Juniata President Report 2010-11

Changing Lives to Change the World 2010-2011 President’s Report

Dear Friends, The overarching theme of this year’s President’s Report focuses on how to ensure that things can live forever. Not in the sinister “picture of Dorian Gray” sense, but rather how

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superb educational programs, passionate faculty, competitive sports teams and other aspects of Juniata can continue uninterrupted well beyond the decades to come.

This report is the official launching pad for the College’s “Changing Lives to Change the World” initiative, which aims to build Juniata’s endowment to levels that can ensure our special brand of education continues to produce brilliant graduates who leave our campus to boldly cross boundaries in research, art, literature and thought.

While all colleges and universities use their endowment in different ways, some aspect of this funding is used to keep the place running and other parts are used to fund groundbreaking new education programs, student research and to hire exciting, dedicated faculty.

At the end of the day, though, most people want to ask college presidents “What does the endowment do for us?” This is the legacy of our endowment at Juniata.

In 2005, legendary football coach Chuck Knox ’54 donated $1 million to create the Charles and Shirley Knox Chair in History, a post currently held by David Hsiung. Coach Knox’s gift ensures that Hsiung’s professorship lives forever, long after Dave has retired to a life of Chicago Cubs season tickets. In fact, when Dave retires, the professorship will pass to another talented historian (someone currently taking AP high school history, no doubt), giving the College a leg up on attracting the best faculty.

Knox’s $1 million gift every year pays out five percent from the endowment, which is used to defray a part of Dave’s salary that would normally come from our operating budget. The percentage of Dave’s salary (and the percentages saved by other endowed professorships) covered by the endowment can be used to recruit new faculty, either in history or any other department. Donors who honor their education at Juniata by endowing a professorship give the College the resources to compete for faculty with any other institution in the country.

In 2007, the late Dr. Larry Johnson ’61 endowed two $1.5 million scholarships.

One gives a student from Somerset, Pa. a full-ride scholarship at Juniata; the other endows a full-ride scholarship to the University of Rochester Medical School for a Juniata graduate. These gifts will always give a resident of a small Pennsylvania town and a graduate of a small Pennsylvania college a chance to realize their highest expectations without the burden of crushing debt.

Clay and Kathryn Burkholder established their full-ride scholarship in 1996 as part of an estate gift. Their wish was to have academically gifted students be free of financial worries as they pursued a Juniata education. Such alumni as Erica (Marshall) Martin ’03, Ryan Krischer ’04, Ben Waxman ’07, and Erin Satterthwaite ’10 have been free to pursue such varied careers as math teacher,

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financial analyst, web journalist, and doctoral candidate in oceanography at UC-Davis as a result of the Burkholder’s vision. By the way, the Burkholders also endowed the academic chair currently held by Celia Cook-Huffman, professor of conflict resolution.

Many alumni don’t realize that endowment and donor gifts can be applied to athletic endeavors, whether it’s making a donation that could ensure that our field hockey coach’s salary is competitive with rival coaches or funding the annual budget for one of the College’s basketball teams. Sam ’54 and Martha Brumbaugh recognized long ago that advanced weight training and fitness would be an important part of conditioning for all athletes. After donating the funds to create the gleaming Brumbaugh Fitness Center, Sam and Martha established an annual gift of $27,000 to upgrade equipment on a regular basis. Just recently, the Brumbaughs met with our planned giving development team to create a gift that will continue to fund new equipment for the facility—pumping more resources into athletics so our players can keep pumping iron for decades to come.

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—President Tom Kepple Photo (cover and center): Jason Jones, (right) Michael Black

These compelling stories of everlasting gifts that provide unequaled opportunities for our students are some of the best reasons to help the College build on its already solid foundation. Still, there are less glamorous reasons to keep building the endowment—like keeping up with our top competitors.

To effectively compete with such institutions as Gettysburg College, Franklin & Marshall College and Allegheny College, Juniata must grow its endowment, so we can continue to attract a wide swath of dedicated students not only from our traditional recruiting areas but well beyond.

But here’s the wrinkle. In order to compete, we don’t have to match these institutions dollar for dollar. What we would like to do is mirror the percentage of the College’s operating budget supported by the endowment. For Juniata, the endowment supported about 9 percent of our operating budget in 2010. Our goal is to have the endowment support 10 percent of the College’s operating budget by 2015 and build that to 15 percent of the budget by 2025.

Outlined in those terms, creating a legacy capable of bringing in top faculty, giving deserving students a chance to attend the college of their dreams with little financial burden and competing with the best schools on the athletic field is as noble an enterprise as Juniata has set for its loyal community.

Please join me in this enterprise as we make certain that Juniata continues to rise on the national stage and continues to deliver an exciting and exacting education to students from every corner of the country and every type of educational interest.

“Our goal is to have the endowment support 10 percent of the College’s operating budget by 2015 and build that to 15 percent of the budget by 2025.”

“I was so excited when I received the Fulbright that I walked out of Ellis and started telling people.

That’s as excited as I get. The greatest part of the experience of applying for a Fulbright is it gives you connections and opportunities. It gives you experience in writing applications and proposals and allows you to find people who are rooting for you who can be your recommendations on applications.”

Brandon Moyer ’11 York, Pa. POE: Chemistry Fulbright Fellowship: Brandon will spend next academic year at Philipps Universtat in Marburg, Germany working on a catalyst system to synthesize natural products.

DAAD Scholarship: Brandon received a grant to fund a 10-week corporate internship with BASF in Ludwigshafen, Germany this past summer working on synthesizing fungicides and pesticides.

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June 2: Three Juniata professors, Jim Borgardt, Richard

July 18: Juniata is named as an “Overlooked Gem” in a

Hark and Paul Schettler, receive the first undergraduate

new college admissions book, Acceptance, by former U.S.

research grants ever awarded by the II-VI Foundation.

News & World Report writer David Marcus. July 20: Juniata

June 28: Juniata receives the first annual Landmark

was one of 39 institutions to make the Honor Roll in the

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Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Places to Work” poll.

“I have been able to understand how my varying interests in topics such as Spanish, archaeology, and environmental studies can combine to contribute to a career path that is unique, yet marketable. Not only did Professor Matt Powell bring this award opportunity to my attention, but he walked me through each step of what felt like an endlessly complex process (even while he was on vacation, sitting on the beach with his family).”

Kelsey Morgan ’13 Media, Pa. POE: Anthropology EPA-GRO Fellowship Kelsey will receive $40,000 in tuition assistance over two years. She also will receive a paid summer internship within the Environmental Protection Agency.

Aug. 16: Justin Paul ’12, a geology POE, receives an Environmental Protection Agency-GRO Scholarship. Aug: 17: Laura Hess ’11

GI Jobs magazine designates Juniata as a “Military-Friendly School.” Aug. 18: U.S. News & World Report ranks Juniata 81st in the Top 100 Liberal Arts Colleges in the nation, up four slots from its previous ranking, 85.

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Endowment push begins, its foundations rooted in history of the College

By Gabriel Welsch vice president of advancement and marketing

Illustrations by: Aaron M. McCoy ’12

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ach year, Juniata receives an official letter and congratulatory note for being selected for a short list of colleges emphasizing campus-wide commitment to service. And each year the administration says, “Oh. That again. That’s nice!”

Such a psychic shrug is not to say that Juniata doesn’t value service, or take for granted its culture. Consider this: by the time they are seniors, 76 percent of students participate in service organizations or volunteer in the Huntingdon community. That compares to roughly 40 percent of undergraduates nationally.

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Alumni reading this know, perhaps, far better than that which is written here: Juniata alumni tend to leave the College and settle in communities in which they go about trying to improve things.

Glance at the most recent Alumni Award winners, included in the last issue of Juniata magazine, as an example. When Kunio Sayanagi ’00 accepted his Young Alumni Achievement Award, he said: “I find it very humbling that, while there are selfless doctors, peace activists, educators and others working to directly serve humanity, I am nominated for this award for things I have done based on my selfish personal drive.”

He goes on to say, “I do hope my work will trickle down to benefit the society as a whole someday, but it will not be for several decades, and in very indirect ways.”

The rest of the award winners subscribe to a similar ethic: one studies the ways cooperatives and sustainability affect agriculture. Another is a long-term volunteer at Juniata committed also to her community. A doctor volunteers in rural clinics. The final winner is a crusader for the rights of Eritrean refugees. This is a typical awards slate. As Alumni Council member Bruce Moyer ’74 says, “Alumni Weekend’s awards ceremony is where you hear what Juniata is really all about.”

He’s talking about that path individuals take, fired up on ideas and altruism, to shape their world, to take routes sometimes complicated and counterintuitive, but that tend far more often than not to give back in some way. In that particular hour or so of Alumni Weekend, just before lunch, when five people give short speeches that, yearin, year-out, disarm and surprise attendees with their emotional wallop, attendees are reminded that Juniata’s enterprise, ultimately, is Changing Lives to Change the World.

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Bruce Moyer ’74 and his wife, JoAnn Bowman ’75, shown here at their home in Takoma Park, Md., have long recognized how scholarships can change the lives of the recipient.

Their daughter Brittany ’09 and the daughter of family friends, Karin Brown ’06, were able to attend Juniata thanks to endowed scholarships.

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or many, the inspiration started at Juniata.

What some do not realize or perhaps only understand in an academic sense, is the degree to which endowment supports what happens here.

Moyer and his wife, JoAnn Bowman ’75, are well aware of the endowment’s role at Juniata.

Bruce has chaired the Juniata Scholarship Fund and both have championed the work of the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, getting to know director Dick Mahoney and, before him, Andy Murray. The couple’s daughter, Brittany Moyer ’09, was active with the Baker Institute, and herself benefitted from an endowed scholarship.

Peace and international relations are a family affair. Brittany is in her second year working in humanitarian assistance with the Lutheran

World Federation in conflict areas in the West Bank. JoAnn’s career has focused on international development, and two years ago she joined the Board of the Baker Institute. Bruce works as a public affairs consultant and advocate in Washington, D.C.

“Growing up Brethren means peace was a big thing in my life,” JoAnn says.

The couple signed on to help the Changing Lives to Change the World effort as volunteers making the case for supporting both the Juniata Scholarship Fund and the College’s endowment at once. They have committed to endowing a

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scholarship for PAX students—while also donating to the Juniata Scholarship Fund.

“For us, walking the walk and talking the talk are critical,” Bruce says.

“We regard JSF as an ongoing commitment, and establishing a scholarship helps us reach beyond that—through the power of an endowed gift that keeps on giving.”

Moyer and Bowman are friends with the Brown family, who have sent three children to Juniata over the last several years. The oldest of the Brown children, Karin ’06, spent time as a human rights witness in the West Bank before going to Notre Dame’s doctoral program in peace studies.

Her younger brothers, Sebastian ’09 and Nick ’12, also attended Juniata.

Karin’s strong “changing the world” backstory is featured on the Changing Lives to Change the World website.

“We saw what a scholarship did in helping Karin choose Juniata and make the most of it,” says JoAnn. “Juniata has become home away from home for the Brown kids. And they are all doing well and making a difference.”

Moyer and Bowman’s gift is one of several scholarships that individuals are choosing to establish, helping Juniata achieve one of the initiative’s goals: raising more than $8 million in endowed scholarships.

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uman connections that span years and even lifetimes lead to significant commitments. For several years, Eric Jensen ’77, now a Juniata trustee, served on Alumni Council. His first stop whenever he arrives on campus? A place he affectionately refers to as “Schettler’s cave in von Liebig.”

“It’s taken me most of my professional career to genuinely appreciate what Paul and his colleagues in the chemistry department taught me,” Jensen says.

For Jensen and many alumni, faculty lessons included everything from the technical aspects of chemistry in the lab and course work to critical thinking and the ability to step back and look dispassionately at challenges and issues.

“They were friends, colleagues and good human beings all at the same time,” Jensen recalls. “In the 1970s, if you were there during the summer doing research, at least once you would have dinner at the [Don] Mitchell house, with homemade vanilla ice cream for dessert, that you helped churn. Schettler would have us out to his house. He had an in-ground pool. Given that there were four AC units in Huntingdon in those days, this was a respite. They were not academic types who cared solely about the discipline, they cared about the whole person. They showed me balance. How to work well, how to live life as a complete human being.”

Jensen and his wife, Karen, have committed to establishing an endowment to help attract such faculty. Its purpose is twofold: first, it will help provide “start-up” funding to attract the College’s next generation of science faculty.

In years when the Jensen Endowment’s funds are not helping to hire, they will support faculty-student research, ensuring the longevity of that tradition.

Heritage Circle Heritage Circle members invest in the future of Juniata through planned giving. “Planned giving” simply means that individuals make gifts to the College that require some planning before they are made. Because such gifts involve accumulated assets distributed over time or through one’s will, they empower people to make leadership gifts beyond what they might think possible.

Planned Gifts for 2010-2011

Estate gifts received (16) . . . . . . . . . $891,596

Life Income Agreements (3) . . . . . . . . . $120,000

The cluttered, but organized (in his own way) office of chemist Paul Schettler is affectionately referred to by at least one of his former students as “a cave,” but he doesn’t hibernate there. Instead Schettler and the rest of the College faculty go out of their way to show students “how to live life as a complete human being.”

Total $4,746,246 Total Heritage Circle Members 288

Some planned gifts provide valuable tax benefits or income, and individuals can use a variety of assets— investments, real estate, artwork, and more—to establish them. Planned giving tools include bequests, trusts, and contracts between a donor and the College. Such commitments are among the most powerful tools for individuals to benefit themselves, their families, and Juniata.

Eric Jensen, a senior researcher at Eli Lilly and Company, has made a commitment to help raise $4 million for new faculty endowments.

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Jensen credits the faculty with changing his life, and he has spent much of his free time over the years working to have a similar impact. As a senior research fellow at Eli Lilly and Company, he leads scientists in developing treatments and cures for disease. In his spare time, he is a veteran Indiana college fair volunteer and a long-serving member of Juniata Admission Ambassadors. He cites the example of his faculty mentors frequently, and is committed to ensuring the characteristics that define Juniata faculty persevere.

“For the College to have the cadre of top-notch faculty who run the engine that makes Juniata relevant; care, feeding and maintenance go with that,” Jensen says.

“Buying a Lamborghini and never changing the oil is a terrible thing.”

Jensen’s story highlights the reasoning behind one of the goals of Changing Lives to Change the world: raising more than $4 million in new faculty endowment.

Photo: Danese Kenon

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New estate commitments (15) . . . . . . . . $3,734,650

Gayle Pollock ’68

Overall Giving A heartfelt thanks to all who gave to Juniata in fiscal year 2011 (June 1, 2010– May 31, 2011). Juniata continues to provide an extraordinary learning experience for many qualified students regardless of economic status. You help us keep the Juniata experience affordable through your gifts of time and financial resources.

Research & Gov. Grants (21%) $1,605,816 Foundations, Corporations & Business (16%) $1,264,153

Friends and Church of the Brethren (4%) $304,245 Parents (3%) $199,345 Alumni (56%) $4,245,406

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In fact, she’s helped spur Juniata’s admissions momentum throughout the last three decades. “When I was at Allegheny I supported Juniata financially, but didn’t volunteer because of conflict-of-interest issues,” Gayle points out. But when she left Allegheny to consult for George Dehne Associates, Gayle says, “It made sense to express my interest in being on alumni council.”

She did. Then, in addition to free consulting, gifting a room in Juniata’s renovated Founders Hall and annual giving, she’s recently created a scholarship and provided for Juniata in her will.

While she strives to make a difference, she is still sometimes amazed at how seemingly small moments have ripple effects beyond the initial tidy splash. Gayle recalls a night with her late husband, Charlie, at a hospital banquet in their hometown of Lewisburg, Pa., where she was introduced as former dean of admissions at Juniata. Later that evening, a doctor approached her.

“‘You probably don’t remember me but you admitted me to Juniata,’ he said. In fact, he, his wife and I have become good friends,” Gayle says.

Through her work, her giving, and her advice, she has impacted more than a few lives. Through it all, Gayle’s reason for giving is comforting.

“Yes, Juniata has changed. Yes, it has improved. But core values here haven’t changed,” Gayle says. “Juniata changed my life and I’m very grateful for that.”

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rustee Gayle Pollock ’68 came to Juniata when women were required to wear skirts to dinner. Since then, she’s used her extensive administrative experience to skirt tradition in changing Juniata. Starting in Juniata’s admissions office, Gayle worked up the organizational ladder and served as director and later dean of admissions at Juniata, Allegheny and—in a consulting capacity—Bucknell University.

Retired attorney Scott O’Neill ’80 credits an internship at Trough Creek State Park during his college days as a turning point in gaining “useful experience” and wants to endow a fund giving Juniata students the opportunity to afford to take unpaid internships in pricey cities. His son, Daniel ’13, is a student at Juniata.

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Juniata was known to have high admission standards when O’Neill was leaving high school in the 1970s. “My football coach knew Juniata, and through him I was recruited to play football.

When I showed up, I was told my college board scores were not sufficient. But my coach helped get me in the door. Juniata took a chance on me.”

O’Neill readily describes his time at Juniata as an academic struggle. Had the professors not provided a tremendous amount of support, he’s sure he wouldn’t have graduated. “Without their help, and particularly help from Bob Reilly, I graduated.”

After earning a master’s in administration of justice, O’Neill earned admission to Widener School of Law—on the strength of his Juniata degree. “My LSAT scores were not tremendous. But the admissions person at Widener literally said, ‘We’ve never had a Juniata grad not graduate.’”

One of the experiences that had significant value for O’Neill was an internship at Trough Creek State Park. Bob Reilly was instrumental in helping solidify the experience. O’Neill says, “Bob really understood how important internships were to the next step.

And back in the early 1980s, the economy was a mess, similar to today. But internships gave us useful experience.”

Because of his drive to give back—O’Neill is a baseball coach and active in his church—Juniata benefits from the affection of a thankful graduate. Remembering the importance of internships in his life, and foreseeing the increasing necessity of internships for today’s students, O’Neill approached the College with an idea.

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cott O’Neill ’80, retired corporate counsel for a number of private corporations, echoes Gayle Pollock’s sentiments.

Chelsea Wilson ’13, of Gwynn Oak, Md., spent the summer working as an intern in the World Trade Center Institute in Baltimore, Md. The office faces Baltimore’s celebrated Inner Harbor, shown in the background.

Chelsea, who lives close to Baltimore, didn’t need financial support to accept the internship, but many Juniata students will need support to accept a prestigious internship in a metropolitan area.

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He wanted to help students take advantage of internship opportunities in places where cost is a barrier—New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles. In such places, due to the wealth of talent and prestige, internships are often unpaid. Add housing costs, and an opportunity is priced out of range for all but trust-fund babies. So O’Neill seeded the Juniata Alumni Internship Fund.

“I wanted it to be named anonymously because I felt that when you attach a name on it, you may have difficulty getting people to contribute,” he says. “Because we as alumni received the benefit of an internship, and received one of the best educations in the country, I wanted it to be a community endowment. Every student, if they look in their hearts, will find a way that Juniata has made an impact, that their life is better for the experience there. By having it a community endowment, we all help the next generation of students.”

The fund has already attracted nearly $500,000 in commitments from others, mostly anonymous. The goal is to reach $1 million in the fund, enough to support 10 to 15 College interns.

O’Neill’s idea has created momentum to support an important program, and is part of fulfilling the third goal of Changing Lives to Change the World: to raise more than $3 million in endowment support for programs to create student opportunities.

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hanging Lives to Change the World is picking up momentum.

For the year ending May 31, 2011, individuals donated $2.8 million in cash directed toward endowment this year. Much more was actually committed, a total of $6.2 million when the count includes pledges, cash contributions, and estate commitments.

“Endowment commitment is a moving target,” explains Kim Kitchen, executive director of development at Juniata. “At any moment, people are showing their commitment with different methods.”

Some are making estate provisions, which is a commitment far in the future. Some are making outright gifts of cash, or securities. Still others are making pledges on a payment plan, over three or five years.

Take this year’s 50th class reunion gift. In total, the gift is worth $305,061.61. Of that amount, roughly $120,000 was given in outright contributions, and $180,000 is committed through estates or annuities.

The class also chose to endow Juniata’s distinctive and highly effective first-year integration program, Inbound Retreats.

Inbound, as Juniatians call it, provides more than a dozen different retreats, multiday group activities staffed by peer counselors and College staff, designed to help new students ease their transition to Juniata and gain a group of friends before classes start. The program has been particularly helpful for transitioning those students who are the first in their family to attend college; such “first-generation” college students still make up around 30 percent of the student body at Juniata. In the last several years, around 1,000 students have taken part.

A grant from the Walmart Foundation helped fund grants to ensure first-generation students could attend Inbound. The grants were less than $400 per student, to fewer than 50 students in any given year.

Enough to cover wages lost from one week less of waiting tables, cutting lawns, or lifeguarding. To fill a tank of gas. To pay part of a registration fee. To change a life.

The grants expired this year. Fortunately, the Class of 1961 chose to use their reunion gift to endow perpetual support to a program that has proven to help students get off on the right foot.

“After hearing the presentations by various students who had taken part in the Inbound program, and those who had not, we were convinced it had great value,” says Karl Shreiner ’61, the Class Fund Agent for 1961. “The statement from the students was the point that caught us; that it really did make a difference.”

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= juniata.edu/report The Juniata Scholarship Fund had its highest year ever, raising money to award scholarships to academically qualified students who demonstrate great financial need. This year we increased the amount of each scholarship award from $2,300 to $2,390 in order to provide more assistance to the students who need it most. As we continue to welcome large classes to Juniata, we know that the impact of these awards will continue to be felt.

174 joined the President’s Circle, a special designation for those who make a leadership gift to JSF equal to or greater than one average student award ($2,390 in FY 11, $2,480 in FY12).

Together, we really are changing lives one scholarship at a time.

Leadership Giving By Society This year we welcomed 747 members to the Juniata Societies.

Membership is offered to those who commit $1,000 or more to the

College in the fiscal year, with members enjoying benefits specific to their society. Investing in Juniata’s mission at this level helps to elevate us to

a higher level of achievement and recognition. For more information on society membership please visit www.juniata.edu/gifts/societies.

It’s clear that Juniata’s mix, its characteristics and its environment, shapes those who spend time here. Ultimately, the importance of Changing Lives to Change the World is to strengthen Juniata’s character, to provide for the students who seek out Juniata’s distinctive mix of community, academic rigor, and service.

Success in building our endowment will focus on strengthening our character and bolstering our

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Brumbaugh Society ($10,000+) . . . . . . . . 111 . . . . . . . . $3,838,501 . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Ellis ($5,000 - $9,999) . . . . . . . . . . 88 . . . . . . . . . . $320,159 . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Quinter ($1,000 - $4,999) . . . . . . . . . 548 . . . . . . . . . . $578,550 . . . . . . . . . . 150 JSF Indicates number of scholarships funded by each society.

financial resiliency, which in turn will attract the right person to take the role as the next leader of Juniata.

The next president will decide to come here based on the promise we exhibit. It will take the help of everyone in the Juniata community, and the good news is that we are off to a promising start.

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By Genna Welsh Kasun ’06, staff writer

Sports Highlight: Researcher’s Gift Out Of Left Field

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hen Lee Grotyohann ’71 first set foot onto Juniata’s campus, Brumbaugh Science Center was the new science building on the block.

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Perfect Note: Fa, So, La, Ti, Dough Courtesy of Lee Grotyohann ’71

“That was important to me because I was a bio major,” Grotyohann points out. “And, I knew I was going to be in the lab a lot.”

Eventually, Grotyohann spent two summers researching at Juniata, using the then-new transmission electron microscope, and enjoyed a career in heart and kidney research at Hershey Medical Center for nearly three decades.

So naturally Grotyohann is now endowing a program—in athletics.

“When teams travel across the country, it gives recognition to the Juniata name,” Grotyohann explains. “But the players aren’t just spreading the name of Juniata—they do an excellent job of representing the quality of Juniata students. Juniata’s student athletes are often campus leaders and also excel academically.”

And that’s where Grotyohann’s nostalgia kicks in.

“I know how tough it is to be a student at Juniata, and I know that lab work takes time,” says Grotyohann. “Yet many student-athletes are science majors.”

And, when it came to planning how to help others with the assets from his estate, Grotyohann flexed his innate investigative muscles once again.

“I was talking to Kim Kitchen, and I discovered that, instead of missing out—you can’t see the impact of your financial contribution when you’re gone—I could set up an endowment to enjoy and help while I’m alive,” Grotyohann says. “I’ve been following the women’s volleyball team avidly since the early 2000s. And I follow men’s volleyball and men’s and women’s basketball as well. I’ve gone to see softball, baseball and field hockey as well. When any Juniata team comes to my hometown, I go out and watch them play. Now I take enjoyment in seeing how successful the students are and I’ve made an arrangement that will help them succeed forever.”

Grotyohann has also set up a scholarship for students which he will be continuing to contribute to in the coming five years.

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or many Juniata students, on campus musical ensembles are a central part of campus life.

One such student, Gail Morgan Habecker ’76, accompanied the Concert Choir while at Juniata. Perry Habecker ’76, sang in that same choir and also enjoyed playing with the Altoona Symphony during his Juniata career. But perhaps music was just a minor note for Perry.

“I stood at the end of Gail’s keyboard to see her every rehearsal,” Perry recalls. That was Perry and Gail’s senior year at Juniata.

Shortly after, Gail Morgan became Gail Habecker, as with many couples from Juniata. But Perry and Gail’s three decades of wedded bliss aren’t the only reason Perry still loves music at Juniata.

“The arts are part of being a whole person,” Perry says. “And at Juniata, music isn’t exclusionary. Juniata allows

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But a trip to Nairobi with a group of church friends changed all that.

“We went on a prospecting trip looking for service opportunities in slums and hospitals, but we ended up building a footbridge,” Richards says. “You can wrap your hands around a bridge. You can feel it and see it.”

And yet it leads to such intangible outcomes, Richards adds. “We got to see communities connect that were very isolated.”

Bridging the Gap Africa, a nonprofit organization that not only builds footbridges but engages African communities in development and maintenance of the structures, is the result of that 2003 trip. Since then, Richards has built four footbridges and created a few new connections of his own, some while he was completing his master’s degree in nonprofit management from Eastern University. But his service is also related to the citizenship he teaches to his clients everyday.

“A lot of kids I work with have to do community service and they scoff at it,” Richards says. “So I say, ‘Let’s find something you believe in.’ Serving has given me a better perspective to show them how to find something they like so that community service is not a punishment but rather, a way they can give back.”

Some of Richards’ juvenile clients improve thanks to his view on service.

Others stay in the prison track, but there are more immediate acknowledgements of the work he and his peers at Bridging the Gap have experienced.

“After completing a Kenyan footbridge, we were guests at a celebration. At the end, the leaders presented us with a goat. They literally handed me a rope with a goat tied to the end of it.

I kept thinking, ‘What are we supposed to do with this goat?’ but it was such a great honor, it would’ve insulted them for us to refuse it.”

The footbridges Richards has built lead from these local farms and communities to marketplaces, clinics and schools. “Thousands of people cross them,” he points out. They’re all in Kenya, but, in Richards’ mind, they’re not so far from Juniata.

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all people to be active participants in music, and participation in musical groups was, and is, emotionally enriching.”

Over the years, the Habeckers’ musical endeavors have only crescendoed. Today, Gail accompanies many subgroups of the Pennsylvania Academy of Performing Arts. And Perry plays bassoon for multiple groups, including the Chester County Pops and the Symphony at Immaculata University.

Recently, the couple decided to endow a scholarship at Juniata to support a student who participates in the arts or music. And while that might seem like the grand finale, it’s not. Perry urges other alumni to contribute to Juniata, too.

“What are you going to do with all of your money when you die?”

Perry asks. “Most Juniata grads are blessed with good financial fortune.

And many of these people have used Juniata as a springboard to prosperous careers. They should not forget Juniata in the end. There are lots of charitable organizations, but Juniata knows how to properly mine and use its resources.”

Courtesy of Thomas Richards ’97

Courtesy of Gail Habecker ’76

t’s easy to take bridges for granted. Thomas Richards ’97 did for many years while raising a family and pursuing a career as a counselor in a juvenile detention center in Bucks County, Pa.

Glory Days

Early Riser

om Saporito ’62 missed Juniata’s Tangerine Bowl appearance by one year, but he still experienced some of the glory days of Juniata football’s glory.

ome people can’t wait to kick start a career. Like Kelie Cummins Schneider ’06.

“I went to Juniata when there was an unbeaten streak of 28 games in football, and being part of that was my greatest moment in college sports,” Saporito says.

But, like many Juniata athletes, sports were only part of Saporito’s Juniata experience.

“Sports were a big part of my college life, but my Juniata education was excellent,” Saporito adds. “The liberal arts education at Juniata allowed me to develop my people skills and my marketing and sales knowledge to get a good, solid career.”

Saporito put those skills to work in his career in sales and marketing at 3M. Not that his glory days from Juniata have passed him by. Before retiring from 3M in 1999, he received the National Volunteer Award, given to 25 people nationally each year. Now, Saporito continues to direct his athletic acumen to a new use near his retirement beach house in Nags Head, N.C.

Saporito gathers title sponsors for the Outer Banks marathon every November, which draws 7,000 runners annually, and a half-marathon in April. He also helps out with the Nags Head Run in May and solicits 80 to 100 corporate sponsorships each year for golf tournaments throughout the Outer Banks.

The races raise $9,000 for local charities, like the Outer Banks Foundation, which was founded through race proceeds to provide scholarships. Saporito is also a member of the Kiwanis Club of the Outer Banks, which created its own foundation to award scholarships—$8,000 in the past year alone.

“I just want to do something to give back to the great community I live in now,” Saporito says. “All of the people and businesses here in the Outer Banks really do love the community and each other.”

Which is reminiscent for Saporito.

“I was very fortunate to be able to go to Juniata,” Saporito adds.

“Juniata has an environment in which students are able to truly develop.”

And, as Saporito doesn’t forget, it was Juniata that gave him a solid base.

After graduating from Juniata, she headed directly to law school at the University of Pittsburgh and, during her first year, was recruited, based on her sign language volunteering at Juniata, by a free legal clinic to interpret for a deaf client. Through that experience Schneider learned that the disabled, indigent and mentally ill often lacked representation in the legal system. She vowed to become a certified legal representative, before she even passed the bar. In fact, she was certified by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania as a legal intern (she worked in cooperation with a licensed attorney) in her first year.

Her work inspired her so much that today she bases most of her practice at Pittsburgh-based Robert Peirce and Associates on such clients.

“When I graduated and went to law school, I had the idealistic view that I’d be a lawyer to help people, so when I heard of a program to be certified while still in law school, I thought I’d try it,” Schneider says.

“This is the closest to my dream of really helping people on the ground that I can imagine.”

Since entering private practice, Schneider has expanded her pro bono work. She gives seminars at homeless shelters, mental health clinics, healthcare providers and even at halfway houses. But her

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“We never really felt welcomed and invited, but when the invitation for that particular reunion arrived, it had a significant change not previously included. It said ‘spouse or partner’ and I thought, ‘Tedd and I are invited as a couple.’ And that was a huge shift for me,” Sterl recalls.

Since then, Sterl, who is an executive coach and does organizational development consulting, has rediscovered many deep and rich connections with friends and professors from the College.

“I love that Juniata was small and still has small classes,” Sterl says. “I preach the value of a good education to lots of people—not just of getting a degree, but going away, learning about yourself, and learning how to live with others. Juniata does this particularly well.”

Because of his love for Juniata, Sterl sought to support Juniata through his will, but he wasn’t the only one. Investing is a family decision.

“Tedd and I each have our own will,” Sterl points out. “But Juniata is in his will too. Tedd has become part of the Juniata family, and, like me, he’s interested in helping gay and lesbian kids. He is also a proponent of giving back to the community and this seemed to be a particularly meaningful way to do that.”

So the couple formed one of Juniata’s newest unique scholarships—for students who are gay or lesbian.

“There are scholarships for left-handed kids and kids who study science. We have scholarships for people of color and women. Why not make a scholarship for gay and lesbian students? I’d like Tedd Davis (left) and Brad Sterl ’76 people to understand that others are called out and supported for who they are and we want to be supportive of these kids who haven’t been supported in the past.”

Enter the future.

“I’m at an age where you ask yourself, ‘Gee, what kind of a mark do I want to leave?’” Sterl says. “Now, I know: I made a different impact. I feel blessed that I’ve gotten to where I’ve gotten in my life and it largely started at Juniata.”

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clients aren’t her only audience.

Schneider also writes policy impact statements for federal legislators.

“It’s cool to realize that Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Max Baucus want my opinion on how legislation will affect people on the ground,” Schneider adds. In this capacity, she attends Senate Finance Committee meetings and testifies as an expert witness at the federal level.

That’s a lot of local and national service connections for an alumna who will be attending her 5-year class reunion at Homecoming this fall. The secret behind her success?

“There are so many professors at Juniata who are concerned with worldly issues at a local level like Belle and Jim Tuten and Henry Thurston-Griswold and his family,” Schneider says. “Juniata drives students to find a path not already set out for them. I approach my career in a service light, not in a business light. My Juniata education taught me to do what I’m passionate about.”

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rad Sterl ’76 and his partner of 31 years, Tedd Davis, had never attended a class reunion at Juniata until about 10 years ago.

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Courtesy of Kelie Cummins Schneider ’06

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nyone who has watched a handful of Juniata’s online videos knows that President Kepple is a glutton for punishment. Thus, he dared to explore updates to his amazing “Week That Was” letter to alumni from October 2010.

By Genna Welsh Kasun ’06 staff writer

Monday: Cashing In From researching a fungal invasive species called “Tree of Heaven” that seems like a tree from hell to landscapers and homeowners to preparing a retrospective of a spunky, largely-unknown, feminist abstractionist (Minna Citron), four faculty and five student researchers dared to go where no Juniata researchers have gone before in the summer of 2011 thanks to this anonymous donor’s generosity.

Tuesday: Rankings On The Rise Alas, Juniata’s 2011 ranking in U.S. News fell to 102, but we are still 83rd in Washington Monthly. College Prowler.com rated us No. 6 in America’s Healthiest Colleges and Universities.

Wednesday: Following in Shughrue’s Shoes Following her speech, Shughrue co-authored a paper with Juniata chemist Richard Hark and received an award from the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh. She then joined fellow alumna Alyssa Kress ’10 as a chemical analyst at Environmental Standards, Inc. Kress and Shughrue’s covalent employment bond was helped along by Juniata alum Lester Dupes ’87.

Kress and Shughrue were also the first to receive Juniata-II-VI Foundation scholarships based on their internships with A3 Technologies in Aberdeen, Md. In the summer of 2011, three new students found research projects thanks to funds from the II-VI Foundation. One student was Katie Houston ’12, who analyzed portrait miniatures at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Meanwhile, Benjamin Tansi ’14 and Rebecca Weih ’13 researched conflict minerals at a lab on campus.

Thursday Morning: Building Awards Brick By Brick Turns out that honors are just another brick in Founders’ walls. Founders won a bronze category Brick in Architecture award from the Brick Industry Association. And, Founders Architect Baird Dixon reports that Juniata’s hallowed hall was one of five Green Star Design Award winners this year from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Thursday Eve: Serving Sensational Statistics Standing two notches above Founders on the medal podium, Jess Maxon ’09 is poised to capture another Office reports that 44 student volunteers recorded 2,561 hours of service in the 2009-10 academic year while 2010-11 saw a 109 percent increase in the number of volunteers and an 85 percent increase in service hours. This academic year, 12 Juniata students will serve as AmeriCorps members, serving at least 300 hours each.

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gold award in 2011 after exceeding 1,700 hours of community service. The Juniata Community Service

“You can go to faculty with an idea or question or desire to apply for a fellowship, and once you ask they will really go out on a limb to help you get it. I am very interested in ocean acidification, and I am hoping this award will give me the opportunity to do research and (gain) more of an understanding of how this phenomenon will affect us in the future.”

Cara Mayo ’13 Silver Spring, Md. POE: Environmental Science EPA-GRO Scholarship Cara will receive $40,000 in tuition assistance over two years. She also will receive a paid summer internship within the Environmental Protection Agency.

Photo by Jeff Bruzee ’14

Aug. 22: Juniata jumps 12 places to 77th in the Washington Monthly College Rankings poll, rising from 85th in 2010. Sept. 9: Pittsburgh author Bill Strickland gives talk, leads book discussion for Juniata’s freshman reading assignment Make the Impossible Possible.

Sept. 23: Political pundit Meghan McCain cancels a speaking engagement at Juniata,

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opting to gamble in Vegas. Her Twitter message from the casino reveals the excuse she gave Juniata is specious and media outlets from across the country take the College’s side.

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Oct. 3 Oct. 3: Juniata band program performs 75th Anniversary concert. Oct. 27: Chemistry POE Katrina Shughrue ’11 chosen

by Council of Undergraduate Research to present at the Library of Congress.

“It wasn’t my natural inclination to enter a show because I’m so new to ceramics—plus it cost $35 to enter, so that was a factor. But, part of my major was to enter our work at various art shows, so it’s great that this happened. The student body at Juniata has a real awareness of the arts and the energy from people on campus bounces off one other.

Juniata is a great place to make art happen and talk about your ideas.”

Nicholas Brown ’12 Jerusalem, Israel POE: Philosophy and Ceramics Kansas City Clay Guild Tea Bowl National: Nick’s anagama-fired tea bowl was chosen as one of just 70 pieces accepted in this nationally juried exhibition. Nick’s ceramic piece was displayed at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center in Kansas City, Mo. from June 10 through July 11.

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Oct. 28: Jessica Maxon ’09, Americorps representative at Juniata, receives Gold Presidential Volunteer Service Award. Nov. 3: Juniata’s Hillel chapter establishes partnership with Huntingdon synagogue to establish student center. Nov. 8: Theodore Long, president of Elizabethtown College, and Stephen Morgan, president of the University of La Verne, receive honorary degrees from Juniata. Nov. 10: Charles “Bud” Wise, retired PPG executive, spends week in residence in College’s business department.

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Krista Leibensperger ’12

Photo by Laura Hess ’11

Magically transformed by the wonders of Photoshop from a brick walkway to a Yellow Brick Road, a quartet of Juniata students show how the College has made leaps and bounds in maintaining enrollment.

The students represent the “Oz” characters except they all have courage, heart and brains. And they also realize there’s no place like the Juniata campus.

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By John Wall, media relations director Photography by: J.D. Cavrich (unless noted)

Photo illustrations by: Aaron M. McCoy ’12

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or Juniata, whose national reputation has grown exponentially in this most recent decade, enrollment is at a historic high, as about 1,600 students seek out the College’s unique blend of experiential

and personal education every year. The college has averaged 400 freshman for some time. But like our own children, these freshmen have to leave the nest eventually, and when they do the College must have a plan in place to make sure the size of the student body remains relatively stable, avoiding the fluctuations in enrollment that have plagued other colleges and universities.

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The old way of recruiting students was sort of like World War II propaganda, shower the audience with leaflets and hope for the best.

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One of the best ways to think about how college recruiting used to work is to visualize the European Front in World War II. Every so often, an Allied plane would wing its way over the German lines and drop a million leaflets imploring soldiers to surrender. Conjuring images of Babe Ruth, Rita Hayworth and an endless supply of Hershey’s chocolate, these seductive postcards managed to convince a handful of soldiers to abandon their posts.

As Juniata begins to say goodbye to some of its largest graduating classes the last thing the College needs to do is maintain the status quo. “We can’t be complacent about bringing in students who should be part of the Juniata community,” says Thomas Kepple, president of the College. But, bringing in a new class is much more complicated than blanketing Pennsylvania with mailings in the hope a dozen local students recall those postcards when they see Juniata’s booth at their school’s college fair. Few folks associated with the College will be surprised to learn that Juniata has put a plan in place designed to bolster enrollment not just for next year but for the next 25 years.

Like the Army leaflets mentioned earlier, when you’re trying to win a war for the control of the free world, the costs of dumping a neverending stream of paper on a target audience that mostly ignores your message doesn’t really matter all that much. When you’re running a college or university in 2011, recruiting a new freshman class must be more focused than a laser pointer.

Most experts cite rising tuition, family belt-tightening in the post-2008 recession, and, most importantly, a demographic dip in the population of college-age students for current and future enrollment shortfalls in all colleges. In addition, there is a growing higher education backlash, where some experts are questioning the value of a college education. One entrepreneur, Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal, is offering high school students $100,000 to forego college and open a business.

“What we would like to have in place in the coming years are tools to track how students make decisions to come here,” explains Michelle Bartol ’84, dean of enrollment.

Finding the magic words or Golden Ticket that will convince a 17-year-old to choose your campus has been an ephemeral goal

Michelle Bartol ’84, dean of admissions at Juniata, explains how the pool of high school graduates in Pennsylvania is shrinking, a trend that is generally true nationwide. For example, in the 1970s about 35 percent of Pennsylvania’s population was 18 or younger.

Second, while the College is receiving more applications from out-of-state students, fewer Pennsylvania residents are applying. In the geometry of admissions, the “yield” of out-of-state admitted students is always a lower percentage than the “yield” of in-state students. In other words, when fewer Pennsylvanians are coming to the party, the hosts have to “invite” exponentially more people from other states to make up the difference.

Third, as Juniata’s academic reputation has risen over the past decade, many students who would have never considered Juniata are now including the College on their wish lists. This is a good thing. The difficult part of the equation is that as the College enters a more elite playing field, the competition for students is much, much keener.

“If a student has a Top 50 (in the U.S. News Rankings) college in their list, we get about 35 percent of those students, compared to about a 50 percent yield if the student does not have a Top 50 choice,” Bartol explains.

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of almost all colleges and universities outside the Ivy League. Juniata’s strongest selling point to prospective students has always been the personalized approach. Last year, Juniata was able to apply that personal approach to two existing programs: international recruiting and alumni recruiting. Although it sounds counter-intuitive, the College also is creatively “personalizing” the search process by using Web technology. Really.

Before exploring the College’s new solutions to maintain its record-setting enrollment, let’s recall how Juniata, and every other college for that matter, previously built the student body. Twenty years ago, colleges bought lists of student names from the College Board and carpeted living rooms, bedrooms and other areas with postcards, letters, viewbooks, brochures and anything else they thought would get a teenager’s attention. Then, counselors would travel to high schools for college fairs to answer questions.

While the rules of enrollment have largely remained the same, the stakes for bringing in students have risen much higher. First, the population of college-eligible students in Pennsylvaniaand the northeast is dropping.

At far left, Rich Whipkey, of Waybetter Marketing, together with Joe Petrucci, explain how Juniata will be able to use Web technology to really personalize individual communication with prospective students.

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After cresting in 2008, the population of high school students in Pennsylvania has dipped precipitously.

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had to get “up front and personal” with every student in its enrollment pool.

The new approach starts the same. Juniata buys a list of 100,000 students, except now the college calls in Waybetter Marketing, a Maryland-based technology marketing firm specializing in “one-toone communication,” which is techno-speak for “the personalized approach.”

“What we do is give the College tools to learn about these students in real time and respond in real time with the right kind of contact,” says Rich Whipkey, co-owner of Waybetter.

Waybetter’s better way? Every prospective student is sent a personalized email, linked to their own personalized Web page (called a “microsite”). Each site contains a handful of questions about the college experience, as well as a “Schedule a Visit” button.

“Depending on what he or she clicks on, we can now market to that person individually,” Whipkey explains.

A large amount of kids will ignore the initial email, but some won’t, and of those who respond, the College can reduce 100,000 faceless names to about 4,500 prospectives who are willing to learn about Juniata.

Those 4,500 interested students will receive emails based on their interests, and, each subsequent email will have a link to a web page that has information and “buttons” that will focus even more on particular interests. “We help (the enrollment department) find a lot more

interested parties and give them the ammunition to follow up properly,” explains Whipkey. Waybetter doesn’t ignore the 95,500 who didn’t reply. They follow up with periodic emails back to the non-responders.

Waybetter’s system gives the enrollment staff more time to respond creatively and personally to individual students. “The number of (prospectives) that have responded has probably doubled from last year,” Bartol estimates. The system includes alerts to counselors when a student clicks on the “Visit” button, which prompts the counselor to send a hand-written invitation to the student, and an alert when a prospective clicks on Juniata’s web cost calculator, which results in a letter from Valerie Rennell, director of the financial aid office.

The system also eliminates many paper mailings (i.e.

100,000 names winnowed to 4,500), eliminates hundreds of hours of student data entry and eliminates most database errors in identifying students (“You have no idea how time consuming it is to figure out a high school student’s hand-written email address,” says Bartol.).

“If we can get more people in the pipeline and capitalize on those contacts, it should translate into a steadier number for our class each year,” she adds.

By identifying those who are interested in Juniata early and concentrating more focused communication on topics prospectives are interested in, the College can offset problems that can negatively affect enrollment, such as a coaching change, an economic recession or a state population downturn.

“What we do is give the College tools to learn about these students in real time and respond in real time with the right kind of contact.”

—Rich Whipkey, co-owner of Waybetter

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Whipkey, at left, and Petrucci show how each email to an individual student can be focused by POE interest. The messages can be further personalized if the prospectives answer preference questions in each web survey or email.

Photo: Sungouk Park ’14

A simplified diagram shows how Juniata’s international enrollment counselor, Brett Basom ’85, has been able to increase the number of Chinese students studying at Juniata.

By working with several Chinese enrollment counselors in the cities of Chengdu and Beijing, the College has been able to recruit talented students to study in Huntingdon.

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One reason Basom has been successful at international recruiting is that he employs a student, Rachel Adams ’13, who, as the daughter of Foreign Service employees, has spent much of her life overseas, to help international students navigate the admissions process.

Previously, another student, Natacha Botin ’11, an international student with roots in Brazil and France, worked as Basom’s assistant.

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Another tool to stabilize enrollment size is international recruiting. Juniata’s has never been better, or attracted such a diverse number of international students.

The reason? Juniata uses counselors in some countries to deliver in-person information.

Brett Basom ’85, the College’s international enrollment expert, credits strategic hires of three independent enrollment counselors in China, trained in Juniata’s personal approach, with rising international enrollments. Two counselors in Chengdu and one in Beijing identify candidates and then Song Gao, a former business professor at Juniata, follows up with each admitted student. He talks personally with nearly every student and their parents.

The enrollment office extends its personalized approach even to its student workers. Basom, who spends much of his time on the road and overseas, hired Natacha Bohin ’11, an international student with French and Brazilian roots, as his student assistant. Bohin handled communication with international recruits and helped coach new students through the admissions process.

“Natacha, who had lived in many countries, including the United States, could relate to internationals in a way that even some professional enrollment people cannot,” says Basom. In the coming academic year, Rachel Adams ’13, who has lived abroad her entire life (her parents are in the Foreign Service), will be part of the enrollment team.

Basom says the new approach has given him more time to branch out his international work to other areas such as Southeast Asia, India and Pakistan. This year’s freshman class includes eight students from China, three from Myanmar (Burma), a Bangladeshi, a Thai, two Moroccans and 15 other students from 13 other countries.

One-on-one communication also is the foundation of the Juniata’s Gold Card program, now in its fourth year. The program asks College alumni to recommend a student they know, send in their information on a Gold Card to the enrollment office, and volunteer to follow up and encourage the student through the application process.

In 2009, 103 prospectives were identified through the program and 53 enrolled, a yield of 51 percent. In 2010, 131 Gold Card students were admitted and 62 enrolled—a yield of 47 percent. This year, 178 students were admitted and 85 enrolled, a 48 percent yield.

“About 84 percent of the Gold Card students are from Pennsylvania, so this coming year we’d like to dedicate more time to finding alumni beyond Pennsylvania to become mentors,” says Bartol.

In the complex mathematics of recruitment, the ability to add one student, plus one enrollment counselor or Juniata graduate, plus the work of an increasingly technologically savvy enrollment office, will equal a sustainable influx of students searching for the Juniata experience.

Typically, it’s hard to find a consultant willing to give a superlative quote to writers, for fear of alienating their other clients. The Waybetter Marketing team, which has more than a dozen major university clients, didn’t hesitate, when asked about Juniata’s new initiative:

Information is Gold

In student recruitment, information is gold, according to Michelle Bartol ’84, dean of enrollment. Although the College’s Gold Card Recruitment Program has been an unqualified success, Bartol has a few tips for enthusiastic alumni itching to reel in their first student referral. wPrint each entry clearly on the card. “It’s very easy to get names wrong or misinterpret spellings.” wMake sure every piece of information is correct. “If we are missing an address, an apartment number, are using Street instead of Avenue, all of that can cause us to miss a recruiting opportunity.” wCommunicate with the enrollment counselor assigned to your student. “Our database is huge, so the more we interact with you the better our chances are to personalize our approach to your student.

Gold cards are available at juniata.edu/alumnischolarship

“Juniata is not just another customer, what we’ve learned from Juniata (outweighs) what we’ve given the College,” Whipkey says. “Juniata is one of the best schools we work with, and if we can use our knowledge to make that known to the rest of the country, then that’s something we want to accomplish.”

Bartol diagrams an easy-to-read bar chart showing how many students were recruited during the Gold Card Program and how many enrolled at the College.

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“I’ve always had a lot of help from professors who have pushed me to try these things. One of the persons who really helped me with the Finnegan application is Sam Hayes (Juniata adjunct instructor and former Secretary of Agriculture). Even if I decide not to go into government work, it will be invaluable for making connections and networking to build knowledge beyond my classroom experience.”

Hannah Miller ’13 Hanover, Pa. POE: International Studies Finnegan Fellowship: Hannah spent summer 2011 in Harrisburg working as an intern at a state agency in Harrisburg, Pa.

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Kristin Noetzel ’11 named first team All-American and

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Stephanie Strauss ’11 named second team All-American

by American Volleyball Coaches Association.

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“I’m very meticulous and detail-oriented so (research) suits my personality. The hands-on experience you get here really helps you see what you’d like to focus on.

I also think the liberal arts requirements here made me think differently—such as the social implications of the work I’m doing.”

Steven Strutt ’13 Ellwood City, Pa. POE: Biology Amgen Scholar Program: Steven received a paid summer research internship at a lab at the University of California-San Francisco. He receives room and board as well as a travel stipend from the Amgen Foundation.

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team All-American by National Field Hockey Coaches Association. Nov. 30: Stephanie

Dec. 13: Jerry Kruse, professor of mathematics and computer science, was named a Teagle Teaching and Learning Scholar, and Jay Hosler, associate professor of biology, was named a Teagle Scholar. Dec. 20:

Strauss ’11 is named to the first-team ESPN

Juniata placed 63rd and appears for the first time in Kiplinger’s Personal

Academic All-America women’s volleyball team.

Finance poll: “Best Values in Private Liberal Arts Colleges.”

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Nov. 22: Meghan McGlone ’12 named second

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Plugged In Juniata Unveils Online Community Network

By John Wall, media relations director Photography by J.D. Cavrich

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e’ve all heard about how social media is going to revolutionize our lives. Through the magic of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, our lives, ideas and thoughts will

be on display for all our friends to see. And it is great, isn’t it? You can connect with old pals, keep in touch with the grandkids, see photos of birthday parties you can’t attend.

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Well, we say we want a revolution, but you know, many people may say “count me out” when it comes to privacy and other issues. After all, what happens when we really don’t want to connect with that creepy loser from 11th-grade math?

Or perhaps we don’t particularly care to see those pics of Mr. Schnabley, the elementary school teacher, crowd surfing at a Metallica concert.

Sure, the wave of the future probably is social networking, but perhaps many people will start opting to join smaller communities than, say, the entire world. Communities where people share common memories and common experiences.

Communities where bonds go deeper than sitting behind someone in eighth-grade geography. That, in a virtual nutshell, is what the College is aiming for with Juniata Connect.

Juniata Connect is a new social media platform custom-built to the College’s specifications that gives all alumni—from 2011 graduates right down to our oldest alumni—entrée into the world of digital connections with few of the drawbacks associated with the Face-Twit-Linked googleplex—such as virtual stalking, targeted ads and emails from companies that you’ve “liked” on Facebook, and friend requests from obscure people.

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After both played a crucial role in developing the Juniata Connect social network, David Meadows ’98, now director of alumni relations, consults with Jim Watt, the former director and now director of development for the College, on how best to find the optimum method to bring alumni together online.

“This is not meant to replace Facebook. We want to give our graduates a better way to connect with other Juniatians.”

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“This is not meant to replace Facebook,” says David Meadows ’98, director of alumni relations and the person who has spearheaded the rollout of the new technology. “We want to give our graduates a better way to connect with other Juniatians.”

Better ways to connect are the integral links in many areas of life, particularly the job search. Looking for jobs in the want ads or even on websites is so 2005. Many students now surf social networks for leads to that first paycheck. Brand-new alumnus Travis Raup ’11 can attest to the power of Juniata’s Internet connections.

Raup, now assistant manager of database and web services at the American Anthropological Association, in Washington, D.C., found his job when an alumna (Lisa Myers ’81) had posted it on the Juniata IT department’s Facebook page. “I basically followed the links back to her wall post,” Raup says.

Social networks also are integral to finding other social niceties, like shelter. Raup also found roommates in Washington through Facebook. But, as a veteran social networker, he’s even more excited about Juniata

Travis Raup ’11 left, was hired by Lisa Myers ’81, right, for a position with the American Anthropological Association in Arlington, Va. Travis not only used social media to find the job, he also used social media sites to find a couple of recent Juniata graduates as Beltway roommates. Lisa, also used social media to post the job Travis responded to.

“I think Facebook and LinkedIn are not as good at separating the groups that people like to search for. Juniata Connect does this, plus provides interesting information, like interest groups and activities.”

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Connect. “I check it once or twice a week so I can keep in contact with anyone new. I think Facebook and LinkedIn are not as good at separating the groups that people like to search for. Juniata Connect does this, plus provides interesting information, like interest groups and activities.”

Connections in any social group always work best when there is a wide range of demographic sets that let people reach beyond their own circle of acquaintances. To that end, current students, alumni and parents (all subject to approval by the network’s alumni administrator) are being courted to sign up for the new service. Juniata Connect features tools and options that make searching for friends and connections easier, while maintaining a level of privacy that is simple to implement and change.

“This is the first social network I’ve ever joined because it seemed like a safe way to start,” says Harold Hall ’66, a retired IBM software engineer (he should know about safe computer networks). “A classmate, Lew Rarig ’66, and I set up our Class of 1966 group and we both did a sales pitch to the class at our reunion dinner.”

The College created Juniata Connect with an Altoona-based software and service company called Intelmarx. Jim Watt, former director of alumni relations,

www.juniataconnect.org

Juniata Connect is a full service social network that allows members to search for fellow Juniatians using a variety of specific criteria. The more people who sign up for the free service, the more efficient the network will be, particularly if members keep their setting customized to a level of privacy comfortable for them.

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asked the company if it was possible to customize a standalone computer network. Yes it was. Intelmarx has created its product specifically to Juniata’s needs.

In fact, the company has asked the College if it can license the software for the Juniata Connect network to other higher education clients.

“What we’re doing is bringing all the information that people are willing to share and applying it to a single organization—Juniata,” explains Gunter Volders ’95, chief operating officer for Intelmarx and a former Juniata student originally from Sint-Truiden, Belgium. Volders says Juniata Connect contains networking features never seen in larger applications.

“As an alum I like that all the information is in one location,” he says. “The core virtue of the network is information gathering and exchange.”

As it happens, Intelmarx is working on a few new wrinkles for convenient connections. For example, the software firm is testing a feature that allows users to not only see that, say, Homecoming, is coming up, but also lets the user register and pay for the event, declare a meal choice, and opt for specific programs offered at the event.

Volders emphasizes that the program is constantly being updated and former IBM’er Hall has sent some suggestions on how to improve a variety of Juniata Connect issues. Users can receive quick answers by consulting the “Contact Us” button at the bottom of the home page.

Privacy online is perhaps the single most important issue to users interested in networking. Juniata Connect’s most innovative tools have emerged from this most basic concern.

The system’s default setting is public, but users can adjust the privacy controls to whatever level they desire. But, unlike Facebook, which makes its privacy settings difficult to find, Juniata Connect features easy-to-understand settings that are just a few clicks away from the user’s profile page.

“Facebook and other networks want you to keep your profile public because they’re data-harvesting to sell information about their users. We’re not interested in that,” Volders says. “We’d want users to be visible on the site, but the extent of their privacy settings is up to them.”

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“We would like people to be public to some degree,” says Meadows. “If you are not public, other members will not be able to see you during a data search.”

Searching the Juniata Connect network is much more comprehensive than other networks. Users can search a menu of criteria that includes: name, POE, sports, activities, hobbies, industry or employment, graduation year, city, state, country and volunteerism interests.

“There are even more fields that can be searched, but in general if you’re a current student or alumnus looking for connections to a job or just for networking it’s much easier to search than larger global networks,” Meadows says.

That is, it’s much easier to search if there are many more users on the system and since the network debuted a few months ago, there are still relatively few users. Right now the count stands at around 2,000, with about 25 percent of those users opting for any public settings.

“People need to understand that Juniata Connect can’t search unless you allow the system to search for you.

You can adjust the privacy settings so you don’t get a lot of notifications, but if you choose to be invisible to other members, it’s as if you’re not in the network,” says Dan O’Sullivan ’64, a retired U.S. Army officer and tireless class organizer. “We still need to convince classes and current students of the benefits of the group.”

O’Sullivan, who has created so many media products for his Class of 1964 (newsletters, spreadsheets, news releases) that he can be considered the William Randolph Hearst of reunions, points out that the new system makes it much easier for collective class members to manage common items such as Word documents, photos, PDFs 34

Gunter Volders ’95, chief financial officer for Intelmarx Inc., an Altoona, Pa.-based software firm, helped Juniata develop and implement the Juniata Connect network.

“Facebook and other networks want you to keep your profile public because they’re dataharvesting to sell information about their users. We’re not interested in that. We’d want users to be visible on the site, but the extent of their privacy settings is up to them.”

—Gunter Volders ’95

and other online files. Indeed, he has already moved his Class of 1964 activities from a dedicated Web page on Juniata’s main website to Juniata Connect.

“For class-related sites on the College pages I had to send items in and ask an employee or student worker to post it. This way we can be editors and provide much quicker news and updates,” O’Sullivan says. “Like everything else at Juniata, this is unique. It’s the best way to keep in touch with fellow class members.”

Although Connect members cannot yet wander the website by working on a virtual farm or creating a fictional underworld empire, there are a few things to do.

Active Juniatians can collect badges, some of which have to be earned (Donor, Trustee, Volunteer) and some of which can be self-selected (Alumni Ambassador, Juniata Career team). Members can also create new groups, start a blog, or host a discussion forum.

Like any new venture, Juniata Connect is growing steadily, but slowly. Meadows estimates about 100 new members sign up every month. So far, new members have been new or recent graduates (who try to utilize the network for job searches) and retired alumni (who use it to gather news of classmates).

But, like anything new, Juniatians have only scratched the surface of what’s possible on the network.

Users can create groups based around big ideas (Should Juniata create master’s programs?) or off-the-radar interests (Closet Cooks who Love Lesher Kitchen).

Either way, the College thinks of the effort as building a meeting place that opens more doors to our students, our alumni and other interested parties. In short, an online version of the Juniata social experience. In the same way that freshmen marvel at the friendliness of the campus during the first week of college, Juniata Connect can offer similar qualities across generations of graduates.

“(Social networks) offer people a quick and easy way to stay connected on their own time, meaning they can (browse) when it suits them best. They don’t have to be prepared for an immediate response, or a lack of response when they share or interact,” says O’Sullivan. “The social network environment lets them be less inhibited. Our challenge is to make it clear that Connect is not like every other social network, but one developed specifically for Juniatians.”

One way widely used social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn utilize the information members to “data harvest” information to sell to other businesses.

Juniata Connect seeks only to find an easy way to keep Juniata alumni and students connected—ostensibly forever.

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“I was able to make my education my own at Juniata.

I built leadership skills in volleyball and in the clubs I was in. Everyone is so willing to help because they all want us to succeed. Juniata is a special place and the people are what makes it special.”

Steph Strauss ’11 Penn Hills, Pa. POE: Sports Marketing and Management NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship: Steph received $7,500 to apply to her graduate education. Steph, now Juniata’s assistant women’s volleyball coach, is currently enrolled in a graduate sports management studies program at California University of Pennsylvania.

Photo by Jeff Bruzee ’14

Jan. 17: Emmy-winning cinematographer for Showtime’s Weeds, Mike Trim ’76, returns to campus to give talk, sit in on

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women’s volleyball coach, to accept coaching job at U.S. Naval

Conference championship over University

Academy, ending a three-decade career at Juniata.

of Scranton.

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“I like the way Juniata emphasizes the importance of internships as a way to get experience in the field. I think the faculty and administration take pride in their students and look for ways to show off our achievements. So many professors were interested in how my grant was going. They were so proud of me and so proud of the work of all their students that it can’t help but boost your confidence.”

Talia Valencia ’12 Hagerstown, Md. POE: Wildlife Conservation African Wildlife Foundation: As an intern, Talia wrote a grant for the Disney Company’s Friends For Change: Project Green program. Talia’s grant was voted among the top five submitted and later won first prize after people voted online. Talia’s grant was for $100,000 to establish a bonobo reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Mar. 2 March 2: Tim Launtz ’80 is named head football coach after Carmen Felus resigns

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March 5: Eagles’ women’s basketball team reaches second round of the NCAA

to accept job at University of

Women’s Basketball Championship,

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Feb. 26

‘It Was a Very Good Year’

By Peter Lefresne

sports information director

Frankly, 2010-11 was a good year for Juniata athletics.

It was a very good year on the athletic green, for all our teams.

Making this easy on myself, I’ll give you my 10 favorite moments—in no particular order, mind you, but all are worth savoring.

Juniata Sports 2010-11 Won–Lost Records Baseball: 16-21 overall; 6-10 in Landmark Conference Basketball, Men’s: 12-13 overall; 5-9 in Landmark Conference Basketball Women’s: 22-7 overall; 12-2 in Landmark

Conference (Champion); reached NCAA Tournament Cross Country Men’s: Second out of eight teams in

Landmark Conference Cross Country Women’s: Third out of seven teams in the

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Field Hockey: 18-5 overall; 6-0 in Landmark Conference;

reached NCAA Tournament

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Indoor Track and Field Women’s: Third of six teams in the

Landmark Conference Outdoor Track and Field Men’s: Third of six teams in the

Landmark Conference Outdoor Track and Field Women’s: Third of six teams in the

Landmark Conference Soccer, Men’s: 9-8-1 overall; 1-5-1 in Landmark Conference Soccer, Women’s: 9-8-1 overall; 3-3-0 in Landmark Conference Softball: 3-27 overall; 1-11 in Landmark Conference Swimming: 8-12 overall; sixth of seven teams in Landmark Conference Tennis, Men’s: 8-9 overall; 3-4 in Landmark Conference Tennis Women’s: 5-12 overall; 0-6 in Landmark Conference

Football: 0-10 overall; 0-9 in Landmark Conference

Volleyball, Men’s: 18-12 overall; 7-0 in EIVA Hay Division

Indoor Track and Field Men’s: Fourth out of six teams in the

Landmark Conference

Volleyball, Women’s: 34-6 overall; 6-0 in Landmark Conference; reached

NCAA Tournament

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= juniata.edu/report 10. Women’s basketball upends Scranton for its first Landmark title.

9. Men’s basketball downs Catholic on Dan Sekulski’s buzzer-beating three-point bomb.

Paced by senior Jen Hnatuck’s 12 points and 12 rebounds, Juniata women’s hoops capped a brilliant conference campaign—rolling past the University of Scranton, 67-49, to win the Landmark Conference championship, the first conference crown in program history.

It was more of a prayer than a shot, but hallelujah to the outcome.

The Eagles upended the Lady Royals in the same manner they had been dispatching opponents all season: stingy defense; balanced offense (nine out of 10 players on the roster scored); some solid shooting performances, particularly from long-distance as Natalie Glinsky ’13, Jordan Speck ’13, and Paige Robertson ’13 each drained a pair of treys.

There was a brief second, with Sekulski’s shot hanging in the air, where the Juniata’s gym went nearly silent.

But it was sheer bedlam that ensued, as the Eagles stormed the court in celebration; even the normally reserved and at times stoic head coach Greg Curley was jumping up and down on the court and pumping both fists in the air with glee.

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The win over Scranton marked Juniata’s third triumph of the season over the Lady Royals (more on that later…), adding a twist-of-the-knife element to the win—over a program against whom Juniata had experienced much frustration.

Trailing Catholic University of America, 54-52, with three seconds on the game clock, Juniata guard Dan Sekulski ’12 raced up the sideline with the ball following a go-ahead jumper by the Cardinals.

Somewhere in the no-man’s-land between the time line and the three-point line, Sekulski released an inelegant looking shot that looked much prettier when it fell through the hoop for the win at the buzzer. Sekulski finished with 18 points on the night, as the Eagles upended one their biggest Landmark rivals in what had been an all-night battle.

8. Field hockey and women’s volleyball take Landmark titles on the same day.

Both women’s volleyball and field hockey earned the right to host Landmark Conference championship matches by virtue of their regular season performances, and both made the most of the opportunity.

Field hockey opened the day with a 3-2 win over Catholic, as the Eagles took advantage of a pair of second half goals on their way to victory. Senior Paula Price’s unassisted tally barely eight minutes into the second half vaulted Juniata into the lead, while Shauna Deschenes’ ’12 penalty stroke goal proved to be the difference maker. Goalie Moira Nugent ’11 turned aside four of the six shots she faced in the Juniata cage.

Women’s volleyball sailed through its Landmark semifinal match with a 3-0 win over Moravian College, pitting the Eagles against an upset-minded Susquehanna University squad in the title match.

However Juniata’s middles combined to hit .481 while logging eight total blocks against the Crusaders, and led the Eagles to a thrashing sweep of Susquehanna in a barely-an-hour contest.

Distance runner Ceth Parker set a Juniata indoor 3,000m record last year at the Bucknell Winter Classic in Lewisburg, Pa., and bested that effort this past winter by posting a time of 8:55.63—the first sub-nine minute time at that distance in Juniata history.

Katrina Woods ’14, a track phenom from just down the road in Shirleysburg, Pa., matched Parker’s feat, logging a time of 10:55.41 in the event. Of course, that record would only stand for one week. At the following Saturday’s Susquehanna Open, Jessica Koenig ’12 posted a time of 10:54.47 in the indoor 3000m to seize the Juniata record.

For Parker, it was but the most recent accomplishment in a fine career. For Woods, it heralded what should be a promising four years on the track—an assessment validated at the Wake Forest Open, Juniata’s first outdoor meet of the season. Woods ran a 10:42.97 in the 3,000m at the largely-Division I Wake Forest meet, finishing 12th overall and earning Landmark Conference Track Athlete of the Week honors.

Photo: Doug Hoover

Kristin Noetzel ’11 logged 11 kills in the win, while libero Libby Morrison ’12 sprawled for 11 digs—most blink-and-youmissed-it specials that highlighted the transfer student’s play throughout her first season at the College (human beings just aren’t supposed to be able to roll, somersault, or whatever and pop up to their feet that fast…).

7. Ceth Parker ’12 and Katrina Woods ’14 set 3,000m records at the Bucknell Winter Classic.

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6. Men’s soccer keeper Ezra Cassel ’12 stymies the Cardinals in a 1-1 tie.

First, I confess seeing only the final 20 minutes or so of this brilliant 110-minute performance. But, oh, how I wish I got to see more. I received a text from my student assistants up on Winton Hill—“You have to get up to soccer now and see this” (a first in my four years as Juniata’s SID…)—prompting a trip from “sports information central” in Kennedy up to the soccer pitch.

Juniata keeper Ezra Cassel was making saves on dives, leaps, and everything else he could muster out of his six-foot, four-inch frame, keeping visiting Catholic University of America from getting the ball past him in a game tied at 1-1. Some of these saves were simply unreal, and he made three of them in the short time I was at the field. I soon learned from other nearby fans that these were the sorts of plays Cassel had been making all afternoon long.

The Cardinals’ frustration was growing visibly with each save and missed scoring opportunity. The ever-growing crowd (apparently I was not the only person being texted to get to Winton Hill to watch the ‘Ezra Show’) roared with appreciation at each stop Cassel made, becoming an equally exasperating irritant to the opposing side.

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5. Erin Eddinger’s OT goal leads Juniata past Susquehanna and into Landmark tourney.

Juniata women’s soccer stood at 2-2-0 heading its home match against Susquehanna, and the Eagles desperately needed a win over the Crusaders if they were to have any shot of qualifying for the Landmark tournament.

The Eagles’ only remaining contest was at the (Landmark) undefeated University of Scranton.

A scoreless first half gave way to a goal for each side in the span of four minutes in the second half. Susquehanna took command of the game with a goal in the 85th minute. The Crusader goal only seemed to have the effect of getting Juniata’s dander up. Alicia Snyder ’14 knotted the game at 2-2 with an unassisted goal in the 88th minute.

In overtime, Erin Eddinger ’11 ended the game when she finished a shot into the far corner from her spot on the left side of the Crusader goal. Alexandra Malinowski ’14 got credit for the assist, as she began the sequence with a cross toward the Susquehanna goal from 25 yards out that caromed off a Crusader defender, right onto Eddinger’s foot.

Juniata clinched its third Landmark post-season berth over the last four seasons with the win.

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In the end, Cassel preserved the tie while the exhausted Cardinals, literally, stood on the field, hands on their knees, wondering why. He finished with 17 saves—that’s right, 17—on his way to well-deserved Landmark Conference Men’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week honors.

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4. Angie Shaffer ’13 sets heptathlon record.

3. Men’s basketball Jeremy Hays ’14 lights up Dickinson for 22 points.

Perhaps in the unlikeliest of ways, Angie Shaffer found her way into the Juniata track record books as she set a new school heptathlon record at the Messiah College Invitational outdoor track and field meet.

Men’s basketball guard Jeremy Hays arrived as among the more highly-touted freshmen on the team. It didn’t take long for the McMechen, W.Va. native to show he was capable of being an impact player in his rookie campaign.

Shaffer finished with 3,510 points, eclipsing the record of 3,427 points set by Kira Troutman in 2002.

Seven different events—long jump, javelin, 800m run, 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, and 200m run—make up the heptathlon, and while Shaffer was a proven quantity at some of those events, she was by no means a master of all of them.

More amazing? It was the first heptathlon competition of her career.

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Juniata closed out a tough early-season slate of games by facing Dickinson College. Hays turned the contest into his personal coming-out party, as he led Juniata with a season-high 22 points in a 64-60 triumph over Dickinson. He came off the bench to go 6-of-11 from the field against the Red Devils, including draining three 3-pointers, and was 7-of-8 at the free-throw line. In addition to his scoring, Hays dished out three assists and logged two steals over 26 minutes of play.

For the year he finished third among Juniata scoring leaders averaging 9.7 points per game, with a team-high 70 steals.

He was passed over for Landmark Rookie of the Year in favor of Susquehanna’s Harley Sellinger (really, Landmark men’s basketball coaches?), but Hays should be the source for plenty of exciting Juniata basketball moments over the next three years.

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2. Women’s basketball’s win over Scranton to end 19-year losing streak to Lady Royals.

Juniata women’s basketball probably wasn’t favored to win its first matchup of the season against the University of Scranton.

The Eagles entered the Jan. 14 game at Scranton winless against the Lady Royals in their last eight meetings, and Juniata had not beaten Scranton since Feb. 25, 1992.

The only possible piece of foreshadowing as to what would transpire on that night: that 1992 win came at Scranton’s Long Center.

The Eagles trailed Scranton, 38-29, at the break, but Juniata owned the second half.

Juniata shot 70 percent from the field (17of-24 from the field) after the intermission, and was 14-of-23 for free throws, coming away with a 81-68 shocker over a Scranton squad that wilted over the final six minutes of the game.

How big was this game? I texted the score to then-athletics director Larry Bock, who happened to be meeting with his fellow Landmark Conference athletics directors at the annual NCAA Convention in San Antonio, Texas. His reply included that the other ADs were stunned when they heard the outcome. None more so than Scranton athletics director Toby Lovecchio, I’ll bet.

In each of the last two years, I’ve tried to close this list with something of an unconventional or unexpected choice. I’m feeling the need to stick with the tradition.

This is more of an athletics movement than an athletic moment, but Juniata’s athletics program has seen phenomenal personnel changes over the past year.

New head coaches in football, men’s volleyball, women’s volleyball, and baseball, plus a women’s swimming coach who just completed only her second year at Juniata. New assistant coaches for women’s soccer and women’s cross country and track and field, in addition to a multitude of new staff with the football program. A new part-time assistant in the strength and conditioning program, and I’d be remiss if I left off the assistant sports information director position in my own office that enters its third year this fall.

And, of course, new leadership at the helm: Greg Curley.

Even the most seemingly vibrant of organizations can benefit from a little change every now and then, and an infusion of new blood—or even just giving new focus to familiar faces– can yield quite a transformation.

Will there be bumps in the road as change(s) unfold within Athletics? Probably. Will it be painful at times? You bet.

Significant change usually is. But there are a whole lot people–some new, some veteran; some young, some a littlelonger-in-the-tooth–all sharing a common denominator: a commitment to helping Juniata’s student-athletes achieve their utmost on the field or in the classroom.

The next few years should be fun for all who are a part of Juniata Athletics: student-athlete, parent, alumnus, or fan.

Stay tuned.

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That weekend became a character-building moment for the Eagles and head coach Danny Young-Uhrich ’00. They would have other big games, and both YoungUhrich and her squad learned how to handle the pressures that came with no longer being the hunters in the world of Landmark Conference women’s basketball, but among the hunted.

1. Change in the air within Juniata Athletics.

Class-by-class Participation Comparison 2011 34% 2010 28% ▲ 5% 2009 25% ▲ 7% 2008 21% ▲ 5% 2007 2006 23% ▲ 6% 2005 15% 2004 17% ▲ 1% 2003 16%▲ 1% 2002 16% ▲ 1% 2001 20% 2000 25% 1999 14% 17% 1998 16% 1997 1996 11% 17% 1995 1994 17% ▲ 2% 18% 1993 1992 20% 1991 13% 17% 1990 20% 1989 25% 1988 1987 21% 17% 1986 22% ▲ 5% 1985 23% 1984 18% 1983 26% 1982 19% 1981 29% 1980 26% 1979 28% 1978 26% 1977 26% 1976 1975 32% 27% 1974 1973 39% 1972 38% 27% 1971 42% 1970 36% 1969 33% 1968 41% 1967 52% 1966 53% ▲ 3% 1965 1964 50% 64% 1963 46% 1962 1961 53% ▲ 6% 40% 1960 52% 1959 57% 1958 54% 1957 58% 1956 1955 45% 1954 45% 1953 60% ▲ 2% 1952 40% 1951 43% 1950 46% 1949 42% 1948 41% 1947 48% ▲ 9% 1946 1945 12% 46% ▲ 2% 1944 32% ▲ 11% 1943 29% ▲ 4% 1942 24% 1941 30% 1940 36% 1939 & earlier 0

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Alumni Participation Many ranking and funding agencies use alumni participation percentages in their formulae for determining which schools will (and will not) A receive awards and recognition. Competition is keen, and Juniata’s past strong participation allowed us to stand out from the crowd. We offer our deep appreciation both to those who are loyal in making an annual gift, and to those who came on board this year for the first time. Your potential impact is far greater than the gift alone.

79%

Grants Thirty-three new grants were awarded, totaling $1,150,204.

Within the fiscal year, $2,293,222 was received from grants in operation, including some awards made in prior fiscal years.

The sources of those funds were: Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $513,530 (22%) Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $174,914 (8%) United States Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $980,206 (43%) Pennsylvania State Government . . . . . . . . . . . $615,231 (27%) Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,337 (<1%) 90%

U.S. Govt.

43% Other <1%

Corporation 8% Foundation 22%

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NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. April 4: Juniata theatre students create yearlong project turning interviews into

April 11: Hannah Miller ’13 is named a Finnegan Fellow and is awarded a paid internship at a Pennsylvania state agency. April 22: Juniata men’s volleyball team becomes part of the Continental Conference and will compete in Division III athletics.

acclaimed stage play Death. A Comedy. With Music.

Apr. 11

JUNIATA COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2011-2012 Officers of the Board Robert N. McDowell ’67, Chair, Chatham, N.J., Managing Partner, CHM Partners International LLC Timothy D. Statton ’72, Vice Chair, Frederick, Md., Retired, President, Bechtel Telecommunications Thomas R. Pheasant ’66, Secretary, Camp Hill, Pa., Vitreoretinal Surgeon, Retina/Occuloplastic Consultants Donald L. Detwiler ’64, Treasurer, New Enterprise, Pa., President, CEO, New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company

Executive Committee Robert N. McDowell ’67, Chair Timothy D. Statton ’72, Vice Chair Thomas R. Pheasant ’66, Secretary Donald L. Detwiler ’64, Treasurer David C. Beachley ’77 Carl D. Glaeser ’77 Jamie M. Pirrello ’81 Gayle W. Pollock ’68 Charles W. Wise III Mary M. White ’73 David P. Andrews ’74, at large Henry H. Gibbel ’57, at large Thomas R. Kepple Jr., ex officio

Board of Trustees Representatives Faculty Representatives:

Emil Nagengast (Term ends 2013) Donna Weimer (Term ends 2012)

Student Representatives: David Grim ’12 Nicole Houck ’12

Committee on Advancement & Marketing David C. Beachley ’77, Chair Eric C. Jensen ’77, Vice Chair Carole A. Calhoun ’60 (A) Henry H. Gibbel ’57 Fred C. Mason Jr. ’73 Thomas R. Pheasant ’66 Jamie M. Pirrello ’81 Henry F. Siedzikowski ’75 Rebecca M. Zeek ’86 (C)

Committee on Business Affairs

Committee on Investments

Mary M. White ’73, Chair Christoph Schwemmlein ’84, Vice Chair David P. Andrews ’74 Donald L. Detwiler ’64 Carl D. Glaeser ’77 Gail M. Habecker ’76 Barry J. Halbritter ’65 Steven J. Holsinger ’76 Klare S. Sunderland ’56 Maurice C. Taylor ’72

Faculty Representatives:

Amy Mathur ’96 (2012) Wei-Chung Wang (2013)

Student Representatives: Mary Howser ’12 Megan Russell ’12

Student Representatives: Committee on Trustees Timothy D. Statton ’72, Chair David J. Hogan ’61 Gayle W. Pollock ’68 Mary M. White ’73 Charles W. Wise III Thomas R. Kepple Jr., ex officio Robert N. McDowell ’67, ex officio

Alison Fletcher (2013) Fay Glosenger (2012)

Student Representatives: Aimee Reinaker ’12 Rob Schultz ’12

Robert S. McMinn ’79

Patrick Chang-Lo

Bruce L. Moyer ’74

Carol J. Ellis ’71

Glenn B. O’Donnell ’67

C. Todd Kulp ’80

Henry F. Siedzikowski ’75

Faculty Representative: Jeff Demarest (2013)

Committee on Enrollment & Retention

Jared Clark ’12 Jared Edgerton ’12

Faculty Representatives:

Carole A. Calhoun ’60

Gabe Castro ’12

Committee on Education & Student Life

Faculty Representatives:

Carl D. Glaeser ’77, Chair Gail M. Habecker ’76, Vice Chair John A. Brinker ’69 David J. Hogan ’61 Donald L. Detwiler ’64 Henry H. Gibbel ’57 C. Todd Kulp ’80 Klare S. Sunderland ’56

New Trustees

Student Representative:

Ruth Reed (2012) Jim Tuten (2013)

Charles W. Wise III, Chair Linda W. McKonly ’73, Vice Chair Geoffrey W. Clarke ’75 (A) Jodie M. Gray ’88 William P. Hayes C. Todd Kulp ’80 Glenn B. O’Donnell ’67 (C) Richard E. Paulhamus ’70 Ronald N. Seiler ’77 (A)

(A) Alumni (C) Church

Gayle W. Pollock ’68, Chair John A. Brinker ’69, Vice Chair Patrick Chang-Lo Carol J. Ellis ’71 Madeleine F. Green David J. Hogan ’61 Robert S. McMinn ’79 (C) Bruce L. Moyer ’74 Timothy D. Statton ’72

Faculty Representative: Karen Rosell (2013) David Widman (2012)

Student Representative: Corey Lacey ’14 Victoria Rehr ’14

Audit Committee Jamie M. Pirrello ’81, Chair Steven J. Holsinger ’76, Vice Chair Donald L. Detwiler ’64

Faculty Representatives: Pat Weaver (2013)

Student Representatives: Alexis Powell ’13

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American by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.

April 25: Steven Strutt ’13 receives Amgen Scholarship to spend summer on research team at the University of California, San Francisco.

Apr. 23

Andrew Waplinger ’12

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ALUMNI COUNCIL 2011-2012 Joanna M. Acri ’04 Christopher E. Bair ’92 John L. Batchelor ’69 Geoffrey W. Clarke ’75, Alumni Trustee Sarah Young Fisher ’75 Christopher W. Gahagen ’94 Bradley E. Haubert ’93

Alumni Council Officers

Heather L. Lecrone ’09 Scott D. O’Neill ’81 Jeffrey R. Rush ’84 William A. Rys ’96 Ronald N. Seiler Jr. ’77, Alumni Trustee Mandi Walls ’99 Andrew W. Zimmerman ’86

Parisha P. Shah ’01, President Philadelphia, Pa., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania JoAnn Bowman ’75, Vice President Takoma Park, Md., Retired HR Developer & Senior Vice President, Chemonics International Frank L. Pote ’73, Interim Past President Stafford, Va., Foreign Language Program Manager, Federal Bureau of Investigation For a complete list of the 2011-2012 Alumni Council members’ contact information, please visit the member profiles at https://www.juniata.edu/alumni/connect/alumniCouncil/

New Council Members

Carole Miller Calhoun ’60 Alumni Trustee

Kathleen S. Charles ’05 Member-at-Large

William H. Chew ’64 Member-at-Large

Volunteer Support 2010-2011 Juniata Admission Ambassadors Affinity Programs Fundraising/Class Fund Agents/Class Committees Reunion Committees Juniata Career Team/Career Day International/Friendship Families Miscellaneous Volunteers Regional Programs Student Alumni Association Alumni Council Trustees Guest Lecturers/Faculty Support Church College Relations Council Parents Council Homecoming and Family Weekend Alumni Weekend

Jennifer Jones ’07 Member-at-Large

Justin K. Reiter ’02 Member-at-Large

Kelli D. Sheesley ’98 Member-at-Large

Christine Vrabel Zlupko ’99 Member-at-Large

All volunteer hours are self-reported. As a result, we believe numbers are higher than shown below.

To ensure accurate reporting in the future, please submit your volunteerism annually via e-mail to alumni@juniata.edu, or visit www.juniata.edu/alumni.

447 256 202 196 116 105 91 86 47 40 35

Note: This chart indicates the number of volunteers for each category, which may include overlap.

For totals, please see the historical figures graph.

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Bechtel 0 Corp., Tim Statton 100 ’72, spends

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and Economics.

30: Beulah Baugher, former head of

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housekeeping at Juniata, receives honorary degree.

a week in residence with faculty in the Department of Accounting, Business

Krista Leibensperger ’12

Apr. 30 April 26: Retired executive from

May 1: Former Juniata women’s volleyball player Erin Dodson ’08, passes away from cancer.

May 2

Photo: Aaron M. McCoy ’12

ALUMNI COUNCIL Front row (l-r): Carole Miller Calhoun ’60, Parisha P. Shah ’01, Christine Vrabel Zlupko ’99, Jessica Yutzey Quinter ’00; second row: Bruce L. Moyer ’74, Sarah Nelling Herritt ’82, JoAnn Bowman ’75, Mandi Walls ’99, Kelli D. Sheesley ’98; third row: William A. Rys ’96, Justin K. Reiter ’02, Ronald N. Seiler Jr. ’77, Kathleen S. Charles ’05, Ellen Church Coffman ‘67; fourth row: William H. Chew ’64, Andrew W. Zimmerman ’86, Frank L. Pote III ’73, Christopher E. Bair ’92, Bradley E. Haubert ’93

Here’s what our volunteers are saying...

now on a olunteering It has been v n e e b e v a “I h ears. asis for 10 y rding consistent b st influential and rewa o m nal the singular ne in both my professio 7, do n ’7 thing I have .”—Michael Johnsto fe li l a and person ii wa Kapaa, Ha

“Although I g rew u family that va p in a lues almost as mu service ch as family dinners, Junia ta gave me th e opportunit new capaciti y to serve in es, whether th rou Olympics, or clearing road gh blood drives, Special side b Field Station.

I have Juniata rush heading to the to thank for p me with the reparing skills to serve , b ut for furthering my need to se more importantly Philadelph rve.”—Clare ia, Pa Co da ’10,

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“I think it is important to d’, ‘bloom where you are plante and volunteering in my t community helps me do jus , that.”—Jennifer Lewis ’97 Richmond, Ind.

May 9 May 2: Brandon Moyer ’11 receives a Fulbright

Scholarship to fund an internship with German corporation BASF.

May 9: Talia Valencia ’12, sees grant she Alison Rihs ’11

in Marburg Germany and receives a DAAD

wrote as an intern at the African Wildlife Foundation receive $100,000 in funding for a bonobo conservation reserve.

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Fellowship to do research at Philipps University

PARENTS COUNCIL 2011-2012 Gary Raymond P’13, Co-Chair Donna Raymond P’13, Co-Chair

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Homecoming and Family Weekend

Boat Cruise

Career Day

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Commencement. Maryanne Wolf, professor of child development at Tufts University,

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May 17: Greg Curley, men’s basketball coach, accepts job as athletics director for Juniata.

delivered the Commencement address at Juniata’s 133rd Commencement.

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Photos (clockwise, upper left): Andrew Waplinger ’12, Mariel Little ’09, Edward Sinnes ’12, Andrew Waplinger ’12

he Juniata Parents Council works with the College to support its programs and, ultimately, its students. The Council’s purpose is to involve parents who will mentor students as they prepare for and embark on professional lives, engage other parents in issues related to student success, and help spread the word to other students and parents about Juniata. This 20-member group formed in April 2009, and represents parents from various geographic regions, campus affiliations and class years. The Council serves as a liaison between the College and the greater parent population.

Anglea Koval P’04, P’11, P’13 Jan Perry P’13 Nancy Deyle Randall P’12 Audrey Seasholtz ’78, P’12 Darlee Sill P’12 Amy Sill P’12 Dave Swaintek P’13 Elaine Swaintek P’13 Bob Thompson ’78, P’12

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Gary Burin P’14 Alice Burin P’14 Mitchell Cohen P’12 Carri Cohen P’12 John Dubensky P’14 Nancy Dubensky P’14 Russ Hoffman P’10, P’12 Cindy Hoffman P’10, P’12 Paul Koval P’04, P’11, P’13

Office of College Advancement 1700 Moore Street Huntingdon, PA 16652-2196 www.juniata.edu