Seton Hall Magazine Spring 2019

SETON HALL Spring 2019

Model of Service and Leadership Interim President Mary J. Meehan leaves office with the University poised for the future.

SETON HALL NAMES ITS 21ST PRESIDENT: JOSEPH E. NYRE

SETON HALL Spring 2019

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Seton Hall magazine is published by the Department of Public Relations and Marketing in the Division of University Advancement.

features 18 Universal Faith

Seton Hall helps professed religious students from abroad continue their education so they can return home to share the lessons they’ve learned.

Interim President Mary J. Meehan ’72/M.A. ’74/Ph.D. ’01 Interim Vice President for University Advancement Matthew Borowick ’89/M.B.A. ’94 Associate Vice President for Public Relations and Marketing Dan Kalmanson, M.A.

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Professor Gaia Bernstein and a Seton Hall Law team are educating young students about the dangers of oversharing in cyberspace.

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2 From Presidents Hall 4 HALLmarks 10 A Different Kind of Service

Despite ingrained expectations about the profession he’d pursue, Erick Agbleke, M.A. ’19 has found his calling in international affairs.

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The Sounds of Science Education professor Edmund Adjapong uses hip-hop to engage young students with science.

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Profile

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Sports at the Hall

Cover: Interim president Mary J.

Meehan. Photo by Sean Sime Facing page: Campus photo by Bob Handelman

To Share or Not to Share?

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Glenn Hartrick, M.B.A. ’06 continues to rack up success as an endurance athlete, after surviving a devastating accident.

Joe and Martha Andreski have lived in eight states across the U.S. But their enduring connection to the place they grew up — and to Seton Hall — led them to fund a new student scholarship.

Alumni News & Notes Last Word

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FROM P R E S ID E N T S H A L L |

M A R Y J. M E E H A N ’ 7 2 / M . A . ’ 7 4 / P H . D. ’ 0 1

A Privilege to Serve I will never forget my first day as a Seton Hall student.

I arrived on campus eager to learn about my University and to experience life as a Setonian. On that day, the University family embraced me as one of its own. And in time, I learned to stand on the strength of that family to create a successful career and a rewarding life.

On that first day, flush with the excitement of new begin-

school, recent freshman classes have never been stronger.

nings, I never would have dreamed that I would serve

We continue to be blessed by students whose academic

for many years in the University administration. And

profiles grow more impressive each year.

even after I left a senior leadership role in 2004, it was never a thought that I would return. Yet Seton Hall’s

I challenged myself and my fellow graduates to support

19th president, Monsignor Robert Sheeran, liked to

our alma mater as never before. And we did. More

remind us that our God is a God of surprises. And all

than 10 percent of undergraduate alumni gave to Seton

of these surprises are gifts — though some are not

Hall as part of the “Get to 10” campaign. It remains

without their challenges.

an amazing achievement, though not unexpected. As a

Returning to Seton Hall was a surprise for me. In

three-time alumna, I know my community of more than

2017, I had recently stepped down as president of a

100,000 graduates takes enormous pride in Seton Hall.

Catholic women’s college in Milwaukee and was consid-

Giving, volunteering and mentoring by alumni continue

ering my next steps. As it turned out, those steps led me

to rise.

back to South Orange and the interim presidency of an

Our campus has never been more inviting. The

institution that means the world to me. Serving in this

addition of Bethany Hall has been a game-changer for

role has truly been a gift — with just a few challenges.

University Admissions, campus events, alumni gather-

I am proud of what we have accomplished as a community over the past two years. Our dreams have never been greater. The Interprofessional Health Sciences

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Alumni have never been more energized. Last year,

ings and more. One look makes me feel even prouder of our campus and community.

My decades of experience have given me a sense

campus and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at

of what it takes to lead our much-loved Catholic

Seton Hall University have been transformative in all of

university. It is not a privileged job, but it is a privilege

the right ways. Partially due to the lure of our medical

to serve in the role of president. And the selection of

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Joseph E. Nyre, Ph.D., as our next president has filled me with confidence.

Our God is a God of surprises, and in Dr. Nyre we

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The Greeks differentiated time with two different words; regular, minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour time was called chronos. Extraordinary times of grace and

have received a precious gift. I don’t think we will

opportunity were kairos moments. Today, as we eagerly

be surprised at how effective he will be as our 21st

anticipate Dr. Nyre’s arrival, we find ourselves in one

president. He has all of the skills, personality and

of those graced and precious kairos moments.

experience that are needed to take Seton Hall to

Know that you will be in my prayers in the weeks

the next level. I am delighted that he accepted the

and months to come. May our patroness, St. Elizabeth

University’s offer and pledge that I will do my utmost

Ann Seton, guide you and your loved ones on a path of

to ensure a seamless transition.

greater happiness. God bless you. n

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In Brief

l More than 100 people attended Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology’s “Humanae Vitae: 50 Years of Prophetic Witness” conference last fall. The event commemorated the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s milestone document. l The Stillman School of Business was named among the top 50 business schools in the nation in the third annual Poets & Quants “Best Undergraduate Business Schools” ranking. The school ranked No. 3 in the nation for alumni satisfaction and was designated a top “10 Business School to Watch in 2019.” l William T. Grant Foundation provided Robert Kelchen, assistant professor of higher education, with a grant to study how performance-based funding policies have varied across states and institutions of higher education over the last 20 years — and how those variations have influenced outcomes. l Bryan Meadows, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies, was named to serve on the New Jersey State Advisory Committee for Bilingual Education for two years.

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l Judith Lucas, associate dean for undergraduate programs in the College of Nursing, was named a fellow by the Gerontological Society of America, the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging, for her work in advancing social research policy and practice in the area of gerontology. l The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded an interprofessional training grant to the College of Nursing, the School of Health and Medical Sciences and the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University to expand patient access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. l Theology professors Monsignor Thomas Guarino and Father Pablo Gadenz held book signings in the fall for their new publications, titled, respectively, The Disputed Teachings of Vatican II: Continuity and Reversal in Catholic Doctrine and The Gospel of Luke.

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l Kurt Rotthoff, associate professor in the Department of Economics and Legal Studies, earned a “Bright Idea Award” for his article on structural breaks in Major League Baseball, which appeared in the peer-reviewed Journal of Sports Economics.

The award is made to New Jersey business school faculty members whose publications significantly advance knowledge in their discipline area and deliver relevant findings to business practitioners. l The College of Communication and the Arts hosted an invitation-only master class, “Sports Journalism and Its Challenges,” led by ESPN sports anchor and reporter Bob Ley ’76, who was recently inducted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame. l The Institute for Communication and Religion hosted a master class taught by Heidi Campbell, a religion and new media scholar who explores the influence of technology on religious communities. l Matthew Pressman, assistant professor of journalism, published On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News, which has received notable reviews in the national press. l US Lacrosse provided Richard Boergers, associate professor in the Department of Athletic Training, with a grant to support his research about pre-hospital care of athletes suffering acute cardiac events. l Kathleen Nagle, assistant professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology, received an Advancing Academic-Research Careers Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. This award is given to new faculty in higher education to support academic research in the field of communication sciences and disorders. l Brian B. Shulman, dean of the School of Health and Medical Sciences, was selected to serve as a commissioner on the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA), the national body that accredits programs that meet established qualifications and educational standards. l Doreen Stiskal, chair of the Department of Physical Therapy, was re-elected as vice chair of the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) for 2019. l The American Academy of Nursing named Kathleen Neville, associate dean for graduate studies and research in the College of Nursing, as a fellow.

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BY THE NUMBERS

School of Diplomacy and International Relations U.N. Intensive Summer Study Program

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Summers at the U.N.

775

Participants to date

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Countries represented each year

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Miles from campus to U.N. headquarters

60

Hours of U.N. immersion each week

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U.N. representatives met each summer

193

Number of U.N. member states

600

Estimated number of photos taken during U.N. Week 5

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SETON HALL’S 21st PRESIDENT

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oseph E. Nyre, Ph.D., will join the Seton Hall community this summer as the University’s 21st president, bringing with him a background in psychology, eight

years experience leading Iona College, and a devout Catholic faith.

“As a highly regarded educator, psychologist and healthcare innovator, Dr. Nyre is the perfect choice to lead Seton Hall into the highest echelon of American Catholic universities,” said Patrick Murray, chair of the University’s Board of Regents.

At a welcome reception on campus in February, Nyre noted that “Seton Hall’s inspiration and attraction is deep and personal to me.” The president-elect described where work ethic, faith and education were celebrated.

Seton Hall’s president. During his speech in February, he

He noted that he joined the Navy to help him become the

laid out a framework for the University community that

first in his family to graduate from college.

spoke of communal purpose and transformative goals.

After earning a bachelor’s degree from the Universi-

“Rest assured,” he said, “we will work together to

ty of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, he attained three advanced

develop a shared vision rooted in common values and

degrees and completed pre- and post-doctoral studies

mission, and to honor all who came before us. We will

at the University of Missouri, University of Kansas and

work together to serve at the intersection of faith and

Harvard Medical School.

education.”

He spent a number of years as a practicing psychol-

“Together we will elevate Seton Hall’s academic dis-

ogist, researcher and professor while serving at several

tinction, via strong academic planning and investments,”

prominent institutions, including Baylor University, the

he said. “We will advance inclusion and accessibility. We

University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine and

will plan and invest in campus modernization. And we

Harvard Medical School.

will grow the University endowment to support student

In 2011 he joined Iona College, a Roman Catholic institution, as president, where he and his team launched new academic programs, established a center for entrepreneurship as well as an internationally recognized

scholarships, faculty and distinction.”

Nyre was selected as Seton Hall’s next leader following a national search.

“Dr. Nyre’s distinguished service in academia and

Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, developed a new core

health care and his experience in transformational higher

curriculum, funded new endowed professorships, and

education leadership along with his deep Catholic faith

created faculty distinction and innovation programs.

will help guide and propel Seton Hall to even greater

During his time there, Iona strengthened its fiscal

national prominence,” said Regent Kevin Marino, chair of

health with record levels of fundraising, tripling its

the presidential search committee, which included repre-

endowment and funding record levels of student schol-

sentatives from the University’s Board of Trustees, Board

arships. The college expanded its main campus by 30

of Regents, priest community, administration and faculty.

percent, built two new residence halls and broke ground for a new school of business.

Nyre will draw on this history of inspiring collective achievement and progressive growth in his new role as

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President-elect Joseph E. Nyre and his wife, Kelli Nyre.

Nyre will assume the presidency of Seton Hall University effective August 1, after completing the academic year at Iona. He and his wife, Kelli, have four school-age children, from a first-grader to a senior in high school.

Photo by Michael Paras

how he was raised in a working-class Catholic family

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SHU IN THE NEWS “The pastiche that is ‘First Man’ reminds us of the apocalyptic current that ran through (and is still running?) the postmodernism debate.”

Christopher Sharrett, College of Communication and the Arts, Film International, exploring the significance of Damien Chazelle’s film: “First Man.”

“If you put the mission or your objective as well as your people first, you are never going to fail, but how you do that is up to your unique leadership style.”

Bryan Price, Buccino Leadership Institute, on PBS, discussing the importance of leadership skills to future generations.

“The church building evangelizes even with its presence, and if the building is no longer even physically present in the historic places — plazas and small-town centers, in the memory of the people — how can this Church evangelize or receive any sustenance from the faithful? The Church becomes poorer — and not in a good way.”

Ines Murzaku, College of Arts and Sciences, National Review, warning about the abandonment and repurposing of ecclesiastical buildings.

“The AI revolution is, sadly, likely to be dystopian. At present, governmental, educational, civic, religious and corporate institutions are ill-prepared to handle the massive economic and social disruption that will be caused by AI.” Mark Maben, WSOU, PEW Research Center, discussing the rise of artificial intelligence and the future of humans.

“My prayers for a new way to think about the so-called crisis over ‘trust’ in the press have been answered thanks to media scholar Matthew Pressman’s erudite new history, On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News.”

Jack Shafer in Politico.

“China must stop making a mockery of the rights treaties it signs.”

Margaret K. Lewis, School of Law, an expert on China and Chinese law, in The Washington Post.

50 Years of EOP

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or 50 years, Seton Hall has given motivated New Jersey students from disadvantaged backgrounds a way to fulfill their dreams through the Educational Opportunity Program, which this year is serving more than 270 students.

The competitive leadership program, launched in 1968, seeks students who are driven and goal-oriented. While SAT scores and writing skills are important parts of the application, a student’s ability to articulate his or her hopes for the future is what catches the EOP interviewer’s attention.

“Seton Hall became a realistic option for me once I was accepted into EOP, ” says Essence Williams, a sophomore history major with minors in diplomacy and Africana studies. “I knew the process would be hard, but the summer program, the community and the financial aid were amazing opportunities

for a student with limited options.”

EOP students receive financial assistance from New Jersey’s Educational Opportunity Fund as well as personalized advising throughout their years from a Student Development Specialist.

“Our students in this program receive the tools and support they need to make a life-changing difference for themselves, for their families and their communities,” explained Majid Whitney, associate dean and director of the Educational Opportunity Fund programs at Seton Hall.

“EOP is so much more than financial aid. The program has created a culture and climate for its students to feel a sense of belonging, and also one where our success as students is prioritized,” said Khadija Bhatti, a senior EOP student majoring in political science.

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One of the Best president of Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,

“Best 50 Women In Business” in 2019, a fitting

until 2016.

honor as she nears the end of more than two

years of service as the University’s interim president.

Joseph E. Nyre, Ph.D., was recently selected to begin work as Seton Hall’s 21st president on August 1.

Meehan, a three-time alumna and a former Seton

Before embarking on an academic career, Meehan established herself as a leader in the healthcare industry, working in mental health administration at hospitals in New York and New Jersey.

That background served her well when she

Hall senior administrator, has fulfilled the president’s

returned to Seton Hall to step in as interim president,

duties since April 2017. During her tenure, she oversaw

as the University was in the midst of establishing a

the opening of the new Interprofessional Health

new medical school with Hackensack Meridian Health.

Sciences campus, the University’s

Her efforts also led to the

continued rise in national

successful opening of the

rankings, and increased fund-

new Interprofessional Health

raising and alumni support.

Sciences campus last summer.

The NJBIZ award recognizes

Among her other accom-

leaders who shape their

plishments is overseeing a

organizations or industries,

record freshman enrollment

and help improve the economic

last fall, the largest class in

landscape in the state.

Seton Hall history.

“We are extremely grateful

Working with the Office of

to Dr. Meehan, who has done a

the Provost, she announced

tremendous job as interim presi-

the new Buccino Leadership

dent at this critical time in the

Institute. A first-of-its-kind

University’s history, leading

interdisciplinary program, the

Seton Hall forward and ensuring

institute is designed to develop

a smooth transition for Dr. Nyre’s

undergraduates from a wide

arrival on campus,” said Patrick

array of academic majors into

Murray, chair of the Board of

the next generation of ethical

Regents.

servant leaders.

Meehan, a native of Orange,

Meehan will also be

New Jersey, graduated from Seton

“Get to 10” fundraising initiative, challenging the Uni-

students on the South Orange campus. She went on to

versity to receive gifts from 10 percent of alumni with

earn two more degrees from the University: a master’s

undergraduate degrees.

in rehabilitation counseling in 1974 and a doctorate

The campaign increased the giving rate by 27

in higher education administration in 2001. She also

percent in one year and was noteworthy for Meehan’s

received a master’s in health policy and management

personal “fundraiser in chief” appeal to the alumni

from New York Medical College in 1989.

community.

Her previous administrative roles were as vice

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remembered for her successful

Hall in 1972 as part of the first class to include female

Meehan will remain part of the campus community

president and assistant to the president from 1996

once she leaves the president’s office on July 31 —

to 2001, before becoming executive vice president

she will join Seton Hall’s College of Education and

for administration through 2004. She then served as

Human Services as a faculty member.

Photo by Sean Sime

M

ary J. Meehan, Ph.D., was named one of NJBIZ’s

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A TIME TO REFLECT

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inding ways to make time for God and prayer was the goal of a woodland retreat offered by the Office of Campus Ministry to students and staff this fall.

“We all need periods of time to step back from our

They also learned the ancient Benedictine practice of Lectio Divina, a way to read and meditate upon Scripture.

For many, the highlight was a hike, during which they listened to Campus Ministry staffer Stephanie Sonnick

busy, hectic lives and turn to the Lord,” said Father

reflect on how God is revealed in the world and how we

Brian Needles, director of Campus Ministry. “The retreat

can respond to His presence in nature.

gave our students some wonderful suggestions and strategies for encountering God in the ordinary routines

The retreat also offered time for silent reflection, as well as the Sacrament of Reconciliation and Mass.

“It was a peaceful, thought-provoking, and

of their day.”

The weekend event was spent at the 240-acre Hands

much-needed time away from campus to re-center on

in 4 Youth Retreat Center in West Milford, New Jersey,

prayer and priorities,” said senior Jen Hobeika. “This

where participants learned how to make a morning

retreat allowed me to connect with other students

offering and an end-of-day reflective prayer called an

on their faith journeys, be open and vulnerable about

examen, as practiced by St. Ignatius Loyola.

questions I have, and grow in my faith life.”

An Abundance of Trees

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here are almost 1,000 trees on the Seton Hall campus, and Environmental Studies students are well on their way to recording information about each and every one.

“We have a wide variety of trees on campus, many different species and hundreds need pruning and maintenance,” says Jeff Truskowski, director of grounds.

“Having the students enter the tree data and create a consolidated tree inventory is a huge help.”

So far 810 trees have been catalogued and mapped using an online system called Tree Plotter.

The students have identified 96 species. Evergreens are the most prevalent, including spruce (103), northern white cedar (66) and pine (63). Of the deciduous trees, the London planetree (40) and the honey locust (30) have the highest numbers.

Most trees are relatively small — six to 12 inches in diameter or less — although 41 are listed as more than 2.5-feet wide.

A map locates each tree on campus with a dot, and clicking on it brings up a list of “eco-benefits,” such as the tree’s effect on stormwater management, energy conservation, air quality and carbon sequestration.

Each tree is also assigned an overall annual monetary benefit, based on these factors. So far, the benefit of all the trees listed is almost $40,000 a year.

The condition of each tree is also recorded, ranging from excellent to poor to dead. This will give grounds crews the information they need to address any safety issues in case of severe weather or storm damage to the trees.

Seton Hall’s trees may be found online at pg-cloud.com/shu.

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CHRISTOPHER HANN

Despite ingrained expectations about the profession he’d pursue, Erick Agbleke, M.A. ’19 has found his calling in international affairs.

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n the immigrant community,” says Erick Agbleke,

background that I’ve had for many years working differ-

M.A. ’19, “we have a little joke that says you

ent jobs, different projects,” Agbleke says. “I was able

either become a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer,

to bring all the stuff together and that’s when he saw,

or a disgrace.”

well, this wasn’t just a regular intern. This was someone

Talk about pressure. Agbleke was fully aware

of those deeply ingrained expectations when he enrolled in Seton Hall’s graduate program in

that I can actually use.”

Those traits have also impressed his professors at Seton Hall. “He has a keen mind,” Father Bryan K. Muzás,

Diplomacy and International Relations, a course of

an assistant professor in the School of Diplomacy

study that was likely to propel him toward a career in an

and International Relations, says of Agbleke, “and his

entirely different direction. No matter, because Agbleke

military background gives him an outlook that has

has developed a new perspective on what it means to

enriched many a class discussion.”

be successful, a reimagining rooted largely in the 10

By summer’s end, Agbleke had also contracted

weeks he spent last summer as an intern at the U.S.

a local nongovernmental organization to create a

Embassy in Togo.

recycling program for high-school students. And on a

His deployment in the tiny West African nation

one-week trip to northern Togo to inspect infrastructure

was no coincidence. Agbleke was born in Togo and spent

projects, he met Togolese women who each day collect

the first 13 years of his life there before his family moved

water from the single pump that supplies their entire

to the United States, eventually settling in Ohio. He

village.

earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the

For Agbleke, those 10 weeks shook his world, and the

University of Cincinnati, enlisted in the Ohio Army Na-

lessons learned continue to resonate. “I don’t think you

tional Guard, and still serves as an intelligence officer in

can beat the practicality of having an internship,” he

the Army Reserve. But it was a brief career in corporate

says. “We can sit in class and I can read the books about

America — where he discovered that it wasn’t for him —

development, but it was a different experience going

that led Agbleke to Seton Hall and his passion for

there, putting the water on top of my head, talking to

international affairs. “The way they designed the pro-

those ladies, understanding what their struggles were

gram was what attracted me to the school,” he says,

every day.”

“because not every school gives you that flexibility to design a program for yourself.”

Upon arriving at the embassy in the capital city of

As graduation approaches, Agbleke has set his sights on a career as a State Department diplomat and, perhaps someday, an ambassador. He hopes to focus on African

Lomé, Agbleke was assigned to write a report on the

affairs, but wherever his career takes him, he will carry

problem of wildlife trafficking in Togo. Because of its

his embassy internship with him because his experience

location on the Gulf of Guinea, its porous borders, and

in Togo redefined his notion of success.

its advanced transportation system, Togo is a hub for

“You know, we all want to change the world in some

illegal trafficking of elephant ivory, leopard skins, and

way,” Agbleke says. “But the way I look at it, anywhere

all manner of ill-gotten game.

I am, that is my world. So I’m not trying to change the

Agbleke’s supervisor figured the assignment would Photo by Michael Paras

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whole world, I’m just trying to change everywhere I find

take three weeks, but Agbleke invoked the same research

myself. And by doing what I’m supposed to be doing,

and project-management skills he’d honed in the military

doing what I’m called to do at that moment, for me, that

and the working world. He finished the report in three

is being successful.” n

days. His supervisor took note.

“I believe what helped me was having the professional

Christopher Hann is a freelance writer and editor in New Jersey.

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CASSANDRA WILLYARD

THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE Assistant education professor Edmund Adjapong uses hip-hop to engage young students with science.

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s a kid, Edmund Adjapong didn’t have much

is at the forefront of a burgeoning movement aimed at

use for science class. He didn’t see how

bringing hip-hop into the classroom.

the concepts applied to him and his life.

Studies in 2017, has been a welcome addition to the

immigrants from Ghana. Why should he care

faculty, says Maureen Gillette, dean of the College of

about the inner workings of a cell or the

Education and Human Services. “Not only does he come

chemical reactions happening inside a bea-

with an incredible science background, he brings a lot

ker? None of his teachers made science seem

of practical real-world experience,” she says.

like a viable career option.

But in ninth grade, Adjapong enrolled in a physics

Hip-hop has been a part of Adjapong’s life for as long as he can remember. He used to go to school early to

class taught by Christopher Emdin, who wrote and

recite songs with his friends. Some people view hip-hop

performed raps about scientific concepts. He played rap

as simply a genre of music, but for Adjapong it’s the

music videos. Back then many rappers wore enormous

culture of urban youth. “It’s always been a part of my

chains around their necks, and Emdin showed his stu-

identity,” he says. So when he began teaching in the same

dents how the necklaces swung like pendulums. “These

neighborhood he grew up in, he used music to help his

rappers had captured the imaginations of young people,”

students engage, just as Emdin had done.

Emdin says. “So I was going to use them as a mechanism to connect the kids to science.”

The gambit worked. Adjapong did well in the class

Meanwhile, Adjapong began pursuing a doctoral degree at Columbia University, believing he could use it to become part of the conversation about science pedagogy and

and began gravitating toward science. “That gave me the

“privilege the voice of students of color — students like me

motivation to feel like I could really pursue science as a

who had negative experiences of school.” Emdin, who had

career,” he says. After high school, Adjapong went on to

become a professor at Columbia, signed on as his adviser.

earn a degree in biochemistry. But rather than becoming a scientist, he became a science educator. Today Adjapong

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Adjapong, who joined the Department of Educational

Adjapong grew up in the Bronx, the son of

Adjapong began studying the impact of hip-hop in the science classroom. He used his class as a laboratory, but

SCIENCE GENIUS Educational studies faculty member Edmund Adjapong with students at Pelham Gardens Middle School.

also began working with students in other schools. In

from cities or not. “One of my goals as a faculty member

2013, he and Emdin teamed up with rapper GZA, a found-

at Seton Hall is to bring more of an urban lens to the

ing member of the Wu-Tang Clan, to launch the Science

program and prepare our teachers to be effective in

Genius program. Students spend a semester writing raps

urban settings.” To that end, he developed a class called

that demonstrate their understanding of scientific con-

“Hip-Hop Through the Context of Urban Education.” He

cepts, and then each participating school sends one team

and his students talk about gender, race, class and many

to perform their rap in a citywide battle.

of the other issues affecting urban youth.

Photo by Michael Paras

Adjapong’s research suggests that the program helps

Although Emdin has been working alongside Adjapong

foster engagement, but it also seems to help students re-

for years, he continues to be amazed by his former

tain the material. The students don’t write “fluff,” he says.

student’s transformation. “When you see him in front

“They’re able to have a deep understanding through craft-

of the classroom, whether you’re talking about grad

ing the raps because they’re able to make the connections

students or you’re talking about sixth graders, it’s

between the content and their lived experiences.”

glowingly apparent that this is a gift and he’s found his

Adjapong still works with high-school students as a mentor and as director of the Science Genius program.

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But now he has a new role: giving teachers the tools they need to succeed in urban schools, whether they come

Cassandra Willyard is a freelance writer based in Madison, Wis.

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FULL SPEED AHEAD Glenn Hartrick, M.B.A. ’06 continues to rack up success as an endurance athlete, including achieving a New York City Marathon first.

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inter or summer, rain or shine, Glenn

things that have happened to him. But you don’t see that.

Hartrick, M.B.A. ’06 is up before dawn to

Even at his worst times, he was there in the hospital

train for his next triathlon. Hartrick, the

uplifting people all around him.”

director of procurement and strategic

Hartrick was still in the hospital when he came across

planning at RailWorks in New York City,

materials from the Challenged Athletes Foundation,

traces this habit back to his final semes-

which helps people with disabilities pursue athletic

ter at Seton Hall, when he checked an

endeavors. He had competed in countless races along-

item off his bucket list and signed up for a chance to run

side athletes on handcycles and racing chairs, and he

in the New York Marathon, his first major race.

knew immediately where he would focus his energy in

Over the following decade he racked up thousands

recovery. He applied for a grant for a racing handcycle

of hours of training, becoming a competitive amateur

and started training again. Before long he was back to

endurance athlete. He has raced in more than 200 events,

his familiar routines: working full time, gathering with

including 15 marathons and seven Ironman triathlons

friends at Seton Hall basketball home games and getting

(2.4-mile swim, 112-mile cycle, 26.2-mile run), and has

up before dawn to train, his sights set on Ironman Kona.

been featured on the cover of Runner’s World magazine.

In October 2018, Hartrick reached a pinnacle when

But his life now requires him to be aware, moment to moment, of the interdependence that defines every life

he competed in the Ironman World Championship at

but that we often fail to see, he says, and he speaks openly

Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. “The Ironman World Championship

about the challenges of coming to terms with his identity

was the culmination of the last 10 years as an endurance

as someone who needs help with many of the day-to-

athlete, and specifically all of the hard work and every-

day activities he once took for granted. But his attitude

thing I had overcome both physically and mentally over

remains relentlessly positive. “I thank God every day that

the last four years, since the accident,” he says.

I’m still here, I’m still me, and I can still participate and

On June 12, 2014, three weeks after finishing his fifth Ironman race, Hartrick was hit by a car while on

do the things I love, just in a different way,” he says.

He has become an active supporter of the Challenged

a 44-mile training ride not far from his home in Jersey

Athletes Foundation, raising funds and also mentoring

City. He broke nine ribs, his scapula and his jaw, and

other athletes with physical disabilities. “I can speak

he was paralyzed from the chest down.

with newly injured individuals and I have some credibil-

Hartrick has always been the kind of runner who

ity; just four years ago I was them,” he said. “I can say,

slows down in the middle of a 140-mile race to give a

‘Your life can be as good as you want it to be; there are

high five to a kid along the route, a person who makes

people who can help you overcome these obstacles and

friends and builds relationships everywhere he goes. In

potentially lead a better life than you had before.’”

the hospital after the accident, runners and triathletes,

He is living the life to prove it: After his performance

work colleagues, and fellow Pirates rallied around him.

at Kona, Hartrick made New York Marathon history when

Brian Murray, M.B.A. ’06 became friends with Hartrick during their graduate studies, and at the time of the Photo provided by Glenn Hartrick

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accident they were both adjunct professors of finance in the Police Graduate Studies Program.

“Everybody has negative moments; listen, Glenn gets upset when Seton Hall is behind by 10 points to Villa-

he became the first athlete to compete in the event as a runner, on a handcycle, and in a racing chair.

Hartrick is still looking toward the future. “Whatever I do next, it needs to be something that keeps proving that anything is possible,” he said. “That’s the mantra of Ironman, and a mantra I’ve tried to live by.”

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nova,” he said lightly, then turned more serious. “I’m sure he gets upset about some of the negative aspects of

Tricia Brick is a New York-area based writer.

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JERSEY GENEROUS Joe and Martha Andreski have lived in eight states across the U.S. But their enduring connection to the place they grew up — and to Seton Hall — led them to fund a new student scholarship.

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he first time Joe met Martha, he was supposed

took classes in business and accounting, Martha majored

to sell her on Seton Hall.

in secondary education and studied science. They both

He was 19 years old and a graduate of Rahway High School in New Jersey, where his mom worked as a secretary and Martha’s mom had

County.

Joe found an accounting job quickly after graduation,

been his guidance counselor. Martha had been

and over the next 27 years, his work in various finance

thinking about moving away for college and Joe

roles took the Andreskis to eight different states.

was majoring in finance at nearby Seton Hall. Her mom

Meanwhile, Martha taught high-school science — and

hoped that talking to Joe might change her mind.

as a result of their many moves, became certified to

“I told her it was a good school with very strong

programs and a strong reputation, and she could still be home every night,” Joe Andreski ’79 remembers.

But there was something else, too. “I just thought,

teach in 10 states.

But it’s their new chapter as wine shop owners that the Andreskis are focused on now. When Joe’s job as CFO for the Australian wine company Southcorp landed

this is the most mature guy that I have ever met,” Martha

them in the Napa Valley in 2002, they got “seriously into

(Czarnecki) Andreski ’81 says. “He just seemed to have

wine,” Joe says. In 2006, they moved to Charleston, South

focus in his life. He was so definitive about what he

Carolina, and two years later, opened The Wine Cellar in

wanted to do and where he wanted to be.”

nearby Mount Pleasant.

Martha not only wound up at Seton Hall — she also

In the decade since, they’ve built a thriving business

married Joe several years later. Now the Andreskis are

that Joe says brought his daily stress level “down from

celebrating a 39-year marriage, running a successful

95 to, like, 1.” Inspired by what they experienced in Napa,

wine shop in South Carolina, and planning to help

they sell wines by the glass as well as by the bottle. They

other teens in Union County attend Seton Hall through

also run about a hundred weekend tastings a year and

a scholarship fund.

have created a wine club that introduces customers to

As University students, the Andreskis both worked long hours at outside jobs: Joe at a men’s clothing store, Martha as a waitress at Howard Johnson’s. While Joe

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new varietals and flavors.

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friends. A few regulars have even become employees.

set up a scholarship fund for students from Rahway

“When we moved here, we had no friends, no family, no

High School, David Brearley High School in Kenilworth

job, nothing,” he adds. “We just knew we liked the area.

(Martha’s alma mater), and other Union County schools

We really put together our complete social life through

to attend Seton Hall.

the wine shop.”

The Andreskis travel often — “it’s probably our biggest

“I spent 32 years teaching, and in that time, I met students who are so smart, but for a variety of reasons,

hobby,” Martha says — and they make it a point to check

aren’t able to go to college,” Martha says. “I think the

out vineyards when they do. In 2017, they spent a full two

more scholarships there are out there — the more we

months exploring Europe by car. It’s a life they couldn’t

can help those kids.”

have envisioned as kids: Joe’s dad left school after eighth

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“Rahway is a blue-collar town with a lot of blue-collar

grade and worked in a warehouse; Martha’s parents

families that need a bit of a lift up,” Joe adds. “Nobody

came to America as immigrants after being ousted from

in my family was pushing me to go to college, but I was

Poland during World War II and sent to the Soviet gulags

able to pull it off. Now I hope we can help some other

in Siberia for two years.

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“I think Seton Hall did us right,” Joe says. That’s why he and Martha decided, through an estate commitment, to

Molly Petrilla is a freelance writer based in New Jersey.

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A STUDY IN FAITH Sister Marie Therese Nguyen will take her degree in theology back to Vietnam.

A FIRST Father Matthew Pawlikowski, M.D.M. ’98 is the first Catholic priest to serve as the senior chaplain at West Point.

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UNIVERSAL FAITH

Photos by Michael Paras

Seton Hall University helps professed religious students from abroad continue their education so they can eventually return home to share the lessons they’ve learned.

By Kevin Coyne

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he long road to Seton Hall started for each of them in a distant village, with a devout family and a religious superior who saw a seed that would be better nourished in a field far from home.

For Father Khoa Le it was on the small piece of land where his parents grew rice in Hue, Vietnam, a nation

where Catholics make up just 7 percent of the population but three of his uncles and one of his brothers are priests. When he was ordained three years ago he came to be known as Father Matthew, after his baptismal name. “Then my bishop sent me here to study,” he says. He started work

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in September toward a master’s degree in pastoral

tentatively called “Bound By Love,” a name derived from

ministry at Immaculate Conception Seminary.

the hymn “In Christ There is No East or West.” “We were

For Sister Marie Therese Nguyen, it was also in

faced with what we were going to call this new initia-

Vietnam, amid the coffee and pepper trees her family

tive,” says Michael Burt, senior director of seminary

tended farther south in Dak Lak. Four of her aunts are

development, who was at Mass with Monsignor Reilly

sisters, two of her uncles are priests, and one of her

when one line from the hymn struck them both: “One

brothers is a seminarian. “My superior asked me to

great family bound by love throughout the whole wide

come,” says Sister Marie Therese, whose given name

earth.” “When we heard that line, it jumped out at us.”

is Linh Thi Khanh Nguyen and who is studying for a bachelor’s degree in Catholic theology. “I refused the first time, because I thought that I did not have the ability to learn English, and because America was unknown and everything was new. My superior asked

In Father Matthew’s home village, Christmas is

me to pray. I obeyed her and followed God’s plan.”

for most people just another day of work and school, as it

For Sister Magdalena Chubwa, religious life started

tivities were limited,” he says about growing up Catholic

Nguruka where the Missionaries of Africa came to cele-

there. The seminary in Hue that his uncles had attended

brate Mass once a month. “We heard there is this kind of

was closed at the end of the Vietnam War, when a com-

life, this religious life, but we were just imagining what

munist government took control of the whole country.

it means to be a sister because we never saw one before,”

He knew early on that he wanted to become a priest,

says Sister Magdalena, who is working toward a Ph.D.

and he spent his summers at the parish where one of his

in health sciences at the School of Health and Medical

uncles was pastor. After earning a university degree in

Sciences. “You just get attracted to praying and helping

mathematics, he went to the seminary in Hue, which had

people. You just get attracted with this idea that I’m

reopened in 1994. Less than a year after his ordination

going to be somebody different from other girls.”

he was on his way to America.

They came to Seton Hall through a small but hopeful effort by the University to open its doors to professed religious students (those who have taken oaths or have

His bishop said, “I’d like to see this man study theology,” Monsignor Reilly says.

Father Matthew’s first stop was in Houston, with

been ordained) who can learn more here than their home

a Vietnamese-American priest who worked with the

countries can teach them — and who can then return

Archdiocese of Hue, and who had been a classmate

to spread what they’ve learned. “I think it’s important

of Monsignor Reilly’s at Seton Hall’s undergraduate

because the Catholic Church is worldwide, and one of the

seminary. He learned English there, and how to drive,

blessings of the United States is that we have resources

before coming to New Jersey. “It’s harder here than

to be able to assist people as brothers and sisters in

in Houston,” he says about driving. “In Houston the

the faith,” says Monsignor Joseph Reilly, the seminary’s

roads are wider and straighter.”

rector. “I think it’s part of who we are as Catholics to serve the universal mission of the Church.”

Sister Magdalena arrived first, in 2016, on a scholarship to the doctoral program. Sister Marie Therese and Father Matthew arrived at the start of the fall 2018 semester, their scholarships funded by a new program

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is in all of Vietnam. “We could go to church, but some ac-

in western Tanzania, in a small mud-walled church in

He has been navigating the roads between South Orange and Hillside, where he is living at Christ the King Parish, and celebrating Mass for smaller groups than he did in Vietnam.

Three days a week he is in classes at the seminary.

“I learned not only knowledge but the way they are

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Father Khoa Le may teach when he returns to his home seminary in Vietnam.

BETTER HEALTH Sister Magdalena Chubwa plans to use her Seton Hall education to improve health care back home in Tanzania.

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‘There is a way to give them what I experienced here, especially the generosity. That is the first and deepest feeling I got when I came here — the generosity and charity people have to reach out to others.’

enthusiastic to teach,” he says about his professors.

“My classmates help me if I don’t catch everything.”

He may end up a teacher himself at his home semi-

She excelled at Assumption, earning an associate’s degree, and caught the attention of Sister Maria Pascuzzi, associate dean for undergraduate studies at the Seminary

nary in Hue when he returns. “I think I will have some

School of Theology. “I said, ‘give me your best student, let

new knowledge and some new vision to help them,” he

her apply and see how much of an academic scholarship

says. “There is a way to give them what I experienced

she gets,’” says Sister Maria, who found enough funding

here, especially the generosity. That is the first and

for Sister Marie Therese, including some from her own

deepest feeling I got when I came here — the generosity

order, the Sisters of St. Joseph. She also found housing

and charity people have to reach out to others.”

for her at the Sisters of Charity motherhouse in Convent Station, where Sister Magdalena also lives.

“I look at her as kind of a forerunner of the possibility of religious women from other parts of the world coming

Sister Marie Therese was just 12 when she left her

and having an international experience of education

family to live with a group of religious sisters who could

that enriches their evangelization prospects,” says Sister

educate her in ways that the public schools of a commu-

Maria, who would like to establish a small community of

nist nation could not. “I think my parents had a purpose

international sisters studying theology at the University.

and wanted me to be a sister,” she says. “My uncles, my

“She’ll go back to Vietnam having had an opportunity for

aunts — they followed the call. That’s why my parents

a pretty rigorous and intellectually challenging degree

encouraged me to do so.”

in theology. She’s going to bring this degree both into her

When she was 18 she traveled 12 hours by bus to

mation and then go into the mountains and do pastoral

Providence of Portieux. She ministered to the poor and

work and be able to speak as a mature, intelligent,

the sick, and was chosen by her superior to continue her

well-trained woman who can go out and evangelize.”

education at Assumption College for Sisters in Mendham,

Sister Marie Therese takes the train to South Orange

New Jersey, a small school for women with religious

for classes, where she is excelling. Latin is her best

vocations. “I liked working with people in the parish, and

subject (“I could not pronounce it correctly but I do well

I did not want to leave those things and go to America

in exams”). All that she’s learned will return with her to

where I did not know anything,” she says. “I failed the

Vietnam when she finishes her degree.

first visa interview and I was so happy, but I got the visa the second time.”

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religious community as a source of enrichment and for-

join the community her aunts belonged to: the Sisters of

“I will go back and share my knowledge,” she says.

And she will share more than just what she learns in

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theology classes. “In my culture we do not really

friends who traveled with her to Tanzania on her next

open up the way you do here. We don’t have a

visit home. “Some of the places I went they didn’t even

discussion or a dialogue. Now when I go back I can

have a glucometer or a blood pressure machine, some

bring the openness.”

of the most basic equipment,” she says about her visits to medical clinics there.

One way she reacted to what she found was in choosing the topic for her dissertation: how to use telemedi-

Sister Magdalena Chubwa grew up in a remote

cine to improve health care in underserved rural regions.

Tanzanian village where her devout parents grew maize,

“There’s no internet but they have basic cellphones now,

and where school ended for most children after the

and I want to see if we can use those to help to access

equivalent of seventh grade.

medical care in a timely manner,” she says.

“We depend on rain for everything,” says Sister

She will return again soon, she hopes, to start her

Magdalena, the second-youngest of nine children in her

research. “She’s a humble and engaging individual,

family. “Sometimes it rains too much and we end up

and she really speaks to the notion of mercy,” says

losing everything. Sometimes there’s no rain at all.”

Genevieve Zipp, the director of the Center for Interpro-

Her own education continued, though, when she

fessional Education in Health Sciences at the School of

left home at 14 on a seven-hour train journey to join

Health and Medical Sciences. “She wants to take what

the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary. She was

she’s learning here and bring it back to her community.

working toward becoming a teacher in 2008 when her

She’ll be able to reach out from her order to the health

order chose her for additional education, and she came

community and make an impact in the world.”

to the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, New

Another way Sister Magdalena reacted to her home

Jersey, on a scholarship as a biology major. She then

country’s needs was more immediate. “I’m learning a lot

earned a master’s degree in healthcare management

from school but also from regular life, how Americans

and administration there.

do charitable work,” she says. “From what I’ve seen here

“The first six years in America I could not afford to go

the people do a lot to help other people. With everything

home, and it was very hard for me to communicate with

I’ve seen from people in this country, I decided that

home,” she says. There was no phone to call, and letters

maybe I can do something.”

with a U.S. stamp were often intercepted along the

So she started Justice and Development for All

way by people who assumed they must contain money.

(JUDEA), a community-based organization in her home

When she finally did get back home the summer

parish of Saint Mukasa in Nguruka that brought some

before she finished her master’s degree in 2014, she saw

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more clearly where her education was leading her: to

elderly people in the village with weekly food deliveries,

help Tanzanians get better health care. “I’ve seen a lot of

gave five sewing machines to women who started small

death,” she says. “It’s difficult for people to get medical

businesses making school uniforms, and helped other

care. Sometimes when they get there it’s too late and

women start a small soap-making enterprise; and, with

maybe there’s no treatment.”

$500 for each, is sponsoring 22 children who would not

Before starting her doctoral work, she spent a year in

otherwise be able to afford their school fees.

an internship at a medical clinic in Wisconsin, where she

“All this I learned from here,” she says. “All this

learned to drive — a skill that proved essential when her

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program moved from South Orange to the new Interprofessional Health Sciences campus — and made some

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TO SHARE OR NOT TO SHARE? Professor Gaia Bernstein and a Seton Hall Law team are educating young students about the dangers of oversharing in cyberspace.

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13-year-old girl sits in the backseat of the family car snapping selfie after selfie.

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figured out how to teach,” Tolia says. “This is a new area, and we’re all searching for ways to convey it effectively.”

That’s where Seton Hall Law comes in.

and smiles, tilting her phone high and low, whipping her hair in all directions.

Her dad finds the whole thing pretty funny, so he

records it on his phone and posts the video to Facebook and YouTube. Soon it’s spread across the internet,

For Kids — and Their Parents Andrea Blumenthal’s 10-year-old son, Max, usually doesn’t say much about his day at school.

“He’s not a big reporter,” Andrea says. “So unless I

racking up millions of views and hundreds of comments.

ask the perfect question, I don’t really get a full picture

Eventually it even plays on Good Morning America.

of things.”

In all that sharing, was the daughter’s privacy violat-

But on the first day that a Seton Hall Law fellow came

ed? And do we have an obligation to ask people before

into his fifth-grade classroom at Montclair Cooperative,

we spread their image around the internet?

Max couldn’t wait to tell his mom about it.

According to a class of fifth-graders at the Montclair

“He came home and he was very excited,” Andrea

Cooperative School in Montclair, New Jersey, the answer

remembers. “‘Mom, we took this really fun class.’ He was

to both questions is a strong “yes.”

intrigued and thought it was really useful.”

Montclair Cooperative is among a handful of local

The Institute for Privacy Protection has now brought

elementary and middle schools that are welcoming

its outreach program to six schools in North Jersey and

fellows from the Institute for Privacy Protection at

Manhattan. Armed with a curriculum designed at Seton

Seton Hall’s School of Law into their classrooms to

Hall Law, fellows lead four classroom sessions, and the

teach students about smartphone privacy, reputation

institute’s director, Gaia Bernstein, wraps things up with

management and digital advertising, as well as how

a lecture for parents.

to find a healthy online/offline balance.

Fifth grade may sound a little young for all that, but

“I have kids myself, and I see lots of parents with kids,” Bernstein says. “I saw how desperate they were

according to a 2016 Nielsen report, almost half of U.S.

and I saw the opportunity to reach both parents and

children ages 10 to 12 already have their own smart-

children at the same time. If we do that, hopefully we

phones. Namita Tolia, Montclair Cooperative’s Head

can start a conversation — because I think this model of

of School, estimates that the percentage may even be

the parent police person trying to stop kids from using

a little higher among her fifth-graders.

technology is not really working.”

As they play games or watch videos on those phones,

The Seton Hall program doesn’t cover cyberbullying or

kids are often surrendering their personal information

the dangers of meeting strangers on the internet — two

and staring at targeted ads. Or they’re posting stuff —

worthy but well-tread topics. Instead, its lessons revolve

photos, videos, tweets — that could haunt them later.

around less-examined online issues like digital footprint,

(Just follow the stream of news stories about teens

targeted advertising and information-gathering.

whose college acceptances were rescinded or lives otherwise imploded because of a single social media post.)

Parents and teachers know how serious the stakes are,

In one exercise, students have their personal information — not just name, phone number and address, but also dog’s name, dad’s job, and an embarrassing story

they know how pivotal this moment is, but they’re still

— taped to their backs. “The kids got creeped out right

struggling with how to protect kids from the amorphous

away,” Tolia remembers. “I can’t see what’s on my back,

threat of the internet.

but all these people know this information about me.”

“This isn’t multiplication or something we’ve already

“It taught us that if we’re not careful, our personal

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information could go to basically everyone who

Andrew says he no longer plays on Fortnite teams with

has access to the internet and they could all see it,”

people he doesn’t know in real life.

says Andrew Mata, an 11-year-old in Max’s class at Montclair Cooperative.

Classes also touch on “sharenting” — when parents,

“I think when it’s something he talked about at school, it’s real, and it’s more relevant to him,” Shane says. “And the beauty of it is listening to him saying how he and

like the selfie teen’s dad, share their kids’ photos or

his classmates started making connections: first it was

information online — and talk about approaching a

[privacy around] video games, then email addresses.”

friend to take down photos they’ve posted of you, and

“When they first come in, they’re always very sure,

whether it’s OK to post pictures of your friends online

‘I don’t share anything I shouldn’t share,’” says Angela

without letting them have a first look.

Cooper, one of the fellows. “It’s fun to see them make the

In discussions about advertising in mobile-game apps, the fellows explain how seemingly innocuous prompts for an email address or ZIP Code are actually a form

connection of ‘wow, I did give personally identifiable information’ — and they make the most unique connections.”

Cooper remembers a fifth-grader with her own You-

of privacy invasion and can lead kids to share more

Tube channel. After starting the Seton Hall curriculum,

information about themselves than they realize.

the student told Cooper she’d realized her house and

Max says his favorite activity involved reading profiles

street number sometimes appeared in the footage —

of imaginary students and, pretending he was an admin-

and said she was now filming only in a designated area

istrator, choosing one student to represent the school. The

of the house to avoid revealing where she lives.

complicating factor: each of the potential ambassadors had done something ill-advised on the internet.

“People thought it was really interesting and we talked about it a lot,” Max says. He learned that “if you

As a parent, “it took a lot of pressure off,” Shane says of the fellows’ lessons, “because sometimes I either don’t have the time to fully explain something or I didn’t even think of it.”

put information on the internet, people might see it and not think you’re a good fit for a job.”

Tolia praises the program’s focus on experiential

The Institute for Privacy Protection was born thanks to

learning. “You can say to a child, ‘Don’t put your informa-

junk faxes. In 2016, a federal judge awarded Seton Hall

tion on the internet,’ but they’re just going to tune you

Law $1.7 million in funds left over from a class-action

out,” she says. Instead, the Seton Hall Law curriculum

junk fax consumer settlement. (The individual awards

“created experiences for children to come to that under-

in such cases are often so small that many people don’t

standing themselves.”

collect them — but together those unclaimed payouts

The lessons also lead kids to make connections that

can add up to a big number.)

Bernstein didn’t even consider when she was developing

From its outset, the Institute aimed to educate con-

the program. Shane Mata says his son, Andrew, has more

sumers and businesses about emerging privacy issues

carefully considered how his privacy might be at risk

and, as its website put it, “unsolicited invasions of their

while gaming online ever since a Seton Hall Law fellow

personal space through novel technologies and various

came to his classroom.

forms of marketing.” Like, say, junk faxes.

In the popular multiplayer shooter game Fortnite,

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Bernstein, a Seton Hall Law professor since 2004, was

kids often play with people much older than they are,

named the new Institute’s director. As she thought about

and just this past fall, a 45-year-old man was arrested

a first project, Bernstein says she quickly landed on kids

for allegedly threatening an 11-year-old who beat him

and phones. “I decided that reaching kids at this age

at the game. Since absorbing the Seton Hall curriculum,

when they get their first cellphone and parents really

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ran stories on the program, Bernstein has been getting

Too Much of a Good Thing

more requests than she can possibly meet. (The Institute

In addition to its school outreach efforts, the Institute

selects only four fellows each year to go into classrooms,

for Privacy Protection also runs conferences related to

and on top of that, Bernstein and Adjunct Professor of

privacy issues. So far, the meetings have covered regu-

Legal Practice Julia Hernandez are constantly updating

lation of privacy and social media, artificial intelligence

the lessons to keep them relevant.)

and the law, and secure voting. This past October, the

“I want to spread this curriculum as far as possible,

Institute hosted a “Kids’ Technology Overuse” workshop

but without compromising its integrity,” Bernstein says.

and brought in psychologists, doctors, technologists,

She’s still figuring out exactly how to do that, though.

activists and educators from all over the world.

She may create some curriculum summaries, or perhaps

Gaia Bernstein, director of the Institute for Privacy Protection, says she’s passionate about the idea of technology overuse — and lessons on it are woven through

offer more public webinars like the one she and Peters presented last summer.

Montclair Cooperative was one of the schools that got

the School Outreach curriculum. (Students are asked

in on the program early — and with an administrator like

to estimate how much time they spend on their phones

Tolia, it’s not surprising they did. She’s a head of school

and then actively track it. They’re also challenged to put

who points out the misnomer of “smartphone” (you’re re-

down their devices for a full weekend day and report

ally carrying around a mini computer more than a phone,

back on whether they could do it and how they felt.)

she says), who has banned all cellphone use during the

Right now, Bernstein is working on a book about

school day, and who champions experiential learning.

tech overuse that she hopes to finish by the end of this

When Tolia heard that Seton Hall Law was piloting a

year. While other books have examined the issue from

school program centered on online privacy, she eagerly

a psychology perspective, Bernstein says she’s the first

volunteered as a test school. Since then, Montclair

legal scholar to tackle it.

Cooperative has also welcomed fellows for the 2017-18

“Child psychologists think about this as an individual issue, but I’m thinking about it as a social problem,”

and 2018-19 academic years.

The experience has prompted Tolia to consider how

she says. “For me, it’s more like cigarettes or the fight

her school can further help parents tackle online privacy

against junk food. I see this as something not necessarily

issues. She’s considered weaving some of the information

within an individual’s control. And because of that, we

into a Back to School Night talk or organizing times for par-

need to have some legal interventions.”

ents to meet up and compare their concerns and strategies.

“I’m very inspired,” Tolia says. “We’ve been largely silent on the subject, but we really need to start giving

lose control was important,” she says. “We have this

more guidance as a school about what the kids are ready

moment of opportunity when they have phones but

for when, what the dangers and pitfalls are, and the

they’re not too ingrained in their habits yet.”

mindfulness around everyone in the family using phones.”

After developing a curriculum with faculty fellow

“I’m appreciative that Seton Hall is taking curriculum

Najarian Peters, selecting student fellows, and piloting

development for young kids seriously,” she adds. “That’s

the program in the summer of 2017, Bernstein took it

unusual. This is a really pure-hearted endeavor. I could

out for a full debut in the 2017-18 academic year at five

see lots of schools being inspired by the way they’re

schools. Today the Seton Hall fellows have gone into

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about 20 local classrooms and taught more than 500 kids.

Ever since The Washington Post and CBS This Morning

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ven at a young age, Dagen Hughes felt called toward broadcasting.

Since coming to Seton Hall, the College of Communication and the Arts student has

explored every avenue of the business, working behind the camera on Pirates games and serving in both

The Seton Hall crew uses the truck on Pirate Sports Network games, including soccer, volleyball and women’s basketball. Those are student-run productions in all aspects. But on Big East Digital Network and Fox productions, Rush also provides an experienced crew.

The man still in charge of everyone? Hughes. Oversee-

play-by-play and analyst roles. Displaying both a sense

ing those games and the workers who have been in the

of humor and sense of adventure, his “Dagen Plays All

business for years is a lot of responsibility for someone

the Sports” videos include him competing with a number

still in school — but Hughes thrives. “When you tell them

of Pirate athletes.

you’re a student, a lot of them are very shocked,” Hughes

But the college senior has flourished as a producer of

says. “They’re all very respectful and they understand,

live game action, where he calls all the shots and leads

hey, these guys at the end of the day are still students so

a full crew. “You’re not the guy everybody knows about,”

we’re still learning about the truck, stuff goes wrong, but

Hughes says of that position, “but you’re the one putting

you’ve gotta be able to figure it all out.”

on the production. I like being the guy in charge. This may sound bad, but I like being the one ordering everyone around,” he says with a laugh.

Considering his accomplishments in that position, Hughes has no need to apologize. In addition to his work with the Pirate Sports Network, Hughes produced soccer games for the Big East Digital Network via Fox Sports

Hughes wants to keep producing after he leaves Seton Hall, believing a career behind the camera, directing, leading, guiding the entire show, is the right path.

GO. Hughes and his team started working with Rush Media out of Wisconsin, a production company that also provides broadcast trucks and crews across the country, and traveled to the Midwest to learn about all the gadgets in the truck.

“We got inside and I was like, good grief, there’s a ton

Rush Media’s senior coordinating producer, Kevin Brellenthin, has worked with Hughes on the broadcasts and says,

of stuff in here that we’ve never had before,” Hughes

“A big part of what makes Dagen so good is he can remain

says. A graphics computer and replay machine were just

calm and troubleshoot during those times when something

two of the items that changed everything about Seton

goes wrong. He just has a cool demeanor and is a problem

Hall’s productions. “Having all these new toys to play

solver, not someone who gets bothered very easily.”

with was fantastic. It has everything you’d see in a big-time production truck.”

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“He doesn’t treat it as an internship,” Brellenthin says.

Producing is in his blood now. When he watches a

“He doesn’t treat it lightly. He treats it like it’s his job to

televised game with friends or family he notices camera

put a good product out there. He takes pride in it. What

angles and the thought behind them that those not in

I tell any other school that wants to get into stuff like

the business would never see. His ultimate dream? To

this and wants to do their own broadcasts: Make sure

produce ESPN’s famed “College GameDay,” the network’s

you have the Dagens of the world.”

long-running Saturday morning football preview show

Fortunately for the Pirates’ sports teams and all of its

that airs from different campuses. It’s a lofty goal, but

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when you hear a veteran producer like Brellenthin talk about Hughes, there’s no doubt he could make it happen.

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hen Kaity Healy became captain of Seton

the court, she says she “tries to do the little plays that

Hall’s women’s basketball team three years

nobody likes to do, like taking a charge, getting a steal,

ago, she hadn’t yet played a single minute

getting a stop on defense.”

for the Pirates.

The graduate of Colts Neck High School in New Jersey

Healy — an accounting major who is also getting her master’s in the same field — altered her on-court play,

sat out her first season with the Pirates as a redshirt.

and also adjusted her leadership style during her three

And yet, before the start of the following season, and

years as a captain, saying, “The first couple of years I

before she’d seen any game action, she had taken over

would definitely say it was more lead by example, and

as a leader of the Pirates.

this year, because it’s my last year and I feel like I’ve

“I didn’t name her a team captain,” says head coach Tony Bozzella ’89. “She earned the captaincy.

She did a great job of becoming a leader. She had

grown so much as a person, I try to be a bit more vocal and still lead by example.”

Bozzella recruited Healy early out of high school,

to earn it with her work ethic. … She was a good

and when she was just a sophomore she committed

captain at the beginning, and now she’s become a

to Iona College, where Bozzella coached before taking

great captain.”

over at Seton Hall. She ended up following him to

Healy remembers Bozzella telling her about the

South Orange, where he watched her mature into her

new role “about five minutes before he told the team.

role as a captain and grow on the court as the strength

I was in a little bit of shock as well, but I was like,

work she put in during her redshirt season paid off.

OK, whatever you need, Coach. I was so happy, and at

“She’s much more vocal and holds the kids a lot more

the same time so nervous, but my teammates had my

accountable,” he says. “I think early on it was hard

back, the coaching staff had my back, so it was a really

for her, but she had to take that mantle and she did.

easy transition.”

It was important that she do that if we were going to

Leadership may have come naturally because of

be successful.”

Healy’s upbringing. Her mom, Jeanene, played basket-

When Healy finishes playing, she wants to follow

ball at Wagner College and then coached her daughter

both her mother and Bozzella into the coaching world.

through high school. Healy’s dad, Robert, played soccer

But she’s also inspired by trailblazer Edniesha Curry,

at Greensboro College, but quickly transformed from

an assistant coach for the men’s basketball team at

a soccer guy to a basketball fanatic as she progressed

the University of Maine, who has a unique role in the

with the sport. Her folks were her biggest supporters

male-dominated field.

and role models. “They instilled in my sister and me

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Healy explains, “My ultimate goal would be to

a very blue-collar work ethic,” Healy says. “Nose to the

be a men’s college coach, either professionally, but

grindstone, don’t worry about anything else, and the

mostly college … I feel like I have a really good I.Q.

most important thing is the team.”

and feel for the game so hopefully I can just get an

At practice and during games, Healy has adapted to whatever the Pirates needed. A 5-foot-6 point guard

opportunity and get my foot in the door.”

When she does become a coach, she’ll surely

when she played in high school and during her first

look for strong leaders and feisty, versatile players

years with the Pirates, in her final season on the court

who remind her of a Seton Hall guard named…

at Seton Hall, with the team’s new system, Healy start-

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Richard J. Connors ’50 published the book The Road to the Armistice 1918. …

Frank G. Cannata ’55 was honored by Seton Hall’s Italian Studies program at its annual scholarship awards program. … Justin P. Walder ’58 received the 2018 New Jersey State Bar Foundation Medal of Honor Award.

60s

Robert P. Nittolo ’64 published the book British Military Long Arms in Colonial America. ... Joe Bilby ’65 received the Richard J. Hughes award from the New Jersey Historical Society. … Robert J. Tarte ’65/J.D.’69 was awarded the Mille Grazie award by UNICO National for fostering a positive image for Italian Americans and for speaking out against negative stereotyping. … Joseph M. Deehan ’66 published his second poetry book, Solar Reflection – Poetic Observations on Life. … Richard J. Fafara ’66 participated in the 150th anniversary celebration of the Founding of École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, where he was presented with the International Etienne Gilson Society’s Aquinas Medal for Excellence in Christian Philosophy.

70s

Paul J. Forti ’71/M.A. ’75 published the book, The Best Practices of Executive Coaching. … Robert G. Montgomery ’74 joined the board of directors of Simply Good Foods. … Bernard Pane ’75 and Christine M. Pane ’75 celebrated their 40-year wedding anniversary in 2018. … Patricia M. Barbarito ’78/J.D. ’81 received the Women Worth Watching Award from Profiles in Diversity Journal. …

Thomas L. Tran ’78 was named new chief financial officer of Molina Healthcare. …

Thomas J. Mastrangelo ’78/J.D. ’94 joined the board of trustees at Vantage Health System.

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Theodore Stephens, J.D. ’80 was appointed acting prosecutor in Essex County, N.J. … Jean Volk, J.D. ’80 joined New Brunswick (N.J.) High School Hall of Distinguished Alumni. … John M. Loalbo ’81 joined Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP as a probate litigation lawyer. …

Susan W. Miller ’81 was named the Sarasota, Fla., area president of United Way Suncoast. … Robin Puchek, J.D. ’81 was named the state’s best public defender by the Arizona Public Defenders Association. … Ann Marie M. Mauro ’82/M.S.N. ’86 was promoted to associate dean at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Nursing where she is professor and founding director of the Center for Educational Research and Innovation. … Patricia Wormann, M.D.M. ’83 was appointed delegate for religious of the archdiocese by Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Newark. …

James P. DeBlasio, M.B.A. ’83 joined Prevalent, a third-party risk management company, as chief financial officer and vice president of operations. … Dennis P. Ingraldi ’83 was named volunteer of the year by Main Street Vineland in Vineland, N.J. … John A. Russomano ’83/M.B.A. ’88 graduated from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology with a Ph.D. in organizational leadership. … Bonnie Frost, J.D. ’84 received the Amicus Curia award from New Jersey State Bar Association. … Elizabeth Ryan, J.D. ’85 was named to the board of Inspira Health Network. … Jay Lavroff, J.D. ’85 was named professional lawyer of the year by the Union County (N.J.) Bar Association. … Timothy J. McGoughran, J.D. ’86 was named New Jersey School Boards Association secretary. … Former New Jersey Gov. Christopher J. Christie, J.D. ’87 opened The Christie Law Firm LLC. … Karen L. Hershey, J.D. ’87 was named new president and CEO of The Greater Toms River (N.J.) Chamber of Commerce. … Anthony R. Slimowicz ’87 received the Community Star Award from Good Grief at the New Jersey support group’s eighth annual “A Night Among Our Stars” gala. … Wayne M. Alder, J.D. ’89 joined Fisher

Broyles as partner and litigator in their first Naples, Fla., office. … Vincent Barbara ’89 was promoted to clinical associate professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. … Ross E. Kasun ’89/Ed.D. ’09 was named superintendent of Lawrence Township (N.J.) Board of Education. …

Myron Petruch, M.B.A. ’89 was appointed president and chief executive officer of Sun Chemical.

90s

John Keefe, J.D. ’90 is the 120th president of the New Jersey State Bar Association. … Kenneth Haderer, M.B.A. ’90 joined Benefit Focus Inc. as executive vice president for global operations. … Jennifer Cotten-Rashwan, J.D. ’91 released the book The Secret To Ageless Beauty!: Living Graciously and Positively. … Robert Germano ’91 was named director of wholesale for Village Mortgage Company in Avon, Conn. …

Helen W. Lawler ’91/M.A. ’96 launched a financial-services strategic marketing company, Finspiration LLC. … Lawrence Purpuro, J.D. ’91 was named chief executive officer of the National Italian American Foundation. … Evelyn Padin, J.D. ’92 is the first Latina to become New Jersey School Boards Association president-elect. … Dina Della ’92 was named chief executive officer of Family Services Association of Bucks County (Pa). … Wendy Johnson Lario, J.D. ’92 was named one of New Jersey Law Journal’s 2018 Top Women in the Law. … Elizabeth M. Steele, J.D. ’93 joined GRS Title Services, LLC as director of business development. … Ayanna Y. Thorne ’93 was promoted to principal at Hope Academy, an alternate highschool program of the Northern Region Education Services Commission in New Jersey. … Dennis C. Kearns, J.D. ’93 was appointed head of distribution and major trading partner engagement at QBE North America. … Richard T. Allorto ’94 was named chief financial officer for Sierra Income. … James A. Carey, J.D. ’94 was appointed executive director of the New Jersey Lottery. … James P. Harris ’94 is superintendent of Woodland Hills School

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ew Jersey’s 15th Infantry Regiment earned some terrible distinctions during the Civil War: Fighting in Fredericksburg through Gettysburg and on to Appomattox, it suffered one of the highest casualty rates among any Union unit.

And, it boasted the youngest officer in that vast army:16-year-old Lt. Ellis Hamilton, who was killed at age 18 at the Battle of the Wilderness.

These little-known facts appear in Joseph G. Bilby’s Three Rousing Cheers: A History of the 15th New Jersey Infantry from Flemington to Appomattox, the first of 21 history books he has written since 1992. His second book detailed the untold story of New Jersey’s 3,000 AfricanAmerican soldiers, who volunteered despite the threat of execution if captured by the Confederates.

He also has authored some 400 articles.

Not surprisingly, Bilby, 75, recently won The Richard J. Hughes Prize for a lifetime of achievement in New Jersey history by the New Jersey Historical Commission.

Bilby ’65/M.A. ’82 had this to say during his acceptance speech: “Looking over the list of previous prize winners, I see I am in very good company. Among the many well-known historians, I noted my college mentor, Dr. Carl Prince, who got me out of the army two weeks early to attend graduate school.”

In 1967, Bilby was finishing a Vietnam tour with the Army’s First Infantry Division before returning to New Jersey for graduate work that, interrupted,

he finished more than a decade later. Of his educational experience, he says, “I was not only the first in my family to go to college, I was the first to go to high school. I found in Seton Hall a warm and inviting institution with excellent academic standards and a student body that was much like me — blue-collar kids hopefully moving up in the world. And we did.”

A Newark native, he recalls that his interest in the Civil War grew from learning that his grandfather’s cousin, George Bilby, had served with the 15th.

A historian who often corrects other authors’ histories, he has a passion for accuracy and compelling anecdotes. In another reference to New Jersey’s 15th Infantry Regiment, Bilby notes that he edited a book of 150 New Jersey Civil War biographies — 149 about humans and one about Chaplain Alanson Haines’s horse, Restless, “which survived combat wounds to be buried years later with a full military funeral.”

Bilby’s latest book, The Rise and Fall of the KKK in New Jersey, co-authored with Harry Ziegler, is due out in 2019. Preview: the era was the 1920s, and its “Grand Dragon” leader was actually “a vaudeville performer” who passed himself off as a lawyer.

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Pirate Babies 1. Diana (Jones) ’06 and Gregory Cecchini ’06, a boy Hunter Jaxson, on August 14, 2018.

2. Laura (Genovese), J.D. ’00 and Brian Behrmann, a girl, Madison Elizabeth, on November 15, 2017.

3. Katherine ’06/M.S. ’07 and Ron Zech ’07, two girls Hannah Susan and April Ann, April 3, 2018.

4. Angie (Berry) ’08 and Arcangelo Lofaro ’08/M.B.A. ’13, a boy, Bruno Michael, on August 2, 2018.

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Tying the knot 1. Caroline Egnatuk ‘13 and Joseph Pecoraro ‘13 on June 23, 2018.

2. Jonathan Munro-Hernandez ’09 to Emily on August 11, 2018.

3. Alyssa Alfano ’12 to Sean Slavin ’12 on April 27, 2018.

4. Victor Nieves ’10 and Loydes Vazquez ’11 on March 3, 2018.

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District in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area. …

Christopher Colombo, M.B.A. ’95 joined Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corp. as its senior managing director and wealth adviser for its subsidiary, Quadrant Capital Management. … Daniel A. Clarkin ’95 was hired as director of managed review services at KLDiscovery. … Michele Meyer-Shipp, J.D. ’95 was named chief diversity officer at KPMG. … Claudine M. Leone, J.D. ’95 was presented with the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians’ President’s Award. … Michael T. Nolan, J.D. ’95 was named first assistant prosecutor in the Ocean County (N.J.) Prosecutor’s Office. … Krista Tongring Lawson, J.D. ’96 joined Guidepost as managing director in Washington, D.C. …

Matthew Schwagerl ’96 was appointed senior director at Greenlight, a global rights clearance and licensing consultant. … Daniel P. Foley ’96 was promoted to vice president of consulting at Innovative Benefit Planning, an employee benefit planning and financial-services company. … Thomas Russo, M.P.A. ’96 is an adjunct professor at Pillar College in Newark, N.J., and Seton Hall University, Department of Political Science & Public Affairs. He has also joined The Valori Group as a consultant and has written his first book, a memoir on his spiritual journey. … Catherine M. Willets ’97 became a partner at Derrick Alloway Medical Arts LLC, founded in 2006 by Derrick Alloway ’92. ... Russell E. Smith ’97 received the Bishop Kevin Vann Award for Service to Catholic Schools and the Diocese of Orange while leading the diocesan athletic program for 20 years. … Kris Federici ’98 was named Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year by the New Jersey Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. … Linda K. Kosnik, M.S.N. ’98 was named chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. … Catherine E. van Kampen, J.D. ’98 received a New Jersey Governor’s Jefferson Award for Public Service. … Nicole Pride, M.A. ’98 was named interim vice provost for academic strategy and operations at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. … JoAnna Schooler, M.A.

’98 was named director of community relations and local government affairs at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. … Mark D. Sparta, M.A. ’98 was named president of Hackensack (N.J.) Medical Center. … Lynval Miller ’99 was named human resources director for The Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J. … Nancy A. Innella ’99 is an assistant professor at Seton Hall University’s College of Nursing. … Sean B. O’Connor, J.D. ’99 serves as chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Teledyne Technologies Inc., which provides technology for industrial growth markets.

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Denise Visconti, J.D. ’00 was appointed chair of the North San Diego (Calif.)

Business Chamber board of directors. … Angela M. Scafuri, J.D. ’00 joined Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer in Pennsylvania. … Austin S. Lilling, J.D. ’00 joined the Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP law firm as a partner. …

Paul Matey, J.D. ’01 joined the Lowenstein Sandler LLP law firm as partner. … Brian D. Kenny, J.D. ’01 joined the law firm Einhorn, Harris, Ascher, Barbarito & Frost P.C. as counsel with the criminal law practice group. ... Troy B. Chisolm, M.H.A. ’02 was named new chief executive officer of TriStar Maury RegionalBehavioral Health Hospital in Brentwood, Tenn. … Jason D. DeLorenzo ’02 and his wife, Jill, opened Ad Deum Funds in early 2018, a registered investment adviser firm in Virginia. … Christina Jordan ’03 was promoted to director of leasing at Denholtz Associates, a real-estate development company. …

Joseph E. Sarkar ’03 was named district manager of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Allendale/Saddle River Valley (N.Y.) and Ramsey/Upper Saddle River Offices (N.J.). … Octavian Y. Manale ’03 is Mayor Reed Gusciora’s chief of staff in Trenton, N.J. … Gail Thornton, M.A. ’03 is founder of Worldview Communications, which works with clients in pharmaceuticals, healthcare and biotechnology. … Gurjit K. Chima, J.D. ’04 is assistant county manager for Human Rights

and Equal Employment Opportunity in Arlington County, Va. … Lori Ann A. Terjesen, M.A. ’04 was appointed director of education at the National Women’s History Museum. … Pritesh K. Shah ’04 was appointed chief commercial officer at Novocure, an oncology company. …

Jennifer Nasta-Zefutie, J.D. ’04 directed the comedy show Human Error, which made its East Coast premiere at Pegasus Theatre Company in Princeton Junction, N.J., in September. … Mark C. Marrone, M.A.E. ’05 took on a dual role as superintendent and principal at Mainland Regional High School in Linwood, N.J. … Donna M. Hargens, Ed.D. ’05 was appointed superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Maryland. … Father Teodoro O. Kalaw, M.D.M. ’05 was appointed the 60th superior general for the Adorno Fathers, after serving with the order for eight years. … Kenneth R. Geiger, J.D. ’05 joined Peapack-Gladstone Bank as senior vice president of special assets. … Lori (Vargas) Riley, M.A. ’06 is a content marketing specialist at the Rutgers Global Health Institute. … Tasha Toy, Ph.D. ’07 was named assistant vice president for campus diversity at Dixie State University in Utah. … Prisicilla I. Aniegbuna, M.A.E. ’07 was named assistant principal at Hightstown (N.J.) High School. … John J. Oberdorf, J.D. ’07 joined law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner. … Andrew D. Linden, J.D. ’07 is serving on the New Jersey State Bar Association’s inaugural Cannabis Law Committee for 2018-2019. … Emilia Perez, J.D. ’07 was sworn in as a Newark, N.J., Municipal Court judge. … Triantafillos Parlapanides, Ed.D. ’08 received an honorary degree at Georgian Court University’s 107th annual commencement ceremony. … Heidi S. Lunasin, J.D. ’08 joined Duane Morris as a special counsel in the Washington, D.C., office. … Janine M. Cerra, J.D. ’08 was named president of the Sussex County (N.J.) Bar Association. … Kimberly B. McKee, J.D. ’08 was named the first market manager for U.S. Bank in New York City. … Nicholas P. Tworischuk, Ph.D. ’08 will manage the re-election campaign of Morris County, N.J., Clerk Ann F. Grossi. … Victor B. Pastor ’09

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was named senior vice president of retail investment sales at Lee & Associates Miami. … Kirk A. Johnson ’09 released his book Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation.

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Jessica Jansyn, J.D. ’10 was promoted at Laddey, Clark & Ryan law firm in Sparta, N.J. She is now heading up the Commercial Litigation Practice Group …

Michael Jacobson ’10 is president and CEO of Illinois Hotel and Lodging. …

Kristyl Berckes, J.D. ’10 was featured on the American Bar Association Section of Litigation’s “Sound Advice” web-page, which gives members access to other lawyers’ knowledge and experience. …

Britnee N. Timberlake ’10/M.P.A. ’12 sponsored a budget resolution to restore $46.5 million in funds to New Jersey’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund to assist families. … Thomas W. Kienle, M.A. ’11 was promoted from sergeant to lieutenant of East Brunswick (N.J.) Police Department. … Melissa C. Bell ’12 joined Everest Insurance as associate manager. … Alexander D. Lehrer, J.D. ’12 joined the law firm McManimon, Scotland & Baumann LLC as an associate. … Victoria (Browning) Nicholls ’12 earned a Certificate of Added Qualifications from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. … David M. Walker, M.A.E. ’12 named principal at Highland Avenue School No. 10 in Linden, N.J. … Victoria P. Hayek, Ed.D. ’13 was promoted to deputy superintendent of the Conejo Valley Unified School District in Thousand Oaks, Calif. … Olga Vodolazschi, J.D. ’13 was promoted to partner at the accounting firm Lopez Levi Lowenstein Glinsky P. A. … Jessica Chambers, Ed.D. ’13 was named dean of student affairs at Edison (Ohio) State Community College. … Brandon Marcel Erby, M.A.E. ’14 was selected one of three postdoctoral and dissertation fellows at Penn State’s African Research Center. …

Tara A. Burns ’14 joined the Eckert Seamans law firm’s litigation division.

… Marissa Muoio, M.A.E. ’14 was named dean of academics at Mount Saint Dominic Academy in Caldwell, N.J. … Nathaniel C. Nyok, M.A.D.I.R. ’15 wrote the book Days of Refugee: One of the World’s Known Lost Boys of Sudan. …

Brian L. Spadora, J.D. ’15 joined law firm Sills Cummis & Gross as an associate in the product liability practice group. …

Ashley Paige Caraway ’15 joined law firm Hollis Wright Clay and Vail PC’s mass torts department. … Jessica L. Thomulka ’16 was named a 2018 Knowles Teaching Fellowship by the Knowles Teacher Initiative. … Deborah S. Waters, E.D.S. ’16 was appointed principal for Lebanon (Pa.) Catholic School. …

Rael B. Otieno, M.P.A. ’16 was honored by 2018 New Jersey State Governor’s Jefferson Awards under the category “Against All Odds,” which recognizes volunteers who overcome obstacles. …

Jason M. Rios, M.A. ’16 was promoted from patrolman to sergeant by the East Brunswick (N.J.) Police Department …

Monica Babula, J.D. ’16 joined law firm Pashman Stein Walder Hayden as an associate in the Trust & Estates and Elder Law group. … Christina A. McDonaldVitale ’18 is a reporter with Action News Now in Chico, Calif.

Baby Pirates Katherine ’06/M.S. ’07 and Ron Zech ’07, two girls, Hannah Susan and April Ann, April 3, 2018. Laura (Genovese), J.D. ’00 and Brian Behrmann, a girl, Madison Elizabeth, on November 15, 2017. Angie (Berry) ’08 and Arcangelo Lofaro ’08/M.B.A. ’13, a boy, Bruno Michael, on August 2, 2018. Diana (Jones) ’06 and Gregory Cecchini ’06, a boy Hunter Jaxson, on August 14, 2018.

Weddings Alyssa Alfano ’12 to Sean Slavin ’12 on April 27, 2018. Laura Russo ’12 to Nicholas Cooley ’12 on May 5, 2018.

Jonathan Munro-Hernandez ’09 to Emily on August 11, 2018. Caroline Egnatuk ’13 and Joseph Pecoraro ’13 on June 23, 2018.

In Memoriam Edwin F. Lang ’41 John J. Palmer ’43 Samuel A. Christiano ’43 Katherine Wolfstirn ’46 Joseph J. Peterson ’47 Alan T. Lavery ’49 A. J. Moore, J.D. ’49 Francis P. Meehan ’49 Frank L. Fitzgerald ’49 Joseph T. Stacey ’49 Jean M. Dailey, M.A.E. ’49 Joseph R. Toma ’49 Andrew J. Wilson ’50 George F. McKenzie ’50 Paul W. Breza ’50 Redmond J. Largay ’50 Thomas P. Flanagan ’50 Walter L. Babjak ’50 Thomas P. Sexton ’51/M.B.A. ’68 Alfred W. Martinelli ’51/M.S. ’54 Charles M. Bischoff ’51 John G. Haller ’51 John J. McGinn ’51 Michael F. Golden ’51 William J. Conradi ’51 Hortense C. Mock ’51 Audrey M, Calligy ’52 Stanley F. Bedell ’52 Martin A. Loprete ’52 Donald P. Krebs, M.B.A. ’53 Frank J. Tozzi ’53 George G. Pease ’53 Genevieve Semple ’53 Leonard S. Ahern ’53 John J. Corino ’53 Monsignor John J. Gilchrist ’53/M.A. ’83 Edward R. D’Alessio ’54 Philip A. Branch Jr. ’54 Raymond M. Courter ’54 Silvio D’Aloia ’54 William F. Koonz ’54 James N. Sumas ’55 Johanna Hedderman ’55 Father George L. Mader ’55 Theodore Cullen, M.B.A. ’55 Anthony S. Biczak ’56 Eugene W. Fedor ’56 Frank J. Smyth ’56 John N. Belardo ’56 Richard W. Jaekel ’56 Robert L. Dahlinger ’56 Walter P. Alina ’56 William E. Luithle ’56

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Her first job was a crisis counselor for the Family Service Bureau in Newark, an NCC affiliate, working in a state program for people traumatized by the terrorist attacks in New York City. “I was handing out fliers in Penn Station after 9/11,” she says.

And although clinical work as a licensed marriage and family therapist led to a series of administrative jobs, fieldwork is still important to her.

“I need to be able to see things where I can develop programs,” she says. “If it’s just policies, it’s not necessarily true to real life. My goal is to be engaged at the ground level at all times.”

Kakkar emphasizes a family approach in her work.

“The goal is to make the family self-sufficient using a different network of systems,” she says, so that anything that can lead to losing a job, losing a house, gets addressed in a holistic way. “We work with the whole unit, the whole family, rather than an individual.”

The ultimate goal is to help people navigate all the barriers put in front of them.

“When you are able to help a family, you feel that satisfaction, that you did something right,” she says. | KIM DE BOURBON

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PROFILE Family First

verybody should love what they do. It must be something you could really be happy about, otherwise you can’t give 100 percent to it.”

Talk to Arti Dhaon Kakkar, M.A. ‘04/Ed.S. ‘05, and you’ll know that if it was possible to give your work more than 100 percent of your passion, she would be the one to do it. As chief of health and human services at the New Community Corporation (NCC) of Newark, she embodies the University’s mission of servant leadership, working with more than 500 employees at one of the largest community development organizations in the country.

Think of any way troubled or underprivileged people might need help, and Kakkar knows how to do it. The New Community Corporation offers everything from housing to job training to adult education, youth services, elderly care, and behavioral and mental health services and counseling.

And while she uses modern technology these days to navigate human services networks, Kakkar started her life’s work helping children in the street slums in India, where she got her bachelor’s degree in child development. When she moved to New Jersey in 1998, she found Seton Hall, earning her master’s degree and then an educational specialist degree in marriage and family therapy.

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NE WS & N OTE S Alice K. Leshick, M.A.E. ’57 Lewis Cirignano ’57 Stanley R. Kowalsky ’57 Angelo F. Campo ’58 Bertram V. Burke ’58 Ellen Danielczik ’58 Jean L. Badgley, M.A.E. ’58 Father John E. Basil ’58/ M.D.M. ’76 Malcolm T. Kilbride ’58 Marie A. Kelleher, M.A.E. ’58 Yolanda V. Iacovantuno ’58 Benjamin I. Stevens ’59 Charles F. Roberts ’59 Don Casapulla ’59 Francis J. Comiskey ’59 Henry R. Weismantel ’59 John J. Dall ’59 Father John M. Heekin ’59/ M.D.M. ’77 Paul W. Choi ’59 Robert L. Hughes ’59 Charles R. Stout ’60 Douglas G. Spink ’60 Joseph J. Theobald ’60 Lewis Lichtenstein, M.B.A. ’60

Giving Day

April 10-11, 2019 Pirates celebrated the history and legacy of Seton Hall and helped ensure the success of its future on Giving Day. The annual 36-hour event is a time for the Seton Hall community to come together to show Pirate Pride by making a gift to a fund that is near and dear to their hearts.

Learn more at www.shu.edu/ givingday

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Ronald R. Batistoni ’60 Stanley F. Wysocki, D.D.S. ’60 Sister Thomas F. Halleran ’60 Thomas M. Loftus ’60 William J. Urbanski ’60 William E. Jacoby, D.D.S. ’60 Sister B. M. Harnett, M.A.E. ’61 Frank P. D’Alonzo, M.A.E. ’61 James J. Warburton ’61 Josephine Giorgi ’61 John A. Bronski ’61 Joseph Mitchell ’61 Michael B. Debbs ’61 Paul M. DiFrancesco ’61 Robert S. Flynn ’61 Alfred M. Sholander ’62 Anthony M. Martin, D.D.S. ’62 Emilie D. Henning-Schaefer ’62 Louis M. Triozzi ’62 Michael J. Rossi, M.A.E. ’62 Richard M. Kernan ’62 Toni J. Sullivan ’62 Sylvester A. Puzio, J.D. ’62 Joseph G. Blanes ’63 Philip C. McGovern ’63 Victor D. Librizzi ’63

Anthony L. Marhan ’64 George W. Arney ’64 John F. McCarthy ’64 John R. Coogan, M.B.A. ’64 Leonard M. Maclean ’64 Andrew J. Blenkle ’65 Bernard A. McNamee ’65 Bruce A. Martin ’65 Marie Halpin, M.A.E. ’65 Mary B. Pastusek ’65 William G. Rath ’65 George R. Gagliardi, M.A.E. ’66 Lorretta DiGangi ’66 Richard E. Saldon, M.A.E. ’66 James E. Starkey, M.A.E. ’67 Paul J. McGinley, M.B.A. ’67 Terence J. Bevilacqua, M.A.E. ’67 Vincent F. Flaherty, M.A.E. ’67 Judy S. Golten ’68 Liam S. Coonan, J.D. ’68 Martin L. Bush, J.D. ’68 Robert M. Fischer, M.A.E. ’68 Sister Maris S. Footen ’68 Eileen J. Filicko ’69 Graham T. Ross, J.D. ’69 James M. Mulvaney ’69

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Joseph J. Burke ’69 Joseph A. Maffongelli, J.D. ’69 Judith A. Langheld ’69 Sister Robert C. Swarts ’69 V. Sheila M. Chidiac, M.A.E. ’69 James M. Cannan ’70 Ronald R. Campbell, M.A.E. ’70 Eileen E. Sullivan ’70 Barton W. Blau ’71 James G. Baccaro ’71 Murray E. Abowitz, J.D. ’71 Raymond P. McNeal, J.D. ’71 Thomas E. Bolduc ’71 Robert T. Morrow ’71/M.A. ’74 Charles W. Tupponce, M.A.E. ’72 Doris M. Hambach, M.A.E. ’73 John C. Pidgeon, J.D. ’73 Marcia Roseman, M.A.E ’73 Norman Gaudreau ’73 Robert Kahn, M.A.E. ’73 Donald Cooney, M.A.E. ’74 Peter Canino ’74 Annette T. Tomaino, M.A.E. ’75 Lewis C. Jeffrey ’75 Sister Mary T. McGranahan, M.A.E. ’75 Nancy R. Auld, M.A.E. ’75/ Ed.S. ’82

William F. Gradisher, J.D. ’75 James M. Kilkenny, J.D. ’77 John W. Audick, J.D. ’77 Sister Maria Chiga, M.A.E. ’77 Barbara Marino ’78 Anne M. Smoliga ’79 David R. Dommer, M.B.A. ’79 Thomas E. Comollo, M.B.A. ’79 Dianne Salandra ’80 Dolores M. Pawlikowski ’80 Rose Bass ’80 Victor L. Steiner ’80 Michael F. Quinn, J.D. ’81 Edmund Reiss ’82 Elizabeth T. Colaneri, J.D. ’82 Mark Quadrel ’82 Gary S. Seritello ’83 Mary E. Connell, J.D. ’83 Allan T. Kovitz, J.D. ’84 Father Patrick A. McCabe, M.D.M. ’84 Robert D. Lovett, M.S.T. ’86 Lisa G. Kearney ’86 Michele Still ’86 Richard G. Kirk ’86 Mariana N. Pedro-Medlin ’87

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Jeffrey J. Gannon ’89 Robert D. Kleppinger ’90 Michael E. Patunas, J.D. ’91 Michael S. Healy ’92/ M.S. ’97/ Ph.D. ’01 Daniel J. Sierchio ’93 Angelica A. Bailey ’93 Eric J. Cherego, M.B.A. ’94 Deacon Francis P. McQuade, M.A.T. ’96 Thomas P. Connelly, M.A.E. ’97 Sean T. Haverty ’97 Curtis A. Deyrup, M.S.I.S. ’01 William A. Allen, M.A.E. ’03 Robert J. Armbruster, M.A.T. ’07 Lindsay K. Ireland, ’14

Friends Ann Parisi Bernard S. Speckhart Deacon Daniel F. Ravelo Francis R. DePaola Fred Hopke Graham M. Skea Gilda DiGuglielmo Simonetti Maria Kreuzman

The Bayley Society The Bayley Society is one of Seton Hall’s premier leadership communities. Membership is extended to all alumni, parents, staff and friends of the University who contribute a minimum of $1,000 on an annual basis.

Benefits to Donors n Annual Bayley Society Reception n Networking opportunities n Opportunities to be recognized in a Seton Hall publication n Bayley Society pin Benefits to the University Due to the philanthropic support of donors: n More and more deserving students are choosing Seton Hall n Our academic programs continue to grow and evolve to meet the changing global needs n More internship and service opportunities are available to students n Student-athletes are finding success on the field and in the classroom because donors know sports teach lessons that last a lifetime n Catholic values continue to guide our students with a strong moral foundation

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PRIDE IN ACTION 1) Jane and James Fidacaro ’64, Alphonso ’61 and Frances Capetta on their trip to Alaska.

2) Father James Hamel ’88/M.D.M. ’92/M.A.T. ’99, a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force, visited military personnel in Barrow, Alaska, the most northern town in the United States, 350 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

3) Mike Murzenski ’91 at the Vatican.

4) Tracy Hayden Monari ’86/M.A. ’87 and her niece, Samantha Hayden ‘22, at Disney World.

5) Pat Cavanagh ’68, Bev Delaney, Mary Ann Grippo ’68, Tom Cavanagh, Ed Delaney ’68 and Charlie Grippo ’69 gathered in honor of their time at Seton Hall.

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Laura Russo ’12 and Nicholas Cooley ’12 got married on May 5, 2018.

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Alumni now have the ability to take their mentoring talents, job and networking opportunities to Seton Hall’s exclusive professional development platform, Pirate Connect. The platform allows alumni across the globe to: n Expand – by leveraging their own network of Pirates to get

introduced to people they should know n Get ahead – by advancing their careers through connections with Pirates working in top companies and gaining access to exclusive opportunities n Give back – by introducing, employing and mentoring

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you are going to stay in the BIG EAST, you have got to get out of playing in Walsh Gym.” It was too small.

John J. Petillo, ‘69/M.A. ‘71, Ph.D., served as the Univer-

During that 1988-89 season,

sity’s first chancellor from 1983 through 1989. He was

P.J. (Coach Carlesimo) did a

only 36 when appointed, and over the course of his

great job. I remember being

six years in the post he was at the forefront of what

in Seattle for the NCAA

became known as the “Seton Hall Renaissance,” which

Tournament games in ‘89.

included a large number of building projects and

I had a Seton Hall baseball

campus beautification plans. On the 50th anniversary

jacket, and I remember one

of his graduation from the University and 30 years

guy came up to me, offering

after his final year as chancellor, Seton Hall magazine

me $400, $500, as much as $600, for the jacket. He was not

checked in with Petillo, now president of Sacred Heart

even a Seton Hall graduate. That’s the kind of enthusiasm

University in Connecticut, for his reflections.

there was. The energy from that game, and those finals, culminated and harvested the transformative feelings that

What are some of your most treasured memories — as a graduate and former chancellor?

were going on for those six years prior.

As a graduate, I remember the great friends I made as a

them as transformative. There were a lot of energies

There are many physical representations of your leadership at Seton Hall: the rec center, Xavier, Cabrini, Serra and Neumann Halls. Have you thought about some intangible impacts of your legacy?

that needed to be uncorked and focused. In the five years

I’d say the sustainability of the University’s image and

prior to my arrival there had been three presidents, so

the value of a Seton Hall degree. I think alumni perceive

that lack of stability had a negative effect. The University

a much better value in their degree. I think students from

had just $7 million in the bank, and no line of credit.

my time there have a great sense of pride. I’d also say that

Granted, I was chancellor, but change came from mobiliz-

when you build a new facility, you create an environment

ing the faculty and staff. A lot of folks from very different

where kids are proud to be, and that is very functional

sectors came together to create the transformation. We

for their own social and educational development. So

gained the respect of a lot of people in the larger New

there’s a sustainability to the Seton Hall brand, the name,

Jersey community. Prior to that we had many of alumni

its image and the quality — that’s all lasted.

student. I remember Seton Hall as a very engaged place.

Looking back at the chancellor years, I would refer to

who weren’t engaged with the institution.

2019 also marks a milestone year for Seton Hall’s trip to the Final Four in men’s basketball. What do you remember about that experience?

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As a member of the Seton Hall Class of 1969, what advice do you have for students in the Class of 2019?

As I tell my students here: “Remember.” Remember the gifts of learning and friendship you made during your

The enthusiasm of that event can only fully be appreciated

school years. Remember how you were as a freshman,

if you consider what was happening in the years prior.

and the transformation that has happened to you over time.

The University didn’t have the money to join the BIG EAST

That didn’t happen on its own. It happened because of

initially; Bill Eyres ‘58 put up the $25,000 the University

the environment and your friends and the faculty and staff.

needed back then. When I was chancellor, I got a visit from

Also, “Be curious.” Continue to be curious and never stop

the entire BIG EAST executive committee. They said, “If

questioning. n

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Choose to support faculty and staff, enhance student life or provide financial assistance.

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Seton Hall’s alumni participation rate contributes to national rankings. (We currently rank #119 among National Universities, according to U.S. News & World Report.) As our rankings increase, so does the value of your degree!

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Gifts made to Seton Hall may be tax-deductible.

How can you help Seton Hall reach new heights?

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