Initiative, worked with the committee to get the new line approved. “That’s really becoming popular, particularly because students are working the line,” says Joel Rhodes ’13, a member of the Food Committee and student sustainability promotion coordinator for Sodexo. In his role as sustainability coordinator (a part-time job offered by Sodexo), Rhodes publicizes company menu initiatives and conducts surveys to gauge student satisfaction with the Juniata dining experience. One recent survey charted student acceptance for Meatless Mondays, a proposal to eliminate meat from one day a week to reduce the College’s food-related carbon footprint. Rhodes’ research revealed about half the students polled wanted some sort of protein option, so he is currently working with Sodexo to adapt the idea throughout a typical Sodexo week-long menu. “It’s tough to please everyone because our students are from so many different backgrounds and cultures,” says Steph Strauss ’12, of Penn Hills, Pa., and a member of the food committee. “You can only make so much food in one day.” Behind the scenes in the kitchen, food preparation is a well-choreographed ballet that seems chaotic to the untrained eye. Chefs at one station grill chicken, while two line chefs directly behind him chop vegetables. Just steps away during lunch, mushrooms are sauteed and soups and black beans are prepared in Macbeth-size steel cauldrons. Later in the afternoon Sandy Bard will prepare more lasagna than Garfield the Cat ever dreamed about. Off in other rooms, more than 100 packaged salads are cranked out, while the baking room produces tray after tray of cookies.
Patrick Goodman, executive chef for Sodexo, takes tongs in hand to grill a few steaks for a spring semester lunch.
Sodexo asked students to bring in home recipes and the cooks will make the dish (if they can) as one of the day’s entrees. “It’s a nice way to make them feel at home and we put the recipe and the student’s photo on a sign,” says Patrick Goodman, executive chef and known across campus as “Chef Patrick.” “I find our students have more advanced palates. Cooking has become cool.”
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The swift hands of two Sodexo employees dole out the ingredients for a dozen of the 530 salads that students take out every week from Ellis Hall or other food outlets in the von Liebig science center and Brumbaugh Academic Center.
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“When preparing food for the masses, you can’t expect food you would receive in a five-star restaurant,” says Scott O’Neill ’80, a retired attorney from West Chester, Pa., whose son Daniel ’13 is a Juniata student. “Our primary complaint (in the ’80s) was the amount of starch; lots of potatoes and corn. The dining hall (then) was a social gathering place, since cell phones, e-mail and Facebook were not available.” “I see college dining halls eventually going by the wayside,” predicts McLaughlin. “I think things will become more like a food court. Students will be able to spend their meal dollars on places they want to eat.” While bringing in chain restaurants has taken place on larger universities, most smaller colleges still follow the dining hall model. Juniata, however, offers some interesting twists. For example, Sodexo opened this year a Students find sustenance in prepared restaurant style option meals or such specialized fare as with Calvert’s (named pizza, fajitas and hoagies. after former Juniata president Calvert Ellis). Students can order off menus, servers are on staff, and there’s a 55-inch flatscreen TV—all in the old faculty lounge. “We started out with some high-end entrees, but we’ve realized that students want to have more of a bar-food menu,” McLaughlin says. All of the food prepared across campus is overseen by executive chef Goodman. That’s not just the hot foods in the main dining hall. Any salad, cookie, muffin, dessert, packaged sandwich or pizza is prepared by cooks in Ellis Hall. While Goodman still wields his spatula behind the stove daily, he spends the bulk of his time ordering food, planning menus, and training culinary staff. Although seasoned foodie television viewers are used to seeing prima donna chefs in white coats screaming at cowering underlings, Chef Patrick seems pretty much the opposite of that stereotype—except for the white chef’s coat. He also doesn’t run around throwing in pinches of spice, garlic, oil or even salt to make each dish in his image. Sodexo’s menus are calibrated for calorie counts and nutritional values. “If we personalize a recipe, we usually get to do that in our catering operation,” he says. In fact, unlike the image of the savory Svengali culinary genius, executive chefs working in higher education are not creating recipes themselves. Sodexo sets recipes that are adjusted for each college on a four-week rotating cycle. The dishes are hardly the meat-loaf-and-mashed-potatoes
assembly line foods of yore. The menus are calibrated to address students’ emerging appetites for Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Those who seek hip recipes that can feed 500 can consult Sodexo’s new recipe bank, called bureaucratically, the Food Management System. Also gone is the practice of cooking everything ahead of time. Nowadays “batch cooking” is the norm. Let’s illustrate through that classic comfort food—macaroni and cheese. On a typical day, the dining hall will serve 12 pans of macn-cheese, which is about 80 pounds of pasta. However, they only make two to three pans at a time, making for a fresher dining experience and less waste at the other end. “We do that for other dishes, like pork loins,” Goodman explains. “If we miscalculate on cooking the loins we also can cool them down and use them in a stir-fry the next day.” Despite the occasional miscalculations and unwanted entrees, Goodman currently oversees a pilot waste reduction program at Juniata that Sodexo is trying out at seven other
The kitchens in Ellis Hall are a blur of activity from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Here, Doris Reed, a Sodexo employee slices tomatoes for the Salsa Rico line.
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Wok Your Way Classic Exhibition Eagles’ Landing (the former Muddy Run café) Simply to Go Sandwiches, cookies, muffins, salads
Grill 155° Grilled sandwiches and specials
Cyclone Salads Made-to-order salads
Jump Asian Express Asian stir-fry
Salsa Rico Mexican Food, madeto-order
Starbucks Subs made to order on bread baked fresh daily on site.
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Sodexo employees such as Donna Grove, who has been the check-in person at Ellis Hall for years, come to know almost all the students. Here, Donna teases a Juniata student.
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Another Sodexo employee, cook Norm Linn, likes to keep a running conversation with all his customers. Norm is so popular with the students that several years ago a group of Juniata musicians named their rock band, Normsline, after him.
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campuses nationwide. By measuring the waste at the end of every meal, the dining staff can better adjust portions. From the start of the program on Aug. 23 through Nov. 22, Sodexo used 5,368 pounds less waste than the previous fall semester, a savings of more than $8,500. That same waste-watching also is applied to tracking what’s hot and what’s not on each menu each day in order to fine tune ordering accordingly. At the end of every work day McLauglin, Goodman and catering manager Dana Boozel can hit a few computer keys to see what kept students coming for seconds and what kept students away. They can track trends through weeks or even a semester—right down to the last soupcon of sauce or soupspoon of soup. “We can see in the winter when people start eating hearty warm stuff like soup and when they start to switch to salads—right before spring break when you start thinking about wearing bathing suits,” McLaughlin laughs. Much of the savings from waste comes from the Juniata dining staff’s careful monitoring of what the students want. For example, the College no longer uses the tasteless and watery iceberg lettuce for salads, using hand-chopped romaine and bagged greens and baby spinach. The College also brings in locally grown produce. Although Sodexo cannot buy directly from local
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In the bad old days, students would troop through college dining halls and eat whatever the cooks spooned out on their plates. Today, the choices at higher education dining facilities can range from gourmet recipes to salad bars, like the station Megan Erickson is staffing. More and more, Juniata tries to make sure the dining facilities offer a wide range of choices.
Students also wear Donna T-shirts around campus. “I have no clue where to get the shirts, although I do have one at home,” she says. “I’m not on Facebook either. I don’t even get on the computer at home.” Yet such familiarity breeds little overt contempt from the students. “Everybody’s a food critic these days,” McLaughlin says, smiling. Although students love to complain about the food, a tradition that probably reaches back to Socrates’s seminars, most College cuisine customers find what they need to get by. “We have a captive audience and most of them don’t have the opportunity to eat anywhere else. As a result our students see the same people every day and that can reflect on their attitudes for the food,” Goodman theorizes. “I try to stay visible so students can ask me about the menus but I think a lot of the kids are hesitant to approach me. I wish more would come up to me so we can address any concerns and it truly helps us reach out to diverse audiences.” >j< 29
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small farmers (who lack the liability insurance against food-borne illness that corporate buyers demand), their suppliers, like Albert Organics, of Allentown, Pa., use suppliers within 100 miles of Juniata’s campus. The obsession with freshness, food safety and flavor is not just confined to the dining hall. The principles of batch-cooking or just-in-time food delivery mean that prep cooks are making tuna salad, chef’s salads and deli sandwiches to order delivered to each food site. “I have a lady (Mary Hornbaker) who spends her life in a golf cart and can cover a hallway in about three steps,” McLaughlin says. Each attendant at those sites undergoes safety training and is authorized to make peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches to order as well. Such efficiency works well for feeding the masses, but Sodexo and “Chef Patrick” don’t want to exclude diners with specific tastes or dietary needs such as kosher or halal diets. In addition, Goodman can also prepare meals for those with allergies or suffer from such ailments as Celiac’s Disease, which requires a wheat gluten-free diet. “We’d like the student to come tell us what they need,” Goodman says. In between bites or swiping their ID card, students may not realize that they see and interact with food service employees more often than their professors. Sodexo employees come to know almost every student over their four years on campus and many cooks, caterers, and “lunch ladies” can tell what students are going to order before they utter their preferences. Perhaps the best-known food service employee on campus is Donna Grove, an Alexandria, Pa., resident who drives in every day to check in students at the entrance to Baker Refectory. Although she started working the College’s serving line 17 years ago, she has greeted each and every student at the entrance for the past six years. She does everything from swiping cards to explaining meal plans to dispensing more accurate directions than Google Maps for wayward families on campus visits. “I try to say a little something to everyone,” she says. “There’s only a few students that I can’t get to talk to me.” Donna’s popularity is such that she has not one but two Facebook Groups in her honor.
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College Crowd Cooking for 1,300 oft-times picky eaters three times a day is hard enough, but try creating a gourmet four-course meal for a dozen diners. Easy, say the foodies among us? Well, try doing it in one kitchen, loading the entire dinner onto golf carts, driving across campus and serving it at another location. Hot. Using the “good china.” Without a pause in impeccable service.
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At top, Sodexo catering employee Ashley Snair prepares to display an array of desserts for a large catered dinner in Baker Refectory. At far left, Chef Patrick Goodman carefully arranges a variety of fruit and vegetable snacks. Sodexo’s catering operation usually has one or more assignments every day. Catering’s record is 32 events in one week.
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Welcome to Juniata catering. Most students and alumni don’t realize that Juniata’s food service provider Sodexo employs a catering arm that will provide on- or off-site food ranging from a spread of cookies and sodas for a faculty meeting to a full-blown banquet for 200. Catering offers Juniata’s Sodexo chefs the opportunity to be more creative and create memorable culinary experiences
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“This summer we have a wedding every weekend.” —Dana Boozel, catering manager
for students, faculty, staff or other clients. “Many chefs prefer catering,” explains Dana Boozel, catering manager and a cook so imperturbable that her first day of work in 2004 was Commencement and she still works here. “In catering you already know your numbers. At a restaurant, you never know who’s going to order the beef.” The catering service creates meals such as Madrigal, Lobsterfest and the Holiday employee luncheon, and also serves high-end intimate dinners for guest speakers at Baker House, the Presidential Dining Room in Ellis Hall or other locations. They have a repertoire of about 50 recipes and will cook special orders as well. “We have jobs just about every day,” Boozel estimates. Indeed, the College caterers average 15 events per week and the staff’s all-time-high job week was 32 events, according to Hal McLaughlin, general manager for Sodexo. Catering assignments are not just about food. If the event is out of Ellis Hall, the catering staff brings everything to the site—from tablecloths to shrimp forks. The busiest time for catering, somewhat counter-intuitively, occurs in summer, when the campus is alive with camps, conferences and other events. In addition, Juniata’s catering department can be hired for off-campus jobs. “This summer we have a wedding every weekend,” Boozel says. Not paying attention to details is a recipe for disaster in the catering business, so Dana Boozel (center), Sodexo catering manager, checks last-minute arrangements with Chef Patrick and Ashley Snair.
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A Menu of Statistics Most folks think they’ve got a huge grocery bill if they can fill two shopping carts. The amount of food Sodexo goes through every week might give even the producers of Top Chef pause. Fresh-cut French Fries 800 lbs./week Milk (including Chocolate) 200 gallons/week Cookies 3,000 per week
Tomatoes 300 lbs./week Cherry Tomatoes 40 lbs./week Broccoli 150 lbs./week Carrots 60 lbs./week Corn 100 lbs./week Pre-packaged Salads 530 each week
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches 750 per week Bacon 50 lbs./week Salad Dressing 48 gallons per week Most Popular Dressing Ranch Sausage 50 lbs./week Eggs 240 quarts of liquid eggs Eggs in shell 432 per week Total meals served each week/average 16,000 Total meals 09-10 312,414 Sodexo man-hours to prepare meals 73,880
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Not surprisingly, the caterers are busiest during Commencement, Homecoming and Alumni Weekend (“We do eight different dinners in eight different locations on the same night,” says Boozel.). Even more amazing is that except for barbecues, food for all these catering events is cooked in Sodexo’s main kitchen in Ellis Hall. While there are small cooking spaces in buildings around campus, the sheer volume of food and workspace needed for such jobs quickly puts those kitchens on the warming rack. So, how is it that your Chicken Christie makes it onto a plate in front of you after a pell-mell dash across campus still hot and ready to eat? The staff cooks the dishes to a certain point, puts them into insulated “hot boxes” called “cambros” (after the company that makes them), and the dish “finishes” just in time for service. In theory anyway. “We cook for a specific start time and it’s harder to get large groups to start things on time,” Boozel explains. “You have to make sure what you’re serving will survive the wait.” There are things that go wrong, but most of these snafus remain behind the scenes. To the rest of Juniata, Sodexo gets top grades for catering to the College. >j<
Lettuce Per Week Romaine: 600 lbs. Shredded: 300 lbs Baby Spinach: 100 lbs. Assorted greens: 40 lbs.
Most Popular Salad Buffalo Chicken
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Some of the basic tenets of cooking are paying attention to detail and measuring accurately. Historian Dave Hsiung stays in the concentration zone as he prepares his famous cupcake recipe.
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here else but Juniata is a final exam the cooking of a gourmet meal or a course on the culture of India is celebrated by a foodfest feast fit for a maharajah? No one is quite sure when the tradition of faculty cooking for students started, but there’s probably a good chance Jacob Zuck whipped up some scrapple and liver pudding for a few of his charges at the end of the year. About five years ago, education professor Kim Richardson suggested publishing some recipes from faculty and after some semiprofessional research, we selected a group of professors renowned for recipes they’ve perfected for students and colleagues. Our roster spans many eras, many cuisines and many, many calories. Enjoy.
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To submit your memories of a Juniata meal or submit a recipe, please go to Juniata Extra at www.juniata.edu/extra.
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Historian Dave Hsiung’s cupcake adventures started in 2001 as a way to bond with his then3-year-old daughter Rebecca. Every Thursday they would prepare a Marie Antoinette-worthy batch of chocolate cupcakes and deliver them all over campus. Nowadays, the cupcake baking is sporadic—contingent on a snow day or a break in Rebecca’s school schedule. “I did more work when she was young, now the only thing I’m still in charge of is the cleanup,” Dave says. “I’m the muscle of the operation. I still lug them around campus.” Dave’s baking repertoire is not limited to cupcakes either. If any student in one of his classes can name all the other students in the class, Dave will bake brownies from scratch for the victor.
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“I’m the muscle of the operation. I still lug them around campus.”—Dave Hsiung
Cheese It: Finding Uses for the Family Goat* The hardest part of this recipe is finding a goat herd to supply the raw materials. Luckily Dan and Celia Cook-Huffman live on a little “farmette,” as real-estate agents like to call small farms, with their children and a handful of Saanen and Nubian goats. And, they have to do something with the milk.
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Smokin’ Feast: Brisket Made Easy Classic Texas barbecue techniques are usually passed down to trusted associates, with the usual promises to reveal ingredients only on pain of death or the crumbling of the Alamo. So, where did Dennis Plane, politics professor and native Coloradan, get his recipe? In graduate school—from his girlfriend (now his wife) Becky. So much for secrecy. “It’s time consuming and you have to be outside a lot,” he says of the recipe. “Becky perfected it and taught it to me.”
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bout 12 lbs.) Ingredients t, untrimmed (a ke is br le ho w 1 large ground pepper le Seasoning About 1/4 cup Chachere’s Creo ny To p cu 2 1/ About garlic granules About 1/2 cup e l Barbeque Sauc Stubb’s Origina roasting pan Large aluminum ood Hardwood firew fset fire box Charcoal grill with an of er ok sm ue eq A barb
Just Dessert: The Chemistry of Chocolate Cooking Chemist Richard Hark is known for his research with lasers and high tech instruments, but a not-so-hidden fact around campus is that Hark also is interested in the chemistry of food. In fact, he’s toyed with the idea of creating a course around the culinary science. This rich dessert is a featured favorite that he makes at home and often for O-Chem students (of course, after passing that grueling course they deserve something this tasty).
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Pistachio Sauce Sauce Ingre dients 3/4 cup (6½ oz/200 mL) milk 2 large egg yolks 3 tablespoo ns (1½ oz/4 0 g) superfi 3½ oz (100 ne (caster) g) blanched sugar pistachios, skins remove d Instruction s 1. In a med ium half of the su saucepan beat the egg yolks with perfine suga r. 2. In a med ium saucep an bring the over medium milk to a sim -high heat. mer Pour the ho the egg yolk t milk into mixture, stir ring constan letting it bo tly. Without il, continue to heat unti becomes th l the sauce ick and velv ety. Remove 3. In the bo from the he wl of a food at. processor, b pistachios w lend the ith the rem aining superfi finely powd ne sugar un ered. Add th til e sauce and high speed process at for one min ute. Pour th bowl, cover e sauce in a with plastic wrap pressin the surface g down on to prevent a skin from fo refrigerate. rming and To Serve: Unwrap the pan, invert onto a serv shake gentl ing platter, y to release and . Remove th or plastic w e waxed pa rap from th p er e top temperature about 15 min and let sit at room utes to soft into 1/2-inch en. Slice to 3/4-inch slices and se Pistachio Sa rve with the uce. Re
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Killer Vanilla Treat
Ingredients utter 1 stick of b kers f Ritz Crac 2 sleeves o cream vanilla ice g mix Half gallon nilla puddin a v t n a st in of 2 packages milk f o p u c Half pping whipped to Cool Whip rs and s Ritz Cracke e th g Instruction in sh ing rust by cru hly combin Form the c nd thoroug a r, e tt u b ch dish. melting the ch by 13 in in 9 a in n of vanilla them e half gallo th f o rs e rt ua pour the Put three-q bowl, then g in ix m a the milk on in ice cream ing mix and d d a u p la il n va nd or with packets of ither by ha e ish. , d ly h 13 g u x ro 9 o e top. Mix th n pour evenly into th the e top. mixer, and pping on th to d e p ip h w approx. 2 Spread the erator for ig fr re e th in a freezer. It will store ise store in rw e th o , hours
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Jerry Kruse, mathematician and computer scientist, admits he’s no cook, crediting his wife, Lisa, with doing “95 percent of the cooking. I do the grill and maybe macaroni and cheese.” Still, he has made the dessert below for countless faculty get-togethers and student cookouts. He perfected his specialty more than 20 years ago while working in the corporate world at DuPont. A group at work began holding dinner parties. “I was the designated eater,” Jerry laughs. “I was single at the time, so I was trying to gain entrée into this group and found this recipe.” Although Lisa encourages him to jazz the recipe up a little, Jerry prefers to make it the same way every time. Spoken like a true parttime cook.
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Andy Murray prepares to place one of the main courses down on a dinner that includes, (from bottom left side of table) Matina Patsos ’11, Terry Murray, chemist Ruth Reed, and from top right side of table, Ginny Mutti, geologist Larry Mutti and Norma Jennings, marketing assistant.
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Currying Favor with Students The Heart of India was a team-taught course offered from 1990 to 2002 that inspired not only a generation of India-phile students, but also a mélange of faculty cooks who can whip up South Asian cuisine faster than you can spell tandoori. Inspired by a Fulbright-funded trip to India in 1985, the course was conceived by historian Klaus Kipphan and taught by Kipphan and professors Andy Murray, Larry Mutti, Ruth Reed and an adjunct instructor, Itishree Devi. “These were big classes, with about 120 to 140 students,” Mutti recalls. “So we didn’t cook for the entire class.” Part of the course was designed to be experiential, so Kipphan and Reed assigned students to research and cook Indian meals and Mutti taught them to spin (creating thread, not the exercise equipment). At the same time, the four faculty would cook for Devi and occasionally a small group of students. “Itishree taught us some things—I kind of became her houseboy for a while, chopping vegetables,” Mutti laughs. “We were all pretty accomplished cooks, although there was at least one disaster recipe.” (The curious will have to ask Larry to reveal the snafu.). While the former Heart of India team rarely gets together for an Indian meal anymore, Mutti says most of them regularly prepare Indian dishes, saying he and Ginny make Indian recipes at least every few weeks. Although the course is now part of the past, Mutti believes it will always live on in the hearts and appetites of faculty and alumni. “(Heart of India) was among the most stimulating teaching that I’ve done, with terrific interaction between us,” he says. “I was always learning.”
Malai Murgh A north Indian dish from the Mog hul tradition. Unusual in that it includes coconut, which is usually a mark of south Indian cooking. Begin with roasted chicken left from another meal. This also makes a wonderful lamb dish. While you are working on the dish , gently toast a small bag of blanched slivered almonds, in a sma ll skillet, over medium low heat. In a food processor, blender or coff ee/spice grinder turn about a half of another bag of slivered almonds into a fine powder. Be careful to stop the moment before you begin to get a kind of paste or almond butter. Place the almond paste or butter in a large, heavy, shallow pan. Saute a large sweet onion in a gen erous amount (maybe a little more than 1/4 cup) of light oil. I prefer safflower. Do not use corn oil. When onions are clear but hav e not begun to caramelize, add 4-5 medium coleus crushed, or fine ly chopped garlic, and about 3-4 tablespoons freshly chopped ginger root. Cook for about five more minutes over medium heat until aromatic but not browned. It is very important not to let the garlic brown. Push aside the mixture to make a circle in the middle of the pan . Add a little oil if the pan seems dry. Add about a dozen green cardamom seeds (this you may hav e to find in an Asian grocery store) and about a tablespoon of whole cloves. Cook these gently for 5-7 minutes. The seeds should puff a bit and you should have a fine aroma. Remove seeds and cloves. (In traditional Indian cooking these may be left in for the diner to sort out and leave as he or she eats. I do not like to acc identally bite into whole spices so I take them out. This probably compromises the dish a bit.) Add kosher salt and red pepper (cay enne is fine) to taste. In north Indian cooking, heat should be a part of the experience, but it should follow the flavor of the dish —not lead it. In traditional south Indian cooking, you may hav e to survive the heat to get to the flavor.
“Indian cooking is a bit like playing the guitar. Most anyone can pick up the guitar and sound pretty good in a couple of days. But very few have mastered the instrument. Most cooks can follow a recipe, but understanding and mastering the complexities of Indian cooking can easily take a lifetime. I am a ‘Jack of guitar and Indian cooking’ and certainly a master of neither.” —Andy Murray
Add almond powder and cook for two minutes stirring constantly. Add a can of coconut milk and brin g to a gentle simmer. Add three or four pounds of precoo ked lamb or chicken.
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Reduce heat and stir in a pint of light cream. Adjust salt and heat. Let dish sit for at least an hour bef ore serving. I think it develops the flavor to rest it for a day in the fridge.
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“We were all pretty accomplished cooks, although there was at least one disaster recipe.”
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—Larry Mutti
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Cooking “Indian” of my wife, Ginny. nt au , e th is n rio Ma multitude of dishes always involves a d ol t, eh Bu . us ts ho r po ou in full of d a sink brimming an p to d e an ov st n, sy ria es ta am g is vege h of Indian cookin otein given that so muc lly derive their pr ca pi ty s et di n ria ta . that healthy vege r a recipe for dahl ply have to proffe sim I d, , re es vo m gu fla le y hl m fro , but ric humblest of dishes This is one of the ll. We cook many we y el m ts rice extre en em pl m co it d an e I list below is dal) dishes, the on r (o hl da nt re ffe di and doesn’t require t, is quite savory, es pl sim e th g on am e exotic. ingredients that ar ns, cooking in two separate pa rs cu oc n io at ar ep Pr e is under 30 th. Total prep tim bo in ly nt re ur nc co minutes. d of lentils with 2 an , cover 1 poun ep uc sa t ar qu 2a In off the foam, and ing to a boil, skim br r, te wa of es ch in a low simmer. reduce the heat to in off the foam) stir e (after skimming ag st e er m us to sim e er th ef At er. I pr d 1 tsp chili powd 1/4 tsp turmeric an n as masoor dal or ow kn ils lit red lent sp l al sm turdal. e th er th ei lit lentils known as sp w llo ye er rg la the somewhat th, texture. rather soft, smoo a to up ok co th Bo butter, in about 2 Tbsp of e, ut sa ly nt ge n, In a separate pa minced, and 1 inch rlic, 1 large onion, 3 cloves minced ga mixture should be fresh ginger. This or more of grated til thoroughly soft, sional stirring, un cooked, with occa d and caramelized. even a bit browne oroughly, nts have cooked th ie ed gr in of ls tfu 1 tsp salt, After both po ixture, along with m er ng gi c/ rli ga stir the onion/ ntils. into the cooked le y, r up some chutne Basmati rice, offe y. jo en d Serve on a bed of h, an pickle or lime relis brinjal (eggplant)
The heart of the Heart of India cooking team is, from left, Ruth Reed, with her kheer, Andy Murray, with his malai murgh, and geologist Larry Mutti with his dahl dish and a bean dish.
Heart of India’s Kheer or Pal Pa yasam Indian Rice Pu ddin g
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Ingredients 1/4 cup short/med ium grained rice 4 cups whole milk sugar to taste (1/ 4–1/2 cup should be enough) pinch of saffron 1/4 tsp cardamom powder 1–2 tbsp nuts (alm onds, pistachios an d cashews) 4–5 raisins (or mor e if you like it) 1 tsp Ghee (prefe rred more than bu tter) Instructions In a saucepan, he at the ghee. Add chopped nuts alon with raisins. Set as g ide when raisins ge t plump and nuts turn reddish brown. In the same pan, roast the rice for 2–3 minutes in low heat. Add the milk. Incr ease the heat to m ed-high and let it come to a boil. Occasionally stir so that the milk does not stick to the bottom or use nonstick pan. Take ca re not to let the milk burn. Add su gar and give it a st ir. Reduce the heat to medium and cook until the milk has reduced in ha lf. Keep stirring of ten. You know it’s done when th e milk has reduce d and also the ric has cooked and is e soft (not mushy). This process takes approximately 20 -30 minutes.
Chicken Breasts with Man y Mustar Ingredien ds ts
8 half bre asts of chic ken, bone d and skin ned Marinade 3/8 cup D ijon musta rd* 3/8 cup w hole-seed mustard* 1/4 cup dis till 1/4 cup oli ed white vinegar ve oil 1/2 cup ap ple juice (p referably Juice of 1/ unsweeten 2 lemon ed) 1 whole sh allot, slice d into ring Freshly gro s** und peppe r Instructio ns Combine a ll the mari na to emulsif y. Pour ov de ingredients in a bowl. Whis er chicken reserving k in non-rea about 1/2 ctive dish cup. Marin ate 2 to 4 *The origin hours. al recipe c alls for 1/4 mustards plus 1/4 c c u p o f each of th up of hot adjusted a ese German m s above to ustard. We make it m **We some ilder. times subst itute abou finely cho t two table pped red onion and spoons for the sh a teaspoo allot n minced garlic To Grill: C ook over m edium hea 4–5 minute t on a gas s per side grill with the g should stil ri ll cover clo , about l be a little sed. There give in the be moist, not string meat and y, in the c it should overcooke enter—oft d. S en chicken grilled chic poon the reserved is marinade ken as a sa over the uce. — Grill Book: New
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This Recipe Does NOT Cut the Mustard
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Dave Reingold and his wife, Kay, host many dinners for chemistry and other students each year. While Dave admits Kay does the lion’s share of the culinary derring-do, in this recipe he staffs the grill. This dish is a favorite of students and he often serves it to his research teams and for class parties.
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Hopping John Ingredients 1/2 lb bacon other pork 1/4 lb. of bacon or an 1 ham hock or use a as part for seasoning pe ck-eyed peas zen cowpeas, or bla fro or 1 1/2 cups dried 1 medium onion long grain rice 1 1/2 cups medium or sh or dried (optional) 1 Cayenne pepper fre
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Instructions bacon/ with the hock/ 1/4 lb. Set your peas to boil on with salt oice. Be sure to seas pork part of your ch and pepper. ns. If you nsult package directio If using dried peas co not to need any e advanced enough dr y your own you ar time the peas is: you are trying to more advice than th rice is done. n minutes before the to be done about te practice or e according to your ric ur yo ing ok co rt Sta You might use til about half done. un n tio ec dir e ag ck pa ow for using an is called for to all th r te wa s les tly gh sli cooked peas in the peas. Then mix m fro r uo liq t po e th not). ck and discard it (or with rice. Remove ho ing some of h to be soupy, but us dis is th nt wa n’t do You of color and e peas imparts a bit th m fro r uo liq t po the taste to dish. st iron your bacon in a big ca fry s, ok co e ric e th While slices but it at. You can fry it in skillet on medium he Either way st. fir r if you dice it will actually be easie done set ce On stick to the pan. don’t let the bacon e your dic ely e bacon fries fin aside bacon. While th medium to wn do on your skillet onion. Turn the heat ase. gre n co ba ed onion in the low and sauté the dic s. te nu mi 5 t lucent or abou Cook them until trans neness stir four minutes from do t ou ab is e ric e th When ne apply onions. When all is do in the bacon and the ely dice a fin to nt You may wa . ste ta to er pp pe d salt an quite in d to the dish. That is ad to er pp pe e nn ye hot ca . keeping with tradition
Those who have taken courses from historian Jim Tuten get to know a couple of things right off the bat. He’s from the South (South Carolina), he is an expert on rice history and he loves food. After all, he designed and teaches an entire class on the history of food and wrote a book on rice culture. Is it any wonder that when called upon to cook for colleagues, for students and even for the dinner-cum-final exam for History of Food, Jim chooses a dish combining all his heritage and interests? Hoppin’ John (“Nobody’s quite sure where the name comes from,” Jim says.) is a hearty dish derived from West African cuisine. In southern states, Hoppin’ John is eaten on New Year’s Day with collard greens and a pig tail to ensure luck for the coming year. “This is a good dish to cook for a lot of people,” he advises. “You can ramp it up pretty easily.”
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Recipe for Success: Create Community Through Cuisine
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Wilfred ’54 and Lona ’56 Norris are living examples of Juniata’s longstanding tradition of creating community through great cuisine. They both recalled being invited over for dinner by favored professors. When Wilfred was hired by the College, several faculty members invited them over for dinners and soon they were doing the same thing. “This was not an onus put on new faculty,” Lona says, emphatically. “It was something learned at the feet of the elders and I think that is important (to being part of) the Juniata family and community.” Norris and Lona, who are deeply involved with the College’s international program, still entertain students with dinners as part of the Friendship Families program. They started their cooking adventures using a series of cookbooks from Time-Life. Today their cookbook shelf has more than 20 feet of vittles volumes. These days they like recipes from Williams-Sonoma, Gourmet magazine and a book called Cooking of Umbria. They will try any cuisine from Mexican to Moroccan to Mediterranean. Here’s one of their favorites. >j< 48
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Ingredients 1/4 cup mince d fresh flat-lea f parsley 2 Tbsp mince d fresh cilant ro 1/2 cup extravirgin olive oi l 2 tsp sweet H ungarian papr ika 8 threads saff ron, toasted and crushed 1 tsp ground ginger 1 lemon, one half juiced, ot her half thinly 4 6-oz firm fish sliced fillets; we use haddock 4 tomatoes, pe eled, seeded, and coarsely 2 garlic cloves chopped , minced 1 tsp ground cumin Salt and freshl y ground pepp er to taste 2 carrots, peel ed and sliced into small bars 1 onion, thinly sliced 1 Tbsp preser ved lemon pu lp 12 green or bl ack olives, pi tted; we like Fresh parsley Greek olives or cilantro leav es for garnish Instructions Prepare a mar inade with th e parsley, cila oil, paprika, sa ntro, olive ffron, and ging er. Add the ju a lemon. Coa ice of half t fish fillets w ith mixture on Refrigerate fo both sides. r 1-2 hours, tu rning occasion ally. In a saucepan , combine tom atoes, garlic, Cook over med and cumin. ium heat, stir ring occasion the sauce thic ally, until kens a bit, lik ely 8 or 10 m salt and pepp inutes. Add er to taste. Se t aside. In a large skill et, put a laye r of carrot slic bottom. Then es on the cover these w ith onion slices the tomato sa . Spoon uce over the onion. Cover the carrots ar and cook unti e tender, prob l ably these vegetabl es into an enam 15 minutes. Place eled casserol oven-proof di e or other sh pretty enou gh to serve fr the fish fillets om. Place on top of the vegetables. Sp preser ved lem read some on pulp over the fish and pl of lemon on to ace a slice p of each fille t. Add the mar Surround the inade. fish with olives . Cover the ca loosely with fo sserole il and place in a 400F oven fo 15 minutes, or r about until the fish is flaky. Before servin g, spoon som e of the sauc fish and garnis e over the h with parsle y or cilantro le Serve immed aves. iately.
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here are things that never change at Juniata, giving our students and staff a sense of well-being, a certain comfort that our lives will remain at once familiar and safe. Elements of campus life that inspire alumni and students to heights of admiration include the tent city of students waiting for Madrigal tickets, the piles of red crustaceans at Lobsterfest, the stirring speeches of the Bailey Oratorical, the dependable excellence of Larry Bock and the women’s volleyball program.
Legendary Coach Refocuses Career in Move to Naval Academy
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dependable excellence of the volleyball programs. No problem there. Both the women’s and men’s teams are loaded with talent and ready to compete at the highest levels. No, it’s the part about Larry. After 34 years—a tenure that rivals or surpasses most of the professors who have taught at the College—Larry Bock moved on. In the fall, Larry won’t be standing along the Juniata gym sideline firmly grasping his ever-present clipboard. Instead the all-time winningest coach in volleyball history will be coaching at the U.S. Naval Academy, bringing his special brand of intensity and measured speech to Annapolis. Juniata wishes you all the success you brought to the College, Larry. After all, a record of 1,352-283-4 is an amazing testimony to his greatness. When a coach has been associated with an astronomically successful team for more than 30 years, the tendency for most of these mentors is to stay with their teams and build on their legacy (see Paterno, Joe). For Larry Bock, although he is justifiably proud of all his accomplishments, it’s never been about his record, his methods, his legacy. It’s always been about the team. And in recent years, he had the nagging feeling the team wasn’t getting his unfocused attention. Named as athletic director in the mid-1990s, the coach had seen his time becoming more and more engaged away from the gym. Combining juggling and haberdashery, Larry felt he was putting on more hats than John Wayne. The College hired longtime basketball coach Greg Curley as athletic director in May and Curley plans on continuing to split the two responsibilities.
Bock takes his leave knowing he has left the team in capable hands. Heather Pavlik ’95—Larry’s assistant coach for two decades and the only Juniata player named with Larry to the NCAA Silver Anniversary Team—has taken over (see sidebar below). “Heather has been doing the heavy lifting with the team and she is more than ready for the job,” Bock says. “I felt it was time to fire myself and get out of everyone’s hair.” Firing himself is no doubt too harsh, but Larry prides himself on knowing when to make the right decision for the right reason. After all, it’s not like he was driven to become a dominating coach in the first place. In fact, call him the Accidental Coach. In 1977, busy as a consumer loan executive at Union National Bank in Huntingdon, Larry was looking for a way to get involved with community service. There was a coaching opportunity for the men’s and women’s club volleyball teams and Larry figured that might be down his alley. By 1982,
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At left, Larry Bock is hoisted into the air as Juniata closed out its first national championship in 2004 after nearly three decades of near misses. No matter what the outcome of each season, Larry remained the same year after year—supportive, cerebral, demanding—but always there with a hug or a kind word. At right, it might be possible to trace Larry’s development as a coach through the fashion changes in his eyewear, but Larry himself sees his legacy as unfashionable—he simply tries to work harder than anybody else.
community service had turned into a calling. He had been hired by the College as the financial aid director, giving him the chance to work on campus. “I’ve never had just one job here,” he laughs. “(President) Fred Binder figured since I was in banking, financial aid would be the same thing and of course they have nothing in common.” A common trait Larry does share with Juniata is a willingness to work harder than anybody else to achieve success. Another transition came in 1994 when Larry was asked to take over as athletic director and give up coaching either the men or the women. His daughter Anne ’98 was ready to join the team, so that decision was easy and he gave up coaching the men’s team and took over administrative duties for the College’s sports teams. After wearing so many hats for Juniata in the past decade it was still surprising when he threw his hat in the ring for the Navy job. “Completely impulsive,” says the man
who outwardly seems incapable of impulsive behavior. “It felt right and I called (Larry’s wife) Lynn and she gave me the green light. One thing that working in all these jobs gave me is an ability to see the bigger picture in higher education administration, which has helped me.” So, given the chance to concentrate solely on coaching, this longtime teacher created the right lesson plan. He left the program in the hands of one of his best former players and a top coach in her own right. He felt he leaves the team at top strength. He plans on making Navy recruiting visits in Top Gun jets. OK, maybe not that last one. But he promises to labor to get his new challenge up to speed. “I’m a plow horse, not a show horse,” Larry says. “I’ve got to work harder than other people. There’s nothing that can replace bringing in quality athletes and working harder than anybody else.” >j<
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JM: Will your relationship with the team and players have to change? HP: “The relationship with the players will change because the buck will stop (with me) now. I’ll be a bit more of the taskmaster. It was important when I hired (assistant coach) Steph Strauss ’11 that she had the qualities to bond with the women on the team.”
HP: “No, we’ve been doing this for years since Jack was born and my husband is truly someone who splits our responsibilities right
JM: Is becoming a head coach like jumping into the deep end or more like a natural progression for you? HP: “Larry had turned over more and more parts of the job as he became more involved with his job as athletic director. He did such a wonderful job bringing me into coaching that I think I have a pretty good handle on how I’m going to do the job.” JM: Is there anything you plan to emphasize more? HP: “I think I’m going to do a little more with technology. We’re going to use our
statistics program in practices and games and we are going to use Tivo technology to improve our skill (something the men’s team is already doing). Our stat program is Web-based, so I can use my iPad to access stats and game strategy during the game.” JM: Is there any drill or tradition that you hated as a player that you plan on eliminating now that you are the Big Cheese? HP: “Unfortunately I will be keeping the drill we all hated because it’s the best drill to build (particular) skills. It’s called the 13-11. The players will know what I’m talking about.” —John Wall 51
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JM: As a family, will the increased commitments as a head coach require you and Mark to reconfigure schedules? Will there be separate wings in the house to study film?
down the middle. The lucky thing is our seasons are at different times of the year.”
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As trustee Charles “Bud� Wise looks on, Jim Lakso receives the emotional jolt of hearing that scores of friends and colleagues raised more than $800,000 in his name to fund faculty development.
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A Gift for All Reasons Surprise, Surprise, Surprise: Jim Lakso Honored by $820,000 Endowment to support faculty By Gabriel Welsch Photography: Jim Judkis
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hey did not come back for a game. Not for homecoming or a show or a good time with old friends. They did not come back for the usual reasons alumni come back.
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And they came quietly. They parked out of sight. They nibbled hors d’oeuvres in a lounge in another corner of campus, waiting for the moment when they would walk briskly across campus to assemble in the Baker Refectory behind tables of trustees and faculty. They came for a single moment: to honor a beloved professor, an old friend, a former colleague, a father. They came to see Jim Lakso get the surprise of a lifetime. At the end of the annual Juniata Faculty Trustee dinner, the one night each year when the provost announces faculty promotions and honors retirees, the host himself had no idea what was coming. As dinner looked about to wrap up, former faculty member and current Trustee Charles “Bud” Wise III stood and joined a clearly perplexed Jim Lakso at the podium. Jim literally muttered, “What the . . . ?” as Bud moved around him to the podium. Slowly, fighting emotion in his voice, Bud revealed that for the last year and more, professors, former students, community members and administrators had worked, quietly amassing donations to establish an endowment to support faculty development activities. To Jim’s clear and knee-shaking surprise, Bud announced that the largely-volunteer effort resulted in more than $820,000 in contributions.
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Why did they do it? For 41 years, Jim Lakso has been a Juniata fixture. His academic career started in 1970, the year after completing his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Maryland. His bio on the Juniata web page is as understated as he is. It notes that he is married and has two kids and enjoys sports in his spare time. That he is active in community organizations. But ask alumni, his former students, about Jim and a more complete picture emerges. Fred Mason ’73 was Jim Lakso’s first advisee. Mason is now a Juniata Trustee, and having retired (three years before his adviser will retire) as managing director of Caterpillar Luxembourg, he is an independent consultant specializing in sustainable development. But in spring 1970, he was a Juniata student still unsure of what the future held. Coming out of a classroom in Good Hall, on the floor housing the theneconomics department, he bumped into Ron Cherry. According to Mason, Cherry said, “What are you going to do with your life?” Mason recalls, “In typical fashion, I said ‘I don’t know,’ and Ron, also in typical fashion, said, ‘You are going to be an economics major.’” Through Cherry, Mason met Lakso, his professor for macroeconomics who, later, helped Mason earn an internship in the governor’s office, in the Department of Planning. Mason recalls Lakso’s influence on everything from papers to exams to a special study project, but appreciates most the academic ideals Lakso embodied. “Ron Cherry was a towering intellect,” Mason recalls, “I loved him, but he intimidated the hell out of me. Jim provided a counterpoint to Ron. Up there in Good Hall, I’d see Ron offer some peroration, at the end of which Jim would say, ‘Oh baloney.’ It was my first experience of the academy in the terms of debating concepts and ideas that were distinct from the personalities involved. They argued vigorously with no hard feelings or sensitivities from the owner of the idea. And seeing someone tell Ron he was full of beans was a great effect.”
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Dozens of Jim Lakso’s former students returned to pay tribute to his work at Juniata. Here, alumni and Jim’s friends file into Ellis Hall to take part in the surprise—after hiding out in Pheasant Lounge for most of the evening.
For Mason, Lakso humanized intellectual life in other ways as well. “On a paper I had written, Jim had underscored and written in the margin, Oh please! This was evidence of humanity, where your work could actually cause one of your profs pain.” The Jim Lakso that Fred Mason knew as a professor and adviser stayed consistent once Mason became a trustee, and got to know the Provost. “Jim’s style is passionately committed, very much involved, very friendly and compassionate, while still based on facts and data,” Mason says. “He’s clearly not two different people, not the professor vs. the administrator. He is fully consistent.” Mason provided one of the leadership gifts to build the Lakso Endowment. “Whatever I have been able to do in subsequent years, I feel a strong sense that I owe the College and people such as Ron and Jim. I wanted to do something significant.”
Baker Refectory erupts in applause as Jim ends one of his most emotional “teaching moments,” a heartfelt thank-you to all those who helped create the endowment.
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Jim admitted there was a “What the heck??” moment when Bud Wise first commandeered the microphone during the faculty retirement dinner, but as the true purpose of the interruption was revealed, emotions took over.
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A former Juniata faculty member and current trustee, Bud Wise once occupied an office in the same department as Lakso and Cherry. For six years in the mid-1970s, Wise and Lakso forged a friendship that would move Wise to lend his time and influence to an effort to help Juniata and honor Jim Lakso thirty years later. It could have gone otherwise. “The day I came up to interview,” Wise recalls, “I remember walking down the hallway looking for Jim’s office. I was maybe two minutes late, and wasn’t sure where I was going. Then, I heard a shout, ‘Lakso, where is this clown?’ It was Ron. That was my greeting into the department. Jim was rather chagrined because they were recruiting and that was my first impression.” Wise taught alongside Lakso until 1979, when he went on to a career at PPG, serving as vice president of human resources for the 10 years prior to his retirement in 2010. “I’ve had the occasion to be present when Jim, co-invited by alumni from the 1970s, participates in a social outing,” Wise says. “To watch how those students of 35 years ago still respect and revere Jim, it gives me a thrill. They love to tell the stories—Lakso did this, he did that, most all of them about how he helped them.” For Wise, the stories highlight why the drive to build the Lakso Endowment has been so successful to date. “I know he connects with students from across the decades. This is not just some unique single group. It’s really 40 years of students. That is the best testimony to his legacy.” Wise personally made calls, visited with alumni, and worked with staff as one of several volunteers who worked on soliciting donations for the Lakso Endowment. Others on his team included Geoff Clarke ’75, Todd Kulp ’80, Jamie Pirrello ’81, Tracy Grajewski ’86, Annette Bair ’93, Casey Craig ’97, faculty members Dave Drews and Bob Reilly, and Jim Lakso’s longtime assistant, Joanne Krugh. That
housands credit Juniata’s inimitable focus on service and experience as inspiring them to make the world a better place. Jim Lakso himself often says colleges sometimes take too much credit for their graduates’ accomplishments. We try not to. But we can take credit for the environment we work to create, and endowed scholarships, professorships, and truly distinctive programs help. We create an environment for changing lives. Because of Juniata’s distinctive culture, and the values of community and service that it inspires, our 14,000 alumni, in ways grand and singular, help change the world, and have elevated Juniata to national visibility. For all that we mean when we say Juniata, we must build our endowment. Endowed scholarships, professorships, and programs will strengthen our distinctive character, and assist greater numbers of students. The April 29 announcement of the $820,000 James J. Lakso Endowment for Faculty Excellence was a high point in the spring, and marked a momentary conclusion to more than a year of work. But for many in the Juniata community, it is just the beginning. The announcement of the Lakso Endowment coincides with the launch of Changing Lives to Change the World, an initiative to strengthen the inimitable character of Juniata while bolstering its financial position through building the overall endowment. As of press time, Juniata’s endowment was worth $78.2 million, and the overriding goal of Changing Lives to Change the World is to attract gifts to endowment that will result in the endowment’s sustained worth to be more than $100 million. The initiative will run through the anticipated transition in Juniata’s presidency, currently expected to occur in June 2013. With an emphasis on the people and programs that make Juniata distinctive, major areas of focus are on endowed scholarships, endowed faculty positions, and endowments to support programs.
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team, along with Juniata staff, spread the word, and to date more than 225 donors—faculty, retired faculty, alumni, the Huntingdon community, and trustees current and emeriti—have given to the cause. Jim’s name still inspires more Juniata mash notes than a Main Line debutante. Cynthia Hill Valko ’76 was moved nearly to tears when she unexpectedly saw Jim, for the first time since graduation, at a Juniata gathering in Philadelphia in February. “He was everything—so much of what I learned begins and ends with that man.” “I gave to the Lakso Endowment because Dr. Lakso engaged students in the classroom in a way that made us challenge our views and assumptions, not just to get a grade but to learn,” says Colleen Ostrowski ’95, vice president and treasurer for ITT Corp. “His teaching philosophy has helped me to be successful not only in my professional life but in my personal life as well, therefore I wanted to give a gift back. I hope the endowment will help other faculty to have an impact on future Juniata students in the way that Dr. Lakso did for me.” Juniata Trustee Carl Glaeser ’77 says, “Jim’s entire life has been spent serving students in some educational capacity, whether in the classroom preparing them for the business world or as a college provost helping shape education for all Juniata students. It is obvious how many students were affected by Jim’s knowledge, wit, and warmth, and this type of living gift honors Jim by ensuring his legacy will continue to touch lives for decades to come.” But his tenure also inspires some good-natured ribbing. A key volunteer in the effort to raise funds for the endowment, Joanne Krugh said one thing motivated her to do the work. “That man is never surprised. He is always on top of things. Just once, I wanted to see him surprised!” Bob Reilly agrees. “Just seeing the look on his face when the announcement was made, seeing Bonnie and him so happy, that was worth all the work.” The stories are many, and could take lots of space here. After all, more than 200 people to date have supported the Lakso Endowment, and it is likely more will do so as Juniata’s endowment initiative continues. In that way, the stories Jim’s colleagues and students tell will have a concrete expression in the permanent presence of the endowment itself.
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In 2007, Juniata earned start-up support from the Teagle Foundation to establish a program to do such work. Now named the James J. Lakso Center for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the behest of the Juniata faculty, the center sponsors workshops on pedagogy; mentoring of junior faculty by seasoned teachers; experts from other colleges and universities working with our faculty in short residencies; and more—effectively making teaching practice public, subject to critical evaluation, and deliberative. Finally, professional development funding can provide new hires so-called “start-up funds,” to ensure that new faculty have a strong start at Juniata. Such support may mean providing funding for a research program, equipment, library resources, or other tools for a new professor to offer innovative and experiential learning opportunities to students. “This initiative is an outstanding win-win,” Wise says. “The win for Juniata is that it’s about sustainability. The core of success for Juniata is committed and excellent faculty who are student-centered. The ability to set aside funds to be directed exactly to that core is a very, very responsible thing for us to do.” >j< 59
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What will the Lakso Endowment help Juniata do? The Lakso Endowment is a formal and dedicated commitment to helping faculty excel as teachers and mentors. Its guiding purpose is to provide Juniata provosts a permanent source of annual funding to support professional development. For faculty members, professional development can include presenting work at conferences (or simply attending them), taking part in training or professional workshops, or visiting other colleges. It means visiting where innovative teaching may be happening, or where internships may result. It means monitoring developments in their field and having the time and space—whether on sabbatical or during the academic year—to create curriculum. At Juniata, such work often translates to faculty involving students in significant research projects. “A strong faculty engages in scholarship— participating in professional development to remain up-to-date in our ever-developing fields, to enhance and evaluate our teaching practices, and to engage in creative endeavors or research to share with others inside and outside the Juniata community,” says Kathy Westcott, associate professor of psychology. “The Lakso Endowment supports our ability to partake in these activities and reflects Juniata’s support for an active and engaged faculty. While the Lakso Endowment is incredible in many ways, I am most glad it recognizes Jim’s strong, ongoing support for the continued professional growth of faculty at Juniata. It’s a true win for everyone.” Faculty development also means providing a way to evaluate teaching and find proven methods to improve it.
Research Pilgrimage Religion Researchers Seek to Break New Ground in Holy Land
By Don Braxton J. Omar Good Professor of Religion Illustration by Laura Hess ’11
Jerusalem on Fast Forward
Student Researcher’s Eye-Opening Week in Jerusalem
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the State College airport. Upon takeoff I did my best to act like I had been in the sky before, I gazed out the window, watching central Pennsylvania shrink below me. After some travel snafus, we board the airliner for a long, long flight to Israel. I tried using my laptop, but was less than amused without the Internet. I tried sleeping, but never could sleep sitting up. I tried ignoring the feelings of elevating and dipping through the air, but occasionally found myself white-knuckled. On our final decent into Tel Aviv, I got my first look of any land outside of North America. Fast-forward time again. Past finding 61
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Professor Don Braxton proposed an offer, as they say, I couldn’t refuse. The bottom line of the message was this: he needed a research assistant for a study in the Old City of Jerusalem and I fit the bill. I had never been farther east than New York City but I jumped at the chance to visit the Middle East. Though I’d taken a handful of religious studies classes, I was not pursuing a major in the field. Yet my background in biology was a perfect fit.
Braxton’s work centers around two revolutionary concepts in the field of Religious Study: true scientific investigation (falsifiable theories, objective evidence, and scientific method) and the use of biometric devices. After familiarizing myself with the equipment we would use, as well as the terrain of the Middle East, I was eager to start the work. Hit fast forward. Past a nerveshattering presentation in front of 50 elite scholars, past getting my passport, and past countless hours Googling everything about Jerusalem. Time for my first flight— on a puddle-jumping airplane at
Our agenda was pretty simple for the first three days. We needed to divide the Old City up into sections and document its spaces. I took the Muslim Quarter. It is regarded as the most dangerous. I had a sense of paternal concern for the 20-something young men in my care. I didn’t want to face Caleb’s mother if I brought him home shot by a random bullet. They both took the quiet Christian Quarter. After a day and a half, they moved on to the Jewish Quarter. At the end of three days, we had a fairly extensive photographic database of the streets of Jerusalem.
One of the things Don Braxton and Caleb Gwinn ’11 searched for in their test tours of Jerusalem was provocative or just religiously-themed graffiti in areas of the Old City.
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It may help to explain how three semi-wise researchers came to the Holy Land. Let’s step back two years earlier in Denmark. In the spring of 2008, I was on sabbatical at the University of Aarhus working on computer models of how religious extremist cells come together. When I presented my research at Queens University in Belfast, someone asked whether such models can predict actual real world events. Good question. When asked how I would translate this model into a real-world application, I said, “go to Jerusalem and begin to collect real-world data on its environmental conditions.” Why Jerusalem? It is an intensely religious city, claimed by three world religions as sacred space. These three religions offer competing and incompatible explanations of why the space is sacred. The city is
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standing at the exact spot where I was for thousands of years. The air was hot—really hot—and dry. Our hotel, was, um…unique. In the coming days I would look beyond the beautiful balcony and wonderful scenery and focus on the horrors that lay within. The breakfast on the first day was tolerable. Made up mostly of unidentifiable pastes, I stared at the spread for a few moments before making my arbitrary choices. As it
inhabited by large historical groups of religiously distinct populations that interact with each other on a regular basis. In other words, Jerusalem is Ground Zero for religious oneupsmanship that is a three-way NFL game where the fans wear team paraphernalia, wave terrible towels, and hurl invective at the opposition. The only difference is that instead of being drunk on beer they are drunk on religion. If the goal of the model is to demonstrate the violent behavior of male religious adherents stimulated by intense environments, no better place exists than the Old City of Jerusalem.
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The Old City of Jerusalem is best conceived as a kind of naturally occurring rat maze. It has labyrinthine streets and alleys, having evolved organically over thousands of years. Massive walls and gates, designed as protection from the siege engines of conquering empires, serve now to lend the space a claustrophobic ambience. So, how to document and measure this process? We needed very precise equipment that would work well in the field. We built a Galvanic Skin Response device that is equipped with a GPS. Our version records your movements in time and space and associates that data with a running record of your emotional status via the skin response device. We also bought a set of heartrate monitors, which measure stress levels by tracking heart rate changes. Finally, we purchased a set of headmounted miniature video cameras about the size of a
turned out, I had some hummus, some eggplant, some pickled vegetables and instant coffee. This breakfast would become less and less pleasant with each day. Eventually I couldn’t eat it. My mood in the morning was only worsened by the previous night. The pillow was only slightly more comfortable than sleeping with a block of wood beneath my head. I was too nervous to crawl
into the bed and there was no air conditioning. Construction on the temple across the street awakened me. The topper? I woke up each morning with 10 to 20 new bug bites. Our first full day in the Old City. The morning heat made it clear— shade and water were at a premium. Kristoffer Nielbo, our researcher from Denmark, and I began mapping the Christian Quarter.
With the Dome of the Rock in the foreground, this vista overlooking the Jewish cemetery shows how many differing religious symbols can be seen from a solitary spot in Jerusalem.
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pack of gum so we can track precisely what we see at any given moment and correlate it to the stress levels derived from GSR and heart rate. These three devices allow us to track our test subjects’ emotional state as they move about the religious rat maze. We think James Bond would be proud. This Year in Jerusalem On location during the third day, we needed to figure out an optimal route through the maze that would expose our test subjects to the stimuli we were interested in. First, for a run with a test subject to be successful, we needed a route that didn’t interfere with the GPS satellite signal while also meeting all the other criteria. Our test subjects ideally should cross through all four quarters, spend roughly equal amounts of time in each, and be bombarded with religious imagery. Finally, the test subjects should not be distracted by extraneous “noise” from the environment. Noise in this case is tourist traffic, crammed into narrow markets in a desperate quest for the perfect gift with the juju of the holy places. We reviewed all of our documentary photography and proposed a route. That evening we huddled around our map, listened to the jackhammer outside our window, and felt something like joy at our accomplishment. We all took aspirin and went to bed. Day four was the big day. We had our map of the proposed route in hand. I hooked myself up to all the
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equipment. The route took about 40 minutes (bad, too long); it had one fairly steep incline (bad, walking uphill strains the heart); and Israel blocks Google Maps from giving any detailed information about the Old City— really bad. It meant GPS plotted our walk admirably, but it couldn’t plot information about the landscape. Later, we found we could import a map into the route after it has been recorded. But we had done it. We had our package of precious data.
Travel and the ‘In Crowd’
Globetrotting is a series of “ins.” Inconveniences, incompatibilities, incongruities, and insurmountables. It’s all part-and-parcel of the “in-sights” you gain. Israel’s peculiarities include its security forces saturating almost every aspect of life. It has the highest per capita gun ownership rate in the world. The weapons were everywhere—on hips, slung across soldiers, stuck in handbags and belts. Roadblocks, checkpoints, screenings, and random requests for IDs are routine. You can’t get into a mall without someone waving an electronic wand over you. Soldiers often prohibit entry into areas where potential religious tensions might occur without telling you why they might occur. To exit Israel, we underwent a full, four hours of security checks at the airport with questions designed to trip us up in inconsistencies. I got off easier than Caleb did. It was the grey hair and distinguished professorial looks.
Many religious pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to visit the holy sites venerated by their particular religion. Here, pilgrims from the Philippines walk the route for the original Stations of the Cross.
Even displaying Israel’s national flag can be seen as a provocation. Braxton and Gwinn later brought both these flags home with them.
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The people of the Old City conjured up every emotion one could feel from people one has no connection with. Annoyance, uneasiness and wonder. I saw a sight that left me with an impression I hadn’t felt before. There was an old man, clearly Muslim, selling olives. His set up was just inside a covered archway which connects the Christian and Muslim quarters. It was a scene which has been visible for centuries. It was the first truly quaint way of life I had ever seen and it stuck with me. I felt uneasy during my trip to the Muslim Quarter. It wasn’t because it was dirty, overcrowded or noisy. It wasn’t the smell of human waste, which did fill the air at points. I felt uneasy, I later realized, because it was the first time I saw people being mistreated on a massive scale. The word “ghetto” was created by Jews, used to explain
Food for Thought
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In spring semester, Caleb Gwinn and Don Braxton pose with the Israeli flags they brought home. Despite taking a week or so to research religious intolerance, Caleb graduated in the spring and is now in medical school.
the unfair, inhuman conditions in which they lived under oppression. It was Israel, it seemed to me, which was now treating others inhumanely. The Muslims are cornered in their section of the Old City—unable to leave without facing harsh treatment by the heavily armed (and omnipresent) Israeli Defense Force. They are denied citizenship and left with little economic opportunities. They are caged and treated like animals. The people I saw were not animals, however. They were mothers and children and fathers and hard workers. I admired them, for I could never live their life. I saw a huge spectrum of living conditions. From wealth and privilege to poverty and 66
I love Middle Eastern cuisine, eating hummus, falafel, and olives with great gusto. Eat those three ingredients for three meals a day every day for four days, and you experience full rebellion of the stomach. Israel admires American culture in many ways, particularly our love affair with hamburgers. When we went in search of nonhummus/falafel/olives combinations, all we could really find were hamburger joints. In all honesty, they were not good hamburger joints, either. Nor did I want my hamburger with a smear of hummus.
Stressing Final Lessons
You carry stress with you all the time. I mean all the time. This really has to do with the Old City not Israel— probably not even the rest of Jerusalem. In the size of less than a square mile, the most committed religious people you have ever met in your life congregate, compete, hate one another, and try to shout over the top of each other because the entire affair is beyond reason. Add to this a
hopelessness, the Old City taught me something at every step. All in all, I can’t explain exactly how I changed from the trip. I know I learned that what we take in as knowledge truly can be used to learn new things and that education is almost the only way to touch the world on a large scale. It was beautiful because even though I shared not one experience with everyone I met, trekking on the ancient land made me feel a commonality with everyone I saw. This was a painful and beautiful lesson for me: painful because even in this exotic land, everyone was fundamentally the same as Tyrone (Pa.). In the midst of all my own emotional bombardment, I still found time to do productive work
and contribute to my professor’s project. We touched down in State College and I couldn’t help but notice my family banging on the window to get my attention. I saw my mom, dad, my girlfriend and my small son, Cullen (at that time he was around 10 months old). I had worried at times that he wouldn’t recognize me after the 10-day separation, or that he wouldn’t be as excited as I was that we were together again. My worries vanished the moment I saw his smile. We filed into the car and started my drive home. Everyone wanted to hear about the trip—about my experiences, my memories, what I ate and saw and felt. I didn’t talk about the trip at all though. I didn’t know where to begin. I think this essay is a good start. >j<
Photo (left): J.D. Cavrich
The Holy Land’s climate is unholy. October is supposedly the most hospitable month of the year. Well, Israel’s understanding of hospitality and mine seem to differ. The days peaked in the lower to upper 90s. The sun was your enemy. I found myself having fantasies about what it must be like on the least hospitable days of high summer in this city of stone, concrete, population density, religious fervor, and a multitude of provocations to anger.
dense military presence and groups of elderly, affluent people from all over the world being herded through the streets. I chose the word herding here specifically because tour guides treat their appointees like herd animals and the tourists all display a deathly fear on their faces of getting lost in the hubbub. They probably have good reason to be afraid because Muslim Quarter is dirty, overcrowded and has loitering teenagers everywhere. It’s the subject of systematic neglect by the Israelis. I looked up the symptom hyper-vigilance in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It defined it as an excessive state of arousal and alertness to danger. After that it said, “see Jerusalem.” So what are the next steps in this project? Currently I am working with two students this summer to build a working map of the Old City of Jerusalem. The map will be very special. We call it “Smarty Pants.” It will be constructed on arcGIS with attached layers of searchable data. On the surface, it will be a street map of the Old City with the test route highlighted. In this map many markers will be embedded just like you find in Google Maps these days. Pan over the icons and a picture of the relevant intersection X will appear. But the real magic will be hidden underneath. The layers behind the scenes will contain all the searchable data that is to be generated by the study. Want to know how all Muslims in the study reacted emotionally to intersection X? Ask the map. Want to know how only Jewish males over six feet tall reacted to some mosque in contrast to all Jews (male and
The cramped streets, markets and shops of Jerusalem’s Old City are a perfect petri dish for Braxton’s research on how religiously devout people react to symbols of other religions and cultures.
female and all body sizes)? Tell the map that’s what you want. In five years, we hope to have such a map and be able to ask, “So where do you think the next outbreak of religious violence is likely to occur given everything you know, Smarty Pants?” Now that will be the real trick. >j<
Kristoffer Nielbo, a graduate student from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, marks out one of the walking routes for Braxton’s research project. Nielbo worked with Gwinn and Braxton throughout the Jerusalem trip.
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Faculty Feature
Apart from the Madding Crowd New Assistant Provost Digs into How Groups Work, Improve
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It was sort of there from the beginning. When performing as part of the corps de ballet in high school and college, she could step back and see where improvements could be made. In college, she was more interested in seeing how a pre-school class as a whole could work more efficiently than working with individual students. In fact, she ended up doing her doctoral dissertation on that very topic. When she thinks about it, Kathy Westcott muses that she’s always been able to see the bigger picture. Even in seemingly everyday tasks, she sees everything in macro. Take the recent home renovation that she and husband Mark McKellop, associate professor of psychology, completed. Kathy was in charge of overseeing contractors, designers and conceiving the flow of the new rooms. “I could see how it was all going to come together in the end,” she says. 68
The ability to step back and see an organization or group in perspective will definitely be an asset to Kathy in her new job as assistant provost, a three-year gig that starts this fall. Perhaps her primary duty will be taking the lead on Juniata’s accreditation through the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which will be focused mostly on assessment. “My background as a school psychologist is in ‘systems level change,’” she explains. “Which means we will look where we are as an institution and look systematically at our practices and outcomes.” She’s pretty sure this is one job she won’t be able to see how it all comes together in the end until, well, the end, but she’s certainly looking forward to the process. In fact, the process is what fascinates her in the first place. So, in the highly detailed, painstaking, obsessively documented world of accreditation and assessment, Juniata might have found the perfect person for the job.
Photos: (left) J.D. Cavrich; (right) Christopher Shannon ’09
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Kathy Westcott likes keeping a low profile on campus, but that doesn’t prevent her from going out and catching an art exhibit with her daughter, Carly, above. She’s also the point person for the College’s yearlong Middle States Assessment project.
Kathy saw that being a school psychologist was rewarding in its own right. “It was such a nice match for me,” she says. “Making the connections with students and parents and teaching others how to address problems was right in line with my interests.” In 2002, Mark landed a job at Juniata and Kathy stepped in as a sabbatical replacement for an education professor. The next year, she and her husband shared one “professorship,” each working about half-time teaching and performing other duties. Eventually Kathy and Mark, who by this time had welcomed son Ethan, now 8, and daughter Carly, now 6, into the family, both became full-time professors. In addition to faculty duties, Kathy became interested in “the how” of teaching at Juniata. She worked on several teaching assessment projects funded by the Teagle Foundation with a variety of faculty, including Lynn Cockett, David Drews, Michael Boyle and Phil Dunwoody. As might befit a person who loves to see how systems work, she became a leader in the College’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning efforts and recently rotated off as director of Juniata’s Center for Teaching Excellence—a sort of in-house think tank about teaching at a liberal arts college. So, the Middle States Assessment needs a person who is interested in how to improve teaching yet also quantify how well the College performs in the classroom. Plus the job requires the person to see how the College functions as a whole and discover how to improve. Hmmm, doesn’t that describe Kathryn Westcott? >j<
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“I don’t know what I’m going to learn. That has yet to be determined,” she says. “Probably that I might hate working in administration.” Nah, that would never happen. Kathy’s work has focused on how to make groups work better. She loves being part of the crowd, but she also likes slipping away from the pack to check how things are working. That’s sort of the soul on administrative work. Let’s let her describe the irony of her new assignment. “I like to be an under-the-radar person and this job doesn’t let me to do that.” Growing up in Norwalk, Ohio, a small town near Sandusky (Bonus: this location meant she got to work summers at Cedar Point Amusement Park), Kathy saw her small high school as a sort of laboratory that gave her room to try many different things without the pressure to pick an ultimate destination. As a young girl and through high school she was very interested in ballet and actually chose to attend the University of Cincinnati because of the university’s dance conservatory. But repeated injuries and the intensity of the conservatory’s competitive culture led her to transfer her freshman year. Transferring as a first-generation college student from a conservatory to Ohio State University was sort of like going from a family dinner celebration to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. Kathy describes her first few quarters as “basically stumbling along blindly, I didn’t even have an advisor.” She decided to focus on psychology and learned of a research assistant job. “It was a grant to study the effect of a parent’s death on the (surviving) children,” she says. She did 25 to 30 interviews, often seeing another undergraduate interviewer, Mark McKellop, in the area. She loved the job and eventually found a paid position in the lab, doing decidedly less interesting work (she clipped obituaries from Ohio papers that seemed “promising” for interview subjects for the same researchers). Later at OSU, she worked with pre-schoolers with disabilities at the Nisonger Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. “I got these high-impact experiences by being in the right place. It was all very serendipitous.” Serendipity or not, Kathy was able to channel her undergraduate experiences into a job as a case manager for the Central Clinic in Cincinnati. At the time, McKellop was in graduate school at the University of Cincinnati. She worked with low-income families. “I learned so much about myself and how to put myself in other people’s shoes,” she recalls. “I learned a lot about the health care system working with parents to help their kids be successful at school.” As it turned out, those experiences also helped her be successful at school, as she decided to pursue her master’s and doctoral degrees at Cincinnati. Around the time Kathy finished her doctorate in 2001, Kathy and Mark both stepped back and saw the big picture. It turned out he didn’t like clinical psychology and decided to switch to teaching.
Faculty Notes When we ask, So What—we’re not being rude. It started when we asked the faculty to explain a little more about the work they do in research, developing courses, consulting, and the like. We wanted the info behind the paper title, the story behind the curricular change, the life and the thinking that make Juniata profs as interesting as they are. Read on—
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Juniata magazine: Why is it important for an art faculty member or an artist in general to exhibit your work regularly? Monika Malewska: It’s no different than scientists who publish their research results. It’s important to be part of a larger cultural dialogue in the artistic community. I make art and I teach, and I think making art makes me a better teacher in some ways. Art does no one any good stuck in a closet. It’s the same as knowledge—it has to be shared. Q: How do you decide to which shows or exhibits you should submit your artwork? A: Sometimes the curators know my work or have seen my paintings online and they contact me and sometimes I get excited about an opportunity that has a certain theme or style of painting. The shows I was in recently (appealed) to me in different ways. “Kitchen Sync” was sort of countercultural, “INSATIABLE” was more of an academic show about excessive consumption and “Sinister Play” was a pop cultural exhibition. Q: At how many exhibits do you usually show work in a typical year? A: It goes up and down, but usually about five shows and I think I get into about 40 percent of those I apply for. I’m going to have a solo show this summer at Good Question Gallery in Augusta, N.J.
Q: Is there an ultimate exhibit or ambition you would like to attain with your art? A: The ultimate thing for an artist is to be represented by a gallery in a larger city. It’s sort of the equivalent of having an agent. They sell your work exclusively and handle marketing and sales. That would be my ambition because I am a terrible business person.
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Q: How does your art contribute to Juniata students’ education and how do you think you can be part of the larger art world? A: I try not to show my work in class because I do not want to impose my personal sensibility on (students). I want them to discover their own way. Art should raise interesting questions. I might not be famous but I’m sharing my work and participating in the conversation.
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professor of art, a working artist, Malewska exhibits her work at galleries all over the country, including these group exhibitions: “Everything But the Kitschen Sync,” La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif.; “Sinister Play,” Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, N.Y.; and “INSATIABLE: Our Rapacious Appetite for More,” Kniznick Gallery, Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
Peter Baran, associate professor of chemistry, gave an invited talk “Chemistry Celebration in Our Philately,” which revealed chemistry motifs in Czech and Slovak stamps in February at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, Slovakia. He also spoke at Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia the same month. Baran published three papers on inorganic chemistry topics in Organic Letters , Inorganic Chemistry and the Journal of Natural Products.
John Bukowski, professor of mathematics, and Jerry Kruse, Dale Chair in Computer Science, recently received awards at the annual meeting of the Allegheny Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America in April at Clarion University. Kruse won the 2011 MAA Allegheny Mountain Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, and Bukowski won the 2011 MAA Allegheny Mountain Section Service Award.
Kati Csoman, acting dean of the center for international education, presented “A Double Degree Development Experience: Juniata College & York St John University (UK)” at the Association of International Education Administrators Annual Conference in San Francisco, Calif. in February.
Bethany Benson, assistant professor of art, exhibited her ceramics at the show “Greens & Grog” at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference in Tampa, Fla.
Vince Buonaccorsi, associate professor of biology, published a paper on bocaccio rockfish population genetics in the journal Conservation Genetics Resources. Ashton Bunce ’10 was a co-author.
Douglas Glazier, professor of biology, published, with Travis Deptola ’10, “The amphipod Gammarus minus has larger eyes in freshwater springs with numerous predators” in the journal Invertebrate Biology.
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Sarah DeHaas, Martin G. Brumbaugh, Professor of Pducation, was editor for the Preventing Litigation in Special Education Workbook, published in 2011 .
Photos: (left) Dan Devine; (right) Jeff Bruzee ’14
Q: Do you get to work on art during the entire year? A: Let’s see, since 2007 I’ve done about 20 paintings in my “Bacon” series, which means I get to do about one per month. I always try to have something cooking, so to speak.
Dennis Johnson, Blechschmidt Chair of Environmental Science, conducted a workshop on unsteady river flow modeling and developing river models using GIS for the National Weather Service at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Kathy Jones, associate professor of education, was elected as vice president of the Pennsylvania Science Teachers’ Association. Jill Keeney, Goodman-Rockwell Professor of Biology, published a paper with two students, John O’Donnell ’10 and Marie Gehman ’09, on her long-running Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or baker’s yeast, research in the Nov. 22 issue of Mobile DNA. Debra Kirchhof-Glazier, professor of biology, chaired a workshop “Health Care SOS: Advising for the Titanic” at a meeting of the NE Association of Advisors for the Health Professions in March in Providence, R.I. James Latten, associate professor of music, in March began service as state president of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Bandmasters Association for a one-year term. As national chair of the Small College/Community College Task Force of the College Band Directors National Association, Latten presided over task force meetings at the group’s national conference in Seattle, Wash.
Mark McKellop and Kathy Westcott, both associate professors of psychology, with students Lyndsey Gianella ’12, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Nicholas Talisman ’12, of Bethesda, Md., presented “Talking about Death: Does the Discussion End when Class is Over?” at the 23rd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science in May in Washington, D.C.
Peter Rothstein, lecturer in English, published “Abe Kobo and the Search for a Modern Identity” in Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts, and presented “Return to the Right: The Unexpected Legacy of the Cold War in Japanese Education” at the Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives conference in October at the University of Texas, Austin.
Norris Muth, assistant professor of biology, with student researcher Acer van Wallendael ‘11, co-wrote an article on the case for and against Walnut Allelopathy in Forest Leaves, a publication of the Natural Resources Extension office of Penn State. Muth also reviewed or edited articles in Biological Invasions, Ecology Letters, Functional Ecology, Journal of Ecology and Plant Ecology.
Henry Thurston-Griswold, professor of Spanish, published “Una propuesta testimonial alternativa: Señores bajo los árboles, de Mario Roberto Morales” An Alternative Testimonial Proposal: Mario Roberto Morales’ Face of the Earth, Heart of the Sky in the JulyDecember Revista Iberoamericana.
Neil Pelkey, associate professor of environmental science, with two co-authors, published “Googleology: Powerful Tool or Unreliable Evidence” in the September 2010 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. Rosalie Rodriguez, special assistant to the president for diversity and inclusion, received the Bunton-Waller Graduate Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in community psychology at Penn State University-Harrisburg. Rodriguez receives full tuition funding, as well as $15,000 for each year of the two-year scholarship. She is currently on leave from Juniata.
Belle Tuten, W. Newton and Hazel A. Long Professor of History, co-edited Feud, Violence and Practice: Essays in Medieval Studies in Honor of Stephen D. White. She also wrote the introduction. Robert Wagoner, professor emeritus of philosophy at Juniata College, published Spinning and Sex, illustrated with 79 reprints of works from his collection, through the Huntingdon County Historical Society, and spoke on “Spinning and Sex,” at an exhibit of Wagoner family spinning prints at the Exhibit Gallery of the society.
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Juniata magazine: First off, why were you and Cy going to the conference? Dan Welliver: We were making a presentation on sociology’s new capstone course, which we called “Small Meets World,” which provides a project that makes it clearer how the principles you are learning at Juniata are applied in the larger world outside of Huntingdon. Q: How were you able to get funding to take Shelleisha and Brittany to the conference and what did they do there? A: Cy applied to Provost Lakso’s faculty development fund. Shelleisha was showing a poster for her research on “Aging, AIDS and African-American Women,” and Brittany showed a poster on her emerging research comparing public transportation access in London and Baltimore (Md.) Q: Why is it important to take students to a professional conference? A: Both Shelleisha and Brittany are graduate school-bound, where they are going to be expected to discuss their work and research. This conference and their poster presentations gave them the experience of meeting other professionals in their field, getting some positive feedback and critiques on their work. It’s interacting with an audience that will help them to refine and affirm what they are doing. Q: Did you and Cy prepare them at all? A: We did do a dry run in the hotel before the poster session, which I think helped them work out any nervousness. It must have worked because Shelleisha talked at length with a professor from Columbia University who was doing similar research. Brittany was so impressive in fielding questions that one professor from Lehigh University asked her to apply to their graduate program.
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presented research at Eastern Sociological Society in February in Philadelphia. Two Juniata students, Shelleisha Salmon ’11, and Brittany Gregory ’11 accompanied the faculty to present research posters. Juniata magazine was curious why it’s important to take students to present their research at conferences.
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Q: Any other surprising learning experiences? A: You know we had some pretty good discussions on the way to and from the conference. Coming back you now have a shared language that can build another level of discourse when you get back to campus. Even walking to dinner on South Street, we saw a huge mural showing (renowned African-American sociologist) W.E.B. Du Bois. In fact, for a social scientist, just walking around Philly is like being in a candy store. I guess the students in natural sciences can leave their research behind when they go out to dinner. With sociologists everything is open to scrutiny.
Daniel Welliver, assistant professor of sociology, and Cynthia Merriwether-de Vries,
Alumni Feature
By John Wall
Juniata Graduate Jumps from Halftime Showman to Investment Expert
Casey Craig ’97 comes to the door wearing the uniform of high finance: the subtly powerful gray pinstripe suit, dazzling white shirt, blue-andgold tie, loafers shined to a sheen worthy of a military policeman.
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Of course, as a former two-sport athlete at Juniata and former employee of the Boston Celtics, this is a guy who is used to wearing some kind of uniform. Yet the familiarity and regimentation suggested in his clothing is not reflected in a career path that has been anything but uniform. Now living in Johnstown, Pa., where he attended high school and met his wife, Erin, Casey now covers the entire East Coast of the United States as a senior vice president for Putnam Investments, where he specializes as a 401(k) financial adviser for Fortune 500 companies. It wouldn’t surprise anyone to learn he took a lot of finance courses at Juniata—when he wasn’t playing basketball or swinging a bat for the baseball team. The bolt from the blue comes when he recounts how his athletic interests, coupled with some sage advice from his adviser Jim Lakso, now Juniata’s provost, inspired several vocational changes in direction worthy of the zigzagged parquet floor in the Boston Garden, a fabled basketball arena (more about that later). “Sports marketing was not the big new career field (it is today) when I was in school, there were just a few big state universities even offering it,” says Craig. “I decided to focus my POE on that and came to Jim with the idea and he was very supportive. By the first semester of my senior year I had an internship with the (minor league hockey team) Johnstown Chiefs.” 72
Nowadays the term sports marketing covers everything from three sausages racing around a baseball field to housewives wrestling in sumo suits to gymnasts in gorilla suits dunking basketballs off a trampoline. But back in the early ’90s, Casey’s interest in working the business side of sports was not an obvious choice. During his hockey internship, he worked with sponsors, advertising, television ads and game night entertainment. At the same time, the young marketer was immersed in Huntingdon community service with Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Based on an idea he saw at a University of West Virginia basketball game, Casey started a program to give the children in Big Brothers/Big Sisters (and their families) tickets to each Juniata home game. He found a sponsor, Huntingdon’s local Pizza Hut, and found that he liked the “selling” aspect of his ideas. “Back then we weren’t as successful as Greg Curley’s teams, so 25 to 50 extra spectators was a big deal,” he says. As graduation approached he had decisions to make; should he go straight into a job or go to graduate school? Should he get an MBA or go into sports marketing? Enter Jim Lakso. “He gave me a great perspective about how pursuing the sports aspect would focus me on a career path,” Casey recalls. “I rarely make a career decision (even now) without involving Jim.” The final decision came down to enrolling in the University of West Virginia’s sports administration master’s program—which, as luck would have it, included a job in the university’s sports marketing office. As he tackled college sports marketing in his two years at West Virginia, he was ready to enter the real world. For Casey, the real world in 1999 was Miami, Fla., where he was representative for Game Plan Inc., an athletic event management business that had him working with Florida International University, basketball star Alonzo Mourning’s charity and the Tampa Bay Firesticks, a women’s pro softball team.
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No Celtic green is visible in Casey Craig’s new uniform of a gray flannel suit and blue-and-gold rep tie. After a multisport athletic career at Juniata, Casey was able to parlay a business education into a sports marketing career with the Boston Celtics. He later moved into investment sales. Casey credits Jim Lakso, Juniata’s answer to Celtics legend Red Auerbach (minus the cigar), with providing sage counsel every time he made a career shift.
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Throughout his education and early career he kept in touch with Jim Lakso and former Juniata teammates. One former Eagle basketball player, Frank Vogel, who had left Juniata a year early to work as a student assistant for Rick Pitino at the University of Kentucky, got in touch shortly after Casey moved south. These days, Frank Vogel is the new coach of the Indiana Pacers, but back then he was video coordinator for Pitino and followed the acclaimed coach to his next job 401(k) division. “I didn’t know what a 401(k) was before the as head coach of the Boston Celtics. One day in 1999, Vogel interview, I thought it was some kind of running event,” he notified his old teammate there was an opening in the team’s says. “I reached out to Jim again and of course he knew more marketing operation. about Fidelity than I did.” “My initial reaction was that it was: great I knew the Not for long. Casey soon made himself an expert on the Celtics’ video coordinator, but I’m also thinking that he corporate retirement plans and moved to the Cincinnati, doesn’t have a ton of influence on the hiring process,” Casey Ohio area to sell the plans to businesses in Indiana, Kentucky says with a laugh. and Ohio. “It was a hard transition. In sports marketing Although Casey was in conversations with Juniata people were calling me to do business, now I had to make basketball coach Rick Ferry to be assistant basketball those connections.” coach, he kept advancing through each round of Celtics It’s evident he mastered those new skills, because in interviews until, at age 24, he was named head of in-game 2009, Casey decided to leave Fidelity to join the sales team entertainment. Which meant he was in charge of creating at Putnam Investments, a much smaller firm with 32,000 or events for pregame and halftime. so fewer employees. It was a chance to have a bigger voice in His first assignment? The team was retiring its famous decisions and a chance to return home. parquet floor, a renovation on par with the Palace of Versailles The company gives Casey the opportunity to work out retiring its Hall of Mirrors or Rockefeller Center retiring its of his home, which gave him a chance to move Erin and their ice rink. No pressure there. Casey was in charge of organizing children Lilly, 5, and Grant, 3, to the city where he and Erin current and former Celtic superstars on re-creating iconic had grown up and where all the grandparents lived as well. “It shots and editing accompanying historic videos from was a chance to become part of the Putnam leadership team, the team’s many championship years. So, at an age when too,” he explains, from a tiny home office he has in a corner of most college grads are still sweating out finding their first his bedroom. “I drive a lot, I sort of have an office on wheels.” apartment, Casey was working with Hall-of-Fame Celtics The move to Johnstown keeps his extended family close such as Bob Cousy, Larry Bird, Jo Jo White, Bill Russell, John and also lets him volunteer for a town he loves. He’s working Havlicek and Dennis Johnson. as a volunteer assistant basketball coach for Westmont “You kind of have to collect yourself and remind yourself Hilltop High School, his alma mater, and puts in that this is your job,” he says. Pretty soon, the young time delivering his kids to various activities. sports impresario was so immersed in his job that Although Casey’s new assignment he barely noticed he was sitting at mid-court At an age when keeps him busy, he made extra time to controlling the entertainment for the most most college grads become a team leader for donations to storied franchise in NBA history. “I tell are still sweating out the Lakso Endowment for the classes Juniata students you’ll never see a game if finding their first of the 1990s. Casey, who knows how you go into sports management, you’ll be apartment, Casey was hard it is to convince businessmen to too busy working,” he says. working with Hall-of-Fame invest in new products, was amazed, Within a few years he had moved into Celtics such as Bob Cousy, yet not really surprised, at how quickly sponsorship sales and by 2003 he felt he Larry Bird, Jo Jo White, the fund-raising project to honor was ready to try something else. Casey’s his mentor accumulated. “It’s such a wife, Erin, worked at Fidelity Investments, Bill Russell, John Havlicek compliment to Jim and it’s so telling of a huge Boston-based investment firm, and and Dennis Johnson. the impact Jim has had on the students, he couldn’t help but network during office getthe College and the community.” >j< togethers. He applied for a job in 2003 and was hired as a sales representative for the company’s
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has been inducted into the Alexander Mack Society as part of “The Hereditary Societies of Waynesboro” by the Antietam Historical Association. As a genealogist, she traced her own lineage, which included a direct line from Alexander Mack.
spoke about his book, The Tiger in the Senate, at the 10th anniversary of the Wayne Morse Center for Politics and Law at the University of Oregon in November 2010. His book is a biography of its former law school dean, the late Sen. Morse.
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has enjoyed 73 years of pastoral ministry in the U.S. He is now retired and enjoys sitting on the front porch, riding his bike, and making bird houses.
and wife Mary served as chairs of the Moore Regional Hospital Auxiliary’s Holiday Ball on Dec. 10, 2010 in Pinehurst, N.C. The proceeds from the event funded the home and community-like environments of a Rehab Village for Moore Regional’s Inpatient Center for Rehabilitation.
A. Kathryn Oller
Herbert N. Brownlee
1947
Simon C. Brumbaugh Jr.
and wife Mary Lou celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with their seven daughters and 14 grandchildren. Simon also enjoys spending time skiing.
1949
Charles N. Pickell
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had two books published in the fall of 2010, Our Presbyterian Heritage and For the Living of These Days. He also spent two weeks in the U.K. during August 2010 studying Celtic Christianity. Charles currently is taking courses at the University of Virginia.
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Gene K. Shaffer
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David M. Hercules
was ranked by the American Chemical Society in the top 400 chemists in the world. He has an H-score of 57, which is their productivity rating in terms of publications.
1955
Donald G. Targan
has been named among the “Best Lawyers in America” and a “Super Lawyer” for his work in medical
negligence and personal injury by the New Jersey Magazine. Only the top 5 percent of practicing attorneys can be selected for these honors.
1956
John T. Yates
was ranked by the American Chemical Society in the top 100 living chemists. He has an H-index ranking of 96, which means of John’s 720 publications, 96 of them had 96 or more citations.
1957
Be sure to mark your calendar for your 55th Reunion Celebration— June 14-17, 2012. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu).
1958
Ann (Willson) and David C. Amidon Jr. ’57
have moved to Moravian Village, a retirement home in Bethlehem, Pa. in September 2010.
Bruce B. Dickey
attended the presidential inauguration of John Bassett at Heritage University in Toppenish, Wash. on Nov. 13, 2010 as a delegate of Juniata.
1960
LeRoy S. Forney
had his portrait of the abolitionist and suffragette, Frances E.W. Harper, unveiled for the weeklong program “A Brighter Coming Day” by the Moonstone Arts Center in Philadelphia, Pa. Also, his painting, View of Cherry Street, received an award in the Plastic Club’s Philadelphia Images Exhibition. The Plastic Club’s new member’s show also included three of his paintings. You may read more on Lee’s blog at www.leesjourney.blogspot.com.
1962
Be sure to mark your calendar for your 50th Reunion Celebration— June 14-17, 2012. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu).
Herbert J. Sipe Jr.
attended the presidential inauguration of Christopher Howard at Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney, Va. on Nov. 11, 2010 as a delegate of Juniata.
1964
Fred E. Lytle
has been named the recipient of the 2011 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education. The award was presented at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in August 2011.
relations and addresses the internal migration in American history. John is a history professor at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Ga. Donald C. Mitchell
and his partner of eight years, Jules, have moved to San Diego, Calif. after 30 years in Los Angeles. He is enjoying retirement, filling his time with music, theatre, reading, friends, good health, cooking and entertaining.
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and wife Judith are proud to announce the birth of their second granddaughter, Mia Catherine Zecher, on May 2, 2010.
Be sure to mark your calendar for your 45th Reunion Celebration— June 14-17, 2012. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu).
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Mary Jane (Conner) Culbertson
Jeffrey M. Varnes
John D. Fair
has written a book, The Tifts of Georgia. It is about the history of an influential Georgia family and sheds new light on paternalism, cultural assimilation and race
has two grandsons, Joshua, 4, and Andrew, newborn. She is retired and lives in Elkton, Md.
1968
Gayle (Wampler) Pollock
attended the presidential inauguration of John Bravman at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. on Nov. 14, 2010 as a delegate of Juniata.
1969
Karen (Burtner) Santiago
presented at the Asociacion Nacional Universitaria de Profesores de Ingles conference in Ixtapa, Mexico in October 2010. Her presentation was titled “Creating a curriculum that serves the needs of students.”
1972
Be sure to mark your calendar for your 40th Reunion Celebration— June 14-17, 2012. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu. J. Richard Pfeffer Jr.
and fellow Juniata alums had a mini-1972 reunion and fishing trip. Pictured (l-r) are David J. Goydan ’72, J. Richard Pfeffer Jr. ’72, Timothy J. Ehgartner ’72, and James M. Smith ’72. Maurice C. Taylor
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Cheryl (Bantz) Westley
proudly announces the birth of her grandson, Finn Michael Hauser-Westley, on June 11, 2010 in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Finn is also the grandson of Michael E. Westley ’69.
attended the presidential inauguration of David Wilson at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Md. on Oct. 21, 2010 as a delegate of Juniata.
1973
Cynthia (Masser) Bambara
has been named president of Allegany College of Maryland. She is also the interim president at Central Virginia Community College, during a search for a permanent president.
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(l-r) Row 1: Ethel Rupert Dundore, Martha Stayer Alfano, William Glenn Jr., Martha Good Wenger, Judith Gera Ehrmantraut, Robert Melago (l-r) Row 2: Patricia McCoy Bub, JoAnne Stauffer Donnelly, Kathleen Alexander Baker, Jean Davies Ewers, Marjorie Spiegel Hitman, Sylvia Easley Freed, Marrie Hall Cassidy, Elizabeth Lichliter (l-r) Row 3: Nancy Werner Battin, Martha Mann Pearson, Harold Grimm, Ronald Vinson, Karl Shreiner (l-r) Row 4: Patricia Varec Johnson, Hugh Evans Jr., Orlando Falcione Jr., David Schneeberg, Don Layman, Alan King (l-r) Row 5: John Brinker, David Hogan, James Seacrist, Donald Danner, George Ritchey (l-r) Row :6 Michael Farrow, John Swigart Jr., Ronald Clippinger, John Gibbel, John Noble
Passion, Purpose & Thomas Jefferson—Saving History Robert Clark ’66 has a passion for Thomas Jefferson. That passion, combined with 40 years, led him down an unsuspecting path—helping to salvage an important part of American History. Thomas Jefferson designed his own secret retirement sanctuary, known to only a few outsiders, called Poplar Forest. Located near Lynchburg, Va., it was his retreat from a constant barrage of visitors to Monticello. Originally 5,000 acres, Jefferson designed Poplar Forest to be the first octagonal house in the nation.
Q: How did you become so interested in Thomas Jefferson? A: I spent my career on Wall Street in the securities business. I was working for E.F.
Hutton & Co. in the 1970s in Washington, D.C. While I was there, the Smithsonian had a seminar series about the life and work of Thomas Jefferson. For some reason, I can’t remember why, I attended all 13 sessions and became infected.
Q: How did you get involved in the Jefferson’s Poplar Forest and the restoration project?
A: I happened to be reading the Wall Street Journal and saw a classified ad reading
“Founding Father’s Home for Sale.” I called the realtor and learned the home’s overwhelming history. Two years after Jefferson’s death, the plantation was sold off by his grandson. A fire devastated it in 1845. The then-owners drastically altered the building into a practical farm house, adding a second floor. Jefferson’s original design was almost completely forgotten.
The house was purchased by a nonprofit corporation and the estate had dwindled to only 50 acres. The house was in extreme disrepair. I became more involved. Eventually I was asked to serve as the chairman of their board of directors. Since 1983, we have worked to raise funds and manage the restoration to its original state. We are now 28 years and $25 million in on the project and we are not done yet. With meticulous effort we have restored the house to how Jefferson envisioned it. We bought horsehair to mix with the plaster just like in Jefferson’s day. We hired specialized wood workers from Germany to craft and install the trim. Now tens of thousands come every year to see what it would have been like to live in the home of one of America’s founding fathers.
Q: What do you find so infectious about Jefferson and Poplar Forest? A: I am exactly the same age now as Thomas Jefferson was when he left the White House.
He was a proud grandfather just as I am. The idea that he created a retreat to really enjoy his retirement, to pursue his passion, and spend time with his family was something that I really identify with. He anticipated what his life would be like after being president and developed a plan to maximize that experience.
Q: What have you enjoyed about this project? A: I never thought when I attended lectures about Thomas Jefferson it would be a part of my
life for 40 years. In fact after I retired, I was able to step right into my volunteer role and a really rich new career that will impact generations.
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For more information about the Poplar Forest project go to www.poplarforest.org.
—Jim Watt, director of development
Stephen A. Weber
received the 2010 Council on Chemical Abuse Intervention Award. He is the Berks County Court administrator in Reading, Pa. and has dedicated 35 years of work to drug and alcohol addictions. Thomas S. Wynn
is the chief executive officer of Peerless Chain Company in Winona, Minn. The company supplied millions of feet of chain for the floating booms that were attempting to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Because of the national spotlight put on Peerless Chain, the film crew Half Yard Productions toured Peerless Chain in September 2010 to create an episode of Modern Marvels on the History Channel.
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Florence (Roberts) Corbin
received her master’s degree in education from Edinboro (Pa.) University in May 2010. Jean (Calhoun) and Edward C. Williamson
have retired from teaching at the Governor Mifflin School District after 33 and 35 years, respectively. They now reside in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.
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Friedhelm H. Wulczyn
has been awarded the Flynn Prize for social work research. The Flynn Prize for Research is an internationally competitive award for people that have shaped modern social policy.
1976
Janet E. Mercincavage
was the recipient of the 2010 All College Award as administrator of the year at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She is the vice president for student affairs and an accounting professor. Janet has been at King’s College for more than 31 years. Peter E. Pappalardo
has earned his doctorate in education, with concentrations in education administration and leadership, from the East Stroudsburg University. He earned his degree through a collaborative doctoral program including the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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Thomas R. McDonald
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Doreen (Yatko) Trujillo
has been named a new shareholder for the law firm Cozen O’Connor in Philadelphia, Pa. Leslie (Moreland) Varrelman
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Michael F. Salisbury
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Be sure to mark your calendar for your 35th Reunion Celebration— June 14-17, 2012. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu). Michael D. Busch
has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer at Excela Health in Greensburg, Pa. David A. Corman
attended the presidential inauguration of John Garvey at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 25, 2011 as a delegate of Juniata.
received the Rotary Vocational Award in October 2010 by the Rotary Club of Lock Haven (Pa.). As the Clinton County district attorney, Michael was chosen for this award because he exemplifies high ethical standards and dignity in his vocation.
1980
Nathaniel E.P. Ehrlich
was a panelist at the 2010 Sports Law Conference and CLE at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa. He presented on negotiating injuries in the sports workplace. Topics included civil liability, workers compensation, player injury settlements and other legal issues. Rohinton J. Morris
was one of the executive producers for the film, The Fighter, released in 2010 and nominated for an Academy Award.
1982
Be sure to mark your calendar for your 30th Reunion Celebration— June 14-17, 2012. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu). David A. Fulton
has joined Parsons’ Infrastructure and Technology group as vice president and senior program manager. He is responsible for managing Parsons’ contact portfolio for the United States Agency for International Development.
celebrated his 50th birthday in February 2011 with the help of Juniata alumni. Those in attendance were Randy W. Cassell ’80, Duane T. Silvestri ’83, Steven C. Silverman ’84, Gordon S. Roeder ’83, and Willard O. Marshall ’83.
1984
Steven J. de Perrot
made leaf tiles for the Lehigh Gap Nature Center, a nonprofit, member-run conservation organization located in the Lehigh Gap of Pennsylvania. These tiles are a fundraiser that gives people an opportunity to honor or memorialize someone at the nature center. He makes the tiles from leaves picked at the center with a mixture of clay sprayed with green, brown and blue colors and grout.
1986
Katherine (Poppenberg) Pigman
became the chairman of the Laughlin Children’s Center board of trustees in Sewickley, Pa. The center is a nonprofit organization serving the educational needs of children throughout western Pennsylvania.
has been named chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pa.
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Nancy L. Krecker-Scott
received her master’s degree in occupational therapy from the University of Washington in June 2010.
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Glenn J. Smith
has become a shareholder at CGA Law Firm in York, Pa.
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Be sure to mark your calendar for your 25th Reunion Celebration— June 14-17, 2012. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu). Jayne Ayers-Robin
and Juniata alums held their annual 2010 mini-reunion weekend in Atlanta, Ga. In attendance were Karen (Hagg) Horan ’87, Amanda (Smith) Rohrer ’87, Lauralee A. Snyder ’87, Pamella (Greenauer) Meinert ’87, and Joanne (Jackson) Miosi ’87. Unable to attend were Cynthia (Bosi) Lavery ’86, and Sherri (Reed) Whelan ’87. Jerome J. Dvorak
made the front page of the Press Enterprise newspaper in an article about housing for college students of Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pa., where he is managing director of B.U.’s foundation.
1988
Jodie (Monger) Gray
Juniata
is the author of Customer Relationship Metrics’ blog. It has been listed on the “Best Blog for Custumer Service and Support Reading” by PhaseWare. The blog aims to assist organizations in the current, unsettled economic times.
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Brian N. Shaffer
was awarded an Individual GEM Award by the Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration in February 2011.
1989
Julie (Azar) McMonagle
has been hired by Anthracite Scenic Trails Association in Dallas, Pa. The Back Mountain Trail, which is five miles thus far, runs along the former Lehigh Valley Railroad route. She hopes to create an endowment fund for the trails, and acquire more land to expand the Back Mountain Trail as well as raise funds for design and construction.
1990
Ty A. Furman
received a Models of Excellence Award for his commitment to the expansion of artistic opportunities throughout the college and surrounding community in March 2011. Ty is the director of University Life Arts Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa. Eleanor (Kocum) Lewis
has a new job as trainer and logistics coordinator for NBT Bancorp in Norwich, N.Y. Eric T. Miller
has been named program director for Education Abroad at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
1991
Suzanne (Lydic) Panferov
has been elected president of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. She is the director of the Center for English as a Second Language at the University of Arizona.
1992
Be sure to mark your calendar for your 20th Reunion Celebration— June 14-17, 2012. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu). Stephanie (Smith) Landis
graduated from Cabrini College in August 2010 with a master’s degree in education with principal certification. She has been assistant principal of Schuylkill Valley Elementary School in Leesport, Pa., since December 2010. David L. Maxwell
is riding his bicycle across the United States this summer from Washington to New Jersey. If fellow Juniata alumni live along the route and are interested and willing to help David along the way, you may keep up with his blog at biofueledbicyclist. blogspot.com.
1993
Sandra (Dunmire) Schreffler
was promoted to regional manager of Kidspeace Foster Care and Community Programs in December 2010. She supervises foster care and adoption services in the Lehigh Valley Region Offices.
1994
Eric S. Gerko
has been named Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year. He is coach of the women’s volleyball team, The Lady Black Bears, at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College.
1995
Jennifer (Pletcher) Mitchell ’95
received her master’s degree in education from Edinboro University in December 2010.
1996
Be sure to mark your calendar for your 15th Reunion Celebration at Homecoming & Family Weekend— Sept. 30–Oct. 2, 2011. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu). Richard R. Sunny Jr. ’96
was honored to receive the 2010 Teacher’s Award in September given by The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh for his work at the Franklin Regional High School.
1997
Matthew C. Austin
has accepted a position as a biology teacher at the Upper Perkiomen High School in Pennsburg, Pa.
1999
Gregory S. Anderson
appeared in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about his hope for what Standing Stone Coffee Company could do for the community. He and wife Jessie opened Standing Stone more than two years ago along Mifflin Street in Huntingdon, Pa. He hopes that the company will help community development.
Martin A. Ewi
has been working with the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa. A leading African non-governmental organization, it deals with security issues in Africa. Martin is a senior researcher on counterterrorism matters. Andrea (Stewart) Fink
recently accepted a position with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection as an air quality specialist in the Harrisburg District Office in September 2010.
2000
Rebecca K. Barrett-Fox
received her doctorate in American studies from the University of Kansas in December 2010. Her dissertation focused on the anti-gay and anti-patriotic activism of a small church in Topeka, Kan. She felt that her work at Juniata prepared her for thinking about the connections, instead of the boundaries, within her dissertation. Khara L. Koffel
Daughter Knows Best: Health Care CEO Heather Neff ’92 knows a thing or two about running a large organization—she had quite the role model in Robert Neff, president emeritus of Juniata, or “Dad.” Heather is the first female CEO of Waveny Care Network, a comprehensive continuum of healthcare services, programs and facilities for older adults located in New Canaan, Conn. Waveny began specializing in skilled nursing for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients in 1975 and now offers rehabilitative services, an assisted living facility dedicated to patients with memory loss, an adult day program, a geriatric evaluation clinic and many other programs.
Q: How did you develop an interest in health care? A: An internship at J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital after my
sophomore year piqued my interest in health administration. Thank goodness for Juniata’s POE system, which allowed me to tailor my studies toward this newfound interest without losing ground. I had the biology courses, so I followed up with psychology and business classes.
Q: Waveny grew out of a community’s concern for its aging population. Describe that collaboration.
A: Many organizations are for-profit, or church-affiliated, which
fills an important niche, but the relationship between Waveny and New Canaan is unique. A committee of concerned townspeople believed very strongly in caring for our citizens throughout their lifecycle. It’s evident in the way the community supports our schools as well as the elderly. Through community fundraising Waveny was opened in 1975. The community continues to show their support which allows us to offer programs and services we may not otherwise be able to provide.
had one of her pieces of art selected for a national juried show at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. The piece is entitled Attempting to Mend the Distance. She also has been selected as an artist-in-residence for a week at the Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center in Solomons, Md. as part of the Center’s Living Gallery. She is currently an associate professor of art at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill.
Q: Senior living communities have continued to
Jennifer (Smith) Seedorff
Q: In what ways are a retirement community and a
was awarded her doctorate in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in December 2010.
evolve and grow in popularity. What does the future hold?
A: Health care reform makes the future uncertain. Funding is
decreasing while need is increasing. Because individuals are concerned about costs, they often hold off making a decision until the issue is forced by illness. I believe this trend will continue until it reaches crisis proportions. college similar?
A: Funny you should ask, because I often tell families that choosing a retirement community for a loved one is not unlike that happy first day of college. Truthfully, it’s not an easy decision. And some residents share rooms, so you may have personality issues like you would with college roommates. One of the positive comparisons is that residents often formulate a secondary family like at Juniata.
Q: As president, your father used to preside over the Presidential Ball. What Juniata tradition do you think the residents at Waveny would enjoy?
A: The residents would love Mountain Day or Madrigal. The staff
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would also love Mountain Day and would probably appreciate All Class Night, because you have to have a sense of humor to deal with the serious topics we do from day to day. —Katie Dickey ’97, assistant director of alumni relations
Picture This: Alumna Draws on Nature for Inspiration Having grown up in the woods of northeastern Pennsylvania, it’s no surprise that Kelly Finan ’08 came to care about the environment. She’s not the only lover of nature to find her way into the environmental science program at Juniata, but Kelly’s creativity and art history have led her on a global journey inspired by purpose and passion. As a traveling illustrator and graphic designer, Kelly endeavors to fill a specific niche: art to make the world better. Much of her work helps to deliver important information to the general public, whether it be environmental, social, or otherwise.
Q: How did you end up studying both art and science? A: I spent a lot of summers immersed in my natural surroundings, which inspired me to
study both environmental science and studio art. Nearly every one of my experiences at Juniata involved or combined scientific research or the visual arts.
Q: Which direction did you go after Juniata? A: I knew what I wanted to do, and my art professors in my senior year were very
accommodating. They allowed me to gear projects toward science illustration so my portfolio would help me get into the University of California, Santa Cruz. I completed a Master’s Certificate in Science Illustration in 2009.
Q: You don’t just travel, you seem to take up residence wherever you’re doing your work. What’s the benefit of being on site?
A: There’s something about being in the field with the researcher. It helps when a Ph.D.
(researcher) is right there holding a fish and showing you the spots that make it different from a similar species.
Q: Where have you lived? A: I’ve spent a period of weeks or months living in Jekyll Island, Ga.; Ecuador; the
Galapagos; Cape San Blas, Fla.; Santa Cruz, Calif.; Yosemite National Park in California; Costa Rica; and Homer, Alaska.
Q: Which of your pieces have reached the largest audience or brought you the most recognition?
A: My cover illustration for the December 2010 issue of the Journal of Environmental
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Biology. And, also (a commission) I did for the Baltimore Aquarium on how to install a device in crab traps that keeps turtles from getting caught. I’ve heard from several people who’ve said how helpful the illustration was, or wanting to know if they could use it in one of their publications. Find more of Kelly’s work at www.kellyfinan.com.
—David Meadows ’98, director of alumni relations
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Casey R. Dale
Frank A. Varischetti Jr.
2003
Hilary A. Barnes
2001
Be sure to mark your calendar for your 10th Reunion Celebration at Homecoming & Family Weekend— Sept. 30–Oct. 2, 2011. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu). Nicole (Dirato) Engard
recently had her second book published, Practical Open Source Software for Libraries. She is also working on her third book, which should come out next year. Nicole travels to teach librarians about open-source software. This year’s destination is New Zealand.
is an assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Jill (Bauerlein) Clapp
has a new job as marketing manager for the Phillips Van Heusen Corporation in Bridgewater, N.J. Emily M. Coyle
is an attorney with the firm of Plunkett Cooney in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Previously, she was a summer associate for the firm.
2004
Janine (Gately) Gerringer
has been named the new head football coach and off-season conditioning coordinator by Dubois School Board in Dubois, Pa. He previously served as Brockway Area High School’s head coach and offensive coordinator. Jeremy G. Weber
was the speaker at the Sigma Iota Rho Honorary dinner at Juniata. He is a research economist in the resource and rural economics division of the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
2006
Be sure to mark your calendar for your 5th Reunion Celebration at Homecoming & Family Weekend— Sept. 30–Oct. 2, 2011. Please contact the alumni office if you would like to volunteer and serve on your reunion committee. (1-877-JUNIATA; alumni@juniata.edu).
graduated from Penn State University School of Nursing with a master’s degree in nursing in May 2010. Currently, she is a nurse practitioner in cardiology at the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa.
Kari E. Dundore
has completed her principal certification at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pa. in December 2010. She is currently a reading teacher at Mount Union Area School District.
Brian J. White
Angela L. Sauers
2005
is working toward his master’s degree in Spanish at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is also teaching middle school Spanish in Hagerstown, Md.
2002
Erin M. Cornelius
is currently a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts.
has recently been named an offensive-line football coach and recruiting coordinator for the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind.
received her master’s degree in education in middle and secondary school instruction from Edinboro (Pa.) University in May 2010.
was named Heartland Conference Volleyball Coach of the Year after leading Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. to a regular season co-championship. Casey’s assistant is Glenn L. DeHaven ’07. Casey has also been named one of the nation’s top coaches under the age of 30 by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Alison H. S. Earnhart
has won the Teacher of the Year award at the Liberal Arts and Science Academy of Austin, Texas. She has been teaching astronomy and mechanical engineering at the school for three years.
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Amanda R. Albanese
and her father Anthony completed a 111-mile bike ride in Tucson, Ariz. on Nov. 23, 2010 to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The Ride for a Cure, with 8,900 participants, raised $4.5 million for the charity. Amanda and Anthony raised $17,000 on their own. Ashton M. Cutchall
received a master’s degree of science in speech language pathology from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in December 2010.
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Neil R. DiCriscio
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has joined CPA Associates as a certified public accountant in Altoona, Pa. He will be focusing on nonprofits and small businesses in Tyrone and Altoona.
Juniata’s Red Carpet Moment Leslie Varrelman ’81, executive producer of The Fighter, which won 2011 Oscars for both best supporting actress and best supporting actor and was nominated for several others, maintains a Juniata-esque humble perspective on her role with the film. Victoria R. DeFrate
Leslie with actor Christian Bale. Q: How did you get involved in this film? A: Eight years ago I met (screenwriter) Keith Dorrington in Penn Station. We got
to know each other well and even dated for a time. He had written a story about brothers Dicky Eklund and Micky Ward and used it to create a short documentary. I had access to private equity investors through my job and it was a natural fit. I worked the investor end of things and eventually it all came together.
Q: Did you have an additional role in the film? A: I spent a lot of time up front coordinating among investors, the family, the gym, all of the parties on the Boston end of things. I got to know everyone really well and that helped when it came to negotiations. My role was really behind the scenes. Most of the credit belongs to others.
Q: Was it a full-time endeavor? A: I continued to work full time while we put this together. The entire process took the
full eight years and even after we had an agreement with Paramount it was put on the shelf for a couple of years. During that time Keith and I started our own production company. We did some consulting and also developed an independent film. This helped us understand how the whole process worked and allowed us to be somewhat savvy when it came time to negotiate for The Fighter.
Q: How often were you on the set? A: I was on the set about half of the time. I enjoyed watching the takes, getting to know
members of the cast, and seeing the process work. The filming only took eight weeks to complete, so that is really the smallest part of the process.
Q: Did you know after the premiere that the film would be a hit?
A: Actually, I did. The premiere isn’t just a normal movie audience; it’s filled with stars, producers, directors, all those who know filmmaking. During the final fight scene, when Micky won and his family entered the ring, everyone in the theatre was on their feet cheering and clapping. That’s when I knew we had a hit.
Q: Bruce Davis ’65 is retiring as Executive Director of the Academy of Motion Pictures at the end of June. Have you met Bruce?
A: A Juniata classmate, Mike Valdiserri ’81, introduced me to Bruce, and I had lunch with him the day after the premier. It was a great experience and Bruce gave me a tour of the Academy offices. Bruce actually made it possible for me to attend the Academy Awards this year and I am so grateful.
Q: What about your Juniata experience prepared you for this opportunity?
A: It’s interesting that you would ask because Bruce Davis and I had this very
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conversation. I think Juniata made me a well-rounded person, built my confidence and prepared me to interact. At Juniata there is nowhere to hide. You have to learn to speak for yourself and be a part of what is going on. I don’t think I realized the impact of that experience until later in life, but I credit my Juniata experience with giving me the courage to be myself out there in the world. Juniata taught me how to explore, investigate, and expose myself to new things. —Linda Carpenter, executive director of constituent relations
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is the junior varsity basketball coach for the Richmond Senior Lady Raiders in Rockingham, N.C. Kelly E. Finan
recently had an illustration on the cover of the Journal of Experimental Biology. The illustration is of a leatherback sea turtle foraging on gelatinous prey.
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Erin F. Albert
has been named the new head volleyball coach at Division III Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Va. She previously held a two-year position as an assistant at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pa. Hillary K. Kulik
is an AmeriCorps member working with community health, sustainable business and marketing for a local food program called Central New York Bounty.
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Alexander E. Barnes
is currently a graduate student in physics at the University of Connecticut. Emily L. Byler
has joined CPA Associates as a staff accountant in Huntingdon, Pa. She will be working towards a certified public accountant certification while assisting the firm with auditing, tax and accounting services. Jordan M. Campbell
moved to Austin, Texas in September 2010 and accepted a position with Apple Computer in their sales department. Clare L. Coda
is currently volunteering for one year with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, a Catholic service program. She is working at a homeless shelter in Philadelphia, Pa. She also plans to attend the Drexel Medical School in Philadelphia, Pa.
Environmental Investigations: Heavy Metal Gumshoe
Rachel L. Gehrlein
attended the Brethren Volunteer Service orientation #291 held in Portland, Ore. in 2010. Volunteers from Germany and the Netherlands joined with the United States to gather for fellowship, learning, growing and preparing for a year of service. Her assignment is with the Family Abuse Center in Waco, Texas. She will serve as a resident advocate. She will answer crisis calls, provide meals, and assist clients with their needs. Malea R. Hetrick
attended the Brethren Volunteer Service orientation #291 held in Portland, Ore. in 2010. Volunteers from Germany and the Netherlands gathered with American volunteers for fellowship, learning, growing and preparing for a year of service. Her assignment is with Colegio Miguel Angel Asturias in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, a nonprofit school focused on providing a well-rounded education for marginalized children. Michael B. Pearson
helped combine music and drunk-driving awareness through his internship at Esente Music Group. In fall 2010, he executive produced the nationally distributed Illinois Hip-Hop 2010 Digital Compilation CD for free, while also promoting drunk-driving awareness through the music group’s website. Laura E. Rupprecht
is working at the University of Pennsylvania as a research technician.
R. John Dawes ’09 became an analyst for the Environmental Integrity Project after graduating from Juniata College with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Policy and Economics. At Juniata, he was well-known as an outdoor enthusiast, spending most days in the water, on a mountain top, or slacklining between trees. For the EIP, he acted as a lead investigator of private and public wells and reported on damage cases of contamination from improperly disposed coal combustion waste. He investigated whether toxic heavy metals leaching from coal ash ended up in residents’ drinking water as well as local rivers and streams. The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that advocates for more effective enforcement of environmental laws.
Q: Are you like a secret agent for the EIP? A: It is not that super sexy. I work mainly from a desk. Using the Freedom of
Information Act, I obtain public data from state and local agencies in order to help the public access and understand environmental information. We use that data in advocacy efforts to improve lives. We have been working to get the EPA to pass a strict designation establishing coal ash as a special waste.
Q: What do you find worthwhile about the work? A: The rewarding part is listening to the citizens’ testimony on the coal ash industry
and knowing you are working to make the environment a better place. The carcinogenic material from coal ash is deadly. I have heard about struggles with severe illnesses like cancer and how the pollution has inhibited outdoor recreation. That is how I got so involved with the work we do, through climbing and paddling. I love nature and want to preserve it. I have a passion for outdoor recreation. High levels of heavy metals like arsenic and selenium in drinking water is a very significant public health concern.
Q: How did your Juniata education help prepare you? A: I worked on a lengthy damage case report on coal combustion waste involving
134 individual cases. We assessed the impact of those cases in drinking wells. My specific job was to find locations on the established sites and create a twomile radius around all the public and private potentially effected drinking wells. I progressed to doing geospatial consulting and would not have received that opportunity without studying environmental economics with (Neil) Pelkey or taking IGIS with (Dennis) Johnson. Those classes helped me carve out a niche in Washington, D.C., giving me the ability to combine research and policy.
Q: What exciting assignments are you working on now? A: The Chesapeake Bay Geo Consulting project is giving me the opportunity to be
part of a data revolution. The project is changing the way we gather information on environmental issues. Instead of grabbing all this information from various areas, we have adapted a software where environmental experts, policy makers, activists, and ordinary citizens compile their data and share it transparently. There you can map the data sets over one another, upload, download, and even publish your data. The goal is to easily allow citizens to know what is in their backyard. Having everyone communicating using one tool is groundbreaking.
Q: What advice can you give future Juniatians? A: Take as many classes as you can. Make it relate to what you love and link your
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profession to your passion. I remember freaking out as an undergraduate. You may be thinking about graduation and not know what to do. I thought, “Who is going to hire me in environmental policy?” I found Juniata has a vast network that offers internships and valuable experiences to students. The faculty was always there to help me navigate my future. Take advantage of that. —Jim Watt, director of development
Marriages Holly A. Niemeyer ’94
and Edward Schorpp were united in marriage Oct. 16, 2010. Amber E. Gray ’97
and Gordon Brunskill were united in marriage April 3, 2010 in Port Matilida, Pa. Juniata alumni in attendance were Heather (Dankanich) Whitman ’97, Christopher W. Whitman ’97, Sara E. Eckert ’97, Melinda S. D’Ippolito ’97, Susan E. Bowser ’97, and Benjamin Blakeslee-Drain ’97. Andrea L. Stewart ’99
and Jason Fink were united in marriage Dec. 10, 2010. They now reside in Huntingdon, Pa. Carla A. O’Brien ’01
and Jeffrey Queen were married May 22, 2010 in Cape May, N.J. The couple resides in Harrogate, England. Rachel Sachetti ’01
and Brandon Lanier were united in marriage Aug. 21, 2010 in Occoquan, Va. Juniata alumni in attendance were Luke M. DeJohn ’01, Melanie (Simmons) Molloy ’01, Mindy J. Ward ’01, Kara A. Piazza ’01, Bradford N. Smith Jr. ’01, and Lori A. Riley-Smith ’00. The couple now resides in Arlington, Va. Heather E. Klebe ’02
and Brian Verchick were united in marriage July 24, 2010. Justin K. Reiter ’02
and Holly Baptiste were married Oct. 30, 2010. Jennifer B. Rock ’02
and David May were married Oct. 9, 2010 in the Cadet Chapel at the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. Cari L. Clewell ’04 and Michael D. Brown ’04
were united in marriage Aug. 7, 2010. Juniata alumni in attendance were Anthony D. Lipple ’04, Andrew B. Raup ’03, Ryan J. Calabrese ’07, Jillian M. Davis ’04, Michael U. Knill ’05, Nathan D. Leach ’03, John J. Booth ’03, Leslie N. Panaro ’04, Kelsey E. Eichlin ’05, Megan L. Tromm ’04, Nanse Clewell ’11, Rachel C. Lachat ’10, Carolyn (Wrightson) Brown ’02, Brandon M. Dieffenbach ’05, Andrew V. Brown ’00, James R. Matthews ’03, Brett T. Merrell ’04, Sarah (Lester) Merrell ’05. Missing from the photo are Frederick H. Taber III ’03 and Jennifer (Sadlowski) Swanson ’04. Allison M. Finley ’05
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and Christopher Hodell were united in marriage Oct. 9, 2010 at Lake Anna, Va. They are both fifth-grade teachers in Louisa County, Va. 84
Anne M. Laird ’05 and Adrian R. Huber ’05
were married Oct. 30, 2010. Juniata friends and alumni in attendance were: Nathan S. Thompson ’05, Kris Clarkson, Sarah May Clarkson, Linda M. Maus ’04, Katie (Hagarman) Thompson ’06, Stefanie D. Rynkewitz ’04, Daniel A. Healy ’04, Laura E. Fiore ’04, Kellyn J. Jaspan ’07, Brian W. Senior ’04, Gretchen A. Detweiler ’05, Trey M. Nicolette ’04, Matthew L. Drexler ’05, Scott N. Keefer ’05, Creg A. Drake ’09, Teresa B. Ralicki ’05, Phillip K. Copley ’08, Daniel J. Browne ’72, Nicole (Harris) Watson ’99, Russell Shelley, David A. Shalkey ’05, Brian S. Huber ’96, and Lisa (Snyder) Huber ’98. Anne is the data manager and public policy associate for Planned Parenthood in Harrisburg, Pa. Erin S. Wisor ’05
and James Barley were united in marriage Nov. 13, 2010. Erin also earned her master’s degree in educational psychology from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2010. Nathan A. Greczek ’06
and Sarah Sitoski were married May 29, 2010. The couple honeymooned in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Nathan is a family medicine resident for Geisinger Health System in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Rebecca A. Jankowski ’06
and Dominic Pugliese were united in marriage Oct. 23, 2010 in State College, Pa. Juniata alumni in attendance were Amber N. Ziegler ’06, Brandy L. Dressler ’06, Laura A. Daugherty ’06, Rachelle (Luther) Jeffers ’06, Julia S. Klag ’04, Kara (Rehner) Smeltzer ’06, and Melissa (Wilkinson) Leeper ’06. Kara A. Rehner ’06
and Samuel Smeltzer were married Nov. 5, 2010. The couple honeymooned in Belize. Melissa S. Scheidler ’08
and Adam Hartman were united in marriage Aug. 14, 2010. Juniata alumni in attendance were: Amanda L. Cattoi ’07, Megan L. Kobuck ’08, Kayla B. Stidsen ’08, Brian W. Sykes ’08, and Lindsay A. Miller ’09. The couple now resides in Mount Joy, Pa. Andrea M. Sheffield ’10
and Matthew Cramer were united in marriage Dec. 18, 2010 in the Abbey Reformed Church of Christ, Huntingdon, Pa. Andrea is employed as an elementary special education teacher at Mount Union Area School District.
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MacKenzie (Guggiero) ’98 and H. Daniel Guyer ’97
are proud to announce the birth of their son, Harrison, on Dec. 5, 2010. April (Fortney) Henderson ’98
Births James R. McDaniel ’81
and wife Mary are proud to announce the birth of their son, Donovan James, on Oct. 19, 2010. T. Damian Gessner ’90
and wife Jennifer Chen are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Hannah, on April 17, 2010. Aaron D. Hartman ’96
and wife Tanya are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Mazzy Lang, on June 7, 2010. She was welcomed home by big sister Makenna, 6. Her grandmother is Marsha (Frye) Hartman ’70, and great-grandmother Martha (Mitchell) Frye ’44. J. Andrew Forsythe ’97
and wife Tricia are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Aurianna Wiconi, on Jan. 29, 2011. She was welcomed home by big sister Sabrina, 18. Kristen (Shook) McCallum ’97
and husband T.J. are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Alexa Paige, on July 21, 2009. Jessica (Tremel) Glass ’98
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and husband Dennis are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Hailey Christine, on Aug. 18, 2010. She was 6 lbs. 10 ozs. and was 19.5 inches long. She joins her big brother Colin, 3.
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and husband Reed are proud to announce the birth of their son, Elijah Lane, on Feb. 24, 2010. Elijah was welcomed home by big brother Tristan. Danielle (Murray) Ighemat ’98
and husband Farid are proud to announce the birth of their son, Adam Elyes, on March 20, 2010. He weighed 5 lbs. 10 ozs. and 21.5 inches long. He was welcomed home by big brother Alex, 3. Miranda M. Raiche ’98
and husband Richard Beukema are proud to announce the birth of their son, Zachary Richard, on Sept. 1, 2010. Sally (Wasileski) Schmeltzer ’98
and husband Jason are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Mia Rose, on June 27, 2009. Jamie (Crist) Tagba ’98
and husband Massahoudou are proud to announce the birth of their son, Malcolm Brady, on Dec. 30, 2010. He weighed 6 lbs. 9 ozs. and was 19 inches long. He joins big brothers Mabrukhe, 10, and Jamal, 7. Irene (Mulvihill) Congdon ’99
and husband Derrick are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Leeann Marie, on Aug. 28, 2010. She was welcomed home by big brothers Liam, 5, and Rowen, 3. Elizabeth (Johnson) Good ’00
and husband Clinton are proud to announce the birth of their son, Cody, on March 31, 2010.
Kristin N. Hershey-Smith ’00
Cynthia (Long) Roberts ’03
and husband David are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Hadley Laine, on Jan. 7, 2011. She weighed 8 lbs. 12 ozs.
and husband James are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Madelyn, on Sept. 3, 2010.
Halina (Pietras) Jankowski ’00
Shanna (Fresch) Barner ’04
and husband Arek are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Natalia, on May 26, 2010.
and husband Scott are proud to announce the birth of their son, Josiah, on May 1, 2009.
Angela (Montag) ’01 and Christopher M. Jones ’03
are proud to announce the birth of their son, Wesley Madden, on Nov. 9, 2010. His brother Desmond, loves Wesley and enjoys being a big brother, most of the time. Angela is still working at Comcast with the title of counsel for the Comcast Interactive Media group. Kathleen (Ceonzo) ’02 and Andrew R. Ashcraft ’02
are proud to announce the birth of their son, Chad Nicholas, on Nov. 4, 2010. He weighed 6 lbs. 13 ozs. and was 20.5 inches long. Sarah M. Barrett ’02
and husband Daniel Ross are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Ruby Danielle, on Oct. 24, 2010. She weighed 6 lbs. 11ozs. and was 19 inches long. Ruby was welcomed home by big sister, Saffron Grace, 3. Carolyn (Wrightson) ’02 and Andrew V. Brown ’00
are proud to announce the birth of their son, Carter Howard, on Oct. 26, 2010. He joins big sister Rylie, 4. Jessica (Rock) Mulutzie ’02
and husband James are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Lillie Mae, on Oct. 19, 2010. Dorian (Carl) Morse ’03
and husband Bradley are proud to announce the birth of their son, Michael Allen, on Sept. 29, 2009. He weighed 7 lbs. 14 ozs.
Janine (Gately) Gerringer ’04
and husband Keith are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Maley Jane, on Aug. 1, 2010. She weighed 7 lbs. 15 ozs. and was 20.5 inches long. Angela (Gottshall) ’04 and Brian S. Hepner ’00
are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Alivya, on Aug. 27, 2010. Leah (Creighton) ’04 and Scott A. N. Noerr ’04
are proud to announce the birth of their twins, Dylan Cole and Chelsea Colleen, on Oct. 5, 2010. They were welcomed home by big brother Caleb, 2. Lisa (Bloom) ’05 and Justin H. Klingler ’04
are proud to announce the birth of their son, Jack David, on Nov. 8, 2010. He weighed 8 lbs. 14 ozs. and was 21 inches long. Kenneth W. Tomlinson ’08
and wife Breanne are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Jesica Margaret, on March 24, 2010. Her godfather is Phillip K. Copley ’08. Travis D. Hull ’09
and wife Ericka are proud to announce the birth of their son, Isaak, on July 17, 2010.
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Deciding to Enroll: $400 Using the Gold Card Program to do it: Priceless Information is Gold In student recruitment, information is gold, according to Michelle Bartol ’84, dean of enrollment. Although the College’s Gold Card Recruitment Program has been an unqualified success, Bartol has a few tips for enthusiastic alumni itching to reel in their first student referral. wPrint each entry clearly on the card. “It’s very easy to get names wrong or misinterpret spellings.” wMake sure every piece of information is correct. “If we are missing an address, an apartment number, are using Street instead of Avenue, all of that can cause us to miss a recruiting opportunity.” wCommunicate with the enrollment counselor assigned to your student. “Our database is huge, so the more we interact with you the better our chances are to personalize our approach to your student.
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gardening. Marie is survived by daughters Kay (Spencer) Cypher ’66 and Marnie Ramsey, seven grandchildren including Tricia B. Cypher ’97, and five great-grandchildren. George W. Detar Jr ’42
David S. Berkeley ’38
Obituaries Laura (Schwenk) Sprague ’32
January 17, 2011—Laura was preceded in death by her husband, Stanley. She is survived by daughter Meg. Paul D. Haring ’33
January 27, 2011—Paul received his master’s degree in education from Penn State and began teaching in a one-room school house in Bucks County, Pa., in 1933. He then taught in Alexandria, Pa., while also coaching basketball, football, baseball, and track. From 1949 to 1973, he was the high school principal in Hightstown, N.J. and became the assistant superintendent of schools of the East Windsor Regional Schools before his retirement. He also was a member of various organizations including the Lions Club, YMCA, and the Alexandria Fire Department. He was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd. Paul enjoyed golfing and fishing. He is survived by a son and was preceded in death by his wife Mildred. Maud E. Greenwood ’35
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November 26, 2010—David married Carolin (Snider) Berkeley ’40 on Aug. 20, 1943 at Fort Lawton in Seattle, Wash. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and attained the rank of technician fifth grade in Army Intelligence. He received both his master’s degree and doctorate from Harvard University in 1941 and 1949, respectively. In 1965, he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma. David published a book on poet John Milton and two on Shakespeare. He also published 50 articles in 27 journals. He served as chairman of graduate studies in English at Oklahoma State University. He also served as president of the South-Central Renaissance Conference and chairman of the Faculty Christian Fellowship. David had a strong Christian faith and enjoyed rowing his boat on Boomer Lake. He was preceded in death by his wife. Fae (Daughenbaugh) Rabits ’41
January 12, 2011—Fae married John Rabits on July 15, 1945. In 1978, she retired as an elementary school teacher from Williamsburg School District after 28 years of service. She was a member of St. John’s United Church of Christ, Martinsburg and the Trinity United Church of Christ, Williamsburg where she taught adult Sunday School, was president of the women’s fellowship and also served as an elder. She was also a lifelong member of Blair County Historical Society. Fae was preceded in death by her husband and a son. She is survived by three daughters, six grandchildren, including Jared L. Russell ’04 and Christopher J. Russell ’07, and six great-grandchildren. Marie (Sweet) Spencer ’41
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October 30, 2010—Marie taught in Saxton and the Tussey Mountain School District in Pennsylvania until her retirement in 1979. She was a member of the Saxton United Methodist Church, and a past worthy matron of the Saxton Chapter No. 161 Order of the Eastern Star. She enjoyed reading, spending time with her grandchildren and flower
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December 28, 2010—George served during World War II in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a bombardier and flew missions in the South Pacific in 1945. After graduating from Juniata, he served many years as the class fund agent. He was a retired painting and wallpaper contractor. He also was a member of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Greensburg, Pa. and a former member of the Greensburg Church of the Brethren. He served as an ordained minister for 10 years at Bovard Union Church and for six years at Wooddale Church of the Brethren. He was a fan of Pittsburgh sports teams, Christmas trees and ice cream. George is survived by his wife of 64 years, Laura (Scott) Detar ’44, four children including Susan (Detar) Dziuk ’69, nine grandchildren including Laurel (Dziuk) Books ’01, and a great-granddaughter. Jean (Good) Ellis ’42
January 6, 2011—Jean was preceded in death by husband, Charles C. Ellis ’40. Her brother J. Paul Good ’53 died shortly after Jean. She is survived by daughter Pauline, and sister Helen (Good) Ebersole ’44. Peter T. Cassalia ’44
October 4, 2010—Peter was an oral surgeon and a decorated Korean War veteran. He was also in the Navy during World War II. He was awarded a Bronze Star during the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge in 1951. He earned a dental degree from Temple University and also studied at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Medicine. Peter met wife Elaine Ganjamie while completing his residency at Pennsylvania Hospital. He was affiliated with many hospitals and retired in the early 1990s. He enjoyed opera, belonged to many gun clubs, and enjoyed sports. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Elaine, three daughters, and 15 grandchildren. James H. Freeman ’44
October 13, 2010—James worked for Tidewater Oil Company before joining the U.S. Navy. He was commissioned as an ensign and sent to the Pacific. Afterwards, he earned his doctorate of organic chemistry at Penn State University. He spent 34 years with Westinghouse Research as a research chemist and then as the department manager of polymers and plastics. He was holder of eight U.S. patents and five foreign patents. He
Jean (Haag) Longenecker ’45
January 13, 2011—Jean was a member of Mount Calvary Lutheran Church. She also taught school at Shirley Hills Elementary School for many years. She enjoyed homemaking and crocheting. She was preceded in death by husband Edward. She is survived by four children, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Mary (Diaz) Angelo ’46
October 20, 2010—Mary married husband Aaron on July 1, 1961. After 31 years as a Spanish teacher in Tyrone Area High School, she retired in 1977. She also was formally employed as a Spanish teacher at Corry High School and Blairsville High School. Mary was a member of St. Matthew Catholic Church in Tyrone, Pa. H. Llewellyn Merritt ’46
October 16, 2010—Llew received his master’s degree in mathematics from John Hopkins University. During this time, he taught undergraduate classes at John Hopkins University, Loyola College and University of Maryland at College Park. In 1949, he started a 30-year stint at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where he applied math to the optimization of weapons used in the Korean War, Cold War, and the Vietnam War. He earned a master’s degree in business and worked for the Maryland Medicare Services. Llew served as a lay preacher for the Cokesbury Methodist Church in Abingdon, and then became active in the Bel Air United Methodist Church. He is survived by wife, Doris (Swartz) Merritt ’49, three children, and two grandchildren. Richard C. Reed ’46
high school and coached athletics in Amherst, N.Y. from 1962 to 1984. He was a member of Christ United Methodist Church in Snyder, N.Y. Richard enjoyed reading and was also a published cartoonist. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Clara, two children, four granddaughters, four stepchildren and great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 38 years, Elizabeth. Warren S. Briggs ’48
February 17, 2011—Warren served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II in the Pacific theatre and in the occupational forces in Japan. After being discharged, he continued to serve with the U.S. Army reserve for 25 years, becoming a lieutenant colonel before retiring. He received his doctorate in physical chemistry from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. in 1951. He was previously employed as the director of catalytic converter development for Davison Chemical in Baltimore, Md. He was also involved with several organizations including the Rotary International in Huntingdon, Pa., the Cumberland County Historical Society, and the Boy Scouts of American Troop #942 in Silver Springs, Md. Warren enjoyed reading and walking his dog. He is survived by sons, Linwood W. Briggs ’77 and David, three grandchildren, Stephen, Sean and Lindsay E. Briggs ’08, one stepgrandson and one great-grandson. He was preceded in death by wife Mary (Erickson) Briggs ’48. Raymond F. Getty Jr ’49
January 19, 2011—Raymond served 40 months in the European Theatre during World War II. He worked for 10 years at Russell Miller Mining Company and then at H.B Fuller Company until his retirement in 1987. He was a member of Lakeview Lutheran Church. Raymond enjoyed volunteering and woodcarving. He is survived by wife Orpha, a son and a daughter, and five grandchildren.
Bryce C. Gray ’49
November 18, 2010— Bryce married Betty Naylor on Feb. 11, 1949. He worked as an educator at Penn State and Clarion University and retired in 1987. He enjoyed playing tennis, listening to big-band music, traveling, and collecting stamps. He participated in volunteer ministries with a local Jehovah’s Witnesses’ congregation. Bryce is survived by his wife of almost 62 years, Betty, two children, and two grandchildren. He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, his uncle J. Glenn Gray ’36, and his twin brother Bryan M. Gray ’49. Thelma (Alley) Anderson ’50
December 11, 2010—Thelma was the daughter of Church of the Brethren missionaries and grew up in India. She helped start the York County Volunteer Association and Bargain Box, serving as a volunteer for more than 30 years. She touched people’s lives with simple acts of kindness. She enjoyed spending time with her family, traveling, listening to music and attending the theater. For more than 40 years, she was a member of Zion United Methodist Church. Thelma was preceded in death by her husband of 45 years, Robert L. Anderson ’49. She is survived by sisters, Nina (Alley) Kipp ’51, and Erma Wagner, three children, four grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren and nieces and nephews, including Susan (Kipp) Handler ’86.
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February 21, 2011—Richard’s time at Juniata was interrupted by World War II and he joined the U.S. Navy in Vineland, N.J. Afterwards, he attended Bethany Seminary in Chicago, Ill. in 1948. He became a lay pastor at Marcy Center for the Methodist Church, also in Chicago. With his wife Elizabeth, they served as house parents at Lake Bluff Orphanage. He then became a teacher and athletic coach in the public school system in Deerfield, Ill. in 1953. He earned his master’s degree from Penn State and received a Phi Beta Kappa honor award in 1957. He taught
Photo: Caitlin Bigelow ’11
was a member of various scientific organizations and an elder of the Grace Reformed Presbyterian Church. James enjoyed hunting, being outdoors, and traveling. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Avis (Ensminger) Freeman ’43, three children, and eight grandchildren.
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Eugene A. Roddy ’50
February 15, 2011—Eugene received his master’s degree in divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1953 and went on to earn his master’s degree in theology from Princeton in 1961. He became the founding pastor for the newly chartered Presbyterian Church in Medford, N.J. and served as their pastor until 1968. He joined the guidance department at Burlington County College and gave advice and direction to college freshmen for 25 years. After his retirement in 1994, he enjoyed reading, building clocks, traveling, and spending time with friends and family. He is survived by wife Frances, three children, and four grandchildren. George R. Sprague ’50
February 15, 2011—George received his master’s degree in gerontology from Goddard College in Vermont. He was employed in retail management in Philadelphia, Pa. and was a captain in the Salvation Army. He also was director for the Crawford County Council of Aging and director of the Kansas and Ohio
Green Thumb program. After retiring, he pursued photography and photographed weddings, sporting events and special occasions. George also enjoyed musical pursuits and was a trombonist in various community bands. He was active as a volunteer in charity work, including Operation Christmas Child and Life is from God Ministries. He was a member of Grace Brethren Church. He enjoyed camping and gardening. He was preceded in death by wife Irene. He is survived by five children, 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Lois (Wible) Solobay ’51
December 16, 2010—Lois was a lifelong member of the First Baptist Church in Greensburg, Pa. She was preceded in death by husband David. She is survived by daughter Rebekah. Beverly (Williams) Vanneman ’51
November 7, 2010—Beverly taught in Pennsylvania until 1963 when she accepted a position at Springer Junior High School in Brandywine Hundred as a Latin, German and English teacher. She retired in 1989 after teaching for eight years at Claymont, Concord and Brandywine High Schools. She also enjoyed singing, crossword puzzles, and reading. She is survived by her husband of 44 years, William, and two stepchildren. George T. Dolnikowski ’52
December 23, 2010 (see page 95) Glenn A. Felix ’52
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July 24, 2010—Glenn was known for his pen and ink drawings. He also enjoyed gardening, joking, and spending time with his family. He worked as the director of student activities at Trenton State College in Trenton, N.J. He was a member of the Bridgewater Church of the Brethren. Glenn is survived by five children and 10 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by wife Ruth (Armentrout) Felix ’52.
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December 31, 2010—Lois married E. Floyd McDowell ’52 in 1952. She was a member of the Church of the Brethren in Huntingdon, Pa. and served as a church deacon and as a member of the Church-College Relations Council for Juniata. She also was a Juniata trustee. She was a hospital volunteer at J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon. She received her master’s degree in education in 1985 from National College of Education in Evanston, Ill. In the west suburban Chicago schools, Lois taught preschool, kindergarten and the second and third grades. In 2004, she received the Alumni Service Award. Lois loved music, flower gardening, oil painting, cooking and baking, and sharing her special recipes with others. She also enjoyed traveling with her husband. She is survived by her husband, one daughter and two sons, nine grandchildren including Hannah L. Monroe ’11, and great-niece Claudia A. McDowell ’09. Donald H. Treese ’52
January 21, 2011—Donald received his bachelor’s degree of divinity from the University of Chicago Theological Seminary in 1955. After serving numerous churches in the central Pennsylvania area, he retired in 1993. He also served as associate general secretary of the division of ordained ministry, board of higher education and ministry in Nashville, Tenn. Donald was a baseball fan, fisherman and jazz aficionado. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Lois, three children including Laura G. Treese ’84, and one grandson. J. Paul Good ’53
February 28, 2011—Paul retired in 1991 as the country executive director for Agricultural Conservation and Service in the MahoningColumbiana counties in Ohio. With his father, he also ran the Good Equipment Company. He was president and director of the Springfield Township Mutual Insurance Association. He served 34 years for both the Mahoning County Educational Service Board and the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center Governing Board. Including president, he served on various positions in the Ohio School Boards Association and also served on the National School Boards Association. He was a member, president and lieutenant governor of Division 21 of the Ohio District of Kiwanis International. He was a former member of the Alumni Council at Juniata and volunteered for Meals on Wheels. Paul was a member of Faith Community Covenant Church and enjoyed spending time with his family and watching sporting events. He recently was honored to receive the 2010
Anthony J. D’Eustachio ’54
January 21, 2011—He received his doctorate in microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1960 he joined DuPont as a research biochemist in Wilmington, Del. He was a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves and served 11 years in the Chemical Corps. He also founded Centaur Chemicals, a company that produced low-cost micropipettes. He was also the corporate vice-president of Boehringer Mannheim and division president for eight years. His career then led him to investment banking and venture capital development, and finally he joined Kodak/Amersham. His new job took him to England and then Germany. In retirement, he enjoyed gardening and being active in community affairs. He is survived by his wife, Roni, two daughters, a brother, two stepsons, and four grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife Elizabeth (Sulanke) D’Eustachio ’54. Lowell D. Hackman ’54
March 18, 2010—Lowell was preceded in death by his mother, Leone (Hershberger) Hackman ’21, and brother, Joseph H. Hackman ’52. He is survived by brother Elmer E. Hackman ’49, and daughter Ruthanne L. Hackman ’89. Helen (Rosengren) Kay ’54
October 21, 2010—Helen was a pianist and soprano. She taught music at the Closter and Alpine Schools in New Jersey for 32 years. She served as choir director, pianist, lay leader, and active member of the Evergreen Methodist Church in Virginia. She was a soprano soloist at Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s Marble Collegiate Church in New York, N.Y. Helen was also in the Metropolitan Opera’s extra chorus, and sang in operas, such as Aida. She was the president of the Long Island Civic Association for eight years and the president and recording secretary of the Historical Society.
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Poland Education Foundation Alumni of the Year Award. He was preceded in death by sister Jean (Good) Ellis ’42, and wife Patricia. He is survived by two children, two grandchildren, and sister Helen (Good) Ebersole ’44.
William V. Waryck ’56
January 28, 2011—Bill married Joyce (Burkett) Waryck ’58 on June 8, 1957. He received his master’s degree in education from Shippensburg University. He was a teacher and coach for the Hollidaysburg Area School District for 31 years and retired in June 1991. He served in the U.S Army in Korea during the Korean War. Bill enjoyed sports and played for Juniata in the 1956 Tangerine Bowl. He also enjoyed being an active member of the YMCA, traveling with his wife and spending time with his friends and family. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, a daughter and two sons and six grandchildren. Donald E. Brumbaugh ’57
February 23, 2011—Don served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He taught at the Saxton-Liberty/Tussey Mountain School District for 35 years until he retired in 1990. He was a member of the American Legion Post No. 0169 and the Friends of Raystown Lake Organization, where he served on the board of directors. He was also an active member of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Saxton, Pa. He was a member of the 1956 Tangerine Bowl team at Juniata and attended the reunion in fall 2010. Don coached various Little League teams in his school district and was a football coach at Juniata. He was inducted into the Huntingdon County Sports Hall of Fame and Bedford County Sports Hall of Fame. He is survived by wife Patricia and two children. James C. Colross ’57
Bernard A. Petrusky ’54
December 3, 2010—Jim enlisted in the U.S. Army and also worked at the Pentagon for many years. In 1964, he began his career as a builder and developer in south Florida. He also became one of the first commercial builders in south Florida. As a Roman Catholic, he was a Knight of Malta, and a patron of the arts for the Vatican Museum and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, Italy. Jim enjoyed fishing, traveling and golfing. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Grace, four daughters, and 10 grandchildren.
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John B. Jaymes ’58
Millard R. Taylor Jr. ’54
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Barbara (Over) Pecor ’58
March 4, 2010—Barbara is survived by her husband Robert and brother Philip R. Over ’59. She was preceded in death by her mother Mary (Replogle) Over ’32, father Ralph C. Over ’34, and aunt Edith (Replogle) Eshleman ’34. Charles G. Winter ’58
December 3, 2010—Charles received his master’s degree in science in 1963 and then his doctorate in biochemistry in 1964, both from the University of Michigan. In 1964, he began employment at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Beginning in 1966, he served for 41 years as a researcher, teacher, and scientist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Ark. In 1978, he was named Honorary Research Associate in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at Harvard University in recognition of his research work. Charles received the title of professor emeritus of biochemistry in 2004 from the College of Medicine. He enjoyed singing, and coaching baseball. He was a member of Grace Presbyterian Church. Charles is survived by his wife of 52 years, Betty, three sons, three grandchildren, one stepgrandchild, and his cousin, Barbara (Grim) Rollman ’55.
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August 13, 2010—Millard is survived by daughters Lorraine and Jess. He was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara.
Photo: Alden Hiller ’12
Robert also enjoyed woodworking and had an impressive collection of tools. He is survived by his wife, Sylvia (Easley) Freed ’61 and two sons. Peter C. Marzio ’65
Margaret (Chidester) Glenn ’60
January 13, 2011—Peggy attended Banner Elk Christian Fellowship in North Carolina and later Pike Creek Bible Church in Delaware. She enjoyed singing in churches and musicals, playing the Celtic harp, and spending time with her family. She was preceded in death by her mother, Margaret (Holdsworth) Chidester ’32, and her aunt, Irene (Holdsworth) Beam ’29. She is survived by her husband of 48 years, William B. Glenn Jr. ’61, brother J. Robert Chidester ’67, two daughters, a son, and 13 grandchildren. Stephen D. Arcade ’61
March 3, 2008—Stephen served as captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was also employed in sales and technology. He is survived by wife Kathleen, four children and 13 grandchildren. Robert A. Freed ’63
September 2, 2010—Robert served 35 years in the Upper Gwynedd Police Department and 12 years as chief of police. He also taught an introductory class of forensic science at Montgomery County Community College. He also served as president of the Montgomery County Chiefs of Police Association and was a member of the Fairmount Fire Company.
December 9, 2010—Peter received his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago in 1966 and 1969, respectively. He was the first in his family to graduate high school. He was the director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas since 1982. Under his leadership, its collection quadrupled in size. He was also the director and chief executive officer of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. from 1978 to 1982. From 1969 to 1978, he was the curator of prints at the Smithsonian Institution, and chairman of its department of cultural history. For a year starting in 1973, he was a Fulbright research fellow in Rome. He delivered the 2009 commencement address at Juniata. He is survived by wife Frances and brother Michael F. Marzio ’68. Constance (Burger) Binns ’68
April 7, 2010—Constance was employed by Barloworld Handling and also by Eslon Plastics. She is survived by two sisters and a stepson. Candace (Albrecht) Clark ’68
January 6, 2010—Candace is survived by husband Otis, and son Damon. Clifford E. Coy ’70
February 15, 2011—Cliff was a U.S. Air Force veteran. He was employed for the Burlington County Department of Welfare in the food stamp division and by the State of New Jersey Department of the Treasury as a network administrator. He was also a member of the American Legion Post 115, and formerly of Burlington American Legion Post 79. He is survived by wife Patricia, and a daughter. Joyce B. Walker ’71
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December 26, 2010—Joyce worked with the Jet Engines division of General Electric and also was employed at Home Depot.
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Dennis J. Hullfish ’73
November 16, 2010—As far as Dennis was concerned, there wasn’t a thing about his life he would have done differently. He truly lived life his way, with no compromises. He lived large and with true joy. Dennis loved the blues and always went to the source—to Chicago to see Buddy Guy; to New Orleans and the Pocono Blues Festival. His love of sports meant season tickets, traveling to sports museums and just about every ball field in the country. He married wife Jennifer Harding in 2006, after a 20-year courtship. He is survived by his wife, three stepchildren, six stepgrandchildren, and Baily, his beloved pet and best friend. David S. Hoover ’75
February 4, 2011—David received his doctorate in coal geology from Penn State University in 1980. He was president and chief executive officer of Applied Plasmonics Inc. in Gainesville, Fla. for the last three years. He was the founder of Diamonex Incorporated and served as vice president and chief executive officer during his 12 years there. In the 1980s, he also was employed as a research director at Air Products and Chemicals Inc. He was preceded in death by son David. David is survived by his wife of 38 years, Joan (Brelsford) Hoover ’73, and children James and Sarah. Allan D. Dunkleberger ’76
January 2, 2011—Alan was the director of risk management for the Philadelphia Parking Authority. He was a basketball coach and a past employee of the Philadelphia City Council and was also involved with local politics. Alan is survived by his wife of 33 years, Eileen (Terry) Dunkleberger ’76, a daughter and a son. Kenneth C. Luke ’77
December 11, 2010—Ken earned his law degree from Ohio Northern in 1981. He was a member of the New Jersey Bar since 1981, and was also employed by East Coast Title Company. Ken is survived by wife Michele. Sherilyn L. Jackman ’82
June 7, 2010—Sherilyn worked at the York County Office of Aging and after 20 years of service, she retired in 2005. She also worked at the Walmart Supercenter in Hagerstown, Md. She enjoyed watching movies, reading, socializing with friends, and spending time with her nieces and nephews. She is survived by her sister, brothers Dale and Dennis E. Jackman ’81, a niece and five nephews.
George Dolnikowski ’52
In Memoriam
I have noticed that people smile when I mention the name of George Dolnikowski to those who knew him. There was something about his openheartedness that made everyone a little more genial when they met him, and that warmth of spirit lingers in our memories of him. A conversation with George—even if it went on longer than you wanted it to—was always an upbeat moment. Not that he avoided the harsh facts of life—he was much too Russian for that— but his enthusiasm for life always triumphed in the end. One had to be careful, though. If the conversation veered too closely to Tolstoy or Dostoevsky you were in for an extended and usually pretty excitable lecture. Those two great authors were the polar stars of George’s mental life. They not only epitomized his cultural origins but also profoundly deepened his conviction, achieved at great personal cost in World War II, that hatred and divisiveness could at length be overcome by a renewed feeling of our common humanity. As a teacher of both Russian and German he was in a position to see better than most the absurdity of the bitter conflict that he barely survived. This not only inspired much of his teaching but also led him to put his energies into the development and support of the Peace and Conflict Studies program at Juniata. He had a disarming manner that made him an effective recruiter and as a result more than a few faculty members found themselves much more deeply involved in that program than they ever would have intended. I myself fell victim to his charm one day in 1987 when he invited me to lunch and then asked if I could put together an exhibition of Russian icons to celebrate the millennial anniversary of the coming of Christianity to Russia in the year 988. That lunch cost me more than two years of my life. I knew next to nothing about icons, or about Russian Orthodox Christianity for that matter. But I could see that this mattered deeply to George and I got caught up in his vision. The day came a year later when my son, Nathan, and I installed in Shoemaker Gallery a truly extraordinary exhibition of Russian icons borrowed from private collectors and even from Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum. We worked all night to get the 45 icons hung and lighted just right. We were totally exhausted but I wanted George to be the first to see them the next morning before the opening. I have never seen a face more radiant when I presented them to him. As we moved from one brilliantlycolored icon to another—St. Nicholas, John the Baptist, The Annunciation—tears streamed down his face in gratitude and exhilaration. It was an unforgettable moment—for him—and for me. —Robert E. Wagoner, professor emeritus of philosophy
During his time at Juniata, he taught both German and Russian. He also founded the College’s celebrated Peace and Conflict Studies Program. In 1987, he received the Beachley Distinguished Teaching Award. He took a two-year leave of absence to direct a study abroad program at the University of Marburg fior the Brethren Colleges Abroad program. He also translated Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words, an autobiography of activist Mildred Lisette Norman, into Russian. With his friend and colleague, Robert Wagoner, professor emeritus of philosophy, Dolnikowsky organized the art exhibit Russian Icons of the Golden Age: 14001700. The show was exhibited at Juniata in 1987 and went on to tour the country at other art museums. His unending work to establish the College’s peace programs was the central focus of his book This I Remember, From War to Peace, published in 1994. The 60-page book, published by the Brethren Press, features illustrations by Chris Raschka, the son of the late Donald Durnbaugh, former archivist at Juniata, and Hedda Durnbaugh.
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George Dolnikowsky, professor emeritus of German and Russian at Juniata College from 1952 until his retirement in 1989, died Dec. 23 at his residence in Westminster Woods at age 92. Dolnikowsky began his long association with Juniata College when he came to the United States as a displaced person in 1949 after World War II. Sponsored by the Church of the Brethren, he was resettled at Juniata in 1949. He worked as a janitor at the College while he learned English. He is survived by his wife, Joanne, and his son, Gregory and Gregory’s wife, Edith. Dolnikowsky was born in Anna, Russia and began his career as a German teacher in Russia. At the start of World War II, he was a conscript in the Russian army, working as an interpreter. In 1941, after stepping on a land mine, he was taken captive by the German army and spent four years as a prisoner of war at a camp in Smolensk. After the war he spent four more years as a displaced person at a camp in Austria. After coming to Huntingdon, he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1952 from Juniata and began teaching at the College the same year. He went on to earn a master’s degree in German literature in 1964 from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in 1986 from Harvard University.
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I met a Juniata alum in the most unusual place … While searching for the elusive ‘cribirform plate,’ Peter A. Martina ’74 and David W. Hoffman ’74 ended up in Cape May, N.J. only to find Hot Dog Tommy’s Diner and owner Thomas D. Snyder ’66. I ran into a gentleman in Dennisville, Ohio wearing a Juniata football cap. When I went over and introduced myself, I discovered he was Juniata alum, Anthony Segalavich ’53. Tony told me he’d just been back to campus for the 55th reunion of the Tangerine Bowl football team. We chatted for a while, exchanging names and graduation years. —Donna (Black) Lane ’71
I met Juniata alum, Linda (Arentz) Leopold ’79, two years in a row at a 5K race in Blairsville, Pa. We both wore Juniata shirts the first year and that’s how we met and started conversation. We did the same thing the second year and remembered each other. —Jessie J. Ritchie ’08
While working on the Chahalka Dam near Sohna, India in March 2011, Kelly (Crain) Wike ’73 and Devon I. Swancer ’05 discovered that they both had graduated from Juniata. The Chahalka Dam is a catch dam which will hold the monsoon rains and raise the water table. Villagers then should use the water to increase crop production by 50 percent. They also participated in the National Immunization Day against Polio on Feb. 27, 2011.
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The Pros of Being the Provost By Joanne Krugh
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’ve worked at Juniata since 1988 in the provost’s office, starting as what was then called a secretary. I have worked the longest for Jim Lakso, starting in 1997, and it seems like no time at all has gone by since then, except on those days when Jim asks me to once again wash his dirty coffee cup, then it seems like it’s been too long! Even though he’s the provost he’s down to earth, and to me, more of a friend than an employer. The key to Jim is that he’s a teacher. You learn much more than just your own job working for Jim—you learn about academia and how the College works. And now from the home office in Jim’s hometown of Fairport Harbor, Ohio, is the Top Ten great things about working for Jim Lakso.
➓ Keys—He hates to carry them
outside the office and is never aware of their location.
⑨ While normal people see March
❽ I watch a lot of people come in and ask questions. They all get an answer: Yep—Nope or Okey, dokey, jalokie. I have no idea what a jalokie is, but it seems to be good. ➆ When it comes to technology, let’s just say, “He’s an economist, not a computer scientist.” ➏ Some folks get up on Monday morning sorry to start the week. When Ohio State wins, I go to bed on Saturday night dreading the inevitable Monday morning Buckeye red sweater vest. ➄ Only Jim and the Fairport Harbor, Ohio Visitor’s Bureau try to convince everyone that Fairport Harbor is the “Vacation Spot of the World.”
➍ Of the provosts I have trained, I’ve spent more time educating Dr. Lakso than all four of the others combined, but some projects just take longer. ➂ Jim’s desk appears to be neat, but somehow he can’t seem to find anything on it. Funny, I don’t seem to have any problem zeroing in on what he’s looking for. ➋ Somehow he has a strange way of transforming my agenda into his agenda at the most stressful time. ➀ Jim’s pride and joy is his family, especially he and Bonnie’s three grandchildren. >j<
—Joanne Krugh is the administrative manager of the provost’s office and also Jim’s assistant, which is not to be confused with the assistant provost.
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16 as the day before St. Patrick’s Day, there are curious people that celebrate it as St. Urho’s Day. This fake holiday fills Finnish Provosts with pride and gives them an excuse
to wear purple and green attire while singing Finnish curses (I think they are curses—who can tell?).
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