Green Greeks

John DellaContrada ’86 is vice president for university communications at the University at Buffalo. Prior to that, he was UB’s associate vice president for media relations and stakeholder communications. Scott Higginbotham ’86 is director of operations at Erie Materials in Syracuse, N.Y. Previously, he has served as corporate operations manager, operations manager and inside sales representative since joining the company in 1988. He and his wife, Tracy Chamberlain Higginbotham ’86, live in Warners, N.Y., and have two sons. Susan Speirs ’86 is chief school administrator for the Dennis (N.J.) Township School District. Previously, she spent 18 years as principal, first at Seaview and then at Belhaven schools. John Mollica ’87 of Martinsburg, West Va., is a physician. Joseph Noviello ’87 of Summit, N.J., is managing director of dealerweb technology for Tradeweb in New York City. Fraternities and sororities at SUNY Oswego pledge to earn their letters as well as their colors. Among the colors crossing campus, a handful of the college’s Greek organizations celebrate green as one of their key colors. The oldest of Oswego’s Green Greeks is Arethusa Eta, the local Oswego chapter of Sigma Gamma Phi sorority which was founded at Oswego in 1925 and celebrates its 95th anniversary in 2020. The sorority ceased to be active at Oswego in 1980. The name, Arethusa, comes from a Greek legend about a nymph who is turned into an underground stream and emerged as a fresh water foundation. Its colors are: navy blue, representing strong will and trust; kelly green, signifying the forest and the Glenn Richmond ’87 of Scarsdale, N.Y., is senior internal audit manager for Protiviti in New York City. Lewis Rosenberg ’88 of Bensalem, Pa., is an IT manager for NAVUG Mars Fishcare North America Inc. in Chalfont, Pa. David M. DeVillers ’89 of Columbus, Ohio, was appointed by U.S. President Donald J. Trump to serve as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. While serving as an Assistant United States Attorney, David led numerous organized crime task forces involving the FBI, ATF, DEA and IRS. He has twice served as a Legal Advisor with the Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training—in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 2010 to 2012 and in Bucharest, Romania, and Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2018. He is the recipient of the Oswego Alumni Association’s 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Gary Paricio ’89 of Columbus, Texas, is an IT manager and project manager assistant for Theut Company, a commercial glazing contractor. sea; and white, indicating the clear, pure water of the fountain. The second oldest is Sigma Gamma, which became a local Oswego fraternity in 1947. Gamma’s colors are green, gold and white. According to the fraternity, green stands for youth and hope; gold for strength and endurance; and white for faith and purity. Two sororities that started on campus in the 1980s have green in their palettes — local sorority Omicron Xi and national sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi. Omicron sisters proudly wear the colors of sea green, white and medium blue. These colors were chosen to reflect what the sorority stands for: harmony and strength in eternal sisterhood. 1990s Mark Hartell ’90 of Abingdon, Md., is the medical director for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense. He works to ensure the integration of Department of Defense efforts related to science and technology, advanced development, and test and evaluation of the Chemical and Biological Defense Program. Richard Knaul ’90 of Auburn, N.Y., is a councilman for the Town of Owasco. Ron Throop ’90 of Oswego had his paintings featured in an exhibition, entitled “Roy Lichtenstein in Oswego: 1957 - 1960,” in SUNY Oswego’s Wilber/Park corridor in fall 2019. He received a CNY Arts Decentralization Grant to paint Roy’s brief teaching appointment at Oswego and help support a scholarship for an Oswego County high school student who intends to major in studio art or art history and will

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attend SUNY Oswego in fall 2020. The colors worn by AEPhi sisters are kelly green and white — colors chosen by the founders at Barnard College more than a century ago to represent growth and fellowship, respectively. The colors mirror the sorority flower, the lily of the valley, selected for its simple beauty. The brothers of national fraternity Delta Sigma Phi sport nile green and carnation white. The fraternity’s flower is the white carnation, chosen as the fraternity’s official flower because it contains the organization’s colors and is sturdy, able to grow in almost any climate.