Mercyhurst University: Fall 2018 Magazine by MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY

FALL 2018

NURTURING THE MERCY MISSION SISTER LISA MARY McCARTNEY P. 8

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

MERCYHURST COLLABORATIONS BENEFIT ERIE COMMUNITY P. 2 STUDENTS SERVE ‘BEYOND THE GATES’ P. 6 UNIQUE CYBER EDUCATION CENTER OPENS P. 16 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS P. 30

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT In today’s hypercompetitive higher education ecosystem, universities that are tentative in the face of change will fail to prosper. Mercyhurst University has changed in many ways since I took office in 2015, evolving and innovating to better meet the needs of our community of faculty, staff, students and alumni. Mercyhurst’s student experience – long among the region’s best – has become more robust, especially with this fall’s grand opening of the new amenity-rich sophomore residence, Ryan Hall. We also expect to open an Irish-themed pub on campus in January that will further enhance the residential experience while creating a safe environment for our students to socialize. As a result of our efforts to attract more underrepresented minority students to Mercyhurst, our student population has grown more diverse. In support of that progress, we established a Diversity and Inclusion Task Force aimed at fostering a more hospitable and compassionate community of learners. We know that student success relies heavily on advising and support systems that take into account the developmental and academic needs of our students. To that end, we are bringing all our student support efforts – from Learning Differences to the Honors Program – under one umbrella. As we seek to deliver positive outcomes, like graduating on time and helping our students get good jobs, we are also reinventing our Career Services program to better accomplish these goals and meet the expectations of students in today’s global marketplace. Perhaps nowhere is change more evident than in our academic programming. From our distinctive foray into the fields of cybersecurity, data science and risk management, supported by our new MCPc Cyber Education Center, we expect to produce highly skilled and sought-after graduates. Our Office of Distance Learning is working diligently to improve students’ access to learning through these new technologies and we have every confidence that it will propel us into the online

market in a big way. We are also holding true to our roots in educating the whole person through REACH; this newer core curriculum offers our students both flexibility and choice in pursuing their interests. While we are busy on the campus-front, we have sought to use our community’s talents in partnership with others in academia, business and government to enrich our city. Through the Mercyhurst-led Erie Innovation District (EID), we are helping to deploy smart-city technology in Erie and recently brought nine new startup companies to town for the EID’s accelerator program. Accomplishing these many changes has been the handiwork of a dedicated and determined Mercyhurst community. Many years ago, during her Mercyhurst presidency, Sister Carolyn Herrmann described Mercyhurst as “a vital, alive college in which there is no room for complacency or for satisfaction with less than the best...” I believe she’d be pleased with how we are staying true to that message. Carpe Diem.

Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. President, Mercyhurst University

ON THE COVER: Sister Lisa Mary McCartney, RSM, Ph.D. ’71, who stepped down in May from her full-time position as vice president for mission integration, is pictured in front of Egan Hall. With the number of Sisters of Mercy in the Erie community dwindling, Sister Lisa Mary has spent the past decade working to ensure that the spirit of the founding Sisters of Mercy continues to thrive at Mercyhurst. (Photo by Jeremy C. Hewitt ’07)

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MERCYHURST PARTNERSHIPS BENEFIT ERIE COMMUNITY

STUDENTS BROADEN HORIZONS WITH SERVICE ‘BEYOND THE GATES’

MERCY EMISSARIES COMMIT TO FOSTER MERCY MISSION

EARLY BLACK STUDENTS REFLECT ON EXPERIENCES AT THE HURST

ROBERT MILLER’S LEGACY LIVES ON AT MERCYHURST NORTH EAST

INNOVATIVE CYBER LAB INSPIRES STUDENTS

MIAC EXTENDS STREAK OF SELLOUT SHOWS

SIX HONORED AS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

ALUMNI PROFILES: SUKI FULLER ’05; SCOTT DONNELLY ‘88

ATHLETES INDUCTED INTO HALL OF FAME

LONGEVITY OF LAKER COACHES UNIQUE IN DIVISION II

IN THE NEWS

BROWN EARNS TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD MARY HOFFMAN ‘74 RECEIVES ROMERO AWARD BRAD DAVIS NAMED ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

Contributing Writers Susan Hurley Corbran ’73 Joseph Cuneo Sean Cuneo Elizabeth Eidnier ’12 Jennifer Smith Deborah W. Morton Contributing Photographers Ben Friesen Jeremy C. Hewitt ’07 Angela Zanaglio ’16 Director of Alumni Engagement Lindsay Cox Frank ’12 ’14M lfrank@mercyhurst.edu 814-824-2330

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MNE LAUNCHES PROGRAM FOR SINGLE MOTHERS ADMIRAL KOHLER GIVEN HONORARY DEGREE JOSEPH NECASTRO ’78 LEADS INNOVATION DISTRICT BOARD MASS OF THANKSGIVING HONORS SISTERS OF MERCY RILEY-BROWN NAMED HAFENMAIER DEAN 28

CLASS NOTES

IN MEMORIAM: DR. RANDY HOWARTH

FUNDRAISING YEAR IN REVIEW

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

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MERCYHURST GALVANIZES CHANGE THROUGH PARTNERSHIP By Deborah W. Morton

Basketball great Michael Jordan once said “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” Whether creating internal partnerships between colleagues and departments, partnerships between academia and industry, or traditional town-and-gown collaborations, harnessing the skills of others is one of the most strategic ways to solve complex challenges. Things change when everyone on the team is equally invested in the overall purpose and goal. Consider Mercyhurst’s involvement in the ERIE INNOVATION DISTRICT. By partnering with regional academic institutions, government and business, the university is leading a plan to transform downtown Erie into a destination for digital-economy jobs, particularly in the robust fields of cyber security and data science. “Together, we are discovering new ways of driving innovation to provide our students with internships and job opportunities, to provide businesses with a highly skilled workforce, and to strengthen our community in terms of economic growth and global competitiveness,” said Mercyhurst University President Michael Victor. But, that’s just the latest in the university’s longstanding commitment to collaboration and the power of many. The following is an abbreviated look at a few of Mercyhurst’s many partnerships and the results they are reaping.

Sam Krahe ‘14 works with young clients at Harborcreek Youth Services.

THERAPEUTIC ARTS INITIATIVE Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper, Erie Civic Institute Director Amy Eisert, Erie Mayor Joseph Schember and Erie Police Chief Dan Spizarny

MERCYHURST CIVIC INSTITUTE

A college-community partnership dedicated to the social, educational and civic well-being of the Erie region and state of Pennsylvania. One of the most exciting results-driven programs coming out of the Mercyhurst Civic Institute in recent years is the Group Violence Reduction Strategy, originally brokered by institute director Amy Eisert. Eisert learned of the strategy through an out-of-town training program, and subsequently shared it with local law enforcement authorities. With buy-in secured, she further assisted in writing the grant that netted $1.2 million from the United Way and Erie Community Foundation to implement the Group Violence Reduction Strategy. Through the initiative, local law enforcement, concerned residents and social service providers meet with individuals who are identified as high risk for involvement in group- or gang-related violence. During what is termed a “Call-In,” participants are offered resources like education and employment in exchange for stepping away from crime and gang violence. If they choose to ignore the offer and engage in violence, the participants are informed that they will receive focused attention from all levels of law enforcement. Since the Call-Ins began in April 2017, Eisert said there has not been one gang-related homicide. Further, thus far in 2018, the city has had only three homicides, the result of two incidents of domestic violence. Other violent incidents, such as people shot, shots fired and robberies, have also been dramatically reduced.

MERCYHURST-FLAGSHIP NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP

A developmental partnership between Mercyhurst University and the Flagship Niagara League designed to create special opportunities for both organizations. Don’t be surprised if someday you spot a Mercyhurst University flag waving in tandem with the stars and stripes of the U.S. Brig Niagara. Thanks to the initiative of Cal Pifer, vice president for external relations and advancement, Mercyhurst is an “Official University Partner” of the Niagara. The development sponsorship creates a number of special opportunities for both organizations. For Mercyhurst’s contribution, it means potential dockside receptions for donors and alumni at cities like Buffalo, Cleveland and Rochester along the Niagara’s sailing route. On the flip side, Mercyhurst offers its guests promotional

A partnership between Mercyhurst University and Harborcreek Youth Services designed to provide experiential learning for university students while offering research-supported expressive arts therapies for HYS clients. The longstanding relationship between Harborcreek Youth Services (HYS) and Mercyhurst University, once focused solely on experiential learning for students in the Criminology and Criminal Justice programs, has evolved over time, most recently through a partnership called the Therapeutic Arts Initiative – a mission-driven project overseen by Dr. Maria Garase, associate professor of Criminal Justice and vice president of the HYS Board of Directors. Through the use of expressive therapies like music, art and movement, the program aims to help Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable youth – those who have experienced abuse, neglect and childhood trauma. “Trauma has been called ‘the great thief,’’’ said Mercyhurst Music Therapy Director Craig Stevens, who has been instrumental in leading the initiative, assisted by Sam Krahe, one of music therapy’s first graduates. “Most of these young people have extreme difficulty trusting and connecting with another person; most have never experienced unconditional love and, because of their experiences, live in a world that does not feel safe. We are now looking at how early childhood traumas can affect not only psychological health, but also physical health, neurodevelopment, and virtually every other aspect of a functional life. Through arts therapy techniques combined with counseling, we are able to address goal areas such as self-esteem, self-worth, emotional expression and social skills development.” Together, Mercyhurst students and HYS youth have built trust and rapport by working on a number of local initiatives, including the Weed Warriors at Presque Isle project, the Therapeutic Foster Care Family Outreach Initiative and the National Water Dance.

items from the Flagship Niagara League, and provides support for a number of the league’s existing programs. Reconstructed in 1988, the Niagara is a replica of the square-rigged sailing warship that fought in the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. For the past two summers, it has served as the centerpiece of a three-credit history course offered by Mercyhurst professor Ben Scharff and enjoyed by nearly 20 students who spend two-and-a-half weeks on board learning traditional seafaring skills. Besides lessons in seamanship and maritime history, students acquire a deeper understanding of the seafaring culture, including sailing terminology, physical skills and familiarity with the social structure of shipboard life. “The Niagara represents a floating extension of Mercyhurst, serving as a marketing platform around the Great Lakes,” Pifer said. “We consider it a wonderful opportunity.”

Erie alumni socialize at the Niagara.

The Mercyhurst Empowerment and Prevention Project team: Mercyhurst Police Chief DJ Fuhrmann; Residence Life Director Megan McKenna; Attorney Greg Grasinger with SafeNet; project coordinator Rianna Bartlett; project manager Ariel Dodick; Dr. Judy Smith, executive director of wellness; Alice Agnew, Title IX officer; and Amy Blackman, director of prevention and education for the Crime Victim Center.

Elisa Belfiore reads to a class at St. Gregory Preschool.

‘IT’S ON US’ MOVEMENT

EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS DRIVE A partnership among Mercyhurst, law enforcement and social service ACADEMIC SUCCESS groups to raise awareness and to fight against sexual assault on college campuses.

Thanks to a $300,000 “It’s On Us” grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Mercyhurst has created an All-Campus Violence Prevention Project in collaboration with the Erie County District Attorney’s Office, the Erie Police Department, the Crime Victim Center and SafeNet. “The key word here is ‘comprehensive’ in that we are working together as partners to create for our campus the best possible education and response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking crimes,” said Dr. Judy Smith, executive director of wellness at Mercyhurst, who wrote the grant and serves as project director. Ariel Dodick has been hired full time as project manager and Rianna Bartlett as part-time project coordinator. Both are Mercyhurst alumnae.

The university’s graduate special education program continues to celebrate the success of two longstanding partnerships: one with the R. Benjamin Wiley Community Charter School in Erie, and one with St. Gregory Parish School in North East, both in existence for more than 10 years.

The first phase of the three-year grant, which began in October 2017, focused on planning and training. The second phase, which will begin this fall, is implementation, while the third will concentrate on sustaining the project.

Last year, for example, elementary teachers at the Wiley charter school partnered with Mercyhurst graduate assistants in a concerted effort to heighten reading levels across the population. As a result, the majority of students behind grade-level expectation were able to increase their reading levels to grade-level expectation or above.

“We are hoping that together with our partners we can build a program that will make a lasting difference in shifting the culture on college campuses, starting with our own,” Smith said. “We are committed to keeping our students safe and in healthy relationships that respect both men and women.” The grant enables Mercyhurst to create a Coordinated Community Response Team (CCRT) with the goal of expanding victim services and advocacy, prevention education, and staff training at the Erie and North East campuses as well as the Booker T. Washington Center. The Crime Victim Center intends to augment Mercyhurst’s efforts by providing access to support groups, accompanying victims through the legal system and helping with victim compensation. SafeNet provides prevention education, particularly in how to sustain healthy relationships, sheds light on the early warning signs of controlling behavior, and assists victims with Protection from Abuse orders.

Early on, the Mercyhurst University Education Department recognized the value of partnerships between K-12 schools and universities, both in better preparing the educators of tomorrow and in increasing the academic success of today’s youth. From the university’s pioneering Carpe Diem Academy to its contribution to autism education in the Erie School District, it has opened new pathways to creativity, expression and achievement among young people.

Leaders of both institutions said their partnerships with Mercyhurst have played an important role in driving student success.

At St. Gregory’s, educators credit Mercyhurst not only for helping to drive high student achievement but also for keeping the doors open. Enrollment has climbed each year, starting with 72 students in 2013-14 to 97 students in 2017-18. In addition, 6th and 7th graders ranked among the highest nationally on the 2017 TerraNova standardized tests in reading, language and math. And, for the past three years, 8th graders have scored in the 80th percentile in all content areas on the TerraNova standardized tests when compared to the rest of the country. The common denominator in both cases, said Mercyhurst Education Professor Phil Belfiore, is that the schools employ master’s-level Mercyhurst students, most of whom are already certified teachers. “The Mercyhurst partnerships demonstrate the pedagogical leadership role graduate departments of education should be taking within K-12 education,” Belfiore said. “With these partnerships, we seek to improve education through our graduate students, who are taught current evidence-based practices, and our professional involvement at each school site.”

But with Riesmeyer, it’s a bit more personal. His daughter, Megan, is an AIM student. And he’s familiar with the research that shows as many as 85 percent of college grads affected by autism are unemployed. “Having a child on the spectrum you come to know that long-term career success is very difficult,” Riesmeyer said. While unemployment and underemployment are high, Riesmeyer said it is not a result of the autistic person’s lack of ability, but often of the interviewer’s inability to understand this unique demographic. Lights over Lake Erie

CITY, MERCYHURST TEAM UP FOR FUN, SMART BIZ

Under the leadership of Erie Mayor Joe Schember and Mercyhurst President Michael Victor, the city and the university are partnering on a number of initiatives this year. Long famous for its Old-Fashioned Fourth of July celebration and fireworks display, Mercyhurst stepped up as chief sponsor of the city’s holiday fireworks – Lights Over Lake Erie – on July 3 from the Bicentennial Tower at Dobbins Landing, and as a presenting sponsor for the Celebrate Erie summer festival Aug. 16-19 in downtown Erie. On a more serious note, the Erie Police Department contracted with Mercyhurst’s Municipal Police Training Academy at North East to conduct Civil Service Act 120 testing. Instead of taking a separate exam for the city, as had been the case previously, officer candidates can now take one exam that qualifies them for 26 police departments throughout the region. In announcing the partnership, Mayor Schember said the move would save the city time and money, allowing it to focus on minority recruitment. And, through Mercyhurst’s leadership of the Erie Innovation District comes the Secure Smart City™ pilot project taking shape on State Street, between 6th and 12th streets. The project makes way for: •

Broadband Wi-Fi access across Perry Square.

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Energy-efficient LED lighting on an estimated 66 existing poles to connect traditional street lighting, increase efficiency and reduce costs.

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Video surveillance capabilities in Perry Square to enhance security and automatically alert authorities to potential threats.

AIMing FOR EMPLOYMENT

Mercyhurst University wants to help graduates of its autism program get jobs after college, and has long sought out prospective employers to engage autistic adults for meaningful employment. This year, in an aboutface, world banking leader Wells Fargo came to Mercyhurst, sending five representatives, from Boston and Pittsburgh, to the Erie campus to discuss career paths with students of the Autism Initiative at Mercyhurst (AIM). The April 20 session included mentoring, résumé review and mock interviews with the goal of preparing students for possible employment opportunities at Wells Fargo while helping Wells Fargo learn how best to interact with people on the spectrum. “Wells Fargo is committed to a diverse work force,” said Wells Fargo Senior Vice President Michael Riesmeyer. “I think a lot of companies realize that creating a diverse community of employees helps us better engage the diverse community of people that we serve.”

“Our goal at this point is to establish a bridge between AIM and Wells Fargo that we can leverage over time as students matriculate college,” Riesmeyer said. In 2008, Mercyhurst introduced AIM to meet the unique needs of the growing numbers of college students diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). AIM focuses on building a foundation of self-advocacy, social skills and sound academic progress. The program has grown considerably in recent years, particularly with the addition of a career services component to help AIM graduates be productive and successful beyond college. “We are very excited about our collaboration with Wells Fargo and are looking forward to this partnership,” said AIM Director Brad McGarry. “The AIM program continues to identify collaborations that will benefit our students and, in turn, we can benefit Wells Fargo’s efforts to develop diversity in their workforce and strengthen their ability to engage autistic adults for long-term meaningful employment.”

SHARING PIECES OF THE PAST Mercyhurst University geologist Scott McKenzie has delighted in sharing his love of digging up the past with thousands of fans. Partnering with the late Michael Sincak and his wife, Barbara, was the beginning of acquiring a collection of casts, fossils and collectors’ pieces that ultimately became the Sincak Natural History Collection at Mercyhurst University.

Rich Reislund and Scott McKenzie speak at Brown’s Farm Barn.

For years, the university opened its doors for the public to experience the exhibits until they became too vast in size. Then teaming up with the Tom Ridge Environmental Center allowed even more Erie people and tourists to view the collection’s larger samples, like a cast of the teenage T-rex whose fossilized remains were unearthed from northwest South Dakota in 1998. This summer the university partnered for the first time with Asbury Woods Nature Center to share even more unique finds, these local in origin. Erie area resident Rich Reislund and his two sons, Jonathan, 12, and David, 10, discovered an extraordinary fossil on undisclosed private property in McKean Township. Upon examination, McKenzie confirmed it as evidence of what is arguably the most terrifying creature of the Devonian Period – Dunkleosteus – a powerful prehistoric fish with thick armor plating and a bite rivaling that of T-Rex. “This is the first time that we have found evidence of several of the big fish at one place in Pennsylvania and that’s very exciting,” McKenzie said. “Records show that another collector found one at the same place over two decades ago. All three finds are of the same bone of the shoulder armor, so we could be dealing with a Dunkleosteus graveyard.” In all, McKenzie said, more than 350,000 people have viewed parts of the collection at one exhibit or another since 2006.

President Michael Victor greets Wells Fargo representatives Susannah Geletko, Michael Bohley, Eugenia Tibamanya and Michael Riesmeyer.

SERVICE WITH A DISTINCTLY MERCY FLAVOR By Sue Corbran

On paper, it’s a requirement. Mercyhurst students must earn one credit – out of the 121 credits they need to graduate – through a service-learning experience “Beyond the Gates.” But Director of Community Engagement Colin Hurley prefers to think of it as an opportunity – a chance for students to challenge preconceived notions, broaden their horizons, and perhaps even be changed for the better. Like the Sisters of Mercy who left the cloister to work directly with those in need, students literally go beyond Mercyhurst’s iconic front gates. But they’re also challenged to go beyond some internal gates, to overcome anxieties and fears that may have held them back from engaging with “the other,” people who are different from them in some way. “As much as our students are giving, they’re receiving just as much in return,” Hurley observed. “The experience can be life-changing, because they’re opened up to a whole new worldview.” Some students head across the country or around the world on service trips, but most work with one of more than 30 Erie-area nonprofits serving the hungry, the homeless, at-risk youths, refugees or the elderly. Each community partner reflects Mercyhurst’s Core Values and the Critical Concerns of the Sisters of Mercy, and each assignment calls for person-to-person interaction with people in need.

Lauren Abbott at Neighborhood Art House

Hurley and Assistant Director of Community Engagement Bethany Brun spend months coordinating the placements. They have to balance the needs of the community agencies with the academic, personal and career interests of the students, and then work around each student’s unique weekly schedule. A series of written reflections helps students to assess where they started, where they finished, and how they were transformed by their work. About 550 Mercyhurst sophomores completed their Beyond the Gates (BTG) experiences during the program’s first year. With each spending at least 12 hours in the community, that’s well over 6,000 hours of direct service. Just as important, though, was what the collegians took away from the experience. Larry Staub’s BTG assignment took him to the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home, where he spent most of his time in a special unit for those with dementia. Sometimes he was the bingo caller, other times the “pin-setter-upper” for some hallway bowling. He particularly liked helping with music therapy. Each patient has his own playlist of familiar music, he explained. “It was breathtaking to watch. Once they recognized a song, it seemed to flip something in their brains. They’d smile, or sing along, and sometimes even dance.”

“It was disheartening to see vets who’ve done so much for our country now being able to do so little. But it was so rewarding to see them experience the music,” Larry added. He’s a business management and marketing major from Rochester, New York. Lauren Abbott, an Erie native majoring in intelligence studies, found herself in a familiar setting for her BTG placement: the Inner City Neighborhood Art House. She spent many summers there as a child, taking part in creative arts and crafts. Today the Art House provides classes in the visual, performing and literary arts and a safe, caring environment for atrisk children. Lauren assisted the teachers or helped improve literacy with Hooked on Books. Once she even got to fill in for the ailing dance teacher. “This experience really let me see how we embody the Sisters of Mercy and their mission as a university,” she said. “I can apply what I’m learning and actually make a difference in people’s lives.” Logan Ford mentored and tutored students in an after-school program at Erie’s Quality of Life Learning Center. He particularly remembers working with a young woman nearing graduation from high school who hoped to become a nurse’s aide. To reach that goal, she had to quickly complete several math courses.

STILL LIVING MERCY Above: Larry Staub at the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home

Students who complete the Beyond the Gates experience will be ready to go forward and lead with conviction – first as students and later as graduates. It’s clear that the call to service still lives in Mercyhurst alumni, wherever they are. Below, see a few snapshots from recent service projects completed by alumni chapters in Erie, Cleveland and New York City.

Right: Students Monica Tinsley and Tessa Sayre play games with English language learners at Pfeiffer-Burleigh School. “She didn’t have a good foundation to do the math,” he recalled, “and the courses were online, which made it 10 times more difficult.” Together, they worked through each problem on her practice tests, and she completed three classes with his help. BTG gave Logan, an Erie resident who’s doublemajoring in intelligence studies and political science, a chance to experience the diversity of his hometown. He added, “I find it hopeful that so many people are excited to engage the community and give back. We’re both giving and receiving that Mercy mission at the same time.” For Kailee Gorczyca, working with the Gliding Stars program was a natural choice. She’d been figure skating since she was 6 and, even though she was no longer competing, she found herself missing it. She spent Monday nights throughout her freshman year at the Mercyhurst Ice Center helping special needs individuals of all ages enjoy her favorite sport. She expects to do her BTG experience there this fall. Besides developing special relationships with the skaters she was paired with, she also taught them life lessons – like how to fall and then get back up again. “Our motto was ‘I can do it. I can skate,’ which was really empowering for these kids,” she said.

“We were living the Mercy Mission in a class,” she added. “I still can’t believe I get to be part of it.” A Cleveland resident, she’s majoring in sports medicine and pre-med. Tessa Sayre acknowledged she was very nervous when she started her placement at PfeifferBurleigh Elementary School. “I can be really shy and wasn’t sure the kids were going to like me, plus there was a language barrier to overcome,” she said. “I wasn’t very experienced socializing with different types of people.” To help English language learners at the school, Mercyhurst volunteers brought in a tub of board and card games. Playing Uno, Chutes & Ladders, Connect Four and Jenga helped students hone their language skills and learn colors, numbers and shapes, all while having fun. “The unexpected was a little scary,” she added, “but I realized that kids, wherever they come from, are just kids.” With five years of Spanish study, she was able to ask one of her students questions in his native tongue. “I was reaching out halfway, and I think it got him to trust me a little bit.” Tessa’s a psychology major from Albion, Pennsylvania.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE...

EMISSARIES ENSURE MERCY SPIRIT ANIMATES CAMPUS By Sean Cuneo

Since Sister Lisa Mary McCartney first came to Mercyhurst as a cadet student more than 50 years ago, Mercyhurst has experienced a number of milestones. The first lay college president. The move to coeducation and the first class of men. The first graduate program. McCartney’s retirement in May, however, marked another important first for Mercyhurst: For the first time in the institution’s 92-year history, Mercyhurst does not have a Sister of Mercy employed full time on campus. “When I came to Mercyhurst, the president was a Sister, the dean was a Sister, Sisters worked in food service, every residence hall had at least one Sister. It was a different world,” McCartney said. With the numbers of priests and women religious declining on college campuses, faith-based institutions increasingly turn to newly established “mission officers” to safeguard their founding ideals. In 2008, Mercyhurst joined the ranks, naming McCartney as the first vice president for mission integration and charging her to assimilate the university’s educational mission, Catholic identity and legacy of the Sisters of Mercy. “I determined that the role of the vice president of mission would be to tend to employees,” she said. “If the employees get the mission, it is they who will pass it on through teaching and daily interactions with students.” In her first years on the job, a campus-wide survey found that most people did not think Mercyhurst’s mission could continue without the Sisters of Mercy. “Immediately, I thought that’s a perception we’ve got to change,” she said. Following a series of discussions with a key group of administrators and faculty—“people who couldn’t say no to me,” she said—the decision was made to establish a voluntary employee Mercy Mission training program, which would become known as the Mercy Emissary Program. Loosely modeled on the Mercy Associate program of the Sisters of Mercy, the program—which is open to employees of all faith backgrounds— consists of a series of monthly gatherings throughout the academic year. The first semester addresses Mercy while the second focuses on Catholic higher education. The training concludes with a daylong retreat. Alumni President Dr. Melanie Titzel and President Michael Victor present Sister Lisa Mary with the Sister Carolyn Herrmann Award, Mercyhurst’s highest alumni award.

Natalie Koons presents a gift to Sister Lisa Mary on behalf of the Class of 2018, which endowed a scholarship in her honor as its Senior Class Gift.

Sister Lisa Mary McCartney is surrounded by many of the faculty and staff who have completed training as Mercy Emissaries.

“We wanted to make it as available as possible,” McCartney said. “It’s important to understand the Mercy Emissary Program as a work of community, and not another committee.” Employees on the Erie and North East campuses responded with enthusiasm. During the first year in 2015-16, about 40 individuals completed the program, with about 20 employees taking part in each of the past two years. With fewer Sisters at Mercyhurst than there once were, the Mercy Emissaries have seized the opportunity to preserve the Mercy Mission. They do so by volunteering at community events, planning retreats and prayer meetings, establishing ongoing programs to promote understanding of the Mercy Charism, and organizing welcome receptions for new U.S. citizens following naturalization ceremonies in Erie, to name a few recent activities. Notable for McCartney is the role the Emissaries play in keeping students’ well-being front and center at all times. This philosophy, grounded in a sense of community responsibility, is a characteristic of the Sisters that McCartney remembers from her own days as a student.

“The Sisters were always concerned with the students. It was nothing for a Sister in a residence hall to talk directly to the president with a concern about a student,” she said. “Rather than people just working in their own areas, we need that fluidity for the sake of the students.” Looking ahead to Mercyhurst’s future, change is inevitable. But McCartney is optimistic that thanks to buy-in from the university leadership, the Mercy Mission will continue to make Mercyhurst special. “The essential mission identity will protect Mercyhurst from becoming just another mid-size liberal arts college,” she said. “With a clear, vibrant mission identity, Mercyhurst can evolve while remaining distinctive, and be effectively nimble.” In addition to the Mercy Emissary program, the university has demonstrated its strong commitment to the Mercy Mission by weaving it into academics through the REACH core curriculum and into campus life with projects like the Door of Mercy to mark the Year of Mercy in 2016, to name a few recent initiatives. McCartney sees this as a testament to the way those working at Mercyhurst today seem to absorb the Mercy Mission and perpetuate the “mist in the halls,” as she calls it.

“Something in the atmosphere catches people here,” she said. “It doesn’t just attract people who are Catholic; it attracts people who have a depth and spirituality, and a sense of faith and service that animates them.” For now, though, Mercyhurst is still fortunate to have a few Sisters working part time on campus in various capacities. And as Greg Baker, former director of campus ministry, steps into the role of vice president for mission integration, McCartney still expects to have a presence on campus, visiting with students and employees and attending sporting events and performances. “It lets those on campus know the Sisters are still here, we still care about the place,” she said. “It also shows my confidence that I really do believe the Mercy Charism will be carried on by people of faith, service and goodwill.” As McCartney is often fond of saying, “the Sisters of Mercy don’t have a ‘lock’ on mercy. There is certainly a crying call worldwide for people to be merciful.” Thanks to her pioneering efforts, Mercyhurst employees and the growing ranks of Mercy Emissaries are rallying to answer that call.

The Mercyhurst group at Peggy Fox’s wedding in 1975: (from left) Beverly Miller, Sharon Ford Watkins, Carol White Mohamed, Val McLaughlin, Karen Gallo Maragolio, Rochelle George Wooding, Sandy Sanchez, Kathy Duda Newman, Peggy Fox Lape and Wendy Hackinson Fitzmartin.

TRAILBLAZERS: FIRST BLACK WOMEN AT HURST BONDED TO COPE WITH ISOLATION By Sue Corbran

A quick scan of Mercyhurst yearbooks of the 1950s and ‘60s quickly makes it clear: the student body was just about exclusively white. That began to change in the late ‘60s as more black women not only enrolled, but soon made their presence felt on campus.

It was Dr. Barbara Chambers, her high school chemistry teacher and a 1960 Mercyhurst graduate, who encouraged Rochelle to check out Mercyhurst and arranged for her to visit the campus. The two remain close friends today.

The first cluster of black women arrived in 1966, and included Alicia King Redfern ’70, the late Beverly D. Miller ’70 and Rita Hazel Johnson ’71. They were soon followed by Carol Blue ‘71, Sharon Ford Watkins ’71, Rochelle George Wooding ‘71 and Carol White Mohamed ’73.

Peggy Fox Lape, on the other hand, was white and had virtually no experience with black classmates before she arrived at Mercyhurst and was assigned to room with Sharon. The two hit it off and roomed together for four years. Peggy became an integral part of the black women’s circle.

Though they weren’t the only, or even the first, black women at Mercyhurst, many of these women gravitated together, forging friendships that have endured to the present.

“They were really my center,” she said. “I had white friends, but I developed so I had more black friends during the four years.

Being black in a predominantly white environment was nothing new for several of these women. Carol (Mohamed), Alicia and Sharon had all attended mostly white high schools and weren’t fazed by being trailblazers at Mercyhurst.

“When we walked into the room we were sharing, I was a little excited. But my father walked in, put down my suitcases, turned around and walked out. Mom said he just wasn’t expecting … well, at that point we called them Negroes.”

Rochelle’s high school, John F. Kennedy High School in Cleveland, was virtually all black, but she said she was actually excited by the prospect of studying with white students. “I thought I was pretty smart, and I wanted to see if I was as smart as white people,” she added with a laugh.

But by the time her dad returned for Father-Daughter Weekend the following spring, things had changed. “He ended up being dad for all of us. I told him, ‘See Dad, they’re just like me.’ He got to love them all, and all of them came to my wedding,” she said.

INTENSE BONDING

All students tend to gravitate toward others like themselves, but for these black women, the bonding was even more intense. While none of them recall facing any open hostility or overt racism, all agreed that they felt very isolated at Mercyhurst. “I think mainly there was some passive aggressive behavior but little overt hostility,” recalled Sharon. Alicia said, “I didn’t feel hostility or negativity, but I did feel isolated. Coming from D.C., it was lonely at Mercyhurst. Erie was very, very different. It may have been more of an adjustment to Erie than to Mercyhurst.” “I did not feel discriminated against, but socially we were isolated unless we found a way to make our own fun,” Carol (Mohamed) said. “I didn’t experience bigotry, but sometimes there can be some racism just from a sense of superiority. Like, ‘I feel sorry for you because you are in a minority race.’” “There weren’t situations at Mercyhurst that nurtured social life for minority women. There would be mixers, but the people who attended them were majority race,” Carol (Mohamed) noted. Rochelle agreed, “They were dating. We weren’t dating – who would we date?” At times they felt overlooked, even invisible. In a piece for the Merciad, Rochelle tallied the number of images of black students in the 1968 yearbook. “Out of 312 pictures in the yearbook, black girls were only in 3,” she wrote. “And out of eight of us on campus, at that time, only 4 managed to qualify for ‘candid’ photos.” She added, “Just for the record, we read books in the library. We sleep in class. We talk with teachers. We participate in Italian Night. Polish Night. Halloween Night. We lay on our beds in our rooms and study. We wear curlers in our hair. We laugh – we cry.” Alicia came up with one solution to the isolation she felt at Mercyhurst and to her need to be

around more African-Americans. She organized the Association of Black Collegiates (ABC), which included students at Gannon and Villa Maria colleges as well as her friends at Mercyhurst. ABC sponsored social events; hosted an Erie appearance by comedian and activist Dick Gregory; did tutoring and other service projects in Erie’s inner city; and even staged a production of Jean Genet’s provocative drama The Blacks for the Mercyhurst Drama Festival.

LEAVING THEIR MARK AT MERCYHURST

Though their number was small, the black women were making an impact at Mercyhurst as well, including Rochelle, who was elected the first African-American president of Mercyhurst student government in 1970-71. At that time of growing student activism, the government was known as RUS – the Representative Union of Students – and had a voice in the College Senate. “Mercyhurst had a way of wanting us to experience certain things, to be an officer, to be involved in politics, to be a leader, and to be responsible for someone other than yourself,” Rochelle mused. “They encouraged us to run for office and I really found out about politics – about how things could get done if the right person said the right thing to the right people.” She noted that her white classmates encouraged her to run and supported her in the election. Sharon recalled, “Mercyhurst truly developed and cultivated my complete love of theater to this day. The Blacks was the first time I was involved with and actually acted in a play. I would go on to be involved in several other theater productions, both onstage and working behind the scenes while there. My interest in politics and voter registration issues also began and flourished there.” Carol (White) Mohamed recorded another first – the first African-American student to receive the Carpe Diem Award, the highest award presented to a graduating senior.

At a 2013 lunch in Washington, D.C.: (from left) Alicia King Redfern, Peggy Fox Lape, Sharon Ford Watkins, Carol White Mohamed, Carol Blue.

SPRING OF 1968

All the women mentioned spring of 1968 – following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. – as a tough time for black students on campus. Sharon said, “I vividly recall MLK’s assassination and how a number of us were gathered in the dorm lounge watching TV and were devastated by his death and the riots that followed. And I also remember the insensitivity of one individual in particular who said out loud as we watched, ‘I’m so glad my family lives in the suburbs and away from all that.’ A heated discussion followed and I’ll leave it at that.” Rochelle’s memory is even more wrenching. As images of burning cities filled the newscasts, she says a white classmate asked her, “If they told all black people to start killing white people, would you do it?” Peggy said she noticed a change in her friends during their sophomore year when their identities as black women were becoming stronger. “It was hard on me because I didn’t understand why I felt alienated from them,” she explained. “I wanted things to be the way they were. I didn’t think there was anything wrong, which shows just how naïve I was coming from my background.” It fell to Alicia – who described herself as the militant of the group – to try to explain the situation to the university as a whole. “The university was attempting to become more sensitive to issues going on in America, and that was one you couldn’t overlook,” she said. In a speech to the college community, she tried to relate what Dr. King’s death meant to African-Americans, and why riots were breaking out in so many metropolitan areas. Before Alicia arrived at Mercyhurst in 1966, she said, administrators polled the cadet teachers who were on campus that summer to see if there was someone who wouldn’t mind rooming with an African-American. Candy Sporer volunteered and the two got along well, sharing a room for two years until Candy left campus for her full-time teaching assignment. “If there was anyone described as being militant, it would have been me,” Alicia said candidly. “I gave all my professors a hard time because I didn’t think they were emphasizing the black experience enough.” When her art survey course failed to mention African-American artists, she did her own report on Henry Tanner, one of the first African11

American artists to gain international acclaim. “Every time you saw me, you knew what my conversation would be about,” she added. “I was in touch with African-American students throughout the United States and constantly bringing news of what was going on and what we could do to members of the ABC.” Alicia said that, while the other black people with whom she has talked over the years said they had enjoyed their college years, her own experience was different. “For me it was a battle every day. … My greatest disappointment was because I became so involved with the ABC and trying to make the student body and city of Erie aware of what was going on in America with African-Americans, I kind of let my studies fall and did not graduate with honors which I should have.” Alicia was Mercyhurst’s last Latin major.

DEEP-ROOTED CONNECTIONS

All of the women enjoyed successful careers after graduation. And all of them have maintained relationships with at least some of the others. They’ve attended each other’s weddings, celebrated birthdays together, and helped their friends through childbirth, medical crises and more. “I have to say that Rochelle has been the one who actively worked to keep us connected through the years,” Sharon said. “The group made a point of getting together every few years through the decades since we left Erie. Clearly Mercyhurst created a very special bond among us.”

ROCHELLE GEORGE WOODING ‘71 Rochelle, who had been diagnosed with MS before arriving at Mercyhurst, fell ill and was hospitalized during her senior year. She had to complete her English degree during summer school in 1971. Married the following spring, she moved with her husband to Maine’s Loring Air Force Base and began substitute teaching. When they returned to Cleveland, she got another teaching job, where some of her former teachers were now her colleagues. Finally, her husband’s career took them to Chicago, where she had a 29-year career with the Chicago Public Schools. Always a book lover, she had already earned credentials in reading, but she then pursued a master’s degree in library science and worked in an elementary school library. She faced new health challenges in 1989, when she had to go on dialysis and eventually needed a kidney transplant. Almost 30 years later, she still has the kidney her sister donated to her. Her MS now confines her to a wheelchair, but Rochelle stays as active as she can with her church and with Delta Sigma Theta, a historically black sorority that’s involved in community service including tutoring, voter registration drives, and projects to help families. Mercyhurst honored Rochelle with a Distinguished Alumni Award in 1999. Rochelle George Wooding

Others have stayed in touch on a one-toone basis. Alicia saw Rochelle because of the sorority they both belong to, and met up with Carol (Mohamed) when she visited Pittsburgh for meetings and conferences. “I love all of them today. Chelle and I are in touch all the time,” Peggy noted. “I’m fortunate to have them in my life. They were always there for me. A real sisterhood.” Rochelle coined another name for that sisterhood. When Beverly Miller died, Rochelle wrote a tribute in the form of a prose poem. She signed it:

Carpe Diem! The true Sistahs of Mercy, Rochelle, Sharon Ford Watkins, Carol “Blue,” Carol “White” Mohamed, Peggy Fox Lape, Alicia King Redfern

ALICIA KING REDFERN ‘70 Alicia worked with Erie’s Urban Coalition for a while after graduation, but soon headed to Philadelphia, where she earned both a master’s and a doctorate in educational psychology from Temple University. She later earned a postdoctoral certificate in gerontology from the College of St. Scholastica. She’s now retired after teaching at the college level for 28 years, most recently at Bloomsburg University, where she’s a professor emerita. During her tenure there, she received the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Outstanding Women of Color Faculty Award, as well as Bloomsburg’s Outstanding Woman Award and Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award. Alicia founded the Circle of Sisters, an African-American women’s service organization, in Bloomsburg; is active with Delta Sigma Theta service organization; and served as eastern regional director, vice president and journal editor of the Pennsylvania Black Conference on Higher Education. She’s currently vice president and will soon assume the state presidency of the Pennsylvania chapter of PEO, a philanthropic education association that helps women achieve their educational goals. Alicia’s husband, Dr. Carroll Redfern, is also a professor emeritus at Bloomsburg. The first African American faculty member hired by the university, he served as a chair of the special education department for 10 years before retiring. They have three daughters and five grandchildren.

During a visit to Aruba in July, Alicia King Redfern chanced to meet 2018 Mercyhurst graduate Ryan Kronmiller.

CAROL WHITE MOHAMED ‘73 Carol took her first job out of college with Pittsburgh’s Equitable Gas Company as a customer service representative. She used her home economics training to help customers better use their gas appliances. Six years later, she was promoted into the company’s human resources department. In 1990, she was recruited by Duquesne Light, Pittsburgh’s electric utility company, as director of compensation. Late In 1994, she was recruited again, joining the University of Pittsburgh to head up its employment and employee relations divisions. She filled a number of roles at Pitt, but for the last 10 years before her retirement in 2015 she directed the Office of Affirmative Action, Diversity and Inclusion for all Pitt campuses. Since the late 1980s, Carol has been active with Lott Carey International Ministries, a global Christian mission community that now works in 26 countries around the world. She is currently president of its women’s unit, Women in Service Everywhere (WISE). She has gone on Lott Carey mission trips to Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, and will travel in October to Nigeria. Working with superintendents who are natives of these countries, she has served in day care centers, orphanages, soup kitchens and food pantries, and provided one-on-one counseling at centers for the addicted and women who have been rescued from human trafficking operations.

BEVERLY DIANE MILLER ‘70 An English major at Mercyhurst, Beverly earned a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, an award that recognized “the most intellectually promising 1970 graduates who plan a career in college teaching.” She went on to earn an M.A. in English Literature, with a concentration in African-American Literature, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1973 and completed coursework for a Ph.D. in English at Morgan State University. Beverly taught within the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Fayetteville State University for more than 30 years, and also taught at Morgan State University, UNC Pembroke at Fort Bragg, Shaw University at Fort Bragg, Durham Technical Community College and UNC Chapel Hill. She received multiple National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships and was invited to speak in Avignon, France. She was active in the community with Steel Magnolias Inc. and Brother’s Keeper.

SHARON FORD WATKINS ‘71 Following graduation, Sharon earned her master’s degree in social work at the University of Pittsburgh, and then earned a fellowship from the National Institute for Mental Health to study drug and alcohol addiction at the Washingtonian Center for Addictions in Boston. Returning to Pittsburgh, she worked for the Pennsylvania Governor’s Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse for several years. In 1978, she moved to Washington, D.C., to work for Dorothy I. Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women. That experience instilled in her a love of activism, public policy and politics that would inform the rest of her work career. At the end of December 2017, she retired after 23 years as field director of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, an organization devoted to ending breast cancer through the power of advocacy and action. She loved her work directing and managing grassroots advocates across the country as the coalition forwarded a progressive public policy agenda that included working for passage of the Affordable Care Act. While working in Washington, she met and married Alex Watkins Jr. in 1987. A Chicago native and Howard University graduate, he passed away in 1994. Since retirement, she’s been spending time with her family in Pittsburgh, and is actively involved in her church (Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia) and in political resistance. Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, congratulates Sharon Ford Watkins on her 20+ years of service with NBCC.

MARGARET (PEGGY) FOX LAPE ‘71 Peggy majored in elementary education and taught for 38 years in the public schools of her hometown, Elizabeth, New Jersey. She received the Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award for the Elizabeth Public School District in 1998. She retired about 10 years ago. Her husband, James (Jim), is also retired. They sold their former home in Mountainside and now live on the Jersey Shore. They’ve been doing some traveling and the next move, she says, will be to California, where both their grown daughters live. Peggy Fox Lape with daughters Erin and Megan

She died Jan. 8, 2016, after a long, valiant struggle with liver cancer. Beverly Miller and Rochelle George Wooding

REMEMBERING ROBERT S. MILLER

A MAN WHOSE MISSION WAS TO HELP OTHERS SUCCEED By Jennifer Smith You don’t have to look far to find the impact North East business owner Robert S. Miller had on Mercyhurst North East. But the trustee emeritus, primary benefactor and biggest champion of MNE never wanted the focus to be on him. In fact, Miller, who passed away at age 81 in May, would have been shocked at the hundreds who filled the Ridge Great Room over several days to pay their respects. Miller never sought the spotlight or recognition for his contributions. He felt fulfilled by helping others.

“He knew education could uplift a person, give them a better life, a chance to have a good job and support their family,” said Julie Griffith, one of his seven children. One vehicle for that was the Robert S. and Janet L. Miller Family Scholarship Fund created in 2004. Since its inception, more than 500 students have benefitted from the allocation of nearly $850,000. Countless others on campus and throughout the community were inspired by his example and encouraging words. Here are just a few of the MNE success stories made possible by the generosity of Miller and his family.

REALIZING A DREAM Every semester Ashley Messenger would write the Millers a thank you note for the scholarship money she received. “You’re making things a lot easier,” said Messenger, 26, who earned an associate degree in hospitality management at MNE in 2013, then a bachelor’s degree at Mercyhurst University in 2015. Earlier this year, she realized a dream, opening her own restaurant, Best Spudz Kitchen, with Jennifer and Julie Flack in the Sunflower Club. Her inventive soups, specials and wings are already gaining the attention of diners, earning her an Erie’s Choice Award nomination for Best Wings and an invitation to cater the Dinner on the Diamond fundraising event for the Erie SeaWolves. “This is what I love to do,” she said. “Cooking is my passion.”

RETURNING TO MNE Like many students at MNE, Lexi Caldwell had already earned a bachelor’s degree, but wanted to take her career in another direction by pursuing an associate degree. “I wasn’t eligible for financial aid, so the Miller scholarship was a huge help financially,” said Caldwell, who graduated in 2016 with her physical therapist assistant degree. MNE’s beautiful campus and caring faculty and staff were a huge part of Caldwell’s decision to become a student. And also the driving force in her return to campus this year as a full-time employee. Caldwell is the new lab supervisor the for the PTA program. “It just felt like a perfect fit,” said the 27-year-old who loved physical therapy, but also interacting with students. “I knew this was the place I wanted to work.”

THROUGH THE YEARS

In 1990, Miller provided the financial backing for Mercyhurst to purchase the former St. Mary’s Seminary. Today Mercyhurst North East enrolls more than 650 students in 30 academic programs. Through nearly three decades, Miller and his wife Janet remained the primary benefactors of the institution. In 2011, as part of MNE’s 20th anniversary, Miller was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. As the co-founder of Better Baked Foods Inc., Miller was recognized widely for his leadership, business acumen and service to his community. As the largest donor in Mercyhurst history, he believed strongly in the legacy of the Sisters of Mercy and never tired of finding ways of fulfilling their dream that everyone who seeks an education should have one.

SERVING COUNTRY, COMMUNITY The Robert S. Miller Award is given each year at graduation to an adult student in recognition of outstanding academic performance while maintaining responsibilities to family, work and the community. Jason Derry, the 2018 recipient, is just the type of student Miller would have loved. Derry, a father and veteran who served eight tours with the U.S. Air Force in Iraq, decided to return to school to pursue a nursing degree. Derry earned a 4.0 GPA and is currently working in the neonatal intensive care unit at Saint Vincent Hospital in Erie.

“I love to grow things,” he once said.

1991

Mercyhurst North East opens its doors, but Miller’s support began well before day one. He fronted a $50,000 deposit, then helped raise $500,000 to purchase the 84-acre former St. Mary’s Seminary from the Redemptorist Fathers.

2001

Miller challenges the community to raise $1M, then matches it to create the Robert S. and Janet L. Miller Family Scholarship Fund. Students begin receiving funds in 2004. Today, more than $850,000 has been distributed to 500 students.

2008

Beth Ann Sheldon in the hotel lab at the Miller Estate.

PAYING IT FORWARD According to Janet Miller, Beth Ann Sheldon was the complete fulfillment of her husband’s dream for MNE. Sheldon came to MNE as an adult student who had not had the opportunity to continue on in higher education after high school. She graduated with her associate degree in 1998, continued to the Erie campus to earn her bachelor’s degree in 2001, became an adjunct instructor, and earned her master’s degree. Today she is not only faculty, but also serves as MNE’s Program Director for Hospitality/Culinary Arts. Miller, co-founder of Better Baked Foods, also took time to personally mentor Sheldon and MNE students, opening up his facilities for field trips and experiential learning. “Mr. Miller has always been so supportive,” said Sheldon. “I will dearly miss him.”

A gift of $500,000 launches the Growing Mercyhurst Campaign to fund the purchase and renovation of the First National Bank building off Interstate 90. The new Janet L. Miller Center for Growth and Academic Excellence allowed for expansion of the nursing program and Municipal Police Training Academy. The family again agrees to match up to $1M.

2012

A 9-acre parcel of the Miller Estate, located across from campus, is gifted to MNE. The $1M property featured a 5,600-square-foot home, gorgeous gardens, spacious garage and rustic barn. With a new learning lab, the gift expanded the opportunities not only for culinary and hospitality students, but also for collaboration between the campus and community.

Cutting the ribbon to officially open the MCPc Cyber Education Center at Mercyhurst University are, from left, President Michael T. Victor; U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly; Erie Insurance President and CEO Tim NeCastro; Provost Leanne Roberts; MCPc CEO Andy Jones; and the Hon. Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania governor and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security.

MERCYHURST UNVEILS HIGH-TECH MCPc CYBER EDUCATION CENTER Sometimes a mere adjective or two or three can’t get the job done. Even a photo can be lacking. In the case of the new MCPc Cyber Education Center at Mercyhurst University, the full import of this space can only be captured up close and in person.

throughout the facility, transforming the speed of a cyber-attack into an architectural element. Diagonal glass replaces interior partitions to increase internal interaction. And the angled furniture, too, complements the overall high-tech look.”

A gathering of more than 200 invited guests, including former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge and U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, came to see for themselves on Aug. 2 when the center officially opened. They were greeted first by a presentation that included remarks by Kelly and Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security after whom the Ridge College of Intelligence Studies & Applied Sciences at Mercyhurst is named.

The center houses a teaching lab featuring 20 work stations. Intelligence studies majors, data science majors, students studying cybersecurity and those enrolled in the new F.W. Hirt-Erie Insurance Risk Management Program at Mercyhurst University, thought to be the first cyber-focused risk management program in the United States, will all benefit.

Guests also heard from Mercyhurst President Michael Victor, MCPc CEO Andy Jones and Erie Insurance President and CEO Tim NeCastro, all of whom spoke to the power of partnership and how it is helping to advance their respective institutions as well as the City of Erie. Mercyhurst also welcomed a special guest in Jeff Pon, director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, who had come to learn more about the university’s cybersecurity program and its facilities. “Sometimes a building is just a building – four walls, a floor and ceiling,” said President Victor. “In this case, our new cyber center is an altogether innovative environment that through design, lighting and glass aims to stimulate and inspire students studying cybersecurity as well as student-employees who will be working at the center.” Keyman Asefi, an instructor with the Mercyhurst Department of Interior Architecture and Design who designed the unique space, put it this way: “The sleek look of diagonal lines promotes movement

“The new cyber lab provides students an opportunity to experience cyber problems in real time,” explained Duncan McGill, Ridge College dean. “The environment serves as a ‘sandbox’ allowing faculty to design complex multi-variable virtual networks complete with malware problems where students gain knowledge through experiences not available in normal classroom-based network operating environments.” But that’s only the half of it. The space also houses a Security Operations Center (SOC), where 16 Mercyhurst students will be paid at industry rates to work with real MCPc clients. “We could easily have erected the walls and installed computers; instead we wanted a design that would remind people that Mercyhurst University is serious about cybersecurity and the role that it can play in our city’s resurgence,” said Cal Pifer, vice president for external relations and advancement at Mercyhurst, who has played an integral role in the project, along with David Myron, vice president for finance and administration.

“Mercyhurst has long been home to some of the nation’s most respected intelligence programs. In fact, we have graduates currently working in all 17 federal intelligence agencies. Cyber education represents the next great opportunity for Mercyhurst, giving us the chance to leverage our experience, faculty expertise, cutting-edge resources and industry connections to position Mercyhurst as a cyber leader at the undergraduate and graduate levels.”

“MCPc is committed to Erie’s economic growth. As a company that helps customers optimize technology, we know that ‘optimization’ requires us to stay at the vanguard of technology, and nothing better ensures this goal than a steady stream of talent. That is behind our commitment to Mercyhurst.” Andy Jones • CEO, MCPc

Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. • President, Mercyhurst University

“Recently, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget found that of 96 federal agencies it assessed, 74 percent were deemed to be ‘at risk’ or ‘high risk’ for cyber-related threats...I hope that it will quickly become a reliable pipeline for Erietrained talent to go on to defend vulnerable American data from dangerous security breaches.” Congressman Mike Kelly • U.S. Representative

“As cyber threats continue to mount against both U.S. businesses and government, it is encouraging to see Mercyhurst recognize and prioritize the need for a highlyskilled cyber workforce to defend against cyber criminals.” Hon. Tom Ridge • Former PA Govenor

“When I see a program like this, we are stepping forward; we are leaning into the defense of our country…So I applaud your efforts and I look forward to working with you and strengthening our partnership between industry, academics and the federal government.” Jeff Pon • Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management

“The four-year undergraduate major and its graduate equivalent will help create a talent pipeline for Erie Insurance that will help us remain competitive, and attract and retain the very best talent. This program is especially valuable for insurance and risk management professionals seeking to better understand the growing cyber dynamics of the risk world.” Tim NeCastro • CEO, Erie Insurance

2018-19 SEASON

MIAC LIVE PERFORMERS EXPECTED TO DRAW MORE SELLOUT CROWDS By Joe Cuneo

After selling out every performance of last season’s Live series, the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture is hoping for a similar encore this year.

A week later, Jane Lynch: A Swingin’ Little Christmas will treat patrons to a throwback to old WWII USO canteen and 1960s variety specials.

Starting with Hollywood legend Shirley MacLaine taking the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center stage on Sept. 20, the 2018-19 MIAC Live series, presented by Scott Enterprises, boasts a star-studded roster of nine performers across a wide variety of disciplines. It includes an Emmy Award-winning actress, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a genre-busting musical collective and perhaps the bestknown boys choir in the world among other premier talents.

The 2019 portion of the season will start with a familiar act when Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox returns to Mercyhurst on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The rotating collective of musicians sold out the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center a season ago.

Such diversity of talent reflects the organization’s mission of making varied performances available, MIAC director Brett D. Johnson, Ph.D., said. “It’s really all over the map for who people are interested in,” Johnson said. “That says to me that we’ve been successful in what we’ve been doing in terms of our mission.” Johnson, who begins his second full season as director, said MIAC retooled its programming strategy prior to last season by aiming to deliver acts appealing to a wider cross section of audiences. The new approach resulted in MIAC offering fewer performances but more recognizable artists at lower admission prices. “I think one thing I realized was that there was so much happening on campus and in the community,” Johnson said. “We determined that if we cut back, that would give us some flexibility to bring in bigger names.” In addition to MacLaine, Jane Lynch: A Swingin Little Christmas (Monday, Dec. 4), Darlene Love (Saturday, Feb. 16) and Patti Lupone: Don’t Monkey with Broadway (Thursday, May 2) complete a powerful lineup of female talent.

Following Love, a 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Golden Dragon Acrobats (Saturday, March 23) and Pigpen Theatre Co. (Thursday, April 4), an Appalachian folk ensemble, will make their respective MIAC debuts. Lupone will conclude the season by performing an assortment of Broadway favorites. With the exception of Pigpen Theatre Co., which will perform in the Walker Recital Hall, all performances will take place at the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center. Tickets for adults will range from $20-35, and Mercyhurst students will again receive free admission to each performance. When creating the season schedule, Johnson said MIAC made an effort to account for the preferences and tastes of all patrons. “It was important to me and the president that we make this available to the broadest possible audience,” he said. For his part, Mercyhurst President Michael Victor said MIAC represents an important part of Mercyhurst to the Erie community.

“It’s a variety of programming anchored by very strong women,” Johnson said.

“Mercyhurst has long appreciated the value of arts and culture, recognizing its intrinsic value in enriching our lives. We also understand its impact on our economy, health and wellbeing, and education. That we can give this gift to the people of our community is something we cherish.”

Following MacLaine, the MIAC season will continue with a pair of internationally known musical acts. Portland-based Pink Martini will put their cosmopolitan spin on a blend of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop on Thursday, Oct. 4, before the Vienna Boys Choir evokes the joy and magic of the season on Monday, Nov. 26.

In addition to the MIAC Live lineup, an assortment of other performing arts events will take place, including student performances and broadcasts from the Met Opera and National Theatre in London. For more information, patrons can call 814-824-3000 or visit miac.mercyhurst.edu.

Recipients of Distinguished Alumni Awards for 2018 include, from left, Joseph Pacinelli ’78, Jeanne Keim Phillips ’68, Sister Lisa Mary McCartney, RSM, Ph.D. ’71, Sheila Sullivan Coon ’72 and Ivan Rusilko, DO ’06. A posthumous award was also announced for Vivetta Petronio, Ph.D. ’58.

MERCYHURST HONORS 6 AS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Mercyhurst University presented its highest alumni award – the Sister Carolyn Herrmann Award – to Sister Lisa Mary McCartney, RSM, Ph.D. ’71 during the June 8-10 Reunion Weekend celebration on the Erie Campus. Five other Distinguished Alumni were also honored for service to their chosen fields, to their communities, or to Mercyhurst. Sister Lisa Mary was recognized for her ongoing efforts to assure that the legacy of the founding Sisters of Mercy continues to flourish at Mercyhurst even without the full-time presence of Sisters of Mercy on campus. In particular, she developed the innovative Mercy Emissary Program, which has already trained more than 80 faculty and staff members who have committed to help maintain the Mercy Mission. Sister Lisa Mary stepped down this month as vice president for mission integration, making her the last Sister of Mercy to work full time at the university. She will continue to work part time. Before accepting the cabinet-level position in 2008, she had taught English at Mercyhurst from 1980 to 2004 and served on the leadership team for the Sisters of Mercy in Erie. She earned her master’s and doctorate at the University of Notre Dame. Sheila Sullivan Coon ’72 was honored for service to the community. An art education major, she worked

in the newspaper publishing industry for 29 years before returning to Mercyhurst. When she retired from the advancement staff last year, it was calculated that she had secured more than $14 million in grant funding for Mercyhurst programs during her tenure. In addition, she helped create Erie’s Newspaper in Education program and chairs the board of the Mercy Center of the Arts. She has also been active with the House of Mercy, St. James Parish, and the Mercy Hilltop Center. Joseph Pacinelli ’78 was honored for service to his field. He worked in human resources for several local companies before joining Better Baked Foods in North East, where he was director of human resources, then director of operations and finally president for 15 years. Food retailer Schwan’s purchased Better Baked Foods last year and Pacinelli is now president of Schwan’s Strategic Partner Solutions unit, which manufactures private label products. He has served as president of St. James Parish Council for 35 years. Awards for service to Mercyhurst were presented to Vivetta Petronio, Ph.D. ’58 (posthumously) and to Jeanne Keim Philips ’68. Petronio, a French major, was the first Mercyhurst student awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, which allowed her to study in France. She taught languages and humanities at Mercyhurst for more than 40 years,

and served on a variety of committees, including directing Mercyhurst’s Self-Study as the university prepared for Middle States accreditation. Dr. Petronio died in 2015. Phillips taught for more than 32 years before retiring five years ago. A long-time member of the board of the Mercyhurst Alumni Association, she was awarded emeritus status in 2014, but remains active, attending every meeting and helping at every event. She was also instrumental in organizing the 50th reunion for the Class of 1968. Ivan Rusilko, DO ’06 received the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. A 2010 graduate of Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, he’s the proprietor of Ivan Rusilko Lifestyle Medicine in Miami Beach, Florida. His practice focuses on prevention of health problems, emphasizing exercise, nutrition and other preventative measures that can directly improve his patients’ health and slow the aging process. Rusilko is also the author of a romance novel trilogy based on his own life. The Class of 1968 – the last Mercyhurst graduating class to include only women – marked its 50th anniversary by endowing a scholarship that will be earmarked for female students. A record 52 class members attended the reunion, and committee members presented President Michael T. Victor with a check for $80,000.

SUKI FULLER MENTORS NEW GENERATION OF TECH ENTREPRENEURS IN LONDON It took Suki Fuller a few years to find just the right college major, but when she discovered Mercyhurst’s Research Intelligence Analyst Program (RIAP), the forerunner of today’s Intelligence Studies program, everything clicked.

An internship with Navistar allowed her to work with Jan Herring, the “godfather of competitive intelligence,” with whom she’s still in touch. He confirmed what her professors at Mercyhurst had taught her: that analysts must be familiar with all phases of an operation.

Suki was about eight years older than most of her classmates when she enrolled in 2001, but she’d packed a lot into those years: engineering classes, work as an internal auditor and store detective at a major retailer, a job as a lab tech and metals finisher, even service with the Army Reserves. She was ready to return to college, once she found a field where she could use all those varied skill sets.

Since her 2005 graduation, Suki has done strategic intelligence work for clients in the automotive, pharmaceutical, technology and defense industries. She’s based in London now, the city where she was born, but has also worked in China and the Middle East as well as the United States and United Kingdom.

Her real-world business and military background came in handy as she began working on contract projects during her first year at Mercyhurst. “The thing I liked best about the program was that we got to do practical applications while learning theory,” she said. Professor Kris Wheaton said Suki worked on one of Mercyhurst’s first contracts with the Department of Defense looking at technology trends. Though he can’t talk much about the project, he noted, “It was good enough that the DoD doubled the amount of money they spent on project work the next year.”

She continues to resist settling down in any particular business sector, despite overtures from many of her previous employers. “Good competitive intel professionals are generalists in subject matter, but experts in knowing how to collect, analyze and report data – and that’s the core of what is taught at Mercyhurst,” she explained. “We can walk out the door and do any subject area.” Though she’s primarily a one-person operation, she did incorporate her business in 2015. It’s called Miribure, a word she and her dad coined to describe what she helps her clients to do: MItigate RIsk and BUild REsilience. Or, put another way, to identify opportunities while reducing uncertainty in decision-

making through strategic research and analysis. Since 2015, Suki has focused on mentoring entrepreneurs, including many women, in the fastgrowing tech industry. She’s a mentor ambassador for Tech London Advocates’ Women in Tech Group and was recently named one of the 30 Change Makers for London Tech Week. She also founded Salaam Ventures to incubate and accelerate early-stage start-ups. Forbes Magazine featured her advice on dealing with venture capitalists in a recent profile titled “How This Woman Is Helping Women Founders Close Funding with Conviction,” while Tech World highlighted her thoughts on “Diversity vs. inclusion: What tech firms need to know about the differences.”

SCOTT DONNELLY BRINGS REAL WORLD INTO 5TH-GRADE CLASSROOM For the first five years of his teaching career, Scott Donnelly ’88 used textbooks and quizzes and the traditional approach he now laughingly describes as “drill and kill.” But then he concluded that teaching science and social studies out of a book wasn’t good for his students – or for him. So he transformed his fifth-grade classroom at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Elementary School into an active learning environment where students collaborate on real-world activities and the only textbooks you’ll find have been turned into ramps to launch toy cars in physics experiments. Most schools today, he believes, are still using the 20th century education model for a 21st century world. And that’s not the best model for 21st century learners. The real world isn’t about test-taking, he argues. It’s about solving problems and not being afraid to fail.

Teachers who attended NASA Space Camp last summer, for example, devised the “Pringles challenge.” Students had to design a package that would safely deliver a single Pringles chip to its destination through the regular mail system. The lighter the package the better, since it would be cheaper to mail. Students eagerly watched on video as other students all around the country – and as far away as Germany – opened their packages to check the chip’s condition. He partnered with a Vietnamese teacher he met at the Boston Museum of Science on a competition to create the best recipe for modeling dough. Since the Vietnamese kids were fluent in English, their live video interactions created a true cultural exchange, too.

To prepare for that world, he says students need to learn hands-on by doing, not by memorizing. The approach is mostly associated with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) classes, but it works with any subject.

The CEO of American STEM Vietnam was so impressed that he invited Scott to visit the school this summer. And his own superintendent in Pittsburgh is exploring continuing partnerships, and perhaps even a teacher exchange in the future. “As kids get into the real world, they’ll be working electronically with people all around the world. This is a great chance to show them that learning has no borders,” Scott noted.

Scott has sought out professional education opportunities all over the country. And he continues to network with other teachers he meets at those workshops.

Another highlight of his visit to Vietnam was the opportunity to meet Steve Kaczerski ’13 at S & L’s AllAmerican Diner in Hanoi. Steve and his wife, Loan Vu ’13, opened the diner there in late 2016.

Scott Donnelly, right, and teachers at AmericanSTEM Vietnam practice communication and teamwork with the Cup Pyramid Challenge.

Fresh off his Vietnam trip, Scott headed to the U.S. Naval Academy, where he had won a scholarship to yet another STEM conference. Teaching is a second career for Scott, who earned his Mercyhurst degree in hospitality management. An internship led to a job with Hyatt Hotels after graduation. Then he partnered in the opening of three New York-style delis in Pittsburgh. When he and his wife, Terri, learned that twins were on the way, he decided his long work hours were going to be a problem. So he enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh to earn a Master of Arts in Teaching, an intense program designed for people changing careers. He’s been working at Carnegie for 10 years now, and those twins – Ava and Olivia – are now 13 and starting 8th grade. Scott still credits his Mercyhurst mentors, including John and Paula Wolper and Daryl Georger, for his success.

HALL OF FAME INDUCTS THREE ATHLETES, ’98 MEN’S SOCCER TEAM The 2018 induction class for the Athletics Hall of Fame – including the 1998 men’s soccer team and three individual athletes – was honored June 9 during Reunion Weekend festivities. A large contingent from the soccer team was on hand to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1998 season, during which they captured the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) and region titles and advanced to the NCAA Final Four, finishing with a 17-4-1 record. They were the second Hurst soccer team to reach the Final Four. For a few members of the ‘98 team – and for Coach John Melody – it was a return trip to the semifinals following their first appearance in 1995. They lost both times in tight matches with South Carolina-Spartansburg. Mercyhurst dominated the GLIAC at that time, winning 10 conference titles in 11 years, and seldom lost a conference game. Coach Melody and Mark Fitzgerald are already in the Hall of Fame and Anthony Maher was also inducted individually this year. They are the fourth team chosen for the Hall of Fame as a unit, after the 1994-95 women’s basketball team, the 2000-01 men’s hockey team and the 2004 women’s rowing team. Anthony Maher played with the men’s soccer program from 1997 to 2001,

helping his team advance to a Final Four appearance in 1998 and a Top 25 national ranking every year. The National Soccer Coaches Association of America named him a First Team All-American in 2001, as well as Great Lakes All-Region. He was named four times to the GLIAC allconference team, and was twice named GLIAC Offensive Player of the Year. He graduated as Mercyhurst’s career goals leader with 51. That mark has since been surpassed, but he still holds single-season records with the 24 goals and 63 points he scored in 2001. He’s tied for third in career assists with 23. After his graduation in 2002, Anthony enjoyed a 10-year career in professional soccer. For the past five years, he has worked with high-growth start-up companies. Today he’s Chief Growth Officer and Head of Incubation for 1776, the nation’s largest network of incubators. He and his wife, Anne, live in the Philadelphia area with their three young sons. Catrina Sheaffer was a standout field hockey player from 2001 to 2004. In her sophomore season, she was named a Second Team All-American and her team’s Most Valuable Offensive Player. In her senior year the National Field Hockey Coaches Association selected her as a First Team All-American, and she played in the

Division II North/South Senior All-Star Game. A graphic design major, she worked for several years in Mercyhurst’s marketing department. Catrina is married to baseball assistant coach Charlie Spano. In 2014, she began freelancing from home to spend more time with Caylen, Keira and Vito. She now works full time for ECCA Payroll, but still works from home several days a week. Hockey standout Meghan Agosta has also been named to the Hall of Fame, but wasn’t able to attend Reunion Weekend to accept the honor. Meghan set records in most offensive categories at Mercyhurst. She also holds a half-dozen NCAA career records – including being the leading scorer all time in Division 1 women’s hockey history with 303 points and 157 goals. She was named a First Team All-American in 2008-09 and 2010-11, and was Player of the Year in College Hockey America four times. On top of her collegiate résumé, Meghan has won three Olympic Gold Medals with Team Canada, as well as the silver medal this year. She also has two golds and five silvers in world championship competitions. She in employed by the Vancouver, British Columbia, Police Department.

Top: Members of the 1998 men’s soccer team, which was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame. Seated, from left: Eric Clark, Stuart Hogg (who traveled from the United Kingdom), Coach John Melody, Anthony Maher, Lynn Burns and Brian Jankowski. Standing: Paul Valenti, JP Kitcho, Paul Watkins, Jon Rees, Rob Gillooly, Mike Shiels, Chris Hanson, Derian Tuitt, Rory Hussey (who traveled from Thailand), Nick Potter, Shawn Burke, Rob Yurkovich and Dave Slisz. Right Top: Anthony Maher Right Lower: Catrina Sheaffer Spano

HURST COACHES IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL By Joe Cuneo

Chris Ryan’s first visit to Mercyhurst in the late 1990s left a lasting impression on the eventual head men’s lacrosse coach.

According to 16-year women’s field hockey coach Stacey Gaudette, you can credit the university's culture.

“I remember the first time I drove through the front gate telling myself ‘I can get students to come here,’” he said. “I recognized the potential immediately.”

“All the core values that come in the mission statement, like hospitality, aren’t just things that are listed on a sign on the wall like they are at other schools,” she said. “It might sound hokey but you really see them in the people here.”

The allure Ryan sensed as a 24-year-old assistant wasn’t just reserved for prospective student-athletes. It’s also served as the impetus for a number of coaches like Ryan to remain on the hill. In fact, 14 of 21 Mercyhurst head coaches have led their respective programs for at least 10 seasons, totaling more than 250 years of head coaching experience among them. This collective longevity makes Mercyhurst unique among other universities its size. “It’s amazing that for a Division II institution, as many coaches have been here as long as they have,” Ryan said. “Most of the time at a small college like this, coaches view it as a stepping stone, so these jobs typically aren’t set up for this.” By no coincidence, Mercyhurst has retained its coaches while enjoying unprecedented success on the field over the past decade. So, what is it about Mercyhurst that enables coaches to stay and win at the highest level?

The importance of personal relationships, as referenced by Gaudette and echoed by her peers, refers not only to those between coaches and athletes but administrators, faculty and students as well. According to women’s hockey coach Mike Sisti, these connections should make those in the Mercyhurst community feel even closer to the teams, especially when they win. “I always tell people that they should share in it because everyone plays a role in us having the success that we’ve enjoyed,” he said. Sisti, who spent six years as a men’s assistant before coaching the Division I women’s program since its inception in 1999, cites the support he’s received as the main reason why he’s remained at Mercyhurst despite having chances to leave.

Top: Chris Ryan, men’s lacrosse Bottom: Stacey Gaudette, women’s field hockey

“Over the years, I’ve had opportunities to leave for other places, but I’ve stayed all these years because there’s so many people who have been so supportive of us and have been there the entire time,” he said.

Left: Adrian Spracklen, rowing Middle: Rick Gotkin, men’s ice hockey

Right Top: Mike Sisti, women’s ice hockey Right Bottom: Joe Spano, baseball

For rowing director Adrian Spracklen, Mercyhurst’s unique support was enough to pull him back. Spracklen, a 1990 Mercyhurst graduate, returned as an assistant coach after earning his master’s degree at Western Michigan University. In 1992, Spracklen became the women’s head coach and was tabbed men’s coach in 1998. “Part of the reason why I came back was because of the way I was treated here,” Spracklen said. “As a student, I was surrounded by very good people who supported and encouraged me.” Rowing is a family affair for Spracklen, whose father, Mike, has led multiple teams to the Olympics and World Rowing Championships. So, it should come as no surprise that he regards the Lakers in the most familial terms.

Multiple Spano children currently share a similar experience, as their fathers Joe, Mercyhurst’s head coach, and Charlie, the associate head coach, have led Mercyhurst’s baseball program to national prominence in recent years. The young Spanos regularly frequent the campus, whether having lunch at the dining hall or paying visits to the baseball offices in Baldwin Hall. “The way the administration welcomes families and has made my family feel like they’re a part of the university, it’s just really unique,” said Joe Spano, who led the Lakers to the College World Series in his 20th season on the bench this spring. “It’s a wonderful place and that’s what makes it so strong and keeps us bouncing back through all the hard times — because it’s a family.”

“I really view them all as an extension of my personal family,” Spracklen said. “I view them as my own children in that I hold them accountable, I try to advise them and, together, we grow as a family.”

Every Homecoming weekend, Laker loyalty results in an alumni game that draws as many as 50 former baseball players, Spano said. Such a turnout represents impressive growth from the first alumni game, which drew just a handful of players 17 years ago.

For other longtime coaches, Mercyhurst and family has taken on a more literal meaning.

For coaches, relationships with past student-athletes are a welcome byproduct of their lasting tenures.

After three decades leading the men’s hockey program, Rick Gotkin is the longesttenured hockey coach in the NCAA at one school and the only coach to lead one team in divisions I, II and III. For the last four years, Gotkin held another title for one Laker: Dad.

“I’ve had kids that I’ve coached that are now married and have their own families,” said men’s basketball coach Gary Manchel, who will enter his 16th season in the fall. “When I see them at weddings or when they come back to campus, we’ll have long conversations over dinner, and it’s something that is really rewarding.”

Before graduating in the spring, Gotkin’s son Brandon competed for his father at Mercyhurst. To little surprise, Brandon Gotkin now coaches a junior hockey team in Maryland.

Perhaps even more rewarding is the fellowship between veteran coaches, an uncommon dynamic that yields not only productive collaboration but friendships as well.

Rick Gotkin cited Mercyhurst’s environment as a reason for setting down roots. “It’s a great environment to work and raise a family, which is what I’ve done,” he said. “I raised my family on campus — my daughter and son have literally grown up on campus.”

“It’s interesting that people outside of athletics think those in our department would be at odds and that’s not the case,” Gaudette said. “When we have lunch together every day or when one of us asks another coach for advice, we’re not competing against each other. “I’ve worked at other schools, and it’s just different here.”

Left: Marty Schaetzle, football Right: Gary Manchel, men’s basketball

Mercyhurst’s culture provides an important stabilizing force, but coaches must also adapt to an ever-changing environment in order to remain successful, according to Marty Schaetzle, who will enter his 18th season at the helm of Mercyhurst’s football program this fall. “Professionally, it’s very challenging to be at one place for a long time,” he said. “In order to be able to last so long, we have to be able to adjust with the way we relate to the kids and with the x’s and o’s. I’ve learned that what I did 15 years ago isn’t going to work now.”

But while student-athletes, strategies, and even administrations change, there are some things Laker coaches can always count on. “When I first came here, I thought I’d be here for a year or two and go on to bigger and better things,” Gotkin said. “But after 31 years, I’m still here because, hey, it’s Mercyhurst.”

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HOFFMAN HONORED WITH ROMERO AWARD In a moving presentation after she received Mercyhurst’s 27th Archbishop Oscar Romero Award, retired educator Mary Hoffman ’74 recalled how lessons learned from her mother have shaped her life.

Provost Leanne Roberts surprises Dr. Ronald Brown with the 2018 Teaching Excellence award.

BROWN EARNS TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD Chemistry Professor Dr. Ronald Brown is the 2018 recipient of Mercyhurst’s coveted Teaching Excellence Award. “He was born to be a teacher,” said department chair Dr. Clint Jones of his colleague. “After 19 years at Mercyhurst, he still goes into every teaching situation with the same enthusiasm you’d get from a beginning teacher.” Brown received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical physics from Michigan State University and his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. In 1999, he began his career at Mercyhurst, where he teaches the General Chemistry sequence and Physical Chemistry, including thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum chemistry and statistical mechanics. Brown served as the chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Department of Physics at Mercyhurst from 2004 to 2012, a time of tremendous growth and change. He was promoted to associate professor in 2005. Brown’s research interests include the investigation of the properties of intriguing, relatively newly discovered materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene.

“When I was at the beautiful age of around 6 or 7, while riding in the front seat of our 1957 Chevy station wagon, my mom pulled over and said, ‘Honey, you go over there and ask that lady walking down the street if she needs a ride home.’ She gratefully got in the car and we took her home. As we drove away, my mom said, ‘you know honey, if you could, you should’ – and we did,“

Hoffman explained. An early graduate of Mercyhurst’s special education program, she retired after a 34-year career teaching students with special needs in the Millcreek School District, but continues to co-coordinate a theatre program for adults with special needs called INSPIRE. She’s active throughout the Erie community, involved with Emmaus Ministries, the Erie County Mental Health/Intellectual Disabilities Board, and the overflow shelter for the homeless, among other agencies.

DAVIS NAMED ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Bradley Davis joins Mercyhurst this fall as athletic director. A San Francisco Bay Area native, he has worked for the past 11 years at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, most recently as associate athletic director for external relations. “Brad is a high-energy leader with a passion for collegiate athletics and we look forward to his collaboration with our great coaches and staff as they work together to positively affect the lives of our studentathletes and to achieve new heights,” said Mercyhurst President Michael T. Victor. Davis replaces Joe Kimball, who retired last spring after nine years in the top post. In addition to managing the Lakers, Davis will also oversee the Saints athletics program at Mercyhurst North East. At Merrimack, which was awarded the Northeast-10 President’s Cup for all-around athletic excellence in 2018, Davis helped oversee 24 varsity programs and 18 club sports. Like Mercyhurst, Merrimack competes at the NCAA Division II level while its men’s and women’s hockey programs compete in Division I. He managed all aspects of external relations including marketing and promotions, corporate sponsorship, imaging, game operations, ticketing, the athletics website, social media, multimedia and athletic communications. Davis will be moving to Erie with his wife, Kristin, and their dog, Kipper, soon after the arrival of their first child, a boy, who was due in August.

Mary Hoffman, second from left, is congratulated by Erie Mayor Joseph Schember, Mercyhurst Provost Dr. Leanne Roberts, and Religious Studies Chair Dr. Rob von Thaden.

The Romero Award is presented to individuals and organizations “living the call of faith and justice in an extraordinary manner.”

NEW MNE PROGRAM SEEKS TO EMPOWER SINGLE MOTHERS The first students enroll this fall in a new mission-driven project on the campus of Mercyhurst North East: the Women with Children Program, which is designed to empower economically challenged single mothers. One of only 10 such programs in the United States, the WWC program removes many of the roadblocks that may have stifled single mothers’ previous attempts at an education by providing on-campus housing, Jackie Fink academic and financial support, family enrichment programming, career services, on-campus counseling and a safe and secure environment. Five townhouses at the far northwest end of the MNE campus have been retrofitted to accommodate the families, with a common area to encourage social interaction and a fenced-in playground. Jackie Fink, director of administrative services at MNE, and Sister Joanne Courneen, RSM, organized the project, and Fink will continue to direct its operation. Fink was a foster mother for two children during the 1990s. “That experience awakened me to conditions existing in Erie County that I would never have known about personally, such as hunger and homelessness,” she said. “I understand the plight of the single mom and I see this new program as a chance – a chance to change a life – or, at least, begin to change a life.”

NECASTRO HEADS INNOVATION DISTRICT BOARD Vice Admiral Matthew Kohler accepts an honorary degree from President Michael T. Victor

MERCYHURST HONORS VICE ADMIRAL KOHLER, GRADUATES 904

Joseph G. NeCastro, vice chair of Mercyhurst’s Board of Trustees, is now at the helm of the Erie Innovation District Board of Directors, which was recently reconstituted to reflect more broad-based representation “Now that we are moving forward, it is important to ensure that we are representing the entire city and receiving strategic guidance from a diverse group of board members,” NeCastro said. He said the new directors represent entrepreneurship, philanthropy, higher education, business and industry and provide assorted pathways to innovate and grow a modern, digital economy focused on safety and security in the City of Erie.

Erie native Vice Admiral Matthew Kohler, whose distinguished career in information warfare and naval intelligence spans more than three decades and 15 assignments, received an honorary degree from Mercyhurst during commencement ceremonies in May. He addressed Erie graduates May 13 at Erie Insurance Arena. Admiral Kohler, who assumed duties as deputy chief of naval operations for Information Warfare and the 67th director of Naval Intelligence in June, related his perspective of the competitive world today’s graduates are entering. He’s the son of 1951 Mercyhurst alumna Sally Kohler. A total of 710 students – 566 baccalaureate degree candidates and 144 master’s degree candidates – graduated at Erie, while Mercyhurst North East celebrated 194 graduates from associate degree programs on May 12. Jonah Jackson, recipient of the university’s Carpe Diem Award for 2018, was the student speaker. A political science major, Jackson was Student Government President for 2017-18. Jenna Uhlig, who majored in mathematics and physics, received the Bishop's Award for Academic Excellence. Tiffany Kephart, a business administration major, received the Medal of Honor and spoke at North East.

NeCastro retired in February 2016 from Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. During his 13 years with the Scripps group of media companies, he served as chief financial & administrative officer and chief development officer.

Prior to joining Scripps, NeCastro was chief financial officer for Penton Media, Inc., where he played a leading role in the execution of Penton's spin-off and initial stock offering, as well as more than 20 acquisitions. He previously held senior financial positions at Reader's Digest and U.S. News & World Report. NeCastro earned a master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Mercyhurst.

BISHOP PERSICO PRESIDES AT MASS HONORING SISTERS Erie Bishop Lawrence T. Persico joined the Mercyhurst community on April 16 to celebrate a “Mass of Thanksgiving” honoring the contributions of the Sisters of Mercy. “Like so many of us, I am devoted to the legacy of the Sisters of Mercy, our founders,” said Mercyhurst President Michael T. Victor. “All that we have been, all that we are, and all that we will be, we owe to them. The Spring Mass of Thanksgiving is our opportunity to come together as a community and honor the vision and inspiration of the Sisters.” Like the Mass of the Holy Spirit, which traditionally

Deacon Tony Alleruzzo and Bishop Lawrence T. Persico opens each academic year at Mercyhurst, the Mass of Thanksgiving included special music by the Mercyhurst Concert Choir and instrumentalists. The Mercyhurst Liturgical Dance Ensemble danced to a musical setting of the “Suscipe,” the prayer of Catherine McAuley, who founded the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831. Sister Lisa Mary McCartney and other Sisters of the Erie community served as readers, gift bearers and Eucharistic ministers.

RILEY-BROWN NAMED HAFENMAIER DEAN Dr. Christina Riley-Brown, associate professor of English, has been named dean of the Hafenmaier College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She succeeds Dr. Leanne Roberts who became Mercyhurst provost this summer. Since coming to Mercyhurst in 2005, Riley-Brown has served as a faculty member, chair of the Department of English, and associate dean of the Hafenmaier College.

As department chair, Riley-Brown led numerous initiatives, including curriculum revision and assessment, intensive student recruitment efforts, and development of a professional writing concentration in the English major. A strong supporter of interdisciplinary and experiential learning, she has traveled extensively with students for conference presentations and Faculty-led Study Abroad Trips.

Riley-Brown earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Arkansas and her master’s and doctoral degrees in English from the University of Mississippi. Her specialty is early American print culture, with interests in minority and women's writing.

CLASS NOTES CAREERS AND EDUCATION Jean Shirley ‘72, a social worker and advocate for parolees and the incarcerated, received the 2018 Liberty Bell Award from the Onondaga County Bar Association. The award is presented to a non-lawyer whose contributions strengthen the American system of freedom and justice under the law. Shirley is a Hiscock Legal Aid Society client advocate who has worked at the public service agency for 45 years in a variety of capacities. Donna Russo ‘81, a dance graduate who later developed muscular dystrophy, stars in Donna on the Go, an Emmysubmitted web series designed to raise awareness for people with challenges. It takes a light-hearted look at the obstacles she has to overcome. Visit donna-on-the-go.com. Edward Kriausky ‘86 and Edward Coyne ‘92 received the Star of Life Award from the State of Ohio for their work after a severe industrial accident, saving the life of a man who had been seriously injured by a 700-piece of equipment. Kriausky is a 29-year veteran firefighter/EMT/ inspector with the City of Brooklyn, Ohio, Fire Department, where Coyne is a 21-year veteran firefighter/paramedic. They also received this award in 2013 for the rescue of an elderly woman in an apartment fire. Andrew (Andy) Abramczyk ‘89, a 31year employee of the Erie Insurance Group, was promoted to Corporate Technology Officer (CTO). He has overall responsibility for the company’s Information Technology, Infrastructure and Operations. Reymond Austin ‘91 has been promoted to captain with the Ocean City Police Department and assigned as commander of the Criminal Investigation Division. He joined the department in 1991 as a seasonal police officer.

Kelly Parker Nagel ‘91 has been promoted to president and general manager for Jabra North America, a

leader in engineering professional headsets and sound solutions. Katherine M. Wiedmann ‘94 was appointed a Magistrate Judge of the District of Columbia Superior Court. She was sworn in on Aug. 28, 2017, by Superior Court Chief Judge Robert E. Morin in a ceremony witnessed by her father, Paul R. Wiedmann, and her brother, John F. Wiedmann. Donald Rahn ‘95 was recognized as one of the Educators of the Year in Loudoun County by the Washington Post. Paula Donnelly ‘99 earned her Doctor of Education (Ed.D) degree from Boston University in March 2018. She is a special education administrator in the greater Boston area. Chris Valvano ‘01 works with the Pediatric Public Health Initiative at Michigan State University as project manager for an epidemiological study tracing the health conditions of children exposed to lead contamination in the water of Flint, Michigan. Brittany Harger ‘06 and her business partner, Adrianne Smith, were named winners in the 2018 American Small Business Championship by SCORE, the nation’s largest network of volunteer expert business mentors. In 2013, Brit and Adrianne founded Creative Behavior Solutions, LLC to provide highquality behavior therapy for children with autism and developmental disabilities. Kristen Peterson Pierce ‘08 released a children’s picture book titled Your Inner Compass That Could, inspired by the powerful wisdom that lives inside each of us. Visit InnerCompassBooks.com for details. Katie “Maeve” McGoff ‘10, the sales & marketing coordinator at Cincinnati Gearing Systems, was presented the AGMA (American Gear Manufacturers Association) Next Generation Award during the 2018 AGMA/ABMA Annual Meeting in Naples, Florida. While early in her career, she was recognized as an emerging contributor, innovator and leader in the gear industry.

Samuel Hvezda ‘12, a kindergarten teacher at Clark Elementary School in Harborcreek, Pennsylvania, received a JET24/Edinboro University Golden Apple Award. He was honored for demonstrating patience, compassion and understanding. Andrew Jaouen ‘12 was promoted to Forensic Scientist I in the Firearms Examination Unit at the New York State Police Forensic Investigation Center in Albany, New York. Jennifer Gates Kubiak ‘12 ‘17M was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Greater Erie Alliance for Equality in Erie, Pennsylvania. Jen works as a communications professional at Erie Insurance and also serves in a number of leadership positions for the International Association of Insurance Professionals.

MARRIAGES Shawn Och ‘96 married Denisse Paz on March 16, 2018, in Royal Palm Beach, Florida. Shawn teaches 4th grade in Royal Palm Beach. Lance Eckenrode ‘09 married Laura Kownacki on Dec. 8, 2017, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Lance works in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as a fiscal manager for Dauphin County. They live in Camp Hill, Pa. Mattye Laurer ‘09 married David McKibben on May 26, 2018, in Webster, New York. Mattye is an addiction therapist/art therapist at Unity Hospital in Rochester, New York. Andrew Ferguson ‘10, technical director of dance and opera at Mercyhurst, married Emily Reed ‘14 in Christ the King Chapel on May 18, 2018. Emily is an adjunct instructor for the Mercyhurst dance department. Brigitte Thompson ‘12 married Dan Lasko on March 24, 2018, in Strongsville, Ohio. Stephanie Brocki ‘12 was a bridesmaid. Brigitte works as a quality control manager in Cleveland, Ohio.

Julia Hosack ‘15 married Patrick Vetter on July 1, 2017, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Mercer, Pennsylvania. Bridesmaids included Mary Schaaf ‘15 and Jonna Schaper ‘15. Lauren McCrillis ‘15 and Michael Singel ‘15 read passages during the ceremony. Julia and Patrick reside in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where they are both teachers. Sarah Creighton ‘16 married Tim Gilbert ‘17 on July 29, 2017, at the Sawmill Theatre in Cook Forest, Pennsylvania. Marisa Jacobson ‘14 was maid of honor. Sarah is a choir and music teacher at Franklin (Pa.) Junior/Senior High School, while Tim is executive meetings manager at the Sheraton and Courtyard Bayfront hotels in Erie.

BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS Emily Camilli Brady ‘03 and husband Patrick had their first child, Jackson, on Jan. 25, 2017. Diana Rapacki Konieczki ‘03 and Matthew Konieczki ‘97 had their fourth child, Leo, on Dec. 27, 2017, in Erie, Pennsylvania. Leo joins sister Stella and brothers Jake and Cole. Timothy Krysiek ‘05 and Allison Gates Krysiek had their first child, Nicholas, on Jan.13, 2018. Chris Aloshen ‘07 and Meghan Sauer Aloshen ‘07 had a son, Simon Henry, on Jan. 23, 2018, in Ashburn, Virginia. He joins brother Malcolm Joseph. Maeve Kelly Gavin ‘07 and husband Sean had a daughter, Grace Nellie, on July 3, 2017. She joins brother Finn Patrick. Kelley Berchtold Jacquel ‘09 and husband Peter had a daughter, Harper Willow, on Jan. 13, 2018. Kristen Nicklas Rodgers ‘10 and John Rodgers ‘10 had their first child, John (Jack) Charles, on Nov. 28, 2017.

CLASS NOTES Christine Wilbur Jones ‘11 and husband Ian had their first child, daughter Nikita Danielle, on Sept. 20, 2017.

CONDOLENCES ALUMNI DEATHS: Jeanne Weir Ramsey ‘41

MOTHER OF: Judith Oliver Samson ‘67 (Erma Negri Oliver) Mary Kay Naccarelli Law ‘83 (Mary Naccarelli) Jennifer Stackpole Piccirillo ‘03 (Doris Engel Stackpole)

Margaret Mischick Mikolay ‘48

David Hunter ‘07, Sara Hunter Giammarise ‘08 and Martha Hunter ‘12 (Susan Gustafson Hunter ‘81)

Virginia Stephens Pompeani ‘48

Sarah Piasecki ‘14 ‘16M (Cathy Piasecki)

Mary Phyllis Sommerhof Burger ‘43

Lucille Heidt Clark ‘49 Dolores Fabrizi ‘50 Ruth Beck Bean ‘52 Mary Lou Scalise ‘54 Patricia Egan Langmyer ‘55

FATHER AND FATHER-IN-LAW OF: Leslie Hafenmaier Armstrong ‘86 and David Armstrong ‘90 (Herbert Hafenmaier)

Caroline O’Connor Weber ‘55

FATHER OF: Anthony Prusak ‘90 (Walter Prusak Jr.)

Patricia Ann Narby Stevens ‘56

Rebecca Miller ‘06 (Robert Miller)

Barbara Sislowski Ester ‘58 Patricia Hooper Connolly ‘59 Margaret Walach Conto ‘59 Mary White Guelcher ‘60 Sister Catherine Anne Mesanko, RSM ‘65 Ruth Sennett Watson ‘66 Barbara Kahl Shutes ‘68 Barbara Bradley ‘72 Betty Frank Jones ‘72 John Lawson ‘74 Nathaniel L. Barnes Jr. ‘75 Connie Lysien Sturm ‘76 Robert Kline ‘78 Susan Gustafson Hunter ‘81 Mark Hutchinson ‘83 Mark Petrasek ‘85 Thomas M. Whalen ‘88 Deborah Hardy ‘11 WIFE OF: David Hunter ‘79 (Susan Gustafson Hunter ‘81) HUSBAND OF: Mary Anne Rawa Kingsley ‘53 (Dr. Ross William Kingsley) Elizabeth Coleman Kraus ‘56 (Albert) Audrey Huggler Roberts ‘57 (Allen Roberts) Laurel Ann Tarby Skalko ‘64 (John William ‘Bill’ Skalko) Debra Conley Brown ‘83 (Dean Alan Brown)

BROTHER OF: Laura Petrasek O’Leary ‘90 (Mark E. Petrasek) FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY: Sister Kathy Green, RSM Herbert Hafenmaier, benefactor and friend of the university, for whom the Hafenmaier College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences is named Sister Rita Kartavich, RSM Robert Miller, benefactor and friend of the university and Trustee Emeritus Larie Pintea, founder of the rowing program, member of the Athletics Hall of Fame and oral historian Doris Engel Stackpole, former university Trustee

IN MEMORIAM: DR. RANDY HOWARTH By Elizabeth Eidnier ’12 All incoming freshmen have ideas of what to expect when beginning college. Challenging classes, fun parties, and the responsibility of living on my own for the first time were my expectations as I stepped on campus for the first time. What I did not expect was traveling to Europe twice, once while walking around the streets of London and Paris dressed as Catherine of Aragon. Thanks to Dr. Randall Howarth, these unexpected moments became some of my fondest memories of my college career. Dr. Howarth was never one to shy away from a challenge. These particular challenges involved accompanying groups of college students on multi-city tours of Europe. As a student of Dr. Howarth, I was given the opportunity to travel to Italy as a sophomore and to London and Paris as a senior. The trip to Italy was awe-inspiring, but the trip to London and Paris solidified my passion for history. Some of my favorite memories of both Dr. Howarth and my college experience come from this trip. While visiting London and Paris, Dr. Howarth wanted to create a documentary to teach others about the history we learned. This required chaperones and students alike to parade around historic landmarks like Hampton Court and Notre Dame in Renaissance costumes. You can imagine the looks from passersby. When I recall both trips, I often ask myself, “What was he thinking?! What would motivate a college professor to want to take a group of college kids to sophisticated and historical landmarks in Europe?” The answer is quite simple. Dr. Howarth was not content to confine his students to a classroom. Why read about the Colosseum when you can see it? Why debate the impact of the monarchy in England when you can feel its impact by visiting the Tower of London? Dr. Howarth brought history to life by providing his students the opportunity to see it, breathe it, live it. Dr. Howarth challenged us to not only enjoy the sites but to embrace the idea of diving into history. Dr. Howarth was the true embodiment of what it meant to provide his students with the quintessential liberal arts experience. I will never have the words to thank him for giving me these opportunities, but I can smile and think back knowing that he was my brave professor who, occasionally dressed in his Renaissance garb, opened my eyes to the world far beyond the Mercyhurst gates. EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Randy Howarth, 62, had always planned to sail around the world after he retired from teaching. Instead, after a terminal cancer diagnosis, he set sail in May 2017 with his wife, Cindy Nimchuk, aboard their 42-foot boat, the Varuna. The couple traveled roughly 4,000 miles, through the Great Lakes and along the Atlantic Coast, before reaching Florida in January 2018. Dr. Howarth died there on March 18. He had taught history at Mercyhurst since 1999. 29

Dear Alumni and Friends of Mercyhurst, Your generous support continues to make a major difference to Mercyhurst. Thanks to you, we are able to announce several exciting achievements in philanthropy. To begin, we met and exceeded our Annual Fund goal for the third year in a row. These critically important funds help to support a variety of student-centric projects on campus. In addition to raising more dollars, Mercyhurst also saw an increase in individual donors. This fact bucks a national trend in which colleges are seeing fewer individuals donate on a yearly basis. We repeated a similar phenomenon on Giving Day – surpassing last year’s record for both dollars and donors.

This Mercyhurst University Donor Report recognizes individuals, businesses and organizations that made gifts from June 1, 2017, through May 31, 2018. Is your name missing? The reason may be: •

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Not only is Mercyhurst seeing new donors, but we are receiving support from across the entire age spectrum. Take, for example, this year’s Young Alumni Award recipient, Dr. Ivan Rusilko. At just 34, Ivan became one of the youngest donors in the history of Mercyhurst to set up an endowed scholarship. His gift will help aspiring Mercyhurst students to complete their pre-med studies as they move toward medical school.

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Mercyhurst also saw unprecedented support from our 50th reunion class as well as our 2018 graduating class. In a remarkable show of generosity, both classes created endowed class scholarships – the Class of 1968 created an $80,000 class scholarship, and this year’s seniors created a $25,000 class scholarship. The students raised $15,000 for their senior class gift, and were matched by Trustee Lev Kubiak for another $10,000. In a moving tribute, the seniors decided to name their scholarship in honor of Sister Lisa Mary McCartney, who’s featured on the cover of this magazine, for her many years of service to Mercyhurst.

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Sorry, we made a mistake! Great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this report. We regret any errors or omissions.

As you can see, there are many inspiring stories to share regarding our most generous Mercyhurst community. We look forward to another wonderful year ahead, and sincerely appreciate your generosity! Carpe Diem,

If your name is missing, misspelled or misplaced, please feel free to call Meaghan Hubert at 814-824-2379 or email mhubert2@mercyhurst.edu. We continue to update last name changes as provided.

DONOR ROLL KEY: * Deceased

Caleb M. Pifer Vice President External Relations and Advancement Mercyhurst University 30

+ Denotes those who have helped Mercyhurst secure a matching gift ~ Emeritus Trustee

LEADERSHIP GIVING SOCIETY RECOGNIZES GENEROUS ANNUAL DONORS In the spring of 2016, Mercyhurst University launched the Leadership Giving Society—a society that provides special recognition and opportunities for those who contribute $1,000 or more on a yearly basis. The name of the Society is deliberate: it highlights the leadership and commitment of its membership toward the institution that they love. The Society is composed of alumni, parents, trustees and friends who support Mercyhurst on a leadership level each year. Society members receive various perks throughout the year, including discounts at the Bookstore and special invitations to events hosted by President and Mrs. Victor. To learn more about the Leadership Giving Society and to become a member, please contact Ryan J. Palm ’07, associate vice president for advancement, at 814-824-3320 or rpalm@mercyhurst.edu.

CATHERINE’S CIRCLE Anonymous Robert and Margaret Coletta Thomas B. Hagen Thomas A. Hanchin ‘85 Loretta V. Power ‘63 Mary Ellen Ryan ‘64 Mary Anne Springer ‘63 P. Kelly Tompkins ‘78 Elizabeth Vorsheck ‘77

FRANCES’ CIRCLE Judith M. Alstadt ‘53 Anonymous Marc Cipriani ‘83 + Benedict Cohen & Julia Guttman + Patrick & Candyce Delaney Stephen J. Fiedler ‘85 Dr. & Mrs. Robert T. Guelcher ‘58 John H. Langer ‘95 William G. Lewis Christina M. Marsh ‘89 + Owen J. McCormick John A. Munch ‘91 Joseph G. NeCastro ‘78 Jeff & Rhonda Plyler Judith A. Rosenbaum ‘68 Mark J. Salvia ‘82 John & Patricia Saxon ‘89 ‘91 William C. Sennett, Esq. Chris & Mary Ellen Sorce Gregory Sorce Mark Stookey & Lisa Chismire Frank W. Zurn

BORGIA’S CIRCLE Anonymous Simon A. Arias ‘05 Mary Ann Baldauf ‘85 Rosalie E. Barsotti ‘67

Barbara Brairton ‘65 Mark & Nancy Campbell Barbara A. Chambers, Ed.D. ‘60 + Edgar & Patricia Conner ‘60 Jeffrey Best ’77 & Rosemary D. Durkin ‘77 Dr. Charles & Susan Furr Ellen L. Gordon David A. Gordon ‘90 Marilyn Gunther ‘62 Brian H. Haberstock ‘91 Margaret A. Heetmann ‘65 Dr. Andrea & William Jeffress Scott Kern & Amy Cuzzola Kern Lev J. Kubiak ‘88 + Richard & Jo-Ann Lanzillo ‘83 ‘86 Judith A. Long ‘68 Christopher & Claudia Lund Robert & Stephanie MacKinlay ‘99 ‘99 Yvonne J. Maher ‘93 + Desmond J. McDonald Donald & Linda McKeever Daniel J. Moran ‘88 Margaret M. Pietraszek ‘68 Paul & Kristen Robillard Ian Storper & Paula Garzon Dr. Roy & Rosanna Strausbaugh

CAROLYN’S CIRCLE Daniel Altavilla ‘15 Anonymous Nancy Baldwin Sturtevant Alex & Cheryl Bilski ‘04 + Patricia M. Bluemle ‘58 Kyle A. Bogucki ‘08 Doris T. Cipolla Dario Cipriani ‘74 Emily Costigan ‘64 Mary F. Downey, Esq. ‘67 Jeanne N. Guest, Esq. ‘86

Joseph M. Harenza Reinette B. Jackovic ‘63 Christopher S. Johnson ‘89 + Myron* & Marlene Jones Robert Y. Kopf Jr. Robert Kopf III Edward Maier* Marc McAndrew ‘88 + Samuel A. McCullough D. Ford Mennel ‘02 Marlene D. Mosco ‘68 Elizabeth Piotrowski Isaac C. Rader ‘17 Michael & Lisa Riesmeyer + Camille R. Schroeck ‘68 Karin A. Socha ‘93 Susan N. Sutto ‘68 Michael & Craige Victor Mary Kay Vona, Ed.D. ‘83 + Eric D. Wicks ‘98

DAMIEN’S CIRCLE Brian C. Aarons ‘92 Justin H. Adams ‘05 Anonymous David & Leslie Armstrong ‘86 ‘90 Harold Bender II John C. Bloomstine Raymond & Elva Blossom Meredith Bollheimer, J.D. Vincent J. Bordfeld Carole Borkowski ‘68 Preston M. Briggs ‘06 Sheila K. Brugger ‘68 Martine B. Burat J. Duncan Campbell III Jane A. Carney ‘68 Barbara Jakubowski Costello ‘58 Peter Coyote Nicholas C. DeGennaro ‘92 Christina D. DiFonzo, Ph.D. ‘87

LEADERSHIP SOCIETY

Leadership Giving Circles Catherine’s Circle

$25,000+

Frances’ Circle

$10,000 - $24,999

Borgia’s Circle

$5,000 - $9,999

Carolyn’s Circle

$2,500 - $4,999

Damien’s Circle

$1,000 - $2,499

Allison M. Dobbs ‘11 Elizabeth A. Dobes ‘82 + Michael A. Elnitsky, Ph.D. Pamela J. Farrell, Ph.D. Mary Lou Ferralli ‘67 Frederick G. Fiedler ‘85 Catherine M. Franck ‘92 + Thomas & Lindsay Frank ’12 ‘13 + A. James Freeman Richard & Susan Galen Keelie S. Garbee Dr. Daryl & Michele Georger Maureen Gray ‘65 Mark & Denise Grimes Janis B. Hall ‘65 Martha M. Hilbert ‘59 Helen K. Holliday ‘56 Joseph E. Howard ‘03 Peter S. Howard Matthew & Anne Johnson ‘99 ‘00 Phillip E. Johnson ‘12 Joyce A. Jolin ‘89 Dyan L. Jones, Ph.D. Elaine A. Kavanagh ‘69 Charles G. Knight Dr. David & Joan Livingston Laurel Lockhart ‘60 Gary S. Maas Anthony J. Malavenda Luther & Connnie Manus Emma J. Mason, Esq. ‘59 Duncan E. McGill, Ph.D. Timothy & Sally McNulty Michael & Diane McRandal John & Leanne Melody ‘05 Robert & Emily Merski ‘99 ‘04 Christopher R. Miller Richard & Maureen Minnick Veronica A. Mitchell ‘64 Marco & Elizabeth Monsalve John Murphy ‘93

Jared E. Oakes ‘00 Michele Overdorf ‘80 Ryan & Sarah Palm ‘06 ‘07 Anthony & Elizabeth Paradiso ‘83 ‘86 Aaron J. Parks ‘07 Jeanne K. Phillips ‘68 Matthew & Marcia Pohl Janet Powers ‘68 Bruce H. Raimy Susan K. Reddinger Timothy Reeves Laura M. Rifkin ‘92 John C. Riley ‘74 Leanne M. Roberts, Ph.D. Mary Jo Rodgers ‘52 Martin & Margaret Rychley ‘03 ‘03 Teresa L. Sackett ‘85 Mary E. Schaaf ‘68 Gretchen Schmidt ‘70 Claudia Seegraber ‘71 Kathleen A. Sellers ‘79 Cecily P. Sesler Jason R. Staley ‘05 James & Marie Standohar Heather C. Steiner ‘89 Gerald & Kathleen Stock Dan & Tamra James ‘05 ‘05 James M. Sturm ‘85 Robert M. Taylor ‘96 James & Lauren Thayer Diane Z. Totaro ‘81 Paul & Christine Tufano George L. Venuto Jr. ‘78 Megan L. Verbanick ‘02 Frank B. Victor ‘87 Sean Walsh Patrick J. Weschler, Esq. ‘78 Matthew & Kathleen Whelan ‘86 Mary E. Wood ‘65 Mary Anne Zeitler, Ph.D. ‘68 Laura M. Zirkle, Ph.D.

O’NEIL SOCIETY HONORS THOSE MAKING PLANNED GIFTS The O’Neil Society is named for James and Orva O’Neil, whose gifts to Mercyhurst during the 1930s funded not only Christ the King Chapel, but also the adjoining Queen’s Chapel and the tower where it resides, now an iconic landmark on the campus. Their generosity in making the first planned gift to the university has inspired dozens to follow with gifts of their own. Individuals who have included Mercyhurst in some sort of planned gift are provided membership in this special society. Planned gifts to Mercyhurst can help grow a number of key areas at Mercyhurst, and can be made with no impact to one’s quality of life. There are a variety of vehicles used to help fund planned gifts, including estate gifts, retirement plans, life insurance policies, charitable trusts, and more. Oftentimes planned gifts can be arranged in a very simple manner with one’s estate attorney or even retirement fund administrator. Members of the O’Neil Society are invited annually to a series of special events on the campus, and often work closely with members of the Advancement staff to help identify how they want their future gift to be used by the school. The list below includes friends whose planned giving is known to the university, while others wish to remain anonymous. For more information on making a planned gift, please contact Ryan J. Palm ’07, associate vice president for advancement, at 814-824-3320 or rpalm@mercyhurst.edu. Virginia Adair ‘61

Joan Dori ‘50

Martha Mary Kessler ’37 *

Mary Robaskiewiez Robie ’29 *

Sandra Adams, ACFRE ‘69

Brian M. Dougherty, Ed.D. ‘83

Bonnie Kinsinger ‘63

Carolyn Ruth ‘63

Dorothy Bryan Adema ‘34*

Margaret Dupre ‘61

H. Vira Holish *

David and Harriett Schaper ‘43 *

Marjorie M. Alge ’37 *

Kathryn Barber Durkin *

Scott A. Koskoski ‘00

William M. and Frances Schuster *

Elizabeth H. Ashton ’47 *

Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ‘77 and Jeffrey Best ‘77

Ambrose Kronenwetter *

Pauline Scott *

Albert and Mary Duval *

Barbara Lacinak ‘73

William C. Sennett, Esq.

Cecilia S. Leandro ‘04

Mary Jane Walsh Seubert ’44 *

Gary and Jeanne Q. Lillis ‘76

Gary J. Shapira, Esq.

Mary E. Lillis ’56 *

Michael Sicheri ‘92

Frances Malaney ’37 *

Frank P. Sirotnak ‘76

Margaret J. McMahon ‘37 *

The Rev. Eldon K. Somers *

Mary Michener ’74 *

Martha Soroka ‘70

Frances Mientkiewicz ’43 *

James B. Spiegel

Anthony Minunni *

Laraine E. Stewart ‘82

Marco and Elizabeth Monsalve

Dr. Roy and Rosanna Strausbaugh

Adaline B. Morelli ’37 *

Jane Theuerkauf

Helen Fabian Mullen, Ed.D. ’47 *

Gloria Corrado Thompson ’44 *

Robert B. Munson ’94 *

Raymond L. Tipton, M.D. ‘77

M. Katherine Murray ‘77

Arloween Zurn Todd *

James* and Elinor D. Nally

Louis J. Tullio *

Ingeborg Loesch Nelson ’54 *

Rosemary Ullrich ‘42 *

Nancy J. Norberg ‘64

Marguerite A. Urban *

Deborah O’Keefe ‘70

Lynn Varricchio ‘69

Jane C. Olson ’51 *

Holly A. Villella ‘79

Ryan & Sarah Palm ’06 ‘07

Barrett C. Walker, D.D.S.

Barbara A. Perry, Ph.D. ‘57

Mary Daley Wallace ’33 *

Josephine Pezzich

Rita A. Weiss ‘57

Jennifer E. Piccirillo ‘03

Evan R. Wernecke ‘05

Judith Pitney, Ph.D. ‘67

Thomas R. Weschler *

Norman W. Plumb *

Judith A. Wieczorek ‘61

Richard J. Porter ‘89

Mary B. Wiedel ‘84

Roderick I. Power ‘90

Terry Wilson

Bruce H. Raimy

Mary Winston ’41 *

Josephine Rakow, D.O.

Patricia S. Yahn ‘50

Virginia Rathbun ‘61

Mary E. Yonkers ‘69

Janette E. Regner ‘47

Eileen Zinchiak ‘80

Warren Baer Michael R. Ball ‘01 Jane Barr * Loretta Crowley Bauer ’45 * Corrine Beck * Florence O’Neil Bernard ’38 * J. Boyd and Joan Bert Jr. Margene Betts * Barbara Brairton ‘65 Ruth M. Braunger ’36 * Mary Rita Brennan ’38 * Alice Martin Brugger ’36 *

Kathleen A. Dwyer ‘62 Judith Emling ‘66 Michael Eugene Falk ‘89 May Lou Ferralli ‘67 Patricia J. Fessler ’50 * Margaret Clark Filson ’34 * Thomas M. Frank ‘73 Charles M. Furr, M.D. Collette Stegelske Gabreski ’40 * Jeanette Gerace ‘57

Ruth D. Brugger ’41 *

Coletta C. Ginnard ’49 *

Gary L. Bukowski ’73 and Roberta Donley Bukowski ‘78

Maurice W. Gjertsen * Catherine Ryan Gray ’33 *

Noel J. Burgoyne ‘57

Herbert* and Catherine Hafenmaier

Donald and Frances Q. Buseck

Adelaide M. Hagar ’38 *

Del* and Jean Caryl

Doris M. Haley *

Barbara A. Chambers, Ed.D. ‘60

Martha M. Haley ’43 *

Josephine Ciancaglini ‘56

Mary M. Hanlin *

Dario Cipriani ‘74

Margaret A. Heetmann ‘65

Diane Wawrejko Cochran ‘78

Marilyn Heibel ‘61

John and Emily Costigan ‘64

Homer P. Herman *

James K. Crawford ’87 *

Elizabeth A. Hilbert ‘58

Judith Young Crews ‘64

F. William and Audrey Sitter Hirt ’49 *

H. Patricia Curran ‘52 *

Georgia M. Hitchcock *

Dr. George* and Mary D’Angelo

John F. Jageman *

Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ‘73

Doug and Jean James *

William Dehouske

Mary Louise Kaufman ‘53

Louis and Rose Marie Laskey Disorbo ‘60

Rosemary Kaveney ‘54

Msgr. John Dollinger *

Teresa A. Kelly ’49 *

Jean J. Donovan

Jane E. Kerstetter ‘78

MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY 2017-2018 DONORS TRUSTEES

Sister Mary Ann Bader, RSM ‘73 Sister JoAnne Courneen, RSM ‘64 David J. Dausey, Ph.D. ‘97 Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ‘77 Stephen J. Fiedler ‘85 + A. James Freeman ~ Susan Furr Paula Garzon Andrea T. Jeffress, M.D. B. Scott Kern Lev J. Kubiak ‘88 + John H. Langer ‘95 Richard A. Lanzillo, Esq. ‘83 William G. Lewis Brian Lilly Robert D. MacKinlay Jr. ‘99 Yvonne J. Maher ‘93 + Christina Carbone Marsh ‘89 + Desmond J. McDonald Daniel J. Moran ‘88 Marlene D. Mosco ‘68 ~ John A. Munch ‘91 Joseph G. NeCastro ‘78 Margaret M. Pietraszek ‘68 Bruce H. Raimy ~ Mark J. Salvia ‘81 John W. Saxon ‘89 William C. Sennett, Esq. ~ Melanie R. Titzel, Ph.D. ‘80 Gerard A. Tobin, Ph.D. P. Kelly Tompkins ‘78 Patrick J. Weschler, Esq. ‘78

PRESIDENT’S ASSOCIATES

Simon A. Arias ‘05 Harold Bender II Jeffrey M. Best ‘77 Dario Cipriani ‘74 Marc Cipriani ‘83 + Frederick G. Fiedler ‘85 Thomas M. Frank ‘13 + Elizabeth A. Guelcher ‘58 Kyle J. Hinsdale ‘00 Amy Cuzzola Kern Scott A. Koskoski ‘00 Marc McAndrew ‘88 + Robert E. Merski ‘99 Christopher R. Miller John O. Murphy, Esq. ‘97 Lawrence L. New Jared E. Oakes ‘00 Joseph A. Pacinelli ‘78 John C. Riley ‘74 + Jay Scalise ‘76 Jason R. Staley ‘05 Heather C. Steiner ‘89 Susan N. Sutto ‘68

Perry N. Wood III ‘01 Barry C. Zembower

ALUMNI

CLASS OF 1943 Participation 14% Total Giving $10 Mary Kloecker Featherstone CLASS OF 1945 Participation 17% Total Giving $25 Alvina McDermott Johnston CLASS OF 1947 Participation 50% Total Giving $595 Geraldine Meahl Baron Mary Culhane Grant Mary Mohr Lamp Viola Schwabenbauer Maryellen Knauer Sullivan CLASS OF 1948 Participation 21% Total Giving $375 Doris Wright Atkinson Elizabeth Rock Kirby Marjorie Dean McLean Theresa Sabella Palumbo CLASS OF 1949 Participation 10% Total Giving $150 Alice Feehley Crotty Helen McDonough Sennett CLASS OF 1950 Participation 17% Total Giving $350 Miriam Gemperle Dorothy Zak Markes CLASS OF 1951 Participation 63% Total Giving $1,561.25 Ann Deckop Margaret McGuire Dennison Joan Oster Harf Aileen Yueh Huang Sally Carlow Kohler Veronica Nakich Kraus Margaret Phelan O’Connell Kathryn Sterrett Pericak Edith Harris Reichert Claire Kraus Weber CLASS OF 1952 Participation 15% Total Giving $1,110

Elizabeth Slater Cooper Mary Bougie Gensheimer Mary Jo Royer Rodgers CLASS OF 1953 Participation 46% Total Giving $16,401.65 Leadership Giving Society Judith Carlow Alstadt Janet Davis Aroh Sister Bernadette Bell, RSM Camilla Decampli Fellner Joann Weaver Johnson Mary Dwyer Kaufman Mary Anne Rawa Kingsley Mary Dyke O’Leary Sister Rita Panciera, RSM Norma Schaberl Skrypzak Marilyn Harkins Tripp CLASS OF 1954 Participation 25% Total Giving $1,735 Vija O’Deiko Liepa Ann Kennedy McMahon Dorothy Negro Mary O’Donnell Schultheis + Janet Bremmer Willis CLASS OF 1955 Participation 11% Total Giving $650 Joanne Harlovich Potlas Mary Ree Theuerkauf Travers CLASS OF 1956 Participation 21% Total Giving $1,550 Leadership Giving Society Helen Kennedy Holliday Kathleen Canada Boring Patricia McQuillen Drushel Carole Roberson Dyne Elizabeth Coleman Kraus Marilyn Genck Newsham Margaret Hirsch Whyte CLASS OF 1957 Participation 37% Total Giving $3,495.40 Noel Jaeger Burgoyne Dorothea Morell Brown Patricia Klein Burton + Jeanette Mancuso Gerace Patricia Kuharsky Kreger Mary Skelly McIlwee Marcia Meagher Ann McGinnis Minnium Mary Bacon O’Brien

Barbara Stone Perry, Ph.D. Rose Marie Zinni Szadek Kristin Herskind Trainham Barbara Story Walk Rita Walter Weiss CLASS OF 1958 Participation 31% Total Giving $20,240.15 Leadership Giving Society Patricia Murphy Bluemle Barbara Jakubowski Costello Elizabeth Schnatter Guelcher Audrey Havunen Burns Sylvia Haise Colson Catherine Misfeldt Dickey Ruth Friel Doyle Elizabeth Wahl Hilbert Alberta Hain Jobczynski Marguerite McLaughlin Weibel Jean Criswell White CLASS OF 1959 Participation 27% Total Giving $4,007 Leadership Giving Society Martha Wurst Hilbert Emma Newby Mason, Esq. + Carol Bocan Suzanne Hanrahan Dalton Nancy Plunkett Evans Mary Ellen McGovern Higley, Ph.D. Barbara Matts Kolstee Barbara Dibble Kuenzig Rosalie Bablak Lariccia Cynthia Ryan Reardon Elaine Schwab Lois Vosmus Joan Hotchkiss Welch Helen Zimmerman CLASS OF 1960 Participation 34% Total Giving $17,080 Leadership Giving Society Barbara Chambers, Ed.D. Patricia Green Conner + Laurel Lockhart Constance Frank Alexandre Marilyn Smith Batra Barbara Donatelli Bentze Elizabeth Dorsogna Cano Patricia Walsh Hills Mary Bescher Johnson Mary Lou Kelly Margaret McGaughey Keough Patricia Cavanaugh Kirk

Gayle Cummings Martin Sister Phyllis McDonald, RSM Mary Stark Miller Carolyn Heyl Mraz Adele Ontko Marlane Franco Paruso Joan Kostolansky Santangelo Wanda Toth Snyder Mary Calafiore Wilson CLASS OF 1961 Participation 32% Total Giving $3,571 Leadership Giving Society Anonymous Virginia Rossoni Adair Mary Connell Margaret Tellers Dupre Marilyn Heibel Rita Hinman Lohan Mary Alice Rodgers Morga Maureen Schedlin Nickel Eileen Quinn Nill + Virginia Accetta Rathbun Susan Avery Royer Patricia Pepper Shevchuk Carol Sullivan Ann Titus Judith Wieczorek CLASS OF 1962 Participation 37% Total Giving $7,323.38 Leadership Giving Society Marilyn Millard Gunther Rosemary Asher Shirley Banic Elizabeth Filicky Begalla Margaret Lynch Cammarata Joyce White Caruso Denise Dwyer, Ph.D. Kathleen Dwyer Judith Jones Herber Mary Ferreri Holland Emilia Grazioli Johns Camillia Kwolek Matusz Jeannie Jackson McGinley Rita Quinn McGowan Jean Reynolds Miller Julia Ahern Nelson Patricia Richards Ogilvie Bonnie Osinski Cynthia Percenti Mary Stadter Rinderle Jeanette Borczon Shannon

CLASS OF 1963 Participation 29% Total Giving $98,800 Leadership Giving Society Reinette Boling Jackovic Loretta Stadelmaier Power Mary Anne Kern Springer

CLASS OF 1964 Participation 30% Total Giving $208,476 Leadership Giving Society Emily Lincoln Costigan Veronica Sikora Mitchell Mary Ellen Hammond Ryan

Rita Strobel Bajura Nancy Ryby Delp Anita Ferraro Doremus Mary Wernet Eichelsdorfer Susan Lyons Flaherty Judith Spaeder Kendziora Alice Welte Krause Dorothy Smith Kuzneski Judith Stark MacMillan Patricia Linn Maggi Margaret Glembocki Mango Sister Joan McCabe, RSM Gail Gleason Milgram, Ed.D. Kathleen Lynch Murphy, Ph.D. Judith Wozniak Rainsberger Carolyn Anderson Ruth Amy Skinner Sargent Barbara Barrett Schumacher Sister Patricia Whalen, RSM

Geraldine Walko Allison Delores Waida Bargielski Mary Defonzo Budny Carol Weber Collis Sister JoAnne Courneen, RSM Judith Young Crews Sister M. Pierre Dembinski, RSM Mary Joyce Demetter Wendy Beezub Devarieux Sister Mary Felice Duska, RSM Maureen Fiedler Ellen Becker Finn Marilyn Smith Grasso Joan Kreutter Jarzomski Maryann Cuneo Komazec Sister Edith Langiotti, RSM Carol Mueller Lyons, Ph.D. Theresa Donohue Medlock Josephine Fiorvanti Pelham Harriet Kantor Raia

Jane Reed Donna Gottry Trautman Marilyn Schreiner Wagner CLASS OF 1965 Participation 30% Total Giving $19,585.30 Leadership Giving Society Barbara Brairton Maureen Aleci Gray Janis Bodnar Hall Margaret Hock Heetmann Mary Magnotto Wood

Patricia Lawlor Judith Figaski Mastrian Marcia Rzepka Mestrits Mary Naegle Barbara Heibel Nason Marjorie Neverdale Podlogar Katherine Scott Velma Cloyd Shipley Susan Smith-Beidler Camilla Kane Stadtmueller Marlene Desantis Waldron Ann Langmyer Ward Susan Wurzbach

Ann Kleindinst Abbate M. Phyllis Aiello Mary Katherine Mahaney Baumeister Mariann Daniello Budas Marcine Chmielewski Maryce Jaeger Cunningham Virginia Gorsak DeGironimo Patricia Hodgkiss Elder Anne Ledoux Erwin Bonnie Morris Gerace Janice Horvath Gies M. Coletta Hoke Ann Sheridan Kreider

CLASS OF 1966 Participation 20% Total Giving $2,962 Sandra Selva Belfiore Judith Emling Dorothy Delaney Glover Mary Burckart Havasi Sister Rita Hettish, RSM Gail Wozniak McMahon Kathleen Keim Meko Ann Mikluscak Schmidt Carole Stoiber Napolitano Antoinette Cuneo Pavlik Gretchen Phillips

Mary Rittle Sister Natalie Rossi, RSM Mary Hull Stiles Karen Lynch Strub Mary Berloffa Temple Sabina Wells CLASS OF 1967 Participation 31% Total Giving $12,098.40 Leadership Giving Society Rosalie Barsotti Mary Kelley Downey, Esq. Mary Lou Gonda Ferralli Jeanne Bricher Bender Monica Lopushansky Boscarino Katherine McCarthy Cantoni Kathleen LaCamera DeSante Kristine Monroe Fapore Diane McKeon Friske Constance Fuhrman Haibach Barbara Kosciolek Donna Gemma Nolfi Sister Mary Louis Oslick, RSM Mary Jane Prosser Parrish Judith Oliver Samson Toni D’Oro Schroeder

CLASS OF ’68 ENDOWS SCHOLARSHIP TO MARK GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY A record 52 members of the Class of 1968 returned to campus in early June to celebrate their 50th anniversary and capped off the event by presenting President Michael T. Victor with a check for $80,000 as their gift to their alma mater.

Vineyards. Each alumna attending received a special golden diploma during Saturday’s dinner in the Cummings Art Gallery, where guests were surrounded by the works of Sister Angelica Cummings.

The class -- the last Mercyhurst class to include no male graduates – endowed a scholarship that will be designated each year to help a young woman complete her Mercyhurst education.

During Saturday’s Alumni College sessions, class members especially enjoyed a presentation by retired history professor Dr. Roy Strausbaugh on “Sister Carolyn Herrmann and the Changes of the 1960s.” Sister Carolyn was president throughout their years at Mercyhurst.

Reunion Weekend, June 8-10, drew more than 250 guests and also featured the presentation of Distinguished Alumni Awards and induction of new members to the Athletic Hall of Fame. The Class of ‘68 got a head start on Reunion Weekend festivities with a special reception Thursday evening aboard the U.S. Brig Niagara, and also enjoyed a Friday lunch and tour of Mercyhurst North East followed by wine tasting at Mazza

Credit for the reunion’s success goes to the organizing committee, which included Stephanie Lucas Basile, Nancy Ketchel Bennett, Gretchen Hinz Brugger, Jane Carney, Jean Jacobs Kamats, Marlene DiTullio Mosco, Peggy Meagher Pietraszek, Jeanne Keim Phillips, Mary Patalon Schaaf, Shirley Miller Schilling, Sue Sutto and Mary Anne Zeitler.

Marikae Sorvelli Moraski Sigma Stacey Toth Patricia Swaney Wellington Sister Paul Marie Westlake, RSM CLASS OF 1968 Participation 49% Total Giving $61,253.40 Leadership Giving Society Anonymous Stephanie Lucas Basile Carole Borkowski Gretchen Hinz Brugger Sheila Andrews Brugger Jane Carney Maureen Milan Carroll Judith Sandrock Long Marlene Ditullio Mosco Jeanne Keim Phillips Margaret Meagher Pietraszek Janet Boling Powers Judith Porter Rosenbaum Mary Patalon Schaaf Camille Tyczkowski Schroeck + Susan Sutto Mary Anne Zeitler, Ph.D. Monica McElhinny Addison Nancy Ketchel Bennett Edrye Boraten Linda Salem Burtis Julie Bushnell Georgina Cantoni Cheryl Kremp Carver Maryann Coppola Chernowski Sandra Crytzer Burton Maureen Good Dalton Joyce Skotnicki Daniele Susan Donahue Deet Helen Cozma Deneselya Mary Desantis Elaine Wilson Dullea Donna Costanzo Dunworth Judith Fitzgerald Gage Jeannine Phillips Hanley Mary Gallagher Haven Anne Canali Hermann Marcia Bojalad Hope Elizabeth Barczak Horrigan Katherine Icardi Hummel Kathleen Airo Jones Sylvia King Cullingford Sharon Labosky Kirk Donna Lawton Lea Anne Logue Patricia Nicolette Loncto Louise Curry Mason Ellen Marshall McNerney Mary Anibaldi Patrick Mary Pacileo Paulitz Paula Blood Pitts Rita Banic Pyrdek Linnie McAllister Regan Suzanne Steines Robertson Eileen McManus Rojik Shirley Miller Schilling

Kathleen Hartsell Stephens Mary Dysinger Szymanowicz Genevieve McManus Tirpak Karen Markgraf Turner Lorraine Condino Walley Teresa Jones Whitt CLASS OF 1969 Participation 22% Total Giving $4,157 Leadership Giving Society Elaine Kolat Kavanagh Sandra Adams Judith Lynch Allison Christine Syguda Bailey Jeannette Little Barczynski Maureen Walsh Brennan Denise Madden Campedel Paula Semrau Coats Rita Adams Daub Bonita Deluca Faulkner Marcella Mikulec Galitsky Barbara Gutoski Johnson Belle Anderson Koncewicz Nancy Regruth Latimer Lynda Underwood Lefaiver Mary Lipani Irene Ryan Mortko Mary Morton-Bliley Diane Zareski Piper Carolyn Funari Radkowski Therese Zupsic Reese Ann Brugger Schoeller Emily Fatica Sertz Kathleen Kelley Smith Roberta Keim Smith Patricia Sullivan Rosalie Hodas Tellers Mary Fisher Yonkers CLASS OF 1970 Participation 18% Total Giving $2,971.08 Leadership Giving Society Gretchen Schmidt Rosemary Blieszner, Ph.D. Sylvia Kengersky Bosner Sheila Boss Elaine Marsh Britton Sharon Parlock Brunkow Mary Grace Cross Brustrom Joanne Hogan Bucholz Michaela Patterson Golya Valerie Mangin Goossens Christine Bojt Greene Barbara Liedtke Hutzelman Eileen Kraus-Dobratz Delene Thomas Leri Elisabeth Lintsen Sharon Malizia, Ph.D. Diane Molvin Myers Mary Cerk Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell Pamela Kline Parenti Ellen Wilson Paulucci

Alicia King Redfern Elizabeth Zimmerman Schessler Ann Cunningham Schley Martha Soroka Karen Burke Traskey Rose Mary Hanson Weber Lori Weiner Wellman CLASS OF 1971 Participation 13% Total Giving $4,192 Leadership Giving Society Claudia Rote Seegraber Julia Bandecca, Esq. Susan Quadri Blecki Rebecca Smith Christopher Joann Smith Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ambrosio Mary Zampogna Frank Sue Luttrell Hollandsworth Lee Martell-Bearse Sister Lisa Mary McCartney, RSM Anne Meyer-Wilber Christine Pagano Rasmussen Nancy Ryan, M.D. Rhonda Mahoney Schember Dorothea Volzer Skowron Wendy McCabe Weber Rochelle George Wooding CLASS OF 1972 Participation 24% Total Giving $2,436.08 Dennis Andres M. Catherine Cosgrove Andres, Esq. Kathleen Blieszner Michele Rucinski Burke Mary Burke Chivers Sheila Sullivan Coon Darlene Hilfiker Cushman Mary Lou DeLuca William Dopierala, Esq. Deborah Doucett Mary Federici, Ph.D. Ben Greishaw Karen Amon Haffley Walter Hale M. Rasely Hook Beverly Skrobacz Kostek Mary Zeitler Lieberman Janet Adams Phillips Sister Kathryn Preston, RSM Barbara Baum Rendos Juanita Stein Ried Elizabeth Blood Sammartino Susan Dieteman Schmitt Patricia Schramm Jean Shirley Kathleen Slavin Judith Whalan Linda Ruddy Zaycosky

CLASS OF 1973 Participation 17% Total Giving $6,000.08 Leadership Giving Society Mary Ellen Dahlkemper Sister Mary Ann Bader, RSM Allan Belovarac, Ph.D. Kathleen Bennett Burgett William Chiodo Susan Hurley Corbran Gerald Fedor Patricia Jurewicz Flynn Thomas Frank Gail Gerono Jane Steinbaugh Hynes Sharon Kestler Martha Tech Kosiorek Barbara Lyon Lacinak Linda Marsh Loesch Jay Marcinowski Maureen Sullivan Maus Carol White Mohamed Joan Page Moore Marie Oliveri Olczak Christine Patalita Pardini Sister Margaret Park, RSM Linda Thanos Parks Robert Parks Thomas Richter Sr. Wanda Anderson Salvia Mary Beth Jawdy Santucci Barbara Luttrell Siers Victoria Yurcovic Wyten CLASS OF 1974 Participation 13% Total Giving $7,275 Leadership Giving Society Dario Cipriani John Riley + John Beck Lee Pitonyak Belovarac Marilyn Wess Braha Randolph Byrd Russell Felix Mary Griswold Garofalo Phyllis Alberia Herbstritt Omar Hickle Maureen Hunt Hinkle Kim Wontenay Ickler Maria Kanicki Johnson William Kech Cecilia Kelly Ladd Susan Robinson Livingston Jon Myrick Rosemary Pitonyak Nicosia Peter Quell Georgette Urgo Schriefer Jane Scura Claudia Karl Tiberi Frances Daniels Tucker Paul West John Wojdyla Ann Capoccia Zieno

CLASS OF 1975 Participation 11% Total Giving $3,535.12 Stephen Albert Veronica Arata Mary Klescz Baker Edward Bury John Crupi John Daley Evelyn Bogdanski Depalma Russell Franklin Stella Matusak Gillick Geraldine Sica Guyton Charlene Kolupski Patricia Campbell Kubicek Kristina Reichenbach Lee Catherine Riehl McMillin Beverly Welsh Pini Laura Montpetit Pratt Jon Sedelmyer Laura Grotzinger Thomforde Marsha Turos Kathleen Loughney Vaughan Sam Veneziano Dianne Walsh Deborah Zera-Laughlin CLASS OF 1976 Participation 11% Total Giving $2,895.01 Leadership Giving Society Jay Scalise Vickiann Limoggio Atkins Valerie Sherrange Crofoot Patty Malloy Crupi Julia Cutler Roseanne Quain Daley Dorothy Meneely Diaco Michael Diaco Michael Dougan Robin Stegenga Fox Terry Frontino Elisa Guida William Guyton Robert Hoffman Thomas Jaworek Daun Miller Joel Miller Steven Moran Mary Rafferty Nancy Borowski Recker Patricia Kazy Rotar Charles Rufo Madalyn Brooks Shatzer Frank Sirotnak Dianna Vacco Cynthia Kowalewsky Way Lynn Niederlander Weiss

CLASS OF 1977 Participation 14% Total Giving $259,215.10 Leadership Giving Society Jeffrey Best Rosemary Durkin, Esq. Elizabeth Hirt Vorsheck

Top Left: Bob Green and Daryl Georger demonstrate new wine bottling equipment. Top Right: Athletic trainers Steve Reinhardt, Morgan Beaty and Tricia DiMatteo show off their new vehicle. Bottom Left: Dr. Ken Schiff congratulates students Ryan Kushner, James Wallace and Caroline Magoc at the 2015 Literary Festival. Bottom Right: Pitcher Josh Greggs works out on new rehabilitation equipment.

CROWDFUNDING APPEALS RESONATE WITH YOUNG DONORS Mercyhurst raised just shy of $17,000 with its first venture into crowdfunding in 2016. And while that’s a small fraction of the millions raised through more traditional means, the success of those first four projects provided convincing evidence that this new fundraising tool is here to stay. For 2017, Mercyhurst set out to raise funds to: •

Create a lab where hospitality students can make and bottle wine

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Purchase a new golf cart for the athletic training staff and build a shed to house it

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Endow a reading at the annual Literary Festival in memory of Dr. Ken Schiff

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Provide training and rehabilitation equipment for the Laker baseball program.

Once again, all four projects were completely funded to the tune of more than $23,000. Crowdfunding seeks relatively small contributions from a large number of donors to complete specific projects, and

relies primarily on social media to spread the word about what’s needed. “Instead of getting one donor to give $5,000, or even getting 10 donors to give $500, crowdfunding might get 100 donors to give $50 to make a project a reality,” explained Ryan Palm ’07, associate vice president for advancement and coordinator of Mercyhurst’s crowdfunding initiative. At Mercyhurst and elsewhere, crowdfunding seems to appeal especially to young people, who are most comfortable communicating and donating online. Palm said young alumni like the opportunity to target their gifts to programs they are passionate about, knowing that even a modest gift will have an immediate impact. They can also get their friends and associates involved by sharing on their own social networks. Watch for a new round of crowdfunding projects to be unveiled soon.

Kathleen Martz Althof Diane Becker Borenstein Patricia Mullaugh Burch Valorie McIntyre Catalano Denis Coan Debbie Flounders Crawford Dan Foley Mark Folland Maryann Lynett Frontino Robert Gaughan Thomas Hubert Donna Shamy Jaworek Allan Kinzie Paula O’Polka Klinger Anne Summerville Koch Joan Mohr Krist Mark Long Doreen Kevit Mayconich Kathy Murray Denise Corbin Order Michael Radziszewski Sheila Walsh Richter H. Charles Schmidt Edward Stolarski, Esq. John Strickland Martin Sturgess Raymond Tipton, M.D. Gregory Vogelman Kenneth White CLASS OF 1978 Participation 15% Total Giving $54,867.46 Leadership Giving Society Joseph NeCastro P. Kelly Tompkins George Venuto Jr. Patrick Weschler, Esq. John Beck Jr. + Cynthia Byham-Perfett Homer Capotis Patrick Dunn Valarie Ferro John Gable John Gregory Maryellen Bowen Hill Matthew Hill Jacqueline Hofmann Alice Stinely Kelley Sue Berardinelli Koester Lisa Manendo Kathleen Megnin Millay Gary Morrow Julie Colditz Morrow G. Frederick Null Sharyn Hurst Nutter Joseph Pacinelli

Deborah Sahovey Piotrowski Romaine Recker John Robertson James Scarpitti Judy Olowin Tashji Mary Bundy Urash Darlene Keith Weber CLASS OF 1979 Participation 14% Total Giving $4,072.02 Leadership Giving Society Kathleen Sellers Rosanna Valesky Allison Joann Desantis Barnes Mary Sontag Beck + Scott Brechbuehl John Casale David Cherico Ronald Coleman Timothy Cooney Philip Dubsky Shelagh Murphy Dubsky Raymond Gruss, Esq. Cynthia Casali Hawthorne Terry Kelly Colleen Heher Kerr Lori Shadley Koller Rosella Bender Kwitowski Barbara Matlak Lynn McMasters Andrew Miller Melissa McMurray Northey Anthony Pol Richard Porris Robert Respecki Joanna Nezovich Reynolds Jeffery Roberts Robert Seibel, Esq. Christine McGraw Shofestall Phyllis Pieffer Tomayko + Jane Ryan Vacca Holly Chiappazzi Villella Charles Wolfram CLASS OF 1980 Participation 13% Total Giving $4,748.08 Leadership Giving Society Michele Durant Overdorf Howard Anderson Jr. Mary Mahon Burrows Kelly Conaway James DiSanti Regina Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Ferguson Richard Fischer Stephen Flatley Stephen Frisina Walter Green Linda Ravenstahl Gruss Anna Hurley Donna Sweeney Kelly Deborah Koehle Kuhn

Mark Kwitowski Susan McFarland McGill Michael Meehan Edwin Negron Mary Jo Cancilla Pittock Richard Shaheen Victoria Martinago Shaheen Melanie Titzel, Ph.D. Robert Tobin Gerard Waidley Arthur Weindorf Charlotte Williams Witosky John Woodruff Lisa McGee Zetts Mark Zetts Eileen Zinchiak CLASS OF 1981 Participation 17% Total Giving $3,484.98 Leadership Giving Society Darby Patton Scalise Diane Zorn Totaro Richard Alessi Janet Lynn Blakeslee Dwayne Blore Thomas Chybrzynski James Daley Patricia Stolar Demharter Barbara Carlin DiSanti Christine McCloskey Eacho Andrew Findlay Betsy Herzog Frank Linda First Frisina Katherine Funari Geisaka Mary Beth Barrett Habel Peggy Lasko Jordano John Leisering Michael Loftus Alice Buzzy Maxim Patricia Kowalczyk May Kathleen Wilson Monroe Maureen Connelly Negron Elaine Loftus Oliver Pierre Priestley, Esq. John Pross Sandra Kronenwetter Quiggle Donna Russo Diane Parsons Scott Anne-Marie Dixon Shields Jeanine Baas Stark Catherine Vilardo Strobl Diane Witherup CLASS OF 1982 Participation 13% Total Giving $13,244.42 Leadership Giving Society Elizabeth Hajduk Dobes + Mark Salvia James Borowicz Denise Mall Chybrzynski Rebecca Fairchild Costello

Gary Dagan Peter Damico Barbara Johnson Laurie Kinnear-Diaz Jennifer Larsen Valerie Kaminski Laufenberg Michael Pizzat Dawn Day Quinn Paul Quinn Mary Cay Marchione Ricci Ravinder Sabherwal, O.D. Bonnie James Shaker Steven Spies Mary Gausman Teufel Patricia Clark Thornton Raymond Wolf Vicki Culmer Zellefrow CLASS OF 1983 Participation 14% Total Giving $27,097 Leadership Giving Society Marc Cipriani + Richard Lanzillo, Esq. Anthony Paradiso, Esq. Mary Kay Vona, Ed.D. + Gina Frisina Adams Patricia Herring Benekos Guadalupe Billingsley Carolyn Gray Colicchio David Curtis Brian Dougherty, Ed.D. Maureen Doyle Leann Felmlee-Brown Mary Finn, Ph.D. Elaine Zasada Flick Marsha Fronzaglia Lisa Costello Heckman Mary Fatigati Irnie Cynthia Jarzab Kiskaddon Suzanne Chilcott Mack Tricia Mahoney Nancy Mantell Bruce Miller Marygrace Yakovac Miller Robert Radcliffe Stephen Szwejbka Patricia Marchwinski Tobin Paulette Vaccaro CLASS OF 1984 Participation 11% Total Giving $1,915.08 Michelle Bagby Patricia Balinski John Berchtold Jr. Bonnie Clark Patricia Schuschu Gool Linda Weinzierl Groff Beth Pasquale Hill Karen Gens Jakiel Gary Keenan John Keller

Douglas Kramer Patricia Clark Lightner Marshall Lillie Margery Vallimont Luniewski Robert Orris Carla Randolph Peebles Jerome Sullivan Mary Baldauf Thomas Sandra Solle Thomas Kimberly Schade Whalen Jack Wyland, U.S.N. CLASS OF 1985 Participation 15% Total Giving $47,407.78 Leadership Giving Society Mary Mead Baldauf Frederick Fiedler Stephen Fiedler Michele Duval Georger Thomas Hanchin Teresa Thompson Sackett James Sturm Michael Allen Robert Anderson Kevin Armstrong Judith Kruszewski Barnett Anne Wolf Cable Mary Fugo Colclaser Scott Daley Marianne Schroeck Frederick Lisa Guthrie Bernadine Tomczak Habursky Thomas Hanna, U.S.N. Jack Holland Jr. Jean Weber Landis Patricia Presutti Leuschen Mary Beth Lombardi Jean Moniewski Malthaner Heidi May McLallen Jane Mullaney Maureen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara Nies Robert Nies Darcy Weidner Paradise Theresa Sanders, Ph.D. Stephen Seymour Beth Scalise Sivak Deborah Myers Strong Joseph Tarasovitch Pamela Henry Vrenna William Wheeler II

Amy Rowand Dennen Kenneth Dyer James Fisher Joanne Leister Fisher Brett Frederick Nona Hess Kelhofer Carol Bailey Kosslow Anne Janosko Kovacevic Nina Serrins Krats Mary Tripp Laduca Mary Loncharic Lakari Timothy Latimer Irene Baronner Majchrzak Mark Paradise Gerri Bruno Piecuch Marian Saxon Rhodes, Ph.D. Timothy Ruth Antoinette Padovani Sullivan Peter Werbaneth Jothany Williams CLASS OF 1987 Participation 15% Total Giving $5,989.36 Leadership Giving Society Christina DiFonzo Frank Victor

CLASS OF 1986 Participation 12% Total Giving $15,043.00 Leadership Giving Society David Armstrong, Esq. Jeanne Nystrom Guest, Esq. Jo-Ann Israel Lanzillo Elizabeth Burkhart Paradiso Matthew Whelan

Heidi Beezub Barbara Sayers Bensink Scott Bensink Richard Bernardini Donald Beveridge Sister Mary Paul Carioty, RSM Carolyn Witt Dittbrenner Judy Brown Dyer Nancy Emmi Loretta Layer Frankovitch Donald Fuhrmann Philip Guth Patricia McGhee Koehle Hennen Christine Young Hess David Hewett Catherine Hornick Leigh Kennedy Leslie Lucchetti Kenzevich Gena Kost Jill Gifford MacKintosh Margaret Weir Manchik Michelle Matheron Theresa Bullen Meyers Cynthia Lochner Miceli Lori Skellie Parra Susan Marcy Rizza Marjorie Gleason Sargent Jeffrey Schneider, Ed.D. Diane Schreiber Brian Sheridan Julie Juenemann Smith Barbara Bronakoski Wood James Zank

Lisa Bradish Berlin Therese Bertsch Blumenthal

CLASS OF 1988 Participation 7%

Total Giving $14,326.56 Leadership Giving Society Lev Kubiak + Marc McAndrew + Daniel Moran Richard Bentley Janice Bindeman Kathleen Ziegler Dissosway Mark Gibbon Shawn Falcone Gorring Suzanne Denny Gushie Mary Sullivan Hathaway Victor Kelley Maureen Mullaney Elizabeth Altilio Nalbach Randall Rinke Brian Rostek Karen Komisarski Schnaekel Alicia Dejulia Sosnowski, Esq. Denise Berdis Wilkerson CLASS OF 1989 Participation 15% Total Giving $43,406.98 Leadership Giving Society Pamela Woodring Farrell, Ph.D. Christopher Johnson + Joyce Jolin Christina Carbone Marsh + John Saxon Heather Steiner Shelly Lichter Benjamin Danielle Rocheleau Bogan Cynthia Beveridge Bratu Lori Barone Dornberger Brian Durbin Michael Falk Kyle Foust Lee Ann Cook Fraser Scott Gorring Susan Heltzel Brian Hines Dennis Hogan Jodi Staniunas Hopper John Huffman David Jaconski Michael Jenkins Sean Kennedy Paul Lukach Christine Miller Matha Darlene Melchitzky Paul Mocho Amy Pavlik Monteparte Thomas Pearson Richard Porter Michele Maxwell Reuss Sheila Carone Rodgers Jeffrey Roessner, Ph.D. Eric Seggi Louise Chirillo Shearon Paul Smith Christine Densmore Speicher

Susan Vogelman Douglas Webster Roberta Wittes Cynthia Anthony Zajac CLASS OF 1990 Participation 12% Total Giving $11,494.84 Leadership Giving Society Leslie Hafenmaier Armstrong David Gordon John Melody Stephen Adams Richard Andrejchak Jr. Cynthia Bohun Ronald Bryant Karen Cascio Chow Paras Chowdhry Nancy Glotzbach Degenhardt Thomas Filipkowski Christopher Gordon Scott Graham Annemarie Donofrio Harrington Brian Harrington Julie Kemling Dorothy Konyha Sandra Kopcznski Lawrence Mary McKenna Donald Morrison Thomas Pakulski Todd Piendel Christine Kindlin Roper Patricia Lewandwoski Shookster Adrian Spracklen Francine Stewart Kimberly Tuffs Todd Valento Richard Van Der Woude Kenneth Walker Maureen Hanlin Webster CLASS OF 1991 Participation 10% Total Giving $39,005.48 Leadership Giving Society Brian Haberstock John Munch Patricia Kaliszak Saxon Carl Anderson III Maureen Connolly Barrett M. Leina Cortese Kevin Courtright, Ph.D. Daniel Crotty Connie Bisbe Crum Sean Fadale Stephanie Donahue Fadale Edward Feeney Joanne Ravenstahl Feeney Rosalina Fyke John Galvin, O.D.

Theresa Koviak Hall Leanne Riley Heiple Elaine Stolarski Hewett Steven Ipri Nancy DiLoreto Lambert Daniel Langan + Patricia Sebald Munz Kathleen Munch Oros Jill Prichard Rathburn Mark Simpson Jill Smith Sherry Goedecker Sweny Caryl Unseld Jeffrey Veitch CLASS OF 1992 Participation 9% Total Giving $6,596.08 Leadership Giving Society Brian Aarons Nicholas DeGennaro Catherine Maloney Franck + Laura Bennett Rifkin Jenifer McDonald Albaugh Sonia Johnson Apker Julie Theiss Boam Amanda Moser Burton Angela Cardillo Jill Horvath Crable Sheila Wright Digangi Robert Eckendorf David Fox Tina Fielding Fryling, Esq. Craig Gehm Jill Marquis Grant Sean Hennessy Michael Holyk Randall Kimmel Beth Miller Robert Morrison Andrea Myers John Peluso Timothy Sabol Ann Salandra Boyd Lori Cooney Sheridan Dionne Veitch Krista Lewis Westfall Daniel Wood CLASS OF 1993 Participation 11% Total Giving $9,380 Leadership Giving Society Yvonne Maher + Karin Bennett Socha Alicia Klopfer Bryant Brian Burton Pamela Cammarata Pamela Jonischek Chodubski Clifford Clark Denise Veshecco Cox Peter Eaglen

Beth McCusker Favre Lisa Finch Sharon Flynn Leigh Renninger Hennessy Kurt Johnson Lisa Boy Kehl Mark Korcinsky Alesia Miller Kotek Bryan Krieger Kevin Kunik Stephanie Wainwright Link Mary Ann Love Brenda Kolpien McKelvey Michael McPherson Rodney Miller Matthew Nasman Deborah Lang Redlin Carla Russo Anthony San GeorgeIII Leslie Wojcieck Shickler Matthew Tack Jan Van Stee-Potter Michael Walsh CLASS OF 1994 Participation 9% Total Giving $3,281.14 Jennifer Kraus Bach Amy Kindling Basco Jeanette Britt Eileen Gill Callejas Cindy Smith Dibucci Phyllis Dinicola Eda Fuhrmann Ann Lorenz Garton Keith Gilbert Patricia Kaczmarek Hanlin Peter Hoyt Patrick Kotek Cynthia George Kuhn Kimberly Keiser Kyle John Link James McManus Meghan Williams Mehler Jennifer Swick Morrison Colleen Cleary Nasman Amy Zorzi Neubert Emily Santo Pollard Christiane Puz Eric Ridgley Mary Griffith Rinke Jennifer Roll-Vargo Mia Urycki Spracklen Jodi Dresel Sucharski Jakub Svoboda, M.D. Janet Sheldon Trayer CLASS OF 1995 Participation 10% Total Giving $11,830.24 Leadership Giving Society John Langer

Nancy Figurski Agostine Frank Basco Marcia Soles Berarducci Jennifer Lowe Blalock Anthony Campoli Krista Short Cowan Holly Bhame Deitrick Jennifer Munch Dilks Christopher Fiely Cindi Fluhrer Jefim Gattozzi David Gianoni Jennifer Oesch Gruebner Annmarie Heim Ipri Katie Johnson Norma Telega Johnson Toby Johnson Joyce Kannenberg Stella Granahan LaPaglia Jason Lewis Anne McNelis Cheryl Sibble Moore Beth Hurrianko Murphy Nicole Geraci Parker Kristine Demarinis Petersen Christopher Primavere Christina Bengston Sahloff William Steen Elizabeth Weber-Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Barbara Wenig Jennifer Trinidad Wood CLASS OF 1996 Participation 10% Total Giving $4,652.01 Leadership Giving Society Robert Taylor Bret Atwood Sandra Landon Benes Kelly Sceusa Bowden Amy Burford Bramwell Wendy Woods Chwatek Nichole Putt Dausey Jillian Demarco David Donnell Jeanine Robinson Duda J. Eric Ehrman Amy Fistek Benjamin Hartshorn Janice Kesselring Hill Allison Kaverman Amelia Kitchen-Berardi Faith Epstein Lifshen Amy Lombardo Karen Hersperger McKenna Tamara Valovich McLeod, Ph.D. David Meyer Kathleen Fedele North David Priebe Karen Rudler Theresa Ressler Sabolich Claire Scanlan Melissa Festa Sosnowski

Jeffrey Spitler Krista Schneider Weber Erin Cinderich Wilson Renee Wright Ronald Yarosz Michael Zacios CLASS OF 1997 Participation 9% Total Giving $3,394.48 Leadership Giving Society John Murphy, Esq. Lauren Morris Thayer Scott Bramwell Robert Causgrove Julianne Laskos Clouthier Susan Colter Casey Crawford David Dausey, Ph.D. Charles Deitrick Jr. Carrie Dunkowski Harley Ellenberger Lynn Savidge Ellenberger Frances Foltz Trisha Greathouse Courtney Nicolai Guzy Sally Hawkinson Penny Davison Heeter Erik Hoolahan Lisa Kavulis Julie Bliss Kiehl Thomas Kitchen Margaret Kloecker Suzana Kukovec Krasnicki Amy Johnston Kuzma Susan Lah Lewis Paul Maleski Jennifer Matts Mindi McDowell Rique Pizarro Tiffany Reid Natalie Neumann Tharp Sister Patricia Tyler, RSM CLASS OF 1998 Participation 5% Total Giving $4,506.69 Leadership Giving Society Eric Wicks Erin Cieslik Asteghene Ann Rzodkiewicz Badach Stacie Bortz Karen Milinovich Brennan Christie Brown Janet Oldach Fuller Maria Garase, Ph.D. Lori Dennison Gibbens Melanie Henderson Marie Watkins Hinds Michael Martin Michael Mayer Philip Sheridan Keith Swanson Jody Washington

CLASS OF 1999 Participation 6% Total Giving $13,975.16 Leadership Giving Society Matthew Johnson Robert MacKinlay Stephanie Balint MacKinlay Robert Merski

Jennifer Troutman Stinson Eric Wagner Jesse Wakeman Robert Yurkovich

Laurie Glance Baker Christopher Coan Michael Conrow Timothy Conway-Hay Erin Corbett Paula Donnelly, Ed.D. Robert Gillooly Oto Hlincik Kathryn Shaffer Klus Lisa Marrero-Soto Lonna Dunlap Mayer Thomas Nies III James Perry Jonathan Rees Lana Brown Rees Hugh Shiels Tina McMahon Spano Walter Szpak Paul Watkins Lori Winger Wehr

Gregory Beato, D.O. Susan Gonnam Beato Megan Obernesser Bogert Nicole Bolash Scott Byerly Lindsay Carr Danielle Baumgartner Cofta John Gaydos Molly Rogalski Gaydos Gina Gottuso Gordon Earle Graham IV Lynn Falbo Graham Livia Siebert Greenberg Susan Smith Hay Edward Jolie, Ph.D. Ruth Burgett Jolie, Ph.D. Scott Kehoe Crystal Kiray Joseph Magorien Cynthia Grygier McMillen Heather Weber Palmer Nicholas Potter Kate Reavey Thomas Reznik Lesley Rockwell Rockwell Jill Songer Schmitz David Slisz Bruce-Leon Snead Elizabeth Kahn Summers Angela Teed Bryan Timm Derian Tuitt Beth Vargas-Giel Allison Oberle Wakeman Nathan Wallace Gregory Weed Carlee Cramer Wood Perry Wood III Keith Zajac

CLASS OF 2000 Participation 9% Total Giving $5,010.16 Leadership Giving Society Anne Andrews Jared Oakes Deborah Mattison Atkins Helen Mills Berger Laura Bilak Megan Laverty Bruno Brian Carey Thomas Chmielenski Eric Clark Brian Dewey Bridget Lane Dolak Jennifer Harwell Brynne Sorensen Hinsdale Kyle Hinsdale Molly Manfroni Kirchoff Joseph Kolek Scott Koskoski Travis Lindahl Michael Manley Jr. Maureen McMahon Heather Powell Michel Scott Michel, Ph.D. Kelly Wasko Newton Cara Paglia Thomas Palmer Holly Platte Kimberly Falvo Quimby Maria Petruso Rowe Maria Billingsley Sanfilippo Eric Schultz Joy Koceski Spicer

CLASS OF 2001 Participation 9% Total Giving $3,430.00

CLASS OF 2002 Participation 9% Total Giving $8,992.52 Leadership Giving Society D. Ford Mennel Megan Verbanick Michele Luke Astor Quinn Sullivan Boehmler Ryan Bogert Shawn Burke William Byrnes Sylvia Bluhm Cagle John Campbell Jill Cary Bethanne Bauer Crane Ryan Durnan

President Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. poses with six-time Tony Award winning artist Audra McDonald along side Erie Mayor Joseph Schember and his wife, Rhonda Mahoney Schember ’71.

MEMBERS OF THE 501 SUPPORT MIAC PROGRAMMING For lovers of the arts, membership in The 501 -- the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture’s society of loyal supporters – is a win-win proposition. The 501, which drew 116 founding members in 2017 for its debut season, attracted 162 members for 2018-2019. The society’s name pays homage to the university’s address at 501 E. 38th St. For their $501 donation, members enjoy premium seats at performances and entry to private receptions, as well as an invitation to The 501 Summer Soirée. The 2018 event on July 28 included a cocktail reception, a concert by Broadway legend Audra McDonald, and a post-concert reception under the stars. In addition, funds raised through The 501, as well as from corporate sponsors and individual benefactors, enable MIAC Director Dr. Brett Johnson to program an outstanding series of live performances. Mercyhurst brings world-class performing arts experiences to the Erie region while making its programming accessible to a broad audience, said Mercyhurst President Michael T. Victor. The most expensive ticket for a MIAC Live performance this season will be just $35. Heading into the 2018 season, MIAC Live has achieved a remarkable 12 consecutive sellout shows, from Bernadette Peters to Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox to Judy Collins. See page 18 for a rundown of the upcoming season. Fair warning: Plan ahead, as most shows will sell out quickly.

Erika Brown Farester Paul Gambill George Gast Louis Goulet Rory Hussey Brian Jankowski Elizabeth Hagan Kanche Michael Kempe Joyce Kensill Autumn Potter Klimek Victor Laurenza Jr. Lucas Little Grainne O’Donovan MacKlin Erin Koskoski Magorien Anthony Maher Anne Sitter Markowitz Alex Ogeka Steven Pickard Sarah Purvis Joseph Ratajczak Anne DeMeo Reznik Kristen McCaskey Rice Gordon Riddle Valerie Bauer Riddle Kimberly Russo Eric Schmitz Sarah Hinsdale Schnarrs Julie Lindsay Schultz Holly Faulhaber Shelly Elizabeth Dunn Shiels Michael Sliker Jason Stefanick Patrick Thomas Ann Kehoe Tredway Paul Valenti CLASS OF 2003 Participation 7% Total Giving $8,702.58 Leadership Giving Society Joseph Howard Margret Cosari Rychley Martin Rychley Katherine Hammer Antus Stephanie Balaban Rebecca Kovacs Bentley Kristen Brown + Shannon Leehan Craig Peter Cuneo Anthony D’Abruzzo Priscilla Herbstritt Dibacco Rebecca Dodge Lauren Shadle Eckel Leslie Echan Fletcher Amber Good Michelle Mays Grabowski Jennifer Alexander Grosch Justin Hapeman Mariel Zummo Holcombe Richard Johns Brian Jungeberg Lisa Jepson Kimmel Anna Signs Lindahl Mariann MacDougall Brendan Mahoney

Karen Sprake Malone Christopher Meyer Heather Pease Morally Katherine Onufer Richard Phillips Danielle Poole Piser, O.D. Heidi Raygor Jo Ann Hanes Rosebrock Nicholas Schnarrs Kevin Tidgewell, Ph.D. Lee Tornabene David Vitale Laraine Shellito Wilson CLASS OF 2004 Participation 7% Total Giving $8,946.28 Leadership Giving Society Cheryl Kinnear Bilski + Emily Mosco Merski Kathryn Krupa Agen Bradley Baumiller Christian Beyer Brian Cagle, Esq. Jennifer Blakeslee Calabretta Jill Skorupski Carlisle Jason Colbert Rachael Confer Jill Gloekler Curry Fara D’Aguiar Kimberly Damcott Elizabeth Donner Willie Edmondson Scott Fiorina Christopher Hanson Kristina Harmon Andrea Arbuckle Hoovler Christopher Hopper Michael Inman John Kitcho Matthew Klocek Michael Krahe Kristin Kriegbaum Gregory Kujawa Jaime Rinne Mahoney Michael Marshall Douglas Morally Amanda Mountain Kathryn Paone Matthew Pesti Rebecca Ross Ryan Bethany Shaffer Hope Magee Warner Cynthia Barthole Wasco CLASS OF 2005 Participation 9% Total Giving $19,113.95 Leadership Giving Society Justin Adams Simon Arias Daniel James Tamra Strohmeyer James Timothy Krysiek + Leanne Ostrowski Melody

Jason Staley Emilee Ballaro Timothy Becker Autumn Hamady Beyer Lori Valimont Blakeslee James Borelli Kerri Kanaley Brace Angela Brown Meghan Young Cahill Robyn Mast Colbert Hannah Cox Joseph DeFazio James Detwiler Brendan Doran Suzanne Griswold Dunahue Kelly Duttine Lisa Trocki Emerson + Caroline Millikin Euker Jeffrey Garcia Jaclyn Kerper Gibson Ryan Gibson Brady Hamady Katie Hamilton Parris Hobbs Kristen Hudak Bryan Hurley Joseph Jerome Devin Kowalski Dana Hyland Krishland Meghan Lang Robert Lawlor Shaun Lux Brian Maurelli James McCann John McIlroy Joshua Mihoc Karen Freeman Miller + Daniel Oberdorf Howard Orton Jr. Nicholas Reichel Alyse Robertson Jodie Gollihugh Rodriguez Erin Fleming Ross Scott Runkel Holly Sienkiewicz Catrina Sheaffer Spano Vanessa Swickline Erin Henneman Szentesy Robert Vano Michele Wheaton Ashley Wickert CLASS OF 2006 Participation 8% Total Giving $6,878.90 Leadership Giving Society Preston Briggs Sarah Williams Palm April Clark Adamczyk Michael Albritton Lauren Vaccariello Beck Kevin Binsell Benjamin Bluemle Diane Chido

Brian Defrancesco Mark Dombrowski Mark Donlin Ronald Dorchak Sarah Fedenets Dana Fracassi Annette Gardner Elishia Gnage Andrew Greathouse Erika Grimm Kathleen Chew Haslett Jennifer Dundore Hindman Darlene Tate Jones Kelly Dombrowski Karns Brian Kettl John Kingston Mary Ellen Leisering Joshua Long Lori Letender Marecic Katie Cieslewicz McIlroy Victoria Morley James Mullaley Amy Natalie Michelle Peelman Michael Rectenwald Michele Stack Reed Brenda Steib Rohm Lawrence Rose M. Ivan Rusilko, D.O. Adam Saeler Molly Santucci Amy Smith Erin Solada Christie St. George Stefanie Steinmetz Maryam Tatavosian Kristin Turcsanyi Pamela Swaney Vouri Meghan Waskiewicz William Welch Edward Winslow CLASS OF 2007 Participation 6% Total Giving $4,780.08 Leadership Giving Society Ryan Palm Aaron Parks Alicia Abbey Felicia Adamus Michael Allen Edward Bolden III Amy Pfeffer Bolla John Bonenberger Caitlin Champlin Craig DeChurch Jr. Timothy Echan Lauren Cohick Forrest Andrea Grady Jeremy Hewitt Maria Amicone Holmes + Colleen Lanigan Hordych Zachary Huber Ryan Jakubek Carlin Kelly

Ruby Lauffenburger Kevin Loftus Michael Miele Lucille Murphy Katie Schneck Myers Jillian Perfetti Daniel Schuler Jason Sepac Andreana Simone Meghan Smith Simon Stocks Dennis Teculver Elizabeth Torrence Amy Walzer Mathew Wise Elise Yablonsky John Zanetta III CLASS OF 2008 Participation 7% Total Giving $8,442.11 Leadership Giving Society Kyle Bogucki Michael Aiello Jr. Jo Alspaugh Kerry Bowman Natalie Britt Shatoia Carroll Leanne Wzontek Chapin Kelly Cofrancisco Kathryn Connelly Kyle Craig Stephanie Prohaska Craig Donald Cummings Shaun Dailey Christopher Davis Emily Dietz Sarah Nielsen Dolph Andres Fernandez Brian Folland Erika Funnell Ashley Gabriel Nicholas Giallourakis Adam Grady Kelly Oldach Hardner + Scott Hoffman Melanie Asay Jaroszewicz Bryan Kelly Stephen Kindler Jr. Ellen Koenig-Graham Sarah Krchnavy Noelle Lelakus Kristin Leonard Anne Marjenin Thomas McKinnon Kaitlyn Slomski Nelson Jeanne-Marie Nill Jennifer Oblock Courtney Olevnik Robert Patterson Jr. Angela Phillips Mitchell Phillis Janine Pizzo Amanda Riccardi Maureen Loftus Roth

Colleen Rush Vida McCoy Santillan Michelle Schrimper Brittany McCracken Shaffer Shaun Spencer Michael Thomas John Wayner Marissa Starin Wayner Zachary Wild

Jeffrey Stoll Morgan Frawley Twombly Craig Van Tassel Jessica Whalen Rachel Wheeler

CLASS OF 2011 Participation 5% Total Giving $2,537.54 Leadership Giving Society Allison Dobbs

CLASS OF 2010 Participation 5% Total Giving $2044.06

CLASS OF 2009 Participation 5% Total Giving $3,412.85

Katelyn Balconi Joseph Carmany Melissa Chalker Jonathan Delvecchio Mark Erdeljac Andrew Ferguson Adam Gray Katrina Herring Sherryl Jordano Jill Kreiensieck Andrew Lamancusa Marc Larson Elizabeth Maier-Liu Ian Michalski Carl Miley Andrea Conlon Nelson Rebekah O’Connor Jacqueline Phillips Sara Hoffstetter Picone Katherine Porter Eliza Quigley John Rodgers Kristen Nicklas Rodgers Dinorah Sanchez Lindsay Schofield Michelle Simpson Courtney Loper Stoll Devon Swanson Alicia Rankin Terrill John Torrelli Stephanie Pugh Tucker Karleen Vogt Mary Vuono-Lamancusa Emily Warren Emily Williams

Neil Apfelbaum Erica Beidler Bradley Bestic Bethany Brun Anthony DeMarco Jami Galbraith Nicholas Gillung Hailey Glover Rachel Griepsma Adam Grincius Fred Hale Jr. Thomas Hermanowski Sarah Heuer Zebariah Hursh Michael Jeschawitz Amber Kissman Jeffery Knell Robert Kosin Elizabeth Kostrencic Danielle Long Jamie Martin-Stewart Kathleen Wise May Patrick McLain Cameron McLean Emily Neder Roueche Nathan Sharp Grant Shepard Andrea Vandervort Edmund Waskiewicz Joseph Weidenboerner Katie Wellman

Elizabeth Clain-Stefanelli Darren Conway + Benjamin Deets Eric Delio Manda Double Christopher Duzen Adam Glass Adam Hammer Nicole Hlavaty Hazel Jennings Timothy Kalivoda Lauren Kelly Sara Rish Kitchen Nicole Kochmanski John Lorenz Nicole Marasco Sarah Maxim Ryan McCartney Jeffrey McIntyre Rachel Meyer Katy Miller Allyson Schrimper Minor Daniel Mudd Jennifer Popinski Christine Rehnert Elissa McCarty Reynolds Chelsey Nikithser Rhodes Zachary Rhodes Kelly Rose Eric Scully Brandy Signor Lindy-Jo Smart

CLASS OF 2012 Participation 7% Total Giving $3,262.75 Leadership Giving Society Lindsay Cox Frank + Philip Johnson + Guilherme Alves

Danielle Ardner Hannah Blashock Joshua Born Amy Sahlmann Burniston Carla Burrs Miana Campbell Patrick Carter Kimberly Losak Connelly Brittany Davila Alexandria Dewey Kevin Dudek Angela Allgeier Dundon Rachel Torgesen Duzen Elizabeth Eidnier Jacqulyn Kennedy Fink Oliver Gage Danielle Hanna Grooms Kara Hesch Megan Hoffman Matthew Jimenez Elizabeth Julius Kyle Kallay Kseniya Kampova Christopher Kelly Bryant Kimball Andrew Kopcienski Holly Kreiner John MacDougall Tyler Stauffer Mancinelli Alex Manea Steven Nicklas Melora Whalen Ode Kristen Pepe Nicole Pryce Nicholas Pusateri Courtney Renner Jaasiel Rivera Brad Romancik Rebecca Ruch Elizabeth Sherred Rachel Sluberski Charles Spano Caitlin Vizzi Vicki Waite Matthew Ward Johneisha Williams

CLASS OF 2013 Participation 8% Total Giving $2,839.40 Leadership Giving Society Thomas Frank + April Alfieri Nathan Anderson Trisha Armstrong Ryan Bartizal Lindsey Bostwick Joseph Coyne Tyler Dawson Jeremy Dickey Ryan Feldmann Brad Gleason Amanda Grim Joshua Harold Jane Horetsky Colleen Harter Hoxsie Kaleigh Hubert Rachel Huefner Colin Hurley Tawney Johnson Adrianne LaGruth Darnell Lewis Jeanette Long Rosemary Macey Andrew Miller Elizabeth Neil Nicholas Nicholl Marcin Osajda Ivan Palikuca Kevin Poropat Joseph Pudlick Joseph Reinhard Steven Reinhardt Megan Richards Abigail Robinson Walter Rodenhouse IV Alyssa Ross Matthew Sanfilippo Joseph Spano Seth Stonis Danielle Vaccaro Todd Willis

EMPLOYEE GIFTS HELP PUSH GIVING DAY PAST GOAL More than 500 friends of Mercyhurst stepped up during the university’s fourth annual Giving Day on May 1 – more than a 20 percent increase over last year’s participation. Trustees Kelly Tompkins ’78, Bill Lewis, John Langer ’95 and Mark Salvia ’82 had pledged to match up to $40,000 in gifts. Once that total was reached, Trustee Stephen Fiedler ’85 upped the ante again, offering an additional $5,000 match.

especially on employee participation in 2018, staging a competition between the Faculty and Staff Senates at Erie and North East. The North East Staff Senate had the highest participation, at 50 percent.

All told, the day raised nearly $100,000 for the Mercyhurst Annual Fund.

Erie Staff Senate President Travis Lindahl challenged his members to top the Erie faculty, promising to transform himself into a Laker superfan complete with body paint from head to toe if 30 percent of staff members made donations. They easily surpassed that mark with 47.9 percent participation, and Lindahl made good on his pledge this summer.

The Department of University Advancement focused

Both Staff Senates earned prizes.

Sydney Wolfe CLASS OF 2014 Participation 9% Total Giving $1,620.58 Emily Belfiore Deirdre Best Gabriel Borrero Christopher Dale Bridget Daugherty Caitlin Doyle Heather Mills Dudek Rachel Endres Caitlin Ewing Jenna Foglio Matthew Gernold James Gibson II Kelsey Graf Jacob Griffin Elisha Helgen Tracey Howland Melinda Huey Andrea Javor Kathryn Jeffries Cailin Jope Caitlin Kempton Ellen Koeppel Kelly Krieger Joseph LaGruth Cariel Lewis Patrick Maloney Mary Mancuso Jacob McAndrew Rebeka Melber Steven Messina Katharine Michaelis Rebecca Mills Maria Nemeth Caitlin O’Neill Zackary Pappas Eric Pelosi Sarah Piasecki Chelsey Seelinger Poropat Laura Poweski Kayla Rehar Kerry Roberts Samantha Siegferth Kyle Stanney Ryan Sullivan Jessica Tarasovitch Anthony Tomasone Daniel Tremblay Alexander Vinesky Andrew Wagner Evan Watkins + Kelsea Wemett CLASS OF 2015 Participation 9% Total Giving $3,925.15 Leadership Giving Society Daniel Altavilla Steven Alfieri Paul Amodio

Amanda Boots Gaelin Carrig Rachel Clark Erin Cox Kevin Dagg Will DeFeo Sarah Dominick Tylyn Early Adam Feldmann Joseph Gagliano III Leslie Guelcher Alex Guerriero Stephanie Hilliard Rebecca Himes Kyle Hosier Alexandra Iaquinto Rica Iwai Kristen James Sarah Jansen Morgan Johnson Regan Kaestner Colin Kimball Nicholas Latta David Lea Matthew Lechtner Rachel Lewis Cassandra Littleford Cullen Mangino Lucas Mann Amanda Marley Rachel Masters Beatriz Mateos Margaret Matthews Brinsley Maughan-Evanson Mikayla McNamara Nathan Mead Jacob Middlestetter Bethany Norris Geoff Paschke Marlee Pyzewski Juan Quevedo Elizabeth Redanz Jessica Ritchie Danielle Rooney Kelsey Sawyer Cady Schneible Brianne Smail Jim Solano Jordan Strange John Strong Alexander Torpey William Valentine Michael Walter Jessica Wright Shelby Yanik Jessica Zaccour Emily Zasowski CLASS OF 2016 Participation 15% Total Giving $2,244.54 Savannah Adair Adam Anderson Erica Andrews Kara Andrews

Juan Avila Mary Barnes Samantha Beckas Colin Berger Allison Bilak Ann Blackman Park Bogan Dalma Bordon Hanna Briggs Collin Brooks Alexis Caldwell Jordan Cargill Hailey Carone Kathleen Castonguay Maria Cesar Haley Clark Joseph Cofrancesco Carly Contraguerro Cathryn Correll Russell Curtis Sophia Damasceno Zachary Emerick Cody Empey Connor Enright Garrett Erwin Erica Evans Carly Fenton Sarah Gravante Joseph Gravino Alexander Guido Jared Hancock Molly Harrald Kyle Hill Christian Hoecker Andrew Hoying Jason Huang Meaghan Hubert Samanthajo Hugar Sarah Johnson Lyndsy Justice Madeline Kalke Virginia Kamide Austin Kaminski Ryan Kaufmann Sean Kelly M. Joseph Kirst Karl Kluckhohn Jessica Kuehne Catherine Kuhnheim Tyler Landfried Sandra Persons Larson Jake Lennon Jessica Ludwig Kerry Mahon Jake Marinelli Katherine Mason Rose McDonnell Sean McErlane Elizabeth Meier Rebecca Merwin Sara Mills Caitlin Mininger Allison Munella Rebecca Muscella Mary Catherine Nemecek Caitlin O’Donnell

Roxanne Oglesby Danielle Pacansky Caitlyn Padovano Rosaly Pagan Kathryn Papas Daniel Quinn Jacqueline Raymond Hannah Rea Georgia Rieger Kaleigh Ruggiero Taylor Santiago Matthew Sarosy Taylor Schaffron Emily Sherman Jesse Sworden Richard Vanhorne Andrew Vargas Johannes Verwer IV John Vrenna Michael Wakefield Autumn Walter Adrian Washington Lauren Watson Amanda Whitaker Emily Williams Michelle Winwood Angela Zanaglio Courtney Zarnick Sarah Ziccardi Jessica Zimmer CLASS OF 2017 Participation 18% Total Giving $4,723.54 Leadership Giving Society Isaac Rader Peter Abercrombie Haley Adams Kevin Arnold Madelyn Atendido Alyssa Augustyniak Annie Baich Mason Beaudry Nicholas Beckel Rachel Betzner Connor Bodlak Katherine Boyle Justin Brahim Kelsey Branch Emily Burns Bryce Burrell Maria Calix Nicole Caranci Ryan Carroll Jonathan Clark Stephanie Collins Jonah Cook Michael Craffey Halle Culbertson Joshua Deragon Daniel Dooley Jr. Nirish Doshi Max Dwyer Bridget Ellert Elizabeth Ellis

Tyler Ennis Christina Eusanio Andrea Freed Markae Fries Britney Gaia William Good Michael Green Samuel Griffin Kristen Hamilton Aaron Henry Erin Herschelman Nicholas Hiltz Matthew Hodge Shannon Holley Bridget Holvey Katie McHarg Huba Paige Huggins Katherine Hutchinson Rebecca Insalaco Taylor Kasavage Nicole Kelly Caitlin Kilcoyne Michael Kriley Erica Lanzillo Samuel Lioi Kelsey Mader Thomas Matheson Derek Mattson Carly Mazur Ryan Mehnert Jared Midwick Dayana Moncada Sky Moody Riley Norton Mollie O’Brien Frances O’Neil Megan Pacileo Christopher Pashley Marissa Peltz Devyn Peskorski Ryan Petrossi Natalie Popielski Collin Popson Emily Raker Benjamin Reinert Joseph Rieger Nicholas Rump Conall Ryan Joseph Ryan Hayleigh Schmidt Mitchell Seelinger Michael Seifert Jr. Heather Shadle Emily Shanahan Amanda Sharie Skylar Snyder Rachel Sobina Hannah Somich Brooke Sommer Angelica Digangi Stolarski Michael Thomas Haley Thon Jenna Tobin Sarah Uglow Daniel Ward Nicholas Wnek

Amanda Wolterink Kaitlin Zapolski CLASS OF 2018 Participation 49% Total Giving $9,750 Zachary Abodalo Connor Adair Paige Albright Aleique Allen Lyndsay Amyot Kristin Anderson Natalie Anderson Katherine Appell Bianca Balcaen Taylor Balser Austin Banfield Zachary Banko Rianna Bartlett Emily Emily Bauer Amelia Bell Galen Bernick Gene Bilbao Vasiliki Bitsas Alyssa Blankenship Emma Blasius Kelly Bochnewetch Mary Bogdanovicz Abigail Bonilla Nicolette Borella Olivia Brandow Jacob Braymiller Sarah Brennan Marleigh Bristol Sean Broderick Elizabeth Bross Kendra Brown Katrina Bruzda Drake Burgess Baylee Burns Deanna Callerame Shelby Cameron Georgia Capotis Alexander Carlson Madeline Castele Claudia Chamorro Cynthia Chavez Christian Chee Foon Steven Chica Tyler Chrispen Carmelo Cimato Mackenzie Clark Sara Clarke Sara Conklin Megan Conley Sydney Conroy Jackson Cook Adam Craddock Rebekah Craig Cheyanne Crum Halden Curtiss IV Ryan Danaher Isaac Darling Jessica David Audrey Davison

Anthony Delgreco Brooke Dicks Alysson Dillner Shellie DiMartino Carley Dodd Noelle Dowling Cassandra Egelston Kane Elliot Tyler Enns Catherine Erway Sarah Farsace Alexander Feasley Colin Fenelon Nathan Ferriero Rachel Ficcaglia Mitchell Fife Daniel-Ramroth Finnegan Jessica Finney Jeanette Fournier Amanda Frappolli Marina Frato Allessandra Gaiotti Kathryn Galimi Madison Gangloff Andrew Gebauer Lacey Gigliotti Lynne Gillott Erin Glass Saioa Gomez Diedra Goodwin Jessie Gorcica Teeghan Gorham Colin Greenway Amy Griffin Leah Griffin Mariah Groger Chelsea Guida Amanda Gunkle Kristin Haas Emily Hair Rebecca Harms Kiana Harris Riley Harris John Harry Jr. Brooke Hartwick Colin Hess Seth Hiegel Juliet Hilburn Elizabeth Hite MacKenzie Hoag Sara Hood Robyn Hoover Alexandra Imbrogno Freda Ireigbe Daniel Israeli Jonah Jackson James Jadlos Mary Jaskowak Christian Johnson Nicholas Judy Hailey Keating Daniel Kelsey Mikayla Kerr Christopher Kickel Olivia Kime Meaghan Kincaid

Bailey King Ryan King Tyler Kirchmeir Eliza Kisiel Tiffany Knapper Max Kobrak William Koester Natalie Koons Jacob Kramer Kimberly Kramer Amelia Kraus Sarah Krempasky Ryan Kronmiller Catherine Kruszynski Rachel Lamb Caitlyn Lear Rachel LeMarble Mary Leonard Nicholas Likar Kimberly Lindquist Susan Lipster Marcela Lissandrelli Leonardo LoDuca Joseph Lojewski Sarah Lotowski Cole Lowe Charity Ludwig Megan Lyons Jennifer MacAskill Troy MacMullan Cristal Maldonado Caroline Mangano Erin Manth Dominic Mariano Julia Martino Amber Matha Mariana Mathewson Hannah Mayes Erin McCall Sarah McCausland Mallory McClelland Mason McCollum David McDonald Rachel McKenna Natalie Merucci Jacquelyn Miller Molly Mills Stephanie Mills Kaitlyn Mohn Breanna Mysyk Caitlin Nalipa Robert Neu Jr. Colleen Niebauer Bradley Novak Britani Nowak Conor O’Donoghue Callie Paddock Lindsey Parese Cassandra Passe Jordan Pendel Miranda Peters Zachary Phipps Patrick Piacentini Amanda Pierre-Louis Anthony Piglowski Jr. Tereza Pintur

Senior Class Gift Committee leaders, from left, Austin Shinhearl, Lynne Gillott and Natalie Koons present their gift to President Michael T. Victor.

SENIORS EXTEND MERCY LEGACY THROUGH CLASS GIFT The Class of 2018 presented its Senior Gift to President Michael Victor just days ahead of its May 13 graduation in the form of an endowed scholarship named after Sister Lisa Mary McCartney, RSM. Doing the honors was Senior Gift Committee Chair Lynne Gillott. “At the beginning of the academic year, the committee set a goal of raising $12,000 for the scholarship, with a 60 percent participation rate from our class,” she said. “I am so unbelievably proud and honored to announce that we have surpassed our goals, with a 63 percent participation rate and a $15,777.37 check to present today.” Also at the presentation was Trustee and Mercyhurst alumnus Lev Kubiak, who made a $10,000 match to the scholarship fund. “His generous contribution has allowed us to nearly double the funds we have raised, making this gift an endowed scholarship that will benefit future Lakers for years and years to come,” Gillott said. The Sister Lisa Mary McCartney Scholarship will be awarded annually to a rising senior who is dedicated to service both within the Mercyhurst community and beyond, exemplifying the Mercy Mission. In receiving the gift, President Victor said, “Sister Lisa Mary McCartney is the heart and soul of Mercyhurst University, and I say that with all sincerity. I am thrilled that this year’s graduating class has chosen to honor her in this way.” Sister Lisa Mary was the last Sister of Mercy to teach full time at Mercyhurst, stepping down in 2004 after 24 years on the English faculty to join the Sisters of Mercy leadership team. She returned to campus in 2008 as vice president for mission integration, a cabinetlevel post. She left that role this spring, becoming the last Sister of Mercy to work full time at Mercyhurst, though she remains on staff part time. In addition to Gillott, members of the Senior Gift Committee were Natalie Koons, Austin Shinhearl, Cole Lowe, Kimberly Kramer, Morgan Wangler, Cristal Maldonado, Cheyanne Crum, Amber Matha, Troy MacMullan, Natalie Merucci, Catherine Erway and Jenny Sabliov.

Ashley Podrasky Ashley Poletto Zarah Pratz Emma Preston Johanna Quinn Euna Ra Erika Raymundo Jennifer Reed Elijah Roberts Abigail Rose Lindsey Rowe Julianna Ruzbacki Jenny Sabliov Ryan Sacco Patrick Salvatore Laura Schmiedeler Kathryn Schmitt McKenna Schneider Joshua Schrecengost Kerry Schroeder Beth Seymour Jason Shaffer De’Lenci Shannon-Brown Austin Shinhearl Rohana Sinha Kristin Skeans Jacob Smith Tyler Smith Kelsey Soom Rachel Sorce Adina Spahalic Makayla Sprague Vanessa Steele Rachel Stock Schyler Straessle Briana Stribing Allison Strickland Megan Stubbs Vivian Suazo Linares Brendan Taffe Sophia Thorman Jordan Tidwell Kaleigh Tillman Zachary Todd Andrea Tunnermann Jane VanVessem Matthew Vargas Michael Verboom Nohah Vickers Ana Villace Benson Ryan Vitale Kaileigh Voelker Nora Wagner James Wallace Morgan Wangler Rachel Warman Sydney Warmington Elizabeth Warren Madison Waters Leah Weingartner Jonas Weller Gregory Weyl Rebecca Whitehead Andrew Widdifield Brandon Wildung Kerri Williams

Kayla Yohn Andrew Youles Genevieve Zdunski Teresa Zidek Kevin Zook

PARENTS

Leadership Giving Society Anonymous Mary Ann Baldauf ‘85 Jeffrey M. Best ‘77 Alex L. Bilski + Cheryl A. Bilski ‘04 + Elva Blossom Raymond Blossom Leslie K. Bordfeld Vincent J. Bordfeld Lisa E. Chismire Benedict Cohen + Margaret S. Coletta Robert D. Coletta Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ‘73 Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ‘77 Ellen L. Gordon Denise A. Grimes Mark S. Grimes Julia Guttman + Andrea T. Jeffress, M.D. William Jeffress Robert Kopf III Claudia A. Lund L. Christopher Lund Marc McAndrew ‘88 + Michelle McAndrew + Donald R. McKeever Linda T. McKeever Diane M. McRandal Michael McRandal Sara G. Mead Maureen Minnick Richard Minnick James Overdorf Michele Overdorf ‘80 Anthony J. Paradiso, Esq. ‘83 Elizabeth Paradiso ‘86 Marcia S. Pohl Matthew J. Pohl Lisa Riesmeyer Michael Riesmeyer Kristen M. Robillard Paul J. Robillard Jr. Darby A. Scalise ‘81 Jay Scalise ‘76 Calvin W. Schroeck Camille R. Schroeck ‘68 Gregory Sorce James E. Standohar Marie D. Standohar Gerald A. Stock Mark E. Stookey Ian S. Storper James A. Thayer Lauren E. Thayer ‘97 Frank B. Victor ‘87 Sean Walsh

Kathleen M. Yeatman-Stock Dawn M. Abbate Scott A. Abbate Madeleine E. Abel Raymond Abplanalp Ruth Abplanalp Michael Agate Sheri Agate Judith Allen Lisa Aloe Robert Aloe Douglas J. Altavilla Sr. Kelly L. Altavilla Gerald A. Altilio Jr. Michelle R. Altilio Dawn M. Amico Cynthia Anderson James Anderson Maryann Anderson Robert Anderson Dennis J. Andres ‘72 M. Catherine Andres, Esq. ‘72 Thomas Angelicola Nora A. Arkelian Ariel Arvelo Myriam Arvelo Allan M. Balcaen Barbara A. Balcaen Dann Ballew Lisa Ballew Renee Baronette Susan D. Bartone Debora Beattie Keith Beattie Carolyn Beck Melvyn D. Beck Timothy Becker Phillip J. Belfiore, Ph.D. Sandra L. Belfiore ‘66 Kathleen Bellitto Paul Bellitto Berit Benacci Joseph Benacci Gary Bendus Patricia Bendus Carolyn T. Benedict Jane Bentley John Bentley Robert Berger Jennifer Berndt Timothy Berndt April R. Betzner Eric P. Betzner Diane K. Biega Mark A. Biega Jennifer L. Bielanin Guadalupe M. Billingsley ‘83 Thomas A. Billingsley Janet K. Blakeslee ‘81 Jonathan R. Blanchard Kimberly S. Blanchard Kathleen M. Bouslough Marcia Bowers Scott Bowers Craig J. Brandetsas

Terri L. Brandetsas Natalie A. Britt ‘08 Stephen M. Britt Maureen P. Brock Albert Brone Maria Brone Amy L. Brooks Douglas Brooks Candy C. Brown Ludlow L. Brown, Ph.D. Marci L. Buckiso Michael J. Buckiso Cheryl Bukala Anthony C. Burgett Kathleen B. Burgett ‘73 Frank Burke Karen Burke Jennifer Burkhart Susan Burlage Carol J. Burns Michael J. Burns Lauretta M. Bushar Anne O. Campbell John M. Campbell, Ph.D. Homer Capotis ‘78 Sallie J. Capotis Maria T. Cappuccio William R. Cappuccio Daniel Carlins Eileen Carlins Catherine Caserta-Farsace Christine Casey John T. Castele Maureen L. Castele Mercedes C. Cauchi Paul L. Cauchi Charles T. Cavaretta Joelle Cavaretta Cynthia Cerimele Craig R. Chormann Jennifer Ciolli Vince Ciolli Suzanne Clark Cathy Collier Ian Collier Cindy Collins Mary J. Collins Robert Collins Thomas Collins William Collins Carol Connelly Karen A. Connelly Kimberly A. Connelly ‘12 William L. Connelly Ann F. Connolly Mark J. Connolly Jeff Contraguerro Jill A. Contraguerro Jacqueline A. Convery Kimberly Convery Michael J. Convery Sr. Mark J. Cook Malcolm Coon Sheila S. Coon ‘72 Albert Copper Marsha Copper

Paul Corbran Susan M. Corbran ‘73 Brian M. Cox Denise M. Cox ‘93 John Cox Suzanne J. Cox Valerie A. Crofoot ‘76 Daniel J. Crotty ‘91 Connie L. Crum ‘91 Annette Cullen Daniel T. Cullen Edward J. Czulewicz Patricia G. Czulewicz Maureen A. Dagg William E. Dagg Donna Dalton Joseph Daniele Joyce Daniele ‘68 Deanne DeAugustine Frank DeAugustine Elizabeth A. Decosse Scott A. Decosse Christy DeLullo James DeLullo Baron T. Denniston Sr. Diana Denniston David L. Denz Debra Denz Charlene A. DeRonda Chris M. DeRonda Sara L. Derushia-Bruzda Glynda I. Devanney John A. Devanney Carlene Dewane Debra K. Dillner Doug Dillner Joseph DiMaria Regina DiMaria Phyllis M. Dinicola ‘94 Christine Dion Dominic Dionisio Cheryl L. DiPietro Gaetano DiPietro Kathleen P. Dolney Karen Dombrowski Mark Dombrowski ‘06 Daniel P. Dooley Sr. Susan F. Dooley Mark Doran Mary Lou Doran Nancy E. Doran-Hite Lori A. Dornberger ‘89 Laura Dorunda Diane Dougan Michael P. Dougan ‘76 Amanda L. Dowches Philip A. Dubsky ‘79 Shelagh Dubsky ‘79 Kathleen Dunn Patrick M. Dunn ‘78 Alan Edmiston Marcy Edmiston Kimberly A. Edwards-Swanson John P. Eichner Sandra A. Eichner Maura Elliott

Tom Elliott George Ellis Jr. Lisa M. Emerson ‘05 Mike Emerson Delvin L. Ergott III Barbara Fagan-Zelazny Dawn M. Fahsel Ernest G. Fahsel Jr. Beth Fantaskey Todd Fantaskey John P. Farrell Michelle J. Farrell Michael Farsace Wayne D. Festa + Colleen B. Fink Gary D. Fink Jacqulyn R. Fink ‘12 Thomas C. Fink Lisa M. Finnegan Matthew L. Finnegan James M. Fisher ‘86 Joanne M. Fisher ‘86 Alice M. Flanagan Brian Flanagan Mark T. Folland ‘77 Shelly Folland David J. Fox ‘92 Jill A. Fox Douglas W. Franz Judith A. Franz Diane Frappier Roger Frappier Marsha S. Fronzaglia ‘83 Ronald Fronzaglia Janet C. Fuller ‘98 Dawn R. Gabriel Douglas A. Gabriel Mary C. Gamble Thomas J. Gamble, Ph.D. Gary D. Garwig Lanay A. Garwig Robert Geer Keith Gillott Vicki Gillott Gary M. Glass Tricia C. Glass Charles Glover Dorothy E. Glover ‘66 Emily O. Goldman Scott A. Gorring ‘89 Shawn M. Gorring ‘88 Diane M. Gotkin Rick A. Gotkin Ernell E. Graham Dari J. Grass Todd A. Grass Mary Lee Green Mary A. Greene Robert L. Greene Edward Greenway Michelle M. Greenway Debra Gregoire Linda R. Gruss ‘80 Raymond S. Gruss, Esq. ‘79 Myra C. Haas Vincent M. Haas

Edward Haefele Jr. Pamela Haefele Barbara Haft Martin E. Haft Bryan S. Hagerdon Raegan E. Hagerdon Richal Hair William Hair David Halligan Rekha Halligan Janice E. Haltigan John B. Haltigan Doris Handzel Richard J. Handzel Thomas Hanna, U.S.N. ‘85 Garry Hapeman Lynne S. Hapeman Darlynn Harms Robert W. Harms Annemarie K. Harrington ‘90 Brian P. Harrington ‘90 Dawn M. Harris Neal R. Harris Deborah M. Harrison Kevin P. Harrison Jason M. Hartog Keith Hartwick Natalie Hartwick Deborah Harvey Donna Hensh Edward J. Hess Judith A. Hess Janice M. Higgins + William J. Higgins + Janice E. Hill ‘96 Charles A. Hite Laurie Hitt W. Thomas Hitt Bryan R. Hodge Susan E. Hodge Kathleen A. Hoffman Kathleen L. Hoffman Robert E. Hoffman ‘76 Dawn Holman Robert Holman Douglas Hosier Tammy Hosier James Hubert Maureen J. Hubert Michele M. Hubert Thomas P. Hubert ‘77 John C. Huffman ‘89 Mary Carol Huffman Mary Beth R. Hutchinson Scott E. Hutchinson Laura Iaquinto Patrick Iaquinto Robert Isbell Ruthann Isbell Lori Izzo Nicholas Izzo David W. James Paul James Gary A. Jaskiewicz Gene Jaskiewicz Patricia M. Jaskiewicz

Mary Jenny Paul Jenny Vicky R. Jensen John M. Johnson Maria J. Johnson ‘74 Brett J. Joseph Daniel V. Judy Martha M. Judy Kathleen Keating Michael Keating Cathleen A. Keefe Gerard E. Keefe Peter D. Keisler Susan G. Keisler Colleen M. Kerr ‘79 Gregory T. Kessler Julie A. Kessler Joseph C. Kieffer Margaret L. Kieffer Heather Kimball Joseph E. Kimball Kathleen M. Kindler Stephen J. Kindler Sr. Christine Kindschuh Jeffrey Kindschuh Audra L. Kirchmeir Timothy J. Kirchmeir Donna Knott Richard Knott Belinda Koester Larry Koester Candy A. Kole Jeff Kondis Pat Kondis Keith M. Konyk Leslie J. Konyk Jennifer L. Kramer Robert W. Kramer Anthony Kritkausky Linnea Kronmiller William Kronmiller Richard A. Kruszynski Cynthia Kueber Mary C. Kuhnlein Robert L. Kuhnlein Colleen A. Kullen Girard A. Kullen Jennifer Kuracina Helen C. Lamb John M. Lamb James Lammon Kimberly Lammon Marlene Lamovec-Skovenski Andrea M. Lanfranchi William J. Lang Lori LaPlume Dennis Larimore Viola Larimore Lisa M. Lawless Richard J. Lawless Marjorie Lawlor Allison Lawson Andrew Lawson John M. Leisering ‘81 Katy L. Leisering Deborah A. Leonard

Dennis J. Leonard Abby N. Lewandowski Phillip J. Lewandowski John Liddy Nancy Liddy Eric A. Lindahl Patricia Lindahl Clinton J. Logan Joyce Logan Francis Loncto Patricia M. Loncto ‘68 Patricia Looney Vincent Looney Frederick W. Lumb Eric Lundgren, M.D. Lauren Lundgren Barb MacAskill Kevin MacAskill Beth MacNeil Mark MacNeil Julie Mader Robert F. Mader Lawerence M. Magguilli Lisa R. Magguilli Chris J. Magoc, Ph.D. Mary Ellen Magoc Elaine J. Maier James T. Maier Andrea Maille David J. Maille Rich Manko Richard Manko Tammy Manko Marie Mann Paul Mann Albert Markijohn Kimberly Markijohn Jeannine Marmen Charlie A. Marsh Jayne E. Marsh Debra A. Martin Ernest J. Martin Lori A. Masters Thomas J. Masters Christine A. Matha ‘89 Clifford Matha Renee Mathur Debra Mattson Edward Mattson Alice M. Maxim ‘81 Mark M. Maxim Georgianna May James May III Cathy A. McCloskey Lisa McCorry Steven McCorry Sr. Charles McKee Colleen McKenna John P. McKenna ’88 Heidi J. McLallen ‘85 Mary L. McMellon Ermin R. Melle Patricia M. Melle Donald L. Mennel Louise M. Mennel Lynne Merritt

William Merritt Brian Meyer Craig Meyer Karen L. Meyer Kristina Meyer Annette Michalski Mary C. Miller N. Joseph Miller David A. Minsk Laura A. Minsk John M. Mizia Jr. Sybille M. Monteith Christina Mostoller Scott Mostoller Anne Mullin Daniel J. Mullin Daniel J. Mullinger Kathryn A. Mullinger Blynn Nelson Kerry Neureiter Tom Neureiter Kathleen A. Niebauer Mark J. Niebauer Barb Norvaisa Kevin Nye Susan Nye Gwendolyn L. O’Brien Patrick J. O’Brien Marie O’Connor Timothy O’Connor Bonnie O’Hara John O’Hara Deborah B. O’Neil James P. O’Neil Stan Olevnik Christopher A. Padovano Claudia Padovano Denis Pasay Mary Jo Pasay Michael J. Patnode Guy A. Patrick Mary M. Patrick ‘68 Antoinette C. Pavlik ‘66 John C. Pavlik Brenda Peluso Lawrence Peluso Jeff Pendel Jeri Pendel Dana A. Perna Mark Perna Jeri L. Phelps Robert V. Phelps Allison M. Phipps Samuel W. Phipps Blaize Piacentini Elena Piacentini Barbara Pieczynski Henry P. Pieczynski Nancy L. Pierce Anthony M. Piglowski Sr. Pamela S. Piglowski Joanne Pipher Kathy Pirrello A. Melissa Plaskey Ann M. Plaskey II James A. Plaskey Sr.

Jim Plaskey David Podrasky Jr. Elizabeth Podrasky J. Douglas Potter Mary K. Potter Joseph G. Pozum Sandra M. Pozum Frank C. Pregler II Jane E. Pregler Joseph Pyrdek Rita V. Pyrdek ‘68 Jeffrey Quartley Ramona Ramos Wellington Ramos Jill P. Rathburn ‘91 Scott W. Rathburn Samuel Ratliff Rosemary E. Rausch William F. Rausch Crystal A. Raymond Howard K. Reinert Teresa A. Renaud Debra A. Richards Doug Richards Mary G. Rinke ‘94 Randall W. Rinke ‘88 Frank J. Rizzone Mary M. Rizzone Leslie Robare Michael Robare Mary Pat Rodenhouse Daniel R. Rogers Dianne D. Rogers Lisa Rogers Scott Rogers Amy Romano Bill Romano Mark Rose Valerie Rose Paul Rossi Hank Royal James M. Ruchala Nora G. Ruchala Charles J. Ryan Sarah B. Ryan Gregory Sale Irene Sale David L. Salmons Kathleen A. Salmons Mark Santillano Solveig R. Santillano Frederick A. Santucci Mary Beth Santucci ‘73 Joseph F. Schmitt Jr. Kimberly A. Schmitt Larry L. Schneider Mary B. Schneider Chris T. Schwabenbauer Constance M. Schwabenbauer Lisa A. Scolnick Michael S. Scolnick Karen Shadle Keith Shadle Madalyn B. Shatzer ‘76 Richard L. Shatzer Louise A. Shearon ‘89

Kerry A. Sheneman Richard L. Sheneman Amy L. Sheridan David M. Sheridan Cheryl A. Shul Ronald J. Shul II Lewis Sidwell Terri Sidwell Joseph M. Skamla Amy Skarzenski Jeff Skarzenski Gregory Skibitsky Renee Skibitsky Brian D. Skidmore Kelly A. Skidmore Michael L. Sliker ‘02 Michele K. Sliker James Smith Marianne Smith Paul B. Smith ‘89 Tina Smith James A. Snyder, Ph.D. Deborah Sobina Raymond Sobina John J. Solano + Karen Solano + Kenneth Staaf Therese K. Staaf Mark D. Stacey Lawrence A. Staub Jr. Judith Stevens Robert Stevens Kelly Stolar Dave Stolar Michael C. Stribing Karin A. Strumbel Mark Strumbel Martin Sturgess ‘77 Amy Surowiec Philip L. Swanson Michele M. Tapajna Debra A. Tarasovitch Joseph A. Tarasovitch ‘85 Carrie A. Teodori Joseph J. Thomas Margaret E. Thomas Lorraine Torgesen Thomas Torgesen Ann E. Torpey Thomas P. Torpey Stephen A. Turkall Toniann S. Turkall Karen A. Urban William Urban Alban W. Urbanas Elizabeth I. Urbanas Michael Vaccaro Paulette M. Vaccaro ‘83 Susan Vaccaro Courtney R. VanOsten David A. VanOsten Edward R. Vargo Jr. Kelly L. Vargo Deborah K. Velchoff James G. Velchoff Leonard Veshecco

Nancy Veshecco Harriet Victor-Snyder Gordon Vietmeier Jill Vietmeier Ann Vogan George R. Voulgarakis Mariam A. Voulgarakis Jason S. Wahl Patricia Wahl Cynthia A. Waidley Gerard J. Waidley ‘80 Douglas Waldron Karen L. Waldron Bernadette Walsh + Patrick Walsh + Donna Ward Kurt Ward David W. Warner Judith Warner Lisa Watkins Ramon Watkins Cynthia M. Way ‘76 David A. Way Helen R. Weaver Christopher M. Weitz Molly A. Weitz Craig Werynski Kristen Werynski Garvin Weyl Michele M. Wheaton ‘05 Deb Whelchel Daryl Whitton Linda Whitton Karyn Wichers Ted Wichers Dixie Williams + William Williams + Cami J. Wittmeyer Michael J. Wittmeyer Barbara A. Wood ‘87 John O. Wood Michael Wright Laura M. Wtulich Mark Wychowski Mary Wychowski Jean M. Yanik Sam M. Yanik Barrie E. Yochim II Julie L. Yochim Kathleen Young Robert L. Young Katherine Zacharyasz Michael P. Zacharyasz Debbie Zapolski Martin J. Zapolski Matthew Zelazny Anthony G. Zusinas Jr. Patricia Zusinas

EMPLOYEES

Leadership Giving Society Meredith Bollheimer, J.D. Michael A. Elnitsky, Ph.D. Lindsay A. Frank ‘12 + Daryl V. Georger, Ed.D.

Joseph E. Howard ‘03 Dyan L. Jones, Ph.D. Sister Lisa Mary McCartney, RSM ‘71 Duncan E. McGill, Ph.D. Ryan J. Palm ‘07 Susan K. Reddinger Leanne M. Roberts, Ph.D. Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. Laura M. Zirkle, Ph.D. Alice M. Agnew Sarah A. Allen Kelly C. Amenta Nora A. Arkelian Keyman Asefi Paul Ashcraft Robert Attalla Jennifer Bach ‘94 Gregory J. Baker, D.M. Robert L. Banks Andrea Barnett Benjamin M. Baughman, Ph.D. Lily-Suzan R. Baughman Phillip J. Belfiore, Ph.D. Stacey N. Bellville Lee A. Belovarac ‘74 Peter J. Benekos, Ph.D. Christian T. Beyer ‘04 Andrea K. Bierer Douglas L. Boudreau, Ph.D. Tyler Brentley Jeanette C. Britt ‘94 Natalie A. Britt ‘08 Elizabeth Bross ‘18 Angela E. Brown ‘05 Gregory P. Brown, Ph.D. Bethany M. Brun ‘11 Caitlyn J. Burick Amy L. Burniston ‘12 Keith D. Cammidge John M. Campbell, Ph.D. Nina T. Campbell Gary W. Cardot Sister Mary Paul Carioty, RSM ‘87 Simona Carrubba Daniel G. Cass David J. Cherico ‘79 Madison S. Collins Susan M. Corbran ‘73 Hannah R. Cox ‘05 Daniel T. Cullen Robert D. Cullen Joseph M. Cuneo Sean P. Cuneo David J. Dausey, Ph.D. Holly R. Deitrick ‘95 Heather J. Denning Brian T. Dewey ‘00 Patricia R. Dimatteo Gaetano Dipietro Karen M. Donnelly Patrick E. Doyle Alice A. Edwards, Ph.D. Verna M. Ehret, Ph.D.

Amy R. Erickson Eric G. Evans George Fickenworth Jacqulyn R. Fink ‘12 Alice M. Flanagan Thomas A. Forsthoefel, Ph.D. Michael S. Foulk Abigail M. Franc Betsy A. Frank ‘81 Ben Friesen Jonathan D. Frye Tina M. Fryling, Esq. ‘92 Donald J. Fuhrmann Maria L. Garase, Ph.D. ‘98 Annette M. Gardner ‘06 Douglas J. Gifford Adam A. Glass ‘09 Brad K. Gleason ‘13 Rick A. Gotkin Adam P. Grady ‘08 Andrea E. Grady ‘07 Michael P. Grasso Chad Griffin Suzanne M. Gushie ‘88 Walter W. Hale ‘72 Penny A. Hanes Allison R. Hart Timothy N. Harvey Mary Hembrow Snyder, Ph.D. Thomas J. Herman Nathan Hess David O. Hewett ‘87 Jeremy C. Hewitt ‘07 Janice E. Hill ‘96 Kathryn Hill Ryan J. Hill Sheila M. Hillen Robert Hoff Megan K. Hoffman ‘12 Jodi Staniunas Hopper ‘89 Heidi K. Hosey-McGurk, Ph.D. Joanne M. Hosey-McGurk, Ph.D. Michele M. Hubert Thomas P. Hubert ‘77 Tauna Hunter Colin Hurley ‘13 David C. Hyland, Ph.D. Patricia M. Jaskiewicz Paul Jessup Holly K. Jodon Joseph Johnson, Ph.D. Edward A. Jolie, Ph.D. ‘01 Ruth B. Jolie, Ph.D. ‘01 Clinton D. Jones, Ph.D. Darci R. Jones Lori A. Kaveney Emmaleigh E. Kirchner, Ph.D. Candice Kiskadden Thomas P. Kitchen ‘97 Lori J. Krasnesky Lori A. Krause Jeffrey N. Lasky Laura Lewis, Ph.D. Travis M. Lindahl ‘00 Jeanette N. Long ‘13 Mary Ann Lubiejewski

Elizabeth A. Lucas Kelly L. Lucore Valerie R. Luebke Chris J. Magoc, Ph.D. Erin F. Magorien ‘02 Tricia A. Mahoney ‘83 Gary Manchel Tyler P. Mancinelli ‘12 Anne E. Marjenin ‘08 David B. Markley Jr. Vicki L. Marzka Ashley M. McCartney Richard W. McCarty, Ph.D. Bradley L. McGarry Megan C. McKenna Thomas McKinnon ‘08 Mary Sue Meabon Darlene S. Melchitzky ‘89 Thomas A. Merlino Jr. Jared C. Merritt Karen L. Meyer Eric A. Miccio Scott D. Michel, Ph.D. ‘00 Allyson R. Minor ‘09 Debbie W. Morton Jonathan R. Moser Kayla A. Murphy David P. Myron Carrie Newman Karen E. Niemla Susan Nientimp Christopher Norris Barry K. Nuhfer Shaqueline N. Oberdoerster Andrea C. Obert Rebekah N. O’Connor ‘10 Courtney F. Olevnik ‘08 John Olszowka, Ph.D. Lauren Packer Webster Ivan Palikuca ‘13 Amy D. Parente, Ph.D. John M. Parente Jr., D.Ed. Amy E. Parini Jenell Patton Ryan E. Patton Kristen N. Pepe ‘12 Angela M. Phillips ‘08 Caleb M. Pifer Brenda J. Ponsford, Ph.D. Stephenie V. Przepiora Charles Redmond, Ph.D. Brian D. Reed, Ph.D. Steven J. Reinhardt ‘13 Courtney L. Renner ‘12 Sheila W. Richter ‘77 Roy A. Ridondelli Sheryl Rieder Christina M. Rieger, Ph.D. Christina Riley-Brown, Ph.D. Randall W. Rinke ‘88 Brian D. Ripley, Ph.D. Frank J. Rizzone Curtis L. Robinette Jeffrey W. Roessner, Ph.D. ‘89 Denise A. Ropelewski Sister Natalie L. Rossi, RSM ‘66

Rebecca Ruch ‘12 Christopher M. Ryan Adam M. Saeler ‘06 Matthew J. Sanfilippo ‘13 Mark Santillano Solveig R. Santillano Martin A. Schaetzle Benjamin G. Scharff, Ph.D. Samantha A. Schohn Brian R. Sheridan ‘87 David M. Sheridan Jerome F. Simon Andrew W. Simon-Wambach Michelle R. Simpson ‘10 Michael A. Sisti Amy Skarzenski Jeffrey M. Skarzenski Judy A. Smith, Ph.D. James A. Snyder, Ph.D. Raymond Sobina Nicole L. Soltis Charles M. Spano ‘12 Joseph C. Spano ‘13 Diane M. Speice Sloan L. Spinks Adrian M. Spracklen ‘90 Therese K. Staaf Judith Stanley Sarah L. Stefanovski Jane K. Stepherson Gary P. Sullivan Marnie M. Sullivan, Ph.D. Patricia A. Sullivan ‘69 Debra A. Tarasovitch Angela M. Teed ‘01 Gerard A. Tobin, Ph.D. James G. Tometsko Danielle V. Vaccaro ‘13 Dionne N. Veitch ‘92 Traci L. Vodzak Robin L. Wadsworth Cynthia A. Waidley Christina S. Waldinger Linda A. Watkins Matthew T. Weaver, Ph.D. Michael G. Wehler William J. Welch ‘06 Michele M. Wheaton ‘05 Stacey M. Wiley Elizabeth N. Wise Penelope M. Wise Jennifer L. Woodard Renee V. Wright ‘96 Peter A. Yaksick, Ph.D. Eileen Zinchiak ‘80

FRIENDS

Leadership Giving Society Anonymous Nancy Baldwin Sturtevant John C. Bloomstine Martine B. Burat J. Duncan Campbell III Mark Campbell Nancy Campbell

Doris T. Cipolla Edgar J. Conner + Peter Coyote Candyce L. Delaney W. Patrick Delaney Charles M. Furr, M.D. Richard Galen Susan C. Galen Keelie S. Garbee Margaret T. Glunt Robert T. Guelcher, M.D. Thomas B. Hagen Joseph M. Harenza Peter S. Howard Marlene Jones Thomas E. Kavanagh Scott Kern Charles G. Knight Robert Y. Kopf Jr. David J. Livingston, Ph.D Joan M. Livingston Gary S. Maas Anthony J. Malavenda Constance L. Manus Luther R. Manus Jr. Owen J. McCormick Samuel A. McCullough Deb McDonald Sally McNulty Timothy McNulty Elizabeth Monsalve Marco A. Monsalve Carmen J. Phillips Henry T. Pietraszek Elizabeth Piotrowski Jeff Plyler Rhonda Plyler Timothy Reeves David Ryan Lisa Salvia Christopher N. Sorce Mary Ellen Sorce William Springer Rosanna Strausbaugh Roy Strausbaugh, Ph.D. Christine M. Tufano Paul A. Tufano Craige Pepper Victor Kathleen G. Whelan Frank W. Zurn Mona M. Aaron Cheryl A. Achille Barry D. Agostine Craig Allen Sara S. Allen Gina Allison Jean L. Allison William G. Allison Jefferi Amatangelo Christopher D. Amico Ethan Anderson Joanne R. Andrews Anonymous Veronica L. Antoske Charles Anzalone

Kimberly D. Anzevino Rich Apanaites Don Apel Darcy Apfel Frances Armstrong Sandra Arthur John Ashley Beverly J. Ashton Douglas Babel Abby M. Badach James Bahm Wendy Bahm Arlene G. Baker Charles Baker R. Perrin Baker Donna Banks Mia M. Banks Daniel C. Barber Craig S. Barnett Paula D. Barrett Daniel B. Barricklow Karen Barricklow Ann Bartholomew David F. Bartone Barbara A. Bartos Rhonda Bartos Bill Bates Edward Bauer Karen Bauer B. Charles Baumann Bruce Baumann Cale Baumann Joseph Baumann Michelle A. Baumann Amy Baylor-Shannon Mark Behringer Elisa P. Belfiore Jodi Bello Debra Bennett Steve Benson Camille M. Benzo-Fukes Louis D. Berardinelli John C. Berg Jill Ann Berger Amy Bergqvist Rebecca L. Bernarding Sally M. Berry John L. Bestwick Judith L. Bestwick Barbara Black Greg Black Carol Blake Jeffery Blake Thomas R. Blecki Carol Z. Bloomstine William C. Bloomstine Alette Bodendorfer Connie Bodenhorn David A. Bogdan Meg Bojarski Gary A. Boldt Ann F. Boquard Christine Boring Dennis Bort Barbara A. Boss Nancy H. Bostwick

Robert L. Bostwick Gerald F. Boulet Laurence G. Bousquet David B. Boyce Douglas G. Bradley Melissa Brasco Ken Brasington Susan M. Bratton Barbara Brennan Ron Briggs Charles A. Brown Mary L. Brown Leo J. Brugger Jr. Sharon Buck Kelvin A. Burch Don Burdick Patrick Burns Richard Burns Pat Calandrella Cynthia A. Cameron Donald Cameron Sue Cameron Celeste Carducci Patricia S. Carraro J. Michael Carroll George R. Carter Ginny M. Cashore Vincent Castellana Maria Catena Mark Causgrove Paul Causgrove William L. Cecere III Barbara Cherico Janice J. Chesko Glenn Chichester Susan Chichester Carol Chowaniec Shirley J. Christian Patricia M. Christner Deborah A. Christopher Geri A. Cicchetti Joseph S. Cilladi Jennifer M. Ciotti Carlton Clark Heidi J. Clarke Richard D. Clements LeRoy Clevenger Suzanne Clevenger Ashley M. Clyde Barbara Coates Margaret A. Coble David Cochran Nancy C. Cocke W. Ronald Cocke Christine M. Cole Susan Coll Charles R. Colosimo Angela D. Colvin Beth Coneglio Bonnie S. Confer Patrick J. Conroy Sheila A. Conroy Joshua Constable George J. Constantino Brian P. Convery Christopher Coons

Jennifer Coons Nancy L. Cooper Alan Corbitt Suzanne L. Correia Stella L. Costanzo John E. Covelli Robert W. Cowan Patty L. Crider Mary L. Critelli Judith L. Cudihy Joanne G. Cullis Karen L. Cunnard Gerald J. Cunningham Geralyn M. Cunningham Kevin P. Cunningham Edward J. Curtin Patricia Curtin Suzanne G. Dailey Antoinette Daleo Brian E. Dalton, M.D. Karen S. Dalton Philip Davern Cynthia M. Davignon-Parker Patricia Davis James P. Dean Cheryl A. DeAngelis Dennis G. DeMichele Vincent A. DeMuro Matthew E. Dennison Martin DePalma Kathryn N. Depp Jennifer L. Derrick Aida DeSandre Ann DeSandre Jeannette Desin Edward J. DesLauriers Frank A. Devuono C. Michelle Dietrich Mark Dietzel Anthony DiFranco Lynne Digieso Joseph L. DiLeo Jr. Raylene M. Dill + Paul Dill + Todd Dinner Connie Dobson Lynn M. Dollard William E. Dollard Eric Dolph Elizabeth Donachie Linda M. Donchess Leah Donmoyer Eleanor M. Dougher Julie Downer Sharon L. Downs Susan Drabant Kevin Drayer Michael Dunlavey Roger P. Dupre James J. Duratz Mark A. Durso Jack E. Eaker II Stephanie Eaker Jane Earll

Traci Ebel William Egelston Elliott J. Ehrenreich Kelly Eimers Peter J. Elliott Theodore Ely Carolyn V. Emerson Tamara M. Enders Christine English Philip English Gary Esper Harry L. Evanoff JoAnne Evanoff Linda G. Ewing Mark Fachetti Andrea S. Fahy Jennifer Farinella Charles Farley David M. Farr William R. Farr Martin J. Farrell Ronna M. Fasenmyer Ruben F. Fechner III Rebecca L. Fechner Edda L. Feneziani Connie L. Ferguson Kevin Feyas Perry Fieseler Georgia C. Fife Jacqueline A. Filippelli Terry Fischer William Fischer Matthew Fischione Laura L. Fisher Brian Flanagan William Fleo Jr. James L. Forbes Tina M. Ford Henry Fox Sandee Fox Michael A. Frabotta Jennifer Fracassi Arline C. Franklin Geoffrey Frey Betty A. Frontino Sue A. Frontino-Hendricks Gerald A. Fry Sharon L. Fudalik Holly J. Fuhrmann Patrick Gallagher Dallas L. Garbee Greg Gartner David Gauch Anne Gaudette Lisa Gaudette Melanie A. Gavin Thomas E. Gavin Judith A. Gawlas Michael J. Gerberry Claire L. Giardina Richard Giardina Kelly D. Gibson Tamara P. Gibson Terry D. Gibson

Tricia J. Gilbert Lynn E. Girt Rosemary Giuliana-DiLeo Karen R. Gladden Cynde Goldberg Jill Gordon Kathryn H. Green Kimberly D. Green Nora Green James M. Greenleaf Sr. Nancy E. Greenleaf David Greenway Heather J. Greer Lance L. Greer Vicki A. Greer John J. Greggs Katherine F. Gregorski Jon Gren Jr. Catharine G. Griffin Rick Griffith Doug Grisier Kathy Grisier Robert B. Grooms Nicole M. Gross Timothy Gross Diane Grzelak Edward J. Grzelak John Guhl Shirlee K. Haden Mathias Hafenmaier Daryl Hagen William Hair Rosalie Hale Marcia Haller Patrick A. Haller Vincent F. Halupczynski Jim Hamilton Mili C. Hanes Dennis Hanlin Walter O. Harf Jackie Harper Hudson D. Harrison Beverly A. Harrity Nicole Hartshorn Kathleen Hatfield Christopher J. Hauber Patricia A. Hauser-Petricca Jennifer M. Hawes David S. Hawkins Julia A. Hendricks Mary A. Heneroty Patrick Henry Daniel S. Herman Krystina S. Herman Kenneth F. Hermann David S. Hess Edward J. Hess Sr. Eric D. Hess Jason Hessel Catherine A. Hettie Gail A. Heubel Stephen J. Heubel Dave Heyl Beth Hickson

William M. Hilbert Jr. Jacqueline Hill William C. Hittie Darielle Holden Susan D. Holiday David Hollfelder Lynn Hollfelder Richard E. Holmgren Kathleen A. Horan Peter K. Horn Shawn R. Hornyak J. Webb Horton Joyce Howden Heidi Huggins Victor E. Hulina Melinda Hurley Beverly B. Ingram Craig W. Irwin Thomas G. Iurlano Davey F. Jackson Kirk Jackson David W. Janca Mark Jaskiewicz Karen T. Jaynes Karen S. Jeannette Elizabeth J. Jemetz Kurt A. Johnson, D.M.D. John K. Jordan Alyson M. Joseph Kirk R. Kaczmarek Vitus J. Kaiser Bonnie Kaliszewski David R. Kase Gina Kassab Connie M. Keller Heidi L. Kelly Wade Kemp III Ellen E. Kennedy Jon B. Kennedy Kathleen M. Kennedy-Borgia Carl B. Kern II Nancy R. Kern Marilyn Killmeyer Darlene King Jaclyn M. Kitts Mark Klemann Michael Klemann J. Patrick Klus Ann Knepp Kathleen A. Kolb Barbara E. Komar Teri Korzack Donna Koscho Edward H. Koster Jr. Mary B. Kostewicz Stan Kozek Frank L. Kroto Jr., Esq. David Kruszewski Lori A. Kruszewski Donald A. Kubiak Mark J. Kuhar Frank G. Kuracina James R. Kyper Barbara Kyritsis

Andrew J. Lamancusa Jill M. Lamb Renee Lamis Leslie J. Langenegger Eileen Lapenta Zoey Larson Robert LaSalvia Debra M. Lauria Katherine I. Lavelle Abigail M. Lechner Matthew Lechner Carol Leonard Jim Leslie Shawn Leslie Sharon Levick Dick Levick Peter A. Liberatore Jr. Dan Liddy Thomas A. Lieb Barbara J. Liebel Robert J. Liebel Robin Lindstrom Kristen Livering Michael J. Lorenzen Jr. Brady Louis Renie Louis Amy L. Lund Christine Lundt Gary Luniewski Len D. Lutes Joseph W. Mack Shirely A. Magee Raymond J. Majerik Darryl L. Makepeace David A. Malarik Jr. Thomas B. Malito John T. Malone James Mamera Aristotle Manolopoulos Denise M. Marciniak Robert T. Markes + Maria C. Marks Gregory F. Martin Michelene Martin Todd S. Matlack Julia P. Matthews Olena May Maureen Mayer P. Barry McAndrew David D. McBrier Heather M. McBrier Robert J. McCammon Terry B. McCammon Lori McCauley Michael McCauley Frank M. McClard Heidi McCloskey Christine McClure Todd C. McConnell Edward T. McCormick Marilyn A. McCormick David J. McFarland Joelle M. McFarland Maureen McGuinness

Dr. Roy and Rosanna Strausbaugh

STRAUSBAUGH SCHOLARSHIP TO AID HISTORY STUDENTS In 2013, Dr. Roy Strausbaugh retired from Mercyhurst after 22 years of service, and published his comprehensive history of Mercyhurst in the 20th century, Foundations of a University. But his generosity to Mercyhurst continues, most recently with creation of the endowed Roy & Rosanna Strausbaugh History Fellows Program. Wanting their gift to directly benefit students, the couple earmarked the funds to help history majors pursue internship experiences. Too often, Strausbaugh said, students pass up interesting opportunities – like the chance to spend a summer sailing aboard the Niagara – because they need to work to pay their college bills. It’s an apt example: Strausbaugh was the founding president of Erie’s Flagship Niagara League and knows how much the experience can enrich a student’s course of study. Strausbaugh had already retired as a tenured history professor at Edinboro University before beginning his second career at Mercyhurst. Among his roles here: dean of libraries during a critical period of expansion and computerization; academic dean at Mercyhurst North East; chair of the history department and division chair for social sciences; and associate dean for assessment. Since retiring, the Strausbaughs have traveled extensively, but have also remained active in the community. Roy has been president of Meals on Wheels for the past three years, as well as a board member and now vice president of the Erie County Historical Society. Rosanna volunteers through the Hamot Aid Society in the UPMC Hamot Medical Library.

John E. McHale Mark F. McHale Luanne Mcintosh Karen L. McKay Paula K. McKee Gloria M. McKeever Nadine R. McKeever Steven C. McKeever Mark D. McKissock Ann P. McLaughlin Sean J. McLaughlin Kathleen M. McNamara Jacquelyn A. McPoland Carole McRandal Timothy McRandal David Meehan Lynette Meiser Hughes Jane G. Merkel Robert A. Merski Richard A. Merwin Sieglinde Merwin Sylvia Metelski Mark A. Miklinski Debora L. Miller Tiffany Miller Stephanie E. Mills Mark Mioduszewski James J. Misik John M. Mizia Sr. Nancy L. Mizia Clifford W. Moore Julianna Morrell John W. Morris Kirk R. Morris Sandra L. Morris William T. Morton Stephen M. Muck Susan J. Mulcahy Frank Mullen Nelson J. Muniz Eithne Murphy Patrick Murphy Robert G. Murray Timothy A. Murray Connie Myers Gary Myers June Napolitano Philip Napolitano Richard Nason Joellen Nelson Gloria New Steven Nicholas Jill R. Nickerson Chantel Nicolella Eric Nicolella Thomas Nieri Peter J. Nill Mark Noce Margaret Norris Donald F. Nowak Virginia J. Nowak Judy A. Nye Francis O’Brien Kevin O’Connell James P. O’Donnell Michael O. O’Donnell Jr.

Dr. Joseph M. O’Leary Geraldine Oligeri John Ormento Gabriel Oros Richard Ortmeyer Kathleen A. Ouellet Stephen Pagano Ann S. Palen Richard H. Palen Dolores H. Paluch Steven R. Pantano David C. Papalia Linda Paradise Sally Parese Janet M. Parke Kristi K. Parsons Louise R. Patterson William C. Patterson Tim Patton Brigette M. Pavlik Peter J. Pavone Josephine Pazzo Michael P. Pazzo Denise Pekelnicky Daniel M. Penksa Rose M. Penksa Elizabeth Penman Gary Peperone Karen L. Perfetto Jerome Peterson Joan M. Peterson Ellen A. Pfadt Estella I. Pfister Kate Philips Edward L. Phipps Sandra H. Phipps Sharon A. Pike Marcia Piper Peter Pless Gloria L. Popek Matthew J. Popek Martha C. Popio Joseph D. Porpiglia Hope M. Price Holli Pulice-Lewis Heather Quattrini Mary K. Quinn Thomas L. Quinn Kathe W. Rafferty Deborah Ranish Clifford N. Rankin Ben L. Rechter Marilyn E. Reiser William B. Reiser Dorothy Rennie Carol L. Restifo Tom Rettinger Donna M. Reyes Keith Reynolds Kirk G. Reynolds Jeffrey Rich Thomas P. Richter Jr. Brian Riordan Oivind Risberg Judith L. Ritchie Frank J. Rizzo, D.D.S.

Steve Rock James Rogan Stephanie A. Rogan Virginia Rogers John Rohrabaugh Donald J. Roman Charles E. Romero Melissa Romero Sharon Rooney Shawn Rooney Sandra D. Rosemeyer Lewis W. Rosselli Debra D. Rossi Barbara B. Rothman Donna Royal Michael T. Rozic Suzanne L. Rubins Gail Ryan Gail Sacchi Anthony Salvia Guy R. Santone Karol J. Satrum Pamela S. Sawchyn John W. Schaefer Jean A. Schaetzle Bryan Scheidemantle Joseph Schember Kathleen Scheppner Jacqueline Scheppner Brian Schibler Lynda Schiciano Robert Schilling Charles Schneider Joann M. Schneider Rachel Schock Amy M. Schuman Gregory Schurr Karen Schuyler Stanley T. Schuyler Janice M. Scicchitano Kim B. Scott Nicholas C. Scott Sr. Robert Scypinski Darcie Sedlmeier Jennifer A. Seideman Laura Semple Cecily P. Sesler Elizabeth M. Sesler Gregory Sesler Joseph J. Setek Gretchen Seth Mabel E. Shafran Leslie L. Shannon Lynn E. Shannon Barbara Shapira Gary J. Shapira, Esq. Taylor M. Shea Arlene K. Shelby Sam W. Shelby Carol Sherwood Ainsley R. Showalter Daniel L. Shumate Paul F. Sieber Margaret S. Signore Denise Simon Lois Simon

Paul Simon Christine L. Sindler Jeffrey A. Sindler Gregory M. Sisti Mark D. Sisti David C. Slomski Lee R. Slusher Denise L. Smerkar Edwin W. Smith Jennifer M. Smith Ann M. Snead Reed Mark A. Snyder Wanetta K. Sockman Joseph C. Spano Jr. Vito R. Spano Jennifer B. Spellacy Michael Spellacy Kathryn M. Spires Lisa Stafford Dan Stalteri Eleanor L. Standohar Kacy Standohar Michael J. Stanz Mary Ann Starkey Mitchell Starr Jane H. Steineck William Stephens Marc Stern Pauline M. Stevens David Stolar Leanne Stuck Rachel Sturdevant James Sturm Robert A. Sturm Patrick M. Sullivan Sr. Richard F. Sundback Edward J. Surowiec Jr. Scott M. Surowiec Stephen W. Susnak Keith J. Swanson Robert A. Swertfager Steve Sydoriw Kathleen M. Szewczyk Jeffrey J. Szumigale Deborah A. Szwejbka Susan M. Szyjka Erin Szymczak Roger H. Taft Thomas S. Talarico, Esq. Ross K. Tangedal Gwen H. Taylor Keith Taylor, Ph.D. Robert D. Taylor Susan R. Teconchuk James A. Tedesco Mary D. Tellers Mark Terry Jeff Thiessen Kathleen D. Thomas Robert Thomas Kathy Thompson Marilyn P. Thompson Ronald L. Thompson Kevin Tilley Jerry P. Trambley Robert L. Treser

George Tutuska David Uhlig Phyllis M. Ulmer Tamara Utley Joseph P. Vacca Buddy Valinsky Robert J. Vanetta Jr. Richard Vantassel Kim Varriano Dennis Vasko Karin R. Vay Joann Vendetti Ronald Vendetti Frank J. Vettorel Cheryl Vicary Virginia R. Villani Donald W. Vrenna Ronald J. Vulgris Jr. John M. Wagner George S. Wallace Cheryl A. Ward Samuel R. Ward Patricia M. Welch Cindy Welsh William Welsh Cathleen Werle Donald N. Werle Linda Whalen Scott Whalen Diane L. Wickramasinghe Eardly K. Wickramasinghe, MD Brian Wieczorek David J. Wierzchowski Nancy L. Wierzchowski Daniel L. Wilkerson Cadi L. Williams Ian E. Williams Janet Williams Christel M. Willis Mitchell S. Willis Matthew R. Wise Roger Wolbert Marian Wolford Carol Wood Laurie Woolslayer Alex Work Carol K. Wright J. H. Wright Mack M. Wright Jr. Raymond A. Yost Marie V. Young Nancy Young Andrea S. Zack Richard H. Zamboldi Daniel J. Zanotti Salena D. Zanotti Michael Zehner Diane K. Ziegler Douglas F. Ziegler Gail D. Zilka Jeanne Zilka Linda A. Zilka Coral Zimmer James M. Zimmer Brigit Zimmerman Nancy J. Zimmerman

Nancy M. Zimmerman David M. Zurn Joanna Zurn Roger W. Zurn

CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS

Leadership Giving Society AJ & Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust AICUP Arnold D. Palmer 2003 Charitable Trust Benevity Community Impact Fund BKD LLP Boeing Company Gift Match Burger King Fast Food Enterprises #3 CCX Corporation Central New York Community Foundation Charles E. & Barbara A. Zidek Family Foundation Charles I. Blake Family Foundation Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Cornerstone Bar & Grill Craige Pepper Family Foundation Crawford Heritage Community Foundation Crotty Insurance Agency Deloitte Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Arthur William Phillips Charitable Trust Dusckas-Taylor Funeral Home Erie Arts & Culture Erie Community Foundation Erie Insurance Group Erie Maennerchor Club Erie Sport Store Erie Yacht Club Ernst & Young Foundation Fidelity Charitable First Energy Foundation Gary’s Flower Shoppe GE Foundation Giant Eagle Glenwood Beer Distributors Inc. H. Jack Langer Plumbing & Heating Harrington Industrial Laundry HBK Sorce Highmark Howard & Associates Hubbard Bert Karle Weber Inc. Humes Chrysler Jeep Dodge & Ram International Timber & Veneer Joe B’s Carpets Joseph McCormick Construction

KeyBank Foundation Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett Larry and Gloria New Foundation Laser Dentistry of Erie Law Building Company LLC Leader Graphics LECOM Liberty Mutual Insurance Group M. J. Surgala Trust Marquette Savings Bank McCreary Roofing Inc. McLane Church MCPc Family Charities National Interstate Insurance Netlink Networking Technologies Northwest Bank Nunzi’s Inc. OC Reilly Inc. Our Own Candle Company Pfizer Foundation Plyler Enterprises Inc. PNC Bank Foundation PNC Financial Services Group PPG Industries Quinton Insurance Ricoh USA Inc. Ronald and Marilyn Gunther Family Foundation RW Associates, LLC Schwab Charitable Fund Scott Enterprises Stevens & Lee/Griffin T. James Kavanagh Foundation The AYCO Charitable Foundation The Cafaro Foundation The Castele Family Foundation The Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust The George I. Alden Trust T.J. Whipple Construction Co. U Pick 6 Tap House U Pick 6 Public House VisitErie Wells Fargo Foundation WICU-TV 12 Wolves Club of Erie YourCause A - Boss Opticians Advantage Abstract Company Inc. Amherst Lacrosse Association Anthony R. Kritkausky, DDS, PC Aramark Global Business Services Auto Club Enterprises Bank of America Baumann, Gant & Keeley, P.A. Better Baked Foods Inc. Bloss Pharmacy BMG TV Corp

Bonded Services Braydich Dental Broad Channel American Legion Brooks Camper Sales LLC Building Systems Inc. Burhenn’s Pharmacy Burns & Burns Associates Inc. Campbellnet Solutions Carpeting by D L M Cascade Park Club Chubb Charitable Foundation Clean Wiz Inc. Committee to Elect Joe Schember Community of Young Staroobria Connecto Electric Inc. ConocoPhillips Conway and O’Malley Inc. Corcom Partners Inc. Country Club Gardens Landscaping Covington Investment Advisors Dana’s Stylin Pets Inc. Dick Deutsch Auto Body Dusckas Martin Funeral Home Edinboro Youth Wrestling Club Edward Jones Engel O’Neill Advertising Erie Bank Erie Hard Chrome Inc. Erie Management Group Evergreen - UNI ExxonMobil Foundation Fifth Third Bank FMC Technologies Frogurtz General Partitions Mfg. Corp. Gerg Tool & Die Inc. Gray Family Foundation Greenhill Farms Equipment Inc. Grisé Audio Visual Center Hillside Rod & Gun Club Holland DQ Restaurant Home Depot Hudson Group Inc. IBM Corporation James Properties Inc. Jim Coast Sales & Services JKZJ Corp. Johnson & Johnson Properties JSJ Plumbing Corp K-Boom Painting Co. Inc. King Brothers Feed & Supply L&R Logistics L. Fishman & Son Inc. Liberty Tools LLC Line Ward Corporation Lisa’s Liquor Barn Inc. Lubrizol Foundation Luden’s Financial Services Manufacturer & Business Association McRandal Co. Inc. Mercy Terrace Apartments

Mike Zimmmer Electric Inc. Mizianet Inc. Mostoller’s Inc. Natalie A. Braddock State Farm Navigator Lacrosse Neckers Dairy Nicolella Roofing NOMS Healthcare Nord Family Foundation North East Athletic Club North Fork Rehab Inc. Northrop Grumman Foundation Orchard Park Prosthodontics LLC Pallone Family Chiropractic Phoenix Metal Pitney Bowes Pittsburgh 49 ERS Plato’s Closet PM Roofing and Construction Inc. Pollard Land Services Inc. PPG Industries Foundation Premium Coffee & Water Co. of Erie Pro Waste Services Inc. R.J. Contracting Rachel’s Roadhouse Rapid Metal Cutting Services RBC Capital Markets LLC RBC Wealth Management Rockydale Quarries Corporation Roeshot Construction Ross Notary Service Rotogravure LLC SafeNet Schaffner Knight Minnaugh & Co. Seaway Direct LLC Shafer Landscaping Inc. Shealer Chiropractic South One Supply & Home Center Sparks Electric Co. Specialty Products Inc. SRB Pressure Washing St. Boniface Ushers Club St. Louis Community Foundation Standard Pattern Works Inc. Steve Lewis Contracting Inc. Straw Hat LLC Summit Footwear LLC Swaney’s Roller Rink T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation Target Freight Management Inc. TeamTurf Teodori Enterprises The Dinner Bell The Pittsburgh Foundation The Red Door

Tim Deluca’s Auto Service TLC Green LLC Tricorp Insurance Agency Turner Dairy Farms Urban Engineers Inc. VanAmburg Group Inc. Verizon Foundation Walmart Foundation Weber Electric Supply, Inc. Westminster Presbyterian Women Wm. T. Spaeder Co. Inc.

VOLUNTEERS

April M. Adamczyk ‘06 Meghan C. Agosta ‘11 Ricardo A. Aguirre Jr. ‘05 Sarah A. Allen Simon A. Arias ‘05 Sister Mary Ann Bader, RSM Gregory J. Baker Katelyn M. Balconi ‘10 Emilee K. Ballaro ‘05 Stephanie L. Basile ‘68 Gerald T. Battle ‘94 Gabrielle J. Bejarano Nancy Bennett ‘68 Jeffrey M. Best ‘77 Deirdre M. Best ‘14 Rachel R. Betzner ‘17 Hannah R. Blashock ‘12 Sloane Bly Julie E. Boam ‘92 Joshua D. Born ‘12 Paige K. Bosnyak ‘13 Angela S. Boyd ‘17 Barbara Brairton ‘65 Bailey A. Bram ‘12 Chandler J. Brandetsas Melissa Brasco Sean F. Brennan ‘08 Tyler Brentley Hanna K. Briggs ‘16 Jeanette C. Britt ‘94 Gretchen Brugger ‘68 Bethany M. Brun ‘11 Ronald J. Bryant ‘90 Kathleen T. Bukowski, Ph.D. ‘75 Noel J. Burgoyne ‘57 Hannah L. Burneka Linda A. Burtis ‘68 Wendy L. Butler ‘00 Paul J. Cahill ‘88 Georgina C. Cantoni ‘68 Jane A. Carney ‘68 Maureen P. Carroll ‘68 Maria F. Cesar ‘16 Leanne L. Chapin ‘08 Diane E. Chido ‘06 Allison L. Christopher Dario Cipriani ‘74 Marc Cipriani ‘83 Elizabeth A. Clark ‘16 Sara M. Cockrell ‘06 Kelly M. Cofrancisco ‘08

Robyn R. Colbert ‘05 Darren A. Conway ‘09 Gail J. Cook ‘80 Sheila S. Coon ‘72 Christina M. Coovert ‘09 Susan M. Corbran ‘73 Cathryn E. Correll ‘16 Sister JoAnne Courneen, RSM ‘64 Javiera Cubillos Caroca ‘11 Kaitlyn R. Culp Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ‘73 Peter P. Damico ‘82 Amy Danzer David J. Dausey, Ph.D. ‘97 Christopher S. Davis ‘08 Audrey R. Davison ‘18 Lucas V. De Marinis Jessica A. Dearbeck ‘07 Cailey A. Dewaine ‘17 Jeremy D. Dickey ‘13 Mary F. Downey, Esq. ‘67 Caitlin M. Doyle ‘14 Austin R. Duclos James A. Duncan ‘17 Patrick M. Dunn ‘78 Rebecca E. Dunphy Rosemary D. Durkin, Esq. ‘77 Alice A. Edwards, Ph.D. Robert E. Englert ‘06 Kristen A. Faraclas Mary Farallo James D. Faulkner Ragan E. Faulkner Sean J. Fedorko ‘11 Stephen J. Fiedler ‘85 Kerrie I. Findlay Elizabeth A. Fischer ‘17 Kevin A. Flanagan ‘09 Laurie Fobes ‘83 Anna K. Foley Thomas M. Frank ‘13 Lindsay A. Frank ‘12 Micayla R. Frank Susan Furr Paula Garzon Meghan E. Geci ‘11 Nathaniel P. Gennaro ‘07 Marcela Gomez Lugo Andrew J. Greathouse ‘06 Keven D. Gregg ‘12 Jacob S. Griffin ‘14 Rick Griffith Elizabeth A. Guelcher ‘58 Andrea L. Hansen ‘04 Walter O. Harf Alicia M. Harrison ‘16 Casey L. Harvilla ‘11 Kathleen R. Haslett ‘06 Karly A. Heath ‘16 Patricia Hersch ‘66 Erin W. Herschelman ‘17 Jeremy C. Hewitt ‘07 Ryan J. Hill Kyle J. Hinsdale ‘00 Ashleigh F. Hinson

Carol A. Hirsch ‘84 Megan B. Hollern ‘08 Jodi Staniunas Hopper ‘89 Catherine E. Hornick ‘87 Kaleigh M. Hubert ‘13 Anthony L. Hugar ‘11 Jeffrey N. Hultgren ‘10 Colin Hurley ‘13 Charles Ingram Kathryn S. Ishler ‘06 Danielle L. Jackson ‘10 Cherie L. Jackson ‘11 Andrea T. Jeffress, M.D. Brett D. Johnson, Ph.D. Dyan L. Jones, Ph.D. Elyse M. Jones ‘08 Laura L. Junker ‘03 Danielle M. Kaiser ‘10 Jean J. Kamats ‘68 Kelly M. Karns ‘06 Alan J. Karns James M. Kaveney ‘96 Sarah E. Keene ‘08 Rose Kelly Lauren M. Kelly ‘09 Crisandra E. Kemling ‘07 Amy Cuzzola Kern B. Scott Kern David C. Kern ‘91 Ryan R. Kerr ‘10 Casey J. Kilroy ‘03 Katie L. Kirkum Patricia Klenk Sarah A. Klobuchar ‘16 Christa Knipes Ellen F. Koeppel ‘14 Sally C. Kohler ‘51 Scott A. Koskoski ‘00 Michael L. Kriley ‘17 Lev J. Kubiak ‘88 Kristen J. Kurie ‘03 Adrianne M. LaGruth ‘13 Rachel M. Lane ‘15 John H. Langer ‘95 Richard A. Lanzillo, Esq. ‘83 Stella M. LaPaglia ‘95 Sara J. Lawrence-Sucato ‘06 Darryl Lawton ‘00 Megan E. Lay William G. Lewis Cariel L. Lewis ‘14 Rachel L. Lewis ‘15 Patricia L. Lightner ‘84 Brian Lilly Amy C. Lombardo ‘96 Samuel D. Lopez ‘12 Shaun M. Lux ‘05 Courtney C. Lydick ‘16 Patrick D. Lynch ‘05 Michael C. Lynch ‘83 Gary S. Maas Suzanne C. Mack ‘83 Robert D. MacKinlay ‘99 Yvonne J. Maher ‘93 Margaret T. Manchik ‘87 Lisa M. Manendo ‘78

Constance L. Manus David B. Markley Jr. Amanda M. Marley ‘15 Christina M. Marsh Beatriz L. Mateos ‘15 Thomas J. Matheson ‘17 Derek A. Mattson ‘17 Marc McAndrew ‘88 Heather M. McBrier Frances McCormick Desmond J. McDonald Maggie M. McGouldrick ‘17 Megan C. McKenna Dana K. McMillin ‘05 Mikayla L. McNamara ‘15 Tara F. McQuaid ‘07 Donald F. Mennel ‘02 Emily M. Merski ‘04 ‘06 Robert E. Merski ‘99 Steven A. Messina ‘14 Shannon C. Meyers Christopher W. Miller ‘18 Jennifer A. Mobilia ‘03 Brittany L. Monteparte ‘08 Daniel J. Moran ‘88 Jeffery D. Morey ‘90 Chelsea M. Morris ‘13 Marlene D. Mosco ‘68 Cassandra L. Mountford ‘16 Daniel C. Mudd ‘09 Shasta L. Mullenax John A. Munch ‘91 Jessica H. Neal ‘11 Joseph G. NeCastro ‘78 Kaitlyn S. Nelson ‘08 Maria A. Nemeth ‘14 Lawrence L. New Trang Q. Nguyen ‘17 Elizabeth L. Nici ‘01 Christopher Norris Riley R. Norton ‘17 Jared E. Oakes ‘00 Colin M. O’Connor ‘17 Courtney F. Olevnik ‘08 Adam M. Olszewski ‘10 Caitlin M. O’Neill ‘14 Eric G. Opron ‘88 Danielle R. Pacansky ‘16 Joseph A. Pacinelli ‘78 Lauren Packer Webster Ivan Palikuca ‘13 Ryan J. Palm ‘07 Sarah L. Palm ‘06 Elizabeth J. Patnode ‘06 Anna T. Patrick ‘07 Jenell Patton Henry M. Peltokangas ‘10 Jean C. Pepper Jeanne K. Phillips ‘68 Angela M. Phillips ‘08 Sarah J. Piasecki ‘14 Margaret M. Pietraszek ‘68 Anthony Pishotti Paula B. Pitts ‘68 Daniel A. Pora ‘96 Benjamin C. Pratt ‘09

Anthony P. Prusak ‘90 Stephenie V. Przepiora Elizabeth A. Quinn ‘05 David Rapp Joseph P. Ratajczak ‘02 Margaret Rebuzzini Susan K. Reddinger Benjamin J. Reinert ‘17 Joseph P. Reinhard ‘13 Anne E. Reznik ‘02 Thomas E. Reznik ‘01 Rachel C. Rhodanz Zachary D. Rhodes ‘09 Paul Rich Sheila W. Richter ‘77 Eric C. Ridgley ‘94 John C. Riley ‘74 Nicholas C. Roberts ‘10 Leanne M. Roberts, Ph.D. Austin L. Rose ‘17 Kaleigh A. Ruggiero ‘16 Mark A. Saltrelli ‘13 Mark J. Salvia ‘82 Dinorah G. Sanchez ‘10 Matthew J. Sanfilippo ‘13 Maria B. Sanfilippo ‘00 John W. Saxon ‘89 Jay Scalise ‘76 Mary E. Schaaf ‘68 Shirley A. Schilling ‘68 Nicholas C. Scott Sr. Kyle R. Scully ‘08 Stephen M. Seymour ‘85 Brittany Shaffer ‘08 Megan D. Shields ‘11 Ainsley R. Showalter Lucie Y. Shultz Anne T. Siegel ‘04 Christine N. Simko ‘16 Jerome F. Simon Laurel K. Sinko ‘05 Stacy L. Skiavo ‘13 Jessica N. Skinker Michael L. Sliker ‘02 Eva L. Solomon ‘16 Jacqueline A. Spry Jessica T. Stachelrodt ‘13 Jason R. Staley ‘05 Richard S. Steele Heather C. Steiner ‘89 Sarah A. Stokes ‘14 Susan N. Sutto ‘68 Ethan R. Sykes ‘15 Debra A. Tarasovitch Courtney L. Thompson ‘14 Melanie R. Titzel, Ph.D. ‘80 Theresa N. Todaro ‘14 P. Kelly Tompkins ‘78 Heather A. Toncich Ann M. Tredway ‘00 Kelli A. Trenga ‘06 Emily V. Trimble ‘16 Sara M. Turner Cooper, Ph.D. Jude Urso ‘98 Paulette M. Vaccaro ‘83 Danielle V. Vaccaro ‘13

Megan L. Verbanick ‘02 Cheryl Vicary Michael T. Victor, J.D., LL.D. Alexander N. Vinesky ‘14 Margaret E. Vivian Peter L. Vizza ‘17 Rebecca G. Voulgarakis ‘18 Elizabeth G. Watson ‘10 Marissa L. Wayner ‘08 Wendy M. Weber ‘71 Matthew D. Weinholtz ‘15 Adam J. Welsh Kelsea J. Wemett ‘14 Patrick J. Weschler, Esq. ‘78 Michele M. Wheaton ‘05 Zachary J. Wild ‘08 Kenneth J. Wilson Jr. ‘98 Mark W. Wilson ‘14 Perry N. Wood III ‘01 Austin J. Wood ‘17 Jennifer L. Woodard Elise M. Yablonsky ‘07 Peter J. Zaphiris Ryan P. Zapolski ‘11 Emily A. Zdarko ‘06 Mary A. Zeitler, Ph.D. ‘68 Barry C. Zembower Eileen Zinchiak ‘80 Left to right: Matthew Sanfilippo, Cal Pifer, Courtney Olevnik, Meaghan Hubert, Ryan Palm, Lindsay Frank, and Susan Reddinger

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MEET OUR STAFF

Caleb M. Pifer Vice President for External Relations and Advancement 814-824-3850 cpifer@mercyhurst.edu Ryan J. Palm ‘07 Associate Vice President for Advancement 814-824-3320 rpalm@mercyhurst.edu Lindsay Cox Frank ‘12 ‘14M Director of Alumni Engagement 814-824-2330 lfrank@mercyhurst.edu

Meaghan Hubert ‘16 ‘18M Donor Relations Coordinator 814-824-2379 mhubert2@mercyhurst.edu Courtney F. Olevnik ‘08 ‘13M Director of Annual Giving 814-824-2246 colevnik@mercyhurst.edu Susan K. Reddinger Office Manager 814-824-2241 sreddinger@mercyhurst.edu Matthew J. Sanfilippo ‘13 Director of Grants 814-824-2102 msanfilippo@mercyhurst.edu

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