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The Changing Face of Nazareth’s Career Ser vices

First introduced to global audiences through their collaboration with Paul Simon on Graceland!

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Nazareth College Arts Center | Saturday, February 26 at 8 p.m.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo represents the traditional culture of South Africa and is regarded as the country’s cultural emissary at home and around the world. They marry the intricate rhythms and harmonies of the South African vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube to the sounds and sentiments of Christian gospel music.

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Editor Robyn A. Rime Assistant Director, Publications and Creative Services Regular Contributors Jill Ambroz Julie Long Alicia Nestle Joe Seil Sofia Tokar Michelle Wright ’05

ConneCtionS Nazareth College

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The Classes Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G Photographer Alex Shukoff Contributing Photographers Kurt Brownell Kindra Clineff Jamie Germanow Gregory Lefcourt

Printing Cohber Press Director of Alumni Relations Kerry Gotham ’98 Vice President, Institutional Advancement Kelly E. Gagan Nazareth College President Daan Braveman, J.D. 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 Comments/story suggestions: Marketing and Communications— Publications e-mail: rrime7@naz.edu 585-389-5098 Name/address corrections: Office of Development e-mail: pwagner6@naz.edu 585-389-2415 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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Additional Contributors Robin L. Flanigan Alan Gelb Timothy Glander Lauren Recchia ’10

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News and Views

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Sports News

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Nazareth in the World

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Life of the Mind

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Interfaith Ideas

Michelle Van Slyke ’11 profile; athletic round-up.

Nazareth expands its connections to a fast-growing China.

Dean of Education Timothy Glander addresses troubling trends in teacher training.

Faculty, staff, and community members go Walking in the Footsteps of the Prophets.

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Photograph by Alex Shukoff

Nazareth’s career services offerings are keeping pace with the way people seek jobs nowadays. Connections examines the College’s expanded efforts to reach alumni with career assistance.

The latest news from the Nazareth campus.

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Beyond Self

The boutique owned by Kevin Natapow ’97 builds business the fair-trade way.

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Cover Story: The Changing Face of Career Services Nazareth College has begun supplementing its tradtional career services with additional campus-wide offerings.

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Statement of Activities

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Alumni News

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Class Notes

Operating revenues and expenses for the College during the past year.

Alumni profiles of Susan Hartnett ’77 and Dr. Margaret Frisch ’56; alumni award winners Andrea Rivoli Costanza ’85 and Andrew Opett ’00, ’01G.

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.

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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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College Introduces New Majors and Master’s Nazareth College added three new majors and two new master’s programs last fall.

B.S. in Graphics and Illustration

M.A. in American Studies

The graphics and illustration major combines studies in studio art with courses in graphic design, illustration, advertising, and web design.

It will interface with the communications and rhetoric program and collaborate with the School of Management’s marketing program.

“We encourage our students to be more adventurous and original by making their own images, then designing the page layout and typography,” says Kathleen Calderwood, associate professor of art, who co-directs the program with Catherine Kirby, also an associate professor of art. Calderwood, who founded the program 25 years ago as a studio art major with a concentration in graphics and illustration, adds that Nazareth “meshed various realms of graphic design, advertising, editorial design, fine art, illustration, and web design to prepare our graduates for every facet of this field.”

The master’s degree in American studies is offered in partnership with the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary. The new program explores the literature, music, history, politics, and culture of America and combines study in Central Europe with study in the United States. Program director Scott Campbell, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the philosophy department, says, “The field of American studies is popular in Hungary and Central Europe. Students will get a unique perspective on American culture, history, and literature from this experience.”

The degree advances academic and professional development of individuals who have studied some aspect of American history, language, literature, or culture and who are interested in deepening their understanding. It provides interdisciplinary study and preparation for those interested in education, government, or international service.

B.A. in Women and Gender Studies The women and gender studies major is an interdisciplinary program studying issues related to gender and sexuality in connection with class, religion, race, ethnicity, nation, and age. This new program builds on the previous minor and accommodates students seeking double majors and professional program certification. Graduates will be prepared to work in a range of professions, including those with a focus on social and economic justice, human rights, and advocacy.

“The approval of this major is a historic moment for Nazareth College and has generated lots of excitement from faculty and students as well as other women and gender studies programs in the region,” said Sekile Nzinga-Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the women’s studies program. “Nazareth’s initial mission to provide a college education for women has now evolved to include an interdisciplinary academic major that considers gender, sexuality, diversity, and equity as central in its teaching, scholarship, and its commitment to social justice.”

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“Corkey’s Diner,” a scratchboard illustration prepared for a class project by Kristen Palladino ’11, a graphics and illustration major.

B.S. in Marketing The marketing degree provides excellent preparation for entry-level positions in marketing communications, market research, public relations, and fields such as sales and customer service. The program focuses on an entrepreneurial perspective and a thorough understanding of the functional areas of business. Students develop the skills needed by marketing professionals: oral and written communication, social, technological, analytical and critical thinking, and cultural competency.

“Nazareth’s marketing degree helps students acquire knowledge of and sensitivity to the global environment and the economic, demographic, social, political, and psychological forces that shape the marketplace,” says Gerard Zappia, dean of the School of Management.

M.S. in Accounting The master’s in accounting is open to individuals holding a bachelor’s degree in accounting.

Students in the program learn the financial side of business and gain the social and analytical skills to identify and solve problems in a professional and ethical manner.

“Our graduates have a high job placement rate, and successful completion of the master’s program qualifies them to sit for the New York State C.P.A. exam,” says Phyllis Bloom, program director and associate professor of accounting.

“The graduate dimension of the accounting program provides more than additional technical skills,” adds Gerard Zappia, dean of the School of Management. “It helps students to develop the managerial and leadership skills for long-term success in any field.”

Explore all Nazareth’s degree programs at www.naz.edu.

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Braveman and Boucher Attend White House Conference

ast August, Nazareth College President Daan Braveman and Lynne Staropoli Boucher, director of the Center for Spirituality, were invited to attend a White House conference titled Advancing Interfaith and Community Service on College and University Campuses. “I believe we were included in this one day event because of the Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue at Nazareth College and the national conference Nazareth hosted in April to promote interfaith understanding,” says Braveman.

About a hundred representatives from schools and other organizations around the country attended the White House program, including keynote speaker Eboo Patel, executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago. The group developed ideas for advancing President Obama’s focus on interfaith service on campuses around the country. Says Braveman, “The underlying goals were to bring together people from different religious and humanistic beliefs to work on community service projects and to have those who participate not only provide assistance to local communities but also develop deeper understand-

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Nazareth College President Daan Braveman and Lynne Staropoli Boucher, director of Nazareth’s Center for Spirituality, pose by the White House.

ings about each other. As Patel noted, interfaith service assists in building bridges among people of all beliefs.”

At the conference, the group examined other past social movements on campuses to learn lessons about how to create a movement directed to interfaith service. Follow-up meetings will address the specific components necessary to create such

a movement at colleges and universities.

After the conference, Paul Knitter, professor of theology at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, wrote, “The most promising and the most urgent kind of inter-religious dialogue doesn’t begin with inter-religious conversations about what we believe; it begins with inter-religious collaboration about issues that concern us all. If we start there, if we can become friends in such solidarity of action, we will create the spaces of trust and respect in which we can, and will want to, talk about the beliefs that ground us and animate us in our efforts to serve.”

“The Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue at Nazareth College is taking a lead role in all aspects of promoting understanding among those from different religious and humanist backgrounds,” concludes Braveman. “President Obama’s interfaith service initiative can become an important part of the center’s work.”

Alumni Bring Home Emmys

wo of Nazareth’s talented alumni received Daytime Emmy Awards this summer from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Michael Park ’90 earned the Best Actor Emmy for his work as character Detective Jack Snyder on CBS’s daytime drama As the World Turns, which aired its last episode in September. Accepting the award, Park said, “I can’t think of a better way to say good-bye to a 13-year run on a 53-year-old show.” Before joining the cast of As the World Turns in 1997, Park starred in a national tour of Phantom of the Opera, as well as on Broadway (Smokey Joe’s Cafe) and off-Broadway.

Jack Allocco ’72 received two more Daytime Emmy Awards for Best Original Song for “An Angel’s Lullaby” on CBS’s The Young and the Restless and Outstanding Composition for The Bold and the Beautiful, making for a career total of five Emmys. Allocco also received an ASCAP Film and Television Award this year for Most Performed Underscore on Television. He is a composer, conductor, music producer, and director whose career spans television, film, and theater. This year, Allocco was nominated for four Emmy Awards for his work on The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.

To learn more about Allocco’s career and listen to his award-winning song, visit go.naz.edu/allocco.

Michael Park ’90 with his Best Actor Emmy. Photo by REUTERS/Steve Marcus.

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Bradley Honored by Golisano Foundation

azareth College is proud to announce that Mary Kay Bradley, assistant professor and speech-language pathologist in the department of communication sciences and disorders, has received the Golisano Foundation Leadership Award for Exemplary Health Care Services to Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.

The award was established to recognize and honor individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary work to expand access and improve health care services for people with Mary Kay Bradley developmental disabilities, and to change attitudes and raise awareness as to the gifts and talents of people with developmental disabilities.

“Bradley is an ideal recipient because of her devotion to the field. She typifies Nazareth’s long-standing commitment to promoting community engagement and preparing future clinicians to work with individuals with

developmental disabilities,” says Tom Golisano, founder and chair of the Golisano Foundation.

Bradley was honored for her roles as supervisor of speech-language therapy services at the College’s speech-language-hearing clinic and supervisor for the speech-language pathology graduate students at Kids Club, an after-school program at Nazareth College for children with physical or communication disorders. Bradley, who collaborates on the program with other professors and students in physical therapy, music therapy, and art therapy, hopes to grow Kids Club to include adults with special needs and even expand it into the summer months.

Bradley earned her master’s in speech-language pathology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and her bachelor’s in speech-language pathology and audiology from SUNY Fredonia. She has spent 10 years as a speech-language pathologist at the Mary Cariola Children’s Center in Rochester and during the last 16 years at Nazareth College, where she teaches courses that focus on assisting people with disabilities.

The award was presented during the 25th anniversary celebration of the Golisano Foundation last October at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Meeting the Challenge — Thanks to You Thanks to the generosity of Nazareth College’s alumni and friends, the College surpassed the Ewing Challenge’s goal of 5,500 donors to Nazareth. In fact, 6,071 alumni and friends contributed to the $100,000 challenge, sponsored by Joan Ewing ’55.

“I am thrilled at the wonderful response from my classmates, friends, and the many people who care about and support Nazareth College,” says Ewing. Many of the contributions to the Ewing Challenge will help support Donors to the Ewing Challenge received the Nazareth Fund. A common theme recognition on Nazareth’s tunnel walls. from Nazareth alumni is that they hope others can have access to the same Nazareth experience they had. With your help, many can. Giving to Nazareth means that you help fund scholarships, recruit and retain highly qualified faculty, improve library services, enhance technology, and upgrade buildings.

Your generous gift shows that Nazareth matters to you—and your help makes Nazareth matter to others.

For more information about how to support the College, visit www.naz.edu/ support-nazareth.

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An Interview with Actor Jean Reno Last summer, international film star Jean Reno spoke to students and the Rochester community about his film career and the craft of making movies.

Working in both French and English, he has appeared in numerous successful Hollywood productions such as The Pink Panther, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin, and The Professional.

He also has acted in European productions such as the French films Les Visiteurs and Léon (the French version of The Professional) along with the 2005 Italian film The Tiger and the Snow. Reno is life-long friends with Nazareth’s Candide Carrasco, Ph.D., professor and chair of the foreign languages and literatures department and himself an accomplished playwright. Reno caught the acting bug in one of Carrasco’s first plays in high school in Morocco.

Listen to an interview with Reno at go.naz.edu/reno.

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Moment in Chime

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by Lauryn Recchia ’10

azareth College has always prided itself on honoring tradition. For 35 years, the musical notes of the carillon have chimed from atop the tower of Smyth Hall, marking the time and, to the chagrin of some students, the start of class.

“They are one of the many things that make Naz, Naz,” says student Jessica Geraci ’11. “While I hardly ever hear them because they have become like background noise for me, when I do notice them, it’s comforting. It’s a reminder that I’m here at Nazareth—home.”

Donated by Kilian and Caroline Schmitt in 1975 in honor of Nazareth’s 51st birthday, the carillon is a mechanical chronobell. It produces 25 notes by way of tiny clappers that strike against metal tone generators.

These tones are then carried and amplified by a solid state amplifier to a speaker system in the Smyth Hall tower.

The sound produced is equal to the chiming of 56 tons of bronze bells.

“The chimes ring 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,” explains Cathy Stevens, administrative assistant to Nazareth College President Daan Braveman. “Neighbors like to hear them. When they are shut off for maintenance, we get calls asking why they are off.”

In 1982, the carillon was updated to play the Westminster chimes every half hour and hour. When the carillon was still new, music students played melodies at the noon hour on weekdays and for special occasions such as commencement.

The Smyth Hall carillon has its counterpart at the Golisano Academic Center. In 1930, before the College moved from the Augustine Street campus in the city of Rochester to its current home on East Avenue in Pittsford, the Sisters of St. Joseph had already installed a set of bells in the 125-foot belfry tower of the new motherhouse. These bells were rung from 1930 until 2003, when the building was sold to Nazareth College to become what is now the Golisano Academic Center. “Sisternovices living at the former motherhouse took turns ringing the Angelus (a prayer in honor of Our Lady) each day in a series of single-tone rings at 6 a.m., noon, and 6 p.m.,” details Dr. Marion Hoctor ‘54, S.S.J., professor emerita of English.

The bells in GAC consist of three bells ranging in weight from 400 pounds to 1,200 pounds. The bells are inscribed with individual names in honor of Mary (mother of Jesus). The largest bell bears the inscription Mater Generis Humani— Laudate Dominum Omnes Populi honoring Mary as “Mother of Mankind.” The middle bell is inscribed with Sedes Sapientiae to acknowledge Mary as the “Seat of Wisdom,” and the smallest bell is named Regina Pacis, or “Queen of Peace.”

The ringing of the College bells and chimes is, and forever will be, a cherished part of the Nazareth tradition. As the inscription on the Smyth carillon keyboard says, these wonderful sounds will continue to serve “the pleasure and enrichment of all who visit this campus.”

To learn more about Nazareth campus life, visit http://admissions.naz.edu/ campus-life/.

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Nazareth Wins National Nursing Award

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azareth College is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a recipient of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Award. The awards program recognized the outstanding work of AACN member schools to re-envision traditional models for nursing education and lead programmatic change. Innovation awards, including a monetary prize of $1,000, are given annually in four institutional categories: Small Schools; Academic Health Center (AHC); Private Schools without an AHC; and Public Schools without an AHC. Nazareth College received the 2010 award in the Small School category.

“The selection process was very competitive,” says Shirley Szekeres, Ph.D., dean of the School of Health and Human Services. “The College’s nursing faculty, under the leadership of Dr. Marie O’Toole, are to be highly commended.”

The award was presented at the AACN semiannual meeting in November in Washington, D.C. To learn more about the nursing program, visit go.naz.edu/nursing.

J. Christine Wilson Wins Woerner Kollmorgen Award Nazareth College is proud to honor J. Christine Wilson, philanthropist, community activist, and volunteer, as this year’s Woerner Kollmorgen Award recipient.

This annual ceremony and luncheon, which took place in November, recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the community, thereby improving the quality of life in the greater Rochester area.

While Wilson served as chair of the Board of Managers for the Marie C. & Joseph C. Wilson Foundation, the board spearheaded the establishment of Wilson Commencement Park (WCP) in 1992. WCP is a housing program with the mission of offering holistic support for low-income, single-parent families to become and remain economically and socially self-sufficient. That same year, Wilson initiated a small grassroots group to start a full-service grocery store in the Northeast sector of Rochester that is now known as Partners Through Food and is part of the Community Development Corporation.

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Wilson is a co-founder and a former board member of the Women’s Foundation of Genesee Valley.

Wilson currently serves on the boards of the Marie C. & Joseph C. Wilson Foundation, Greater Rochester Enterprise, and Monroe Community College Foundation. She is a past vice president of the board of trustees of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Mass.

Wilson has received numerous awards, such as the Rochester Women’s Network “W” Award, Women of Valor Award from the American Diabetes Association of Rochester, and the YWCA Women First Award, just to name a few. She attended the University of Rochester where she studied psychology and sociology. Prior to that, Wilson earned her associate’s degree from Pine Manor College, a liberal arts institution in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

The Nazareth College Woerner Kollmorgen award is made possible by a donation from Don H. Kollmorgen and Louise Woerner.

J. Christine Wilson, Woerner Kollmorgen Award recipient

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College Appoints New Trustees Nazareth College is pleased to announce that Dr. Cynthia ReddickLiDestri and Bridgette Hobart ’84 are the newest members of the Reddick-LiDestri College’s board of trustees.

Reddick-LiDestri is the director of wellness programs at LiDestri Foods, Inc. (formerly Cantisano Foods). Headquartered in Fairport, the company is a multi-million dollar spaghetti sauce and salsa business whose wellness program is critically acclaimed for its approaches to promote healthy lifestyles of employees. Prior to joining LiDestri Foods, Reddick-LiDestri was a clinical cardiologist and partner with a special interest in echocardiography and congestive heart failure with the Rochester Cardiopulmonary Group, P.C.

She has also served as the associate director of cardiology at Highland Hospital in Rochester. Reddick-LiDestri holds a B.S. degree in microbiology from Cornell University and is a graduate of the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center. She has served on numerous community boards, including the Medical Board of Rochester General Hospital and Via Health Women’s Initiative Cardiovascular Health Subcommittee. She currently is an active volunteer with the Simmons Youth Enrichment Center in Rochester and serves on the Board of the Worksite Health Alliance of Greater Rochester (WHAGR). Reddick-LiDestri and her husband John (Giovanni) reside in Rochester.

Hobart, who will serve as the alumni representative to the board, earned a B.S. in accounting from Nazareth and an M.S. in accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She has more than 20 years of professional experience in accounting, tax, and technology and is well versed in business processes and applications as well as knowledgeable about

Nazareth Professors Bring History to Life for Rochester Teachers

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he Nazareth College Department of History and Political Science will be working on history lessons with teachers in Rochester City School District (RCSD) thanks to a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-28) announced the grant last August, which will support an enhanced history curriculum for students in kindergarten through second grade with the RCSD’s project “Growing Up in America: A Historical Journey.”

Nazareth will work with other Rochester-based partners, including the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education, to construct the program’s core that will train more than 300 teachers to think like historians over the next five years. The program

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database structures. Hobart founded Paradigm Technology Consulting, LLC (PTC) in 1999; her primary role there is project implementation planning, integration Hobart ’84 design, and project management. Hobart also continues to hold the Nazareth College swimming record in the 1650 Freestyle with a time of 18:49.15, set in 1983. She and her husband, Robert Janeczko, reside in Lake Hopatcong, N.J., where Janeczko is the vice president for operations of Paradigm Technology Consulting.

Emeritus status was also approved and bestowed upon Eileen Pinto ’66 and Patricia Schoelles, S.S.J., at the June meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees.

will increase primary grade-level teachers’ understanding of key events, issues, and people in American history. The seminars aim to educate teachers to reach students by focusing on historical concepts familiar to children.

“A thorough understanding of what it means to be an American, and what that journey entails, is so important to prepare our children for their future success,” says Slaughter. “They must understand where they’ve come from to know where they are going.

I am so pleased that this investment will arm Rochester teachers with the knowledge and skills to prepare our next generation of leaders.”

In addition, teachers will receive training in the integration of historical artifacts into education by the Rochester Museum and Science Center, Strong National Museum of Play, Memorial Art Gallery, Genesee Country Village and Museum, and the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County.

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Dance Fest Enthralls Thousands

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y almost every measure, the Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival last July 10-17 was a roaring success.

Nearly 6,000 people, from newborns to grandparents, saw 13 companies deliver eight performances at six different venues across the city. Media coverage ranged from front page spreads in the Democrat and Chronicle and City newspapers to the national live Fox News program The Strategy Room. Open rehearsals, youth and adult master classes, and lectures and panel discussions introduced new audiences to the College’s arts programming. And with many of the performances both free and outdoors, the festival became the inclusive event its organizers had envisioned.

“We set out to create a world-class festival that would serve Nazareth College, the greater Rochester community, and the region,” says President Daan Braveman.

World-class it was! Pieces ranged from the poetic choreography of Inlet Dance Theatre to the electrifying performances of STREB Extreme Action Company, from regional dance companies to local dance schools, during a week of what Arts Center Director Lindsay Reading Korth calls “an artistically cutting edge, intellectually challenging, and physically explosive celebration of dance.” It became apparent, she adds, “how rich, sophisticated, and varied our local dance community is and how vibrant our dance audience has become and is becoming.” Many patrons called the performances “awesome,” and more than one left fantasizing about becoming a dancer.

Recent renovations to the Arts Center, which included the additions of a proscenium stage and a sprung floor, created a theater beautifully suited to showcasing dance on campus as never before. “There really is no other dance space [in the region] that compares with the Nazareth College Arts Center,” says trustee Nancy Sands, also chair of the Rochester City Ballet.

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scheduled for July 8-16, 2011.

This year’s event was sponsored by

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Monroe, Dixon Schwabl, NYSCA, and

Electronic Field Productions.

To view more Dance Festival photos, visit Nazareth’s Flickr galleries at www.flickr.com/photos/nazareth_ college/sets/

STREB Extreme Action Company electrified the audience with the strength and skill exhibited during the STREB: Forces performance.

Inlet Dance Theatre performed in the Callahan Theatre.

A performer from Borinquen Dance Theatre impressed the crowd at Dancing on the Grass.

STREB Extreme Action Company members socialized with the audience following their evening performances.

Young dancers from the Rochester Chinese Dance School enchanted the audience during an Opening Ceremony performance.

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Korth Returns to Theatre Arts Lindsay Reading Korth, director of the Arts Center, is rightfully proud of the recent Dance Festival’s success, both as an artistic endeavor and a community outreach tool.

“We were a center for creation, and STREB used elements it had never employed before—costumes, video, and lights,” Korth says. Thrilling, too, was continuing the Arts Center programming tradition of finding and showcasing emerging companies before they become nationally known. “That was Inlet,” she says. “Their dance pieces were amazing—as good as anything we’re seeing anywhere.” And performances on the ARTWalk and other outdoor venues, made possible by a partnership with the City of Rochester, prompted many people to reach out to Korth in gratitude.

As exciting as she has found her job, however, Korth says the time has come for her to step down as the Arts Center director and return full-time to her position as professor and chair of the Department of Theatre Arts. “The job grew too big,” she laughs. “I’ll miss those interactions with artists and with the audience. But I have dreams of where the theatre arts department will go—I have huge dreams I want to work toward. All my training, all my real joy, happens in theatre.”

Korth, who has been with Nazareth for 22 years, served as the Arts Center director since 2007, piloting it through its recent renovation and transition into the premier mid-sized theatre of the region. “I think I was the right person for the job at the time,” she explains. “I understand the faculty really well, I knew the board and the administration. The next step for the Arts Center should be taken by someone who has tremendous vision for the center itself and what is possible with a new venue and an exciting history to build on.”

“Lindsay steered the Arts Center through a remarkable physical transformation,” says Kelly Gagan, vice president of institutional advancement. “That as well as her programmatic direction has led to increased awareness of and appreciation for the arts at Nazareth and in the Rochester community. We are all very grateful for her leadership.”

Korth will remain in the position until the new director is in place, but her own vision influenced Assistant Director Terrence Meyer’s programming of the the 2010–11 Arts Center series, which presents several non-traditional performances aimed at garnering younger audiences. For example, hip-hop artist Rennie Harris performs January 28, and Popovich Comedy Pet Theater presents a family-friendly show on March 5. Korth says both shows are ideally suited to the Arts Center’s joint mission of creating new audiences and presenting great entertainment. “Overall,” she concludes, “this will be a very strong season.”

For tickets or information about the Arts Center season, visit http://artscenter.naz.edu/.

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The Science Behind Storytelling

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uman beings have a fiction addiction. When you think about all the different forms that fiction takes in our lives—not just books, but television, songs, pretend play, dreams, and fantasies—you realize that storytelling occupies huge amounts of our time and thought.

Just why this is so has become a source of fascination to Jonathan Gottschall ’95, an English graduate from Nazareth who is now an adjunct professor of English at Washington & Jefferson College.

“There are big, almost entirely unaddressed questions about why humans are addicted to stories in the first place,” Gottschall says.

He believes our affinity for fiction—or as he puts it, “how we make up lies about fake people”—is one of the most distinctive things about us as humans.

“This should be an important question for those who study literature, but instead it has attracted zero attention,” says Gottschall, who has written extensively about applying the concepts of evolutionary biology to the interpretation of literary texts and whose work has recently drawn notice from the New York Times and The Common Review. “Art behavior in humans, and storytelling is an example, is an immensely unusual thing among critters,” he explains. “Self-respecting animals shouldn’t be wasting time on these endeavors when they could be out chasing mates and so on. It’s a big mystery why these apparently frivolous biological activities were not stripped away by natural selection.”

Gottschall’s most recent book in progress, tentatively titled Mapping Wonderland, suggests that art is not just cultural. It’s in our genes, and as such should be subject to scientific inquiry. “All this making and consuming of art is just as interesting a biological question as it is a humanities question,” he says. “There’s good reason to be optimistic we can answer questions like this, can develop hypotheses and come up with rigorous methods to test them.”

Appying scientific theories to the study of literature has raised more than eyebrows—it’s raising hackles in academic circles. Gottschall,

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Jonathan Gottschall ’95 explores literature’s links with science. Ross Mantle/The New York Times/Redux. however, contends that this shaking up is just what his field needs. Falling enrollments, anemic funding, massive unemployment, and a general malaise indicate a major crisis in academic literary studies. The rigor of scientific methods could help ease that crisis and widen the ways we explore literature. Gottschall asserts that new tools, such as research methods and statistics, should be a regular part of graduate education in literary studies.

An example of applying these tools to literature can be found in one of Gottschall’s seminars, where his students analyzed 90 collections of world folktales, using computers to process more than eight million words to determine the frequency and context of 58 chosen keywords. Their results provided hard evidence about the depiction of physical attractiveness in literature that couldn’t be found through individual interpretations.

Such methods do indeed shake up literary studies, and some critics protest that this cannot even be considered literary scholarship. It can, says Gottschall, though it’s a far cry from the line-by-line explications with which most English scholars are familiar. But it’s also a new

way of looking at literature—as information, as data to be mined. To those who would instinctively reject applying statistical analysis to an ode by Keats—and there are many— Gottschall rightly points out that “none of the beauty of a literary work is destroyed, none of it is crunched. It’s all still there.”

Nevertheless, literary scholars find this a difficult leap to make. Science may now recognize literature and other art forms as “pristine funds of data” and “sources of vital and compelling questions about humans,” but Gottschall figures his work is a few decades away from being comfortably mainstream.

“I’m not sure if any of the Nazareth English faculty would agree with the work I’m doing now,” he admits, “but I went into this field because I was so impressed with the work they did. I wanted to be like them.”

Mainstream or not, Gottschall finds his current work alluring. “It’s exciting to be in a place where intellectual combat is happening,” he concludes. “It’s nice to be loved, but it’s also nice to mix it up over big ideas.”

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Alum Earns Presidential Honor

Jeanne Kaidy ’99G, winner of a 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, teaches science at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester.

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ucking through ponds in search of bio-organisms.

Visiting power plants and water treatment facilities. Creating self-contained ecosystems inside two-liter soda bottles.

These kinds of hands-on activities, which make science come alive for students, are the hallmark of the teaching technique of Jeanne Kaidy ’99G. In June, President Obama named Kaidy as one of only 103 teachers from around the country chosen to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. This prestigious honor includes a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation to be used at the discretion of recipients. Kaidy will also enjoy an expenses-paid trip to the award ceremony in Washington, D.C., at which time she will meet with members of Congress and science agency leaders.

Kaidy, who earned her master’s degree in education from Nazareth in 1999, has been a member of the science faculty at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester for the last 12 years. She currently serves as chair of the science department and teaches A.P. Environmental Science, among other courses.

Kaidy’s approach to teaching science is to make it as authentic as possible. “The equipment I purchase for my courses, like water kits, is the same as those that professionals in the field use,” she says. Recognizing that connecting students to science can be a challenge today, she looks for innovative ways to stir their interest. “With all the electronic stimulation in their lives, they seem to have lost a

by Alan Gelb connection to nature,” Kaidy observes. “So one of the first things I do at the start of the year is to take my class to Letchworth State Park for white water rafting.”

Kaidy is vigilant about keeping her course content fresh. “Environmental science changes very quickly, so you have to keep up,” she says. “I’m always taking workshops and researching new books and activities. One way I’m changing my course this coming year is to start with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a case study.”

Kaidy’s teaching skill and love for nature has inspired a number of her students to pursue careers that touch on the environment. “I’ve had students who are now teaching this subject themselves,” she says, “and I have others who are environmental engineers or work in HazMat control or on an organic farm.”

Kaidy also lives the lessons she teaches.

At McQuaid, she started an organic garden whose produce goes to a local food bank, and the home she shares with her husband and son is a model of environmental responsibility, with green flooring, water catchment system, greenhouse, and, looming ahead, the solar panels she will buy with her prize money. Every year she invites her class to her home to view her green initiatives—one more hands-on activity in an exciting year. “If you are passionate and believe in what you teach, it will make you an authentic teacher,” she says. “And you should never stop trying new things. Teachers evolve over time because they are open to growth and reflect on their teaching.”

A complete list of Presidential Award winners can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidentialmath-and-science-teachers-award-release.

Alan Gelb is a freelance writer in Albany, New York.

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Occupational Therapy Program to Begin in Fall 2011

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he School of Health and Human Services is pleased to announce the addition of an occupational therapy program to its roster of health-related academic programs. The new program, which was granted Developing Program Status by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE), will begin admitting students into its five-year B.S./M.S. program in the fall of 2011.

ing a productive life.” The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) describes this by saying that occupational therapy helps people to live life to its fullest.

Shriber, who taught most recently at SUNY Buffalo, brings 35 years of experience as an OT and 20 years in academia to her position, and she’s enthusiastic about what the OT program means for the College.

“Students at Nazareth will be able to learn in classes and in on-site clinics that have an interdisciplinary focus, allowing them to learn with and from students in physical therapy, speech-language pathology, nursing, creative arts therapy, social work, and other health-related professions,” she explains. “This feature makes Nazareth’s OT program unique, and it is a philosophy that the College promotes and lives.”

Nazareth OT graduates will have the real life experiences with the people and future professionals that prepare them to be successful occupational therapists.

Shirley Szekeres, Ph.D., dean of the School of Health and Human Services, agrees. “In rehabilitation, these therapies often work together on an interprofessional team,” she says. “Their mutual understanding of the practice of each and strategies for working together are very important.”

This feature makes Nazareth’s OT program u n i q u e , and it is a philosophy that the College promotes and lives.

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Dr. Linda A. Shriber, director of Nazareth’s occupational therapy program The OT program will provide students with professional knowledge and skills, an understanding of human development, a solid neurological, physiological, and psychological background, and beginning research experiences. Graduates will be able to work with individuals who may require assistance in achieving the daily living tasks, or “occupations,” that enable them to make their lives meaningful.

Linda Shriber, Ed.D., the new program director, is very motivated by the interest in and support for the program and sees part of her job as assisting the Nazareth College community in better understanding the profession.

Occupational therapists believe that people are shaped by what they do, and what they accomplish in their daily lives. Shriber says, “When children are born with disabilities, they may have to learn to engage in their occupations, such as moving, playing, and learning. If adults acquire disabilities, they may have to re-learn what is needed to accomplish the tasks that are important to them for living and regain-

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Although the first OT students won’t arrive on campus for another year, Shriber has her plate full in launching the new program. During the next year, she will respond to ACOTE’s recommendations, recruit students and promote the program, meet with other departments and community members, establish student policies and procedures, and, in general, make the OT program known throughout the College.

Nazareth’s OT program is being welcomed not only on campus but also in the greater Rochester community. In fact, says Szekeres, “This is the first program that I have been urged by the community to start.”

All the main rehabilitation centers, hospitals, developmental disability centers, and schools have demonstrated interest in taking students for practicums, and the job prospects remain bright. Adds Szekeres, “As of now, there are more positions open than there are OTs to fill them.”

To learn more about Nazareth’s Health and Human Services programs, visit www.naz.edu/hhs.

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Interns Earn Experience

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college degree opens many doors when trying to score a job in the real world, but how does one obtain the experience so many employers are looking for? Internships provide many Nazareth students with on-the-job training, both in the Rochester area and around the country.

“I needed some adventure,” says Will Vandelinder ’11, a history major who spent the summer in Washington, D.C., interning at the National Congress of American Indians.

He was there with the Washington Internship Institute (WII), a partner organization with Nazareth that allows students to live and work in the nation’s capital while taking college classes.

Vandelinder’s first stop in arranging his internship was with Albert Cabral, associate professor of management and director of Nazareth’s internship program. Cabral, who will move on to other responsibilities at the end of the 2010–2011 school year, has Albert Cabral helped students like Vandelinder establish internships since he arrived on campus in 1984. Back then, the program was limited to business administration majors and accommodated only about 50 students at a time. Since that time, the program has grown to a college-wide professional internship program serving more than 150 students annually.

The program is unique, says Cabral, in that ownership is shared. While Cabral coordinates all campus-wide requirements, individual departments manage job development, conduct site visits, and grant course credits. “That

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puts the internship right where it belongs—in the curriculum,” Cabral says. “No other college in town that we know of does site visits by faculty. That’s how we’ve been able to grow the program—it’s very collaborative, and it’s become an academic program that the faculty sees as viable and important.”

In addition to WII, Nazareth partners with Walt Disney World in Florida on a combination of education and work experience, and the College offers overseas study abroad semesters with built-in internship opportunities. Most internships, however, are local, part-time, and one semester, and School of Management Dean Gerard Zappia feels the program’s area connections Amy Floeser ’10 during her internship at Paychex last spring. reflect its real strength. “Al has built tremendous relationships with local organizations,” he adds.

Amy Floeser ’10, a business administration schools, local businesses, government ofmajor, benefited from those connections durfices, and social and human service agencies, ing her senior year, when she held two internamong many others, work with Nazareth on ships in human resources at the Fortune 500 a regular basis to provide on-the-job experifirm Paychex. They first placed her on the reences. Cabral generates student interest in cruitment team. “It was neat to see the work internships through e-mail blasts, departmenyou do to bring people into the company,” tal meetings, and classroom participation, she says, “but I realized that I prefer workbut community interest in the program is so ing with people who are already employees.” broad that he has more positions to fill than Floeser’s second internship gave her just that students ready to take them. kind of opportunity, as she joined the leaveCabral remains a persuasive advocate of the of-absence team. Floeser performed so well experiential learning—and the adventure, as in these internships that Paychex offered her Vandelinder would surely add—that a good a part-time job in human resources in August internship can provide. And although the pro2009 and another part-time position after her gram that makes those experiences possible May 2010 graduation in the travel, event, and for Nazareth students is very much his baby, meeting services department.

Cabral looks forward to turning it over to a With Nazareth’s help, students can design new person with a fresh perspective. “I like the internship that works best for them, and doing this, and I like moving on,” he conmany students are increasingly networking, cludes. “Let’s see what someone else can do.” exploring options online, and driving the process themselves. Most internships, however, For information on Nazareth internships at are still arranged through the College, and Walt Disney World, visit go.naz.edu/disney.

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Three Join All-Region Team for Women’s Lacrosse

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azareth’s women’s lacrosse team had three representatives on the Empire Region all-star team that was selected by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association. Attack Michelle Cook ’11, defender Sarah McCaskill ’11, and goalie Ann Sessler ’10 each were second-team selections for the Golden Flyers, who finished with a 10-6 overall record in 2010. In addition, Sessler represented the Golden Flyers in the IWLCA/Under Armour North-South All-Star game.

Michelle Cook ’11 Cook, of Waterloo, N.Y. and a graduate of Waterloo High School, finished the 2010 season as Nazareth’s leading scorer with 52 points on 33 goals and 19 assists.

She also earned first-team Empire 8 Conference all-star honors.

McCaskill, of Cyress, Texas and a graduate of Cy-Fair High School, also earned first-team Empire 8 all-star honors as the Golden Flyers’ top defender. She led the team with 19 caused turnovers and scooped up 25 ground balls.

Sessler started all 16 games in goal for the Golden Flyers and had 155 saves for a .529 save percentage and 9.51 goalsagainst average.

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Men’s Lacrosse Earns Four All-Americans

our members of the Nazareth men’s lacrosse team were selected as Division III All-Americans by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association upon completion of the Golden Flyers’ 2010 season last May. Attackman Mark DeCirce ’10 was a third-team selection, while honorable mention accolades went to long-stick midfielder Kyle Brown ’10, midfielder Scott Castle ’11, and attackman Joe Jacobs-Ferderbar ’11.

DeCirce, of Binghamton, N.Y. and a graduate of Binghamton High School, completed his Nazareth career with 98 goals, including a team-best 38 in 2010. He was second overall in points scored with 63. He was Mark DeCirce ’10 named Empire 8 Co-Player of the Year and represented the Golden Flyers in the North-South Senior all-star game.

Brown, of Baltimore, Md. and a graduate of Catonsville High School, joined DeCirce in the North-South game after contributing six goals and two assists with a team-best 28 caused turnovers for the Golden Flyers in 2010.

Castle, of Skaneateles, N.Y. and a graduate of Skaneateles High School, was selected for the second year in a row after leading all Nazareth midfielders with 36 points on 25 goals and 11 assists. He also was a first-team Empire 8 Conference all-star.

Jacobs-Ferderbar, of Orchard Park, N.Y. and a graduate of Orchard Park High School, was the Golden Flyers’ leading scorer in 2010 with 65 points on 35 goals and 30 assists. He, too, was a first-team E8 Conference all-star.

The Golden Flyers finished 12-5 overall in 2010, their 25th season of lacrosse.

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Six Inducted into Sports Hall of Fame

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ormer men’s basketball coach Mike Daley, who won more than 300 games in 23 seasons at Nazareth, was one of six inductees into the Nazareth Sports Hall of Fame at the 16th annual induction dinner September 25 at the Nazareth College Forum.

Daley was joined by former women’s soccer standout Heidi Brown Woodcock ’03; former men’s soccer and men’s tennis ace Jefferson Dargout ’04; former men’s lacrosse star Eric Goodberlet ’01; former women’s basketball standout Erin Michaels Miller ’02; and former women’s volleyball star Ashley Mokan Abrams ’04.

Woodcock, of Liverpool, N.Y., was a four-year defensive standout for the

Daley Woodcock ’03 Dargout ’04 Golden Flyers. Her career culminated in 2002 with a second-team All-American honor as well as Empire 8 Conference Player of the Year honors. She helped the Golden Flyers to four straight NCAA Tournament berths.

Daley retired following the 2008–09 season after compiling a 23-year record of 318-284. He guided the Golden Flyers to five NCAA Tournament berths, two JPMorgan Chase Tournament titles, and one ECAC Upstate championship.

Dargout, of Rochester, N.Y., was a two-year standout in both soccer and tennis for the Golden Flyers after transferring to Nazareth from Monroe Community College. Dargout earned second-team All-American honors in soccer in 2002 and was chosen Empire 8 Conference Player of the Year in 2003. He also was a

Goodberlet ’01 Miller ’02 Abrams ’04 two-time E8 all-star in tennis after posting a 46-15 overall record.

Goodberlet, of Henrietta, N.Y., was a three-time All-American in lacrosse at Nazareth and amassed 153 career points, including 129 goals. Goodberlet was a first-team All-American selection in 2001 and was named Division III Player of the Year after compiling 43 goals and 11 assists.

Miller, of Pittsfield, Mass., scored 1,477 points in four seasons of basketball to rank fourth all-time in scoring for Nazareth.

She ranks among the Golden Flyers’ all-time leader in several other categories and was a three-time Empire 8 Conference all-star.

Abrams, of Corning, N.Y., holds all of Nazareth’s assist records as a four-year starting setter in volleyball. She totaled 5,939 assists to rank in the top 10 in NCAA Division III history. She helped Nazareth to a four-year record of 137-25 and four straight NCAA Tournament berths.

Learn more about Nazareth Athletics at http://athletics.naz.edu and on Facebook at “Nazareth College Athletics”.

First-Team Honors for McCormick Ryan McCormick ’13, first singles player on the Nazareth men’s tennis team, was honored as a first-team Empire 8 Conference all-star for 2010. The teams were selected through voting conducted by the conference’s head coaches.

A native of Rochester and a graduate of Irondequoit High School, McCormick enjoyed a solid first season for the Golden Flyers as he finished with an overall singles record of 13-10, including 6-2 in Empire 8 Conference matches.

Bret Beaver ’13 and Josh Mulligan ’13 earned honorable mention all-conference honors. Beaver, of Hudson, Ohio, had a 10-2 overall record at sixth singles, including a 5-1 mark in conference play. Mulligan, of East Syracuse, N.Y., finished 9-9 overall at fourth singles and was 6-2 in E8 matches.

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Nazareth Golfer Gets Her Head in the Game

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ometimes it happens when she’s eyeballing a treacherous putt or before she blasts her way out of a green-side bunker.

As a senior on the Nazareth College golf team, Michelle Van Slyke ’11 still needs to remind herself about the short memory that is required for golfing success. It is her mental makeup, she says, that simultaneously serves as her supreme ally and most vexing nemesis.

“Putting the bad shots behind me and moving on,” she says.

“That has always been something I’ve struggled with and continue to work on.”

That’s why one of Van Slyke’s proudest golfing moments came at a tournament last spring in less-than-ideal weather conditions at the Gettysburg Invitational in Abbottstown, Pa. Van Slyke overcame the cold and rainy elements—not to mention a six-shot deficit—to shoot a career-low round of 78 to win the tournament by three strokes.

Afterward, though, it was a comment made by Van Slyke’s father, Jack, that made the final result feel even better.

“He told me that my routine never wavered from the first tee to the last putt,” she recalls. “He didn’t know it at the time, but that was the biggest compliment he could have given me.”

Van Slyke says that Nazareth Coach Marty Coddington ‘06G has been a big help in improving her mental approach while also fueling her competitive fire. Her focus has veered away from the numbers on her scorecard and centered on clever course management.

“He’s helped me realize that sometimes making par and bogey is okay,” Van Slyke says. “Being on the course for five hours on Saturday and five more on Sunday is a grueling task and if your head is not in it, you will not survive no matter what shape your physical game is in.”

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“She’s become a more confident player who is able to focus on her game and n o t wo rry about what the people she’s playing with are doing.” marty coddington

“She’s come a long way with that,” Coddington says. “She doesn’t let one mistake lead to another one. She’s become a more confident player who is able to focus on her game and not worry about what the people she’s playing with are doing.”

Van Slyke hopes to post more rounds with similarly low numbers for the Golden Flyers in 2010–11, building on the foundation she laid last season. In addition to winning at Gettysburg, she finished in a tie for first at the William Smith Invitational, finished first at the Nazareth Invitational at Irondequoit (thanks to a second-round 79), and won the inaugural Empire 8 Conference Tournament at Cortland.

Van Slyke spent the summer playing regularly at her home course of Cedar Lake near her hometown of New Hartford and hopes to have her game fine-tuned enough to complete each round this season in

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fewer than 85 strokes. Last year, she had a scoring average of 83.8 for 17 rounds, good for 29th in the NCAA’s Atlantic Region.

An ardent admirer of Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam (“She plays not only with power and precision, but with grace and class”), Van Slyke came to Nazareth in 2007 after excelling in golf at New Hartford High School, where she won the Tri-Valley League title and placed 13th in the state tournament. She began playing golf at an early age as she would accompany her grandmother, who worked at a local course. She recalls spending hours on the putting green and later tagging along with her father and playing at par-three courses. “Now I can’t picture what my life would be like without golf,” Van Slyke says. Her family also includes her mother Darleen, brothers Mick and Matt, and sisters Mandy and Melissa.

Van Slyke, by her own account, is not a long hitter off the tee, but she uses her irons to hit accurate approach shots and an ever-improving putting stroke to keep her scores low. “She plays everything from the middle of the fairway,” Coddington says, “and she’s getting better at making putts inside 10 feet.”

Coddington also is impressed with Van Slyke’s competitiveness and her willingness to put in the practice time.

“She’s like the basketball player who goes to the gym and shoots free throws outside of the scheduled practice time,” he says. “And she competes. She’ll pull that baseball cap down low so you can just barely see her eyes. She really comes to compete and wants to get to that next level.”

Van Slyke also will become certified in adolescent education and would like to teach and coach after she graduates. In the meantime, she’ll keep working toward the perfect round in a game that she concedes “can never be won.”

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

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Bedy Makes All-Region Team Dylan Bedy ’12, a Nazareth men’s golfer, was named to the Division III PING Mid-Atlantic All-Region team for 2009–10 by the Golf Coaches Association of America. A native of Syracuse, N.Y. and a graduate of Christian Brothers Academy, Bedy was the Golden Flyers’ top player in 2009–10 with a scoring average of 78.00 for 16 rounds. His season was highlighted by a second-place finish at the Mid-Atlantic Region Invitational at Hershey Country Club in early April. He also finished fourth overall at the Empire 8 Conference championships and earned first-team E8 all-star honors.

Kocher Named E8 Pitcher of the Year Kelly Kocher ’12, starting pitcher on the Nazareth softball team, added Empire 8 Pitcher of the Year to her growing list of accomplishments for 2010. Kocher also was selected as a first-team allconference pitcher through voting conducted by the league’s head coaches. First baseman Ann Schoff ’10 was named to the second team.

Kocher, of Victor, N.Y. and a graduate of Victor High School, was dominant on the pitcher’s mound in 2010 as she posted a 13-7 record overall with 277 strikeouts in 137.1 innings for a Division III-best of 14.1 strikeouts per game. In conference games, she finished 5-3 with a 1.04 earned run average, five shutouts, and 101 strikeouts in 53.2 innings.

Schoff, of Little Falls, N.Y. and a graduate of Little Falls High School, had a .438 batting average in conference games and a slugging percentage of .781.

Seven of her 14 hits went for extra bases with two home runs and seven runs batted in. Overall, she led the Golden Flyers with a .310 batting average a .536 slugging percentage with four homers and 14 RBIs.

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Nazareth’s Chinese

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by Robin L. Flanigan

hina is the world’s leading energy consumer, the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the world’s largest car market, and has had the world’s fastest-growing economy since the mid-’90s.

And Nazareth College is keeping a close watch on it all.

Committed to a diversified campus and an education that keeps step with global trends, the College is positioning itself to fully embrace the realities of China’s rising dominance in the 21st century.

“We have to expose our students to an increasingly complex world, with the understanding that the U.S. is no longer the unilateral powerhouse out there,” says Nevan Fisher, Ph.D., assistant professor of history and Asian studies. “There are going to be multiple points of power, and China will be one of the superpowers. We need to demonstrate how to appreciate China on its own terms—not to see it as an enemy or competitor, but as a partner.”

To do that, Nazareth has been deepening its connections with China through admissions recruitment trips, faculty exchanges, and study-abroad experiences.

Students from Nazareth line up in a rice field near Dali in the Yunnan Province.

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Professor Yuanting Zhao and Dr. Nevan Fisher at the Stone Forest in Kunming, Yunnan Province, known since the 14th century as the First Wonder of the World.

Instrumental to these efforts from the beginning has been Yuanting Zhao, professor of theatre arts. She grew up in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, and has maintained many personal and professional relationships since her days as a student and instructor at the Shandong College of Arts. In recent years—employing these relationships and those of her colleagues to find hosts—Zhao, Fisher, and other faculty members have made annual visits to China to start collaborations with universities considered a good match for Nazareth.

So far, the College has signed memoranda of understanding with four institutions. One of them is the China Academy of Art in Beijing, known for being the country’s most influential, innovative school of fine arts and whose international partnership with Nazareth is a first for the university.

Chinese students recruited to campus would boost the Asian population, now at roughly two percent among both undergraduates and graduates. Deborah Dooley ’75, Ph.D., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, points out that they would also be introduced to a broad-based liberal arts education—a concept only beginning to make its way into that part of the world. “A liberal arts focus is transformative in that it enables us to be intellectually flexible, to think from many different perspectives,” she explains, adding that this is a particularly important skill for the increasing number of Chinese students applying to graduate programs in the U.S.

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right, top to bottom: The Badaling section of the Great Wall.

The scenic Chinese town Zhouzhuang, often referred to as China’s Venice.

Pudong, a new development zone of Shanghai, at night.

One student from China has made it to the Nazareth campus so far. A trumpet player, he is participating in a five-year program that has students start out by studying intensive English at the College’s American Language Institute.

The hope is to have about 10 students arrive each year, so that there are roughly 40 on campus at all times. Though recruitment up to now has focused mostly on visual and performing arts, efforts expanded into math and science this fall and are expected to reach into every major someday.

Last spring, 21 students from various majors at Nazareth took an 18-day trip to China to see for themselves what Fisher calls “this incredible country of contradictions,” a reference to its mixture of deep-rooted traditions, progressive accomplishments, sprawling farmlands, and futuristic skylines.

Fisher adds that “there is really no substitute” for firsthand experience, which on this journey included hikes on sacred mountains, a tour of the Terra Cotta Warriors exhibition, a walk on the Great Wall of China, boat rides in Zhouzhuang (considered “the Venice of China”), and two free days in ultra-modern Shanghai, among other highlights. “In my classes, I can give them a window on a particular time and place, but I can’t open their eyes the way the country does.”

For some, the people more than the places made a lasting impression.

Ryan Rall ’10, who majored in history with minors in philosophy and Asian studies, learned more than he’d expected by his second day abroad.

“It was life-changing,” he says. “You’re in a country you’ve studied so much about in books—mostly about Communism and how strict and controlled it is over there—and then you get to see that the people aren’t really that different at all.

They have the same core values, they prize intelligence, they try to live peacefully. It broke a lot of the stereotypes we have. There was just this sense of understanding among humans.

“No matter what I do with my career, I’m going to be working with China,” continues Rall, who is leaning toward international law with a focus on preventing genocide or piracy. “I can see that we need to cooperate with them in the future.”

An exchange of ideas is one of the hallmarks of Nazareth’s strategic initiative to strengthen ties with China. Already, some faculty members have lectured there to students and faculty from high schools and universities, and several Chinese educators have visited Nazareth in recent months.

Mitchell Messina, professor of art, gave a lecture on American contemporary ceramics in March at the Shandong College of Arts. “The Chinese develop things very slowly and methodically, so there’s an integrity to the work that comes out,” he says. “They’re moving very strongly into the contemporary art world by embracing traditions and then moving forward. That’s the kind of thing we like to instill in our students.”

Zhao says such visits are key to spreading the word about the College back home: “Then people will know we exist and that we do high-quality work. Nazareth is a great place to be, and this program has a very bright future.”

Explore a gallery of photos from Nazareth’s recent China trips at www.flickr. com/photos/nazareth_college/sets.

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

Photos courtesy of Nevan Fisher and Yuanting Zhao.

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LIFE | of the mind

Teachers Who Question

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by Timothy Glander

assume that you are like me, and that from time to time you find yourself thinking about your years in school and the many teachers you encountered there. Like me, you might also find yourself asking why some teachers were able to have such significant and enduring influence on you, what attributes they possessed and what core values motivated them in their work. While I am certain that the differences among your teachers span the entire human panoply, I am willing to wager that one constant trait among them remains: The teachers whose impact has been most profound and lasting are those teachers who question.

teachers refuse to see knowledge as inert, or to treat learning as something to be “delivered” to students. Rather they demand that the student be an active participant in the learning enterprise, and that a student’s achievement in any particular domain of knowledge is never complete or finished. They know, too, that while real learning is always an arduous task, it seems effortless once this questioning ethos has been adopted and internalized.

And the best of these teachers know, as well, that all students are capable of, and deserving of, this kind of learning even as it proceeds at a pace and in form unique to each individual learner’s needs.

We all know them, and each of us is fortunate to have had many such teachers in our educational lives. They are the teachers who know their discipline so thoroughly that they know, too, how much they do not know. They are constantly on the quest to learn more, to pose further questions to advance their understanding. Their ability to see the world through the eyes of their students—who are able to empathetically recall what it was like to be five years old, 13 years old, 19 years old—enables them to pose questions that connect curricula to the developmental needs and experiential levels of their charges in ways that are meaningful and personally relevant. They are the teachers who encourage and legitimate each individual student’s own questions by treating them seriously, compelling the student to continue to ask authentic questions, and to seek out answers, long after the formal instruction has ended.

Yes, we know these teachers and we know that this disposition for questioning cuts across all disciplines and grade levels. These

If we are able to identify many such teachers in our past it is because this kind of teacher is not altogether rare. Indeed, in my own experience in working with several thousand undergraduate and graduate students preparing to be teachers at Nazareth College, I have found it to be perhaps the most widely shared value among them and perhaps the most important value in shaping their decisions to become classroom teachers. Teachers, as a group, are firmly anchored around this educational value, and this critical, questioning spirit is at the very heart of how they imagine the best models for their work to be. I am proud to be part of a tradition of teacher education at Nazareth College that celebrates, honors, and fosters this kind of teaching.

But if this disposition to question and to encourage others to question is essential for good teaching, it is also true that this disposition is often at odds with many of the prevailing institutional values and practices found in today’s schools. There should be no mistaking the fact that we have inherited schools for which docility, conformity, and efficiency have been dominant values.

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And while no one today publicly admits to supporting schools for these purposes, the institutional practices spawned by these values remain with us and continue to be advanced by unthinking politicians and educational policy makers.

Consider, for instance, the increasing calls for more high stakes standardized testing, now utilized so ubiquitously and with so much punitive power. With pre-determined questions and “only one best answer,” the multiple-choice format of these tests is in fundamental opposition to the orientation toward questioning of all good teaching. Premised naively on a narrow and largely repudiated behaviorist theory of learning, these standardized, multiple-choice tests were first used in the early 20th century to “measure intelligence” and crudely sort students into various educational and occupational tracks. Teachers were quick to understand the negative pedagogical implications of these tests and joined others throughout the 20th century in raising questions about their validity as well as the cultural, economic, and gender bias inherent in their use.

Teachers recognized that, with the possible exception of assessing the simple recall of information, these tests were of very little value. When utilized excessively, these tests tended to deaden the learning experience by sending a damaging message to students that learning was nothing more than the process of regurgitating pre-packaged information about a seemingly already known world. To make matters worse, the tests were silent on why a student chose one particular response over another, enabling students to choose the “best” answer for very wrong reasons or to choose the “wrong” answer for some very insightful and creative reasons. In this way, many thoughtful teachers shared Banesh Hoffman’s perspective in his 1962 critique The Tyranny of Testing, in which he argued that standardized, multiple-choice testing actually rewarded students who tended toward conformist thinking and penalized students who tended toward creative and critical questions and problem-solving.

Although teachers have been well aware of the shortcomings of standardized testing, many politicians and policy makers increasingly view the results on standardized tests to provide the very definition of academic achievement, if not the primary purpose for schooling itself. In their view, the role of the teacher is to prepare students to do well on these tests. Teacher “effectiveness,” then, increasingly becomes equated with how well students do

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on these tests, with merit-pay and teacher evaluations efforts tied to test results. It follows from this way of thinking that teacher education becomes the acquisition of a set of simple classroom management techniques and test preparation drills, reflected now in the emerging alternative, on-the-job training routes to teacher certification or the five-week summer crash course provided to Teach For America candidates. Under this regimen, people preparing to be teachers are not encouraged to question the meaning of academic achievement, the social context and purpose for schools, or to see value in engaging their students around such questioning.

In my nearly 30 years in education, I can recall no time when the gap between the interests of politicians and policy makers and the real needs of students and classroom teachers has been quite this wide. In their demand for quantifiable and comparative data to satisfy various accountability schemes, these policy makers are increasingly at risk of destroying what is left of the potential for authentic and transformative teaching in our schools. Here, again, the children growing up in our poorest neighborhoods, and attending schools where these accountability schemes are most stringently enforced, are most at risk.

Currently, our educational policy is moving us in exactly the wrong direction even while the popular media continue to scapegoat teachers for the larger, intractable problems of our society. Fortunately, however, a solution is at hand if we are willing to listen to teachers talk about their craft and empower them to construct environments where real learning can take place.

Rather than treating academic achievement as an abstract goal to be measured, educational policy should begin at the classroom level and focus on how best to enable teachers who question to engender this disposition in their students. And more than anything else, as a society we need to ask what purposes we would like our public schools to serve today. Teachers should play a key role in posing this question and informing the debate with their understanding of the optimal classroom circumstances for further questioning.

Timothy Glander, Ph.D., is Nazareth’s dean of the School of Education.

The School of Education can be found on Facebook and at www.naz. edu/education. Visit Dr. Glander’s blog at http://blogs.naz.edu/ glander/.

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INTERFAITH | ideas

Footsteps to the Future

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by Sofia Tokar

any of us recognize the expression “walking a mile in another man’s shoes”—the notion that understanding stems from sympathy and empathy toward others. Recently, a delegation from Nazareth College decided to fill some big shoes and walk a great deal more than a mile. The group—comprising Nazareth staff and faculty, and Rochester community professionals, historians, and religious leaders—participated in a venture called Walking in the Footsteps of the Prophets.

The program—in its inaugural year and currently open to members of the Nazareth and greater Rochester communities— involves an annual interfaith journey to the Holy Land and Turkey to explore, study, and build connections among Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, the three Abrahamic faiths.

The 13-member delegation began the twoweek trip to Israel, Palestine, and Turkey in late May. Three of Nazareth College’s senior faculty members organized and led the trip: Muhammad Shafiq, Ph.D., executive director of the Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue (CISD); Susan Nowak ’77, Ph.D., S.S.J., chair of the department of religious Modern Muslim woman. studies; and George Eisen, Ph.D., executive director of the Center for International Education (CIE).

Each day the delegation traveled to sacred and historically important sites such as the Sea of Galilee, where the Sermon on the Mount is thought to have taken place; the Dead Sea, near which the eponymous scrolls were found; as well as the Hagia Sofia and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. Shafiq, Nowak, or Eisen provided context beforehand about the sites—their historical significance and reasons why the group was visiting.

Combining the resources of three Nazareth departments helped to develop a unique program that focused not only on visiting sites, but on strategic alliances with different people and institutions. For

example, the group met the mayor of Nazareth and heard lectures by scholars from Galilee College (in Israel’s northern pastoral region) and Al-Quds University (an Arab university on the outskirts of East Jerusalem). Topics were inspired by and specific to the various locations. While in Caesarea, the group delved into the role of Herod in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths; later in Istanbul, the members discussed Sufism in Islam.

Shafiq underscores the program’s uniqueness, explaining, “There are many trips through Israel and Palestine—usually either academic or spiritual. Ours incorporates a scholarly approach with spiritual strength to have a deeper knowledge of the Abrahamic faiths and to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the region.”

The variety of people and perspectives is also what impressed Barbara Warner, a member of the delegation and coordinator for Christian formation at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Rochester, N.Y. “Dr. Eisen, Dr. Shafiq, and Dr. Nowak should be commended for their vision,” she shares. “As a result of this trip, I feel my mind, spirit, and heart opening increasingly to the Abrahamic peoples. Hopefully we can come to celebrate both our differences and our similarities. An experience like this reinforces my faith in the wonder of humanity.”

The Sea of Galilee.

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The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel.

Since returning, Warner has continued to build community connections by reaching out to organizations such as the Turkish Cultural Center of Rochester, N.Y., and the American Friends of Neve Shalom.

Another participant bringing back her knowledge and experience from the program is Nazareth alumna Lynn O’Brien ’88G. As a Rochester City School District teacher and as someone without any specific religious affiliation, O’Brien’s approach to the trip was more from an educational perspective. “The visits to historic sites were interspersed with interactions with everyday people, chance meetings in shops or markets. It was great to see both the Israeli and Palestinian perspectives, which will help me develop curriculum and better teach the theme of oppression to my students.”

Despite a myriad of experiences, almost all the participants believe the program would benefit from more student involvement. In response, the trip next year will be open to Nazareth students, with the eventual goal of having both community members and students together on one trip, in order, as Shafiq explains, “to have the next and present generations, here and abroad, in dialogue with one another.”

“The solution to conflict and violence,” Shafiq explains, “is education about the multiplicity of the world. The CISD teaches that interfaith dialogue and relationship-building can lead to conflict resolution and peaceful coexistence.”

And toward that end, the Walking in the Footsteps of the Prophets program is a step in the right direction.

To view a gallery of additional images from the trip, visit www.flickr.com/ photos/nazareth_college/sets.

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

Photos courtesy of Carlnita Greene, Sara Varhus, and Barbara Warner.

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beyond self | community service

Better Business, Better World

by Robin L. Flanigan

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Kevin Natapow ’97 and his wife Jenny outside their Boulder, Colo., boutique.

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n the middle of a bitter cold night, while on a three-week trekking trip through Nepal’s Annapurna mountain range, Kevin Natapow ’97 and his girlfriend laid side by side in their sleeping bags, questioning aloud whether they were doing fulfilling work.

Though both of them had jobs focused on bettering the lives of people living in Nepal, the answer was no. They wanted to do more, to effect change not only in an area of the world that desperately needed it, but on a global level.

The couple sat up as plans began to take shape for a fair-trade business, one that would sell only handmade products whose crafters are given livable wages and working conditions—and in the process, create a cultural shift in the way American consumers live on a daily basis.

“Then we said, ‘Let’s get married.’ It was one of those very organic moments,” Kevin recalls.

Last summer Kevin and Jenny Natapow’s store, Momentum, celebrated its third anniversary. Located in a trendy section of progressive Boulder, Colo., Momentum offers, among other things, blankets made from recycled saris and quilted by women who escaped Calcutta’s sex trade, aprons embroidered by mothers of disabled children in Zimbabwe, and sustainable-crop bamboo bowls from Vietnam. Most products are imported from other countries—some of the latest acquisitions have come from recent trips to Peru and Bolivia—but some are made in the U.S, including greeting cards painted by homeless and low-income women in nearby Denver.

Through the store’s Momentum Fund, 10 percent of profits each year are donated to local and international nonprofit organizations that support social change and environmental causes.

“We believe we can change the world through our business practices,” explains Kevin, a former United Nations translator for Tibetan refugees. “That’s part of the reason we’re a socially responsible business instead of a nonprofit. Businesses can be vehicles for social change—they don’t have to be equated with evil.”

Artists receive 30 to 40 percent of the money made on products sold at Momentum. According to the Fair Trade Federation, that figure drops to less than one percent when artists sell through conventional retailers.

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Originally a business major at Nazareth, Kevin had expected to become involved with his father’s real estate development company after graduation. But he switched his major to religious studies after taking a class from Joe Kelly, now retired. Kelly encouraged Kevin to explore various faiths and different ways of thinking, to take religious courses at other area colleges, and to study abroad in Nepal as a junior.

“He really changed my worldview,” says Kevin, who grew up without a deep understanding of any one faith and became intrigued by Eastern philosophies. “He was just amazing in that he went through so much to make sure I had every opportunity to expose myself to the things that would create my desire to walk the path I’m on.”

After Nazareth, hoping to pursue further schooling in Tibetan Studies, Kevin moved to Seattle to do some pre-graduate work with a scholar there. He met Jenny while out one night at the restaurant where she was working as a hostess, and they

Joe Kelly “really changed my w o r l d v i e w .” kevin Natapow ’ 9 7 discovered that they’d both been in Nepal at the same time.

They talked about their passion for that part of the world, its people and culture, and became pen pals over the next two years while Kevin went to graduate school in Indiana and Jenny moved to Boulder for a job.

They eventually began dating, and after their engagement decided to move from Nepal, where Kevin worked for the United Nations and Jenny worked with the peacekeeping nonprofit The Asia Foundation, to Seattle, where Jenny’s family lives. Their plan: get married, work, and save enough money to open a store in Boulder.

It would take seven years to launch Momentum.

“We needed a bit more training in how to properly run a business,” Kevin says. “We felt like if we were going to do it, we wanted to do it right.”

So the pair attended graduate school together in Vermont.

Kevin studied ways that businesses can create sustainable

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Momentum is a fair-trade business carrying handmade goods from around the globe.

development programs on an international level. Jenny focused on socially responsible business management.

Momentum was built using green products whenever possible, is powered by renewable wind energy, and uses recycled packaging materials (community members are welcome to stop by and use these materials for their own shipping or moving needs, free of charge).

Kevin now proudly stands by the ideology that “the way you live your everyday life is your faith.

“And the life I’m living right now, it’s unbelievable,” he says.

“I love who I’m living it with, I love what we’re doing, and I love what we’re accomplishing, that we’re having an impact locally and globally. I feel very fortunate that Jenny and I have been able to create something that supports us, but is also something we believe in—and is making the world a better place.”

Learn more about Momentum at http://www.ourmomentum. com/ Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New York.

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The Changing Face of Career Services Nazareth supplements its traditional career services with campus-wide offerings

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he global financial crisis, which began in 2007 and shows no immediate signs of abatement, has taken its toll on a great many American workers. Last July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the national unemployment rate registered 9.5 percent. By August, 11 states showed double digit unemployment rates, with Nevada at a whopping 14.3 percent, as reported by Business Insider. These numbers reflect a lot of misery and a lot of need. In an effort to be as responsive as possible, Nazareth College is ramping up its career services to assist current students and alumni who are struggling in this troubled economy.

Barbara Weeks-Wilkins ’79G is an alumna who has called upon her alma mater for help. She received her master’s degree in education from Nazareth College in 1979 and completed her certification in special education soon thereafter. Weeks-Wilkins and her husband and children lived in Connecticut for almost a decade, where she held a tenured teaching position in a public elementary school.

“I was highly thought of in my profession,” says WeeksWilkins. “But our whole extended family is here in the Rochester area, and we wanted to move back to be near them. My husband was able to get a good job here and so I resigned my position, not thinking twice about what relocation might mean.”

In fact, relocation presented the first major career hurdle in Weeks-Wilkins’s hitherto seamless professional life.

“When I got back here, I realized I was in competition with graduates who were a lot younger than I am,” says Weeks-Wilkins, now 56. “The whole certification program

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had changed and a lot of things were different. I realized I would have to start all over again to make myself known.”

She immediately thought of connecting to her alma mater and just walked in one day to the Career Services office on campus. “It was amazing,” she says, “because Mike Kahl, the director of Career Services, was there and had no prior commitments, so we just started talking.”

That kind of accessibility is a hallmark of Career Services, which benefits a great many current students and Nazareth alumni every year. Of course, these last few challenging years are like few others in recent memory, and Career Services is rising to the challenge. “We’re doing the same things we always have,” says Kahl. “The strategies for finding employment haven’t changed, although certainly some of the technology has. The biggest problem I’m running into is that some job seekers are losing their confidence and don’t do what they need to do. Of course, we’re here to address that problem as well.”

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At Your Service Kahl and his team offer a constellation of services to which students are introduced right at the beginning of their Nazareth experience. These include help with résumés and cover letters and guidelines for networking and other job-sourcing strategies.

Approximately three years ago, the College introduced NazLink, a complete online source that features job postings with automatic updates customized to interests and needs, an on-campus recruitment calendar, and information on career events such as workshops and job fairs. Career Services offers a range of assessment resources, such as DISCOVER, the ACT career planning program, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey, which are of use to individuals in search of the right outlets for their talents, skills, and interests.

“Throughout my entire time at Nazareth, I made use of Career Services,” says Brendan Shea ’08, an arts education/graphic arts major. “I’d go to all the different workshops they’d have.”

As an alumnus, Shea continues to make use of the office. “I’ve probably been in there eight or ten times this year, using Mike Kahl as a resource for updating my résumé,” he says. “I go in with a rough draft and he edits and formats it.”

Some Nazareth professors also welcome Career Services into their classrooms for presentations that will provide career direction or job search tips. “I invite them into my sophomore Methods Barbara Weeks-Wilner ’79G discusses career options with Mike Kahl, director of Nazareth’s Career Services office.

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course,” says Paul Morris, chair of the history and political science department.

“We want to get to them early to teach about the possibilities of their major and how it can be applied to a variety of careers, like law, government, teaching, international business, and research.”

Roy Stein, professor of management, similarly invites Career Services into his senior seminar to instruct students on career skills. “We also participated in a Career Services program that was centered on alumni networking,” says Stein.

“Five alumni from the School of Management came back to campus to meet and network with our graduating seniors.”

Focus on Alumni As comprehensive as these career services are for current students, the realities of our nation’s economic downturn has stimulated new initiatives directed

toward Nazareth alumni who are seeking employment. Such attention paid at the alumni level is reflective of a national trend that has been noted by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). “While many universities have traditionally focused career services on recent graduates and students, more are now adding established alumni to their model,” writes James Steinberg in a recent article in Currents, the CASE magazine.

The help that Weeks-Wilkins found when she walked in, unannounced, to the Career Services office is representative of just how effective that office can be. At a crossroads in her career, WeeksWilkins decided to try the DISCOVER and Myers-Briggs assessment resources offered through Career Services. “What came back was that I’m a really strong people person and a strong educator,”

➤ Explore information for both students and alumni on Nazareth College’s Career Services website at www.naz.edu/career-services

➤ Find job postings, an on-campus recruitment calendar, and information about career events on NazLink at www.myinterfase.com/naz/student/

says Weeks-Wilkins. “It made no sense for me to try to change careers.”

With the help of Career Services, Weeks-Wilkins found a job teaching in a self-contained high school classroom in the Lyons Central School District. “The qualities I had identified about myself through the tests—my ability to hit the ground running, my leadership skills, my organizational abilities—were exactly the qualities needed in this work I’m now doing,” she says. “And I still feel I could go into Career Services anytime and people would know me. The message there is very much ‘We’re here and we’ll help you.’”

Beyond Career Services Help for Nazareth alumni is by no means restricted to Career Services, however. Many alumni network through Nazareth groups found on social media

➤ Join the Alumni Association group on Facebook at www.facebook.com/nazalumni

➤ Join the Career Athlete Network at www.careerathletes.com

➤ UPDATE your contact information at alumni.naz.edu/update

➤ Join the Nazareth College Alumni Association group on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com

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sites like LinkedIn and Facebook. And this year the School of Management, Alumni Relations, and Career Services are collaborating on a series of workshops aimed at providing support to alumni in search of employment.

The first workshops, held in September, addressed the needs of the un- and underemployed and focused on networking and how to recognize and better deal with change. “We incorporated an alumni panel into these workshops,” says Gerard Zappia, dean of the School of Management. “These were alumni who have successfully navigated layoffs, as well as career changers.”

The Nazareth Alumni Board is also making changes to better serve the needs of those alumni who are dealing with employment issues. “One of our new standing committees of the alumni board is dedicated to working with Career Services,” explains Kerry Gotham ’98, Nazareth’s director of alumni relations. One of the alums at the helm of this committee is Leigh Ann Schon ’93, who received a bachelor’s degree in business administra-

tion from Nazareth. When she was laid off from her job in North Carolina, Schon reached out to her former Nazareth professors as well as Career Services. Now working as a benefits and compensation analyst for Ultralife Corporation in Newark, N.Y., Schon is eager for this new alumni assignment. “Being in a position where I needed help and with the Nazareth people so kind to me, I want to turn around and try to do the same for others,” says Schon.

There are many useful and tangible ways that Nazareth can help its students and alumni as they confront challenges in the workplace, and then there are the many intangible and invaluable ways. Marty Cranmer ’02G was an IT professional who saw his advancement stalled by the lack of an advanced degree. He decided to go back to school, very much an adult learner, and in 2002 earned his master’s degree in management from Nazareth.

In February 2010, Cranmer was laid off from his job with a consulting firm. With a family to support and the nation in the grip of its worst recession in decades, it could have been panic time. But Cranmer,

who lives just five miles from campus, decided that the best way to approach his new challenge was by using Nazareth from what he calls “a facilities perspective.” By his own admission, he’s not self-disciplined enough to stay at home and do the very considerable work necessary for a job search. “I was struggling to get the job done but I found myself watching Oprah— and I don’t even like Oprah,” he says.

Cranmer took up residence at Nazareth—in the library, in empty classrooms— and within two months had found a new job, as a project manager with Excellus Blue Cross/Blue Shield. “I networked with other Nazareth students and former professors like Jerry Zappia,” he says. “But the best thing is that there was a real community feeling here. To see the smiling faces and have people say, ‘Don’t worry, Marty, we’ll get you through this,’ made all the difference. The Nazareth family really is a great family.”

Alan Gelb is a freelance writer in Albany, New York.

Networking Opportunities Find out more about any of the following by contacting the alumni office at alumni@naz.edu or 585-389-2472.

➤ Attend upcoming alumni and campus events; check naz.edu for recent additions.

➤ Volunteer to serve on alumni advisory groups or the alumni board.

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➤ Offer to guest lecture or give a presentation in class. ➤ Become a mentor for a student or young alum. ➤ Host an internship for a student.

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Top Tips

for Maintaining Confidence in the Job Search Mike Kahl, Nazareth College’s director of Career Services, offers his practiced view of how to stay “up” in a down economy.

★ Surround yourself with positive people. The job search can really get you down. For every job that is filled there is one successful person and perhaps as many as 100 unsuccessful people. In the face of such negativity you need to surround yourself with people who build you up, who remind you of all you have to offer, and who encourage you to keep going. ★ Stop keeping score by counting the number of jobs to which you have applied and start keeping score by the number of meetings you’ve set up.

While there are no “bad” ways to look for a job, networking is the one that is most frequently cited when successful applicants are asked, “How did you find your job?”

If done correctly, networking is the most positive and reaffirming of all job search methods. ★ Do your homework. Nothing builds confidence more than knowing what you are talking about. So read everything you can get your hands on about the career area you’ve chosen, and then be sure to conduct informational interviews with people who work in the field.

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Mike Kahl, director of Nazareth’s Career Services office, discussing career options with Barbara Weeks-Wilner ’79G.

★ Volunteer. By helping others, you’ll help yourself. Volunteering will help extend and deepen your network of contacts. It will also help you build skills and confidence by reminding yourself that you have much to offer. ★ Join groups. Even if you don’t see yourself as a “joiner,” you can consciously try to move outside your comfort zone and join more groups. Nazareth has a very active

alumni association and LinkedIn alumni group. Much like volunteering, joining groups will help you build confidence, make contacts, and learn new skills.

★ Connect with Career Services.

The office has resources and contacts that may be helpful. We also know what it is like to go through a job search and can be counted upon to be among those “positive people” mentioned above.

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Report | to donors 2009-2010

Dear Nazareth Friends,

A

t Nazareth, we are fortunate to have people who dream large and back up their aspirations with talents, skills, and dedication. This year’s stewardship report features some of these people—teachers who inspire, students who soar, trustees and other individuals who help realize a vision, and women and men who collaborate to help us reach those dreams.

These are the people who enabled us to renovate the Arts Center to become the premier

arts venue in the greater Rochester area. This multi-million dollar project was finished on time and on budget, paid for entirely by dedicated funds so that the College would not incur debt. Over the last year, audiences have flocked to the center for performances by world-class artists and companies and have rejoiced in seeing the cultural life of our city so enriched. This past summer we hosted the first annual Summer Dance Festival that attracted 6,000 people to the weeklong events.

We also hosted our first Interfaith Understanding Conference, which brought to campus 400 participants

from throughout the U.S. and Canada to discuss ways to improve communication among people from different faith groups as well as those with no religious affiliation. It was the only such national conference to include people from across generations, focusing on the next generations of leaders.

During the year we established the Center for Civic Engagement, with the mission to provide strategic direction, advocacy, resource development, and integration to the rich and varied programs that connect the College to its surrounding communities.

I am also pleased to report that we are seeing substantial progress on our integrated math and science center. This board-approved initiative is an important part of our plan to train the nation’s future teachers and allied health professionals, and it is a confirmation of Nazareth’s renowned commitment to education and health and human services.

Our commitment can be seen as well in many other developments this year. The faculty has done impressive work on the core curriculum. We have introduced new state-approved programs such as majors in graphics/illustration, women and gender studies, and marketing, a master’s degree in accounting, and a master’s degree in American studies with the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary.

Dreaming big is demanding business and requires a collective effort. You have been an important part of that effort.

Your support has been critical in enabling us to accomplish these and other achievements. Nazareth College could not be what it is today without your assistance, and for that I thank you.

Sincerely,

Daan Braveman

Interested in reading more from the perspective of President Braveman? Visit his official blog at http://naz.typepad.com/braveman.

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Alumni Giving This chart reflects the participation rate of each graduating class from Nazareth College. The financial support of our alumni has allowed our College to grow and flourish.

Year of Class rate graduation participation 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 www.naz.edu

20% 17% 9% 31% 13% 17% 36% 25% 42% 28% 25% 35% 54% 23% 46% 27% 48% 45% 51% 42% 49% 62% 43% 48% 53% 49% 49% 42% 41% 37% 41% 36% 41% 35% 32% 23% 24% 23% 20%

Total Donated

Year of Class rate graduation participation

$ 1,000.00 1973 $ 25.00 1974 $ 50.00 1975 $ 2,637.44 1976 $ 100.00 1977 $ 250.00 1978 $ 140.00 1979 $ 675.00 1980 $ 1,475.00 1981 $ 3,895.00 1982 $ 205.00 1983 $ 975.00 1984 $ 2,400.00 1985 $ 26,932.65 1986 $ 4,235.00 1987 $ 2,830.00 1988 $ 17,965.00 1989 $ 12,155.00 1990 $ 3,560.00 1991 $ 7,210.00 1992 $ 4,934.33 1993 $ 46,990.00 1994 $ 10,605.00 1995 $ 18,844.63 1996 $ 11,668.00 1997 $ 15,354.00 1998 $ 11,090.00 1999 $ 7,200.00 2000 $ 15,290.00 2001 $ 14,850.00 2002 $ 7,825.00 2003 $ 14,765.00 2004 $ 15,305.00 2005 $ 13,960.00 2006 $ 14,641.62 2007 $ 14,222.94 2008 $ 24,294.28 2009 $ 18,576.00 2010 $ 10,585.00

22% 16% 18% 18% 16% 17% 16% 15% 15% 14% 13% 13% 10% 12% 12% 13% 12% 8% 10% 9% 10% 9% 8% 8% 8% 9% 6% 6% 5% 7% 6% 5% 7% 10% 7% 6% 3% 40%

Total Donated $ 9,728.00 $ 6,215.00 $ 46,588.12 $ 27,809.00 $ 6,620.00 $ 7,890.00 $ 4,057.18 $ 6,202.50 $ 2,847.00 $ 3,347.00 $ 6,885.02 $ 10,795.89 $ 2,527.50 $ 6,025.00 $ 4,760.00 $ 4,620.00 $ 5,548.00 $ 13,399.15 $ 20,111.20 $ 3,750.00 $ 20,392.50 $ 2,037.59 $ 2,590.00 $ 2,956.00 $ 1,377.80 $ 3,304.88 $ 2,040.00 $ 1,839.50 $ 865.00 $ 1,680.01 $ 1,039.50 $ 1,082.50 $ 1,220.55 $ 4,980.12 $ 1,477.07 $ 975.08 $ 531.09 $ 4,764.95

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Report | to donors 2009-2010

N azareth College Statement of Activities J une 3 0 , 2 0 1 0

2010

2009

70,038,630 19,520,660 50,517,970 1,755,683 580,011 2,525,245 530,880 236,563 729,420 2,534,271 59,410,043 13,211,904 72,621,947

64,883,332 17,431,941 47,451,391 1,440,500 4,822,386 1,685,724 216,910 (410,875) 320,177 2,982,817 58,509,030 12,269,274 70,778,304

Operating Revenue Educational and general

Tuition and fees

less scholarships and grants

Net tuition and fees

Federal grants and contracts

State grants and contracts

Private gifts, grants, and contracts

Arts Center programs

Investment income and losses

Other revenues

Long-term investment return allocated for operations Total educational & general

Auxiliary enterprises Total operating revenue

Operating Expenses Educational and general

Instruction 28,620,047

Arts Center programs 1,869,423

Academic support 6,207,538

Student services 9,230,632

Institutional support 10,556,763 Total educational & general 56,484,403

Auxiliary enterprises 11,973,454 Total operating expenses 68,457,857

Change in net assets from operating activities 4,164,090

26,947,946 1,428,820 5,729,066 9,000,933 10,020,345 53,127,110 11,394,599 64,521,709 6,256,595

Non-Operating Activities Long-term investment activities

Investment income

Net realized & unrealized (losses) gains Total long-term investment activities

700,758 4,784,059 5,484,817

866,829 (13,491,879) (12,625,050)

Long-term investment return allocated for operations (2,534,271) Capital gifts 2,820,129 1,472,509 Other loss (494,014) Postretirement-related changes other than

net periodic benefit cost (2,510,180) Change in net assets from nonoperating activities 2,766,481

Change in net assets 6,930,571

Net assets at beginning of year 123,668,484 Net assets at end of year 130,599,055

(2,982,817)

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(261,123) (548,404) (14,944,885) (8,688,290) 132,356,774 123,668,484

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The graphs below depict the operating revenues and expenses for the 2009–2010 fiscal year as a percent of total operating revenue and expenses.

Main Sources of Operating Revenue

Operating Expenses

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operating revenue, comprising 70 percent of the College’s operating

allocated 42 percent of its expense budget for instructional purposes.

revenue in 2009–2010. Auxiliary enterprise revenue, which includes

An additional 9 percent was expended on academic support costs such

room and board fees collected, comprised 18 percent of totaloperating

as the Lorette Wilmot Library and Media Center. The College devoted

revenue. Private gifts and grants, and public grants and contracts

13 percent of the total operating budget directly to student programs

continue to be important sources of revenue as well.

and services.

evenues from student tuition and fees (student monies collected, less the amount of financial aid provided directly by the College) continued to be Nazareth’s primary source of

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n order to allocate the maximum amount of resources to carry out the academic mission, Nazareth continues to closely monitor and review institutional costs. For fiscal year 2009–2010 the College

Operating Expenses Instruction Arts Center programs Academic support Student services Institutional support Auxiliary enterprises

Sources of Operating Revenue 41.81% 2.73% 9.07% 13.48% 15.42% 17.49% 100.00%

Tuition & fees (net) Public grants and contracts Private gifts, grants, and contracts Arts Center programs Investment income and losses Other revenues Long-term investment return allocation Auxiliary enterprises

69.56% 3.22% 3.48% 0.73% 0.33% 1.00% 3.49% 18.19% 100.00%

2009–2010 Donors A complete list of 2009–2010 donors can be viewed online at www.naz.edu/support-nazareth/donor-list. The donor list reflects annual fund gifts given from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.

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If you have questions or comments about the stewardship report, please contact Director of Development Peggy Martin at mmartin0@naz.edu or at 585-389-2401.

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ALUMNI | profiles

The Arts Mean Business in Boston

by Sofia Tokar

Susan Hartnett ’77, executive director of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

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ringing together the arts, education, and business is no small feat—especially during a recession. But one Nazareth alumna is applying what she learned at the College to help adults in the greater Boston, Mass., area thrive despite a recent economic downturn.

Susan Hartnett ’77 has always held the arts and education in high regard. As a result, she has been involved in Boston’s cultural scene in a variety of roles for the last three decades. Hartnett worked 12 years for the Massachusetts state arts council, then 10 years as the director of the Boston Center for the Arts, and afterward for five years in Boston City Hall, including a stint as director of the Boston mayor’s office of arts, tourism, and special events and director of economic development for the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

Hartnett’s experience in economic and cultural development is impressive. In 2009, she brought that experience to bear in her current position as the executive director of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, based in Cambridge’s historic Harvard Square. Founded nearly 140 years ago, the CCAE is one of the most innovative centers for adult education in the country. The non-profit serves more than 17,000 people per year with courses, poetry readings lectures, performances, and visual art exhibitions.

“More than 450 people teach here each year,” says Hartnett, “and each one of them is passionate about his or her work.”

With the current economic climate, the CCAE fulfills an important role: providing classes and events to adults from a variety of backgrounds as well as those facing personal or economic hardships. “For someone who, perhaps, has lost a job, he or she can brush up on computer skills or take an art class to feed the soul,” says Hartnett. “The CCAE provides financial support as well as moral and psychological support for its participants. And it’s very exciting when people support you.”

Harnett herself knows about the power of support. As the third of

four daughters—all of whom attended and graduated from Nazareth— Hartnett received a scholarship to the College and graduated with a degree in art history and a minor in studio art.

“The arts are central to and permeate our lives,” she shares, “but we need special spaces where we can integrate the arts with our lives.” Hartnett identifies Nazareth as one of those special places. “The College opened my eyes and introduced me to a variety of art forms— fabric, pottery, theatre arts, and music—and the Arts Center exposed me to work from around the world.”

Hartnett also credits several Nazareth professors with letting her explore her own interests and talents. But it was more than just the financial and academic support that shaped Hartnett into the arts and cultural leader that she is today. “Sr. Magdalen LaRow took a generous interest in me. She took me to New York City, introduced me to the city and its universities, and encouraged me to attend the Institute of Fine Arts for a Ph.D. in art history.”

Hartnett chose not to pursue a doctorate after all, though LaRow would certainly still be proud of her former student. For Hartnett, an internship in Boston turned into a job (she was hired three weeks into said internship), which in turn launched her career in arts administration and her life in the unofficial cultural and economic capital of New England.

“I’m lucky to be living and working at a time when the arts and public policy have a sustained, if contentious, relationship,” Hartnett concludes. “It was at Nazareth that I learned just how hard it is to be an artist. The College taught me enormous respect for artists, and helped me discover my own role in the arts world.”

For more information about the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, visit www.ccae.org To read about other Nazareth alumni, check out “Nazareth College Alumni and Friends” on Facebook.

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

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Dr. Frisch and the Golden Era of IBM

by Mimi M. Wright ’05

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n a small science lab tucked in Smyth Hall more than half a century ago, seven young female chemists toiled away under the nurturing gaze of Sr. Marie Augustine, chairman of the chemistry department. One of those seven women was Margaret Frisch ’56, now seventy-six and retired from a long career at IBM. Frisch, known to her friends as Peggy, began her studies at Nazareth College in 1952 and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a minor in math. Her freshman class had 100 women enrolled, with several biology students, a handful of medical tech students, and a sizeable nursing contingent. “I liked the hard sciences, and we had quite a bit of science-like people at Nazareth at that time,” Frisch says. “[The College] was on the leading edge of training women in science way back in that period.”

After graduation, Frisch and fellow chemistry classmate Mary McGowan Donermeyer ’56 moved on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they both enrolled in a physical chemistry doctoral program that boasted a total of five women. Frisch contends that the school “took a chance on us, coming from a small liberal arts college,” but their risk clearly paid off: she received nearly all A’s in her classes. Frisch credits their “outstanding training at Nazareth” for the fact that she and Donermeyer had no problems, and Sr. Augustine claims the two paved the way for other Nazareth women with their impressive scholastic efforts and work ethic.

While in Madison, Frisch tracked satellites for the Smithsonian Institution’s Operation Moonwatch program, which led to a post-graduation job at Rocket Power, a research company in Pasadena, California.

A cancelled government contract in 1968 was soon followed by an interview with IBM, and several weeks later, Frisch began working for the technology giant. “I was the first female research staff member to work in the physics department,” she laughs.

Frisch was interested in lab automation and having computers control long-term experiments, so “they gave me a large sum of money to build an experiment that I wanted to do,” she says. Work at the research center was always challenging. In 1984, she was handed the task of measuring the mass of a neutrino. “Of course I was naïve,” she says. “and I agreed to take the challenge. I had much to learn in order to execute this difficult experiment, but it was fun. We called it playing in the sandbox back then.”

The neutrino experiment was abandoned after 10 years. “At the very end, the number was too small to be measured by our technique,” she explains. “We basically had to stop because IBM was losing money.”

Half the physics department had to find other work, but Frisch embraced the field of web development and became an expert in Java and other web languages. “One of my big hobbies was computer programming,” she says. “I loved to have computers do things. So it was a nice marriage of my interest in computers and chemistry.” The server that runs the IBM forums? “I wrote all that stuff,” Frisch adds blithely.

In spite of being significantly outnumbered by males, Frisch fit right in at IBM, remaining there for 34 years until her retirement in June 2002. “My years at IBM were like the golden years,” she says. “It was awesome to work there. We had so many brilliant people to be around.

They were all at the top of their field.”

Frisch, too, was a scientist at the top of her field—a field she began exploring back in Smyth Hall more than 50 years ago. “Things just come to you,” she concludes, “and it’s up to you to take advantage of them.”

Find “Nazareth College Alumni and Friends” on Facebook, or visit alumni.naz.edu for more information.

Mimi M. Wright ’05 is Nazareth’s assistant director of alumni relations.

Margaret Frisch ’56 visited campus last summer and led a 30-mile bicycle ride through Rochester with Nazareth friends.

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Dear Fellow Alumni,

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s the cover story in this issue of Connections indicates, it is critical for alumni to take an active role in the career services arena. Whether that means providing internship or job shadowing opportunities for students, assisting fellow alumni in a relocation or career change, or looking for ways to facilitate alum-to-alum business connections, we can each play a different role in supporting Nazareth alumni.

My husband and I are small business owners, and we know the realities of the tumultuous job market as well as the need for great employees. We invite Nazareth students to intern with us and always look favorably at applicants that are Nazareth grads when trying to fill vacancies. Not that you always need to hire Naz people, but it is comforting to know that nine times out of ten you are going to work with a student or an alum who possesses a high level of professional knowledge, the ability to think critically, and that pervasive value that still exists at Nazareth—the intrinsic drive to make a difference, no matter what the job entails.

I was fortunate to be a member of the alumni board and assist in the development of a new structure throughout the past year.

During that process, we had many lengthy discussions about

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where it was important to involve alumni volunteers in assisting the College. One of those areas included alumni career services. Now, as one of the co-chairs of the career services committee, I am excited to tackle these issues and work hard to identify ways in which alumni and the College can work together to provide the appropriate services and resources for our alumni base.

Each of us can play an important part in assisting others with career help, but how do you go about doing that? For starters, update your career information. Knowing your current job title and employer helps Nazareth make the best connections for networking opportunities. It also helps with the recruitment of incoming students—they feel confident that they will find a job after graduation when they see our successful alums. Post job opportunities and internships through the Career Services office, volunteer to speak to a class, or even become a member of the alumni board career services committee. Together, we can all create a better environment to support the career paths of the Nazareth family.

Thanks for doing your part!

Carrie Adamson Morabito ’97 Co-Chair, Alumni Board Career Services Committee P.S. If you are interested in serving on the career services standing committee, or any other of the alumni board standing committees, please contact the alumni office at 585-389-2472 or e-mail alumni@naz.edu. For more information on the alumni board, visit alumni.naz.edu.

Have you made the switch yet from Naz webmail to Gmail? If not, you’re missing out on 7 GB of space, Google calendars, contacts, documents, and the ability to check your e-mail on leading mobile devices (not to mention an upgrade to the 21st century). Since June 30, all NEW mail has been going to your Gmail account. Get rid of the webmail dinosaur and activate your new account now by visiting www.google.com/a/mail.naz.edu.

Have a different preferred e-mail address? Let us know by updating your information at alumni.naz.edu/update or send an e-mail to alumni@naz.edu Need help? Visit Information Technology Services at www.naz.edu/dept/its or call the IT service desk at 585-389-2111.

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Andrew Opett ’00, ’01G GOLD (Graduate of the Last Decade) Award Winner

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ndrew Opett ’00, ’01G, a graduate of the first physical therapy class at Nazareth College, has distinguished himself in a number of ways since graduation. After several years of clinical practice, he began teaching at Nazareth. Since 2003, his role has steadily increased, from teaching as a laboratory assistant to coordinating the Human Gross Anatomy course between Nazareth and Monroe Community College (MCC) and finally to teaching full time (including supervising students in Nazareth’s campus clinic) and practicing half time. He is currently a clinical instructor for student interns and a faculty member in the physical therapy and health sciences department at Nazareth and the biology department at MCC. At his current employer, STAR Physical Therapy, Opett has recently been promoted to director of operations for several PTs and PT assistants. He is currenlty enrolled in the doctor of physical therapy program at Upstate Medical Center, and he has obtained the American Board of Physical Therapist Specialist Certification in Orthopedics (OCS), a highly respected credential in physical therapy practice. He is also certified as a kinesiotaping practitioner by the kinesiotaping association of America. For the past two years, Opett has been a delegate representing the Finger Lakes region to the New York Physical Therapy Association (NYPTA) Delegate Assembly.

Opett has been a leader in planning several community service events, including the American Cancer Society Relay for Life in 2006, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society “Light the Night” walks (2005–2008), the Breast Cancer Walk (2007– 2009), and the American Heart Association Heart Walk in 2010. He received a B.S. in biology from SUNY Geneseo in 1996, a B.S. in health sciences from Nazareth College in 2000, and an M.S. from Nazareth College in 2001.

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Andrea Rivoli Costanza ’85 Outstanding Alumna

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ndrea Rivoli Costanza ’85 takes serving her community very seriously; in fact, it is one of her passions in life. Over the years, her service to community and the field of education has played a major role in helping to shape not only the Nazareth College community but the Rochester community.

Costanza earned her bachelor’s degree from Nazareth College in management science and French in 1985. She began her leadership at the College 10 years later as a member of the alumni board from 1995 to 2001. This led to her position as the board’s vice president from 1998 to 1999 and eventually president from 1999 to 2001. She was then nominated by the board of trustees to serve as the alumni trustee from 2001 to 2004. Her tenure on the board was highlighted by a historic milestone when Nazareth College acquired the Sisters of St. Joseph property and doubled its physical size as part of the successful $25 million campaign.

Outside of Nazareth, Costanza has taken on many volunteer roles in the Brighton community, including her most recent as a member of the Board of Education for Brighton Central Schools as well as past president of the Brighton Parent Teacher Student Association, a group dedicated to enriching the school experience for children and youth and creating opportunities for parents to be part of their children’s school experience.

Costanza and her husband James co-chair the Nucleus Fund Committee (NFC) for the Campaign for College and Community at Nazareth College. This ambitious campaign has a working goal of $60 million to fund renovations and additions to the Arts Center, fund construction of a new math and science center, increase the Nazareth Fund, and increase the endowment to secure the future of the College and support student and faculty development. The NFC is responsible for assisting President Daan Braveman in developing strategies, engaging key prospective donors, and soliciting many of the major gifts needed during the nucleus fund phase of the campaign.

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Save the Date June 3-5, 2011

he next Nazareth College Reunion Weekend is fast approaching! We look forward to welcoming you, your families, and classmates back to campus, so make plans now with your former roommates to visit your alma mater in all its glory. Everyone is invited to join in the summer fun with good food, great friends, and class parties.

Honored class years are those ending in a 1 or 6 but, as always, the more the merrier!

Interested in volunteering for your reunion class committee or looking for more details?

Visit Reunion Weekend Headquarters online at alumni.naz.edu/reunion.

And don’t forget about our Fourth Annual Golden Flyer Challenge! If a furry flyer mascot arrives at your doorstep, be sure to snap a photo and send the flyer on to another classmate. The race is on for most miles logged, most classmate visits, most creative photo, and most unique destination.

To see where all the flyers have flown or to request a visit from your class golden flyer, go to www.flightoftheflyers.com. Hurry though—all flyers must make it back to the alumni relations office

by May 20, 2011.

Maureen Bell Field ’65 (right) won Most Creative Photo in this year’s Golden Flyer Challenge for her picture of Francesca posing with the sculpture of the Fist of Joe Louis in Detroit, MI (left). Her photo was in memory of another “Joe Louis” (Sr. Josephine Louise) whom the class of 1965 all knew and loved.

From Naz to Numb

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azareth alumnus and Fairport native Sean Ferrell ’94 has broken into the writing world with his first novel Numb. The novel, published

by HarperCollins, was released in early August. It has already received critical praise from Publishers Weekly: “There are captivating moments and passages.... [Numb] has a lot of heart,” and from Kirkus Reviews: “Ferrell’s eye-catching debut is a mordant take on contemporary culture.... Artfully barbed entertainment.” Ferrell spoke at an author event during Nazareth Parents’ Weekend last September where alumni and friends learned about his journey from aspiring writer to published author and heard an excerpt from Numb. You can visit Sean Ferrell online at www.byseanferrell.com

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Shedding Light: Author and Publisher Peter Conners

by Robin L. Flanigan

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n high school, Peter Conners ‘98G earned praise from friends for the poetry he penned about angst, alienation, and the plight of the typical American teenager.

But the musings he kept while following the Grateful Dead for six years—he’d been to 14 of an eventual 100-plus Peter Conners ‘98G, concerts by his freshman year author and new publisher in college—are what ultimately at BOA Editions led to last year’s release of his breakthrough book, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2009).

The clasped blue leather journal he carted from show to show (until it was stolen during a San Francisco camping trip) in many ways cultivated what was to become a successful career in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

“I had a vague idea of poetry and lyrics and music, but this gave me a chance to put it all together on my own terms, to figure out how it all made sense,” says Conners, recently named publisher of BOA Editions, an independent, nonprofit poetry publishing house based in Rochester.

“Everything else developed from there.”

There have been a lot of developments recently.

Conners’s new book, White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg, was published in November by City Lights Publishers, and his next poetry collection, The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees, is scheduled for release in the spring. With his screenplay for Growing Up Dead finished and in the hands of a producer, he is back at work on a music-based novel he started eight years ago, titled The Death of Electric.

Now, after seven years of marketing and editing responsibilities at BOA, including the fiction series he instituted four years ago, Conners is looking to broaden its reputation as a cultural institution while continuing to represent 10 new titles a year.

His graduate years at Nazareth College, more than any school before, he says, validated his intellectual curiosity and the impact he could have on others through his writing.

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“It was the most successful and fulfilling educational experience I’ve had,” he recalls, admitting that until then, his nontraditional learning style had made him less than an ideal student. The supportive program, which included analyzing educational theories and experience teaching at traditional and alternative schools, helped him gain “an appreciation for my own thinking” and earned him a Student Teacher of the Year Award. After graduation, wanting to stay connected to the classroom, he led writing workshops in local schools.

In some ways, Conners, who lives in Pittsford with his wife and three children (the oldest, Whitman, is named after the American poet), has had to defend his on-the-road literary awakening to readers who confuse experimentation with mindless fun.

“It’s interesting how freely people comment on that, as if it’s not really your life,” he says. “You open yourself up to it, of course, because you put it in black and white. But people think of Deadheads as brainless and high all the time, and the people I met while traveling were really intelligent. The things I do now are very much an extension of the core values I learned at that time.”

And further, an extension of what he learned at Nazareth. Conners references a lyric from Grateful Dead’s “Terrapin Station” to illustrate the tightly woven relationship between a meaningful education and his current work: “His job is to shed light, not to master.”

“I always thought that fit what a writer and publisher should do,” he explains. “You’re not giving people directions—you shine light on things. You help them open up their minds and then they educate themselves.”

Learn more about BOA Editions at www.boaeditions.org.

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

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Board of Trustees Committee on Honorary Degrees Seeks Nominees

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he honorary degree is a traditional means to recognize distinguished individuals who have made significant contributions to the College over an extended period of time or whose outstanding personal or professional endeavors complement the College’s role and mission. Candidates must be viewed by the college community as unique, recognizable figures whose public recognition brings honor to Nazareth College.

The Nazareth College Board of Trustees invites you to nominate distinguished individuals to be considered for an honorary degree, the highest award that Nazareth College confers. Any trustee, faculty, staff, or alumni member may nominate a potential candidate. All suggestions must be submitted to the Office of the President. All nominations will then be forwarded to the Committee on Honorary Degrees.

Candidate Selection Criteria Nazareth College seeks to recognize men and women who exemplify the values and commitments set forth in the College’s mission statement, who have some appeal to the student body, and who exemplify the ideals to be emulated by Nazareth students and graduates. More specifically, the College seeks to recognize individuals who meet one or more of the following criteria: • are distinguished by their scholarly achievements • have helped the College to achieve its mission in an outstanding way • have made, or are in the process of making, a significant contribution to the welfare of the community, whether on a local, state, national, or international level Please return the nomination form (below) to: Office of the President, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.

For more information, please contact Patricia Genthner at pgenthn5@naz.edu or at 585-389-2002.

Please return the following form, along with supporting biographical materials, to the Office of the President.

Nomination for Honorary Degree/Commencement Speaker Name of nominee__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Address______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reasons for nomination_________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Submitted by ___________________ _____________________ ________________________Date_ _______________________________________

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Honoring

my Mother

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t was my mother’s dream to send me to college regardless of the sacrifices she would have to make. I believe higher education was then, and is now, a key element in the pursuit of a successful and fulfilled life.

Throughout my 35-year career in student financial aid administration, most of which I spent at Nazareth College, my goal was to extend opportunities to students to learn, achieve, blossom, and move on to share all that they had become.

Upon my mother’s death, I established the Vivian Chapman Memorial Scholarship at Nazareth College to honor this loving and talented woman. I’ve rewritten my will to include a significant bequest to expand this scholarship and the heritage of meaningful opportunity it provides to students at Nazareth College.

— Dr. Bruce Woolley, Founders Society member and retired director of financial aid at Nazareth College

Learn how you can make a lasting difference through your will by visiting go.naz.edu/plannedgiving What is planned giving?

What is the Founders Society?

When you include the College in your future plans through

A planned giving recognition society whose members are crucial

creating a life income gift such as a charitable gift annuity or chari-

to advancing the long-term goals of Nazareth. The College honors

table remainder unitrust, or by naming Nazareth as a beneficiary of

members each year at a luncheon. Throughout the year, members

your will, retirement plan, or life insurance policy.

receive special invitations to attend Nazareth events as well as recognition in our annual report.

For more information on planned giving opportunities, please contact Melissa Head, associate director of major gifts and planned giving, at 585-389-2179 or at mhead9@naz.edu. www.naz.edu

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class|notes

CLASS|notes ’30s Ingeborg Giese Lorensen ‘36, German, was featured in The Explorer newspaper in Tucson, Ariz., for her life story as a translator during the Nuremberg Trials at the end of World War II.

’70s Kathy Ruocco Schaefer ’71, Eng., writing as Kathryn Shay, published The Perfect Family in September with Bold Strokes Books. The novel is the story of an average small-town family whose lives are turned upside down when their youngest son discloses he is gay.

Jack Allocco ’72, Music, received two more daytime Emmy Awards for his work on CBS’s The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. See article in News & Views on page 5.

Kathleen Tully Houser ’73, ’79G, Art, the president of the Victor Historical Society, was featured in Canandaigua’s Daily Messenger newspaper last spring for her living history tours of the Ichabod Town Homestead in Victor. She was a primary school principal in Victor for 13 years and retired from Newark Central School after working in the elementary school for five years.

Charlotte Heberling Waterson ’74, Eng., was presented the Hospitality and Tourism Award at the Alexandria Bay Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet last June. She has been involved in the tourism business in the Thousand Islands since 1979 and is currently the general manager of the Holiday Inn Express in Watertown.

JoAnne Lipari Antonacci ’76, ’79G, Sp. Path., was named the Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES new district superintendent in April.

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Nazareth wants to welcome your newborn into the ranks of future alumni!

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rop a note announcing your new arrival to alumni.naz.edu, and the Alumni Office will send your son or daughter a genuine Nazareth bib.

Snap a photo of your bibbed darling and send a high resolution image back to alumni@naz.edu to have it appear in Connections and on the alumni website.

Walker David Juda, son of Emily Murphy Juda ’01 and David Juda ’00, born August 14, 2009.

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years ago, will serve as the sixth superintendent in the organization’s history and its first ever female superintendent. She was previously a department supervisor, building administrator, instructional specialist, Exceptional Children executive director, assistant superintendent for instructional programs, chief operating officer, and deputy superintendent.

Beryl Schaubroeck Tracey ’76, ’79G, Eng., an 11th and 12th grade English teacher at DeSales High School in Geneva, was named the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee Educator of the Year.

Tracey has required her students to write poems meditating on the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

Christine Grassi Sargent ’78, Music, a vocal music teacher at the Rush-Henrietta High School, was featured in the Educator Q&A of the Henrietta Post in April.

’80s Antoinette Indriolo Stronz ’82, Social Wk., a middle school guidance counselor in the Randolph Central School District, was nominated by school district administrators and recognized by Jamestown Community College as someone who has distinguished themselves in the field of education.

Mike Dianetti ’83, ’86G, Business Ed., was inducted into the Section V Basketball Hall of Fame in November in Rochester. Dianetti, a graduate of Greece Arcadia, was the 1979 Monroe County League Player of the Year. He played

collegiately at Nazareth and coached at the Aquinas Institute following graduation. Dianetti passed away in 2007.

Lori Marra ’83, Mgt. Science, is co-producing one of her fulllength plays for the International Midtown Festival in Manhattan.

Her play Mystic Castle, a dramatic work about the serial killer Arthur Shawcross, was chosen from Geva’s Regional Playwright Festival to move into full production in November.

James Quinlisk ’85, Eng. Writing, an English teacher at Brighton High School, was featured in the Brighton-Pittsford Post in June for his rewarding career in education.

Prior to teaching English, Quinlisk worked as a newspaper reporter.

Mark Maddalina ’87, Art, has been promoted to the position of sustainable design manager at SWBR Architects in Rochester, specializing in higher education projects and sustainable design practices. He received his master’s degree in architecture from SUNY Buffalo.

Dolores Jablonski Johnson ’89, Bus. Distributive Ed., received the New York State Transfer Articulation Association (NYSTAA) Emeritus Award for her commitment to transfer students. She retired from Nazareth in January 2010 after 20 years of service.

Laurie Schon Leo ’89, Bus. Act., was named vice president for strategic initiatives at Klein Steel in Rochester.

’90s Michael Park ’90, Art, earned a daytime Emmy for his work

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on CBS’s As the World Turns. See article in News & Views on page 5.

Matthew Orioli ’91, Bus. Adm., was promoted to district general manager for Stanley Security Solutions, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio.

Joe Yacano ’92, Bus. Adm., is a founding partner of ViewSPORT, a Pittsford-based company that designs and manufactures sweatactivated apparel.

Jon Gottschall ’95, Eng. Lit., was mentioned in an article in the New York Times for his writing about using evolutionary theory to explain fiction. See article in News & Views on page 12.

’00s Kristin Ward ’00, Theatre and French, is the director of Moquette Volante, a Pittsburgh-based Middle Eastern dance company that blends dance, music, and spoken word. Moquette Volante performed at the Bread and Water Theatre in Rochester at the end of June.

James Fitzmaurice ’01, Bus. Adm., was hired as director of user development for Omnilert®, LLC, maker of RainedOut, the first text message service for sports leagues and clubs. He earned his master’s in sport administration from Canisius College in Buffalo.

Paul Rogers ’01, Math, the dean of students at the Batavia campus of the Genesee Valley Educational Partnership (BOCES), was profiled in the Batavia Daily News in May. He previously taught math at Le Roy Junior/Senior high school for seven years, where he was the math department chair and coordinator of Academic Intervention Services.

Melissa Reed ’02, ’06G, Music Ed., won a 2010 Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) Musicians’ Award for Outstanding Music Educators in the category www.naz.edu

Nazareth alumni gathered at the wedding of Becky Farrell ’02 to Brian Ferringo in Rochester on July 3.

Left to right: Stacy Keith Handy ’02, Kristen Wahl ’02, ’05G, the bride, Ginger Johnson Thayer ’02.

Molly Harrington ’06 married Stephen Berkstresser on June 19 in the Adirondacks, and the nuptials were attended by lots of (slightly sunburned) Nazareth friends.

Left to right: Mary Tiballi ’06, Ruth Wardwell ’06, the bride, Scott Scaffidi ’06, Shaun Tyszka ’07, and Brynn Lucas ’08.

of Classroom Music Specialist.

The awards commend educational and musical excellence and recognize the positive influence that music educators have on the musicians and audiences of the future. Reed is a music educator and music therapist for the Hilton Central School District and a music education lecturer at Nazareth.

Eric Hansen ’03, Bus. Adm., was presented the Paul Zimmerman Outstanding Young Farmer Award at the Ontario County

Agriculture Appreciation Banquet last spring. The award recognizes a young farmer who has shown the same dedication and commitment as Paul Zimmerman, a young farmer who was on the leading edge of innovative practices and good stewardship.

James Henderson ’05, Religious Stu., an office manager at Pet Pride, a cats-only shelter in Victor, was featured in the Daily Messenger newspaper for his work at the shelter.

Barbara Elliott Jones ’05, Eng. Lit., graduated from Medaille College’s Accelerated Learning Program in 2009 with her master’s degree in business administration.

Jones works as coordinator of admissions for the GRC MSW Program, the collaborative program between Nazareth and Brockport.

Amanda Bowers Lundberg ’05, Psy., received her Ed.S. in school psychology from Rider University in May 2009 and in September 2009 began working

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Anna Czerniawski ’06 married Daniel Cartwright ’07 on July 17 at Holy Trinity Church in Webster.

A travel-themed reception followed at the Webster Golf Club, at which the couple featured photos and music collected during their time abroad in France and Spain through Nazareth’s Study Abroad programs.

Back l to r: Dr. Candide Carrasco, Becky Herber ’07, Shelly Haefele Stuart ’05, Alison Sloan McCarthy ’06.

Middle l to r: Jetty Levy, Ruben Gomez, Alyse Sarti ’07, Kristen Stern ’06, Kelly Chapman ’04, Amity Widener ’06, ’09G, Prof. Octave Naulleau, Laura Lashure Abouharia ’06, Said Abouharia. Front l to r: The bride and groom.

When Becki Wegener ’06 (right) visited a fellow grad Maggie McLaughlin Dalton ’06 in London, they were taking in the sights of the city when they stumbled upon a place called “Cafe Naz.”

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as a school psychologist in the Robbinsville Public School District in Robbinsville, N.J. Brian Graham ’09, Hist., a varsity boys’ lacrosse coach at Wallkill Senior High School, was 9-4-1 in his first season, earning Varsity 845’s Coach of the Year honors. Graham was manager of the men’s lacrosse team at Nazareth from 2007–09.

’10s Briana Watson ’10, Social Wk. and Soc., was one of four women to share their stories of success after overcoming challenges at the Voices of Experience event sponsored by the Women’s Foundation of Genesee Valley at the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery in May.

Graduate Class Notes Barbara Siebert Packard ’80G, a teacher at North Rose-Wolcott, was named the 2010 MasterMinds Coach of the Year. MasterMinds is an academic competition for high school students that uses a form of the NAQT™ Quiz Bowl format for match play.

Packard is the lead math teacher for grades 9-12 and is an advisor for the National Honor Society.

Nancy Jean Smith Osborn ’89G was named the principal at the Bailey Avenue Elementary School in Plattsburgh. She was formerly the principal at the ByronBergen Elementary School in Bergen for eight years and has also taught first and second grades.

Kimberly Connell Black ’97G, a math co-teacher, resource teacher, and department leader for special education at Pittsford Sutherland High School, was featured in Rochester’s Brighton-Pittsford Post in the Educator Q&A.

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Brian J. Lissner ’09 A proud new member of the GOLD Council Oak Society

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issner, a lacrosse player during his four years at Nazareth, chose to designate his recent gift to the lacrosse team. “From the first day, I realized how close a group it is—the players, the coaches, and the alums—and I knew that donations played a large part in helping us accomplish what we could as a team,” he says. “Now that I’m an alum, I want to make that possible for other players.”

Lissner is now a financial analyst at US Energy Development Corporation in Buffalo, and he intends to continue to support Nazareth as the years go on. “Nazareth has played a large role in where I am today as an individual and in my career,” he says. “I’ve learned that hard work and teamwork apply to both your life and the business world.”

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Gift Amount

(Received by June 30, 2011)

Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) GOLD classes now have a special opportunity to become Council Oak members.

2010

$100

Instead of the $1,000 donation usually required, GOLD can join the Council Oak

2009

$200

Society by giving $100 for each year after their graduation date. Membership is

2008

$300

now more attainable, says Lynn Mulvey, assistant director of development, and

2007

$400

the new program provides a simple way of remembering what it takes to be a

2006

$500

2005

$600

GOLD Council Oak member.

2004

$700

2003

$800

2002

$900

2001

$1000

To learn more about the Council Oak Society and how you can support Nazareth, visit www.naz.edu/support-nazareth/ giving-options/council-oak-society

Jayne Mead Rossman ’98G received the 2010 Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award from Pima Community College in Tucson, Ariz., in May. She instructs teachers in educational psychology and structured English immersion.

Jeanne Witte Kaidy ’99G, a science teacher at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, is one of 103 recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

Kaidy, who teaches biology and AP environmental science, has been at McQuaid for 12 years. See article in News & Views on page 13.

Kristen Jo Kinney ’00G earned her doctorate of education in curriculum and instruction from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in May. She works for K12 Inc. in Herndon, Va., where she is currently a senior content specialist for reading and primary language arts.

Jeffrey Alger ’02G was named the Waterloo School District’s athletic director and director of health, physical education, and recreation. He started a three-year term in July.

Jane Morale ’02G was chosen to receive a 2010 Philharmonic Orchestra Musician’s Award for Outstanding Music Educators.

Morale is the orchestra director and string instrument instructor at Webster Spry Middle School.

She is a member of the American String Teachers’ Association and the Music Educators’ National Conference. She currently serves on the Monroe County School Music Association Executive Board as elementary all-county orchestra coordinator. In 2009, she received the Nazareth College Music Educator’s Service Award.

Ryan Clair ’03G was named the assistant principal at Fairport High School. Clair was previously an assistant principal at Midlakes

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High School in the Phelps-Clifton Springs District.

Dan O’Brien ’03G, a math teacher at the Harley School, was profiled in the Greece Post in February. O’Brien, formerly an attorney, is in his sixth year at Harley, where he teaches pre-algebra, algebra, and geometry to seventh and eighth graders.

Lauren Brandt ’05G has joined the Finger Lakes Council of the Boy Scouts of America as a district executive.

Nicole Whitwood Carey ’08G was inducted into the Wellsville Central School Athletic Hall of Fame in June. A 2002 graduate of Wellsville, she played soccer, basketball, and softball.

Rachel Pasternak ’08G started her own company, Events Made Easy, which has a permanent location in Pittsford and books events nearly every weekend of the year.

She was featured in Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle in May. She received her master’s degree in liberal studies.

Kate Shaw Klatt ’10G has been hired to teach in the Four PLUS program at the Pittsford Cooperative Nursery School. She is currently working in a pediatric palliative-care program as a certified child life specialist and case manager.

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

Sarah Donahue ’04 to Vincent Enea, Sept. 18, 2009.

Elizabeth Ireland ’04 to Brian Pearsall, June 5, 2009.

Katherine Parks to Jacob Steck ’04, April 10, 2010.

Kara Andrae ’05G to Robert Sawyer, Jan. 2, 2010.

Barbara Elliot ’05 to Damien R. Jones Sr., Jan. 31, 2010.

Molly Harrington ’06 to Stephen Berkstresser, June 19, 2010.

Amber Coder to Scott McCraith ’06, March 31, 2010.

Randi Hughes ’06 to Nicholas Proukou ’07, Jan. 2, 2010.

Alida Murphy ’07 to Paul Osetek, July 26, 2009.

Anna Klosek ’09 to Alex Majewski, Aug. 8, 2009.

Kathryn Koehler ’09G to Joey Labelle, July 3, 2010.

Daniela Lanza ’09G to Adam Ball, Sept. 5, 2009.

Kelly Ann Bates ’10 to Adam Mott, May 8, 2010.

New Arrivals Christina George Brown ’91, twins, Ross Aaron and Tabitha Mary, Sept. 24, 2009.

Jessica Egan Woodruff ’96, a daughter, Lucy Elaine, Feb. 7, 2010.

Julia Antinora ’98, a son, Tanner Whipple, Feb. 3, 2010.

Deborah Lloyd McGarvey ’99, a son, Patrick Colin, March 16, 2010.

Mary Beth Manino Harrod ’01, a daughter, Maryna Clare, Feb. 4, 2010.

Bridget Preston Miller ’04, ‘07G, a son, Ian Michael, Sept.

23, 2009.

Barbara Elliott ’05, a son, Doniven Marquis Elliott Jones, Sept. 6, 2009.

In Memoriam Ruth Lintz Starkweather ’37, April 29, 2010.

Bernice Decker Toohey ’37, June 29, 2010.

Margaret Beahon Winegarden ’38, March 9, 2010.

Mary Jane LaIuppa Mayka ’39, March 28, 2010.

Rosemary Burgio ’43, ’55G, March 1, 2010.

Rosemary Tierney Heffernan ’43, March 27, 2010.

Marie Fox ’45, April 2, 2010.

Frances Bryan Clark ’47, June 17, 2010.

Louise Trautlein Cronin ’47, July 9, 2010.

Margaret Maloy Spillane ’47, March 28, 2010.

Dorothy Louis ’49, June 16, 2010.

Marjorie Sullivan ’49, July 12, 2010.

Virginia Davis Mahns ’50, May 29, 2010.

Yvonne Clasgens ’51, April 2, 2010.

Joanne Hoffmaster ’51, March 16, 2010.

Suzanne Plunkett Cook ’54, April 9, 2010.

Rosemarie DeFranco Brinklow ’56, ’76G, June 4, 2010.

Mary Heveron Williams ’56, May 24, 2010.

Mary Joan Costigan Brien ’60, April 8, 2010.

Doretta Rhodes ’60, ’71U, June 13, 2010.

Noreen McCarthy Stillhard ’60, June 7, 2010.

Eleanor M. Kawka ’61, Feb. 22, 2010.

Barbara Dilulio ’65, July 7, 2010.

Yolanda Sauciunac Dragone ’65G, May 23, 2010.

Sandra Comins Sabacek ’72, ’76G, May 22, 2010.

Gail Connors Stevenson ’72, ‘76G, May 27, 2010.

Kathleen Pineau Joerger ’76, June 2, 2010.

Constance Harris O’Dell ’76, April 18, 2010.

Harriet Goodman Stell ’79, ’82G, June 14, 2010.

Linda Vecchi ’79, March 23, 2010.

Margaret Fennessy Guzman ’82, April 5, 2010.

Rita Hogan Kress ’89, May 21, 2010.

James Prettyman ’90G, April 27, 2010.

Amy Outcalt Iman ’95, April 23, 2010.

David Martin ’03, June 9, 2010.

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Outstanding Alumni azareth College has two awards to recognize the significant achievements of Nazareth alumni: the Outstanding Alumni Award and the Alumni GOLD Award. The influence of these alumni has been felt not only within the Nazareth community, but within the communities in which they live and work.

Outstanding Alumni Award For more than 30 years, the College has recognized the achievements of its graduates with the Outstanding Alumni Award. Outstanding Alumni serve as role models for Nazareth students, encourage others to consider a Nazareth education, and further inspire, in their fellow graduates, a sense of pride in their alma mater.

Alumni GOLD Award This award is designed to recognize the achievements of an alumni who, having graduated within the past 10 years, has distinguished him or herself in the community or workplace while adhering to the values fostered by Nazareth College.

Interested in nominating a classmate or friend? Please contact Kerry Gotham, director of alumni relations, at kgotham7@naz.edu or 585-389-2404.

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For a list of previous alumni award winners, visit go.naz.edu/alumni-awards.

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