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CHARMAINE CHUNG ’19

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• Hometown: Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

• Major: Biology

• Hometown: Darien, Conn.

Are you a cat person or a dog person? Dog

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What’s your favorite time of day? Just before I go to sleep, all is quiet and I take the time to read for pleasure.

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What’s your favorite family tradition? Cruising on our boat on a summer day with my husband, the kids and friends.

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Which historical figure would you like to meet? Elizabeth Blackwell. She was a true pioneer for women entering the field of medicine.

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What’s your favorite vacation spot? Costa Rica.

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What inspired you to study the sciences in school? I decided in my teens that I wanted to be a doctor. I’m definitely left-brain dominant.

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What’s the most important quality for a leader to have? Humility.

10. What’s the most pressing issue facing medicine today? The consolidation of independent medical practices into large corporate entities.

What is your go-to food when studying? A warm chicken avocado sandwich at the Au Bou Pain café in the library.

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What was your most challenging science class? Physical Chemistry

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Are you a cat person or a dog person? Dog

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What’s your favorite time of day? Bedtime, because I finally get to unwind and focus on myself.

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What’s your favorite family tradition? Brunch with my family on the weekends.

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Which historical figure would you like to meet? J.R.R. Tolkien, to talk about the Lord of the Rings.

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What’s your favorite vacation spot? The beach.

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What inspired you to study the sciences in school? I’ve always enjoyed learning about how things work ever since I was young.

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What’s the most important quality for a leader to have? The ability to inspire others.

10. What’s the most pressing issue facing medicine today? Unequal access to health care.

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What was your go-to food when studying? A fresh hot chocolate chip cookie from the café in the “new” Scandling Campus Center.

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A New Era Board Chair Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D. ’18 and Vice Chair Andrew G. McMaster Jr. ’74, P’09 congratulate Dr. Joyce P. Jacobsen on her appointment to the presidency of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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HWS Community The Last Word

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Our students today have the same energy, openminded perspectives, commitment to service and curiosity about the world that students did when I started here more than 50 years ago. As this issue of the Survey was going to press, we learned that a number of our graduating seniors received Fulbright awards and were accepted to Peace Corps positions. Meanwhile, students were fielding job offers and earning acceptances to top graduate programs. I have seen my colleagues and friends on our faculty and staff challenge and inspire our students to reach these heights, and it is that amazing process that we call a Hobart and William Smith education that has again and again moved me to serve these Colleges. Despite my good fortune of having taught, mentored and befriended scores of students over the years, I am continually awed by what they accomplish here on campus and as graduates in communities around the world.

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ver the past year, Sandy and I have visited HWS alums, families and other members of our extended community all over the country and beyond. Last April, through the Office of Advancement’s travel program, we led a group of graduates and friends across Ireland; just weeks ago, we flew to Wisconsin to cheer on the Statesmen hockey team as they competed in the semifinals of the NCAA DIII championship. And everywhere we went in between, someone invariably stopped us to extol the character and intellect of Hobart and William Smith students and graduates.

Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D ’12 (right) being interviewed by Ted Baker on WEOS-FM during the Statesmen’s trip to the NCAA DIII Hockey Championship in Wisconsin.

This issue of the Survey celebrates the growth of our trailblazing programs in study abroad and the innovation and rigor that have made the Colleges’ Center for Global Education number one in the nation two years running. Since the 1970s, our faculty, staff and students have created and refined a study abroad structure that exponentially expands the scope of teaching and learning we undertake on campus. As you will see — and as our students and graduates who have studied abroad can attest — the experiences afforded by studying and learning abroad ripple outward in magnificent, unexpected, life-changing ways.

On campus, the joys of spring have returned to Geneva, heralding an exciting year to come. This summer, Dr. Joyce P. Jacobsen will begin her tenure as the 29th President of Hobart College and the 18th of William Smith College, bringing a remarkable career as a renowned scholar of economics, an award-winning teacher and an experienced administrator. As my tenure comes to a close, I look forward to the impact her leadership, perspective and enthusiasm will have on the Hobart and William Smith community.

In this, my final dispatch as interim president, I want to express my deep and sustained gratitude for the support and advice from the breadth of HWS constituencies. Alums, parents, students, faculty, staff, Geneva neighbors, friends and families — you have been a constant source of wisdom and encouragement over the past year. Thanks to your insights, creativity and passion for Hobart and William Smith, I can say without reservation that my service to this institution has been among the great honors of my life, and I have loved every minute of it.

Sincerely,

Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. ’12 Interim President

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The Rev. Murray Bartlett, L.H.D. ’37 served as president of the Colleges from 1919 to 1936.

In 1922, he presided during the Centennial of Hobart College and a successful capital

campaign that significantly improved the financial state of the Colleges. He is seen here raising the Centennial flag on campus.

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Dr. Joyce P. Jacobsen Begins Presidency on July 1, 2019

s a child making weekly trips to the library with her parents, Joyce P. Jacobsen devoured biographies, and found herself drawn again and again to one in particular: a story about the life of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States who graduated from Geneva Medical College in 1849. On Feb. 8, 2019, in her first remarks to the HWS community, which included a standing-room-only crowd in the L. Thomas Melly ’52 Lobby of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts as well as thousands more watching online via livestream, Jacobsen spoke of how “deeply meaningful” it is to follow in Blackwell’s history-making footsteps as she becomes the first woman president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Earlier that month, the Board of Trustees unanimously and enthusiastically elected Jacobsen as the 29th President of Hobart College and the 18th of William Smith College. Currently serving as Provost and Senior Vice Jacobsen spoke President for Academic Affairs at Wesleyan University of how “deeply where she holds an endowed professorship in economics, meaningful” it is to “President-Elect Jacobsen is a prominent scholar and an esteemed educator with a deep understanding of the follow in Blackwell’s interdisciplinary inquiry so vital to our mission here at history-making Hobart and William Smith,” says Chair of the Board of footsteps as she Trustees Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D. ’18. “In her work students and colleagues in the academy, and with becomes the first with preeminent national and international organizations, she woman president of has distinguished herself as a remarkable leader with the Hobart and William experience, values and vision to pilot the Colleges to Smith Colleges new heights.”

In his remarks at the announcement, Co-Chair of the Presidential Search Committee and Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees Andrew G. McMaster Jr. ’75, P’09 noted that the committee sought to find “someone who could envision and enact a bold plan for the future of our Colleges while nurturing our academic programs.”

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Joyce P. Jacobsen has been elected as the 29th President of Hobart College and the 18th of William Smith College. She currently serves as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.

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Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D. ’18

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Chair of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Board of Trustees

“President Jacobsen comes to Hobart and William Smith from a first-rate institution where she cultivated an accomplished career as a scholar, educator and administrator. She is an agile and thoughtful decision-maker who approaches every challenge with compassion, wit and keen intelligence.”

Donna Morea

Chair of the Board of Trustees, Wesleyan University “Joyce Jacobsen is the total package – an authentic scholar revered by her faculty colleagues, a popular teacher and a fantastic administrative leader. A person of deep character, she is someone you want to work with and someone you trust.”

Cynthia Gelsthorpe Fish ’82

Vice Chair of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Board of Trustees Co-Chair of the Presidential Search Committee “President Jacobsen’s impressive career as a scholar, educator and administrator is distinguished by a sense of leadership, engagement and pragmatism that will support the Colleges’ mission and help our community thrive.”

Edens Fleurizard ’20

Hobart College Student Trustee Member of the Presidential Search Committee “In our extensive interviews and referencing, we found her to be thoughtful and precise, interested in the opportunities and challenges facing the Colleges, an expert capable of re-envisioning the value of the liberal arts and ready to take on the HWS presidency.”

Jacobsen delivers her first address as President-Elect.

Trustee Aileen Diviney Gleason ’85, who also served on the search committee, said the group was “united with one goal: to find an innovative, strategic thinker with energy, passion and integrity to lead Hobart and William Smith Colleges into the future with confidence.”

They found that person in Jacobson, who received the unanimous recommendation of the committee.

Jacobsen earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University and M.Sc. from the London School An expert on labor of Economics, and graduated from Harvard economics, particularly University, magna cum laude, with her A.B. in the economics of gender, economics as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She Jacobsen is the author of began her academic career as an assistant professor at Rhodes College before going to Wesleyan scores of journal articles, University in 1993. She earned full professor at book chapters and book Wesleyan and was awarded an endowed chair reviews exploring sex as Andrews Professor of Economics. She was the segregation, migration recipient of the University’s prestigious Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching. She began her and the effects of labor work as an administrator in 2013 when she was force intermittency on appointed Dean of Social Sciences and Director of women’s earnings.

Global Initiatives at Wesleyan, and then Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs in 2015. She is currently Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wesleyan University.

Described by her colleagues as an accomplished scholar and “a person of deep character,” Jacobsen has broad responsibility at Wesleyan where she oversees the entire academic enterprise, including athletics, institutional research and community partnerships.

At Wesleyan, she has been a thoughtful contributor to student affairs, and equity and inclusion, while also helping to create fundraising and stewardship plans and collaborating on admissions and enrollment strategies. With a deep understanding of the complexities of higher education infrastructure and finances, Jacobsen is involved in planning Wesleyan University’s budget, including supervision of a considerable annual portfolio.

“Joyce Jacobsen has made myriad contributions to Wesleyan University as a teacher, scholar, colleague, faculty leader and, for the last several years, as Provost,”

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WELCOME

Board Vice Chair Andrew G. McMaster Jr. ’74, P’09 and Trustee Aileen Diviney Gleason ’85.

Robert K. Nye, president of Finger Lakes Community College, and Sage Gerling, Geneva City Manager, welcome Jacobsen to Geneva.

Jerah Siegal ’22, Aaron Hittman '22 and Ani Freedman ’22 pose for a photo with Jacobsen.

Ian Tulloch '19, Joshua Andrews '20 and Marcel Johnson '19 speak with Jacobsen.

Mercy Sherman '22 and Dean for Teaching, Learning and Assessment Susan Pliner welcome Jacobsen to the HWS community.

Jacobsen answers questions from the news media.

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The Search Committee gathers for a photo: Trustee Craig R. Stine '81, P'17, William Smith Athletic Director Deborah L. Steward, Student Trustee Caitlin Lasher '19, Trustee Aileen Diviney Gleason ’85, Chief of Staff and Counsel Louis H. Guard '07, President-Elect Dr. Joyce P. Jacobsen, Vice President for Marketing and Communications Catherine Williams, Chair of the Board of Trustees Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D. '18, Student Trustee Edens Fleurizard '20, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees Andrew G. McMaster Jr. ’74, P’09, Professor of Physics Donald Spector and Professor of Dance Cynthia J. Williams P’20. Not pictured: Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees Cynthia Gelsthorpe Fish '82.

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Andrew G. McMaster Jr. ’74, P’09

Vice Chair of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Board of Trustees Co-Chair of the Presidential Search Committee “Joyce Jacobsen’s understanding of and experience addressing the opportunities and challenges facing liberal arts institutions today is unparalleled. She is uniquely qualified to lead Hobart and William Smith Colleges to even greater levels of achievement.”

Cecilia A. Conrad

Managing Director, MacArthur Foundation “Joyce is an impactful leader who combines an economist’s analytical thinking with a dedication to engaging diverse voices in reimagining and reinvigorating the meaning of a liberal arts education.”

Justin Rose

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Member of the Presidential Search Committee “…the search committee heard consistently from the faculty that they wanted a strong, academic leader who would raise the profile of our institution. Furthermore, they stressed the need for the committee to find a leader who listens deeply, values diversity and inclusion, and one that would work tirelessly to foster an environment of collaboration between all of HWS’ stakeholders. In Joyce, we have found the rare leader who checks all of those boxes.”

Deb Steward

Director of Athletics at William Smith College, Member of the Presidential Search Committee “Her values, leadership style and experience make her a perfect fit for us.

In addition, with direct oversight of Wesleyan athletics, Dr. Jacobsen has an understanding of the value of athletics and the student experience outside of the classroom. I look forward to supporting her vision and introducing her to our coaches, student-athletes and community.”

Board Chair Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D. '18 welcomes Dr. Joyce P. Jacobsen to the podium for her first address as President-Elect. Also on stage are Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. ’12, Trustee Aileen Diviney Gleason ’85 and Vice Chair Andrew G. McMaster Jr. ’74, P’09.

says President of Wesleyan University Michael S. Roth. “Our university has benefitted immeasurably from her many years of innovative thinking and caring practice, and I have every confidence that she will bring these qualities to her new position as president of Hobart and William Smith. We will miss her.”

An expert on labor economics, particularly the economics of gender, Jacobsen is the author of scores of journal articles, book chapters and book reviews exploring sex segregation, migration and the effects of labor force intermittency on women’s earnings, as well as the economics of wine and other collectibles. Her books include The Economics of Gender, Queer Economics: A Reader (co-edited with her former student, Adam Zeller, who started the project as a senior essay) and the textbook Labor Markets and Employment Relationships (with Gilbert L. Skillman).

Jacobsen has been a visiting professor at Colorado College and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where she held Jacobsen sees alumni the Jantina Tammes Chair in Gender Studies. She has consulted for the World Bank, the ACLU and and alumnae as key to other nonprofit organizations. She served as editor the Colleges’ growth. of Eastern Economic Journal (2005-10) and on “...If they are proud of the the editorial boards of a number of professional campus and proud of the journals. Jacobsen was president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2016-17, Colleges, and they feel a served as a member of the American Economic part of the community, Association Committee on the Status of Women in then they will serve the the Economics Profession and is currently an elected Colleges as well.” board member of the Eastern Economic Association.

During the past 20 years, she has been a member of several projects and working groups for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Jacobsen is married to Bill Boyd, Visiting Scholar in the Quantitative Analysis Center at Wesleyan, who holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,

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Contributors to this story include Bethany Snyder, Andrew Wickenden ’09 and Catherine Williams.

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Professor of Dance, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Member of the Presidential Search Committee “…I was impressed with what I see as a rare combination of qualities: she is pragmatic and data-driven, believes in teaching as an act from the heart and has a deep understanding of the intersectionality of issues that face not only Hobart and William Smith Colleges, but all liberal arts institutions.”

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Cynthia Williams

Caitlin E. Lasher ’19

William Smith College Student Trustee Member of the Presidential Search Committee “Dr. Joyce Jacobsen has an unparalleled commitment to the liberal arts, a keen eye for detail and an obvious commitment to all students, faculty and staff with whom she has worked. I have no doubt that she will guide the Colleges toward continued success as our new President.”

Donald Spector

Professor of Physics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Member of the Presidential Search Committee “When I first encountered Joyce Jacobsen, I wrote the following notes: “deep understanding of liberal arts colleges, sharply analytical, confident yet flexible.” As I’ve come to know her, not only would I dial those initial assessments up to 11, but I’d add to them warm, funny and unflappable.”

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an M.S. in computer science from the University of Memphis, and a B.S. in physics from Rhodes College.

Jacobsen and Boyd have two adult children, Catherine Boyd and Kenneth Boyd. Jacobsen has two adult stepchildren, Will Boyd and Kara Boyd Nunn, and five step-grandchildren.

Originally from Reno, President-Elect Dr. Joyce P. Jacobsen poses with her husband Bill Boyd, Nev., Jacobsen is the Visiting Scholar in the Quantitative Analysis Center at Wesleyan University. only child of the late William Jacobsen, Professor Emeritus of English at University of Nevada, Reno, an expert on North American Indian languages, and Virginia Chan, a retired academic administrator who worked for the Basque Studies program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Her parents instilled in Jacobsen a love of reading at an early age. The family spent Sundays walking to the library to read and checkout books; it was there that Jacobsen discovered Elizabeth Blackwell’s biography. During the presidential announcement in the Gearan Center, Jacobsen named Blackwell as one of her childhood heroes, and noted that she is well aware of the “momentousness of getting to be the first woman president of Hobart and William Smith.”

Jacobsen’s father was a linguist by training, dedicating himself to the preservation of Native American languages, including the Washoe people of the Great Basin and the Makah Tribe of the upper Olympic Peninsula. The family often spent summers embedded with the communities. Witnessing her father’s commitment to his work allowed Jacobsen to understand “what it was like to dedicate your life to something larger than you. I’ve always taken that model for what I do with my own work and my own life.”

That dedication was evident to the Presidential Search Committee. Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and Search Committee Co-Chair Cynthia Gelsthrope Fish ’82 remarked on Jacobsen’s “profound passion for liberal arts education, a commitment to cultivating rigorous scholarship with consequential impacts, and a deep understanding of the necessity for diverse, inclusive learning environments.”

As president of Hobart and William Smith, Jacobsen plans to spend her first months on campus “listening, learning and studying the environment.” She’s looking forward to meeting with students, alums, faculty and staff to “hear their narrative about what the Colleges mean to them.”

Jacobsen sees alumni and alumnae as key to the Colleges’ growth. “If they are proud of the campus and proud of the Colleges, and they feel a part of the community, then they will serve the Colleges as well,” she says. “They will be there for our students when our students want career advice or an internship. They will recommend to young people coming out of high schools across the country and across the world that they should come to the Colleges. They will serve in many ways, whether it’s financial contributions, time contributions or literally just spreading the good word about what a wonderful place this is.”

Jacobsen begins her presidency on July 1, 2019, succeeding Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. ’12.

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Interview with President-Elect Joyce Jacobsen

by Alex Kerai ’19, Editor-in-Chief of the The Herald

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n Friday, Feb. 8, just hours before she was announced as the next president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The Herald sat down with Dr. Joyce P. Jacobsen. In a wide-ranging interview, Jacobsen discussed how she learned about HWS, her cat, Butters, and her academic career.

Jacobsen comes to HWS after 26 years at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., where she holds an endowed chair in economics and is the provost. As someone who comes from the faculty, Jacobsen is uniquely attuned to campus. “I was, myself, a student, and I’m a staff, and I’m an alum, and so being a faculty means I’ve really got it all covered now while someone who comes in who wasn’t from the faculty, might not necessarily understand faculty culture,” she said.

Faculty are a big contingent on campus, and hold quite a bit of sway over the majority of aspects relating to campus, most prominently, the academics. In recent years, there have been shake-ups within the administration and faculty that have fed into faculty worries. Jacobsen hopes to alleviate that: “I understand where they’re coming from, what the pressures are on faculty members nowadays, the pressures to be both an excellent teacher and an excellent scholar, the constraints on time being the most critical one.… And it will make it easier for me to communicate with the faculty, as well as being interested in what they’re doing. I like to go to all different kinds of lectures and events, and can talk with faculty across a number of fields from my years on the faculty and as provost.”

As a professor of economics, Jacobsen is used to thinking about “trade-offs…costs and benefits, constraints and multiple goals” and then applying those to higher education as an administrator. She noted that she is “a problem solver” and loves to “analyze problems,” which

also attracted her to the Colleges. She said she’s looking forward to “setting up processes by which we can solve problems more effectively.”

When discussing the finances of the Colleges, she imagined “a campaign that focuses on building the endowment, with a focus on financial aid, building academic resources, which also can be done as an endowment aspect, and then facilities, most specifically the science building but probably a few other smaller projects as well.” The last capital campaign for the Colleges began in 2006 and culminated in the 2016 opening of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

At the Gearan Center on Friday, PresidentElect Jacobsen was able to meet a handful of students and faculty at HWS after the announcement. She said that after she begins in July she is looking forward “to talking to yet more people…[and] to really understand more about the place and how all the different constituencies and individuals here see the Colleges.” She also wants to do a thorough inspection of all the buildings on campus. “I like to go bottom to top on buildings… because physical space is an important aspect of how students, faculty and staff experience the Colleges.”

Even while she is not on campus, Jacobsen will continue to be accessible to students. Already, her email account is set up and she plans to visit campus a few more times before the summer. She wants people to “always feel that they can contact me and tell me things they think I need to know.” Jacobsen plans to be very accessible to students, which was already evident in an earlier meeting with student leaders before the announcement.

It is that accessibility along with her willingness to help others and step into action that has brought Jacobsen to HWS as president. She said that at Wesleyan “whenever I was asked to serve on something, 10 / HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES

I would say ‘Yes’ because I thought I could do a good job, it freed somebody else from doing it, and I would learn more from it.” Each time she was asked to step up, either as chair, dean or provost, “it was because I was asked to do the job; it wasn’t because I had volunteered for it, but that I felt that I would step up and serve through my leadership – or lead to serve.”

Now Jacobsen is moving forward by accepting the position of president of the Colleges. She said that she was looking for her next step and found the idea of being president of a school to be interesting.

When she began looking, she said, “the main attractor is the Colleges and I thought this would be a good match in terms of my skill set…. Wesleyan isn’t that different from Hobart and William Smith; it’s relatively similar in size of the undergraduate student body, the acreage, the type of curricular structures you have. So there are things that are different, but it’s not so different that it will take me that long to get up to speed and familiar with it.”

One of the most important elements of the announcement was that Jacobsen would be the first woman president of Hobart and William Smith. She noted that it was something that attracted her to the job, and that “it just says again that another place where people weren’t used to seeing women is now becoming increasingly a place where it is perfectly normal to see all types of people and that doesn’t have to become a factor going forward as much.”

Jacobsen concluded by saying that she looks forward to meeting more students at the Colleges and understanding “how I can make this a better Colleges for them as well.”

This story is reprinted with permission from The Herald, appearing in its February 2019 issue. Past issues of The Herald, including the publication's podcast, can be found online at https://hwsherald.com.

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ca. 1917 Chemistry Lab in Merritt Hall

A group of Hobart students conduct experiments in the chemistry lab in Merritt Hall. Built in 1879, partly from building stones salvaged from the old alumni hall, Merritt Hall first contained classrooms, and later housed chemistry laboratories. It is currently home to the Education Department.

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HWS Economic Impact Tops $ 250 Million

Top Colleges for Grateful Grads

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or the fifth year in a row, HWS landed on the “Grateful Grads Index,” part of the annual “America’s Top Colleges” list from Forbes magazine. Forbes bases its annual list of top return-oninvestment schools on median donations per seven-year period, as well as average alum giving participation rates. In 2018, the Colleges ranked ahead of schools such as New York University, Dickinson and Tulane.

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ccording to a recent analysis released by the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ state economic impact totals more than $254 million. The economic impact numbers are determined by weighing three areas of spending: institutional impact, academic medical centers and student and visitor spending.

“Our identity as an institution is grounded in local partnerships and collaborative solutions that yield the kind of economic impact we see measured in this study,” says Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D.’12. “We look forward to preserving those relationships and working with our fellow stakeholders to ensure that Geneva and the Finger Lakes region continue to grow and thrive.”

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or the fifth time since 2006, the HWS Russian Area Studies program has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The $98,038 grant will fund an intensive six-week seminar during the summer of 2019, focusing on advanced Russian language and culture in the Siberian city of Barnaul, where HWS Russian Area Studies also maintains its semester student exchange. The grant will cover 99% of total program costs, including international airfare, transportation within Russia, group excursions, tuition and dormitory fees. See more on p. 49.

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he Princeton Review ranks Hobart and William Smith Colleges alumni and alumnae network 15th in the nation in the 2019 edition of the “The Best Value Colleges: 200 Schools with Exceptional ROI for your Tuition Investment.” In addition to HWS alums reporting significant fulfillment and meaning in their careers, the “Best Alum Network” ranking considers the visibility of alums on the HWS campus and the strength of alums’ connections to student outcomes.

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jumped 12 spots in the Princeton Review’s list of schools making an impact to land in second place for 2019. The Making an Impact category is based on community service opportunities, active student governments, leading sustainability efforts and on-campus student engagement. The rankings also take into account the percentage of alums that reported having high job meaning on PayScale.com.

Wickenden to Deliver Commencement Address Executive Editor of The New Yorker Dorothy H. Wickenden ’76, L.H.D. ’14 will deliver the 2019 Commencement address. Wickenden previously worked as managing editor and executive editor of The New Republic and national affairs editor of Newsweek before assuming the role of executive editor of The New Yorker in 1996. She is the moderator of The New Yorker’s weekly podcast, “The Political Scene,” and the author of Nothing Daunted, a New York Times bestseller. Wickenden graduated from William Smith magna cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, earning her B.A. in English with high Honors. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1988. This year celebrates the 194th Commencement of Hobart College and the 108th Commencement of William Smith College. The ceremony will be livestreamed on the HWS website starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 19.

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t may look cozy and calm from the outside, but the red Farmhouse on St. Clair Street is anything but peaceful. As the theme house for the HWS chapter of Guiding Eyes for the Blind, the Farmhouse is only quiet “when everyone’s sleeping,” according to April Moffett ’21.

Moffett raises 10-month-old Odyssey at the Farmhouse, while housemate CJ Sturges ’20 raises six-month-old Nils, both black Labrador retrievers.

Nils’ sister Nadine lives off-campus with Elizabeth Anderson ’19 but pays frequent visits to the Farmhouse.

The HWS chapter of Guiding Eyes was established in 2018 by Katherine Valicenti ’19 to promote working guide dogs at the Colleges while creating social bonds and building teamwork skills. Valicenti was interested in cultivating a community aspect of puppy training because, as she puts it, “it takes a pack to raise a pup.”

Raising the potential guide dog pups is a big commitment. Members of the HWS chapter raise their dogs for 12 to 16 months, teaching them house manners and socialization skills. The dogs also attend puppy training class once a week with dogs from other local chapters. Each dog is monitored to determine when they will take their In-For-Training (IFT) test, an indicator of training aptitude. Those that pass the IFT go on to formal training with a guide dog instructor for up to six months; dogs that pass that training are then placed with a blind or visually impaired partner. It was Valicenti’s “proudest dog-mom moment ever” when Nalani, the dog she and Anderson raised together, passed her IFT in the summer of 2018.

The puppies romp through the living room at the Farmhouse until their raisers corral them into their Guiding Eyes gear: a harness for Odyssey, bandanas for Nils and Nadine. Anderson notes that “exposing a potential guide dog to a college campus is very beneficial to them; it gives them lots of practice with socialization, settling through class and walking with distractions.”

Guiding Eyes for the Blind was founded in 1954 in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The HWS chapter is part of the Wayne County Puppy Raising Region, which encompasses Wayne, Ontario and Seneca Counties.

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Nils leads the way down the stairs in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts for his raiser, CJ Sturges ’20. At bottom left, Nils (right) poses with his pack, sister Nadine and Odyssey.

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Chloe Emler '20, Professor of Economics Thomas Drennen, Board Chair Thomas S. Bozzuto '68 L.H.D. '18, Barbara M. Bozzuto, Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. '12 and Albert Smith Jr. '19​pose for a photo during the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new Bozzuto Center on Castle Street.

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obart and William Smith officially dedicated the Bozzuto Center for Entrepreneurship in a ribbon-cutting ceremony in October. The Center was endowed in 2017 with a $3 million gift from Chair of the Board of Trustees Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D.’18, his wife Barbara M. Bozzuto and their family.

Chairman and co-founder of The Bozzuto Group, one of the most prominent real estate services companies in the country, Bozzuto has spent more than 45 years building tens of thousands of homes and apartments. He spoke directly to students in the crowd for a portion of his remarks, noting that “you’re going to need to be able to identify opportunities to allow yourself to advance your career. You’re going to need pragmatic confidence to take the risks necessary to succeed. I believe you can learn all of that here.”

The Center, which occupies three floors and more than 7,000 square feet at 22 Castle St., features classrooms, discussion spaces, workspaces and meeting areas for the Colleges’ Entrepreneurial Studies Program as well as Centennial Center cocurricular programs.

Thomas Drennen, professor of economics and chair of the environmental studies department and entrepreneurial studies program, delivered remarks at the

ceremony, as did HWS students Albert Smith Jr. ’19, coordinator for the student work team at the Bozzuto Center, and Chloe Emler ’20, a member of the Center’s student advisory board.

“This space is transforming the ways in which we approach entrepreneurial studies at HWS,” said Drennen. “On behalf of the faculty, students and staff who benefit from the space every day, I’d like to thank Tom Bozzuto and his family for their thoughtfulness and generosity.”

Founded in 2015, the Entrepreneurial Studies Program emphasizes the conceptual understanding, practical skills and ethical structure necessary for business or civic leadership. Students explore and hone the analytical and critical thinking skills of a liberal arts education while pursuing projects and coursework focused on creating non-profit or for-profit enterprises, or leading innovation within existing organizations. The popularity of the program among students has made it the largest minor at the Colleges.

”You’re going to need pragmatic confidence to take the risks necessary to succeed.

I believe you can learn all of that here.” —Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D.’18

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Additional funding for the Bozzuto Center was provided by New York State’s Empire State Development Corporation, HWS Trustee Will ’92 and Colleen Margiloff for the creation of the Margiloff Family Entrepreneurial Leadership Fellow, and the Grayson Family for programming and renovation, with additional support provided by the City of Geneva.

William Smith Alumnae Association President Julie Bazan '93 presents the Centennial Bowl to Board Vice Chair Cynthia Gelsthorpe Fish '82.

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he Centennial Center, home to the Colleges’ flagship programs in leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation, celebrated 10 years of success and growth during the gathering of the Board of Trustees in the fall of 2018. Trustee Cynthia Gelsthorpe Fish ’82 was presented with the Centennial Bowl at the anniversary dinner in October.

Fish, who has served as a Trustee since 2006 and is the vice chair of the Board, contributed the lead gift that established the Centennial Center in 2008. Julie Bazan ’93 and Trustee Jane Erickson ’07, president and immediate past president of the William Smith Alumnae Association, presented the award.

A philanthropist and volunteer with a lifelong commitment to the care of others, Fish targets her efforts and support on higher education and the environment and on research on the treatment and care of patients and families challenged by Alzheimer’s disease.

In speaking about the Centennial Center’s success, she said, “We started with a shell, like an empty bowl, and no vessel is worth much until you fill it — and look how it was filled.”

Centennial Center Director Amy Forbes highlighted the “culture of innovative programming” and instrumental leaders in the Center’s founding. She specifically thanked Susan Pliner, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning and Assessment. As founding director of the Centennial Center, Pliner established many of the programs that distinguish the Center today. Forbes also thanked Mara O’Laughlin ’66, L.H.D. ’13, who headed the team that raised the funds for the Center.

The Centennial Center offers experiences and resources for young leaders to develop global awareness, community focus and the skills to transform conviction into change, including programs such as The Pitch, Leadership Institute and Hackathon.

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Almamy Conde ’18 (sales and marketing associate at the Bozzuto Group in NYC): A finalist in the 2016 Pitch contest, Conde said the process “gave me confidence, enhanced my work ethic and made me understand the importance of focusing on the things I needed to do.”

Sara Wroblewski ’13 (founder and CEO of One Bead in Boston, Mass.): Winner of the inaugural Pitch contest in 2012, Wroblewski called the Center “the birthplace of my identity as a female nonprofit executive.”

Daniel Budmen ’15 (assistant winemaker and vineyard manager at Bellangelo Winery in Geneva, N.Y.): Budmen noted the Center “and its multitude of experiences and programs pushed me to be a better student, community member and global citizen.”

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At the celebration, three HWS graduates spoke about the transformative experiences, skills and values the Centennial Center imparts.

Being Strong Was the Only Choice: The Story of Zahra Arabzada, the Hijabi Runner Zahra Arabzada ’19, named one of Glamour magazine’s top College Women of the year in 2018, is an activist and runner. Here, she tells the story of how she became The Hijabi Runner. The story below, in Arabzada’s own words, was told to Stephanie Booth for magazine. _________

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“It must be nice to have an escape,” she said.

When I was born, my parents lived in a refugee camp in Iran. To this day, I’m not sure of my exact birthdate. My mother couldn’t read or write, so when she was given my birth certificate, she lost it.

After I turned 8, my family moved me and my eight siblings from Iran to Kunduz, one of the most conservative provinces in Afghanistan. Girls can’t go to public school there. Outside, we had to be covered up, without any bare skin showing. People judged you if your eyes looked up, not down. By the time I was a teenager, I was dying of seeing nothing but pavement.

“If anyone touches you on the street, walk faster. Don’t say anything,” my mother instructed me. But if I was harassed by a man, I couldn’t stay quiet. I would try to slap them. It didn’t go well. Shopkeepers would say, “If you don’t want to be touched, why are you outside?” Sick of me getting into fights, my parents allowed me to attend the first female boarding school in Afghanistan, in Kabul.

My father stopped going to school at age 11. My mother didn’t learn to sign her name until she was 47. Still, they taught me to value education.

I learned English and at 14, came to the U.S. to attend boarding school in Rhode Island on a scholarship.

I was in culture shock at first.

People spoke so fast! I worried that the bed in my dorm room was by a window.

What if there was a bomb blast? For weeks, I slept on the floor.

Walking at night also scared me.

I associated that time of day with shooting between Taliban soldiers and the government. It took a long time before I felt ready to brave the one-minute walk from the library to my dorm alone.

I was feeling homesick when the cross-country coach encouraged me to start running with the team. At first, I didn’t want to. I’m Hijabi, meaning I choose to cover my hair like I always had growing up. I knew I’d look different. My coach wouldn’t take that as an excuse. The next thing I knew, I was picking out a pair of running shoes.

I discovered I loved running. Each practice felt like a small victory that gave me confidence for the rest of the day. Still, when I first began running in my hijab, a lot of people looked at me with raised eyebrows.

“Why are you torturing yourself, covered up in the heat of summer?” people asked. Or, “You’re in America now. You have freedom. Why not use it?”

They didn’t understand: I grew up in a country where girls are raised to do everything to make the life of men better—to cook, to clean, to make breakfast. Girls in Kunduz don’t go to school. They wear the clothes that a man tells them to, and they marry who they’re told to. The inequalities in Afghanistan are the result of many decades of war and foreign invasion.

Each time I ran, whether fifteen minutes or an hour, was truly “free” time I was giving myself.

I’m 21 now and have finished a marathon and half-marathons as well as a 50-mile ultra-marathon. I’m going to be a senior at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, majoring in biochemistry,

and I still run five to six times a week.

I also find time to write about my experiences.

When I was first thinking about running, I looked online to find other Muslim girls running in hijab. I didn’t find much, so I decided to make my own blog: The Hijabi Runner.

I hope it helps other Muslim women choose an active lifestyle and non-Muslims realize how difficult it is to be an identifiable Muslim in the West right now. Google the word and the first thing you’ll see are images of 9/11, war in Iraq, jihads, men who have four wives. These are things Islam is associated with, but the way we Muslims say hi to each other is “Peace be upon you.”

How did my peaceful religion become associated with such violent images?

After I finished my ultra-marathon, my sister, a lawyer in Afghanistan, congratulated me. “In honor of your race,” she said, “I bought myself a treadmill, but running outside will be my dream.”

We Afghan women have a long path ahead—but I believe in the power of small changes.

Most acts of bravery in my life were not because I one day woke up and said, “I’m going to stand up for myself.” Being strong was the only choice.

I discovered I loved running. Each practice felt like a small victory that gave me confidence for the rest of the day.

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Zahra Arabzada ’19, a biochemistry major, is a member of the Public Leadership Education Network and the HWS Running Club. She blogs at The Hijabi Runner, and is an ambassador for Free to Run, an organization that empowers women and girls in conflict-affected communities around the world.

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On Campus Angela Davis Envisions a Better World

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A capacity crowd filled the Vandervort Room in Scandling Campus Center in October to hear Angela Davis deliver the keynote lecture of the Fisher Center for the Study of Gender and Justice’s 20th anniversary celebration.

Davis, an internationally renowned activist, author and professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has authored numerous books on peace, justice, prison abolition and the movements of the oppressed. Jodi Dean, professor of political science and director of the Fisher Center, noted that Davis’ vision “inspires how we see the work of the Fisher Center continuing into the next decades.”

Davis’ lecture addressed themes for the future of feminism, including gender, racism and sexuality. “How can we envision a better world,” Davis asked, “and how can feminism help us imagine a world in which violence against women is no longer the most pandemic form of violence on the planet?”

In a lively Q&A session, Davis engaged with HWS students, faculty and staff, as well as community members, fielding and responding to difficult questions about the dynamics of misogyny and racism and how they play out on college campuses, including HWS. She concluded her lecture with a focus on hope, and reminded all in attendance of their role in changing attitudes and actions.

Throughout the 2018-19 academic year, the Fisher Center is hosting artists, scholars, authors and activists to examine contemporary concerns surrounding mobility, movements and migration as part of this year’s theme, “On the Move.”

About the Fisher Center

Endowed with a $1 million gift from Emily and the late Richard Fisher, whose son Alexander graduated from Hobart College in 1993, the Fisher Center was inaugurated as the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men in October 1998. In 2018, it was renamed the Fisher Center for the Study of Gender and Justice.

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Angela Davis, the internationally renowned activist, author and professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, delivers the keynote lecture of

the Fisher Center for the Study of Gender and Justice’s 20th anniversary celebration.

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Jessica Hariprasad ’21, Ashfaqur Rahman ’21, Bridget Daugherty-Costa ’21,

Hope Lee ’22, Lorena Robelo-Lara ’21, Lalaine​Vergara ’21 and Dante Herrera ’21 pose during Quad-a-Palooza, part of Homecoming and Family Weekend.

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More than 100 students performed 22 original dance pieces at the 47th annual Koshare Dance Collective in November. The sold-out performances held at the Smith Opera House showcased a variety of dance styles, including Afro-Caribbean traditions, Irish stepdance, hip-hop and ballet.

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Statesmen football team members visit Happiness House, a local program for children with and without disabilities. for Founder’s Day.

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Nicole Wright '20, a volunteer firefighter with the Geneva Fire Department, poses outside the Hydrant Hose Company in Geneva, N.Y. During a

winter storm, Wright helped deliver a baby when inclement weather delayed the arrival of an ambulance to a local family home.

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HWS Faculty Share Their Expertise

Monson Explores the Nature of Truth

Ramey Is Consultant for United Nations

Associate Professor of Sociology Renee Monson brought her theories on truth and knowledge to the New York State Sociological Association annual conference in October where she presented “How Do You Know? Probing Inquiry, Reporting Investigations, and Producing Knowledge in the Age of Trump.” She raises concerns about American culture embracing truth statements, which provoke like or dislike reactions, over truth claims, which require examination and assessment. “What concerns me about the age of Trump,” Monson says, “is the extent to which the examination of truth claims has been replaced with the posting of truth statements in our everyday discourse.”

Associate Professor of Economics Elizabeth Ramey is using her expertise in gender and agriculture in her work as a consultant for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. In addition to teaching a course for policymakers, researchers and civil society leaders on trade and gender linkages in the Southern African Development Community, she is working on a study of how trade-related impacts of agricultural technology may advance or block gender equality and women's economic empowerment.

Drennen Recognized for Distinguished Service Thomas E. Drennen, Professor of Economics and Chair of the Environmental Studies Department and Entrepreneurial Studies Program, was recognized with the prestigious Senior Fellow Award from the United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE), a nonprofit group of leaders in academia, business and government. James L. Smith, past president of USAEE and the organization’s awards committee chair, noted that Drennen joins “a highly distinguished group that includes academic scholars as well as energy economists working in the business community and government.” Drennen helps to lead sustainability efforts on campus and teaches courses that challenge students to consider the relationships between energy, the environment and the economy.

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Perkins Talks Alcohol on NPR Professor of Sociology Wes Perkins appeared on NPR's “On Point” in October. In an episode titled “Inside The Current State Of College Drinking Culture,” Perkins joined host Meghna Charkrabarti and student-panelists to discuss attitudes and behavior around alcohol consumption among college-aged students. Perkins noted that although high-risk drinking is a very serious problem in college settings, it is not the norm among college students.

“One-quarter of students consume two-thirds to three-quarters of all the alcohol that’s consumed on a campus — and this is true across all different kinds of campuses that we’ve researched,” he noted.

Recent Kinghorn Fellows 2017-18: Thomas D’Agostino P’15, dean of global education and Jack Harris P’02, P’06, professor of sociology, examined the lasting effects of the Colleges’ program in global education.

2016-17: Charles Temple, professor of education, explored the ways in which the HWS students, faculty and staff define global perspectives.

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or her outstanding scholarship and public engagement on the complex politics of the Middle East, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science Stacey Philbrick Yadav was named this year’s recipient of the John R. and Florence B. Kinghorn Global Fellowship.

Philbrick Yadav, who has lived in Yemen and is a member of the executive committee of the American Institute of Yemeni Studies, has been writing about Yemen’s opposition politics for more than a decade. Since Yemen’s uprising in 2011, she’s published several articles and a book exploring the dynamics of Islamist activism and alliance building. She offers her expertise on Middle East politics in media appearances including NPR, the BBC, The Washington Post and CNN. Hobart Dean Khuram Hussain, who nominated Philbrick Yadav for the fellowship, says that “Stacey’s public lectures contribute to a deeper understanding of the complex and shifting relationships between non-Islamist and Islamist organizations in a way that brings light to highly obscured and simplified political communities. Our campus and community are better for her work and her contribution to public discourse at the Colleges are illuminating and necessary.”

Established in 1970, the Kinghorn Fellowship honors outstanding faculty, staff and administrators at HWS who have exemplified global citizenship on a continued basis.

“Stacey’s public lectures contribute to a deeper understanding of the complex and shifting relationships between non-Islamist and Islamist organizations in a way that brings light to highly obscured and simplified political communities.”

—Hobart Dean Khuram Hussain

Philbrick Yadav will receive a stipend of $3,000 to be used in the spirit and nature of the award. During her appointment period, Philbrick Yadav will deliver the Kinghorn Global Fellow Lecture; the lecture topic must be connected to global citizenship and reflective of the work done to qualify for the award.

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2015-16: Alejandra Molina, director of intercultural affairs, convened a panel to discuss the ways in which immigration impacts the HWS campus community.

2014-15: Catherine Gallouët, former dean of William Smith College and professor of French and Francophone studies, researched European representations of Africans in culture from the French Enlightenment to the present.

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Page By Page Associate Professor of Religious Studies Etin Anwar offers new insight on the changing relationship between Islam and feminism in Indonesia from the colonial era in the 1900s to the early 1990s in A Genealogy of Islamic Feminism: Pattern and Change in Indonesia (Routledge, 2018).

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Kristen Brubaker, Quincey Johnson ’16 and Pennsylvania State University Professor Margot Kaye explore how maximizing carbon storage in forests may be a way to mitigate the effects of climate change in an article published by the Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

Professor of Biology James Ryan offers student-scientists a guide to practical techniques used by researchers in the field in Mammalogy Techniques Lab Manual (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018); the book builds on techniques he uses in his field courses. Ryan is also the co-author of the Horos User Guide, a manual that guides users through a groundbreaking open source software program that enables medical professionals and students to see anatomy in three dimensions.

Associate Professor of Media and Society Leah Shafer and Visiting Assistant Professor of Media and Society Iskandar Zulkarnain explore the ways augmented reality technology can be used as a tool for analysis in “Immediacy, Hypermediacy and the College Campus: Using Augmented Reality for Social Critique,” a chapter in the book Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media: Pedagogy, Publics, Practice (Routledge, 2018).

Erica Trabold continues to garner recommendations and reviews for Five Plots, her collection of essays that won the inaugural Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize from the Seneca Review.

Ryan Lackey at the Los Angeles Review of Books notes that “Trabold manages to reach a literary gestalt

in these pieces: they become something more — frequently something other — than the sum of their parts.”

Christian Kiefer at The Paris Review selected Five Plots as his Staff Pick. “Her intellectual moves are

as dazzling as they are surprising, as is the style she employs to get at her subject matter,” he writes.

The prize is named for Deborah Tall, who taught literature and writing at HWS and edited the Seneca Review from 1982 to 2006. Essayist John D’Agata ’95, the 2017-18 Trias Writer-in-Residence, served as judge of the inaugural book prize.

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RockSat-C Shoots for the Stars

For a sixth consecutive year, HWS students have been selected to work with NASA in the RockSat-C program. The 2019 team, one of nine in the U.S., consists of Shreeya Desai ’21, William Elliman ’20, Victoria Loshusan ’20 and James Truley ’20. They’ve spent the academic year researching, designing and assembling a payload to be launched into space through a program sponsored by NASA and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. Mentored by Associate Professor of Physics Ileana Dumitriu and Physics Lab Technician Peter Spacher Ph.D., the team will spend 10 days at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in June 2019 to integrate their payload into a sounding rocket that travels out of Earth’s atmosphere and collects data during flight. The students are designing three subsystems to measure vibration damping, muon flux and magnetic fields of earth at various altitudes. In addition, the team pairs the project with an outreach program with the Geneva Middle School, encouraging interest in STEM.

James Truley ’20

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earth’s magnetic field at various altitudes above the earth’s surface.

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Statesmen celebrate with their fans after a goal during Hobart's 2-1 win over Plymouth State University in the first round of the NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Championship at The Cooler.

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Hobart Hockey Makes It Into The Frozen Four Statesmen Wrap 17th Consecutive Winning Season

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he Hobart hockey team finished another strong year with a 21“When I look over the shoulders 8-2 overall record, matching the of our seniors to those coming program record for wins in a season.

The Statesmen advanced to the NCAA up behind them, I see the same tournament for the fifth straight year, level of quality. We’ll keep this reaching the national semifinals for going for years to come.” the third time in program history and first time since 2009. The Statesmen —Coach Taylor were edged by the eventual national champion, Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 5-3 on the Pointers’ home ice.

“We had a great group of Statesmen striving together to get to that ultimate goal,” said Coach Mark Taylor, who continues to add to his reputation as the most successful coach in Hobart hockey history.

On Jan 12, 2019, Taylor logged his 300th win as Hobart’s head coach with a 5-0 win over Castleton. He has guided the Statesmen to 17 consecutive winning seasons.

Hobart finished the season ranked seventh in the nation in scoring margin (1.74 gpg), ninth in scoring offense (3.90 gpg), 16th in scoring defense (2.16 gpg), 12th in team winning percentage (.710), and 20th on the With a 3-2 lead over Oswego State, Coach Mark Taylor strategizes with the team with less than a minute to go in the quarterfinal matchup of the NCAA tournament. penalty kill (85.5%). The team was ranked No. 5 in the nation in the final USCHO.com poll and No. 4 in the final D3hockey.com poll.

Toupal will attend the University of Pennsylvania next fall in pursuit The Statesmen’s 121 goals this winter are tied of a doctorate in earth and environmental science. for sixth on the program’s single-season list.

“The culture of the program is truly unique — it’s a brotherhood,” Hobart had six shutouts — the most in a singlesays Macnee. “The season in program history. leaders during my years “There is a very Hobart was rewarded with a half dozen as an underclassman strong sense of awards from the NEHC at the end of the emphasized the a team, a single season. Jonas Toupal ’19 and Jack Macnee ’19 importance of embracing represented the Statesmen on the All-NEHC and carrying along that unit with a single first team, Tanner Shaw ’19 earned second team culture and that’s core to purpose.”

“The culture of honors and Zach Sternbach ’20 received third our success.”

—Jonas Toupal ’19 the program team honors. Zach Tyson ’22 and Liam Lascelle Macnee hopes to use ’22 garnered All-Rookie Team recognition. is truly unique what he has learned at The Hobart hockey Class of 2019 — Hobart as he pursues a professional hockey career after graduation.

— it’s a Brandon Bistodeau, Jack Macnee, Matthew

The future looks bright for the Statesmen: first-year goalie Liam brotherhood.”

Pizzo, Cam Shaheen, Tanner Shaw and Jonas Lascelle ’22 matched the program record for shutouts, finishing the year —Jack Macnee ’19 Toupal — compiled a four-year record of 80-24with four. His 1.64 goals against average was also a program best. Travis 13. Their win total matches the program record Schneider ’21 had a team best 16 goals this season and Tyson led the for wins by a graduating class set in 2018. team with 27 points this winter.

“Playing for Hobart was unlike anything I have experienced before,”

“Our team this year had quality of character from top to bottom,” says Toupal. “There is a very strong sense of a team, a single unit with says Coach Taylor. “And when I look over the shoulders of our seniors to a single purpose. The team’s success is always put in front of individual those coming up behind them, I see the same trend, the same level of players’ success, which is what made us such a competitive team.” quality. We’ll keep this going for years to come.” ­

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n February, HWS opened a $3.5 million state-of-the-art, air-supported sports dome behind Robert A. Bristol ’31 Field House. Trustee Thomas B. Poole ’61, L.H.D. ’06 and his wife, MaryJane Poole P’91, were instrumental in making the new facility a reality through a $1 million lead gift for the fundraising campaign. The official dedication and naming of the dome will take place in the fall. The nearly 86,000-square-foot FieldTurf surface is lined for all of the Colleges’ field teams including field hockey, football, lacrosse and soccer.

“Our guys are extremely fired up to be in here,” Hobart Head Lacrosse Coach Greg Raymond said on the first day in the dome. “I can’t imagine a more perfect place to get better.

I can’t imagine a more perfect place to play lacrosse. On behalf of Hobart lacrosse and HWS Athletics, I thank everyone who contributed to making this a reality.”

The dome immediately paid dividends as a winter storm blew through the area.

“Less than a week after opening, Geneva was hit with a snow and ice storm, typical Northeast weather,” William Smith Head Lacrosse Coach Anne Phillips said.

“Our preseason practices were unaffected as we practiced in T-shirts and shorts in our amazing new practice facility.

We have a very young team and teaching is critical in these first few weeks of preseason. If it weren’t for the dome, we would be trying to teach in the cold on snowy Boswell Field.

“I think this facility is truly a game changer and gives us an advantage over most, if not all, of our rivals.”

The Hobart lacrosse team and the William Smith lacrosse team practice on the new indoor turf field located at the south end of Robert A. Bristol '31 Field House.

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Winter ROUND UP

HOBART BASKETBALL (17-11, 12-6) Colin Dougherty ’19, Jamal Lucas ’19 and Sean McKinless ’19 capped their careers with a second appearance in the Liberty League Championship game. Although the Statesmen came up short of the title, the season was filled with memorable performances. Hobart beat defending league champion Union twice, won at eventual league champ Skidmore during the regular season and topped second-seeded St. Lawrence in the tournament semifinals.

Dougherty finished his career with 1,715 points, second only to record-holder Richie Bonney ’14. Lucas also ended up in the top 10 with 1,470 points. Tucker Lescoe ’20 recorded his third straight season with 70 or more 3-pointers and became the 30th 1,000-point scorer in program history during the tournament win over the Saints. Edens Fleurizard ’20 also had an impressive season, blocking 53 shots, the most since Randy Hudson ’79 set the season record with 113 in 1978-79.

Dougherty and Lucas were both rewarded with their third career AllLiberty League awards. Dougherty picked up first team honors for the second straight year, while Lucas landed on the second team.

Additionally, Dougherty collected All-East honors from the NABC and D3hoops.com.

WILLIAM SMITH BASKETBALL (17-9, 12-6) Behind a fierce commitment to team defense, the Heron basketball team reached the 17-win plateau for the second time in three years.

The team dominated the boards, setting single season records for total rebounds (1,244) and rebounds per game (47.8). William Smith led the Liberty League and ranked in the top 20 in the nation in rebounding margin (5th, +13.2), rebounds per game (11th), total rebounds (24th) and defensive rebounds per game (12th, 31.0).

After winning 12 of their final 15 regular season games, the Herons drew a tough assignment in the first round of the Liberty League Tournament.

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regular season. Trailing by six at halftime, William Smith controlled the second half, outscoring the Dutchwomen 44-23 to advance to the semifinals.

Olivia Hughes ’19 led the charge with a careerhigh 19 points. The Herons lost at eventual league champion Ithaca to end the season.

The team was led by Liberty League Player of the Year Mia Morrison ’19 (see story on p. 35).

Stavriana Dimitrakopoulou ’21 earned All-Liberty League honorable mention after averaging 11.1 ppg and 5.4 rpg. She made a team-high 52 3-pointers, tied for ninth on the program’s single season list.

WILLIAM SMITH SWIMMING & DIVING (6-1) The Herons posted their 13th consecutive season with a winning record in dual meets while toppling several program records along the way. Anna Leffler ’20 led the way, breaking eight program or pool records during the season, including two in the first meet of the season against Utica.

On opening day, Leffler broke Bristol pool records in the 200 backstroke and the 400 individual medley as the Herons beat the Pioneers.

About a month later, she broke the program record in the 400 IM at RIT’s Don Richards Invitational, helping William Smith to a second place finish.

In the final home meet of the season, a double dual meet against Cazenovia and Wells, another Bristol pool record fell. As the Herons dispatched both the Wildcats and Express, Leffler, Katie Mullin ’22, Emily Mink ’22 and Lindsay Fleischer ’21 trimmed more than 1.5 seconds off the three-yearold standard.

William Smith sent the season off with a bang, eclipsing five records across the four-day Liberty League Championships, as the Herons finished sixth out of 10 teams, up one spot from the 2018 championship. On Day 1, Mullin got the party started, taking down the 50 backstroke record that was originally set by Heron Hall of Honor inductee Vibeke Hopkinson ’83 in 1983.

On Day 2, Leffler broke the 400 IM for the second and third times this season. In the morning prelims, she lowered her own record set back in December at RIT. Then, in the evening finals, Leffler did it again, finishing third in 4:36.05, representing an eight-second improvement over the record at the start of the season.

On Day 3, Leffler broke two more marks.

Leading off the 800 free relay, she posted a split of 1:56.05, breaking the 200 free mark set by Molly Egan ’21 a year earlier. Leffler’s teammates on the relay kept up the record-breaking pace.

Mullin, Mink and Egan followed to post a time of 7:49.74, shattering a 30-year-old record by nearly 13 seconds.

Anna Leffler ’20, Katie Mullin ’22, Emily Mink ’22 and Lindsay Fleischer ’21

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WILLIAM SMITH ICE HOCKEY (18-8-2, 12-4-2) It was a record-breaking year on the ice for the Herons. The team earned its first home playoff game, shutting out Neumann 6-0 in the opening round of the UCHC Tournament, the program’s first playoff victory. The win was the 17th of the season, a new highwater mark for the program, surpassing last season’s 16-win total. William Smith added an 18th win with a 2-0 shutout of Nazareth in the UCHC semifinals, earning the program’s first trip to the conference championship game. The run came to an end there as third-ranked Elmira defended its league title on its way back to the NCAA tournament.

Individually, only once in the first four seasons of the program had a player produced at least 30 points in a season. Four players accomplished that feat this season: Gina Scibetta ’20 (40), Jules Kennedy ’21 (37), Abbey Luth ’22 (31) and Stephanie Hampton ’19 (30). The team’s top four goal scorers have all surpassed the previous season record with Scibetta holding the new standard with 22.

The record-breaking wasn’t reserved for the offense. Goalie Olivia Williams ’21 posted five shutouts, two more than the previous season record, while earning 13 wins, matching Maggie Salmon’s mark from last season.

Scibetta also made history, becoming the first Heron skater to garner All-America honors. She was named to the AHCA’s second team.

Six Herons collected seven awards when the UCHC announced its season honors. Luth was voted the Rookie of the Year and earned a spot on the All-Rookie Team. Kennedy and Scibetta were tabbed second team All-UCHC, while Emily Martino ’21, Laura Rollins ’19 and Williams received All-NEHC honorable mention.

WILLIAM SMITH SQUASH (10-10) For the seventh time in the past eight years, the Herons competed for the Epps Cup at the College Squash Association Championships. Ranked 27th in the nation entering the championship, William Smith won its quarterfinal 7-2 over No. 30 Georgetown. In the semifinals, the Herons squared off with No. 26 Haverford, winning again by a 7-2 count. In the Epps final, William Smith took on No. 28 Connecticut College. The Herons won the top three matches, but ultimately fell 6-3.

Gabby Fraser ’20 and Madison Bradley ’19 ended the season on twin six-match winning streaks. Bradley (12-8) and Michaelann Denton ’19 (12-4) shared the team lead for wins.

the Statesmen on track to score more than 200 goals in a season for the first time since joining Division I.

Pedicine’s domination at the X hasn’t been limited to the Siena game. He’s ahead of his own season record for winning percentage with a .672 success rate this year. Pedicine has a ridiculous 110 ground balls, five shy of Eric Curry’s 23-year-old season record and more than any two players in the NEC combined.

WILLIAM SMITH LACROSSE (6-2, 4-0) Near the midpoint of the season, the Herons are riding a six-game winning streak and are ranked 17th in the nation with an unblemished Liberty League record. William Smith leads the conference and ranks 36th in the nation in scoring defense, limiting opponents to just

Mohamed Abdelhafez ’22

HOBART SQUASH (8-13) The Statesmen entered the College Squash Association Championships ranked 27th in the nation. In the quarterfinals of the Conroy Cup, Hobart cruised past No. 30 Haverford 8-1, but fell to No. 26 Colby 7-2 in the semifinals and No. 29 Connecticut College 6-3 in the third place match.

Mohamed Abdelhafez ’22 earned a team-high 14 wins, playing at No. 1 and No. 2 in the lineup.

HOBART LACROSSE (8-1) Hobart showcased a high-powered offense in February. In a 21-12 win over Canisius on opening day, Eric Holden ’20 fired home seven goals, the most ever scored by a Division I Statesman. The record stood for just one week.

At Siena seven days later, Jason Knox ’22 torched the Saints for nine goals, the most ever scored by an NEC player. Even more impressive, faceoff specialist Matthew Pedicine ’19 won an NCAA Division I single game record 32 faceoffs and picked up an NEC record-tying 20 ground balls as Hobart beat Siena 22-12.

The Statesmen lost their Boswell Field season debut 19-16 to No. 4 Cornell, the most goals Hobart has scored against a ranked opponent since 1995.

After the setback to the Big Red, the Statesmen returned to form, rattling off six straight wins heading into the annual KrausSimmons Trophy game against Syracuse. In each of its first nine games, Hobart has scored at least 10 goals, a feat last accomplished by the Statesmen in 1998.

Attackman Chris Aslanian ’19 is leading an assault on the program’s Division I era records.

He already has the career marks for points (172) and assists (86) and is threatening the season mark for assists (tied for 4th with 26). Hobart is second in the nation in scoring offense, averaging 16.1 goals per game. That pace puts

eight goals per game. The stingy Herons are led by 2018 All-American Mekayla Montgomery and her team-highs in caused turnovers (20), draws (41) and ground balls (27).

William Smith’s balanced attack features nine players with 10 or more points. Ellie Burns ’21 leads the team with 25 goals and 29 points.

Rachel Slagle ’20, Sadie Mapstone ’21 and Payton McMahon ’22 share the team lead with seven assists apiece.

The Herons still have the bulk of their conference schedule ahead of them, including showdowns with ranked teams in No. 19 Ithaca and No. 24 Skidmore.

WILLIAM SMITH SOCCER (17-3-1, 8-1-0) The Herons captured their 12th consecutive Liberty League regular season and tournament championships, beating RIT 1-0 in the championship match. William Smith made another deep run in the NCAA Championship, reaching the quarterfinals with a 2-1 win over No. 14 Amherst. The Herons played No. 5 Williams to a 1-1 draw. With a trip to the semifinals on the line, the Ephs advanced 2-1 in penalty kicks.

Midfielder Megan Barwick ’19 earned second team All-America honors from United Soccer Coaches and was also elected a second team Google Cloud Academic All-American. Along with third team Academic All-American Veronica Romines ’19, Barwick raised the number of Heron soccer players named Academic All-Americans to 17, more than double any other team at HWS.

Chris Aslanian '19 wards off a defender during Hobart's 13-7 win over Wagner College. After dishing out four assists during the game, Aslanian now holds Hobart’s career points record of 164.

Elizabeth “Bizzer” Gahagan '19 tests the defense during William Smith's game against St. John Fisher College.

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HOBART TENNIS (1-1) The fall tennis season was highlighted by the performances of Alan Dubrovsky ’20 and Walker Anderson ’21. The pair combined to win the ITA Northeast Regional Doubles Championship and Dubrovsky topped the field in the singles championship. The fifth seeded doubles team, Dubrovsky and Anderson defeated the No. 4 seed from Stevens 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.

They are the first Hobart duo to win the regional title. In the singles draw, Dubrovsky reached the title match as the No. 3 seed and faced RPI’s Sebastien Castillo-Sanchez, the No. 2 seed. Dubrovsky captured the championship 7-6 (7-5), 2-6, 6-4. He is the first Statesman to win the singles title since Hall of Famer Adam Schapiro ’96.

Winning the regional titles earned Dubrovsky and Anderson a trip to Rome, Ga., for the ITA Cup, where Dubrovsky finished fourth and the tandem placed eighth.

Both Statesmen earned All-America honors for advancing to the ITA Cup. — ­ Ken DeBolt

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Genovese Earns Lacrosse Honor

Former William Smith College Head Lacrosse Coach Pat Genovese P’01, P’03, P’05, P’08 was inducted into the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Hall of Fame in November.

Genovese led the William Smith lacrosse team from its inception in 1971 through her retirement from coaching in 2012. In 39 seasons, she compiled a record of 385-158-1 for an exceptional .709 winning percentage. At the time of her retirement, only one person in Division III women’s lacrosse had more career wins. Today, Genovese is fifth on the DIII all-time wins list.

Wilber Elected to Soccer Coaches Hall of Fame

William Smith College Head Soccer Coach Aliceann Wilber P'12 is one of three members of the United Soccer Coaches Hall of Fame Class of 2019, and is one of the first women to be enshrined.

Wilber was the first Division III women’s soccer coach and the first female coach in all divisions of NCAA soccer to reach the 500-win plateau. Her current total puts her in first place on the Division III all-time list.

Wilber is the only coach the William Smith soccer program has ever known. In 39 seasons, she has compiled an overall record of 572-135-58 (.786). The Herons have reached the NCAA tournament 28 times in Wilber’s tenure, and won the national championship in 1988 and 2013.

On Dec. 29, 2018, William Smith Head Basketball Coach Lindsay Sharman racked up her 200th career win as the Herons defeated Whitworth University 78-49 in the California Lutheran Holiday Classic.

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t was a winter of wins for HWS coaches. On Jan. 17, 2019, Statesmen Head Hockey Coach Mark Taylor celebrated his 300th win on the ice. On Dec. 29, 2018, Heron Head Basketball Coach Lindsay Sharman racked up her 200th career win.

Coach Taylor marked another milestone in his HWS career with a 5-0 win over Castleton in a New England Hockey Conference contest at the Cooler.

Hired to lead the Statesmen in 2000, he has earned nine NCAA tournament bids and three trips to the national semifinals (2006, 2009, 2019). Taylor was named the ECAC West Coach of the Year in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2015 and again in 2016, and is the most successful coach in Hobart hockey history.

Taylor is the 11th active coach in NCAA Division III Men’s Hockey with 300 career wins, and just the 29th Statesmen Head Hockey Coach Mark Taylor coach in DIII history all-time to reach that milestone. celebrated his 300th win on the ice.

He is the first Hobart coach in any sport to accumulate 300 wins.

Coach Sharman’s win came as the Herons defeated Whitworth University 78-49 in the California Lutheran Holiday Classic. Since joining HWS prior to the start of the 2005-06 season, Sharman has directed her Heron teams to three Liberty League regular season championships, two 20-win seasons, two NCAA tournament appearances, a Liberty League tournament title and an ECAC Upstate tournament championship.

Chasing Greatness:

PHOTOS BY LAUREN LONG

David J Urick Stadium Unveiled

Surrounded by family, David J Urick hoists the ribbon in celebration.

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n a dedication ceremony during Homecoming and Family Weekend, the Colleges named David J Urick Stadium in honor of the legendary lacrosse coach who led the Hobart Statesmen to 10 straight NCAA Division III Championships in the 1980s.

Former players, colleagues, friends and family gathered on Sept. 29 to honor Urick, who was in attendance with his wife, children and grandchildren.

The evening’s keynote speaker, current Gettysburg College Men’s Head Lacrosse Coach Henry "Hank" Janczyk ’76, recalled Urick as “a voice of reason, a peacemaker, someone with humility and great character.” A Hobart Hall of Famer and former Hobart lacrosse assistant coach under Urick, Janczyk reflected on his mentor, who earned a reputation as someone “who had an innate ability to bring people together for a common goal.”

Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. ’12, noted that Urick “accepted who you were, pushed you and encouraged you exactly when you needed it.”

“We speak about tradition often here,” said current Hobart Head Lacrosse Coach Greg Raymond. Indicating the stadium’s new sign and turning to Urick, he continued: “Now, to see your name every day reminds us of the greatness that came before us, and it inspires us to chase down some greatness of our own.”

The fundraising effort for the stadium dedication was initiated with a $1 million lead gift by Trustee Thomas B. Poole ’61, L.H.D. ’06 and his wife MaryJane Poole P’91. Proceeds supported the new $3.5 million indoor turf field facility on the south side of Robert A. Bristol ’31 Field House (see p. 28).

Eric Stein ’89, who played lacrosse for Urick during several of his championship seasons, helped to lead the fundraising

campaign. He described the stadium dedication as “a great opportunity to permanently memorialize a great person, great coach and great leader.”

Urick joined the Hobart staff as an assistant football and lacrosse coach in 1971, became head football coach in 1976, and was named co-head coach of the lacrosse team in 1979. He took the reins solo in 1980, and over the next 10 seasons posted an unprecedented record of 129-33, including a 90-3 record against Division III teams.

As Hobart head coach, Urick won the Francis “Babe” Kraus Award as Division III Coach of the Year in 1980 and 1981. In 1987, he won his eighth-straight Division III title, surpassing UCLA’s John Wooden “Now, to see your name for most consecutive championships in a every day reminds us of team sport. He coached 40 All-American the greatness that came players during his tenure at Hobart, before leaving Geneva in 1989 for the head coach before us, and it inspires position at Georgetown University, where us to chase down some he brought the Hoyas’ program to national greatness of our own.” prominence.

—Hobart Head Lacrosse

An active member of the NCAA Coach Greg Raymond Lacrosse Committee, Urick also served as head coach of the champion United States team in the 1986 World Games. A member of the Hobart College Athletic Hall of Fame, Urick was inducted in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Potomac Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2005.

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A large crowd gathers for the dedication of David J Urick Stadium.

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Joseph C. Stein ’86, David J Urick, Eric J. Stein ’89.

Gettysburg College Men’s Head Lacrosse Coach Hank Janczyk ’76.

The new scoreboard sign at David J Urick Stadium.

Jonathan Spaan ’18 signs his congratulations to Coach Urick.

David J Urick is joined by his family, HWS students and Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. '12 as he cuts the ribbon at the stadium dedication.

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“Mia had 27 points and nine rebounds in this game — she performs well under pressure. She brought a competitive edge to our team, great emotion and passion, and our team really energized around that.” — Head

Who:

Coach Lindsay Sharman

The Herons ended the 2018-19 season with a 17-9 record.

Forward Mia Morrison ‘19

What:

Herons vs. Tigers

When // where: Morrison scored 27 points at home against RIT, a game that ultimately went to the Tigers. She later scored a career-high 36 points in a 70-67 Heron win at Vassar on Feb. 15. Her final season was capped by being named Liberty League Women’s Basketball Player of the Year, a 2019 Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-American honorable mention, the D3hoops.com East Region Player of the Year, a 2019 D3hoops.com All-America third team pick and earning a spot in the inaugural WBCA Division III Senior All-Star Game, where she led Team Strong to victory with a game-high 20 points.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KEVIN COLTON

A psychology major, Morrison scored 489 points in her final year, bringing her career total to 1,526 and passing Gwen Scott ’82 for second place on the William Smith College career points list. Only current Heron Assistant Coach Jennifer Goodell Cooper '97 has more career points (2,042).

Playing for and being a student at William Smith has been a life-changing experience for me. I’m proud to say that, compared to four years ago when I first set foot on campus, I have grown tremendously in mindset, skill and maturity level.”

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—Mia Morrison ‘19

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January 4 / Bristol Gym

PHOTO BY KATHY COLLINS ’09

To honor those men, past and present, who by their deeds as athletes, staff members, and benefactors and, who by example of their lives, personify the value of sport in the education of Hobart men.

The Hobart Hall of Fame Class of 2018 included (clockwise from front left): Stockton Buck ’66, P'98, William "Bill" Palmer ’94, Jeffrey "Jeff" Tambroni ’92, Jeremy Foley ’74, Kent Smack ’97 and Leonard "Len" DeFrancesco ’56, as well as the late Delivan “Augie” Gates ’56, P'87.

Hobart Hall of Fame: Class of 2018

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even Statesmen were inducted into the Hobart College Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2018. They join a distinguished group of Hobart athletes, coaches, administrators and friends who enhance the proud and rich tradition of Hobart athletics.

Stockton Buck ’66, P’98 is regarded as one of the best all-time lacrosse midfielders at Hobart. As team captain of the 1966 Laurie Cox Division champions, Buck earned All-America honors and received the Judge Kane Award as the team’s MVP. He is a retired FBI agent.

Leonard “Len” DeFrancesco ‘56 was a four-year letter winner in basketball and baseball, serving the Hobart nine as captain in 1955 and 1956 and captaining the 195556 basketball Statesmen. He was voted the Hobart Athlete of the Year in 1955-56, earning the first “Babe” Kraus Award. He is a retired public school teacher.

Jeremy Foley ‘74 earned varsity letters in football and lacrosse as a Statesman. He recently retired from

a distinguished career as an athletic administrator at the University of Florida, and is regarded as one of the best NCAA Division I athletic directors. Foley has been a major donor to the continued development of athletic facilities at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Delivan “Augie” Gates ‘56, P’87 earned four varsity letters in football and lettered three years as a lacrosse defenseman. He was among the small band of loyal Hobart alumni who founded the Statesmen Athletic Association (SAA) in 1970. Over his lifetime, he was a faithful and generous supporter of the SAA and especially of Hobart football. He was the owner of Broome Bituminous Products in Vestal, N.Y. Gates passed away on Oct. 21, 2017.

William “Bill” Palmer ‘94 earned All-America honors in both football and lacrosse. As a senior, he served as a team captain for both sports. Palmer still holds the Hobart football record for career interceptions (23) and is tied for most interceptions in a season (9). Palmer was also a three-year lacrosse letterman,

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playing on the 1993 NCAA Division III championship team.

He is a principal at IMA Corporate Interiors, LLC.

Kent Smack ‘97 was a four-year varsity rower, serving as team captain during his senior year. As a Hobart student-athlete, he founded the Committee on Reviving Hobart Tradition. Following graduation, he earned a spot on the 2001 U.S. National Rowing Team and was named to the 2004 U.S. Olympic team that competed in Athens.

He is the managing director and president of ESM Software Group.

Jeffrey “Jeff” Tambroni ‘92 was an All-American attackman in lacrosse, and played on three NCAA Division III Championship teams.

He continues to rank in the top 20 in career goals, assists and points.

The Most Outstanding Player of the 1990 NCAA tournament, Tambroni earned the 1992 Bill Stiles ‘43 Memorial Award for leadership and character and was also selected team MVP. He is currently the head lacrosse coach at Penn State University.

ca. 1975 First Study Abroad

In the spring of 1975, Professor Emerita of Art History Elena Ciletti took 29 students to Italy,

where the group spent 10 weeks exploring art in Florence, Rome and Venice. Here, they pause for a photo on the steps of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice.

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PHOTO BY NEIL SJOBLOM '75.

Pictured above: Front row, left to right: Thomas P. Steketee ’76, Elizabeth A. Hudson ’75, Professor Emerita of Art History Elena Ciletti, Marjorie Scheer ’75, John S. Swersey ’76. Second row, left to right: Peter Hill ’78, June E. Lardner ’78, Randall B. Rumley ’75, Amy Koch Leman ’76, Sheryl Sutin Barell ’77, P’06, Paul M. Gottlieb ’76. Third row, left to right: Elizabeth Blacet ’75, Susan Albert ’75, P’07, P’09, Jay C. Fernandes ’76, Susan “Shosh” Harris ’75, Joann Haberman ’76. Top row: Douglas B. Howlett ’74.

A GLOBAL CAMPUS

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The Princeton Review ranks

HWS STUDY ABROAD #1

Years of International Education

From an unlikely proposition in the fall of 1974, to the nation’s No. 1 study abroad program

by Andrew Wickenden ’09

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A Global Campus

2nd YEAR IN A ROW

Neil Sjoblom ’75 remembers wondering “what had I got myself into — but that changed right away when we arrived in Venice.”

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Professor Emerita of Art History Elena Ciletti lectures at Villa la Rotunda just outside Vicenza in northern Italy (1975).

PHOTOS BY NEIL SJOBLOM ’75

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tudy abroad at Hobart and William Smith took off informally, or as Professor Emerita of Art History Elena Ciletti says, “by the seat of one’s pants.”

“It was, I’m happy to say, student generated,” Ciletti recalls of that first term abroad. “I was sitting with some students in the little café in the basement of Coxe Hall.

We had just been in an Italian renaissance art history course, talking about how great these works were, and somebody said, ‘Why can’t we go to Italy and see these things in person?’

I was young and foolish and said, ‘Yeah,’ and everybody said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ So we did.”

The following term, the spring of 1975, she and 29 students spent 10 weeks exploring the art of Venice, Florence and Rome — from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to Gianbattista Tiepolo’s frescos in the country houses of noble Italian families, where “the luminosity of the air and environment let you see the works in a way that no slide projector on campus could match,” Ciletti says.

Susan Albert ’75, P’07, P’09 recalls that “it was a pretty wild idea at the time” for students at a residential college like HWS “to take off and leave our dorm rooms and jump on an airplane.”

After landing in Europe thousands of miles from home, in a cramped compartment on the overnight train from Luxembourg, Neil Sjoblom ’75 remembers wondering “what had I got myself into — but that changed right away when we arrived in Venice.”

On that sunny day, disembarking from the waterbus at St. Mark’s Square, “seeing the reflections in the canals and the interplay of light on mosaics, all my anxieties disappeared,” he says.

Sjoblom, who had already established a photography business in Geneva that he still operates today, drew inspiration from that interplay of color, light and reflection for his independent study

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Professor Emerita of Art History Elena Ciletti

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that semester. The pictures he took would eventually appear in a show at Houghton House and decorate his studio on Linden Street. Some still adorn his walls at home, reminders of the how being abroad “awakens you to your surroundings, makes you appreciate that there’s another world out there besides your own.”

Albert, who went on to a long career in the art world as a gallery manager and wholesaler and who served on the Board of Trustees, says that term abroad was “a wonderful grand finale of all of my interests as an art student.”

“I was a pretty naïve young person from outside Washington, D.C.,” she says, “but going to Italy, being exposed to all the riches of that country, with Elena bringing all of this art alive to us — it just opened up so many doors.”

Ciletti, who taught courses on Michelangelo and Rococo painting, and who directed 29 independent studies that term, notes that “the art was there, the students were enthusiastic about it, and I was prepared, intellectually if not emotionally — but this is 1975. There’s no email, no computers; even phoning abroad was a huge deal. No oversight from the deans or provost.

The students didn’t speak Italian, didn’t have access to libraries or books other than what they brought with them.”

Compared to the organization of today’s abroad programs, the infrastructure supporting that term in Italy seems “preposterous in the extreme,” Ciletti says with a laugh. “Now, it’s a whole different story. The Colleges interweave study abroad with the curriculum and really prepare students with the political, social and cultural components that are so integral to making these programs into a cohesive intellectual project.”

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NORTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE

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s the idea picked up steam, “some of the faculty used our AURORA BOREALIS | own connections abroad to get programs going,” says PHOTO BY MIKE GOULART ’20 Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. ’12, who led his first term abroad to London in 1980 with Professor Emeritus of Political Science Joseph DiGangi. Those relationships fostered “high standards in the classroom and great cultural exchange,” McGuire says, “and as the structure has expanded and become increasingly professional, our partnerships with universities allow us to target what we want students to gain from the experience and what we need to prepare them for.”

Programs and participation grew through the 1980s and 1990s, fueled by student interest and driven

by HWS faculty and the early leaders of what would become the Center for Global Education (CGE). As the Colleges refined the study abroad model, the immersive coursework and cultural exchange of those early years became the foundation of today’s programming.

“Living abroad, for even as short as three months, Mary Kate Miranowski ’09, you get a much bigger view of the world,” says Chapin Caroline M. Monahan ’09 and Bates ’81, P’09, P’12. After spending a term in London Samantha J. Schraeter ’09 in Rome. with McGuire and DiGangi, he returned the following year to help administer the program led by Professor of Sociology Jack Harris P’02, P’06 and Professor Emerita of English Claudette Columbus.

Bates, who later worked in the London banking sector and is now executive vice president at Citizens Bank in New York, says that from the literary and artistic history on the Isle of Wight to the Findhorn eco-village in northern Scotland, studying abroad “opened us up to different aesthetics, different mindsets, different ways of building a community.”

Years later, when Bates’ daughter Mary Kate Miranowski ’09 studied in Rome, she found that exposure to those differences “makes you more self-aware. A big part of understanding different cultures and different ways of life is knowing that where you come from is just one small part of the world.”

Miranowski, a divisional merchandising manager at J. Crew, notes that “when I’m hiring people, I’m looking for that kind of perspective.”

Associate Professor of Classics James Capreedy, who led the fall 2018 program to Rome, says that “if the goals of HWS are for students to become more aware, to have the Associate Professor of Classics James Capreedy courage to be autonomous, to have empathy, and to think and act with an ethical and moral

Zachary Felder ’18 studied abroad in Copenhagen and won the Design Excellence Award from the Danish Institute for Study (DIS).

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hen Zachary Felder ’18 returned from Copenhagen, he began thinking about the ways he could apply in Geneva the ideas that earned him the Design Excellence Award from DIS, the Colleges’ institutional partner in Denmark. At the time, the City of Geneva was considering new designs for transportation and public space 42 / HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES

downtown. Working with Associate Professor of Art and Architecture Jeffrey Blankenship and now Geneva City Manager Sage Gerling, Felder drew on his urban design experience abroad to develop a plan that became his Honors project.

Thanks to efforts from Blankenship and Gerling, that project landed him a position

mind, then being in a foreign country … is a perfect way to develop these skills.”

Those goals have guided the Colleges’ academics for generations, so the fact that their pursuit in new global settings has become “a defining part of the HWS experience,” as Professor Emerita of History Susanne McNally says, maybe shouldn’t be surprising.

“It is difficult to cultivate really serious global citizenship, even with firsthand experience,” she says. “Without it, it’s almost impossible.”

In 1983, McNally and her then-husband Charles, who helped establish and lead the nascent global education program, organized one of the first U.S. undergraduate abroad Russell Kaltschmidt ’84 programs to China with the late Professor of Art John Loftus P’75, P’76, P’91.

At the time, the Colleges had recently added Chinese to the on-campus language course offerings, and for Russell Kaltschmidt ’84, who designed his own major in East Asian studies, the term abroad in Beijing was “the culminating experience for my time at HWS.” As part of their course at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, students were paired with Chinese “language partners,” an experience that provided “great inroads into the culture,” says Kaltschmidt, now a theater director, producer and learning and leadership consultant based in San Francisco and New York.

“I was fascinated by what the people of China had gone through after World War II and since the revolution,” he says. He describes the “cultural pull” he observed between “experts,” who “embraced science and technology and what the world had to offer beyond China,” and “reds,” who held a more inwardlooking Maoist worldview. “My language partner was much more red,” he recalls, “and my roommate was on the other end of the spectrum. Between their clothes and haircuts and how they carried themselves, it was almost night and day.”

In their sessions, “being able to study a language and then use it to have this really meaningful cultural exchange,” Kaltschmidt says he saw how “study and experience come together to awaken global awareness.”

Across the breadth of the Colleges’ dozens of programs today, “the idea of being present and engaging in your local community is a priority for us,” says Dean of Global Education Thomas D’Agostino P’15, who has led CGE since it was established in 2003. “There’s a danger of students never getting outside the bubble of other American students, so we’ve tried to create as many

as a sustainable planning and design intern with the landscape architecture and engineering firm Barton & Loguidice. Currently, Felder is coordinating public art elements, contributing to the design process, and facilitating community outreach efforts for the firm as it works with the City to renovate the downtown Geneva streetscape.

“The connections I made in Copenhagen — both professionally and with my host family — drastically impacted who I am right now,” says Felder. “Within the design field in general, it’s easy to get locked into a single approach, so it was a huge opportunity to live in a country full of ideas I had never been exposed to. Working with the professors and

students in Denmark, having those deeper conversations with my host family, made me ask myself a whole new set of questions. I learned how to make my approach more eclectic and effective, and I think that’s reflected in the designs we’re working on here.”

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Professor Emerita of History Susanne McNally

“You grow up having certain images of different people and cultures, and it’s an eye-opening experience to get past myths and stereotypes of cultures and develop relationships and build rapport." – Innis Baah ’10

Innis Baah ’10

opportunities as possible — through homestays, teaching placements, community service and internships — to break outside that bubble and engage with the local students and other residents.”

“Within a semester I feel like I lived a lifetime,” says Innis Baah ’10, who spent the fall of his junior year studying in Hong Kong.

“You grow up having certain images of different people and cultures, and it’s an eye-opening experience to get past myths and stereotypes of cultures and develop relationships and build rapport. The language barrier was big, but I joined the school soccer team, I interned with a law office assisting migrant workers, I built connections and I found that I came back more focused and more attentive to people.”

The following year, Baah earned a scholarship from the Council on International Exchange Education to travel to Seoul. Seeing the infrastructural growth since North Korea and South Korea split, he says, reignited his interest in his home country of Ghana, which gained independence from Britain in the same era. After graduation, Baah joined Rustic Pathways, leading service-learning programs to Costa Rica and Panama. Since helping establish the organization’s Ghana program, he has worked with locals to raise funds and renovate a school and returns at least once a year as he strategizes how his work in the States could boost economic opportunity in West Africa.

Now a senior consultant with Ernst & Young’s construction and corporate real estate advisory practice, Baah says that “in all these different places, I was able to discover or do something that inched me one step

closer to who I am and what I want to do.”

“I think studying abroad helps students to appreciate the nuances of other cultures and acquire a firsthand understanding of the complexities of globalization,” says Associate Professor of Political Science Vikash Yadav, who has led abroad programs to Egypt and India. “It is one thing to teach about poverty and development through statistics, for example; it is quite another for students to experience the fractured forms of globalization in urban India through their homestay or while exploring the gullies of an ancient city like Varanasi or the alleys of a special economic zone outside of New Delhi. … Since many of our students will need to work with and engage their counterparts from Asia professionally once they are in the work world, it is wonderful for them to become accustomed to interacting with foreign cultures now.”

Whether though internships or site-based coursework, service learning or living with host families, immersive study abroad programs help students “develop a greater sense of selfawareness, self-confidence and self-sufficiency, while also broadening their perspective on the U.S. and how our country fits within the global context,” says CGE Program Manager Anthony Mandela.

During the field-based program in Rabat, Morocco, Elizabeth Dunne ’19 not only enriched her Arabic language skills through her homestay, but the Refugee Studies major also visited the United Nations High Commission on Refugees office, “a handson experience [which], Elizabeth Dunne ’19

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married with the theoretical work included in my individual major, has been invaluable.”

With a strong background in the theory, “being able to see the people who make the asylum process actually happen was very enlightening,” says Dunne, who served as a policy advocacy intern at the Yemen Peace Project, which has promoted advocacy and grant-making programs for the country and its citizens since 2010.

“In the classroom, when students are able to draw on personal experience, they’re automatically engaged — they have something to grab on to,” says Professor of Geoscience Nan Crystal Arens, who has led field courses in Australia, New Zealand and the Bahamas.

“We know from educational research that unless you have that experience, it’s really hard to connect with the material. We can read about plastic pollution in the ocean, but you don’t truly experience it until you’re on the beach and pick it up and feel the weight of it.”

As Professor of Sociology Jack Harris P’02, P’06 puts it, “we are a campus that says ideas have consequences. We have these incredible ideas that come out of classes, but it’s not enough just to have a good idea. If it’s a good idea, you need to act on it, you need to test it. In class, students are reading world literature, learning languages, studying the environment and international politics and economics. And then we say: Go out and test it.

Prove the theory. Put it into action.”

During the 2019 winter break, Harris led a group of students to a farming village in rural Ghana for an intensive three-week course designed around “asset-based community development,” combining sociology, service learning and entrepreneurial studies.

Through a partnership with a nonprofit called ThinkImpact, students enrolled in the course “Social Entrepreneurship” worked with locals “to brainstorm and find new ways to improve the community while living amongst them,” says Yalemwork Teferra ’21. “Not

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While studying abroad in Seville, Spain in her sophomore year, Monika von Brauchitsch ’18 traveled to Chefchaouen, Morocco, where she captured a photo of a monk standing in a doorway.

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transiting from some fancy hotel in Kumasi, but using their latrines, eating their food, farming, going to church, playing with the kids,” all of which helped “build trust with the community so that we could better implement our ideas.”

With typical service-oriented abroad experiences, Harris says, “you find a deficit-

Yalemwork Teferra ’21 speaks to a group in the village of NKontomire during a three-week study abroad trip to Ghana focused on asset-based community development.

PHOTO BY JACK HARRIS P'02, P'06

based approach where people with more resources come and give them to people with less resources. In this case, we help identify assets they have in the community and ideas to make businesses out of them, or to develop associations that improve the social prosperity of the community. We don’t go with a particular outcome in mind. What we know is that if we follow a process — immerse, inspire and innovate — we’ll find enterprising ideas to develop with our collaborators.”

The HWS group and their hosts found that leftover pods from the village’s cocoa production could be ground and mixed with starches from plantains and yams to create charcoal that burns hotter, cleaner, longer and cheaper than wood.

Meanwhile, students worked with a soap maker, midwife, pharmacist, PTA chairperson and village parents to organize a sanitation campaign and handwashing station at the local school.

Others collaborated with local seamstresses to develop a bookkeeping system to track and maximize profits.

An economics and international relations double major, Teferra says she experienced firsthand “the strength in collectivity and the power in mobilizing a community, which is what I understand as being the bedrock for social entrepreneurship.”

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hen Thomas D’Agostino arrived at HWS, he was charged with establishing what has become a vital and fruitful study abroad partnership with Union College. His other undertaking was loftier: “to help our students have a more enriching, more meaningful study abroad experience,” he says. “It’s how you go abroad that dictates what you get out of the experience, so we want students to think intentionally about what’s possible.”

With the help of faculty and staff, the CGE team has developed unique pre-departure and reentry programs aligned with the breadth and depth of the HWS curriculum. The “adjustment skills and intercultural competencies” at the heart of that programming are contextualized against the backdrop

“It’s how you go abroad that dictates what you get out of the experience, so we want students to think intentionally about what’s possible.”- Dean

of Global Education Thomas D’Agostino P’15

In 2000, a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation helped establish the “Partnership for Global Education” between HWS and Union College, broadening the menu of offcampus programs and enabling both institutions to “make great use of our shared resources,” D’Agostino says. The partnership also set the foundation for the 2014 New York Six International Initiative, a three-year, $1.25 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support new globalization and language learning collaborations among students and faculty from HWS, Union, Colgate University, Hamilton College, St. Lawrence University and Skidmore College.

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of students’ personal goals, which “significantly enhances someone’s study abroad experience,” says Jennifer O’Neil, the Colleges’ pre-departure and reentry programming coordinator.

CGE’s constellation of pre-departure preparation is integrated with orientation meetings with faculty and staff, coursework, language instruction and cultural primers to ensure students decide deliberately what, where, how and most importantly why they are studying abroad. Along with CGE’s goal-setting workshops, O’Neil explains, students leave campus equipped with “realistic goals, potential resources and a tentative plan [so they can] hit the ground running and make the most of every moment abroad.”

For Gabby Fraser ’20, a semester abroad in Beijing was not only the next practical step in learning Chinese but also an opportunity to better grasp China’s environmental policies and narrow career possibilities around “something as pressing as climate change and international relations.”

After visiting the United Nations the summer before she left for China, Fraser says she realized that “the wheels turn slowly and it’s difficult for people especially on the outside to see the changes.” A global environmental politics course in Beijing, she says, piqued her interest in sustainable building and clarified her curiosity about development work at “the level where I can see impacts and at the same time contribute to broader projects.”

“A student can come to HWS and get an awesome education on campus,” says Associate Professor of Biology Meghan Brown, who has led programs to Siberia, Australia, New Zealand and Guatemala. “But embedded learning in a different location catalyzes and crystallizes student interest, both when they return to HWS and after graduation.”

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y the time Katie Cornell ’15 left campus to spend her junior year abroad she had already “dug into the history of European and Asian art and artistic practices [and] the ways these seemingly different cultures interacted and reacted to each other culturally, politically, economically, socially, artistically.” Living in India during the fall and Rome the following spring, she took on field research exploring how those convergences define “the way history exists in our daily lives and in contemporary society,” a project that has shaped her life ever since.

Alongside a Hindi language course and historical and contemporary surveys of India, Cornell researched the social uses and production methods of textiles in that country. In Rome, her historical and architectural field research took her across the city. Energized by “the certainty of learning from primary sources — the real places and people,” Cornell says she took inspiration from that year to create both her Honors project and Fulbright proposal, which wouldn’t have been possible “if I hadn’t seen firsthand the varying conditions of historic monuments and sites in India, and if I hadn’t been trained to look at Roman historical spaces in a very particular, thoughtful way.”

When she returned to India in 2015 as a Fulbright Research Scholar, she continued investigating how “a developing, forward-thinking country protects its past” through its relationship to cultural heritage sites. Later, as she earned her master’s in photographic preservation and collections management at the University of Rochester and the George Eastman Museum, Cornell learned to care for, manage and derive information from photography collections.

Having seen “the complexities of human creativity at HWS and in India and Rome,” she says, “I can better appreciate the unique meaning held within these historical photographic objects. And since I understand photographs in this way, I can better preserve them.”

Now on staff in the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Cornell says that “more than anything, studying abroad taught me how to engage with other cultures and how to critically think about human’s deep, tangible fascination with the past and, also, visions of the future.” ●

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Professor of Economics Scott McKinney P'13 leads a group in Ecuador.

was debating solutions to terrorism and refugee resettlement crises at NATO headquarters in Brussels. At a model assembly, Lorimer and her peers addressed a hypothetical terrorism and migration crisis on a fictional Mediterranean island. Based on recent and ongoing issues in the region, the simulation mirrored a meeting of the Operations Policy Committee, “one of the primary committees that report to the North Atlantic Council, the primary decision-making body of NATO,” Lorimer explains.

Each student represented a country and was given “three crisis military response operations” to the fallout of a terrorist attack on the fictional island. Each member, Lorimer says, “had to come to the conclusion of which response our country would endorse, given their public and foreign policy doctrines.”

Building on coursework going back to her first year at HWS, Lorimer’s studies abroad have informed her burgeoning Honors project, which will focus on counterterrorism strategy within the European Union.

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oward the end of his semester abroad in Leipzig, Germany, Stephen Enos ’15 “paused and thought about what I’d do the next year. I had always vaguely thought that grad school in Germany would be cool, but that time I spent abroad convinced me that you really can live somewhere like Germany.” The fact that it’s another country, he realized, “shouldn’t be a hurdle.”

Enos says he knew early on that he wanted to be a scientist: “I had it set in my head in high school that I was going to study biology and chemistry.” Growing up, he had family friends from Germany and when language courses in

“What particularly interests me is the role of the internet in radicalizing young people in western nations and encouraging them to commit acts of terror having never left their home country,” says Lorimer, who plans to explore the role of the internet in combatting extremism. “This has been an issue for Brussels in recent years and having spent substantial time [there] I want to research it and help come to a solution.”

When Professor of Economics Scott McKinney P’13 led a semester abroad to Ecuador and Peru in 2017, the courses he taught juxtaposed the cultural and environmental history of the region with contemporary challenges. The goal, he says, was for students to take ownership of what they were learning, to “keep their study abroad experience in mind when it is their turn to make decisions that affect Ecuador, Peru, Latin America and other places in the world that are not the U.S. … [to make] decisions in terms of friends and families, people and places that they knew when they were abroad, rather than in terms of abstractions that mean nothing to them.”

did. After graduation, he interned middle school were offered, German He applied to in Dresden before embarking on was where he gravitated. He applied HWS in part his master’s and now his Ph.D. to HWS in part because of the chance because of the at the Paul Langerhans Institute, to study science abroad through the Julius G. Blocker ’53 Endowed chance to study Dresden, where he is researching diabetes, the pancreas and Fellowship, which supports students science abroad endocrine physiology. studying in one of the Colleges’ through the

Among patients with brittle programs in Germany.

Julius G. Blocker type 1 diabetes, there is a high

Having declared a biochemistry demand for donated pancreases, major and earned a 2014 Blocker ’53 Endowed which are rare, but Enos’ Fellowship, Enos spent a few weeks Fellowship. research studies the potential of in Munich for an intensive German stem cell-derived beta cells (the course before moving on to Leipzig. cells that secrete insulin) as “a new cell source There, thanks to the skills he developed in the for transplants,” he explains. labs at HWS, he was ready for an environment

As he tracks how those cells mature “after where independent research is prioritized. “Even transplantation to the anterior chamber of if you have to learn the details of the field, you a mouse eye,” he hopes to “understand how don’t have to worry about the core techniques these cells develop once they’re inside a living and subjects because you have that background,” organism.” Using fluorescent microscopy, he explains. he can follow that development — without

As he rose to those challenges in Leipzig, harming the mouse — while assessing how Enos developed a “level of self-sufficiency that the cells respond to blood sugar and whether really made a difference for me when I came they are ultimately viable as replacement back to campus. I was more aware that I had to transplantable material for human patients. get the most out of my lab research at HWS if I wanted to come back to Germany” — which he

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Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad: Siberia

s noted on p. 12, in 2018, the Russian Area Studies program was awarded a fifth Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant from the U.S. Department of Education, funding a six-week intensive seminar during the summer of 2019. Based in the Siberian cities of Irkutsk WELSH and Barnaul, where HWS also maintains an international exchange program, the Fulbright-Hays GPA grants offer students a chance to immerse themselves “in the language and culture and see parts of Russian life that there’s no other way to experience,” says Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies Kristen Welsh, who led the program in 2006 and 2009 to Irkutsk, and the 2016 program to Barnaul. “Students who had taken environmental studies courses at HWS, or been involved in groups such as Campus Greens, were able to put their learning to use through our work with the Great Baikal Trail NGO, helping … build a hiking trail on a mountain near the Baikal village of BolshoeGoloustnoe and doing educational outreach with schoolchildren in the village. Meeting with peers at the university in Irkutsk, our students learned that service- and activism-oriented clubs are a rarity in Russia; our students had to shift the terms in which they were thinking of service … [and first learn] about the historical and practical reasons for this lack of student volunteer clubs.”

With this firsthand interdisciplinary approach to studying the Western Siberian culture, history and physical environment, the program highlights the changes that made the region what it is today, and the influences that will change it in the future.

Alex Curtis ’20, Piper Delo ’20, Sarah Cavanaugh ’20 and Kaitlyn Marshall ’20 drive through the Altai Mountains in Southern Siberia.

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Argentina: Mendoza Australia: Perth, Queensland, Townsville/ Cairns Belgium: Brussels Brazil: Sao Paulo Canada: Quebec China: Beijing, Nanjing Costa Rica: Monteverde, San Joaquin de Flores Czech Republic: Prague Denmark: Copenhagen Ecuador: Quito France: Aix-en-Provence, Rennes Germany: Berlin, Bremen, Freiburg, Leipzig, TĂźbingen Ghana: Accra Hong Kong: Lingnan Hungary: Budapest India: Gangtok Ireland: Galway Italy: Rome Japan: Hikone Jordan: Amman Morocco: Rabat Netherlands: Maastricht New Zealand: Auckland Peru: Cuzco Russia: Barnaul, Siberia Senegal: Dakar South Africa: Grahamstown South Korea: Seoul Spain: Seville Sweden: Stockholm Taiwan: Taipei United Kingdom: Bath; Chichester; London; Norwich; Edinbugh, Scotland; Carmarthen, Wales Vietnam: Hanoi

CGE offers an evolving menu of programs and destinations, including the dozens of options for the 2018-19 academic year listed above. For a current list of offerings at any time visit CGE online at www.hws.edu/academics/global/.

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of HWS students study abroad

PHOTO BY MARISSA REED ’20 HOI ANN, VIETNAM – THE CITY OF LANTERNS

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rowing up the son of an electrician, Trevor Gionet ’12 recalls seeing from an early age “basic energy needs and how those were changing.” During the short-term “Sustainable China?” course in 2010, and later when he studied for a semester in Vietnam, he developed an increasingly rounded understanding of electricity as a commodity and ways to optimize resources, both economically and environmentally.

He visited a recycling plant in Beijing, a community outside Ligang where “bio-digestives and solar panels made the whole village totally off the grid” and the largest steel producing company in the world in Shanghai. In Vietnam, Gionet interned at a rice paddy, working alongside Vietnamese farmers, harvesting rice, learning to tie stalks around his cuffs “so fleas wouldn’t get up my sleeves,” and “always thinking how we could use the chaff from the rice I was threshing to create electricity.”

The “perspective shifts” he experienced while abroad — “being able to step back and see a situation with new eyes and then re-engage at a deeper level” — inspired him to return to Vietnam in 2012 through the Fulbright ETA U.S. Student program.

Gionet, who taught English as part

of the Fulbright, had majored in mathematics and decided to structure his classes around science projects, developing English grammar and conversational skills while teaching students, for instance, “to collect solar energy using Saran Wrap, a cup of water and a coat hanger.”

“Renewable and passive energy is a huge opportunity in Vietnam and all over the world,” says Gionet, who notes that those energy solutions, like biomass derived from rice chaff, “are now becoming reality.”

When he returned to the U.S., Gionet moved to Washington, D.C., working as an advocate for the biomass industry, organizing the first “woodstove decathlon” on the National Mall. Modeled on the solar decathlon, the clean-burning competition featured 12 stoves from different countries, demonstrating “that biomass can be really clean and renewable,” he explains.

Since earning his master’s in mathematics from the University of Maine, Gionet has been at the forefront of designing the future of the nation’s energy grid. As chief science officer at Introspective Systems in Portland, Maine, Gionet is building algorithms and software for the U.S. Department of Energy that will “essentially enable artificial intelligence for electricity production and consumption,” providing energy solutions that are “not only effective but could be implemented economically.”

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s students return to campus, Dean of Global Education Thomas D’Agostino P’15 says there is “an institutional effort” to ensure they continue to engage with the lessons they learned abroad. Working with faculty and staff in academic departments and offices across campus, the Center for Global Education pushes students to “flesh out skills from study abroad, to nuance their experience and get them ready for grad school, Fulbright Awards, the Peace Corps and their long-term careers.”

The annual Study Abroad Photo Contest sponsored by the CGE invites students who have returned from programs abroad to submit images of the people and environments that defined their experiences around the globe. HWS faculty and staff serve as judges.

Submissions are also considered for publication in The Aleph: A Journal of

Global Perspectives, a joint project of the HWS and Union College Partnership for Global Education. The annual publication features poetry, prose, photography and art produced by study abroad students at the two institutions.

CGE also sponsors Global Cafés, which offer students opportunities to share their international experiences with the HWS community, “build community through storytelling and learn about a brand new culture,” says Zoe Collis, an exchange student from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.

With the half-credit course “Continuing the Journey: From Study Abroad to a Life of Global Engagement,” students returning to campus have a forum in which to understand and communicate their experience to a variety of audiences.

Reflecting back on their time abroad, students develop skills to tell their stories in oral, written and digital forms, and learn to market their experience as they apply for jobs and graduate and professional schools.

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Top: Traditions from the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival are celebrated at the Global Café in September 2019.

2018 Photo Contest Winner Nagina Ahmadi ’20. "Los Baños de Doña María de Padilla."

Royal bath inside the Royal Alcazar of Sevilla, southern Spain.

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n 2018, as the Princeton Review ranked Hobart and William Smith’s global education program first in the nation for the second year in a row, Dean of Global Education Thomas D’Agostino P’15 and Professor of Sociology Jack Harris P’02, P’06 were concluding a large-scale assessment of the impact of global education on HWS graduates.

During their appointment as the 2017-18 John R. and Florence B. Kinghorn Global Fellows, D’Agostino and Harris found that HWS graduates “credit study abroad as transformative, affecting their personal and professional lives, and fostering resiliency and interest in seeking out persons and cultures different from their own.”

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O’Neil, CGE Predeparture and Reentry Programming Coordinator

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CGE has developed a portfolio of events and programs that push students to reflect on and “incorporate their international experiences into their lives at home, academically, professionally and personally.” — Jennifer

Their report aligns with larger studies on

It is the synthesis of ideas and action, the impacts of study abroad, but part of what preparation and reflection, on-campus distinguishes HWS, they concluded, lies in the investigation and off-campus experience that, pre-departure and reentry programming, “likely according to Professor of Education Charles a substantial reason why HWS has been ranked Temple, yields the “global perspectives” #1 by Princeton Review the last two years.” inherent in the Colleges’ mission statement.

They write that the Colleges’ unique, multiIn the essay he produced as a 2016-17 semester programming challenges students Kinghorn Fellow, Temple delineates what a to understand their education abroad with “global perspective” looks like in practice “richer and more sophisticated explanations and the “attitudes, that articulate clearly and concisely how the knowledge, and experience impacted them.” skills” that HWS community members

After the term abroad in Beijing in 1983, believe are indicative Susanne McNally recalls students feeling of that perspective. like “more serious, more mature, more sophisticated, more complex thinkers. They

“The Colleges’ were not so deeply embedded as they had curriculum is been before.” However, they also felt that globalized. You can “their experiences had separated them from learn a great deal Professor of Education their friends.” about the world right Charles Temple on this campus,”

“There was some culture shock coming Temple writes. “But many would argue that we back to Geneva,” says Russell Kaltschmidt ’84, need the face-to-face experience, too: the deep who returned to campus that year “acutely, conversations with new — and eventually old almost painfully aware of how American I am.”

— friends across café tables; the hundreds of But he recalls McNally’s insistence “to keep stories heard and told; and the sights, sounds talking about your experience because that’s and smells of bustling sidewalks, crowded what will keep it alive.” marketplaces, modest shops, intimate or awe When students return to campus today, inspiring houses of worship, family dwellings they face the same challenges of cultural in all their varieties, pigeon-flecked monuments readjustment and making meaning of their and grand or eccentric museums, cordial town time overseas. As D’Agostino says, “Much of plazas, proud city parks, the learning that happens as a and boisterous public result of study abroad happens beaches, followed by after students get on the plane visits and revisits to to come home. Things happen each other’s families, so quickly, it’s hard to process and frequent contact by while students are abroad, so the email and Skype. These more outlets we can give students expand our knowledge to reflect and process, the more of other people and they continue to learn from those their places, and help experiences, and the richer our us appreciate their own campus is for it.” perspectives.”

Through coursework, independent research and creative When Moira Moira O’Neill ’09 in Avignon, France projects, internships, blogs and O’Neill ’09 went social media, there are more abroad in the spring of avenues than ever to document and unpack 2008, she opted for the program in Avignon, those experiences in real time. But to ease the France, which featured a homestay and courses “reverse culture shock” that so many students taught exclusively in French. “The reality is experience upon their return, and to frame that you can formally study language but you study abroad as a dynamic piece of an ongoing must be immersed in it to really speak it,” education, CGE has developed a portfolio of she says. “The nuances of the language, slang, events and programs that push students to common expressions and idioms only appear if reflect on and “incorporate their international you are in the cultural milieu.” experiences into their lives at home,

O’Neill, who later earned “a generous academically, professionally and personally,” grant from an anonymous donor at HWS” that Jennifer O’Neil, CGE Predeparture and Reentry supported her summer internship at the Centre Programming Coordinator says.

National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris,

In the fall of her senior year, Lauren “Ren” Workman ’18 headed to Vietnam, where she interned with Green Innovation & Development, a sustainable energy nonprofit.

She helped drive an education campaign focused on the socio-environmental impacts of coal plants. As a photographer, translator and researcher for the organization, Workman created “tools for working with people from different backgrounds, and figuring out new ways of communication,” she says.

“Studying abroad prepared me not only for a service year, but also for my future career in the nonprofit world.”

Today, Workman is an AmeriCorps Ambassador of Mentoring, serving at Budget Buddies, Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass.

The organization “aims to create a world in which all women are financially independent,” says Workman. As the program coordinator for the Budget Buddies’ pilot program, Girl’s LIFE (Learning Independence through Financial Education), she recruits volunteer mentors for each girl who goes through the program, creates partnerships with agencies such as teen parenting programs and facilitates workshops focused on financial literacy.

“My time studying abroad in Vietnam truly helped me feel ready to take on the challenges of my service year,” she says.

experiences on campus” and says her time steeped in French CGE continues to larger, ongoing project culture shaped her “appreciation for refine its innovative, the “to internationalize our global context.” reflective approach community.”

She recalls her first night of her homestay with a French woman In 2010, NAFSA: Association to galvanizing named Edith, who after dinner global perspectives of International Educators “pulled out a picture album and a recognized the Colleges’ in Geneva and medal. Her father had been a chief in efforts with the Senator Paul abroad: adjusting the French Resistance and received Simon Award for Campus the medal from then-President Bill Internationalization. Noting pre-departure and Clinton during the 50th Anniversary CGE’s short-term abroad reentry programs, celebrations in the ’90s. Edith options, portfolio of unique boosting exchange considered the U.S. a true ally.” and challenging destinations, partnerships and rounded approach to

O’Neill says she learned that preparation and reentry, and “international relationships (even international leadership, the NAFSA between allies) are complex and student enrollment faculty profile praised the Colleges dynamic [and] each person in every and finding ways for “weaving education abroad part of the world has an interesting into campus life and crafting story to tell.” to increase study

Now pursuing her master’s at abroad participation thoughtful ways for students to relive and rethink experiences Kent State University, where she and funding. upon return home.” also teaches, she is studying the effects of global economic forces on Almost a decade later, communities in Ohio’s Mahoning CGE continues to refine its Valley. “As an instructor, I try to stress [the] innovative, reflective approach to galvanizing connections and shared experiences while also global perspectives in Geneva and abroad: looking at what makes different parts of the adjusting pre-departure and reentry programs, world special,” she says. “That’s a worldview boosting exchange partnerships and international I can attribute directly to my study abroad student enrollment and finding ways to increase experience.” study abroad participation and funding.

Just as students develop their own cultural

For Temple, this is the essence of a global understandings and academic skills, faculty perspective: getting “to know other people honestly, members who lead programs abroad establish and remember their interests and their needs.” collaborative relationships with colleagues and

“The problems we have to deal with undertake novel scholarship and research that globally are interconnected, so they demand that transforms learning on campus. Meanwhile, we understand and appreciate how other people the menu of destinations and programs abroad, live and the values they have,” Dean of Global which has nearly doubled since 2000, continues Education Thomas D’Agostino P’15 says. “We to grow both geographically and academically work hard to integrate off-campus study into to reflect the diverse interests of students and the on-campus curriculum … [because] study faculty. In that sense, CGE’s offerings “have been abroad complements and enhances academic and will continue to be fluid, so we can respond to changes in the curriculum” and ensure “that any student regardless of major will have someplace to pursue their academic program abroad,” D’Agostino says.

He says that when students “learn how to collaborate and work with people in other parts of the globe,” as they “develop newfound curiosities and interests and the desire to keep exploring,” they begin to see the world as an extension of campus and campus as a reflection of the world.

Dylan Morris ’19 at Lion's Head Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa.

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thletic or academic commitments, personal or familial obligations can sometimes complicate or even rule out a full semester abroad, but D’Agostino contends that “students can have a really immersive experience in three or four weeks if you design the program right.”

The multitude of short-term abroad programs offered during summer and winter break “opens up a different audience and a different stage to ask questions that are locally relevant but globally applicable,” says Associate Professor of Biology Meghan Brown.

An intensive three-week program to Guatemala in 2016, for instance, explored “culture and ecology as intrinsically linked concepts,” explains

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Associate Professor of Psychology Brien Ashdown, who led the program with Brown. “The culture of a place and the geography and ecology of that place are interwoven to such an extent that it’s really impossible to understand one without the other.”

The program was based around Lake Atitlán. “Perched on a volcanic rim,” Brown explains, the lake is “facing a problem of algal blooms. As a scientist, it’s an easy problem to solve but as a citizen it’s really hard.

There are psychological, cultural and political lenses: coming out of the country’s civil war, there’s corruption that makes funding for projects hard; there’s a group of people nearby who believe the lake will clean itself; there’s the tourism issue. All of this allows us to ask questions that are locally relevant but globally applicable, which is really important for problem-solving, especially after students leave HWS, because most of the world’s problems aren’t singular — they’re interdisciplinary.”

Professor Nan Crystal Arens, who has led the Department of Geoscience short-term Bahamas field course three times, says that such programs can accelerate both “how students look at problems abroad and at home” and how they use those ideas “as jumping off points for interrogating how we do things in the U.S.”

“It’s easy to have preconceptions about the environment,” says Rachael Barry ’19, who worked with Arens on the most recent Bahamas program. Off-campus field research means “having to account for all the differences and apply the fundamentals learned on campus in novel environments.”

In the Bahamas, she and Associate Professor of Geoscience David Kendrick first discussed the idea for what is now her Honors project, which explores “the ecology of an ancient tropical ocean and what happens in microbial environments when the environmental pressures change.” Barry, who also spent a semester studying in Australia, notes how special those opportunities are, “especially in a research setting, to develop a personal connection with professors.”

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Rachel Barry ’19 holds an epaulette shark on Heron Island, Queensland, Australia.

Accessing Abroad Support from Siberia to Seville

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ach year, HWS students receive thousands of dollars in support through prestigious international organizations, federal agencies, alum support and endowed resources within the HWS community.

“This ease of accessibility shouldn’t be taken for granted as it is not always the case at many other schools,” says Anthony Mandela, CGE program manager. “Approximately 60% of our students study abroad in large part because of the commitment the institution has made toward ensuring our programs are accessible and affordable.”

Students participating in an HWS semester study abroad program receive the same financial aid as they do while studying on campus, while other sources of aid are available for short-term programs. Regardless of the program or duration, CGE works to identify sources of support, D’Agostino says, because “students’ finances shouldn’t be an obstacle to go abroad.”

From institutional grants to individual scholarships, HWS connects students with funding for short-term and full semester abroad programs, summer internships and post-graduate opportunities, empowering them “to continue their HWS educational journey in another country and to gain a deeper understanding of different learning and teaching styles … to see from another perspective and adapt to sometimes challenging circumstances,” Mandela says.

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or Matthew Fox ’19 and Huruizhen “John” Qin ’19, a semester in Freiburg, Germany, supported by the Blocker Fellowship offered an unparalleled window into the political and economic centers of Europe.

Through the Blocker Fellowship, HWS students are empowered not only to study abroad in Germany but to share and reflect on their experiences on the blogs they keep while abroad and at the biannual Blocker Cultural Showcase after their return to campus.

“We visited the European Union Parliament and met with EU officials and went to embassies and talked with political attachés about current events. All of it was MATTHEW FOX integrated into classes,” says Fox, a political science major. “I took a course on Brexit and we went to Brussels and met with EU officials, and then met with another group of students in England and had a three-day negotiating session on how the U.K. should leave the EU. We heard from Sir Martin Donnelly, former Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Trade under British Prime Minister Theresa May, and got HURUIZHEN “JOHN” QIN to show him our negotiations.”

Qin, an economics major, says that the firsthand opportunities to learn “about the Greek economic crisis in Greece and corruption in Hungary and Romania” helped ground the classroom lessons. “The trip to Hungary, Romania

“60% of our students study abroad in large part because of the commitment the institution has made toward ensuring our programs are accessible and affordable.” — Anthony

Mandela, CGE program manager

and the Czech Republic enabled us to see and hear about the economic changes that happened to those countries after the Soviet Union collapsed,” he says. “When you have someone from the government talking about what’s going on in their country, and you are able to ask questions and interact with them, it’s definitely different from hearing about it in class.”

“Going to Germany changed Julius Blocker’s life and he wanted to share that,” says Fox. “You can only showcase a fraction of what you experience abroad, but if it gets other people interested in exploring on their own, that’s the best thing the Showcase could do.”

Padnos Family Endowed Internship and Travel Award

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believe that in order to understand a moment or concept, it is best to place yourself as closely as possible to the historical site,” says Aidan Ely ’18, who, with support from a 2018 Padnos Family Endowed Internship and Travel Award, spent that winter break in Prague, researching human rights violations and environmental injustice committed by the USSR during the Cold War. The award AIDAN ELY was established by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Padnos P’11.

Now working for AmeriCorps VISTA, stationed in Rochester, N.Y., at Legal Assistance of Western New York, Ely says, “During the Cold War, the people of Prague did not make violence their

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U.S. Department of State Benjamin Gilman Scholarships

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n 2017, Nagina Ahmadi ’20 was awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin Gilman Scholarship to support her study abroad excursions during the Colleges’ program in Seville, Spain. Drawing inspiration from the contrasts and similarities between Seville and Afghanistan, where she was born, Ahmadi wrote a short story, “Dos Pueblos, Una Amistad” (Two Towns, One Friendship), which took second prize in a competition sponsored by the Consulate of Spain in New York City the NAGINA AHMADI following year.

In Seville, her host mother had prepared puchero, a traditional soup of southern Spain that reminded Ahmadi of “a special soup my grandmother used to make for us called shorwa.”

She says the award-winning story based on her semester abroad prompted a reconnection with her heritage. “Growing up in Buffalo, learning English and then Spanish were great experiences,” she says. “But in the process I was losing my mother’s tongue, Farsi.

There was a time when I was unable to speak or write in Farsi. The opportunity of going to Spain and the process of writing about my experiences there have inspired me to celebrate the big part of my life that is my Afghan culture.”

Eric Cohler Internship and Travel Awards

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ach year through the Cohler Awards — made possible by gifts from acclaimed interior designer Eric Cohler ’81 — HWS students interested in art and design are provided funding for study abroad opportunities coupled with an internship at Eric Cohler Design, Inc. in New York City.

Ethan Leon ’19 and Ying Ying “Sarita” Sun ’19, architectural studies majors and 2018 Cohler Award Recipients, each devoted their internships and abroad experiences to exploring how spaces and humanity converge. In Tel Aviv, Israel, Leon studied the design of queer spaces, while in Japan, Sun visited the country’s leading design studios to learn about Japanese aesthetics and design, specifically those that “consider the needs of people and humanity,” YING YING “SARITA” SUN she said.

For Leon, the internship and research was an important step “to start making my dream of designing spaces to help people emotionally and mentally … into a ETHAN LEON reality.” ●

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means of protecting themselves from injustices, which is important to witness and dissect as I continue to study the humanitarian drives and protest movements in politics.

The limited and thought-out are as important as the rash and explosive.”

Shweta Patel ’18, also a 2018 Padnos Scholar, traveled to Bangalore, India, that summer to conduct field research on prenatal and neonatal health.

Patel says she was always drawn to healthcare and medicine but her experiences abroad helped her realize she could better serve patients from a policy and operations standpoint rather than as a physician.

Posted with the Public Health Foundation of India, she joined researchers on the front lines of the country’s efforts to improve healthcare, surveying parents and children in the city, maintaining data quality, and coordinating with other agencies to develop a model for educating the public on risks to pregnant mothers and young children.

“I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted do after graduation, but taking advantage of study abroad and funding opportunities helped guide me in ways I didn’t expect,” says Patel.

Now at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, she works as a quality control analyst in the company’s virology department, testing drugs to ensure safe and effective use for patients. While the company has operations spanning the Atlantic, Patel says the local community outreach and service opportunities at Regeneron reflect “the values of leadership, teamwork and volunteering” she developed at HWS.

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COMMUNITY fanfare • honors • awards • celebrations

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t a New Year’s gathering for HWS alums and parents in Baltimore, Md., Honorary Trustee Henry A. Rosenberg Jr. ’52, L.H.D. ’02 was presented with the Trustee Community Service Award in recognition of his extraordinary and sustained volunteer commitments to his hometown of Baltimore as well as the Colleges.

“Henry Rosenberg has embedded himself within the fabric of every community to which he belongs, changing it for the better,” said Board Chair Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D. ’18 at the award presentation, citing an extensive list of educational opportunities, research advances and cultural programing that Rosenberg has supported though the Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation.

In addition to serving as an HWS Trustee for more than two decades, Rosenberg has held leadership positions at Johns Hopkins Health System, Loyola University Maryland, the National Aquarium, the Greater Baltimore Committee, the YMCA of the

Greater Baltimore area, Boy Scouts of America, the United Way of Central Maryland and the Lacrosse Foundation.

His impact on the HWS campus is significant. “Rosenberg Hall is a permanent reminder of Henry’s generosity and commitment,” said Bozzuto, of the science facility constructed in 1994 that houses the departments of biology and chemistry.

At Hobart, Rosenberg graduated with a degree in economics.

The two-time All-American was captain of the lacrosse team his senior year and a member of Phi Phi Delta, the Temple Club and the Orange Key Society. He was inducted into the Hobart College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993.

After serving in the U.S. Army after graduation, Rosenberg joined his family’s company at its Houston refinery in 1954. In more than 50 years at Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, he served as chairman of the board, CEO and president. He was inducted into the Maryland Business and Civic Hall of Fame in 2002.

An inaugural member of the HWS Seneca Society, he was awarded an honorary degree in 2002 and presented with the President’s Medal in 2010.

Established in 2009, the Hobart and William Smith Trustee Community Service Award honors and celebrates alumni, alumnae, parents and friends of the Colleges who lead lives of consequence.

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BALTIMORE, MD. Honorary Trustee Henry A. Rosenberg Jr. ’52, L.H.D. ’02 was presented with the Trustee Community Service Award at the New Year’s gathering hosted by Elizabeth Bennett Blue ‘78. (1) Board Chair Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D.’18 and Rosenberg. (2) Event host Elizabeth Bennett Blue ’78, Rosenberg, Dorothy L. Rosenberg and Richard F. Blue. (3) Sally E. Howe ’67 and Sandra McGuire. (4) Mark Pearson, Daisy Guevara Pearson ’13 and Lisa V. Vaamonde ’78. (5) Barbara Bozzuto and Rosenberg.

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Making Purposeful Connections with WS@W

President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D.’12.

Strauss ’64 Honored at Founder’s Day

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he HWS community gathered in November to mark the 110th celebration of Founder’s Day, the anniversary of the signing of the deed of gift that established William Smith College. At the event, Susan Strauss ’64 was presented with the William Smith Alumnae Association’s highest honor, the Alumna Achievement Award.

The award recognizes William Smith graduates Susan Strauss ’64 who, by reason of outstanding accomplishments in their particular businesses, professions or community service, have brought honor and distinction to their alma mater.

Strauss spent her career, both in and out of government, devoted to social change and social justice. For several years after graduation she worked to bring

together people in opposition to the Vietnam War. Strauss then developed a lifelong interest in learning about and researching women in the world of work. She was a pioneer in what was once considered a job for men, employed as a skilled machinist making jet engines at General Electric in Lynn, Mass. She was active in the labor union movement, helping to bring about needed change for workers. During retirement, she has taught classes on the experiences of women in blue-collar jobs, women rising to leadership roles in labor unions, and the historical fight for women’s equality, all

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seen through the lenses of class, gender and protest.

A strong believer in the importance of helping future students attend HWS, Strauss established the Susan R. Strauss ’64 Endowed Scholarship Fund.

One of the oldest William Smith William Smith traditions, Founder’s Alumnae Day brings together Association’s students, alums, highest honor, administrators and faculty members the Alumna to celebrate the Achievement establishment of William Smith College Award. and the achievements of its students and graduates. Student speaker Sophie Ritter ’20 noted that Founder’s Day, “is a chance to reflect on this place and the opportunities, successes and discoveries women have made here for more than a century.”

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lumnae and students gathered on campus in October for the inaugural William Smith @ Work conference. The group was created to provide mentorship, resources and purposeful connections to accelerate careers among William Smith alumnae. WS@W events provide opportunities for networking and collaboration.

The conference, organized by the Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Experiential Education, included speakers, panels, interactive career sessions and leadership development workshops featuring William Smith alumnae.

Industry panels focused on the arts, fashion, finance, law, nonprofits and education, sales, the sciences, communications, human resources, insurance and social justice.

A highlight of the weekend came when Mehrnaz “Naz” Vahid-Ahdieh ’85, P’17 was presented with the Board of Trustees Career Services Award. The award honors and celebrates alumni, alumnae, parents and friends of the Colleges whose commitment and effort through the Salisbury Center have transformed the lives of HWS students.

Vahid-Ahdieh, managing director at Citi Private Bank, delivered the keynote address. “Making an impact” was one of the most valuable lessons she says William Smith presented Managing Director at Citi Private Bank Mehrnaz “Naz” Vahid-Ahdieh she took from HWS. “When you see something that’s ’85, P’17 (second from left) with the Board of Trustees Career Services Award. She is joined here wrong—what are you going to do to change it?”

by Salisbury Center Director Brandi Ferrara, Trustee Aileen Diviney Gleason ’85 and Interim

fanatics

BOSTON, MASS. Alums gathered for a pre-show reception before attending a performance of the Boston Pops featuring Renee Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo, stars of Hamilton, in June 2018.

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NEW YORK CITY John D’Agata ’95 joined the HWS community at a pre-show reception in Manhattan for Lifespan of a Fact, the Broadway play based on his

book of the same name. (1) Trustee Katherine D. Elliott ’66, L.H.D. ’08, John D’Agata ’95, Ellen Fridovich David ’71 and Edie Sparago Irons ’66. (2) Lucia Cardone ’16, Dominique M. DeRubeis ’18, Ray Sauerbrey, Trustee Katherine R. MacKinnon ’77 and Quinn M. Cullum ’18.

EAST AURORA, N.Y.

At a reception at the Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, N.Y., Trustee William C. Green ‘83 (third from left) presented Jason W. Rose ’22 (far right) with the William and Diane Green P’83, P’87 Endowed Scholarship, which rewards academic excellence and leadership by providing financial assistance to students from East Aurora High School to attend HWS. The scholarship was endowed as a 50th wedding anniversary gift to former Town of Aurora Supervisor William and Diane Green P’83, P’87 from their sons, William ’83, Kevin, Matthew ’87 and Andrew. Joining in the celebration were (l-r): Wren G. Andrews ’21 (2017 recipient), Teya R. Lucyshyn ’19 (2015 recipient) and Gary Schutrum of the Boys and Girls Club of East Aurora.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Joanne Lyons Dunne ’73 sponsored a New Year’s celebration at the University Club, which included a group of 20 students in the capitol for the annual Career Services’ Day on the Hill program.

Board Chair Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D.’18 addressed the group.

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Karin F. Richards Moore ’89, Professor Emeritus of Political Science Joseph P. DiGangi and Pamela C. Yonkin ’89.

Judy M. Chelnick ‘76, Joanne Lyons Dunne ’73, Associate Vice President for Advancement and Alumnae Relations Kathy Killius Regan ’82, P’13, Carol Brotman White ‘76, Director of Leadership Giving Melissa Joyce-Roysen and Annabel F. Cryan ’16.

Hannah E. Cooper ’16, Robin Savits Cooper ’87, P’16 and Trustee Edward R. Cooper ’86, P’16.

SARATOGA, N.Y. Jeffrey S. Vukelic ’88 and Elaine Bruno Vukelic ’91 provided refreshments for the annual gathering of alumni and alumnae at the Saratoga Race Course in August 2018.

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HEAD OF THE CHARLES in Boston, Mass. President

Emeritus Mark D. Gearan L.H.D. ’17 and Mary Herlihy Gearan L.H.D. ’17, P’21 gathered with alums to cheer on Hobart rowing and William Smith rowing in October. The teams finished 4th and 16th, respectively.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. Alumni and alumnae gathered at the Memorial Art Gallery for a reception and tour of the “Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process” exhibit.

Ella Calder ’18 first met Eric Lax ’66, L.H.D. ’93 as a “Red Shirt” student worker at Reunion 2016. Since then, the two have kept in touch with Lax serving as Calder’s mentor. She posted the following note on Facebook after recently meeting with Lax in Toronto.

“We met at HWS reunion weekend in 2016 — it was

Ella Calder ‘18 with her mentor Eric Lax ‘66, L.H.D. ’93 in Toronto.

your 50th and I had just finished my sophomore year.

Fast-forward 2.5 years, after countless weekly emails and texts, and finally we were awarded 27 hours of uninterrupted conversation. Perhaps the most unlikely of friendships, but one I could not be more grateful for. Thank you for the constant support, patience and gratitude you have shown me. I’ve always thought of the Colleges as a special place, and it’s because of people like you who live and breathe ‘lives of consequence.’

Cheers to the friendships that take your breath away and remind you of the joys of what it means to be human, in every sense of the word! Until September when we meet again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for believing in me the way you do.”

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HONG KONG

Jared Weeden ’91, associate vice president for advancement and director of alumni relations, traveled to Hong Kong in November 2018. While there, he presented James F. Grandolfo Jr. ’91 with a piece of driftwood recently found in Seneca Lake inscribed with his name and the name of Hobart College. Grandolfo and his wife Sabrina hosted the gathering of alums, parents and students at their home.

Back row: Alicia X.L. Lai ’18, Jonah Salita ’19, Yeasmine Khalique ’10, Cabot M. Roy ‘11, Laura Cumming P’22, Renee E. Conklin ‘02, Sai Ho Yip ‘18, C. Michael Cassidy ’98, Taylor Evans, Wenruo Wang ‘17 and Jared Weeden ’91.

BOSTON, MASS. Students and local alums attended a New Year’s

reception with Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. ’12, President Emeritus Mark D. Gearan L.H.D. ’17 and Mary Herlihy Gearan L.H.D. ’17, P’21. The event was hosted by the American Rhino Foundation, a clothing and accessory company focused on empowering consumers to take an active role in biodiversity conservation founded by HWS Trustee Christopher S. Welles ’84, P’12, P’15 and Rene Whitney Welles ’83, P’12, P15.

Lesley A. Mattson ’00, Nicole Y. Davis ’00 and Gregg M. Snyder ’01.

Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. ’12, Ellen R. Collins ’90 and Amy Ruggiero Swiniarski ’90.

President Emeritus Mark D. Gearan L.H.D. ’17, P’21, Mary Herlihy Gearan L.H.D. ’17, P’21, Senior Associate Vice President for Advancement Leila Rice and Trustee Christopher S. Welles ’84, P’12, P’15.

Thomas R. Mottur ’89 and Lansing R. Palmer Jr. ’89.

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Vladmir Drobotsky and Barbara E. Tornow ’65.

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Front row: Britta Butler, James F. Grandolfo Jr. ’91 and Sabrina Grandolfo.

NYC Alums and parents gathered at 320 Park in Midtown Manhattan for a New Year’s celebration with Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. ’12.

Interim President Patrick A. McGuire L.H.D. ’12.

Board of Trustees Vice Chair Andrew G. McMaster Trustee Aileen Diviney Gleason ’85.

Jr. ’74, P’09.

Nicholaas H. Honig ’15, Timothy M. Young ’16 and Dominic G. Sindoni ’16.

Upcoming Events April 11, 2019

WS@Work Networking Event and Panel Discussion

New York City

April 12, 2019

Charter Day

Campus

April 13, 2019

William Smith vs. Vassar Lacrosse Tailgate

Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

April 18, 2019

Dinner & Theater – The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, translated by E. J. Dent, directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Chris Hatch

Gearan Center Campus

April 20, 2019

Hobart & William Smith Lacrosse Double Header Tailgate

Campus

April 26, 2019

Moving Up Day

Campus

May 13, 2019

WS@Work Networking Reception

Washington, D.C.

May 16, 2019

Subway Talk with Professor Clif Hood

New York City

May 17, 2019

Hobart Launch

Campus

May 17, 2019

William Smith Alumnae Association Senior Welcome Toast

Campus

May 19, 2019

Commencement

Campus

June 7-9, 2019

Reunion Weekend 2019

Campus

Unless otherwise indicated, events are open to all alumni, alumnae, parents and friends of the Colleges. For details and registration, visit www.hws.edu/alumni or call Alumni House at (315) 781-3700.

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News From the Davis Gallery

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ichard A. Scudamore ’55 has donated a watercolor painting, titled Switch Engine, by noted 20th century artist Arthur Dove, member of the class of 1903, to the Collections of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. A generous contributor to the Colleges, Scudamore previously donated a number of paintings from American artists, including two other watercolors by Dove.

Watercolor on paper, Switch Engine was painted in 1937. The painting is included in “Art and Labor: Works from the Collection,” the first curated exhibition by the Colleges’ new Clarence A. “Dave” Davis ’48 Visual Arts Curator, Anna Wager ’09. She received a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Washington.

Wager oversees the exhibition space of the Department of Art and Architecture and the expansive Collections of Hobart and William Smith. Her appointment coincides with the 10-year anniversary of the Davis Gallery at Arthur Dove, Switch Engine, 1937 Houghton House, ​whose operation is possible through the gifts of Davis.

“Thanks in large part to donors, we have some really impressive examples of 20th-century works on paper, including these watercolors by Arthur Dove,” says Wager. “Dove likely produced Switch Engine while living in Geneva in 1937, and it is a sensitive rendering of an industrial object. This train could have been one that passed behind the Dove Block on Exchange Street, and bringing that piece of Geneva back to Geneva is exciting.”

Wager succeeds longtime curator Kathryn L. Vaughn P’08, who assumed the role in 2008. Under Vaughn’s stewardship and the support of many alumni and alumnae, the Collections were properly catalogued and organized, the gallery was turned into a professional exhibition space and the Colleges began to purposefully acquire new works.

Anna Wager ’09 Vaughn also implemented internship classes, working with students to curate exhibitions, teaching them about label writing and exhibition design. It’s a practice that Wager describes as “incredibly meaningful” to students. “It gives them ownership over an exhibition.”

Presenting six shows each year — beginning with a faculty exhibition and ending the year with a student exhibition — the Davis Gallery provides an environment for studying the role of art and architecture in shaping, embodying and interpreting cultures.

Dean Heath · Miss Van · We hope these memories will bring you back.

Moving Up Day · Goldwater Reunion Weekend is for ALL alumni and alumnae in EVERY class, EVERY year. Whether or vs. Johnson · Vietnam War · not you’re celebrating a milestone anniversary, we welcome and encourage you to join us for this annual gathering on campus.

Spring Weekend · Fall Weekend MILESTONE REUNIONS THIS YEAR · Little Theatre · Dean Witte 2014 (5th) · 2009 (10th) · 2004 (15th) · 1999 (20th) · 1994 (25th) · 1989 (30th) · 1984 (35th) · 1979 (40th) · 1974 (45th) · 1969 (50th) · 1964 (55th) · 1959 (60th) · 1954 (65th) · 1949 (70th) Comstock teas · Billy Joel More information, including the weekend schedule, registration form, places to stay, a list and Bruce Springsteen of who’s registered, activities for children and more, visit: www.hws.edu/Reunion at the Smith Opera House · Senior Week · Hobart Lacrosse NCAA Championships · The Oaks · Cam’s slice · Side Show with Ma and Gary · I.I.T.Y.W.I.M.W.Y.B.M.A.D. · Rites of Spring · Blues Traveler at Ma Thetes · Intercultural Affairs · Folk Fest · Wegmans · Dinners in Comstock · Kennedy assassination · Camping out in the Library during ice storm · Hobart Hockey Frozen Four · William Smith Centennial · Moving Up Day · Charter Day · John Lewis Convocation Speaker · Gweomletes · Midnight breakfast before exams · Old Man Venuti’s · Charity Ball · Softball on the Quad · Marvin Bram · Freshman Fundies · Tommy the Traveler · Western Civ · The Pub · Pandora’s Box · Swim test · Water balloon battles · Cosies’s · Steak Night · Jack Harris · Jim Spates · Kashong and Taghannock Falls · Blackwell Room · The Rongo · Mug Night · Quad Dogs · Airband · The Lake · DJ Night at the Holiday · Heated Cookie! · Early Riser! · Toga Party · William Smith Soccer NCAA Championship · The Scissors · Sigma Chi Sweetheart · Sledding using trays from Saga · Showtime Joe · Quad Olympics · Bands at the Rum Runner · Zebra mussels · Blaring music from Medbery onto the Quad · 4-foot-high snow drifts · Late nights at Denny’s and Perkins · College Ski Nights · Paying Cousin’s delivery (or anything else) with a check · Southside Johnny at Bristol Gym · Pot Lucks at Farm House · Senior Toast at Houghton

House · Kwanzaa Celebrations · Crow’s Nest · Epic food fight in Gulick · Typewriters and whiteout · Baccalaureate Essay · Winterfest · Primal scream the night before finals · Springtime sunbathing on The Hill · Exam treats · Phi Sig Mud slide · Valentine’s Day serenade and flower delivery · SAGA

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SPOTLIGHT | Alums in the News von Bradsky ’16 Wins Documentary Honor

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t New York City’s sixth annual EQUUS Film Festival in December, the documentary The Gobi Gallop by Gabrielle “Bree” von Bradsky ’16 won the award for Best Inspirational Documentary Over 60 Minutes. The Gobi Gallop tells the story of an annual charity horseback ride during which 12 riders from around the world, accompanied by a team of Mongolian equestrians, ride for 10 days. The film also won Best Documentary for a Cause at the EQUUS International Film Festival. Von Bradsky served as director, videographer, interviewer and editor of the film.

TRUNK ARCHIVE

American Crime Story Earns Gold for Falchuk ‘93

Savard ’15 Takes the Stage at Gearan Center

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he 2019 Golden Globe Awards brought further acclaim for Brad Falchuk ’93, L.H.D. ’14 (pictured far right) and his team, with wins for Best Limited Series and Best Actor in a Limited Series for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Examining the events surrounding the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, American Crime Story also earned a 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.

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Shannon Savard ’15, MAT ’16 took the stage at the McDonald Theatre of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts in November to perform Five and a Half Feet of Fearsome. The comedy, which Savard also wrote and directed, is a satire that tackles the hysteria, confusion and complexity surrounding transgender bodies in America today.

Curry ’75 on The Power of Love

Tallmadge ’62 Pens Debut Memoir

“Love is the way. Love is the only way.

Those who follow in this way follow in the way of unconditional, unselfish, sacrificial love. And that kind of love can change the world.”

—The Power of Love

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lice Tallmadge ’62 released her debut memoir, Now I Can See the Moon – False Memories and a Life Cut Short. In the book, Tallmadge searches for answers to personal tragedy and finds them in the cultural fabric of the 1980s and 1990s — an era influenced by widespread fear for the safety of children and shifting moral values known as the Satanic Panic.

Bozzuto ’68 Business Leader of the Year In November, Chair of the Board of Trustees Thomas S. Bozzuto ’68, L.H.D.’18 was named Business Leader of the Year by Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management. The award honors business executives who embody Loyola’s commitment to community and service in the leadership of their organization. “Through his vision and guidance of The Bozzuto Group, Tom Bozzuto is an outstanding example of a business leader who recognizes the role a company can play in strengthening communities, partnering with nonprofits, providing exceptional service to its customers, and ensuring that the environment is valued and preserved,” says Kathleen A. Getz, dean of the Sellinger School.

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he Most Rev. Michael B. Curry ’75 released The Power of Love: Sermons, reflections, and wisdom to uplift and inspire.

Featuring the full text of the sermon he delivered at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the book also includes four of Curry’s favorite sermons on love and social justice.

THE LAST WORD

by Harold E. Klue ’27

In 1985, Harold E. Klue ’27 was asked why he established a scholarship at Hobart and William Smith. To celebrate his posthumous induction into the Seneca Society this spring, this is his story, in his own words.

Harold E. Klue ’27 was born in Geneva, N.Y., in 1903. He served as principal at the Riverdale Country School for Boys in the Bronx, N.Y., for 29 years and was also director of the school’s summer camp at Long Lake in the Adirondacks for nearly a decade. He married his wife, Albina, in 1960. This year, Klue will be posthumously inducted into the Seneca Society, which honors those whose philanthropy has remarkably altered the course of HWS history through cumulative gifts of more than $1 million. Klue died on Christmas Day, 1989; Albina died in September 1993.

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y recollections of Hobart College go back a long way. As a town boy, I remember some of the events of Hobart’s centennial in 1922, and I used to look forward to the annual games with the Onondaga Indian lacrosse team. (They did not seem to mind having a small boy stay with their squad and their camaraderie, plus their ability to handle a lacrosse stick, fascinated me.) Once, an Oxford-Cambridge team came to play; I assumed Hobart must have been very good playing a team from so far away.

Some things which I remember seemed very strange to me at the time, including certain fraternity initiation rites. I remember seeing young men on their hands and knees rolling a peanut up Seneca Street hill with their noses. This always seemed to happen on a busy October afternoon just when Driscoll’s horse-drawn delivery wagons were loading groceries at Walter Riegle’s grocery store, just above the opera house.

My father, in his teens in the 1890s, had a job driving a hack for a local livery stable.

He once told of driving a fraternity group and their pledge to the watering trough on South Main Street at the foot of the hill at the entrance to Glenwood Cemetery, where they left the pledge securely tied.

I was taught the importance of education at a very early age. My parents were well aware of the hopeless position of unskilled labor in Geneva. By the time I was in high school I had been very thoroughly convinced of the necessity of establishing the best possible high school scholastic record and of going on to college somewhere out there, if I were to have any future at all.

How education was going to accomplish this miracle was not yet clear to me, but I realized that there was much more to college than peanuts, watering troughs and lacrosse.

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working as hard as I might at the Standard Optical Company every summer from the age of 14 was not the answer.

During the school year, basketball was my joy. Our Boy Scout troop had a basketball team, and our scoutmaster and coach, Ernest Olmstead, had played at Hobart. He gave us a good start. We played in the church basement and the YMCA leagues until some of us could go on to high school play. By my senior year I was playing varsity ball. The old high school on Milton Street had no gymnasium and we would all play our games where we could, in the local armory or sometimes at Hobart as preliminary to college games. There we got to see Hobart teams in action and Coach “Deak” Welch got to see us.

That winter, college became of ever greater concern to me. I could not see any possible way of financing four years of college and I really had no idea where I might turn for guidance. And then one day Olmstead came to see me about the possibility of my going to Hobart. He thought a scholarship might be available.

Here was a ray of hope! He arranged an appointment and we went up to see George Roberts, President Bartlett’s secretary. I told him of my interest in going to Hobart and I explained my financial predicament.

He gave me some application forms to fill out, which I promptly filled, and to my amazement and joy I was promptly notified that I had been accepted and, further, granted a scholarship. With part-time work I hoped to raise the balance I would need.

In mid-summer, I received word that I had been awarded a Regents Scholarship by the NYS Department of Education. I was in the clear! A miracle!

I finished all of Hobart’s requirements for the Baccalaureate at the end of my junior year but requested that I be awarded my degree with my class the

Join the Conversation! following June. I was accepted in Harold Klue’s transformative the Graduate School of Political estate gift, totaling over $1M, Science at Columbia University will provide generations of that fall and I found housing in a Hobart and William Smith boarding school on 120th Street students with necessary as a dormitory master. financial assistance through

I received my master’s degree his endowed scholarship in Political Science at Columbia fund to make their dreams of in June just as Lindbergh was attending college a reality. His returning from his historic flight passion for education and his to Paris and I returned to Hobart a legacy will live on through his few days later to graduate with the future recipients. Thirty-four Class of ’27. years ago, someone had the

I had worked in the Geneva foresight to ask Harold to share playground system summers while his story when making this at Hobart and that summer of ’27 commitment; today, we are so I left immediately to direct the thankful to be able to share it municipal recreation system at with you. —Bob O’Connor P’22, Herkimer, N.Y., and then in the fall Vice President for Advancement went on to teach at the Riverdale If you would like more information County School. on estate planning and establishing

Increasingly demanding your legacy, please contact Leila duties at Riverdale, travel Rice, Senior Associate Vice President for Advancement, at 315.781.3545 or (including considerable time spent rice@hws.edu. in the Far East), a thirteen-year stint as Director of Camp Riverdale in the Adirondacks, a commitment over several years working with Eleanor Roosevelt and her staff in establishing a chapter of the United Nations Association, USA, in Riverdale, a considerable time preparing educational material for UNICEF and a few other pursuits kept me occupied and I never did get back to visit Hobart at all.

Over the years, the Colleges have grown and changed beyond belief. I do not believe that there were more than 200 students at Hobart in the ’20s. It is hard to visualize all the new buildings and facilities and how they must have changed student life. A current college catalog gives a glimpse of a far different educational experience than ever possible in our day. There seems to pervade a sense of direction and purpose and dedication on the part of faculty and students. They sense that something special, something very good, is going on here. Students seek out the Colleges and parents support them. They recognize the Colleges’ high standards.

I often think of that important turning point in my life when Ernest Olmstead and George Roberts and Hobart College gave me the help and the direction that set me on the path to a college education.

And then I think that there must be young men and women today who are anxious to come to Hobart and William Smith who find the financing beyond them. I realize that deserving young people who need help today are in a far more precarious position than ever we were in our youth and I would like to help them, some of them, at least. Just as I have so often found in my own life I would like them to know that someone out there cares very much about them. Thus I propose setting up this trust to provide scholarships for this purpose.

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HWS Community Members to Follow: Zahra Arabzada ’19

Instagram: @thehijabirunner Empowering Muslim women to choose an active life by sharing my struggles.

William Smith Basketball

Twitter: @HeronHoops The official Twitter account of the William Smith College Herons basketball team. #HeronHoops

Jonah Salita ’19

Instagram: @jonahsalita Copywriter / Photographer / Currently in New York #LiveInColor

Hobart Hockey

Twitter: @HobartHockey The Official Hobart Hockey Twitter Page Follow for Hobart Hockey News and Live Updates During Games. #HobartHockey Go Statesmen!

The Centennial Center

Instagram: @centennialcenter Leadership. Entrepreneurship. Innovation.

Neil Sjoblom ’75

Facebook: @neil.sjoblom Master Photographer

300 Pulteney Street Geneva, New York 14456 The pages of this publication were printed using 100% recycled paper which enables the environmental savings equivalent to the following: • 232 trees preserved for the future • 223,687 gal. US of water saved • 22,885 lbs. of waste not generated • Saved 75,189 lbs. CO2 from being emitted • 193 MMBTU energy not consumed * * These calculations were derived from the Rolland Eco-calculator.

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PARALLELS

• Hometown: Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

• Major: Biology

• Hometown: Darien, Conn.

Are you a cat person or a dog person? Dog

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What’s your favorite time of day? Just before I go to sleep, all is quiet and I take the time to read for pleasure.

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What’s your favorite family tradition? Cruising on our boat on a summer day with my husband, the kids and friends.

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Which historical figure would you like to meet? Elizabeth Blackwell. She was a true pioneer for women entering the field of medicine.

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What’s your favorite vacation spot? Costa Rica.

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What inspired you to study the sciences in school? I decided in my teens that I wanted to be a doctor. I’m definitely left-brain dominant.

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What’s the most important quality for a leader to have? Humility.

10. What’s the most pressing issue facing medicine today? The consolidation of independent medical practices into large corporate entities.

What is your go-to food when studying? A warm chicken avocado sandwich at the Au Bou Pain café in the library.

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What was your most challenging science class? Physical Chemistry

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Are you a cat person or a dog person? Dog

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What’s your favorite time of day? Bedtime, because I finally get to unwind and focus on myself.

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What’s your favorite family tradition? Brunch with my family on the weekends.

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Which historical figure would you like to meet? J.R.R. Tolkien, to talk about the Lord of the Rings.

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What’s your favorite vacation spot? The beach.

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What inspired you to study the sciences in school? I’ve always enjoyed learning about how things work ever since I was young.

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What’s the most important quality for a leader to have? The ability to inspire others.

10. What’s the most pressing issue facing medicine today? Unequal access to health care.

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A Global Campus

• Recipient of the Barbara J. Johnston ’43 Prize for Excellence in Biology/Chemistry

What was your most challenging science class?

Organic Chemistry

45 Years of International Education

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• Physician at Greenwich Gynecology

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1 Study Abroad Program in the Nation #

• Major: Biochemistry

LEILA GARRETT-STEVENS ’86

What was your go-to food when studying? A fresh hot chocolate chip cookie from the café in the “new” Scandling Campus Center.

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