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College & Community

Building on Common Ground

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Arts Center Subscription Series 2010-2011 Season

Androcles and the Lion Oct. 9–10, 2010 Nazareth College Arts Center/ Rochester Children’s Theatre Co-Production

The Merchants of Bollywood Oct. 31, 2010 Original Production from Mumbai, the Film Capitol of India Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona The Musical

Nov. 6, 2010

Rochester City Ballet in Peter and the Wolf Feb. 5–6, 2011 Disney’s Aladdin Feb. 12, 13 Nazareth College Arts Center/ 19, 20, 2011 Rochester Children’s Theatre Co-Production Ladysmith Black Mambazo Feb. 26, 2011 World Famous Popovich Comedy Pet Theater Mar. 5, 2011 And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank Nazareth College Arts Center/ Rochester Children’s Theatre Co-Production

Mar. 10, 2011

Garth Fagan Dance Nov. 30– Dec 5, 2010

Tango Buenos Aires

Mar. 13, 2011

Viver Brasil in Feet on the Ground

Mar. 20, 2011

Hansel and Gretel Dec. 11, 12, Nazareth College Arts Center / 18, 19, 2010 Rochester Children’s Theatre Co-Production

Russian National Ballet Theatre in Chopiniana and Romeo & Juliet April 2, 2011

ScrapArtsMusic Nov. 14, 2010 Dailey and Vincent Nov. 21, 2010

Circus Incognitus

Jan. 15, 2011

Alice in Wonderland April 30, Nazareth College Arts Center/ May 1 & 13, 2011 Rochester Children’s Theatre Co-Production

Rennie Harris Puremovement

Jan. 28, 2011

Rochester City Ballet in The Blood Countess

May 20–22, 2011

Ball in the House

June 3, 2011

The Capitol Steps Dec. 31, 2010

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ConneCtionS I Volume 22, Number 3 Summer/Fall 2010

Editor Robyn A. Rime Assistant Director, Publications and Creative Services

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Contributing Writers Robin L. Flanigan Alan Gelb Chris Koudelka ‘10 Julie Long Carly Maldonado ‘12 Alicia Nestle Yamuna Sangarasivam Joe Seil Sofia Tokar Kerry Van Malderghem ‘08G Michelle Wright ’05

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Sports News

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Beyond Self

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Nazareth in the World

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Life of the Mind

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Interfaith Ideas

The latest news from the Nazareth campus.

Jim Jabir ’84 profile; athletic round-up. he College’s efforts toward refugee resettlement and T adaptation.

Photographer Alex Shukoff Contributing Photographers Evan Michio Cantwell Brady Dillsworth Greg Francis Jamie Germano

Printing Cohber Press Director of Alumni Relations Kerry Gotham ’98 Vice President, Institutional Advancement Kelly E. Gagan

Class notes or comments Office of Alumni Relations e-mail: kvanmal4@naz.edu 585-389-2472 Please note that Connections is produced approximately four months in advance of when it is received by readers. Letters and class notes received after production has begun will be included in the next issue of the magazine. All accepted text is subject to editing.

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rofessor Yamuna Sangarasivam’s work on P archaeological excavations and student learning practices.

Illustration by Amy Margolis

Nazareth launches a campaign to raise funds for the new Integrated Center for Math and Science. Connections looks at what this means for the college and the community.

Chris Koudelka ’10 gives a student’s perspective on the Interfaith Understanding Conference.

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Cover Story: College and Community: Building on Common Ground

Nazareth launches the campaign for new math and science facilities.

We welcome comments from our readers, articles and essays, and class notes.

All mail should be directed to one of the offices below, and sent to: Nazareth College 4245 East Ave. Rochester, NY 14618-3790

Name/address corrections Office of Development e-mail: pwagner6@naz.edu 585-389-2415

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Nazareth College President Daan Braveman, J.D.

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Class Notes

Copyright © 2010 by Nazareth College. Photographs and artwork copyright by their respective creators or by Nazareth College. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reused or republished in any form without express written permission.

Nazareth College Mission and Vision Statements The mission of Nazareth College is to provide a learning community that educates students in the liberal arts, sciences, visual and performing arts, and professional fields, fostering commitment to a life informed by intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and aesthetic values; to develop skills necessary for the pursuit of meaningful careers; and to inspire dedication to the ideal of service to their communities. Nazareth seeks students who want to make a difference in their own world and the world around them, and encourages them to develop the understanding, commitment, and confidence to lead fully informed and actively engaged lives.

The vision of Nazareth College is to be nationally and internationally recognized as a comprehensive educational institution which provides its students with transformational experiences and integrates liberal arts, sciences, visual and performing arts, and professional education at the undergraduate and graduate levels and which places special value on student success, diversity, inclusion, civic engagement, and making a difference in local and global communities.

Statement on Respect and Diversity We, the Nazareth community, embrace both respect for the person and freedom of speech. The College promotes civility and denounces acts of hatred or intolerance. The free exchange of ideas is possible only when concepts, values, and viewpoints can be expressed and challenged in a manner that is neither threatening nor demeaning. It is the policy of Nazareth College, in keeping with its efforts to foster a community in which the diversity of all members is respected, not to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, sex, age, marital or veteran status, disability, carrier status, genetic predisposition, or any other protected status. Respect for the dignity of all peoples is an essential part of the College’s tradition and mission, and its vision for the future.

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s president of Nazareth, I believe a college education has a ripple effect across communities.

For decades, Nazareth’s strong programs in allied health care and education have provided the Rochester region with effective, caring professionals. Now we are investing in a new facility that will allow future scientists, health care workers, and educators to practice their skills—not just hear them described in a lecture. The Integrated Center for Math and Science

will create more learning opportunities than were previously possible, allowing Nazareth to do more of what it already does so well.

The new Center will feature both teaching and high-tech research laboratories, as well as offices, classrooms, collaboration centers, and wireless access in a building designed to be fully green. It will house math, biology, chemistry, and physics, mixing offices and classrooms from various disciplines to encourage an

interdisciplinary focus. Team spaces, collaborative spaces, and “open labs” will facilitate exciting learning and research across academic disciplines. The building will provide critical hands-on, evidence-based training, within the context of Nazareth’s rich liberal arts curriculum. It will assist students

“…perhaps the greatest gift of all is the opportunity to give back, to make a real difference in the world…”

in improving critical thinking abilities, honing problem-solving skills, and providing a successful foundation for those who will teach and heal the larger Rochester and upstate community for generations to come. Ultimately, it will enable an emphasis on “learn by doing.”

This issue of Connections announces the launch of the fundraising campaign to help make the Integrated Center for Math and Science a reality. This campaign will both defend and extend our ability to provide upstate New York with innovating academic

and community programs delivered with the personal approach that our students expect and value. We give a great deal to our students during their time with us, but perhaps the greatest gift of all is the opportunity to give back, to make a real difference in the world their children will inherit.

Please check out our campaign introduction on page 30, then visit the campaign website to find out more at www.forcollegeandcommunity.org. I look forward to sharing the new building’s progress with you as the campaign unfolds.

Sincerely,

Daan Braveman

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New Faculty Nazareth College welcomes the newest members of its faculty for the fall 2010 semester.

College of Arts and Sciences Gregory Foran, assistant professor of English Foran has a Ph.D. and M.A. in English, both from the University of Texas at Austin. He was previously an assistant instructor in English and rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Kelly Hutchinson ’04, assistant professor of chemistry and adolescence education Hutchinson has a Ph.D. and M.S. in chemistry, both from Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind. She was formerly an assis­tant professor of education at Medaille College in Buffalo (2009-present) and the program coordinator at the National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering at Purdue University.

She will report to both the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education.

Keith Koster, assistant professor of music Koster has a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction: Music Education from the University of Missouri in Columbia, and an M.M. in bassoon performance from Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. He was formerly an assistant professor of music and director of the music education studies program at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va. Allen Wright Shannon, assistant professor of theatre arts Shannon has an M.F.A. in scenic design from Minnesota State University in Mankato. He was

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formerly an assistant professor of theatre, the scenic and lighting designer, and the technical director at Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Texas.

School of Health and Human Services Linda Dudek-Shriber, director of the occupational therapy program Dudek-Shriber has an Ed.D. in educational administration, and an M.S. in exceptional education, both from SUNY Buffalo.

She is registered and licensed as an occupational therapist in New York State and has additional certification in Administration and Interpretation of the Southern California Sensory Integration Tests and in Neurodevelopmental Therapy. Dudek-Shriber was formerly a clinical assistant professor and full-time faculty member of the SUNY Buffalo Occupational Therapy Department.

School of Management Eileen Beiter, assistant professor of accounting Beiter has an M.B.A. in accounting from Canisius College in Buffalo. She has taught accounting part-time at Nazareth since 2003.

Rose Hair, assistant professor of human resources management Hair has a Ph.D. in management from the University of Sheffield Management School, UK, and an M.Sc. in Human Resource Management from Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She was previously an adjunct professor of management at RIT’s Saunders College of Business.

Cabral Earns National Award Albert Cabral, associate professor of management, has been selected as an Outstanding Advising Award Winner in the Faculty Academic Advising category from the National Academic Advising Association as part of the 2010 Annual Awards Program for Academic Advising. This award is presented to individuals who have demonstrated qualities associated with outstanding academic advising of students or outstanding academic advising administration. The Faculty Academic Advising category includes those individuals whose primary responsibility is teaching and who spend a portion of their time providing academic advising services to students. Cabral is one of only 10 faculty advisors honored with this award in this category in the nationwide competition this year.

Ferber Wins CFO Award Margaret Cass Ferber, Nazareth’s vice president of finance and treasurer, recently received the 2010 Financial Executive of the Year Award, presented by the Rochester Chapter of Financial Executives International and the Rochester Business Journal.

The award recognizes contributions to the individuals’ organizations and the community during the past year.

Ferber has helped craft budgetary responses to a rise in the number of students seeking financial aid and a freeze in the capital market.

She manages the finances for a school with a budget of more than $80 million and played a key role in planning the nearly $10 million Arts Center renovation. Ferber has served on the board of the National Association of College and University Business Officers and was board president for the Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers. She has served on investment advisory committees for the United Way of Greater Rochester Inc. and the Hillside Family of Agencies, and she recently served on the board of Chances & Changes, a domestic violence program in Livingston County.

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School of Education Receives $1.2 Million in Grants

azareth’s School of Education recently received a combined $1.2 million dollars in grants for its Teacher Opportunity Collaboratives to continue increasing the quantity and quality of Rochester City School District (RCSD) teachers. The Teacher Opportunity Collaboratives consists of the Teacher Leader Quality Partnerships (TLQP) Program and the Teacher Opportunity Corps (TOC) Program.

The TLQP Program is funded by a new grant from the NYS Education Department for more than $965 thousand over three years. Its purpose is to improve the quality of teaching and improve student achievement by certifying at least 12 RCSD teachers or teaching assistants in bilingual education and other critical RCSD shortage areas. It will also develop effective professional development models to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics, science, technology, and literacy (MSTL).

Nazareth’s TOC program recently earned a nearly $300 thousand grant from the New York State Education Department. Established in 1989, this program prepares individuals who are historically underrepresented and undeserved in the teaching profession with the support and skills to address the unique learning needs of at-risk students in urban schools. Under the leadership of Jacqueline Bryant, director of the Teacher Opportunity Collaboratives, the TOC program has enhanced the preparation of 20 people of color TOC graduate and bilingual elementary teacher Melodie each year to teach in high-need urban schools. These teachers have received the highest Valenciano ’02G (left) and David Anderson, Ph.D., community quality training and have devoted more than 100 hours in field experience. scholar in residence at Nazareth, celebrate Rochester’s 175th Another measure of success: the TOC-trained teachers remain in the City schools after birthday at RCSD School #33. graduation. In the last two decades Nazareth’s School of Education has added more than 100 graduate teachers of color to urban schools with a retention rate of more than 99 percent after five years of teaching.

Nazareth is recruiting RCSD employees committed to excellence in teaching in RCSD shortage areas, including ESOL, students with disabilities, speech and hearing, bilingual education, and science or mathematics. Anyone interested can contact Bryant at 585-389-2684 or jbryant6@naz.edu or Jose Mora, TLQP Recruitment/Mentoring Coordinator, at 585-325-7828 or jose.mora@rcsdk12.org.

For more information on the Teacher Opportunity Collaboratives, visit go.naz.edu/toc.

On the Road Again The development team will be traveling across the country this fall visiting with alumni and friends to share news from the college. If you have a particular place of interest you would like to suggest they visit during their travels, please don’t hesitate to call the development office at 585-389-2415. Left to right: Whitney Brice, associate director of annual fund and leadership support; Lynn Mulvey, assistant director of development; Peggy Martin, director of development; Gina Viggiani, associate director of major gifts; and Melissa Head, associate director of major gifts and planned giving.

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Annual Fund Support Rises Among Faculty and Staff Faculty and staff donations to the annual fund rose by 27 percent over last year to 175, according to Lynn Mulvey, assistant director for development. The improving economy and an encouraging video, e-mailed to staff and faculty, prompted additional donations, but Mulvey believes Nazareth simply cultivates a culture of giving. “Employees believe in the mission and vision of the College, and supporting Nazareth is part of that,” she says. “We very much appreciate the members of our Nazareth family who give of their time, talents, and treasure.” For more information or to make a donation, visit www.naz.edu/makeagift.

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Trance, Dance & Electronica with Sofia is on hiatus for the summer and will begin again with the fall semester at radio.naz.edu.

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ou’ll be Nazareth’s own Garrison Keillor,” my boss said to me after a meeting. Sure, I had heard of the College’s radio station, WNAZ The Pulse. Heard of, but had never actually heard it. Now here I was, asked to write a story about it.

The experts often advise writers to know their subject. Well, first I had to get to know my subject, and so I interviewed Eric Stevens ’12, president of WNAZ. Stevens, a music/business major, has a quiet tenacity that underpins his relaxed demeanor. He’s also refreshingly honest.

“Eric, tell me: Why radio? Is it not—how to put this politely?—a dying medium?”

“Dying everywhere else.” He elaborated, “With the internet, people can listen to whatever they want, whenever they want. They don’t want someone else dictating their playlist, so radio has to be creative and engage audiences differently—for example, by playing albums before they’re released or giving listeners a way to interact with bands.”

Radio may have been dead on campus when Stevens joined the station last year (during the second week of his freshman year), but he’s spearheading its revival. “We went from no officers to a full team of hard workers,” he said of his 25-person staff comprising mostly of DJs, but some of whom also double as WNAZ’s administrative staff. Stevens, for example, is president of the station, hosts Notes and Letters on Monday evenings, and acts as the station’s unofficial repairman.

Today the station’s staff operates under the auspices of the Undergraduate Association (the College’s student government). DJs broadcast a variety of music and shows—24 hours a day, 7 days a week—available through the cable system as well as through live streaming online.

The Pulse also has its own AIM screen name (wnazthepulse), Facebook page, and Twitter account.

A far cry from the station’s early years when WNAZ began broadcasting in fall 1987. The station was student-run and transmitted only on

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campus, and later on AM radio. Interest and attention waned, however, and for the past decade, WNAZ was only available on Nazareth’s closedcircuit cable system (channel four).

Stevens’ next steps for the station include renovating the studio and transmitting WNAZ on FM. As a sophomore, he still has a couple of years left to realize his plans for The Pulse while also garnering work experience.

Speaking of experience—and in the interest of getting to know my subject—I asked Eric if I could host a show. Sure, he said. We would start the following week.

For the theme of the show, anything within FCC regulations was game, according to Stevens. The station’s shows currently range from talk shows (news and current events, politics) to music selections. In other words, I could host Fireside Chats with Sofia or even Book Reviews for Bookworms. The possibilities were seemingly endless.

The following week Stevens and I made our way to the Otto A. Shults Center. Once at the radio station, I was hoping he would stay and be the Roz to my Dr. Frasier Crane. Alas, he left me to my own devices— rarely a good thing.

I started the show—Trance, Dance & Electronica with Sofia—at 2:30 p.m. I pressed the requisite buttons, cross-faded, had my playlist standing by, and introduced myself to the listeners while also explaining the concept behind the show. Electronica, after all, is an oft-overlooked genre, especially by the standards of commercial radio. My show— unique to The Pulse—was here to remedy the situation.

Two minutes in, I received my first instant message. Perhaps a request from my adoring public! Or not.

EricS2008: Microphone on?

Oops—forgot a step. But like Stevens with WNAZ, I began my show anew.

The rest of the hour went off without a hitch. And although my brief affair with radio has certainly been exhilarating, my first love will always be the written word. Well, if Garrison Keillor could be a successful radio personality and a writer, maybe I have a chance, too.

Sofia Tokar is the assistant editor in Nazareth’s marketing and communications department.

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Nazareth Launches Center for Civic Engagement

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azareth College is pleased to announce that Nuala Boyle has accepted the position of executive director of the new Center for Civic Engagement. The Center for Civic Engagement, which is jointly housed in the Academic Affairs and Student Development divisions, is a new initiative by the College to prepare students to become active members in the community.

The mission of the Center for Civic Engagement is to provide strategic direction, advocacy, resource development, and integration to the rich and varied programs through which the College connects to Nuala Boyle, executive director of the its surrounding communities. Its goal is to new Center for Civic Engagement ensure that Nazareth fulfills its mission to prepare students “to make a difference in their own world and the world around them, and encourage them to develop the understanding, commitment, and confidence to lead fully informed and actively engaged lives.”

“Civic engagement is a pillar of the Nazareth College education,” says Nazareth President Daan Braveman, “and working to better the community around us starts as soon as our students arrive as freshmen. We want our students to leave here with the understanding that they can continue to make a real difference in the world their children will inherit. Nazareth College is one of 190 colleges and universities in the country selected by the Carnegie Foundation for its community engagement classification—proof that a Center for Civic Engagement on campus will be a perfect fit.”

Boyle, a native of Rochester, joins the Nazareth College community with 12 years of higher education experience. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Stonehill College in Easton, Mass. and a master’s degree in religious studies from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. Prior to coming to Nazareth, Boyle worked as the director of community service and volunteerism at Stonehill College. Her many accomplishments include increasing the number of seniors applying to yearof-service programs by 300 percent and developing a four-year civic engagement plan for students to transition from volunteerism into the realm of social action and social change.

Boyle’s new responsibilities will include coordinating civic engagement programs and projects that emphasize and assess student learning outcomes; attaining funding through grants, donors, and corporate sponsors; and building and sustaining constructive working relationships with community organizations.

“I believe the creation of this center is the next logical step to build on Nazareth’s nationally recognized commitment to community service and civic engagement,” said Boyle. “I look forward to starting my tenure working to support the numerous ways in which Nazareth encourages its students to use their education to make a difference in the world.”

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Nazareth Named to Presidential Honor Roll for Community Service

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azareth College remains a leading force in community service among colleges in New York State. For the fourth consecutive year, the Corporation for National and Community Service has honored Nazareth College with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities.

Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award were chosen based on a series of selection factors including scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses.

Nazareth’s many distinctive community service projects helped the College earn a spot on the selective honor roll. Some of the numerous programs at Nazareth include Orientation Day of Service; Partners for Learning, an innovative tutoring and mentoring program that engages Nazareth students in partnerships with children, teachers, and staff of seven urban education sites; and Partners for Serving, a unique program that empowers Nazareth students to serve their community while helping to pay for their college tuition.

Overall, the corporation honored six schools with Presidential Awards. In addition, 115 were named as Honor Roll with Distinction members and 621 schools as Honor Roll members.

Recent studies have underlined the importance of service-learning and volunteering to college students.

In 2006, 2.8 million college students gave more than 297 million hours of volunteer service, according to the corporation’s Volunteering in America 2007 study.

Expanding campus incentives for service is part of a larger initiative to spur higher levels of volunteering by America’s college students. The corporation is working with a coalition of federal agencies, higher education and student associations, and nonprofit organizations to achieve this goal.

A full list of the 736 schools recognized is available at www.nationalservice.gov/honorroll.

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Bestselling Author Visits Campus

n March 24, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett visited Nazareth College as part of the 2010 Writers & Books program “If All of Rochester Read the Same Book.” The presentation was sponsored by the Marie Callahan Memorial Fund and supported by the graduate literacy programs. Carly Maldonado ’12, president of the College’s Book Club, shares her thoughts on the experience. ______________________________________________ In my mind, the epitome of a college experience is spending afternoons with famous intellectuals, listening to lectures, and getting books signed.

Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s visit to Nazareth allowed me to spend a Wednesday afternoon doing just that.

Even those who are not voracious readers undoubtedly gained something from the time that Patchett spent on campus. At the very least, her visit was good for an afternoon of laughs as her self-deprecating humor often left the audience chuckling. Before reading from her award-winning novel Bel Canto, Patchett held the book at an arm’s length and remarked, “Large print is the best invention ever!”

But on a more serious note, Patchett shared words of wisdom that are especially applicable to a college student’s life. When asked about advice that NYT bestselling author Ann Patchett she would give to an aspiring author, Patchett answered that she often asks hopeful writers who come to her for advice, “How long would you be willing to wait tables if you didn’t make it?” It’s a question applicable to any ambition. To college students searching for the perfect major, or dream job, or ideal career, ask yourself, “What would I be willing to do to study this? To work here? To dedicate my life to this?” When the answer is waiting tables for as long as it takes to make it, you know you’ve found your answer.

Development Hires New Officer Nazareth College is pleased to announce that Whitney Brice has accepted the position of associate director of the annual fund and leadership support for Nazareth’s Institutional Advancement Office. Brice, of Pittsford, has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from St. Lawrence University. Prior to joining Nazareth, she worked at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs as a leadership gift officer, and she’s thrilled to join the Nazareth development team at an exciting time for the College. “Every day I am inspired by the talent of our faculty and staff, the discipline of our students, and the College’s many community connections,” Brice says. “In particular, I am bolstered by the fact that so many of our graduates stay in Rochester to teach our children and care for our friends and families. I grew up in Pittsford, so it’s wonderful to be back in my hometown, making a difference for Nazareth and our community.”

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New Edition of Kaleidoscope of Gender Nazareth College announces the release of The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns and Possibilities, Third Edition by Catherine G. Valentine, Ph.D., professor emerita of sociology and founding director of women’s studies at Nazareth.

Co-authored with Joan Z. Spade, a sociology professor at SUNY College at Brockport, the book’s previous editions have been well reviewed and described as “an accessible, timely, and stimulating introduction to the sociology of gender” by publisher Pine Forge Press ($59.95).

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Students Receive Prestigious Fulbright Grants

azareth College is proud to announce that the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has selected David Jablonski ’10 of Greece, N.Y., and Heidi Ressler ’10 of Baldwinsville, N.Y., to receive 2009–10 Undergraduate Junior Fulbright awards.

Jablonski, who graduated in May with a triple major in German, international studies, and economics and a minor in history, is traveling to Germany to teach English. After his teaching assignment is completed, he hopes to remain in Germany to pursue an internship in Berlin, then obtain a master’s degree at either Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service or Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Jablonski feels this English teaching assistant award is a natural fit after majoring in German, studying abroad twice in Germany, and working with international students. “I expect to be well prepared for my Fulbright experience by my undergraduate work and to have a strong foundation for my future graduate school work in international affairs,” he says, adding he couldn’t have achieved this without the help of his David Jablonski ’10 advisor and mentor, Dr. William Hopkins.

Ressler, who graduated last May with a major in history with adolescent social studies and special education certification and a minor in German, will also be teaching English in Germany. Upon returning to the United States, she plans to pursue her master’s degree in either history or international studies before going into teaching full time.

by Julie Long While in Germany, Ressler hopes to share lessons on diversity in the U.S. to enliven her students’ views toward different cultures. She would also like to volunteer for a community-based project focused on immigration in Germany.

“Teaching is a career that is sometimes underappreciated and underestimated, but I feel that educators have the important power and responsibility to promote multiculturism in our classrooms,” says Ressler, who studied in Berlin her sophomore year as part of Nazareth’s study abroad program. “My coursework and pedagogical experience in American and German classrooms have given me insight into the educational systems of both countries. As a Fulbright Teaching Assistant, I will use what I have learned not only to teach English, but also to be a cultural ambassador for the United States.”

In the past decade, Nazareth has produced 18 Fulbright recipients and two Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships.

Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program’s objective is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world. Sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Program is America’s flagship international education exchange. Approximately 279,500 “Fulbrights,” 105,400 from the United States and 174,100 from other countries, have participated in the program since its inception more than 50 years ago.

Julie Long is the assistant director for media relations in Nazareth’s marketing and communications department.

Heidi Ressler ’10

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French Government Awards Teaching Assistantships

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wo of Nazareth’s graduating seniors were selected to receive French Government English Teaching Assistantships for the upcoming academic year. Daniel Munier ’10 and Christa Wirth ’10 will be in various parts of France teaching English to high school and middle school students. These competitive assistantships give students a chance to gain experience in their field and improve their language skills as well as foster cross-cultural understanding.

Munier, of Fairport, N.Y., graduated with a double major in French and economics and will be teaching in Lyon, France. Munier plans to remain in France an additional year after his teaching assistantship and then to apply for graduate studies in either TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) or international relations.

Wirth, of Liverpool, N.Y., graduated with a French major and a minor in history. After she returns from her assistanship in Rennes, France, she plans to become certified to teach French.

Christa Wirth ’10

Daniel Munier ’10

Nazareth Meets Wall Street Last February, more than 30 students from the School of Management’s Economics and Investment Club traveled to New York City to see the financial sights, visiting the NASDAQ stock exchange and the studio of the CNBC television show Fast Money.

Daniel Matteo ’10, ’11G, an accounting major and one of the student organizers, even had sufficient connections to get Nazareth’s name up in lights on the NASDAQ sign.

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azareth College can say “nya:weh,” or “thank you” in the Seneca language, for the culmination of a successful collaborative servicelearning initiative between Ganondagan State Historic Site, the Industry School in Rush, and Nazareth’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Collaboration between Nazareth and Ganondagan, a cultural center in Victor for the Seneca people, began more than five years ago when the two organizations worked together to create lesson plans for teachers and portable exhibitions for use in local schools. Recently, Ganondagan’s executive director Jeanette Miller turned to Nazareth with the idea for several children’s books.

“We really wanted to develop stories that would represent Ganondagan and the Seneca people of today,” says Miller.

Doot Bokelman, Ph.D., associate profes‑ sor and director of the art history program, turned that challenge into a class assignment for her Methods in Art History course. Stu‑­ dents visited Ganondagan and worked with its Native American staff members to ensure the material matched native beliefs and corrected any misconceptions. “We also visited the Pittsford library to examine [children’s book] examples and understand the page length and vocabulary necessary for eight-year-olds,” says Bokelman.

Art history student Cassandra Miller ’10 valued the assignment as a way of learning to collaborate not just with an organization but with another culture. “The methods employed, such as the original research, and awareness of representing someone’s beliefs are invaluable skills,” she says. Cassie researched and wrote Nya:weh, the story of a grandmother who begins each morning by giving thanks “to the creator for providing everything you have and everything you see.” Big Brother Thunder, written by Maggie Astrino ’08, reimagines the traditional Native American tale of spirits who live in the sky and control the weather.

Ganondagan staff member Karina Hatch illustrated both stories.

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by Julie Long Art education graduate student Rachel Stockbridge ’09G then took on the demanding yet rewarding task of formatting the books with the students at the Industry School, a youth detention center for young men in Rush. For seven weeks, Stockbridge worked under Assistant Professor of Art and Arts Center Gallery Director Cathy Sweet, Ed.D., and Industry’s Director of Education Thomas Fitzsimmons, volunteering her time to teach the graphics editing program Photoshop at the school. The young men, in turn, provided the digital design support to create the books, while at the same time learning valuable computer skills. The second book was finished on Stockbridge’s last day of class at Nazareth before her December 2009 graduation.

The books are currently available for sale at Ganondagan and were displayed last spring in Nya:weh, an exhibition in Nazareth’s Colacino Gallery. The display also featured the paint-

ings and sculptures of Bokelman, whose recent work has been influenced by Ganondagan’s ongoing collaboration. Nya:weh was complemented by the Art Gallery’s Inside Out Haudenosaunee, an exhibition of artwork from Native American contemporary artists curated

by Peter Jemison, artist and director of Ganondagan State Historic Site.

The project was the result of the funding and support provided by Nazareth’s Center for Service-Learning and the Center for Teaching Excellence.

For a schedule of upcoming Art Gallery exhibitions, visit go.naz.edu/art-gallery.

To learn more about Ganondagan, visit www.ganondagan.org.

Julie Long is assistant director of media relations in Nazareth’s marketing and communications department.

Rachel Stockbridge ’09G volunteered her time to teach Photoshop to a class at the Industry School.

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Not Your Average Accounting Adventure

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azareth College accounting professors are encouraging their students to think like financial criminals—at least for a few hours. Last fall, 35 School of Management students participated in the Adrian Project, an interactive workshop run by the Internal Revenue Service that teaches students how the IRS investigates white-collar crimes.

The students worked with eight IRS agents from the criminal investigations unit to solve a hypothetical financial crime. They used forensic accounting techniques and employed undercover operations, surveillance, and other tools available to federal law enforcement officers. And yes, they gathered evidence by picking through bags of trash.

“The goal was to get students some hands-on experience, bringing all their knowledge to the situation,” says Eileen Beiter, assistant professor of accounting, who co-organized the event with Phyllis Bloom, associate professor and director of the accounting program. “They had to use their analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as accounting, law, and the general business curriculum.”

The simulation lasted several hours and exposed students to accounting careers with which they weren’t necessarily familiar.

Everyone may know the IRS collects taxes, but its criminal investigations unit is involved in a variety of money-related crimes, such as money laundering, drug trafficking, and multi-filer tax schemes.

Daniel Matteo ’10, ’11G, who chose the workshop as a fun way to learn about forensic accounting, was intrigued by the elaborate nature of the agents’ work and their need to adapt to a changing environment.

“Criminals are always going to come up with new schemes to try and evade the IRS, and it’s their job to make sure people don’t get away with it,” says Matteo, pointing out that it was the IRS that finally booked the gangster Al Capone…on tax evasion.

It was a whole other side to accounting that made it creative, dangerous, and, frankly, pretty cool. dani el M atteo ’ 1 0 , ’ 1 1 G

Thinking like criminals “took students out of their comfort zones,” says Beiter. A wire-tapping exercise set up two students as interviewers of a “business owner” found to be keeping two sets of books, one for actual business revenue and one for tax purposes. “After the

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Left to right: Colleen Echter ’10, Anne Marie Bernardoni ’10, and Daniel Matteo ’10, ’11G search for evidence of a financial crime during the Adrian Project workshop last fall. ‘sting,’ all the agents running the Adrian Project came back out, and we analyzed the interview to see how they would use that information,” says Matteo. “It was a whole other side to accounting that made it creative, dangerous, and, frankly, pretty cool.”

The students’ response to the program was very positive, and Beiter and Bloom hope to make the workshop an annual event, perhaps expanding the program to a full-day exercise. The agents were swamped at the end of the session by student questions about possible careers and internships. Matteo says he will certainly be able to apply what he learned in the Adrian Project to his career. “I may not immediately be looking to work for the IRS,” he adds, “but I am positive I will need to have a good working relationship with the people in this area of accounting.”

To learn more about Nazareth’s accounting program, visit go.naz.edu/accounting

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n sch o o l o f h e a lt h and human serv ices

Developing a Collaborative Culture

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he difference in language between “I have a new stroke patient” and “I’m treating Mr. Brown, who’s recovering from a stroke” may not sound particularly dramatic—unless you’re Mr. Brown. Health care consumers can infer a lot about their practitioners’ professional attitude from the language they use, and the messages they convey aren’t always comforting.

“It’s a person they’re dealing with, not an impairment or a part of the body,” says Shirley Szekeres, Ph.D., dean of the School of Health and Human Services. “Understanding the whole person is the best way to help them recover. Our faculty understands this.”

A new HHS course instructs students on working collaboratively on interprofessional teams, such as this faculty/student discussion of client evaluations in a practice case conference. Clockwise from left: Ellen Contopidis, inclusive education; Carol Brownstein-Evans, social work; Lisa Durant-Jones, speechlanguage pathology; and physical therapy students Shannon Bolger ’10G and Johanna Raymor ’10G. Standing: Jennifer Collins, physical therapy.

The SHHS faculty not only understands it, they want to ensure students get it, too. This summer, the school offered Issues in Interprofessional Team Practice (HHS 598), its first course in addressing the importance of what Szekeres calls “collaborative human-centered care.” The course was developed by the Interprofessional Education Steering Committee, comprised of members from speech-language pathology, education, nursing, social work, physical therapy, and creative arts therapy (which includes music therapy and art therapy).

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Team-taught by SHHS faculty, the course lays the groundwork for collaboration between professions and is open to all SHHS graduate students. These multiple persectives help students to learn and “think inside, outside, and around the box,” says Stephen Demanchick, Ph.D., assistant professor of creative arts and director of the College’s Play Therapy Center.

“We want students to look at the client’s goals, not the separate physical therapy goals or speech-language therapy goals,” Szekeres says. “What can we all do together to help that client recover and attain a better quality of life?”

Advantages to this kind of collaboration are very evident to the SHHS faculty. “Professionals who work together in a collaborative fashion— that is, in a team where members value the skills of individuals and disciplines—can improve patient/client outcomes by reducing morbidity and mortality,” says Sharon Bidwell-Cerone, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing. Betsey King, Ph.D., assistant professor of music therapy, agrees that cooperation and co-treatment produce significant results but points out that “few students have that kind of experience prior to entering the workforce.”

That’s what’s so critical about the new SHHS class—reaching students early, while they’re still forming their attitudes toward collaborative practice, and teaching them to understand and respect each others’ profession. “Collaboration is sharing skills and knowledge, and it’s as much an attitude as an event,” says Szekeres.

In addition to assisting in course development, the committee brings speakers to campus and sponsors events, including the highly successful Kids Club, an eight-week after-school program offering programs for children ages five to ten who have physical or communication disorders.

This summer’s course addition represents another step toward Szekeres’s long-term goal of having all SHHS students gain both academic and interprofessional clinical experience. “Graduating students will walk into the workplace as very different professionals than if they’d been educated in the silo of their own profession,” she says. “We believe this attitude toward collaboration is a high-value commodity in the workplace.”

That collaborative attitude, in the end, is what makes a difference— not just to Nazareth students, but to consumers of health care. Instead of being nameless patients, they become part of their own health care team, facilitating what Demanchick calls “a new culture of helping.”

Bidwell-Cerone, Demanchick, and King are joined on the the Interprofessional Education Steering Committee by Carol Brownstein Evans, Ph.D., director of the MSW program; Jennifer Collins, Ph.D., chair of physical therapy; Ellen Contopidis, Ph.D., professor of education; and Lisa Durant-Jones, Ph.D., director of graduate speechlanguage pathology.

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“I ♥ 2 Read”

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ords line every hallway and wall in Nazareth College’s Marie Callahan Reading Clinic. Much more than graffiti, the handwritten notes are messages from past graduate students and youngsters, offering encouragement, congratulations, even book recommendations. They serve as a reminder of why everyone is there, but they also serve to help create a child-friendly, kid-centered atmosphere.

The note-covered walls are only part of The number of students in the practicum what makes the Reading Clinic unique. courses determines the number of children, “We are extremely fortunate to have a well and the clinic’s slots are always full. Once equipped, dedicated space,” explains Naochildren have begun in the program, they mi Erdmann, Ed.D., director of graduate can stay until they’re self-supporting readliteracy programs. “A friend, who teaches ers and writers. at an out-of-state research university with a “And we spoil them,” says Erdmann. nationally known literacy program, recently “We cater to their interests, as well as their visited the clinic. She remarked their faculty needs. If they like tigers, we have books would be envious of our clinic because their on tigers, and I shop for more books on graduate students tutor in a hallway.” tigers.” Each child chooses something on For more than 30 years, the clinic has which to become an expert—whether it welcomed elementary and secondary be magic tricks or skateboards or Coco students, as well as the occasional adult Chanel—and then shares this knowledge Kelly Rowe ’09G helps an enthusiastic from the community, to receive support in with the group at the end of the semester. youngster select some books in the College’s learning to read and write. Nazareth gradu“We want these children to know how it Reading Clinic. ate students in the literacy programs assess feels to be an expert,” says Erdmann. “We the individual with whom they work to want them to develop self-efficacy and see determine strengths and needs, design an themselves as learners.” instructional program to overcome or compenTeaching strategies are learner-oriented and always tailored to sate for those needs, and provide one-on-one instruction. address each youngster’s particular challenges. Graduate students “A lot of other schools have tried to develop programs based on this make progress tangible for the readers, keeping track of books read model,” says Dean of the School of Education Timothy Glander, Ph.D. and words learned and using props to support the learning process.

“They’re all smaller, and I think it’s safe to say their quality of work is Recently, a stuffed animal in glamorous garb helped build the vocabunot up to what we do here.” lary of a young girl by adding words such as gorgeous, imitation, and Rows of study carrels hum with concentrated energy whenever the celebrity. “I asked her the other day if she thought I were a celebrity,” Reading Clinic is in session. Students have their own carrels in which says Erdmann with a smile, “and she said, ‘I don’t want to hurt your to work, furnished also with cushions for more informal lessons. Book feelings, but no.’” Erdmann knew the girl had mastered the meaning of displays offer tempting selections, and large tables provide classroom her new word. space for students’ post-lesson seminars.

Reading is its own reward, Erdmann believes, and the proclamations Because literacy is an additional certification area, all the students in on the walls would indicate the youngsters agree. Decorating one study the program are certified teachers. In addition to receiving their M.S.Ed. carrel is a note that sums up many of the Reading Clinic’s handwritten in literacy education, graduates of the program will be eligible for state endorsements: “Reading rocks!” certification as literacy specialists. “Not all the students in this program To learn more about the Marie Callahan Reading Clinic, visit go.naz. want to be reading specialists,” clarifies Erdmann. “Many want to edu/reading-clinic. expand their expertise as a classroom teacher.”

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President Daan Braveman, board chair Judy Wilmot Linehan ’76, and commencement speaker Garth Fagan.

’10 Terese Vaccaro ’07, ’10G and Lauren Payne ’10G smile for the cameras.

Te’vonn McField ’10 is congratulated by his little sister.

Dr. Mary T. Bush ’51, professor emerita of history and political science, received an honorary doctorate.

G r a d uat i o n Day

On May 9, 2010, Nazareth College held its eighty-third annual commencement at the Blue Cross Arena in a joint graduate and undergraduate ceremony where graduates and loved ones celebrated the end of one chapter, and the beginning of another.

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Katelyn Keating ’10, Zachary Ligas ’10, and Lindsay Michalak ’10 all received their bachelor’s in music at commencement.

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Kristin Merman Graham ‘10G accepted her diploma with baby on board.

Families connected with their students despite the large venue.

Large screens at the Blue Cross Arena provided better opportunities to see and hear the ceremony.

Monsignor William H. Shannon, professor emeritus, delivers the address at the Baccalaureate Service on May 8.

The new Dr. Lindsay Zanghi ’10G receives her academic attire from Mary Ellen Vore, clinical assistant professor, during the physical therapy hooding ceremony.

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The Heart of a Coach: Jim Jabir ’84

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by Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G

im Jabir ’84 cannot stress how incredibly blessed he feels to be the And what he’s given them is an opportunity to obtain a great education head women’s basketball coach at the University of Dayton. But while competing at a high level in the Atlantic 10 Conference. He also enjoys Jabir is also incredibly blessed for another reason…he’s lucky to be the little things now, like sitting at the back of the team bus on a recent road alive today. trip to Fordham and sharing stories from his childhood in New York City.

At the beginning of the 2004–05 basketball season, Jabir had just It’s something he also used to enjoy when he was a student at Nazareth in started running five or six miles a day and was feeling healthy. One day after the early 1980s. Jabir was the first person Jeff Van Gundy ’85, the former basketball practice, he was sitting at home with his children when he started coach of the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets, met when he came to feeling nauseous and achy. His whole Nazareth. While the two have taken body hurt. He immediately called one of different coaching paths, the mutual his assistant coaches, who rushed him respect and appreciation for each other to the nearest hospital. is evident.

“They took my heart rate and I saw “I had so many more advantages, the lady’s eyes just open and they but he’s earned everything that he’s slammed me on the table and all of a gotten,” Van Gundy says. “Every job sudden there were 12 people running that he’s taken over has been a massive around me,” Jabir recalls. rebuilding, but his positive energy and Members of the medical staff were spirit has allowed him to have the concerned because Jabir’s heart rate success that he’s had.” had spiked to 205.

Jabir’s coaching career began at “They couldn’t get my heart rate Nazareth as the assistant coach during down with medicine, and they knocked the 1984–85 season. He received his me out and put those paddles on me first head coaching position at Buffalo and I got zapped,” Jabir said. “My asState the following year. sistant said that my body went off the “I treat all my players the way I’d table like six inches.” want my daughter’s coach to treat her,” He was diagnosed with arrhythhe says. “It’s nice to work so hard to get mogenic right ventricular dysplasia to a point and then watch what you’ve (ARVD), which is difficult to detect; the worked so hard to do come to fruition. chance of carrying it is 1 in 5,000. It is You’re creating something that wasn’t most prevalent in young men, with a there before.” majority of the cases diagnosed before What he’s created is an Atlanic 10 the age of 40.

Conference contender. He’s been the Jim Jabir ’84 in action with a women’s basketball player at the University “I’m looking around the room wonarchitect of a Dayton program that of Dayton. dering what’s going on, and I almost made its first NCAA tournament apdied again a couple of times that pearance this season. night,” Jabir recalls.

The team has also posted three consecutive 20-win seasons. Dayton was He spent another three weeks in the hospital before he was allowed to 3-35 in Jabir’s first season in 2003–04 and has consistently improved since. But return to work. But what surprised Jabir the most was how he felt after now Jabir savors every moment he has on and off the court. It’s something the experience. both he and Van Gundy understand because of the profession they’ve chosen.

“The scariest thing is when you get really sick and when your life is threat“Not many coaches put their health where it should be in relation to their ened in that way, you don’t realize it, but it’s the loneliest thing you could job, but Jim now understands the importance,” Van Gundy says. “No quesever do…even with a room full of people who love you,” he said. tion no matter what his record is on the court, he’s undefeated off the court.

So Jabir rolled up his sleeves, went to work, and made changes.

He’s a special coach.”

“I’m a little more forgiving now,” he says. “I’m demanding, but I’m not Visit Nazareth’s athletics website at athletics.naz.edu. as intense as I used to be. I’m probably more understanding. I want them [the Dayton women’s basketball team] to get it more than I want to give it Kerry Van Malderghem ‘08G works for Nazareth’s Office of Alumni to them.”

Relations and is a sports reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

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Swimmers, Diver Attend National Meet Lindsey Buzard ’10, Lauren McKinney ’10, and Carissa Risucci ’13 represented Nazareth in March at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota.

Buzard, a diver from Perry, qualified by winning the one- and three-meter diving events and earning Diver of the Meet honors at the Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Association meet in February. At the national meet, she placed 13th in the three-meter competition to earn honorable mention All-American honors. She was Nazareth’s first national qualifier in women’s diving since Kama Grattet Way ‘85 won three national titles in 1984 and 1985.

McKinney, of Watertown, qualified for the national meet for the third year in a row. She finished 25th in the 200 IM; 26th in the 100 butterfly; and 24th in the 200 butterfly.

Lindsay Buzard ’10 Risucci, of Deerfield, was named Rookie of the Meet at the UNYSCSA championships after winning both the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes. She earned All-American honors in the 200 breaststroke after finishing eighth and was an honorable mention All-American in the 100 breaststroke after finishing 15th.

McAdam Earns All-American Honors Post-season honors poured in for Nazareth men’s basketball standout Corey McAdam ’10, who led the Golden Flyers to the Empire 8 Conference title and a berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament last winter.

McAdam was one of eight players nationally to be honored as a first-team All-American by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. In addition, he was selected to play in the first-ever Division III Senior all-star game in Salem, Va., in March. Other honors included East Region Player of the Year from the NABC and d3hoops.com; second-team All-American honors from d3hoops.com; one of 10 finalists for the Jostens Award as Division III Player of the Year; Empire 8 Conference Player of the Year; and local college Athlete of the Year by the Rochester Press-Radio Club.

McAdam, of Fairport, was a four-year standout for the Golden Flyers who led the team in scoring in 2009–10 at 21.6 points per game. He also averaged 5.6 assists per game and shot better than 82 percent from the free throw line (197 for 239). He completed his career with 1,865 points and 792 assists.

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Wilson Named to All-Conference Team Brittany Wilson ’12, Nazareth’s leading scorer and rebounder in women’s basketball for 2009–10, was honored as a secondteam Empire 8 Conference all-star based on voting conducted by the league’s nine head coaches. Kelly Dunne ’10 made honorable mention.

Wilson, of Fairport and a graduate of Fairport High School, averaged 10.9 points and 6.1 rebounds per game for the Golden Flyers, who finished 13-12 overall. She also ranked second on the team in Brittany Wilson ’12 blocks (23) and steals (32).

Dunne, of East Northport and a graduate of Northport High School, led the Golden Flyers in assists (73) and was second in scoring at 10.3 points per game. She also set a single-season record for free throw accuracy by hitting 74 of 82 shots (.902) to rank fourth nationally in that category.

Castor Earns E8 Title in Mile Graduate student Robby Castor ’09, ‘11G paced the Golden Flyers by winning the mile run with a time of 4:28.12 January 31 as Nazareth competed at the Empire 8 Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships at RIT’s Gordon Field House. Castor alo placed third in the 800-meter run Robby Castor ’09, ‘11G with a time of 2:00.89.

In the women’s meet, graduate student Melissa Cutcliffe ’09, ‘12G was named Field Athlete of the Meet as she won the long jump by breaking the conference record with a leap of 5.44 meters (17 feet, 10 ¼ inches). Junior Kristi Custer also earned second-team all-conference honors for Nazareth by finishing second in the triple jump. She broke the school record four times in that event, topping out at 11.15 meters (36 feet, 7 inches).

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Men’s Basketball Wins E8 Title

by Joe Seil

pair of free throws by tournament MVP Corey McAdam ’10 with seven seconds left February 27 enabled Nazareth to complete a dramatic second-half rally and lifted the Golden Flyers to a 65-64 victory over top-seeded St. John Fisher in the Empire 8 Conference championship game for men’s basketball.

The victory earned the Golden Flyers their second conference championship in three years and an automatic berth to the NCAA Division III Tournament. Nazareth finished the 2009–10 season with an 18-10 overall record under the direction of first-year coach Kevin Broderick ’89.

“Our senior leader just refused to allow us to lose,” said Broderick, who coached 13 seasons at Oswego without winning a conference title.

McAdam scored 22 of his game-high 26 points in the second half against the Cardinals as Nazareth rallied from a 12-point deficit in the last 10 minutes. McAdam scored Golden Flyers are the men’s basketball Empire 8 Conference champions.

27 points for Nazareth in a hard-fought semifinal game against Ithaca in which the Golden Flyers prevailed, 75-72 in overtime.

Nazareth’s season finally ended in the first round of the NCAA tournament the following week. This time it was the Golden Flyers who squandered a large second-half lead as Medaille rallied to defeat Nazareth 78-72 in overtime. Nazareth led by 12 points early in the second half before Medaille staged a rally. McAdam finished with 21 points and 10 assists and freshman Tyshun Stephens added 18 points.

For the season, Stephens was Nazareth’s second-leading scorer at 12.1 points per game. Sophomores Jason Corletta (11.7) and Phil Scaffidi (10.2) also had double-digit scoring averages.

Joe Seil is the assistant athletic director and sports information director at Nazareth College.

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Basketball Coach Receives Award

azareth College is pleased to announce that former Nazareth men’s basketball coach Mike Daley is the recipient of the 2010 McDonald Community Service Award.

A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and graduate of St. Bonaventure University, Daley came to Nazareth College in 1986. Prior to Nazareth, Daley was the assistant coach at Niagara University. During his career at Nazareth he has led his teams to win more than 300 games and participate in 12 post-season tournaments, including four NCAA appearances and seven ECAC tournaments. Daley also tries to incorporate an attitude of giving and volunteering in the community. His teams have volunteered at the St. Joseph House of Hospitality in Rochester, Hospice Care at Benincasa Hospice Care in Mendon, Saint’s Place in Pittsford, Compeer, and St. Joseph’s Villa.

Daley has received numerous other awards, including selection as the Empire 8 Coach of the Year in 1998 and 1999. He was also awarded the Sam Schoenfeld Award, presented by the Collegiate Basketball Officials Association to the program that best exemplified the highest degree of sportsmanship, character, and ethics among their players, coaches, and spectators. Nazareth has won the Eastern Regional Award several times, and in 2003 they were selected as the National Award Recipient.

Currently, Daley has assumed the role as director of the Wendy’s College Classic, formerly the J.P. Morgan Chase Tournament, the longest running Division III in-season tournament in the country.

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Tennis Trophies, Folk Art Paul Waida ’92, Nazareth’s men’s and women’s head tennis coach, moonlights as an artist. Each year, the tennis team’s graduating seniors receive from him trophies that are more than just awards— they’re individually hand-crafted works of art. Each design is unique to the player and based on their personality, some memorable event, or their performance that season. This year’s seniors—Alexander Bodensieck, Benjamin Caiella, Jackeline Martinez, Daniel Matteo, Stephen Trobert, Elizabeth Way, and Alexander Wilczak—received their trophies at an end-of-year banquet last May. Waida, who has created 32 awards since he began in 2005, hopes tennis alumni will gather their trophies together someday for a one-of-a-kind exhibition.

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beyond self|community service

Making the Unknown Familiar

by Robin L. Flanigan

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he girl came up suddenly and threw her arms around Lyndsi Holmes ’11.

“It’s so good to see you!” the girl, who appeared to be in high school, exclaimed.

The startled Holmes stepped back, taking a minute to remember their short meeting the year before. The girl was from Burma. She had come with her parents and brother to Saint’s Place, where Holmes volunteers providing refugees who’ve just entered the country with clothing and other necessities. The two hadn’t been able to communicate, other than through facial expressions. But they were around the same age.

The girl, now fairly fluent in English and back for a second visit with her family to get some more things, had made a connection with Holmes and wanted to share her appreciation.

“It was at that moment I realized how important this work is,” recalls Holmes, a political science and inclusive education major. “You’re one of the first people they see when they arrive in the U.S., and first impressions are everything. It’s amazing, the power of communication in just a smile, how far that brings people.”

More than 600 refugees arrive in Rochester each year. Working with churches, agencies, and community organizations, Nazareth College plays a strong role in helping these newcomers learn how to be self-reliant in a strange new country. To that end, the Nazareth Dr. Otieno Kisiara, chair of the Nazareth Refugee Refugee Advisory Board, Advisory Board. an ad hoc clearinghouse,

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was created recently for on-campus programs and services that aid in resettlement efforts throughout the region.

At the same time, the College organizes campus events to create community awareness about who these refugees are—and who they are not.

“It’s amazing, the power of communication in just a smile , how far that b r ing s people.”

Lyndsi Holmes ’11 “Most people don’t have any idea of the experiences of refugee families,” says Otieno Kisiara, Ph.D., who teaches Refugee Resettlement and Adaptation (ANT 422), a course that requires student involvement in local resettlement efforts. Kisiara also helped found the Rochester Committee on Refugee Resettlement, a group that coordinates and supports resettlement efforts by bringing together volunteers and representatives of community groups that work with refugees. “It’s easy for us to look at them as vulnerable and as victims who need our help. But I try to have students and the community see their strength and what they bring to us.”

The number of outreach efforts that originate at Nazareth is growing, in part because of people like alumni board member Rosemarie Burke ’58. Burke, a former nurse, suggested that nursing students could help refugees, some of whom have lived in camps for decades, learn healthy lifestyle habits.

A handful of nursing students since have met with Bhutanese refugees—the largest group coming to Rochester, and members of what the United Nations describes as one of the world’s largest resettlement efforts—to talk about the basics of diagnosing, treating, and managing diabetes. Two others brought with them a nutritionist for more in-depth advice on a proper diet that takes into account their food preferences from home.

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And next semester, students studying mental health will be helping with depression issues, as new arrivals deal with leaving the familiar for the unknown.

“These are great opportunities for students to really work on being culturally competent,” explains Dr. Maureen Friedman, professor of nursing, who plans to foster more connections between students and refugees in the coming semesters. The match is tailor-made for the nursing department’s transcultural curricular framework. “They get to work with a group for whom English is either not a language at all or is a distant second language while they are relatively healthy, before they meet them in hosptials as patients.”

Kisiara dreams of one day establishing a Center for Refugee Studies, which would support research in population displacement, provide service and advocacy for refugees locally and globally, and formally evaluate the impact of what Nazareth does for refugee populations. Until then, anecdotal evidence of Nazareth’s impact is easy to come by.

Michele Quinn ’71, assistant director at Saint’s Place, credits Nazareth students with starting a separate room for teen clothes. The previous clothing categories—men, women, and children—did not easily cater to teenagers who would need functional pieces that would help them fit in with their classmates.

“The students bring new ideas, new energy, and a whole new insight to this ministry,” she says. “They’re willing to do anything we need them to do, and they’re flexible. We’ve found them invaluable.”

Students have also worked with Foodlink to guide refugees through creating and sustaining a community garden, which would yield fruits and vegetables to sell at local farm markets.

The bonds that are made, and the intangible lessons that unfold, are what keep volunteers like Holmes wanting to do more for those who have less.

“I’ve learned so much from the refugees,” says the NazRAB student representative, who wants to work with refugees as a teacher after graduation. “A lot of times with huge conflicts, the news just throws out these numbers of people who die, and we become desensitized.

What’s really powerful for me now is that I think about the people I’ve met and realize that these conflicts are human ones. It’s not just about numbers. It makes you want to be more aware of what’s going on in the world. It makes you want to help more.”

To learn more about Nazareth’s civic engagement initiatives, visit go.naz.edu/civics.

Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New York.

Lyndsi Holmes ’11 helps a new refugee select clothes at Saint’s Place in Rochester.

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Nazareth|in the world

A Decade in Berlin Nazareth Students Thrive in Europe’s New Mega-Center

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he Berlin Residential Program of Nazareth College is celebrating 10 years of sending students to a city that has gone from desolation to thriving metropolis in recent history—and is now the geographical middle of the new European Union.

Open not just to Nazareth students but to students from across the country, the study-abroad program offers intimate and often highly unusual access to some of the German capital’s greatest treasures.

“This is for students who, on the whole, have no real opportunity to get up close to politics, history, high art and culture—and it’s all right there,” says William Hopkins, Ph.D., program coordinator and a professor of German in the foreign languages and literatures department. “It would be like bringing someone from Germany to Washington, D.C. and having every door open to them.”

Nazareth-in-Berlin, as the program is commonly called by students, is run jointly with Studienforum Berlin, an educational and research association. Although Hopkins estimates that no Dr. Hanns-Dieter Jacobsen and Dr. William Hopkins. more than six percent of U.S. students learn German, undergraduate students from any academic major are accepted into this program, even those with little or no experience in the German language. Students are matched with English-speaking host families, as well as a univer-

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sity student who can offer personal support when needed. The program offers five courses in liberal studies taught in English, one course in German language taught at each student’s level, and a full-time, four-week internship at Berlin schools, government offices, NGOs, museums, theaters, operas, and corporations.

Purposely kept small, the Berlin program started in 2001 with five students and has grown to accommodate between 14 and 18 students in recent years.

Jeremy Wood ’11 says he “signed up on a whim and left the program a totally different person.” A double major in biology and psychology, with a concentration in bioethics and premed studies, Wood learned about the program from a friend, a German major who lived next door. He didn’t know a word of German, but he did have German in his ancestry—“My dad’s middle name is Adolph,” he says by way of explanation—and his advisor had suggested that studying abroad might be beneficial before applying to medical school.

“My time in Germany really did change m y li f e …Now I’m mainly just trying to plan time to get bac k th ere .”

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Wood, now conversational in German, spent his internship at a cutting-edge epilepsy research facility. He shadowed physicians, helped out on rounds, and observed several surgeries, including a temporal lobe resection, an operation on the brain to control seizures. Originally planning a career in trauma and emergency surgery, he returned to the U.S. with an intention to focus on neurosurgery for epilepsy therapy.

“My time in Germany really did change my life,” he says. “Now I’m mainly just trying to plan time to get back there.”

Meredith Lohwasser, an international relations major at Rol-

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lins College in Winter Park, Fla., joined the program last fall after learning about it online. She had wanted to study abroad in Germany since traveling to Munich with her family as a seventhgrader. In high school she studied German and participated in a three-week exchange program to the German industrial city of Solingen. In the Nazareth program Lohwasser landed an internship with the German Bundestag, the national parliament. She researched and wrote reports for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and got the chance to sit in on high-powered meetings between Germany and leaders from the United States and Afghanistan.

“It was an interesting dynamic that I was able to see how countries work on issues depending on where they are and what status they have in the world,” recalls Lohwasser, who adored her host family, comprised of a journalist and a doctor who performs a one-woman comedy show on the side. Lohwasser plans to enter graduate school in the fall and later to become a foreign service officer for the State Department.

To complement their academic work in the field, students go on a string of out-of-town educational study tours to diverse locations that include, among others, a medieval city, the remains of the Buchenwald Nazi labor camp, and over-the-border stops in Poland and Prague.

Studienforum Berlin president Hanns-Dieter Jacobsen, a wellconnected professor in international relations for more than 30 years, routinely passes on to students reception invitations he receives from ministries and influential organizations, like the Atlantic Alliance. And with Germany at the forefront of solar and wind energy, biofuels, and other increasingly important technologies, he is working with Hopkins to add another course to the program, this one on environmental sustainability, sometime in the next year.

Jeremy Wood ’11 atop Tangermünder Tor, the 19th-century city gate in Stendal, Germany.

At the same time, Nazareth has been exposing its faculty, through Studienforum Berlin’s overseas seminars, to the ways in which Germany is mastering environmental challenges.

Brian Witz, Ph.D., professor and chairperson of the biology department, was selected to make the trip last summer. Together with professors from a number of U.S. universities, he attended several presentations at key environmental agencies and visited the world’s second-largest photovoltaic production facility and a carbon sequestration pilot plant.

“It was really refreshing and eye-opening to see the global view, to share the problems we each have in our respective countries,” says Witz, who notes that Nazareth could be offering a minor in sustainability within the next five years. “The world has gotten a lot smaller, and we really need to pay attention to what other people are doing, both in terms of their successes and challenges.

I really got a wonderful perspective.”

Perspective is what the Berlin program is all about—giving students a firsthand look, on numerous fronts, to history in the making.

“To be effective, study abroad programs must work in that direction,” says Hopkins. “And since Germany is a good decade ahead of us in many areas, that’s the sort of place we should be sending our students.”

To learn more about Nazareth’s Berlin program, visit go.naz. edu/berlin.

Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New York.

Meredith Lohwasser at the Fall of the Wall Freedom Festival in Berlin, November 9, 2009.

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LIFE|of the mind

Reconstructing Cultural Memory: Linking Research and Teaching in the Context of

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s a cultural anthropologist, I embarked upon my first experience of archaeological excavation with the intention of studying the pedagogical and research methodologies of historical archaeology. Two ongoing archaeological excavations intersect the study of slave economies, labor practices, plantation life, and black liberation struggles in the African Diaspora: the Bush Hill Sugar Plantation site in Nevis, the West Indies, and the Harriet Tubman Homestead in Auburn, New York. These excavations, together with student learning practices from my first-year seminar course on civil rights and education and my introductory archaeology and physical anthropology course, formed the project’s two components. The project itself served as a foundation for developing a new course that will be offered for students in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology—Archaeology Field School: Freedom Trail Projects in New York and the Caribbean. Students will practice civic engagement through the study of anthropological methodologies by analyzing the work of excavating material remains from historical sites that are in the process of being established as national historical landmarks. They are then able to apply what we learn in the classroom to lived realities that are shaping the way we perceive and remember history.

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In summer 2009, I joined Dr. Douglas Armstrong and his crew of graduate and undergraduate students from Syracuse University (SU), where I completed my doctoral degree in cultural anthropology, for a three-week excavation project at the Tubman Homestead. Learning the foundational methods of setting up test units for and methods of excavation, artifact documentation, and cataloging at the Tubman site prepared me for studying the applications of historical archaeology at the Bush Hill Sugar Plantation site in Nevis. I was invited as a visiting scholar to join Dr. Marco Meniketti, the lead archaeologist from San Jose State University, and his crew of field-school students to study and document the material remains excavated from this 18th-century sugar plantation.

Culture Collecting

As I observed the critical role that archaeologists play in establishing historical sites, my training as a cultural anthropologist drew me to analyze archaeology as a form of what anthropologist James Clifford calls “culture collecting.” He observes in The Predicament of Culture (1988) that “collecting—at least in the West, where time is generally thought to be linear and irreversible— implies a rescue of phenomena from inevitable historical decay or loss. The collection contains what ‘deserves’ to be kept, remembered, and treasured. Artifacts are saved out of time…detached from their original temporal occasions, and given enduring value in a new arrangement.”

How do we make sense of the collections of steam-engine remains, shattered pieces of china, pottery, pipes, nails, and rusted chains and manacles excavated meticulously by sifting through ten centimeters of dirt at a time (with Nevisian tarantulas to keep us company!)? From Clifford’s analytical standpoint, the collecting of archaeological artifacts from the Bush Hill Sugar Plantation site may be understood as an attempt at rescuing from decay and loss the memories of: 1) a British sugar colony that was principally a site of sugar production and resource extraction from fertile lands belonging to indigenous populations that Nazareth students sorting, cleaning, and cataloging artifacts excavated from the Tubman Homestead in Auburn, N.Y. Left to right: Alice Hallahan ’11, Evelyn DeSantis ’12, Megi Llojaj ’13, Merri Andreano-Donofrio ’82, ’99G, Safia Najim ’13.

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Dr. Sangarasivam excavating possible remnants of a housing or storage structure for sugar production at Bush Hill Sugar Plantation in Nevis, the West Indies.

Remnants of a 1700s steam engine shrouded by a second growth tropical forest at the Bush Hill Sugar Plantation.

experienced genocide in their encounter with British and French colonists; and 2) labor practices in the nascent global economy fueled by the indentured and forced servitude of Irish, Scottish, and English lower-class peoples and later enslaved human subjects transported as commodities from the African continent to sustain the sugar production of the French and British colonies.

In the case of the Harriet Tubman Homestead, culture collecting through the excavating of artifacts may reveal the recovery of memories about a historical figure who has become an icon of the abolitionist movement in the United States—memories that have been lost through the continued misinterpretation and misrepresentation of Harriet Tubman. SU’s team of archaeologists revealed that contrary to popular perceptions of Tubman living in conditions of poverty, ornamental vases, china, curtains, and evidence of brick works verify a different reality.

Archaeological evidence in conjunction with local historical data reveals that Tubman was not only a successful political activist as a leader in the Underground Railroad movement, she was also a successful entrepreneur who maintained a collaborative and politically conscious relationship with William Henry Seward, a New York senator who then became President Lincoln’s secretary of state. Having purchased the 32-acre property from Seward in 1859, Tubman established a sustainable agricultural farmstead, a brick-making industry, and a home for the

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aged. The physical remains of some structures that constituted the homestead, which have deteriorated and disappeared from the landscape, are now being reconstructed with data collected from archaeological excavations.

This project has opened up exciting possibilities for Nazareth students to work and study in collaboration with Syracuse University students and faculty as well as other partnering institutions. Our students can not only learn the skills of excavating, cataloging, and analyzing material remains from archaeological sites. They also have an opportunity to witness the real-life applications of anthropological research by participating in the transformative process of critical analysis that will inform the interpretive and information centers of public history that not only serve as cultural landmarks locally and nationally, but also serve to shape and restore public memory in the future.

This project was supported by a Faculty Scholarship and Innovation Grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence, the Office of the Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Center for Service-Learning, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Yamuna Sangarasivam, Ph.D., is assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Nazareth College.

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INTERFAITH|ideas

Interfaith Brought Face-to-Face

by Chris Koudelka ’10

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t’s an interesting experience to attend a conference focused on interfaith understanding as the non-believer. There is no universal faith for me. I believe in people. If your faith or beliefs work for you, that brings me happiness. Growing up, I did not have a religious upbringing, nor did I learn a dogmatic foundation. As a result, I do not have a religious bias—but I do have an insatiable curiosity, and with it no reasons NOT to ask questions. That is the mindset I brought to the Interfaith Understanding Conference at Nazareth College last spring.

During the Next Generation sessions an older man, smiling, asked me, “Don’t you think you should have figured that out before this conference?” I was completely unprepared for his honesty, but his question illustrated the different points of view brought to the conference. This conference evolved from a desire to bring together people from across generations and faiths to explore critical issues of religious difference and diversity and come to a common understanding and appreciation of those differences.

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, presented his experiences as a former religious extremist and his experiences now as a leader in interfaith

Rabbi Or N. Rose, associate dean of the Rabbinical School at Hebrew College in Boston, chats with Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed, national director for the Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances for the Islamic Society of North America.

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dialogue. His plenary “From Religious Extremism to Interfaith Dialogue” spoke to the necessity of building human connections across bound­ aries without surrendering the religious integrity of the individual. It is possible to maintain genuine spiritual communal integrity without going into the mindset of “either or” but rather going into “with and both.” Because every person is of infinite value, each of us needs the “other” to be who we are. “We are called,” says Rabbi Hirschfield, “by and through our traditions to ask questions and build bridges.

We can accomplish anything we want, if we are willing to cultivate genuine curiosity.”

During the rabbi’s plenary, I wanted to stand up and say, “I’m here; I’m one of the others you’re talking about.” This conference was geared toward people of faith, and here I was, attending as “the other,” fully aware that my non-religious status provided me with a tremendous opportunity. To me, it is obvious that differences in religion are beautiful and not something to get righteous about. Rabbi Hirschfield’s presentation further inspired my passion for religious understanding. I wanted to know what to do about it—what are the next steps? It was at this moment that a profound insight came to me: interfaith understanding requires the realization that religions become “another” not “the other.”

Dr. Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based institution building the global interfaith movement, spoke about the need for making interfaith dialogue a social norm. His plenary, “Acts of Faith: Interfaith Leadership in a Time of Global Religious Crisis,” focused on the opportunities for the next generation to build an interfaith youth movement.

Right now we are living in the most interactive moment in human history. A majority of the population of the planet, youth ages 17 to 19, are asking “Who am I?” and “What is my purpose?” These questions are essential for creating community and a sense of belonging. Some people perceive these questions as a religious crisis; for some people, like myself, this shift reflects the desire for self-understanding, an active discovering of faith based on direct life experiences. Dr. Patel asked, “What if we used religion as a bridge of cooperation and the builders [of this bridge] are young people?” Building an interfaith youth movement founded on the drive of youth for self-realization will create communities of interfaith understanding, cooperation, and dialogue. Since the conference, that dialogue has continued online in places such as Facebook, where a flurry of discussion has continued the philosophical conversation and generated excitement for a future conference.

Throughout my studies in the peace and justice program at Nazareth College, I have come to realize with greater urgency that interfaith dialogue and understanding are essential for humanity. At the conference I also learned that through religion and spirituality there is tremendous potential for creating positive engagement of difference, and that these are important lenses through which people define their lives. It was

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Concept to Conference: Brian and Jean Hickey

Koudelka taking notes during a presentation at Nazareth’s Interfaith Understanding Conference.

evident to all of us at the conference that creating avenues for interfaith understanding, dialogue, and cooperation is extremely important to sustain interfaith dialogue for the next generation.

Since the conference, interfaith dialogue has continued online in places such as Facebook, where a flurry of discussion has continued the philosophical conversation and generated excitement for a future conference.

Overall, the IUC was a weekend of learning, exchanging ideas, and discovering a common ground in world religions in order to serve our communities. The community of the IUC was motivated by a desire to learn from one another, a thirst that permeated the conference with optimism and inspired action. Nazareth College President Daan Braveman says, “I can think of no better way that young people can make a difference in the world [than to learn to see] religious differences not as a source of division but as a source of tremendous strength.”

Chris Koudelka ’10 graduated from Nazareth College in May with a degree in peace and justice studies. He invites readers to continue this interfaith discussion by contacting him at ckoudel3@naz.edu.

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The Interfaith Understanding Conference began, as events often do, with a single idea. Jean and Brian Hickey, a college trustee, wanted to play a part in lessening the troubling enmity they saw in the misuse of religion in the world today. “I thought we had a unique environment at Nazareth,” says Brian. “With a foundation from the Sisters of St. Joseph, a Muslim imam leading the Center for Interfaith Study and Dialogue, the Center for Spirituality, and a Jewish president, we’re living interfaith right here at Nazareth every day of the week.”

Brian talked with President Daan Braveman, who agreed the time and place were right for an interfaith endeavor. Putting on his “chamber of commerce hat,” Brian joined several Rochester business leaders in identifying others who might want to support an interfaith gathering, and he and Jean became major donors to the conference themselves. Their work was instrumental in helping to raise additional funds. “The people who donated felt like we were doing the right thing—they believed in what we were trying to accomplish,” Brian says.

“The concept of Rochester’s interfaith history was compelling to them. And I think interfaith dialogue and understanding, people working together, is good for business.”

The resulting conference, explains Brian, “opened people’s minds to a different way forward, through cooperation, collaboration, and increased tolerance.” “People want to be understood,” adds Jean. “We want to find out what we have in common.”

The Hickeys say they met terrific people of all faiths during their journey from that single idea. “It was truly a joyful experience for us,” says Brian. “What we learned about the religious leaders of Rochester—the rabbis, the bishops, the imams— was incredible. What they’ve been doing in this community is a model not just for this country but for the world.”

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College & Community

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Nazareth Launches the Campaign to Create a New Math and Science Center

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A person with aphasia regaining the word “water.�

A new physician entering medical practice.

A sixth grader discovering the power of robotics.

An abused child drawing a picture of a monster.

Personal journeys such as those represented above are happening every day in the Rochester area, and every day these journeys are facilitated by speech-language pathologists, teachers, art therapists, and other education and health and human services professionals.

An exceptional number of these professionals, in Monroe County and beyond, have started their own personal journeys at Nazareth College, which for generations has provided the best kind of foundation in education and health and human services.

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An artist’s rendering of the new Integrated Center for Math and Science on the Nazareth College campus.

Over the years, Nazareth College’s resources have followed program development, and the College has sustained a widely recognized level of excellence even without the facilities found at rival institutions. Now Nazareth is moving ahead with plans to build a state-of-the-art Integrated Center for Math and Science that will usher faculty and students onto the next level of achievement. The center will serve the College in preparing future scientists, mathematicians, health care professionals, and teachers.

Equally important, it also will serve the larger community for generations to come.

Serving the Community Nazareth’s renowned programs in health and human services and education have become an important factor in assuring the quality of life in the Rochester area. The School of Health and Human Services (SHHS), established in 2004, now enrolls nearly 900 students in degree programs that include physical therapy, communication sciences and disorders, nursing, social work, and creative arts therapy.

These students gain valuable hands-on experience in on-campus clinics that serve more than

300 people from the community annually.

Partnerships with a score of local agencies, such as the Hickok Center for Brain Injury, the Hispanic Wellness Center, and Legacy Senior Living, serve more than 3,000 members of the community, and the SHHS is in partnership with local businesses to develop wellness programs for their employees.

In terms of education, Nazareth has long been known for having the finest teacher preparation program in the region. In fact, it is estimated that the College’s School of Education currently prepares nearly one-third of all teachers currently working in area school districts. In service to the community, Nazareth faculty are involved on campus in professional development workshops for current teachers in the Greater Rochester area, providing the latest in math and science pedagogies and use of technologies in the classroom. According to Deborah Dooley ’75, Ph.D., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, many of these efforts reflect collaboration between faculties in the liberal arts and sciences and in Nazareth’s professional education programs.

“Nazareth College was instrumental in developing the plans for the Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science, a collaborative among area colleges that is housed here on campus,” says Timothy Glander, Ph.D., dean of the School of Education. “As a college, we were selected to receive two prestigious National Science Foundation grants that allow us to provide substantial scholarships to students interested in math and science and were chosen to receive another competitive federal grant to offer professional

M ajor C ampaign G ift A recent $1 million gift to Nazareth will support the building of the new integrated math and science facility.

Donors Thomas and Colleen Wilmot ’71 of Pittsford have a long tradition of supporting the College. Colleen Wilmot was president of the Nazareth College Alumni Board and then served as a member of Nazareth’s Board of Trustees from 1992 through 2006.

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Thomas Wilmot, president and CEO of Wilmorite, has been a member of Nazareth College’s Board of Trustees since 2003. In 1992, the Wilmots established the Honors Program Scholarship and the Nazareth College Purple and Gold Scholarship for students with demonstrated need.

Vice President for Institutional Advancement Kelly Gagan applauds the Wilmots’

support, adding that every gift matters tremendously. “We are a small school,” she explains. “Investing in a smaller school often means individual donors have a greater opportunity to make a significant impact with their gift, for we are used to doing much with little. Giving to this campaign will have a transformative effect on the students here now, and the generations who will follow.”

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T r a i lbla z e r s The women and men on pages 33–35 are leaders in the effort to raise funds for the new Math and Science Center.

development programs in math and science education for current teachers. Our achievements have been exceptional.”

Exceptional too is the fact that so many Nazareth graduates remain in the area. “As many as 69 percent of Nazareth alumni reside in Rochester and serve as our teachers, nurses, physical therapists, and more,” reports Daan Braveman, president of Nazareth College.

James Costanza, president of Costanza Enterprises, Inc., a Nazareth trustee, and a member of the Nucleus Fund Committee that is spearheading the campaign, also attests to the role that Nazareth graduates play in the community. “If you look back at Nazareth’s history, it was really formed to help educate those who did not have access,” says Costanza. “That’s why it holds such a special place in people’s hearts. And Nazareth’s reach is extraordinary. In the course of a teacher’s career, for instance, he or she can touch more than 1,000 lives. That means that if you live in Rochester, you or your children are very likely to be connected in some way to Nazareth.”

A Burgeoning Need

John and Janet Trzcinski Vasak ‘67 Janet Trzcinski was the first in her family to attend college, and coming to Nazareth made all the difference. “It was nurturing but demanding,” says Janet, who graduated in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. She went on to get her doctorate in mathematics at the University of Illinois, where she met John Vasak, a fellow graduate student. After some years in academia, the two transitioned into business and made their life in Washington, D.C. Janet is now retired, having served as a senior vice president at Science Applications International Corporation, and John has retired from his position as a deputy director at the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit systems engineering firm.

Their careers in the realm of science and technology underlie their interest in Nazareth’s new Integrated Center for Math and Science. “If you’re not computer literate today, you’re going to have a really hard time succeeding,” says Janet, who was a Nazareth trustee for a period of six years in the ’90s. “A college’s facilities have to be first-rate, and Nazareth doesn’t have that right now. A lot of the facilities remain just as they were when I was on campus 40 years ago.”

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The nation has now come to a juncture in its history when the demand for the kind of professional preparation that Nazareth College has long provided is greater than ever. Current research indicates that the nation’s schools will need as many as 280,000 new math and science teachers during the next decade. The need in health and human services is similarly urgent. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care occupations will grow by more than 23 percent between 2006 and 2016—more than twice the rate of growth in jobs outside health care. Indeed, a recent report released by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand shows that more than 10 percent of jobs for nurses in Rochester are going unfilled and within a decade more than 4,000 new nurses will be needed. More than 30 million additional U.S. citizens will have access to health insurance in the next 10 years; the need for more physicians in family practice, more effective and precisely engineered drug therapies, and more public health professionals will increase significantly.

Nazareth’s ability to educate this upcoming generation of professionals depends largely on its ability to upgrade its resources and facilities. Currently, the College’s math and science programs are housed in a 1920s building with inadequate and dated space.

Students are turned away from courses because of space limitations, which is particularly upsetting to William Lammela, Ph.D., professor of chemistry. “There isn’t a college in the area that trains students as well as we do to read and write like scientists. Our students learn to interpret information, to develop an evidence-based approach, and to defend their approach,” says Lammela. “But right now the things I can give my students to do are limited by access to space. They have to set up and break down their research on a daily basis so other people can use the lab.”

The faculty is also limited in what it can do. “One of the big topics of the moment is biofuel from algae,” says Beverly Brown, Ph.D., associate professor of biology. “There’s a lot of funding for that right now, but no way to capitalize on that without having the space to grow and process the algae.”

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Thomas and Molly Hildebrandt ’06 Father and daughter Tom and Molly Hildebrandt represent two generations of thoughtful philanthropy. The Davenport-Hatch Foundation, their family foundation, has supported numerous nonprofit construction projects and programs in Rochester over its 58-year history. Nazareth College has been a beneficiary over the years, as it is now, with the new campaign underway.

“The money we have invested in Nazareth has been well spent,” says Tom, a certified public accountant who retired from Deloitte & Touche and now serves as president of Hillside Children’s Foundation. “We are happy to work with Nazareth to identify projects that fit our funding guidelines, and, essentially, allow them to use funds where they are most needed. We work together in this manner because we have a fundamental trust in the institution.”

For Molly Hildebrandt, contributing to the campaign feels very personal. She is a 2006 graduate who earned a degree in psychology and sociology and now works in marketing for CooperVision, focusing on the internet and social media. “I loved Nazareth,” she says.

“Everything was small and personal and there was such a feeling of rapport with my teachers.”

Molly is especially excited about the Integrated Center for Math and Science. “I think it’s fantastic,” she says. “And it could lead to all kinds of future projects for the College. This will really put a stake in the ground for Nazareth’s educational programs over the coming years.”

In addition to space limitations, the 1920s building is also dealing with inadequate power, HVAC systems, and other key infrastructure elements. Accordingly, the building cannot keep pace with the requirements of modern technology. These shortcomings were immediately apparent to Andrea Costanza ’85, who, with her husband James, is one of the charter members of the Nucleus Fund Committee.

“Coming back on campus and seeing the difference between what my own children have at their schools and the cramped conditions and antiquated facilities here at Nazareth really convinced me of the necessity of this initiative,” she says.

But beyond its bricks-and-mortar deficiencies, this 1920s building simply does not lend itself to the pedagogies being used to teach these subject areas today. It’s a static environment, when, in fact, the teaching of math and science today calls for something far more fluid.

A Culture of Excellence Nazareth has always been known for efforts to integrate studies in the liberal arts with professional programs. “In this way we educate students so that they gain abilities to analyze

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complex situations, solve problems effectively and ethically, and negotiate many types of situations and environments in an increasingly complex world,” says Dooley. In the areas of mathematics and science, learning is particularly predicated on effective inquiry and evidencebased practice.

“Our clinicians have to engage in scientific thinking—developing hypotheses, testing what they’re doing, and drawing conclusions,” says Shirley Szekeres, Ph.D., dean of the School of Health and Human Services. “This new facility will help give students the good foundation they need to become a better clinician, a better therapist—the kind of therapist you’re going to want if you are recovering from an injury.”

The new math and science center is being designed to promote interdisciplinary learning that is highly collaborative in nature. There will be spaces that can accommodate small groups who go off on their own to work on a project. “I’ve always found Nazareth to be highly collaborative,” says Szekeres. “Now we want to really build teams across borders for a truly interdisciplinary education. That’s not always easy to achieve. In some larger colleges, the various units are located far away from each other and it’s much harder to bring them

together. But here at Nazareth, with the new center, everything will be geared to make that happen.”

Can this ambitious $32 million project take hold in this economy? It’s a tall order, but the time is right. “The opportunity exists and there’s such a need,” says Nazareth Trustee Thomas Wilmot Sr., chairman of the board at Wilmorite Management Group and a key member of the Nucleus Fund Committee.

Wilmot believes that the recent passage of the health care reform bill is another factor that spells success for this undertaking. “It may take a while for people to understand all the changes that come with this new law,” he says. “But ultimately we are bound to see an increased demand for health care services.”

Nazareth’s culture of excellence also spells success for the campaign. “We’ve got great administrators who are managing the college conservatively and with obvious fiscal responsibility,” says Andrea Costanza. “We’ve got the programs and the students. Now all we need is the facility to tie it together and push us onto the next level.”

James Costanza shares his wife’s confidence.

“Great ideas require great people,” he says, “and Nazareth has an abundance of both.”

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A Game-Changing Building The new Integrated Center for Math and Science will feature 14 teaching laboratories and eight high-tech research laboratories, along with offices, classrooms, and complete wireless access.

The building will be fully green—in fact, it is hoped that it will be designated at least a silver and perhaps a gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building, signifying that it has adhered to certain environmentally sustainable standards.

“There will be glassed-in spaces and lots of flexible furniture and work-space design, facilitating communication,” says Dooley.

“There will even be a greenhouse that can be used for a developing horticultural therapy program shared by liberal arts and health and human services faculties and their students— a relatively new discipline proven to be beneficial for clients who have had strokes or traumatic brain injury or who suffer from some forms of mental illness.”

The building will also be a boon for those pursuing the newest health and human services major: occupational therapy, planned for 2011. “Occupational therapists have to understand how the body moves, because

the development of scientifically literate citizens with informed opinions on key national policy issues, such as health policy,” she says.

The new math and science center will support research projects by faculty and enable them to attract grants more easily. It will allow Nazareth to recruit the best faculty and students, increasing the College’s competitiveness, as the vast majority of graduates in health and human services and education remain in the Rochester area after graduation.

Above all, the new Integrated Center for Math and Science will confirm Nazareth’s identity as an institution fully committed to community service and to learning through service. “From the College’s standpoint, the center will enhance our ability to continue Benefits for All to do what we do so well,” says Braveman.

“And from a national standpoint we will Perhaps most importantly, the new math address the critical need to ready our young and science center will influence future genpeople to become tomorrow’s scientists, erations of thinkers in our community, state, and nation. “The center will highlight science mathematicians, teachers, and allied health as a way of knowing,” says Glander. “Science professionals.” is a means to solving problems. So the more For more information on the campaign, we can prepare people to have that kind of please visit www.forcollegeandcommunity.org. disposition the better off we will all be.”

Szekeres agrees. “Since all students are required to take a science course, the facility Alan Gelb is a freelance writer in Albany, and the philosophy underlying it will support New York.

they are going to work in hand rehabilitation and with upper extremity movements,” says Szekeres. “They have to know a lot about technology because they’re going to adapt technology for individuals who have disabilities. Now, with the new center, these majors will have the all-important opportunity in the cadaver labs to explore inside and really see how it all fits together.”

As in other areas of K-12 teaching, the methods and materials in science and mathematics instruction are changing rapidly, adds Glander. “Our new facility will help to ensure that our teacher education students are familiar with these innovations and are ready to navigate these changes in K-12 schools.”

Steve and Lynn Natapow Although they are both Rochester natives, Steve and Lynn Natapow grew up without any real awareness of Nazareth College. It wasn’t until their son Kevin ’97 and daughter Kerri ’93 became students at Nazareth that the College came firmly onto their radar—and there it has stayed ever since. Steve, who is the principal of Natapow Management Group, a commercial and residential real estate firm, joined the Board of Trustees in 1991 and served as president from 2000 to 2005. Lynn has been active on the Parents Committee and has even enrolled in courses on campus.

“Nazareth is a wonderful, supportive place for young adults to make friends and get a quality education,” says Lynn. “The ethos of community service at Nazareth not only makes our students stronger citizens, but also makes them stronger internally,” Steve adds.

During his presidency, Steve was instrumental in acquiring land from the Sisters of St. Joseph, which dramatically expanded the campus plant. He and Lynn now see the new Math and Science Center as the crucial next step in the College’s development.

“We need this new resource to stay in tune with the economy,” says Steve. “I feel very confident about our ability to make this happen because I know how important this is to Nazareth and to the future of our society.”

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Dear Fellow Alumni,

T

ime is a funny thing. Weekends never seem long enough and Mondays always feel like an eternity. Sunny summer months in Rochester only last the blink of an eye while gray, dreary winter months stretch on and on and on. What is considered old to some may be brand new to others. Consider this: Nazareth College was founded in 1924 but, amazingly, 75% of our alumni population graduated in the ’80s, ’90s, or ’00s. So what does that mean?

It means we have a relatively young alumni population. Isn’t 40 the new 30? The alumni office needs to keep its methods of communication current and relevant accordingly.

My undergraduate degree at Nazareth was in English literature. I learned, along with my classmates, the principle of KISS. (If you were a math major, my apologies. You can Google it.) So how does that translate to what I am doing now? Well, Nazareth alumni can learn about campus news and events by joining our fan page on Facebook, by following us on Twitter, or by signing up for our online community. We want to keep it simple for you to know what is going on and why you should care. The College is constantly reaching out to the community, and we want you to maintain your connection to your alma mater.

If you graduated within the last decade, you are a GOLD alum—quite literally a Graduate of the Last Decade. As a GOLD alumna myself, I am working with a volunteer council of recent graduates to plan and promote targeted events, solicitation, and communication to reach this younger audience. So far, we have had several successful networking events, happy hours, sporting events, Arts Center receptions, and a great turnout at Reunion Weekend (btw, what happens at a mixer in the Cab, stays at a mixer in the Cab!).

Next on the agenda: working with our own faculty and career services staff to provide even more professional development and networking opportunities for alumni in the future. I would love to hear from you with your ideas and insights. You can e-mail me at mwright7@naz.edu or call me at 585-389-2471.

Remember, time’s a-ticking.

Best regards,

Mimi M. Wright ’05 Assistant Director, Nazareth College Office of Alumni Relations

Event Highlights The alumni office offers stimulating events year-round to engage not only alumni in the community, but current students, faculty, staff, and even future Nazareth alumni. Recently we welcomed Dr. Pat Lyons ’63 back on campus, and she spoke to an enthusiastic group of Pre-Med Club students. The alumni office also hosted more than 400 alumni, family, and friends at our fifth annual Golden Flyer Egg Hunt on a beautiful spring day. Children of all ages were able to scoop up prizes off the lawn and share their Easter excitement with the Golden Flyer himself. Keep up to date on future events by checking out alumni.naz.edu!

Let the egg hunt begin!

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A utumn A lumni A ctivities A bound Celebrate Naz Day September 24 This annual occasion marks the founding of Nazareth College in 1924. Pull out your favorite purple and gold sweatshirts, T-shirts, or hats and honor the tradition, the pride, and the ties that bind all Naz alumni together!

Events are planned throughout the coun- Chris Owen Heisman ‘74, Eileen Flannery Finnegan ‘74, and Mary Armbruster ‘74 raised their glasses try to commemorate this special day—look and their voices in celebration of their alma mater on Celebrate Naz Day last year. for one near you at alumni.naz.edu.

Can’t make any of the events? Snap photos of you and your friends showing off your Nazareth loyalty at work, at play, at home, or out and about and send them to alumni@naz.edu. We want to see how many grads can come together and celebrate their alma mater. Long live the Golden Flyers!

Annual Alumni Legacy Luncheon September 25 Alumni parents and grandparents and their children or grandchildren who are current Nazareth students are invited to this special luncheon honoring continued commitment to a Nazareth education. Advance registration is required. Please call the Office of Alumni Relations at 585-389-2472 or register online at alumni.naz.edu.

Amy Gallo ’13 and her mother, Cindy Sawdey Gallo ’84, swap stories of Nazareth College life over lunch.

Athletics Alumni Weekend September 24 and 25 Golden Flyers Golf Tournament The eighth annual Golden Flyer Golf Tournament, held at Greystone Golf Club on Friday, September 24, will benefit Nazareth’s student athletes. For more details and to register for the tournament, visit alumni.naz.edu/golf2010.

16th Annual Sports Hall of Fame

Craig Law and Chris Law ’10 at last year’s golf tournament.

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Nazareth will honor some of the best ever to don the purple and gold at its 16th annual Sports Hall of Fame induction dinner on Saturday, September 25 in the Otto A. Shults Center Forum. More than 80 alumni, coaches, and administra-

tors, along with three national championship teams, have been inducted into the Hall of Fame over the years. For more details, including a list of this year’s inductees and to register for the ceremony, visit alumni.naz.edu.

Alumni Games Fans and hecklers alike are welcome as athletes relive those glory days with teammates and friends on Saturday, September 25. Games include men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s basketball, and more. For more details, visit alumni. naz.edu.

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Alumni Board President Nancy Griffin Shadd ’64 presents Nazareth President Daan Braveman with a $202,989 donation check from the honored Reunion classes.

Lucia Vetter Unger ’35, the oldest alumna to attend this year’s Reunion, receives a round of applause.

The Class of 1960 marks their 50th anniversary.

Save th e date fo r Reunio n 2011!

June 35 Alumnas Amanda Gebo ’05, Katie Palange Tesoriero ’05, and Amanda Bowers Lundberg ’05 celebrate their fifth anniversary.

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Nazareth’s 5K Sprint for Scholarships took runners on a course all over campus.

Karen Libby Franklin ’70 wears her Naz gear with pride.

Andrea Rivoli Costanza ‘85 celebrates her Outstanding Alumni Award for 2010. Left to right: Corrine Trainor ‘85, Lynn Fox ‘85, John O’Gorman ‘85, ‘90G, Lisa Orrico Karl ‘85, ‘89G, John Karl ‘87, Susan Willison Maddamma ‘86, ‘94G, Kathy Domenici Kline ‘85, Costanza, Leslie Elliot Vechiotti ‘85, and Jud Speer ‘85.

Kevin Laley ’06 and Nikki Bell ’07 enjoy a welcome back fiesta in the Kidera Gym.

Nazareth Alumni-in-Training provided motorized campus tours.

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Founders Society Carolyn Krebs Thomson ’55 is celebrating her 55th Reunion and is excited to give back to the College through a planned gift. “The core values I developed during my four years at Nazareth have sustained me for more than a half a century!” she says. “I’ve always appreciated Nazareth and the education I received there, and I’m happy to contribute to keeping a Nazareth education available for current and future students through my bequest.”

“Each bequest is critical to Nazareth,” explains President Daan Braveman. “During the past 10 years, the College has received in excess of $14 million from more than 65 estate gifts from alumni and friends. Gifts of all sizes have the power to be transformational. The unrestricted estate gifts we receive this coming year will help us build the new Integrated Center for Math and Science.” (Read about the new building on page 30.)

“More and more alumni and friends are interested in learning about planned giving and want information at their fingertips,” says Melissa Head, associate director of planned giving. “In response we launched a new interactive planned giving website and e-newsletter offering valuable resources and planning tools for every life stage online.”

For more information on planned giving, visit go.naz.edu/ plannedgiving.

Founders Society members Carolyn Krebs Thomson ’55, Dr. Joan Ewing ’55, and Dr. Deborah Dooley ’75, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, at the Founders Society luncheon held during Reunion Weekend 2010.

What is planned giving?

When you include the College in your future plans through creating a life income gift such as a charitable gift annuity or charitable remainder unitrust, or by naming Nazareth as a beneficiary of your will, retirement plan, or life insurance policy.

What is the Founders Society?

Bruce Woolley, former director of financial aid; Mary Soons McCarty ’88; Kelly Gagan, vice president of institutional advancement; and Dr. William Lammela, professor of chemistry.

A planned giving recognition society whose members are crucial to advancing the long-term goals of Nazareth. The College honors members each year at a luncheon. Throughout the year, members receive special invitations to attend Nazareth events as well as recognition in our annual report.

Luncheon guests Isabelle Sciscioli Scalise ’55 and Effie Lancaster Clarke ’55 learn about Founders Society benefits.

To become a member of the Founders Society, contact Melissa Head, Associate Director for Major Gifts and Planned Giving, at 585-389-2179.

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M e mb e r s

Mrs. Nancy Riggs Albert ’48

Kathleen A. Colliflower ’74

Ms. Ann D. Gardner ’78

Ms. Mary Grace Lodico ’57

Mark & Rita Allen ’56

Angelo F. & Angela Y. Coniglio

Mr. & Mrs. Dean Gelsomini ’89

Mrs. Barbara Olmstead Long ’66

Ms. Shirley Moorhead Reichert ’50

Mrs. Patricia Morris Allen ’54

Mrs. Elizabeth Rossney Conley ’50

Ms. Martha Gersbach ’60

Gar & Cindy Lowenguth ’73

Ms. Maimie V. Reitano ’51

Mike & Jenny Medden Giessler ’95

Geraldine Schwartz Lyons ’49

Mrs. Rita Schledorn Conlin ’38

Virginia Gould Reynaud, M.D. ’44

Ms. Pauline V. Angione ’66

Elizabeth Connaughton ’53

Susan Gray Goldberg ’81

Richard & June K. Mangan ’64

Mr. & Mrs. Oliver G. Appleton ’50

RoseMary & David Cook

Mr. Donald P. Goodman

Dr. Kay F. Marshman

Mr. & Mrs. Louis Corsiglia

Ms. Marie C. Baglio ’57

Ms. Judith B. Marx ’62

Ms. Marie A. Barbi ’82

James & Andrea Rivoli Costanza ’85

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Greenstein ’58

Miss Carol A. Barrett ’63

Ms. Nicole M. Crandall ’00

Dorothy J. Gullen ’61

Mrs. Josephine Boyer Barrow ’34

Mr. & Mrs. Glen D. Cubitt ’50

Mrs. Joan Stein Hacker ’63

Ms. Mary Bartholomew ’50

Mary Jane & Joseph Culotta ’43

Ms. Mary Teresa Battista ’75

Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Curran ’67

Mrs. Christine Conley Hadsell ’86

Mrs. Jean Kelly Bayer ’48

Mr. & Mrs. John G. Curran ’60

Dr. Mary Rappazzo Hall ’63

Dr. Ann Gilbert McDonald ’61

Marcia G. & Richard J. Beck ’66

John & Beatrice Heberger ’67

Charlotte Eastham McFadden ’63

Mr. Raymond C. Bell

Ms. Ann Marie O’Brien Cutting ’49

Drs. John & Rose Marie Beston

Ms. Angela D. D’Andrea ’75G

Anne Collins Blanchard ’64

Miriam P. Keegan Dean ’75G

Bridgette Hobart ’84 & Robert Janeczko

Ms. Catherine M. Bookey ’73

Ms. Rosalyn DellaPietra ’58

Dr. Robert P. Boucher

Mr. & Mrs. James Ditzel ’79

Mrs. Mildred C. Boylan ’42

Ms. Mary Anne Doane ’68

Joyce Kozuch Brannon, Ph.D. ’64

Dr. Deborah A. Dooley ’75

Mrs. Rosalie Vasile Brennan ’70

Ms. Mary Margaret Dutcher ’49

Bonnie-Anne Briggs ’69

Mrs. Jerry Vandewater Elliott ’43

Miss Mary Lou Broderick ’54

Hon. & Mrs. William Ellison ’50

Mr. & Mrs. Allan J. Brown ’50

Mr. & Mrs. William L. Ely ’81

Ms. Mary V. Brown

Ms. Mary Sue Engle

William & Anne S. Buckingham ’63

Dr. Joan R. Ewing ’55

Dr. Mary T. Bush ’51 Ms. Sarah D. Cali ’50

David R. Ferris ’74 & Anne Carpenter Ferris

Ms. Stasia J. Callan ’66

Maureen Bell Field ’65

Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. Cameron ’52

Miss Angela Fina ’59

Paul & Lisa Gifford Campbell ’88

Marcia R Flugsrud-Breckenridge ’61 & Dr. David E. Breckenridge

Mrs. Gloria Barbaro Anderson ’72

Mrs. Carolyn Civiletti Canzano ’55 & Mr. Peter J. Canzano Mrs. Florence P. Capo ’51

Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Dumas ’75

Mrs. Rosemarie Lucks Feerick ’48

Mrs. Barbara Lyons Florack ’86G

Dr. & Mrs. Paul Francis ’89

Dr. Ruth A. Gudinas ’53

Lina Brownell Hill ’51

Ms. Roselinde Mandery

Richard & Ann Matzek Bernice Foery Maxwell ’41 Mary Soons McCarty ’88 Mrs. Lois Howe McClure ’75 Dr. Shirley Ross McCracken ’59

Dr. & Mrs. Henry A. McGinnis ’46

Ms. Patricia A. Rockwell ’63 Kathleen E. Rourke ’75 Mrs. Margaret Gervais Rowe ’59 Joan & Jim Ryan ’54 Ms. Beverly J. Salen ’50 Ruth Kennedy Scherberger ’48 Kathleen M. Schueler ’51 Mrs. Margaret M. Scott ’46 Ms. Christine O’Neil Scrivens ’73 Msgr. William H. Shannon Mr. & Mrs. Robert Slocomb ’51 Ms. Kathleen A. Smith ’65

Miss Mary J. McInerney ’37

Sheila Smyth & Mike Heberger ’64

Mrs. Mary Randall McMahon ’66

Mr. & Mrs. James Stefaniak ’82

Richard S. & Marion L. Merrill

Ann C. Stehle ’43

Jeanette Yoerger Holleran ’48

Mr. & Mrs. David Metz

Fred & Marcia Strauss

Ellen G. Horovitz

Ms. Mary Jean Meyering ’51

Mrs. Barbara Perkins Stuart ’87

Jean Gramkee Hubsch ’68

Drs. Paul & Francena Miller

Ms. Betty M. Sullivan ’43

Ms. Joanne A. Hume-Nigro

Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Miller

Carolyn Krebs Thomson ’55

Ms. Elizabeth Tupacz Imes ’69

Mrs. Marie Kirk Mintz ’46

Patricia J. Tracy ’63

Ellen Dawn Dillon Jewell ’49

Margaret Mattern Mitchell ’52

Ms. Mary Lou Trau ’83A

Kathryn A. Kanka ’49

Ms. Kathleen G. Mock ’69

Mr. & Mrs. James J. Keavney ’51

Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Murrer ’46

Neil & Michelle Ludwig Treger ’83

William & Edna Keefe ’44

Ms. Anne T. Nary ’57

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Kelbley

William & Kathryn Nass

Ms. Loretta G. Kercher ’39

Steve & Lynn Natapow

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Trompeter ’48A

Judith Nientimp Kharbas ’60

Nancy Smith Nothnagle ’68

Mrs. Marion Fischer Tucker ’43

Ms. Geralyn A. Kidera

Ms. Therese I. O’Brien ’50

Mr. & Mrs. John M. Turturro ’66

Richard & Helen Martin Klaver ’57

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. O’Connor ’49

Ms. Marie J. Van Ness ’62

Irene Theresa Kocak ’49

Ms. Elizabeth J. O’Leary ’48

Jane Y. Koenen ’52

Ms. Helen C. O’Leary ’48

Mrs. Jane Meng Kohl ’41

Mrs. Maurita Hayes Oot ’48

Mr. & Mrs. William B. Konar

Dr. Paul F. Pagerey

Marianne Cuddy WattersRodrigu ’58

Mrs. Dolores Gruchmann Hofmann ’59 & Mr. Ronald F. Hofmann

John & Pamela Ritch Trompeter ’80

Margaret & Louis Van Parys ’64 Mary Ellen Dwyer Vasile ’68 Ms. Virginia S. Vesty ’49

Ms. Jean A. Cappellino ’46

Ms. Sandra Schoenlein Fraser ’75

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Carey

Prof. Jon E. Freckleton, P.E. ’86G

Nancy Dineen Kram ’43

Mr. Mark J. Palazzo ’83

Ms. Mary K. Weis 41

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Freitas ’59

Mr. David Kuhner

Dr. Vivian A. Palladoro ’56

Ms. Wendy J. White ’73

Ms. Deborah Guard Friar ’73

Mrs. Patricia O’Grady Kuhrt ’45

Dr. Paula Satterly Childs ’70

Dr. Margaret A. Frisch ’56

Ms. Sandra A. Lafarnara ’91

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald M. Paradies ’55

Henry & Nancy Wordell Willard ’82

Ms. Penny Cunningham Ciaburri ’78

Betty Turner Fromel ’45A

Ms. Alicia C. Lamphron ’70

Ms. Kathleen A. Parker ’65

Kelly & Dennis Gagan

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory M. Williams ’76

Jennie Ciak ’48

Mrs. Anna Flechuck Gallagher ’50

Mrs. Jeanette Martino Land ’58 & Mr. John R. Land

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Parker ’65

Joan Mascaro Caruso ’67 Rev. Lee P. Chase ’85

Catherine E. Clark ’48 Ms. Susan E. Close ’64 Clarisse Martens Coggins ’43 Ms. Margaret R. Colacino ’51 Mr. Jason R. Collier ’00

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James & Barbara Foos Gallagher ’57 Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Gangarosa ’46

Mrs. Eileen McGee Pestorius ’61 & Dr. F. Michael Pestorius

Mr. & Mrs. Roger Wilson ’76G

Mrs. Judy Finn Pettit ’61

Ms. June D. Yeager ’72

Mrs. Joan McCormack Lathan ’54

Eileen Smyntek Pinto ’66

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Young ’69

John & Kathy Purcell

Dale & Patricia Guider Young ’67

Ms. Anna Stahl Lidfeldt ’41

Mrs. Mary Tierney Rafferty ’48

Ms. Carol P. Zengerle ’81

Mrs. Sharon Coughlin Lapoint ’70

Dr. Bruce C. Woolley

Paul & Judy Wilmot Linehan ’76

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CLASS|notes ’60s Judith Otto ’65, Eng., is active in the climate change initiative Sustainable Belmont, for which she writes a monthly newspaper column for the Belmont (Mass.) Citizen-Herald.

’70s Nancy L. E. Andrews ’70, Soc., was honored by The State University of New York Career Development Organization with emeritus status at their 33rd Annual Conference.

Andrews served as director of career development at Corning Community College for 15 years and retired in June 2009 with 38 years of service as an administrator. Hallmarks of her leadership in career development included the establishment of a computer career planning lab/mini-library for students and the development of career planning courses in many areas, including field experience. Andrews holds

degrees and graduate level certificates from Cornell University, Claremont (Calif.) Graduate School, Elmira College, Nazareth College, and Corning Community College. She was honored by the New York State Senate in 2004 with a Woman of Distinction award and is a recipient of the prestigious SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service.

Dennis Fleisher ’73, Music, served on the renovation design team for Rochester’s Sacred Heart Cathedral renovation several years ago. The renovation project and design team were just awarded a 2009 International Faith & Form Religious Architecture Award from IFRAA (Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art & Architecture), a special interest group of the AIA (American Institute of Architects). Fleisher finds this rewarding not only because Rochester is his hometown, but also because he often played trumpet at the Cathedral during his Rochester years.

Fleisher also served as a musician for the installation mass for Bishop Matthew Clark in 1979, and he believes

receiving this award in Bishop Clark’s 30th anniversary year as bishop of the Diocese of Rochester is a crowning moment in his career as an acoustician for liturgical spaces.

Joana Popolizio Finger ’74, Theater, has joined the Mount Pleasant office of Agent Owned Realty as an agent. Finger has a master’s degree from the State University of New York at Albany and has more than 30 years of teaching experience.

Mary Anne Beyer Tweed ’74, ’76G, Music, had her poetry book Heart Reflections and Other Love Beads published by Xlibris. The book, which includes her drawings and photos, features life and love poems written when she was 16 in the 1960s and after her bout with cancer in 2002.

Kathleen E. Rourke ’75, Eng., received the Tompkins County American Red Cross Volunteer of the Month award for December 2009.

Rourke started her volunteer career as a Red Cross driver taxiing volunteers from Nazareth to Williamson schools to help elementary students improve

their reading skills. The assignment provided a great launching point for her future volunteer efforts with the American Red Cross.

Renee Scialdo Shevat ’77, Psy., was recently honored at the CICU (Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities) 2010 Alumni Hall of Distinction Awards Ceremony. One of 33 graduates of independent colleges and universities throughout New York State who were honored, Shevat was selected for her contributions to New York State’s economy and the connections she has made between higher education and economic development. Shevat is currently the president of Herkimer Diamond Mines and two related wholesale businesses. In addition, she has developed a new marina at the Herkimer Thruway exit and is the owner and president of Unlocked Legends. Shevat serves on the

Nazareth alumni gathered August 2, 2009, for the wedding of Kimberly Nellist ’05 and Derek Ortiz ’07 at Heron Hill Winery in Hammondsport.

Front, left to right: Lindsay Pendleton Baker ’07,’08G, the bride, the groom, Katie Gall Muratore ’05, Jennifer Dahm ’08, Lauren Fuqua, Sarah Ortiz Pragle ’03,’04G. Back: Timothy Baker ’07, Thomas Mitchell ’06, Matthew Muratore ’06, Daniel Paganin ’06, Josh Nellist ’02, Chris Pragle ’04.

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Jen Dapolito ’05 and Nick Ganster were married August 22, 2009, with plenty of Nazareth alumni in attendance.

Left to right: Sloane Dill ’07, Lizzie Walsh ’08, Cristina Calvano ’06, Tara Mahoney ’05, Jenna Grattan ’06, ’09G, Sara Steenberg Bergan ’07, Margie Bowen ’06, the bride, the groom, Heather Nichols McGuire ’06, Ben McGuire, Mollie Dapolito ’06, Alex Dapolito ’08.

Cobleskill Regional Hospital Board of Trustees and the State University of New York Statewide Strategic Planning Committee; she is also vice president to the Friends of Bassett and secretary to the Upstate New York Tourism Alliance Board of Directors.

’80s Kathleen Sauer Crook ’85, Bus. Adm., and her business partner Nancy Montone own PiNK, a specialty retailer of unique imported furniture, home decor, fine jewelry, linens, and more.

Now in its seventh year, PiNK is located on Pine Street in East Aurora. Following graduation from Nazareth, Crook went on to earn an M.B.A. from the University of Buffalo. She previously worked with Chase Manhattan Bank, Goldome Bank, and also owned her own interior design firm.

Brenda Dupee Sanchez ’88, Comp.

Info. Systems, is a major in the United States Air Force Reserves stationed at Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Her husband Mike is a criminal investigator with the State of Colorado Department of Corrections in Colorado

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These Nazareth alums, all teachers, met for a vacation and mini reunion in Paris.

Pictured in front of the Eiffel Tower are (left to right) Samantha Finocchiaro ’08, ’09G, Beth Oustrich ’08, Kaytie Krapf ’08, ’10G, and Vittoria Souquet Lucente ’08, who lives and teaches in France.

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Springs. They have four children: Justin Anthony Miles (16), Kirstin Marie Miles (18), Jason Michael Sanchez (24), and Lisa Marie Sanchez (28).

Joseph James Miceli ’89, Art, was named one of NICHE magazine’s Top Retailers of 2009. The Top Retailer Awards program recognizes craft retailers who are committed to fair business practices and to growing and strengthening the North American craft community. Top Retailers are often mentors who work hard to build and maintain good relationships with emerging and established artists.

’90s Paul Richardson ’92, ’95G, Hist., has published a book just for parents titled The $52.00 Pizza, which describes how and when to teach money concepts to children.

Marc A. Sorbello ’92, Bus. Adm., is presently serving as the deputy supply officer for Western Iraq with SEAL Team 1. Sorbello was commissioned in the Navy Reserves in 2007 and was recently promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade. He completed Navy Supply

Corps School in Athens, Ga., in June 2009.

Sean Ferrell ’94, Philos., just had his first novel, Numb, published by HarperCollins. Numb is the story of a man who wanders into a circus with no memories and discovers he lacks the ability to feel pain. His “talent” leads him from the circus to fame and fortune, and he learns the easiest path is not necessarily the best. Ferrell is the son David Ferrell, the recently retired head of Nazareth’s theater department and director of the Arts Center, and Priscilla Ferrell, a former lecturer for the School of Education.

Luis Angel Perez ’94, Soc. Wk., received the Ibero American Action League/Alicia Torres Award, which embodies an unwavering commitment to serving Latinos, and also the United Way Circulo Latino Community Leadership Award, which honors his long-term commitment to serving Latinos in the Greater Rochester area and exemplifying the call to “Live United.”

Michael Sterling ’95, Hist., recently received a diploma of Financial Services: Risk Management from the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance. He also recently served as Acting Manager, Economic Development for Latrobe City Council, Victoria, Australia, after which he returned to his normal role as Manager, Legislative Compliance for the same organization.

Kevin Natapow ’97, Asian Stu., and his wife Jenny are co-owners and operators of Momentum, a boutique in Boulder, Colo. The store carries an array of fairly traded products, each of which is crafted by the human hand, tells a story, and provides employment opportunities for artisan groups around the world. Open since July 2007, Momentum was recently featured on The Moment: Local Action, Global Change, a television show devoted to good news.

Leah Flynn ’98, Soc., presented a paper titled “From Hook-ups to Headaches: Theorizing the Emotional Labor of College Women’s Sexual DecisionMaking” at the Gender and Education Conference at the University London, London, UK, in March 2009. The

paper is part of the dissertation on which she is currently working at Syracuse University.

’00s Erin Hall Bastedo ’05, Hist., moved to Tampa, Fla., in September 2009 to begin her teaching career at East Bay High School. She teaches remedial reading courses and special education math. Bastedo says she misses her friends in New York but does not miss shoveling all that snow!

Monique Nicastro ’05, Eng. Lit., has been teaching EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Korea at a public high school for two years. In addition, she also attained her TESOL certification.

Ryan Hotaling ’07, Bus. Adm., a former men’s lacrosse All-American, is currently playing professionally with the Boston Blazers of the National Lacrosse League.

Caitlin Kelly Love ’07, Psy., received her M.A. in Sport and Exercise Psychology from McGill University in Montreal. She has started her doctoral work at McGill in Pedagogy and Sport

Heather Nichols ’06 married Ben McGuire in June 26, 2009, joined by Nazareth friends and family.

Left to right: Cristina Calvano ’06, Sara Steenberg ’07, Jeremy Bergan ’07, Cindi Cherko Mara ’74, Nancy Beattie Nichols ’74, Mollie Dapolito ’06, Justin Fladd ’06, Sara Shipley Gustafson ’06, Tricia Jones ’05, the groom, the bride, Kevin McMahon ’06, Jenna Grattan ’06,’09G, Tara Mahoney ’05, Matt Groot ’06, Jennifer Dapolito ’05, Sloane Dill ’07.

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Sara Steenberg ’07 married Jeremiah Bergan ’07 on July 10, 2009, in Syracuse, amidst crowds of Nazareth alumni.

Left to right: Gavin Thomas ’06, Shelly Moerschel, Alex Gotsch ’08, Ben Kabat ’07, Leanna Santorio ’08, Eli Widrick ’08, Tara Mahoney ’05, Amanda DeMaria ’07,’10G, Mike Deichmiller ’06, Jen Dapolito ’05, Mollie Dapolito ’06, Jared Millbrandt ’06, Matt Elliot ‘06, the groom, the bride, Sloane Dill ’07, Ryan Hotaling ’07, Sara Shipley Gustafson ’06, Heather Nichols McGuire ’06, Kevelle Wild ’07,’09G, Katie Binns ’07, Alex Dapolito ’08, Patrick Keegan ’06, Karen Gozzi ’07, Nicki Stocking ’07, Lisa Arena ’07, Leah Bergan ’09,’11G, Jason Charno ’02G.

and Exercise Psychology. Love’s article on “Exploring the Links Between Physical Activity and Post-traumatic Growth in Young Adult Cancer Survivors” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Psycho-oncology.

Ryan MacIaszek ’07, Art, was a former defenseman on the Nazareth men’s lacrosse team. In February, he signed a professional contract with the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League.

Graduate Class Notes Valerie M. Snelgrove ’84G was awarded the Greece Athlete of the Year Award’s Lifetime Achievement for her 30-year coaching career at Greece Olympia High School, where her cheerleading program won two national, 15 sectional, and 14 county titles and where she was named National Coach of the Year. In May 2009, Snelgrove received the Greece Teachers’ Association Golden Apple Teacher of the Year award for Greece Central School District. She retired in June from

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teaching sixth grade science at Arcadia Middle School.

Deborah Carr Stamps ’01G was appointed the interim chief nursing officer for Newark-Wayne Community Hospital. She is also pursuing a doctorate in executive leadership from St. John Fisher College. Stamps is a member of the Finger Lakes Organization of Nurse Executives, New York Organization of Nurse Executives, Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society for Nursing, the Emergency Nurses Association, and is charter president of Chi Eta Phi Sorority.

Allison Marie Berical ’08G was accepted into the University of Rochester to obtain her Doctorate in Education (Ed. D.) in Teaching and Curriculum.

She plans to graduate in 2013.

Weddings Brenda Dupee Sanchez ’88 to Michael James Sanchez, July 25, 2009.

Joanna Brehaut to Jason Kufs ’96, Aug. 4, 2009.

Amy Washburn ’00, ’01G to James Bulmahn, Sept. 19, 2009.

Jill Dembeck ’03, ’06G to Thomas Lochner, Oct. 11, 2009.

Laurie Mae Koons ’04 to Gregory M. Donovan, Feb. 14, 2009.

Jen Dapolito ’05 to Nick Ganster, Aug. 22, 2009.

Heather Nichols ’06 to Ben McGuire, June 26, 2009.

Kerry Boyle to Michael Stumpf ’06G, July 4, 2009.

Sara Dankert ’07G to Benjamin Gross, Aug. 15, 2009.

Kimberly Nellist to Derek Ortiz ’07, Aug. 2, 2009.

Lindsay Pendleton ’07, ’08G to Timothy Baker ’07, Aug. 22, 2009.

New Arrivals Wendy Young Orosz ’96, a son, Charles MacGregor, Oct. 1, 2009.

Dr. Nicole Durie Walls ’00 and Franco Walls ’01, ’05G, a daughter, MacKenzie Elizabeth, Dec. 12, 2008.

Candice Clarke Brown ’01, a son, Gradyn Clarke, Jan. 15, 2009.

In Memoriam Dolores Edell Biglan ’34, Jan. 22, 2010.

Harriet M. Hoock ’34, Feb. 23, 2010.

Roberta Mykins Hoey ’40, Dec. 20, 2009.

Anna Stahl Lidfeldt ’41, Jan. 4, 2010.

Mary Brennan Weidenborner ’42, Jan. 3, 2010.

Betty Mulcahy Keenan ’44, Jan. 6, 2010.

Elizabeth Keller Presnal ’46, Dec. 5, 2009.

Martha Elizabeth Purcell ’60, Jan. 20, 2010.

Marian Cefali Petrosino ’62, Feb. 3, 2010.

Karen Gears Kusak ’64, Jan. 19, 2010.

Sheila Norton DeGraff ’75, ’77G, Nov. 21, 2009.

Nancie M. Pilato ’76G, Dec. 17, 2009.

Sharon Hellman Lockwood ’86, Dec. 17, 2009.

Barbara Veillard Cobb ’89, Jan. 21, 2010.

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Tell us about yourself and

win valuable prizes! “ C onnected fo r L i fe ” Alu m n i Contest Show us how your connection to Nazareth College helped you achieve your life goals (either professionally or personally) by completing this statement: “Because of Nazareth I am…”

Entries can be in the form of videos, essays, or photographs. Members of the alumni board will select finalists based on creativity, content, and “Naz appeal.” Winners will be chosen by you! All alumni can vote online for their favorite entry at alumni.naz.edu.

Grand Prize Two $300 airline gift cards

First Prize iPod Nano

Second Prize $50 Barnes & Noble gift certificate

Third Prize Naz gear

• Entries

must be postmarked or submitted by Friday, September 3.

•O pen voting for alumni will be September 8–September 20.

• All winners will be announced on Celebrate Naz Day, September 24.

For complete contest rules and submission instructions, please visit alumni.naz.edu/contest.

So Long, Naz Webmail— Hello, Google Apps!

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Nazareth College has recently partnered with Google to provide a co-branded e-mail solution for students and alumni. New Google mail (Gmail) accounts, which replace the existing webmail accounts, offer 7 GB mail quota; Google calendars, contacts, documents, and sites; and compatibility with leading mobile devices.

As of June 30, all new incoming mail began going to your new Gmail account, although webmail will continue to provide access to old mail. You can activate the new account by going to www.google. com/a/mail.naz.edu (this link is also at the bottom of the naz.edu home page). More questions? Visit Information Technology Services at www.naz.edu/dept/its/ or call the IT Service Desk at 585-389-2111.

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Annual flowers planted: 5,000 Flowering bulbs tended: 1,000 Acres of turf mowed: 80 Donors needed to keep Nazareth beautiful: All of us ifts to the Annual Fund provide Nazareth College with the resources necessary to freshen the campus grounds every spring. These numbers represent just a few of the thousands of ways your contributions are used to strengthen and improve the College. Your participation matters— support the Annual Fund and help Nazareth to tend its gardens.

To donate to the Annual Fund, make your gift online at www.naz. edu/makeagift. The Payment Option Plan lets you set up monthly installments for your gift. Please contact the Development Office at 585-389-2415 with any questions.

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Peter Pan Takes Flight in Renovated Theatre Rochester Children’s Theatre wowed audiences last spring with its high-flying production of Peter Pan. The Callahan Theatre’s new computerized stage fly system, installed during the Arts Center’s 2009 renovation, permitted easier manipulation of the show’s large, crew-intensive sets as well as installation of the essential equipment for its soaring aerial choreography. The Las Vegasbased company Flying by Foy provided flight instructions, so actors took to the air with confidence, says Bets Quackenbush, interim technical director at the Arts Center. “But without the theater’s renovations, we could not have flown Peter Pan.” Check out the upcoming season at www.naz.edu/artscenter/

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