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BY CHRISTOPHER M. CARABELLO ’82

Countless alums of La Salle College High School

list their primary profession as “Education” and a review of the alumni records indicates that over 300 graduates have gone on to earn a Ph.D. or Ed.D. A further review, indicates that over 150 of these gentlemen are on the faculty of a college or university. These men can be found at schools from Tempe, AZ (Geoffrey Clark, Ph.D. ’62) to Portland, ME (Robert Heiser, Ph.D. ’72) and Tampa, FL (Randy Otto, Ph.D. ’77) to Ann Arbor, MI (Mike Longo, Ph.D. ’52) Dozens of others can be found at colleges and universities in the Tri-State Area.

Teaching in the field of higher education, like most professions, comes with its own unique rewards and challenges. The path to becoming a tenured college professor is arduous. A Ph.D. generally takes four to seven years to complete and involves two to three years of course work along with a written dissertation, an original piece of research taking about three years to complete. In addition, post-doctoral experience is an added advantage. For the coveted tenure-track positions, virtually every successful job candidate now boasts at least one and usually two “post-doc” years, and these are necessary to remain competitive, which means gathering a sufficient résumé of publications and writings in progress.

The title of this issue of the Explorer, which is derived from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a book taught to juniors at La Salle College through much of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, pays tribute to several of these educators. Many of the clerk’s qualities – knowledge, philosophy, humility, learning, and reverence – can be found in these gentlemen.

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COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

FRANCIS X. HARTMANN, Ph.D. ’51 Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL (John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University)

Frank Hartmann, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, is a Senior Research Fellow of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. He has been Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. His current teaching, in the management curriculum and in Executive Programs, is on effective implementation: How do we, by our actions, raise the probability that what we say we want to make happen, does happen? He has chaired most of the Kennedy School’s Executive Sessions, including those on Policing, Patient Safety and Errors in Medicine, and Preparedness for Terrorism. He is currently chairing a national Executive Session on “Re-thinking the Role of the Prosecutor in the Community” based at the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution.

He taught at Villanova University and at Trinity College. He was Director of the Hartford Institute of Criminal and Social Justice, Director of Research and Evaluation for New York City’s Addiction Services Agency, and a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation.

THOMAS J. DEVLIN, Ph.D. ’53 Emeritus Professor of Physics

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Thomas Devlin received a B.A. in physics and mathematics from La Salle College. At the University of California, Berkeley, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in physics. From 1962 to 1967, he served on the faculty at Princeton University and, in 1967, began serving on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey. In 1970-71, he was a guest scientist at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research. In 1980-81 and again during 1988-90, he was a visiting scientist at Fermilab.

Professor Devlin’s research interests are experimental high energy physics – the study of the fundamental particles in nature. He has performed experiments at the Berkeley Bevatron and 184-inch cyclotron, at the Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator, the Alternating-Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory and at CERN. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and has shared the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize along with the and the DPF Mentoring Award of The American Physical Society.

THOMAS J. GIVNISH, Ph.D. ’69 (Henry Allan Gleason) Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

Thomas Givnish is a botanist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist. He is the holder of the Henry Allan Gleason Chair in Botany and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin and has written extensively on speciation, adaptive radiation, and determinants of diversity in several plant groups, including Bromeliaceae, Rapateaceae, Orchidaceae as well as the Hawaiian lobeliads.

Professor Givnish graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in mathematics and received his Ph.D. in biology there in 1976. He joined the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1985, after having previously taught at Harvard University. He has published several studies on the adaptive significance of plant form and physiology, the interface between physiological and community ecology, the ecology and evolution of forest herbs, carnivorous plants, and epiphytes, fire ecology, evolution atop the tepuis of Venezuela, and self-assembly of patterned peatlands in the Florida Everglades. He was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His botany author citation is “Givnish” and he has given the official botanical name to 18 plants listed in the International Plant Names Index.

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EDWARD J. ZAJAC, Ph.D. ’75 (James F. Bere) Professor of Management and Organizations

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Kellogg School of Management)

Ed Zajac joined the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management after completing his Ph.D. in organization and strategy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. At Kellogg, he received the James F. Beré Chair and the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cologne and a visiting scholar at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Free University of Berlin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Zurich. He is an elected Fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society, and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin.

Professor Zajac’s research, teaching, and consulting focuses on strategy, alliances, and corporate governance. His awardwinning research has been published widely in major academic journals. He has been recognized in the Institute of Scientific Information’s yearly list of “most highly cited researchers” worldwide, and his work has garnered over 25,000 citations over his Kellogg career. He received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management, the Outstanding Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management. He also served for many years as Co-Editor of the Strategic Management Journal.

Professor Zajac has developed several courses at Kellogg in his areas of expertise and is also active in executive education and consulting in the areas of strategy formulation and implementation, strategic alliances, and corporate governance. He has worked with many organizations, several U.S. governmental agencies, and numerous professional associations (particularly in health care). He is currently a board member at Scot Forge (an ESOP company), and he formerly served as board chair at Pioneer Surgical Technology, and as a board member at PeopleFlo Manufacturing, Roberts Industries, and The Wetlands Initiative.

THOMAS M. MCCARTHY, Ph.D. ’77 Professor of History

U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY

Thomas McCarthy holds a B.A. from Dickinson College, an M.B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. He has authored two books – Developing the Whole Person: A Practitioner’s Tale of Counseling, College, and the American Promise and Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment – and has been the lead researcher and author of countless other articles and chapters.

Much of Professor McCarthy’s work has explored – from different perspectives – the limitations and ironies of liberal individualism in the American experience. He is a professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. He is currently working on a project called Speak for Yourself, which examines how descendants of Mayflower passengers John Alden and Priscilla Mullins remembered and celebrated their Mayflower forebears. This work is a microhistory that explores how Americans “do history.”

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RICHARD CATRAMBONE, Ph.D ’78 Professor of Psychology

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Richard Catrambone received a B.A. from Grinnell College and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Michigan. He is a Professor of Psychology at Georgia Tech’s College of Sciences and School of Psychology. He is a member of the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center and Past Chair of the Cognitive Science Society.

Professor Catrambone has conducted extensive research that includes: creating examples to help learners form meaningful and generalizable solution procedures, the use of task analysis techniques for identifying what a person needs to learn in order to solve problems or carry out procedures in some domain, using information from task analyses to guide the construction of teaching and training materials including computer-based (multimedia) instructional environments, exploring technology such as animations and embodied conversational agents (ECAs) for improving interfaces and helping people learn and carry out tasks more easily, and analogical reasoning. He has consulted on human factors, humancomputer interaction, instructional design, and educational technology.

JOHN J. LEONARD, Ph.D ’83 (Samuel C. Collins) Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

John Leonard is the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research addresses the problems of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots. He holds the degrees of B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering and Science from the University of Pennsylvania and D.Phil. in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford. He spent five years as a postdoctoral fellow and Research Scientist in the MIT Sea Grant Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Laboratory and joined the MIT faculty in 1996. He is an IEEE Fellow and is currently on sabbatical leave from MIT serving as Vice President for Autonomous Driving Research at Toyota Research Institute, where he is performing research to improve vehicle safety using autonomous driving technologies.

Professor Leonard is one of the early pioneers of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). He has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He received the National Science Foundation Career Award, an E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award from Science Foundation Ireland, and the King-Sun Fu Memorial Best IEEE Transactions on Robotics Paper Award.

PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS

WILLIAM M. JANSSEN, ESQ. ’79 Professor of Law

CHARLESTON SCHOOL OF LAW

William Janssen holds a B.A. from Saint Joseph’s University and a J.D. from Washington College of Law at American University where, as a student was executive editor of the American University Law Review, a dean’s fellow, and a moot court champion. He served as a law clerk to a federal district court judge (Honorable James McGirr Kelly, E.D. Pa.) and to a federal court of appeals judge (Honorable Joseph F. Weis, Jr., 3d Cir.).

He joined the Charleston School of Law faculty after a lengthy practice with the mid-Atlantic law firm of Saul Ewing LLP, where he was a litigation partner, a member of the firm’s seven-person governing executive committee, and chair of the interdisciplinary Life Sciences Practice Group. He concentrated his practice in pharmaceutical, medical device, and mass torts defense, and risk containment. He was involved in various high-profile drug and device cases, including the national diet drug (“fen-phen”) litigations, DES litigations, and myelographic contrast dye litigations. Both as a practitioner and in academia, he has spoken and written frequently on pharmaceutical and medical device law.

Professor Janssen focuses his scholarship on federal practice and procedure and is the author of five national texts in this discipline. In addition, Professor Janssen is also the author of various journal articles, book chapters, and bar review materials on federal civil procedure, and has lectured widely on civil procedure topics.

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UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS

JOHN M. DALY, MD ’65 Emeritus Dean of Medicine

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Lewis Katz School of Medicine

Dr. John Daly is a surgical oncologist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, specializing in the care for women and men who have cancers and other abnormalities that involve their breasts. He attended medical school at Temple University and, following graduation, trained at the MD Anderson Cancer Center where he remained a member of their faculty. For six years, he was on the faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York before becoming the Chief of Surgical Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania hospital. He served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at New York Hospital for nine years and, ultimately, returned to Philadelphia as Dean of the Medical School at Temple University School of Medicine. During that time, he also served as Professor of Surgery where he cared for patients with tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as breast cancer.

Dr. Daly is among a group of 91 esteemed surgeons from seven countries selected to the new American College of Surgeons (ACS) Academy of Master Surgeon Educators, which recognizes surgeon educators who have devoted their careers to surgical education. Individuals are selected as Members or Associate Members following stringent peer review. The Academy’s mission is to play a leadership role in advancing the science and practice of education across all surgical specialties, promoting the highest achievements in the lifetimes of surgeons.

GEORGE F. WEST, Ph.D. ’58 President Emeritus and Dean of Business

DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY

George West served as president of Delaware Valley College for only three years, but his impact on the College was built over more than four decades.

George West came to DelVal in 1969 as assistant professor of business administration and chaired the business department from 1972 to 1984. He became founding chair of the agribusiness department in 1983, and from 1987 to 1990 was the dean of business. Dr. West is credited with establishing the College’s MBA and market research programs. He also incorporated specializations in accounting and management information systems into the curriculum, as well as developing and implementing bachelor’s degree programs in agribusiness and computer information systems.

As Delaware Valley College’s ninth president, Dr. West helped create a turnaround in the College’s finances and enrollment. He refinanced the College’s debt and put the institution on a sounder financial footing. During his tenure, fulltime student enrollment increased 35 percent, with an accompanying increase of 20 points in the average SAT score.

College professors organize and conduct the functions of higher education. They engage in a variety of activities, from running laboratory experiments and supervising graduate student research to conducting large undergraduate lectures and writing textbooks. With the exception of scheduled classes-which can consume as few as three hours a week in graduate universities or up to twelve to sixteen hours per week for undergraduates – a professor’s time is largely spent on research, preparing class material, meeting with students, or however else she chooses. This profession is thus best suited for motivated self-starters, and its highest rewards are given to those who can identify and explore original problems in their fields. Tenured professors have relatively high job security and profes-

George West has a B.A. in economics from Villanova University, a M.A. in economic theory from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Temple University. In 2001, he received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Peirce College.

Aside from his long service at Delaware Valley College, West was also interim vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Philadelphia University, acting president at Peirce College and a graduate programs administrator at La Salle University. He was also an adjunct faculty member at Bucks County Community College and Spring Garden College.

After his short stint as president, West returned to teaching, as a professor of business. In 2010, he retired after 41 years of service to the College, receiving the title of professor emeritus of business administration. In 2011, DelVal bestowed an honorary doctorate on the distinguished teacher and administrator.

sional freedom. Once tenured, a professor can largely set his own responsibilities and decide to a large extent how to divide his time between teaching, writing, researching, and administration. However, tenure no longer means complete immunity; post-tenure review is now mandate at most universities, and those who fall behind on teaching and independent scholarship may not be as secure nowadays. The most difficult years of being a professor are the early ones, when there is great pressure to publish a significant body of work to establish the credentials that lead to tenure. However, the work of junior and senior faculty is quite similar, and the profession offers intellectual stimulation and freedom to all its members.

THE PRINCETON REVIEW

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BROTHER MICHAEL J. MCGINNISS, FSC, Ph.D. ’65 President Emeritus and Professor of Religion

LA SALLE UNIVERSITY

JOHN J. CONVEY, Ph.D. ’58 Provost Emeritus and (Saint Elizabeth Seton) Professor of Education

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Brother Michael McGinniss, FSC has a B.A. from La Salle University along with a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. In 1984, he joined the faculty at La Salle University on a full-time basis and reached the rank of full professor in 1993. Recognized by the De La Salle Christian Brothers for his qualities as a leader, he attended La session internationale des études lasalliennes (a program of study of Lasallian spirituality) in Rome in 1991. He became Chair of the Religion Department in 1991, and the following year he received the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. He was appointed vice president of the La Salle University Corporation and, ultimately, became a member of La Salle University’s Board of Trustees.

He became president of Christian Brothers University in Memphis in 1994 and, under his leadership, undergraduate enrollment and retention rates were increased, a Graduate Education Program was established, the Athletic Department joined the NCAA Division II Gulf South Conference, new residence halls were constructed, the school’s Engineering departments were re-accredited, an upgrade of information technology systems

was implemented throughout the campus, and the Center for Global Enterprise was founded. He also played a key role in the school’s 125th anniversary celebration.

Brother Michael became the 28th president of La Salle University in 1999. Under his direction, the university developed a new strategic plan and significantly increased enrollment, giving, and alumni involvement in the life of the University. In cooperation with the Board of Trustees, Brother Michael launched “Shoulder to Shoulder,” a fundraising initiative with a goal of $25 million for the construction of a new science and technology center and the strengthening of the endowment for student scholarships.

He has published numerous articles and has written chapters in several religious books and texts. He edited six volumes of the Christian Brothers’ Spirituality Seminar Series.

His academic areas of expertise are pastoral theology, history and theology of ministry, methods and models of theological reflection, ecclesiology, and Lasallian spirituality.

Brother Michael serves on numerous boards and is a member of the Chairman’s Advisory Council for the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. Brother Michael McGinniss, FSC continues to live and work at La Salle University where he serves as director of the Honors Program.

John Convey earned a B.A. in Mathematics from La Salle College, a M.Sc. in Mathematics from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in Evaluation and Research from The Florida State University. He has been a member of the faculty at The Catholic University of America since 1974 and, in 1990, received the Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Chair in Education. Professor Convey has twice served as Chairman of the Department of Education (1994-1997; 2016-2017). In 1997, he was named Provost of The Catholic University of America, a position that he held for ten years.

Professor Convey’s professional work focuses on research and strategic planning for Catholic schools. He has authored several books on Catholic education and schools along with numerous research articles and chapters of books. His book, The Catholic Character of Catholic Schools, was written for bishops, pastors, superintendents, principals, teachers, and parents – all of whom have an investment in the schools’ religious character and ability to cultivate a religious ethos in their students because Catholic schools also seek to instill religious, moral, and cultural values that serve society at large. Professor Convey was the 1991 recipient of the C. Albert Koob Award, given by the National Catholic Educational Association for outstanding national service to Catholic schools. In November 2005, he was awarded the Benemerenti Medal by Pope Benedict XVI in recognition of his service to The Catholic University of America and to Catholic schools. He is a former Commissioner on the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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