7 15 193 https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/eee1be2634edb82670d05d1940d4ac8a.pdf c9108ea447ef4ee3cf5e376be0ff2e0c PDF Text Text OPRING 1977 MLKE6 COLLEGE I:- ' ? �A I It’s a Start... new look for our have now moved to a magazine format. This; cha . P resents a response from hundreds/ °of to learn more about the Collegeandshare m achievements of our alumni. The new formaP sent Wilkes College in greater depth and «e «ould come your comments. Our editor. Doug Rubinstein, would be pleased to accept vour contributions and suggestions- e ask that all letters or articles be typed and doub e spaced. Photographs would also be appreciated. The deadline for the June issue is May 13. he want the Wilkes College Quarterly to sene you in the best pos­ sible way and we encourage your participation. The Wilkes College Quarterly is the latest addition to our wade range of alumni activities and services. Wilkes alumni are now being offered reduced tuition in our continuing education program at the College. The new Wilkes College Alumni Directory will be distri­ buted very shortly. We are again happy to provide you with a complete variety of trips and special insurance programs at reduced rates. Our most meaningful accomplishment has been the involvement shown by our national and regional lead­ ers. I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. -Joseph Stephens ’51, a truly devoted and dedicated alumnus, whose two-year term as president of the Alumni Associ­ ation has brought a dynamic dimension to our growth. For his commitment and leadership shown, I would like to dedicate this magazine. Those of us who have worked with Joe have been inspired bj- his professionalism, en­ thusiasm and dedication. Another matter of our immediate concern is CAM­ PAIGN ’77. Your dollars and support are needed to maintain and build the tradition of quality education at the College. The state of our national economy and en­ ergy crisis has added to our challenge this year, but we feel confident that you will help us meet this commit­ ment to quality education. Please be prepared to anwer the call! We hope you will like our new alumni magazine. It’s the only publication in which you’ll learn not onlv what’s happening on campus, but what’s happening, as well, with that former classmate of yours. We look forward to your support of CAMPAIGN ’77 . . . after all, the achievements of our alumni serve as living testimony to what Wilkes College is all about. ART HOOVER Director of Alumni Affairs A Great Tradition... Dear Alumnus, gh' Private colleges have played a major role in America’ historv. Investment-wise they represent one of th soundest choices for building a better America. Thanks to people like you, your vision, dedication and deter mination there are now 1500 independent colleges in America, with a combined enrollment of over two million students. Today, in fact, traditionally private colleges such as Wilkes serve as a great reservoir of national leadership Independent institutions of higher learning represent the principal direction in the arts and sciences, in law and medicine, education, business and government Twenty-four Presidents of the United States were edu­ cated in private colleges, as were 287 Senators and Rep. resentatives serving in the present Congress. More than 40 percent of the board chairmen and presidents of the nations 100 largest corporations today were educated at independent institutions. The number of outstanding writers, actors, musicians, judges, teachers, physicians, scientists, artists, engineers, produced by private colleges is almost beyond counting. We, at Wilkes College, have a great tradition of com­ mitment to, and pride in, our community and the world at large. Through our doors have passed fine contribu­ tors to the American tradition in almost every walk of life. We have a great deal of which to be proud. Wilkes’ job is only a part of that contribution to society. The larger job - your job as graduates, is to put your educa­ tion to the best possible use. Alumni are to a great ex­ tent the future of society. Dedication and determination is the foundation to any tradition of quality, and Wilkes’ traditions are no exception. Dr. Joseph Stephens ’51, leaving after a su­ perb two year term as National Alumni President, is a man whose devotion and undaunted enthusiasm has aided the alumni association into becoming the viable force that it is at Wilkes today. On behalf of all of our alumni, I extend the Wilkes College family’s most sin­ cere thanks for a job well done. As of this writing Wilkes will commence CAMPAIGN ’77: A Commitment to College and Community. Our goal is to raise S350,000, and I ask once again for your support. Today’s colleges must not be forgotten, if to­ morrow’s world is to be a tranquil and happy one. Wilkes College for nearly 50 years, has been the lead­ ing college in northeastern Pennsylvania. We have earned this consistent reputation because of you — your accomplishments and contributions. As you wander from our halls and then return, we want you to observe the pride in Wilkes you so richly deserve. CAMPAIGN ’77 is not just another appeal. It is a commitment to college and community - a commitment for which it is my fer­ vent hope our alumni will lead the way. With our greatest respect and deepest appreciation for your accomplishments, contributions and leader­ ship, I am, Sincerely yours, ROBERT S. CAPIN President 2 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY KPtW'SFSg? )) JB A/ lfc> V III’ $\ *1 ■^Ks ti < < a 2 Want To Write For The New York Times? Hey Alumnus!! The Editor Says Art’s Flipped!!! I That’s right! I have flipped with enthusiasm about our new maga­ zine! How about you? If you think I’m right, then why don't you write and let us know your thoughts and suggestions. Please let us know if we can publish your letter in our next issue. If you can spare a photo, while you’re at it, we would be happy to use it too. You are the news we love . . . WRITE: ART’S RIGHT!, c/o The Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. How about the WILKES COL­ LEGE QUARTERLY? Articles written by alumni and/or for alumni would be most welcome by the editor. We would appre­ ciate if submitted articles would be typed and double spaced (the editor is farsighted). I-f possible, please include photos. We may not have the circulation of the NEW YORK TIMES, but we’ll publish all the news that’s fit to print. Scoop the Quarterly today! WRITE: SCOOP ART, c/o The Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. (June issue deadline is May 13th.) PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!!! 1977 HOMECOMING WEEKEND OCTOBER 14-16 ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Office at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our records. SPRING 1977 3 �6PRNG W77 W1LKE6 COLLEGE _ Volumne 1, Number 1 editor Douglas J. Rubinstein managing editor George G. Pawlush editorial staff Mary Ellen Alu Wilma Hurst Marianne Montague administrative assistant Jane Manganella ON THE COVER . . . The beautiful and imaginative collage of Donald P. Carpen­ ter, member of the Board of Trustees of Wilkes College, was created and conceived by Ronald Beck. Mr. Beck depicts in his artwork the relationship of Mr. Carpenter with Wilkes College and some of the prominent figures in history with whom he had contact. Pictured from left to right are Pres­ ident Harry S. Truman, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dr. Eugene S. Farley, Wilkes College’s first president; and Admiral Harold R. Stark. Also depicted are Mr. Carpenter’s involvement with atomic energy, his work with DuPont and the Stark Learning and Research Center at Wilkes, where Mr. Carpenter addressed the college and the community at the dedication ceremonies of the building. contributing staff Cara Berryman Teresa McDonald Herb Simon Alfred Groh Dave Frey editorial advisor Arthur J. Hoover circulation manager Lynn Jacobs art director Jon Schaffer photography editor James Kozemchak, ACE HOFFMAN STUDIO The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published four times a year by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. Entered as second class mail matter and second class postage paid at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18703. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons, Honorary Member Reuben H. Levy, Honorary Member OFFICERS Joseph J. Savitz, Chairman Joseph A. Wiendl, First Vice Chairman Ben Badman, Jr., Second Vice Chairman Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary Arthur J. Hoover, Assistant Secretary Mrs. Walter M. Diener, Treasurer Alex Pawlenok, Assistant Treasurer Conversations with Donald F. Carpenter: College Trustee 13 Deeply concerned with higher education, Donald F. Carpenter, former deputy to Secretary of Defense James F. Forrestal, has used his retirement to stay close to the campus scene and has many thoughts on the past, present, and future of Wilkes College. How Does The Thought of a 12-Year Pacemaker Strike You? 21 Alan Schneider ’63 has made a major breakthrough in prolonging the lives of people with heart conditions. On Top of the Banking World 22 Joseph J. Pinola, 1949 Wilkes College graduate, now heads the United California Bank, the 14th largest bank in the country. WYZZ-ards of Wilkes-Barre: Liberal Arts Made The Difference 25 A liberal arts education prepares you for anything and they had a chance to prove it when the 1972 Agnes Flood hit the Wilkes-Barre Area, destroying the homes, businesses, and life styles of many people. Twelve Years After 26 “... it will fill your heart before it breaks it: it will make you a person in your own right; it will open the temple doors to you, and enable you to walk with those who have come nearest among men to what men may sometimes be.” Messages — 2 Letters — 3 Communique — 6 College Chronicle — 8 James A. Adonizio Edward Bixby, M.D. Charles N. Burns, M.D. Robert S. Capin, President Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Edward Darling Mrs. William Davidowitz Mrs. Stanley Davies Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Alan M. Glover, Ph.D. Faculty Abstract — 9 Gallery —18 Pursuits —19 Sports Update — 23 South Riverstreet Revival — 28 The Marquis — 31 Andrew Hourigan, Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Edwin M. Kosik Richard Maslow Gerald A. Moffatt F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Richard L. Pearsall Frank L. Pinola Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross, Jr. Robert Royer Louis Shaffer Ronald W. Simms Joseph D. Stephens, D.D.S. William H. Sword, Jr. E. Arthur Trabant, Ph.D. William J. Umphred Norman E. Weiss PRESIDENT Robert S. Capin SPRING 1977 5 �Severe Winters Gause Severe Budget Problems for Colleges The Chronicle article stated tha Harry F. Ebert, president of the phvsical-plant administrator organ­ ization. said colleges and universi­ ties might be better prepared to deal with energy problems as a result of the fuel crisis of 1973-74. In the wake of that crisis more institutions put in standby equipment to use alternate fuels, energy conservation programs were started and people became more conscious of energy7 problems. A winter season that has been characterized by a 20 to 40% tem­ perature drop from a year ago and spiraling fuel costs has caused per­ plexing budgetary7 problems at most colleges and universities. According to the U. S. Labor Department’s latest wholesale price index natural gas prices have increased nearly 50%. In the same period, the index for coal prices remained the same, while electric power costs went up Survey of Entering Freshmen 7% and fuel oil, up 4%. Reveals Declining High School A national survey of energy7 costs Standards & Changing Ambitions in higher education has just been completed by the Energy7 Task Force, Nearly one in five [19.7%] of the a group sponsored by7 the American 1976 freshman class (nationally) Council on Education, the National earned an A average in high school, Association of College and Univer­ which is an increase of 1.4% over sity Business Officers and the Asso­ 1975, and 6.2% over 1969. The Amer­ ciation of Physical Plant Adminis­ ican Council on Education and the trators. According to the report the University of California combining average cost per student rose 57% their efforts for the eleventh annual in two years — from S78.93 in 1972survey of entering freshmen, re­ 73, the last academic year before the ported that high school graduates oil embargo, to S123.99 in 1974-75. appear to be entering college with Total costs for U. S. colleges and higher grades than ever before. C or universities for energy in 1974-75 average students appear to be de­ equalled S943 million dollars, while clining, the report indicated, from in 1972-73 the cost was S554 million 32.5% in 1969 to 19.8% in 1976. C dollars. The increase represents a students, it appears, outnumbered A 70% boost in costs for higher edu­ students in the 1960’s by more than cation despite a 5.5% fuel consump­ 2 to 1. Today, however, both groups tion reduction undertaken by col­ appear to be of equal size. leges since 1972. The square footage of higher education has increased to The fall 1976 survey was con­ 3.5% during the two year period, the ducted through questionnaires com­ Task Force survey reported. pleted by 328,318 new freshmen David I. Newton, the task force entering a sample of 592 two- and four-year colleges and universities executive director, in an article pub­ lished in the January 24th issue of ____ulquestionnaires .u.„iauCS A selection of 215,890 Chronicle of Higher Education, says from 393 institutions were studied to compute natjonal norms wh.ch the estimates from the survey are the first available for all of higher edu­ statistically adjusted to represent a cation, based on data from 536 sampling of the nation’s approxi­ representative institutions. The pro­ mately 1.78 million first-time freshjected data are adjusted to reflect men. the national mixture of institutions, “When you cconsider __ these grade fuel supplies, prices, and climate. increases in the light „ t of declining 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY college admissions test scores it js hard to escape the conclusion that grading standards in the secondary school have been declining steadily since the late 1960’s,” stated UCLA Professor Alexander W. Astin di rector of the survey. More than 57.7% of the freshmen agreed that “grading in high schools has become too easy." Moreover, 40.6% (up from 38.6% in 1975 and 23.6% in 1971J felt their chances of getting a B aver­ age in college were “very good." Eleven percent of the freshmen ex­ pect to graduate with honors. In 1968 only 3.7% expected top grades in college, while in 1975 that figure in­ creased to 10.3%. Some interesting trends also man­ ifested themselves in the category of political self-identification. Entering college students have traditionally classified themselves as liberals; however, the survey does not indi­ cate the continuation of that trend during 1976. Students classifying themselves as liberals declined from 28.8% to 25.6%, and the number of conservatives increased from 14.5% to 15.2%. “This is the first time in the history of the survey that liberals have not maintained at least a 2 to 1 edge over conservatives,” Astin said. Additional revelations took place in the students’ preference area. In­ terest in applied fields continues to be on the rise, as 16.4% (as com­ pared to 13.8% in 1975) of the fresh­ men sought careers in business. Teaching, surprisingly, is also on the upswing. In 1975 only 6.5% of the freshmen were interested in educa­ tional careers (a figure which rep resents the all-time low) while in 1976 teaching as a preference rose to 8%. The most remarkable discovery, however, was that for the first time in the history of the survey, a major ity of freshmen (53.1%) indicate that "being well-off financially 13 n very important goal in life. CEEB Plans Changes In CLEP for 1978 The College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) will be changed in 1978 to include the addition of a centrally graded essay section to the present all-objective general exam­ ination in English composition, and the lengthening of all five general examinations from 60 to 90 minutes. The College Entrance Examina­ tion Board, which announced the changes in January, said the five general examinations — English composition, mathematics, natural sciences, humanities, and social sci­ ences and history — evaluate knowl­ edge of liberal arts subjects acquired outside the classroom and account for approximately 65 percent of all CLEP examinations taken today. The remaining exams include 47 CLEP subject examinations in areas rang­ ing from computers and data proces­ sing to western civilization. The general examination in Eng­ lish composition will be offered in two versions — one with an essay and objective portion, and one with only objective questions. The essay, on a particular topic, will be timed at 45 minutes. Ford Accepts Visiting Fellowship at Yale The White House announced Jan­ uary 13 that President Ford has ac­ cepted election as a Visiting Chubb Fellow at Yale University and will spend three days on the campus in February in classes and informal sessions with students and faculty members. Ford, who earned a law degree at Yale, will be on the cam­ pus February 6-8. Kissinger Accepts Academic Post At Georgetown Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Admin­ istrations, has accepted a joint ap­ pointment as Visiting Professor of Diplomacy at the Georgetown Uni­ versity School of Foreign Service and as counselor to the Georgetown Center for Strategic and Internation­ al Studies. His appointment is for the spring and summer terms and is effective March 1. How Do I Study Thee? Let Me Compute the Ways The traditional college poetry course may soon undergo a trans­ formation. Some time in the future, threeinch-thick anthologies, daily or weekly student journals, and library reserve shelves heavy with critical works probably will be replaced by a computer and a television-like terminal. In fact, some students at Brown University are already studying po­ etry with the assistance of a compu­ ter-based form of manuscript called "hypertext.” The Brown experiment, which was conducted during the 1975-76 aca­ demic year and is being repeated this semester, was an attempt to deter­ mine how regular classroom teach­ ing could be improved by the addi­ tion of “computer-facilitated” in­ struction. The experiment, which was spon­ sored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, was described by Robert Scholes, professor of Eng­ lish at Brown, and Andries van Dam, a computer scientist, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association last month. notes at will, and insert comments or questions at any point. Mr. Scholes required his students to write a response on the terminal to each of the poems in the course. Because the responses then became part of the hypertext, the students could read and critique each other’s work. Mr. Scholes regarded the students’ interaction as one of the principal benefits of the hypertext system. He said, “I think that the communica­ tion that they had with one another on the system . . . generated a kind of rapport among the members of the group that is very unusual. I can think of no way that can be dupli­ cated without a system of this kind.” Student Output Increased An unexpected result of the ex­ periment was the unusually large amount of writing produced by the students using the hypertext. Data on the usage of the computer during the course show that students in the experimental section averaged the equivalent of 84 pages of written work, more than is expected in most composition courses. Both Mr. Scholes and Mr. van Dam cited the “leveling effect" of having the poems, the professional criticism, the instructors’ comments, and the students’ own writing all 10 Units of ‘Hypertext’ appear in the same electronic-green "Hypertext," a term coined by medium. The unusual presentation computer scientist Theodor Nelson, “freed the students of fear of poet­ consists of a collection of related ry,” Mr. Scholes said. documents, cross-references, foot­ Mr. van Dam admitted that the notes, and annotations that have cost of using a computer for a course been fed into a computer and can be like this — S6.46 per hour — was called up on a terminal screen with a prohibitive except on an experimen­ few strokes on a typewriter-like key­ tal basis. A college would need a board. center with 30 or 40 terminals used For his course in the critical anal­ by students in dozens of courses to ysis of poetry, Mr. Scholes and two make such instruction “cost effec­ graduate assistants organized 10 tive,” he said. units of hypertext, each of which Definitive conclusions cannot be included a central poem, additional drawn from so small a statistical selections by the same poet, related base, Mr. van Dam said, but the class works by different poets, and per­ using the hypertext system demon­ tinent biographical and critical pas­ strated greater improvement in their sages. critical skills than any of the other The 12 students in the experimen­ classes. tal section of the course could study the material by using a display ter­ E<i. Note: Information compiled for The Commu­ minal. Except for certain restrictions nique is gathered quarterly from The Chronicle of Higher Education published by Editorial Projects set up by the instructors, the hyper­ for Education, Inc., Higher Education and Na­ text systems allowed students to tional Affairs published by the American Council peruse the selections in any order, on Education and general research by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office. follow cross-references and footSPRING 1977 7 �'•'1 acommithent WUCESCOU£G£ TOCOLLEGE ANDCOMMUNHT Campaign CAMPAIGN 77 Wilkes College is in the midst of a campaign to raise S350,000 through the community, college family, alum­ ni, and other sources. Earl Macarty, vice-president of Wyoming National Bank in WilkesBarre, is chairman of the community phase of CAMPAIGN 77 which has been charged with a goal of 8120,000. The drive will run from March 3rd through 30th. Macarty has been a long time worker on Wilkes College campaigns and for a decade has participated as a worker, team captain, and division leader. Art Hoover '55, director of alumni relations, will head the alumni por­ tion which has set a S65,000 quest. Assisting Hoover will be members of the executive board and regional vice presidents of the Alumni Asso­ ciation. The alumni appeal, which started in mid March, will continue through May 31. A new' aspect of this year's alumni drive will be the planned fol­ low up by the regional vice presi­ dents. Again, each class will be compet­ ing for the greatest percent of partic­ ipation. The class to achieve the highest participation factor will be recognized on the Annual Alumni r Appeal Award Plaque which is on display at the Alumni and Faculty House. Alumni are again reminded about the matching gift program, which means that certain companies and employers will match the gift that you send to the college, thus actually doubling the donation. Membership to the Gene Farley Club is open to all alumni who contribute at least 8100 annually to the alumni fund. In announcing the campaign, Rob­ ert S. Capin, president of the college stated: "CAMPAIGN 77 has been carefully designed to meet the fi­ nancial demands facing the college .. . and requiring the combined sup­ port of the college community, col­ lege alumni, faculty, and board as well as assistance from other sources, corporations and founda­ tions. “The goal has been tailored to re­ spond to a greater demand for finan­ cial assistance to make possible a college education for many who otherwise might not be able to have this advantage. Additionally, there is a need to respond to ever-increas­ ing operating costs at the college." Another important phase of CAM­ PAIGN 77, and a vital shot in the arm is the Wilkes College Family portion which has a S15,000 goal this year. Chairing this committee is Dr. James FJJ] 11 it Rodechko, a member of the history faculty. Teams will be established from the various sections at the col lege — professors emeriti, faculty administration, clerical, and main-' tenance. Each section will have teams similar to the organizational structure of the community phase Rubinstein Named Public Relations Director Douglas J. Rubinstein has assumed the office of the director of public relations at the college. His appoint­ ment became effective on January 5 Rubinstein, a 31-year old assistant dean of the faculty for the Division of Arts and Sciences and a professor of communications studies at the State University of New York at Os­ wego, has been teaching there since 1970. "Rubinstein will be responsible for facilitating communications with all segments to the public as they re­ late to Wilkes College," said Pres­ ident Capin. “He will act as a sup­ port system to all areas of the college aiding in furthering channels of com­ munication between Wilkes College, the community, the media and the college’s many supporters. Addition­ ally, he will be responsible for keep­ ing open every possible line of inter­ action to all members of the Wilkes . __ ' I ■ act*’ ■flSrW S£»tll % I Leaders of the community phast a meeting at Weckess ........... director of developmet Macarty, chairmt tor of alumni r ligan, Gil T~ w............ .. Carl Zoolkoski. --i. Other Olher leaders'incl leaders Made Wni,m Mainwaring 8 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY vha^t^- alshot in the arm f°r CAMPAIGN 77 is the Wilkes Family mittee "Ch tbeing headed Dr- J™™ Rodechko. Members ofthe^ ‘° ”ght' ^ed - Mary Argemo, clerical; Dr. K°d“™°' of alumni "°r-lS ^.arlc.cr' administration; standing — Art Hoover, dirt Aikman jfta,.rs; Robinson, assistant director of development; 1 / irector of development; and Dr. Bing Wong, faculty. College family — students, faculty, administrators, alumni, and friends.” In another move to improve the office, George Pawlush '69, who had been the assistant director of public relations, became the new director of news and sports information. A native of Scarsdale, N. Y., Ru­ binstein is a graduate of the Univer­ sity of Rhode Island where he earned a bachelor of arts in communication, and of the State University of New York at Oswego where he double majored in communication studies and higher education. He is the author of articles on communication and education, and has been a nominee for the Chancel­ lor’s Award for Excellence in Teach­ ing at the State University of New York. Additionally, Rubinstein has pro­ duced television, radio and multi­ media productions, including a na­ tionally syndicated radio show deal­ ing with current issues and contem­ porary music. While teaching at Rhode Island he served as assistant coach under head coach jack Zilly, and for two seasons was head coach of the Oswego State football team until his appointment to the dean’s office. During his ten­ ure, the teams had a 12-4 record, cli­ maxing with a 31-13 Empire Bowl victory over American University in 1973. Laboratories Stay Active Hidden in the lower level of Wilkes College’s Stark Learning Center is a labyrinth of laboratories which have become a sanctuary of sorts for many science and engineer­ ing majors. One such group taking advantage of the relative serenity of the base­ ment labs is composed of one phys­ ics and three materials engineering majors who are jointly working on a project to better magnetic materials for use in generators and trans­ formers. Working with both crystalline and amorphous alloys containing such unusual elements as gadolinium, yttrium, and samarium, the four stu­ dents for the past year have been measuring the magnetic properties of these and other materials at tem­ peratures down to minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit. According to Dr. John Orehotsky, a member of the engineering faculty, various industries such as Allegheny Ludliem and General Telephone and Electronics will be deeply interested in the completed findings. The foursome, which includes seniors Tom Wahl, Wilkes-Barre; Linda Jamiolkowski, Ashley; junior John Gerboc, Duryea; and freshman Marie Kaczenski, Duryea; is in­ volved in a two-year project which is being sponsored jointly by the Pennsylvania Science and Engineer­ ing Foundation and the National Sci­ ence Foundation. Gerboc, the lone non-engineering major in the group, points out that the project involves not only the de­ velopment of better materials but also the quest to gain a clearer un­ derstanding of the fundamental prin­ ciples of magnetism and electron configuration states in alloys. He added, “Our work has involved both the understanding and develop­ ment of permanent magnets which are found in loudspeakers and of soft magnets which are used in trans­ formers.” The students, who usually have the opportunity to work on the proj­ ect only during vacation periods, see the extra-curricular work as a chal­ lenge. "It gives us an excellent chance to learn," Linda Jamiolkowski stated. "Hopefully, later we will be able to put some of this practical experience to work in the job market." Industry had realized and appre­ ciated the efforts and research of the students, and in turn has donated some of the equipment used in the experiments. "It is a two way street," concluded Dr. Orehotsky. “Industry benefits with the added technology findings and the students benefit by putting some of their course knowledge to work. In the end it spells a happy relationship between campus and industry, one that will eventually add up to a better tomorrow.” faculty Fall semester, 1977 will find Dr. Wagiha A. Taylor, associate profes­ sor of economics, travelling abroad, conducting research in some Middle Eastern countries. The research, which will broaden her background in areas connected with the courses she teaches at Wilkes, will be mainly in the areas of economics, the finan­ cial effects of war, and the problems of conversion from a war economy to a peacetime economy. Most of her Sabbatical Leave will be spent in Egypt, her native land, but she also hopes to visit some other Middle Eastern countries which have been most directly affected by the wars. Her objective — to obtain first-hand information about the effects wars have upon Middle Eastern econo­ mies. Having received her Ph.D. from Clark University in 1966, her M.A. from Brown University in 1962, and her B.A. from Alexandria Uni­ versity in 1958, Dr. Taylor plans to exchange ideas with former col­ leagues from Egypt at the Institute of Public Administration and at the Ministry of Planning while on sab­ batical. When she worked in Egypt during 1967-69, her first position was with the Ministry of Planning, where she carried on research in the field of foreign trade as related to eco­ nomic development. When she trans­ ferred to the Institute of Public Ad­ ministration, she taught economic development and public finance to post-bachelor government employ­ ees and was responsible for coordin­ ating and supervising research. Dr. Taylor came to Wilkes in 1966 teach­ ing part-time for a year, then re­ turned to the college in 1969 to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, supervise independent research in economics, and advise students. Married and the mother of two chil­ dren, Dr. Taylor has been the recip­ ient of several fellowships and was listed in the 1975-76 Bicentennial Memorial Edition of Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans. She has chaired seminars at various economic conferences and has writ­ ten several publications. Chairper­ son of the Wilkes Library Commit­ tee, Dr. Taylor is a member of the American Economic Association, the Executive Board of the Pennsylvania Conference of Economists, and is a life member and founder of the East­ ern Economic Association. SPRING 1977 9 �Arenstein Elected National President r_ was one of the most celebrated thMes in Wilkes history, earning a mKf eleven varsity letters in soc- lege happenings. CeFerraiseband his wife* the former rector of Public^ehaHoSaVJhdi' ,f E1]en Ross, are the parents °f fcee children. The Ferris' reside in lege, the message line his Co1' very successful in many partoPr?Ven country. The idea of the the College Connection’ has ho Milkes by theaters and other busing" many years. It is only recent? ,fot colleges have picked up on thl Vhat Prior to installing the ser ?'dea’” public relations office did con%‘he able research and found thaflder' medium-sized higher od., L one facility in Pennsylvania with’ Tm liar line receives over loot) call a typical weekend. a s on KeS for a second term as secre­ taryis Lauren O’Hara, who was ap­ pointed last year to fill the unexprred ferm of the late Anita Janerich’ Lauren is a librarian at the West Pittston Library. She attained her BA. in English from the college in 1974 and is currently pursuing her M.S. in Reading from Marywood Ferris, O’Hara and Paradise also Join Executive Board Following a large response from Wilkes College alumni throughout the country, Judy Simonson Arenstern '68, has been selected for a twoyear term as national president of the Alumni Association. Mrs. Aren­ stein succeeds Dr. Joseph Stephens '51. Also named to national offices were James F. Ferris '56, executive vice president; Lauren Harris O'Hara '74, secretary; and Steven Paradise '65, treasurer. Mrs. Arenstein, who was featured in the last “Wilkes College Report," is a district operations manager for A.T.&T. — Long Lines Department in White Plains, N.Y. Judy and her husband Bob, an at­ torney and alumnus of Ithaca Col­ lege, have been actively involved with the Alumni Association for the past nine years. As an undergraduate at the college she was very active, serving as pres­ ident of the Math Club, dormitory president, and corresponding secre­ tary of the Student Government Association. In addition to her B.A. degree in Mathematics from Wilkes, the new national president recently attained her MBA degree from Pace Univer­ sity. Jim Ferris assumes the position of executive vice president after serv­ ing the Alumni Association as re­ gional vice president of Region 1 He received his B.S. in Secondary Education from Wilkes in 1956 and added his M.S. in Education from ?d ^ inl961'Thenewv!« pres­ ident is the senior high school prin- io WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY College. Involved with the Manuscript as a student, she has been quite active in the Alumni Association since her graduation. . . Also moving up from a regional vice president’s slot is Steven Para­ dise of Merrick, N.Y., who served as head of Region 6 which includes the Metropolitan New York Area. Steve, who is married to a WUkes graduate, the former Jane Klein ’66, is vice president of the J. B. Paradise Co. in Merrick. They are the parents of two children. He was also active in student gov­ ernment as a student and was a dorm proctor. An insurance broker in Long Island, Steve is a member of the na­ tional, state, and county association of Independent Insurance Agents. The regional vice president win­ ners will be announced in the Sum­ mer issue of the Wilkes Quarterly. Wilkes College Connection 24-Hour Information Line The "Wilkes College Connection,” a 24-hour message line for Wilkes College events, officially went into operation on Monday, February 21. Created by the college's public re­ lations office as a service to both campus and community, the phone line will present a 30-60 second pre- r \\ A v lkes Co], and sports information. “Lehigh anJ West Point offer a similar primarily for sporting events but w are striving for the ’Wilkes Collet Connection’ to be an all-purpose public relations vehicle for our manv academic, fine arts, and community related activities at the college.” The Wilkes College Connection” will also avail itself as an emergency vehicle, and would have proven in­ valuable if it had been in use during the flood scare of September 1975. In addition to offering dates, times, and results, the message line may be used from time to time to feature brief interviews. Biggest obstacle facing the “Wilkes College Connection” will be the un­ familiarity of the public with the number which is 826-1135. “While the phone book carrying the listing is still six months away,” noted PR chief Rubinstein, “we plan to pub­ licize the number in all of our pub­ lications and augment this with busi­ ness cards.” Equipment for the “Wilkes Col­ lege Connection” was made possible through a grant by an anonymous benefactor of the college. “It will take a few months to uate the service,” Rubinstein eluded, “but we feel confident it will become an important ir ment toward bringing the cc closer to the community, and i tion is here.” 1977 Alumni Trip Package ing and reasonably priced tri] which are being offered to alumr their families, and friends in 1977. the Alumni Association has arranged a visit to festive Rio De Janeiro. The trip which is priced at $499 includes round trip transportation from Phila­ delphia, deluxe accommodations for seven nights at the new Inter-Conti­ nental Hotel, and many extras. Next is a tour to Switzerland, April 22-30, which has been arranged for $399. Round trip transportation from Philadelphia to Zurich, accom­ modations at the new Movenpick Holiday Inn and the Elite Hotel Thun or Hotel Freienhof in the Alpine's, and daily continental breakfasts are only a few features. Just added to the package are ex­ cursions to Hawaii, July 27 - August 3, at $499 and London, August 8-16, at $399. An additional 15% tax and service charge is applicable to both trips. Additional information will be sent to all alumni as it is received. Further information or inquiries should be directed to The Alumni Relations Office. Temple Law Head on Campus Peter Liacouras, dean of the Tem­ ple University School of Law, visited the Wilkes College campus on Feb­ ruary 17. $ tne Wilkes'* CONNECTION ’I7-82G-II35 Dean Liacouras is shown left, with John Chwalek, director of placement at the college. The Temple law head along with members of the admissions staff met with Wilkes students all afternoon. It was the first time for the pres­ tigious Temple institution to ever re­ cruit at Wilkes. Wilkes College Receives Gulf Gift A grant of $10,000 towards the student loan program was received by Wilkes College recently from the Gulf Oil Foundation. The grant is the fifth of five grants which has been awarded by Gulf Oil Corporation to the college over a five-year period, to establish the fund at the college. Shown at brief presentation cere­ monies were, left to right — Harry Maxwell, retail marketer, Gulf Oil, Mountaintop; David M. Hayllar, di­ rector of retail sales, Gulf Oil, Philadelphia; and Robert S. Capin, president of Wilkes College. The Gulf Student Loan Fund, be­ lieved to be the first such program provided by industry, is one part of Gulf’s Aid to Education Program which distributed $3.2 million in 1976 to various colleges and univer­ sities in the United States. Wilkes College Chemical Society Lauded Dedication, good leadership, and hard work are some of the charac­ teristics of the Wilkes College Chem­ ical Society which have led the society to be perennially commended as an outstanding student chapter. The Wilkes society is one of 49 student chapters affiliated with the American Chemical Society which has been chosen from 652 chapters and commended for excellence in the 1975-76 academic year. Selection for this special com­ mendation is made by the Council Committee on Chemical Education which reviews the activities of all chapters before making a decision. Merit was awarded the Wilkes Chemical Society because of the ex­ tensiveness and intensiveness of its program and the outstanding record it has compiled over the year. Organized some 28 years ago, the Wilkes group, being among the elite number of outstanding chapters, has set an example for others to follow. By being affiliated with the Amer­ ican Chemical Society, the Wilkes chapter helps students interested in chemistry develop attitudes of professionalism. Student-affiliated chapters are organized at institutions granting degrees in chemistry or chemical engineering. Student Station Increases Power The Wilkes College radio station, WCLH-FM (90.7), will soon be able to bring its many programs to a larger audience when a new trans­ mitter and antenna are installed. Notification granting the expan­ sion was recently received by the radio staff from the Federal Com­ munications Commission. The build­ ing process is scheduled to begin in the middle of February and be com­ pleted by December. According to Jay Finkelstein, sta­ tion manager, there will be an expan­ sion of frequency from 175 to 2000 watts. "This expansion means that we will hit a larger range of people,” said Finkelstein, "permitting us to be heard clearly as far as Maryland, New York, and other outside states.” Staffed by about 30 students, the Wilkes radio station is primarily an educational station providing an ar­ ray of educational and cultural pro­ grams, plus music for various tastes. “This increase of watts,” said Finkelstein, “will give us more self­ pride in what we do. We will be hit­ ting more people, and we want to give them more." The Wilkes station is on the air weekdays from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., and weekends from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Not only does the radio station provide students with practical ex­ perience in broadcasting, but it also provides the college and community with a service. SPRING 1977 11 �To meet the demands c-—■ created the new computer science m bv' two new faculty members hm,?u10r’ added to the mathematics / beetl ment during the past year uepartDr, John Koch, who holds his PF n from the University of I]linnle h'DDr. Joseph A. Parker, who gX'dahd doctorate at Cal Tech, both h S extensive computer science ba grounds. °ack- ___ J Audio-visual equipment will play a major role in the development of Wilkes Colleges computer science program. Delighted with the challenges ahead are, left to rig t r. Bing Wong, chairman, Wilkes College Department of Mathematics and Computer Science; Christa Kauffman, junior, Wilkes-Barre; Dave Williams, director, computer center; and Susan Evans, junior, Scranton. Computer Science Added to List of Majors After several years in the plan­ ning stage, a major in computer sci­ ence has become a reality at Wilkes College. With the rapid advances in com­ puter technology and applications, computer science has now become an established area of study in American colleges and universities. In response to growing interest among current and potential stu­ dents, the Wilkes College Mathemat­ ics Department has been consolidat­ ing certain mathematics courses 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY while expanding its offerings in com­ puter science in recent years. Dr. Bing Wong, chairman of the mathematics department, said, “It is something that we have been work­ ing on for several years. Though closely allied with mathematics, computer science is actually a disci­ pline of its own.” With the addition of the computer science major, the department will not only provide many of its math­ ematics majors with the opportunity to achieve double majors in two closely related subjects, but also at the same time attract many new stu­ dents. Coupled with the increased student interest, the attainment of a qualified computer science f faculty has also been fulfilled. Dr added, “We now have a total of -ng n! six Ph.D’s in our department and of these people people* will will work work" lute?* changeably■J in both areas.” Along with additional faculty Dr Wong is also concerned with the up' grading of computer science equin' ment. "The fourth floor of the Stark Learning Center offers us the finest teaching facilities anywhere. An in creased budget will allow to build an excellent computer science pro­ gram." Cohen Exhibit The photographic talent of Mark Cohen, Wilkes College alumnus and adjunct professor of the fine arts department at the college, recently was featured at the Castelli Gallery in New York City. The Castelli Gallery, one of the top galleries in the country featuring contemporary art, displayed about 50 of Cohen’s photographs in this one-man show. A review of the show appeared in the February 13, 1977 edition of The New York Times in which Cohen was commended as “a very prolific photographer." Winner of the John Simon Gug­ genheim Award in 1971 and 1976, Cohen has had previous one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Light Gallery, New York City; Art Institute of Chi­ cago; International Museum of Pho­ tography, Rochester, N.Y.; Wilkes College; and Penn State University. Cohen also has some of his works on display at the Zabriskie Gallery in Paris, France. The Zabriskie exhibit deals exclusively in photography, marking the first extensive repre­ sentation of American photogra­ phers to the French public. The Wilkes educator along with nine other distinguished Americans has been selected to give an over­ view of recent trends of photogra­ phy in the United States. - o o■ “Farley was a very persistent and determined individual without letting you know that he was persistent and determined.” “One of the first things that attracted me to Wilkes, is the job that the college is doing for the community, and in turn what the community is doing for the college.” “Modern industrial development is today a product of research.” Conversations with Donald F. Carpenter: Wilkes College Trustee “Higher education is the oppor­ tunity and I feel that Wilkes College has the outstanding opportunity to become an outstanding small col­ lege.” chairman of the committee on atom­ ic energy of the Research and De­ velopment Board. He later was chairman of the U. S. Munitions Board. Those were the feelings of Donald Fell Carpenter, a member of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees, whose life has spanned an early up­ bringing in Wilkes-Barre when the area was at the height of the “Coal Era”, an outstanding 37-year career in E. I. DuPont De Nemours Com­ pany and Remington Arms Com­ pany - a DuPont subsidiary, and a post World War II assignment in the Pentagon as deputy to Secre­ tary of Defense James Forrestal on all atomic energy matters. “I received a phone call from Washington. I was told that there was a most urgent situation and I was requested to meet a Colonel Hinds in - of all places - the Penn­ sylvania Railroad Station in Wilm­ ington; the matter was too confiden­ tial to discuss over the phone. There, in a quiet corner, Col. Hinds told me that the Berlin blockade was in a precarious position and that the Secretary of Defense urged me, along with others, to come at once. That left me no alternative. I asked my management for, and received, a six-month leave of absence without pay. In April of 1948, I went to Washington. I have never regretted In a conversation with Carpenter at his Pennsylvania stone farmhouse some 25 minutes away from his old office in the Nemours Building in downtown Wilmington, the Wilkes board member related some of his experiences in Washington, D.C. during the late 1940’s and higher ed­ ucation as he sees it at Wilkes Col­ lege. Carpenter’s job in Washington was a three-fold assignment which included being a deputy to U.S. De­ fense Secretary James Forrestal on all atomic energy matters, chairman of the military liaison committee to the Atomic Energy Commission, and it. “One day, while in Washington, Vannevar Bush, a former vice pres­ ident of MIT and head of the Re­ search and Development Board, spoke to me about assuming fulltime duties as Forrestal’s Deputy for atomic affairs. At that time atom­ ic energy was unknown. The secret had been kept so well that military men who were using it didn’t know much about it. “There was, and still is, a serious danger in atomic waste and we started at that time to work with some processes to eliminate it. The work had to be done under slow and careful conditions because of the possible exposure to radiation. It seemed to us that it was a prob­ lem nearly 30 years ago and I don’t know if it has been answered yet today.” Carpenter’s first meeting with Harry S. Truman, who was Presi­ dent at the time, came shortly after. “I went to the oval office with Forrestal and the three military secre­ taries and chiefs of staff and mem­ bars of the Atomic Energy Commis­ sion to make a proposition to the president,” he explained. “I had gone into his office with­ out really knowing what to expect. There was strong feeling against Truman at that time. When I got home, Mrs. Carpenter asked me: ‘What does he look like?’ I told her that he looked like the President of the United States. I was favorably impressed with him.” Editor's Note: On January 28, 1977, the editorial staff of the WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY visited with Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Carpenter at their charming home in Mendenhall, Pa. Our visit was a memorable experience, highlighted by Mr. Carpenter's delightful wit and character, and Mrs. Carpenter's warmth and personality. We wish to express our sincere gratitude for their cordial hospitality and patience on that most re­ warding afternoon. SPRING 1977 13 �Another up for confirmation by the “Mrs Carpenter and our ten-y old daughter Judy M-s^ohn Andrew Herdeg) were sitting at the table with our Sunday supper an Drew Pearson was on the television sounding off. Judy turned to me and said: ‘Daddy, what is he saying, said, Judy, that’s Mr. Pearson and he is giving advice to the se"a‘°”’ and if the senators agree with him, we’ll go home to Southport. Judy aot up from the table and went up­ stairs and came down a little later. She had a letter which she had writ­ ten and it was addressed to the Pres­ ident at the White House. She said: ‘Daddy, see if it’s all right?’ It said: ‘Dear President Truman, please tell the senate to send daddy home to Southport, Connecticut.’ It went on to say: ‘I went to your inauguration, I liked the floats, I ate two hot dogs, love Judy.’ “Months later when Forrestal left office there was a small dinner party for him. Truman was there and I told him about this letter. He said: ‘Will you send it to me?’ Well, Mr. President, I told him, I would love to send it to you but it is in your files, not mine. Truman then turned to John Steelman, his aide, and said: ‘John, I have been telling you not to open my mail.’ “Many years passed and a gentle­ man from the Truman Library vis­ ited our house and we talked about the letter. We later stopped at the Truman Library, during one of our visits to the Ozarks, and the fellow who had been at our house presented us with the original letter.” As a deputy to James Forrestal, Carpenter got a close look at the man who was to later suffer a nervous breakdown, leave office, and shortly later, leap to his death. Forrestal be­ came the first Secretary of Defense following the passage of the Unifi­ cation Act which combined the Sec­ retary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of War into one body. “Forrestal was a great guy, very intense, very dedicated, and highly intelligent. He was apt to assign a job to many different people, per­ haps to get a number of different opinions. 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY “A typical Forrestal Day started with an early rising. Then he would meet with people from industry and follow with a morning staff meeting At the staff meetings he was incisive and quick. Next was his appointment schedule. While most people in Washington operated on a 15. minute schedule, he limited his to five minutes. No decision had been arrived at before it came to him and when it did he would make a decis­ ion in less than five minutes. “Then he would go up to the capitol before his lunch break which he used for exercise. After lunch, which he would usually have with mem­ bers of the senate, he would follow it with more appointments, a trip to the White House, and cocktails at his own house with members of the press. At dinner he might have a philosophical conversation with Robert Frost, Marty Baruch, or peo­ ple of that type. If anything came up, we as members of his staff would get a ‘scotch call.’ It was not un­ common to leave his home and see him head back to the Pentagon at 10 p.m. A man can’t live that way and in the end he broke down. “When he was at his best I remem­ ber going into his office with ten questions. I read them off and in two or three minutes every one of them was answered. The answer stuck. They were not casual answers. “The last time I saw him, just be­ fore he left office, he was in an aw­ ful confused state. I told Mrs. Carp­ enter that I never had seen a person as tired as he was. I had something that needed his endorsement. I knew it would be two weeks before his successor got his feet on the ground. The question had to be ans­ wered quick, and I hated to bother him. I posed the question and his mind wandered off. I called it back to him three times. After twenty minutes or so I said to him: Jini, why don’t we do it this way? He said: ‘Okay,’ That was his answer! “In addition to his tiring pace, it was the Unification Act which led to his breakdown. He felt that he would need two years to complete the assignment. He knew it was go­ ing to be a tough assignment. You have an Army and Navy which you are trying to combine after 200 years of separate activity and traditions. �-J J ,] tl 1 i “He went in as the former Secre­ tary of the Navy and little by little he had to do certain things that the Navy didn’t like. Little by little, the admirals of the Navy were turning against him and at the same time the Secretary of the Air Force ac­ cused him of favoring the navy. He was just caught in between and couldn’t get out.” “Ike was invited to attend a Wai Council meeting. It was hard to be­ lieve at that time that everyone who attended the meeting outranked him. A matter came up for discussion and copies of the proposal were distri­ buted to members at the meeting. Great disagreement occured as the matter was passed around the table. Finally Forrestal turned to Eisen­ hower and asked him what he thought. Ike just pulled his chair up to the table and flashed that grin which he was so famous for and said. ‘I think all you guys are crazy. Isn’t this the fundamental policy (point­ ing to the sheet) that you want to accomplish? And, if so, isn’t this (pointing to a section of the paper) the first step towards that policy?’ He sold them all completely and everyone voted for what he recom­ mended.” Carpenter viewed Eisenhower as a rather astute government leader. “People say that he didn’t have the brain power. You can judge whether brain power is getting things ac­ complished or whether it’s getting something smart done which isn’t accomplished. I talked with him during his administration as pres­ ident and he said to me: ‘Don, if you see a situation where people are in distress and you know that you have the power to correct it, what do you do?’ He was very much impressed with that thought. That was a case when he wasn’t thinking in terms of long range principles necessar­ ily.” One of the smartest men that Carpenter regarded of that late 1940’s era was the noted scientist Vannevar Bush. “He was a man of extreme informality, outstanding intellect, and was fearless. I think to a fault, and in some cases pushed military people to the point where he was defeating his own purpose. “When the possibility of the atomic bomb first came to fore, Pres­ ident Roosevelt asked two people to 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY look into the situation and see what ought to be done. One was Bush. You might say that Bush, who was chairman of the committee, was the ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb.’ He mobilized scientists throughout the country into contributing anything that they were in the position to contribute to the war effort. You could even trace a lot of the radar development back to Bush. He never really received the publicity that he deserved.” Following his one and a half years in Washington, Donald Carpenter returned to the DuPont Company as an assistant manager of the Rayon Department. It was from this post that he was appointed general man­ ager of the Film Department in 1950, the position he held until his retire­ ment on May 31,1963. Carpenter’s business career start­ ed in 1922, when he was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an engineer and went to work for DuPont at its Arlington, N. J. plant as a student operator. Soon he was made a foreman and he elected to work permanent night shift. In 1924 his father became ill and Carpenter left DuPont to re­ turn to Wilkes-Barre where he had been born 24 years before, to man­ age the family business. “It was a heating, ventilating, and sheet metal firm with some 70 employees, and I handled all the management func­ tions.” In 1927 his brother assumed re­ sponsibility for the family business and Carpenter returned to DuPont as a superintendent in the Leomins­ ter, Mass., plant. In 1929 he was ap­ pointed general manager of the Pyralin Products Department of that company. Carpenter’s career with the Rem­ ington Arms Company at Bridge­ port, Conn., began in 1933 when he was appointed director of manufac­ ture. In 1941 he was made vice pres­ ident and directed Remington’s greatly expanded manufacturing operations during World War II. In 1945 he was promoted to vice-pres­ ident and assistant general manager and then came his service with the United States Government. Deeply concerned with higher ed­ ucation at Wilkes College, Carpen­ ter has used his retirement to stay close to the campus scene and has many thoughts about the past, pres­ ent, and future of the institution. One of his first acquaintances with the college came with Dr. Eugene S. Farley, the first president of Wilkes College who died in 1972. “I met Farley through Walter Carpenter, my cousin. He and Wal­ ter Carpenter were very good friends. Farley was a very persistent and de­ termined individual without letting you know that he was persistent and determined. A friend of mine, at that time, was handling DuPont grants to different institutions for different purposes. He knew educa­ tional institutions as well as anyone in the United States and often said, that of all the presidents of colleges in the country, and he saw plenty of them, he would rate Dr. Farley as number two. He never said who was first. “He rated Farley very high and was impressed with him for several reasons. The fact that he would op­ erate on a balanced budget, and that he would be conscientious about the expenditures of funds that he was raising from people who were con­ scientious about their funds. Farley seemed to know more about what was going on in the college than any­ one else.” Donald Carpenter spoke at the convocation of the Stark Research Center in January of 1964 at which time Walter S. Carpenter was the College will now be in a better posi­ tion than ever to provide these, and I predict that this entire region will draw strength and stimulation from this intellectual resource.” He concluded by saying, “What could be more logical than to rejoice in this fine new development here in this community, directed under the demonstrated leadership of Wilkes College.” A strong supporter of higher edu­ cation, Carpenter offers some views as to its importance in America. “If you can make education tough, give a person their money’s worth, you’ll find the situation where a Wilkes College degree will put an applicant right into the running when he is looking for a job. Now if you can accomplish that, I don’t know if you are at that point yet, you will be achieving that quality education.” He sees Wilkes college as an out­ standing institution. “It seems to me recipient of the first honorary doc­ that the facilities are superb. Its fac­ toral degree ever conferred by the ulty, I don’t know as much about as college. That day the Wilkes board I would like to, but I suspect it is member expanded on the subject of good. One of the first things that research and industrial development attracted me to Wilkes, maybe Far­ ley was smart enough to know that as related to Wyoming Valley. I was interested in this, is the job He stated that research is import­ that the college is doing for the com­ ant, “but of greater importance are munity, and in turn what the com­ the men and women who have done munity is doing for the college.” this research. They have learned by Carpenter, along with his wife, the doing, and they have prepared them­ former Louise Coolige, who he mar­ selves to enter industry and apply ried on May 31, 1928, reside during this knowledge. They have been im­ part of the year at a 150-acre farm portant factors in revitalizing old in Mendehall, Pennsylvania, and industries, as well as, in creating summers at West Chop, Martha’s new industries. Vineyard, Mass. He also felt that “Modern indus­ A neighbor farms most of the land, trial development is today a product but a small orchard containing some of research,” and later added, “We 40 varieties of fruit trees is a focus should not over-glamorize this thing of Carpenter’s agricultural activity. called ‘research’ for, after all, it’s He has restored a huge barn, which just a type of purposeful and cap­ serves two “unbarn-like” purposes. A able thinking - a set of attitudes, hardwood floor has been laid down skills, and talents that are essential in the main area and serves as a bas­ and must be exercised by many in ketball and badminton court. The our new world of advancing technol­ hayloft has been transformed into ogy. The real research man specu­ Mrs. Carpenter’s studio. A devoted painter, Mrs. Carpenter has studied lates upon possible ways to reach his objective, and tests them out. He painting in Boston, Italy, New York, tries to explain what he sees, and if and Washington, and was a portrait he sees something he can t explain, painter when she married Carpen­ he just tries a little harder. ter. In more ways than one Donald “It’s all just a process of enlight­ Fell Carpenter has left his mark on ened thinking. But the art of think­ the many areas he has touched. He ing in this way has advanced to the in final review, is a “Man for All point that it requires extensive train­ Seasons.” ing and specialized facilities. Wilkes SPRING 1977 17 �-(W theg’SLnHoi?^ Conyngham Art Gallery The Conyngham Annex Gallery serves chiefly as a show case for ex­ hibiting the works of Wilkes Col­ lege art majors. During the senior year, majors are required to have an exhibition which may be a one-per­ son or two-person show. This provides an opportunity for the students to display their works to the college and community and additionally gives the students ex­ perience in dealing w’ith the multi­ various aspects of exhibiting: select­ ing work, matting and framing, pub­ licity and public relations, designing a banner, an announcement or poster, arranging the gallery space and lighting. Although the gallery space is modest in size, it is profes­ sional in appearance. The space may be broken up by means of creative partitions and a track lighting system which provides flexibility. There is an excellent hi-fi sound system, and in addition to storage space, there is a small kitchen area for receptions. Student exhibitions begin with an opening reception, usually on Sun­ day evening, and the exhibit contin­ ues through the following week. Gallery hours vary according to the student's schedule, but typically they are during the afternoon hours and in the evenings from 7-10 p.m. The gallery is open to the public. Works exhibited include painting, drawings, graphics, sculpture, weav­ ing, ceramics and jewelry. Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition Comes to Wilkes College The 1977 Scholastic Art Awards Regional Exhibition was held in the Sordoni and Conyngham Galleries February 23 through March 9. Scho­ lastic Art Awards is a national pro­ gram for the encouragement of junior and senior high school art achievement. The project, now in its 50th year, is sponsored nationally by Scholastic Magazines, Inc., Fowler, 18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Dick and Walker, the Boston Store serves as the regional sponsor. About four hundred pieces of two and three-dimensional works were shown. Entries came from fifty­ seven schools throughout Lacka­ wanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Sullivan, Wayne and Wyoming counties. The preliminary judging and a reception for the award winners took place in the new Schaeffer Lecture Hall, Stark Learning Center. Following the close of the exhibition seventy-five pieces ivere taken to New York for the national competition. Wilkes faculty, administrators, students and alumni played an im­ portant part in this year's regional program. The Scholastic Art Awards Regional Advisory Committee was directed by Mr. Henry Casilli, Assis­ tant Professor of art. Mr. Richard Fuller, Assistant Professor of art and art education, served on the Commit­ tee and judged one level of the com­ petition. The Fine Arts Association, led by President Maureen McHale, '77 performed most of the leg work. Alumni who contributed time and energy to the program included Ms. Jill Evans, '70 Regional Committee member and Instructor of art at Coughlin High School, Mr. Robert Burnside, Jr., '72 Scholastic Coordin­ ator for the Boston Store, and a rather large number of Fine Arts Education graduates now teaching in our regional schools. Publicity was handled by the Wilkes College Public Relations Department. Ms. Cara Berryman, Sordoni Art Gallery Coordinator, acted as liaison be­ tween Wilkes College and the re­ gional sponsor. Catering for the reception was done by Mr. William Denion, Wilkes College food serv­ ices manager. Arthur Bowen Davies A selection of drawings, prints and watercolors of Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928) were shown in the Sordoni Art Gallery January 28 to February 20. Arthur Davies, influenced by Realism and Impressionism, was one of a group of the “Eight” who strad­ dled two centuries with one foot in the nineteenth-century European art, and the other in twentieth­ century American Modernism. He was in the foreground, then consid­ ered avant-guarde, in establishing the New York Armory Show of 1913 that is regarded as a pivotal point leading to an awareness of bringing European Modern Art to America. The exhibition was shown for the first time last fall and was arranged in cooperation with Lehigh Univ. Peg James’ Recent Weavings Peg James in a one-person show in the Sordoni Art Gallery January 3-23 featured eight of her rugs or wall hangings and thirteen pillows. Her weavings are done in a rya tech­ nique, a method in which the back­ ground is hand-woven and then the pile is hand-knotted on. Her pillows are made of cloths that she wove for interior decorators and other buy­ ers. Her works combine an art form in a functional piece capable of being handled. A five by six foot hang­ ing will take her as much as one hundred weaving hours or as long as two months to complete. Comic Strip Art at the Sordoni Art Gallery The Comic Strip Art exhibition in the Sordoni Art Gallery featured the rks of thirty-one different carmonists from the early years of the century up to the present. The works represented original art, in that the oanels were fully inked, cleaned and corrected, just as they would have been submitted to the printer. Featured in the show were strips bv two cartoonists who worked in Wyoming Valley: the late Mr. Ham Fisher whose "Joe Palooka" was familiar to the area and Rose O'Neill, the famous creator of the once pop­ ular "Kewpie Doll.” Other strips in the show were George McManus’s, tetor Jrdifrom it the "Bringing Up Father" a favorite in th® 1^20’s, Jimmy Murphy’s “Toots and Casper” and George Herriman’s Krazy Kat. There were some adventure strips like "Tarzan” by Hal j The exhibition came from the Sor­ doni Collection of Cartoon Art and trom other private collectors such as: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wood, Jr. of Maryland who are owners of the world’s largest comic art collection; (Mr. Wood was a cartoonist for the United States Independent Tele­ phone Association) and Mr. Joseph Parente of New York, and Mr. Russ Cochran of West Plains, Mo. o The following compendium was prepared by Ms. Teresa McDonald, Director of Federal Programs and In­ stitutional Research. The research office would be happy to assist in locating sources of funding for pro­ grams or research our alumni might be considering. The Research Office contains an extensive library of fed­ eral and private funding sources for all types of projects. For more in­ formation contact: Ms. Teresa Mc­ Donald, Director of Federal Pro­ grams and Institutional Research, Franklin Hall, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. Grants* S&H Foundation Lectureship Program Institute of Regional Affairs — a lec­ ture series on coal and its potential for energy. Originally an oil painter, she finds herself as a weaver trying to hold fast to the spontaneous way of work­ ing with color so true of the painter. A public reception was planned for Ms. James to demonstrate her weav­ ing techniques. Sv waudn‘PrinCe Valiant" Naturally, Walt Disney was included with an early Mickey Mouse” drawn by dr«d ■■?°ktfredSOn’ Frank Frazetta drew Johnny Comet" back in the (and tJ°day is an imPortant F “.trator painter now living in East Stroudsburg. Microprocessor/Microcomputer System Technology Transfer Dr. James Toole, Professor of Engi­ neering — A study using mini compuers to perform a system technology ransfer data process related to science and engineering. Upward Bound Dr. Joseph Bellucci, Associate Profes­ sor of Education and director of the program, assisted by Dr. Jeff Cline and Barbara Greenwood — Providing dis­ advantaged high school students with additional educational and counseling services. Majority of students move on to college. Act 101 (Pennsylvania State Legislation) Dr. Joseph Bellucci, Dr. Jeff Cline, Ms. Barbara Greenwood — Providing disadvantaged students with educa­ tional disabilities a chance to attend college. A tutoring and special educa­ tion program prepares students to per­ form at the level of regularly admitted students. Museum Education Program (Sordoni Art Gallery) Professor Emeritus Philip Richards— A matching funds grant from Wilkes (Sordoni Foundation) and the National Endowment for the Arts for the pur­ pose of arranging for Sordoni Art Gal­ lery holdings to tour public and private schools within a 75 mile radius of Wilkes College. It provides for special programs at the Gallery, as well as, funds for modest acquisitions. The Ethnic: A Study in Cultural Duality in Wyoming Valley Dr. James Rodechko, Professor of History — Provides for the collection of date on ethnic background of Wyo­ ming Valley citizens. Provides; for the dissemination and training of ocal school personnel to teach ethnici y. Regional Workshop on Mental Retardation Dr. Joseph Bellucci, Associate Pro­ fessor of Education — A series of work­ shops via local television and local sites for public personnel working with the mentally retarded. The Development of Intermettalic Permanent Magnetic Materials Dr. John Orehotsky, Associate Pro­ fessor of Engineering — Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Science and Engine­ ering Foundation and the National Sci­ ence Foundation. A study involving magnetic properties and electron con­ figuration. Citizens Alternatives for Community Growth Andrew Shaw, Jr., Director, Institute of Regional Affairs—Conference series by the Institute of Regional Affairs with cooperation of the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce to instruct and develop a plan for orderly economic and community growth. Training Parenting Parents Dr. Joseph Bellucci, Associate Pro­ fessor of Education — Workshop series to help parents to cope with juvenile problems. Dissemination Through Training Dr. Mahmoud Fahmy, Associate Pro­ fessor of Education — Faculty program involved with the University of Pitts­ burgh to provide services for ethnic education by a group of teachers from local schools. SPRING 1977 19 �ered by^er^"1^ f P°W‘ " W^MurTunT T With0ut ? "Temporality in Pinter’s The Dwarfs’’ National Endowment for the Arts FeMsWBemice D’Vorzon, Associate Pro­ fessor of Art — Individual grant to further work in the discipline of Art. -and Organizational Delinquency Control Program Techniques of Affirmative Speaking Joseph Skok, Adjunct Professor published in Alabama Speech and Grant to Educational Development Theatre Journal. Fall. 1976. Dr. Bradford Council at Wilkes College to collect L. Kinney, Assistant Professor of Engdata on juvenile delinquency. National Endowment for the Arts "Strategies and Functional Duties of Fellowship Negative Speaking” published in Ala­ Henry Casilli, Assistant Professor of bama Speech and Theatre Journal. Art — Individual grant to further work Spring, 1977. Dr. Bradford L. Kinney, in the discipline of Art. Assistant Professor of English. Writer in Residence Climatic Trends in Northeastern Dr. Thomas Kaska, Professor of Eng­ Pennsylvania, 1895-1976, a research lish and Director — Matching grant publication by Dr. Bruce Berryman, with the Allan Hamilton Dickson Chair Assistant Professor of Environmental in English and The National Endow­ Sciences. 1976. ment for the Arts, to fund creative Morphology of a Metallogenium Sp. writers to work with English majors and its Effect on Ferric Hydroxide Pre­ on writing and understanding liter­ cipitation Kinetics at Near Neutral pH, ature. a research publication by J. T. Cline, A. Library Resources Program M. Cundell, and R. Mitchell (Wilkes Dale Buehler, Associate Professor Students), 1976. and Director of the Eugene S. Farley Library — Acquisition of audio-visual Wilkes Computing Professor materials for the library. Helps Make Scholarly Community Education Program Dr. Eugene Hammer, Professor of Achievement Attracting Education — Literacy program for World-Wide Attention adults. One of the most famous, and many Scientific Equipment Program believed most difficult, problems in Dr. Bruce Berryman, Assistant Pro­ mathematics has just been solved. Two fessor and Chairperson of Environmen­ professors from the University of Illi­ tal Sciences — Matching grant program nois, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang to acquire scientific equipment to sup­ Haken, with the collaboration of Dr. port Environmental Sciences Depart­ John A. Koch of Wilkes College, re­ ment. Sponsored in conjunction ■with cently announced that the “four-color The National Science Foundation. conjecture" has been proved true. The Classroom Equipment Program — conjecture states that no more than Title VI four colors are required to ensure that Dr. Robert Riley, Professor of Psy­ neighboring regions of any conceiv­ chology, Dr. Thomas Kaska, Professor able map have different colors. This of English, Dr. Michael Seitz, Associate major achievement was of such world­ Professor of Foreign Languages and wide interest that the usually reticent Literature — Matching grant to acquire American Mathematical Society issued equipment for the Foreign Language, an official news release in an unprece­ Psychology and English Departments. dented press conference at a recent Closed Circuit Television semi-annual national meeting held in fames Berg, Assistant Professor of Toronto, Canada. It was even reported History and Director of WCLH Radio in The Times of London, The New York Station — Matching grant to support Times, Time Magazine, and many other five year plan for television facilities scientific journals and publications of for classroom use. general interest. University Year for Action When it was first made in 1852 by a Dr. James Rodechko, Professor of student, Francis Guthrie, of the noted History — Provides students with the English mathematician and logician, opportunity to work in public agencies Augustus deMorgan, the conjecture involved with community services. hardly caused a stir. Not until almost Studies of the Acid Alkalinity thirty years later when another famous Interaction on the North Branch English mathematician, Arthur Cayley, of the Susquehanna River stated it in a meeting of the London Dr. Ralph Rozelle, Professor of Chem­ Mathematical Society was the conjec­ istry and Dean of Health Sciences. ture given wide circulation and its com­ Wilkes-Hahnemann Cooperative plexity recognized. In the ensuing cen­ Medical Education Program in tury, countless amateur and profes­ Family Medicine sional mathematicians have spent their Dr. Ralph Rozelle, Project Director lifetimes on the problem and numerous and Dean of Health Sciences. Loudness Scaling in the Rat and Chin­ chilla — Public Health Service Grant Dr. Thomas G. Raslear, Assistant Pro­ fessor of Psychology. 20 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY ‘ (Ed. Note: The research and equipment erant? articles and publications listed in PURSUITS public and the The scientific community learnoA , later that it meant to be an April joke! Alter decades of work on the onk ject, the late Professor Oystein OreU°: Yale published a comprehensive fr»» tise in 1967 called "The Four-Cnu' Problem.” In it he gave a account of most of the voluminous re suits and discoveries that resulted fro™ significant attempts to solve the nroh lem in the hope that a younger generl tion of mathematicians will be inspired' to carry it to final solution. While it has long been known that five coI" suffice to color any map and that there are maps for which three colors are not enough, it took another decade before Professor Ore’s dream was realized. The two Illinois professors began working on the conjecture in 1972 often enlisting the help of several teenage children of Dr. Haken in checking the simple but incredibly large number of theoretical calculations. It was in 1975 that Dr. Koch, who was then a grad­ uate student in computer science at the University of Illinois became a col­ laborator in this project. In his doc­ toral dissertation which was completed under the direction of Professor Appel the Wilkes professor created a number of ingenious computer programs which were used over and over again in this successful solution of the historic prob­ lem. In all, some twelve hundred hours of computations on a large computer network located in Chicago and Ur­ bana, Illinois, were used. It amounted to an estimated ten billion logical de­ cisions which could not possibly have been made in the given time span even fifteen years ago. In the world of mathematics, the con­ firmation of the four color conjecture meant far more than the mere solution of a long standing problem. Despite their wide spread use in applied math­ ematics, engineering, and the sciences, computers have had very little impact on pure mathematics until now. As the Time Magazine put it, “by dramatically showing that there may be certain fun­ damental questions that only the high­ speed electronic whizzes can answer,” this historic achievement “may well usher in a new era of computer compu­ tation on the frontiers of higher math­ ematics.” Since last September, Dr. Koch has been an assistant professor of computer science at Wilkes College. He has just been invited to give a major address at a sectional meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in Philadelphia on November 20, 1976. He, along with another new faculty member, Dr, Jo­ seph A. Parker who came to Wilkes after receiving a Ph.D. degree from California Institute of Technology in June, 1976, has played a principal role in the development of a new major de­ gree program in computer science at Wilkes. tended to dbdJ quickly to, other Wilkes College XduaU tered the scene and^"h?1* ., Schneider ’63 is shown with his Dr.'^"'lithium-iodine Alan battery which has patent~d " breakthrough for pacemaker Iled '... been a mai_or^ Manufacturers. ed the life of a pacemaker up to 12 years. Tragically, Jim Moser passed away m 1972 without ever seeing the big success of his efforts. “We knew that lithium was a high energy density element and after considerable research with iodine, which is a high conductivity salt, we discovered and patented a new bat­ tery which could produce high en­ ergy in small volumes," he furthered. Heart pacemakers have come a ong way in the last 20 years. One nan who has made a significant con’utlon the field is Dr. Alan Colkge^’a 1963 graduateof Wilkes When they started the project, Schneider and Moser didn’t actually have a particular application for the iodine battery in mind. “It had a long life but we soon realized that it couldn’t be released quick enough to supply the power needed in flash­ lights or radios, so we turned to the pacemaker.” “Dr. Ralph Rozelle, then a chem­ istry professor and now Dean of Health Sciences at the college, had a great influence on me as a student, so did Dr. Jim Bohning and Dr. Howard Swain, who were all on the faculty at that time,” the WilkesBarre native added. “They intro­ duced me to electro-chemistry which later became the basis for my re­ search.” Following his graduation from Wilkes, Schneider movedd on to Alfred University in New York, Yr. where he received his Ph.D. in Sciences Soon after graduation, Schneider joined Catalyst Research in 1968 and bega.i his lithium-iodine battery research. Pacemaker, the little electronBadget implanted under the skin, off! Used in the late 1950’s to nlo C y Protong the lives of peoWlth very slow heartbeats. • °rd ls the bWst served On a^e es; who Gently Sr™ ncie!n“fi*X«y ol span problem by inventing ‘ ktol’™'j°dine battery which exte^dt- . “Jim a"d 1 didn,t start on the pro­ ject until we got together at the Catalyst Research Company in Baltimore. But, I found out some­ time later that Jim had also grad­ uated from Wilkes and did post-grad­ uate work at Alfred University, the same place where I went,” Dr. Sch­ neider explained. How does the thought of a 12-year pacemaker strike you? selling point.” The new pacemakers vary in size from, that of a silver dollar to about the size of a fist. Most are surgically implanted under the skin but some are attached to the chest wall. A conductive wire from the battery is attached to the heart and helps it maintain a regular beat. Early pacemaker users complain­ ed that outside electrical current, such as one might encounter walking under a neon sign, interfered with the operation of the mercury unit. The new devices which are powered by Schneider’s lithium-iodine bat­ tery are shielded from such interfer­ ence and this is no longer a problem. Dr. Schneider expects 200,000 pacemakers to be implanted next year and also forecasts that 80 per­ cent will be powered by iodine-lithium batteries. For the future Schnei­ der will continue to work on improv­ ing his product but admits, “There is really not too much farther we can go. We may be able to expand the life span a few years but how much longer do you need a pacemaker?” “Pacemakers have reached the point where they are outlasting the patients they serve. The size is as small as needed,” Schneider follow­ ed, “and the one remaining large improvement may be packaging.” The huge success of the battery has taken him out of the laboratory but Schneider pointed out that he has a great staff. “Their talents and mine multiply each other,” and half jokingly concluded by saying, because of the many conferences a I have to attend, only when I need a vacation do I get a,chance to re­ turn to the laboratory.” It has been a long but steady rise for Dr Alan Schneider but at the young age of 35 he seems to have atSned the plateau of accomplish­ ment that few scientists ever have the opportunity to reach. SPRING 1977 21 �On Top of the Banking World by Wilma Hurst '79 Joseph J. Pinola, a 1949 Wilkes Col­ lege graduate and West Pittston na­ tive, has not only made it to the top of the banking world, but has also earned the respect of his fellow Cal­ ifornia bankers and the admiration of his college peers. After serving at the Bank of Amer­ ica (B of A) for 24 years, eventually becoming executive vice president of the bank's North American Division, Pinola reached out and grabbed the top rung of the ladder at United Cal­ ifornia Bank (UCB), becoming pres­ ident and chief operating officer just over a year ago. "This was an immediate opportun­ ity," Pinola once said in an interview. "It was here and now, so I took it. And I do consider it an opportunity." The job also represented a chal­ lenge, for UCB was faced with an $8.2 million deposit decline in 1975, and the need for restructuring the bank's internal operations and re­ assessing long-term strategy was seen. Pinola was sought by UCB be­ cause "we think he's an outstanding banker," said Norman Barker, Jr., the bank's chairman and chief executive officer. A number of bank analysts agreed with Barker, stating, "His reputation is first-rate in every sense," and "the Bank of America thought the world of him." It appears that the man has come a long way since graduating from Wilkes with a B.A. in economics. A graduate of West Pittston High School, Pinola entered college at the time Wilkes was still Bucknell Junior College. He lettered in basketball, while also belonging to the Spanish and Economic Clubs. Following grad­ uation, he served with the U. S. Navy in Korea and during the Pearl Harbor incident. He completed studies at the Graduate School of Financial Man­ agement, Dartmouth College, and also finished the advanced manage­ ment program at Harvard University Graduate School of Business Admin­ istration. He decided to settle in Cal­ ifornia after being stationed there during WWII. Joining B of A in 1952 as a man­ agement trainee, he proceeded to move forward. He spent 15 years in corporate banking and seven in the branch system before attaining the rank of executive vice president in 22 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY the Los Angeles-based division. A Los Angeles Times article re­ ported that "Both inside and outside Bank of America, Pinola was consid­ ered a hard worker, a good judge of credit worthiness and a man with a future at the world's largest commer­ cial bank. His decision to leave there after 24 years surprised many." Although Pinola does not discuss his reasons for leaving B of A, it is be­ lieved that because the bank's current senior officers were years away from retirement, he decided he would have to pursue his goal of becoming a bank president elsewhere. Only 51 himself when he was appointed pres­ ident at UCB, he had been offered "a number of other jobs in various parts of the country," but chose UCB for personal reasons and also for the challenge it represented. "I have always had admiration for the bank," he said during an "Amer­ ican Banker" interview. "I think it's well-positioned, and is active in all aspects of banking. But it's in a cur­ rent downturn, and this offers me the greatest opportunity to turn the show around." Thus, Pinola became president and chief operating officer of the coun­ try's 14th largest bank, a position filled with prestige, responsibility, and challenge. The $7.2 billion de­ posit had taken a 23 percent plunge in 1975, and Pinola set about to turn the operation around. "My goal here will be to find solutions to those short-term problems, but always thinking in terms of the long range." He recently outlined his concept for a successful banker when he spoke at an annual gathering of the nation's top banking executives. A successful banker is "a leader and an advisor, and, often a statesman" who is also "a prudent businessman who knows his bank's operations inti­ mately." He noted that bankers are constantly involved in solving today's social problems from an investment standpoint, which means that bank­ ing's function cannot be a narrow one. Joseph Pinola, who as a student witnessed the birth of Wilkes Col­ lege, has seen his own accomplish­ ments parallel the growth of the col­ lege he once attended. Judging from the past accomplishments of both, there's probably more to come. Ari J, •^caWEli^ -.■--‘-'t'T-t.vi'r >. Igportswxtofe® «The Cost of Winning” By Paul Domowitch 76 If Vince Lombardi were alive today, d could look around and view the ’mud hanging over American sports, I H st wonder if he might not care to rect those few memorable words that were attributed to him while coach of the world champion Green Bay Pack­ rything,” the ers "Winning isn't everything, famous quote goes, “it’s the only thing." Today, that phrase hangs on hun­ dreds of locker room walls across America. It is preached by so many coaches who think they are Lombardi re-incarnated that it has become the cornerstone of our athletic cult. It has even replaced the adage, “Win at any cost," because those who live by Lom­ bardi's words feel they entail just that — winning ... no matter what the price. But Tom Landry, the successful coach of the Dallas Cowboys and one of Lom­ bardi's closest friends when he was alive, doesn't believe his former coach­ ing comrade meant them in the context they are now being taken. “Vince was an intense man,” he ex­ plained, “and winning meant a great deal to him. But everything? No. Vince saw a great many lessons to be learned from defeat." No matter how Lombardi’s words were “meant" to be taken, Americans are interpretting them only one way. That, indeed, winning is everything. "The playing field is the basic test­ ing ground of character for an athlete," said one prominent west conference football coach. "To fail there, is to fail as a human being." What is happening to our society, wt' Pe?Ple respond to such beliefs? hat kind of a disease is this that is eating away at the building block of American sport? And is that entire s ructure destined for total collapse? look^rou^d JUSt 3 QUick Was a ^me» although it seems mu a mos* centuries ago now, when rn_?®e a^e^cs offered a pleasant f°r American sports fan, likp1 ae.ccdd and impersonal businessIf ® mtthods of professional athletics, thp 6 • d finally become fed up with erinn°af * sa^ar^es and constant bicka qtn° • pros- he could retreat back monp lnt? a world unblemished by y and violence and free of tech- salts, on down through college and yes, even high school. Surely, if We were to look hard tTgexisZ2W0Uld \nd this MibeXTuSIia OmeWhere- S°me')lace' To a limited extent, it goes even fur­ ther, when you consider the pressure often put on pee-wee football players and little leaguers by obsessed fathers who are striving for athletic perfection. motive to competing, and a worldonly where the fuToaUt,"layed ~ ge‘ this - peo"for Winning has become as much a means for life as breathing, and it ap­ pears those infatuated with this belief will stop at nothing to achieve it. A look today into college athletics is enough to stagger one's sense of char­ acter. Spying, illegal recruiting tactics, ticket scalping by athletes, grade tam­ pering by administrators ... the list reads longer than the charges against the Boston Strangler. And what makes matters even worse is that the American people — you and I — are condoning these antics. "Every­ body’s doing it," we say when our fav­ orite team gets its hand caught in the proverbial cookie jar, as if that justifies the act. I wonder if Charles Manson ever used that line. A few months back, Frank Boggs, a sports columnist for the Oklahoma City Times wrote that Oklahoma University was under preliminary investigation by the NCAA again. He didn’t release any deeds of wrongdoing by the institution, or publicize his personal feelings about anything OU was doing. He merely re­ ported a statement of fact. The NCAA was indeed beginning an investigation into Sooner athletic programs for the umpteenth time. Hours after the story hit the streets, Boggs needed police protection from the thousands of OU fans who threat­ ened his very life with bomb threats and other acts of violence. In addition, anonymous callers made obscenityfilled phone calls to his wife at home after the incident. In response to this, Maury White, a columnist for the Des Moines (Iowa Register wrote, “Oklahoma seems sort of like a frontier state. The people seem more likely to condone wrong­ doing." White is not entirely co"ect' y‘s kind of feeling is not “nfl"evdprt0.h°ke„. homa, but instead reaches over the en tire length and breadth of our coun y. can be found in every crack and crevice of American SP°^‘ /“XeYright ranges from the professional level ngnt We have become so incensed with the drive to become “number one" that we haven't taken time out to look in the mirror and see what's happening to ourselves. We are a success-oriented society driven by a desire to be the best. And there is nothing wrong with that... up to a certain point. But we’ve got to realize that the quest isn't al­ ways going to end at the top. Victory isn't constant. Someone has to lose. Furthermore, we all should learn to ex­ pect to lose occasionally. Losing, like failure, may be one of the best founda­ tions for success. Competition is unquestionably the essence of sport. Competition also has its merits in life. But monolithic busi­ ness organizations, a redefinition of sports ethics and sophisticated "mili­ tary" type technology dedicated to the obsession of winning, only detracts from the character education that sports was once reputed to serve. Whatever happened to Grantland Rice, the oftentimes unappreciated sports poet who once wrote what he called an epitaph for an athlete: "Write this above my dust in some lost grave. Here lies no hero listed with the brave. Beyond the score he only loved the game. He had no thoughts of glory or of fame. And when the bell gave out its final call, He may not have had much to give But he gave it all." It couldn't have been said any better. "Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing." If we don't start putting "winning" back into perspective, those few words may replace Rice's thoughts and become the new epitaph on the gravestone of American sport. Ed. Note: Paul Domowitch,, a 1976 Wilkes grad­ uate, currently is a sports reporter for the Mid­ legram. land (Texas) Reporter - Tele SPRING 1977 23 �Spring Teams Readying for Openers With the snow still on the ground, coaches of Wilkes College's Spring ath­ letic teams are anxiously awaiting the return of warmer temperatures. Plenty of eyes will be cast on the baseball team as the diamondmen will try to add on to their 21-8 effort of 1976. The Colonels became a national power by winning the NCAA Mideast Regional Tournament and then going on to finish fourth at the NCAA Divi­ sion III World Series at Marietta, Ohio. Pitching could be the key to a return trip as Coach Gene Domzalski has most of his mound staff back for an encore. Senior fastbailer Jim Stehle passed up a chance to sign with the Chicago White Sox and the lefty, who carted 6-1, 1.41 era. statistics with 65 strikeouts in 51 innings, will be a first-team AllAmerican candidate. Junior southpaw Andy Kresky made the NCAA World Series team with a three-hitter against Montclair and was the strongest hurler in late season, fin­ ishing with a 6-3 record. Reliever Man­ ny Evans had a 4-2 mark, three saves, and a 2.44 era. Wilkes hit .316 as a team last spring and this could be repeated if senior Don McDermott and juniors Mike Supczenski, Jim Michaels, Ken Suchoski, and Lou Elefante can regain their bat­ ting eyes. McDermott, the best athlete on cam­ pus, comes off a .327 season which saw the 5-11, 195-pounder bang out a nation leading ten homers and 21 runs batted in. Others hitting .300 or better included Supczenski, .386 (17 stolen bases); Mi­ chaels, .363; and Suchoski, .300. Joining the baseballers in the nation­ al limelight were the golfers of Coach Rollie Schmidt who made 1976 inter­ esting by going 16-0 in match play, winning the NCAA Regional, and then placing 14th in the NCAA Division III tourney. All-American Mark Jarolen and Larry Gurnari have graduated but junior Ken Donlavage, sophomore Joe Skladany, and a fine bunch of new­ comers are giving Schmidt some hope. The lacrosse team barely missed out on winning its second straight MAC championship. The Colonels finished with a 7-3 log with a young team and one of the most prolific scorers in col­ lege history, Billy Winter. Winter and his career 126 goals and 92 assists are gone via graduation. Coach Chuck Mattei used last season as a re­ building year and seasoned veterans like Bruce Davis, Bill Harris, and Kurt Franke may be enough to offset Win­ ter’s loss. Tom Rokita has his number one play­ er, Judd Davis back in the fold but then the gap widens very quickly. The Wilkes tennis team might pull off some surprises but a .500 season might be too high to reach. 24 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY WYZZ-ATO of Wilkes Bawe Liberal Arifs Made the fliffenence Coach John Reese’s wrestling team showed their worth as members of the NCAA Division I with a brilliant 17-3 record. Seniors who made it all possible are pictured, left to right — Lon Balum, Rick Mahonski, Coach Reese, Bruce Lear, and Dave Gregrow. Newest of the Colonel Spring teams is the women’s softball team. If Coach Gay Meyers runs her softball program like hockey, then the coeds could be championship contenders in their first year of existence. Volleyball is also a part of the women’s athletic program and a year of experience could turn around the Blue and Gold's 1-5 effort of last season. Guiding the spikers is Doris Saracino. Matmen Ride Vintage Year Life couldn’t be happier for Wilkes College wrestling mentor John Reese, whose 24th Colonel mat team finished the 1976-77 campaign with a 17-3 rec­ ord, establishing a new team one sea­ son win mark for the Blue and Gold. At press time the Wilkes wrestlers were preparing to participate in the 73rd annual Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Tournament at Syracuse University. Despite the epic log, which included 12 straight triumphs at seasons end, the Wilkesmen missed on two golden op­ portunities to break into the Amateur Wrestling News’ top twenty. After an opening day 30-12 loss to powerful Lehigh, the Colonels made some amends by walking off with their second straight Binghamton Invi­ tational title, crowning seven individ­ ual champions in the process. Wilkes fans celebrated in the streets on Dec. 10 when the Blue and Gold shocked Navy, 21-17, in a nerve tingling match at the South Franklin St. Gym­ nasium. The Colonels trailed, 17-15, going into the 190-pound bout but back to back nods by Dave Gregrow and Dan House at heavyweight gave Wilkes its first triumph over the Middies in four years. The Reesemen could have made the charts three days later with a win over Tennessee but crucial losses in the mid part of the lineup served up a 25-15 set­ back. Wilkes wrestled poorly in the 43rd annual Wilkes Open Tournament at Christmas time and paid the price for their lethargy with a fourth place team finish. The lone individual trophy ciaimers were Bruce Lear, a fourth at 150; and Dave Gregrow, a third at 190. Momentum began picking up after a two-week recess as the Colonels pre­ pared for their four-meet southern swing with mixed emotions. Coach Reese was dreaming of winning three out of four, so he was naturally sur­ prised when his team knocked off Vir­ ginia Tech, West Chester, East Carolina and North Carolina. The Colonels, however, paid the price for the sweep as highly touted freshmen Mark Densberger- (142) and Dennis Jacobs (158) sustained injuries and were sidelined for most of the sea­ son. Wilkes was still optimistic and hopeful when it pulled into Syracuse with a 5-2 record but a win was not to be in the cards and their second nation­ al bid was shattered, 34-9, by the Or­ angemen in the worst defeat ever administered to the Blue and Gold. Wilkes rallied over a surprisingly strong Delaware Valley team, 26-8, four days later and were never headed after that, bowling over 11 straight foes. Con­ vincing victories in the string resulted over Lycoming, 28-9; Hofstra, 21-18; East Stroudsburg State, 24-13; Army, 43-0; Bucknell, 33-7; and Franklin & Marshall, 41-3. Probably the most striking aspect of the 1976-77 edition was the fact that they pulled off their historic win pro­ duction without their standard superstar. “It was a total team effort,” remarked a jubilant John Reese. “Our success can be pointed to an enthusiastic blending of determined veterans and promising newcomers.” Forming the cornerstone of the Wilkes triumphant juggernaut were a quartet of four seniors — Rick Mahonski (126), Lon Balum (134), Bruce Lear (142), and Dave Gregrow (190) who al­ ternated from meet to meet with the heroics. Freshmen Don Gaetano and Glynn Mansfield created excitement at 118 while two other first-year men who projected themselves as stars of the fu­ ture were Dennis Jacobs (158) and Mark Densberger (150). Juniors Dan House (hwt) and Greg MacLean (158) gave un­ expected strength but it was the lateseason bursts by sophomores Gene Clemons (167), Perry Lichtinger (16777), and Bart Cook (177) which gave the team an inspired lift. Change is a word that describes to­ day's fast-paced society. And change is perhaps the one thing that catches most people off-guard, ruffles their life style, and leaves them dazed and unprepared for what's to follow. Yet while many cannot deal with change, there are individuals in that unsuspecting public who do have that ability to adapt. Two such individuals are Robert L. Evans, a 1962 Wilkes College gradu­ ate who received a B.A. degree in math; and his brother Richard, Jr., a 1971 graduate who holds a B.S. de­ gree in Commerce and Finance. Richard Evar ms, Jr. (left) and his brother Robert combine their■ knowledge for the good of WYZZ. Reaching jple in six states, WYZZ broadcasts f beautiful music" 24 hours a day, Making usc °f the approximately 6,000 albums tear\'S ,sV°sal ’s Leonard Broxena, a full-time '*r now as a WYZZ personality only Part time. Barre area, destroying the homes, busmesses, and lifestyles of many people. 7 The Evans' work together at WYZZ an FM radio station in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. that reaches people in six states. Robert "Bob" serves as vice-presi­ dent of WYZZ in charge of marketing, while Richard “Dick” serves as vicepresident in charge of development. Valuing their liberal arts education, the two believe that their education provided them with a good found­ ation and helped them at the radio station adjust to the sudden changes brought about by the Agnes flood. Prior to the flood, the station had never carried local news. "We only had national news," explained Dick. "There are over 53 other stations with local news, so why duplicate it?" Good-naturedly, Dick said that this fact was a joke in the local industry. "But the flood helped us prove the value of not being news people." When the crisis occurred, WYZZ was able to become a local news sta­ tion and had a connection to the Civil Defense. According to the Evans', WYZZ fed 13 other stations with information as well as informing the public directly. "With our background in liberal arts, we weren't zeroed in on a spec­ ialty and had that ability to adapt," stressed Dick. "We found that with a liberal arts education," added Bob, "there's a way to go." They did, however, meet some ob­ stacles when they became a local news station during the flood. Ac­ cording to Dick, there were no tele­ phones and little electricity, so they strung a line along the streets from the radio station to the Civil Defense. But the cable fell prey to a passing train and a truck (at separate times) and the connection was cut. After the £ s°, Smiling Robert Sacco is constantly on the .. be meeting people and working with them. To much successful on his job, Sacco has to know as r„. about a man’s business as he knows. few mishaps, the station finally found a way to safely string the line (above the traffic) and was able to continue serving the public. "We were the only official station with the correct information on the air all the time," said Dick. Both brothers believe that a liberal arts education does not merely achieve value during a crisis. "A good broad education is always needed," stressed Bob, "because no matter what you do in the radio business, you have to rely on your experiences to make the job go right." "You have to know where to look for things, and you have to be able to weave your own experiences into the job," he said, as he described how those involved with the radio station do so. Bob added, "You have to know as much about a man's business as he knows and maybe more." Two other Wilkes graduates work at WYZZ, putting to practice their liberal arts education. Robert Sacco, a salesman, attended Wilkes at night and received his B.S. degree in his­ tory in 1959. Leonard Brozena, who works part-time at the station and full-time as a school teacher, gradu­ ated from Wilkes in 1971 with a de­ gree in history and in 1974 received an M.S. from the college in elemen­ tary education. Housed in the basement of a twostory, white home, WYZZ has gradu­ ally grown over the years. The sta­ tion was started in June, 1959, said Bob, and operated five hours a day from 6 to 11 p.m. Now the station operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and em­ ploys over 20 full and part time work­ ers. With over 2,000 classical albums and over 3,500 popular albums at their disposal, "we play a wider va­ riety of popular music than any other station in the area," boasted Bob. He said that WYZZ has a distinctive audience - "an over 30 audience," and added that the station has more listening from 12 to 6 a.m. than do many other stations during prime time. "There's always people who want music during the night," said Bob. Involved in stereo and quadra­ phonic music on a regular basis, WYZZ is by no means a stagnant sta­ tion. "We're into a broadcasting school to pass our knowledge on," said Bob, "and we're using a sub­ carrier for musak (background music). He added optimistically, "If there's a new technique available, you can guarantee that we'd be the first to have it." SPRING 1977 25 �Twelve years after by Alfred Groh ’41 and David Frey ’68 "It may break your heart, it may drive you half mad, it may betray you into unreal­ izable ambitions or blind you to mercantile opportunities with its wandering fires. But it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right; it will open the temple doors to you and enable you to walk with those who have come nearest among men to what men may sometime be." 26 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Our educational efforts have of­ fered remarkable experiences for student participating in the thea­ tre. Surprisingly perhaps, they are nOt just students in the humanities, [,ut students who major in the sci­ ences, business and commerce, his­ tory/ mathematics and virtually eVery academic area of the college. Their experiences include experi­ mental theatre performances, where the essence of drama unfolds; mod­ ern dance classes, where they learn the physical discipline of the body in an effort of expression. Class­ room study where they might study the rebirth of theatre in the Italian Renaissance, tracing the roots of modern stage design from Serlio and Inigo Jones to Robert Edmond Jones and Boris Aronson. Once a plot of land bearing a thriving railroad station in the late ISOO's, now is a vibrant center for the performing arts. Committed to educational theater, the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Per­ forming Arts was the fruition of a dream. Now, 12 years after its comple­ tion, the CPA maintains its com­ mitment to Wilkes College and the community at large. The dreams that were dreamed in 1965, the vigil over an educational mission and the vision of those who dedi­ cated themselves to its inception have come alive bearing testimony to the goals for which the arts cen­ ter was created. The Dorothy Dickson Darte Center has come a long way. In 1976 over 50,000 people attended over 250 events - performances, films, lectures, meetings, rehearsals, and concerts at the CPA. Moreover, upwards of 200 Wilkes students participated in the production of those events. The CPA additionally is a cultural facility which hosts more than 50 campus and commun­ ity organizations. Indeed, the spir­ its of education, imagination, and creativity live in abundance in such a "house." The late Annette Evans, the trus­ tee instrumental in the construction of the CPA, said it is "a place to turn what man dreams into an ex­ pression of what he will become." In effect, her words underscore the essence of educational theater. One need only to experience the pano­ ramic view from the lighting con­ trol booth to the rear and above the 500-seat auditorium on an opening night before a capacity house to understand the grasp of creativity in the performing arts. Students, as actors on stage, create illusions and transform illusions into beliefs for the audience. The lighting control booth offers a unique perspective: the exhilaration of the student director and the ex­ citement of performance on stage. Some 2500 years ago in the less sophisticated setting of the streets of Athens, the creativity of theatre was born. Through music, mime, speech and dance, a spectacle of performance transmitted an endur­ ing vision - a vision which trans­ fers an idea from one person's imagination to the imagination of an audience. To engage an audience with a conception born in imagina­ tion and performed with a measure of truth is what performance in a liberal arts college concerns itself. own right; it will open the temple doors to you and enable you to walk with those who have come nearest among men to what men may sometime be." Twelve yoirs years amv since the ground breaking has found _ —..d the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Per­ forming Arts at Wilkes College, turning dreams into eloquent per­ formances, visions into fulfilled students and hopes into a concerted commitment to the perpetuation of the Arts. Scene and costume shops offer students opportunities to translate designing plans into a stage envi­ ronment. Our students may paint backdrops for a high school musi­ cal, build sets for a community thea­ tre production, prepare a puppet show for a local elementary school or direct high school students en­ tered in a one-act play competition. One of the more recent innovations is the assistance in a theatre pro­ ject at Chase Correctional Institu­ tion in Dallas, where inmates re­ hearse roles in a play in an attempt to find a new role in society. When alumni return to where they once performed to watch the new gen­ eration, it is frequently, the second generation of Wilkes students in performance. The solitary student, seated in the reading room at the CPA, his feet up, reading Ibsen's, "Theater Crafts," "Kennedy's Children," or "The Life of Garbo," is moved by the performing spirit. He is seeking the reward to which Maxwell Anderson alluded when he said, "It may break your heart, it may drive you half mad, it may betray you into, unrealizable ambitions or blind you to mercantile opportuni­ ties with its wandering fires. But it Will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your SPRING 1977 27 �•cal discharge machining technol- ° riY A SHUBERT ’69 has been ap■nted Corporate Tax Manager of p.° Philadelphia Suburban Corpora■ E Roy is also a vice president in ^"Philadelphia chapter of the Na• Association of Accountants, presides with his wife and son in southjpnWlFst. irowfiw®,! The South Riverstreet Revival was comjipiled by Marianne Montague of the Alumni Relations Office. The information contained in Alumni Noteswas ___ received between December I, 1976 to February 28, 1977. Please send news contributions to: Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. Welcome to the debut of the South Riverstreet Revival, Wilkes College’s new talk show where people from all walks of life and various shoe sizes get together to discuss the latest news. I'm your announcer Marianne Montague '76. Along with Wilkes favorites like Dean George Ralston, Arthur Hoover, John Chwalek, Dr. Charles Reif, and a cast of thousands. I’ll try to keep you informed of the latest Wilkes news. The only qualifi­ cations you need to be featured on our show is that you are a Wilkes alumnus like Clint Eastwood, Bob Capin, and Farah Fawcett-Majors. (Well, at least Mr. Capin is a Wilkes alumnus. But wouldn’t recruiting be a snap if we had Clint and Farah on our side!) Here comes our host. I don’t see him but I would recognize that whistling version of “I Wish I Was in Dixie” anywhere. Here’s the star of blackboard, football field and rope tricks. The best thing that came from the South since Robert E. Lee. H—e—r—e—s Dean Ralston. Dean Ralston: Thank you all, Mari­ anne. I wanted to start by telling all you nice folks a little story but the new Public Relations man found out how big my little stories are so he suggested 1 get right to the news. But if you really miss my little stories send me a blank hour-long cassette tape and I’ll be happy to record one for you. Several Wilkes alumni go on to other colleges to receive higher de­ grees. We are proud of their accom­ plishments and would like to men­ tion the latest recipients. JUANITA SKARNULIS ANDERS ’69 received her Ph.D. in anatomy from the University of Maryland Medical School. Juanita is a research fellow in the laboratory of neuroanatomy and neuropathology at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. Her husband ANTHONY ’69 is an associate scientific analyst involved in the development of earth-orbiting satellites at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 28 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY ROBERT ALLAN MASHAS 75 re­ cently received his M.B.A. from Shippensburg State College in Ship­ pensburg, Pa. LOUIS PECORA '69 has been award­ ed a Ph.D. in Material Science from Syracuse University. He and his wife, Judith reside in Springfield, Va. Next we’ll hear from my good friend John Chwalek, Wilkes Place­ ment Director, who will tell you about the big jobs and promotions and lots of money that Wilkes grad­ uates are making. (Would you be­ lieve a little bit of money? How about enough to pay their heating bills for January?) John Chwalek: Thanks, George. I remember when George and I were back in school and all the girls used to chase me. George got so mad one -*y — —------day he Pat garlic in my mouth­ mash wash. 7I ant got him him hnnb back, thn„ah though. zI planted tomatoes in his bicycle bas­ ket. Enough about George. I could tell you some stories, though. (Chuckle). As soon as I find my glasses I’ll give you the news. (Chwalek reaches in his sock and pulls out his glasses. One lens is missing.) What the heck, I have my part memorized anyway. (Chwalek throws away his papers.) MARK COHEN '66, an adjunct pro­ fessor in the Wilkes College Fine Arts Department, displayed his pho­ tographs in a one-man show held at the Castelli Gallery in New York City, February 5 through 26. His work is presently on display at the Zabreskie Gallery in Paris, the first extensive exhibit of American pho­ tography held in France. Dr. PAUL WESELEY ’66 is currently practicing endodontics in Brooklyn and New York City, New York. ANDREW SOFRANKO ’68 is super­ vising the unit for kidney transplants at the Veterans Hospital in Houston, Texas. Andrew is a male nurse and a nursing instructor. He resides in Fort Worth, Texas. JEFFREY MARCUS ’69 was admit­ ted as partner in the firm of Dia- mond & Donow CPA's, Pompton Lakes, N. J. and Suffern, N.Y. ALVERTA STICHTER '68 is director of nursing at Allentown Osteopathic Hospital in Allentown, Pa. She is also a part-time doctoral student in the College of Urban Affairs. CHRISTINE DONAHUE 74 was one of three winners in the Metropolitan Opera’s eastern regional auditions which were held in January at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Christine is a student at the Julliard School of Music, in New York City. MICHAEL WEINBERGER '56 is senior vice president of Smith Bar­ ney Real Estate Corporation in New York City. He and his wife, Ruth, re­ side with their daughters Sandy and Allison in Scarsdale, N.Y. RICHARD MORRIS ’57 has joined the R. A. Saul Agency of Kingston as a property, casualty and life insur­ ance consultant and sales represen­ tative in the Lehigh Valley and Wyo­ ming Valley areas. First Eastern Bank recently an­ nounced promotions of three Wilkes graduates, ROBERT FORSE 73, BRUCE GOVER 72 and RICHARD KUTISH ’68. Bob was named assis­ tant vice president of the Conyng­ ham office, Bruce was named assis­ tant vice president and trust officer in the main building in Wilkes-Barre, and Rich, manager of the Dallas Vil­ lage Office, was advanced to assis­ tant vice president. JAMES MacNEAL 74 has been pro­ moted to gas product specialist with the specialty gas department of Air Products and Chemicals Inc., Home­ town, Pa. Jim and his wife, Barbara, have a two-year old son, James. SANDRA MICKEVEGE 76 has passed the Pennsylvania State Board examination for registered nurses. Sandra is on the nursing staff of Al­ bert Einstein Medical Center, Phila­ delphia. FRANK RUSINKO, JR. '50 is pres­ ident of Edimax, Inc., in Broadview, Ill., a firm devoted to advanced elec- Delran, N. JROBERT F. CROUSE ’49 is generator service manager of the power gener­ ation service division of Westing­ house Electric Corporation in the Pittsburgh, Pa. area. rnMER JONES ’48 has been named tn head the National Wildlife Feder­ ation’s new Wildlife Heritage Pro­ gram in Vienna, Va. Captain THOMAS M. VOJTEK ’53 is the U. S. Naval Attache in the American Embassy in London, Eng­ land. STEPHEN KEIPER 72, executive director of Luzerne County Trans­ portation Authority, was a panel member at the second annual mass transit seminar held in Harrisburg in January. Dean Ralston: Hold on there Mr. Chwalek, I knew you were longwinded but this is getting ridiculous. Are you sure you aren’t making some of those up? Mr. Chwalek: Now, George, don’t be jealous because I have a bigger part than you do. I’d like to see you mem­ orize all this. Now keep quiet while I finish. Dean Ralston: I’m going over to the Commons for something to eat. Somebody call me when he’s fin­ ished. Mr. Chwalek: RUSSELL L. EYET, JR. 71 was re­ cently promoted to assistant vice president of the United Penn Bank, in the bank office in Forty Fort, Pa. Russell and his wife, the former BEVERLY ANN PEIRCE 71 and their daughter Kelly Jean reside in Dallas, Pa. JANET BUTKIEWICZ 76 recently passed the Pennsylvania State Board of Examiner’s requirements for pro­ fessional nurse licensure. Janet is currently employed as a registered nurse on the medical staff at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadel­ phia, Pa. SHELDON W. LAWRENCE ’66 has been elected secretary of the Hart­ ord Insurance Group. Sheldon is re­ sponsible for the implementation and coordination of all business plann‘ng activities in The Hartford for pany as a programmer in their ac­ tuarial systems department in Rose­ land, N. J. Dan resides in Parsippany, State University College of Human Center’andTin8 at Ingham sinTMXaPnarr°WH0SPitaIinLan™OMAS GIANNINI 71 and Betsy wed- T™ on the facultyIeCently of the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore, Maryland. The couple is residing in Cockeys­ ville, Maryland. y BASIA mieszkowski jaworbKl 56 recently earned her M.A. in Music from Montclair State Univer­ sity. Basia is director of music at Our Lady of the Holy Angels Church of Little Falls, N. J. She serves as president of the Association of Church Musicians for the Diocese of Paterson and also teaches piano and voice at home. ROBERT L. BROWN 74 and his wife Joan have accepted a position in the Kuspuk School District to assume responsibility for opening up a high school in Chuathbaluk, an Eskimo village in Alaska. WALTER ORZE ’69 has been named assistant general counsel of Rock­ well International Corporation, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Walter has a J.D. de­ gree from the Duquesne University Law School. He and his wife, Deb­ orah, reside in Wexford, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa. JAMES GODLEWSKI 74 was re­ cently appointed head coach of the girls track team at Wallenpaupack Area High School in Wallenpaupack, Pa. “Muskie” is a fifth grade teacher at Greenley Elementary School. ROBERT FORD ’65 is the author of an illustrated article "Sheet Con­ struction: Exploring Three-Dimen­ sional Design," which appeared in the October issue of “School Arts” magazine. Bob is an art teacher at Hazleton High School. SUSAN BRUCH 72 is an employ­ ment representative, job develop­ ment component, in the county Hu­ man Resources Development Pro­ gram of Luzerne County. NANCY SCHULTZ 75 is group lead­ er for field engineer accounts at the Burroughs Corporation in then gen­ eral accounts branch in Philadelphia, Pa DANIEL BABETSKI 76 is employed by Prudential Life Insurance Com- JOHN WANKO '58 has been ap­ pointed to the Council Rock School Board. John is employed by the Jen­ kintown, Pa. insurance firm of Pye, Karr, Ambler and Company. Dean Ralston: Thank you, Mr. Chwalek. As usual you did a fine job. Next on the agenda to discuss is mar­ riages and who is more equipped to tell us about the blissful state of matrimony than the most confirmed bachelor since Pope Pius XII, Ar­ thur J. Hoover, I. Mr. Hoover: Thank you, Dean. As Director of Alumni Relations they thought I would be the best one to announce the closest alumni rela­ tionship — marriage. The following alumni took the big step in recent months. MARGERY GERMAN 76 and MI­ CHAEL S. RIFKIN 76 were recently married. Margery is an instructor in the nursery program at Payne Pettebone House of Wyoming Seminary Day School. Mike is employed by A. Rifkin Company. The couple is re­ siding in Wilkes-Barre. JOSEPH STELLA 74 and Marcella Proch were married on November 25. Joe is a third year medical stu­ dent at Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia. EDWARD BLAZEJEWSKI, in 71 and MARY ELLEN KERESTES 72 were married on November 20. Ed is a member of the counseling staff of the Wilkes-Barre Area School District and Mary Ellen is an English teacher with the Wilkes-Barre City Schools. CAROLE S. LOWANDE 74 was re­ cently married to Joseph Deddy. Carole is a business teacher at Lenape Valley Regional High School, in Stanhope, N. J. WESLEY B. SIMMERS, JR. 72 and Rita Ann Salata were married on October 16. Wesley is employed as a merchandise manager at Fowler, Dick and Walker, Laurel Mall. The couple resides in Hazleton, Pa. ANDREA MARIE KURILLO 76 and JOHN P. KELLEY, JR. 75 were re­ cently married. John is employed by Marion Laboratories, Kansas City, Mo. The couple is residing in Beth­ lehem, Pa. ELIZABETH TASKER 75 and E. Glen Wolsieffer were married on November 28. The couple is residing in Arlington, Va. SPRING 1977 29 �EILEEN PRENDERGAST '76 and THOMAS TROST '76 were recently married. The couple is residing in Philadelphia, Pa. MICHAEL ROSKOS '71 was recently married to Nancy Arnold. Mike is employed as a pension trust officer by National Central Bank, Lancaster, Pa. STEPHEN SHAIMAN '69 was re­ cently married to Linda Karp. Ste­ phen is also a graduate of Villanova School of Law and is currently in private practice in Philadelphia, Pa. HARRY '62 and ELAINE ADAMS COLLIER '63 are residing in Aurora, Illinois. Harry is labor relations man­ ager for All-Steel. MICHALENE FIGEL '74 was recent­ ly married to Stanley Zurek. Michalene is a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. The couple is residing in Plains, Pa. HAROLD ROBERTS '76 was recent­ ly married to Ruth Owens. Harold is employed by Pennsylvania Millers Mutual Insurance Company, WilkesBarre. Dean Whitby: I want to protest this. What does a carefree bachelor know about being happily married? What does he know about washing dishes, scrubbing floors, making beds . . . Dean Ralston: What do you know about that stuff John? Dean Whitby: I know that when you’re married you have someone to do all that stuff for you. And I feel sorry for poor Mr. Hoover. So I think I should continue announcing the marriages. Mr. Hoover: Thafs fine with me, John. I think I’ll go to New York for the weekend and forget about all the floor scrubbing and dish washing I’m missing by not being married, (ha, ha, ha.) I’ll send you a postcard, John. Should I send it to the kitchen? Dean Whitby: ANN L. VIVIAN ’73 was married re­ cently to David K. Hart. Ann is com­ pleting requirements this year for her Master's degree in music at the Boston Conservatory of Music where she is also Coordinating Assistant of the Dance Department as well as In­ structor of Piano in the Conservatory Extension Division. EUGENE R. LISPI ’73 and LINDA M. JONES ’74 were recently married. Eugene is employed by Silver’s En­ terprises. The couple is residing in Scranton. KATHY RAMSEY ’72 was married to Joseph Krysiuk on November 27. 30 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Kathy is employed by the WilkesBarre Area School District. JARET GRIFFITHS '74 and WAL­ TER STRAUB '73 were recently mar­ ried. Jaret is an elementary teacher with the Wilkes-Barre Area School District and Walter was recently ap­ pointed as sales representative of Krop Steel Corporation of Pottsville, Pa. MILDRED R. GROSS '66 and Dr. HERBERT N. MAIER '65 were re­ cently married. Millie teaches Span­ ish at Highland Park New Jersey Middle School and Herb is director of laboratories at Precision Gas Products in Rahway, N. J. The couple resides in New Brunswick, N. J. MARIANNE M. MACUR '76 was re­ cently married to John Kopcho. Marianne is employed as a mental health worker in the mental health unit of the Mercy Hospital, WilkesBarre. The couple is residing in Glen Lyon. JOAN BONFANTI '75 was recently married to Peter Shannon. Joan is employed by Associated Internists of Kingston and also Drs. Callahan and Collarusso of Pittston. The cou­ ple is residing in Forty Fort. Pa. NANCY SOLOGOVITCH '72 and MARK CARMON '74 were recently married. Mark is associated with T. V. Guide in Radnor, Pa. The couple is residing in Media, Pa. JOYCE ANDREJKO '73 was recently married to Charles Shamro. The cou­ ple resides in Factoryville, Pa. ANN REBECCA ZINI '76 was recent­ ly married to Patrick Coffey. The couple is residing in New London, Conn. Ann is presently employed as a substitute teacher. PAUL BROOKS '72 was recently married to Frances Pichirallo. Paul is sales representative for Doyle Pharmaceutical Company, in May­ wood, N. J. Dean Ralston: Thank you, John. And now to introduce to us the Class of ’99 is our dear friend and col­ league and resident ecologist, chair­ man of the Biology Department, Dr. Charles B. Reif. Dr. Reif: I don’t know how they rooked me into announcing the births. They know how I feel about population control. But birth is a joyous occasion (especially in the life of my mother). So with a smile on my face and my fingers crossed I’ll tell you about all the alumni who welcomed little people into their homes recently. A son, David Michael, was born on October 1, to MICHAEL '67 and RA­ CHAEL PHILLIPS DZIAK '64. Mi­ chael has been promoted to function­ al manager in charge of financial planning at I.B.M. in Endicott, N.Y. thenffimwjmffe A son, Ryan Damon, was born to Mr. and Mrs. RALPH TEWKSBURY '70 on October 20. Ralph manages Erb Lumber Company in Livonia, Michigan. The couple also has a three year old daughter, Lori. A son, Kristopher Thomas, was re­ cently born to Nancy and FRAN OLEXY ’68. Fran is the New England sales manager for the Rubberset Di­ vision of the Sherwin-Williams Com­ pany. The Olexys and another son, John Emmett, reside in Bellingham, Mass. Dean Ralston: That wraps the show up, folks. Stay tuned next time when we’ll bring you more antics of alum­ ni. For our next episode John Chwa­ lek might even get his glasses fixed. So keep sending us all of your news and we’ll see you back here in a cou­ ple months on "The South River­ street Revival.’’ Good bye for now. Y’all come back soon now ya hear? 2 2 Lacrosse Match Joint Recital 3 3-8 5 6 10-15 12 14 16 17 16 17- 22 20 21 22-24 22- 24 23 23 23- May 15 24- 29 25 28 30 30 Piano Recital Senior Art Exhibit Baseball Game Lacrosse Match Senior Art Exhibit Baseball Game Lacrosse Match Baseball Game Piano Recital Flute Recital Senior Art Exhibit Lacrosse Match Baseball Game CHERRY BLOSSOM TIME Theater Production Baseball Game Piano Recital Fine Arts Exhibit Senior Art Exhibit Baseball Game Concert Piano Recital Concert 1-6 1 1 3 4 7 7 7 8-13 8 8 14 15-20 18- June 13 Senior Art Exhibit Faculty Recital Joint Piano Recital Baseball Game Concert Lacrosse Match Piano Recital Piano Recital Senior Art Exhibit Joint Piano Recital Concert Piano Recital Senior Art Exhibit Fine Arts Exhibit 22 COMMENCEMENT 4 A daughter, Holly Anne, was born on December 26, to Joseph and JOY GEIDA DZWILEFSKY ’69. The cou­ ple also have a daughter Debbie, and reside in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Qi I Fine Arts Exhibit Concert and Lecture Concerto Concert Senior Art Exhibit Trumpet Recital Organ Recital I N. J. A daughter, Lori Ann, was born on December 18, to William and MARY ALICE NASIELSKI BATTISTA '71. They are also the parents of a 3 year old daughter, Amy Lynn. 21-Apr. 17 25 26 2 7-Apr. 1 27 27 — A son was recently born to WIL­ LIAM '73 and JANICE KOVAL W0R0NK0 '74. The Woronkos are residing in Muncy, Pa. A daughter, Karen Jane, was born on December 18, to Mr. and Mrs. Thom­ as Cordano of Lansing, Michigan. Mrs. Cordano is the former JANET SIMONSON '71. 6-11 13-18 20-25 20 21 Concert Concert Piano Recital Senior Art Exhibit Senior Art Exhibit Senior Art Exhibit Percussion Recital Concert and Lecture 1 3 A son, Wayne Scott, was recently born to NICHOLAS '68 and MARY JANE HELLMUTH NICKLES '70. The Nickles’ reside in Spotswood, That’s all the births for now. I’ve got to get back to my office. Tm writing a new book entitled “How To Tie Proper Grammar, Etiquette, Painting, Letter-Writing, and Don’t Be A Litterbug Into a Biology 101 Course Only on Wednesdays.’’ Good-bye. what when ........... You too Charlie Reif. * who Wilkes College Chorus Wilkes College Band Daria Duh Randall'Bond Renee Fogelson Maureen McHale Elayne Tubman, Robert J. Kennedy From Grand Opera to Broadway" — Patrice Munsel Models of Leonardo DaVinci “Kinematrix'' Anne V. Liva, coordinator Patricia Steele, Eliza Small Bruce Kennedy Cindy Fisher vs. Dickinson Ronald Bielecki, saxophone Leonard Costello, clarinet Linda Schall Mary Ann Petro, Rick Mahonski vs. Bloomsburg St. vs. Lehigh Linda Busch, Sharon Warren vs. Scranton vs. Bucknell vs. Elizabethtown Giacomina Buzzelli Nancy Evans Theresa Domanski, Terrilee Jackson vs. Haverford vs. Albright “Trial by Jury" and “H.M.S. Pinafore" vs. Delaware Valley Marie Sullivan Paintings by Niccolo Cortiglia Mark Zavoy, Dennis Falcone vs. Ursinus Wilkes College Chorus Chris Hudak Wilkes College Band Judi Hatcher Donna Marchett, Joseph Serrenti vs. Kutztown St. Wilkes College Band vs. Franklin & Marshall Angeline Teixerira Leonarda Sperrazza Marilyn Swantkowski Austin McElwee, Marie Sullivan Madrigal Singers Deborah Shekletski Claire Maziarczyk Graphics, Watercolors, and Oils — Ronald Wing where time CPA CPA Gies Recital Hall Conyngham Gallery Conyngham Gallery Conyngham Gallery Gies Recital Hall CPA 8:30 8:30 8:30 3:30 8:00 Sordoni Gallery CPA 8:00 CPA 8:30 Conyngham Gallery Gies Recital Hall 3:30 First Presbyterian Church 8:30 Ralston Field 2:00 Gies Recital Hall 3:30 Gies Recital Hall Conyngham Gallery Artillery Park Ralston Field Conyngham Gallery Artillery Park Ralston Field Artillery Park Gies Recital Hall Gies Recital Hall Conyngham Gallery Ralston Field Artillery Park CAMPUS CPA Artillery Park Gies Recital Hall Sordoni Gallery Conyngham Gallery Artillery Park CPA Gies Recital Hall CPA Conyngham Gallery CPA Gies Recital Hall Artillery Park Bedford Lawn Ralston Field Gies Recital Hall Gies Recital Hall Conyngham Gallery Gies Recital Hall CPA Gies Recital Hall Conyngham Gallery Sordoni Gallery 3:30 1:00 3:00 1:00 3:00 1:00 3:30 3:30 3:00 2:00 1:00 8:30 3:15 8:30 3:30 8:30 3:30 8:30 3:00 4:30 2:00 3:30 8:30 8:30 3:30 8:30 SPRING 1977 31 �more than 11,000 Wilkes alumni now actively sharing the Wilkes tradition, we believe it to be a tradition of unparalleled fulfill­ ment and promise. The Wilkes tradition goes on — this year more than 700 under­ graduate students enrc./.d for the first time. Most of them will become a part of the Wilkes tradition. But while our tradition will roll on we think it appropriate to remind alumni that we welcome their sons, daughters and friends as applicants to Wilkes College. We hope the Wilkes tradition can be a family tradition for admissible, interested alumni sons, daughters and friends. If your son, daughter or friend is interested in more information about Wilkes College, its academic programs and admission policies, please cut out and mail the coupon. We'd be delighted to hear from you. WRITE TO: Office of Admissions, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. □ Please send me a copy of the 1977 Admissions Material. Name Address City State Zip Code State Zip Code Alumni Name Alumni Address City.______________ Additional Information Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Spring 1977 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1977 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/88b1a7152cec7eaf48100df12396ad7d.pdf 17fcd231d434f1565ea215eaf61090ad PDF Text Text �--------------------------------- ■ Volume 1, Number 2 editor Douglas J. Rubinstein managing editor George G. Pawlush editorial staff Mary Ellen Alu Wilma Hurst Marianne Montague administrative assistant Jane Manganella ■■ W1LKE6 COLLEGE ii>RTE3p' WILKES COLLEGE ARCWV/rr Eugene Shedden Farley Library ON THE COVER . . . As a memorable tribute to the significance of graduation. Quarterly artist Ron Beck portrays the role of the liberal arts in human development. The dramatic graphic illustration, which must be studied to be appreciated, serves as a reminder to all. of the massive contribution education has provided to the growth of civilization. ft editors assistant Toni Reavy contributing staff Cara Berryman Ray Bolger Herb Simon G. K. Wuori Joe Buckley On Murder And Other Indignities By Dr. G.K. Wuori “• .. We ping pong them between a life having something of the quality of that of a potato and one filled with mere bits and pieces of lucid rationality.” Bio-ethics, Philosophy Professor G. K. Wuori speaks out on the euthanasia phenomenon. 12 editorial advisor They Waited, They Cheered, And They WILL Remember by Wilma Hurst ’79 24-Year old Christine Donahue ’74, a music major at Wilkes, stepped on to the stage at the Metropolitan Opera House and before a cheering capacity audience and the lingering echoes of her completed performance, walked off with second place in the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions, $4,000, and a contract for three opera performances in Barcelona, Spain. 18 . Liberty And Justice For All” By Ray Bolger Storefront Lawyer Chuck Petrillo ’GO beleives their are no poor in the eyes of the law. Today the legal aids society he heads, represents the only legal recourse for over 50,000 Northeast Pennsylvania residents. 20 An American Dream "If you could invite any American, past or present, to dinner tonight, who would be your guest and why?” That’s the question Mary Ellen Alu asked various Wilkes people. Some of the responses: 28 The Way We Were A Photo Essay by James Kozemchak ’68, Ace-Hoffman Studios "Memories light the corners of my mind — misty water-colored memories of the way we were. Faded pictures of the smiles we left behind — smiles we gave to one another for the way we were"... 30 Arthur J. Hoover circulation manager Lynn Jacobs art director Jon Schaffer photography editor James Kozemchak, ACE HOFFMAN STUDIO The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. Entered as second class mail matter and second class postage paid at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18703. Postmaster: Please send Form 3579 to Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons, Honorary Member Reuben H. Levy, Honorary Member OFFICERS Joseph J. Savitz, Chairman Ben Badman. Jr., First Vice Chairman William J. Umphred, Second Vice Chairman Richard L. Pearsall, Secretary Arthur J. Hoover, Assistant Secretary Mrs. Walter M. Diener, Treasurer Joseph J. Chisarick, Assistant Treasurer Letters — 4 Faculty Abstract — 8 College Chronicle — 6 Gallery — 24 Undergraduate — 9 James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein Edward Bixby, M.D. Charles N. Burns. M.D. Robert S. Capin, President Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Edward Darling Mrs. William Davidowitz Mrs. Stanley Davies Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Sports Update — 23 South Riverstreet Revival — 25 Alan M. Glover, Ph.D. Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan, Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Edwin M. Kosik Richard Maslow Gerald A. Moffatt William G. Mulligan F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Richard L. Pearsall Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross. Jr. Louis Shaffer Ronald W. Simms William H. Sword. Jr. E. Arthur Trabant, Ph.D. William J. Umphred Norman E. Weiss PRESIDENT Robert S. Capin SUMMER 1977 3 �* Alma Mater is OK Dear Editor: Hey Ail Art's Right! I can see by this new publication, that the old Alma Mater is doing very well. Congratulations! Bob Radice ’73 Director of Sales The Ryetown Hilton Inn Port Chester, New York Wass’s Oufi Afiutwi and Ttiewb Say ywi'ie Rigid! Thanks Bob — The meticulous eye of a Sales Director is a tough eye to please, so we appreciate your comments. In the last several weeks since the publication of Vol. I, Num­ ber I of the WILKES COL­ LEGE QUARTERLY, over 100 letters have filtered into our of­ fice complimenting our efforts to develop a truly interesting and memorable alumni publica­ tion. We deeply appreciate all of your letters and sentiments, and promise to continue to give you the very best news about you and us, that we can. IVe reprint­ ed a sampling of letters below, as space only permitted for a few. Thank you once again for helping us appreciate you. Compliments Format Dear Editor: Art’s Right! My compliments on your new magazine format. We really liked it! Mrs. Kathleen M. Smith ’68 Trucksville, Penna. Thanks Kathy and Don — Congratulations on the birth of your daughter Leslie Rae from the QUARTERLY. Loves the Quarterly Dear Editor: Commends President Capin Dear Bob: I must write to commend you on the quality of the Wilkes College Quarterly. It is not only attractively done, but each of the articles is a fascinating insight into some of the people associated with the College. The article on Don Carpenter brought back many memories and the two on alumni. Allen Schneider and Joe Pinola are really accomplishments of which Wilkes can be proud. I am sure you have received many positive comments on the Spring issue. Francis J. Michelini, President Commission for Independent Collegesand Universities <Penna (Past Pres, of Wilkes College J Thanks “Dr. Mike." As president of the C.I.C.U. which serves over 80 Penn- vlvania Independent Colleges and Universities and former president of Wilkes, your thoughts are most appreciated 4 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Congratulations Dear Editor: Congratulations! The Wilkes College Quarterly is great! Well written, nice layout and good content. Keep up the good work. William J. Umphred ’52 President Commonwealth Telephone Co Member, Wilkes College Board of Trustees Umphred! President of the 8th largest independent telephone company in the U.S. and a seasoned veteran journalist yourself, we appreciate your compliments. We also tip our hat Wilkes ankS l°r y°Ur service lo Carpenter Article Praised Dear Editor: Wilkes College is to be complimented on its feature of Don Carpenter in this very fine publication. The article was not only well-written, but the entire story was handled in a most credible and intelligent manner. I am certain the College will be the recipient of many notes of commendation and congratulations. Louis Shaffer, Attorney Shaffer and Chariton Member, Wilkes College Board of Trustees Thanks Mr. Shaffer. Your compliments are much appreciated by our editorial stuff. We are very proud of all our Trustees who, like yourself and Mr. Carpenter, have had a great impact on Wilkes College. Art’s Right! I just received the Quarterly and I loved it! It was really great! Mrs. Barbara Ward Nixon ’71 Pasadena, Maryland Thanks, Barbara. Congratulations to you on your marriage from the QUARTERLY too! Fan Mail for Marianne Dear Editor: Art’s Right! I enjoyed the new format of the Wilkes College Quarterly. I was especially pleased with the “South River Street Revival” as written by Ms. Marianne Montague. I found it interesting and informative, and I thoroughly enjoyed the manner in which the alumni news was presented. You can be assured that I, along with many other alumni, look forward to future issues. Joseph J. Marchetti ’76 Director of Housing Thanks Joe! Hut if you think you are going to steal Marianne away from us, forget it! We’ve already signed her to a lifetime contract plus a starring role in the new film entitled “The Art Hoover Story.” Marianne will play that luscious local lovely lover who is the only woman in the world capable of landing the Dashing, Debonair, Dynamic Art Hoover. More Mail for Marianne Dear Editor: Art’s Right! I really want to tell you how much I enjoyed the Wilkes College Quarterly. I’m sure it will be appreciated by our alumni. which may be of interest to our readers. Frank wanted us to hear about a beautiful cultural attraction near our campus — the Nathan Denison home, a restoration project administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. We decided to bring the QUARTERLY photo team out to the site and see the Denison home. Frankly (no pun intended) we agree. Here’s the photo and what Frank Polinsky has to say: Of course, I’m a little biased because of Marianne Montague’s part in it. I think it’s great. Thank you. Mrs. Jeanne Conway Assist. Director of Housing Thanks Mrs. Conway. We’re a little biased too — We think she’s super! Quarterly has Big-Time Appeal Dear Editor: Art’s Right! Congratulations to you and your staff on the beautiful job of the Wilkes College Quarterly. It’s nice to see a journal that can stand up alongside the alumni magazines of the big time schools. James P. Berg Assist. Professor of History Wilkes College/Advisor to WCLH-FM Radio Thanks Professor Berg — You “radio guys' keep us “print guys” burning the midnight oil to keep up with progress. Likes New Start Dear Editor: Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Frank Polinsky and I received a B.A. in History from Wilkes in 1973.1 was pleased with Volume I, Number I of the Wilkes College Quarterly. Yes, it is a start and I am sure you will receive suggestions and articles that will help with future issues. Frank Polinsky ’73 Fortj' Fort, Penna. Thanks Frank. Incidentally. Frank enclosed a short article written in May, 1977 regarding an historic restoration project in Forty Fort “THE NATHAN DENISON HOME: AN OUTSIDE VIEW” A home built in 1790 by Colonel Nathan Denison, the Revolutionary War officer, is located four short miles from the Wilkes campus, at the corner of Denison Street and Englewood Terrace, just off Route 11 in Forty Fort. It appears to be in the final stage of restoration administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the property’s present owner, which began last year. A sign, noting historic relevance, marks the site. New additions include a colonial-type stone wall and a stone chimney revealed atop the structure. Also, the landscape has been affected by restoration. On the left of the Denison Home a small building has been constructed, and to the right a pavement now exists for parking. This progress is truly beautiful to see and deserves our appreciation. o ATTENTION PARENTS ! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Office at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our records. SUMMER 1977 5 �— Toast of the Town President Robert S. Capin was re cently honored by the Wilkes-Barre Lions Club as that organization’s “Man of the Year.” Capin was cited for his efforts in advancing Wilkes College in step with the needs of the constantly changing society and was credited with initiating new programs link­ ing the institution with the commun­ ityA crowd of several hundred at­ tended the banquet at Gus Genetti's Hotel. The Wilkes chief executive officer was also singled out by the Common­ wealth of Pennsylvania and the City of Wilkes-Barre for his work in help­ ing to create a positive image for Wyoming Valley. & Taking a break jar the photographer prior to the start of commencement activities5 were, from left - Robert S. Capin. president of the college: Anne Vanko Liva, who was honored hono as a Professor Emerita; and commencement speakers Margaret Walczyk. Dr. Charles B. Reif, and Atty. Joseph J. Savitz. Angels Get Their Wings Triumphant Triumvirate The college conducted its 30th Commencement on Sunday, May 22, at Ralston Field with 553 students receiving graduate and baccalaur­ eate degrees. The occasion was marked by a switch from the traditional com­ mencement speaking program, as President Robert S. Capin introduced three speakers from various areas of the “Wilkes College Family." The first message was delivered by Atty. Joseph J. Savitz, chairman of the board of trustees and a 1948 alumnus of the college. Second speaker was Dr. Charles B. Reif, chairman of the Wilkes College Bi­ ology Department and a 35-year member of the faculty, while the fin­ al message was offered by Margaret Walczyk, a senior accounting major. The presentation of Professor Emerita honors was made to Anne Vanko Liva, a veteran member of the Wilkes College Music Depart­ ment. 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY recently bestowed the honor of Am­ i bassador upon him for his outstand­ I ing contribution to the Jaycee move­ ment. For seven years, from 1959 to 1966, Tuhy dedicated himself to the Jay­ cees, becoming actively involved in continued. community affairs, holding execu­ "With fewer students entering col­ tive positions, and receiving many lege today there is much more com­ service awards. petition," Chisarick noted, “ and the care. “It is an organization where I did The curriculum covers a four-acfinancial aspect of the college has learn quite a bit,” commented Tuhy. ademic-year period totaling 127 become almost equal with the edu­ “Indirectly and directly, it got me credits. Nursing is introduced in the cational aspect.” involved in the community.” freshman year and clinical experi­ One of the major responsibilities The Ambassador award is the ences are provided in many of the for the comptroller and his staff at highest honor that can be bestowed local hospitals and community agen­ Wilkes is to review and revise the by the United States Jaycees. In a budget. "We must first work with letter to Tuhy, Frank Ziebell, presi­ cies. The purposes of the nursing pro­ 40 individual administrative and de­ dent of the organization, explained gram at the college are to prepare partment budgets, finally coordinat­ that the Ambassadorship was con­ the professional nurse practitioner ing everything into one master bud­ ferred after reviewing Tuhy’s rec­ for the emerging role in today's so­ get," the new comptroller stated. "It ord. ciety through instruction, experience is an endless job in itself." Ziebell said, “The United States and guidance; to provide a founda­ For the future Chisarick plans to Jaycees cherishes your dedication to tion for graduate study in nursing; continue the outstanding work of his the philosophy and goals of our or­ to assist the currently practicing predecessor, Alex Pawlenok, and ganization. Your contribution has not nurse to maintain and expand his or hopefully achieve other long range been forgotten and we hope we can her professional knowledge and goals. “We will endeavor to stream­ maintain your trust." skill through continuing education line the office through computers The Ambassador title follows two and use every management tool pos­ other national awards received by programs. sible to keep us in tune with other Tuhy, the “Speak Up Finalist" and big businesses." The Eight-Million Dollar Man “Statesman” awards. Chisarick, also a CPA in the ComTuhy, who was selected Out­ Finding ways to cut expenses and; monwealth of Pennsylvania, is curstanding Young Man of Wyoming discovering new areas of income are1 rently pursuing a master’s degree in Valley in 1965, also received a vari­ only two of the challenges facing1 Business Administration at the col­ ety of awards from the Greater Joseph J. Chisarick as he assumed lege. Wilkes-Barre Jaycees. the office of comptroller at Wilkes Ho is married to the former Joan Tuhy steadily progressed in exec­ He is married to College on June 1. utive positions on the local level, Balutis and the Chisarick s are the In announcing Chisarick’s ap­ moving from secretary in 1960 to in­ parents of three children. pointment, President Robert S. Ca­ ternal vice-president, external vicepin noted that Alex Pawlenok, who president, executive vice-president, “Ambassador” Tuhy has been the comptroller for the last president and finally state director 11 years, has elected to return to full in 1965. time classroom teaching in the He served as Community Devel­ Wilkes Accounting Department. opment chairman and state viceChisarick, a 1961 alumnus of the president for the Pennsylvania Jay­ college and a lifelong Swoyersville cees and also won the Presidential resident, has served as the assist­ Award of Honor and Speak Up ant comptroller at Wilkes since 1970. champion on this level. Among his duties at Wilkes will But besides his active participa­ be budgeting, internal audit, and the tion with the Jaycees, Tuhy also had management of the finance office time for other activities. He belongs staff which includes an assistant to several professional affiliations Fred Croop, and seven other full including the American Institute of Parliamentarians and the Pennsyl­ time personnel. vania Planning Association, several With over 200 people working at an annual budget oi non-professional affiliations such as the college and dollars, Wilkes the St. Matthew Evangelical Luth­ nearly $8 million Chisarick “is eran Church, and other civic organ­ "What do you say when an organ­ College, according to businesses in ization gives you their highest one of the biggest izations. award? . . . You just feel pretty good "You’ve just got to keep moving Wyoming Valley.” The new comptroller spent nearly fast,” said Tuhy as he explained his about it.” nine years in public accounting with And that's how Philip R. Tuhy, a many involvements. Laventhol & Horwath before join­ Wilkes College political science fac­ Having received his M.G.A. from ing the college. “I was a little tired the University of Pennsylvania and ulty member and associate director of traveling and I decided that I of the Institute of Regional Affairs, his B.S. from Valparaiso University, Tuhy is also the author of several wanted to concentrate in one area is feeling right now. of accounting," Chisarick furthered. The United States Jaycees, a publications. young men's service organization, There is a big difference between SUMMER 1977 7 an institution which operates on a disease and the delivery of health services in both the hospital and community jommunity settings. Opportunity is provided for students to focus on pre nursing practice in complex situa­ tions, and experiences will be planned with students in other health programs in the delivery of health ■ 1 "| Steven Esrick, a biology major from Rockville Centre, N.Y. was honored at Wilkes College Commencement exercises with the Alumni Award for Leadership. The award is given anually by the Wilkes College Alumni Association to the member of the graduating class considered by a special committee to have made the strongest contribution to student life and the student activities program at the college. Esrick, is shown left, receiving the award from Arthur J. Hoover, director of alumni relations. The Wilkes College Nursing De­ partment, currently in its fifth year of existence, received some import­ ant news recently as the Pennsyl­ vania State Board of Nursing Exam­ iners granted the baccalaureate pro­ gram full approval status. According to Ruth W. McHenry chairperson of the Wilkes Nursing Department, “Wilkes College stu­ dents are now eligible to take the licensing examinations to practice professional nursing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” Professor McHenry added, “We are quite pleased with the Boards approval and the performance of the 1977 graduates on the examina­ tion. It is a vital step towards establishing the nursing program at Wilkes College.” The nursing program was initiate at the college in 1972. It offers a va­ riety of careers for men and women and leads to a Bachelor of Scienc degree with a major in Nursing an reflects a curriculum design tha responsive to the changing needs society for health care. client Emphasis is placed on the motion oi and his family in the previ non-profit basis and one that is organized for making a profit. "The aim of an institution such as Wilkes is to provide programs without the profit motive. We are constantly evaluating our greatest needs," he �Play it again, Anne “Music can be taught to anyone." So subscribes Wilkes College music educator Anne Vanko Liva, who has spent more than 40 years of her life teaching piano. Mrs. Liva, a native of Jessup, was honored as a "Professor Emerita" during annual commencement ac­ tivities on May 22. Despite relinquishing some of her formal teaching load at the college, she still expects to maintain much of her current busy pace which in­ cludes 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. sessions at Wilkes, four days a week, plus a hec­ tic weekend schedule at her 33-room house on Vine St. in Scranton. “I just love teaching," remarked Mrs. Liva, in explanation of her fast­ moving schedule. “Normally I only sleep two to four hours a night." After working part time at the col­ lege for 14 years, the charming edu­ cator joined the Wilkes faculty' on a permanent basis in 1970, “I will never regret my association with Wilkes,” she offered, "A small pro­ gram can do so much for a student. The intimacy of a college such as Wilkes offers everyone a chance to know one another." “There is a misconception that a person has to be talented to take up music. This is wrong," she emphat­ ically said. “I have had many stu­ dents who lacked a music ear or sense of rhythm, and within a year they' played marvelously." Starting at an early age is also part of her teaching philosophy. “I have students who begin playing the pi­ ano at the age of three. A child at three, who is so relaxed, can digest and retain much if he is taught prop­ erly.” 8 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY While some of her protoges such as Tom Hrynkiw, John Verbalis, Gor­ don Roberts, Debbie Sobol, Edward Polochick, and Ernest Ragognini have distinguished themselves in na­ tional and international competition, a multitude of her students have also reached brilliant heights as lawyers and doctors. “Learning the piano teaches you discipline, both mentally and phys­ ically,” she noted. “All of these tools can be applied in almost every en­ deavor. Music forces you to think and when you think, you learn. Mus­ ic trains all the faculties.” Getting back to her 33-room house in Scranton, Mrs. Liva, who studied at the Julliard School of Music, dis­ closed that it once was the home of former Mayor Connell. “I currently have 11 grand pianos and many of my present and former students at Wilkes help win, ing. It is surprising that man?, ‘^b’ young pupils come weekly f °f °Ur tant areas such as Philadplnk'1" tlis' may wait as late as 12 mi, k■ and their lesson." micin>8ht fQr The only daughter amn sons, she confides that her fan? fiv° couragedher to enter the musfe but also made Q wem d ------sure ----‘hat...she business school “to lea: - -am a trade." In addition to her piano ica. ‘eaching at Wilkes and at the Vine St. i sion, Mrs. Liva is also music dirtmanfor an eight-week “Tiffan; ’ector . ‘S' Falls summer music clinic at Dir .. „,1U” imock and later this summer will participate in some workshops at London, England. For some, retirement may sound like a sudden departure from rigor­ ous work routines but for the tireless Anne Vanko Liva, it opens a whole new horizon with unlimited bounds. The Birth of an Alumnus Joseph W. Buckley ’77 faculty Dr. Lester J. Turoczi feels very strongly about increasing the sense of commitment between students and faculty'. "The campus has gotten much bigger than it was twenty years ago. We have to work more diligently to retain the close student­ faculty relationship for which we pride ourselves at Wilkes College,” the 35-year-old educator followed. Turoczi. a strong advocate of close student-faculty interaction, was re­ cently named chairman of the Wilkes College Biology Department, replac­ ing Dr. Charles B. Reif, who retired from the post after thirty years. The biology professor notes that the attitude of the faculty must keep pace with the changes of the student society. “Students need much more than book learning. They need our care and personal touch.” “We must overcome our negative attitudes and look for positive as­ pects on campus," Turoczi noted. "We must concentrate on what we do well and improve." Single and a member of the Wilkes faculty since 1973, the Jersey City, N.J. native came to Wilkes College because he wanted a "good liberal arts college which would allow me to develop as a college teacher, and yet be small enough so that I could know and’ communicate with the '---students." Dr. Turoczi, known to his friends and associates as “Les” spent 11 years of his life at Rutgers Univers­ ity where he attained his B.A., M.S., and finally Ph.D. degrees. He was an assistant instructor at the New Jersey institution before making his career choice between undergraduate teach­ ing and post-doctoral research. A very popular figure among stu­ dents on campus, the enthusiastic educator is the faculty advisor to the Human Services Committee as well as the Photography Club. He holds memberships in the Sig­ ma Xi Honor Society, American As­ sociation for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Zoolo­ gists, New York Academy of Science, Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences, and the Institute for Society, Ethics and Life Sciences. 1 uroczi has published research on the "Biology of Aging" and is active in the research of human chromo­ somes and human genetics. O I If Wilkes College is to survive as a center of liberal arts education, it must quickly begin to realign its values. Often we have heard of the "Wilkes College Family.” Unfortun­ ately, we have only been paying lipservice to that idea. Wilkes is not the family that it should be. Instead, the college has subtly shifted its values. It is a shift which is best illustrated by the college's two most common self-conceptions. Wilkes College has often been said to be one of the largest industries in the Wyoming Valley. Whether true or not, the college has recently be­ gun to think of itself in business terms. This is the most recent and most prominent self-conception. The obvious analogy is that of the college as a production plant. In other words, the college tries to meet the needs of the community by producing a product-student that the consumer market will view as desirable. A ma­ jority of students accept this analogy because they are primarily job ori­ ented. The analogy can even be taken a step further to include the assembly line process in which each student receives so many parts of math, chemistry, etc. And each part is as­ sembled by a different assemblyman­ professor. This equation of the col­ lege and the production process is fine until we recognize the fact that most consumer products are today produced according to the concept of planned obsolescence. This con­ cept states that a product should last for only so many years before it begins to wear out and thus neces­ sitates the buying of a new replace­ ment product. If, then, we consider the idea of the student as a marketable product, we can see that no liberal arts col­ lege must ever follow the concept of planned obsolescence. Otherwise, the production process would en­ hance the future of the college by ensuring continued production; but, at the same time, it would also negate the future of the product-student. In adopting this analogy of the womb, we must also rid ourselves of the idea that our schooldays are the best days of our lives. This simply is not true. For if these are the best days of our lives, then we have noth­ ing to look forward to. That is to say, we have no future. A liberal arts col­ lege must always look to the future of society, a better future of better days because of the alumni to which the college gives birth. Q To survive as a liberal arts college, a far better analogy to follow would be that of the college as a womb. Af­ ter a four-year period of nourishment and growth, the mother-college would give birth to an alumnus. This analogy would continue to ensure the future of the college, since most children would not desert their moth­ ers and since all communities look more favorably on mothers than on industries. Also, under this analogy, the future of the children-students would be insured because they would always have the guidance and faith of the mother-college. With such an analogy, the primary importance should be focused on the birth of the alumnus. For the school must exist for and be committed to the creation of alumni. It is the alum­ nus, especially the newborn alum­ nus, who is most important because he is the one who can and should do something to improve the commun­ ity he enters. The purpose of being a student is to prepare oneself to graduate, to become an alumnus, to help society. The title of alumnus carries with it a far greater obligation than just giving a donation to the college’s an­ nual spring fund-raising campaign. An alumnus must be able to point out faults in his mother-institution; i. e., to show where his upbringing was lacking. This could only benefit the college and its future offspring. Also, the alumnus should be pre­ pared to offer help to those offspring who are leaving the protection of the college, to help new alumni adjust to the society they have entered. The idea of the college as a womb would be closely allied with the idea of a “Wilkes College Family," which has most recently been a label for an unreality. Therefore, it is this self­ conception that the college must re­ adopt. It might seem odd, and maybe even silly, to quarrel over which an­ alogy a college should use for itself. But if a person can be hurt by a self­ conception which is a misconcep­ tion, then a college can also be hurt, if not defeated, by the way it sees it­ self. Joe Buckley, a : 1977 alumnus, was the former president of the Journalism Society and a former meiimber of the editorial staff of the BEACON. They Came Back Sixteen students, who entered the first class of the Wilkes-Hahnemann Cooperative Medical Education Pro­ gram in Family Medicine in 1972, re­ turned to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area on May 31 to complete the third and final phase of their study. The students, who will receive a Doctor of Medicine Degree in June, 1978, include: John Azain, WilkesBarre; Kathleen Barnhart, Philadel­ phia; Edward Boyer, Norristown; Jeanne Cullinan, Henrietta, N.Y.; Michael Ferraro, Forty Fort; Ellen Field Herrerra, Villanova; James Guzek, Dunmore; Susan Krischuis, Luz­ erne; Thomas Lenns, Scranton. Also, Maureen Maguire, Bear Creek; Bonita Metzger, WilkesBarre; Cynthia Patterson, Towanda; Deborah Pincofski, Nanticoke; Janet Polansky, Pittston; Cynthia Solo­ mon, Ashley; and Douglas Trostle, Adamstown. The Wilkes-Hahnemann Program in Family Medicine began in 1972, when the first class of high school graduates entered Wilkes College to embark upon an intensive six-year combined BS/MD program destined to increase the number of family practitioners in underserved areas of Northeastern Pennsylvania. At the end of two years at Wilkes College, 16 students went on to Hahnemann Medical College in Phil­ adelphia to pursue their medical training. While there, the first year was spent in preclinical basic scien­ ces, while the second and third years were devoted to advance basic sci­ ences and clinical training in medi­ cine, surgery, obstetrics and gyne­ cology, pediatrics, and the behavior sciences. The senior year program will take place entirely within the WilkesBarre/Scranton/Hazleton area where students will be assigned to local doctors in their offices, for medical SUMMER 1977 9 �tals. clinics, and health-related agencies. The local hospitals participating in the Wilkes-Hahnemann Program include the Community Medical Cen­ ter of Scranton: Mercy Hospital. Wilkes-Barre; Nesbitt Memorial Hos­ pital, Kingston: Wilkes-Barre Gen­ eral Hospital; Wyoming Valley Hos­ pital, Wilkes-Barre: Veterans Ad­ ministration Hospital. Wilkes-Barre: St. Joseph’s Hospital. Hazleton; and the Hazleton State Hospital. In addition, students will attend clinics sponsored by the Crippled Children's Association at Kirby Health Center, and will gain a psych­ iatric experience at the Mental Health Center in Scranton, the Luz­ erne - Wyoming County Mental Health Center, and the NanticokeHazleton Mental Health Center. For an obstetrical experience, students will be assigned to the of­ fices and clinics of the Midwifery Program of the Maternal Health Serv­ ices of Northeastern Pennsylvania. While students are completing their clinical training, they will at­ tend a structure seminar series at Wilkes College which will cover such areas as medical law, office management, community affairs, and problems of the physician in society. Upon the completion of their 48week senior year program, stu­ dents will receive their BS degree in medical science from Wilkes College and their Doctor of Medicine degree from Hahnemann. Wilkes College is among other modern schools of nursing that have chosen distinctive pins to identify their graduates. The design of each school's pin is based upon specific symbolism interpreting visibly the philosophy of the school. This practice has evolved from early military-religious traditions in­ volving the Crusaders. Just as the Crusaders chose various symbols to differentiate each order, so do the nursing schools use symbolism in the designs of their pins and badges. During the Crusades, several miltary nursing orders were estab'!-’ Fine hospitals were built by principles and practices t' ' administration developed ’?ier.800d care was provided the soldii Pope Urban II, who sent tue <jru he Crito saders on their way, urged ‘them UK wear the cross on their their heads heads and breasts. Various forms .—■ms of of th= the cross were used by different orders, with its special significance. each But while nursing has evolved from these traditions, the cap and uniform have faded as school ident­ ification. Social changes occurred and graduates of current nursing schools are identified by their nurs­ ing pin and their level of functioning. nnn memoriam FRANK KLINE Class of ’62 FRANK KLINE, 41, of 626 Penllyn Pike, Blue Bell, Pa. died on May 11, 1977 in Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Frank was a graduate of Kingston High School, Kingston, Pa. and re­ ceived a B.S. in Accounting from Wilkes College in 1962. He was vice president and treasurer of Sylvan Pools in Doylestown, Pa. Frank is survived by his wife, the former PATRICIA RINGENBACH '61; children, William, Jeffrey and Catherine, at home; mother, Mrs. Helen Kline, Kingston; brothers, Louis, Philadelphia; Robert, Lindenwald, N.J. The Weckesser Summit GLENN P. WILLIAMS Class of ’57 Care, Cure, and Coordination The Wilkes College Nursing Pin. which signifies achievement, is an emblem that identifies the nurse as a graduate of the college's bacca­ laureate nursing program. Designed by Ruth McHenry, chair­ man of the Wilkes College Nursing Department; and Margaret Tomczak, a senior nursing student from Levit­ town, the pin exemplifies four as­ pects of nursing at the college. The design symbolizes: the con­ tinuity of human endeavor, repre­ sented by the circle; the three C's of nursing — care, cure and coordina­ tion of services, by the points of the triangle; the enlightenment to be gained through higher teducation ' ___ .by the mace; and continuing professioi ' >nal development in service to mankind, by the inner triangle, directed to futurity. 10 The newly elected officers of the Wilkes College Alumni Association met recently at Weckesser Hall to map out plans for the coming year. Among the projects outlined by national president Judy Simonson Arenstein '68 were increased efforts of the alumni toward student recruit­ ment, aid in the placement of grad­ uating seniors, and financial support to the college. Attending the session, from left seated; Baria Sterniuk Zubritzky, '38 regional vice-president, region XI, McKees Rocks, Pa.; Lauren Harris kT O'Hara '74, secretary, West Pittston, Pa.; Judy Arenstein '68, national president, Scarsdale, N.Y.; and Steven Paradise, national treasurer, Merrick, N.Y. Other regional vice-presidents in­ clude Tom Krapsho '70, region HI. Harrisburg, Pa,; Peter Perog '60. re­ gion V, Sparta, N.J.; Hob I.inaberry 73, region VII, Syracuse, N.Y.; Paul Klein '60, region VIII, Duxbury, Mass.; John Wodraska '70, region X, Jupiter, Fla.; Barbara Denney CamP’ bell '09, region XII, Lojolla, Calif. Glenn P. Williams, 44, of Box 380, Richland Meadows, Quakertown, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, died on May 9,1977 at his home following an illness. Glenn was a graduate of Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre and re­ ceived a B.S. in Secondary Education from Wilkes in 1957. He also held a master's degree from Rutgers Uni­ versity. Glenn taught at Fallsington in Pennsbury School District and later was director of special services for Scotch Plains, New Jersey School District. Prior to his illness three years ago he was director of special services in Monroe Township School District, Cranberry, N.J. He is survived by his wife, the former Janet Knox; mother, Mrs. Alice McGrail Williams, Quaker­ town; brothers, William, Bingham­ ton, N.Y.; John, Broomall, Pa.; Don­ ald, Roxborough, Pa; and sister, Helen Williams, Quakertown. MICHAEL R. HAMILTON Class of '69 DR. MARVIN D. JUDD Class of'37 Michael R. Hamilton, 29, of Istan­ bul, Turkey, formerly of WilkesBarre, died on September 19,1976 in an airplane crash over the Carribean Sea. Michael graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Wilkes-Barre and received a B.A. in Mathematics from Wilkes College in 1969. At the time of his death he was teaching Physics at Robert College of Istan­ bul, Turkey, where he had been em­ ployed since 1973. Due to his service and dedication a Memorial to Michael has been es­ tablished at Robert College of Istan­ bul. The Memorial has the form of an annual award to a student for ex­ cellence in Physics. Michael is survived by his wife, the former MARY DELANEY '75; and his father, Walter T. Hamilton, New York, N.Y. Dr. Marvin D. Judd, 60, of 191 James Street, Kingston, Pa. died on May 8, 1977 in Wilkes-Barre, General Hos­ pital. Marvin was a graduate of Wyo­ ming Seminary, Bucknell University, and the Dental College of Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. He also attended Wilkes College in 1934 as a Biology major. Marvin maintained his dentistry practice on Bennett Street in Luzerne for more than 30 years. Surviving are his widow, the form­ er Nancy Cohen; daughter, Mrs. Diane Peiper, Philadelphia; son, James, student at Medical College of Temple University; mother, Mrs. Katie Dattner Judd, New Jersey; sis­ ter, Mrs. Selma Shill, Tarrytown, N.Y.; and brother, Harold, Westfield, N.J. DR. JAROSLAV MORAVEC JUDGE FRANK L. PINOLA Former Luzerne County President, Judge of Common Pleas Court and member of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees, Frank L. Pinola died on April 19. Judge Pinola retired from service on the Luzerne County bench in February, 1968, following 20 years as a jurist. He was elected to a 10year term in 1947 and reelected to a second 10-year term in 1957 with the endorsement of the Republican and Democrat parties. Born in Scranton on Jan. 28, 1893, Judge Pinola was graduated from West Pittston High School, Cornell University, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Judge Pinola served in World War I and earned the rank of captain. In 1920, he founded the Liberty Bank of Pittston and served as the bank president. He was admitted to the practice of law in Luzerne County in 1915 and served as a U.S. commissioner. He was elected two terms as presi­ dent of Luzerne County Bar Associ­ ation in 1946 and 1947. He earned statewide recognition for his work on behalf of veterans and served as state commander of the American Legion in 1930. On June 16, 1961, he was named President judge of Luzerne County Court upon the death of Judge J. Harold Flannery. His wife, the former Helen Nichol­ son. who he married Sept. 1, 1917, died in 1975. Surviving are a son and daughter. Dr. Jaroslav Moravec, former chairman of the Wilkes College Soc­ iology and Anthropology Depart­ ment, died suddenly on April 5 at the age of 67. A native of Czechoslovakia, he came to this country in 1952 as a po­ litical refugee. He was a member of the Wilkes College faculty from 1963 to 1975. He retired from full time teaching in 1975 and was honored in the first group of professor emeriti at the college in October. Dr. Moravec received a doctor of laws degree from Charles IV Uni­ versity Law School, Prague, Czec­ hoslovakia, and a doctorate in soci­ ology and anthropology from Bos­ ton University. Following his arrival from Czec­ hoslovakia, Dr. Moravec worked at as bibliographer for the Harvard University Law School Library, Harvard University. He later taught at Boston University, Bucknell Uni­ versity, and the Newtown College of Sacred Heart prior to joining the Wilkes faculty. He received honors from Boston University w-hen he w-as named a human relations center fellow and was cited by the Outstanding Edu­ cators in America in 1973. Surviving are his widow, the form­ er Alexandra Ouhrabka, and three children. In the memory of DR. Jaroslav G. Moravec, a scholarship fund has been initiated by his family and his friends. Memorial contributions, if desired, may be forwarded to the alumni or development office. Q WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY SUMMER 1977 11 �OTHER INDIGNITIES by Dr. G.K. Wuori “We ping pong them between a life having something of the quality of that of a potato and one filled with mere bits and pieces of lucid rationality.” Bio-ethics, Philosophy Professor G. K. Wuori speaks out on the euthanasia phenomenon. Bio-ethics, Philosophy Professor Picture a somewhat gruesome scene: the man is gaunt, wiz­ ened, and eighty-seven. He has lost both kidneys, most of his bowel, and breathes with the aid of a mechanical respirator. Twice in the past week he has gone into cardiac arrest, twice been brought back. His pain is intractable and such lucid mo­ ments as he has are distorted by the begrouched articulation of his agony. A contemporary How­ dy Doody dangling with his wires and tubes from a miracle puppeteer, the embodiment of the perfect Groan lost in the whirls, clicks, and bleeps of his machines, he is the object of 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY pity, scorn, sympathy ...all the rest. Some of the younger nur­ ses accuse (not openly) the res­ ident physicians of experiment­ ing upon the man, of using him as an elaborate visual aid to ad­ vance their own learning. Others say the doctors are simply do­ ing what they are sworn to do, to “follow that system of regi­ men which.. .1 consider for the benefit of my patients, and to abstain from whatever is de­ whatever is deleterious and mischievous.” ' mischievous.” (Oath of Hippocrates). Other discussions have been going on, however, conversations concerning treatment. There is a new procedure, one which will truly benefit the man in his or­ deal. The treatment is contro­ versial beyond measure, possib­ ly unethical, most certainly ille­ gal (although some rather hazy precedents have been set), and one-hundred percent effective in doing what it is supposed to do: benefit the patient. Some time before, the patient, in writing, consented to this mode of treat­ ment should it become neces­ sary, and on this particular day the doctors, in consultation with each other and the patient s family, reach an agreement: they will do an EBT. At midnight (the time here is for dramatic purposes only) an old physician quietly enters the patient’s room, makes an adjust­ ment on the intravenous appar­ atus, and sits calmly at the side of the patient as the innocuous air bubble now riding through the IV solution releases the pa­ tient from his travail. “What,” you ask, “is this EBT? It sounds like murder to me. It sounds like that doctor killed that old man.” “Murder? Oh no. That was an EBT, short for ‘elective bene­ ficent termination.’ A medical procedure. Murder? Dear me, no. The patient even gave his written consent.” “Suicide, then. He was clear­ ly a suicide.” “No. He didn’t kill himself. He was simply helped in his death. Not suicide, not murder. I told you it was an EBT performed by a doctor, a specialist, what we call a thanatologist.” Such scenarios are easy to con­ struct and we shall return to this one later, but let me say here that such pictures are in many ways sympto­ matic of a rampant fascination with death which seems to have swept over America in recent years. The sub­ ject has almost replaced sex as our national pop/intellectual pastime, and magazines, conventions, semin­ ars, college courses, and even church groups are glutted with explorations of the subject. Indeed, it is as though we have collectively turned our heads in this direction and discover­ ed (for the first time in history, of course): “Golly, people die.” Now I am not terribly concerned as to why this phenomenon has come about, and as an educator and phi­ losopher I certainly have no objec­ tion with regard to any “new” roads found on the difficult journey to self-knowledge. But as a people we have a tendency to geld sensitive is­ sues by spotlighting them into ob­ livion; when the lights go out, thus, when the interest passes, only a car­ cass remains: if the issue has been devoured then surely the problem has been resolved. Nevertheless, full meals often re­ sult in massive indigestion, and I am concerned over what might remain or be awaiting us when our current interest in death joins the Beatles, Swinging, and Mary Tyler Moore on the shelf of toys we have grown bored with. Let’s presuppose a carcass here and prowl the remains for a time. II On Sunday, January 2, 1977, the California legislature put into effect a bill which has been hailed by some as a landmark in the cause of human dignity and self-determination, and by others as a further step down a thorny path which ends in the ulti­ mate debasement of the value of hu­ man life. The bill, A. B. 3060, The Cali­ fornia Natural Death Act, provides for the first time in the United States medical, ethical, and legal guidelines for dealing with termin­ ally ill patients. It is said to be a humane bill filled with good intentions. We have got­ ten ourselves into a trap, one hears, and such measures as A. B. 3060 pro­ vide means for escape. The trap we are in is our own success. We have met the Grim Reaper and he is ours, Woody Allen in drag. One also thinks of Don Knotts. Again and again where an earlier day would have seen the terminally ill make their final struggle and lose - always lose - we now snatch them back: stabilize their fluttering cardia, dia­ lyze their funky kidneys, respirate their wheezing lungs. In our success we ping-pong them between a life having something of the quality of that of a potato and one filled with mere bits and pieces of lucid ration­ ality. Increasingly, we do not let them die and the doctors are worried. Thus, the argument goes, we need to legitimize what has always been a fact in medicine anyway. From the time, long ago, when the first Sham­ an decided that the fifth boiled toad­ skin was enough and if that didn’t cure his patient’s dropsy well... that was that - from that time to the pres­ ent physicians have always known that there came a time when their work was done. Death, the enemy, was victor and in the natural scheme of things deserved his prize. We need to allow, that is, the physician to step back and release his patient, but at the present time, in most states, such a step is possi­ ble only within a moral and legal twilight zone: if a physician fails to order cardio-pulmonary resuscita­ tion, for example, for a patient who has gone into cardiac arrest, has he not denied that patient the means whereby the patient’s life - no matter what his condition - might have been saved? Are there occasions where such withholding is justified? If not, and a physician withholds such treatment, is he or she morally or legally culpable? With regard to the last question, the California Natural Death Act would supposedly clarify the issue. Its most interesting feature provides for the use of a so-called “living will,” a document which requests the withholding of extraordinary life­ saving procedures for patients in a terminal condition. If such a docu­ ment is signed at least two weeks after the diagnosis of a terminal ill­ ness the physician is required to comply with it. If signed before that time (as much as five years before), the physician is not required to fol­ low the document but should con­ sider it in the totality of circum­ stances. In all cases, the physician remains free of civil and criminal liability. As mentioned, supporters of the bill hail its humanity. Within the bill itself justification of withhold­ ing treatment is made in terms of 1) adults having "the fundamental right to control the decisions relating to the rendering of their own medical care;” 2) modern technology having brought us to a point where we can prolong life perhaps to an unreason­ able degree; and 3) the “prolonga­ tion of life for persons with a termin­ al condition (causing) loss of patient dignity . . . while providing nothing medically necessary or beneficial to the patient.” (sec. 7186) We need, I think, to give history its due: we have unearthed here a very old horse. Awhile ago, the concept of eutha­ nasia was considered prime meat for ethics classes, religious discussion groups, and the like. Examples and case studies were always extreme and usually quite grim (deformed babies, the prototypical comatose father of seven, etc.). Discussion was usually heated as principle was pit­ ted against principle and miscon­ ception against misconception and the whole thing was delightfully ir­ relevant because, as everyone knew, we were not about to start deliber­ ately putting people to death. Such arguments continue. No one, it is said, is going to be pul to death under A. B. 3060 or any other piece SUMMER 1977 13 �of legislation. Our medical technol­ ogy has simply gotten us to the point where we can maintain bodies, hu­ man tissue, almost indefinitely. We cannot, however, maintain persons and since persons are inevitably con­ nected to bodies there comes a point where continued maintenance of a body constitutes a gross violation of the sanctity of a person. Persons need to die and we must respect that need. There is, today, no lack of debate within the professional medical and philosophical community over these issues. There is a large, and growing, literature as well as a large, and growing, amount of confusion. In the remainder of this article, then, I would like to focus upon several of the major issues facing an enlighten­ ed citizenry contemplating “easy death” legislation as well as some of the major arguments surrounding these issues. Before doing this, how­ ever, one important distinction must be made. It is these latter two situations which constitute the basis for a dis­ tinction vital to euthanasia support­ ers. There is a difference, it is said, between active and passive eutha­ nasia. In active euthanasia one (us­ ually the physician, but not always) causes the patient to die; in passive euthanasia one allows the patient to die. As will be seen, this is no small distinction. Ill As Ibng ago as the first century before Christ the Roman philosopher Seneca observed that “mere living is not a good, but living well. Ac­ cordingly, the wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can . .'. ” Such a man, he said, “al­ ways reflects concerning the qual­ ity. and not the quantity of his life.” Implicit here is the idea that human life has worth only under certain conditions. Exactly w’hat those con­ ditions might be, however, has had a notorious history in moral philoso­ phy. We could begin with the basics: man has need of food, clothing, and shelter. But it is not long before man has need of good food, good clothing, and good shelter. Graspers that we are, the step from “good” to “excel­ lent” is an easj' one to take, and from ... . this purely qualitative level we take V.a - quantitative step to to” needing a lot " ' r* of excellent food, a lot of excellent “c_enent ,fo?d- a l°t of excellent clothing, and of course as mullj many O11C1shel— - --------------------, ters can afford - one at the lake -!^,as we Wecan \ is always nice. In a medical context death occurs for one of three reasons. 1) The phy­ sician is unable to treat the patient. In this case, the patient may be ei­ ther so traumatized or so critical that the physician simply has not the skills or equipment to save life. It was this point, in more distant times, which was always reached sooner or later and which, today, is being reached increasingly later. 2) The physician is able to treat the patient with lifesaving therapy but chooses, whether alone or in consultation with colleagues - patient - family - friends - clergy to withhold such therapy, thus “allowing” the patient to die. 3) The physician is either able or unable to treat the patient; never­ theless, he intervenes actively to “cause” the patient’s death. 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY But the argument here is that life is conditional, worth living only un­ der certain conditions. Should those conditions fail to be met, we begin to think that a life becomes “less than human” and possibly not worth liv­ ing. In a more genteel language, we speak of a life which meets those con­ ditions as being a dignified life, one proper to the species of rational, self­ determining beings. This kind of argument places dig­ nity within a context of rights, of things we are entitled to have and which no one ought to deny us. Now in a medical context the arg­ ument is often confused. One hears much talk these days about a per­ son’s having a right to a death with “dignity,” almost as though it were just one more weapon in the physi­ cian’s arsenal of wonder drugs. Con­ sider the following passage from a journal as rather typical of this de­ mand: I have seen what others have seen: loved ones connected to an impressive array of machinery which produces bleeps on a heart monitor while they are unable to relate to others. At the same time 1 have seen a person die with less than dignity. At precisely the time when one’s life should be enveloped by the utmost of dignity it is robbed of that basic quality. Memories linger, not of a person, but of a human organism connected to machines. I have seen what others have seen: families liter­ ally paralyzed by a lengthy vigil at the bedside of a loved one, when what they are really main­ taining is a vigil at a display of scientific agility . . . As I have participated in such vigils . . . I have known deep in my heart that while the person involved loved life they also prized hu­ manity and that they would not want to suffer this indignity* This is not a strong argument and yet it is a common one. The biggest problem I see here is the claim to cer­ tain dignified conditions of life as involving an absolute right. On the one hand, the difficulty is that there are just too many occasions in the course of a life where certain indig­ nities are accepted as a matter of course. Activities such as giving birth, digging a ditch, or cleaning a toilet have never been regarded as hallmarks in the rush toward a dig­ nified life (although this certainly need not imply that they are not worthwhile activities). A list of such indignities - necessary ones - would no doubt be quite long. On the other hand, one also finds dignity in strange places: a skid-row bum could have it, a bank president might not. Basically, my concern here is whether we really have a firm enough grip on the nature of dignity to justify our elevating j it to the ranks of such rights as life, liberty, and other pursuits. I suspect it would probably be far more appropriate to speak of dignity as involving matters of taste, al­ though this would have a rather drastic effect upon “death with dig­ nity” arguments. Supporters of such legislation would, then, in essence be arguing that when life becomes dis­ tasteful to some degree we have a right to opt out of it. I don’t care to open this can of worms much further other than to note that to legislate the conditions of living and dying solely on the grounds of taste is to set precedents we may well wish, one day, had not been set. That, however, is not a good argument. IV There is another argument, a more humanistic one, which can perhaps lend support to those urging eutha­ nasia legislation. Again, proponents of such bills gain great mileage out of the concept of human rights. The right to die, it should be mentioned, is one which has even been sanctioned by both the American Medical Association and the Roman Catholic Church. In December of 1973 the House of Dele­ gates of the AMA affirmed that the: cessation of the employment of extraordinary means to pro­ long the life of the body when there is irrefutable evidence that biological death is imminent is the decision of the patient or his immediate family. The advice and judgment of the physician should be freely available to the patient and/or his immediate family. Further, the Roman Catholic Church has had a policy which dates back to the encyclical of Pope Pius XII in 1957 which clearly states that the duties of the physician are rela­ tive to his and the patient’s time, place, and circumstance and that under no conditions is the physician required to use extraordinary means to maintain the life of a patient who is clearly terminal. However, in the same document from which the above passage was drawn, the AMA’s House of Dele­ gates also affirms that the: intentional termination of the life of one human being by an­ other - mercy killing - is con­ trary to that for which the med­ ical profession stands and is contrary to the policy of the American Medical Association. The position, thus, is pro-passive, con-active euthanasia and it is a pos­ ition which seems, to reasonable peo­ ple, quite reasonable. I should like to argue in the remainder of this article that there is a position which is even more reasonable than this, yet it is also one which is infinitely more difficult to adopt. The humanistic argument under­ lying these policies is not difficult to understand, particularly if one moves from the realm of ethical dis­ course and theorizing to the “trenches:” the hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics where health care practitioners confront these kinds of cases every day. In these contexts, one meets people desperately trying to do their jobs, desperately trying to maintain belief and principle in situations designed to test principles to the very limits. Of course these health care people engage in a cer­ tain amount of distancing and struc­ tured non-involvement. One learns to look upon sick human beings as diseased pieces of flesh if only be­ cause the reality of what does hap­ pen to people is too much to bear. klzC. *: f Nevertheless, it is the health care practitioner (even more so than the involved family and friends), not the theorist, who sees, and lives with regardless of the success or lack of success of the defense mechanisms the suffering of the brain tumor pa­ tient or the burn victim every day. It is he or she to whom is charged the duty to accept that pain and to maintain the very organism which lies at the root of that pain. It is thus not difficult to understand a policy which wants to recognize those mo­ ments when nothing more ought to be done and reconcile them with an equally strong imperative which as­ serts that we must always do every­ thing possible to save life. The diffi­ culty is that if we want to hold onto the former policy how do we escape the powerfully recriminative you should have done something, any­ thing? It should also be noted here that in our failure, as a people, to re­ solve this bind we place a truly hor­ rendous burden upon the health care practitioner who is forced to vacil­ late between a guilt he or she is not sure is really theirs and a corruptive process of rationalization. The point here is that to fail to do is to cause death, and from a moral point of view there is, as I shall ar­ gue, no difference between the fail- ure to treat a terminal patient who has gone into cardiac arrest and the benevolent injection of an overdose of morphine into the veins of the same patient. In both cases the mo­ tive is, ostensibly, to do what is best for the patient. Unfortunately, since the latter action is, by current moral and legal standards, exactly what we mean by murder, we are forced to surrender the patient to a “Na­ ture” who is sometimes neat and sometimes incredibly vicious. We are clearly in a bind and there seems to be only two alternatives: 1) we must never give up; 2) we must allow patients to die. Let us examine these two alternatives. If we accept the first we seem to be committing ourselves to a policy wh>ch can only worsen things as our life-support technology increases in sophistication. Visions of mammoth intensive care facilities filled with row after row of mechanically-main­ tained “tissue” give us a bizarre fu­ ture. Families, wracked emotionally, an economy and insurance industry stretched to the breaking point - all seem part of a future where, if we respect mere life as such to the ex­ tent that we will not let people die, the ultimate defeat of death - so long a romanticized and cherished goal in our histories and literatures - can only lead to catastrophic results. We have not, of course, "defeated” death and we most likely never will. Bodies, obstinate things that they are, still seem to find ways to outmaneuver the most advanced tech­ nology and simply die. But the first alternative, if only from a purely practical perspective, seems clearly to be unworkable. It also places a demand upon the physician which is both inordinate and relatively new. Throughout history it has nev­ er been the sole function of the phys­ ician to defeat death, though we have misconstrued his function as such. Rather, the goal of the physician is to restore health to whatever extent his time and his skills allow him to. If that goal cannot be fulfilled then, quite properly, the physician’s job is done. One can do no more. Does this, then, leave us with the second alternative as being the more plausible? Shall we, as a society, in­ stitutionalize a structure wherein the physician can officially acknowledge that a patient is beyond all hope and no longer among that class of beings he is obligated to treat? Shall we, as a Supreme Court, back up the A. B. 3060's as they come from the states and are ultimately tested by our highest judicial body? SUMMER 1977 15 �I Now as I have already suggested I am not, personally, willing to ac­ cept this alternative as framed pre­ cisely the way it was above. If we are to accept euthanasia legislation, then it would seem more reasonable to have a policy which states not that “we must allow patients to die but rather “we must allow patients to die and provide the proper means thereto.” As mentioned, there is, it seems to me, (and this is a controversial posi­ tion), no difference, morally, be­ tween passive and active euthanasia no matter how much, to salve our own consciences, we may wish to be­ lieve there is. Consider the following: if, through legislative actions and shifts and changes in our manner of looking at things from a moral point of view, we are willing to say that there are certain conditions under which a person ought to be allowed to die, and, further, if we bring the decision-making aspects of these sit­ uations out into the open through the use of documents such as living wills, more free and frank consultation tv., then ulc„ amongst those ...vui.eu, involved, Cetc., what we really seem to be doing is giving recognition and legality not to a moment when a person should be allowed to die, but rather to a mo­ ment when a person ought to be dead. Let me cite an example. Consider our hypothetical brain tumor pa­ tient. In its final stages this ailment is usually debilitating, degenerative and excruciatingly painful. It would not be difficult to imagine a patient in this circumstance who had at one time, perhaps shortly after the diagnosis, expressed a willingness to have limits placed upon the extent of treatment he would be willing to tol- We might assume further that there is, in our hypothetical case, no doubt about either the diagnosis or the prognosis: the patient will die soon and has already entered those stages of the disease which normally raise the issue of “enough is enough,” The question to be raised here is in reality this: if we have already made the decision that this patient should be allowed to die, and we have made it with all due regard for pro­ prieties, legalities, and relevant con­ sents, what justification do we have for allowing the patient to live? The often overlooked point in these cir­ cumstances is that to allow to die is also to allow to live - at least for as long as it takes for an often indiffer­ ent “Nature” to do the job. Again, 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY * As mentioned, the literati in this area continues to grow. I-ure ; debted to: James Rachels, am inwho “Active And Passive Euthanasia ’ Se The New England Journal Of sia” in 'edicine (January, 1975) solidified many of my own thoughts on this issue; Sh’ma, A Journal Of Jewish Responsibility (April 1977), frorn which the long quote on death with dignity was taken; and The Dilem­ mas Of Euthanasia, edited by John Behnke and Sissela Bok. I would be remiss in failing to mention two other sources of my own arguments and perturbations: Dr. Donald Henson of the Wilkes College Department of Philosophy whose spirited dis­ agreement with nearly everything I have to say provides a constant in­ spiration; and the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Medical Ethics Group whose physicians and health care workers constitute a most enlighten­ ing sounding board for many of these ideas. Q to cite only one of the criteria we might assess, if we say that the pa­ tient's pain is so absolutely abomin­ able that we must intervene no fur­ ther to prolong that life, then exactly what is it that prevents us from acting with full human mercy and efficiency in order to stop the pain now? We seek consistency in our think­ ing and in our actions. That we can live without it has, of course, been an historical fact for a long, long time. I have been concerned to try to sketch as clear a picture as possi­ ble of what the real alternatives in this most sensitive of issues are. At present, I see no clear answers; in fact, in the case of this particular di­ lemma it would perhaps be easier if my thoughts were new, if I had just spotted some crucial moral quandary which we could expect the next gen­ eration of thinkers to slowly work out. Unfortunately, it is not new, but where for earlier generations of med­ ical people and theoriticians there really was no crushing imperative to resolve the dilemma, such is not the case today. A. B. 3060 represents but a first step in an uncertain direction, Articles such as this, it is hoped will provide the ...kind —a of public forum whereby we can determine with some greater degree of accuracy what the next step ought to be. We left our old physician sitting as his patient died and the first bar­ rage of accusations was launched. What he did, it should be clear by now, would not be permissible under A. B. 3060, and today’s thanatologists are not practitioners of this par­ ticular kind of art. Still, by current standards at least there is no doubt that he murdered his patient. That is a harsh charge and cries of “Foul!” and "Not so!” could easily be ex­ pected from the audience. My scenario was fiction and it would be nice if we could say that, as fiction, it bears no relation to real­ ity. Such is not the case, however, for such scenarios are played out all the time. In saying this, it is not my purpose to accuse, but only to urge the kind of understanding which will allow us to make those kinds of de­ cisions which we must, necessarily, make, and yet which we can never make and still keep our hands clean. I am not a proponent of human suf­ fering and I have no lack of sym­ pathy and concern for all those who are connected in one way or another with a dying human being. But I think the California Natural Death Act is both ill-conceived * ond most certainly will be, if yoi )U will pardon the pun, ill-executed. is . Dr. Gerald K. Wuori was born and raised in a small farming community near Chi­ cago. In 1973 he received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. Dr. Wuori has held teaching positions at Purdue University and Indiana University and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Wilkes. Dr. Wuori has done extensive research in the area of axiology: ethics, medical ethics, aesthetics, decision theory, and value theory. Working with Dr. Lester Turoczi of the Wilkes College Biology Department, Dr. Wuori has been developing a program in medical ethics for the Wilkes CollegeHahnemann Medical College program in Family Medicine. His interests in the ethical practice of medicine revolve around such problems as abortion, the use of extraordinary lifesav­ ing therapies, the allocation of scarce med­ ical resources, human medical experimen­ tation, and ethical guidelines in inedica education. In 1976 he published a text­ book, A Study Guide In Ethics. Dr. Wuori has also published poetry and short fiction in national journals and magazines. He resides in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children. jflome©©^aaig ’77 The Golden Horde Returns ! The late 1960’s spawned one of the most awesome small college football powers in America — they called them Wilkes College’s Golden Horde. Some say they were a legend — others say they were immortal. Those who lived through it say that on any given fall afternoon they can still hear the echoing distant crescendo of the thundering Golden Horde chanting “we’re no. 1, we’re no. 1.” JOIN US ON OCTOBER 14th, 15th, 16th HOMECOMING ’77 - A TRIBUTE TO THE GOLDEN HORDE DON’T MISS IT We’re tired of Art pulling our leg? That’s right! The Quarterly edi­ torial staff has had it with Art Hoover. Since Art has returned from his Safari to South America where he discovered the famous CARNAC — from the Johnny Carson Show, he claims he can answer any question. Isn’t that annoying? Art Hoover says he can answer any question about anything about which our alumni want to know. In fact, he's turned into one of those guys who thinks he has all the answers. It’s ridic­ ulous! Last week George Pawlush asked Art to rattle off the secret recipe for his wife’s lasagna dish and Art did it with ease — right down to Carol’s specifications! We can’t stand it anymore! Help us stump Art. If you have a question that you think Art can't answer, send it to us for our next Quarterly. If you can stump Art — he’ll send you a gift. If you can't stump Art, we’ll send you a gift. Please help us bring Art down to earth. Write: Stump Art c/o Alumni Office Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703 George Pawlush’s typewriter is broken and we’re stuck. Poor George! He’s been bang­ ing away on the Quarterly type­ writer so much lately that it fin­ ally gave out. Without George's typewriter we can't write any ar­ ticles. How about helping us out. If you have a typewriter and an idea, how about submitting an ar­ ticle for publication so George doesn't have to do so much typ­ ing. 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Write: The Quarterly c/o Alumni Office Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703 WE WILKES connection FOR 24-HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. 717-826-1135 SUMMER 1977 17 �,. . finalist for the first time this year. Me ddition to her performances in In Barcelona, the young soprano will be- B They Waited, They Cheered, ; 5. They Will Remember by Wilma Hurst, '79 24-Year old Christine Donahue '74, a music major at Wilkes, stepped on to the stage at the Metropolitan Opera House and before a cheering capacity audience and the lingering echoes of her completed performance, walked off with second place in the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions, 54,000, and a contract for three opera performances in Barcelona, Spain. Ronald Hedlund as Falstajf and Christine Donahue as Mistress Ford in Verdi's "Fatstair presented by the JuiiiitJd^e^^a^en Many people enjoy successful ca­ reers in a variety of different fields, but few find success in the entertain­ ment world. Hopeful entertainers must travel a long and difficult path just to arrive at the door leading to the world of lights, costumes, stages and fame. More often than not, the door never opens. But at times it does give way, as it did for Christine Donahue, a Kings­ ton, Pa. native and 1974 Wilkes grad­ uate. She entered perhaps one of the most demanding but prestigious areas of entertainment — the opera. The 24-year-old soprano competed in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Audition Finals in March, and left the stage with second place, $4,000, and a contract for three opera performances in Barcelona, Spain. 18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Christine was one of hundreds of young singers who sang at regional auditions held in the United States, Canada, Australia and Puerto Rico. A total of 23 semifinalists were se­ lected from these try-outs, and 11 of those performers entered the final audition at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Appearing be­ fore 13 judges and a sell-out opera house audience, Christine was award­ ed second place honors. Tenor Vin­ cent Cole of New York captured first place, while Eliz Parcells, a Michigan native, won third place. Christine's contract to sing three performances of Meyerbeer's "L'Africane" with the Teatro Liceo in Spain this November was made possible by world-renowned tenor Placido Do­ mingo. The contract was offered to a fulfilling a two-year contract with Houston Opera House this Sep­ years later, she became Chapline's student. Works by Mozart and Han­ del, along with early Italian arias had helped establish the discipline neces­ sary for a singing career. tember. Although this certainly is not the pnd of the success story, there has to be a beginning. Christine's mother, Mrs Isabel Donahue, recalled her daughter's first actual singing per­ formance—as a five-year-old kin­ dergarten student. "It was a mock wedding at the Maple St. School in Kingston," she reminisced, "and Christine was the soloist. She always enjoyed singing with the other stu­ dents in school, but that was her first 'public' performance." People who knew Christine when she was growing up in Kingston re­ membered that singing was always part of her life, and in the singer's own words, she wanted to be a pro­ fessional performer "as far back as I can remember." Her mother confided that as a young girl Christine vowed she would someday sing on the Dinah Shore Show. Richard Chapline, Christine's voice teacher at Wilkes, was in the audi­ ence at the Met auditions. His pride in her accomplishments is exceeded only by the accomplishments them­ selves. Chapline, an 18-year veteran on the music faculty, recalled Chris­ tine's undergraduate days shortly af­ ter he witnessed her Met perform­ ance. He stated that Christine entered Wilkes in 1970, and noted that her audition was "excellent and prom­ ising." While a student at Bishop O'Reilly High School, she had been a vocal student of Mrs. Josephine Fria, and was "well-prepared for her col­ lege entrance." Chapline recalled that he was treated to a sample of Christine's tal­ ent at the first chorus concert audi­ tions that year. "For the first concert I had planned a performance of Han­ del's 'Semele,' he said, "which has 3 large solo soprano part. When au­ ditions were held, a group of so­ pranos tried out for the role, but when Chrissie sang she had chosen the hardest aria in the work, a colortlJra piece of awesome difficulty, which she sang with flawless technique at a breakneck speed that took everyone's breath away! It was then became aware, some few weeks in­ fo her first semester, that we had a s°Prano of formidable ability in our midst." Christine was assigned to Richard robert, who along with Chapline, ins ructed the freshmen singers. Two Chapline recalls: "Her facility in the pronunciation of languages has always been outstanding, and she learned to sing beautifully in Italian, French, German and English. By the time she became my student, the greatest pleasure for me was recom­ mending repertory to her that I felt would be helpful to her as well as right for her voice and temperament. Much of that repertory has become a permanent part of her performing 'stock-in-trade.' Her ability to learn new music quickly is indeed fantas­ tic, and her sense of style and correct feeling for each piece she sings is something rarely encountered." Christine performed constantly while working toward her undergrad­ uate degree at Wilkes. In addition to appearing in Wilkes productions and concerts, she and Andrea Bogusko performed together in the area. Chris also continued her chores as organ­ ist for St. Ignatius Church in Kings­ ton, and graduated from the kinder­ garten mock wedding, being a fre­ Chapline said that her undergrad­ uate and senior voice recitals were noted not only for the beauty of Christine's singing, but also for the size of the audience she attracted. Upon graduation, she received the Belin Arts Fellowship, and immedi­ ately entered the Juliiard School of Music. At that institution she was first in the chorus of the American Opera Center, was given the lead role last year in a studio performance of-"II Matrimonio Segreto," and had small roles in regular performances. This past fall she filled in for a soprano in a performance of Verdi's "Requiem" with only a day's notice. Despite the last-minute request, she sang the part to great acclaim. This April she sang the part of Alice in Verdi's "Falstaff." Her accomplishments in the Met­ ropolitan auditions gave her the na­ tional recognition she needed and deserved. The sell-out audience and distinguished jury heard her sing two arias — "Leise, leise, fromme Weise" from Weber's "Der Freischutz," and "Depuis le jour" from Charpentier's "Louise." The contract with the Tea­ tro Liceo in Barcelona will allow her to debut as "Inez" in Verdi's "II Trovatore." An article in a Scranton newspaper quoted Christine as saying that her goal is to perform opera all over the world, and more specifically, to do "Norma" by the time she is 45. Nineteen years after that first pub­ lic performance at the Maple Street School kindergarten wedding, Chris­ tine Donahue has achieved a life­ long ambition about which most of us dream, but few of us accomplish. At 24 years she has greeted the chal­ lenges of the Metropolitan Opera with fortitude and brilliance. One can only speculate about the future, but somehow or other we be­ lieve that the little child-like voice which 19 years ago resounded throughout the halls of the Maple St. School, will be a voice to be heard around the world. Christine Donahue has indeed given herself and Wilkes College one of our finest hours, q quent soloist at weddings. SUMMER 1977 19 �Human and legal rights above rigu hevond biological inheritance. an hts written by and for men in a Rnfiety rnen. 5 nuring his four years at Wilkes, r-hnck came into contact with the HL Hugo Mailey, who taught a poit cal science course, "Constitutional 11 ,, The course was exhilarating LaT«Pt into motion the concern At- mrnev Petrillo had for legal rights. When Professor Mailey died, Attornv Petrillo was called in to teach the remainder of the course that semes­ ter. Later he taught this course at liBCRty and justice The dramas played out on televi­ sion programs depicting forlorn, troubled people who seem to carry the world's problems on their should­ ers, are not confined to the vivid im­ By Ray Bolger aginations of television writers. The problems and the people are real, and as such, need real solutions. Of­ ten, desperately-needed legal aid is Storefront Lawyer Chuck Petrillo beyond the reach of lower income '66 believes there are no poor in families, young adults, teenagers, and the eyes of the law. Today the others on a fixed income. legal aids society he heads For years these people were de­ represents the only legal recourse prived of the right to obtain quality for over 50,000 Northeast legal services. Although Legal Aid Pennsylvania residents. Societies have been in existence for years, it was not until recently that a real interest in legal services for well over 40,000 lower income peo­ ple in Northeastern Pennsylvania de­ veloped. That interest stimulated the expansion of the primary source of such aid — Legal Services of North­ eastern Pennsylvania. The office at 45 West Market Street, Wilkes-Barre, represents a helping hand to thou­ sands seeking legal advice. Once inside the door, these peo­ ple will be ushered to quiet cubicles, where a staff member of Legal Serv­ ices or, most likely, one of three former Wilkes College students who have interned at Legal Services, will sort out the facts of the story. These facts will be put in order, and with the consent of one of the 12 lawyers on the staff, legal advice will be given. Advice that covers the rights, long forgotten or never attained, of peo­ ple on Social Security, Welfare, those in need of Black Lung benefits, juve­ niles in need of protection, the men­ tally retarded, poor people needing advice concerning divorce or bank­ ruptcy proceedings. At Legal Services, their impover20 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Wilkes for a year. At Wilkes, Chuck ran for senior class president. He was elected be­ cause, as he puts it, "no one ran against him; no one wanted the job." Chuck did well enough at Wilkes to be accepted at Dickinson School of ished, frustrated lives, filled with mar­ ital, economic, emotional and legal strife, will touch the life of Attorney Charles Petrillo, a 1966 Wilkes grad­ uate, the director of the Legal Serv­ ices Office. In some way they will be­ come involved with him and he with 11- — them. Somewhere in the very beginning of his legal career, F. Charles Petrillo made a decision to leave the secure and economically rewarding clubbiness of private legal practice to plunge headlong into the world of prisoner rights and social security hearings, into a world where the tragedy of juvenile children is taken from their parents and placed in the institutional heart of American soci­ ety - a cold, motherless jail cell. Attorney Petrillo is a big, friendly man, "forty pounds heavier than when he was captain of the Wilkes College Swim Team." When you sit and talk with him, his honesty makes you squirm in your seat. He openly tells you that he would rather have this article focus on Legal Services and its staff of Wilkes College para­ legals than on himself. "No personal profile stuff; I don't need it." But, F. Charles Petrillo is an inter­ esting man. Charles, or "Chuck" as he is known to his friends, always knew he wanted to be a lawyer. What kind? He wasn't sure, as long as he was good. He grew up with childhood heroes, but not Clarence Darrow or Perry Mason. Although he didn't elaborate, one would think that Thomas Jefferson or perhaps Ramsey Clark would fit his mold. Chuck grew up with something ticking inside him, besides his heart - a concern for Law. There were moments of insecurity at Dickinson. Short, fleeting mo­ ments, when Chuck was not sure of his educational background. After a few days of sizing up his fellow stu­ dents, some from the Ivy League schools, his insecurity departed. In­ tellectually, Wilkes had served him well. "My education was second to none," he said. In his second year at Dickinson, Chuck, seeking practical experience, volunteered to work in the Commun­ ity Legal Services of Dauphin County. He served the Hill District in Har­ risburg, a district that gained some notoriety in the State's Civil Rights Program, because the need for re­ form was critical. He gained his first­ hand experience with poverty law while working in the district. He in­ terviewed clients, researched the ap­ propriate laws, counseled clients and, under strict legal supervision, devel­ oped a few cases. During his third year at Dickinson, Chuck became editor-in-chief of the Dickinson Law Review, earning a Prestigious honor that goes to the outstanding of the outstanding" law students. Poverty Law was temp­ orarily shelved. His last year in law school was a grueling mixture of Writing articles, monitoring other students' research, editing the Re­ view, and thinking about his future. After graduation, he remained at Dickinson. During 1972 and 1973, Attorney • elriPo was an assistant professor of .a." a* the school. He was responsie for the legal clinic program and u8of courses in Family Law and Rights Law. As an additional lallenge, he supervised the second n third year law students in the Cumberland County *L'Lega' Services Program. At the time, • “he :-a was 28 years old. Attorney Petrillo rretnllo returned to Wilkes-Barre, his hometown. He nis hometown. joined a private practice where he practiced corporate and labor and real estate law in comfortable, cush­ iony and lucrative surroundings. With his background and qualifi­ cations, he was on his way up the ladder of success. However, one day in the quiet of the law library, he overheard a con­ versation between a Bar Association official and a member of the Legal Aid Society. The conversation con­ cerned the quality and objectives of the legal aid program and what the federal government expected of the program. "The legal aid representative was upset because the federal govern­ ment, insisting on a more activist ap­ proach to law by the society, a wid­ er variety of cases, and, more repre­ sentation from the poor on the legal aid board, wanted the Legal Aid So­ ciety to become actively involved in law reform," commented Attorney Petrillo. 1V--A.... LX. ir—|' -- try-ng to protect the bar rather than rn! r('ghtS ,°f the P°0R FrOm this mOn on, I took an active interest in the controversy. I became so inter­ ested that I wanted to take a leave of absence from the firm to assist in the Creation of a new program, a new active program for our area. Eventu­ ally the government withdrew its funding of the Legal Aid Program and Legal Services was born. With this action, I was out on a limb. A leave of absence from my firm wasn't poss­ ible, so I simply left and became a staff member of Legal Services." Chuck's involvement with Legal Service does not revolve around mon­ ey. He could be making "three times as much" in private practice. The key is rights. Human rights guaranteed to all citizens in the United States Con­ stitution. Legal Aid, known in other parts of the country as Poverty Law or Store Front Law, has been in existence in Pennsylvania since 1947. However, Legal Aid Societies did not really pro­ mote or protect the rights of poor people. As a matter of fact, the legal profession did not accept the idea of an impoverished client. All clients serviced at that time were part of the successful American mainstream. The federal government did not start funding Legal Aid Societies until the late 1960s and after the great South­ ern Legal Rights Movements. It was not until the 1970s, the time Chuck overheard the conversation in the law library, that the federal govern­ ment started pushing for active legal roles in the Society. "The purpose of Legal Aid was and is to support the rights of the poor and not defend the privileges of law­ yers," said Chuck. And he is a worthy proponent of those rights, in addi­ tion to the civil rights of prisoners, the elderly, the mentally retarded and juveniles. This is the reason for his involvement with Legal Services. But this is not all. There is some­ thing about Chuck that you feel flows deeply within him. Something close to the respect for Civil Rights. He is a man of action. This action along with his respect for human rights is what motivates the man. In the past, the local Bar Associa­ tions were opposed to the Legal Aid Societies. "Bar members believed that there were no poor people. There was no need for taxpayers' sup­ port in their eyes. Between the bank, the country club and the private of­ fices," says Charles Petrillo, "there aren't any poor." SUMMER 1977 21 �Another roadblock created by the Bar Association in the past was a tra­ ditional one-money. In the past, many lawyers would donate only -0 percent of their time to clients who could not pay. They assumed this ob­ ligation as a part of their ethical re­ sponsibilities. "And, it was a nice ges­ ture. The only problem was that poor clients often needed more than 20 percent of their lawyer's time," said Chuck. "Now, this has all changed. We have excellent support from the Bar Association, and we receive refer­ rals from private lawyers.” In the beginning, Legal Services operated with a 575,000 budget and a staff of three. Now, Services has a staff of 12 lawyers, several paralegals and a support staff. "This is not enough," says Attorney Petrillo. "We are barely meeting the need for legal services in the area. About the only major opposition °PPOSitiL. to Legal Services has come fror ’ businesses, primarily financial 'm institi --tutions. One service that Legal Services of fers to its poor clients is financial ad­ vice. "Legal Services of Northeastern Pennsylvania operates on the 'cutting edge of the law"' "There are 40,000 poor in Luzerne County and in March of 1977, we added the poor, the elderly, and the mentally retarded of Carbon and Monroe Counties to our growing list of clientele." Legal Services of Northeastern Pennsylvania operates on the "cut­ ting edge of the law," says Attorney Petrillo. He seems to like it this way. " 'The cutting edge' means that we do not simply follow precedent," he remarked. "At Legal Services, we are in many ways creating law and ex­ tending new rights to client com­ munities. "The elderly, the handicapped, the prisoner, the juvenile, and the men­ tally retarded have long been ignored in our society. Now through legal services they have a voice. "Right now, we are trying to ex­ tend our office beyond the poor. We have a special project for the elderly, just founded in Pennsylvania. We are in the process of developing legal programs for children and juveniles. We have a statewide legal assistance program for prisoners. "Fifteen years ago, most of these client groups did not have rights in our society or in our courts. Now, thanks to public service organiza­ tions and legal senice lawyers, new rights for these groups have been de­ veloped." The practice of law in America is rapidly taking on new dimensions. The Consumer Movement has affect­ ed the legal profession. And, change is coming so rapidly that Attorney Petrillo predicted "by the time this article is written, the Supreme Court will have made a decision on Lawyer Advertisements." 22 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Attorney Petrillo foresees major changes in the legal climate: "Hun­ dreds of thousands of Americans will be or now are taken care of by pre­ paid legal plans, similar to Blue Cross and Blue Shield. "Legal clinics are being created to serve lower and middle class persons. The clinics are very controversial. They specialize in a few areas of law, such as consumer cases, bankruptcy, and divorce proceedings. By the use of forms and paralegals, these clin­ ics mass-produce legal records and results at a low cost and a large vol­ ume. Unfortunately, there are none in this area." Another new dimension in Ameri­ can Law is a silent crisis regarding legal malpractice. "Lawyers are being sued at a growing rate. And their malpractice insurance is becoming ver)' expensive. This crisis was pre­ cipitated by the Consumer Move­ ment." Attorney Petrillo quickly points out in defense of lawyers that "they have been far more responsible for moni­ toring the activities of other lawyers than doctors have been in monitor­ ing each other." When Legal Services was organ­ ized, Bar Associations and Bar mem­ bers were not very happy with the concept. They thought that Legal Services was intruding on their exclu­ sive domain. Now, they are extreme­ ly cooperative and work closely with Legal Services on referrals of poor clients. "Most of our clients come to us with the belief that law is magic" noted Attorney Petrillo. "They expect solutions, legal solutions, to all of their personal and social problems We point out that the law cannot make a good marriage. It cannot make a marriage work. And, in the case of people with financial prob­ lems, we cannot wave a wand and expect their problems to be solved. "In the case of financial problems, we can adjust payments with credi­ tors, we can represent a client in bankruptcy proceedings, but, we can­ not make them affluent," he said. "We are heavily criticized by fi­ nancial institutions for offering bank­ ruptcy proceedings. We offer bank­ ruptcy as one of the alternatives to resolving debtor problems, usually the last alternative. "Financial institutions claim that we insist to our clients that they file for bankruptcy. A lawyer should nev­ er insist on a certain course of action. This is the client's choice. "Usually the clients have already decided. Although we explore their financial histories to see if we can al­ ter their situations, sometimes we can't. Usually the client is on fixed income. They have exhausted other alternatives. "The real problem is with the fi­ nancial institutions. In many cases, they should not have given or have extended credit to the debtor." Charles Petrillo likes being on the "cutting edge of the law," so much so, that he plans on being there for awhile. A long while. He said that it is difficult to recruit lawyers who may have a career inter­ est in public service work. "Many lawyers see it as a training ground be­ fore entering private practice." Many of them see the profession as a big red apple. They believe it can lead to financial and social success. This may be one of the myths of law. "I know many lawyers who are not happy. Many of them love the law, but they are not happy protecting the law. "As for me, me, II have have no no regrets. regrets. II can't imagine doing anything else.' o -feu I* - Three hurlers responsible for 16 of the Wilkes College baseball victories are pictured at Artillery Park. From left, Andy Kresky (4-1), Jim Stehle (6-1), and Manny Evans 16-11. Stehle and Evans are both June graduates while Kresky will be back for his senior year. MAC SUPREMACY: THE ECSTASY NCAA III REGIONALS: THE AGONY The Wilkes College baseball team lost out on its hopes for a repeat spot in the NCAA Division III World Series but turned many heads with a 20-4 dual record and the team’s first outright Middle Atlantic Con­ ference crown in history. The Blue and Gold of Gene Domzalski, hoping to better last year's fourth place NCAA III showing, had everything going their way before suffering heartbreak in Wooster, Ohio, on May 26 and 27. . After winning their last six reguist season games plus MAC tourna­ ment victories over Scranton and Gettysburg, the Blue and Gold en­ tered the NCAA III Mideast Region­ al Tournament as the "team to beat" but so quickly saw their bubble burst. First rirst it it was previously undefeated Jim Stehle, succumbing to pitching wildness, and losing the Mideast opener to eventual Champion Mari­ etta. 4-1, and then on the next day the Colonels were stunned by run­ nerup Widener, 10-9, after holding a 9‘2 eighth inning lead. Fortunes should remain bright in 1978 as the Wilkes diamond club re­ turns all but three players. Tough to replace will be the trio which in­ cludes hurlers Stehle, ace reliever Manny Evans, and power-laden first baseman Don McDermott. Stehle, a fourth round draft pick of the Chicago Whitesox, finished the year with a 6-1 record, 1.40 era., and a strikeout showing which in­ cluded 62 whiffs in 45 innings. Evans, also 6-1, and almost as good in the era. department with 1.87 cre­ dentials, came out of the bullpen 12 times. McDermott, who was also voted as the college's "Athlete of the Year," batted .357, belted eight homeruns and led the club with 33 runs batted in. For the second straight year the Colonels finished among the top ten in the NCAA’s college division and further increased their prestige as a national baseball power. Coach Domzalski was pleased with the overall hitting of his team which yielded a .342 batting average and was equally happy about his pitcher's 2.67 era. "I am proud of our players and the way they conducted themselves on the field,” the mentor added. The Colonels were blessed with three .400 swatters in junior short­ stop Bill Hockenbury, .417; junior outfielder Mike Supczenski, .404; and sophomore third baseman Dave Hungarter, .400. At season’s end Supczenski, Steh­ le, and junior second baseman Terry Schoen were named to the Middle Atlantic Conference's Northern AllStar team. Schoen was a major sur­ prise, batting .369 while pacing the team in runs, 34; and being second in hits, 34. Stehle, who was named as the Northern Division's Most Valuable Player, is still a good candidate to become Wilkes College's first major league player. Hidden behind the heroics of Stehle was junior Andy Kresky, who for the second year was the "pitch­ ing workhorse” with 53 innings of work. Kresky notched a seven-inn­ ing no-hitter against Elizabethtown. The lefty was 4-1, with a 2.58 era. and struckout 64 batters to top Steh­ le in that department. Refusing to sit idly by, Coach Dom­ zalski has worked hard and should greet his best incoming crop of fresh­ men ever next spring. With a little luck and continued balance the Colonel baseball players should, indeed, be a team to be reck­ oned with for many years to come. WILKES COLLEGE SPORT SHORTS The lacrosse team went through the pangs of a rebuilding year and early season injuries probably cost them a .500 record. The Blue and Gold stickmen ended with a 4-6 log but unveiled a potent freshman two­ some in Bill Adams (29 goals and seven assists) and Tim Smith (nine goals and 22 assists). Sophomore de­ fenseman Bernie Donachie was named to the MAC'S first unit. Despite losing their top two per­ formers, the golfers of Rollie Schmidt ended the campaign with a 9-3 dual log and placed runnerup in SUMMER 1977 23 �the 22-team MAC Tournament. The Colonels have one junior in team captain Ken Donlavage and nary a senior. Ken placed third in the MAC tournament. Coach Tom Rokita took an almost green team to a 4-6 tennis log while the softball coeds of Gay Meyers made their collegiate debut with a 3-3 record. The women's volleyball unit was also improved from its maiden showing with a 3-5 effort. Interest is being focused on the Colonel's upcoming football season, the 32nd in school history. Head coach Rollie Schmidt, who takes a 75-44-1 record into his 15th year at the Blue and Gold helm, has 37 let­ termen back from last year's 3-5 club. Complete 1977 football sched­ ule includes: Sept. 17, Indiana (Pa.), home; Sept. 24, Lycoming, away; Oct. 1, Bloomsburg St., away; Oct. 8, Upsala, home; Oct. 15, Moravian, home; Oct. 22, Albright, away; Oct. 29, Susquehanna, away; Nov. 5, Juniata, away; Nov. 12, Delaware Valley, home. Wrestling mentor and athletic di­ rector John Reese appears intent on improving last year's fourth place finish in the prestigious Eastern In­ tercollegiate Wrestling Association Tournament. Reese has to replace four starters and contend with a power packed schedule which in­ cludes not only perennial rivals Le­ high (Dec. 6, away); Navy (Dec. 10, away); Syracuse (Jan. 14, home); and Hofstra (Feb. 4, away); but newcom­ ers Oregon St. (Dec. 8, home); Okla­ homa (Jan. 7, home); and Penn State (Feb. 22, home). George Pawlush has retired after six seasons as head coach of the cross country team. Pawlush, who will be spending more time as the college’s news bureau director, will be suc­ ceeded by Kevin Davenport, who compiled an outstanding record at Wilkes-Barre Bishop Hoban High School. Marianne , Montagues ewjiw The received ..... — Senior Patty Steele, left, is shown with women’s athletic director Doris Saracino after receiving the first Correen Santoro Memorial Award at the annual awards banquet. Miss Santoro, a member of the field hockey team, died in January after a two-year bout with cancer. The award will, be presented annually to the woman athlete who shows dedication to the Colonel coed program. o thegaflUoipw ■ it. Fifty-five Years of Niccolo Cortiglia " “If you want to make a living in portraiture, you must paint a like­i ness.” said Niccolo Cortiglia, one of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s distin­ guished artist's during the opening of his exhibition April 23. The 55 years of painting, on ex­ hibit through May 15 at the Sordoni Art Gallery, dates back to the 1920's and continue to the present. Well known especially for his portraits, Cortiglia believes portrait painting is gradually becoming a lost art. “To­ day’s artists paint,” he said, "but 24 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY they don’t draw.” (The reference concerns his awareness to the dimin­ ishing skill of draftsmanship.) Two large impressive portraits were "Senator A. J. Sordoni,” (1941. Oil on canvas. 55" x 44” The Sor­ doni Family Collection. Courtesy of the Commonwealth Telephone Company, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), and “Reverend Lane D. Kilburn,” former president of King's College (1966. Oil on canvas. 47" x 37” Cour­ tesy of King's College, WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania). Certainly largely a show' of his portraits, several of the other follow'ing paintings W'ere included: the quiet scene of his moored "Venetian Boats," (Oil on canvas. 21” x 17” Collection of the artist) originally shown in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Rome, and his “Market Venice," both done in the classical styles (1922. Oil on canvas. 29" 18” Collection of Dr. and Mrs. CharX­ les B. Reif, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl­ vania). With his sculpture-looking •■:zz >g women in “Venetian Scene," (1922. Oil -• —-I on °"iCl'..The inforrT,atlon contained in Alumni Notos was canvas. 31" x 28" Courtesy of King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) Cortiglia surprised us with yet an­ other style, pointillism, and changed styles again to show' an oriental in­ fluence in both "Chinese Screen,” (Casein. 27" x 31” Collection of the artist) and "Homage to Mozart,” (1956. Casein. 27” x 31” Collection of the artist). His strong-colored overlapping abstract shapes painted flat like a stained-glass w'indow in "Expo ’70," (1907. Casein. 33" X 43" Courtesy of King’s College, WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania) was the only modern painting in the show. The extensive exhibition also included his landscape "Al Fresco,” (Casein. 30" x 26” Collection of the artist) a patio scene on the farm in Beaumont he and his wife Anna used to own, and his vibrant still-life "Gladiolus,’ (1967. Casein. 25” x 29" Collection of the artist). The great popularity of this exhi­ bition was the sense it gave of of the the grand span of his artistic career; it was one of the largest collection ol his works ever to be assembled. Q ,‘lh chow where we reveal the latest scoops in the lives of our alumni. To­ day we are shooting on location at that wonderful Wilkes summer hot­ spot Ralston Field, named after that Wilkes College great - George Field I mean, George Ralston. Here comes our host now fresh from grad­ uation practice wearing his famous white bucks. Dean Ralston: Thank y’all. Our reg­ ulars are back with us today includ­ ing the star of such sports as golf and elbow-bending, John Chwalek; the Alumni answer to sunshine, Art Hoover; and our reliable “Charlie Brown" Reif. We even have a few surprise visitors for y’all. So just set back and enjoy yourselves. First I’d like to do my part by telling you about the Wilkes grads who go on to receive higher degrees. BUCKLEY R. MILLER '65 recently received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Temple University. Buck is Clinical Coordinator of Spec­ ial Services, Adult Probation Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, Pa. His wife, the former TINA KOOPMANS '66 received her M.Ed. in Elementary Education from Temple in 1975. Tina is a reading specialist with the Montgomery County Inter­ mediate Unit. The couple has two children, Roxanne and Michelle. PATRICIA M. BRANNIGAN '72 re­ cently received an advanced degree from University of Scranton. JGHN SHELDON '68 received an M.E.E. from the University of Dela­ ware. John resides with his wife, Mary and daughter, Vicki, in Bel Air, Maryland. BART HAUSER ’70 recently comP eted his master’s degree in Admin­ istration from Monmouth College. His wife, the former CATHERINE ESON '72 completed her master’s r>E?J'ee *n Reading from Monmouth. are presently teaching and relng in Long Branch, N.J. M^?° E- LIZZI '50 received his • m Computer Science from Far- leigh Dickinson University in February. GEORCE S. BRODY ’76 is currently attending Northern Illinois UniverZ ity for his M.B.A. NANCY BATCHELER JURIS ’56 has received her teacher's certification from Elizabethtown College in Accounting/Data Processing and is a substitute teacher for Central Dau­ phin Schools. Nancy resides with her husband, CARL '59 and their family in Harrisburg, Pa. PA FRICK J. MORAN '75 received his M.S. degree in Materials Science from the University of Virginia in January, 1977. Pat is currently en­ rolled in the Ph.D. program at Vir­ ginia and will be teaching Materials Engineering courses this Fall at Wilkes, while Dr. John Orehotsky is on sabbatical. Now, fresh from the 19th hole is my good buddy, John Chwalek, Wilkes Placement Director who will tell you about the new jobs and pro­ motions of some of our Wilkes grads. What’s new, John? Mr. Chwalek: I have a lot to report, George. But first I hope that you’re ready to forgive me for taking away all those girls from you in college. Dean Ralston: You keep bringing up about all these girls that I never even heard of. I really don t remem­ ber any of them. Mr. Chwalek: Of course, you don’t, George. Whenever a girl asked me what my name was I told them ‘ Geo­ rge Ralston" so if any breach of promise suits came up I WCLS So everyone 'thinks you went clear. C~ ,r ■ • but ' tin real life out with a lot of- girls I was the Casanova. Dean Ralston: Just stick to your part, John, or I’ll tell everyone you wear a Charlie’s Angels undershirt. Mr Chwalek: O.K., O.K. DONALD F. TAYLOR '53 isU com­ puter programming consultant at the Towne, Maryland. Wilkes-Barre. Pa. 18703. DAVID LOMBARDI '70 is assistant to the president of Miners Savings Bank of Pittston. Dave is married to the former PATRICIA MAZZEO '71. The couple resides in Pittston, Pa. GEORGE M. BIGUS '74 has been notified by the Commissioner of Pro­ fessional and Occupational Affairs, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that he has completed all require­ ments for licensing as a certified Pennsylvania Real Estate Broker. George is affiliated with Howell & Jones Inc., Wilkes-Barre, as a certi­ fied Pennsylvania Real Estate Brok­ er. He is married to the former DI­ ANA F. LIPSKI '70 and they reside in Shavertown with their son, Geordie. Dr. DEAN A. ARVAN '55 has been appointed professor of pathology and director of the Clinical Pathol­ ogy Laboratory Division of the De­ partment of Pathology at the Uni­ versity of Rochester Medical Center. Dean is also the author or co-author of over 30 scientific papers in the field of breast cancer research and other fields of clinical investigation. ROBERT KLISH '75 is the new scout executive of the Anthracite District of the Penn Mountains Council, Boy Scouts of America. WILLIAM V. LEANDRI '69 has been promoted to assistant vice-president of the Wyoming National Bank of Wilkes-Barre. Bill and his wife, Paula, have two daughters, Holly Jean and Mandy Corbett. The Leandris reside in Kingston, Pa. JOHN J. KONDEK '75 has completed pilot training at Columbus A.F.B. in Mississippi and is now a second lieu­ tenant stationed at Grand Forks A.F.B. in North Dakota. JENNY WUNDER '75 is employed by the East Stroudsburg School Dis­ trict. Jenny is a Senior High Choral Director. RICHARD 0. TOTH '72 has been ap­ pointed an assistant vice president of the Somerset Trust Co., in New Jersey. Rick resides in Bridgewater. Dr. PHILIP CHEIFETZ '66 is AssociSUMMER1977 25 �ate professor of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at Nassau Com­ munity College and was recently elected President of the American Mathematical Association for TwoYear Colleges. Philip lives with his wife, Pauline, and their two children, Melissa and Robin in Levittown, Pa. JOHN L. COATES ’57 is controller of Bercon Packaging, Inc. in Berwick, Pa. John resides with his wife, Gloria and children, Cheryl Nan, Laura Su­ san, John and Andrew, in Berwick. WILLIAM GOLDSWORTHY 76 is a sales representative for Superior Dental Laboratory of Philadelphia covering the central and northeast section of Pennsylvania. DONNA PUDLOSKY PORZUCEK ’66 is employed as a full time math teacher by the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. JAMES M. CALDERONE ’69 is a member of the Academy of Certi­ fied Social Workers of the National Association of Social Workers. Jim is employed with the Primary Pre­ vention Program at the LuzerneWyoming County Mental HealthMental Retardation Center in WilkesBarre. Dr. BERNARD COHEN ’63 is in pri­ vate practice of dermatology' and cutaneous cosmetic surgery'. Ber­ nard is also assistant clinical profes­ sor of medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He re­ sides in Miami, Florida. JANICE R. COHEN 76 is teaching at Sayreville Junior High School. Jan lives in Holmdel, New Jersey. Atty. NICHOLAS REYNOLDS ’68 became a partner in the law firm of Debevoise & Liberman in Washing­ ton, D.C. His activities involve corp­ orate, public utility, and atomic en­ ergy law. ROBERT RADICE 73 is Director of Sales at the Rye Town Hilton Inn in Port Chester, New York. THOMAS MORRIS 72 was recently accepted into the Academy' of Certi­ fied Social Workers. Tom is em­ ployed by Friendship House Child­ ren's Center as a psychotherapist. He resides with his wife, the former FELICIA ZAWATSKI 72 in WilkesBarre. WILLIAM P. STAAKE 71 has been appointed general manager of the Acadia Mutual Life in Santa Ana, California. Bill, his wife, Pat, and their children, Billy, Trisha, Angela and James are living in Southern California. Dean Whitby: C’mon John, let me read some of those. After all I’m the 26 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY guy who admitted them into the col­ lege. Mr. Chwalek: John Whitby you never admitted to anything. I always thought your title was ironic, you devil. But I'll cut you a break. Here’s the rest of the news to read. Chands him the paper}. Dean Whitby: John, what kind of handwriting is this? I can’t read it. Mr. Chwalek: You have it upside down. Dean Whitby: Oh. You did that on purpose. It’s readable now. RICHARD G. CANTNER ’68 is a pro­ duction supervisor of Carpenter Technology Corporation, a producer of specialty steels. Rick and his wife, Lori, reside with their two children, Chris and Kim in West Lawn, Pa. Ensign MARVIN STEIN 70 is an in­ structor at the U.S. Naval Nuclear Power School in Orlando, Florida. MARY CHEUNG 74 is in Hawaii on an East-West Center grant for pro­ moting better understanding between the East and the United States through cooperative study and re­ search. DUANE SADVARY 74 is an elec­ trical engineer at R.C.A. in Moun­ taintop. He is residing in "VVilkesBarre. Dr. ALBERT ROKE ’69 is now a Board certified family practitioner commissioned in public health serv­ ice in Tennessee. DEBORAH KAZINETZ BOWALICK 74 has accepted a position as an analyst programmer with Arm­ strong Cork Company. Her husband, ANDREW 74 is an engineer with R.C.A. in Lancaster, PA. MARCIA ADAMCHESKI BRINKER 70 is employed as a sixth grade read­ ing teacher for St. Charles Parish Public Schools In Luling, La. C. WAYNE GRIFFITH ’69 has been appointed group vice president of international operations for Leeds & Northrup Company, North Wales, Pa. He and his wife, Jacqueline, re­ side in Westport, Conn, with their four children. WILLIAM BAUER ’68 has been named coordinator of Lackawanna Junior College programs to be held in Tunkhannock High School. ESTELLE PADALSKY LIMOR ’68 is a senior systems analyst at Scott Paper. She resides in Swarthmore, JOHN D. CURTIS ’55 and his wife have purchased a small farm in Car­ lisle, Pa., where they breed standardbred horses. Jack also has a Pub­ lic Relations business and is pub- lisher of The Pennsylvania Harness Racing Guide. Lt. KEVIN G. DONALESKI 75, a combat engineer, is presently attend­ ing the United States Army Intelli­ gence Center and School at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Dr. GEORGE E. HUDOCK JR. '50, Luzerne County Coroner, has been appointed to Pennsylvania State Board of Medical Education and Licensure by Governor Milton Shapp of Pennsylvania. He is also a mem­ ber of the Pennsylvania Medical So­ ciety Commission on Forensic Med­ icine and Secretary to the Luzerne County Medical Society. ARLENE SUCHESKI 72 has been promoted to junior accountant of International Salt Company in Clarks Summit, Pa. MARY BRANIGAN FISCHER 73 is teaching English at Olney High School in Philadelphia, Brandy is continuing her education at Temple University on a part time basis and plans to study in Ireland for two weeks this summer. She resides with her husband, Michael, and daughter Eryn Branigan, in Philadelphia, GERALD ’67 and CYNTHIA WIS­ NIEWSKI WEBER ’69 are currently expanding their funeral home opera­ tion in Allentown, Pa. The couple reside with their two daughters, An­ nette and Natalie in Allentown. SCOTT STEELMAN 72 was recently ■promoted to assistant vice president of First Eastern Bank. Scott is man­ ager of the Blakeslee, Pa. branch of­ fice. He resides with his wife, the former JEAN PRESCIUTTI ’69 and their son, Scott II in Birchwood Hills, Plains, Pa. Dean Ralston: Now we have a real treat for y’all. We have two special people here to tell about all the alum­ ni who recently tied the knot, took the plunge, or like some of us, threw in the towel. Fresh from the marriage license bureau and practically still on their honeymoon are our newly­ weds - Theater Arts Department Chairman, Al Groh and Dean of Wo­ men, Jane Lampe. So, Al, how does it feel to be married? Mr. Groh: Well, George, I can’t de­ scribe it. It’s somewhere between going to prison and playing Russian Roulette. Dean Lampe: Now, hon, you don’t mean that. Mr. Groh: Of course . . . not . . . Jane. You know I’m the happiest man in the world. Dean Ralston: That's enough mush. Let’s get down to business. Jane, do ,„nnt to Start telling us about the Tumniutho recently wed? npan Lampe: I always let my husI and go firstjjr Groh: Oh no, sweetheart, after Dean Ralston: Judas Priest! One of , u better start or I'm going to have y°,n Reese, the wrestling coach, an­ nounce the marriages. £>ean Lampe: O.K. I'll start. CAROL LELAND 72 was recently married to Robert T. Arend. Carol is teaching second grade at St. John’s School, Houston, Texas. The couple resides'in Houston. ROBERT HADUCK 76 and Cynthia Macuga were married on February 26. Bob is employed as a lab techni­ cian at Pennsylvania Testing labs in Moosic. The couple resides in Avoca. BRUCE LONG 74 was recently mar­ ried to Connie Smith. Bruce is em­ ployed by the Federal Prison Indus­ tries, Inc., Washington, D.C. The couple is residing in Greenbelt, Maryland. CARL E. KASCHENBACK III 77 and ADELE JANCIK 70 were married on January 29 in the Shavertown United Methodist Church. Carl is af­ filiated with Air Force Reserve as a staff transportation officer and Ad­ ele is employed by Lloyd’s Travel in Kingston, Pa. Dean Lampe: O.K. dear, you can finish up. Mr. Groh: That’s what you said to me in the kitchen last night. ANN K. CASCIANO 73 became the bride of Michael Commerota. Ann is an elementary school teacher in Scranton, Pa. CAROLE ANN STOLLBERG 73 was recently married to George DeRock­ er. Carole is employed as an account­ ing assistant at Nabisco in East Han­ over, N.J. The couple is residing in Matawan, N.J. ELWOOD DEAN JONES '69 was recently married to Elaine Winans. E. Dean is employed at Nationwide In­ surance in Columbus, Ohio. naomi pramick 76 and Thomas ■zano were recently married. Na°'11'js employed as a registered nurse at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranon. Pa. The couple resides in Exeter. BARBARA WARD 71 was recently married to Terry Nixon. Barbara is P oyed by the Anne Arundel c °Unty, Board of Education. She is doorent y completing her Master's itv81?? at lhe ^obrl Hopkins UniversMarylan(j',''XOns res‘de in Pasadena’ ANN GUENEV1 'ERE FISHER 73 was z°n School of Morflr f th.e BarbiYork City She k » ‘ng ln New a Sempl°yedbyRevIon, Inc., ' as a c°™etic consultant. Mr. Hoover:• Before you g0 on lo anything else, I hai -Me a little tidbit to add. ?RqRJ^RA DENNEY DENNEY CAMPBELL cent!y seeJ 0“*baenTva^y0;v~ Dean Ralston: And last, but not least, we have our resident limnol Ur. G.B. Reif with the population re­ port. Dr. Reif: Greetings. They asked me aSam to report on additions into the Alumni households. I see there are a few more than last time. My, some of you Alumni are taking lessons from the bunnies! A daughter, Jennifer Kaye, was re­ cently born to Robert and CATHY NIELSEN TORAN '69. The couple also has a two year old daughter, Laura Anne, and reside in Walpole, Mass. A daughter, Jane Marie was bom to James and MARYANN OSTAPOWICZ JESSE '65 on April 14. Mary­ ann is a teacher in the Dallas School District, Dallas, Pa. The couple also has a daughter, Jennifer, and they reside on the Plymouth Mountain. A daughter, Carissa Ruth, was re­ cently born to Mr. & Mrs. NELSON JOHNSON 71. Nelson is a research scientist in the Toxicology depart­ ment of Burroughs Willcome Com­ pany, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The couple also has a daughter, Aubrey, and reside in Cary, North Carolina. MICHAEL '65 and BARBARA YANNUZIO MOSTELLO '66 announce the birth of a son on January 24, 1977. Mike owns and operates ABC Auto Parts at Ogdensburg, N.J. The Mostellos reside in Franklin, N.J. A daughter, Jessica Leigh, was: re­ cently born to Mr. & Mrs. FRANK LAGOLA 75. The Lagolas reside m Rahway. N.J. Dr. & Mrs. CHARLES KOSTEVA ’69 announce the birth of their i child, John Andrew. Charles is at- Xo'i'S'SuliS’Ali... town Hospital in Allentown Pa. A son, Steven David, was born on MARTHA ur?976 t0 David and The R^. H0UTZ REDDING ’66. nock, pa "8S reSide in Tunkhan’ born^^n 'je Rae’ was recently n to Donald and KATHLEEN n S1^ITH ’B8’ The Smi‘hs re­ side in Bainbridge, Pa. A son, Kyle Alan, was born on Sep­ tember 20,1976 to Robert and MAR­ GUERITE YEVITZ BERNHEIM '67 Marguerite is jointly employed by the department of Chemistry, the cnnsylvania State University as a crystallographer and by Stanford University Accelerator Center, Stanord, California. The Bernheims re­ side in State College, Pa. A son, Erich Christian, was recently born to JOHN ’69 and ALICE RICH­ IE BEYREN1 ’69. John is a band di­ rector and brass and percussion specialist in the Winchester Public Schools, in Winchester, Mass. A second child, Gregory' John, was born on December 8, 1976 to John and BARBARA GALLAGHER STOFFA ’64. The couple also has a son, Jeffrey Douglas and they reside in Bethlehem, Pa. Twin girls, Margot Lea and Christa Anne, were born on April 14, to Thomas and FRANCINE MAC­ KINDER DOUAIHY '71. Francine is employed as an elementary art con­ sultant in the Scranton Public Schools and resides with her family in Dunmore, Pa. A daughter, Melissa Beth, was born to Michael and MARJORIE SHAF­ FER VICTOR '69 on September 24, 1976. The Victors reside in Tyler, Texas. Dr. Reif: I must be going. Tomor­ row I’m teaching my summer courses about the paramecium’s struggle to survive in an oxidized, mesmorized and fantasized world. Farewell! Mr. Chwalek: I’m going too, Geo­ rge. I’ve got to get back to the golf course before someone finds my trick ball. So long. Dean Lampe: We’re going too, Dean. Al is taking me shopping, aren’t you dear? Mr. Groh: As long as were spend­ ing your money, honey. See you lat­ er, George. Dean Whitby: I’m not staying if everyone else is going. I think, I ll go to Hawaii to do some recruiting. Mr. Hoover: Wait for me, John. Maybe Hawaii will recruit me! Dean Ralston: My guests are all gone. I guess I’ll ride off into the sunset on my trusty bike. Have a nice summer y’all and well see you in the Fall! O SUMMER 1977 27 �An American Dream “Ifyou could invite any American, past or present, to dinner tonight, who would be your guest and why?" That's the question Mary Ellen Alu '77 asked Wilkes people. Some of the responses: ‘ ‘B. F. Skinner so we can both race mice together. ” Dr. Joseph T. Bellucci Associate Professor of Education "John .\abor (Olympic Gold Medal Winner). I’m interested in swimming, and he’s one of the best swimmers in the world. He’s good- looking too. Iplan to deal with swimming in my future, and I’m sure I could learn a lot from him. ” Lisa Waznik '77 Music Education Wilkes-Barre ‘ ‘Gerald Ford. The evening would be in­ teresting and exciting! He is a swinger (golf hat is)— he is tricky (has the knee to prove it!)— he is a spender (proved it as President) and he is an athlete (swims in the morning, golfs all day, skis at the drop of a snowflake and even played football without a helmet!). He is not much of a speaker but he could tell stories about his trips (down plane steps, over door sill, reviewing grounds, etc.). Mildred Gittens Manager of the Bookstore "Any U.S. President to find out why they can't budget a government like a housewife budgets her home. Evelyn Robinson Assistant Director of Development "Any coal baron of Wyoming Valley of yesteryear so that he could see the scars left in the valley. ” Gene Domzalski Baseball Coach "Dr Frank P. Graham. He was my university president; I was his student. He influenced my life more than anyone else except Jesus Christ. He was a mediator at the U.N., a U.S. senator, and the most saintly man I ever knew. ” George F. Ralston Dean of Student Affairs "Either Alvin York (of World War I fame). He stoodfor his personal convic­ tion and I admire a man for that. Or Harry Truman, because he was his own man, and I admire a man who can make a decision and stick by it right or wrong. Or Franklin Roosevelt, because he over­ came physical handicaps to achieve greatness. ” Dr. Bradford L. Kinney Assistant Professor of English "Henry Adams. I want to talk about Europe with him. He had some marvelous ideas about dynamos, machines and cathedrals. He was quite an exciting person. He'd be an excellent conversationalist for dinner. ” Dr. Philip Rizzo English Professor ‘ ‘Richard Nixon because of the contro­ versy involving him. I think controversy should have defense or attack. ” Dr. Robert Werner Chairman, Commerce and Finance "Mrs. Margaret Miller of Florida. She’s been the guiding light of my life. ” Dr. Charles Reif previously, Chairman of Biology Department "Howard Hughes. He was very, very interesting. I want to ask him why he let his fingernails grow so long, where he left all his money, and a host of other questions." Eddie White, '80 English major, Wilkes-Barre "Steve Allen because of the total talent of the guy. Musically, he’s a composer and a performer such as seen in ‘This Could Be the Start of Something Great. ’ As a comedian, he’s a source for many skits as well as a performer in them. He has also done other writing. He’s been married to the same girl for a long time — a rarity in Hollywood. He just seems to have fun doing what he’s do­ ing. ” Lt. Colonel Richard L. Wing Chairman of the Aerospace Studies Department "Sir Sidney Fudd, American scientist and physicist noted for his profound ‘First Law of Opposition’ which states 'Ifyou push something hard enough . .. it will fall over. ’ He was the noted in­ ventor of the cheesecake. ” Dr. Lester Turoczi Chairman of the Biology Department "Ben Franklin because I was interested in his experiments with electricity, and I’m interested in how the country was 200 years ago. I would like to hear his comments about life back then. ” Carl Urbanski '57 Optometrist Kingston, pa. "Bob "Bob Woodward. He only worked for the the ‘Washington Post’for a short time before taking on the challenge of inves­ tigating Watergate. He dove whole­ heartedly into the challenge and did a darn goodjob. ” Dotty Martin '77 English major West Wyoming, Pa. "Mrs. Gerald Ford. I met her and found her to be very pleasant. We share common interests in that she likes the Crippled Children’s Association and I’ve been running the area wheel chair club. I know crippled children are one of her chief interests and that’s how we see alike. Nelson Carle of Special Services "Leon Jaworski. He’s a prominent lawyer and was special prosecutor in the Watergate case. He’s been a friend for some time and I find him stimulating. I like his candor and brightness and my wife and I enjoy his company." Andrew Hourigan Lawyer, Board of Trustees ' 'Ben Franklin because he was a man of imagination and principle who in his re­ lationships with the infant nation and the old country established the basic character of our country. ’’ Thomas H. Kiley Past President of First Eastern Bank, Board of Trustees "The witch in the ‘Wizard of Oz’ be­ cause I like the way she laughs." Marianne Bridget Montague '76 English major, Wilkes-Barre "Milton Friedman (Pulitzer Prize Win­ ner Economist from the University of Chicago). His economic theories best exemplify the economic policies that are necessary to a continuation of the dem­ ocratic system within the United States. Unfortunately, too many governmental economists are wedded to the Kenzian economic theory which I believe is out­ dated and inoperative in our society. Accordingly, I think it important that we pay more heed to Friedman.” Andrew Shaw '58 Director of the Institute of Regional Affairs; Assistant to President "Henry David Thoreau, the author of 'Walden' whose philosophy on life is very individualistic and very caring." Lauren Harris O’Hara '74 Librarian West Pittston '•Prof. Charlotte Lord. To relive the Renaissance, to prove that I am hu­ manistic, intellectual and a little wicked. I really like Charlotte's Mona Lisa smile.” Dr. Richard Soter Dean of Academic Affairs "There are four people — Helen Hayes, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, and Harold Prince. Helen Hayes and Angela Lansbury are two of my favorite all-time performers. Sond­ heim, I feel, is the greatest contem­ porary composer and lyricist, and Prince is the most innovative producer and director in the American theater.” Arthur J. Hoover Director of Alumni and Community Affairs ".-l»ir/rew Jackson. I love history and he always fascinated tne. In the time that he lived, he represented the average in­ dividual and body politic. I stayed in the same room he did when he was a circuit court judge in Tennessee, visited the county courthouse there and read some of his decisions, and I met some of his relatives. He was not only involved in politics, but was also a general in the U.S. Army. And he introduced, in my judgement, a philosophy which best represents the feelings of the average man." John J. Chwalek Director of Placement "Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was one of the greatest if not the greatest president of the United States. I think he came up with a lot of programs for the working people which were beneficial to them. He was bold — advocated pro­ grams that he probably knew would be voted down by Congress, but at least he tried." Carl F. Hurst, Jr. '62 Advertising Representative Wilkes-Barre, Pa. �- i �'ll 0 ff 0 .'£Q<i333'SClJ_EGE ARCHIVES 0 Some peMmooey Smoom-o p ° o 0 0 With more than 11,000 Wilkes College Alumni now sharing the Wilkes Family tradi­ tion how can we deny it. In fact, we believe the Wilkes tradition :o be one of unparalleled fulfillment and promise. This year more than 700 under­ graduate students enrolled for the first time. Most of them will become a part of the Wilkes tradition, too. What is it that keeps tradition roll­ ing on at Wilkes College? It's hard to pinpoint it exactly. Some people say it's because Wilkes College has one of the finest academic reputa­ tions in Pennsylvania. Other people say that Wilkes College gives you that intimate education — like a family set­ ting. Still other people believe it's the great esprit d'corps among faculty, students and administration which has led to Wilkes Col­ lege producing dynamic graduates who have left their mark in nearly every discipline. Some people have told us it's because Wilkes College has one of the most respected small college athletic programs in the nation. Many others have told us that Wilkes College has one of the most exciting cultural and fine arts programs on the East coast, and others say Wilkes College is one of the most vibrant forces in the North­ east Pennsylvania community. Whatever the reason, we hope the Wilkes tradition continues to grow and flourish. If you are inter­ ested in more information about Wilkes College, its academic programs and admissions policies, please cut out and mail the coupon below. We'd be delighted to hear from you. Photo TOM MUSTO. I j WRITE TO: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS WILKES COLLEGE WILKES-BARRE PENNSYLVANIA 18703. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Please send me a copy of the 1977 Admissions Material. Name Address City State Zip Code - State. zip Code Alumni Name Alumni Address City Additional Information Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. The magazine went through various names including <em>Wilkes Alumnus</em>, <em>Wilkes Quarterly,</em> <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, and the current title, <em>Wilkes Magazine</em>. Some editions for the <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, will have multiple issues within the file record. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Summer 1977 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1977 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/9383534088a176789018cbfa5d3ce4b4.pdf 3805e6aadca106e548cd5d39ecdbe2cb PDF Text Text Kriw'k-ow WILKES COLLEGE ARCHIVES Eugene Shedden Earley Library �COLLEGE ARCHI^ILI^^ COI FAUJW WLKES Eugene ISheddi r; Volume 1, Number 3 editor Douglas J. Rubinstein managing editor George G. Pawlush editorial staff Mary Ellen Alu Wilma Hurst Marianne Montague Jane Manganella administrative assistant Toni Reavy I CC.C fiflssr A ON THE COVER . . . Phil Krivenko, a Wyoming Valley businessman well known for his versatile illustration work, developed our Fall cover as a tribute to the Golden Horde, (see page 8). Having received the past two Quarterly8, Mr. Krivenko decided to donate his artwork, “to thank Wilkes College for the great job they are doing for the community and for the College’s Alumni" The rendering is the artist's representation of the massively powerful and seemingly invincible Golden Horde, as “Warriors of the Gods." The numbers 32, 68 and 77 depicted on the “Star Wars" type characters symbolize Wilkes’ 32-game winning streak, the 1968finish as the #1 small college football team in America, and this year's homecoming tribute honoring their legendary performance. contributing staff Cara Berryman Betty Griffith Herb Simon Mary Stencavage editorial advisor Arthur J. Hoover circulation manager Lynn Jacobs art director Jon Schaffer photography editor John Miknevich LYNWOOD STUDIO Tales of the Golden Horde and The 100-Yard War 8 by George Pawlush '69 Sweeping out of the Valley in the serene autumn breeze of ’68, the invincible Golden Horde rampaged across the Middle Atlantic Conference, terrifying and devastating their opponents with football prowess still unequalled in the annals of small college football history. By the time the dust settled in late November, the Horde walked away with the MAC crown, the Lambert Bowl Trophy, the Timmie Award and national recognition as the best small college football team in America. George Pawlush ’69 tells it all. . . Marv Antinnes ’61 — Starmaker 12 Wyoming Seminary’s athletic director and football coach, Marv Antinnes ’61, never was a member of the "Golden Era.” In fact, when he played at Wilkes he was never even a football star. Today, however, he is a "maker of stars," having achieved a remarkable ten-year coaching record of 57 wins and 12 losses, while placing over 100 young men on some of the finest major college football teams in America. The Amazing World of Harold Cox The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. Entered as second class mail matter and second class postage paid at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18703. Postmaster: Please send Form 3579 to Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. * BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons, Honorary Member Reuben H. Levy, Honorary Member 20 By Mary Ellen Alu ’77 History professor Harold Cox is the kind of guy who, after breaking out of a straitjacket in less than 15 seconds, can make his way across 100 miles of booby-trapped, impossible jungle to his desk to write his weekly column. Then get into his own train, speed off into the wilderness to complete construction of his self-sufficient energy home while making final editorial changes for his quarterly magazine and preparing for tomorrow's lecture. Letters — 4 College Chronicle — 6 Faculty Abstract — 17 James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein Edward Bixby, M.D. Charles N. Burns, M.D. OFFICERS Donald F. Carpenter Joseph J. Savitz, Chairman William L. Conyngham Bon Badman, Jr., First Vice Chairman William J. Umphred, Second Vice Chairman Mrs. Edward Darling Mrs. William Davidowitz Richard L. Pearsall, Secretary Mrs. Stanley Davies Arthur J. Hoover, Assistant Secretary Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Walter M. Diener, Treasurer Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Joseph J. Chisarick, Assistant Treasurer Undergraduate — 18 Communique — 22 Gallery — 23 Alan M. Glover, Ph.D. Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan, Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Edwin M. Kosik Richard Maslow Charles H. Miner Gerald A. Moffatt William G. Mulligan F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Sports Update — 25 S. River St. Revival — 26 Marquis — 31 Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross, Jr. Louis Shaffer Ronald W. Simms William H. Sword, Jr. E. Arthur Trabant, Ph.D. Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENT Robert S. Capin FALL 1977 3 �letters Dear Editor: Well, the Peace Corps certainly isn’t all work. Have a lot of time to do things I like doing and one of them is to write. Really enjoyed the Quarterly and don’t worry, when I’m rich and famous, Wilkes College will definitely be on my mind. Well Art, You asked for it. Here’s a picture. My mother keeps telling me I always send these pictures of Philippinos she has never met so tell her to pick up the “Wilkes College Quarterly.” It’s an excellent publication. Hi Mom! Bob Zukauskas ’75 Plaridel, Misamis Occidental Philippines Thanks for the note Bob, and also for the offer when you're rich and famous. By the way, Bob enclosed a short letter which we would like to share with you. Here's Bob... 4 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Dr. Wuori Commended Dear Editor: I really think the most recent alumni magazine was SUPER!!! Keep up the good work. Dear Editor: I enjoyed and was edified by Dr. Gerald Wuori’s article in the Wilkes College Quarterly relative to medical ethics. Major James B. Jenkins ’65 Mililani Town, Hawaii Dale Buehler Chief Librarian Eugene Sheddon Farley Library Thanks Jim and Leslie (’65) and don’t let the Air Force keep you from enjoying beautiful Hawaii. Art Hoover, our famous world traveler, loves the islands almost as much as he does the Mets. Quarterly Reaches the Philippines 16 June 77 Quarterly Reaches Hawaii Thanks very much, Dale. Do you plan to add Dr. Wuori’s article to the library’s great microform collection? Don’t let him tell you he’s holding on to the story in hopes of getting a screenplay offer. Thanx Wilma! Enjoys Keeping In Touch Dear Editor: My compliments to you and the staff of the Wilkes College Quarterly for an excellent job on the alumni publication. I want to especially thank you for the article on my recent experience with the Metro­ politan Opera auditions. It was just lovely! A special thanks to Wilma Hurst, ’79. Continued success to the magazine. Dear Editor: I thoroughly enjoy keeping in touch with Wilkes via the Wilkes College Quarterly. Corps Interviews at the Red Cross Building on North­ hampton St. today and tomorrow and here I am. I’m working as a biologist and with a B.S. in Biology it seemed to be just about right. The pay certainly isn’t very attractive, but the life is. The biology is here, but only in a little different form than that of the textbooks. It’s really fun. I keep imagining myself working back into eons and eons of time trying to isolate the one thing that explains all life, the living cell. Bob Zukauskas Thanks Christine! Congratula­ tions again and good luck with your debut in “II Trovatore” with the Teatro Liceo in Barcelona, Spain. 300% Improvement Dear Editor: I like the new format of the alumni news. It is 300% better. Richard Mendelsohn ’73 Buckhannon, West Virginia Thanks Richard, and congratu­ lations on your award from the West Virginia Department of Welfare for volunteer service with children. ATTENTION! Alumni in Re­ gion II (Greater Lehigh Valley Area). Mark your calendar for Tues­ day, December 6, 1977. Plans have been formulated for an alumni reunion following the Wilkes-Lehigh wrestling meet at Lehigh U. (Details will be mailed in early November). What In The World Are Those Wilkes Students Doing? You can find out for just four dollars, with a subscription to The Beacon. Our weekly student newspaper can keep you up-todate on the latest happenings on the Wilkes campus with stories ranging from the academic to the sports world. The Beacon is an award-winning college newspa­ per, receiving first-place honors from Columbia University and the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association’s “Head­ liner Award" last year. If you’d like to keep in touch with the Wilkes campus, just send your name, address and four dollars to: The Beacon, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. Karen (Szychowski) Rogowicz ’77 Bloomsburg, Pa. Thanks Karen — hope you’re settled in your new home and you continue to enjoy the QUARTERLY. Christine Donahue ’74 Hi, Wilkes College alumni. Greetings from the Philippines. In a way it seems like I’m still in my senior year of college, but I keep running out for a pepperoni pizza now and then. The U.S. Peace Corps got me here and you know, it ain’t all that bad a deal! Back in the memorable year of ’75,1 remember it well, I didn’t want to get light into a “job” per se and graduate school was definitely out of the question. On rny way to the Commons from the second floor of Stark one afternoon a green flyer, waving on the bulletin board in the hallway near the stairs, caught my eye. Peace ATTENTION! Alumni in region VI (greater New York — Long Island Area). /'% Mark your calendar for Satur­ day, February 4T1978. Plans have been formulated for an alumni reunion following the Wilkes-Hofstra wrestling meet at Hempstead . (Details will be mailed in Janu­ ary). Kudos for G.K. Wuori Dear Editor: Kudos for the Quarterly. Much to my surprise it is not “just another journal to be discarded.” Congratulations to Dr. G.K. Wuori for his article “On Murder and Other Indignities.” George E. Hudock, Jr., M.D. Luzerne County Coroner Thanks for your letter, Dr. Hudock. We’re especially glad you enjoyed Dr. Wuori’s article — ever think about writing a murder mystery for the QUARTERLY? (Just kidding.) ATTENTION! Alumni in Regions VI, VII, VIII Saturday, February 11,1978 Wilkes Wrestlers vs Army and Massachusetts Alumni Get-Together at Thayer Hotel — West Point Details to follow ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Office at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our records. O FALL 1977 5 �Plus Three Wilkes College’s Board of Trustees was increased by three recently as Frank M. Henry, William G. Mulligan, and Judy Arenstein were appointed to the 36-member governing body. Frank M. Henry, president and general manager of the Frank Martz Coach and White Transit Companies, was elected to a three-year term by the membership. Henry, also president of Atwood’s Transport Lines, Inc., Maryland, is a native of Dallas and an active member of the Wyoming Valley community. He is chairman of the board of trustees at Wyoming Seminary, and is a director of the Wyoming National Bank, Wyoming Valley Hospital, Wilkes-Barre YMCA, as well as other area organ­ izations. A graduate of Yale University’, the new Wilkes trustee is a member of Irem Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S. and the Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis Club. Henry’ is also a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Shavertown. Married to the former Dorothea Wichman, the Henrys are the parents of three children, Frank M. Jr„ Scott, and Marjorie. William G. Mulligan, vicepresident of the Construction and Mining Group of Ingersoll-Rand, was also appointed to the board. A native of Kingston, Mulligan received his B.S. from Lafayette in 1952 and has completed advanced management programs at Indiana University and the Harvard Business School. Mulligan, who has served Ingersoll-Rand for 25 years, is a resident of Mahwah, New Jersey. He is also a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. The Wilkes trustee started as a student trainee at Ingersoll-Rand in 1952 and progressed through the ranks of the company, earning top management-level positions in a variety of divisions. 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY as national president of the W tike College Alumni Association. Mrs. Arenstein is the district operations manager for AT&T-Long Lines Department in White Plains, N.Y. She was recently recognized by “Glamour Magazine" as an out­ standing young woman given top management responsibilities in a major U.S. company. The former Judy Simonson of Great Neck, N.Y., she is married to Attorney Robert Arenstein. The couple make their home in Scarsdale, N.Y. Mrs. Arenstein earned the “Outstanding Graduate Award" at her Wilkes College graduation. Attorney Joseph J. Savitz, chairman of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees, in announcing the election results stated, “We are extremely pleased with the appoint­ ments of these three prominent trustees and look forward to their enthusiastic participation in developing further the continued service of Wilkes College to the Wyoming Valley community'." Robert S. Capin, Wilkes College president, added, “We are very fortunate to gain the involvement of these new trustees who have indicated their commitment to fulfilling the mission of Wilkes College. Their willingness to serve speaks well for the college and the community.” The three new board members join 32 other elected trustees and President Capin as the governing board of the college. Changing of the Guard For most people August is just the month between July and September. But for Lt. Col. Richard L. Wing, former professor of AFROTC n?diIS and commander of AFKUIC Detachment 752 at Wilkes College, August marked the beginning of a new life. On July 31, Col. Wing hmmg up his uniform and his 21-year career in the Air Force, along with his four year duty at Wilkes College. Commenting on the college, the air force officer said, “My stay here at Wilkes was an enjoyable one. The students are very friendly and the individual attention they receive from the professors really amazes me.” He also stated that the college was like a “halfway house" between the military and civilian life, being involved with ROTC programs and also participating in activities of the college. A native of Bliss, N.Y., Col. Wing’s career began at Cornell University, where he participated in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Program. He earned both his commission as a second lieutenant and his Bachelor’s degree from Cornell. Col. Wing’s Master’s degree is from the University of Southern California. His first active duty in the Air Force came as a transport pilot, spending five years flying heavy cargo planes and ten years piloting planes which carried small cargo. He was also a combat courier pilot in Southeast Asia for one year. His medals include the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters. Along with his military accom­ plishments, Col. Wing has also had much success in the field of journalism. Besides being editor of several safety magazines in Illinois and Germany, he was also the editor of a prize-winning magazine at Scott Air Force Base in St. Louis. The magazine, "The Mac,” a military magazine won the Interna­ tional Civil Aviation Organization Award. In regard to this accomp­ lishment, the award-winning editor said, “This was a great thrill for me because the award was an interna­ tional one.” The Wilkes educator's career at the college began July, 1973. Since then, three times as many students have enrolled in the ROTC program. When he first arrived at the college, there were 24 students enrolled. Presently, there are 72 students in the ROTC program. Col. Wing has many duties, but he says the most important aspect is "being there to talk to the students when they need it.” He also taught journalism while at the college and offered a course called "Editing a Small Magazine,” which was only given once at Wilkes. His other activities included a talk show called the “Colonel's Corner" on the Wilkes radio station, WCLH, along with “The Grappling Club" and the “Gourmet Group on Campus." With all of the success behind Col. Wing, there is sure to be much more awaiting him in the future. Alumnus Returns I - manage change in the rapidly shifting world of higher education," explained President Capin. “He will assist us in developing sound research regarding the future direction of Wilkes, as well as aiding in the formulation and implemen­ tation of responsive policies. We feel enthusiastic about Tom returning to the Wyoming Valley community," the president added. Dr. Kelly served on the board of directors of the Wyoming Valley chapter of the American Red Cross from 1969 to 1974, and was vicechairman of the board in 1974. He was also chairman of the committee to aid disaster victims from 1969 to 1973. He also served as a “loaned executive” to the United Way of Wyoming Valley from 1971 to 1973. The author of several articles on higher education, Kelly’s doctoral thesis, which was accepted this past May, was entitled “Decision Making of Governing Boards: Differences Among Selected Independent Colleges.” Dean Kelly resides in Mountaintop with his wife, the former Nancy Kay Ritz, and their two children, Christopher and Cynthia Kay. Dean Soter — The Globetrotter Thomas F. Kelly has been named dean of administration at Wilkes College. Kelly holds a Ph.D. in Adminis­ tration of Higher Education, and Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, and an M.A. in Economics from Lehigh University. He received his B.A. from Wilkes College where he was graduated summa cum laude in economics and won the "Outstanding Graduate Award" and the "Dean’s Scholarship Award" in 1969. Dr. Kelly was also the recipient of the Dr. Arnaud C. Marts Scholarship. Regarded very highly by the Wilkes College Family, Dr. Kelly served in various administrative roles at Wilkes before leaving the college in 1974 to complete his Ph.D. requirements at Cornell. He served as director of the evening and summer college from 1969 to 1971, was assistant to the chancellor under the late Dr. Eugene S. Farley from 1971 to 1972 and was director of development from 1972 to 1974. "Dr. Kelly will serve an extremely important role in helping us to Wilkes College Academic Dean Richard P. Soter received a firsthand look at the educational and political systems of Italy, spending nearly three weeks during May at the College of Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Pisa. Dr. Soter, who has a diverse back­ ground in higher education, foreign languages, history, and political science, lectured on "History of Higher Education in America” and “Governance Practices in American Universities.” Dean Soter, who holds two advanced degrees from Harvard University, was invited to lecture in Europe as a result of his prominence in administration and management in liberal arts colleges. He noted that there is much duplication of efforts within the universities of Italy. "A university may have five colleges, each with a separate history department, all at the same location," Soter noted. "This is the type of duplication which the Italian government wants to avoid." Italy is currently going through an austerity program designed to curb inflation, which is now running at 20 percent. "The government, which administers education, is looking for ways to consolidate academic disciplines, programs, and personnel in order to maintain academic integrity and effect savings,” Soter said. Wilkes Collet?ge academic deai tan, Richard P. Soter, left, . t, is shown being wewelcomed to the University nty of Pisa by the <dean of the Italian Institution. "The purpose for my lectures was to describe the American system of higher education which the Italians may wish to emulate.” The Wilkes dean added, "The Italian government, which is headed by Christian Democratic Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, is considering various changes in the educational system." The Communist Party, the largest of Western Europe, has slowly emerged as a decision-making body in the country. “The Christian Democratic Party has been unable to cope with the quality of life. Coupled with the unfortunate loss of traditional Italian values, the Communist Party has risen in stature. "Since Italy is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the rise to power of communism could be a future problem in international politics and could result in a 'Trojan Horse’ within NATO,” Soter theorized, “since participation in NATO by an Italian government controlled by the Communist Party would lead many to believe that state and military secrets might be available to the Soviet Union and its satellites.” However, the immediate goal of the Italian communists, unlike their Russian and East German counterparts, is to share power, not take it, from those who govern. “Italian communism has tried to project a human face as opposed to Stalinist communism which concen­ trates all power within a select group. While the Italian people are wary of Soviet influence, acceptance of the communist philosophy has (cant'd on page 15) FALL 1977 7 �pulled off a 36-28 upset over arch rival Cortland State and fought back from a 14-0 deficit to beat Susquehanna, 27-14. This would be the most important game ever for Ithaca and they waited anxiously and impatiently for the toss of the coin. For Rollie Schmidt the pressure had been building. Three undefeated seasons, four Middle Atlantic Conference titles, two Lambert Bowls, and the "Timmie Award." Some day the invincible dream was doomed to end, but the question lingering in Roland Schmidt's mind, as he reviewed his strategy during the playing of the national anthem, was whether the appointed hour with destiny was going to be today. by George Pawlush '69 Sweeping out of the Valley in the serene autumn breeze of ’68, the invincible Golden Horde rampaged across the Middle Atlantic Conference, terrifying and devastating their opponents with football prowess still unequalled in the annals of small college football history. By the time the dust settled in late November, the Horde walked away with the MAC crown, the Lambert Bowl Trophy, the Timmie Award and national recognition as the best small college football team in America. George Pawlush ’69 tells it all... It was not the typical fall day that you would expect for an October 18th, as the icy winds which blew off Lake Cayuga's waters made the weather at Ithaca's South Hill Field feel like mid-winter rather than Indian Summer. Rollie Schmidt had an uneasiness about him as he walked with his team up to the Ithaca, N.Y. field which stood on a steep hill 8 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY only three other collegiate teams in American football history had done before — won 32 straight games. overlooking the body of water made famous by Cornell University's alma mater. Time after time, sports journalists had pulled out their NCAA record guides and followed the progress of the Colonel football streak which ranked fourth behind the legendary strings of the University of Oklahoma, 47 (1953-57); Missouri Valley, 41 (1941-48); and Hillsdale, 34 (1954-57). With almost his entire starting lineup graduated the year before, Schmidt could feel the haunting ' footsteps closing quickly behind. After opening the season with victories over Lycoming, Moravian,and Delaware Valley, Wilkes had accomplished what' Ithaca coach )im Butterfield could taste his challenge as the potential ''giant-killer'' as he nervously watched the Blue and Cold go through their pre-game warmups. After opening the 1969 season with losses to West Chester and Lehigh, the New Yorkers had Ithaca, like a spirited colt, wasted little time in amassing its touchdown barrage, as quarterback Dave Campbell marched the Blue and Cold methodically down the field. Campbell called his own number on a five-yard sneak, which capped the 68-yard drive, just 2:09 into the game. One could feel something amiss as the Bomber field general leaped high with emotion after crossing the goal line. Early in the second quarter diminutive Teddy Yeager, who was usually very adept at hanging on to the leather, was jolted by a ferocious tackle. The 5-7,150pound mini-mite was still seeing stars as the hungry band of Bombers chased after the frightened ball. When the mad scramble ended, the oblongsphere stood in Ithaca property on the Wilkes five-yard line. Smelling another score just 15 feet away, the now charged-up Ithaca players plunged confidently a second time into the promised land. The thoughts of the Blue and Cold rooters were now straining as they tried to remember the last time a two-touchdown pitfail had befallen their beloved Colonels. Hearts began to leap as veteran loe Zakowski, who had been known to incite miracles during his illustrious Wilkes career, bore down on his receivers. A quick salvation seemed afoot when the spirited southpaw quarterback found Neal Langdon on a scoring strike in a crowded corner of the end zone. Langdon had to fight away two clawing defenders to claim the ball and a 23-yard touchdown. Wilkes trailed at intermission and in the locker room, Rollie Schmidt, almost speechless by the end of his halftime delivery, ordered his forces back to the front to fight back from their 13-7 deficit. Both defenses fought to a stalemate in the third period as momentum seemed to skirt both benches. Ted Yeager (21) was the “mini-mite" who gave the Colonels an explosive outside running game as a freshman in 1968. He went on to smash virtually every Wilkes rushing record before he graduated in 1972. The Colonels, traditionally a second-half team, seemed out of the impasse in the fourth quarter as Schmidt's punishing defensive unit began taking its toll at the Ithaca running attack, twice springing the ball loose. Zakowski, a fierce competitor and a cool warrior under fire, drove his team to the Blue Bomber 20-yard line twice, only to be repelled by a stubborn and victory-crazed Ithaca line. With less than a minute remaining, the Colonels desperately retaliated with one more thrust to thwart fate, but a stolen pass and a ticked-out dock gave defeat its long awaited reward. A proud man, Rollie Schmidt's eyes became glassy and filled with painful emotion as he walked to the center of the field, carrying himself with the poise of a general who had honorably lost the hard-fought battle. It had been more than a lost game. To the many reporters who covered the contest, it was the story of the year. To the Ithaca team, it was instant national recognition. And to Rollie Schmidt, his team, and all Wilkes fans it was a crushing and sudden end to a glorious era. For me, as a neophyte in my first few months as the college's first full-time sports information director, it was the climax to an overwhelming experience. Standing in the near-empty New York stadium, I could see a dejected Rollie Schmidt still frozen in the middle of the chilly barren field, surrounded by members of his family and dose friends who shared his agony. As darkness started to roll in and the post-game litter began to swirl around the now-vacant open pressbox which had been my home for nearly three hours, I too became filled with emotion. As a college student, I had the fortunate opportunity to work closely with the football team. I felt, for a moment, in communion with Schmidt and couldn't help thinking back to the time and place where it all began ... FALL 1977 9 �It was Saturday, October 9,1965 and Wilkes College, with a 2-0 record coming in, had just lost a close 26-20 decision to Upsala College at East Orange, N. J. The Colonels had been leading through most of the game, and it was a shame to see a blot on their record after two brilliantly-played wins. Who could have known then that this particular downfall would serve as the starting point for one of the greatest success stories in college football history'. For many years the Wilkes College football program, which once had been a source of community pride under George Ralston in the late 1940s, had been slowly declining to the point where the Colonel team had become everybody's favorite Parents' Day and Homecoming opponent. The prevailing atmosphere somehow seemed to be brighter in the summer of 1965. For the first time in many seasons, the local news media was reserving some optimism for the Blue and Gold as Colonel skipper Schmidt opened fall pre­ season camp with his largest group of candidates ever. It was evident that Schmidt, who was fed up with three seasons of 7-17 mediocrity, had grown tired of losing and was firmly dedicated to resurrection. With some intensive local and outof-area high school recruiting, Schmidt was determined to silence his critics. Adding to the positive tone of the season was a publicity campaign inspired by jack-of-all-trades Art Hoover, and a brand-new permanent football complex which was to become Ralston Field later in the year. The air seemed unidentifiably different to the many fans who curiously attended the first two games at the Colonel football field. By the end of October, Wilkes College's opponents were no longer laughing at what was once the proverbial "Blue and Gold Sad Sacks." The embryonic Horde began to take shape with back-to-back wins over Ursinus and Muhlenberg. Ironically, both victories had come on "Homecoming" for the respective host schools. Sweet revenge was the Horde's, as defeat made its exit scurrying for the shadows. Coach Schmidt's determination had begun to rub off as the birth of the Horde became imminent. The first crucial test of the Colonel's new-found strength was to come far away in Huntingdon on October 30 against a Juniata team 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY which had soundly embarrassed the Blue and Gold, 51-0, in Wilkes-Barre the year before. All eyes watched as the infant Horde scored every way possible. Striking with a vengence, the Colonels found paydirt with four touchdowns, a field goal, a safety, and an extra point, stunning the surprised Indians, 30-20. So thorough was the thrashing that the fledgling Blue and Gold defensive unit, with its seven freshmen, had held veteran-laden Juniata to a minus 48 yards rushing, and thus attoned for the previous year's scars. One week later bespectacled junior quarterback Rich Roshong, who had been reborn behind a now solid offensive line, zigzagged his way for 150 rushing yards to lead the Colonels to a 30-12 conquest of Delaware Valley College. The child Horde was beginning to make believers out of even the most ardent skeptics. The crown jewel was set into place seven days later in Reading when the Blue and Gold whipped Albright, 37-7. Roshong, who was later voted the league's most valuable player, tallied twice. The Colonels had now achieved their impossible dream — to capture their first Middle Atlantic Conference title in school history. The meteoric 1965 chain of events had finally made Wilkes "NUMBER ONE." The now adolescent Horde had to wait patiently nearly nine months to seek its sixth straight victory. It was to be a dramatic 1966 inaugural against Northeastern Pennsylvania rival, East Stroudsburg State College. The game at Ralston Field had been billed as the "Battle of the Titans," as the Warriors came into Wyoming Valley on the heels of a 12-game winning streak. The conflict had all the makings of a World War II battle movie. This would be the test. Time would tell if the Colonels were ready for the "big boy on the block." Response of the public was fantastic as an estimated 7,500 fans jammed into the scenic Wilkes football park — well over a capacity crowd. Paul Purta one of the few veteran Colonels left from the pre-1965 days, got the adult Horde ahead, 3-0, splitting the fieldin'51™ 3 WeH plaCed 25-yard $ Joe Skvarla (Si), dark shirt, leaps high in the sky for the prised leather. rapidly-developing reputation. The stage was now set for the most electrifying win in Colonel football history. Only one second remained on the Lebanon Valley stadium clock in a 7-7 stalemate. Following a missed Lebanon Valley field goal, Wilkes regained possession of the ball on the enemy's 20. Silence pervaded the crowded arena. In an epic Hollywood-style finish which smacked of the exploits of the famed Frank Merriwell, Coach Schmidt searched his bench and called upon freshman Joe Zakowski to enter the game. Hardly anyone in the stadium was surprised when Zakowski, possessing a javelin arm and playing his first second of varsity football, unloaded a long desperate bomb. Even as the soaring ball descended in the vicinity of the Lebanon Valley 25-yard line, there seemed little chance of success with three Flying Dutchmen anxiously awaiting its arrival. After a brief juggling exhibition around his knees, Paul Purta gathered the elusive ball in (as the game films would clearly show later) and bolting from the group of would-be tacklers, sprinted into the end zone with the winning margin. It occurred to those of us who sighed deeply and looked skyward at that moment, that perhaps the Horde was guided by some higher authority who, on the advice of Coach Schmidt, rendered invincibility on the Blue and Gold. he afternoon as the Horde added awesome maturity to their The Wilkes skein grew to eight as the now fully-grown Golden Horde edged Moravian, 10-7, in a slosh-out mud bath in Bethlehem. The tension was to continue the following week as Zakowski was again called in to provide the artillery. This time it was a short projectile to rangy 6-4 Joe Skvarla, who did a dance step at mid-field, and then streaked the remainder of the way to Mecca for the only score of the day. After humbling Ursinus, 24-0, the Golden Horde, like jungle lions responding to the distant scent of food, sensed their first perfect season very close at hand. Standing 5-0, the national wire services were buzzing of copy about the renaissance of college football in Wilkes-Barre. The final big hurdle figured to be Drexel, which was leading the Southern Division of the MAC with a 5-1 record. After a shaky start, the Colonels settled down. Finally, in the third period, Joe Wiendl took a Drexel punt deep in Wilkes territory and rambled 77 yards to score, pacing the Blue and Gold to their 11th win in a row. Following easy-breathing nods over Juniata and PMC Colleges on the next two Saturdays, the Golden Horde could finally relax. People now unanimously believed the Colonels had under wraps their first perfect 8-0 season and a second straight Northern Division crown. The fitting climax to the 1966 season was to come on November 17th when the Colonels were verified as the recipients of the first Lambert Bowl, which was to join the Lambert Trophy and the Lambert Cup, and honor the top college Division III team on the east coast. Rollie Schmidt and his five team seniors — Captain Ralph Hendershot, Al Yatko, Rich Roshong, Ray Lowery and Paul Purta, along with Wilkes College officials triumphantly journeyed to New York City on Decembers to accept the glimmering football-shaped trophy in regal-like ceremonies at the Hotel Pierre. Other teams honored that day were Syracuse University, Division I; and Gettysburg, Division II. Il was a winter of banquets for Rollie Schmidt who was continually asked how far he thought his Horde could continue its 13-game streak. The prognosis for the 1967 season was confident despite the loss of stalwarts Al Yatko and Paul Purta through graduation. Both had been among the few true stars the Colonels had during the first two years of their rise from obscurity. Schmidt was going to get a preview of the relative strength of his Golden Horde on September 16 when the Colonels were going to lock horns with Ivy League power Princeton University in a full-scale closed scrimmage at antique Palmer Stadium. The Blue and Gold were warned about the bite of the Bengals but when the controlled contact had ended, it was the Ivy Leaguers who had been taught a lesson. Wilkes College and its hard-nosed and aggressive style of football had fought the Princetonians to a stalemate. With confidence oozing, the Wilkes team inaugurated its season with gusto, downing Upsala College, 23-14. The victory was especially sweet for Schmidt and his staff because it provided a little revenge for their only defeat of 1965. The game unveiled the first of many "big plays" which would highlight the 1967 edition, as kick-returner Doug Forde fumbled the opening kickoff and then picked it up and scampered 94 yards for a score. Defensive back Danny Malloy provided the heroics for the next game, commandeering five interceptions as the Golden Horde posted their 15th straight with a 22-12 victory over the Bears. Malloy missed tying the NCAA College-Division record by one theft. The pivotal point of the campaign came on October 7 when the Colonels entertained Delaware Valley in what was to be a real barn-burner at Ralston Field. With the exodus of many local high school athletes to the Bucks County campus, area interest in the contest had grown to immense proportions. The fans more than got their money's worth as former Plains High School star Ron Timko ignited the inspired Aggies to a 13-7 fourth period advantage on a pair of short quarterback touchdown sneaks. The adrenalin started to flow as once again Joe Wiendl waited for a punt deep in Colonel territory. Invincibility now being a divine right of the Horde, Wiendl who could sense the urgency of his mission, made scoring inevitable. Dazzling through Aggie tacklers, Wiendl romped 69 yards to paydirt. Seconds later Dave Kaschak split the uprights for the winning point. Following the Delaware Valley epic, the Blue and Cold played with renewed vigor, staggering the next five foes in cannibalistic-like fashion. So thorough was their holocaust that record watchers were astounded. With the turf still trembling, the Horde, in their final five games, had amassed an incredible 174 points on the scoreboard, while their opponents tallied only 10. The road to 21 triumphs and a second straight 8-0 season included successive devastations of Ursinus, 28-0; Drexel, 13-3; Haverford, 69-0; PMC, 27-0; and Lebanon Valley, 37-7. The Wilkes team had succeeded in capturing the attention of every writer on the eastern seaboard except Rollie Schmidt, left, at the speakers'platform with Ben Swarteuvlder, Syracuse University: and Gene Haas, th ttysbury: as the Colonels receive their first Lambert Bowl in elaborate 1966 ceremonies at the Hotel Pierre in New York City. FALL 1977 11 �for a few members of the Lambert Bowl selection committee'vh° awarded the prized troph) >0 \ a " And find out they did! Ted Yeager, who would later go on to smash every Wilkes rushing record, took the opening handoff from scrimmage lo\vn Zakowski, now a junior, vvas n flawless — at one point he had Collet Lambert Bowl or not. the Golden Horde had become a legend under Rollie Schmidt, who was now b" ng called "Zeus" bv his followers, as the Blue and Gold waited anxiously for the 1968 season. Cries that the Colonels had become "just too big and powerful t were being tossed around like shockwaves throughout the Middle Atlantic Conference. John Reese confirmed the resentment of his fellow conference athletic directors when he announced, prior to the 1968 season that only three league members — Lycoming, Morav ian. and Delaware Valley, were willing to play the Golden Horde in 1970. their rejection meant that the Blue and Gold could not compete for the Northern Division title and would have to turn to scheduling non-conference foes. For the first time in four years it was almost a foregone conclusion that the Blue and Gold were in the perfect position to easily post their third straight unbeaten season and extend their win string to 29. Everything may have looked great on paper, but before the season would end. Coach Schmidt and his Golden Horde would almost contest by contest have to cheat the devil himself at his own game. A big threat to the Wilkes dream was expected in the 1968 curtain riser with the University of Vermont. The trip to the Green Mountain state was to be later labeled by Colonel observers as the high point of the entire Golden Era. The Vermont stadium was primarily a wooden plank complex. It was surprising to see the impressive amount of Wilkes fans who had made the eight-hour trek to Burlington. The Colonel faithful, who seemed to almost outnumber the Catamount rooters, were immediately incensed when they read the preview article in the Vermont game program which en\V’lk'iC?a"ly a5ked ~ "Wh°the HeH It mattered little to the spirited and proud Wilkes throng that the article went on to say that "Wilkes College is a small private institution in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., which has a strong football tradition." As the Vermont team strode onto the field, the Wilkes aggregation wasted little time in Peking up on the article headline ,a"d.expJoded in a rhythmic chant — oWh° the Hell is Wilkes? You'll find 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Marv Antinnes '61 Starmaker and endured the “hard f?culty sport when it was at its the Antinnes recalled of that St ebbhonestly feel that this few times that the coUege S*1* assistants,£d Xn scriXi“g‘d ny While many fine athletes had the opportunity to perform during the ••’Golden Era.” one athlete who didn’t get the chance was Marv Antinnes ’61. who played football at the college between 1957 and 1960. Now a successful football coach and athletic director at Wyoming Seminary, Antinnes clearly remembers the frustrations of a time when football wasn’t that rosy at Wilkes College. “Playing games with only 15 players dressed, was one of the handicaps with which we once had to live,” Antinnes remembered. “But most of the time we usually had 25 men on the field,” he added, displaying his patented grin. Antinnes started his career as a freshman single-wing formation center and linebacker for George Ralston, but was later switched to fulloack ’.’.hen Coach Francis Pinkowski joined the Wilkes command post. Despite the fact that we won only seven games and lost 27 in four years, I don’t think any of us who played the game at that time ever lost interest,” he noted. “We had some great athletes on the team and n? we,re,‘jn’almost everY kame we Played. Unfortunately, the lack of depth usually caught up with us in the second half.” foAvn”^38,P)enty of admiration WllT^t?lnk°WSki’Asan“rly w keS gridiron great u Ralston m the 1940s, Pinkowski had with us without wearing anv protective padding. He took the game very serious and was Way ahead of his time as far as strateev was concerned. I don’t think he ever entered any game with the feeling that he was going to win it,” Antinnes recalled. Locker room facilities, which are taken for granted today, just didn’t exist in the 1950s. “We changed in the cramped toilet facilities at Kirby Park,” the still rugged looking former Colonel remembered. “What mattered was that we loved the game. We took the adversities in stride and actually hated to see our college football days end.” Antinnes did have his moment of sports glory at Wilkes — but as a member of the Blue and Gold wrestling team. To this day, he ranks as one of the finest competitors to ever perform on the Colonel mats. In a complete contrast to his trials and tribulations as a football player, Marv emerged as a three-time Middle Atlantic Conference champion and capped his college career by winning the 1961NAIA 177-pound crown, to become John Reese’s first national titlist. His dual record at Wilkes was 35-1, only a few winning percen points behind mat legends Joe Wiendl and John Carr. During the period that he wrestled, the Co wrestler ■. captured four MA crown ; and an incredible 34meet record — a feat which, o day, has remained unequa e • The real love, however, of Ma‘v Antinnes, .-«> it was then, is 0" t football field where lhequiow personable Wilkes alumnusv found bis niche. Today iLninarY Antinnes leads Wyoming > completed 13 passes in a row! Three of his bullseyes found Joe Skvarla in touchdown country. When the final gun had sounded, the invincible football teams to some of their best performances ever. Since taking over the reins at the Kingston, Fa. school in 1967, Antinnes has guided the Wyoming Seminary Blue. Knights to a remarkable 57-12 win-loss record during his ten short years on the job. Included in this brilliant record are perfect seasons in 1969 (8-0.) and 1976 (7-0), which were the first undefeated, untied teams at the prep school since 1888. Wyoming Seminary has always been famous for its football tradition, and once played Penn State University and other national powers on a regular basis in the early part of this century. Significant in the Blue Knight’s hall of glory is the fact that 33 of its graduates have gone on to become college All-Americans! Antinnes’ forte as a coach has been his ability to adjust with the personnel on hand. “Most of the players on our teams are with us for only one year,” the 37-year-old mentor explained. “For the most part they are high school graduates who come to Wyoming Seminary to further their academic skills before going on to four-year colleges and universities such as Notre Dame, Michigan State, Syracuse, and, of course, Wilkes.” According to his latest figures, 107 of his former athletes have added to their football playing days after finishing at Wyoming Seminary. Wilkes football has been a pleased recipient of Blue Knight alumni, as some of the past and present Colonel players who toiled for Antinnes include Fred Mariannaci ’76, Tom Bradshaw ’77, Chris O’Brien ’78, Tony Couto ’78, Bill Slavoski ’79, and Bill Sobczak '79. Antinnes came to Wyoming Seminary after lour seasons of head coaching at area high schools. “I really didn’t know what to expect when I first came to ‘S?m’. It offered a welcome relief from high school football politics mid booster clubs. But, honestly. I could only envision myself in the position for one year,” ho remembered with a smile. “Coaching football at Wyoming Seminary is like coaching a high Golden Horde was aglow, having crushed the still dazed New Englanders, 31-9. On the way out of the stadium, Wilkes followers school all-star team,” the father of three revealed. “There is usually plenty of talented players but because of the school calendar, we normally have 14 days of practice to get ready for our first game.” Antinnes stressed that the “Sem” football team also contains a sprinkling of juniors and seniors from the high school program, “but for the most part, we are fielding almost a brand new team each year.” “My biggest task in coaching is to quickly find the right person for the right position. I stick to the basics,” he said, “and rely on hard-nosed football to get the job done. The degree of talent of our offensive backfield people pretty much dictates the type of offensive formation that we are going to employ. Oftentimes I may get a boy with a strong arm for the quarterback position. Thus, I will go with a pro-type passing formation. A quarterback, who is a fine runner, might call for us to go with a ‘Veer’ or ‘Power I’ offensive attack.” Another important reason for Wyoming Seminary’s success on the football field has been with its pre-season conditioning program. “We ask our players to come to campus prepared to ‘hit’ early. Because of our schedule, we stress contact in the very early portion of pre-season sessions and we like to stress risk of injuries if the players are not in fine physical shape.” While overcoming many obstacles such as no feeder programs and a brief pre-season practice period, Antinnes feels that the life and philosophy of Wyoming Seminary has been advantageous to football. “Many of our student-athletes live on campus and this docs much to develop a team closeness which is so important. Secondly, our admissions standards provide us with the best qualified students, both academically and emotionally. Finally, we try to treat our student-athletes as adults.” Marv Antinnes has witnessed Wilkes College football in both its brightest and bleakest hours ... and his dedication to the sport and his profession is a tribute to an era, which wasn’t so golden, but enjoyable nevertheless. couldn't resist the opportunity and the chant became, "Who the Hell is Wilkes? You found out! Who the Hell is Wilkes? You found out!" The Greyhounds of Moravian College showed up next on the schedule. Senior Rick Simonson, who replaced quarterback Joe Zakowski in the second quarter, proved devastating in his own right, hitting Joe Skvarla eight times, and chasing the frightened hounds who ran yelping into the locker room to the tune of a 40-0 bath. Now 2-0 on the year and 23-0 in the streak department, the Golden Horde braced for another confrontation with Delaware Valley. Two previous experiences with the Aggies had yielded hard fought stubbornness and the Colonels arrived in Doylestown, prepared for a fight. After a first-half defensive standoff, Wilkes was ahead, 10-3. Despite the lead, the Golden Horde had taken a physical beating. Then, as the spirits that watched over the Golden Horde would have it, Joe Wiendl rose again! Forgetting about the errant punt to Wiendl which cost Delaware Valley the game the previous year, they boldly challenged the prowess of "number 44" again — not once, but twice! dary romps as Joe Wiendl M) on one of his legcndai Brinley Varchol (55) leads the way in i,t a 7.967 game versus Ursinus. Aggie chief Bill Craver, we are told, still has nightmares, seeing Wiendl blow the contest apart with a pair of third-period touchdown gallops of 86 and 62 yards. After three away tilts, the charges of "Zeus" finally displayed their divine strength before a capacity Parents' Day crowd at Ralston Field. Some of the parents had left the game early since the Golden Horde had built a 21-7 fourth-period advantage. Momentum changed drastically, however, and it was only with some heart-throbbing anxious moments and a last minute Jay FALL 1977 13 �? ■I i r Holliday touchdown interception that the Blue and Gold added number 25 to the book, finally winning, 28-19. Upsala College presented what seemed to be a repeat performance of Ithaca. Watching a 9-0 lead evaporate to 9-7 in the final stanza, all eyes were frozen on the field when a ver)' capable Viking place kicker lined up for a 37-yard field goal with two seconds remaining on the clock. The highly partisan crowd was in hush as the players made contact. They followed the ball high in the air and watched for the signal of the referee. As the man in the striped shirt signaled wide, the audience went wildly ecstatic. A strained and worn Rollie Schmidt commented: “We were luck)’ to get out alive.” Defeat had once again been turned away. Rick Simonson provided the excitement for the 27th victor)', completing 16 of 32 passes for 240 yards. It was the best Wilkes throwing performance of all time, and guided the Blue and Gold to a 28-0 annihilation of Dickinson. Simonson, a brilliant tactician, proved to be superb the next week, zeroing in on Joe Skvarla for three touchdown strikes and a 34-0 whitewash of PMC. Paul Purta. shaven here on a short burst, gave Jthe Colonels an offensive naming attack during the 1965 and 1966 seasons. Mike CunroUu who was an ojfewrhe endosa Fml, man in 1965. went on to beame me of the Colonels'greatest outside lirebacken of all time. ! an "ace up their sleeve" and came to Ralston Field with a secret weapon, the "shotgun formation, which IS designed for passing, passing, and more passing. Also watching the contest was a regional television audience. They were jolted off their seats as Lebanon Valley quarterback Bruce Decker turned into a whirling octopus, reeling off an incredible MAC record of 51 passes and nearly succeeding in ambushing the Colonels in their own lair. The Golden Horde, though surprised, was not to be denied and when the final gun sounded, Wilkes had weathered the attack and won, 23-16. Even a spirited media crusade by the King’s Point Merchant Marine Academy, which had enjoyed an equally great year, could not prevent Wilkes College from capturing its second Lambert Bowl, though only by three scant points! This time the entire football team, through the generous support of Wilkes-Barre businessmen, marched to New York City to claim its sterling silver prize. A few weeks later, Coach Rollie Schmidt was invited to the nation's capital by the Washington, D. C. Touchdown Club to accept the " i immie Award” as being the "Outstanding College Division Team” in the United States. For a few fleeting hours the Golden Horde, in all its glory, stood on common ground with Ohio State, the ^Outstanding University Division learn; and such honored recipients as O. J. Simpson, Don Shula, Don Drysdale, and Ted Hendricks. Claiming the "Timmie” was the titling and proper way to end an era which had skyrocketed Wilkes College to national prominence. Wlikes would go on to extend its streax to 32 games the next year, but the mighty Golden Horde with its many familiar faces would soon be decimated by graduation. The Golden Era, for all intents and purposes, had completed its road to triumph with Lebanon Valley needed it the most. Colle8e The 1968 “Timmie Award" hailed the 1968 Wilkes football team as the “Outstanding Small College Team of the Year." Some say they are a legend — others say they are immortal. Those who lived through the Golden Era say to this day, that on any given fall afternoon they can still hear the distant echoing crescendo of the thundering Golden Horde chanting, "We're Number One! We're Number One!" q become more apparent in recent time," said Soter. “There is always the possibility that Marxist professors, those of Soviet persuasion, will increasingly replace non-Marxisl faculty since all professors are employees of the state and the government makes all appointments," the Wilkes dean pointed out. “An ironic aspect of the student movement in Italy,” Soter followed, "is that it is far to the left of the Communist Party. Student extreme­ ness allows communism to almost be portrayed as democratic.” Despite the advances of the Communist Party of Italy in recent years, the Christian Democrats control most important institutions. The strategy of the Italian communists is to take its time, build on its image as a moderate party, and avoid antagonizing the middle class voters whose support is required if any Italian government is to succeed. Dr. Soter concluded, "It also remains to be seen whether a communist regime would ultimately adhere to democratic principles. Despite all its short-comings, the Christian Democratic Party repre­ sents the past greatness of Italian civilization and retains a close affinity with the democratic way of life, characterized by contemporary America.” Roots George Pawlush ’69 has been Sports Information Director at Wilkes for eight years. Early in 1977 Pawlush became the News and Sports Information Director, a tribute to his ability as a journalist. He has received national recognition as a writer, having been published in the New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Washington Post. Mr. Pawlush is also the Associate Editor of the Russian Orthodox Journal, monthly magazine of the Federated Russian Orthodox Clubs. In 1975 Pawlush won N.C.A.A. honors for his football program publications which were awarded third place in national competition. A former Cross Country coach, Pawlush now teaches and runs the college’s news bureau under Doug Rubinstein. George Pawlush is married to the former Carol Corbett. The couple has one son, George IV, featured on the inside front cover of this issue of the Quarterly. Wyoming Valley has long been considered a melting pot of cultures and heritages, settled by people from many nations. One man who has a special interest in this area is Dr. Walter Karpinich, assistant professor of foreign languages and literature at Wilkes College. Al Wilkes, Dr. Karpinich teaches classes in Russian and German. "Language is a key," he explained, an opportunity to explore cultures and the richness of a heritage or country.” Dr. Karpinich, who received his Bachelor s and Master’s degrees from Temple University and his Ph.D. from the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, Germany, began teaching at Wilkes in 1975. He has found the people at Wilkes congenial and the Foreign Language Department offering a quality program. While many colleges have been dropping language requirements, Dr. Karpinich sees a need for involve­ ment with languages. “When a student takes a foreign language, he discovers a new world, gains infor­ mation, and develops a sense of respect for other human beings," stated the Wilkes professor. Dr. Karpinich views the growth of the Foreign Language Depart­ ment as dependent upon two factors. The first being the general economy of the country and the latter being the quality of instruction offered. One course which will be offered this fall will be a special topics course dealing with the works of Franz Kafka. Open to German majors, it includes lectures and discussion and an exhibit at the Sordoni Art Gallery featuring a documentary of photographs on Kafka’s writing, family and travels. The local educator has done extensive traveling in many countries, including West Germany, France, Spain, Austria, and Canada. He also recently spoke at a program at Temple University on “Academic Freedom: Its Significance to the Ethnic American.” The Wilkes professor will have published this year a work entitled, "Rilke’s Slavic Tales.” In this essay, Dr. Karpinich examines three stories written by the German lyricist Rilke. The three stories incorporate Slavic theme and historical fact. Dr. Karpinich will be "examining, relating and identifying sources and what stimulated the lyricist's ideas." In addition to his work at Wilkes, Dr. Karpinich is one of the co-chairmen of the 1977 Luzerne County Folk Festival. The festival is a spinoff of last year’s bicentennial celebration organized by the Luzerne County Bicentennial Commission. According to Dr. Karpinich, "the basic intent and purpose of the festival is to celebrate the region's ethnic diversity." It features the food, music and dance of diflerent areas, with an accent on authentic and original cultures. Dr. Karpinich explained that three basic groups are presented; ethnic food specialities, entertainment, display and demonstration booths. Dr. Karpinich believes that the festival has much to offer. “I feel it is a worthy cause; there is a need to maintain a link, and to see and appreciate what others have to offer." Many Wilkes College students take an active role in the festival. Last year their theme was French, Spanish and German contributions to American life. "The students focus in on a particular theme,” stated Dr. Karpinich, “then they do research to become familiar with the contribution, using charts, lists and maps. The work is an educa­ tional experience for the students, a diversion from regular classroom work, providing an opportunity for research and learning.” Many high school students from the area also participate, most often in the area of entertainment. “Last year, for example, there was a Spanish dance ensemble, made up of students from Wyoming Valley West High School," he remarked. This year there will be an aim for more interaction between high school and college students. Dr. Karpinich resides in Dallas with his wife Olena and his daughters, Tanya and Natalie. New Appointments, New Honors Thirteen additions were made to the college faculty and administration and another nine faculty members were promoted during the summer. Col. Anthony Seizys and Capt. Robert Jennings have joined the Wilkes Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps and the aerospace studies faculty. Col. Seizys, who received his B.S. from the U.S. Air Force Academy and his M.S. from Ohio State, assumed the position following the retirement of Lt. Col. Richard Wing. Capt. Jennings received his B.S. from McNeese State and his M.A. from Northern Colorado. Alex Pawlenok has returned to full-time teaching in the Commerce and Finance Department. Pawlenok, the former college comptroller, received his B.S. from Wilkes. The Education Department has added Linda Giordano to the faculty this year. Ms. Giordano received FALL 1977 15 �card of information projected on a both her B.S. and M.S. from V\ likes, viewer) and microfilm (a roll of and is an assistant professor. information, similar to a filmstrip). Dr. David Curtis and Thomas G. The microfilm collection is also the Beck are now members of the largest in the area. English Department faculty. Both The role of a college is two-fold, assistant professors. Dr. Curtis as it must meet the needs of its received his B.A. from Rhode Island students, faculty and administrators, and his Ph.D. from Brown, while and also be of service to the public. Beck earned his B.S. from Slippery "We are an important asset to the Rock and his M.A. from Ohio. college and the region," said Bueh­ Dr. Patricia Woodworth has joined ler, “as we are supporting the Wilkes the mathematics and computer curriculum and also enriching and science faculty as an assistant sharing the collection with an eye professor. She received her to cooperating in the region." B.A., M.A, and Ph.D. from State University of New York, College at Binghamton. Five new faculty members have joined the Nursing Department. Cathryn Arrowood received both a B.A. and a B.S. from Wilkes; Mary' Bednarski earned a B.S. from SUNY, Empire State and a M.P.A. from Syracuse; Sharon Keeney is a graduate of Villanova; Nancy Marchak graduated from Duke; and Marquerite Scaduto received her B.S. from Hunter and her M.A. from New York. Dr. Thomas Kelly has become dean of administration in the Wilkes College family this year. Dr. Kellv received his B.A. from Wilkes, his M.A. from Lehigh, and his Ph.D. from Cornell. The following faculty members were promoted to these positions: Buehler, a Hazleton native, Professor — Dr. Owen Faut and received degrees from Franklin & Dr. Umid Nejib; Associate Professoi Marshall College and Drexel Dr. Joel Berlatsky, Frederick University'. He noted that the Krohle and Dr. Lester Turoczi; extensive microform collection and Assistant Professor —Sandra convenient hours (the library is open Bloomberg, Michael Haberkorn, more than any' other in the area) Gay Meyers and Dr. Hsi-Ping Shao. attract a large number of area researchers to the facility. He also commented that the micro­ form readers are in open, Farley Tradition well-lighted areas, and that staff assistance is always available. ERIC It is usually difficult to be both (Educational Resources Information the biggest and the best, but the Center) is one source of information, Wilkes College Library is trying to with its large collection of be an exception. Named for Eugene Sheddon Farley, the college's first microfiche. Other microform sources include the "Microbook Library of president, the library' is the largest American Civilization," the “Micro­ such facility in Northeastern Pennsylvania. book Library of English Literature," and “Landmarks of Science," among But even more important, 14 others. Back-date newspapers and full-time staffers emphasize the census documents are also available. importance of "quality as well as The reference collection has an quantity," according to Chief Librarian Dale A. Buehler, and array of tools that range over all of continually strive to improve man’s knowledge,” with major services and material. abstracting and indexing services and subscriptions to various publi­ Resources include over 159,000 cations. The library also “makes an bound volumes, 1,300 magazine effort to purchase outstanding subscriptions, and the equivalent of academic books" as recommended over 124,000 volumes in microform, by reviewers of CHOICE, according specifically microfiche (a small flat to the chief librarian. 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY z Another feature of the libra,., • one that enables the staff tn t? ls track of the collection — an 6ep electronic book protection svstn “Inventories prove that it works ' for us,” said Buehler. “I would recommend it to other libraries an effective means to control cir S lation." The equipment emits a be" and a gate refuses to let the nerQn„P leave the library if a book has not been checked at the main desk The three-story building also houses study areas on all floors and the basement level, as well as facilities for photocopying, audio­ visual services and projection viewing. The audio-visual front is one service which the library staff hopes to expand in the future. Although the general public cannot borrow directly from the college library, non-college people can use all materials and facilities in the library and may borrow through the inter-library loan system if they belong to another area library. "The inter-loan process is a great service to people, as it helps them get materials from all over our nation," remarked Buehler. He also emphasized that tours are available to groups and that the collection rooms in the library are open to anyone upon request. Those four rooms, housing articles of local history and heritage, are the Stark Room, Farley Room, McClintock Room, and the Polish Room. Included in the McClintock Room are original documents on local history, often autographed by people well-known in the history of the nation. Seven years ago the library un­ willingly took part in what is now also local history, as it received heavy damage in the Agnes Flood. Although an inventory taken just before the flood helped pinpoint losses, Buehler noted that “we are still struggling with the results of the flood, as our record keeping is not yet complete. Details remain to be worked out.” In the meantime, the Eugene Sheddon Farley Library continues to serve both the public, and the Wilkes College family, with quality of service always the first priority. Operation Johnstown The College’s Music Department turned into a flood relief center for several weeks in August as the ■•Wilkes College Task Force for Johnstown” was formed to aid the city's flood victims. Bill Gasbarro, chairman of Wilkes College’s Music Department, remembered vividly the ravaging effects of Tropical Storm Agnes and the problems that it caused Wyoming Valley and the Wilke:;s campus five years ago. Naturally, the Johnstown native had his heart stuck in his throat that Thursday afternoon when the first reports of the flood disaster Thomas N. Kaska L* faculty A liberal arts college such as Wilkes may often find itself defending a traditional philosophy of education in the face of public demand for specialization and career preparation. As chairman of the Wilkes English Department, Dr. Thomas N. Kaska strongly believes in the traditional liberal arts education. "We can’t avoid market pressures,” he said, "but we need not surrender our identity to them. We need to find a proper balance, between professionalism and humane learning, between ‘doing’ and ‘being.’ The two are not necessarily antithetical; humanism, after all, is an active idea." A Wilkes faculty member since 1966 and a graduate of the college. Dr. Kaska noted that he is “con­ cerned by the shift at Wilkes away from the Bachelor of Arts degree over the last ten years. It may signify a shift in our center of gravity from humane learning to narrow professionalism.” Ten years ago, 1,371 Bachelor of Arts degree candidates studied at Wilkes along with 831 candidates for a Bachelor of Science degree. Nine years later, in 1976, the trend took a complete about-face as 724 students were B.A. candidates and 1,325 worked toward B.S. degrees. In addition, many liberal arts courses are now optional, while students in some specialized degree programs are exempted from core require­ ments. The danger in such action is that "education can become a matter of training rather than learning for the sake of learning,” said Dr. Kaska. Although he commented that the value of a liberal arts education is difficult to articulate, he advocated that such an education provides insight into the joy of living and opens up a whole area of interest that narrow training isn’t capable of doing." As an example, he explained that once a person learns to read and appreciate literature he can nurture and expand that interest throughout his whole life, regardless of his occupation. In this sense, a liberal arts education provides flexibility in one’s life. Wilkes has been aware of the importance of a liberal arts educa­ tion and continues to maintain its relevance. The first goal as devised by The Goals for the College Committee notes the importance of Communication as an area of study. "Our search for goals was a positive step in redefining our purpose," commented Dr. Kaska. "Reaffirma­ tion of commitment to effective communication was, in fact, a reaffirmation of the most crucial of humanistic ideals. I think it is a very important position for the college to have taken.” A Nanticoke native, the English professor now resides in Mountaintop. He and his wife Eilene are the parents of four daughters, the eldest a student at Wilkes. After graduating from Wilkes in 1957, Dr. Kaska earned his M.A. and his Ph.D. at Duquesne, where he also taught before returning to Wilkes as a faculty member. His specific area of interest is Renaissance English Literature and his principal author is Shakespeare. Dr. Kaska is a member of the Modern Language Association, the Shakespeare Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. O trickled out of the western Pennsylvania community. I have a brother and a sister still living there. I knew that they lived on high ground but knowing the area, I really didn't know what to expect," he said. After getting the word that his family had only received superficial damage, Gasbarro started thinking about what he could do for his native area. The first thing that popped into his mind was the armored battalion from Johnstown which, ironically, spent nearly two weeks on campus after Agnes. A good part of their work was spent at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center complex where Gasbarro has dedicated a big part of his life teaching. “I felt that we owed them some­ thing," Gasbarro related. "They did so much of the bull work here on campus and I was hoping that somehow we could repay them in their hour of need.” The Music Department office was quickly turned into a flood relief center, with donations and volunteers filtering in each day. Volunteers traveled to Johnstown on three separate weekends, assisting in the clean-up efforts for three days before returning to Wilkes-Barre on Sunday nights. The group's efforts were coord­ inated in collaboration with Colonel Joseph Latch, commanding officer of the 103rd Armored Battalion and military advisor to the mayor of Johnstown. The volunteers were also fed and housed at 103rd head­ quarters about five miles from the city. Gasbarro reported that the situa­ tion at Johnstown was "much worse than it was here. Because so many people were affected in one way or another, they couldn’t help each other. What they needed most was manpower for the clean-up operations." He also explained that the destruction was more widespread than many realized because although Johnstown became the center of attention, the flood affected a seven-county area. Although clean-up efforts continue in the flood-stricken area, Bill Gasbarro has now turned his attention and his office back to the Wilkes College Music Department. But Johnstown won't forget the different kind of performance presented by Wilkes this past summer. FALL 1977 17 �Would You Believe, A Chicken Who Thinks He’s A Rabbit? I »■ J I Imagine watching a chicken who thinks he's a rabbit, or listening to talking fish! Sound like figments from a Walt Disney movie script? To Dr. Lou Rigley, a member of the Wilkes College Biology Department, these two happenings spell serious busi­ ness and vividly illustrate his teaching speciality, animal behavior. “Animal behavior involves studying the behavior of animals," explained the Wilkes College assistant professor. “We study to become the observer rather than the observed.” The chicken and rabbit routine is part of an imprinting experiment which Rigley conducts from time to time. “We simply take a new-born chick and raise it in the cage with a rabbit,” Rigley said. “During a period of time the chick adapts to the rabbit's behavior and given the opportunity to choose between the rabbit and another chicken which he has never seen before, the chick will pick the rabbit” “Of course as the chick becomes familiar with other chickens, the rabbit relationship quickly diminishes," he continued. Rigley, who also teaches cordate anatomy and parasitology, is espec­ ially interested in ichthyology, or the study of fish. His primary research at the moment is the sound production in fish. From his many experiments the professor has concluded that fish WE WILKES ; 5'" T-LT E CONNECTION FOR 24-HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. W-S284135 18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY have the ability to hear and comniunicate with each other. 1 1S called underwater acoustic __ communication,” he related, and became popular following W orld War II as a result of sounds which had been heard from inside submarines.” For his fish experiments, the Wilkes biology educator uses a hydrophone which amplifies and records sounds which are produced in the aquarium. “We have found that when the sounds are played back into the tank, the intensity of encounters between the fish is reduced," Rigley noted. Rigley has always been interested in animal behavior and became hooked when he went on for his Ph.D. at the University of West Virginia. “I grew up on a farm in Upstate New York and always had a close contact with nature. Upon meeting some noted animal behaviorists at I’m Not Just A Number — I’m More Than A Name By Wilma Hurst ’79 Wilkes College is not a large institution by any stretch of the imagination. Its total of 2,100 full-time students cannot compare with the tens of thousands at Penn State, for example. Its 23-acre campus is not nearly the size of many other institutions of higher learning. However, Wilkes has a small college atmosphere and a sense of intimacy on the campus, according to promotional literature. But are ° these just meaningless phrases fabricated to serve as excuses for the college’s size? Not at all. Wilkes does indeed have a tradition of intimacy, a special kind of understanding among what is appropriately called the "Wilkes College Family.” This boast of a personal touch in education is not a sales gimmick or an embarrassed attempt to explain the small size. The small college atmosphere is a reality. For instance, consider a typical day in my life as a Wilkes student: West Virginia I was convinced that it would be my life’s work.” For the future Rigley is planning [g a study with a colleague from Ship­ pensburg State College which involves prenatal communication between a mother pig and a piglet fetus. “It is a whole new area which never has been tested," Rigley observed. The Wilkes teacher attended a seminar at Beef Island in the British Virgin Islands during the summer. “We have the opportunity to estab­ lish a field station on the island," he revealed. “If everything works out, we could be offering an intensive two-week course in coral reef biology at Beef Island next year." While dispelling any thoughts of turning the campus into a movie set, Lou Rigley has done his share to further the cause of animal behavior studies and has rightfully claimed the title as Wilkes College’s own "Jacques Cousteau." As I walk down the stairs of Weckesser Hall, the Dean of Academic Affairs calls to me by name and asks how I’m doing; as I pass through the front entrance the President also stops on the way to his office, says hello and offers his help with The Beacon, our campus newspaper, whenever he can be of assistance. A faculty member waves to me from across the street and calls out a greeting. Later I stop in to see my advisor, who asks how my plans for combining a chemistry and journalism education are working out; when I go to interview one of the department chairmen for a Beacon story, he asks the first question — an inquiry about my plans for a career; finally, as I returned to Weckesser, one of the secretaries also stops to chat and ask how things are going for me. "That’s such a big deal," you may ask? Actually it is. It is important to me that administrators, faculty members and staff personnel on all levels take the time to let me know that they are interested in me, True, it does not take much of their time ..-rhe family" misses you so. Keep ,rds and letters rolling in. those cards the re­ We reallyy --preciate appi on our first sponse we received .... You're terrific! But Quarterly, don’t stop there. Please let us —j think. Sugges___* yyou know what and opinions are always welcome. Responses to articles or -- 5 are welcome too. regular features ° ,i.»” __ Vnnw 'to family know hntAt how wp we're Let “the -----------1- we aim to please. doing, because we’ll continue Dropp°uc us a line 1**.~ and • letters from the gang. tO publish—-Write: The Quarterly c/o Alumni Office Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703 or effort to do this. But the atmosphere of personal interest and concern that is Wilkes College evolves from these little gestures. At Wilkes I'm not just a number; I’m more than a name. And I appreciate it when someone takes the time to let me know that he realizes this. It’s nice to know that Wilkes College still thinks about me even after I’ve paid my tuition for the semester. It is true that not every student at Wilkes experiences this same sense of friendliness and concern. For instance, the advisor-advisee relationship is sometimes a meaning­ less one. Some students do not feel that their advisors know of or have any interest in the students’ plans or problems. Unfortunately, sometimes this is true. It is a sad situation when a student walks into his advisor’s office only to find that this person barely knows who the student is. This example is the exception rather than the rule, but the situation does exist. As for the President, he does not know every student by name, but it is actually somewhat of a novelty for a student to know the president by sight. Two Lehigh students attending a Wilkes social function were surprised that their friends recognized the President. They were amazed when he came over to chat. Because Wilkes is a small college, classes are usually also small, and a professor often knows each student by name. Not many, if any big name" colleges can say that. While this may seem a trivial boast, it is not. It is important for a student to know that the person at the lectern realizes he leaches a class of individual students, and not just a nameless sea of faces. Some students may argue that Wilkes cares little about them, that faculty members consider their =fudents little more than a box to be filled or a bottle to be capped This is true only when the student wants it to be. If he thinks of him self as an assembly line product, he will become one. But if his selfimage is of a person who needs to grow, who has much to learn, who s an individual - he will find that u \arr.PeOP>,who have the time and ability to help him grow into a mature, intelligent adult. „ °nlV a small college such as Wilkes can offer this kind of personal attention. There is no equation for its value, and no fee for the service. Is it worth as much as a huge football stadium and the loss of personal identity? I think so. o Editor's Note: Wilma Hurst '79 is the Editor-in-Chief of the BEACON, a 3.3 Chemistry major and the author of numerous Quarterly, local newspaper and scientific promotional pieces for the college and the community. John 0. Duffy, Palo Alto, California; stepson, John L. Bugbee, WilkesBarre; 12 grandchildren. Dr. Frank Speicher Class of’44 Dr. FRANK P. SPEICHER, 54, of South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., died on May 28 in Mercy Hospital after being stricken ill at the Wyoming Valley Country Club. Frank attended Wilkes as Bucknell Junior College and graduated from Bucknell University. He received his professional training in dental surgery at Temple University College of Dentistry. For 27 years he maintained offices in the United Penn Bank Building in Wilkes-Barre. Surviving are his widow, the former TREVERYAN WILLIAMS '43; sons, Clark, at home; Kirk, a doctor and post-graduate student at UCLA; daughter, Mrs. Karen Muru­ gan, San Francisco; and one grand­ child. Dr. Douglas M. MacNeal Class of’48 O memoriam Mary Eisenhower Brown Bugbee Class of’61 MARY EISENHOWER BROWN BUGBEE, 72, of 577 Charles Avenue, Kingston, Pa., died on July 15,1977 in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. Mary received her B.S. in English from Wilkes College in 1961. She taught in Kingston Public Schools, Wilkes-Barre Day School, Dallas Public School and Wyoming Seminary. Her last assignment was at Wilkes. Her first husband. Professor Harold F. Brown, died in 1964 and her second husband. Professor Leroy E. Bugbee died tn 1974. Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. George Kuryloski, West Wyoming; Mrs Ray W. Turner, Jr., Orange, Mrs.'Martin Lee, Bloomsburg; Mrs. Dr. DOUGLAS M. MacNEAL of 103 Court Street, Doylestown, Pa., died on May 20 in Lakeland, Florida. Doug practiced dentistry for 22 years in Doylestown until earlier this year. He was in Florida planning to set up a practice when he died. Doug received a B.S. in Biology from Wilkes College in 1948 and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Dental School in 1953. He is survived by his wife, Martha and sons, Douglas, John and Kenneth. Guy R. Gubanich Class of’73 GUY R. GUBANICH, 24, of 10 Galicia Drive, Phoenixville, Pa., died on November 29,1976 in the Phoenixville Hospital after a brief illness. Guy received his B.S. in Account­ ing from Wilkes College in 1973. He was a senior accountant at Wyeth Laboratories Incorporated in Paoli, Pa. Guy is survived by his parents, Andrew and Marie Gubanich, Phoenixville; brothers, ALAN '64, Reno, Nevada; LARRY '65, Phoen­ ixville; and DREW ’64, Whitehall, Pa. FALL 1977 19 �The Amazing World of Harold Cox By Mary Ellen Alu '77 History professor Harold Cox is the kind of guy who, after breaking out of a straitjacket in less than 15 seconds, can make his way across 100 miles of booby trapped, impossible jungle to his desk to write his -weekly £ column. Then get into his own train, speed off into the wilderness to complete construction of his self-sufficient energy home while making final editorial changes for his quarterly magazine and preparing for tomorrow's lecture. When Dr. Harold E. Cox, history professor at Wilkes, says he'll try anything once, he's certainly not kidding. To some, he's known as an educator. To others, he's known as a columnist, an editor, or a publisher. Yet others know him as a carpenter, an army sergeant, a self-defense instructor, or an escape artist, to name just a few of his various roles. He's a type of jack-of-all trades, except he seems to master most everything he tackles and to finish most everything he starts "one way or the other." "I just go like hell trying to keep ahead of my projects," he admitted, "with varying degrees of success." 20 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY And he's awake by 6:00 or 6:15 every morning, finding that he's solved two or three problems before most people are even up. Since 1963, Dr. Cox has been at the college sharing both his knowledge and humor with the Wilkes students, faculty, and administration, teaching almost every history course offered. But despite this workload, the tall and slender educator finds the time to communicate with students out of the classroom, considering such interaction beneficial. He said jokingly that it gives students the opportunity to "see that the faculty are more inhuman than they thought they were in class." And so he manages to spend time with the students, offering them help when it's needed, "I've lived twice as long as many of them," he said earnestly, "and I'm bound to have learned something along the way." Favoring more informal contact between students and faculty, Dr Cox will occasionally conduct a type of vaudeville act for the students during those informal get-togethers. This traveling road show, which is how Dr. Cox refers to it, arose from his college days when he worked as a locksmith in order to pay his way through school. He collected handcuffs, leg irons, and padlocks which he uses for the escape demonstrations. But one of Dr. Cox's most unique performances is getting out of a straitjacket, which takes him from 15 to 30 seconds to do. "I just wiggled a lot until I learned how," he said good-humoredly when asked how he ever learned such an act. But he has never tried getting out of a box in water. "In the first place I don't like water," he laughed, "and in the second place I don't like boxes." Being proficient in unarmed self-defense (hand-to-hand combat), Dr. Cox will also give defense demonstrations from time to time. He started teaching this subject about 20 years ago when he taught army recruits. SE "The primary objective of this form of defense," he said, "is to hit the person with something big enough to knock him down before he knows you're going to hit him. It's the results that count." "Women," he added, "should speak softly and carry a nine-inch hat pin. It's their greatest defense mechanism." li' In the mid-1960's, the history professor was involved in the original establishment of the college's Judo Club, but lately he hasn't done much with self-defense at Wilkes, since there are other such clubs on campus. "And there doesn't seem to be that much interest in dirty fighting anymore. It's not like the good old days," he chuckled. In another role, Dr. Cox is currently displaying his carpenter skills by building a three-story house in Exeter Boro, Pa., with the help of students and a Wilkes alumnus. He explained that the house is being hand-built by the old methods and that they're using lumber that's about 100 years old, obtained from a barn they dismantled near the Huntsville dam. He's building the house "in order to experiment with various energy sources to make a self-sufficient house energy-wise and for less than $20,000." I think it can be done," he said confidently. "I plan to begin with wood as an energy source and experiment with solar collectors, Methane generation, and wind." And if it works? "Who knows," he said. "You don't find out until you try." But building a house, advising and teaching students, and conducting demonstrations only °ccupy part of Dr Cox's busy schedule. He's also involved in the newspaper world, writing a weeklv column for a local Sunday Y newspaper which displays his sophisticated humor and which he says releases tensions." The column is a cynical commentary of the world. "I simply watch the news, keep one ear open and wait until something strikes my fancy," said Cox, "and I create something." "As long as you got a world like the one we got, you seldom run out of ideas. There's always someone doing something stranger than you can invent." Although he enjoys writing his column, Dr. Cox doesn't devote all his time to it because "there's too many other things to do in the world." Since 1973, he's been consultant to the Philadelphia Social History Project, a project to computerize all the demographic records of the city from 1850 to 1880. He has participated in the active army and the reserves for 23 years, serving now as a sergeant major in the Army reserves. Most recently, he has been instructing military police units and demonstrating police tactics. But he is also editor of the Pennsylvania History (a magazine quarterly of the Pennsylvania Historical Association), runs a small publishing house that specializes in paperbacks for rail fans, serves as the faculty liaison for the Air Force ROTC at Wilkes, and is president of the Dushore Car Company, a company that engages in the reconstruction of antique street cars. But these activities still aren't enough to satisfy the energetic educator. He has also published 15 scholarly articles that deal with subjects ranging from the . And while "everybody's ^“es‘ed in something, "Dr. Cox's mam interest is in the history of public transportation. He said it vvas the street railroad system that transformed the American city overnight and that had a rapid rise and sudden demise. He explained that in 1890 there were no electrical railroads; in 1910, the country was blanketed; and by ' 1940, these railroads were all gone. I m interested in the various forces that cause collapse," he said, "and I worry about the future of public transportation." With all these interests, Dr. Cox said he finds the right atmosphere at Wilkes to pursue his goals. He explained that other schools often pressure their professors to publish works, but he's not happy with "publish or perish." "There's no pressure at Wilkes to make a national reputation," he said. "I am, in effect, national, but I do what I want, rather than what will sell." "It's more self-fulfilling than busting my chops trying to write something that meets with the latest fad," he added. And he doesn't like the can-you-top-this attitude that many follow, because it leads to people writing articles that will never be read. "Wilkes has its priorities right," he stressed. "Teaching first — writing second." Dr. Cox has also found the college gives him much support, such as allowing him to house his collection of manuscripts on the top floor of the Eugene Shedden Farley Library. It is one of the largest collections of manuscripts dealing with urban transportation in the United States and is used by scholars from Pittsburgh, Penn State, Brandeis, Haverford, and other colleges. Married 21 years, Dr. Cox is constantly on the move — and that's easy to understand considering all his interests. And when he say's he'll try anything once — few question it. He's simply done too much ror people to think otherwise. O FALL 1977 21 �md Wedding Bells Dip Babies at Continues to Rise pjvorce live births in the U.S. s Jwed a sidight increase in 1976, al; birth rate fell off at a though the^ •I ^^JfesHmated 3,165,000 live births __________________ _ School-Age Youth The percentage of high school graduates going on to college (49 per­ cent) was not significantly different from last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The number of high school drop­ outs remained about the same, and figures indicate that one in three dropouts are unemployed. Employment among students in­ creased, especially among those in college. A rise in employment among youths not in school was shared by dropouts and high school and college graduates. perimeter or write acceptable unified and focused essays. Don Phillips, an analyst at the as­ sessment felt 17-year-olds, can read, write and compute in wellstructured situations, but they have difficulty applying their knowledge to new situations." College Costs To Rise Nationally College costs will rise an average of four percent in the 1977-78 aca­ demic year, according to an annual survey by the College Scholarship Service (CSS). CSS reported that the average cost for a resident student at a four-year private college will be 84,905, but some college costs will be in excess of S7.500. Tuition and fees at private fouryear colleges will go up 6.3 percent, bringing average tuition and fees to 52,476 in 1977-78. Costs other than tuition and fees will increase 4.1 per­ cent for resident students and 2.4 percent for commuters. Tuition and fees account for more than 50 per­ cent of the total costs, while room and board constitutes 20 percent of the total for commuter students and 30 percent for residents. In the past seven years costs at four-year public colleges have risen 69 percent, while similar costs at four-year private institutions have increased 65 percent. CSS said that the most expensive colleges are in the Middle States re­ gion, New England region, and the West. The survey also reported that 12 colleges and universities will have total costs of over 57,000 next year. Those colleges include Massachu­ setts Institute of Technology, Brown University, University of Pennsyl­ vania, Columbia, Princeton, Benning­ ton College, Dartmouth, Hampshire, Stanford. Bryn Mawr, Skidmore, and Williams College. 17-Year-Olds Need Help — Only Half Can Read Well If you know a 17-year-old who may be contemplating going to col­ lege, you might be interested in the recent findings of the National As­ sessment of Educational Progress. According to the Spring report only half of the 17-year-olds in the United States can read freshman­ level materials. Using previous studies, the report provides profiles of the knowledge and abilities of three age groups -— 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds, and 17year-olds. Some interesting specifics offer re­ vealing concerns for our nation’s young people. For example: More than two-thirds of the 9-year-olds can add two-digit numbers and read and comprehend literal facts in sim­ ple, brief stories. But fewer than onethird can subtract three-digit and four-digit numbers or organize and elaborate on their ideas in writing. Two-thirds of the 13-year-olds can add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers and use basic refer­ ence materials. But fewer than onethird can understand the structure and function of the legislative branch of government or organize and elab­ orate their ideas in writing. State College Costs Exceed Two-thirds of the 17-year-olds can Consumer Price Index calculate a simple average and have mastered the mechanics of writing, State college costs saw their larg­ but fewer than one-third can calcu­ est increase in four years last year, late the area of a square, give its as the percentage rises surpassed the 22 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY inflation rate from 1975-76 to 1976 77. The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) found that the Consumer Price In­ dex advanced 6.4 percent, while un­ dergraduate tuition and fees climbed 8.3 percent for state residents and 9.8 percent for non-residents. Grad­ uate tuition fees showed similar in­ creases. AASCU Executive Director Allan Ostar said that in the past seven years “tuition and fees at AASCU institutions increased 66.2 percent while the Consumer Price Index in­ creased 40.2 percent. This alarming trend has had an adverse effect up­ on the ability of many people to at­ tend college. It not only reduces the effectiveness of federal student aid programs designed to assist low in­ come students; it accounts for the disproportionate decline in enroll­ ments among middle income stu­ dents." Job Prospects For College Grads Best In Years. Engineering and women college graduates face a brighter employ­ ment picture this year, as job pros­ pects for these groups "appear to be shaping up as the best in several years," according to the College Placement Council. At the bachelor’s-degree level, 49 percent more offers were reported than at the same point last year, while the volume was up 74 percent at the master’s level and 73 percent at the doctoral level. The job outlook for women is even better, as the number of salary offers increased 68 percent over last March, while offers for men increased 45 percent. Engineering continues to attract the most offers, as half of the avail­ able jobs were for engineers. Ac­ counting and auditing accounted for one quarter of the total, while the other quarter was divided among 21 other areas. „ one percent increase, but a of 14-7 births per 1,000 women rate o nne percent decrease over means a r A‘ 19"The slight increase in the number f births in 1976 can be attributed to or0wth in the number of women in the childbearing ages (15-44 years) ' ther than to an increase in the rate nf which women were bearing childn " said a report from the National Center for Health Statistics. The number of childbearing-age women is expected to increase by eight percent in 1980, thus continu­ ing the rise in the number of births. The rate of natural population in­ crease declined slightly because of the declining birth rate, while the marriage rate also declined for the third consecutive year. The number of divorces increased by 51,000 over 1975 and more than twice the num­ ber a decade ago. The divorce rate was 5 per 1000 population, an in­ crease of more than 4% over 1975, and the 10th annual increase in the divorce rate. Make Your Own Sesame Street Public and private nonprofit ele­ mentary schools and day care cen­ ters can now make their own video­ tape recordings of programs in the 1976-77 Sesame Street television series and use them until June 1979, HEW's Office of nf nounced today ducatlon an- Television Workshop5' rCTWl^61*'^ Public BroadlX(aeand Sesame Street is a hi°hlv ae claimed preschool television series' designed to teach children letters and numbers and to help them progress m a variety of curriculum areas In recent years, Sesame Street has been and^h^ L° j|nClude se8ments for and about handicapped children the of."’°men, career awareness, and basic health practices. The series, which recently com­ pleted its one-thousandth hour of production, has been partially fund­ ed by the Office of Education since it began in November 1969. It now appears on more than 250 public and 15 commercial stations in the United States at a daily cost of a half-cent per viewer. The original English language ver­ sion is now seen in more than 30 countries around the world. CTW has also developed "Open Sesame," a special series for adaptation by overseas broadcasters, and six Euro­ pean and Latin American countries have produced original versions based on the Sesame Street model. The new off-the-air taping pro­ cedure is intended to increase the use and flexibility of Sesame Street as an educational tool in classrooms. Teachers can now tape a program and use it at a later date to fit their own schedules. For example, some teachers may choose to show an epi­ sode when it covers the concepts be­ ing taught in the classroom; or a pro- o am can be repeated as many times s necessary for a group of children who need extra reinforcement in the areas covered on the show. Available for taping are those programs which will be broadcast in the £gn71‘ed States through December 2, Schools that have taping capabil­ ity must first obtain the consent of the local television station before making the off-the-air recordings at their own expense. Schools that are interested in re­ cording the Sesame Street shows but do not have the capability to do so should contact the local station on which it appears about the possibil­ ity of obtaining videocassettes or television recordings of the pro­ grams. Three major safeguards covering the use of Sesame Street will insure that the programs are used only for school instructional purposes: • Every program must be recorded in its entirety without editing. • Audio and video portions of a program must be used together. • No admission fee can be charged. The hour-long recordings may be used during the current school year and the following two. To further increase the education­ al use of Sesame Street, the Child­ ren's Television Workshop's Com­ munity Education Services Division has developed special supplemental materials and approaches for schools and day care centers. To obtain these services, schools should contact ei­ ther the Division’s Central office or one of its six regional offices. Q 1-... Mark Cohen “ he has a special way of seeing the world, his pictures have incredible energy,” is the way Marvin Heiferman describes artist not alone in his evaluation. Wilkes College Sordoni Art Gallery is offering some fifty-seven of these photographs in exhibition until Oct. 2. The exhibition, being presented at the courtesy of the Visual Studios Workshop Gallery, Rochester, NA., will feature the work done by Cohen in England during the Summer of 1975. FALL 1977 23 �Cohen’s love of photography began while he was in his early teens and since then, the artist says of himself, "I’ve been making photos every single day for 20 years. If I’m not taking them, I’m thinking about them." Perhaps this is the quality that comes through in Mark Cohen's work, not just the "incredible energy” but his inherent love of his trade. Relief Sculpture ! ’‘ £ UnivereHy. where he obtained both his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees. For the past 17 years, Simon has concentrated in the area of sculpture, but prior to this, he studied painting. His teachers included Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell. Another sculpture by Simon is located at the Coal Street Park. This work entitled "Two Modules" is a free-standing construction, painted bright red and orange, measuring 16 feet by 16 feet by 16 feet. The work is made of steel square tubing which gives it an open, linear look, a "kind of drawing in space." The location of this piece is particularly effective, situated on a high rise overlooking the city of Wilkes-Barre with the Endless Mountains in the background. The underlying conceptual similarities of both “Facets” and “Two Modules” deal with aesthetic issues with which Simon is concerned at this time. Franz Kafka The facade of the Wilkes College William B. Schaeffer Lecture Hall has taken on a new look in the form of a relief sculpture. The work entitled “Facets” was created by Herbert Simon, assistant professor in the Fine Arts Department at the College. The sculpture consists of 16 modular units which form a large diamond shape, measuring 10 feet by 10 feet by 2 feet. "Facets” is minimalist in its conception. Variety is achieved by clockwise and counter-clockrvise placement of the prism-shaped units The seeming simplicity of the work is deceptive. It is a work which demands extended study for the viewer to comprehend the complexity of its visual phenomena. Particularly striking is the way in which the silvery-grey aluminum surfaces reflect one another and pick up subtle colors from the surrounding brick walls, neighboring trees and shrubbery and the sky. The sculpture was fabricated by the McGregor Architectural Iron Company in Dunmore. A native of Nashville, Tenn., Simon acquired his art training at Vanderbilt University, The Brooklyn Museau Art School, Hans Hofmann Art School, Colorado Springs Fine 24 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY A photographic documentary on the life and works of Franz Kafka will be exhibited in the Sordoni Art Gallery Oct. 4 through 9. The exhibit was arranged through the courtesy of the Goethe House, and with the cooperation of the Wilkes College Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Department of English. Nine groups of photographs depicting various areas of Kafka’s life will be shown, with a total of some 75 individual pieces in the show. Kafka, born in 1883 in Prague Czechoslovakia, was a world- ' renowned author, publishing a number of novels, short stories and parables which have been translated into almost every language in the world. He has been described as th most enigmatic writer of this e century, as the number of interpre tations proposed for each individual work is overwhelming. The author died in 1924 at the age of 41, after tuberculosis set in Never married, but engaged several times, Kafka’s life was one of suffering, both physically and emotionally. His works were most popular in the 1940’s, although his reputation as an outstanding author is widely accepted today. He is especially well-known in China and Japan, where he is called “Kaufuka." Alumni Invitational Exhibition The second Wilkes College Art Alumni Invitational Exhibition will be featured during Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 14-16. The alumni works will continue on display through Nov. 6 at the Sordoni Art Gallery. The first alumni exhibition was held in May 1974. Over 30 multi­ media works were included in the show. Gerry Alferio ’73 won the Wilkes College Art Department Purchase Prize Award with his “Seascape,” an acrylic abstract painting. O Homecoming 'll Thiie Golden Horde Returns jdigw J....... .Qfe© ..Mi ?. Project 78 — An MAC Crown? Rodger Bearde honestly felt that his Wilkes basketball team was going to find itself last winter and seriously challenge for a Middle Atlantic Conference playoff berth. The dream was never to unfold as injuries and other problems inter­ ceded, and the Colonels had to face the reality of a 7-15 campaign. Almost the entire cast is back intact and Coach Bearde is again hoping that his talent-laden squad will live up to its potential. The Blue and Gold have three double-figured point producers in junior Kendall McNeil, 14.6; junior John Zapko, 13.2; and senior Ken Hughes, 11.8. Other seasoned veterans include senior Nick Holgash, 2.6; juniors George Oschal, 3.6; Jeff Baird, 8.5; Matty Peterson, 7.1; and sophomore Art Meigh, 4.3. The Colonels are scheduled for 23 games, including home and away tilts with MAC Northern rivals Sus­ quehanna, Lycoming, Albright, Dela­ ware Valley, Elizabethtown, and Juniata. The complete 1977-78 Wilkes basketball card: Nov, 29, Lock Haven St., home; Nov. 30, Delaware Valley, home; Dec. 2-3, St. Michael’s (Vt.) Tournament; Dec. 5, East Strouds­ burg St., away; Dec. 7, Philadelphia Textile, home; Dec. 10, Susque­ hanna, away; Dec. 13, Lycoming, away. “U S “OCTOBER 14th,,----15th, 16th HOMECOMING '77 - A TRIBUTE TO THE GOLDEN HORDE DON’T MISS IT Also, Jan. 14, Moravian, away; Jan. 18, Albright, away; Jan. 21, Juniata, away; Jan. 24, Philadelphia Pharmacy, away; Jan. 28, Delaware Valley, away; Jan. 30, Albright, home; Feb. 1, Susquehanna, home; Feb. 4, Lycoming, home; Feb. 6, Elizabethtown, away; Feb. 8, Scran­ ton, away; Feb. 11, Madison FDU, away; Feb. 14, Scranton, home; Feb. 16, Elizabethtown, home; Feb. 18, Juniata, home; Feb. 20, Bloomsburg St., home. Women at Wilkes: Dawn of New Athletic Age The female athlete at Wilkes is perhaps part of a new era for the women’s sports program, as the past several years have seen the program grow slowly but surely. Since basketball made the sports scene in I960, five other varsity teams have appeared — field hockey, tennis, swimming, volleyball and softball. Three of those teams were born in the past two years, evidence of the program’s new growth. Wilkes women have also entered the men’s realm, as several have joined previously all-male squads, proving that they are willing and able to take on any athletic chal­ lenge. Although female teams do not enjoy the prestige of many other campus sports squads, the women are determined to take their place in the spotlight. The field hockey and tennis teams have already won their share of championships — three straight for Gay Meyers’ hockey club and two consecutive titles for Sandy Bloomberg’s tennis squad — and this season also holds much promise. More importantly, interest on the part of the women seems to also have grown recently, as more and more female athletes come out for the teams each year. This season may be the best ever. Since women come to Wilkes primarily for an education, the life of an athlete is not always an easy one with the additional pressures of studving, classes and part-time jobs. But since an increasing number oi women seem to be willing to enter the sports scene, the program headed by Doris Saracino, has no where to move but ahead, growing an improving in quantity, qualitj and popularity each year. David Versus the Goliaths John Reese will face the biggest challenge of his 25-year college coaching career this winter with the toughest dual schedules of all time staring him in the face. Included in the Colonels blockbuster card are meets with top-ranked Oklahoma, Lehigh, Penn State, Navy, Syracuse, and Oregon State. In addition to a difficult slate, Coach Reese must contend with the job of finding replacements for six starters, who either graduated or left school. The Colonels will especially be thin and inexperienced in the lower weights with the 118,126, and 134 pound spots up for grabs. Casper Tortella, who sat out last year, could help the situation at 134. Wilkes will be strongest in the middleweights with sophomores Mark Densberger, Denny Jacobs, and senior Greg MacLean all veterans of heavy varsity combat. MacLean was a fifth place finisher in the EIWA Tournament’s 158pound class. He was 12-6 in overall competition as was Mark Densberger. Junior Perry Lichtinger was 11-2 as part-time performer at both 167 and 177. The best wrestler on the team could be junior Bart Cook, who placed third at the Easterns, and was 13-3 in overall competition. Cook will either compete at 177 or 190. Dan House, a 6-3, 220-pound heavyweight, was a major surprise for Coach Reese last winter and should even be better this time around. He barely missed a trip to the national tournament, placing fourth at the EIWA event with a 19-7 overall record. Reese goes into his silver anniversary year of collegiate wars with a 236-48-7 dual mark, one of the best records in the history of NCAA wrestling. The Colonels are coming off a 17-3 dual season and a fourth place team finish in the Easterns. The 1977-78 varsity schedule includes 21 opponents, including 15 NCAA University Division foes. FALL 1977 25 �Wilkes still holds the distinction of being the smallest, as far as school enrollment, among NCAA Division I teams in the country. The complete 1977-78 card: Dec. 1, York, away; Dec. 4, Binghamton Invitational; Dec. 6, Lehigh, away; Dec. 6, Oregon St., home; Dec. 10, Navy and Florida, away; Dec. 28-29, Wilkes Open Tournament; Jan. 7, Oklahoma, home; Jan. 9, Tennessee, away: Jan. 10, North Carolina St., away; Jan. 14, Syracuse, home; Jan. 18, Delaware Valley, away; Jan. 21, Oswego St., home; Jan. 25, Elizabethtown, away; Jan. 28, Lycoming, home; Feb. 4, Hofstra, away; Feb. 7, East Stroudsburg, away; Feb. 11, Army, away; Feb. 14, Bucknell, away; Feb. 18, F&M, home; Feb. 22, Penn State, home; Feb. 25, Rutgers, home; Mar. 2-4, EIWA Tournament, at Penn; and Mar. 16-18, NCAA University Tournament, at Maryland. Genesis of a Name It’s not hard to figure out how the Pittsburgh Steelers or the New York Mets got their name, but from whence comes the Wilkes College Colonel? Is John Wilkes, the namesake of the college and the city, the source? No, believe it or not, the Wilkes College Colonel is actually that symbol of the old South, the “Kentucky Colonel.” So how did a school in northeastern Pennsylvania happen to choose him for its mascot? Back in 1947, when the former Bucknell University Junior College received its charter as a private, four-year, liberal arts college known as Wilkes, the question of a suitable mascot arose. The Lettermen's Club held a contest, and the winner was a suggestion by George Ralston, then a biology instructor, dean of men, director of athletics, football, baseball, and basketball coach. Being a Southern gentleman himself, Dean Ralston remembered the Kentucky Colonel from his earlier days and deemed him a perfect mascot for the new-born college. The goateed gentleman, with the striped trousers has represented Wilkes ever since. Marianne i Montagues' u. rc southjffiwtWst. Actually the Wilkes symbol is not the only Colonel in the country, but only four other college football teams claim a Colonel as their mascot. Centre College, a Danville, Kentucky school of 775 students, also chose the Colonel from its home state; Curry College in Milton, Mass., with an enrollment of 700, goes by the moniker. Other Colonel namesakes include Eastern Kentucky, 13,500 enrollment; and Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La., also carry the Colonel nickname. Ten men's varsity teams at Wilkes College now engage in athletic competition as Colonels, while the six women’s squads carry the same nickname. Although no one regularly dons the Colonel’s garb for games, that old gentleman of the South has at times appeared on the Wilkes campus, usually astride a white horse. And by the way, Dean Ralston no longer has to hold down six jobs. - G Oi ■ covoNElsJ 1 J HWLWl The South Riverstreet Revival was compiled by Marianne Montague of the Alumni Relations Office. The information contained in Alumni Notes was received between June 1,1977 and August 15,1977. Please send news contributions to: Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. Here we are at the Homecoming festivities at the South River Street Revival to exchange news tidbits about our Wilkes alumni. We’re waiting right now for George Ralston to arrive. He lost his original raccoon coat and has been away for three days hunting raccoon. Here comes our host now. Dean Ralston: Hiy’all and welcome to Wilkes’ 30th annual homecoming festivities. Our regulars are all here with us this weekend including the inventor of the Wilkes dorm party, John Chauialek; the guy who fixes the homecoming raffle so he wins a prize every year, Art Hoover; and the incomparable Charlie Reif. Plus we’ll have visits from alumni that we don’t get to see very often. So follow your homecoming activity schedule and come along with us. Join me while we peruse the homecoming displays put up by 26 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY the students. There’s one - “Dissect Moravian” by the Biology Club and “Deduct Moravian" by the Accounting Club. While we go along I’ll tell you about the Wilkes alumni who have recently received advanced degrees. LEE DAVID AUERBACH ’74 recently received the degree of juris doctor from Vermont Law School in South Royalton, Vermont. BERNADINE ADONIZIO, M.D. ’69 was recently graduated from a residency in psychiatry at The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, a private psychiatry facility in Philadelphia. She has been appointed to the medical staffs of The Institute and of the student health service of the University of Pennsylvania. BERNARD E. NARREN ’65 was awarded a master of administration degree at the spring commencement of The Pennsylvania State University, the capitol campus. RANDALL G. GALE ’74 and GIFFORD R. CAPPELLINI ’74 were awarded juris doctor degrees from the Dickinson School of Law in June. NANCY CASTERLIN KNIGHT ’58 is attending Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, studying Fashion Design. Nancy received a S400 scholarship from the Mt. Prospect Business and Professional Women’s Club for designing a hand-batiked water-lily print silk gown. MARCINE KLINE COHEN ’69, M.A. University of Southern Florida '70, is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California in San Diego. «o«?& ,SKr,A’’L F.'nHNSTOCK ’73 recently received vfD degrees from The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa Bob is a resident in surgery at resident in Internal Medicine at aRnval Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and Elliot is a resident in internal medicine at Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh. GAYLE JACOBSON FRIEBIS ’60 received a B.A. from Glassboro State College in Glassboro, N.J., in February 1977. Gayle was in the administrative studies program. She lives in Pitman, N.J. with her husband, George and their two children, Karen and Jason. PAULINE SELESKI ’75 received her master’s degree in August 1976 from Ball State University. Polly is currently employed as a Residence Hall Director at Northern Illinois University. NOREEN DRUGACH ’73 recently received her M.B.A. degree from F.D.U. in Rutherford, N.J. She resides in Morristown, N.J. THOMAS RUNIEWICZ ’76 is working towards his masters in economics at Penn State University. Tom resides in Media, Pa. JOHN CIOCCA ’76 is presently attending graduate school at Hahnemann Medical College to obtain a master's degree in clinical psychology. John has also been appointed to the faculty at the College of Allied Health and Science of Hahnemann Medical College as an instructor of psychology for the 1977-78 school year. DAVID J. GALLICK ’73 and DEBORAH YASHEMSKI RIGLE ’72 recently received M.D. degrees from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. FLOYD J. MILLER, JR. ’76 recently received his Master of Science degree in technical writing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. ROSEMARIE KAZDA TAYLOR ’73 has received certification in medical librarianship from the Medical Library Association. Rosemarie received her master’s degree from the University of Denver. She is the librarian at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. She resides in Wilkes-Barre with her husband, Les. IRVING MENDELSSOHN ’69 recently received his doctorate in botany with a minor in ecology from North Carolina State University at Raleigh, North Carolina. Irving holds a master's degree in marine science from the College of William and Mary, in conjunction with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, in 1973, He is a research associate at Louisiana State University Center for Wetland Research in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He resides with his wife, Karen, in Louisiana. Three Wilkes graduates received advanced degrees in June from Rutgers University in Rutgers, N.J. STEVEN FORST '74, of Succasunna, N.J., and STEVEN MARK GROSSMAN ’74, of Kingston, Pa. received master's degrees. JOAN P. GILLESPIE ’70, of Denver, Colorado, received her Ed.D. U.S. Air Force Second Lieutenant LAWRENCE H. STAHLER '76 has graduated from the Strategic Air Command's missile combat crew operational readiness training course at Vandenberg AFB, California. Larry is at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, for training and duty as a missile combat crew member. BARBARA A. KILKENNY ’77 is beginning her first year at the Philadelphia College of Podiatry. Dean Ralston: And here’s one more advanced degree about a former Wilkes professor. MARJORIE ANN ROMINES received her doctor of philosophy degree in June from the Graduate School of Art and Sciences of The George Washington University in Washington, D. C. Marjorie, who was an instructor of English at Wilkes 1966-1969, will be teaching at the University of Cincinnati. Now I’ll take y’all to the football game where my buddy John Chwalek is bundled up in his ear muffs and galoshes watching the action. Dean Ralston: Hi, John, who’s winning? Mr. Chwalek: I don’t know. Who’s playing? Dean Ralston: John, what kind of Wilkes alumnus are you? Don’t you pay attention to the game? Mr. Chwalek: George, male whatare kind of red-blooded American you? Don’t you pay attention to those foxy blondes that are sitting on the sitting on the other bleacher? Dean Ralston: Aren’t you interested in how many passes our quarterback completed? Mr. Chwalek: George, I’m interested in how many passes I completed. Dean Ralston: You are hopeless, John. Just read your part. Mr. Chwalek: GLORIA AGURKIS ’77 is employed by General Data Systems Ltd. in Philadelphia, Pa. JOHN G. KONSAVAGE ’54 has been appointed resident manager for Warren W. York and Co., Inc., an investment firm which recently established offices in the United Penn Bank Building in Wilkes-Barre. MADGE KLEIN BENOVITZ ’56 has been elected to a three-year term on the King’s College board of directors. Madge is a member of the Pennsylvania State Board of Education. She resides in Kingston, PA with her husband, Dr. Burton Benovitz and daughter, Jane. JANET MARKOWITZ '75 is employed by the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C. Janet resides in Alexandria, Va. PAUL MACIK ’76 is employed by Meloy Laboratories in Springfield, Va. Janet and Paul plan to be married next summer. Major JAMES B. JENKINS ’65 and his wife LESLIE TOBIAS JENKINS ’65 have recently been assigned to Hickim AFB, Hawaii. Jim is chief of Standardization/Evaluation for the EC-135 unit. Leslie was editor-in-chief of the Officers' Wives Club magazine, The Chatelaine, while at their last tour at Castle AFB in Merced, California. The Jenkinses reside with their daughter, Karen, in Mililani Town, Hawaii. Dr. EDITHE MILLER LEVIT ’45 has been named president and director of the National Board of Medical Examiners. Edithe is the first woman to be appointed to the post in the organization’s 60-year history. She resides in Philadelphia with her husband, Dr. Samuel Levit. The couple has two children, Harry and David. JEAN MARIE MAZIARZ ’72 is married to John Lynn and living in Honesdale, Pa. Jean is employed as a teacher. WILLIAM H. TREMAYNE ’57 of Piscataway, N.J., vice president, public relations and advertising, in the public affairs department of FALL 1977 27 �Prudential Insurance Company in Newark, recently celebrated his 20th anniversary with the company. Bill is a past president of the Wilkes College Alumni Association. He resides with his wife, Lora, and sons, Cuyler and Carter, and daughter, Kerry. ARTHUR E. IMDORF ’55 is assistant general manager of Mack Trucks, Inc., manufacturing and assembly plant complex in Allentown, Pa. TIMOTHY McGINLEY ’68, a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre Area School System, has been appointed athletic administrator at Meyers High School. One of the most successful coaches in Wyoming Valley, Tim will relinquish his duties as head wrestling coach at Meyers High School. EDWARD BURKE ’70 was recently appointed assistant football coach at Wyoming Valley West High School in Kingston, Pa. Ed is an elementary school teacher in Kingston. He and his wife, Nancy, reside with their three children in Kingston. LINDA R. HILL ’74 has accepted a position as assistant supervisor of personnel for the GTE Sylvania Incorporated, Lighting Products Group, Fluorescent Plant in Danvers, Mass. Linda is currently working on a master’s degree in business administration. Dr. DAVID W. GREENWALD ’66 announces the opening of his practice in medical oncology. David is a cancer chemotherapist at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. He resides with his wife, the former CAROL SAIDMAN ’66, and their three children in Kingston, Pa. EMMANUEL J. ZIOBRO ’60 has been promoted to vice president of United Penn Bank associated with the Commercial Loan Division, main office. Emmanuel lives in Dupont, Pa. ANDREW R. SINNOTT ’71 and JAMES C. BELLES ’70 have received promotions from First Eastern Bank, Wilkes-Barre. Andrew has been promoted to assistant vice president and is the bank operations manager at First Eastern's Computer Center. Jim has been named assistant vice president in the Mortgage Department of the main office. WILLIAM BUSH ’68 has become a law partner in the firm of Ravis & McGrath of New York City. Bill 28 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY resides in Tarrytown, N.Y. with his wife, Barbara, and daughter, Kimberly. PAUL THOMAS '51 is an associate of the sales staff of Busch Real Estate. Paul resides with his wife, Liz, in Lee Park, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ROBERT G. EDGERTON, JR. ’75 has been appointed assistant cashier of United Penn Bank's Mountaintop office. Bob is a resident of Forty Fort, Pa. JOSEPH HOUCK '74 has been appointed a science and history teacher at Wyoming Seminary Day School in Forty Fort, Pa. Joe will also coach basketball at the school. He and his wife, Sheila, reside in Kingston. EDWARD J. PODEHL ‘68 has been appointed assistant auditor at Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware. Ed resides in Whitman Square, Washington Township, N.J. JACK C. BARNES, JR. ’65 is district sales manager for Federal Paper Board Company in Pittsburgh, Pa, He is married to the former ANDREA CIEBIEN '65. ROBERT W. WALTERS ’59 is founder, conductor of Morris Choral Society in Morristown, N.J. The society recently appeared as featured chorus on NBC TV "The First Estate” program in New York City, and have closed their fourth season with a performance at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Newark, N.J. Bob also appeared this past season as guest bass soloist in Bach B Minor Mass with New Philharmonic of New York. JOHN Q. MASK ’59 has been elected to a four-year term on the New Holland Borough Council. Dr. SAMUEL C. MINES ’57 is chief of allergy — department of medicine at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa. JOHN HOWE '69 was recently appointed director of athletics at Fitch Senior High School in Groton, Conn. MERLE LEVEY ’58 has returned to Wyoming Valley after serving as vice president/national sales manager for Cupid Foundations in New York City. ROBERT P. MATLEY ’73 was promoted to assistant cashier at United Penn Bank, Wilkes-Barre. Bob is affiliated with the bank’s Commercial Loan Division, main office. He resides in Kingston. RUSS PICTON ’55 has accepted the position of director of development at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Russ and his wife, Shirley, have two sons, Russ and Jeff. They reside in Spartanburg. ROBERT L. BROWN ’68 has assumed duties as director of the Familj' Practice Residency Center in Kingston, and associate director of the Family Practice Residency Program of United Health and Hospital Services, Inc. Bob and his wife, Karen, reside with their children, Amy and Benjamin, in Shavertown. THOMAS P. WILLIAMS ’69 has joined the staff of the Department of Community Development as a planner, in Wilkes-Barre. Tom is married to the former NANCY CHARLES ’71 and they are the parents of one child. LEA GINA WHITE ’70 is an Englishas-a-second-language teacher and Spanish teacher in eastern Connecticut. RICHARD MENDELSOHN '73 recently received an award from the West Virginia Department of Welfare for Volunteer Services in the field of children's services. JOSEPH M. KLOCKO ’74 has been promoted to Budget Department Supervisor at Bendix Corporation, Test Systems Division in Teterboro, N.J. NADREA PETRASEK ’69 is employed by the Child Development Council in Hanover Township and is involved with the Wyoming Valley Ski Club as publicity chairman. CARL R. HAVIRA ’60 has been appointed vice president, operations and chief administrator of Northeastern Training Institute Inc. in Fleetville, Pa. WILLIAM L. MORRIS ’61 has been named controller of research — Cottrell's Air Pollution Control Group, Bound Brook, N.J. BONNIE JENKINS LEWIS ’63 is the new librarian of the Himmelreich Memorial Library in Lewisburg, Pa. MARIO J. ZINCOLA ’71 has been named credit manager for GAF Corporation's photo service network. He is headquartered at the company’s Wayne, N.J. financial center. Mario holds an M.B.A. in finance from Seton Flail University, South Orange, N.J. MICHAEL J. WORTH ’68 has been named director of development at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. Mike, who holds a master’s degree in economics from American University, is married to the former HELEN DUGAN ’68. They reside in Columbia, Md. Mr. Hoover: Hi, George. Wanna dance? CARL V. ROMANSKI ’69 has been elected president of the newly formed Rio Arriba Chapter of AATSP. Carl resides in Danville, Pa. Mr. Hoover: Yes, it’s the biggest one since the year we gave Conyngham Hall as a door prize. JESSE RODERICK ’56 is co-editor of the 1977 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development yearbook titled Feeling, Valuing and the Art of Growing, Insights in the Affective. She also recently published, along with Louise Berman, Curriculum: Teaching What, How and Whys of Living. ROSS VERSAGGI '71 is employed by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Liquidation Division in Washington, D.C. Dean Ralston: Now I’ll take y’all to the Homecoming dance at the Sterling Inn Towne. We should find our pal Art Hoover there doing the polka down the steps. There he is now. Hi, Art. Dean Ralston: No thanks, Art, I don’t want to get dirt on my white bucks. Nice crowd here. Dean Ralston: It’s nice to see all the old faces around, isn’t it? Mr. Hoover: Oh yeah. This is my favorite time of year - next to vacation in Hawaii, that is. Dean Ralston: What do you have to tell us about today, Art? Mr. Hoover: JOHN J. KNEISS '76 and Sharon L. Hurst were recently married. John is a nutrition analyst for American Home Foods, Milton, Pa. The couple resides in Oakmont. MARK A. SKOPEK ’74 and Helen Marie Sirak were recently married. Mark is employed by Weis Markets, Hazleton, Pa. SUSAN SHERBIN ’76 and GEORGE FALCONE '74 were recently married. Susan is on the medicalsurgical staff at Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pa., and George is pursuing a doctor of optometry degree at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Philadelphia, Pa. The couple resides in Philadelphia. ROSS PIAZZA ’72 and Susan Rother were wed on June 18. Ross is employed by the Mental Health and Retardation Center in Wilkes-Barre. COLLEEN PROPERSI ’71 and Harry Lindsay were wed recently. Colleen is employed by the Riverside School District. The couple is residing in Scranton. MARIE BARBELLA '73 was recently married to James Blackburn. Marie is employed at State University College at Oswego as assistant director of admissions. JOHN J. LISKEY '66 and Susan Gormley were recently married. John received a master’s degree in music education from Pennsylvania State University. He teaches music at Webutuck Central School in New York. Homecoming ’77 The Golden Horde Returns FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 3:30 P.M. Women's Tennis — Wilkes vs. Marywood — Ralston Field 4:00 P.M. Women's Field Hockey — Wilkes vs. Marywood — Ralston Field 10:00 A.M. Theta Della Rho "Koffee-Klatch"— Reunion of former TDR members — Annette Evans Alumni and Faculty House 10:30 A.M. Soccer — Wilkes "Colonels" vs Scranton “Royals"— Ralston Field 8:00 P.M. Wilkes College Theater Production — Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”— Dorothy Dickson Dane Center for the Performing Ans 9:00 P.M. "Homecoming Huddle"- Informal gettogether — "Sing-Along" with Millie Gittins at the Keyboard — Prizes — Beer — Chips — Pretzels — Fun ($2.00 per person) Blue Room. Sterling Inn Towne (Hotel Sterling) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 9:30 A.M. “Gndiror. Grits”- A hearty breakfast and program in honor of the 1968 "Golden Horde" football team — Reunion of all or-: 8:00 P.M. lege Theater Production — Wilkes Colle re's “Twelfth Night"— Dorothy Shakespeare ane Center for the Performing Dickson Dar Arts 9:30 P.M. Traditional Alumni Homecoming Dance — Grand Lobby and General Sullivan Room of the Sterling (Hotel) Inn Towne All kinds of dance music provided by The Cookbook Cash-and carry bar. souvenirs, prizes FREE ADMISSION. 6:30 P.M. Alumni Executive Committee Dinner Meeting — Annette Evans Alumni and Faculty House 7:00 P.M. Judging of Homecoming Displays (beginning at Weckesser Hall) — An ideal time to tour the campus 7:00 P.M. and 9:00 P.M. illege Movie — "The Wizard of AllColl. Student Union Building 1:30 P.M. Pre-Game ceremonies honoring the 1968 "Golden Horde" gridders — Introduction of squad members and presentations — Y Ralston Field 2:00 P.M. Football — Wilkes “Colonels" vs Moravian "Greyhounds' — Ralston Field Traditional halftime ceremonies and presentat.on of the Homecoming queen and her court And immediately following the game 4:00 P.M. Alumni “Fifth Quarter"— Wilkes baseball field (walk directly across the street from >. " pretzels. Ralston Field)- beer. soda. >!d and new socializing with all alumni old ,SI 00 per person) 6:00-9:30 P.M. Alumni Homecoming Smorgasbord Blue Room and adjoining rooms. Sterling Inn Towne (Hotel Sterling) Special Price 36.00 per person payable when Colonel gndders and fans — Program to include President Robert Capin. Coach Rollte Schmidt and former coach George you arrive for I dinner Arrive any time , 00 and 9 30 P M and eat as between 6 s you like of the very popular much as Ralston — Open to all alumni Advance payment and reservation necessary 33.00 per person Sterling Smorgasbord. - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 10:30 A.M. Alumni Brunch — At the Annette Evans Alumni and Faculty House (146 South River Street — former President’s home) — Buffet Breakfast (including Bloody Mary and Tequila Sunrise Libations) Advance reservations and payment necessary at $4.25 per person 1:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Sordoni Art Gallery (Stark Learning Center) — "Wilkes College Alumm An Exhibition " 2:00 P.M. ?e performance of the Wilkes Matinee je theater production — College espeare's " Twelfth Night — Shakesp thy Dxkson Darte Center for the Doroth, Performing Arts �CHERYL ANN CASTROLLARI '74 married Frank J. Mattera on June 12. The couple resides in Forest Hill, Maryland. GEORGE ONYSHCZAK ’73 married Lynne Patton on May 14. George is employed by Acme Markets in Dallas, Pa. JOSEPHINE SCHIFANO '73 married George Finlayson on April 23. Josie is a teacher in the Groton Public School system. The couple resides in Mystic, Conn. JOAN ZALESKI ’75 and BERNARD FORD III '75 were recently married. B.J. is sporting goods manager for K Mart in Wayne, N.J. FRANK P. GALIGKI ’73 and TERESA D. BROWN ’72 were married on August 6. Frank is pursuing his master’s degree at the University of Scranton in administration and is employed as a teacher for the Northwest Area School District where he is head football coach and assistant baseball coach at Northwest High School. Teresa holds a master’s degree in business education from Bloomsburg State College and is employed as a teacher for the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. WILLIAM B. UROSEVICH ’76 and PATRICIA REILLY ’77 were recently married. Bill is a chemical engineer with the U.S. Army, Englewood Arsenal, Maryland, and is working toward a master’s degree at the University of Delaware. Patti and Bill are residing in Havre de Grace, Maryland. EDWARD R. ACKERMAN ’77 and Adele Sefchick were married in May. Ed is employed by the Sunday Dispatch, Pittston, Pa. The couple resides in Pittston. GLEN C. B. FLACK ’73 and MARLA M. STOPKOSKI ’75 were married on May 14 in Burlington, N.J. Glen is employed by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in Washington, D.C. and contacts business leaders in Ocean County, N. J. Marla is employed by the U.S. Department of Army as a contract specialist in Fort Monmouth. The couple resides in Lakewood, N.J. PAUL A. CHROMEY ’76 and JUDY PERHALLA '76 were recently married. Paul is a second year medical student at the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia. He is also doing research in cancer and laser holography in bone structure. The couple resides in Sutton Community of Collingswood, N.J. 30 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY JUDITH MARY BALENT ’77 and Robert F. Bachkosky were married on July 16. The couple resides at 5947 Fisher Road, Templye Hills, Maryland. ARLENE GELLUCCI ’76 and BRYAN R. HERRON ’77 were married recently. Arlene is employed as a registered medical technologist at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital and Bryan is employed as banquet manager at Master Host Inn, Wilkes-Barre. PATRICIA C. VOLPE ’73 and FREAS L. HESS, III ’72 were married on May 13 in Roseland, N.J. Patricia is a fifth grade teacher at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament School, Roseland, and Freas is branch manager of the Raritan Savings Bank, Martinsville. The couple resides in New Providence. SALLY L. KANNER ’75 and John Seasock were recently married. Sally is employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry' in Harrisburg, Pa., where the couple is residing. DONNA STACK ’77 and Daniel M. Spatz, Jr. were married on June 25. Donna is a science teacher for the Wyoming Area School District. RICHARD C. SIMMERS '77 and Diane Wilkins were recently married. Richard is employed at Beacon Finance Company, Wilkes-Barre. DONNA ORISCHAK ’77 and Edward Kordoski were recently wed. The couple is residing in College Park, Maryland. KATHERINE I. KABY ’77 and Dr. Lanning Anselmi were recently married. The couple is residing in Stamford, Connecticut. BEVERLY A. PISTON ’76 and William C. Lipski, Jr. were recently wed. Beverly is a reading teacher in the Wyoming Valley West School District. The couple resides in Larksville. ROBERT J. STARNER ’75 and Cynthia Feist were recently' married. Bob is a cytogeneticist at the Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pa. SANDRA KABESCHAT ’77 and Robert Michaelovich were married on July 6. The couple is residing in Dallas, Pa. DONNA M. GEFFERT ’76 and Lawrence Yozwiak were recently married. Donna is employed as a secondary English teacher at Pleasant Valley School District in Broadheadsville, Pa. The couple is residing at R. D. #1, Saylorsburg, Pa. GLORIA PSZCZOLKOWSKI '76 and DOUGLASS JOHNSON ’76 were recently married. Gloria is a recreation specialist at the United Cerebral Palsy Center in Wyoming Valley and Doug is a mental health aide at Franklin House in Wilkes-Barre where the couple is residing. * CONNIE M. SHELOSKI ’73 and Thom Parks were married on April 16. They reside in Denver, Colorado. SANDRA J. HORENSKY ’77 and William Turnbaugh, III were recently married. Sandy is employed at General Hospital in Wilkes-Barre. WILLIAM P. CALL WITTS ’76 and Joan Roth were recently married. The couple resides in Tunkhannock. Dean Ralston: Thanks, Art. Now I have to find Chuck Reif to tell us about the new arrivals in the Wilkes Family homes. I bet I’ll find him out in the lobby examining the plants. There you are CBR! Find any rare specimens'? LU cD O 5 O Dr. Reif: No, but I found a diamond earring that I can pawn. when what 1 2 4 4-9 6 8-Nov. 6 8 Soccer Game Concert/Lecture Series Field Hockey Game Art Exhibit Field Hockey Game Alumni Art Exhibit Football Game (Parents Day) Parent’s Day Soccer Game Theater Production Field Hockey Game Homecoming Alumni Art Exhibit Football Game (Homecoming) Soccer Game 1st Annual Varsity Alumni Wrestling Meet Field Hockey Game Concert Field Hockey Game Field Hockey Game (Parent’s Day) Soccer Game Field Hockey Game Concert/Lecture Series 8 11 13-16 14 14-16 14-Nov. 6 15 Dean Ralston: Chuck, do you have any new projects that we should know about? 15 19 Dr. Reif: Well, George, I’m in the process of devising a fool-proof system for keeping Stark clean. 19 20 21 22 Dean Ralston: What is it? Dr. Reif: Don’t let anybody in the building. Dean Ralston: Chuck, 1 think you better tell us about the births now, O.K. Dr. Reif: Qi LU jQ LU o A daughter, Mara Susan, was recently born to Stephen and ESTHER SCHWARTZ DORKIN ’66. The couple also have a daughter, Sheri Ellen, and they reside in South Orange, N.J. A daughter, Jennifer Louise, was recently born to Richard and LYNNE DENTE GAUCK ’64. The couple has a daughter, Deborah Lynn, and a son, Douglas Richard. They reside in North Cape May, N.J. Dean Ralston: Thanks, Chuck. I guess that about wraps up Homecoming 11)77 version of the South River Street Revival. Hope to see you all at the real homecoming in October. Maybe by then I’ll find my raccoon coat. Bye now. Q 22 25 31 2 5 12 12-Dec. 4 12 12-Jan. 4 29 30 LED Ui O 1 3 4 7 8 8 10 10-J an- 2 11 28-29 who where time vs. Lycoming Trinidad Tripoli Steel Drum Band vs. Delaware Valley Franz Kafka vs. Bloomsburg Mixed Media vs. Upsala Ralston Field CPA Ralston Field Sordoni Art Gallery Ralston Field Sordoni Art Gallery Ralston Field 2:00 vs. Baptist Bible “Twelfth Night” vs. Marywood Ralston Field CPA 14, 15-8:00 Ralston Field 3:30 13-7:30 16-2:00 4:00 Mixed Media vs. Moravian Sordoni Art Gallery Ralston Field 9:00 4:00 3:30 1:30 1:30 vs. Scranton Ralston Field Gym 10:30 8:00 vs. Misericordia Wilkes College Chorus vs. Susquehanna vs. Drew University Ralston Field CPA Ralston Field Ralston Field 4:00 8:30 4:00 11:00 vs. Elizabethtown vs. Keystone Pearl Bailey Ralston Field Ralston Field Gym 2:00 3:30 9:00 Field Hockey Game Soccer Game Football Game (Anthracite Bowl) Sculpture Exhibit Soccer Game Sculpture Exhibit Basketball Game Basketball Game vs. Bucknell vs. Delaware Valley vs. Delaware Valley Ralston Field Ralston Field Ralston Field 3:00 2:00 1:30 Brooks Parker vs. Madison FDU Brooks Parker vs. Lock Haven vs. Delaware Valley Sordoni Art Gallery Ralston Field Sordoni Art Gallery Gym Gym Concert/Lecture Series Women’s Basketball Game J. B. Rhine vs. Lafayette Wilkes College Band vs. Phila. Textile vs. Oregon State Wilkes College Chorus vs. Marywood Rose O’Neill Wilkes College Madrigal Singers Concert Basketball Game Wrestling Meet Concert Women’s Basketball Game Kewpie Dolls Exhibit Concert Wilkes Open Wrestling Tournament 11:00 8:00 8:15 CPA Gym CPA Gym Gym CPA Gym 8:00 1:00 8:30 8:00 8:00 8:30 1:00 CPA 3:30 - FALL 1977 31 �. ./IL./ L...-.-JArCCni* EuliJijB Earley Library ftlWiilk Well, we have 12,000 kids. Have you ever thought about what would happen if they all came home for the weekend? have big IO We'd love it! In fact, "Mom and Dad" have been working their fingers to the bone cleaning, cooking, gardening, etc., etc. You may not realize it, but it’s tough being the parents of 12,000 kids! Goodness knows we’re not complaining. Unlike other kids, you “kids" always drop us a line now and then. Sometimes you give us a call, too. Our kids even send money home to give us a hand. We have one beef, though — you should visit us more often!! We want to see you and we’re willing to forgive and forget that we don’t get the chance to see you as much as we would like. Why not think about coming home for the weekend? What weekend, you say? Homecoming ’77, Oct. 14-16, what else? We have plenty of room — not to mention the incredible plans we have to entertain you. And think of the idea of getting to see all your brothers and sisters again. We’re even leaving the light on and a key under the mat. So come home for Homecoming, alumni — all is forgiven! w ANNUAL WILKES ALUMNI HOMECOMING October 14-16,1977 WRITE TO: Homecoming Committee Alumni Office Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, PA 18703 Please complete and return by October 13. The only payments required In advance are for Saturday's "Gridiron Grits" Breakfast and Sunday's ALUMNI BRUNCH (checks made payable to the Wilkes College Alumni Association). CHECK: I (We) plan to attend the Friday night "Homecoming Huddle." I (We) plan to attend the "Gridiron Grits" Breakfast on Saturday morning. .reservations @ $3.00 per person. Total remittance enclosed $ I (We) plan to attend theTheta Delta Rho "Koffee-Klatch." I (We) plan to attend the "Fifth Quarter" get-together Immediately following the football gome. I (We) plan to partake of the Smorgasbord on Saturday evening. I (We) plan to attend the Saturday night Homecoming Dance. I (We) plan to partake of the BRUNCH on Sunday morning. -reservations @ $425 per person. Total remittance enclosed $ Name .Class. (please print) Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. a LL£Vl EUAN * MtXANE 1«- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Fall 1977 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 1977 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/afc6ac54c7043423ea714d634b487361.pdf 4ce279d0b99190cfa3c528ee2991494e PDF Text Text * WINTER 1977 WILKES COLLEGE ARCHIVES fugene Shedden Farley Library �WINTER1977 W1LKE6 COLLEGE WWT! w Jwll Volume 1, Number 4 editor Douglas J. Rubinstein managing editor George G. Pawlush '69 editorial staff Mary Ellen Alu '77 Wilma Hurst '79 Jane Manganella Vesta Breakstone administrative assistant Toni Reavy contributing staff Jeff Acornley '78 Cara Berryman Wilma Hurst '79 Nancy Kozemko '79 Pam Long '79 Sally Steele '78 Joan Vorbach '78 Ed White III '80 editorial advisor Arthur J. Hoover '55 circulation manager Lynn Jacobs ON THE COVER: Quarterly Art Director Jon Schaffer debuts as this quarter’s cover artist with an illustration entitled “Snow Queen. ” The artist’s rendering engenders a tribute to Winter developed in a style similar to the art work of noted science fiction artist Frank Frazzeta. Frazzeta is well known for the creation of some of the characters and scenes in “Star Wars. ” His style, said to be very difficult to emulate, is created to near perfection by Jon. The Quarterly editorial staff still is wondering whether the “W” on the Queen's waist chain stands for Winter or Wilkes. Jon isn’t talking, but we are. We think it stands for Wilkes, and we also think Jon did a super job. VLKC5CCUECC QparrEiyY $ An Open Letter to the Alumni — President Robert S. Capin ’50 Nursing: The Unsung Nobility of Our Time — Mary Ellen Alu ’77 4 17 The modern day nursing professional is a rare breed of unselfish, compassionate dedication aimed at restoring security, comfort, and happiness to a patient while monitoring, and sometimes providing, life-saving action in the process. The unheralded people who do this job play some of the most important, highly skilled, multi-faceted roles on the health care team. art director Jon Schaffer 20 The Wilkes Campus ■— Ronald L. Andrews ’70 photography editor John Miknevich LYNNWOOD STUDIO The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. Entered as second class mail matter and second class postage paid at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18703. Postmaster: Please send Form 3579 to Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons, Honorary Member Reuben H. Levy, Honorary Member OFFICERS Joseph J. Savitz ’48, Chairman Ben Badman, Jr. ’41, First Vice Chairman William J. Umphred '52, Second Vico Chairman Richard L. Pearsall, Secretary Arthur J. Hoover ’55, Assistant Secretary Mrs. Walter M. Diener, Treasurer Joseph J. Chisarick '61, Assistant Treasurer Wilkes College is more than just a beautiful urban college. Today it stands as thriving testimony to some of the nation’s greatest 19th and early 20th century architects. In fact, the continual restoration and preservation of the Wilkes campus may very well have been a major significant factor in the cultural residential ambience which currently marks Wilkes-Barre’s developing environment. Ron Andrews ’70 tells the story. Letters — 5 Pursuits — 7 Conununique — 9 Chronicle — 10 Faculty Abstract — 12 Undergraduate — 16 Gallery — 28 James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein '68 Edward Bixby, M.D. Charles N. Burns, M.D. '35 Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Edward Darling Mrs. William Davidowitz Mrs. Stanley Davies Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Sports Update — 29 S. River St. Revival — 32 Marquis — 38 Alan M. Glover, Ph.D. Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan, Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Edwin M. Kosik '49 Richard MaslowCharles H. Miner Gerald A. Moffatt '63 William G. Mulligan F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross, Jr. Louis Shaffer Ronald W. Simms '60 William H. Sword, Jr. E. Arthur Trabant, Ph.D. Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENT Robert S. Capin ’50 �letters Dp.-ember SI announced plans to emua. - . DearWilkes Alumni, foracampaign. Throughoutthesummer we organized aCampargn Planning Committee and anAdvisoryCouncil to obtain input from alumni^ndfriends, facultyand students in our campaign decision­ making. In keepingivith theReport ofthe Goals Committee ofthe Board ofTrustees,the needs of theCollege were identified and priorities were established. Funds raised in the campaign effort will be directed toward (a) providingscholarship support, (b) enlarging the endowmentto strengthen the financial base of the College and to supportfacultysalaries, (c) reconstructing residence halls to maintain the character ofthe campus and to improve on operating costs, and Dear Editor: i (dj reconstructinga College propertyto provide a student union facility. Wefirmlybelieve that these objectives are in keeping with the character and qualityofthe College and that they represent realistic goalsthe forgoal Wilkes in the yearswill ahead. Attaining of$2.4 million require the full support of our alumni and friends. Information concerning the Campaign will oe ronvarded to you over the next several months, and duringthe next year you '.■.'ill oe asked to support our efforts. The Campaign will concentratein the Wilkes-BarreArea in the spring of 1978 and will move to variousalumni regions throughout the summer and fall. I lookforward to your support and encouragement as we prepare to move forward together at the College. Sincerely, I Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know how much I am enjoying the Quarterly. I was especially glad to see the article on Dr. Cox. I feel he really deserves the recognition. He is quite a guy. I will be looking forward to a feature on you. I am hoping to get down to the Alumni Match. It sounds interesting. When you see George Pawlush, please tell him how much I enjoyed the article on the football team. It was really done well. He is quite a writer. Looking forward to seeing you soon. Sincerely, Dick Cook ’68 Teacher-Coach Abington Hgts. School Dis. Dalton, Pa. Dear Editor: Robert S. Capin President Enclosed is a copy of the September-October 1977 issue of Management Controls. I thought you might be interested in the Focus on HigherEducation section in the magazine. I have just received my Fall ’77 copy of the Wilkes College Quarterly. It appears to be another gem. However, you haven’t been successful in wresting the author’s pen from George’s grubby little hand. It continues to amaze me how a North Wilkes-Barre boy could do so well. That’s all for now, I don’t want to overdo my initial letter. After all, it’s taken eleven plus years to get this far. Regards, Ernie J. Krute ’66 Mgr., Special Financings P.P.G. Industries, Inc. Monroeville, Pa. WINTER 1977 5 �Dear Editor: Just finished reading the article entitled, “Tales of the Golden Horde” in the Quarterly. From a coaching standpoint. George Pawlush excelled himself. A super performance. Sincerely, GeneDomzalski BasebaU Coach-JA ilkes (former Golden Horde Assistant Coach Dear Editor: It's a shame that George Pawlush, as a junior high schooler at Coughlin in the late fifties, never had the opportunity to see Marvelous Marv Antinnes in action. George's notion (in the last issue of the Quarterly) that “Marv... was never even a football star... didn’t get the chance... to perform during the “Golden Era”... was only a few winning percentage points behind mat legends Joe iendl and John Carr...” is sure to bring a smile to the faces of those who marvelled at Marv. Not only was Marv a football star, he was a simply great performer. And, arithmetic percentage points notwith­ standing, the only advantage Wiendl and Carr ever had on Marv was that they never had to step on a mat with the man. Finally, as George implies, Wilkes has had more than one “Golden Era” and surely the Antinnes-led Colonel mat teams were as golden as any of our football crews. Statistics, George, maj’ place Marv behind Joe and John. But, then again, statistics are like a bikini — what they reveal is interesting, but what they conceal is vital. Since Wilkes has been blessed with a number of gi eat athletes, m the future you may wish to consider ° WILKES allege quarterly mentioning them in alphabetic order— surname first. Hillard R. Hoffman ’58 Direc., Data Research Ctr. University of Maryland Laurel, Maryland | Dear Editor: What absolutely wonderful ' memories were triggered by a i renew bv the alumni program I honoring the 196S football team. The renew of that 32game streak as described in the Quarterly by George Pawlush was an outstanding journalistic recapture of some of the most exciting moments in sports that I have ever experienced. The periods of adversity as described by Marv Antinnes, and recounted so often by George Ralston, are equally important as recognition of the peaks and valleys that are part of all of our lives and careers. Although not enjoying any records, I don’t think any of us can forget the efforts of the 1972 team that practiced under conditions of mud and dust almost impossible to describe. A coaching staff that can drive bulldozers and rebuild football fields in between practice sessions has to rank as one of the most unusual in collegiate history. Even’ generation of teams has the memory of shared experiences that makes intercollegiate athletics the unique activity you honored at this homecoming. | Please communicate to all those present my sincere congratulations on their achievements, not only on the gridiron but also their subsequent accomplishments m hfe. Sincerely, Francis J. Michelini Fres., Commission for Independent Colleges Dear Editor: I enjoyed the summer iso,, the Wilkes College Quarter^1 greatly. Keep it up. y Enclosed is an alternative + a somewhat disconcerting ° editorial from the summer iso, The Production of an Alumi sue, An Alternative Opinion '■nus; Mr. Joseph Buckley, in a recent article (Summer ’77) states that Wilkes College is laboring under a misguided self-concept, that of “product;, plant.” He asserts that a far ion wiser concept would be “motherhood.” The concept of the production of an alumnus-student as a marketable commodity is one that is beneficial to society, viable to the individual’s well­ being, and economically sound. The affluent economic periods of the 60’s may well be over; today’s economy is charac­ terized by unemployment, inflation, and resource short­ fall. Today’s student is interested in material well­ being as a matter of existence; thus he is interested (if rational) in an education that will promote that well-being. As a student’s interests tend to the economic, thus a college image (and hence self-concept) must tend to the economic. The self-concept of production plant also aids the college in securing students in an economic manner; which is of vital importance considering the competition for student an government dollars. Colleges can no longer look upon the business world as if they are to survive. (Wnne it is unlikely that college administrators ever thoug business dealings objection there are those that are gu V of some form of intellec u snobbery, which is becomi g increasingly unwise. The analogy is then suggested to be disfunctionate if carried to the extreme (and why bother) due to the production concept of “planned obsoles­ cence.” While concepts of thinking, and social interaction may be more durable, concepts of knowledge are obsolete. The society functions in a tech­ nological world, thus students prepared for the technocratic, unless continually updated, become obsolete. Eventually even the non-technocratic student becomes obsolete as changes in technology generate changes in the social order, and even in the way of thinking. Thus both education and technology, if successful, must be an ongoing process. In addition, the idea that the motherhood concept will “ensure the future of the college” as “communities look more favorably upon mothers than industries” and “since most children would not desert their mothers,” is symptomatic of the convolution of values that society of the 60’s created. Business is not a priori objec­ tionable, and motherhood is not a priori innocent. Such emotive outbursts, in a discussion about survival, are incongruent. The motherhood concept also suggests that criticism should not be leveled until we have left the “mother-institution.” The individuals involved are more aware of the faults of the process and should be encouraged to “point them out” in a rational, constructive manner. (Which the institution has the responsibility of listening to.) I also object to the implied purpose of a student, namely “to prepare oneself to graduate, to become an alumnus, to help society.” The purpose of being a student is to learn. The use of knowledge is a matter of individual decision. The following compendium was prepared by Ms. Teresa McDonald. Director of Federal Programs and Institutional Research. The research office would be happy to assist in locating sources of funding for programs or research our alumni might be considering. The Research Office contains an extensive library of federal and private funding sources for all types of projects. For more information contact: Ms. Teresa McDonald, Director of Federal Programs and Institutional Research, Franklin Hall, Wilkes College. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. If students are prepared to market themselves better, then the college will benefit from the increased monetary contribu­ tions derived from their employment. Of greater importance are the positive spillovers generated by the improved conditions of existence of the alumnus, which allow him to be a better ambassador of Wilkes College. As an afterthought, as long as we are carrying analogies to the extreme, I assure you that I did not spend the years from 1971 to 1975 in blissful calm, swimming in amniotic fluid. Al Scharer ’75 Graduate School Dept, of Economics SUNY-Binghamton Binghamton, New York o Grants* Upward Bound Mrs. Barbara Greenwood — Providing disadvantaged high school students with additional educational and counseling services. Majority of students move on to college. Act 101 Dr. George Siles — Providing disadvantaged students with educational disabilities a chance WINTER 1977 7 �*1 to attend c^’^pjograni prepares sp«iaIt:rpXmatthelevelof ^admitted students. f Cooperative Edu«h“n he student Dr-Rodechko-M the opportunity o exP® ield internship progra Jonsidered Resumes are non oemc to place someone to run program. Dr. Robert Department Wilkes Pohtic. 1S, al science earned his Ph- • University in late October " U s SSSSStled,”^ Problems of Resistance oHh Contemporary Cto ian d •> QRR with a B.A. in political 1972 from the University o Massachusetts at Amherst. University Year for Action Dr James’Rodechko. professor of historv — For the third straight Vear provides students with the opportunity to work m Pubhc agencies involved with community services. listing of recent works on file in ire research office and the public relations office.) * Achievements* and Developments ATTENTION! Alumni in region VI (greater New York —Long Island Area). Mark your calendar for Satur­ day. February 4,1978. Plans have been formulated for an alumni reunion following the Wilkes-Hofstra wrestling meet at Hempstead . (Details will be mailed in Janu­ ary). I ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please dip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Office at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our records. ATTENTION! Alumni in Regions VI, VII, VIII Saturday, February 11, 1375 Wilkes Wrestlers vs Army and Massachusetts Alumni Get-Together at Thayer Hotel- West Point' Details to follow WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Wuori Accepted in Penn State Course. Dr. Gerald K. Wuori, a member of the Wilkes College Philosophy Department, was recently informed by the National Science Foundation of his acceptance as a participant in a “Chautauqua-Type” short course to be held at Penn State University in November and March 1978. The course, “Ethical Issues in Death and Dying,” will be conducted by Dr. Thomas Beauchamp of the Center for Bioethics, Georgetown University. The primary’ purpose of the NSF Chautauqua-Type short courses is to provide a forum in which scholars at the frontiers of various disciplines communicate recent advances in their fields directly to college teachers. The inter­ disciplinary’program focuses on major problems of science, technology’, and society. Dr. Wuori, a recent Quarterly author, teaches medical ethics at Wilkes and is the author of a textbook, “A Study’ Guide in Ethics.” His article, “On Murder and Other Indignities" appeared in the Summer 77 issue of the Wilkes College Quarterly. The University Business Development Center . Today, many small businesses m the United States do not have quick easy access to resources which can improve their manage­ ment skills, product linesand overall operating efficiency. Many P^'vmhingto start a business need help with product development, market analysis SSEEX— the majority of small busi„ owners don’t know which 6SS can help solve their problP^encies how to approach the ase‘^s’ °r Unfortunately, many p® J' either unaware or unn™. ate utilize the State and IMe??'1 to programs which can provirt , services. The University Bn ■ ese Development Center provid„lness system by which these ag‘;?a can work together with univeX services. ueir Wilkes College possesses the scientific, technological, fin* managerial, and human resource? understanding and skills which = needed to help small business are6 people in Northeastern Pennsvlvn„increase their productivity profit a and stability. y P 0Ilts Through contributions received from business and industry, Wilkes College will establish a UBDC on campus, which will operate under the auspices of the Institute of Regional Affairs. Through this Center, Wilkes proposes to put its capabilities and resources to work on behalf of the small business community. The UBDC will act as a vessel into which many Federal and State agencies and many parts of the private sector, such as professional and trade associations, large and small businesses, and Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) chapters, can funnel their efforts to help small business. The Center will provide informa­ tion and guidance to the client in many areas. A professional, carefully selected SCORE volunteer, faculty member, or graduate , assistant will review the client s business and general problems and determine the client’s skills an abilities. The services the client receives will largely depend upon need. Center, however, is capable o providing an in-depth analysis 0 business skills and aptitudes, a complete business plan or an analysis of marketing, saleS| advertising, merchandising, ° feasibility studies. Wilkes u prepared to offer assistan a basic accounting course to comprehensive help will a new idea or product. S join with students, faculty a professionals in this woi • Equity capital is very ucing small business. Only by risk and enhancing profit potential will venture capitalists invest in small business. Wilkes’ UBDC is designed to assist small businesses in attracting capital. A business which is well-conceived, carefully planned, and endowed with good controls and systems, has a good chance of success. Those chances are enhanced if the entrepreneur has the necessary business skills which can be developed in the Center. UBDC can assist small businesses in financial planning and can aid in the preparation of financial statements for submission to local lending institutions. After the UBDC has provided one or all of the many services it offers to a businessman and/or potential entrepreneur, the recommendations and findings must be acted upon; therefore, students who have worked within the UBDC to help solve a problem will then help the client implement the solution under the guidance of faculty and SCORE members. Under the direction of the Department of Community Affairs, the following institutions have agreed to establish a UBDC: Wilkes College, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, and Gannon College. This network will provide the services outlined above to businesses throughout the Commonwealth. o K.. m i MIlI 11V1 ■asre Colleges Seek to Solve Energy Problems of Tomorrow Solving the country's energy problems has prompted a difficult situation between the government and the universities. The crisis lies in trying to formulate a sufficient division of labor and then deciding just how well each faction will be federally funded. A discussion at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education revealed several conflicts. One university made it clear that it would be able to install solar heat­ collecting panels on its roofs provided the federal government supplied the necessary funds. This proposal was strongly opposed by one research director who felt that what is necessary is a major effort by the universities to seek to develop new sources of energy for the future. Finally, it was suggested that the general public be educated so that they might understand the crisis and aid in its resolution. In referring to President Carter’s energy plan, a university president called it an unattractive and “confusing policy that will not really solve the problem." But the question raised speculates which party, the government or the universities, will bring the case to a close. John M. Deutch, a professor of chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology asserted “I believe in large measure it will come from higher education." There is good evidence to support Deutch’s position. The government's present energy plan is effective only until 1985. Consequently, Deutch remarked “we want to see colleges and universities do research that will make energy resources available for everyone after 1985.” Ultimately the universities will be informing the government “what to do." Sam Hughes of the Energy Department said that "training people to do the tasks in government and industry that the improvement of our energy situation requires" is higher education's role. Mr. Hughes also advocated the idea to involve an educated public in solving this “energy crisis." National Institute of Education Criticized A committee of the National Research Council has recently charged the National Institute of Education with failing to uphold its commitment of “fundamental research” on education and has called for some major changes in that agency. The “Committee on Fundamental Research Relevant to Education,” begun in 1976, was created to define “promising lines of fundamental research, assess the adequacy of federal support, and recommend changes in the policy." This committee, chaired by Sheldon White, also chairman of the department of psychology at Harvard University, has called the federally sponsored research on education "superficial and wasteful.” In doing so, he criticized both the N.I.E. and the Office of Education for their practices. Some of the committee's specific criticisms stated that the bulk of the research supported dealt with primary and secondary-school problems. The institute had failed to define its overall intentions for research and thus left research WINTER 1977 9 �wSie Sr and b e di'a”ISvesa"brief answers Sociology’s influence his k rapidly decreasing among J!en makers who actually mak, - ’ -lev 11 of sociological research. ;eli“leuse Several — oeverm studies siuciies dip discussed at ,k annual nwe mg of the Americ‘ he Sociological Association have " disclosed evidence of this fai,» , effect, when policy makers the results of surveys and ecord experiments they make use of general sociological theorv r/tk than “hard” data. Sociological 1 studies are rarely used in makin specific decisions. The policy 8 makers are also least likely to us research bearing an extreme technical tint. Finally, it was noted that government agencies often favor using their own surveys rather than those conducted bv universities. y Nathan Kaplan of the University of Michigan noted 575 instances of "sociological research” in a survey of 204 government officials. About 60 percent of the survey research cited by policy makers was defined as “soft” and was more likely to have greater impact in higher levels of government than would the “hard” data. especially those concerning mental research. Encyclopedias May Have New Format Question; What is a "literary work containing extensn e information on all branches o knowledge, usually arranged in alphabetical order ? Dictionary.” However, times are changing and the people at Random House have come up with sombasic changes for a new type of encyclopedia. The name of this creation is none other than "The Random House Encyclopedia, a publicadon composed with the intent to "summarize knowledge in easily accessible and suitable form. Contrary to previous format, this encyclopedia is bent on summar­ ization rather than extensiveness. The basic motive here is to appease modern readers who seem to prefer the quick as opposed to the careful way. The encyclopedia is broken down into two sections; the “Alphapedia," 11 395 color illustrations, offers “longer illustrated expositions of ie important subjects.." This is the revolutionary part of the book as it is directed toward a new are no longer enough. Seven sections developed to tell the unfolding story of knowledge„ rather like the chapters in a book make up the "Colorpedia. The __ sections represent "The Universe, "The Earth,” "Life on Earth, “Man," “History of Culture,” "Man and Science,” and “Man and Machines." Leading authorities associated with these sections and contributing to them include Sir Bernard Lovell, Salvadore E. Luria, Loren Eiseley, Christopher Hill, and I. Bernard Cohen. Perhaps this volume does not present itself faultless before us, as some critics have suggested that the Random House editors go “back to the drawing board," time may provide yet a different outlook. 0 -M wWspcsIhwnnfi©!!® How to Hunt in Career Country Three Wilkes College students are shown using the Penn- , script machine at the college s new "Career’s Library:’ Over 270 occupations and thmr projected employment deman are contained on aperture cards which are viewed on the Pennscript, an audio­ visual screen. Students laW advantage of the Pennscnp , from laft-Ann Marte Thomas, Carbondale, K««n Kretchmer, Wilkes-Barre, and Susan Gooblc, P al "What will I do after graduation’" i»,mCCOrdins t0 Iohn I- Chwalek, ' Wilkes College’s career planning and placement director, this question is he biggest matter of concern for college seniors and graduates today. Chwalek, who has dealt with Placement at the college for 30 years is optimistic about career oppor­ tunities m the country. "Despite the s uggish national economy in recent years, jobs are still readily ‘ whn ab e *° graduales and alumni ho can meet the competition Th' anfakmnMh ‘ °kgiVe Wilkes seni°rs .aMms2K7eF"'h'Wilk“ employment, the college recently 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY opened a “Careers Librarfy'hT,finost Chwalek added "is one of t - .(g and most up-to-date fao>ht1L kind.” Included in the complex, which is located at 34 South River Street, is an audio-cassette library of actual interviews with professionals, a large vertical file of career information (indexed by the Directory of Occupational Titles), professional journals, occupational briefs, as well as numerous other books and periodicals dealing with various career fields. n I An important part of Wilkes College's Career Planning and Placement Office are “mock interviews’’ which are video-taped and then played back to the students on a television monitor, enabling them to see their weak and strong points. Pictured with the equipment are, from left — Ms. Barbara Fitzgerald McClain, a staff member; and Nancy Kozemko, a junior from WilkesBarre. Also, all career seminars conducted by the Wilkes College Career Planning and Placement Office, will be video taped and made available to those students and alumni unable to attend seminars. A permanent collection of these tapes will be established within the library. Another important feature of the Wilkes “Careers Library” is a Pennscript, an audio-visual screen, from which 270 occupations described on aperture cards may be viewed. Information on the cards include the projected employment demands in that particular field. For students and alumni who choose to pursue a career requiring training beyond the bachelor’s degree, the “Careers Library" has listings of graduate and professional schools and their admission requirements. Students and alumni who are totally unable to identify possible career options will find the latest in self-directed career exploration materials in the library. Chwalek feels that employment orientation is the second major focus of the library. "Many experts presently agree that 85% of all available jobs remain unadvertised. Consequently, one of the principal keys toward finding a career position is the conducting of an effective job campaign. “A person must be familiar with every aspect of the employment search procedure,” Chwalek related. To this end the library has materials ranging from books on how to write an effective resume to audio-tapes describing successful job interviews. "Since part of the job campaign includes recognizing prospective employers, the library has many city, telephone, industrial, and association directories as well as company literature,” the Wilkes administrator said. “The library also subscribes to several commercially and governmentally produced employment bulletins —bulletins that not only predict employment trends but identify specific position openings. Actual experience with job­ hunting is still the best method of familiarization and to provide students and alumni with needed actual experience, Chwalek indicated that the Career Planning and Placement Office is conducting “mock interviews” periodically in the library. “Members of the business community, mainly personnel responsible for hiring, will conduct the interviews," he added. “These mock interviews will be available to all students and alumni interested in experiencing the interview situation.” bi ^11A w E < According to John Chwalek, director of career planning and placement at Wilkes College, the “Careers Library’’ at the college is one of the most complete and finest available. Chwalek, a veteran administrator at the college, right, is shown with staff member Regina Meschini. Chwalek continued: “The interviewer will be asked to supply each person that he interviews with a critique. The critique will aid the job candidate in preparing for actual interviews. The entire interview will be video-taped and played back on a television monitor, enabling participants to see their weak as well as strong points." Despite the great amount of tools available, Chwalek stressed, “we cannot, unfortunately, guarantee the acquisition of a job. We are not an employment agency, but we can offer the best training and materials available to aid in attaining employment goals." "The assistance is here,” Chwalek concluded, "but it will be up to the individual student and alumnus to make use of the materials available." The Human Transaction: Age of Communication Wilkes College has gained initial program approval from the state with regard to its new concentration in communication studies. Faculty and course additions and revisions have been made and the courses are being offered this year. The program is included in the English curriculum although the concentration is not limited to English majors. Basic requirements are 15 credits in advanced English courses and 15 in communication studies. Dr. Thomas Kaska, English department chairman, noted that through the addition of the new program, Wilkes will be able to offer certification in both English and communications. Teachers will be qualified to teach a variety of subjects in addition to traditional English courses, and the needs of journalism and broadcast journalism students will also be met. Four new courses have been added under the heading of "Communi­ cation Studies," those being “Principles of Communication," “Interpersonal Communication,” “Group Communication” and “Mass Media." Communication 101 (“Principles”) enables students to gain a basic understanding of the nature of the communication process, the nature and origin of speech, the concepts and vehicles of meaning, and an appreciation for the complex networks of communication in modern society. “Interpersonal Communication" provides students with an understanding of the psychological, sociological and environmental conditions that affect human interactions, in addition to a greater appreciation for and skill in face-to-face communication. The "Group Dynamics" course involves a study of the dynamics of group behavior and skills WINTER 1977 11 �r structure at Wilkes ^^Sfouradlninistrative designates report directly officers "ho freeing the Wilkes , ffcrtive participation eSSenaiah0iDin'’roupPdiscusslonSor leadership in o nesthe nature oUhe mass■ JT rSS***"1 , S-hsXSXi th%pr°—ity Both functions ‘° *VeCome increasingly important forcollege'presidents in institutions =-S:£" Writing" and Journalism: Editing and Advanced Writing” are the trvo journalism courses presentlj- 0 = offered, along with an mhoducg broadcasting course, an internsmp program, and various topics, independent research and seminar courses. A number of advanced writing courses listed under the Eng is curriculum are also available. The fact that the program is not a major field of study enables students in virtually any held to earn the official communication concentration or to receive credit for any number of the available courses without entering the program. English majors may choose to concentrate in communication studies or any of five other areas offered by the department. Dr. Kaska explained that this typo of program provides students with a diverse background that is especially valuable in today's complex society. “We feel," he said, "that through this program we are offering substance in an academic discipline. Communication programs have ways of being ’how to do' courses, which is important, but which gets in the way of a real liberal education. We have found that our graduates are more competitive on the job market," he concluded. The program will be subjected | to another review after minor j changes are developed, after which final approval is expected. Moving to the Four-Front President Roberts. Capin, chief executive officer at Wilkes College has.announceda change in the ° ’ colleges administrative structure. Our main concern was to ande^nei0Uri,eXiStin8Etructure d keep it m harmony with sSB 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY of higher learning today. The four Wilkes Coll . who report to President^6 °fficei Its include Dr. Richard P former dean of academic aefl). who has become the nrn>, aits. college; Dr. Thomas F. KelU °,[the dean of external affairs- a y; lhe research, has become the management; and Joseph J " " of ; Ruth McHenry faculty by Jane Manganella A college within a college with a commitment to excellence... a quality program in nursing education that is nationally recognized... A graduate who is so well qualified in his or her profession as to lead to a total acceptance of the baccalaureate nurse in the community... All of this according to Ruth McHenry, is part of the complete picture of the Wilkes College Department of Nursing. Ruth Williams McHenry, professor and chairperson of the department, came to Wilkes as an associate professor in 1971, but her affiliation with the college started much earlier. In 1958, the Nesbitt Hospital School of Nursing decided to have students take courses in psychology and sociology at Wilkes. Ms. McHenry, then director of nursing service and nursing education at Nesbitt, had always felt that hers was a profession “best taught in an academic-clinical atmosphere” and her dream of a central school of nursing in the Wyoming Valley Community be»an to evolve. ° After eight years at Nesbitt Hospital, she left to attend Columbia University where she Reived her M.A. in nursing education administration. In the anT 'h.at follrjwed she served as and rnn A ‘professor of nursing and coordinator of programs nt and"Sy,lvania State University' s assistant chairperson of H J the undergraduate program, assistant professor of nursing and chairperson of continuing education in Nursing at Syracuse University. Through all this time, her ultimate goal remained the same — to work toward establishing an educational facility that would train responsible people “to provide the best possible care to anyone in need of that care.” Professor McHenry sincerely believes, “People who are critically ill need to have close relationships with those who can think for them when they cannot think for themselves." “Nursing,” she says, “is not so much what you do for people, as what you are to people. She believes that this must be a total commitment, and if one visits the nursing department on S. Franklin St., you may watch this commitment at work. The nursing department, a growing program, is in the process of expanding space to include ano building. Between this space an the Self-learning Center in StarK Hall, along with the clinical experience offered in local hospit Professor McHenry’s goals or academic-clinical atmosphere are being met. . The Wilkes College Depar of Nursing is offering its stud a superior educational exp • Much of this is due to the dedication, vision and sing devotion of Ruth McHenry, a woman committed to tiw 0 profession of nursing. Chisarick, who will retain his title of comptroller. President Capin stressed, "No new administrative posts have been added or eliminated. It is strictly an internal reorganization designed to keep pace with modern management techniques.” Dr. Soter, who came to the college in August, 1976 will be responsible for directing the activities of the offices of student affairs, admis­ sions, departmental chairpersons, library as well as the offices of Upward Bound, Act 101, Coopera­ tive education, graduate and continuing education, health sciences, and the registrar. The new provost, a native of Boston, received his bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University. He earned his master’s degree from Harvard University in East Asian Regional Studies, including the study of the Chinese language at an intensive level. He was awarded his doctorate by Harvard in History and Far Eastern Languages and later completed a post-doctoral degree program at Harvard in educational management. Prior to arriving at Wilkes College, Dr. Soter was the dean of the Division of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Oswego. Dr. Kelly will be responsible for the offices of development, alumni affairs, placement, institutional grants and research, public relations, and the Sordoni Art Gallery. A native of Forty Fort, the dean of external affairs received his bachelor’s degree from Wilkes College in economics. He later attained a master’s degree in economics at Lehigh University and his doctoral degree from Cornell University in Administration of Higher Education in 1977. Prior to leaving the Wilkes College administrative staff in 1974 to continue his studies at Cornell, Dr. Kelly served as director of development, assistant to the chancellor, and director of the evening and summer college. Shaw, the new dean of management, will direct the activities of the office of business manager, personnel and college systems, computer center, and the Institute of Regional Affairs. He received his bachelor's degree from Wilkes College and later attained his master's degree in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and did additional graduate work at Temple. He is currently a candidate for his doctorate degree at Nova University. Dean Shaw was one of the key members of the Flood Recovery Task Force and at the college he has served as director of the Institute of Regional Affairs, a member of the political science faculty, and assistant to the president for management and institutional research. Chisarick was recently named comptroller of the college, succeeding Alex Pawlenok. Prior to assuming the office, he served as the assistant comptroller at the college for seven years. He attained, his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Wilkes College and his CPA from the Common­ wealth of Pennsylvania. Chisarick is currently a candidate for a master’s degree in business administration at Wilkes College. two years and present it to the joint­ selection committee, which is charged with filling the 25 open slots at Hahnemann.” “Our job is to keep the students functioning," he furthered. "They must properly adjust to the college institution. Many of the students may be qualified, but will not realize their goals unless they make emotional adjustments.” The Behavioral Component — Their Vital Role “A person who engages in family medicine must be somebody special. They must be able to relate with people, but most of all, communicate warmth.” These are the sentiments held by Dr. Carl Charnetski and Joseph Kanner, the two clinical psycholo­ gists in the six-year Wilkes-Hahne­ mann program. Charnetski, who doubles from his usual role as a Wilkes faculty member; and Kanner, who has spent almost 30 years as director of testing service's at Wilkes College, view counseling as a crucial aspect during the first two years of the program. An essential fact of life, that every freshman in the program must face — is that less than one-fourth of the entering freshman class, which usually numbers from 80 to 100 students, will eventually move on to Hahnemann Medical College after completing their first phase of training at Wilkes. “The final screening process is very thorough and complex," related Dr. Charnetski, a 1970 alumnus, who obtained his advanced degrees at Temple University. “All of the candidates are basically bright young people. It is our job, through formal and informal interviews, to gather information over the first Kanner, a veteran counselor, who has been with the Wilkes-Hahne­ mann program from the start, notes that “the credibility, sincerity, as well as their commitment to return to the region and practice family medicine is also carefully scrutinized." Other factors, which help in determining final selection to Hahnemann, include Medical Aptitute Test scores and under­ graduate grade point averages. When asked about the intense competition that may develop between students, Dr. Charnetski sees “much of this wearing off by the time that the students enter their sophomore year. Their behavior has changed drastically and the students begin to see the fruits of cooperation." In planning and development of the counseling program, the clinical psychologist or counselor assist in defining objectives of the program and identifies the needs of students. The counselor also coordinates various aspects of the program in a meaningful sequence of services. Finally, the counselor assists in continued planning and curriculum development, and evaluates the program and assists other members of the staff in evaluating their contributions to counseling services. Joseph Kanner, left, and Dr. Carl Charnetski, two clinical psychologists on the Wilkes-Hahnemann staff view counseling as a crucial aspect for a student in the first two years of the six-year Wilkes-Hahnemann program. WINTER 1977 13 �"Whetheryou ride fornl^ competition, it takes a gJ,'sur ?e °r of stamina," mentioned Vi deal “However,” she added "T T' want to discourage any nA0"'1 members." p osPective , a I each take a class and "Carl and I eacn {ortwo stick with the same , meet VearS’7aninh a h student at least formally with ea s but more once during t mav sgg students °ftentndiridual basis’as many as Xtimes during the semester. i ’n the first vear, the bigges "Early in the ti . encounter meetings with the student. D. Charnetski added. “To make a fair evaluation of a Wilkes-Hahnemarm candidate ato two years, we must knou > rather well. We might take two different approachesm our meetings,” Kanner ofiered. The first approach involves talkino to the student when he is under stress and pressure, and secondly, communicating with the student m a relaxed atmosphere. We are continually looking for some type of consistency.” Although their final output has a great bearing on the selection to Hahnemann, Dr. Charnetski stressed, “it is never one person’s decision. There are 11 people on the joint-selection committee, and great care is taken in choosing the finest class possible.” THE WILKES (COLLE@E COEWECTiCii FOR 24-HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!!! 31st Annual Alumni homecoming Friday, Saturday, Sunday October 13,14,15,1978 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Ranking far above the nl»» of competition is the feel?n10ao7ra a freedom which the sport hm, • Kim. She brought that freedom^" manifested in a horse and a rK ’ 0 Kim Wolny 79 Rides Again To those of us who have lost ourselves in the pages of "National Velvet” and “Black Beauty, take a moment now and escape from city life. Return to the rolling hills and pastures. Kim Wolny, a political science major at Wilkes College, returns to this scene every’ Tuesday and Saturday. A native of Virginia, Kim escapes from the noise and traffic of the metropolis by transporting herself and her horse to the Shiloh Ranch in Moscow, Pa. A horse in Wilkes-Barre? Almost, Kim keeps "Random Notion” in a stable in Harding. It is a complicated arrangement, but it all seems worthwhile to Kim. “It’s not always easy, but riding is pure pleasure to me,” stated the pretty Wilkes junior. Kim, winner of several horse show awards, is not alone in her love of horses and riding. She is a member of the Wilkes College Equestrian Club. The 15-member club meets every Tuesday evening and Saturday’ morning for a riding session at Carl Edward’s Shiloh Ranch. Not all the members ride. Some just enjoy being around horses," noted Kim. The club enters several interco.legiate horse shows each year including show’s at Moravian and Upsala colleges. High entry fees lor competition are a constant problem. “The fee for entering each class of competition is paid by each club member.. id Kim Thf; range from walk/trot to the more dilficult jumping skills. Although the club is always ooking for new members, those thatTs di f” i0injng should realize What In The World Are Those Wilkes Students Doing? You can find out for just four dollars, with a subscription to The Beacon. Our weekly student newspaper can keep you up-todate on the latest happenings on the Wilkes campus with stories ranging from the academic to e sports world. The Beacon is an award-winning college newspa­ per, receiving first-place honors from Columbia University the Pennsylvania N^wspap^^ Publishers Association s liner Award” last year. If you'd like to keep in touch t with the Wilkes campus,5. just and send your name, addr geacon, four dollars to: The pa. Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barr , 18703. Wilkes College admits any race, color and n<fiiG,1«i ethnic origin. TH 1I o jM > �American. Perhaps we have internalized, to some extent parents' aversion to anv kinArr agitation, and rocking of th„ ?f quo boat. Are we apathetic nS atUs we just trying to be good? arc We have also to consider the w JU | Whenever I consider these i questions, my mind inevitab J wanders back to the era that precedes ours. It was a time fraught with tension, strife, violence, and tragedy, and I am I have often wondered how not suggesting that we over­ historians and social commentators romanticize the turmoil or repeat will refer to us in the years to past mistakes. But it was also a come, by "us ' meaning the college time of action, of concern, of high students or the youth of this enthusiasm, and energy. The very decade. "Post flower children,” air must have been charged with perhaps? Or "children of the flower a feeling of exultant hope that children?” things could change for the better, I only hope that future writers . and determination that they will not fall to describing us as would. “the weaker descendants of the flower children." I say I hope they What happened to all that don't, but I fear they might. spirit? The students of the 60's Ours is not an era of campus were accused of having too much revolution or revolt Through no of it and now we’re accused of fault of our own, we are occupying having too little. Why? Of course, a place vacated by the rebellious, we shouldn't accept any over­ outspoken dissidents of the 1960's, simplified answers, but we can and we are looking rather tame in consider some partial theories, if comparison. If “turbulence” was only to generate more extensive the key word on the college thought on this complex subject. campus of the past decade, On the broadest level, historical "apathy” seems to be the word I context may have a lot to do with today, at least here at Wilkes. our seeming lack of energy. There I have heard the word “apathetic" | had to be a lull after the storm of used many times to describe ■ the 60's and we may be it. Are Wilkes College students. I have today's college students really so heard it used by administration prone to apathy or is it just that members, faculty members, and we happen to be attending college some of the students themselves, at a time when the entire country and I have to admit that, yes, is stopping to catch its collective as a group, we do have a breath? tendency toward apathy. But if I can remember being in this condition exists, simply elementary school during the peak lamenting it or making sweeping years of campus unrest. Many condemnations will not lead us° other people of my age group must to a solution. We should instead also remember watching 6 o’clock ask ourselves two important news film footage of peace marches questions; firstly, is it really apathy?, and secondly, if it is and demonstrations, all the while hearing parental voices in the apathy, then what are the reasons behind it? background denouncing such activities as shocking and un- From Turbulence to Apathy What Happened Between the 60 s and the 70’s? by Nancy Kozemko 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY "Sroyins-dp" years. Wo have hla nothing as overt as a war —= ' ivS^Ua^SS injustices or immoralities of thi, decade after the fact, when it was too late to do anything about them The recent Washington sex scandals, the Watergate affair and the revelations concerning CIA spying activities are the S obvious examples. These events occurring at a time when most of us were reaching an age of political awareness, could easily have been enough to disillusion us with politics in particular, or with anything outside the sphere of our own individual lives in general. Again, the question, apathy or disillusionment? At this point, I should say that the previous statements are not excuses. Whether we are in a period of apathy or disillusionment or just some type of cultural stasis, it is not a healthy condition and a genuine effort should be made to try and change it. Maybe we should remember the 60’s, instead of blotting them out as everyone seems to be trying to do. Witness the plans to erect a gymnasium on the location where the four Kent State students were killed by National Guardsmen. I’m not advocating burning down the administration building just to give students a little excitement, but I think we should retain that spirit, that sense of concern. As for the Wilkes campus, I can only say that since people are complaining about apathy, they must recognize it as a problem and want to do something about it. Maybe this is the jolt we need to get us out of our lull. Maybe this is an indication that , the times, they will be a-changm once again. O Editor’s Note: Nancy Kozemko W ■« journalism sludent from Fol W 1 3 (o is very interested in writing am I continue as a professional after con i, o o The Unsung Nolbflity of our Times The modern day nursing professional is a rare breed of unselfish, compassionate dedication aimed at restoring security, comfort, and happiness to a patient while monitoring, and sometimes providing, life­ saving action in the process. The unheralded people who do this job play some of the most important, highly skilled, multi­ faceted roles on the health care team. �by Mary Ellen Alu T1 It may not be a profession as nor a profession as prestigious as king or president, where important decisions are highly publicized. No, nursing is a different type ofprofession —one where complaints are commonly heard, sickness is always seen, and tragedy often occurs. It is a profession that calls for great performances and for important decision-making, but missing is the fanfare that so often accompanies acting and politics. It is a profession where "people have to be compassionate, unselfish, and dedicated while dealing with life and death," explained Mrs. Ruth McHenry, chairman of the Nursing Department at Wilkes College. And at the college she does see "unselfish young people who want to be helpful to society." While nursing may be in a different kind of environment than most occupations, the profession does have its unmeasurable rewards. As Mrs. McHenry' pointed out — "to see a new infant enter life or to help the aged leave life with dignity, is rewarding; so is seeing the critically ill get better or helping a family through a crisis period. "Nursing provides security', comfort, and happiness as a patient is helped to become self-sufficient," she stated. "Nursing (which is defined as nurturing or caring) is concerned with the caring aspects of treatment." The Wilkes College Nursing Program, now in its sixth year, has already graduated two classes. When the first class began — in September following the Agnes „ ood of June, 1972, Mrs. McHenry wasn t even sure we would have any students." ci WMAe records lost in the flood, she was unsure who or how many would show up the first day. ir y-seven students came. Now the program has grown, and the most recent class entering the ! Jkes nursing program numbered Se£nadnteSearnaBachel°rof Science Degree with a major in 18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY nursing. But many do wonder does a degree make a differen ,~7 “Most definitely," stresses M McHenry. She explained that ^rSregistered nurse is legally eH ibI to administer care to patients Bu and in counseling the individual'^8' the family, and is able to function in leadership roles. Wilkes-Barre General Hospital — as well as many community agencies. At the end of the four-year program emerges the professional nurse — one who is concerned with quality of life and quality of health care, one who can function as a colleague on a health team, can collaborate with the physician in carrying out their regimen, and who can meet the everyday challenges of nursing. "The students are graduated with the necessary fundamental skills to practice nursing," explained Mrs. McHenry. "With time and experience they will increase in proficiency." Through the years, the basic principles of nursing have remained the same, but Mrs. McHenry pointed out that the nurses' responsibilities have increased along with methods of treatment. The liberal arts courses, which the Wilkes nursing student must study, enable the graduate to view patients in context with their family and their environment. For rarely is a patient alone in his suffering, and the liberal arts courses can help the nurse relate to the feelings of the individual and the family. "By studying psychology, the nurses can understand themselves and others better," explained Mrs. McHenry. "And by studying sociology or anthropology, they can more easily understand how and why families work together." The nurse must also be able to communicate with people and that's where the English, communication, and literature courses play a vital role. At Wilkes, practical nursing is correlated with classroom and theory. Nursing begins in the second year, and for every hour of laboratory credit the student receives three hours of clinical practice. In the eighth and final semester, the student receives 240 hours of clinical practice. Wilkes uses five area hospitals — the Mercy Hospital, the Ncsbi Memorial Hospital, the Veteran s Administration Hospital, the Wyoming Valley Hospital, and 1 Suppose that a father is very ill and is not responding to medicine. Suppose that his children will be left behind without any income coming in. The nursing graduate of Wilkes is prepared to deal with this through care and coordination of services. "Nurses can now assume roles that were once only doctors' functions," she said, "such as carrying out immunization programs and physical assessments." w v= J The unique geometric design symbolizes: the continuity of human endeavor, the three C's of nursing — care, cure and coordination of services, the enlightenment to be gained through higher education, and continuing professional development in service to mankind, directed to futurity. The Wilkes nursing program is a rigorous one, demanding long hours and heartfelt dedication. A committed faculty plus a balanced program of theory and practice, prepare Wilkes nursing graduates with important skills and sensi­ tivities. It is such professionals as these, that often make the difference for a patient. There may be little applause or few ceremonial accolades in the profession of nursing, but those dedicated people who immerse themselves in the care of others are unquestionably one of modern day health care's greatest assets. They are, indeed the unsung nobility of our time. o C VW y And nurses are now involved in teaching and counseling — areas that were not considered nursing before. She pointed out that men are becoming more involved in the field. "There are many health opportunities available to them," explained Mrs. McHenry. "They can function in general duty or specialize." She said that men and women are looking for job security, and since healthcare is a growing major profession there are a variety of opportunities for employment. To signify their achievement, graduates of the Wilkes College Nursing Program receive the Nursing Pin — an emblem that exemplifies the four aspects of nursing at the college. WINTER 1977 19 �yx- i, yy '1F ' 1W I E3 J THE WILKES CAMPLB “A Look at its Historical and Architectural Heritage” Wilkes College is more than just a beautiful urban college. Today it stands as a thriving testimony to some of the nation's greatest T9th and early 20th century architects. In fact, the continual restoration and preservation of the Wilkes campus may very well have been a major significant factor in the cultural residential ambience which currently marks Wilkes-Barre's developing environment. Ron Andrews '70 tells the story. Ronald L. Andrews '70 ■ -' '.W Wilkes College is located in the historic South River Street area of downtown Wilkes-Barre. Since 1937, the college has expanded over an approximately five square block region along the Susquehanna River in what once was the city's prime residential neighborhood. In the process of expansion, Wilkes has acquired and adapted for college use a number of nineteenth and early twentieth century structures of varied historical and architectural significances. Several of the buildings are of particular note, being former residences of prominent citizens, examples of architectural styles, or the work of major architects. As one unit, however, these structures repre­ sent an important segment of Wilkes-Barre's built environment reflecting the historical, cultural, and social development of this northeastern Pennsylvania city. The northern portion of the Wilkes campus is located within the original bounds of WilkesBarre as laid out in 1770 by Major John Durkee. The town as delineated on the Durkee plan was bounded on the north by the present North Street, on the south by South Street, the east by Pennsylvania Avenue, and on the west by River Street. It was sectioned into forty-eight lots of about three acres each and was divided by Main, Northampton, and Union Streets. The charter under which the town was formed called for fifty lots so two addi­ tional lots were attached along the southern end. Wilkes College WINTER 1977 21 �Pennsylvania Register of Hjs; presently stands on parts of riine^ „ of these lots, numbers centfar thJ Cl°Se Of the nineteenth hop< taverns, and ^sw^th warehouses and whan es -5*2" » 1800s but was not exten°e° ■. beyond South Street until the mfo 1860s. West RiverStreet which parallels South River and South Franklin Streets was also developed about the 1860s. Wright Street, of which littie remains, was laid out before 1850 as Wright's Alley. Ross Street which •is the southern boundry of the campus appears to date from the 1860s. River Common was a part of the Durkee plan or Wilkes-Barre and was intended for use by all citizens. Numerous accounts tell of the townspeople grazing the family cow on the Common well into the early 1900s. Fort Wyoming, which is illustrated on the Wilkes College emblem, stood on Rix er Common at the foot of Northampton Street in the late eighteenth century. The second half of the nine­ teenth century was a period of economic growth for WilkesBarre in which the city developed from a rural county seat into a major center of the anthracite industry. It was during this period that the South River Street area acquired the socially prestigious status that colored its character into the 1930s. Three United States Congressmen and a state governor had addresses on South River and South Franklin Streets. Hendrick B. Wright (1808-1881; and Henry M. Fuller (1820-1860) represented the Luzerne County area in Congress in the 1850s. The Wright house stood on South River Street between the present Conyngham House and the Evans Alumni and Faculty Building and the Fuller residence was located further along to the north between Chapman Hall and the Guidance and Placement Center. i , STERLING HALL W omen’s Residence Hall ------- - ' i i Sfe . XW ♦CATLIN HALL — Women's Residence Hall. Built in 1842-1844 for the merchant Elijah W. Reynolds. Wilkes College purchased the house in 1957 from the Reynolds family. This photograph of the structure dates from about 1868. (Courtesy Patricia Reynolds) HiPTT-ififiiniiiiirri lih,i ... luiii !•.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNii.i LiiiiiiuhiS Br 1 Judge of Luzerne r.. Residence Hall. Built about 1850 for the Honorable Edmund Taylor, Photograph. (Wyoming Historica.Tnd Ceo^Soc^r™"06 ” th” 1885 .i A Jl- i- . IgJ Wilkes-Barre Pa !aRes,den“ at however was Jhe PersPective, Ported VXe er,en"y ■. .W. fe,'- IIWWSMWisi .W'-iiii, J'F c®ntury Henry w. Palmer (T839did), whose house stands at 247 south Franklin Street, served as Attorney Genera! of Pennsylvania before being elected to the House o Representatives in Washington. Henry M. Hoyt (1830-1892), Governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883, had a house built at 147 South Franklin Street in the 1860s. Neither the Palmer nor the Hoyt houses, however, are presently owned by Wilkes College. Other prominent citizens who resided in the South River Street area and whose houses are now used by the college include Fred M. Kirby (1861-1940),afounderof the F. W. Woolworth Company (Kirby Hall); Frederick Weckesser (1862-1953) who was a business associate of Kirby and a member of the Executive Board of the Woolworth firm (Weckesser Hall); Elijah C. Wadhams (1825-1889), a member of the Pennsylvania Senate from 1876 to 1880 (Gore Hall); Stanley Woodward (18331906) and his son John Butler Woodward (1866-1925), both of whom ended distinguished law careers as Luzerne County judges (Butler and Susquehannock Halls); and Walter C. Sterling (1821-1889), a financier (Sterling Hall). The influence of several major architectural styles of the nine­ teenth and twentieth centuries are present in the campus buildings. These styles range from the Greek Revival, best represented by Catlin Hall and the original portions of McClin­ tock and Sturdevant Halls (1840s), to the Tudor and Classical Revivals popular in the 1920s and seen in Waller and Doane Halls on West River Street. Other stylistic influences include the Italianate as evident in Sterling, Butler, and Gore Halls (1860s and 1870s) ; Second Empire or mansard in Gutman House (circa 186/), High Victorian Gothic in Kirby, Bedford, and Barre Halls (1870s); the eclectic Queen Anne in Weiss, Chesapeake, Delaware, and V1cCl,NT0CK|| *■ S R°sidonc° Hall. In 1863 the New York architectural firm of r ,b°se alin °C-k The nrnc °r‘? r.e,lova,'ons for the residence of Andrew Todd McClintock, ®n°v,1lioiK ratio,ls' This mid -/• *llc,uroscll«- villa appearance of the structure is the result e'Ps is AnflrWoro completpf| ‘"'ne*eenth century photograph was made in the years after the revv Todd McCI nJ I boarded man standing on the sidewalk at the foot of the n,ock- (McClintock Collection, Wilkes College) ^t‘gis(er of Historic Sites & Landmarks WINTER 1977 23 �CHASE HALL was one of two buildings which were given to the college in 1937 for use as a permanent campus. The house was erected in 1917-191S for the Chase family and is typical of the eclectic style of architecture popular in the earh twentieth century. Shawnee Halls 1880s.: the Shingle style exhibited in Dana Halt circa 1899); Chateauesque or French Gothic Revival in Conyngham House and Weckesser Hat', (circa 1897 and 1914-1916 respect: .eh. : and Georgian or Colonia' Ret in Parrish. Susquehannock, and Franklin Halls 1900-1910 . Four Wilkes buildings, Bedford Kirby, and Weckesser Halls and Conyngham House are the work of major nineteenth and early twentieth century architects. Bedford Hall was designed about 1876 by Bruce Price (1845-1903) who rose to national prominence in the late 1800s. Price is best known for his Queen Anne and Shingle style house, particularly those at Tuxedo Park, New York. Bedford Hall is believed to be the earliest of his houses still in existence. Price, who was married to Josephine Lee of Wilkes-Barre and was the father of Emily Post of Etiquette fame, had an office in Wilkes-Barre from 1872 to about 1876 when he moved to New York. 24 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Kirby Hall, erected in 1873-18/4, was designed by Frederick Clarr< Withers <1821-1901) of New York Withers was once a partner of Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmstead working with them particularly on the architectural treatment of Central Parkin New York.The firm of Vaux and Withers renovated McClintock Hall in 1863. Withers is said to have designed these renovations although an architectural historian studying Withers believes that the designs are closer to the type produced by his partner Vaux. Weckesser Hall was designed in 1914 by Charles H. P. Gilbert <1860-1952), a residential architect from New York. Gilbert was the designer of the New York house of Frank W. Woolworth, the main founder of the F. W. Woolworth Company. It is this fact which probably explains why Frederick Weckesser, a member of the Woolworth firm, selected Gilbert to design his house. Conyngham House bulk , 1897, is the work of Chari ab°Ut Gifford (1861-1937), anom A' architect from New York r-« authored the designs for a ' lord of resort hotels as well as thl'Mber Jersey State Buildings at the it Columbian Exposition in Ch 4 and the 1904 Louisana Purch?80 Exposition. Gifford was related? ma.rr'aSe to the Conyngham farni? which had the house erected y The work of several Wilkes Barre architects is also represented on the campus. The earliest of these architects identified is William W. Neuer who practiced in the mid to late 1800s. Neuer was responsible for the designs of the present Butler Hall and the former Conyngham Hall. Albert Kipp (1850-1906) and Thomas Podmore, who at one time were partners, are credited together with the design of Chesapeake and Delaware Halls. A native of New York City, Kipp studied architecture in the office of James Renwick before moving to WilkesBarre in the 1880s. Podmore was commissioned in the early twentieth century to renovate the present Butler Hall for the Woodward family. The architectural firm of Welsch, Sturdevant, and Poggi designed Parrish Hall about 1908 for the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. By 1916 when the firm designed Hollenback Hall, the partnership was reduced to Thomas Sturdevant and Edmund Poggi. The Sturdevant family home is now Sturdevant Hall. Poggi is described in a contemporary publication as having been associated with Cass Gilbert, a leading architect of the early twentieth century. Donald Innes and Charles L. Levy formed a partnership in the 1920s and produced several of the most urbane examples of the Tudor and Classical Revival style houses in the Wilkes-Barre area. Three Wilkes buildings are the product of this firm: Evans Alumni and Faculty Building (the Farley house) and Waller and Doane Halls. The firm also designed the 1920s renovations and addition to Bedford Hall. n,her influence which Al1f v impaled thearchitecs‘r°i character of the South River 'ural,'rea was the process of 5treelting buildings to suit the r* g-te and life styles of a'e occupants-The most striking Mmole of remodeling is Weiss S^Erected about 1850 in the rmek Revival style, the house extensively and cleverly barged and altered in the late 1R80S to its present Queen Anne earance. The building Jjginallywasquitesimilarin decorative detailing to the present Catlin Hall and the original portions of McClintock andSturdevant Halls. Ironically, Weiss Hall is one of the best examples of the Queen Anne style in Wilkes-Barre. McClintock and Kirby Halls are two other Wilkes buildings which were extensively altered. Built about 1841, McClintock Hall was originally a two-and-a-half-story Greek Revival house consisting of an interior arrangement of a side hall and two tandem parlors. The house was enlarged twice before 1870 and again about 1900 creating the present picturesque villa quality of the exterior. The renovations to Kirby Hall were primarily of the cosmetic type intended to "modernize” the appearance. Exterior porches were removed and the present i I ft prabablymTaVafchX'TO structure. y The South River Street area lost status as an elegant residential district in the decades following the start of the Great Depression. Many of the houses were converted and altered for apart­ ments and offices. A few were razed such as the previously mentioned Wright and Fuller houses. This decline in status was due primarily to depressed economic conditions and a change to a life style which emphasized the suburbs and rural areas. The shift in stature coincided with the establishment of Wilkes College. The college was founded in 1933 as Bucknell Junior College, an extension of Bucknell University. It was originally located in a building on West North­ ampton Street in the block between Franklin and Main Streets. The college acquired a permanent campus in 1937 with the donation of the Chase and Conyngham residences on South River Street, thus the beginning of the present phase of the area's history. When the college acquired the status of a four-year institution in 1947 and the name was changed to Wilkes College, the campus had expanded to include eight properties, seven along South River Street between Northampton and South Streets and one on West Northampton Street. Today, Wilkes College occupies nearly seventy properties in the South River Street area, most of which were acquired by OBADIAH CORE HALL is named in honor of an early settler of Wilkes-Barre. It was built about 1871 for Elijah C. Wadhams, a member of the Pennsylvania Senate from 11'76 to 11)80. The college purchased the Structure in 1958 from the estate of Stella wadhams. purchase. The college's history is inter­ wined with that of several of the buildings. Chase Hall, a 19171918 masonry structure with half-limbering decoration, is th Chase residence donated in 1937The former Conyngham Hall, "The Wilkes campus captures and retains the essence of the past to be appreciated by the future." WINTER *977 II 25 �which was demolished in a fire in 1969 except for the first floor facade, was the other of the first houses given to the new school. The third and fourth buildings acquired were Susquehannock Hall, given in 1938. and Kirby Hall, donated in 1941. Susquehannock Hall was given by Frederick Weckesser and was known as Weckesser until the college gained possession of the t//ti .y ■ : SdSe" Weckesser house on South Franklin Street in the 1960s. Kirby Hall was a gift from Allan P. Kirby, the late financier, in memory' of his parents. McClintock Hall was the home of Gilbert S. McClintock (18861959) who as Chairman of the Board of Trustees until his death guided the establishment and grow th of Bucknell Junior College and Wilkes College. Waller Half was the home of anothof the Board of Trustees in formative years, Julius Lont>tn© St •er (1893-1964). b:>terii Over time Wilkes College hac acquired a significant portion of Wilkes-Barre's past. The 0|der buildings which the college has adapted for use as classrooms offices, and residence halls are valuable resource documents fOr studying and interpreting the area's history and culture. These buildings are also one of the major contributing factors in creating the urban, residential ambiance which has marked the Wilkes campus since its early days. In a very real sense, the establishment of Wilkes College and the subsequent refurbishment, reconstruction and continued preservation, turned what was otherwise a dying area of the city, into a vibrant, prestigious section rich in the heritage of Wilkes-Barre's ancestry. Indeed, the Wilkes campus captures and retains the essence of the past to be appreciated by the future as thriving testimony to some of the nation's great 19th and early 20th century architects. Q '■-:■• This article is based on a project completed by the author which was funded in part by a grant from the Annette Evans Foundation for Arts and Humanities. KIRBY HALL, Humanities Off, 26 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Editor's note: Ronald L. Andrews '70 graduated from Wilkes with a B.A. in history and is currently completing his Master's thesis at George Washington University. Ron is an architectural historian working in the historic preservation field, and has studied at the Summer Institute at the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum and at the Attingh am Summer School in England. Recently, he has completed a 3-year preservation project in Maryland, working with the Maryland Historical Trust conducting historic sites surveys in Western Maryland. �,nali=.inlCTnaWrr"SOnal !nloi 1 nlslll^CSn"enierlts' c’i>orJtyle^sabroad - —, hardibstraction <ii-abslra rtment points out, j^beenthe bly,1*^1 stren?th -(W U^^ourl" c°mmePtS 511 . sterling. cha^add°ed his warm ',epartmMion for the important jgZofaiumniin^ Brooks Parker: Sculptor and Architect The Wilkes College Sordoni Art Gallery featured an exhibit by sculptor Brooks Parker. November 12 through December 4. The artist graduated from Yale University with a degree in architecture, and is at present a practicing architect. Besides his accomplishments in the arts. Parker has had much success as an inventor, holding several patents in structural systems. On his work as a sculptor, Parker comments. "Abstract forms allow me to deal in specifics - of moods or emotions - of energies cr ideals. Each experience is the development of a specific and unique personality. The abstract form can say anything, and it is only up to me to shape the voice." The show included 12 pieces of sculpture, by which Parker hoped to "lead the observer through a personal experience by means of the elements of his alchemy." Second Alumni Art Exhibit The second Art Alumni Exhibition was held at the Sordoni Ar: Gallen from October 14 through November 6, and it brought with it a sampling of the seemingA - . .. - .' things being done in the visual arts. _ Thirty-four alumni pieces were displayed and included a variety of works, from the traditional media: oil. acrylic, watercolor, pent drawing, collage, etching, batik, ceramic, string-construction, bronze, as well as works which were mixed media. Among the more recently developed modes of expression were printmaking and kinetic painting. 28 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY ' event. o ...Regrettably, limited space (Ed. Note: ’only to publish a few photos.) allows us on Anne Caffrey ’72 Ceramic "Shaman" Robert Mikolayczak ’73 Mised drawing "Pretzel Landscape” N.-• Linda Stevens ’74 Crafts "3-D String Design” K■L i,,:. ..y;< . a Karen Hendrickson '76 Stoneware ‘‘Jar11 f^-^S IF ■liL' ' ■ fi Smith “6 ,At He “M ntrt a Comers" spw'S IameSAX°"e’of:BasketbaU 1977 FALL RESULTS football (4-5) Wilkes 19 23 Indiana St. Wilkes 0 7 Lycoming Wilkes 6 31 Bloomsburg St. Wilkes , - 2 9 Upsala Jane Mahoney Ku„W r. & WilkPS 13 Wilkes 7 Wilkes 14 Wilkes 3 Wilkes 32 7 Moravian 0 Albright 7 Susquehanna 5 Juniata 8 Delaware Valley MAC All-Star Team soccer (3-10) cross country («-6) NPW1AA ChamPto"; Susquehanna Field H All-Star Team 'sxAsr c""n^L.«,w« h S.me Si «d Others are a pla^,scoach.But it still more are a fa which I tc a special br *ir;hntes into one amesAdtertonu^bommunity this breed- NPWIAA Champ WINTER 29 �42nd Field Artillery Battalion Upon graduation from Coughlin. Atherton is one of the most league. After his two-year stint in Jim enrolled at Wilkes, where he successful college basketball the Army, he returned to the United majored in secondary education. coaches in Eastern Pennsylvania, States, where he was an assistant which is proven by his imposing , and head coach al Perry Joint High 175-45 career collegiate coaching r School in New Bloomfield, Pa., from record. Last year, Jim guided the 1/ 1956-58. While at Perry Joint, his LCCC eagers to a 22-3 overall ' team captured one championship. record, with all three losses coming He then moved closer to home, by one point. Last season's squad taking the head post at West also captured the Eastern Pittston High School in 1958. Community College Championship. Atherton spent seven years at the Born in Kingston, Jim first became helm of West Pittston, garnering involved in basketball ■when he the first championship in the school’s played the sport while attending history, and two overall. The West the Chester Street grade school. Pittston team also made the Atherton cited three men who gave playoffs five out of the seven years him his first preface in the game of his coaching tenure there. In his of basketball. “My father, James, last season as head mentor, the club was the first to get me interested in finished with a 22-1 log. basketball. He always had time to Jimmy subsequently moved on to help me and answer any of my questions. Another person was his alma mater, Coughlin High former Wilkes-Barre Barons’ coach School in 1965. His success followed Eddie White. “Eddie used to let him to the central city Wilkes-Barre me into the Barons' practices, and school, where he led the Crusaders I would watch all the players come to their first city championship. He and go,” stated Atherton. also directed Coughlin into the first division, where they never left By witnessing the different under Atherton. The Coughlin squad attitudes and styles of the captured 12 games in the city professional players, he could championship year, while prior to imagine the perfect model he would Atherton’s arrival on the scene, like a basketball player to be. “There Coughlin had only won three games were all sorts of guys in those days, in the previous five years. so I really saw almost every type Atherton played basketball for of player there is in Eddie’s Atherton joined the Luzerne the Colonels from 1950-54 under practices,” added Atherton. County Community College faculty head coach George Ralston, in 1968, where he has been ever White, known throughout the currently dean of student affairs at since. Jim, who is in his tenth year Eastern United States as “Mr. Wilkes. Dean Ralston knew back in at the helm of the Minutemen, also Basketball,” said Atherton should the early 50's that Atherton would serves as Director of Student Affairs now be coaching in the professional be successful in basketball. “Jim of the community college. ranks. “Jimmy is the type of coach Atherton has been a scholar of the which I feel would make a fine During his tenure as head game of basketball since I knew him mentor in the NBA. Basically for basketball mentor at LCCC, he has a long time ago. I first became one reason, he is a sound-funda­ guided the Minutemen to five acquainted with him when he ’was mentalist, and one of the few Eastern Community College a high school athlete. Then, after around today subscribing to that championships; three post-season coming to Wilkes and becoming a philosophy. Most coaches in the tournament championships; and great athlete and student, he always NBA think the best defensive is a two Holiday Tournament titles. I demonstrated1 a keen insight for good offense, which is totally ,1 : -----------r ; basketball. I feel Jimmy is one of Atherton feels his teams over the wrong," stated the very successful ' the trulv truly outstanding tear.hprs teachers an and years and presently, could compete coach in his own right. coaches in this section of the on a Division II or III level. “We’ve Another coach, who played an country, and more importantly, he played some Division II and III important role in Atherton's early is a fine human being and a great teams, and we’ve beaten them basketball life, was Don Hilbert, a example for young people,” affirmed quite easily. Many people tend to former coach at Kingston High Dean Ralston. underrate the community college School. Atherton attended Kingstoiin Atherton started his last three basketball teams,” stated Atherton. for one year, before transferring years on the Blue and Gold cage The job of recruiting is especially to Coughlin High School after his team, and recently was named to hard for Atherton, as he has a family moved to Wilkes-Barre. “Don the Wilkes all-time perfect player for only two years and must was a tremendous help to me in my basketball team. The team comprised look for lopnotch talent year in and early years; he taught me very different specialties of Wilkes year out. “It’s frustrating, but we much,” added Atherton. players, and Atherton was selected have to make the best of it, so we While at the Wilkes-Barre school, for his outside shooting. look for the late-bloomer in the high Jim played on the varsity cage squad Upon graduation from Wilkes, school ranks. We want a player who three years, and was named Atherton joined the Army and we feel has potential and can come Coughlin's Athlete of the Year by served in Germany from 1954-50. through in his stay at LCCC." the Crusaders' school newspaper. While in "Deutschland," he was a player-coach for two years in the 30 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY ToniD^Jilkes; Wade Reeves; apl°in?i v a starter at Lebanon Toni Pedlny’Op- and Norm Magyar, th" King’s; College "D'ftSbal team. Magyar had words >>aske t forhis former coach. “Coach taught 5 'Hewa^aNol^emendous any. ff the court; you could always his former college mentor, George Ralston, summed it up best when he said, “Jim Atherton is such a great pupil of the game of basketball, he could have coached anywhere when he was only a student in high school." If that were possible, his career coaching record would be simply impeccable. And come to think of it, Jim Atherton is simply impeccable. (Ed. Note: Eddie White, III is the grandson of the famous coach Eddie White of the Wilkes-Barre Barons. Young Eddie currently is the assistant Sports Information director at Wilkes and sports writer for the Beacon while completing his B.A. at the college.] Jeyers High School. Atherton said his coaching nhHosophy centers around “getting £h individual player to give the most he can and do the best he can. He also mentioned that he favors a team offense and defense, as. opposed to one individual being the whole team. “I don’t want any one of our players blamed for a loss or a mistake. We all take the blame or the credit because we are a team,” added Atherton. “We want all our players willing to sacrifice for the team, and give of themselves and not be selfish.” Jim Atherton has accomplished many things in his collegiate coaching besides many champion­ ships. He has served on many basketball clinic committees including: clinics in South America and Brazil; director of the CYC and JCC cage clinics; and a camp sponsored by the Pennsylvania State Coaches Association. He summed up his career as a love for the game of basketball and a desire to be involved with young People. "I enjoy basketball, and " ,en J'oung people are involved it makes it so much better. When I ee some of the athletes I have likV ?? on t0 d° better things, coaching, I feel really great.” cluR16 a.?a,ch has a guaranteed fan Vlt,h him wherever he goes, as LCCC y a Ways travels t0 ad Atho>.t8am,es’ home and away. The wife clan’in addition to Jim’s a fresh J, la' lncludes: Debbie, 18, l5.nndTXi?Cn: iT’lr’:,im' MeyGrs. Jw2'. 1 studenls at IX a iL. Doris Saracino: Leadership for a Growing Breed of Athlete by Sally Steele ‘78 1978 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Sept. 16 — Delaware Valley A Sept. 23 — Lycoming H Sept. 30 — Upsala A Oct. 7 — Bloomsburg H Oct. 14 — Western Maryland H t Homecoming) Oct. 21 — Albright H Oct. 28 — Madison FDU A Nov. 4 — Juniata H Nov. 11 — Susquehanna A woman and an athlete." Doris Saracino, director of women's athletics at Wilkes is a quality educator who is committed to the emerging role of women in contemporary sport. Under her direction the women's athletic program at Wilkes has grown from 1 sport to 6. When she arrived in 1960, basketball was the only sport for women. Since then, 5 new sports have been introduced on the varsity level, making the women's program at Wilkes comparable in size to most college athletic programs. Mrs. Saracino's contributions to Wilkes College also go beyond the women’s athletic program. She is a health instructor and an advisor to the cheerleader, majorette and strutter squads, and the Letter­ women’s Club. In addition to her administrative duties, Mrs. Saracino also enjoys coaching volleyball and serving as a P1AA official. Officiating at local contests also provides her with excellent opportunities to scout local talent for the recruitment effort at Wilkes. Mrs. Saracino is also a member of the MAC Steering Committee, where she is involved in the development of the divisional women’s program through the determination of league competition, the planning of divisional tourna­ ments and other leadership input. WINTER 1977 31 �rOTTLIEB ’76 and When asked what she thinks about the female athlete of today, Mrs. Saracino responded that today s woman enjoys what she is doing. She finds success and acceptance. “She is not just an athlete, she is a woman.” How does she account for the tremendous growth in Wilkes' program? Mrs. Saracino said, "We took advantage of whatever was available. For example, the hockey field is not regulation size but it was available and we made it work for us.” She also gives credit to the Letterwomen's Club. “Fye rehed on the club since its beginning in 19b2 _ it supplies funds to help each sport grow and develop." Mrs. Saracino feels the athletic program will continue to grow at Wilkes and would like to see a lacrosse team formed in the future. As for the formation of other sports we can expect to see starting at Wilkes, she replied, "It depends on what demands are made by the girls.” Doris Saracino's unending energy and continued commitment to the growth of women's athletics has paid off for the development of a well-rounded sports program at Wilkes. Her ability to promote the female program in an era of shrinking budgets is not only a credit to her and the College, but a much appreciated contribution to the quality of student life on the Wilkes campus. q g-feSiS? S° Pat \fiwSti ’a7an.d Frank Elaina is an op “ed °n SaPtemb( Sy^Vd^cS District and is w.l.hn1,„tklns(“1Stre«;b« Company of Philadelphia ti reside in Media, Pa P They at SStSSijDave is a member of the southjpnwon’st. nwwall The South River Street Revival was compiled by Vesta Breakstone of the Alumni Relations Office. The information contained in the Alumni Notes was received between August IS. 1977 and November 4, 1977. Please send news contributions toAlumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703 - ' ■ - ■ ■•.■•■ legit . enjoys. ' “South River St" Author Takes New Post Marianne Montague, a 7976 graduate of Wilke,. ■. named Program Coordinator of the Student Activitie, Program and College Union at Bloomsburg State College. Before taking over her duties in Bloomsburg in the beginning of October, 32 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY ’ nt ■ .... ■ ... '■.e -.till hope to he involved with o. ■ 'shoo! and the people who I. and: tudy here. "1 hope to U supportive of Wilkes Alumni ■■ 'in the future,” he stated. Coll, m ' lafi wdl particularly miss Marianne’s great contributions to the magazine, and collectively ur.li her the very best. ijje'll miss her! uUa/i/iiages MARY ANN ZIELINSKI ’73 and Richard Lazar were recently married. Mary Ann is employed by the Pittston Area School District. ENID SULLUM ’72 was recently married to Alan Tope. The couple is residing in Allentown, Pa. JOHN J. MATUSEK ”-76 and Penelope Cresci were married in late summer. John is employed by the Luzerne County Office of Community Development. The couple resides in Mocanaqua, Pa. DARLENE CHAI IMP '76 and BRUCE BARBERA '74 were married recently. Darlene is attending Temple University School ol Pharmacy and Bruce is self­ employed, The couple resides in Philadelphia. >er WAYNE BOHN ’7Sa ware recently marrie^w De Pastua &datConsoiidaZayneiS residing in Plymouth, Pa. ALISA BERGER ’73 was recently married to Stephen Wartella, III. Alisa received her master’s degree in speech pathology from Temple University. She has accepted a position in Philadelphia. NANCY BROMFIELD ’72 and John Harchar were recently married. The couple is residing in Swoyersville, Pa. BARBARA ROSE CHANDLER ’76 and Edgar Massey were married on July 16. The couple is residing in Baltimore, Maryland. JOHN PETINKO, JR. ’72 and Mary ■ Ketchum were married on August Mohn is employed as a teacher for the Hanover Area School District in Hanover Twp„ Pa. &RM' S0B0TA ’77 and J. SWersvilleMpeareCently SSSfi-j* Wilkes-Barre, Pa Kingston, ra., residingcarol GUSGEKOFSKI ’76 and dhti IP BESLER ’76 were married „ijune 18. Carol is teaching science ,n Old Bridge, New Jersey, and Phil is an accountant for the State of New Jersey. The couple is residing in Hightstown, N.J. Marianne was affiliated with the alumni and housing offices at Wilkes. A very popular member of the Wilkes community, Marianne holds very strong ties with the College and emphasized that her decision to take the Bloomsburg w as to further ■ eer in education. When she thinks of ■- ■ she ret embers her many ■' ■ he . ' eraehiei ■, ‘echmcianatE perahngroOIn Easton, pa., 4ast0n Hospital, is residing, ae couPle AMNKONOPKI’71and were married recentiy. * as an elemB A<Ilke is employed >tgomervcyteacherwifh the Rockvilu u °,Unty Schools in ls hiding inaTry nilc1' The couple ?and BarbaiCI1AAEL ZAI?ORNEY y amedin t,LHEAAN?RADROUSSIOTIS ’77 JOHN FRANCIS MICOCCI ’76 and Deborah Ann Shekletski were married on September 3. They will reside in Media, Pa. CAROL A. DOMINICK ’75 and John Paul Mariani were recently married Carol is employed as a medical technologist at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. MARK OMOLECKI ’75 and Gail Gallucci were recently married. Mark is employed as an instructor for Luzerne County Human Resources Department in WilkesBarre and they are residing in Hazleton, Pa. DONNA MARIE KUMIEGA ’77 and John J. Kwak, Jr., were recently married. Donna is employed as an assistant manager of a condominium project in Columbus, Ohio. MICHELE LA ROSE ’77 and David D. Zellner were married on June 4. They are residing in Memphis, Tennessee. EVONNE GNATT,73 andM.cha P. Casey were married recently. vonne is an elementary teacher in fee Lake-Lehman School District, Dallas, Pa. CATHERINE JEANNE WILLIAMS ’77 and CLARENCE GERARD OZGO ’75 were married on October 15. Clarence is employed as a teacher in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. MARCIA DALE BLOCK ’76 and Mark W. Kaufman were recently married in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. DEBRA ANN DZIECIOL'77 and Charles B. Angelo were recently married in Kingston. Debbie is a kindergarten teacher at Sacred Heart School, Luzerne, Pa. uVeiv cAwtluafe JACQUELINE MICHELLE BECCARIS ’76 and MARK JOHN WANKO ’76 were married recently. Jackie is continuing her education at Wilkes, while Mark is employed by General Lamp Corporation in Wilkes-Barre as a sales manager. They are residing in Kingston, Pa. BARBARA ANN SWANDICK ’75 and Michael J. Duda were recently married. Barbara is employe y United Penn Bank, Wilkes-Barr , Pa. JUDITH NOYLE ’67 and James & Lane were recently married. Judy is moskowk^^ family presently reside5 in Tunkhannock, ra- employed by Pennsylvania Department of Public Pennhurst Center. The} at Wescosville, Pa. WINTER I®7 33 �RUTH TETSCHNER HUSBAND ’70 was recently appointed elementary principal in the Dallas School District in Dallas, Pa. Her responsi­ bilities include the administration of the Dallas Township Elementary School and the Dallas Intermediate School. McKALIPS DIESTELMEIER ’77 in Iowa City, Iowa. from Marymount College this past August. He is currently northeast regional manager for Pall Corporation. A baby boy, Gregory, was born on October 20. to STEPHEN ’75 and BEVERLY CHISLO SOLFANELLI ’74. Steve is in his first year of an oral surgery residency program at Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa„ where they reside. A daughter. Karen, was born on June 17, to Dr. and Mrs. Dominick Burlone of Anderson. South Carolina. Mrs. Burlone is the former GARY R. BROD '76 is obtaining the degree of juris doctor from Ohio Northern University Law School. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently awarded advanced degrees to the following Wilkes alumni; JOYCE ROTHER ’71 and she is employed part time as a statistics instructor. A daughter, Kelly Ann. was born on June 16. to Mary Ann and TOM KRAPSHO ’70. Tom is a negotiator for the Bureau of Labor Relations in Harrisburg where they reside. They also have another daughter. Laura Leigh. cAcfvanceniente A son. Christopher Michael, was born on June 17. to ANTHONY ’69 and ELOISE GRIFFITHS ORSI ’69 in East Windsor. New Jersey. They are also the parents of two daughters. Pamela, age 6. and Madelaine, age 2. 34 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY FAITH (SKORDINSKI) SHARER ’76 is serving with the U. S. Air Force as a 2nd lieutenant in the Personnel Department at Goodfellow A.F.B., San Angelo, Texas. Faith will begin graduate school in January at Angelo State University majoring in guidance and counseling. DR. THOMAS D. MORGAN ’51 is principal of the Vernon-VeronaSherril Junior-Senior High School. ; Tom resides with his wife, the former ANN PERRY ’52, in Sherrill, New York. A baby girl. Kelley Hughes, was born on Julv 16, to JOSEPH ’72 and DIANNE HUGHES TREACY ’72 of Tariffville, Connecticut. Joe has recently been promoted to a ' commercial casualty supervisor with i the Aetna Casualty and Surety : Company and Dianne is on leave of | absence as an instructor at the | University of Hartford. i A son. John Paul, was born on June 9, to JOHN ’73 and NADZLA LITIAHO SCHILLING ’74. The j Schillings reside in Harrisburg, Pa. I A daughter, Lisa Ann, was born on I August 12, to JOHN SCOTT ’74 and I KATHLEEN MORVILLE FAIRLEY | '76. John is in business with his A son, Jason David, was bom on January 20, to ROBERT ’74 and DENISE BOWEN OGONOWSKI ’74. Bob was recently promoted to operations officerat Commercial Bank of Hollywood, Florida. They reside in Fort Lauderdale. A son, Christopher Ryan, was born on June 17, to Mike and RUTH AH Hi I 8 . SSsi ROBERT H. POTTER ’75 has been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant with the U. S. Air Force. Robert is currently serving at Ellsworth A.F.B., South Dakota as a deputy missile combat crew commander. GARY G. POPOVICH ’65 has been promoted to manager of advanced programming design, technical planning-engineering support, at the IBM System Products Division Development Laborator}’ in Poughkeepsie, New York. Gary lives I in Wappingers Falls with his wife j and two children. A daughter. Elizabeth Lee. was born on August 21. to Brian and ELLEN TAGGART TULL '69. Ellen is an editorial consultant for the Curtis Publishing Company and resides with her family in Indianapolis, Indiana. father in the E. L. Nichols Department Store, and Kathy has been teaching nursery school. The family resides in Bennington, Vermont. ROBERT M. SMITH ’69 received a Ph.D. in chemistry; FLOYD J. MILLER, JR. ’76 was awarded a master’s degree in technical writing and NANCY SNEE ’75 received a master’s degree in urban and environmental studies. I I [ ! | JOSEPH E. KIEFER ’68 has been named head varsity soccer coach at Pennsburg High School, Pa. EDWARD F. KAMINSKY ’73 is an assistant professor in the economics and business administration department at Juniata College in Huntingdon. Pa. W. LEE MILLER ’74 is a district WILLIAM W. CHEUNG ’76 recently received his master’s degree from Cornell University. He is now attending the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pa. assistant with the Anchor Packing Company of Philadelphia, Pa. ARTHUR H. TREVETHAN ’68 has been appointed supervisor, Property Claims Training, at Nationwide Insurance Company in Columbus, Ohio. ELLEN BELNOSKI SAWKIW ’69 recently received a master's degree in education from Fordham University in New York City and is a reading specialist at the Jim Thorpe High School in Jim Thorpe, Pa. MAUREEN MARIE KOCYLOWSKI '77 is a registered nurse employed by the Nanticoke-Hazleton Mental Health-Mental Retardation Center. HEISTER V. HOWER ’75 received a master's degree in education from Clemson University and is presently enrolled in the M.A./Ph.D. program in linguistics at the University of Georgia, where he teaches German. He is also chairman of the Foreign Language Department at Rutledge Academy, Rutledge, Georgia. GAYLE M. DONALESKI ’77 has been appointed the coordinator of veterans affairs at Luzerne County Community College. HARRY B. KELLER '70 recently became credit manager for Cardo Automotive Products, Inc. in Philadelphia, Pa, I larry resides with his wife, Susan, and their Z’/s year old son, Lane, in Lansdale, Pa. I i ■ I S-. B B I S i I I- - . ill ii ii Rt? •■<7: Si THURMAN GROVE '66 has secured a position in the Agronomy Department at Cornell University. He resides with his wife in Ithaca, New York. tew9®®7* (cont'd on pogo 3U) i’iji /■■’.I ,;h ........ MWS ' ■ / ■ ��Dr. FRANK P. POLANOWSKI ’61 has joined Elizabethtown College as an assistant professor of biology. Frank has spent the last four years engaged in human breast cancer research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. i HOMER E. GRAHAM ’73 has been elected an assistant vice president in Manufacturers Hanover Trust's Corporate Cash Management Department in New York City. MICHAEL R. BREAKSTONE ’74 has been promoted to district supervisor of the Bartolomeo Pio. Inc., a wine and spirits brokerage house located in Glenside, Pa. He resides with his wife, Chris, in Wilkes-Barre. ERNEST KRUTE '66 is currently manager of Special Financings for P.P.G. Industries, Inc., in Pittsburgh. Pa. Ernie resides with his wife, Vallie Lee. and children, in Monroeville. ft ROY A. SHUBERT ’69 was elected vice president of communications for the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association of Accountants. Roy is a C.P.A. and the manager of corporate tax for the Philadelphia Suburban Corp. He resides with his wife. LYDLA. McCLOSKEY SHUBERT ’65, and son in Delran. New Jersey. I ■ i 1 WALTER [BRICK) QUINN’75 is now working at WNEP-TV, Channel 16, as an account executive and will receive a master’s degree in marketing next May. Brick lives with his wife, Marguerite, and sons, Matthew and Brian, in Tunkhannock, Pa. SONIA LANG KANTOR ’63 has been elected president of the Hoover School P.T.A. in Palo Alto. California, where she resides with her husband, Robert, and their three children, Jeffery, Jason and Jennifer. WILLIAM T. PERKOSKI '72 is a supervisor in the internal audit department with Gulf and Western Industries in New York City. He resides with his wife, JUDITH GERKO PERKOSKI ’63 in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. THEODORE J. TRAMALONI ’73, who lives in Buffalo, New York, is a producer-director with Channel 17- WNED Television. FRANK H. MENAKER, JR. '62 has been appointed general counsel of Martin Marietta Aerospace, an operating company of Martin Marietta Corporation. 38 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY JEAN A. FADUSKO ’65 is serving at Ramstein A.F.B. in Germany as an environmental medical officer. Dr. MICHAEL I. ROBINSON ’71 has opened an office for the practice of general dentistry, in Luzerne, Pa. JOY GEIDA DZWILEFSKY ’69 is working as a teacher's aid at the Nassau Elementary School, Poughkeepsie, New A ork, where she resides with her husband, Joe, and daughters. Debbie and Holly'. DAVID C. WILLIAMS '69 has been with the Math Department of the N. E. High School of Anne Arundel County.Pasadena, Maryland. David recently received his master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. Capt. RONALD E. BUKEVICZ ’70 recently earned a master's degree from Oklahoma City University' and is now serving as a pilot with a unit of the Air Training Command at Randolph A.F.B., Texas. College and specialized in internal medicine during his residency. Howard is married to the former BONNIE TOGNELLI ’65. RONALD J. FITZGERALD ’55 ha:is been named to the chairman's council of Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Incorporated, an investment brokerage firm branch located in Washington, D. C. Ronald is married to the former BARBARA BIALOGAWIGZ ’56, and they are residing in Alexandria, Virginia. MARIANNE MONTAGUE ’76 has been named program coordinator in Kehr Union at Bloomsburg State College. She will be assisting in the planning of annual events and in charge of the public relations in general for the Kehr Union. Marianne resides at 600 East Second Street, Bloomsburg, Pa. o BLASE L. GAVLICK ’73 has entered the Delaware Law School, Wilmington, and his wife, the former JEAN GILROY, ’74 has accepted a position with the MarpleNewtown Schools, Newtown Square, Pa. as a reading specialist. LARAINE R. MANCUSO ’73 recently returned from England where she spent the past year studying at the University' of Leeds. Laraine is now attending Hunter College of the City University of Nevr York where she is completing work for her master’s degree in history. JEFFRY H. GALLET ’64 recently announced that the firm of Yavner, Gallet, Oziel, Freedman and Brett has been dissolved, but the general practice of law will continue under the firm name of Yavner and Gallet. The firm will continue to operate out of 598 Madison Avenue, New York City. Capt. WALTER P. PETROFSKI '70 has been decorated with the U. S. Combat Readiness Medal at Loring A.F.B., Main, where he is a radar navigator with the Strategic Air Command. He also earned a master's degree from the University of Southern California extension at Loring. Dr. HOWARD G. HUGHES ’65 has been appointed an associate in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa. He received his medical education al Jefferson Medical When 5a I memoriam LIBORIO S. BACGANARI ’77 of 205 Bennett Street, Exeter, Pa., died on August 29, 1977. 1 le graduated from Pittston High School in 1951 and served with the U. S. Army, being discharged in 1963. Liborio entered Wilkes in 1967 and received bis B. A. in psychology in May, 1977. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn. Wrestling Meet Art Exhibit Wrestling Meet Art Exhibit Wrestling Meet Wrestling Meet Concert/Lecture Series Theater Production Wrestling Meet Art Exhibit Basketball Game vs. Oklahoma Benton Spruance vs. Syracuse Rose Perkoski vs. Oswego & Mass. Maritime vs. Montclair Robert Sacchi “Incident At Vichy” vs. Lycoming Klaus Lietz vs. Albright vs. Susquehanna vs. Susquehanna vs. Lycoming vs. Lycoming Scholastic Art Awards vs. Lackawanna Vincent Price vs. Upsala Wilkes College Band Tish McCarthy/ Peggy Schutz vs. Scranton vs. Kutztown vs. Elizabethtown vs. Elizabethtown vs. Franklin & Marshall 23-26 Basketball Game Women’s Basketball Game Basketball Game Women's Basketball Game Art Exhibit Women's Basketball Game Concert/Lecture Series Women’s Basketball Game Concert Art Exhibit Basketball Game Women’s Basketball Game Basketball Game Women’s Basketball Game Wrestling Meet Basketball Game Art Exhibit Basketball Game Women’s Basketball Game Wrestling Meet Theater Production 26-Mar. 3 Art Exhibit Kathy Bozinski 7 7-31 14 15-27 21 24 25 27-29 28 29-Feb. 10 & CI a (O ui IL 1 1 4 4 4-28 6 8 10 10 12-17 14 14 16 16 18 18 19-24 20 21 22 O § 1 2 5-10 8 12-17 15 26-31 o Who Where 30 JOHN G. KONSAVAGE ’54 of Hamilton Road, Dallas, Pa., died on October 13,1977. He graduated from Edwardsville High School and received his B.S. in Commerce and Finance from Wilkes in 1954. John had recently been appointed resident manager of Warren W. York and Co., Inc., whose local office is in the United Penn Bank Building. He had been an instructor and had conducted courses in investments and economics at Wilkes. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and three children, Mrs. Harry K. Eisenberg, San Francisco; J. Gregory Jr., Pittsburgh; and Karen, at home. What Concert. Lecture Series Concert Art Exhibit Concert Lecture Series Art Exhibit Concert Art Exhibit vs. Juniata Danny House vs. Bloomsburg vs. Miscricordia vs. Penn State “The Runner Stumbles” “Potsdam Brass Quintet in Concer Wilkes College Chorus Jean Reiter Frank Wengen Mel Blanc David Sick. .Margaret Hreha Wilkes College Band Dave Raynock. Kimberly Time Gym 8:00 Sordoni Art Gallery Gym 2:00 Conyngham Annex Gallery Gym 2ym 2:00 Gym 8:00 CPA 8:00 SUB Gym 8:oo Conyngham Annex Gallery Gym 8:00 Gym 8:15 Gym 6:00 Gym 8:15 Gym 6:00 Sordoni Art Gallery 7:00 Gym 8:00 CPA 7:00 Gym 8:30 CPA Conyngham Annex Gallery Gym 8:00 Gym 6:00 Gym 8:15 Gym 6:00 Gym 7:00 Gym 9:00 Conyngham Annex Gallery' 8:00 Gym 7:00 Gym 8:00 Gym CPA Conyngham Annex Gallery 8:00 CPA 8:30 CPA Conyngham Annex Gallery ^ Conyngham Annex Gallery Cony ngham Annex Gallery WINTER 1977 39 �n EAL JOY COMES NOT FROM EASE OR RICHES OR FROM THE PRAISE OF MEN 1 BUT FROM DOING SOMETHING WORTHWHILE I $;'?• wilfred grenfelt •A./ ay this holiday1 season Bring To You and Your Loved Ones precious gifts of Health, Happiness and Enduring Friendships Bob & Libby Capin � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Winter 1977 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Winter 1977 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/571c53deed0b2e05ef0f1aa09d55adce.pdf 3a950dfa121d1ad24cb21fa6dec13573 PDF Text Text r �CO11EGE ARCHIVES 6PRMG WILKE6 COLLEGE Volume 2, Number 1 editor George G. Pawlush '69 associate editors Jane Manganella Rich Strobel OPEN LETTER TO THE ALUMNI The alumni play a vital part in the well-being of a college. It’s unnecessary to point out how important your financial support is. But there is another kind of help you can give your alma mater that is at least as important, and won’t cost you a cent. Wilkes, like most of our sister colleges, faces the 19S0’s with some trepidation. You are probably familiar with predictions, such as that of Garland G. Parker of the University of Cincinnati, that college enrollments will “nosedive in the 1980’s”. If Wilkes is to achieve in the future, her full promise and potential, then we must maintain our present number of students. This means we must increase our market share. Coupled with this, we hope to get growing numbers of top rank students. Here is how the alumni can help. If you know of any high school students who might make good students, tell them about us. If you have friends or business associates who are looking for the right college for their children, tell them about Wilkes. No one knows better than you what Wilkes is really all about. Therefore, no one is better qualified to judge whether Wilkes would be the right college for a given youngster. If Wilkes seems to be the right choice for a student we’d like to hear about him or her. If you would write or call the Admissions Office, The Alumni Office, myself, or any faculty member about a prospective student, we’ll be happy to follow up with all the information and help we can give. With best wishes and hopes, Bob DeYoung, Chairman Admissions Committee Wilkes College of the Reichard & Weaver Brewing Company. The firm owned and operated breweries in Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, and several other cities. The Wilkes-Barre brewer}’ was located on upper Water Street near its juncture with North River St. Both my aunt and her husband were children of early German settlers who located in Wilkes-Barre prior to the Civil War. Mrs. Weaver and members of her family continued to live in the edifice until her death in 1950. The home was sold to the United Mine Workers, who made it their office headquarters, prior to its purchase by the college. George P. Weaver, Jr., her son, married Margaret Butler, a direct descendent of Colonel Zebulon Butler, who commanded the valley settlers at the Battle of Wyoming, July 1778. Mrs. Frances Weaver was the sister of my father, I^ouis Hartmann. As for the house, itself? It may not be one of the historic houses on the Wilkes campus, but I always remember it for the pleasant memories which I associate with it. Sincerely yours, Edward G. Hartmann, Ph.D. ’35 Professor of History Suffolk University Boston, Mass. WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Bi Joan Vorbach '78 Cara Berryman Vesta Breakstone Bob Gaetano '80 Eddie White in '80 WILKES — A GOOD NEIGHBOR administrative assistant Dear President Capin: Just as I have other issues, I enjoyed reading the winter issue of the Wilkes College Quarterly. I was particularly taken with the essay “The Wilkes Campus: A Look at its Historical and Architectural Heritage.” I think Mr. Andrews has done an outstanding job of imparting information on a topic of interest to many of us and he has done it with flair and brevity. The accompanying photographs do much to assist in its success. It seems to me features such as this could be of significant public relations value to Wilkes. This one has a distinct “town and gown” flavor to it and, discreetly exploited, could identify Wilkes not just as a good neighbor in the community but as a neighbor interested in preserving the heritage of its community and willing to share its wealth of wisdom with student and non-student alike. Very truly yours, Joseph A. Williams Executive Director Indus. Develop. Auth. City of Wilkes-Barre ToniReavy P.S. Should you wish to print this letter, how about accompanying it with a photo­ graph of the Weaver home? Some of the alumni may remember me as assistant professor at Wilkes, 1946-47. Included among my students were Atty. Joseph J. Savitz, chairman of the board of trustees, and Judge Edwin M. Kosik. Thanks for your letter Dr. Hartmann. We are pleased to provide a picture of Franklin (Weaver) Hall. Dear Editor: I would like to extend my compliments to you and the Wilkes College Quarterly staff for the outstanding job on the format of the alumni publication. I want to personally thank you for the article on the retirement of Lt. Col. Richard L. Wing, former AFROTC commandant. He started many students on the road to an exciting, rewarding career in the U. S. Air Force. I, for one, shall never forget him. Evelyn D. Hager, 2nd Lt., USAF 76 62nd Security Police Squadron McChord AFB, WA 98438 Thanks Evelyn. Judging from the calls received by the Public Relations Office for his new address, you belong to a very large group. In fact his new address is R. D. 1, Box 90, Portageville, N.Y. 1453b. Bom a hunchback dwarf, one leg shorter than the other, this lonely outcast helped shape the American way of life we know today! Wilkes Engineering Department tries to instill his ideas and ideals in the engineers of tomorrow. The cover was created by noted contemporary illustrator/designer Ralph J. Frost, III. contributing staff Janine Pokrinchak '78 Pam Long '79 Jeff Acornley '78 Noreen Corbett '79 Kathy Bozinski '78 Dave Jolley'78 Quality in Small Quantities by Janine Pokrinchak ’78 An Alumni Commitment Necessary no Whatever Turns You On 12 editorial advisor Arthur J. Hoover '55 circulation manager Lynn Jacobs art director Jon Schaffer photography editor John Miknevich LYNNWOOD STUDIO The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. TIP OF THE HAT Dear Editor: 2 A-,-. UP AND AWAY by Pam Long '79 MUSH by Jane Manganella TANKS ALOT by Rich. Strobel THE KEY THAT OPENS DOORS by Kathy Bozinski '78 letters 2 Chronicle 4 TO COLONEL WING FRANKLIN HALL REMEMBERED I enjoyed reading the article on “The Wilkes Campus: A Look at its Historical and Architectural Heritage” which appeared in the Winter, 1977 Wilkes College Quarterly. Ronald L. Andrews’ mention of Franklin Hall brought back memories. Franklin Hall, which I presume was named after Colonel John Franklin, is the edifice located at 165 South Franklin St., directly across from Weckesser Flail. The house was built for my aunt, Mrs. Frances Hartmann Weaver (1862-1950) around 1903-04. She was the widow of George P. Weaver (1853-1902), president editorial staff ■ ON THE COVER . . . Wilkes pays tribute to one of the world's greatest minds, electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz. His experiments with alternating current (AC), magnetism and lightning arresters to protect high-power lines made possible the practical transmission and distribution of power to energize the electrical requirements our society has become so dependent upon, from the light bulb to computers. BOARD OF TRUSTEES MiSS Mary R. Koons, Honorary Member Reuben H. Levy, Honorary Member OFFICERS Joseph J. Savitz '48, Chairman Ben Badman, Jr. ’41, First Vice Chairman William J. Umphred ’52, Second Vice Chairman Richard L. Pearsall. Secretary Arthur J. Hoover '55, Assistant Secretary Mrs. Walter M. Diener, Treasurer Joseph J. Chisarick ’61, Assistant Treasurer Faculty Abstract 6 Undergraduate 16 James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein '68 Edward Bixby. M.D. Charles N. Burns. M.D. '35 Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Edward Darling Mrs. William Davidowitz Mrs. Stanley Davies Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Sports Update 17 South River St. Revival 20 Alan M. Glover, Ph.D. Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan, Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Edwin M. Kosik '49 Richard Maslow Charles H. Miner Gerald A. Moffatt '63 William G. Mulligan F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross, Jr. Louis Shaffer Ronald W. Simms '60 William H. Sword, Jr. E. Arthur Trabant. Ph.D. Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENT Robert S. Capin '50 �MW® Innovative Education Through the co-op program, the college student obtains practical work experience in his chosen field. “The co-op program allows the student to take a close look at his potential career," states Robert J. Koester Jr., director of co­ operative education at Wilkes College. “It gives the student a chance to utilize classroom theory for practical purposes." Co-operative education at Wilkes College is an optional work experience program which becomes a valuable part of the student’s overall education. That work experience is directly related to the student’s academic curriculum or vocational goal. The program consists of more than one semester of off-campus work experience in which most students are paid while earning college credits. While financial reasons are secondary to the educational benefits derived from the job, earning ability is important to most people and is often the enabling device to make such an education possible. Applicants are screened by the Co-operative Education Depart­ ment, and then prepared for a job nterview by the Placement Office The employer decides if the student qualifies for employment The student is evaluated by his department, the employer and the Cooperative Education Depa/tment The college graduate with work experience is a sought-after commodity. Many co-op participants are immediately hired, upon graduation, by the organizations they worked for during the co-op program. A variety of fields of interest participate in the program; Bell Telephone, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, Pennsylvania Gas and Water Co. and Allentown Sacred Heart Hospital, to name a few. "We send interested students to other cities to gain needed exper­ ience if necessary," Koester went on, “If the student elects, he can go to Harrisburg, Philadelphia or New York, or one of many cities to gain on-the-job experience." Wilkes College's Co-operative Education Program is affiliated with the Life Experience Internship Program which places college students in state government agencies, non-profit organizations, legislative offices and state related associations. Thanks to the Co-operative Education Program, more college students will graduate better prepared for future prospects. Kinney’s Kids” Conquer They file into the room, ready to debate Harvard. The Harvard debate team carries suitcases filled with evidence. The confident captain of the Ivy League squad “Who “ ’HfoPPonents and sneers, hSof Wllke?Col^n’ve never som A f yOlt Aren’‘ y0U from some town that was flooded’” CooUpJraMkC10Sely'Viththe beaten'^ours later, Wilkes had SQ that each co-opCp5oDnTertment' Hr wPnTard-They'aren’t the abouS i - Wilkes College the hard way. We have raised our level of «ndpaSalI:gneadmini='rations of extol the benefits fganizati°ns education TheUp? Cn’°perativ« declared Dr. SrS^K-011''' coach of the Wiwl n v KlnneV. “Not since iqYr k u Debate Union'be numbe^’J?1? Wilkes was 4 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY t fea° °®onie d‘d we enjoy this ki^d" nat‘On’ m debating.” * d of rePutation Debating is defineH a ment to disagree witSin?" de­ ground rules. A match V-*®* teams lasts one ronn? behveentl EachoftwodebatSo^^bo?0 is allowed 10 minute’?nnatea"i. eight round? PoinUarZ°f si* 'o to the team who wins each ded and to the individual dTmt^nd’ .h="“£S,\5X^ same topic. This year’s topic asks the question, “Should law enforcement agencies be given signifi­ cantly greater freedom in the investigation and prosecution of a felony crime?” Debaters, as well as their coach, become somewhat experts on their subject. “We may have as many as 40,000 note cards filled with evidence on one topic,” stated Dr. Kinney. Gathering more infor­ mation throughout the semester, the students polish their arguments. During practice, each debater receives criticism from team members and their coach. “We try to detect faulty reasoning or weak arguments, we correct physical distractions such as shifting weight from one foot to the other, or poor posture,” Some­ times, by the use of video tape, the student observes himself. Dr. Bradford L. Kinney entered Wilkes College with the idea ot teaching speech and buildings debate team. He earned his doctorate in rhetoric and pub i address at the University of i burgh. In only four years, his have won over 170 trophies a traveled over 17,000 miles. “Students broaden their ®*pting ence through travel and by mee i = people,” Kinney went on, learn the art of sound reason jjon's and how to react to anothe p thinking.” This year's debate team broke a victory record which has stood for 20 years. The old record of 30 victories for an entire year, fell in only one semester. “Kinney's Kids”, the team nickname, have logged 55 victories, with hopes of doubling the old record before debating season ends. “Our strength lies in the fact that we work as one unit. We help each other, we encourage each other, we are like one big happy family." Years ago, with his car filled with debaters, Dr. Kinney stopped at a gasoline station. The team overflowing with spirit, was making plenty of noise. Kinney asked for quiet. The team responded in unison, “Yes daddy." — thus the birth of “Kinney’s Kids”. Tee shirts, pins, signs and car stickers bearing the "Kinney's Kids” label started a nation-wide fad among debate teams. “We take debating seriously, but we do have a lot of fun," Kinney remarked. Coach Kinney also recommends physical exercise for his team. “Physically alert means mentally alert.” Enjoying a reputation as a tough, well-disciplined team, Wilkes is invited to tournaments all over the country. As “Kinney’s Kids” continue their record breaking year, they no longer hear, “Who is Wilkes College?" Promotion For Pawlush George Pawlush has been named public relations director at the college. Pawlush, a 1969 alumnus, joined Wilkes as sports information director following graduation. He held that post until January 1977, when he was appointed news bureau director. Among his new duties is the editorship of the WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY. He holds a B. S. degree in Commerce and Finance and an M. S. in Education and is an adjunct professor in the English Depart­ ment, instructing basic newswriting courses and the journalism intern program. “I am honored to have the opportunity to guide Wilkes College’s public relations program. Wilkes is a vibrant institution and I look forward to communicating this to the public,” he said. Pawlush also serves as editor of the Wilkes-Hahnemann Report; was managing editor of the WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY; and edits the college's football magazine. In 1975, the football magazine was voted as the third best college division game program in the nation by the College Sports Information Directors of America. He is advisor to both the college’s Circle K Club and the student Cherry Blossom Committee and adds the advisorship of the Wilkes College newspaper, The Beacon. He also served as the first varsity cross country coach and guided the program for six years before relin­ quishing coaching duties last year. Active in civic affairs, Pawlush served as chairman of the 1976 and 1977 Cherry Blossom Committee of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce. He is one of the founders and current president of the Wyoming Valley AAU Striders, an organization for amateur running enthusiasts, and has directed several meets. He is auditor of the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Wilkes-Barre, and a past governor of the Anthra­ cite District, Federated Russian Orthodox Clubs. The new PR director is married to the former Carol Corbett and the Pawlush’s have one son. Dollars and Sense To pay or not to pay? That is the question some Wilkes College alumni have asked themselves over the years, with regard to repayment of their National Student Direct Loans (NSDL). Fred Croop, the assistant comp­ troller at the college, relates that 95.4% of the 34,266,000 which has been advanced to Wilkes students since the program began in 1959 has been repaid. “We are regulated by law to do everything reasonably possible to obtain repayment," says Croop. “Despite our efforts, there is still $199,278 in loans outstanding and the college could conceivably be forced to absorb this debt." Students receiving National Student Direct Loans are presently required to take an exit interview with the director of financial aid, discussing a repayment schedule, prior to graduation. The college is required to report to the federal government concerning the repay­ ment of loans made to its students. Procedures of past due billing are for the college to first send notices 15, 30 and 45 days after the due date. “We then attempt to personally contact the person and relate the procedures of past-due loans without applying any type of pressure," reports Croop. After 180 days, the college is legally required to turn the matter over to a collection agency. "This is a step which we try to avoid since it forces us to seek help outside the College Family and the situation becomes an external matter," Croop adds. It also means that part of the unpaid loan collected will be the agency’s fee. If the collection agency is unable to track down the delinquent party, the case is referred to a second collection agency. The final recourse for both the college and the federal government is to institute legal action. "Each collection agency has its own method of collecting the delinquent funds. While we do not condone any unreasonable actions on their part, unfortunately once the matter leaves our hands after 180 days, we lose control to correct the situation on a personal and relaxed basis.” Croop urges all alumni faced with this problem to “settle the delinquency as quickly as possible. It is a real problem and an obliga­ tion which must be met." 1984 Wilkes College has broadened and extended its horizons in the field of Computer Sciences by purchasing a $250,000 HewlettPackard — 3000-11 Computer System thereby causing a campus­ wide ‘‘computer revolution" as various college departments and administrative offices learn to communicate with and utilize this “mechanical brain." "The entire campus is going SPRING 1978 5 �through this computer revolution," according to Dr. Bing Wong, chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences. "More and more students, staff and faculty members, and administrators are learning to use the new computer every day." He pointed out, "The illiterates of the future may well be those who are unable to use one or more of the multitude of programming languages to communicate with the computer." J David Williams, right, director of the Wilkes College Computer Center, and Joseph Volack, left, system manager, are shown putting the new Hewlett-Packard computer through its paces. The new system includes a central process­ ing unit with 256 K bytes of memory, a 600 lines per minute printer, two slower character printers, a card reader, four disc drives with a total of 130 million characters of storage capacity, a tape drive, and 16 CRT terminals. The use of the terminals has been so great that Wilkes College has already acquired additional control mechanisms which will allow 16 more terminals to be added in the near future. The quarter-million dollar H-P system was selected after a year­ long study by an ad hoc faculty­ administration committee which evaluated a large number of systems proposed by leading computer manufacturers to meet present and projected needs of Wilkes College. "While many computer systems considered would meet the admin­ istrative needs of Wilkes,” Dr. Wong explained, “the H-P system was chosen because it is an ideal instructional tool as well." The new system replaces a former-generation computer that served Wilkes' previous academic and administrative needs. Under the old “batch” mode of operation, a user often spent many hours preparing a program on punch cards. Much time was wasted as the user waited for the operator to run the program and return the results on print-out sheets. The 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY only way the user could correct mistakes, however minor, was to repunch the "bad" cards and resubmit the entire program to the computer. It was not uncommon fora beginning student to repeat this process several times before obtaining a completed program. In addition to being able to handle "batch” jobs, the new H-P system is also a time-sharing machine which enables a large number of people to use it simul­ taneously. As soon as a user "signs on" at a CRT terminal, using a preassigned private code word, instant communication is established with the computer. The terminal consists of a typewriter keyboard and a television screen. The user types in his program and can correct any errors as he proceeds. The entire task can often be completed in a single sitting. Students, in particular, find this a much better way to learn com­ puter languages. Another advantage of the new H-P system is that it incorporate the newest computer technology It boasts of a memory which is fout times greater than the previous computer used at Wilkes, yet the new computer costs considerably less to maintain and consumes much less energy than its prede­ cessor. The new computer system is designed for a wide range of applications and purposes. Term­ inals connected to it are the most popular “new toys” among Wilke: !S students these days. In addition to doing assignments related to computer courses, some enterprising students, computer club members, are using the new computer to design art prints for sale to raise Ted Veremeychik faculty by Dave Jolley “Music is a must for every college student. The arts in general, can t be stressed enough,” comments Ted Veremeychik, a member of the music faculty. His opinion is based on a personal belief that the arts help everyone in their daily lives. “Enjoying good music, painting, literature or any other art form is experiencing the best things that life has to offer.” Veremeychik is totally dedicated to music, both as a performer and a teacher. He plays the dual role with dignity and devotion when he performs with the Brass Quintet, a group of four students he also coaches. He admits to enjoying this type of endeavor more than any other, and his pleasure at doing this has become a fringe benefit for local high-school students. The Quintet make themselves available to all high-school music departments upon request. A native of the Pittsburgh area, Veremeychick’s association with the college began seven years ago. When appointed to the faculty he assumed responsibility for the brass section of the department. Ted enjoys the small college atmos­ phere and is convinced of its importance in relation to a well rounded education, since it gives the student a sense of individuality and the opportunity to relate to the faculty. Despite the heavy schedule at Wilkes, he finds time to participate in civic happenings. He performs with the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic Orchestra, is a choir director in St. Andrew’s Orthodox Church, and serves as a board member on the Back Mountain Cultural Committee. Veremeychik is a graduate of Indiana State University of Pennsylvania, and before coming to Wilkes, worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Miami, Florida, while earning his MA. He later attended Catholic University in Washington, D. C., and is presently working on his doctors e in Music Arts at Northwestern University. Hopefully, the music departmen and community will continue o benefit from his dedication to music. o funds. Others use it to compose, edit and generate finished copies of term papers to be submitted to various professors. In anticipation of the installation of the new H-P computer, Wilkes College started a new computer science major program last Fall. Dr. Wong said the new* major has attracted widespread interest. Enrollment in computer science has been increasing much faster than expected. The computer science program at Wilkes College was strengthened last year by the addition of two faculty members: Dr. John A. Koch, who received his doctorate from the University of Illinois; and Dr. Joseph A. Parker, who earned his Ph.D. at Cal-Tech. The new staffers are responsible for such recent course additions as "Advanced Cobol and File Management”, "Operating System Principles", "Simulation and Data Analysis", "Data Base Management”, and "Compiler Design” to the offerings in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Wilkes. The Engineering Department, under the chairmanship of Dr. Umid Nejib, is also using the new H-P system extensively in its degree programs in electrical and materials engineering. nr SI 0. I / i The new H-P 3000 Series II computer is quickly being adopted by nearly every Wilkes College administrative office to greatly increase record keeping efficiency. Mary Larusso, seated, a member of the finance office staff, is using this terminal to retrieve payroll data from the computer. Standing, from left, are Joseph Chisarick, comptroller; Andrew Shaw, Jr., dean of management; and Fred Croop, assistant comptroller. Much of the planning and implementation of Wilkes College's computer science/ mathematics program has been conducted by Dr. Bing Wong, chairman of the department. It’s Not Too Early To Start Planning For The 31st Annual Alumni HOMECOMING Dr. IVong, left, a veteran Wilkes College faculty member, is shown with Dr. John Koch, a member of the mathematics/ computer science faculty. Dr. Koch gained international recognition as a junior member of a three-man University of Illinois faculty team which used a computer to solve the famous "Four Color Problem." Friday, Saturday, Sunday October 13,14,15,1978 THE WILKES Advanced computer-oriented engineering courses afford students a unique opportunity to study inte­ grated circuits and micro-processors which are basic building blocks of the modern computer. Not to be outdone by their colleagues in engineering, the social scientists at Wilkes will be able to use statistical packages like SPSS and simulation languages such as GASP to study social problems. At the present time, the largest single group of students using the new H-P computer comes from the accounting and business depart­ ments. Under the direction of David Williams, director of the Wilkes College Computer Center, the various administrative departments are rapidly converting existing files and programs from the former computer system to on-line appli­ cations on the new H-P system. Terminals are being installed in the offices of admissions, business, finance, the registrar, alumni and development. Authorized college personnel will soon be able to project and update on little television screens information about payrolls, billings, student records, and other data vital to the day-to-day operations of Wilkes College. Many adults are returning to the college campus to learn the new computer languages. They do not want to be among the computer illiterates of the future. They are learning with the aid of one of the best systems available in this computer era. o CoLEGE CONNECTION FOR 24 HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. 717-826-1135 YEARBOOKS AVAILABLE... In response to periodic inquiries about the availability of yearbooks (THE AMNICOLA) from previous years, your Alumni Relations Office has learned from the yearbook staff that some volumes are still available. Copies of the AMNICOLA for 1973,1975,1976, and 1977 are available for purchase at $10 per copy. This price includes the cost of mailing. Orders for these books may be sent to the Alumni Relations Office at the College with checks made payable to the AMNICOLA. ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Office at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our records. Wilkes College admils students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. SPRING 1978 7 �Wilkes College°e^gifnaeCeJat uates can hold their own ?rad' ;s:»x-ine<ir"’gs,ud^ ■ 'cJ LU vu — exists," emphasizes Dr. Umid Nejib, chairman of the Wi|kes Coliege Engineering Depart, "We are finally getting the--:ment. attention that we deserveIe national because our graduates are maki, their presence known in indu' mg istry." Wilkes has maintained a two year program in engineering for many years, but only since 1968 has the four-year program of studies existed. The Engineering Department offers Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical and materials engi­ neering. There are also two-year academic concentrations in civil chemical, and mechanical engi-' neering in addition to industrial and management engineering. Students in the two-year program transfer to other schools to complete their juniorand senior years. Engineering encompasses a wide variety of functions and occupations. Within the field of electrical engineering, the areas include different concentrations ranging from radar and fabrication of transistors to medical elec­ tronics, and micro computer design. While materials engineer­ ing is primarily the study and analysis of various types of materials, it also involves work with preparation of materials for producing transistors and producing artificial limbs. Engineering is "hard to describe in compact terms," Dr. Nejib relates. Not only is the engineering field constantly changing, but there are also a number of engi­ neering occupations which require strong backgrounds in other academic fields as wellThe Wilkes department has developed interdisciplinary pro grams which have become an integral part of the engineering curriculum. With the growing emphasis in such fields as biomedical engineering and computer engineering, studen with experience in both engine ing and mathematics or biology or physics are qualified for jobs in these advanced fields in addition to graduate studies in certain areas including medical school. As the technology and emphasis of the engineering field increase and change, the Wilkes engi­ neering faculty is constantly monitoring the field to keep abreast of these changes. The faculty members try to predict what engineering areas will be needed five to ten years in the future. Through this monitoring, the faculty becomes aware of the new technological advancements and can incorporate them into the curriculum. Physically, the Engineering Department consists of well-equipped laboratories and classrooms located in the base­ ment and on the first two floors and the roof of the Stark Learning Center. These laboratories contain expensive, sophisticated equip­ ment which most engineering students do not see at the undergraduate level. "Wilkes has one of the best facilities in the nation at the undergraduate level," notes Dr. Nejib. Eighty-five percent of the funds used to purchase the department's equip­ ment come from grants, donations and contributions. Only a small portion of the money is supplied by the college's working budget. The Wilkes engineering program is being copied by many other schools. The interest in Wilkes is based on its cost effectiveness theory, which means that the department uses each laboratory to its fullest potential. The use of the equipment is maximized, particularly in the senior advanced laboratories. Each advanced lab can be used for several different areas within one main field of engineering. This way, the department can modify concentrations within the general curriculum to reflect the demands of the present engineering needs. As a result, the Engineering Department can handle the constant change without drastic phasing out of some concentra­ tions in order to introduce new areas of study. However, this also requires that the faculty members remain up-to-date with the technological advancements. Because of this progressive program, Wilkes engineering students receive a well-rounded education and graduate with a strong background in their field. Part of this background, in addition to the technological knowledge, is a personality or attitude which the student learns to develop to handle this technical knowledge. This attitude is just as important to learn, according to "Our students are in great demand," adds Dr. Nejib. He further explained that it is the Wilkes program and the engineer­ ing background of the Wilkes graduates which lead to the job offers and graduate school acceptances. How is this success accom­ plished? According to Dr. Nejib, "the staff of this department works awfully hard." The faculty members maintain an active role in the engineering field along with JD1 : ’3 the department philosophy, as the theoretical experience. Engineering students become aware of how to handle questions, how to work with people, and how to seek out solutions to problems. The success of the department is reflected in the quality of the engineering graduates. Since the inception of the four-year pro­ gram, every senior has been placed either in graduate engineering schools such as Stanford Univer­ sity, UCLA, MIT among others, or in jobs with companies like Hughes Aircraft, IBM, Xerox, Kodak, Texas Instruments, National Cash Register, RCA and other nationally known corpora­ tions. The Wilkes graduates are often paid salaries above the national average and they often require less than the standard one year on-the-job training. their teaching duties. He also notes that the students are "highly motivated." They have a "great sense of commitment and loyalty to the program." It is this inter­ action of the students and faculty which provides the success of the department. Working together, the Wilkes students and faculty have elevated the stature of the Engineering Department to national and international prominence. They have earned their respected niche in the engineering profession and exemplify the college's mission to provide quality educational programs. o SPRING 1978 9 �IT’S UP TO YOU Wilkes College's "Alpha Capital Campaign reached a major milestone in April with the announcement by Atty. Andrew campaign funds will be Used maintain the historic , ings which form a part of tr S?U‘ld' for both Wilkes College and^^ Hourigan, Jr., general campaign chairman, that the drive had surpassed the$l million plateau. Wilkes-Barre. Reconstruction j include repointing the exteriorPoanS buildings, replacement of roof windows, improvements in 5 and electrical, plumbing, and heatin systems, and adding insulation § which will make the structures' more energy efficient. Total goal of the three-year capital gifts drive is $2.4 million and Wilkes College President Robert S. Capin notes,"the real hard work lies ahead. Although we attained the million mark in less than four months of work, most of this total represents large contribu­ tions in the Leadership and Trustee Gifts Phases plus a sizable gift from the J. N. Pew, Jr. Charitable Trust. Funds raised through the "Alpha" campaign will be directed toward (1) scholarship support, (2) enlarging the endowment to support faculty salaries, and (3) reconstruction of existing college properties. Currently 805 Wilkes students receive aid in various forms amounting to $3.7 million. This figure includes $500,000 awarded annually by the college to augment the financial aid packages of 780 students. n alumni commitment ry 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY In December, President Capin told a Leaders Conference audience "that over the years the community and alumni have responded generously to support qualified students and this part of the 'Alpha' campaign is a direct extension of our original mission." In order to competitively recruit and retain a quality faculty, the college is focusing on upgrading faculty salaries. The "Alpha" campaign seeks to add $700,000 to the college endowment. Income from this portion of the endowment will be directed toward faculty salaries according to President Capin. "During inflationary times it is essential to at least maintain the standard of living of those individuals who teach our students and develop the academic programs to serve our students and region." The final portion of the "Alpha" Also included is the reconstruc tion of an existing college facility’ to create a new Student Union X Building. Sixty percent of Wilkes students are commuters who need a facility in which they can meet and socialize with each other and with resident students. The present facility, located in the former Church Hall, is inadequate to support the current student population. The $100,000 grant from the J. N. Pew, Jr. Charitable Trust, which came as a result of a founda­ tion visit by President Capin and Dr. Thomas Kelly, dean of external affairs, has been designated for the purpose of establishing the student union center. Ongoing phases of the "Alpha" campaign include the (1) Leader­ ship — which seeks gifts at $10,000 and up; (2) Special Gifts — which seeks pledges in the $1,000 to $10,000 range from about 400 prospects; and (3) "College Family" — which seeks pledges from members of the administra­ tion, faculty, clerical, and maintenance staff. Alumni, residing in the Greater Wilkes-Barre area, will be person­ ally solicited during the special "Wyoming Valley Alumni General Appeal," which is scheduled to run from April 11 to May 26. "The Appeal will be a historic first," explains Art Hoover, director of alumni relations. 15 will be our first attempt at ever soliciting all alumni in the area on a person-to-person basis. T e Appeal is included as part of t re campaign's General Gifts Phase and will seek to personally reach all 340° alumni living in Wyoming Valley. Chairperson of the Appeal is Richard Simonson '69, who is being assisted by James Ferris '56. The campaign committee includes ten team leaders who each recruited 15 workers. Also augmenting the alumni volunteers are a group of current Wilkes students. The General Gifts Phase began on Wednesday, April 12, with a luncheon at the Sterling Inn Towne. The goal of the General Phase is $150,000. William Mainwaring '65 is the chairman of the phase. In addition to the Wyoming Valley alumni, another 1,000 prospects will be solicited. Additional sources for "Alpha" funds include government, founda­ tions, annual fund, and national alumni regional campaigns. Solicitation of alumni for the "Alpha" drive outside of Wyoming Valley will begin during Fall, 1978. This spring, national alumni are being asked to participate in the annual appeal, which is separate from the Capital Campaign. "Support of the national alumni is more important than ever," Hoover states, "because all our community and local alumni benefactors are participating in the Capital Campaign." The Wilkes College “Alpha” capital gifts campaign reached the million dollar mark in early April with the aid of a $100,000 grant from the J. N. Pew, Jr. Charitable Trust. Shown following the announcement arc from left: Dr. Thomas F. Kelly, dean of external affairs; Robert S. Capin, Wilkes College president; Atty. Andrew Hourigan, Jr., general campaign chairman; and Ben Badman, Jr., chairman of the Special Gifts Phase; and Dr. Richard P. Soter, provost. Alpha Campaign Goal — $2.4 million A Three-Year Effort ENDOWMENT SCHOLARSHIPS FACILITIES I—Scholarship Aid II— Increased Endowment for Faculty Salaries III— Reconstruction of college properties: Student Residence Halls Student Union Facility Goal: $ 900,000 700,000 An ambitious undertaking of the “Alpha" capital campaign is the Wyoming Valley Alumni General Appeal which is headed by Richard Simonson ’69. Members of the Appeal leadership are pictured al Wcckesser Hall, from left, seated: Alan Zellner 72, Dr. Carl Urbanski ’57, Robert Silvi ’69, Andrea Petrasek '69, Robert Malley 73, Marietta Bednar 73. Standing- William Dongas ’6.9, Robert Howes 75, John farzenbowicz ’5.9, Robert S. Capin '50, president- Richard Simonson '69, Art Hoover ’55, director of alumni relations; George Pawlush ’69 director of public relations; Dr. Thomas Kelly '69, dean of external affairs; Lee Ciarmatori 72, and firn Aikman, director of development. o 800,000 $2,400,000 SPRING 1978 11 �UP &. AWAY by Pam Long ‘79 WHAT- EVER TURNS YOU ON As long as humans have lived on the face of the earth they have used their spare time to indulge in a wide range of leisure activities. These moments of freedom might range from gardening, hunting, to beer can collecting. Not everyone gets involved with these traditional pastimes. Some people have searched and found that ultimate in escape from the rigors of everyday life. This feature is dedicated to all those who pursue that strange and sublime fulfillment. 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY High above a rocky ledge a hawk glides majestically in circular fashion leaving a shadow on the ground as the only clue to his flight. This peaceful scene becomes a silent call of the wild to avid birdwatchers like Edwin Johnson, director of student teaching and a 1950 alumnus of the college. An experienced “birder," he finds these encounters very rewarding. The early 1950’s saw the beginning of Johnson's hobby after which he became affiliated with several related organizations including the National Audubon Society, the American Ornithological Union, and the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club. He previously banded (tagged birds' legs to trace their whereabouts) for the Fish and Wildlife Service as well. The birdwatcher's image, usually that of a fair-skinned, slender Englishman peering sheepishly from behind a leaf, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Actually, most birders are energetic persons willing to journey long distances at the slightest notion of a bird’s location. Johnson’s hobby demands many responsibilities. As compiler for the Audubon Christmas Census, conducted one day each year between December 17 and January 1, he fulfills one of his tasks. This year, census takers spotted 56 different species of feathered friends in Wyoming Valley. “Hawk watches" on Plymouth mountain, a favorite migration spot, is another of Johnson's favorite pastimes. These flying birds of prey are observed and accounted for as they descend the steep ridges. Yearly sightings then reveal trends in hawk behavior. To this particular bird fan, the hobby represents more than a mere leisure time activity. “It is a kind of challenge because it's hunting without all of the negative aspects. It's also exciting and at times difficult." Several other Wilkes faculty members accept this challenge as Johnson is often accompanied by Dr. Charles Reif, professor of biology; Michael Barone, associate professor of education; and Dr. Robert Ogren, associate professor of biology. The early morning hours often find Johnson on his way to a favorite birding location. He estimates that between 240 to 250 different kinds of birds make their home in Wyoming Valley. Birders practice their trade year round affected mostly by seasonal changes. A variety of feathery songsters are present throughout the year, as some are fulltime residents while others tend to migrate. I From his banding experience, Johnson has found that many birds travel great distances. “The best time for the beginning bird­ watcher is the winter," he commented, "because one isn't overpowered by the number of birds and heavy foliage.” These conditions prevail during the summer months, the birds' nesting period. A rather indifferent birding situation results. A sport or a hobby? “I consider it a hobby, but sometimes when you have walked all day you might consider it a sport, it's a bit of both.” Birding requires good eyesight and endurance as well as a willingness to crawl out of bed at four in the morning and at times travel throughout the night. "We observe owls so we have to travel at night,” Johnson explained. Ecology and conservation are important interests to birders. Nesting surveys conducted in the spring reveal patterns of bird behavior, often hinting that something is amiss and signaling an environmental change. Hawk watches figured significantly in deciphering the DDT mystery. When observers noted that hawks were not following their normal behavior, DDT was the explanation. Anything affecting bird life ultimately affects human life and our damaged environment is leaving little to be said for 'I Birds react immediately to any type of Sion, mirroring the changes through h numbers, the bird countsJohnson t-d that ruined wetlands and woodlands n°'destroying nesting spots and threatening h rd population. "It's not necessarily h "ting that’s killing the birds," he explained, "it'S just that their nesting spots have disappeared." Preservation efforts by different organizations like the National Audubon Society act to benefit these delicate creatures. Johnson occasionally takes his knowledge out of the woods and into the classroom. He instructs a summer course in basic ornithology for graduate students and biology and elementary teachers. Along with Rev. William Reid of the Wilkes-Barre Central Methodist Church, he is currently compiling a book about birds of Luzerne and Wyoming Counties. A catalog of bird kinds and general finders guide, this publication should make its debut in the near future. The simplicity of birdwatching has made it one of the largest growing hobbies in America. Equipment necessities are few and include a good pair of binoculars, a telescope for marshes, ocean and swamps, and finally, a field guide. Birders abound at all ages because the hobby is truly “one of a lifetime." Age sometimes affects one's birding activities as mobility decreases and hearing impediments prevail, prompting the phrase “you can often tell a man’s age by the birds he can hear." For the more stationary observer, the “window observer," the hobby proves equally exciting. Who is it that has never been delighted by the sight of a congregation of birds warming their backsides on top of a nearby chimney on a frosty morning? Johnson’s large office picture window in Butler Hall lends itself to his viewing descretion and allows him to watch the gulls that fly along the Susquehanna’s waters. Bird feeders are a welcome sight to hungry winter birds as welI as amusement for the "window watcher." Telephone calls to Johnson's office often involve a confused spectator and some desire for a bird's identification. Johnson makes no pretenses and deliberately maintains his interest as a hobby. “If I were an ornithologist and‘studied’ birds," he reasoned, “I probably wouldn't receive as much pleasure from birding." Gratification seems inevitable, however, as birding offers a variety of opportunities, a chance to rediscover nature, and a close encounter with eauty that can be seen as well as heard. o MUSH by Jane Manganella Two people stood in the snow at the Winter Carnival at St. Paul, Minnesota and watched the dog-sled racers cross the finish line. Bruce Berryman enjoyed the event, and the spirit of fun generated by the sport Cara Berryman felt far more... she wanted to be a part of it. She knew, then and there, she wanted to race. It has been four years since that day, and Cara has indeed, become a worthy contender in any “sour-dough" race. During that time, she has participated in about 30 races and finished in the top half of all of them. In the last two, she took a second at Peck's Pond, Pa. and a first at Ramapo Hills, N.J. To those who really know Cara Berryman, the winning record is no surprise. Although her personality is low-keyed and charming, the lady is an achiever, her life-style attests to this. Cara met and married Dr. Bruce Berryman, chairman of the Environmental Science Department at Wilkes, while they were both students at the University of Wisconsin. She received her degree in Recreational Therapy from the University and Bruce took his master's courses there and went on to work toward his doctorate in Meteorology. When Bruce decided to go on with his studies, Cara took a job as exhibitions coordinator at the Madison Art Center, Monday through Friday. On weekends, she taught art in the city's recreation department and did art therapy with retarded children. While 'working 'with these children, Cara noticed the need for therapeutic toys. “These children needed something that would give them enjoyment while improving their motor skills," she states. And Cara, being Cara, immediately went to work. She designed and had built just such a device, and now has a patent on the therapeutic walking apparatus. Now take that kind of enthusiasm and put it on a sled, behind a team of racing dogs, and, of course you have a winner! Cara smiles, as she reminisces about the chain of events that occurred once she decided to race. Soon after watching that first race, she began shopping for her first dog. She found him in a handsome Samoyed named Garamouche, and while Cara is very reluctant to talk about her own achievements, she will go on indefinitely about her lead dog. Garamouche was the winner of the racing cup presented by the Organization for the Working Samoyed,” she beams, “You must get 1000 points by beating other teams and placing in the upper half of all eastern racers. He did this over a three-year period and also placed 2nd out of 26 teams at Peck’s Pond, last February.” Garamouche has two teammates named Vyuga and Chinook, and all three were trained by Cara alone. To the layman that doesn't mean much, but it really is an impressive task. The single most important part of training in the early stages is finding a suitable place, no easy task in the borough of Forty Fort, where the Berryman’s lived at the time. But, she did manage. Each evening she would walk or run behind the dogs, giving voice commands until the animals were letter perfect and ready for competition. Weekends found Cara anywhere the races were being held. During the week, however, this same lady can be found at the Wilkes College Sordoni Art Gallery, where she has been exhibitions coordinator for 4 years. Her duties make her responsible for planning, transporting, insuring, guarding and installing all exhibitions at Sordoni. In addition, she makes all travel arrangements for the incoming artists, and plans opening receptions for each show. Cara's approach to her responsibilities at the college is the same as her approach to everything she does... positive. She is enthusiastic, quietly assertive, entirely feminine. She enjoys her life and her duties and we're sure, will find ways to continually enrich both. O SPRING 1978 13 �THE. key that opens DOORS cov0innMOg-aphwhich Eddie was especially by Kathy Bozinski ’78 The veteran sportswriter presented his L J«with poise to the security man fie'dnPnpd atthe door of the Philadelphia Phi I es locker room. The man breezed past Ph1 lower room and the lockers - bearing Sarnames Carlton Luzinski, Bowa 4 TANKS ALOT by Rich Strobel Collecting rare items has always been one of the many hobbies that interest people. Beer cans, comic books, stamps and antiques have filled many an attic. The collecting craze has expanded to include many unusual items. Jim Kozemchak, a 1968 Wilkes alumnus, is one who collects unusual items. "Everyone should have a hobby." What does a busy man, who owns two photography studios (Ace Hoffman and Paramount), is in a laundromat partnership with his brother Dave and operates a 24-hour apartment complex with office space, collect? What does a man who hunts, skis, scuba dives, plays tennis, is learning to fly a helicopter, is married and has two children, collect? The answer is, the envelope please ... old army vehicles. That's right, old army vehicles. "When I was younger, I always liked jeeps. Now my toys are more expensive.” Jim was a Wilkes business major, lucky for him now that he manages four businesses, when he started his collection. The first item Jim collected, a jeep, is still part of his collection. “I compare collecting old army vehicles to collecting antique cars." Like 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY many antiques, as the years go by, they increase in value. "I have jeeps that cost $90, worth between $3,500 and $4,500 today. Of course I had to buy parts and spend time restoring them.” During World War II, America sent many U. S. Army jeeps to France. After the war, a surplus of parts, which fit both army vehicles and conventional jeeps and trucks, became available. Collectors agree that if there is a hard part to collecting, it is finding the vehicles. The expensive part is not buying, but shipping them. Jim walked into his Paramount Photography Studio where his secretary, Maude, greeted him, "Someone delivered a pile of junk for you in the back." After stripping and restoring, that "pile of junk" will be worth thousands of dollars. When a person buys an old army jeep, he can be sure that it will require many hours and a great deal of work to restore it to a new condition. Over the years, Jim has collected jeeps, a command car, like the one General Patton used; a "weasel," a tank-like vehicle; two three-and-one-quarter-ton weapons carriers; and a ten-ton "half-track.” "I get a great deal of peace of mind from this hobby. I not only enjoy restoring army vehicles, but when I am too busy to work on them, I enjoy just thinking about them.” His most unusual vehicle, that would fill anyone's mind with thought, is the ten-ton "half-track.” It is 22.5 feet long, 7.5 feet wide and 7 feet high. Needless to say, it is a very powerful machine. "The half-track is in perfect working condition." He stores many of his "toys” in a ten-car garage behind Paramount Studio. The "half-track” is stored at the Kingston Armory. Some of Jim's vehicles can be seen when the 109th Artillery Division goes on parade. What does Jim’s wife think about his hobby? What would a wife think whose husband collects antique cars? He is married to Wilkes alumnus, the former Patricia Zawoski. What do his two daughters, 3-year-old Wendy, and Kimberly, 6 years old, think of Jim’s unusual hobby? "The children love my old army toys, and I enjoy taking them for rides" — the children and the "toys.” Jim is not the only one who breaks into a smile at the thought of finding and rebuilding a World War II command car. Army vehicle collectors have their own trade magazine entitled “Army Motors.” Rallies, like antique shows, are held from coast to coast. "I enjoy showing them to my friends." Let us hope that this young entrepreneur, with a most unusual hobby, does not decide to start his own army. O 'nd on to the elevator which whisked Jto the field. As the steel grey doors ed he found himself gazing out towards ?hP Ditchers mound and beyond as the redand white-suited Phillies were warming up. Receiving an acknowledging nod from Mike Schmidt as the Philadelphia star was taking a few swings in the batting cage, the scribe made his way to the Phillies dugout in search of some personal observations which would later brighten his account of the day's game. This is a typical day for some real life "Oscar Madison" as he prepares to cover the Phillies-Dodgers encounter. The only catch is that our writer is a gutsy, red haired, and baby faced Wilkes College sophomore, who through some clever wheeling and dealing has secured a field pass for himself. Eddie White III, the sophomore in question, did get that catcher's eye-view of the contest, but didn't quite handle it with the “matter-of-factness” of our "veteran” sportswriter. As Eddie put it, he was so overwhelmed by the whole experience that he had to find a place to compose himself. And where was the most logical spot? The Phillies dugout, of course! It took a few moments of thinking but Eddie quickly tied himself together and began making the rounds in both the Phillies and Los Angeles Dodger dugouts, collecting autographs, and making himself at home with sports figures who capture the dreams of every ten-year-old boy. Hardly any 19-year-old Wilkes sophomore, under normal circumstances, ever lands a job as a sportswriter with a major publication. But as an assistant in the Wilkes Sports Information Office and assistant sports editor of the Wilkes College Beacon, Eddie does have more opportunities than most people to exercise his gate-crashing tactics. Eddie, an English major, has in a short time established himself as a first-rate writer, with contributions ranging from articles in the college newspaper to pieces in local and out-of-town newspapers. He also belongs to the Football Writers Association of America and is a member of the Pennsylvania NewsPaper Publishers’ Association. These will probably serve as major assets to the Wilkes-Barre resident in the future as no aspires to become a professional sports- nh nlme;SCCaS!°nally-hehastogoouton a limb and do a little "conning" to meet a special personality. Also, says Eddie with an impish grin you may have to do your share of b uffing to get your foot in the door "If you find yourself in a locker room, hotel lobby, or anywhere else noted individuals are found,” tells White, "you must assert yourself and stroll in as though you're supposed to be there.” Such was the case when Eddie had the good fortune to meet Olympic skating star Dorothy Hamill. The sophomore had been a card-carrying fan of Dorothy since her Olympic debut, and quickly joined her fan club. He often dreamed of a meeting with the lovely star. One day the desire became reality as Eddie and a friend journeyed to Atlantic City to attend the Ice Capades where Miss Hamill was performing. Waiting for his opportunity, Eddie and his friend dashed backstage, and after some quick talking with the guard at the door, gained admission. The pair spent ten minutes talking to the Ice Capades star, coming away with a picture, autograph, and some beautiful memories. Pearlie Mae at a press conference prior o her appearance at a Wilkes Concert and Lecture Series program. On approaching her for her autograph she declined and suggested he ask her later. Waiting patiently until she had finished her lecture, Eddie asked her again, and once more she refused. With rejection seemingly at hand, he reminded her of her earlier promise to which she replied, "Oh, that's right honey!” and most graciously rendered a short greeting with her signature. Another favorite memory was a rap session that he engineered with the New England Patriot’s quarterback Steve Grogan and AllPro tight end Russ Francis at the Baltimore Hilton. Through a press release, Eddie learned that the Patriots would be staying at the Hilton so Eddie and his friends booked rooms there also. Again with press card firmly in his hand, Eddie waltzed up to the desk and inquired where the Patriots were staying. One short telephone conversation later, Eddie and company found themselves with an invitation from Grogan to visit him in his room. This was another ten-minute session not to be forgotten. As for the personalities White has found the most receptive, Eddie rates Brooks Robinson, Dorothy Hamill (of course!), Greg CJ z Eddie is an avid autograph collector and boasts over 250 signatures furnished by such celebrities as Muhammed Ah. Brooks Robinson, Greg Luzinski, Pearl Bailey, th people personally. A majorityr were o tamed through correspondence. Eddie is always vigilant for any autograph which looks ■•form" or has been stamped. They are Luzinski, and the Amazing Kreskin as tops. Future targets for his collection include Howard Cosell, controversial sportscaster, for whom Eddie has the greatest respect and Richard Nixon, "just because he is controversial." He adds, "They are both underdogs in their own right. I like the underdogs as a matter of principle." Success is where you find it and at age 19, Eddie White III has found out "that where there is the will there is the way." O quickly discarded. SPRING 1978 15 �part, is second hand. That is to say, it is not something which one limits to a particular place of practice for the purpose of learning and improv­ ing his performance. A liberal arts education presents knowledge to us, both pro and con, with the in­ tention of illuminating the blind spots of both areas. Having a clearer view of the situation, the individual can then make a decision based on something more substantial than feelings built on past, limited experience. On A Liberal Arts Education By Noreen Corbett ’79 The question as to whether or not Wilkes College is currently straying from its broad, liberal arts educa­ tion and gradually moving toward a more narrow, professional educa­ tion, is drawing controversy. The problematic situation merits careful consideration. Recent attacks on the “values” of the College have presented Wilkes as a “production plant", manufacturing modeled students, and changing the mold only to fit the changing quali­ fications of the most profitable, professional business. This strong accusation may be somewhat loaded and inaccurate, yet it successfully renders the situation as philosophi­ cal as well as factual, since a “value” is an abstraction, viewed differently on an individual and sociological level. Taken from this viewpoint, one envisions Wilkes College as being in a tug-of-war situation, whereas the opposing forces (liberal arts education vs. practical education] are currently at a standoff. The conditions for the draw are obvious: on the one side we must cope with the life of a highly trained, tech­ nological society in which it is no longer a question of “survival of the fittest”, but rather, survival of the “fastest” - that is, success and pros­ perity will be granted only to those who can best perform their duties in the least amount of time. On the opposite end we have the pull toward the non-material, non­ mechanical aspect of everyday life which deals with academic disci­ plines of a wide range of general concerns. “Unity Amidst Diversity" as the College's motto states - the diverse areas of a many-sided culture are revealed to us, NOT to I 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY mold our outlook on life, but rather to broaden it, enabling us to see far beyond the normal scope of vision. One side is drawing us toward the preparation for financial success and perhaps a sort of “social status", whereas the other side is struggling to tempt us to equip ourselves with cultural ammunition, which will enable us to be capable of more than merely reacting to the many diverse stimuli we are confronted with daily, but to be able to effectively interact with them. One believes it is this latter quality which ultimately gives a liberal arts education the strength to survive this tug-of-war struggle. In a society such as ours, a conglom­ eration of nationalities, creeds, cultures and constantly changing values, it is not enough to simply react to the constant barrage of stimuli, we must also be able to interact. It is this interaction which gives us a feeling of belonging in an otherwise impersonal society, of self-awareness, and furthermore, it allows us to be “individual” while at the same time we are an unrecog­ nizable face in a world-wide race of humans. Some may argue that every individual may be classified as the aforementioned, without the ex­ posure to a libera] arts education. This may be true from a standpoint of a scientific classification of a person's place in humanity; yet without exposure to the innumer­ able historical, philosophical and literary events, both past and pres­ ent, it is also true that an individual’s perception of "life” may be con­ siderably narrower than if the individual was aware of the many facets of life’s everyday situations. The experience a liberal arts education provides, for the most A liberal arts education is not an end to accepting and pursuing our­ selves in a technological environ­ ment, but it can provide us with a means to find a comfortable posi­ tion in a hectic, explosive society. Ideally, this is the projected goal of a liberal arts college. Can Wilkes carry out this traditional, intentional plan, even if the interest of its adopted professional and businessoriented majors seemingly outweighs the interest in humanities majors? Will the accounting major never stop wailing, “Why must I take English courses - I'll never use them again!”; and will the English major forever be heard screaming, “I hate science!”? Will Wilkes be able to success­ fully combine and make compatible the opposing types of education under one institutional roof, or will the forces of one obliterate the other? Will Wilkes turn into a produc­ tion plant, mass-producing thinkalike robots molded to fit only the needs of technology? And finally, who is to resolve these questions — the faculty, ad­ ministrators, students, Board of Trustees, or the community outside the College? One foresees the answers lying in the combined efforts of all of these people. Through the fusion of each group’s representative ideals, an understanding will be reached. In today’s world nothing stands alone, at least not for a significant amount of time. The combination of a liberal arts education with a profession-oriented education will yield (not “produce”) imaginative, humane, and open-minded individ­ uals ready to compete with and face the high standards of the job market. As a final comment, let it be said that the above proposal is idyllic in nature, and although ideals can never be fully attained, they can provide us with a healthy, challeng­ ing goal. " O Sip©Chemistry Of Coaching by Jelf Acornley'78 Stereotypes have a unique place in our lives. They serve as anticinatory buffers to the realities we face daily. Whether they serve as a means of enlightenment or whether they are self-limiting, they do exist and we are influenced by them constantly. Typical wrestling stereotype: looks like Attila the Hun's brother, is five foot three and weighs 320 ILTSIE:©'- r pounds, is terminally hairy has bloated cauliflower ears, speaks in one syllable words, loves his mother and the flag, and can bench press the entire left side of the gymnasium bleachers (spectators included). Enter Tim McGinley, wrestling coach supreme, and all of those patented stereotypes come crashinn to reality. Posing as a mildmannered high school chemistr:7 teacher, he coached the Meyers Mohawk wrestling team to five Wrestling Basketball overall record: 5-18 Middle Atlantic Conference: 2-12 Leading scorers: John Zapko, jr. (18.8) Mike McCarrie, fr. (11.0) 2nd team-All-MAC: John Zapko Women’s Basketball overall record: 12-9 First Winning Season since sport began in 1960. Seventh place in MAC Tourney Leading scorers: Diane Kendig, fr., (20.4) Gloria Pasternick, fr., (10.2) Mary Jo Frail, so., (10.1) Leading rebounder: Karen Olney, sr., (8.5) Swimming overall record: 6-5 MAC tourney - men, 11th place; women, 8th place fAC champ - first place, diving sr” Gindy Glawe, (new record) overall record: 14-6-1 Binghamton Invitational Tourney Champs (4 teams) EIWA Tourney, Philadelphia: 5th place (16 teams) Top wrestler: Gene Clemons 22-5-1 (177) jr. Casper Tortella 22-7-1 (142) jr. Danny House 21-6-1 (Hwt.) sr. Mark Densberger 26-6-1 (150) so. John Reese’s 25 year coaching record at Wilkes: (250-54-8). Meet Results Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes 26 25 3 17 18 14 18 12 18 42 36 45 33 30 23 10 30 25 27 6 18 York Lehigh Oregon St. Navy Florida Oklahoma Tennessee N. Carolina St. Syracuse Dela. Valley Montclair St. Elizabethtown Lycoming __ = Binghamton Hofstra E. Stroud’bg. St. Army Bucknell LI. Franklin & Marshall Penn State Rutgers 12 18 38 14 26 30 18 27 17 0 8 3 9 9 12 29 7 13 15 30 15 i7 ft Wyoming Valley Conference championships in six years. All of his coaching wisdom came from watching on the sidelines because he never participated in the sport as a result of a heart murmur. Another stereotype shattered by McGinley, because all of the best coaches are supposed to be former national champions drawing upon that experience in their coaching. Not McGinley. Tim began his involvement in wrestling at Kingston High School. While three of his brothers - Ned, Terry and Jay, wrestled under the tutelage of coaches Don Kemp and Jim Schilling, Tim managed the team and learned a great deal about the sport from the sidelines. After his graduation from Kings­ ton in 1964, he matriculated at Wilkes and majored in chemistry. Again, he served as a manager for the team and credits Wilkes mentor John Reese with showing him many of the tricks of the trade. "Coach Reese taught me virtually every aspect of coaching a wrestling team," commented McGinley. “I owe a great deal to him. Tim received his Wilkes diploma in 1968 and secured a teaching position at Wilkes-Barre's Coughlin Hioh School. His ties with Wilkes wrestling didn’t terminate, however, and he became an assistant coach under Reese for three seasons. It was in 1971 that things started happening in the wrestling career of McGinley. A vacancy in the SPRING 1978 17 �coaching position at Wilkes-Barre's Meyers High School occurred when Harry Vogt, a former Wilkes wrestler and alumnus, became an elementary principal in the city. Enter Tim McGinley, exit another stereotype. Head wrestling coaches are supposed to be post-menopausal former YMCA directors with cigars permanently imbedded between their teeth. So much for tradition. The Wyoming Valley Conference now had its youngest coach in history who was soon to be the terror of the local mat mentors. In six years in the coaching position at Meyers, his teams garnered five Wyoming Valley Conference championships and four District II PIAA titles. His teams lost only six dual matches in six years. He was also voted “Coach of the Year” twice during his reign. “Our biggest rivals were Hanover and Wyoming Valley West,” re­ called McGinley. “And they were both coached by Wilkes wrestling alumni, John Carr and Bob Herman. The one meet that stands out most in my mind was one with Wyoming Valley West. They won the first five matches and were ahead 18-0. Things looked bleak. But we rallied to win six of the next seven matches, three by pin, and won 27-21. It was a real thriller that led to one of our championships,” remembered Tim. McGinley retired from coaching last year and shattered yet another stereotype by becoming the young­ est athletic director in city school history. Athletic directors: fat, balding, warming to the importance of the position by switching from cigars to pipes, always having the school jacket draped over their considerable upper torso, and always speaking in craggy tones. Wrong again in McGinley's case. “I’m going to miss coaching very much, but I felt that being an athletic director would give me a broader sports base on which to prepare for future building,” commented Tim. "The responsibilities are more general in nature and they give me more contact with all of the sports here at Meyers.” Responsibility is certainly the key, because the athletic director is responsible for scheduling, transportation for the teams, getting officials for the home games, deter­ mining eligibility of the athletes, being at all of the home games, etc., etc., The list is endless. “This job demands a lot of time. We have 17 varsity and 12 junior 18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY high sports programs at Meyers and they all require attention. It can □et pretty hectic! There are days when I may be at six home events on one day. I haven't figured out what to do in that situation! McGinley’s wrestling ties are still strong, as evidenced by his involvement as the secretary­ treasurer of the Wyoming Valley Junior High School Wrestling League. He is also a referee and is the secretary-treasurer of the local chapter of PIAA Wrestling Officials. Tim is not one to remain stagnant, so look out for more movement from this active man. He finishes his Masters in Second­ ary Educational Administration requirements in May from the Uni­ versity of Scranton. This will qualify him to move up even farther in the * school administration ladder if he desires. “Right now. I’m very happy being the athletic director at Meyers It’s a lot of fun. As far as the future is concerned, I’ll just wait to see what develops,” McGinley speculated. The Wyoming Valley will no doubt be hearing the crash of shat­ tered stereotypes so long as Tim McGinley is around. The ambitious Wilkes alumnus never stops rolling Stereotypes die hard, but Tim McGinley is a major contributor to the mortality rate. ,cr fa The joy of victory is reflected by alumni in the Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton area, following Wilkes College’s major wrestling victory over Lehigh, 25-18, at the Engineer's Grace Hall on December 6. eSHF?®... and and grace. grace. ‘if SUE FREDA In superb condition "Gio" second/'8 one is h J‘n8 SC°rer' every. oteamllove8""d P‘ayin«/laMas Making Of A Winner by Rich Strobel The woman athlete ... she knows the joy of competing, the fun of playing the game, the closeness that team members share. It was the night of the big basket­ ball game. The Wilkes women were playing Elizabethtown, a tough team seeded second in the Middle Atlantic Conference. The Colonels were at the .500 mark and had a chance for their first winning sea­ son, a feat which has eluded the women's team since the formation of the sport in 1960. The stands were near empty. The Wilkes team came running out on the court and were applauded by a few loyal fans. I couldn't help but notice that they were a very pretty group of young women. MARY JO FRAIL, ^llkes-Barre, Sophomore, Psychol­ ogy Major, Guard. ter?m’s l^rterback, she sSls"p7 iV-anddefensive teach. PlayinS sports not only Zo\youtoresPectyaur^f.but respect the ability of others.” tCam WaS honored Prior ‘° the 28 mP shots with style 1 they can ^0Un° women discover Wrestling alumni, selected as the best to ever i ' ‘ ~ perform for Coach Reese, are pictured, from ”®'h-»Xp;2e'"'!'h°dy ball is hnaSha°ned thud of a basket­ court. a °n,the lon§ varnished And soon tcOnd baP bits the floor. e gym is filled with the a AnVw'O ’' senior c°-captain jn-A mta Meehan. The girls met n the middle of the floor lo clasp hands and yell a cheer. "Beat E-Town ... Pride in Wilkes." Talk about spirit, wow did this team have spirit. Everyone was cheering and pulling for one another. “Team members not only cared for each other, but also took care of each other," stated Coach Sandra Bloomberg. Many of the players thought their strongest quality was team spirit. NANCY JOHNSON, Wilkes-Barre, Junior, Business Administration, Guard. “Watch the back door.., Behind you Debbie ... She's cutting to your side." When Nancy wasn’t playing, it was like having a sixth player on the court. "I like the game because it’s fast and exciting." "Women are just beginning to scratch the surface of their abilities." — Today’s Health. The buzzer sounded and the teams were called to the center of the court. The striped-shirted referee tossed the ball in the air. The tall Elizabethtown center con­ trolled the tap. Women just seem to have an inborn gracefulness. Watching the game was like watching a ballet. The women performed simple, smooth, natural moves. DIANE KENDIG, Kingston, Freshman, Psychology Major, Guard. A very quick guard who led the team in scoring and steals. Exce lent at both ends of the court. love everything about the game. In the game's early going, the Nothing was clicking for the hdv «gers. Their unorthodox style of y of ense, somewhat like schoolyard ba |. wasn’t working. "We do have wnrb T' bUr‘ We find boolancing Works best for us.” The eager "Subs” went in burni­ ng with energy to be released on the court. Talk about depth! There certainly was no drop in the quality of play when Sandy sent in substi­ tutes. DEBBIE YEDLOCK, Wilkes-Barre, Junior, Nursing Major, Forward. A forward who shines on defense. She also is captain of the Wilkes College Strutters. "Basketball is a fun way to meet people and make new friends." Diane Kendig kept the Colonels close during the first half. Their high-powered offense, which scored over 100 points in one game, was sputtering. Down by ten points, you can see the desire and determination etched on the faces of the players as they walked off the floor at halftime. “We may lose, but we never quit." ANITA MEEHAN, Co-Captain, Plymouth, Senior, French and Psychology Major, Guard. Her experience and super calm disposition helped the team main­ tain its poise. “We worked together to achieve one common goal. We were one.” Coach Sandra Bloomberg and assistant coach Sharon Wilkes discussed second-half strategy. “Sharon was a tremendous help th entire season, at practice and during Jmes,withher coachingsugges­ tions,"Sandy acknowledged. Does the Wilkes team having the best SPRING 1978 19 �and year ever mean they have the best coach ever? Could be! Team trainer Connie Rickard handled the team’s sprains, strains and bruises. She taped Co-Captain Karen Olney’s thumb so well, Karen didn’t realize, until days later, that the thumb was broken. Manager Wilma Hurst gave half­ time talks that would make Knute Rockne envious. The women needed that spark now. “Wilma did every­ thing," Sandy went on, “Before it would enter my mind that some­ thing needed to be done, Wilma had done it.” KAREN SMITH, Dunmore, Freshman, Biology Major, Guard. Her pure style of shooting and adept ball handling reminds one of an artist. This future doctor says, "Basketball is a fun change of pace from studies.” Filled with new energy, the women came running back on the court. The spirit on the Wilkes team is incredible. The eagers who do not see a great deal of playing time consider themselves “Spirit Leaders.” The starting fives were on the center of the court, and the contest continued. The stingy ball-hawking Colonel defense, which saw guards Mary Jo Frail and Diane Kendig share 91 steals between them, rose to the occasion. A fierce full court press forced Elizabethtown mis­ takes, and Wilkes began to chip away at that lead. There is a big difference between high school and college basketball. In college, the play is more aggres­ sive and rough. It is murder under the boards. Pulling down the major­ ity of rebounds this half were Colonels, Lynn... Karen .Debbie and Doreen. They wanted it more. DOREEN SWIATEK Taylor, Junior, Nursing Major, Forward. Born chewing bubble gum and dribbling a basketball. This forward can really handle that ball. I like the feeling 1 get from playing sports.” Forward Gloria Pasternick drifted toward the free throw circle, re­ versed direction and broke toward the basket. She caught the bounce pass from guard Sue Freda, spun in the air, and released her shot. The ball dropped cleanly through the basket, almost without touching the net. Women basketball players have very sensitive skin, making for a fine shooting touch. The Wilkes team had the momen­ tum, and with a few minutes remaining on the clock, it was anybody's game. I watched in admiration and thought, “How could they be so good?” KAREN OLNEY, Co-Captain, Monroe, Conn., Senior, Accounting Major, Forward. She led the team in rebounding. She was a spark plug that motivated the team to rise to the occasion. "Being a member of this team was a total pleasure.” “Growth and increased promi­ nence of female intercollegiate sports are assured." — Ms. School District in Tavl„ n6tside he resides with his wik ja^'''116^ the wire. Wilkes led by two J*0 With three ticks left on the Hn'v5’ Mary Jo Frail put the icing 0 * t?’ Hi fl < J 22 1 1 I . 1. -I gxH Ken Fox photo LYNN YEDLOCK, Wilkes-Barre, Sophomore, Nurs­ ing Major, Center. Very aggressive under the boards she can rebound with the best of them. “Playing sports helps you. develop a really good attitude." The rest is history, Wilkes College history, as the women posted their first winning season ever. The coaches, manager, trainer and players blended together to form a unique combination of mutual respect, concern, and gen­ uine good feelings about each other. One thing stood out most about this hustling team filled with deter­ mination and desire. One thing made a lasting impression about this close-knit group whose spirit made them a dream team for all members. One thing was etched on my mind about the Wilkes Women’s Basketball Team, and that is ... they are truly a fine group of athletes, q Wx" U THOMAS G. AMBRosi’bh ■ Pettier in the acennn, ’ 6®lsa Ambrosi Donahue &cong^ °f cake with a toss from the charhv stripe. Arms raised in victorv tk Wilkes Women celebrated satisfying win. y V EqiDNElS '^1 15 \ W) VMf 'WuU cAfoteg 20 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is -..jury. master ot s Johns Hopkins istratioti teaches fourth Unive.S1Ral imore County, Md., and Srade ‘ 1 is a reading specialist in the RicharJ em Thcy reside at 328 SX Avenue, Baltimore. pvpMVV BUCKLEY’77 is a JOSFrHXlorrisville Jr.-Sr. High 'ea,chnl He is residing at the Plaza MARTHA HADSEL ’60 received her ph.D. degree from Penn State University in August, 1977. GEORGE R. RICHARDS ’58 has been named director of personnel for Union College, Schenectady, New York. ROBERT C. SOKOLOSKI ’67 has passed the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar examinations. Bob has a J.D. degree from Seton Hall Univers­ ity Law School. He and his wife, ARLENE MEZANKO SOKOLOSKI '67, reside in Mahwah, New Jersey. JOHNH. MARX, JR. ’72 is a certified public accountant and has recently opened his office at 710 Brooks Building, Scranton, Pa. BARRY M. MILLER ’67 is a real estate sales associate with Koelbel &Co. in Denver, Colorado, where he resides with his wife, Margie, and daughter, Lisa. Barry was rrCu,‘]!,ly namcd t0 the 16lh Edition of Who’s Who in the West.” ANDREW J. FALKOWSKI ’76 isl'rvVe>(n? master's degree in chemamU3 Cleveland State University Ph nS presentlY enrolled in their AndvPr°81ram in clinical chemistry. “S1NGLE!!’73» working as Pers0WI dir7^d assistant t0 the ROSALIE OPALKA JONES ’69, is an associate concertmaster of the Saginaw Symphony Orchestra, and also is a member of the Michigan Chamber Players in Detroit. The Jones' reside at 921 Church Street, Flint, Michigan. Te®PleUniversitvhndantlCsat month Program y dHan 18 with arfaaraESMr J The South River Street Revival was compiled by Vesta Breaks... Relatior was received between November 5, 1977 and March 5, 1978 PleaseOf the Alumni * -u Office. The information contained in the Alumni Notes e send nAu._ ntnbutions to: Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. THOMAS R. JONES ’70 has been appointed director of music at the C U United Methodist 'teRac£t ?h’e73R‘a a Posies American prector at Moretrench New Jersey °rporadon in Rockaway, Wilkes R=S & ^ater Com- MILNER’68 recenil,ndSINE’ promotions from the Wvominn National Bank of Wilkes.Bart°e Arthur was advanced to assistant y‘ca P^dent and will continue‘s the bank s personnel manager' Lhrn was promoted to assistant vice president in the Commercial Loan Department; and Melvin was advanced to assistant vice president and manager at the Factoryville branch. NOREEN CONSIDINE ’66 received a master's degree from The Johns I lopkins University and is an indus­ trial hygienist with the U. S. Navy on Okinawa. SANDRA AKROMAS KERSHAW ’76 is training to be a pharmacist assistant at a Shoppers Drug Mart in St. Catharines, Ontario, where she lives with her husband. LT. JOHN ORMANDO '75 has been certified as a missile combat crew commander at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota. DR. KENNETH W. MILLER '70 is serving as a general dentist with a unit of the Strategic Air Command at Robins AFB, Georgia. GAYLE M. DONALESKI ’77 is an elementary teacher with the Henry County Public School System in Collinsville, Virginia. CAROLYN LOVEJOY ’76 is an administrative assistant for the Rockwell-Corning Museum, Corning, New York. The Museum houses the Western-American art collection on loan from Robert F. Rockwell, Jr., and is a department of the Corning Museum of Glass. DR. JOAN P. GILLESPIE ’70 is director of the out-patient c mic at Greeley Mental Health Center in Greeley, Colorado. JANICE NADINE BRONSON ’61 is a nsycho-therapist and project director with Metro-International in New York City. GEORGE BENE-HOANE ’75is a member of the part-time faculy Allentown College- Rocky Mom “dtwochildron m resides with her husband and two children in Yatesville, Pa. CHANGHEE CHAE ’62 is teaching courses in economics at the University of Minnesota. GEORGE PAWLUSH'69 was recently appointed public relations director at Wilkes College, George lives in Wilkes-Barre with his wife, Carol, and son. JOHN MINDZAK'77 has been accepted into the Navy Nuclear Propulsion O.C.S. two year program. VINCENT J. MATTEO '75 has been appointed executive director of the Susquehanna River Basin Associa­ tion, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ROBERT W. RYAN ’74 has been promoted to associate buyer with Chevron U. S. A., Inc. Bob lives with his wife, Mary, in Concord, California. MICHAEL S. LoPRESTI '77 is a graduate student at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C., preparing for a career in government service. BRUCE H. BREIR ’72 is a distributor for Success Motivation Institute, with an office in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, where he resides with wife, the former SHELLEY SGHNUR ’72. ANDREW C.MATIAK’70 is pres­ ently teaching Junior High School, and coaching the Junior Varsity “Man of the ^ar oy-—New York Assoc! onofR Estate Brokers. He lives nd Mew York. spring 1978 21 �MARNE L. WEAVER ’73 is a label coordinator II in the quality assur­ ance department at Norwich-Eaton Pharmaceuticals, Norwich, New York, where she resides. jUamages technology at Hahnemann Medical College. The couple is residing in Wilkes-Barre Townsnip, Pa. KARL A. BACON ’76 and GIACOMINA A. BUZZELLI’77 were married on October 15. The couple resides in Waterbury, Conn. JOAN MARIE DOMARASKY ’76 recently became the bride of Edward E. Luksa, Jr. in Kingston. Joan is employed by the American Red Cross as a medical technologist and the couple resides in Swoyersville, ROSANNE MALSHEFSKI ’73 a Joseph P. Urban were married on November 19,1977. Rosanne is a part time instructor at Luzerne County Community College, Nanti coke, where the couple is residing' DOROTHY REESE ’76 and John Mirmak were married on Sept. 10. Dorothy is employed by the Wood­ land Park Mental Health Center as a psychiatric nurse. They reside in Portland, Oregon. PETER J. GRABKO ’77 and Lynn Weidner were recently married in Wilkes-Barre. Peter is employed by Consolidated Railway Corporation. VINCENT P. CARBONE ’77 and Joyce A. Graham were recently married in Kingston, Pa. LEO RONALD KORETZ ’75 and Karen Ann Stefanoski were recently married. Leo is an electrical engineer at Shadie Electrical Associates. The couple resides in Nanticoke, Pa. DEBRA SERNIAK '75 and MICHAEL J. MERCINCAVAGE ’76 were recently married. Debbie is a zoning officer in Dorrance Township, and also is associated with the WilkesBarre Area School District. Mike is employed as budget director at Nesbitt Hospital, Kingston, Pa. JOHN BONSALL '73 and Rosalie Kopec were recently married. John is employed at Mid-East Aluminum, Mountaintop, Pa., and the couple resides in Plains. DONNA MARIE MACHESKA, ’75 was recently married to Thomas J. Headley. Donna is a quality control inspector at Potlatch Corporation, Ransom, and the couple is residing at R. D. #2, Tunkhannock, Pa. EDWARD KATARSKY, JR. ’68 and Maureen Reilly were recently married. Ed is employed at Insalaco’s, and the couple resides in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. KATHLEEN M. WARAKOMSKI ’77 and JOHN LAZO, JR. ’76 were recently married. Kathleen is a registered medical technologist at Nesbitt Hospital in Kingston, and John is completing clinical require­ ments for a degree in medical 22 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY cAieiv cA/t/tiuafe N. J. CAROL ANN WILLIAMS ’76 and William M. Siskovich were recently married. Carol is employed by United Services Agency Adminis­ trative Offices. CAROL ANN GASS ’68 and Frank Jodaitis were recently married, Carol and her husband reside at 184 New State Road, Manchester, Mass. DONALD M. BELSKY ’77 and Dianne Dutko were married recently. Donald is employed by G.P.U. Service Corporation in Reading, Pa., where the couple is residing. PETER A. RICCI ’66 and Mary L. Czopek were recently married. Peter is general production manager for David Crystal Inc., Reading, Pa. MICHELE OJEDA ’77 and James McCormick were recently married. Michele is a registered nurse at the Mayview State Hospital, and the couple resides in Pittsburgh, Pa. MARY TERESA MONICK ’77 and TONY BARDOUTSOS ’74 were recently married. Tony is employed by Hewitt Packard Company, t ens, Greece, where the couple is residing. Admissions and Recruiting MA«£®»S.’5a' receive Wilkes College in edUM“nd taught at schools in lfl54'.a Germany, and New Jersey. Jas caching at the Wyoming DEBORAH E. DUNLEAVY ’74 and Timothy O'Donnell were married on Thanksgiving Day in Wilkes-Barre. Debbie had taught secondary English for three years in Towson, Md. BARBARA ANN LONG ’76 and William J. McHale, Jr., were recently married at an Ecumenical ceremony in Trucksville, Pa. Barbara is employed at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York City, and the couple resides in Leonia, commttbejSX EDWARD P. KORDEK ’68 and Charlotte Crawford were recently married. Ed is employed by the V Wilkes-Barre Area School District in the Plains Junior High School The couple resides in Wilkes-Barre Pa. KAREN K. CAPWELL ’75 and DAVID J. COOPER ’74 were recently married. Karen is employed as a manager of the Jewelry Garden at the Wyoming Valley Mall. David is a band director at Bishop O’Reilly High School in Kingston, Pa., where the couple is residing. F“nd Raising bus nd Thomas, Sr.: sons, Andrew SThomas. Jr.; daughters, Mary Ann and Dorothy; and two grand­ A son, Ronald, was born on January 8, to Ronald and ANN SCHULTZ TRIBENDIS ’75. Ann is employed as a math and science teacher at St. Leo's School, Ashley, Pa. A son, Mark Christian, was bom on December 23, to JOHN ’75 and ANDREA KURILLO KELLEY ’76. The Kelleys reside in Allentown, Pa. A son, Douglas Joseph, was born August 3, to Dr. and Mrs. James K. Bruno of Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs, Bruno is the former BARBARA SULLIVAN '70. They are also the parents of a daughter, Emily, and a son, Matthew. A son, John Littleton, was born on December 28, to Ben and PATRICIA HARRINGTON TYLER ’70. The Tylers reside in Westminister, Maryland. JOEL ’73 and ELLEN SCHWARTZ FISCHMAN ’75 announce the birth of a daughter, Beth Alyn, on October 30. Joel is a stage manager for the Pennsylvania Ballet Company in Philadelphia. The Fischmans reside in Cornwells Heights, Pa. Sharon and RAYMOND T. DOWNEY ’69 announce the birth of a son, Keith Raymond. The couple also has two daughters, Kimberly and Kerry. The family resides in Rocky Point, New York. q children. VICTORIA POKLADOWSKI ’63, of 31 Larkin Street, Larksville, Pa died on February 4,1978, in Mercy Hospi­ tal. Victoria received her B.S. degree in nursing from Wilkes College in 1963. She was a former supervisor in the intensive-care unit at General Hospital, and also coordinated the hospital's dietetic department. Surviving are brothers, John '62 and Joseph: sister, Mrs. Joseph Klecha. DR. NICHOLAS A. LORUSSO ’35, 63, of Las Vegas, Nev., died on November 29,1977, following an apparent heart attack. Nicholas attended Wilkes as Bucknell Junior College and graduated from Buck­ nell University. He received his M.D. degree from Loyola University, and served his internship at General Hospital. He was a captain in the Army Medical Corps during World War II and served surgical residencies throughout the United States. Nicholas practiced in Wilkes-Barre or 15 years before moving to Las egas in 1957. He is survived by is wife, Mary Jane, and daughter, Mrs. A.G. Henry, Las Vegas. William Downey Warren Greenbere William Griffith Richard Harmon Marc Levey Laraine Mancuso John Murtha Michael Petrillo Richard Rees Thomas Ruggiero Bernard Vinovrski Peggy Walczyk Paulette S. Weinrich John Wills Alumni House Andrea Petrasek, Cluiirpi>erson Maryanne Coach Lorna Darte Dale DeRondc Gayle Garinger Mary James William Kaye Joanne Levandoski Timothy McGinley Irma Molitoris Carolyn Rome Career Conference & Placement Philip Cheifetz, Chairperson Allan Allan Peter Back Lon Balum Joan S. Beers Cheryl Davenport Cathy DeAngelis John Lychos F. Charles Petrillo Frances Polakowski Andrea W. Rood Richard Salus Leo Solomon William Tremayne Constitution Jerry Berk, Chairperson Robert Arenstein Richard Burns William Bush Gifford Cappellini Marc Levey Nicholas Reynolds Lonnie Coombs Robert Enrich John Holland John Jarzenbowicz David Orischak Jeffrey Prendergast Andrew Rushin Ronald Tremayne Carl Zoolkoski Legislative Action Loretta Farris, Chair]^person Michael Barski Fred Lohman Shirley Jean Ray Donald Ridzon Membership and Programming Robert Silvi, Chairperson Barry Davenport Joanne Englot Robert Howes Garf Jones Robert Malley Patrice Stone Curl Urbanski Nominations Joseph Weinkle, Chairperson Eugene Bradley Clifford Brantigan Larry Cohen Gloria Fierverker Carl Havira Samuel Lowe Jennifer Morgan Bonnie L. Turchin Gerald Weber Rachel A. Winebrako Public Relations & Communications Richard Myers, Chairperson Richard Colandrea Robert L. Evans Martha Hadsel William Marcato Caleb McKenzie Marianne Montague George Pawlush David Phillips Walter Quinn Ad Hoc Committee on Distinguished Alumni Program Richard Rees, Chairperson Marietta Bednar Alfred Groh Harry Hiscox Edwin Johnson master General's office in the War fn?R' I?AR0LD W. THATCHER 80, rmer head of the history depart- 1926 He was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in ^In W47,nhe was appointed head^ C0llege’r4‘ndgh d published "The he^va*1 1935. Dr Thatcher taught in PrePar ', torv schools in his early career and *n Brooklyn, Hint, c “J graduate of Erasmus Hall 1919 r ^00 l Bro°klyn, and Class of receivp^ a UniversitY’ where eived his master’s degree in from 1935 to 1942 was a Ms r./^ teacher at University of Mai in 1942 being named chief m th historical section of the Quarte of the history departmen cher SPRING 1978 23 �^,'lay.Library ilkes College has grown and prosperedi on tradition. We of unparalleled fulfillment and promise. believe it to be a tradition t-------------Since its founding in 1933, Wilkes "I Wtteeti College has been committed to its original mission —“Unity Amidst Diversity”— and the recognition that academic training will be of minor importance unless our graduates emerge as persons of strong character, proper deportment, and sound moral values. *-* .. . i r It! Il This commitment to quality education has been the keystone of the Wilkes College tradition. We hope that the Wilkes tradition continues to grow and flourish. If your son, daughter, or friend is interested in obtaining more information about Wilkes College, its academic programs, and admissions procedures, please cut out and return the coupon below. WRITE TO: Office of Admissions, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703 Please send meacopy ofthe 1978 Admissions Material. Name Address City .State. Zip Code. .State. Zip Code. Alumnus Name Alumnus Address. City Additional Information Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. Wilkes College Quarterly Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 355 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED WILKES-BARRE, PA. 20181 2 Vc ‘3 av g -s 3 3 P 1005 • y 29 idtf ‘133:15 31 A31'! - I - 33 SSI IXIWII±>S * M.KXM U. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. The magazine went through various names including <em>Wilkes Alumnus</em>, <em>Wilkes Quarterly,</em> <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, and the current title, <em>Wilkes Magazine</em>. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Spring 1978 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1978 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/15c1d7b05ec5720138cdbb72d76dd17e.pdf e7f4512329c1f90525e3b3c4d82e14a4 PDF Text Text �WILKE6 COLLEGE 6UMMGR1976 Volume 2, Number 2 editor George G. Pawlush ’69 associate editor Jane Manganella editorial staff Eddie White III '80 Wilma Hurst '79 Cara Berryman Vesta Breakstone Bob Gaetano'80 Noreen Corbett '79 administrative assistants Marguerite Fieldhouse Carole Bachstein '79 contributing staff ON THE COVER: auffigiuA' Modem America's legacy is three hundred years of progress which has built the greatest educational system the world has ever known. Basic education for all through high school is nearly universal. Higher education is within reach of almost every young person in the nation. And, education beyond the collegiate level has become commonplace with the increasing availability offunds for graduate study. Throughout the years American education has prospered because of the leadership of outstanding men and women who had the vision of what public education could do for this nation. Three of these American educational leaders are shown on the cover of this issue of the WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY, which was designed by artist Ron Beck. The educators, from left, are Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, and John Dewey. Nearing the end of this century we see our schools facing new and different problems. But this has characterized our history. Under the leadership of great educators we can expect that American Education will continue to set the pace for all nations. (. ' - M Wilma Hurst '79 Gerald K. Wuori editorial advisor Arthur J. Hoover '55 circulation manager The Seeds of Time An address by Joseph J. Pinola '!,9 n® Lynn Jacobs art director Jon Schaffer Update On Alpha TW photography editor Arthur S. Miller SPECTRUM STUDIO k Woman for All Seasons J. I (—j by Jane Manganella First Thoughts on Admissions The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. byDr.G. K. Wuori The Making of A Superintendent by Wilma Hurst’79 Chronicle — 4 Faculty Abstract — 10 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons, Honorary Member Reuben H. Levy, Honorary Member OFFICERS Benjamin Badman '41, Chairman Mrs. Walter M. Diener, Vice Chairman Hon. Edwin M. Kosik '49, Vice Chairman Mrs. Edward Darling, Secretary Arthur J. Hoover '55. Assistant Secretary Mrs. William Davidowitz, Treasurer Joseph J. Chisarick '61, Assistant Treasurer James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein '68 Edward Bixby, M.D. Charles N. Burns, M.D. '35 Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Stanley Davies Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Alan M. Glover, Ph.D. Frank M. Henry Sports Update — 16 Gallery —18 South River St. Revival — 18 Andrew Hourigan, Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Richard Maslow Charles H. Miner Gerald A. Moffatt '63 William G. Mulligan F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Richard L. Pearsall Hon. Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross, Jr. Letters — 19 Marquis — 23 Joseph J. Savitz '48 Louis Shaffer Ronald W. Simms '60 William H. Sword, Jr. E. Arthur Trabant, Ph.D. William J. Umphred '52 Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENT Robert S. Capin '50 �icolIege^lhimiaM® & ■ M / CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, BENJAMIN BADMAN Benjamin Badman, president and chief executive officer of the Wyoming Valley Hospital, WilkesBarre, assumed the chairmanship of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees on June 1. Badman, a 1941 alumnus of the college when the institution was known as Bucknell University Junior College, succeeds Atty. Joseph J. Savitz, '48 who completed three consecutive terms as chairman. Other board officers, elected at a recent meeting of the trustees, include Mrs. Walter M. Diener, vice chairman; Hon. Edwin M. Kosik, '49 vice chairman; Mrs. Edward Darling, secretary; and Mrs. William Davidowitz, treasurer. The new Wilkes College board chairman is a native of Plymouth, Pa. Following completion of studies at Bucknell University Junior College, Badman attained his B.A. degree at Wesleyan University. A veteran of the World War II European Theater, Badman served as bombardier-navigator in the U. S. Army Air Corps, flying 35 missions over Germany. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. Badman assumed the presidency of the Wyoming Valley Hospital in 4 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY 1949 and has been a member of its board of trustees since 1959. His professional affiliations include the American Hospital Association, Hospital Association of Pennsylvania, and the American College of Hospital Administrators. He has been chairman of the Political Action Committee, Hospital Association of Pennsylvania and a member of the House of Delegates, American Hospital Association. Active in local civic and service organizations, the Wilkes board chairman served as president of the Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis Club, president of the Greater WilkesBarre Chamber of Commerce, board chairman of the American Red Cross, and acting campaign chairman of the Wyoming Valley United Way. Badman also serves or has served on the boards of the NPW Medical Center, Salvation Army, Boy Scouts of America, and the Visiting Nurse Association. Badman has been a member of the Wilkes College board of trustees since 1972. Recently, he served as chairman of the Goals Committee of the College, composed of trustees, faculty, students, and community Alumni leaders, which made an extensive in-depth study of the long range objectives of Wilkes College. Badman has also chaired the College’s 1966 Capital Fund Campaign, the 1968 Scholarship Campaign, and is presently chairman of the Special Gifts Phase of the College’s “Alpha" capital campaign. YOU ARE THERE! The Wilkes/Hahnemann Telecommunications System, linking five hospitals and Wilkes College in Northeastern Pennsylvania with Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Philadelphia, gives both students and physicians in North­ eastern Pennsylvania instant access to faculty and case studies at the Philadelphia teaching hospital. Whether for teaching or consultations, the system brin°s the expertise of the instructors and super-specialists as close as the T V monitor. The savings in time and ’ money when comparing costs of physically bringing the experts to the outreach region are significant. The Wilkes/Hahnemann Telecommunications System, which officially opened June 21, was developed to reinforce a six-year program for training family doctors for Northeastern Pennsylvania. The number of aging, general physicians was dwindling and eager young replacements were not appearing out of the local woods. The philosophy behind the Wilkes/ Hahnemann Program is to recruit potential family/primary care physicians from the areas that need them. The search is made for bright high school students with a humanistic approach who are interested in the sciences and medicine and who enjoy the life­ style of their own area. Each year, nearly one hundred students are recruited into the Wilkes/Hahnemann Program to begin their studies at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre. After two years at Wilkes studying a curriculum designed to integrate with rather than duplicate Hahnemann’s curriculum, the pool is narrowed to a maximum of 25 qualified students who go 115 miles south to Hahnemann for their first three years of medical school. The students return to the WilkesBarre/Scranton region for their last clinical year of medicine. The theory is that an early introduction to the medical community will help reinforce their stated desires to remain and serve in that community or nearby. The Wilkes/Hahnemann T.V. System makes use of sophisticate cameras, microwave transmission equipment, and switching systems. The picture is transmitted in color, allowing patient-demonstra­ tions of operations and many other color-significant symptoms — as well as color-coded test results. Although the Wilkes/Hahnemann System is designed primarily for providing medical education (under­ graduate and continuing education courses for medical professionals) and diagnostic consultations, there are other uses for the sophisticated MICROWAVE UNITS ATOP THE STARK LEARNING CENTER two-way T.V. system. Administrative conferences among the affiliate hospitals and Hahnemann are as easy as the relevant participants meeting in their respective studios. Trouble-shooting for any shared institutional problem from supply shortages to bad batches of medications is facilitated. Any time the statement “What to look for is ...” can be made, a two-way telecommunications system will help make that statement more effectively. A PROMISE FOR TOMORROW Wilkes College's Academic Skills Center offers a useful service to the area. Located at Ross Flail, 251 South River Street, the Skills Center houses a number of educational and volunteer programs that attract people of all ages and backgrounds. The young and energetic staff of the Reading Center, located on the first floor of the old but stately structure, is comprised of Jean Gavlick, head teacher; Joan McGuiness, psychometrician; Donna Lee, Diane Sherman, and Pat Kozick, tutors. The director is Dr. J. George Siles, and Janie Stricker is the secretary. Both serve as director and secretary for the other programs in the Center. The primary goal of the Center is to improve the reading skills and related language arts and study skills of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary students. Upon entering the program each student is given a series of reading, auditory, and visual acuity and perceptual tests, which will be used to develop each student’s individual program. The Center is designed to attempt to correct known deficiencies and generally strengthen each student’s reading ability. All of the activities are developed and applied by staff instructors under the supervision of the Wilkes College faculty, and each instructor is assigned no more than three students during the session. The Act 101 Operation Phoenix Program is housed on the second floor of the building. This program allows educationally underprepared students the opportunity to improve their skills in verbal and written communication, reading comprehension, mathematics and problem solving. Operation Phoenix reaches out to those people who sincerely want to better themselves and further their education by attending college but who may feel their high school grades are not good enough, the costs of college may be too high, or they might need special help and assistance to succeed. A sincere and friendly staff, comprised of Rosemary Marchese, social service position/counselor, and Mary Kane, tutor coordinator, makes available individual and group counseling to aid students in developing self-confidence, coping with any problems and anxieties that may arise, and planning a course of action. Trained tutors are provided for each course a student takes, and they assist them in developing good study habits. Also, special instruc­ tion is provided to help each student take full advantage of all available financial assistance. On the third floor is a small, simply furnished room which serves as the office for both Volunteers for Literacy (V.F.L.) and E.S.O.L. (English to Speakers of Other Languages). These organizations are operated strictly on a volunteer basis. Students are chosen, usually under the Cooperative Education Program, to organize these Adult Basic Education programs. The Cooperative Education Program is designed to give students practical experience in their major area of study. Linda Lombardo and Sharon Zawatski, two Wilkes College Community Service majors, are in charge of these programs. The V.F.L. Program is designed to help non-literate adults learn to | read and write, whereas the goal of the E.S.O.L. Program is to help foreign speaking adults to read, write, and speak English. Both programs thrive on the volunteers who give of themselves so that others may experience and enjoy the many daily things which those who are literate in English often take for granted. The volunteers may be as young as sixteen years of age. The only requirements of the program are that they be high school graduates and capable of reading, speaking, and writing English. They must also be willing to tutor on a regular basis about three hours a week. Prior to their responsibilities as a volunteer, they are subject to a training period in which they are instructed to use the available materials and utilize instructional methods. The humane and invaluable services offered by these volunteers are important both to the progress of our society and the development of our nation. Although their roles may vary, all of the people involved in the various programs at the Wilkes College Academic Skills Center are working toward a common goal. The director, organizers, staff, and participating members are all a part of a move­ ment toward the betterment of themselves, of others, and of our society in general. NEW PART FOR ART Arthur J. Hoover, a veteran member of the "Wilkes College Family,” and Director of Alumni Relations at Wilkes College since 1970, has been appointed associate . dean of student affairs at the College as of August 1. Since joining the college in 1955, Hoover has served in a variety of Icont'd on page 8) SUMMER 1978 5 �I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is for me to be your speaker on this occasion, honoring the 1978 graduating class of Wilkes College. Somehow I feel that I am the most honored person here today. It is very difficult for me to realize that almost 30 years have gone by since I sat, as you are now sitting, listening to someone else up here giving my class its ‘ hail and farewell.” You must imagine all that went through my mind as I thought about what I should say to you today. Nostalgia? Of course. It shall be with me during my entire stay here in Wyoming Valley. It has been with me since I put these words together. Thirty years ago I sat where you are, wondering what was going to happen to me. Now I know: not what will happen, but what has happened. Today you arc sitting where I was then, wondering the same thing: what’s going to happen to you. And I don’t know the answer to that question any better than you do. Then I remembered some lines from Macbeth. You know them, too. You know, I took the title of my talk today from Shakespeare. With Macbeth is Banquo, who is soon to become his mortal enemy. They come upon the three witches, who cry out: “All Hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king thereafter.” Banquo asks, "What about me?” “If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate.” When I was sitting out there where you are, I’d have given everything I had, which wasn’t much, if I could have run into just one old witch who could tell my fortune. I bet a lot of you feel this same way today. Yet, as Shakespeare has the witches say later on, sometimes it’s better not to know. As I sat through my graduation in 1949,1 was conscious of having very mixed feelings. First of all, and I won’t try to kid you about this, I was glad to be getting out. I enjoyed my years here but I felt it was time to move on. 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY zln address by Joseph J. Pinola ’49, Officer of the Western Bancorporation, Los Angeles, Calif. There was an air of unrest prevalent at that time. The economy was in a recession. The United States had played the major role in winning the Second World War, yet it didn t seem to have its act together. To make matters worse, there seemed to be little peace throughout the world. What it all added up to was a great deal of uncertainty in my mind. It was an uncertainty I shared with most of my classmates. Half the members of my graduating class were married. Many had already started families. We needed jobs but unemployment was up, and jobs were hard to come by. John Kenneth Galbraith was on the scene, but the affluent society had not yet occurred. We weren’t cynical, we were apprehensive. We didn’t protest. Many of us knew from experience what strikes and lockouts meant. Relationships between men and women in our class were rather different from those today. For one thing, the question of having women live in the men’s dormitory, or vice versa, never came up because none of us could afford to live in a dorm. Our education was pragmatic because we lived in a pragmatic world. We were willing to try anything that worked, anything that might work. We had grown up in the Depression. Except for another war, the last thing we wanted in our lives was the personal and social devastation that comes with a falling economy. Our sights were not very high,-and now that I think of it, our goals were not very lofty. We wanted world peace and the recognition of the dignity of every individual. But those were largely abstractions. What we wanted most was our place in the sun. I think it safe to say that life was relatively simple then. It is my guess that if you drew a line on the rate of acquisition of new technical knowledge from the day of the caveman right up to the day of my ’ graduation, it would almost be a flat line. Then, all of a sudden, it would leap right off the chart. That is a change of a kind we never encountered. Your education is a product of that change. Your education is without a doubt a better education. But your world is far more complex and more is required of you to enter it on equal footing. So, if you are entering your world with apprehension, join the crowd. You have lots of company. Your world is going to be full of uncertainty and danger, just as ours was. I suspect that you are facing it with a mixture of confidence and apprehension, just as we did. And if that’s true, we’ve found ia common ground, our two generations, and that’s just great. For we seem always to be suspicious of each other and often antagonistic toward one another. We spend so much time and invest so much energy wondering what’s wrong with you that we forget you put a lot of time and energy into the question of what’s wrong with us. Maybe we don’t need to do that. Maybe we can just accept each other. We’d better, because you’re here now, and I’m still around, too. We have much more that separates us than age. We have much more that separates us than the superficial differences some critics of youth like to harp on. For example, you are coming directly from academia, from the intellectual world. I come to you from the business world. We have a lot of mutual suspicions on that account alone. We in business are often criticized for being too practical and too profit-oriented, while we look upon intellectuals as being too removed from reality and too idealistic. Yet our very existence depends upon the dedicated efforts o all of us. We cannot lose sight of the fact that our responsibilities to each other are complex and interrelated. As John W. Gardner stated: “An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” One of our serious problems today is related, to some extent, to the attitude Gardner is criticising. We often forget that we need the diverse talents of all our people. We need expert craftsmen and we need expert academicians. Thirty years ago one of the primary aims of our society was to eliminate the indignity of physical labor. And we have done a great job. We’ve developed machines that take the physical labor out of almost everything we do. Now we face the indignity of jobs that consist of sitting and watching those machines perform the labor. It’s a real problem, a problem of our time, one that stems from the rapid development of technology. We spend a lot of time wrestling with the concept of meaningful work. Yet we are nowhere near a resolution. Concepts are indeed changing. In fact, our only constant seems to be change. Change is fascinating and useful. But it’s also difficult and frustrating. One of the reasons you can’t be sure what the world is going to be like for you is that you have to keep up with change. Whether you’re ready or not. It’s not a cold, cruel world. But it is a tough one. What I hope is that the stress of change will not generate rancor between us. Attitudes must change with realities. There is a great call for understanding. I don’t believe, for example, that we have yet under­ stood the fact that our standards are changing also. And just as fast. I say this because all too often I see new standards applied to performance when performance deserves a much less critical judgment. Requirements for performance today are much higher than they were just a few years ago. Change, maneuvering in our achieving society, calls for rising standards, and that’s good. That’s the way it should be. But trouble develops because the public is not aware of just how rapidly it is raising its standards. The public believes that its standards are constant, unchanging. So, despite rising standards of business accomplishment, the public tends to rate business performance as very poor. I say not so! People in business are neither more moral nor more immoral than people in any other activity. No large segment of society, whether it be business, academia, or government, is either more moral or more immoral than the others. I make the argument because I believe it one of the least recognized concepts of change. It is an argument against rigidity, for understanding. As the world changes, we — who are part of that world — must change with it. We must decide for ourselves which attitudes to modify, which to be stubborn about. It’s up to us to provide the understanding that must come with change. It’s up to us to set fair standards upon which to measure the success or failure of performance. My generation has accomplished many fine things in the three decades since I sat where you are. And although I don’t mean to imply that we are ready to relinquish the driver’s seat, it’s important to add that I believe your generation will accomplish still more. When you’re where I am now, I’ll be over the hill. But if I’m around, I’m still going to care what you have made of yourselves — and of the world. The world judges us and evaluates us as it goes along. It gives some of us more — and some of us less —• of its worldly rewards, not necessarily according to our virtues. Eventually each of us, you and I, will judge and evaluate ourselves. We will judge whether, like Macbeth, we snatched at the crown and wound up our brief sojourn on earth croaking, “ ‘Tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’,” or whether we followed the admonition of Banquo, who remained a humble, honest man and became the father of kings. Each of us will determine whether, in our individual ways, we have taken the gifts of instruction from our learned teachers and translated them into workable solutions to the problems that confront our society. Because each member of this graduating class has been given the advantage of education, we shall look to you to make a difference in a world that may be largely indifferent. You must care — for you and the thousands of young people like you are the future. My time is up. I leave you with a few thoughts that I hope will make a mark upon you. — The first one uses the business of banking to make its point: “If you had a bank account that credited your account each morning with $86,400, that carried over no balance from day to day and allowed you to keep no cash in your account and every evening cancelled whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day, what would you do? Draw out every cent, of course. “Well, you have such a bank, and its name is ‘Time.’ Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it rules off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balances. It allows no overdrafts. “Each day it opens a new account with you. Each night it burns the records of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the ‘tomorrow.’ You must live in the present — on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success!” And finally, I leave you with this most meaningful thought taken from the Optomist Creed: God said, “Build a better world” and I said “How? The world is such a cold dark place and so complicated now, And 1 so young and useless, there’s nothing I can do. “But God in all his wisdom said, “]ust build a better you!” o Editor’s note: The above address teas delivered by Joseph /. Pinola ’41), Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Western Bancorporation, Los Angeles, Calif., at Wilkes College's 31st annual Commencement exercises, conducted Sunday, May 21, at Ralston Field. SUMMER 197B 7 �Cont. from Pg. 5 coUege^IhffiWiM® capacities including business education faculty member, director of financial aid, director of student activities, director of housing, and most recently, director of alumni relations and community affairs. “Art has expressed a strong interest in returning to the area of „ student personnel administration, stated President Capin. “He has made an outstanding contribution to our local and national alumni program over the past eight years, and we express appreciation for Art's efforts in enlarging the . relationship of the College with its alumni.” Wilkes College currently boasts an alumni roll of nearly 13,000 with graduates throughout the United States and the world. President Capin noted that a special committee, comprised of alumni, faculty, and administration has been formed to assist in the selection of a capable director of alumni relations. Hoover will continue to direct alumni relations until a successor is named. “I thoroughly enjoyed my tenure in alumni and community relations," explained Dean Hoover. “My academic background and interest lie in student affairs and I am extremely pleased to be given the opportunity to work in this area of college administration on a full-time basis.” “I will be working directly with students to enable them to make the most of their educational experience at Wilkes and, in a sense, I will be helping to shape future alumni of the College,” he added. In returning to the dean’s office, where he served from 1962 to 1970, Hoover will rejoin George Ralston, the dean of student affairs, and Jane Lampe-Groh, the associate dean of student affairs. Hoover replaces Edward Baltruchitis, formerly assistant dean of student affairs, who recently resigned to accept a position with an institution of higher learning in South Carolina. A native of Glen Lyon, Hoover received his B.S. in business education from Wilkes College and a M.Ed. from Penn State University. He has earned additional graduate credit at Lehigh University and Penn State. At the College he is the advisor to the annual yearbook, “Amnicola," and Commuter Council. Hoover is 8 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY the assistant secretary of the Board of Trustees and served as secretary of the Goals of the College Steering Committee. He is a member of the Council for Advancement and Support of Educa­ tion (CASE), American Personnel and Guidance Association, Pennsylvania College Personnel and Guidance Association, and secretary/treasurer of the Wilkes College Grapplers Club. Other professional affiliations include Delta Pi Epsilon, the business education fraternity, and Iota Alpha Delta, the guidance fraternity. HISTORY REPEATED A huge boulder on River Street, Forty Fort, between Wyoming Avenue and Cayuga Place, bears an inscription plaque which reads, “Forty Fort, built on this site in 1770 and named for the first forty pioneers. Enlarged in 1777, it protected the inhabitants when the British and Indians invaded the settlement in June, 1778 ..." What it does not tell the reader is that the fort did not, after all, protect the settlers, because they decided to leave and meet the enemy. The untrained outnumbered settlers were no match for their British and Indian foes. Away from the safety of the fort, in the quiet forest, near what is now known as Monument Street, the bloody Wyoming Massacre occurred. A grant from the F. M. Kirby Foundation to Wilkes College Dorothy' Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts enabled Alfred Groh, director of cultural activities, to bring the residents of Wyoming Valley on July 1 a factual reenact­ ment of these events. A replica of the fort constructed in Kirby Park and served as the setting for the performance Members of the First Continental Regiment, Lansdale; Butler’s Rangers Owego, N.Y.; Independence Fyfe and Drum Corps, Broomalland the Wilkes College Theater ' utilized a nearby meadow and dike area to reenact the battle and massacre which took place on July 1,1777. Nearly 6000 Wyoming Vail residents turned out to view the event. LEARNING WEEKEND BY WEEKEND Wilkes College and Keystone Junior College unveiled a joint program on June 8 which will provide Northeastern Pennsylvania adults with a four-year college degree program to be offered on weekends beginning in September. President Robert S. Capin, Wilkes College, and President John B. Hibbard, Keystone Junior College announced that the two institutions of higher learning will cooperate for the purpose of offering a four-year weekend college program in which' Keystone, a two-year institution, will provide the courses, curricula, faculty, and administrative support services for the first two years of the undergraduate program, and Wilkes, a four-year institution, will provide ' the same for the final two years of the undergraduate program. According to President Capin, the purpose of the joint venture is to provide students who complete a two-year program of study with the opportunity of going on to fulfill the requirements of the baccalaureate degree on weekends. “Wilkes College will provide welldeveloped programs in business administration, psychology, and sociology as initial offerings in the upper division weekend studies,” he said. The Wilkes executive added that Wilkes College will provide a residential weekend program on the LaPlume campus of Keystone Junior College in order to allow qualified graduates of any' two-year program the opportunity to fulfill the require­ ments for the bachelor’s degree by attending classes every third weekend. Applicants must meet the standard requirements for any students desiring to transfer to Wilkes College. Keystone will provide the physical facilities such as classrooms, office space, and residential accommoda­ tions on its suburban campus, and Wilkes College will provide course offerings, faculty, and administra­ tive services for the upper division of the weekend program. President Hibbard traced the success of Keystone's current twoyear program, which was instituted in the Fall of 1975. "Since Keystone initiated its adult degree ‘Weekender’ program, it has become conscious of the needs for the graduates of the program to advance toward the baccalaureate degree in a degree-oriented program. “Surveys which we have taken show that 82 percent of those students enrolled in Keystone’s weekend program desire to attain the baccalaureate degree,’’ he said. The weekend adult degree concept is being expanded to the junior and senior levels because students attending the program are either reluctant or unable to attend any other kind of college program. “Some 75 percent of Keystone “Weekenders’ have indicated that a weekend schedule fits both their professional and personal lives. There is a definite need for a program of study in this area, and for the need to go unserved would be an injustice to the adult student,” the Keystone president added. The cooperative agreement between the two colleges would be limited to the weekend college program. “There will be mutual planning of courses offered to adult students in order to provide an orderly transfer from Keystone to Wilkes," President Capin said. COMMENCEMENT REVIEW Joseph J. Pinola, a 1949 alumnus and chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Western Bancorporation, Los Angeles, California, was the principal speaker at Wilkes College’s 31st Commence­ ment exercises at Ralston Field on May 21. Also addressing the graduates were Dr. Charlotte V. Lord, Professor Emerita, English Department, who represented the faculty; and David Palanzo, a biology student and president of the graduating class. Key commencement participants are shown prior to the start of exercises which saw 531 students receive graduate and baccalaureate degrees. Pictured from left, Dr. Richard P. Soter, provost; President Robert S. Capin; Joseph J. Pinola, commencement speaker; Atty. Joseph J. Savitz, chairman of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees; and Benjamin Badman, vice chairman of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees, who assumed the chairmanship of the board on June 1. The “Alumni Award for Leader­ ship” was shared by two graduating seniors — David W. Evans and Carl Holsberger, Jr. The award is presented annually by the Wilkes College Alumni Association to a member or members of the graduating class considered by a special committee to have made the strongest contribution to student life and the student activities program at the College. & baccalaureate degree at Bloomsburg State College and holds a masters degree from Columbia University. Dr. Wuori, a member of the Wilkes Philosophy Department faculty, will assume responsibility of the admissions office and for the implementation of a freshman studies program, which will become effective in August, 1979. A native of DeKalb, Illinois, Dr. Wuori joined the Wilkes College faculty in 1975. He attained his B.A. degree from Northern Illinois University and advanced degrees from Purdue University where he won the Dean Marbury Ogle Literary Award and was a David Ross Research Fellow in 1973. Dr. Wuori was instrumental in formulating the freshman college concept at Wilkes College. Q THE WILKES 11___ , ~ ■ .y The recipients are shown, from left (Photo b): Carl Holsberger, Jr., Arthur J. Hoover, director of alumni relations, and David W, Evans. NEW CHALLENGES FOR WUORI AND WHITBY President Robert S. Capin recently announced the administrative appointments of John Whitby as Dean of Special Programs and Dr. Gerald Wuori as Dean of Admissions and Freshman Studies. “I am confident that these appointments will strengthen our admissions procedures and enable the college to attract qualified students for our special and general programs of study," expressed President Capin. Whitby, a member of the Wilkes College Family' since 1947, will assume responsibility for recruit­ ment of students for the Wilkes/ Hahnemann Program. “We are endeavoring to maintain and attract the most qualified students to our growing special programs,” added President Capin. "Dean Whitby, during 25 years of service in admissions work, has attracted many qualified students to Wilkes College. His experience will be directed toward the recruitment of students for the special programs." Whitby, who started at Wilkes as a member of the accounting faculty, has served as dean of admissions at the college since 1952. He earned his college COHWECTDOCM FOR 24-HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. 717 8264135 It’s Not Too Early To Start Planning For The 31st Annual Alumni HOMECOMING Friday, Saturday, Sunday October 13,14,15,1978 Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Office at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our records. SUMMER 1978 9 �Dr. Robert Werner F update \ on \lpha faculty by Noreen Corbett The “Pope of Parrish Hall" is located in a large rambling office on the top floor of the building at 16 South River Street. “The Pope," more affectionately known to his students as Dr. Werner, is a multi-faceted man who has been a member of the Wilkes College faculty for 23 years. A man who loves his profession, Dr. Werner notes, “the longer I teach the better I like students; in my years of teaching I feel students are improving in both ability and demeanor.’ The educator also feels “the majority of students today respect professors who live up to their expectations in both honesty and ability." With sincere devotion to his students, Dr. Werner humorously mentions that "between semesters I’m like a firehorse without a fire." In a more serious tone, he comments, “I believe that college teaching is an honorable commit­ ment. In this field, one must be wholly dedicated to his work. Also, I believe the major responsibility of the college professor is to make his field relevant to the student. That is, he must integrate his subject into the whole life picture of the student. This is not a challenge to the individual teacher; rather, it is part and parcel of his job. Furthermore, I believe it is fundamental that the teacher like students. If he does, sharing his knowledge with students will flow naturally." Seated behind his desk, Dr. Werner continues to talk solemnly about "the supreme importance of a liberal arts education in today’s world." He believes that a special­ ized background and a liberal arts background are highly compatible, in that the combination allows one to apply specialized knowledge in various areas of a liberal arts 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY background. Dr. Werner feels that a liberal arts background has been of enormous support in his specified area of economics. His respect and admiration for his students are obviously mutual, as Dr. Werner's office now bears many mementos given to him by former admiring students. One of the more eye-catching souvenirs is a red leather kneeler with “The Pope” embedded on it in studs. A group of his M.B.A. students made the kneeler for him to place in front of his desk to complete the image bestowed upon him by his nickname. The gesture was well received, for Dr. Werner promptly placed the kneeler in its intended spot. An energetic and versatile man, Dr. Werner has many hobbies to fill his time when he is not teaching. Such pastimes as sailing, boat building, painting, and collecting hats, artifacts, and relics from all over the world keep him busy. Dr. Werner is presently involved in making a Viking battle­ axe for his infant grandson. He explains that "it is an old Viking tradition that the grandfather make an item by hand for the grandson. Hopefully, I'll have it completed when he is old enough to lift it,” he joked. Dr. Werner earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois and Roosevelt University, and earned both his master's and doctorate in labor economics at the University of Wisconsin. He also has doctoral minors in psychology and sociology. In all, Dr. Werner — the “Pope of Parrish Hall" — is a prime example of an educated man: versatile, energetic, dedicated, and genuinely concerned for his fellow man O TURNING TO THE NATIONAL ALUMNI The emphasis of the "Alpha" Capital Gifts Campaign for Wilkes College will be directed toward alumni throughout the nation during the upcoming year. Regional alumni campaigns are in the planning stages and a major effort is scheduled for the Fall and Spring of 1978-1979. Alpha Campaign Chairman Atty. Andrew Hourigan, a member of the board of trustees at the College, reports that as of Sept. 1 nearly $1.4 million has been pledged during the first nine months of the three-year campaign. The Educational Aid Committee of RCA recently presented a check to t "alpha capital campaign" designated for scholarships. Pictured at Weckesse Hall were, from left, President Robe Capln; John E. Mainzer, director ot power manufacturing operations at RCA plant, Mountaintop; and Josepn Spoon, director of Industrial relatio . RCA plant, Mountaintop. "We are encouraged with the progress of the campaign to date," states Wilkes College President Robert 5. Capin, "but our momentum must be maintained to secure required resources for the College and its students. "The Wyoming Valley commun­ ity has responded enthusiastically to our needs. The community which Wilkes College serves is actually a testing ground for the values and validity of the College's educational mission. The WilkesBarre Area alumni have also been generous with their support. Alumni are the real extension of a college. Their education has a great bearing on the quality of decisions which they make. Support of local alumni has been gratifying throughout the first year of the campaign." The "Alpha" Campaign is directed toward three necessary goals: (1) scholarship support ($900,000); (2) enlarging the endowment to support faculty salaries ($700,000); and (3) reconstruction of existing college properties ($800,000). Some fruits of the "Alpha" Campaign will soon be seen on campus with the reconstruction of a college facility, located on the property given to Wilkes College by the Conyngham family. Plans call for the creation of a Student Union Building and President Capin reports that $150,000 has been pledged toward this purpose. "Other priorities in the past have forced us to take only temporary measures in providing a suitable centralized gathering place for students," the president stresses. "We cannot delay this muchneeded project any longer. A satisfactory and permanent student union facility is essential to the education of our students." When completed, the new student union will provide the students with adequate meeting and recreational areas, offices, and a food service area to accommodate the needs of commuter and residence students, who may wish to get together between classes for conversation, group study, or student activities. Throughout the past year many alumni have participated in various phases of the campaign and they have given or pledged $175,000 to the College. Alumni in the Greater Wilkes-Barre Area were solicited during the "Wyoming Valley Alumni General Appeal" in April and May. An attempt was made to solicit each local alumnus on a person-to-person basis. Concluding the drive was a telethon wrap-up, "which," according to Art Hoover, director of alumni relations, "exceeded our expectations." Using Weckesser Hall as the base of operations, alumni volunteers made several hundred telephone calls during four successive evenings in June and netted an additional $8,893 for the campaign. A record of $3,036 was pledged on the final night of the telethon. "Our telephone approach proved highly successful," adds Hoover. "I am appreciative to Rick Simonson, chairman of the Wyoming Valley Alumni General Appeal, and to a hard working group of local alumni who worked diligently toward making this phase of our effort spirited and productive." The College continues to seek support from foundations, corporations, and government agencies and looks for a favorable response from them throughout the coming year. Preparation has already started for "Alpha II," the second thrust in the $2.4 million drive, which is aimed at (1) conducting regional alumni campaigns in areas of the nation with concentrations of 200 or more alumni, (2) contacting alumni throughout the nation to seek their participation in the campaign, and (3) conducting a $150,000 Wilkes-Barre Area campaign to solicit friends and alumni who either were not contacted last year or elected to make a one-year pledge. "The 'Alpha' Campaign is progressing," concludes President Capin, "and I am looking to the alumni to make the difference between mediocrity and excellence as we continue to seek the resources necessary to better serve our students and our region." o A successful telethon concluded the Greater Wilkes-Barre General Alumni Appeal. Pictured at one of 12 stations at Weckesser Haiiwerejrom left, Loretta appeal chairman. SUMMER 1978 11 �fofan ■7 V Reasons by Jane Manganella When Dr. Charlotte Lord addressed the degree candidates, in May, she said, in part, "In the theater, when a show arrives at the second or seventy-second performance, the actor must create the illusion of the 'first time.' Only in this way can he pass the divine spark of performance to his audience.” Those who know Dr. Lord will recognize, in this statement, a basic philosophy for living. Both old friends and new acquaintances find her enthusiasm and zest for life easily apparent and very contagious. There is a poem that begins, "Oh world, I cannot hold thee close enough ..." Charlotte says, without saying it, much the same thing. "I've never been really bored," she says, "My life has been and is full, a series of doors opening, one after another, leading to new interests." Whether in a classroom, at a social gathering, or in the quiet of her own home there is an atmosphere she generates, her own "divine spark." "Two drives have made life, for me, a meaningful, vital commitment. They are love of beauty and joy in living," she states. When interviewing Charlotte, you find yourself discussing so many things — theater, art, teaching, yoga, decorating, books. All subjects are 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY apparently of immeasurable interest to her. The challenge in the interview is staying on the original subject... Charlotte Lord. For some, the mere mention of the word "interview" is often enough to wrap the personality in a kind of cocoon, preventing the best part of that personality from coming to the surface. Not so with Charlotte; she is gracious, at ease, spontaneous. Dr. Charles Reif, a long-time friend and colleague, says in tribute, "She pays attention to people." That sincere, innate interest in others is very obvious and perhaps the basis for her success in dealing with people. Charlotte Virginia Lord, the daughter of J. P. and Elizabeth Wagner Lord, was born in Dorranceton, Pa. Her father was a prominent attorney, and for a short time she too toyed with the idea of becoming a lawyer. At that point, however, because so few women were "liberated" and law was considered a male pursuit, she chose teaching as a career. Groh smiled as he recalled a ceouence in the play "Birthday Party" when they appeared opposite each ther |n one scene, they were to dance a samba. Charlotte was seated in a chair as Al approached and they were spontaneously to go into the dance. "Neither of us were accomplished dancers and Charlotte wanted it to be absolutely perfect. VVe rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed, long, long hours. Eventually, we did get it down to perfection but," he says, laughing, "the standing joke is, if we had to dance that samba today, in order to make it look right, we would need script, chair, cues, etc., and have to begin from exactly that point." and fell in love with an Italian writer, and to better understand his back­ ground and interests I decided to study the language." The romance did not work out, but her fondness for the language and customs is constant. When the United States entered World War II, the young teacher’s instinct to do something in that effort was strong, "and so in 1943,1 enlisted in the Navy"; she beams as she remembers. "It was marvelous, you see, because I had the chance to do something meaningful." She served until 1946, and attained the rank of Lieutenant (jg). Even in the military she gravitated toward teaching and in 1945 was appointed District Educational Services Officer in Philadelphia. Dr. Reif also talks about another scene from the same play, in which Charlotte had to fall forward, from a rather high platform, into the arms of several dancers. "Most leading ladies would do this only for the actual performance, but she insisted on doing it at each rehearsal. This," he states, "will give you some insight into that enthusiasm, and I never once saw her that she did not project that same joie de vivre." From the beginning of that career, standing in front of her first class, she knew she had made the right decision. "I knew it was a life-long commitment; I was young, as my students were young, and I loved it." She received her baccalaureate degree in English and dramatic arts at New York University, M.A. in English from Bucknell, M.A. in Italian from Middlebury College in Vermont, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Subsequently, she taught in the Wilkes-Barre city schools, Philadelphia area schools, and as a Fulbright exchange professor, at the Universita di Roma, before coming to teach permanently at Wilkes in 1962. Throughout the years, and while teaching full time, she managed to continue to enrich all aspects of her chosen field. She attended McGill University, for French; Universita di Firenze, Ecole Berlitz, for French and Italian; Universita di Siena, (Fulbright grant) for Italian Literature; Barnard-NBC Television Institute, and Columbia University for English and Italian. When asked about her obvious interest in Italian, she confessed "it was an Italian who initially created the interest." Smiling, she says, "I met Charlotte Lord in “Pygmalion” An abiding love in Charlotte's life is the theater. She is entirely familiar with all aspects of it and has extensive training and experience. She has appeared in summer stock in Rockport, Massachusetts; Penn State Players; Macinac Island Players, Michigan; and the Allenbury Play­ house. She was an active performer for several years in the "Little Theater" in Wilkes-Barre. Alfred Groh, director of cultural activities at the College, who worked with Charlotte in many of the plays at the "Little Theater," says of her, "She is an accomplished actress, and very professional." s To list all of Dr. Lord's pursuits in teaching, theater, and cultural areas would take several pages, but she is so much more than statistically impressive. Whether you talk to faculty or students, invariably the adjectives used to describe her are "warm," "vital," "caring." Recently a student said, "Even when I didn’t do well in a test, she would note, under the poor grade, something positive. The one thing I did right she took time to tell me about. She has a way of emphasing the good while still making you look at the bad. I guess, because she never made me feel like a failure, I always tried harder the next time." In her closing remarks at graduation exercises, she quoted from Fra Giovanni's letter to the Countess della Aldobrandeschi, "I beseech you to look. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering ..." Charlotte Lord has not only looked and found the beauty, she has enabled countless others to discover the ability, within themselves, to do the same. o First Thou on Admissions . . . An Unspoken Address On Decline And Fall of TheS.A.T. by Dr. G. K. Wuort Dean of Admissions and Freshman Studies As the recently appointed Dean of Admissions at Wilkes College, I have been bemused — in this highly visible and highly public new role — by a rather odd tone in some of the questions directed toward me: a sympathetic tone, a concerned one, even rather sad at times. But I detect as well a certain fear which underlies some of the questions. Are we (either Wilkes or higher education nationally) going to make it? Will enrollments allow us to maintain present programs? Above all, is the quality of our students declining? It is this latter question that I have been asked most often, and it presents, to say the least, some challenging opportunities. Although I have yet to be presented with a stethoscope to use as our primary admissions tool, I have been admonished by one faculty member to “get us the bodies—that’s the name of the game" and by another to "get us some more 1200’s — that’s what we need.” More on that later. In short, then, there is increased concern as to whether higher education can fulfill its twofold mission of teaching and research in the face of a reduced clientele with an apparent reduced ability. Having just stepped out of the classroom after ten years in it, I have mixed feelings. I have never really tried to categorize the abilities of my students as a whole, but where some students have defied all my efforts in their desire to cultivate an attitude of militant ignorance, others have delighted me in their willingness to push me as they educated themselves. The above concerns, however, do have a foundation in fact, and I would like to explore them for awhile. * * There has been, both nationally and on the level of Wilkes College, a decline in College Board scores. Why this is so is still being hotly debated, as well as are the overall implications for higher education. In 1975, for example, S. P. Marland, Jr., then president of the College Board, stated that "no topic related to the programs of the College Board has received more public attention in recent years than the unexplained decline in scores earned by students on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The trustees and officers of the College Board believe that we must do all we can to investigate and interpret this phenomenon to the public at large." With these words was launched a major investigation by a full-fledged "blue ribbon" panel whose conclusions were published by the Board in 1977. Unfortunately, the conclusions were inconclusive. Much mention is made of the rush to colleges in the late 50’s and into the 60’s of students who perhaps would not have considered college in another time; of the changing composition of the examinees — more minorities and disadvantaged students with changing patterns of high school preparation; and there is even speculation as to whether or not this first "real" television generation was simply illiterate, brain cells fried and concomitant math and verbal skills destroyed by an overdose of Gunsmoke and I Love Lucy. But again, the report is inconclusive and provides colleges and universities with little in the line of substantive guidance, particularly with respect to admissions policies. « * « 0 * There was a time when the college admissions process was, in large part, a pretty straightforward one. The large numbers of applicants were fairly objectively screened on the basis of test scores, high school grades, and class standing. For most students of my own generation, and especially those who went to larger schools, there was little in the way of admissions counseling and, perhaps, little need for it. The picture today is different. The large numbers are gone and indications are that that will be the situation for some time to come. Keep in mind that a baby boom is an eighteen year thing. The overall impact of this on the admissions process has been one of complicating the situation. The role of admissions officer as strictly recruiter is merging increasingly into the role of counselor. Subjective estimations of desire and motivation are tending to share the limelight with the more objective measure­ ments of achievement. If we interview a SUMMER 1978 13 �student with a combined math and verbal score of 700 (recall the earlier request for the 1200's), the issue is not necessarily one of simple rejection. One factor in our decision concerns the fact that the function of the S.A.T. is to provide an estimate of the prospect for success in the freshman year. A college career, however, is four or more years, and much can happen in that time which precludes making an admission decision on the basis of a test score alone. In sum, do we deny admission to a student with the desire to do college work on the basis of a low test score the reasons for which are still largely unknown? What complicates the issue is that, although one can argue that the future of a particular individual should not be tied to the somewhat arbitrary criterion of a test score, when we encounter a student with a, for example, verbal (English usage) score of 350, we can argue all night as to why his or her score is at that level. But while we do so, the student will, in nearly all cases, exhibit a very real inability to deal with the English language. And that, not the test score, is the real problem. What can be done? Easy answers abound, not so correct ones. Do we reduce enrollments in order to maintain quality? Do we reduce quality in order to maintain enrollments (and faculty, staff, and administrative jobs)? Clearly, in a country that has seen the democratization of lower level education extend such opportunity nearly universally, there is a danger should colleges unilaterally close doors which students, whether rightly or wrongly, have been led to expect would be open to them. On the other hand, a college is not a day care center. It is a place where the intellects of the men and women involved are expected, in one way or another, to attain a measure of excellence in scholarly achievement. Note, that was ‘excellence,' not ‘competence.’ Typically, colleges have moved to meet some of the demands of these changing conditions by introducing the remedial course into the curriculum. Writing laboratories, academic skills centers, remedial English and remedial mathematics — one wonders, with all due respect, if "remedial life" can be far down the road — have all been used for quite some time to bolster the variety of skills in our incoming students, much in the same way that honors programs have been used to enhance levels of excellence already achieved. Such remedial courses do help and they have undoubtedly provided an opportunity for students who would have been lost, in more 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY ways than one, had they simply been thrown into the mainstream of the college curriculum to sink or swim. These courses, however, have limits. They are not designed to leapfrog the student, in fourteen weeks, from ignorance to wisdom. At best, weaknesses can be corrected, bad habits ironed out, further need diagnosed. If carried too far, on the other hand, this type of curriculum cannot have anything but a deleterious effect on the academic scene as a whole, both in the lowered expectations of new students as well as in the corrosive effects of a faculty challenged not to push students to the heights but to bring them up from the depths. In truth, of course, the situation is not that bad, and at Wilkes our students still test well above the national norms. It is in terms of the future, however, that most serious questions arise. The easy answer — simply escalate standards and develop ruthless admissions policies — would be disaster. In the first place, an ideal student body ought not to be a homogeneous one in the same way that an ideal society could not be a homogeneous one. As Richard Moll, Director of Admissions at Vassar College, pointed out in a recent article in Harper’s, where a college needs its intellectually bright students, it needs its leaders, doers, loners, athletes, and cheer­ leaders (male and female) as well, and we simply do not often find all of these qualities combined in one Super Student. Secondly, such a move would put us in the position that many colleges were in for years; namely, denying the opportunity for an education of a student who really did have the potential (however individualistically hidden) and who really would be able to meet or even exceed the standards of the faculty. Questions also arise here as to the social obligations of institutions. To illustrate some possible futures, I’d like to discuss briefly a direction we are moving in at Wilkes with the development of a Freshman Studies program. One need we have found concerns the means whereby the progress and problems of an increasingly heterogeneous student body can be watched more closely by those intimately involved: faculty and students themselves. We are not — and I cannot emphasize this too strongly — returning to the role of collegeas-parent so familiar to generations of college (and Wilkes) students in this country. That role was largely abdicated by colleges due to the multi-faceted student movement pressures of the 60’s, and I think rightly so. But we may have gone too far in assuming that all students had the emotional (“they grow up so fast these days!") and intellectual maturity necessary to achieve instant success on the campus. Our own efforts, today, are moving in the direction of more effective advising. Using a team approach, coupled with peer and faculty advisors, we hope to be more consistent both in clarifying the expectations we have of our students with respect to the standards inherent in a liberal arts education and the student's ultimate major program of study, as well as in developing a realistic and proper (to the aims of a college) set of diagnostic and remedial services. A bit farther down the road in our planning is a series of freshman seminars, the function of which is to plunge the student immediately into a demanding intellectual experience, as opposed to the general run of freshman courses which are, albeit necessarily, nearly always a preparation for something else. In truth, such a challenging environment (as we see the seminars) may be beyond a few of the students as they enter the freshman year, so in that sense the seminars are being looked upon as possible pilots for a full-scale freshman honors program. Again, these are exploratory efforts, attempts to plan rather than simply wait for the future and then react. I think colleges, from the elite on down to all the rest, are increasingly going to be forced to accept a different kind of student in the future. We know, for example, that we are already accepting an older student. And with age will come a greater diversity and complexity with respect to experience and preparation for college work. Will such students be "worse"? Will they be less qualified? Will they erode standards and force colleges to compensate for mistakes made on the elementary and secondary level? Again, no easy answers and a lot of questions being begged, but I think the key devolves upon an increasingly selfreflective attitude on the part of educational institutions in general. It is vital for a college to know exactly what it is, what it ought to be doing, what its resources are, and where the overall strengths of its faculty lie. Nothing new here (I hope), but it is important to realize that we are dealing with a period of change in both the aims and perhaps the very structure of higher education itself. There will be fatalities, particularly in institutions dogmatically unwilling to redefine their purposes. But for colleges that know what they are doing there is also, rather obviously, opportunity. Perhaps the whole thing can be summed up by paraphrasing an old saying: today, more than ever, it is crucial that we know what we want because the chances are not all that bad that we'll get it. o 1The Making of a Superintendent A Look at Leo Solomon '53 by Wilma Hurst ‘79 Leo Solomon looks after the welfare of 10,600 students, making him cither the world’s busiest baby­ sitter or superintendent of the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. His job, of course is the latter. Solomon has held the demanding position as superintendent since July 1976. A native of Wilkes-Barre, the district administrator was educated in the city, first at the Boyd Dodson Elementary School, in the Rolling Mill Hill section, and later at Elmer L. Meyers High School. Elis education continued at Wilkes College where he earned a B.S. in business administration/accounting in 1953. Since graduating from the College, Solomon has devoted his life to elementary and secondary education as a teacher, coach, and administrator. His first teaching position was in the Lake-Lehman School District but a year later Solomon returned to teach in Wilkes-Barre where he joined the faculty at Coughlin High School. He served at Coughlin High School for ten years as a social studies teacher and as a wrestling and football coach. The future superintendent continued his quest for an advanced degree on a part-time basis while at Coughlin, and eventually received an M. S. degree in secondary administration at the University of Scranton. The fruits of his labor quickly paid dividends when he was appointed principal of the Dana Elementary School. He later served at his elementary alma mater, Dodson, as principal before accepting district-wide opportunities. The merger of the Wilkes-Barre City School District into a larger Wilkes-Barre Area School District advanced him to new responsibilities as assistant director of elementary education. Later, he joined the district superintendent, Walter C. Wood, as an assistant to the superintendent. Upon Wood’s retirement, an exhaustive search was launched to find a successor. After countless interviews and in-depth study, the screening committee chose Solomon for the highest seat of responsibility in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. Helping him along the road to the superintendent’s post was his wife Margaret, whom he married in 1956. The Solomons have three children — Leo Jr., a student at Wilkes; George, a student at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science; and Jacqueline, a junior at GAR High School. His other family is even larger! With 12 elementary schools, two junior high schools, two junior­ senior high schools, and one senior high school to supervise, his job is not an easy one and requires hours of careful attention. The responsibilities of a superintendent cover every area of the entire operation of the district, ranging from financial, curricular, to building and administrative functions. Due to the vast number of decisions, considerations, and people involved Solomon sees his job as one of the more difficult ones in any profession. But it does have its rewards, and, according to Solomon it is “one of the most exciting positions imaginable. Every minute seems to require a major decision. You take pride in knowing that you are helping children and future generations receive the opportunity to get a good education.” Education plays a major role in life and Solomon noted that “without a good educational and intellectual foundation, students would have a hard time developing and growing in a complex world. We endeavor to serve the needs of our student,” Solomon added. “We teach them about health care and the values of our society, while providing them with the basic skills.” Aiding in the development of a student are extracurricular activities because they “help a student interact with the intellectual aspects of education. There have been countless instances where activity outside the classroom has inspired the student to marked improvement in the classroom.” The future of public school systems will be challenging. Economic forces, such as the rising rate of inflation, will require careful attention in the years ahead as revenues are being depleted while expenditures are remaining stable or increasing. Non­ mandated programs will continue to be in jeopardy if the situation does not change, and although Solomon would regret to see any programming in the district discontinued, he must constantly prepare for any changes. Solomon is committed to maintain the educational excellence of the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. “Our graduates have more than held their own in the nation’s top institutions of higher learning. We are also proud of our graduates who have gone on to success in the professional and non-professional areas of employment. We want the Wilkes-Barre community to share in this pride and aid us in our quest to provide a quality education.” Drawing on his experience as student, teacher, father, and administrator, Solomon summed up his goal as superintendent. “We want to teach students to learn for more than just the sake of learning. It is important for them to develop to the best of their abilities, so that they can make a significant contribution to life.” SUMMER 1978 15 �A Brand New Year sportsmij^^gi,^® From Hitting To Admitting "We’ve worked very hard to build the Wilkes College baseball program; I just don't think I will ever be able to divorce myself from the sport." This was the sentiment of former Wilkes College baseball coach Gene Domzalski as he fondly reflected on his nine years as baseball chief at Wilkes College. Domzalski, one of the premier coaches in Wyoming Valley baseball history, retired from coaching in late June to devote complete attention to his new position as associate dean of admissions at the college. “I just don't think I could have given justice to the program by remaining at the helm," Domzalski explained. “My new role at the college will require a vast amount of time, and it was my decision to leave coaching. I don't see any letdown in the future of the program. Dave Kaschak, my successor, is a sound baseball man. We had a good recruiting year and I stand ready to help Dave whenever I am needed." In his nine seasons as the Colonel skipper, Gene put Wilkes baseball on the national map. Against top­ flight competition, Domzalski guided Wilkes to 138 wins while tasting defeat in only 43 contests. One of the highlights of his tenure came in 1976 when the Colonels swept through the NCAA III Mideast Regional Tournament at Mansfield State and went on to finish fourth at the NCAA III World Series in Marietta, Ohio. "We came of age in 1976," Domzalski remembered. "For many years we knew we could compete with any Division III team in the nation, but it took our championship at the Mideast Regional Tournament to convince national critics that our program had arrived.” After a fine 21-8 showing in 1976. the Colonels appeared close to an encore last year before being jolted in two quick games at the NCAA Mideast Regional. Still, the team, handed Domzalski his best rvinning percentage of all time, 20-4, and the Colonels had some solace in claiming the Middle Atlantic Conference title. Wilkes posted its third straight 20-win plus season, 25-5, under Domzalski this spring. They looked unbeatable, winning 23 of their first 25 games, before losing the MAC championship final, 5-4, to Franklin & Marshall College. The Colonels then won two opening games at the Mideast Regional and minds again wandered to another trip to the NCAA III World Series. All dreams came to an abrupt stop on "Black Saturday" as Wilkes lost tough backto-back nods to eventual tourney champion Marietta, 7-6; and Wooster, 6-5; erasing any swan song for Domzalski. Gene Domzalski concluded nearly three decades of active baseball participation In June to join the admissions staff at the college. Domzalski, right, is shown with his successor, David Kaschak. "I honestly feel that the day of reaching that top rung is very near," the coach noted. “Our program is solid and flourishing. There is no reason why our success won't continue for many years to come." An outstanding athlete in his own right, Gene won a total of nine football, baseball, and basketball letters at Newport Township High School. He was awarded an athletic scholarship to the University of Wyoming where he played varsity football and baseball as a freshman. His college football coach was Bob Devaney, who would later go on to set records at Nebraska. As a yearling, Gene played in the 1957 Sun Bowl game at El Paso, Texas, and led the entire nation in kickoff­ return yardage. His amateur career was cut short at Wyoming when he signed a professional baseball contract with the New York Yankees in 1958. Gene played six years in the Yankee chain as a third baseman before retiring in 1964. During his career, in which he had to wait in the shadows of Yankee great Clete Boyer and 5100,000 bonus baby Jake Gibbs, Domzalski had a fine career, continually batting near the .300 mark and being selected to two post-season league all-star squads. Later completing his baccalaureate degree requirements at Wyoming, Gene returned to Wyoming Valley in 1965 and assumed the head basketball coaching position at Newport High School. When the Greater Nanticoke Area School District was organized in 1966, he was appointed as its first baseball coach and led the team to one PIAA District II and three Southern Division championships. Domzalski joined the Wilkes physical education staff in the fall of 1969 and took over the reigns of the Wilkes baseball program. He was also a football assistant to Rollie Schmidt for a few years. "I have had some very happy moments in athletics," Domzalski stated with pride, "but I felt the time was right for a change. When the dean’s position was offered, it was hard to resist the challenge of a new and different opportunity in higher education." Although Gene will be absent from the coaching field he plans to stay close to the Wilkes program in some capacity. “We recently organized the Colonel Dugout Club to aid the baseball program. We have a lot of plans and goals, and I hope to be able to contribute actively to the program in this way.” A fine recruiter as a baseball coach, Domzalski will broaden his horizon in attracting students to the college. With his success in the athletic field, there is little doubt in anyone’s mind that he will find his mark in the Wilkes admissions office. Wilkes College head football mentor Rollie Schmidt is positive that his 1978 grid Colonels can challenge for the Middle Atlantic Conference championship title, despite a 4-5 record last year and back-to-back 3-5 slates the previous two seasons. And why not, After all, the Denver Broncos, Washington Bullets, Duke University Blue Devils, and Leon Spinks all came out of nowhere to be a top contender or champion. Over the years, all of the successful Wilkes Golden Horde teams have been anchored by a stellar defense. And 1978 will be no exception, as 18 letter-winners return for Schmidt and defensive coordinator Ed Lukas. Although the defense lost some key members from last year's club to graduation, including MAC MVP linebacker Tony Couto, there is a lot of muscle left from a squad that allowed only 97 points in nine games a year ago. At the key linebacker spot, where Wilkes lost Couto and John Lack, probably two of the best to ever play the position at Wilkes, Schmidt will go with Wilkes-Barre area sophomores Tom Breese and Tom Yuhas. Another possible linebacker is senior Mike Molitoris, a defensive back last season. In the defensive secondary the Blue and Gold will be led by junior co-captain David Korba at the safety slot. Korba pilfered six enemy aerials a year ago, one shy of the Colonel school record. Back after a year's layoff with an injury is defensive back Mark Molitoris, Mike's brother, and an aggressive duo of Joe Shurites and Mark Arcure. In the trenches, Wilkes will be bolstered by Pat Boylan, Donny Brown, Steve Croghan, Jim Devaney, Rick Krawetz and Ed Mollahan. While the defense was surrendering only 97 points last year, the Wilkes offense could only produce 96 points. Hopefully, this is where the Colonel fortunes will change this annum. Returning at the signal-calling spot is the MAC Northern Division's top quarterback a year ago, Mike Wilson, who as a sophomore completed 25 of 76 for a league leading 424 yards. Wilson, a junior, was also second in total offense in the MAC, three yards behind the leader. Senior Bill Slovoski, who started many games as a sophomore in 1976, second-year man Pete Maxwell, and highly touted freshman Tom Cywinski will challenge for the signal caller position. Out of the three hopefuls, Cy winski looks like the top challenger to Wilson. If there is one position on offense where Wilkes is solid, it is at the halfback spot, where sophomore Carmen “Homer" Lopresto roams. Lopresto, tabbed the "Pittston Piston,” gained 256 yards on 63 carries for a 4.0 average last season. He saw limited duty, suffering a separated shoulder midway through the season. Lopresto was the star of the Colonels dramatic 7-0 win over Albright, crossing over from the two-yard line for the only score of the day. Lopresto’s running mate will be veteran Melvin Johnson, from Jamaica, New York. Wilkes will miss tight end Paul Wengen, who set some Colonel pass catching milestones, but Rob Irwin, Bill Molnar, Bob Rushworth, Dave Fritzges, Cliff Jones and freshman Chet Pientka provide a competent receiver corps. Leading the way on the offensive line will be senior co-captain Andy Contos. Other possible line starters include Jim Beck, Tom Heller, Joel Kane, Jeff Shovlin, Tom Sokola and Steve Wengen. With top notch freshman recruits mixing with the polished veterans and returnees, this football season should prove to be an exciting one for Wilkes College football head mentor Rollie Schmidt. q Baseball: overall record: 25-5 middle atlantic conference (north-west): 8-0 NCAA Mideast Rcgionals: 2-2 leading hitters: Terry Schoen, sr., .469, 46 hits, 44 runs, 11 doubles, 20 stolen bases. Phil Marino, so., .418, 33 hits, 28 runs, 5 homeruns, 22 rbi’s, Ken Suchoski, sr., .386, 44 hits, 32 runs, 10 doubles, 8 homeruns, 44 rbi’s. Dave Hungarter, jr., .351, 33 hits, 35 runs, 8 doubles, 34 walks. Chick Andrewscavage, fr., .340, 34 hits, 26 runs, 9 doubles, 31 rbi's. leading pitchers: Andy Kresky, sr., 9-2,1.91 era, 100 strikeouts, 80 innings, 45 hits. Barry Harcharufka, sr., 7-2, 2.13 era, 55 strikeouts, 55 innings. Carl DeFelice, so., 3-0,1.85 era, 35 strikeouts. 9 walks, 39 innings. Randy McHenry, fr., 4-1,2.65 era, 2 saves. 23 strikeouts, 34 innings. Danny Pisarcik, jr., 2-0,1.00 era, 4 saves, 19 strikeouts, 6 walks. First team, all MAC: Chick Andrewscavage lb. Terry Schoen 2b, Phil Marino 3b. Lou Elefante of, Andy Kresky p (MVP). NCAA District II Division III All-American: Ken Suchoski c, Terry Schoen 2b, Andy Kresky p. NCAA National Division III All-American: Terry Schoen 2b — second team. Ken Suchoski c and Andy Kresky p — third team. Women’s Softball: overall record: 2-5 NPWIAA record: 2-3 top hitters: Jackie Wiendl, so., .470, one homerun, 5 rbi's. Bernadette Swiderski, fr., .420, 9 hits, 10 rbi’s. Anita Meehan, sr., .370,10 hits, 5 rbi's. top pitcher: Karen Olney, sr„ 2-4, 31-2/3 innings, 28 strikeouts. Women's Volleyball: overall record: 0-3 Golf: overall record: 13-2 4th place finish in the 29th annual Middle Atlantic Conference Championship Tourney. Lacrosse: overall record: 5-6 Middle Atlantic Conference: 4-4 leading scorers: Bill Adams 28 goals, 9 assists, 37 points. Bruce Davis 23 goals, 12 assists, 35 points. Wayne Krum 21 goals, 4 assists, 25 points. Men’s Tennis: overall record: 5-9 Middle Atlantic Conference (north-west): 2-3 SUMMER 1978 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY 17 �-tw The Sordoni Art Gallery will offer several outstanding exhibits during the coming year. Listings for the exhibits will be featured in this issue and future issues of the Quarterly. Scheduled for fall and early winter are the works of Franz Kline, Joseph Domjan, and Annie Bohlin. Franz Kline, an artist of genuine eminence in the history of American Art, was born in Wilkes-Barre. According to Dr. William Sterling, an art historian and chairman of the Wilkes College Art Department, Kline, in the mid-twentieth century, “helped to push forward the boundaries of art itself.” "He was," according to Sterling, “keenly aware of the history of painting and committed to the medium as an expressive vehicle. The abstract expressionist movement to which Kline belonged attempted to reinstate the presence and significance of the individual by revealing, in the most direct way, his encounter with the material (it was sometimes called action painting).” Sterling noted that Kline’s huge black and white canvases, painted in the 1950’s, were indicative of his coal country origins: the assimilated images of railroads, coal breakers, and bridges in the snow. The Sordoni Gallery featured the Kline exhibit through September 10. ***** The works of Joseph Domjan, master of the woodcut, will be on display from September 14 through October 8. This internationally known artist has works listed in permanent collections in 140 museums on four continents. In 1955, Domjan was designated by China as this country's “Master of the Woodcut.” He is the first occidental to ever receive the honor. Domjan’s studio is located in Tuxedo Park, New York. An outstanding exhibit by local artist Annie Bohlin will be featured from October 14 through November 12. J Mrs. Bohlin was born in South Bend, Indiana, and now resides with her husband, architect Peter Bohlin in Wilkes-Barre. She attended Barnard College in New York and Cranbrook Academy of Art, earning a B.F.A. in 1962. Mrs. Bohlin continued her studies abroad, receiving a Fulbright grant for study in Finland in 1963. She has, since 1962, been designer for Edward Fields, Inc. and since 1969, designed china for H. E. Lauffer Company. Her one man shows include: 1963, Kaivotalo, Helsinki; 1965, Everhart Museum, Scranton; 1966, New York State University, ' Fredonia, New York; and 1968, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre. The exhibition will consist of recent works only and will include rugs, cut out hangings, pieces of china, and various couch covers. Gallery hours are: Daily, 1-5 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Sundays, 1-5 p.m. Andrew E. Baltz '57, Youssouf n,"brine Banguita '75, Stephen Banks '64. Frank G. Bankus 50, Richard C. Banta '59, Alexander S. naran '48, Robert J. Barberie'51, Michael A. Barbetti '68. tnseph W. Barnard '64, Mr. & Mrs. tames M. Barnes '71 '71 (Janet M. Micocci), Richard A. Barnes;’63. Robert J. Barno '63, George J. Barrett '63, James Barrett '70, D. Robert Bartlebaugh '58, Richard V Bartlebaugh '56, Mrs. Estelle Laskoski Bassler '62, Major Richard J Beach '62, Richard Bender '71, oseph M. Bendock '50, Andrew S. Benoska '60, Bennett S. Benson '51, Peter V. Berg, Jr. '73, Michael W. Bergbauer '72, Charles P. Berkant ■72, Mr. & Mrs. R. Jackson Berkey ’66 ’66 (Janice Collins), Mrs. Karen Baldoni Bernardi '72, Mrs. Rosalie Engel Biederman '37, Mrs. Florence Olshefski Bielawa '70. Mitchell Blicharz '49, Richard J. Blisick '63, Angela M. Bonavoglia o I £S h1 J) __I The South River Street Revival was compiled by Vesta Breakstone of the Alumni Relations Office. The information contained in the Alumni Notes was received between March 6, 1978 and June 16. 1978. Please send news contributions to: Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. QA?e uUiss QJou! Over the past few years some of our graduates have given us the slip. Like concerned uncles and aunts we would be delighted to hear from you again. If any alumni can help us in our search, please drop a line with the addresses of our missing nieces 18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY and nephews to the Wilkes College Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. Mrs. Dolores Waschowski Abbey '52, Henriette Abenmoha '58, Robert S. Abenmoha '70, Tarek Moussa Aboul-Hawa '75, John A. Abraham '65, Richard C. Ackerman '58, Donald C. Adams, Jr. 68, Ernest Aerenson '64, Gerald ’ Alexander'74, Abdul Sattar Allana 73, James W. Allen '63, Joseph F. 5“ ';*°Dd 71, Donald M. Brandt '59, Mrs. Joan Resmk Braunstein '69, Mrs Rose mary Petty Bray'73, Albert J Brazauskas'58, Carohne Brennan oo, Carol Breznay ’58. Patricia A. Briggi '61, Marshall E ^Ir00^.’“’PJaulT. Brooks 72, Mr. & Mrs. Clifford R. Brothers '59 '60 (Rosalie Huber], Mrs. Florence Greskiewicz Brown '66, Richard Brown 58, Anthony F. Brozoski '66, Eugene J. Brozowski '60, Carolyn A^ Bruch '72, Philip Bruch '72, Margaret A. Brunette '76, Mrs. Margaret Moore Bryson '39, Mrs. Mary Chickson Buglio '58, Joseph S. Bunor '49, Anthony R. Burgas '62, Charles T. Burilla '73, Mary Ellen Burkholder '71, George A. Busha ’70, John P. Butchko '62, Patricia Buzinski '70, Lorraine Byer 70. Alpaugh '47, Leah Anderson '67, George W. Anthony '35, James F. Antonio '63, Adele A. Applin '71, Benjamin J. Arch '51, Mrs. Bonnie Hawke Arcovitch '66, Jacob B. Armillei '59, Mrs. Helen Williams Artiles '51. David W. Aston '61, Mrs. Teresa Mazula Aston '70, Willi am Atherton '51, Albin Mosier Aukerland '48, Robert A. Ayers '71, Debbie L. Backensto '73, Ellen R. Badger '48, Tribute was paid to Atty. Joseph J. Savitz '4B following the spring meeting of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees. Savitz, the first Wilkes alumnus to ever serve as chairman of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees, was cited by his board colleagues for three years of dedicated service as board chairman. The former chairman, right, is shown receiving the citation from President Robert S. Capin. Seated are Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Carpenter, wno were also honored by the board on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary. Ml, Charlotte Richards 79, right, and Joni Fillets ‘81, recently captured the hearts of many eastern newspaper editors by being selected queen and hrst runnerup of this year's Pocono 500 auto race, which attracted oyer 100,000 spectators and international attention. The QUARTERLY sa thought you would be pleased to see two future members of our alumni letters Dear Mr. Hoover: The following information is provided to you for your alumni publication. 1 he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is acquiring property for the Strategic Oil Storage Program, which the Department of Enregy has developed to put large reserves of energy into salt domes for use in defense and industry, should there be an embargo of resources in the future. Joseph G. Kopec '69 had been on duty in the New Orleans office for a very short time when, from many miles away, David “Jake” Findora '70 arrived to begin his assignment. The men recognized each other from their college days, although it had been some period of time since they had seen each other. Joseph “Joe,” who is employed by the Corps as an appraiser, has taken on the challenge of negotiating land purchases in Louisiana and Texas. Jake, who is employed by the Corps as an attorney-advisor, has taken on the challenge of working within the only civil law system in the United States. Both men are meeting new and varied experiences daily. When two young men, making real sacrifices by spending months away from their homes in order to provide protection for the nation in time of emergency, are able to meet far from familiar surroundings and reminisce about glorious days at their alma mater, this has to be recognized as a meaningful event. The jobs they have been performing admirably have been done in the unhospitable elements of extreme heat and humidity, foreign accents, alligator infested swamps, and Bourbon Street. Thank you, Wilkes College, for polishing and being instrumental in the lives of these young men of fine minds and bodies. They are a credit to your leadership, and represent you with merit and honor. Sincerely, M. M. Miles New Orleans, La. association. SUMMER 1978 19 �c THOMAS SWANTKOWSKI 73 DR. ALBERT ROKE ’69 is an assistant director of family practice at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center, Reading, Pa. LEA GINA WHITE 70 is the head teacher for the New England Farmworkers' Council in Hartford, Conn., teaching English and supervising the Hartford office's educational program. cyWumi'ii cAlotes JACK NOYALIS 73 has been promoted to assistant showroom manager at Jewelcor, Inc. in Tucson, Arizona. KARL E. KNOECKLEIN 72 is a co-founder of RAW Gallery, an exhibition and performance space for artists exploring new, experimental media. The gallery is located at 197 Asylum Street, Hartford, Connecticut. RONALD RESCIGNO ’58 received his doctorate at the University of Northern Colorado and is assistant superintendent of schools in the Campbell Union School District, California. DONALD ELLER ’62 is a senior financial analyst with the research and investment firm of Roulston & Co., Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Donald is responsible for analyzing the steel and paper industries. JOHN GUZEK 76 graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and is an intern at Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. JEAN HUGHES REITER ’49 has returned to the Harrisburg Public Schools as a reading specialist, following a year’s sabbatical leave. RICHARD MIEDRICH ’50 is an assistant director of tax operations for the Bureau of Employment Security, Harrisburg, Pa. JUDITH MENEGUS DELUCA ’58 received a master’s degree in teaching on May 24,1978. RONALD DIAMONDSTEIN ’62 is northeastern regional manager for Hollytex Carpet Mills. Ronald lives with his wife, Sharon, and children, Michael Jay and Lee Marc, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. 20 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY PAULETTE LOEFFLAD 73 has been awarded a fellowship at Marywood College. In addition to her studies, Paulette has been assigned to assist Dr. Penbera at the college, as well as developing the public service component of the library. ROBERT J. HEWITT ’61 head of the science department at Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vermont, was recently honored by being named to “Who's Who in the East.” JOANNE S. SCHOONOVER 72 has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force at Lackland AFB, Texas. THOMAS MYERS ’58 has joined the public relations department of Eastern Airlines in Miami. Tom lives with his wife, the former SHIRLEY BAROODY ’59, and their three children, on Merrit Island, Florida. DAVID R. DUGAN 74 has accepted a position as manufacturing systems specialist with P. T. Igar-Jaya Company, Jakarta, Indonesia, an affiliate of Owens-Illinois, Inc. W. J. SCHLINGMAN ’60 has been appointed vice president of Leslie Fay Sales Company factoring division. Bill lives with his wife, Dorothy, and their three children, in Bear Creek, Pa. JOSEPH J. PINOLA ’49, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Western Bancorporation, Los Angeles, California, was the principal speaker at Wilkes College’s 31st Commencement held on Sunday, May 21, at Ralston Field. DR. WILLIAM F. RAUB ’61 has been promoted to acting associate director for extramural research and training at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. PETER JADELIS 74 has been appointed assistant vice president of Susquehanna Savings Association, Wilkes-Barre. Peter resides with his wife, the former MARGARET GATUSKY 73, in Harding, Pa. HAROLD LEWIS ’68 recently received his doctorate in educational administration from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Harold is employed by the Prince William County School System, and resides with his wife, Brenda, in Fairfax County, Virginia. JOHN D. CURTIS *55 was a winner in the John Hervey Harness Racing Writing Awards of 1977, for an article in “Hub Rail" magazine, a national publication. A breeder, trainer, and driver of Standardbred horses, John owns and publishes the "Pennsylvania Harness Racing Guide" in Carlisle, where he resides with his family. ROSEMARIA J. GIENCIVA 73 received her M.D. degree at the Milton S. Hershey Medical School of Pennsylvania State University on May 20,1978. Rosemaria will complete her residency requirements at Williamsport Hospital, special­ izing in family practice. JOHN P. NELSON ’50 has been elected secretary of INA Inter­ national Corporation in Philadelphia. John is responsible for the control of casualty underwriting in the international department, both here and abroad. JUDITH GREENSTEIN DAVIS 72 is program coordinator for Access Unlimited, Inc., an advocacy organization for the physically handicapped. She resides with her husband, Patrick, in Birmingham, Alabama. BEVERLY MAJOR SCHWARTZ ’61 has written a childrens book entitled "The Magic Pizza," published by Prentice-Hall. Beverly is art director of Major Advertising Agency, Lehman, Pa., where she resides with her husband, STEPHEN ’62, and their two children. THOMAS G. AMBROSI ’68 is a partner in the accounting firm of Ambrosi Donahue & Co., with offices at 76 State Street, Newbury­ port, Massachusetts. Lt. WILLIAM R. BRADBURY 75 is with the U. S. Navy Air Corps in Japan. Bill and his wife, the former CYNTHIA LENAHAN 75 will reside in Japan during his tour of duty with the Navy. PAUL D. J. MORGIS 70 is assistant corporate credit and risk manager with the Revere Sugar Corporation in New York City. MICHAEL J. BARSKI 73 is a stock­ broker with Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., Allentown, Pa., and he resides in Whitehall. Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Sn N C. His wife, the former nONNA DONGSES 74 was awarded a master’s degree in psychology of reading from Temple University. rnWARD J. BOLTZ ’59 has been Eda vice president of North­ eastern Bank of Pennsylvania m the Wilkes-Barre office. Attorney MARTIN J. MEYER 54, a partner in the law firm of Mack & Meyer, was accepted for admission to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. Lt. MARK A. SYMANOWICZ 77 has been assigned to Offutt AFB, Nebraska, as a navigator with the Strategic Air Command. Brother LEONARD SHATKUS T.O.R., ’76 has professed his temporary vows for the Third Order Regular, Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, and will pursue training for the priestly ministry this fall at St. Francis Seminary, Loretto, as a second theologian. FRED R. DEMECH ’61 was recently promoted to Commander, U.S. Navy. Fred is stationed at the National Security Agency, Fort George Meade, Maryland. McCloskey shubert ’65 works on a child study team for the Delran Township Schools. She lives with her husband, ROY A. SHUBERT ’69, and son in Delran, New Jersey. lydia DAVID COHEN 74 is a production planner for Braceland Brothers, Inc., Philadelphia, at their Franconia, Virginia plant. David lives at 18 Canterbury Square, Alexandria, Virginia. ANN L. VIVIAN 73 was recently published for the first time in "The Diapason,” an international journal devoted to the organ, harpsichord and church music. Her article, was entitled “G. Donald Harrison — A Brief Study of His Organ Designs.” Ann is an administrative assistant to the vice president in charge of operations at the Boston Conservatory of Music. KLAUS LOQUASTO '69 has reported for duty aboard the com­ mand ship, USS LaSalle, Permanently deployed to the Indian Ocean. EDWARD J. PODEHL’68was promoted to auditor of Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware. Edward wnnVuT hiS;Vife’Elizabeth^nd two children m Turnersville, N. J. FOSTER JOSEPH RITCHIE 72 is assistant manager at the Gallery of w-nnd ‘n Wyomin8 Valley Mall, Wilkes-Barre. Dr. DEBORAH J. RIGLE 72 has completed her first year of surgerv residency at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y. Deborah also studied with Dr. Denton Cooler sy at the Texas Heart Institute on a special fellowship, as the prelim­ inary step toward becoming a cardiac surgeon. DONNA L. COFFIN 74 is a teacher of learning-disabled children at the Eagle Hill School, Greenwich, Conn. G. MATT MORAN '68 is eastern district manager of Fiberfil Division, Dart Industries, Los Angeles, California. He is living in Lancaster, Pa., with his wife, Jacquelyn and their daughter, Jennifer. JANICE COHEN 76 is an insurance underwriter for Sterling Thompson Insurance Company, and on week­ ends is ticket supervisor at Giant's Stadium. STEPHEN M. BALOGA 76 is an actuary assistant with Bankers National Life Insurance Company in Parsippiny, New Jersey. LESLIE COOK WEBER 75 was recently promoted to executive secretary to the controller of the Strick Corporation, Fort Washington, Pa. Lt. JOHN J. HARPER 77 has been stationed with the U. S. Air Force at Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, Colorado, since October 1977. Lt. Harper is assigned to the Norad Combat Operations Center at Cheyenne Mountain as a Space Systems Orbital Analyst and works in the Space Defense Center. FLOYD J. MILLER, JR. 76 is an assistant systems reviewer in the RSO Procedural Development Unit of the Corporate Office of Prudential Propertv and Casualty Insurance Company, Holmdel, New Jersey. Dr. CATHERINE DeANGELIS '65 is the director of Pediatric Prima'y , Care and an associate professor of pediatrics in the school of medicm at The Johns Hopkins Medical Center. CHARLES ROBERT ORNERII '66 is an elementary music teacher in the Elk Lake School District. Charles hves with his wife, Norma, and son, Brendan, in Montrose, Pa. BEVERLY ANN BUTLER PHILLIPS 60 is a school nurse with the Hills­ borough Township School District, Somerville, New Jersey. THOMAS TROST 76 is an account executive with Christmas Club Corporation, Easton, Pa. Tom covers the greater Philadelphia area, where he lives with his wife, EILEEN PRENDERGAST TROST 76. SHARON STRZELCZYK ROBINSON '68 is chairman of business education at Wallenpaupack Area High School. Sharon was recently elected ambulance chief of the Tafton Fire Company, Inc., and appointed EMT Coordinator for Pike County, Pa. Dr. BUCKLEY R. MILLER '65 is a psychologist with the Coatesville Veterans Hospital, His wife, TINA KOOPMANS MILLER ’66 is a reading consultant for learning disabled at the Haverford Township junior High School. They reside in Ardmore, Pa., with their two daughters, Roxanne and Michelle. JANET SIMPSON WILKINSON ’62 coordinates counseling services at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg. Janet is serving a 3year term as a senator of the American Personnel and Guidance Association, where she just completed a term as president. jUawtiages Dr. MICHAEL R. CLARK ’69 and Janet E. Matson were recently married. Michael is assistant professor of the residency program in emergency medicine, and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Michigan State University School of Human Medicine. The couple is residing in East Lansing, Michigan. DIANE V. FERRARO 76 and John L. Panatieri were wed recently. Diane is employed on the medical-surgical staff at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. SUMMER 1978 21 �ROBERT WILLIAM EASTWOOD ’76 and DEBORAH ANN GUDOSKI ’76 were married on August 13,1977. Bob is teaching in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District, and Debbie is a staff accountant with the Laventhol and Horwath accounting firm in Wilkes-Barre. THERESE MARIE BECKER ’77 and George R. Gwilliam were recently married. Therese is employed as a nurse on the medical-surgical staff at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. The couple is residing in Shavertown, Pa. TIMOTHY R. YOUNG ’77 and Judith McKeown were recently married in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ROBERTA J. EVANS ’73 and Lt. Col. David A. Wyrich were recently married. Roberta is an assistant disbursing officer at the Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneoke Bay, Hawaii, where the couple is residing. WILLIAM M. COREY, JR. ’70 was recently married to Joanne Keppick. Bill is employed by the Luzerne County Board of Assistance in Wilkes-Barre. GAIL GELB ’70 and JEROLD W. BROWN ’71 were recently married. The couple resides in Wilkes-Barre where Jerold is in the real estate business. ROBERT SPINELLI ’76 and PATRICIA CULLINAN ’77 were married on October 22,1977. Patty is employed by the University of Rochester, and Bob is associated with the Monroe County Department of Social Services. JOANNE M. PAVLIK ’77 and MARK A. KUTNEY ’76 were recently married. Joanne is a communications library clerk for Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and Mark is a research analyst for the city of Wilkes-IJarre, where the couple is residing. DONNA M. DORZINSKY ’75 was recently married to CAL A. SCHLUTER ’74. Donna is a teacher in East Stroudsburg, Pa., and Cal is international marketing manager of a major data communications company in Hackensack, New Jersey. CAROL L. HEWITT ’73 and TREVOR R. HARDING ’71 were recently married. Trevor is owner and operator of the Sub Factory, located in Kingston, and the couple resides at 69 Woodlawn Avenue, Dallas, Pa. 22 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY SHARON SANTANGELO ’73 and John Liszczak were recently married. Sharon teaches third grade at St. Augustine’s School, Kendall Park, and the couple resides in Middlesex, New Jersey. GAYLE ANN KOLLAR ’77 and David J. Garubba were recently married. Gayle is employed by RiceFitzwater, Inc., and the couple resides in Sheatown, Pa. Dr. JANET ANN GOLASZEWSKI ’72 and Dr. Daniel M. Mazzocco were wed recently. Janet is completing an orthodontic specialty program at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the couple resides in Oakwood Park, Laflin, Pa. CHERYL ANN CARBINO ’75 and DONALD W. WHITTAKER ’75 were recently married. Cheryl is a candidate for a master's degree in psychologj' at Marywood College, and Donald is a business manager for David Ertley, Inc., Kingston, Pa. The couple resides at 61 West Union Street, Wilkes-Barre. cAlew cA/i/tirf A son, John Daniel, was born on February 19,1978, to George and JOSEPHINE SCHIFANO FINLAY­ SON ’73. Josie is a teacher with the Groton, Connecticut school system. A daughter, Bryn Allaine, was born to Ellen and KENNETH WILLIAMS '66 on November 18,1977. The couple also has a son, Kristopher, and reside in Allentown, Pa., where Ken is the merchandise manager for Junior Colony, Inc. A daughter, Margaret Claire, was born on May 2,1978, to Mary and WILBUR DOTTER ’62. The family resides in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Wilbur is an associate professor of math at Montgomery College. Twin boys, Michael and Steven, were born on May 6,1977, to Donald and ANN TRAGLIA JACOBS ’66. The couple also has a son, Donald, 6 years old, and they reside in Mechanicsburg, Pa. A daughter, Lynn Michelle, was born on February 15, to DOUGLAS ’68 and JANIS HUGHES FAWBUSH '68. The couple also has a son, Douglas, and reside at 91 Conwell St., Wilkes-Barre. A son, Adam Kenneth, was born on May 8,1978, to Jack and HALLIE RAUB KELLY ’68. The couple also has a daughter, Amy. They reside at 1011 Opequon Ave., Winchester, Virginia. A son, David Michael, was born on March 25, to Karen and LESLIE CHEIFETZ ’73. Leslie was graduated from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, and is an oral surgery resident at Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, where the family resides. A daughter, Kimberly Ann, was born on May 8, to RICHARD ’73 and GAIL PARTYKA LETTS ’74. The Letts reside at 121 Woodview Drive, Horseheads, New York. Terry and ETHEL SHANNON SHERMAN ’73 announce the birth of twins, Mathew James and Rebecca Anne, on April 13,1978. The family resides in Suscon, Pa. MARVIN ’67 and SYLVIA SCHRADER ADLER ’64 announce the birth of a son, Nicholas Hayden, on December 29,1977, and the final adoption of a son, Adam James, on April 7,1978. Marvin is manager of the jewelry department in J. C. Penneys, Whitehall, Pa., and Sylvia is presently on maternity leave from the Allentown School District. A son, Christopher Mollica, was born on January 14,1978, to William and ANTONINA MOLLICA KULP ’71. The family resides at 3034 Highland Street, Allentown, Pa. o * O' U1 dD o 5 o When What Who 14-Oct. 8 Art Exhibit 16 16 Soccer Joseph Domjan vs. Upsala vs. Alumni 20 Field Hockey Concert/Lecture Series 21 Field Hockey 23 23 23 30 Soccer Football 7 LU dD zLM o o 7 10 14 14-Nov. 12 19 21 28 28 4 8 IG-Dec. 10 18 Field Hockey Field Hockey Football Soccer Field Hockey Football Art Exhibit Soccer Football Soccer Field Hockey Football Soccer Art Exhibit 27 Wrestling Concert/Lecture Scries 3 Concert/Lecture Series 4 Basketball (V 5 Concert 6 Wrestling 3 3 10 Concert Concert a: 11 Wrestling 15-Jan. 7 Art Exhibit 28-29 Wrestling a Haskell Small, pianist vs. Scranton vs. Bloomsburg vs. Lycoming vs. Albright vs. Lafayette Where Sordoni Art Gallery Ralston Field Ralston Field CPA Ralston Field Ralston Field Ralston Field Ralston Field Ralston Field Time 2:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. 8:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Ralston Field Ralston Field Ralston Field Ralston Field Sordoni Art Gallery Ralston Field Ralston Field Ralston Field Ralston Field 1:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. vs. Juniata vs. Dickinson Diana Smith Varsity vs. Alumni “Miranda Mime Company in Performance” Ralston Field Ralston Field Sordoni Art Gallery 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Gymnasium CPA 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Jean Michel Cousteau: "Ocean Exploration and Man’s Future" vs. East Stroudsburg Wilkes College Chorus CPA 8:00 p.m. Gymnasium 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. vs. Bloomsburg vs. Moravian vs. Lycoming vs. Western Maryland Annie Bohlin vs. Albright vs. Albright vs. Susquehanna vs. FDU-Madison 3:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Him JAMES W. JONES ’49, of 5 Diebel Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., died recently at the age of 53 years in Mercy Hospital. James graduated from Wilkes in 1970 with a B.S. degree in education, but wished to remain with the class of ’49. He was a veteran of World War II, serving with the army in Europe. Jim was employed as a caseworker for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Assistance prior to his death. Surviving are his wife, Ruth; sons, James, Jr., Newport News, Va.; Jeffery, at home; and Jonathan, Penn State University. o a vs. Lehigh Wilkes College Band Wilkes College Madrigal Singers vs. Tennessee •Collectors' Choice' 46th Annual Open Wrestling Tournament CPA Gymnasium CPA CPA 3:30 p.m- Home Sordoni Art Gallery Home SUMMER 1978 23 �WE ARE SAVING A PLACE FOR YOU at WILKES COLLEGE’S Schedule of Events Friday, October 13 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Alumni Executive Committee Dinner Meeting Judging of Homecoming Displays “Homecoming Huddle” (Sterling Inn Towne) Saturday, October 14 Class Reunion Breakfasts (open to all alumni) for the classes of '38, '43, '48, '53, '58, '63, '68, '73 all morning Opportunity for a "Walking Tour” of campus and the chance to visit and purchase Wilkes items at the college bookstore 1 1:00 a.m. "Ask the President" Session (Schaeffer Lecture Hall) 1:30 p.m. Homecoming Football Game, Colonels vs. Western Maryland (Ralston Field) 4:00 p.m. Alumni “Fifth Quarter" (Artillery Park) 9:30 a.m. 6:009:30 p.m. ANNUAL ALUMNI HOMECOMING WEEKEND OCTOBER. 13-15 1978 9:30 p.m. Alumni Homecoming Smorgasbord (Sterling Inn Towne) Traditional Alumni Homecoming Dance (Sterling Inn Towne) Sunday, October 15 10:30 a.m. Alumni Brunch (Annette Evans Alumni and Faculty House) Judy S. Arenstein '68, honorary chairperson Richard J. Myers '60, chairperson A separate mailing will be sent to all alumni Wilkes College Quarterly Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 355 WILKES-BARRE, PA. j S3 | mwauH IM.UM I-- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. The magazine went through various names including <em>Wilkes Alumnus</em>, <em>Wilkes Quarterly,</em> <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, and the current title, <em>Wilkes Magazine</em>. Some editions for the <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, will have multiple issues within the file record. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Summer 1978 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1978 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/e79efb4a26b3c5ea429ddbc3bb114709.pdf c0a8d63a6a6c5b29ed926dd701fb24c3 PDF Text Text a I ■ ^54 �WILKE6 COLLEGE _ Volume2, Numbers editor George G. Pawlush '69 associate editor Jane Manganella editorial staff Eddie White III ’80 Cara Berryman Vesta Breakstone Robert Gaetano *80 Rosemary McMahon ’80 Cindy Ercolani ’81 Margaret Scholl ’81 ON THE COVER: Conyngham Hall, destroyed by fire on December 28, 1968, was a perfect example of Corinthian architecture. As a reminder of the past, the facade of the building remains intact and is featured on the cover of this issue. Conyngham Hall was the second building presented to the College in 1938 when Wilkes was still affiliated with Bucknell University. The donor was the late Bertha Robinson Conyngham, widow of John N. Conyngham. contributing staff Dr. Charles Reif editorial advisors Dr. Richard Rees '62 Arthur J. Hoover '55 circulation manager Lynn Jacobs art director Jon Schaffer photography editor Arthur S. Miller SPECTRUM STUDIO contributing photographers Robert Gaetano ’80 Nigel Gray '79 Kenneth Fox’62 The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. An Update On Alpha Dear Old B.U.J.C. by Dr. Charles Reif 1 8 A New Look at the Past, Present, & Future 31st Annual Homecoming Highlights ‘It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Poleskie’ by Jane Manganella ns 20 Sports Update —13 Chronicle — 4 Faculty Abstract — 5 Gallery — 15 South River St. Revival — 16 tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson Libby and Bob Capin BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons, Honorary Member Reuben H. Levy, Honorary Member OFFICERS Benjamin Badman '41, Chairman Mrs. Walter M. Diener, Vice Chairman Hon. Edwin M. Kosik '49, Vice Chairman Mrs. Edward Darling, Secretary Arthur J. Hoover '55, Assistant Secretary Mrs. William Davidowitz, Treasurer Joseph J. Chisarick '61, Assistant Treasurer James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein '68 Edward Bixby, M.D, Charles N. Burns, M.D. '35 Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Stanley Davies Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Alan M. Glover, Ph.D. Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan, Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Richard Maslow Charles H. Miner Gerald A. Moffatt '63 William G. Mulligan F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Richard L. Pearsall Hon. MaxRosenn Richard M. Ross, Jr. Joseph J. Savitz '48 Louis Shaffer Ronald W. Simms '60 William H. Sword, Jr. E. Arthur Trabant, Ph.D. William J. Umphred '52 Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENT Robert S. Capin '50 �r college©]hg©iaM© RICK REES — ALUMNI DIRECTOR Dr. Richard T. Rees has been appointed director of alumni relations at the College, effective Oct. 31, according to Wilkes College President Robert S. Capin. Rees, a member of the Wilkes College Education Department faculty since 1972, succeeds Arthur J. Hoover, who joined the Wilkes College Student Affairs Office during the summer, Rees' selection concluded a two-month search conducted by a committee composed of eight alumni. "Rick has a longstanding and close relationship with the Alumni Association both as a Wilkes College graduate and as a faculty member," expressed President Capin. "We are confident that he will build upon 4 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY the foundation established by Art Hoover and continue to enlarge the relationship of the College with its alumni.” “During these times, every institution must count more heavily upon its alumni, not only for fundraising, but also for involvement in admissions and placement. I appreciate the efforts of those alumni who participated in the search by serving on the search committee, by suggesting candidates to us, and by becoming active candidates,” the president added. As director of alumni relations, Rees will be responsible for maintaining contact and programming with 13,000 Wilkes College Alumni Association members. He is a 1962 graduate of the College and has been active in the affairs of the Wilkes College Alumni Association. He is president of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton/ Hazleton chapter of the Alumni Association and served as chairman of the 1974 Annual Alumni Campaign and was 1976 Homecoming Weekend Chairman. Dr. Rees attained his M.Ed. and Ed.D. degrees in educational administration at Rutgers U*nAYeJsity‘ ,Prior t0 his appointment at Wilkes, the Kingston native ^7^,aSvVLCe, PrinciPal a‘ Metuchen (N.J.) High School and was assistant professor of education at Montclair State College. At Wilkes he has been supervisor of student teachers and taught undergraduate and graduate education courses. Dr. Rees has authored several articles dealing with organizational dynamics which have appeared in professional and research journals. He is a member of the American Education Research Association, American Association of University Professors, Pennsylvania Association of Teacher Educators, and Phi Delta Kappa. The Wilkes alumni relations director is a former executive board member of the Mountaintop Kiwanis Club. Dr. Rees and his wife, Linda, and their two children reside in Mountaintop. “DISTINGUISHED PENNSYLVANIANS” Three area leaders associated with Wilkes College are among 50 prominent citizens from throughout the state who have been honored as "Distinguished Pennsylvanians” by the William Penn Committee of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Hon. Max Rosenn and Robert L. Jones, Wilkes College trustees; and Dr. Andrew Shaw Jr., dean of management at the College, were honored at a luncheon on William Penn’s birthday, October 24, at the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel. The Distinguished Pennsylvanian program was started last year to serve as a forerunner to the 300th anniversary of the Commonwealth, which will be celebrated in 1982. 4 _________ FACETS A ceremony marking the dedication of a relief sculpture "Facets" was held October 7 at the Stark Learning Center. The sculpture, located on the facade of the William B. Schaeffer Lecture Hall, is a gift of Marian R. Schaeffer, in memory of her father, William B. Schaeffer; and Kenneth L. Pollock, in memory of his father, Milton L. Pollock. The sculpture was designed by Herbert Simon, assistant professor of fine arts, and fabricated by the McGregor Architectural Iron Company, Dunmore. It consists of 16 modular units which form a large diamond shape, measuring ten feet by ten feet by two feet. "Facets" is minimalist in its conception, variety being achieved by the clockwise and counterclockwise placement of the prism-shaped units. The seeming simplicity of the work is deceptive. It is a work which demands extended study for the viewer to comprehend the complexity of the visual phenomena. A NEW ERA To use or not use the computer? According to Dr. Umid Nejib, chairman of Wilkes College’s Department of Engineering, this is the question that many businessmen, teachers, and industrialists are asking as the arrival of the microcomputer has brought the once unaffordable labor saving device into the buying range of many individuals and organizations. "Ten years ago it cost $10,000 a month to lease a large computer, which can now be purchased in a microcomputer form for $2000 and less,” reports Dr. Joseph Parker, a member of the Wilkes College Engineering/Computer Science faculty. “The microcomputer, which can fit into a pocket or a purse, outperforms the room-sized models that prevailed in the early 1960’s,” he added. A key component of the microcomputer is a microprocessor, which is actually a small computer on a single chip of silicon. Devices such as pocket calculators, certain television games, and the electronic scales which produce supermarket price tags result from the ability to manufacture miniature electronic circuits on these tiny "chips” of silicon. Some 250 chips are made from one razor-thin wafer of precisely polished silicon about three inches in diameter. Mass production of the silicon chip has made possible home computer systems that sell for less than $800. The microprocessor is similar to the central processing unit of a large computer. It can read, interpret, and carry out instructions stored in a memory device. A microprocessor can be made into a miniature, general purpose microcomputer by adding a control memory (to store the program), a temporary storage memory, and a clock to synchronize operations. Keeping abreast of the rapidly changing computer world is the Wilkes Engineering Department, Dr. William Sterling by Rosemary McMahon m<eolty Dr. William Sterling, chairman of the Wilkes College Art Department, feels that the primary goal as chairman is to be "ready at all times to deal with any crisis that could arise" and, above and beyond that, to try to "steer the department in some kind of progressive direction." One crisis that Dr. Sterling refers to is the declining enrollment of art majors and also the difficulty of attracting art students into the program. Dr. Sterling feels that the cause of this problem stems from the fact that Wilkes is a fairly traditional liberal arts college and many art students do not feel that such a curriculum can prepare them for a place in the job market. As a graduate of William and Mary College, which also offers a liberal arts education, Dr. Sterling maintains that these students are misinformed. The educator states that a liberal arts curriculum in the art field is "still a viable approach” and strongly feels that it "prepares the student for life, not just immediate employment.” Dr. Sterling adds that an art department in a liberal arts college should continuously "look into new developments in the arts and in the needs and desires of the students” but should not, necessarily, change to meet the fluctuations of the job market. "If the department could convince students and their parents that this is the case, many of our problems would be solved," says Dr. Sterling. In addition to his role as chairman of the Art Department, Dr. Sterling also teaches art history and is a dedicated artist. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa where he concentrated in the Renaissance period of art. A native of Dover, Delaware, Dr. Sterling continues to enjoy his non­ objective style of painting which deals with problems of balance and tension. “To develop this is my primary professional goal,” he notes. When asked if he had any words of wisdom to those students who are presently in or who are considering entering the field of art, Dr. Sterling states that they should keep in mind that “although art has been regarded as a less serious area of endeavor, it is certainly one of the oldest areas of human activity and requires just as much talent, experience, and intelligence to excel in as in any other area. o FALL 1978 5 �WE WILKES Shown is a typical microcomputer board containing resistors and a microprocessor, which operates on a 12-volt car battery. notebooks, files, bills, and the kitchen bulletin board. In addition to the non-credit workshops, the Wilkes Engineering Department offers credit courses in microcomputers and has a microcomputer laboratory housed at the Stark Learning Center. Microcomputers are a marvel of modern technology and have rapidly become commonplace in the home, business, and transportation. Wilkes College is offering a series of operating workshops in micro­ computers during the Spring 1979 semester. CONCERT AND LECTURE SERIES which will offer a series of operating workshops or mini­ courses in microcomputers during the Spring 1979 semester. “The purpose of the non-credit workshops is to familiarize leaders in business, technical, and educational fields with various applications of the microcomputer. Basically, the workshop participants will be taught how to use, construct, or program microcomputers," Dr. Nejib explains. “There are no prerequisites for participating in the workshop,” Nejib stresses. In order to accommodate participants who may work during the daytime hours, the course will be offered in two different format packages. One format will include six night sessions during the week, whereas the other format will condense the workshop into two weekend sessions. Computer technology has advanced so quickly that the same computational power which ten years ago occupied most of a desktop and weighed 42 pounds now weighs less than an ounce and removes only a few dollars from the pocket. “You can make a microcomputer do virtually anything you want," adds Dr. Parker. “Eventually the household computer will be as much as part of the home as the kitchen sink. It will program washing machines, burglar and fire alarms, sewing machines, and even robot vacuum cleaners.” Energy costs are now being cut by a computerized device that directs heat to living areas where it is needed, and turns it down where it is not. Paper clutter is The Wilkes College Concert and Lecture Series will continue its service to both campus and community with four programs scheduled for the early months of 1979. All performances will begin at 8 p.m. at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts. They are offered free of charge. “Crazyboy," a rock musical, will be presented on Monday, January 22. It features a refreshing style of original music and sheds a bright light on an innovative venture in theater. On Thursday, Feb. 1, "The Drunkard," a brand new version of the most popular melodrama ever written, will be offered. The intoxicatingly funny show is the longest-running show in American theatrical history. One version played for 26 years in Los Angeles. Peter James, author, physicist, and former CIA spy, will present a slide-illustrated lecture of foreign intrigue, conspiracy, corruption, and coverups on Thursday, April 19. "Odessa Balalaikas in Concert," will be offered on Wednesday, May 2. Featured will be the finest American Russian folk group with its concert of Russian folk music, unusual instruments, colorful costumes, dancing, and warm personal stage style. o ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Office at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our records. c©llege C©FOE©TII<DN FOR 24-HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. 717-826-1135 A ROAST TO TOAST ART HOOVER . . . GUS GENETTI MOTOR INN FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1979 Cocktail Hour Begins 6:30 P.M. For reservations and more Information contact: George Pawlush Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703 THE DATES^Hf'» B yZaw Annual Alumni are SET!! Friday, Saturday, Sunday October 12,13,14,1979 two unique wilkes college alumni experiences are coming !!! I ALUMNI SPRING WEEKEND, MAY 18-20, 1979 ALUMNI SUMMER COLLEGE details will be forthcoming in the next issue of the WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. An Update Alpha The initiation of regional campaigns has signaled the start of Wilkes College's nationwide alumni appeal as the "Alpha" Capital Gifts Campaign enters the second year of its three-year drive. President Robert S. Capin reports that the campaign total has reached 51,446,145 as of November 1. In addition to the beginning of the regional alumni campaigns, President Capin has also announced the selection of Thomas H. Kiley, former President of First Eastern Bank and a trustee of the College, as chairman of the 1979 Wilkes College Annual Campaign in Greater Wyoming Valley. Richard Maslow, President of Metropolitan Wire Inc., and a trustee of the College, has been appointed chairman of the Development Committee of the Board of Trustees. He is working directly with Mr. Kiley in organizing the 1979 drive. Atty. Andrew Hourigan, a trustee of the College, serves as general chairman of the "Alpha" effort. Wilkes College alumni have given or pledged nearly $200,000 to the College through the first 11 months of the "Alpha" Campaign. Alumni have also aided in obtaining foundation gifts. Atty. William A. Perlmuth '51 a partner in the law firm of Stroock, Stroock, and Lavan, assisted the College in submitting an application which resulted in a $10,000 grant from the Aeroflex Foundation of New York City. Jerry Moffatt'63, a partner with the Arthur Andersen Company, and a trustee of the College, assisted Wilkes in obtaining a grant from the Arthur Andersen Foundation, New York City. Through the efforts of Richard Salus '61, a partner with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell, in Harrisburg,, an additional grant in support of the annual campaign was obtained from the Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Foundation of New York City. The purpose of the various regional campaigns is aimed at (1) conducting regional alumni campaigns in areas of the nation with concentrations of 200 or more alumni, and (2) contacting alumni in other sections of the nation to seek their participation in the campaign. An alumnus or alumna who makes a three-year pledge to the "Alpha" Campaign will not be expected to contribute to the annual appeal until completing payment on his/her expanded commitment. Regional alumni campaigns scheduled to be conducted during Fall 1978 and Spring 1979 include Hazleton; Scranton; Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia; Baltimore/Maryland/Delaware; Greater Pittsburgh; Harrisburg/ Lancaster/York; Greater New York City/Long Island; Northern New Jersey; Central and Southern New Jersey; Greater Philadelphia; Binghamton; Roches ter/Syracuse/Buffalo; New England; and Lehigh Valley. A regional kickoff by Wilkes College alumni in the Lehigh Valley Area (Allentown/Bethlehem/ Easton) was conducted October 18 at the Bethlehem Holiday Inn. Michael Barski '73 is chairman of the committee which will solicit Lehigh Valley alumni on a personal basis. Concluding the regional campaign is a telephone drive. Atty. Ralph P. Carey '48 hosted a meeting of Scranton Area alumni on November 1. Representing the College at the session were President Capin '50, the Hon. Edwin Kosik '49, Dr. Thomas F. Kelly '69, dean of external affairs; Dr. Richard T. Rees '62, director of alumni relations; and George F. Ralston, dean of student affairs. President Capin stresses that the College must not only seek financial support from the alumni, but also must encourage alumni participation in such processes as admissions and placement. "The 'Alpha' Campaign is essential to the future of Wilkes College, and of similar importance is the vital role which alumni can play in attracting qualified students to Wilkes College and helping them find employment after graduation," the President adds. Dr. Richard Rees, the new director of alumni relations, has already initiated arrangements for regional alumni friend-raising events. A pre-game tailgate party was held in conjunction with the Wilkes football game with Susquehanna University at Selinsgrove on November 11. Coordinating the event were Thomas Krapsho '70, regional vice president, Region VII, and Richard Salus '61. The new alumni director is also planning additional regional alumni social events to coincide with wrestling and basketball events on the College's winter athletic calendar. Dr. Rees announces that an alumni gathering is scheduled for the Princeton, N.J. area on Saturday, Feb. 24, in conjunction with the Eastern Intercollege Wrestling Association (EIWA) Tournament at Princeton University. As the "Alpha" Campaign enters the second year it is important to maintain the momentum which was exhibited through out the first year. The "Alpha" Campaign is directed toward three necessary goals: (1) scholarship support, (2) enlarging the endowment to support faculty salaries, and (3) reconstruction of existing college properties. All three goals are important as Wilkes College continues to maintain its tradition of academic excellence in the 1980's. o FALL 1978 7 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY �©Id 73 z CONYNGHAM HALL Dr. Charles B. Reif No one was sure where Bucknell University Junior College was, on that morning of September 17,1942, when I first arrived in Wilkes-Barre. The bus driver who let me off at the Town Square in Wilkes-Barre suggested I ask a policeman, which I did; and three officers, after a lengthy debate, suggested I look on South River Street, probably in the second block. Since I was still carrying my suitcase, having some time before arrived at the Kingston Railroad Station, I was happily relieved to discover Conyngham Hall with its bronze plaque which proclaimed it to be Bucknell University Junior College. Inside Conyngham Hall I found Joseph Wayman, who was to become one of my good friends, who had been a houseboy with Mr. John Conyngham, and who had stayed on to care for that grand old building when it became one of the halls of ivy. Joseph assured me that "they is all down to Chase's Hall," so off I went with my suitcase and soon found Chase Hall where activity was apparent. The first adult I met was Professor Daniel Gage, the entire faculty of the History Department, who, when I had introduced myself as the new biologist on the faculty, looked me up and down with an expression that said to me something like "scraping the bottom of the barrel." However, Professor Gage took me in tow and led me to a garage in back of Chase Hall which was affectionately known as Chase Theatre. There the freshman orientation had just been concluded, and I was presented to Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Farley. After Dr. Farley had crushed my hand in a good firm handshake, Mrs. Farley grabbed my right hand and pumped my arm up and down as if she expected water to spout from my mouth like an old-fashioned kitchen pump, all the while greeting me effusively. After making the acquaintance of the Farleys, who soon made me one of the family, I was able to note that the entire freshman class had been able to assemble in that garage known as Chase Theatre; and later, as the draft took its toll, I was able to see the entire student body gather there for assembly. The first assemblies I attended were held in the Great Hall of the First Presbyterian Church. In all, the student body, composed of freshmen and sophomores, as was befitting a junior college, numbered about two hundred, all local young people. As I was soon to discover, although many of the names were strange to me, all of them had their feet on the ground and knew why they were in college. Many of them had stood in bread lines with their mothers during the Great Depression, and many came from families in which one or more males worked in the mines. They were a great bunch, and I have followed their careers with pride. Dr. Farley had told me during our first telephone conversation that BUJC had been started for young people who had what it takes but who, without it, would have been unable to go to college. That I had arrived at Bucknell University Junior College was natural enough to me at that time; but since then, in looking back, the odds against it happening almost convince me that divine guidance was involved. I had completed my doctorate in June of 1941 and had been hired as Curator of Education at the Minnesota Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Minnesota, in which position for the academic year of 1941-1942 I earned the grand total of S700. Thus, the offer of S2500 a year to be a faculty member of BUJC was a tremendous opportunity; as a matter of fact, I was able to put half of my pay into war bonds back in those golden days. Having been put in IV-F draft status following Pearl Harbor and being somewhat lukewarm about a lady in Minneapolis with only faint glimmers of matrimony in mind, I realized that an annual income of S700 as Curator of Education was not going to get me very far. Thus, I entered my name with the Fisk Teachers' Agency of Chicago, who sent to the summer camp where I was a counsellor, several notices of positions during June and July of 1942. Apparently I did not understand how the Fisk system worked; and, when news of the position in Wilkes-Barre reached me, I sent Dr. Farley a post card saying I was interested. I stayed on at the camp after everyone else had left and subsisted mainly on fish which I caught and corn which I "borrowed" from the farmer's field. It was upon my return from fishing on the evening of September 10, 1942, that the farmer's son came over to the camp to tell me that Dr. Farley had telephoned. From the farm house I was unable to arouse Central so I drove to the nearest town, some five miles distant, got Central out of bed, and had my call put through to Dr. Farley. His opening sentence was, "I was cleaning out my desk this afternoon and happened to find your card. Are you still available?" Dr. Farley, having been told I was IV-F and thus "available," went on to reveal the nature of the position at Bucknell University Junior College. I was to teach the course in general zoology to sophomore majors in biology, the survey course in general biology to non-majors, the survey course in physical sciences to the non-majors, the course in hygiene to the entire student body, and to act as nominal librarian. Dr. Farley asked me if I thought I could handle that assignment. I said I could; and then, having hungup after agreeing to have Fisk send my credentials, nearly fainted. I knew I could handle the general zoology course, but the subject matter of the others was terra incognito to me. However, one week later I was in Wilkes-Barre and discovered that Bucknell University Junior College consisted of Conyngham Hall, Chase Hall, Chase Theatre, and Kirby Hall. I was soon caught up in the activities of BUJC and found Wilkes-Barre to be a pleasant place to live. On the afternoon of the day I arrived, a faculty tea was held in the living room of Chase Hall; the room was later divided to become the office of Mr. Whitby, Dean of Admissions for years. Three of us were new on the faculty at that time, including George May who was the Chemistry Department and Charles Reif, whose name appealed to Arthur Bernhardt, the Mathematics Department, because his wife's name had been May Reif. The third new teacher, William Albrecht, stayed only one semester and was succeeded, in January of 1943, by Dr. Mary Elizabeth Craig, who held forth in World Literature for many years. Others on the faculty in 1942 were Wilfred Crook in sociology, Daniel Cage in history, Paul "Pop" Gies in music, Voris B. Hall in physics, and a Miss Green who taught typing and shorthand. The Registrar in those days was George Faint, who taught a course in religion. President Farley handled a course in education. As a faculty we sat around a small table in the living room of Chase Hall, and our meetings were far less wieldy than faculty meetings in the 1970's have been. WECKESSER HALL FALL 1978 8 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY 9 �In addition to the faculty mentioned above, Bucknell University Junior College was kept afloat, just barely in those days, by the tireless efforts of two young ladies who did all the secretarial work. Marion Roberts was secretary to Dr. Farley, ran the bookstore, did registrations and schedules, and in general kept store. Carolyn Hoffa, who later became my wife, was secretary to Mr. Faint, recorder of academic records, worked the switchboard, such as it was, helped in the bookstore, sorted the mail, etc. She always had purple smears on her face because the master transcript sheets in those days were ditto masters. Also of importance to the college's cafeteria; and, as I took up my residence in Chase Hall, Mrs. Brennan kindly permitted me to use part of the refrigerator in the cafeteria. For ten dollars a month I rented two of the rooms on the third floor rear of Chase Hall. Also there, in what undoubtedly had been the maids' quarters when the residence belonged to the Stark Family, was "Pop" Gies, whose hero was J. S. Bach. We, Pop and I, not Bach, had our bathroom and shared the third floorwith the men's lounge; the only disadvantage was that some eager beaver was usually there about six in the morning to shoot pool before class began at eight. The course had such a bad reputation that I one time asked to attend a class session to see for myself what in the world Sangy did to the poor girls to get such negative reactions. I am sure that Sangy put the girls through an unusually stiff set of exercises on that occasion; but, although the girls were about to drop in their places, they did not dare "chicken out" in my presence. Nowadays, with women's sports what they are, Sangy’s eurythmics seem pretty much like "kid" stuff. Sangy also taught speech and directed the undergraduate dramatic productions which were presented in Chase Theatre. The young actors who excelled belonged to an KIRBY HALL the welfare of the students was Mrs. Genevieve Brennan who ruled the cafeteria, located in what had been the kitchen of Chase Hall, and who made a unique brand of barbeque which was a favorite with the students. Her daughter, Ellen Brennan, was the librarian de facto and had to suffer through my assignment as the nominal librarian. My first lunch on September 17,1942, was eaten at the lunch counter of In all of the above I have failed to mention Miss Norma Sangiuliano, Dean of Women, whose office was on the second floor of Chase Hall and thus not far from the women's lounge, which was at the front of the second ' floor. MissSangliuliano, affectionately called "Sangy," although that appellation was never used in her presence, taught eurythmics during which she put the young women through some strenuous contortions. exclusive organization known as the Thespians. One should also mention here that Sangy produced a spring pageant in which one of the sophomore women was crowned Queen of the May. Any presentation of the people who made BUJC would not be complete without mention of those who made up the maintenance staff: Joseph Wayman of Conyngham Hall, John Burns of Chase Hall, and Zezzie Burns of Kirby Hall. Joseph went through Conyngham Hall every day on his hand and knees, polishing the walnut woodwork, trying to keep the place looking as it did when the Conynghams were there; and it broke my heart the way the students failed to share Joseph's concern for the beautiful old building. In 1942 Conyngham Hall still had a solarium with plants and a fountain, but shortly thereafter it was changed to make way for an organic chemistry laboratory. Down in Chase Hall George Burns kept the fires going, was general factotum, grass mower, etc., while Zezzie, who was John's ex-wife (as John told it to me, "She done walk out and she never done walk back in"), cleaned both Chase and Kirby. Because I had red stamps, with which I could occasionally buy a steak, which most people were denied, I sometimes broiled a sirloin over the glowing coals of Chase Hall's furnace and then raced up the back stairway, trailing the delicious odor of the steak to my room on the third floor where I had my dinner. When I was about to marry Miss Hoffa, in 1947, John Burns advised me, gratis, "Jes' don't look back, boy. Jes' don't look back." Sometime before the faculty tea on my first Thursday at BUJC, I went up to see the quarters assigned to the Biology Department, which, incidentally, had been the sewing room of the Conyghams; and there I met Professor Roy Tasker who was packing up his personal gear to move to Lewisburg and the main campus of Bucknell University. He was very kind and showed me around but seemed especially pleased to be leaving the Junior College after serving as the biologist on board from its inception in 1936. From Professor Tasker I learned that the equipment of the Biology Department consisted of one human skelton, Miss Regina Mortis by name, ten double-nose-piece high school microscopes, and a set of general zoology slides, enough slides for a class of maybe fifteen students. The "suite," which was the Department of Biology, had, in addition to the sewing room, a former maid's bedroom as an office and space in what had been the elevator shaft for storage. From the sewing room a door opened onto a third-floor rear porch, where I ate my lunch on nice days. The front part of the third floor held the office of Arthur Bernhardt, mathematician extraordinaire, a big room, formerly the Conyngham's ballroom, in which Edward Heltzell taught an evening course in drafting, and another classroom. I soon settled into my office and with the beginning of classes discovered that by working all day and until ten o'clock each night I could stay one lesson ahead of the students. I'll never forget the first lecture I gave in hygiene. I went through all of what I had prepared in about a half an hour and nearly fainted when I realized that I still had twenty minutes to fill, somehow. But life in general at BUJC was pleasant, and I soon became acquainted with the parts of WilkesBarre I could explore on foot. I had sold my 1929 Model A Ford coupe to buy a railroad ticket to travel from Minneapolis to Wilkes-Barre and thus was without "wheels" in those days. The weekly assemblies were taken seriously by faculty and students, the speakers were worthwhile, and the entire college population had a chance to communicate. I took enough lessons in the Polish language to call the roll better. Also, in a practical matter, I learned that, when I could smell the Penn Tobacco Company's aroma in the morning, rain was sure to fall by afternoon. In the spring of 1943 an especially heavy draft call took about three quarters of the males from the student body, after which the remainder of the student body could fit into Chase Theatre. We all went over to the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station to see the "boys" off and many of the girls were in tears. That afternoon V. B. Hall asked me if I thought that was the beginning of the end of BUJC. Certainly, the continued existence of Bucknell University Junior College did seem uncertain. However, Dr. Farley did not give up anything easily, and he pulled the necessary strings to have a detachment of Pre-preflight Cadets attend the college and to "save the day." The cadets were housed in the Hotel Sterling, probably keeping that honorable establishment solvent, took their course work at BUJC, and learned how to fly Piper Cubs at the Forty Fort Airport. The cadets marched in platoons from hotel to campus and from class to class, impartially forcing anyone off the sidewalk as they stepped along, all the while calling the cadence. Woe to anyone who was caught on the sidewalk by two platoons going in opposite directions! Dr. Relf on one of those early field trips. Additional faculty were hired for some of the courses the cadets had to take and were paid twice as much as the regular faculty, who accepted overtime assignments of whatever courses they could handle. Thus it was that I taught English grammar at seven o'clock, five mornings a week, for the better part of a year until I was drafted in March of 1944. It seems that the powers that were, having put me in IV-F and having told me that I had only two years to live, had discovered that I was still alive at the end of the two years' probationary period and had decided I should be inducted into the United States Naval Reserve in which organization I was Charles B. Reif, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Apprentice Seaman. Thus came to an end my first tour of duty at Bucknell University Junior College. When I returned after the war, in June of 1946, things began to happen. But that is another story. o FALL 1978 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY 11 �A Mew Lookatthe Past, Present, & Future Dr. Daniel Goldman has several reasons to be proud of his Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Nestled in the historic confines of Chase Hall, the department is in the process of shrugging its traditional "low key" personality and making itself well known on campus and in the community. "I havethefeelingthat something good is happening in our department,” explains the chairman, whotakes pride in noting that the department “is well balanced with regard to the wide range of specialties possessed by the five-member staff.” "Our program is as complete as any top small college sociology­ anthropology program in the country. The success of our graduates in recent years indicates to us that our program is fundamentally sound and well based,” adds Goldman. Sociology is the social science that is concerned with the systematic study of human society. The term was first used more than 125 years ago to outline a new 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY discipline modeled on natural science. Sociology has had its major development in the United States during the 20th century where raising the quality of life has been a constant concern. Course offerings in Sociology at the College range from social problems and social disorganiza­ tions, such as minorities, crime, juvenile delinquency, and poverty, to family problems and also social organizations, which include the organizational aspects of societies, communities, institutions, and groups. Very closely linked to sociology is anthropology, which is the science of man and his works. Three of the main divisions of anthropology are cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, and archeology. Cultural anthropology is the study of the social life of human groups, which seeks to describe the lives and culture of people in particular social groups and develop generalizations about social patterns, social structure, and social practices found in human societies. Physical anthropology is concerned with the biological aspects of the human being. It has two major subfields, first, the study of fossil evidence through which primate evolution is reconstructed, and secondly, the study of the comparative biology of the living primates. Archeology, which is almost exclusively concerned with the past, is devoted to the systematic retrieval and the interpretation of the remains of societies or peoples in the past. Another closely allied subfield is linguistic anthropology, which is especially concerned with the relationship between the spoken language, culture, and social behavior. One of the biggest changes in the department at the College in recent years has been its approach to teaching. "We are striving to blend the reality of the world with its scientic orientation," states Dr. Goldman. For this reason, the neo-classical approach to teaching sociology, which includes theory and research, has been combined with another approach which seeks to provide students with a practical base. Goldman relates that the department has expanded its curricular spectrum, which will give the student more applied aspects of sociology. “A vast majority of our sociology majors do not go on to graduate school,” Goldman reveals. “There has been a decrease in the demand for Ph.D.’s in the field and the trend in higher education is to provide courses which offer some practicality. "As I see it, we have not lost our commitment to a liberal arts curriculum but we have become realistic in our role as educators. We must provide practical applications forthose students who enter the world after graduation. It is important to continue teaching theoretical sociology because it is needed to direct research and interpret its findings. But, at the same time, we must be sure that we meet the needs of students in today's changing world." 1 J Dr. Goldman is especially happy with the great inroads made by the College’s young Cooperative Education Program. "We're encouraging many of our seniors to spend part of theirfinal year in a professional setting. The students have the option of earning six sociology credits and six cooperative education credits, and working full-time or half-time, in a government, business, or social agency.” Forthose students desiringto enter graduate schools, the department chairman recommends sociology courses concentrating on theory, methods, and statistics. In addition to the sociology­ anthropology majors, many other Wilkes students are taking the sociology and anthropology courses to fulfill their social science core requirements. The department, according to Goldman, works closely with the nursing and Wilkes/Hahnemann programs and offers five to six sections of required sociology core courses to the students each semester. The Sociology-Anthropology Department has made significant progress in re-programming and is flexible enough to serve as service systems to other curriculum. "We are just beginning to focus on our interdisciplinary approach," offers Goldman. "As an example of this approach, the combination of environmental science and anthropology courses would give students a solid foundation fora career in cultural resource management. One of the rapidly developing occupational fields is that of gerontology, which deals with the process of aging and the problems of aged people. "Statistics tell us that the ratio of the population 65 years and older will continue to grow past the year 2000. Family problems and aging are quickly becomingourtwo major concerns," the Wilkes chairman reveals. "Different patterns of activity are emerging for the elderly of our society. The growth of retirement communities, age-segregated residential housing, senior citizen centers, and emergence of new service programs for the elderly have opened up several career opportunities for students. The College could easily develop a program in gerontology utilizing existing courses now offered in sociology, anthropology, nursing, and psychology." Enthusiasm has a habit of spawning success and Dan Goldman seems to have found the right combination in providing students a new twist to an exciting and expanding social science program. o w«is^_ .A - Vk w»y *\ ZTEEiiwim THE WRONG PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME by Eddie White III “Fate works in strange ways." Ask Wilkes College field hockey coach Gay Meyers, who got her first taste of the sport by total accident. It happened during her freshman year at Lock Haven State College. “I was attending an orientation program and happened to get mixed up with a group of girls who wanted to get out of the exercise,” she recalls. "They had to coax me to go over to the school's field hockey practice and I reluctantly went." Her life hasn't been the same since. In eight seasons at Wilkes College she has yet to taste a losing season and has put together a string of five straight Northeastern Pennsylvania Women's Inter­ collegiate Association champion­ ships. Gay Foster Meyers grew up in Uniondale, Pa., which is a "stone's throw" from Carbondale. Throughout her high school days at Forest City Regional, Gay was active in sports, especially intramurals. During her senior year, the future Wilkes coach and a sophomore friend made school history by joining the previously all-male golf team. Her friend stunned everyone and garnered the number one position, and Gay claimed the fifth varsity slot. The situation caused a furor at Forest City, prompting the athletic department to adopt a rule the next year forbidding women to participate on any male varsity team. Following graduation from high school Gay moved on to Lock Haven State where she majored in physical education. Starting field hockey from scratch, she spent her w® freshman year as the field hockey manager before winning a varsity playing spot as a sophomore. Gay also competed on the women’s varsity lacrosse team, She graduated from the Central Pennsylvania school in 1970 and immediately signed a teaching contract at Wilkes College. Included in her duties were the coaching responsibilities of the Colonel field hockey and basketball squads. It was her baptism in the coaching field. She especially remembers guiding the basketball team from 1970 through 1973. "They were some pretty tough years. Our girls were just adapting to the new five-player rule. Prior to that six players were included on a side. We were two years behind other colleges adjusting to the game and struggled.” FALL 1978 13 �While enduring the pangs in basketball, Wilkes followers could sense a sudden upsurge with the field hockey program. Her squad went 5-3 that first year and the first coaching victory was a 5-1 triumph over rival Misericordia. As the years went by, the field hockey schedule was steadily strengthened with tougher opponents. Coach Meyers was to enjoy her highest single season win total in 1975 when her charges responded with a 9-4-3 effort. Along with the showing was a second consecutive NPWIAA title and a fourth place finish at the Middle Atlantic Conference Field Hockey Tournament, which was hosted by Wilkes College. The team showed an 8-4 performance in 1976 and registered a 7-5-1 mark last season. This year her squad had to overcome a lack of depth at several positions to finish with an 8-4-4 overall record. Included in the list of team achievements were a fifth NPWIAA crown in a row and a MAC Northern Division championship. Unfortunately, they were foiled by the Southern Division power Franklin & Marshall in the subsequent MAC playoffs. According to the successful coach and teacher, "the most satisfying team was this year's unit. This was supposed to be a rebuilding | year for us, and these girls worked very hard to achieve a championship season." Fan support has also been on the upswing. "Once we were lucky to have three mothers, a father, and a husband at a game,” she notes with a smile. "This year this has multiplied into large crowds and the media coverage has almost equalled that of the football team.” For the future she is content to stay at Wilkes. "I love it here and will remain as long as they want me,” she adds. If there has been one drawback in coaching at a small college it has been in recruiting where "most girls are interested in going to the larger schools where scholarships are plentiful." Another high preference for high school graduates is a major in physical education. "We don’t have a major in physical education af Wilkes,” she said. “The curriculum for most disciplines at the College is demanding and many of our recruits have decided to concentrate on their studies rather than participate in field hockey." 1378-73 WINTER SPORTS SCHEDULES BASKETBALL Coach: Rodger Bearde Assistant Coach: Clarence Ozgo Var. Jv. (a) 8:00 6:00 Nov. 30 Dela. Valley Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. 2 FDU-Madison 4 E. Stroudsburg 7 King's 12 Lycoming Jan. 5-6 Wilkes Tourney Jan. 10 Kean College Jan. 13 Moravian Jan. 15 Phila. Textile Jan. 17 Albright Jan. 20 Scranton Jan. 22 Elizabethtown Jan. 24 King’s Jan. 27 Delaware Valley Jan. 31 Susquehanna Feb. 3 Feb. 7 Feb. 10 Feb. 12 Feb. 15 Feb. 17 Feb. 19 Feb. 23 Lycoming Scranton FDU-Madison Lock Haven Elizabethtown Juniata Bloomsburg MAC SWIMMING: Dec. 2 Dec. 5 Dec. 9 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Coach: Sandra Bloomberg Assistant Coach: Sharon Wilkes Nov. 29 Lafayette (a) 7:00 F& M Baptist Bible King's Marywood (h) (h) (h) (a) 2:00 7:00 6:30 8:00 (a) (h) (a) (h) 8:30 6:30 8:15 6:30 8:00 6:15 8:00 Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. (h) (a) (h) (a) (h) (h) (h) (h) (h) (h) 8:00 8:00 6:30 8:15 9:00 1:30 8:00 6:30 8:00 6:15 8:00 8:00 Jan. 12-14 Jan. 18 Jan. 20 Jan. 23 Jan. 25 Jan. 27 Jan. 29 Jan. 31 King’s/Marywd./Drew Albright Upsala Keystone Scranton Dela. Valley Kutztown Susquehanna (h) (h) (a) (h) (h) (h) (a) (a) 6:30 2:00 7:00 7:00 6:00 6:30 6:30 (a) (a) (h) (a) (a) (a) (a) 3:00 8:15 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Muhlenberg Scranton Bloomsburg LCCC Lycoming Elizabethtown Juniata (h) (a) (h) (li) (a) (a) (a) 6:30 2:00 6:00 2:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 1:15 6:15 6:30 6:15 2 5 7 9 2 3 5 10 13 15 17 Var. Jv. Nov. 18 Nov. 30 Dec. 3 Dec. 6 Dec. 9 Dec. 11 Jan. 7 Jan. 13 Jan. 17 Jan. 18 Jan. 20 Jan. 23 Jan. 25 Jan. 27 Jan. 31 Feb. 3 Feb. 6 Feb. 8 Feb. 10 Feb. 11 Feb. 14 Feb. 17 Feb. 24 Mar. 8 Alumni Exhib. York Binghamton Invit. Lehigh Navy/Yale/N.C. Tennessee Southern Trip Boston/Syracuse Dela. Valley Montclair S. Conn. Penn State Elizabethtown Lycoming Binghamton Hofstra E. Stroudsburg Rutgers Steven's Trade N.C. State Bucknell F&M EIWA (Princeton) NCAA (Iowa St.) (h) (a) (a) (h) (a) (h) (a) (a) (h) (h) (h) (a) (h) (a) (h) (h) (a) (a) (h) (h) (h) (a) (a) (a) 8:00 1:00 8:00 8:00 1:00 7:00 8:00 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 6:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 6:30 7:30 6:00 2:00 2:00 8:00 2:00 2:00 4:00 2:00 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Jan. 20 Swathmore Jan. 24 Lycoming Jan. 27 V/. Maryland (h) (h) (a) 2:00 4:00 2:00 Feb. 3 Lycoming Feb. 7 King's Feb. 14 Binghamton Feb. 23 MAC (a) (a) (h) 3:00 7:00 4:00 FOOTBALL overall record: 4-5 10 9 Delaware Valley 8 41 Lycoming 10 111 20 Upsala 7 38 Bloomsburg St. 7 27 Western Maryland —I 6 24 Albright — 29 9 Madison FDU > 14 10 Juniata 37 0 Susquehanna CO ¥ SOCCER overall record: 4-10 CROSS COUNTRY overall record: 8-5 WOMEN’S TENNIS overall record: 1-12 WOMEN’S FIELD HOCKEY overall record: 8-4-4 Northeastern Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Women's Athletic Association champions Middle Atlantic Conference Northern Division Champions thegsHHw^ WRESTLING Coach: John G. Reese Assistant Coach: Timothy McGinley COACH: ATTY. F. CHARLES PETRILLO Ursinus (a) Dickinson (h) Lock Haven (Wm. Only) (a) Wilkes College is a “family thing” for Gay and her husband and chief supporter, Jack, who is director of Continuing Education and Graduate Studies at the College. They have a three-year-old daughter, Lea, who is a frequent visitor to the coed athletic events. The sports season doesn't end in the fall for Gay, who returned to her two-sport coaching role in 1977, helping to organize the sixth Wilkes women's varsity sport, softball. In a short span of time Gay Meyers has gained the respect of her coaching peers, fans, and more importantly the many fine athletes that she has coached. Painted wooden head representing Tutankhamon as young boy. The head emerges from a lotus flower. SORDONI GALLERY ACTIVE The Sordoni Art Gallery has hosted several outstanding exhibits since the last issue of the “Quarterly” including the w'orks of Franz Kline, internationally known artist who was born in WilkesBarre; Joseph Domjan, master of the woodcut; and Annie Bohlin, Wilkes-Barre Area textile designer. Some of the exhibits scheduled for the upcoming months include Collector's Choice, a variety of art works from the private collections of Wyoming Valley owners, December 15 through January 7; Regional Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit, February 10 through March 4; and “The Eight,” selected paintings of eight artists, March 9 through April 1. One of the highlights of the year for art devotees is the scheduled trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 22 to view the "Treasures of Tutankhamon." The eight buses will leave Wilkes-Barre from the Wyoming Valley Mall. The tour will begin at 9 a.m. and last approximately one hour. The trip is sponsored by the Sordoni Gallery. Richard Fuller, a member of the art faculty, presented a slide­ lecture highlighting the "Treasures of Tutankhamon.” Fuller, his wife Cheryll, and their children spent a year at the Schutz American School in Alexandria, Egypt. While there, the Fullers had an opportunity to tour the ancient tombs and temples in the “Valley of the Kings." Q Juliette Epstein, a member of the advisor/ board of the Sordoni Gallery, is shown with a piece from the Franz Kline exhibit. FALL 1978 �Attention Wilkes Alumni HI An Alumni reception is planned to coincide with the EIWA Wrestling Tournament — Princeton, N.J. — on Saturday evening, February 24, 1979, at the Nassau Inn, Princeton. For more details call or write the Alumni Relations Office, (717) 824-4651 Ext. 207. PATRICIA PETRASH ANZIULEWICZ ’56 received a B.S. in business with a major in accounting and computer science from Bluefield State College on June 3. 1978. Two Wilkes graduates received advanced degrees in May from Rutgers University. CAROLE LOWANDE DEDDY ’74 of Far Hills, N.J. received a master’s degree in education, and JOHN GBUR '66 of North Plainfield, N.J. was awarded an M.B.A. degree. JOHN V. GIOCCA ’76 and MICHAEL G. STAMBAUGH ’75 received master of science degrees from the Graduate School of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. LIONEL GREEN '74 is group internal auditor with the Industrial Specialties Group of Dresser Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa. ^©wfiwsiIL Q^e jUtss QJouf Over the past few years some of our graduates have given us the slip. Like concerned uncles and aunts we would be delighted to hear from you again. If any alumni can help us in our search, please drop a line with the addresses of our missing nieces and nephews to the Wilkes College Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. William G. Cain *52, Kathy Louise Calhoun '71, Joseph R. Callahan ’46, Paul A. Callahan '48, Paul Richard Callary '73, Peter Calo, Jr. '67, Harry Leonard Campbell '39, Bernard Francis Carey ’51, Joyce Linda Carlin '63, Mrs. Richard Carnright (Eleanor T. Gorzkowski) '47, Mrs. Richard Carothers (Marjorie Mattern) '63, Mrs. Margaret Mary Carr (Margaret Mary Rowlands) '64, Robert S. Carter '37, Edward Casey '53, Marguerite A. Casey '50, Richard F. Casper '39, Louis Barry Gatina '71, Fredrick Donald Catlin '51, Raymond Michael Cava '53, Nathaniel M. Cavallini '62, Thomas A. Cebula '68, John Michael Cefaly '70, Martin J. Celnick '56, Paul David Cera '57, Robert Newman Chamberlain '62, Samuel M. Chambliss '50, Rui Ying Mick Chan '71, Raymond Francis Cherpak '62, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Cherrie '52 ’52 (Romayne H. Gromelski), Silvio A. Chiavacci '54, Anthony C. Chiarucci '70, Gary Arthur Christian '72, Patricia Christoff '72, Peter W. Chu '68, Soo Chui Chung '59, Won R. Chung '71, Frank Ciaio '61, Ronald D. Cipriani '65, Robert Edward Clark '59, Mrs. Gary Clarke (Janice Wylam) '63, Carroll Adma Cobbs '68, Thomas J. Coburn '49, Frank Ralph 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY WILLIAM H. TREMA YNE ’57 has been promoted to vice president in the public affairs department of Prudential Insurance Co., Newark. Bill resides with his wife, Lora, and three children in Piscataway, New Jersey. NANCY RODDA TOPOLEWSKI ’75 was ordained a Presbyterian minister at ceremonies on which her husband, John, a Methodist minister, participated. Nancy is minister of the Ashley Presbyterian Church, Ashley, Pa. MARY BETH FISHER CLARK ’73 and ANNETTE EGGLESTON DAVIS ’72 were awarded master's degrees in education at the Penn State University Capital Campus in June. DONNA KUMIEGA KWAK ’77 is an assistant manager of Continental Bank, Phoenix, Arizona. JOHN J. LOFTUS ’50 is on the board of directors of Republic Steel, and will serve as an executive vice president of the corporation. cAfomni [ cAlotes ROBERT G. QUMEL ’75 received a master’s degree in psychology from Marywood College, and is a school psychologist for the Northeastern Intermediate Unit of Pennsylvania. NICHOLAS BABISH ’75 is district manager of the National Corporation for Housing Partnerships at Sacramento, California. MARY KROGULSKI ’78 is a math teacher with the Virginia Beach City Public Schools. ROZANNE M. SANDRI ’69 was awarded a doctor of philosophy degree at the spring commencement of the Johns Hopkins University. BARRY A WARNER ’74 and DAVID A. THOMAS ’68 received doctor of osteopathy degrees from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in June. JOSEPH c. MENDL ’69 is a salesman Pa^T “T SomPany. Pittsburgh. Pa. Lee-Norse sells heavy equipment for deep coal mines. KNE’SS ’76 13 an environmental health specialist with the Allegheny County Department of Health Pittsburgh. Pa. DONALD P. LENIO ’63 is director of engineering services at Moses Taylor Hospital, Scranton. Pa. SANDRA BIBER DIDNER '61 is charge nurse on a coronary care floor at Saint Mary's Hospital in Passaic, N.J. Sandra resides with her husband, David, and three sons in Spring Valley, N.Y. IB Utt IRibbnn (0n Wg ifflittb The South River Street Revival was compiled by Vesta Breakstone of the Alumni Relations Office. The Information contained In the Alumni Notes was received between June 17,1978 and October 18,1978. Please send news contributions to: Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18703. Cognetti '64, Mrs. Roberta Shefsky Cohen '68, Fred Cohn '56, Mrs. Renee Schainuck Cohn '46, Barbara P. Collins '67, Iris L. Collins '65, Mrs. Marie Ruddy Collins '56, Robert C. Collins '48, Angelo J. Collura '51. William S. Connelly '61, John E. Cook '61, Edith Cooper ’48, Madeline B. Cooper '51, Mrs. Mimi VasKorlis Cooper '62, Barbara Corcoran '69, Nora Lee Corcoran '72, Donald H. Covey '56, David R. Cowan '67, Thomas P. Cowell '63, Andrea Crease '62, Joseph V. Cresko '54, Mr. & Mrs. Willard E. Crimmins '54 '54 (Jessie Louise), Edward M. Crossin '56, Charles F. Crowe '37, Mrs. Anna Doberstein Cumberland '44, John J. Cupani '67, Joseph T. Curley '42, William J. Curley '50, Alexander Curnow '38, Mrs. Janet Burgess Cusick '53, Theodore Cybulski '43, Joan Czoch '72 HARRIS TOBIAS ’64 is owner-manager of two natural food stores in central Vermont. Have you seen the Pabst beer commercial featuring the powerfully built weightlifter? Well, if you have, you have seen fellow Wilkes College alumnus Frank Zane ’64. Zane is shown In the left photo as he appeared during the filming of the commercial. Since graduating from the College with a degree in secondary education, Frank has gone on to set his mark in International body building circles. Zane, a native of Edwardsville, Pa. and now a resident of Santa Monica, Cal., is a celebrity in international body building having held the title of “Mr. Universe" and "Mr. America." Ironically, the person who wrote the commercial was none other than Mike Robertson '69. Mike, a writer/supervisor on the Pabst account, works for Young & Rubicam Inc., New York. Robertson is shown standing in the right photo, second from the right (tan sweater). Another twist of irony was the fact that neither Zane nor Robertson had any knowledge of the fact that either was a Wilkes graduate until months later. (Photos courtesy of Young & Rubicam) ROY GETZOFF '72 received an M.S. in administration and supervision from Nova University. DR. DEREK ANDREINI '72 is a resident in orthropedic surgery at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. PAULETTE SLAVINSKAS WEINRICH '71 is a field examiner with the National Labor Relations Board in Brooklyn. N.Y. GIACOMINA BUZZELLI BACON ’77 is a teacher at the School of the New Covenant in Waterbury. Conn. She resides with her husband, KARL 76, at 234 North Walnut Street. Waterbury. VELMA A. SCHIFANO '76 received a master's degree in public administration from Marywood College. HELEN KOELSCH NIELSEN '55 received her master's degree in human development from Fairleigh Dickinson University. CAROL ANN ZIOMEK ’72 earned her doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University, and is the recipient of a twoyear post-doctoral fellowship awarded by the American Cancer Society. ANDREW J. GUBANICH '71 is manager of outside reporting at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, Pa. PATRICIA HAYDT NITCHIE ’68 was admitted to the practice of law by the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Pat resides with her husband, Peter, in Arlington, Virginia, and is employed by the U.S. Department of Labor. DAVID KRYPEL '76 received his master's degree in psychology from Marywood College. JOHN WASKOWSKY '75 is manager of the showroom of Jewelcor Jewelers and Distributors, West Palm Beach, Florida. DR. SAMUEL C. MINES ’57 is chief of Allergy at several Pittsburgh area hospitals. CHARLES S. BUTLER ’59 is a subcontract administrator with RCA Communications Systems Division in Camden, New Jersey. THOMAS J. WEISKERGER '66 is an assistant vice president in the commercial loan department of Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia, Pa. REV. JAMES E. WYNN ’69 is a member of the board of the youth counsel of N.A.A.C.P., and chairman of the board of directors at a Gerri Care Center in Camden, New Jersey. DR. CARL F. POLNASZEK ’66 is a research chemist at the Veterans Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. JERRY MOHN ’63 is a vice president in the Industrial Products Division of Kocide Chemical Corporation, Houston, Texas. Jerry and his wife, the former ROWENA SIMMS ’63, live at 310 Fawnlake, Houston. R. WAYNE WALTERS ’59 is a founder and resident conductor of the Morris Choral Society, and choral director of Lafayette Junior High School, Morristown, New Jersey. MARIO E. LIZZI '50 received his master’s degree in computer science from Fairleigh Dickinson University. CHARLES ROUSH, DI ’68 is eastern regional sales manager for Rexnord, Inc., Paramus, Nev/ Jersey. Chuck and his wife, the former SHARON SCHRADER '68, live in Ridgewood with their two children. RICHARD MEEDRICH '50 has been promoted to director of tax operations for the Bureau of Employment Security, Harrisburg, Pa. CONT. ON PG. 20 FALL 1978 17 �tJ I. IB WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY SSI FALL 1978 19 �BARBARA TALKOWSKI BELLUCCI ’69 is an assistant director of the Act 101 program at King’s College. WILLIAM PUCILOWSKY ’64 is an associate professor of drama at Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pa. PATRICK SWEENEY ’73 is employed by the U.S. General Accounting Office in Anchorage, Alaska, where he resides with his wife, Linda. EDWARD ZADJURA ’73 is working with the House Appropriations Committee to serve on the Investigation and Survey staff for one year, having been "loaned” from his regular job in the U.S. General Accounting Office. Ed and his wife. Melody, reside in Lanham, Maryland. RICHARD O. BURNS ’64 is a member of the law firm of Schurr and Burns, P.C., Spring Valley, New York. Richard resides with his wife, Linda, and children, Marc, Lisa, and Susan, at 140 Waters Edge, Congers, N.Y. LCDR ROGER D. BREWER ’68 is head of Security Group Activity on the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy. He and his family are residing temporarily in Italy. WILLIAM R. WATKINS ’68 is chairman of the membership committee of the Allentown Center City Association. Bill also is office manager of Junior Colony, Inc., Allentown, Pa., where he resides. JOHN R. MINDZAK ’77 has been commissioned a navy ensign, following completion of a 19 week course at the Naval Education and Training Center, Newport, Rhode Island. DR. RICHARD C. BELT AS ’62 is serving at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, with the Logistics Command Unit. MARGARET BENDOCK TOWERS ’38 is an information specialist in the Public Relations Department of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Delaware. A son, Gregory, was born on April 13, 1978, to JAMES '73 and CATHERINE LANE CASTELLANI ’73. The couple also has a son, Aldo. James is assistant­ director in casualty underwriting for the Hartford Insurance Group in Newington, Connecticut, where the family resides. DIANE MARIE POLACHEK ’78 is a French teacher at Wyoming Seminary Day School, Forty Fort, Pa. DAVID GREGROW '78 is an assistant wrestling coach at Lake Lehman High School, Lehman, Pa. PAUL DOMOWITCH ’76, a sports feature columnist for the Fort Worth StarTelegram, was honored by the Texas Sports Writers Association with a thirdplace finish in the "column’' category in the association’s 26th annual contest in Texas. ALFRED S. GROH ’41 has been appointed director of cultural activities at Wilkes College. DR. ANDREW SHAW, JR. ’58 has been elected president of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). WAYNE SITTNER ’68, who is a teacher in the public schools of Kingston, New York, recently had a showing of his watercolors at the Sterling Inn Towne of Wilkes-Barre. DR. SUSAN M. KRISCHUNIS ’78 is a resident in family medicine at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pa. Her sister, JOANN L. KRISCHUNIS ’78, is attending Temple University Graduate School in Philadelphia. STEVEN S. PARADISE ’65 is vice president of the Nassau County Association of Independent Insurance agents, and was appointed to the educational committee of the New York State Association of Independent Insurance agents. Steve and his wife, the former JANE KLEIN ’66, reside at 128 Lincoln Boulevard, Merrick, New York, “It’s a Bird, cjUeiv ' BONNIE BROWN O’NETTI. ’66 is a mathematics instructor at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa. Bonnie resides in Forty Fort with her husband, Edmund, and three children. LARRY ASSALITA '78 and LEONARD VEKKOS '78 are attending the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia. DR. ALBERT E. STOFKO ’68 has opened an office at the South Main Tower Building in Wilkes-Barre for the practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery. Albert resides in Laflin with his wife, Alice, and their three children. A son was born on March 2, 1978, to EUGENE '77 and LINDA GOODMAN ALBRIGHT '74. Eugene is an accountant with the General Electric Company in Atlanta, Georgia, where the family resides. A son, Daryl Colby, was born on June 10, 1978, to Thomas and SUSAN CONNER MORRIS ’69. The couple also has another son, Evan, and the family resides in Richmond, Virginia. A daughter, Jill Elisabeth, was born on June 13, 1978, to John and BEVERLY SHAMUN CAREY ’68. Beverly is a parttime instructor at Trenton State College, and the family resides at 10 Manor House Drive, Ewing Township, New Jersey. They also have two other children, Jennifer Beth, and John Joseph. It’s a Plane, It’s Foleskie” by Jane Manganella Since the discovery of caves at Lascaux, France, it has been an accepted fact that man, given a blank surface, is incapable of resisting the urge to express himself. For the caveman it was charcoal. The pre­ schooler uses the crayon while countless others resort to grafitti. Latest to join the club is Steve Poleskie ’59, who utilizes a 720-pound airplane, to write on a surface he can’t resist . . . the sky. ATTY. DONALD D. McFADDEN ’56 has been elected to a three year term on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association. EDWARD J. CONNORS ’72 has been promoted to assistant investment officer at the United Penn Bank, Wilkes-Barre. Ed and his wife, Maryann, are residents of West Pittston, Pa. A daughter, Carrie Elizabeth, was born on May 5, 1978, to Jessie and ROBERT ADAMS '74. Bob is associated with the treasurer’s office of E-Systems in Dallas, Texas, where the family is residing. Poleskie, a dare-devil stunt pilot, uses a small biplane, a Pitts Special, as a pencil to create extraordinary works of art with billowing white smoke in the sky. Poleskie refers to them as “the largest, most short-lived, impermanent sculptures.” Those who have seen his performance agree that they are indeed short-lived, but memorable. That they are memorable is understandable since the artist is not a run-of-the-mill stunt pilot but an art professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. He is an artist whose works are included in some of the most prestigious galleries and museums in the United States. A daughter, Robin Kay, was born on July 12, 1978, to Frank and SUSAN HIMELFARB MURPHY ’71. The Murphys reside at 119 Bower Street, Linden, New Jersey. “I started by doing landscapes in New York in the early 1960’s,” he remembers, “but then went to Ithaca and took to flying, it was something that I had wanted to do since childhood. My landscapes developed an aerial aspect and when I started stunt flying, the landscapes got scrambled. Finally, I realized it was the action of the plane that I wanted to record.” What emerged is the art form that is his, alone. Poleskie starts by doing comprehensive drawings of the designs he will execute in flight. Basically, he plans by putting down on paper the intricate movements that the plane will have to make to draw the piece. Many times he takes advantage of the wind and other factors to create as he flies. Spectators remember Steve’s plane as clearly as they remember his sculptures. From the ground, the craft looks like a "beautiful iridescent dragonfly” with only a 17-foot wingspan, weighing a mere 720 pounds, and doing unbelievable maneuvers at less than 1000 feet in the air. During some of these maneuvers Poleskie is taking six or seven negative or positive "G" forces. Positive "G’s” practically push you through the seat causing grayouts because of the blood being pushed out of the head. Negative “G’s” do just the opposite and cause red-outs due to the blood rushing into the head. A daughter, April Mae, was born on May 7, 1978, to Matthew and ANDREA BOGUSKO YORKONIS ’74. Andrea is the propietor of the Bogusko Music Company in Wilkes-Barre. According to the artist-pilot, “When you start seeing pink and the top of your head gets warm, it is time to ease off." Despite all the skill required In flying, almost his entire concentration is spent on the art itself. His fleeting, flawless designs attest to this. Poleskie sent his plane to Texas to be rebuilt In 1974. But when he arrived to pick It up he discovered that the company had gone bankrupt and his biplane was in pieces all over town. Undaunted, he rented a house, furnished with one lone table, lived on practically nothing, and proceeded to rebuild it himself. “It was a worthwhile experience,” he looked back. “I built it, I maintain it, and I know every screw in it. Sometimes everything comes down to a quarter-inch screw which has to take the whole load. My life depends on whether it holds or not and I feel better because I know I put it there.” Linda Meyers, a graphic designer from Ithaca, after seeing his last performance had this to say in an article. “It is a high energy art form, and it leaves the viewer feeling that something genuinely fresh and exciting is happening.” Indeed the work of Steve Poleskie is something fresh, exciting, and unique. A son, Kory Shayle, was born on August 2, 1978, to Charlet and JOSEPH E. KIEFER ’68. Joseph is teacher and head varsity soccer coach for the Pennsbury Schools, Fallsington, Pa. The Kiefers reside in Fairless Hills with their two other children, Joseph and Shayne Kip. A son, Christopher John, was born on August 12, 1978, to Donald and MARILYN BURNS DELANEY ’76. The family resides at 2012 Esquire Road, Richmond, Virginia. A son, Gregory, was born June 1, 1978 to Janice and BERNARD RILEY '71. The family resides in Dallas, Pa. uUa/t/tiages SHERYL C. PRETE '78 and David L. Siergiej were recently married. Sheryl is employed by Fashion Bug, Wyoming Valley Mall, and the couple resides in West Nanticoke, Pa. __ EDWARD WALLISON, JR. '78 Doris E. Guss were recently married. Ed is a student at Notre Dame University Law School, and the couple is residing at University Village, Notre Dame, Indiana. FALL 1978 20 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY 21 �MARILYN D. GOODSIR ’73 and Stephen Crispell were recently married. Marilyn is a marketing instructor at Wilkes-Barre Area Vocational-Technical School. SUZANNE FISCHER ’78 and RAYMOND B. OSTROSKI ’76 were married on June 3, 1978. Ray is employed by Chicago Title Insurance and Trust Company as a marketing director, and Suzanne is a registered nurse at Clarks Summit State Hospital. The couple resides at 486 S. Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre. JOSEPH R. BARTELL 72 was recently married to Roseann Chupka. Josepha guidance counselor at the Middle Sc South of the Wyoming Area School District, Wyoming, Pa., where the couple resides. NANCY L. NOTERMAN '68 and Thomas J. Downing were recently married. Nancy is a claims adjuster for Nationwide Insurance Company, York, Pa., and the couple is residing in the Gettysburg area. DIANE DAWN SIMENSKY '78 was recently married to Stephen Burnett. Diane is employed by American Career Personnel in Wilkes-Barre. JOANNE ENGLOT '77 and Brian Kawczenski were recently married. Ioanna is a management trainee in the comptroller's department of First Eastern Bank, and the couple resides in Wilkes-Barre. THOMAS E. EVANS '69 was recently wed to Jayne Thoma. Tom is a computer programmer with Pennsylvania Millers Mutual, and the couple is residing in Trucksville, Pa. MICHELINE MADEY '71 was recently wed to Gerard Lupien. Micheline is a registered nurse in the coronary care unit at the Springfield Division of Baystate Medical Center, and the couple is residing in West Springfield, Mass. KATHERINE MUNSON '71 and James G. Canterbury were recently married. Kathy is a teacher in the Northwest Area School District, and the couple is residing in Wilkes-Barre. MATTHEW WOTHERSPOON, JR. ’73 and Donna Crawford were recently married. Matthew is self employed as a title abstractor in Wilkes-Barre, and the couple is residing at the Newberry Estates, Dallas, Pa. JANET MARKOWITZ '75 and PAUL MACIK '76 were married on June 4. 1978, at American University in Washington, D.C. Janet is working at the Association of American Medical Colleges, and Paul is employed as a microbiologist by the American Type Culture Collection in Rockville. The Maciks reside in Aspen Hill, Maryland. JOSEPH J. TOMASHEFSKI, JR. ’76 and Marilyn Dembowski were recently married. Joseph is with the manager trainee program of Hess’s Department Store. GEORGE M. BARNARD, ID ’78 was recently married to Nancy Popielarz. George is associated with the Commonwealth Telephone Company, and the couple is residing in Kingston, Pa. ROBERT EDGERTON '75 was recently married to Lisi Schellenberg. Robert is associated with the United Penn Bank of Wilkes-Barre. DIANA F. GREGORY ’73 and Ronald Finstad were recently married. Diana is a computer programmer for Allstate Insurance Company, and the couple resides in Wheeling, Illinois. DOREENE PSIKUS ’76 and Marc Gonick were recently married. Doreene is with the Westborough Jr. High School in the music department, and the couple is residing in Randolph, Mass. MARK M. CIO CCA ’76 was recently married to Sharon Jiunta. Mark is a distribution center manager with Metropolitan Wire, Inc., in Chicago, Illinois. NICHOLAS COSTANZO ’73 and Kathleen Price were recently married in Nanticoke, Pa. NORMA A. VOYTON ’77 and Walter G. Janoski were recently married. Norma is a registered nurse at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital in the surgical intensive care unit. HARRIET SMITH ’78 and Philip Rabinowitz were recently married. Harriet is a placement counselor for the Lawrence Employment Agency, New York City, and the couple is residing in Rego Park, New York. GEORGE JOHN SICK ’68 was recently married to Carole Grandy. George is employed by Hershey Foods, and the couple resides in Hershey, Pa. LARINDA L. DYSON ’75 and NEIL M. KAUFER ’78 were recently married. Larinda is an elementary teacher with the Tunkhannock Area School District, and Neil is employed at Lieb Brothers Packing Company, Pittston. The couple is residing at 10 South Dawes Avenue, Kingston, Pa. 22 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY CARL SGARLAT '77 and Juliette Pillarella were recently married. Carl is an executive with the Airport Sand and Gravel Company, Inc., Wyoming, Pa. HELEN MIDDAUGH '76 was recently married to David Seferyn, and the couple resides in Mountaintop, Pa. Eliud Wachira Kabungo, a 1965 Wilkes College alumnus, and his wife, Mary, recently visited the Wilkes College campus bearing gifts. Kabungo, principal of the Railroad Training School of Kenya Railways, Nairobi, Kenya, presented the college with an impressive native MaKonde carving. The ebony carving represents the thoughts of a tribesman and deals with family life within the tribe. Shown admiring the carving are, from left — Kabungo, Wilkes President Robert S. Capin, and Mrs. Kabungo. MARY THERESA KERN ’78 and Robert W. Reynolds were recently married. Mary is a secretary at Owens-Illinois, and the couple resides at Oakwood Park, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. GAYLE M. YANOSHAK ’70 and Robert B. Miles, Jr. were wed recently. Gayle is coordinator of Kiddie World Child Development Centers, Inc., Laurel, and the couple is residing in Severn, Maryland. MAUREEN M. KOCYLOWSKI ’77 was recently married to Daniel T. Morris, Jr. Maureen is a registered nurse on the medical-surgical staff of Mercy Hospital, Wilkes-Barre. The couple is residing on Second Avenue, Kingston. Pa. ANNE DOROTHEA AGOLINO ’72 and Raymond Wasko were recently married. Anne is a music teacher at the Wyoming Area School District, and the couple is residing in West Pittston, Pa. ANN MARIE GRUZDAS '77 and Carey Piragus were recently married. Ann Marie is employed by Samters, Wyoming Valley Mall, Wilkes-Barre. DONNA WASELEWSKI '77 was recently married to Robert Reilly. Donna is a nurse at Valley Crest, Wilkes-Barre. PAULA GILBERT '70 and Dr. Daniel Gray were recently married. Paula is employed in sales promotion and training at Applied Data Research, Inc. The couple resides at the Hunters Glen Apartments. Plainsboro, New Jersey. DEBORAH LEWIS ’78 and John Delescavage, Jr. were recently married. The couple is residing in Exeter, Pa. GARY WILLIAMS ’73 and Ann Marie Batt were recently married. Gary is a secondary teacher in the Greater Nanticoke Area School District, and the couple is residing in Wanamie, Pa. JOSEPH T. CHMIOLA ’77 was recently married to Mary Ann Woss. Joe is a fidelity-surety underwriter with the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, and the couple resides in New Cumberland, Pa. DARLINE SNYDER ’78 and Carl Moyer were recently married. Darline is employed by Esjay Distributors Incorporated, and the couple is residing at 395 Andover Street, Wilkes-Barre. SALLY ANN CHUPKA ’75 and Ronald Ciolak were recently married. The couple is residing in Kingston, Pa. f J ANDREA MAHALLY '76 and David Danilack were recently married. The couple resides in Wilkes-Barre where Andrea is a computer programmer with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. BARBARA WRAZEN '74 was recently married to Michael Razler. The couple resides at 1970 New Rodgers Road, Racket Club East. Levittown, Pa. LAUREN HARRIS '74 and Michael Grego were recently married. Lauren is secretary of the Wilkes College Alumni Association, and is a reading specialist with the Mifflin Comity School District, Lewistown, Pa. DEBORAH CONDO '78 was recently married to Thomas Bonn. Deborah is employed by St. Stanislaus Medical Care Center in Sheatown, Pa., and the couple resides in Wilkes-Barre. CYNTHLL GLAWE '78 and Peter Mailloux were recently married. Cynthia « a registered nurse at Bon Secours Hospital, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. ANN SHARKEY '78 and STEVEN ESRICK T1 were recently married. Steve attends Georgetown Medical School, and Ann is attending Catholic University, studying for a master s degree in microbiology. EDWARD BEORIS '75 was recently married to Kathryn Hibbard. Ed is employed by the Exxon Corporation, U.S.A. WANDA VNUK '77 and Thomas Ghirkot were recently married. Wanda is a registered medical tecnologist at Community Medical Center, Scranton, and the couple resides in Nanticoke, Pa. SHIRLEY MICHAELS ’74 and Franklin Micnicoski were recently married. Shirley is employed at Retreat State Hospital, and the couple resides in Duryea, Pa. TINA FALCONE ’78 and JAMES STEHLE ’77 were recently married. Tina is a member of the faculty of Pittston Area School District, and James is a professional baseball player with the San Diego Padres. During the fall and winter seasons, he is employed by Falcone Beverage Company, Pittston, Pa. ROBERT MATLEY *73 was recently married to Gertrude Drake. Bob is an assistant cashier in the commercial loan division at United Penn Bank, and he is also attending Wilkes in pursuit of a master’s degree in business administration. CAROL KESTER ’70 and CLIFTON DUNGEY ’74 were recently married. Carol is a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove, Illinois, and Cliff is in the engineering department of the Environmental Inpact Study Division of Argonne National Laboratories. DONNA SMITH ’77 and HAROLD LEWIS ’76 were wed recently. Harold is employed by the Pennsylvania Economy League Incorporated, and the couple resides in Lee Park, Hanover Township, Pa. LINDA GOSS ’78 was recently married to David Bell, and the couple is residing in West Nanticoke, Pa. DONALD REESE ’71 and Donna Hirko were recently married. Don is employed by Girard CoUege, Philadelphia, where the couple is residing. RUTH SHARKUS ’72 was recently married to Andrew Wnuk. The couple is residing in Kingston, Pa. VINCENT SPLENDIDO, JR. ’75 and Erin Yerashunas were recently married.. Vince is employed as a medical technologist at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. q memonam LOUIS F. PISANESCHI '68, of 5105 Shore Acres Road, Madison, Wisconsin, died on August 7, 1978, at the age of 37. Louis was a Coughlin High School graduate, and received his B.A. degree in Psychology from Wilkes in 1968. He was manager of the Wisconsin Capital Division of the American Red Cross Chapter Headquarters in Madison. Louis is survived by his mother, the former Helen Shyner, Wilkes-Barre; brother, Adolph; and sister, Mrs. Joseph Peck. MARGUERITE M. COLLINS ’68, of 345 Rutter Avenue, Kingston, Pa., died on August 11, 1978. Marguerite received her B.A. degree in History from Wilkes in 1968, and was close to receiving her master’s degree. She was a social studies teacher at West Side Area VocationalTechnical School. Surviving are daughters, Diane, New York City; Barbara, Kingston; son, H. Schuyler, Boston; and mother, Esther Marianelli, Kingston. DR. WALTER E. PLUTO ’41, of 3041 Altoona Road, Bethlehem, Pa., died on August 13, 1978. Walter received his B.S. degree from Wilkes College in 1941, and graduated from Temple University School of Dentistry in Philadelphia. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Helen Komorofski, Nanticoke, Pa.; daughters, Mrs. Charlene Levine, New York City; and Patrice, at home. ATTORNEY JAMES D. SHEPHERD ’49, of Camp Hill, Pa., died on October 2, 1978, at the age of 53. James received his B.A. degree from Wilkes in 1949, and also was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was employed as a liaison officer by PennDOT, Harrisburg, Pa. He is survived by sons, James Q., Wapwallopen; James David, Shavertown; and mother, Mrs. Frances Shepherd, Cadiz, Ohio. CHESTER H. MILLER ’49, of 91 Charles Street, Wilkes-Barre, died recently in Mercy Hospital at the age of 72. He attended Bucknell Junior College as a special student, and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocational education at Pennsylvania State University. Chester taught vocational education at Cniighlin High School, and was active in professional YMCA work. He was membership secretary at the WilkesBarre YMCA, general secretary of the former Parsons YMCA, and membership secretary of the Scranton YMCA. Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth; sons, Chester. Jr. ’56, Baltimore, Md., and Barry M. '67, Denver, Colorado; daughter, Mrs. Glenn Carey (Moncey Miller) ’60, Colorado Springs, Colorado.^ FALL 1978 23 �likes College has grown and prospered on tradition. We believe it to be a tradition of unparalleled fulfillment and promise. Since its founding in 1933, Wilkes College has been committed to its original mission —“Unity Amidst Diversity”— and the recognition that academic training will be of minor importance unless our graduates emerge as persons of strong character, proper deportment, and sound moral values. This commitment to quality education has been the keystone of the Wilkes College tradition. We hope that the Wilkes tradition continues to grow and flourish. If your son, daughter, or friend is interested in obtaining more information about Wilkes College, its academic programs, and admissions procedures, please cut out and return the coupon below. WRITETO: Office of Admissions, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 Please send me a copy of the 1979 Admissions Material. Name Address City Alumnus Name .State. Zip Code. .State. Zip Code. ____ Alumnus Address City Additional Information Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. Wilkes College Quarterly Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED rawrr no. sss WILKES-BARRE, PA. I ?0Z.8I *1 3y.Wr-SS XT I “ ld3blS NIIXKJVHJ HldON ZTT JI3b V3J0H MAqnyv? Sbw � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Fall 1978 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 1978 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/a64f86ac6a3e091319e31aa4e8fb5b4a.pdf 2ce6c6a0f1ec1ca5497e42fdf3decd83 PDF Text Text �WILKES COLLEGE ARCHl SPRING WW Volume2, Number4 editor WILKE6 COLLEGE . OrVKTI'l^LY George G. Pawlush ’69 associate editor ON THE COVER: Jane Manganella Sugar Maple by Richard A. Fuller. Assistant Professor of Art, Wilkes College. This cover design is a hand-drawn batik using a combination of brush and tjanting tool. Hot wax is applied to areas of the fabric for the purpose of resisting subsequent dyeing. This process of waxing and dyeing is repeated over and over again until the desired form emerges. There are great traditions of resist-dyed fabrics in the Middle East as well as in other parts of the world. These resist processes have been passed down through the centuries by artists dedicated to fabric design as a means of self expression. The colors and textures that are inherent in natural forms serve as inspiration for the work. According to Fuller. "The pleasure of batik lies in a richness derived from color, pattern and craftsmanship, and particularly the experience of a sense of process. The merging of thirsty cloth and liquid color produces ornament not on cloth, but in it." editorial staff Eddie White III ’80 Vesta Breakstone Rosemary McMahon '80 Cindy Ercolani '81 Margaret Scholl '81 contributing staff Mary Ellen Alu '77 Shirley Collins Dr. Robert Werner editorial advisor Dr. Richard T. Rees '62 art director Beauty in the Mind of the Beholder Jon Schaffer by Shirley Collins photography editor Organized Labor, Labor Management Relations, and Collective Action — The Future Arthurs. Miller SPECTRUM STUDIO by Dr. Robert Werner contributing photographers Robert Gaetano '80 Kenneth Fox '62 Up-Date On Alpha circulation manager Lynn Jacobs Trying is the Biggest Part of the Battle Sea Breezes and Recollections of Wilkes The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. by Jane Manganella 8 12 14 19 20 Success in Steady Steps by Mary Ellen Alu '77 Chronicle - 4 Faculty Abstract - 5 Gallery - 11 Sports Update — 1S South River St. Revival — 17 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons. Honorary Member OFFICERS Benjamin Badman '41. Chairman Mrs. Walter M. Diener. Vice Chairman Hon. Edwin M. Kosik '49. Vice Chairman Mrs. Edward Darling, Secretary Mrs. William Davidowitz. Treasurer James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein '68 Edward Bixby. M.D. Charles N. Burns. M.D. '35 Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Stanley Davies Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Alan M. Glover, Ph.D. Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan. Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Richard Maslow Charles H. Miner Gerald A. Moffatt '63 William G. Mulligan F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Richard L. Pearsall Hon. Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross. Jr. Joseph J. Savitz '48 Louis Shaffer Ronald W. Simms'60 William H. Sword. Jr. E. Arthur Trabant. Ph.D. William J. Umphred '52 Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENT Roberts. Capin '50 �and reading rooms while the third floor will provide office space for student leaders and College administrators. “While enriching our overall educational program, we feel that the new student union building will enable the College to preserve part of the architectural history of the community. Most of the reconstruction will be on the interior with nearly all of the exterior of the building remaining intact," added the Wilkes College president. ieollege@>g@iaM® gS m A PERMANENT STUDENT UNION building Wilkes College students will have a new Student Union Budding for the Fall Semester, 1979. President Robert s. Capin announced in late December that the Wilkes College Board ot Trustees has approved the reconstruction of the Conyngham building, located on the second block of South River St. between South and Northampton Streets. The reconstruction is currently underway. According to President Capin, the total cost of reconstructing the gracious city landmark will be S350.000. "Other priorities in the past have forced us to take only temporary measures in providing a facility for social and co-curricular activities which are a vital part of a student’s college experience,” he said. “A satisfactory and permanent student union is essential to the education of our students. We are members. Community organizations pleased to move forward at this time will be invited to use the historic to provide an effective facility for facility for meetings and activities. present and future students at Wilkes College,” President Capin The red-bricked, three-story added. mansion was given to Wilkes College by the Conyngham family. It was When completed, the new student the former home of the late Mr. and union will provide 19,340 square feet of space for adequate meeting Mrs. William H. Conyngham. One of their sons, William L. Conyngham, and recreational rooms, offices, and a food service area to accommodate is a longstanding member of the the needs of commuter and Wilkes College Board of Trustees. residence students who choose to President Capin reports that $175,000 in gifts from the current get together between classes for "Alpha" Capital Gifts Campaign conversation, group study, meetings of student organizations, and has been designated toward informal interaction with faculty reconstruction of the three-story 4 WILKES COLLEGE edifice. Quarterly Among the features of the Student tthskellar Union Building will be a rathskellar in the basement level, which will be utilized for food service and social gatherings. Additional food service facilities will be included on the first floor. "We anticipate transferring equipment from the 'Commons,' one of our present food service facilities,” President Capin said. Located on West South Street, the “Commons" has been utilized by the College for several decades but is limited in use as a multi­ purpose student facility. The second floor of the new Student Union will contain lounges NLN ACCREDITATION FOR WILKES NURSES Wilkes College Nursing program has received initial accreditation from the National League for Nursing's (NLN) Board of Review for the Council of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Program. President Robert S. Capin announced the NLN accreditation in December. “The NLN accreditation of the Wilkes Nursing program was effective as of December 8 and is retroactive to the 8-month period prior to the Board's decision so that 1978’s graduating class might be included," explains Ruth McHenry, chairman of the Nursing Department. “Since instituting the nursing degree program at the College in 1972 we have been committed to a quality nursing education, one that is responsive to the changing needs of health care in our society,” the Nursing head adds. While the program always has been approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nurse Examiners, the National League for Nursing is the body established by the profession to set standards for nursing education. The baccalaureate program at Wilkes offers an educational experience to prepare a professional nurse practitioner who exerts leadership in the emerging roles of primary, secondary, and tertiary care. The nursing curriculum at Wilkes is designed to enable the student to integrate the arts, the sciences, and the humanities with nursing and to choose electives in areas related to personal interests and career goals. Practical nursing is correlated with classroom and theory. Nursing begins in the second year, and for every hour of laboratory credit the student receives three hours of clinical practice. In the eighth and final semester, the student receives 240 hours of clinical practice. Graduates earn a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in Nursing through a four-year academic period, totaling 127 credits. Wilkes College has a cooperating agreement with seven hospitals for clinical facilities for the student’s practice, which is concurrent with the classroom theory. They are the Wyoming Valley Hospital, Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Veteran’s Administration Hospital, Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, St. Joseph’s Maternity and Children’s Hospital in Scranton, and the National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, as well as many community agencies. PRESIDENCY EXAMINED The office of the President of the United States has a decided impact on the lives of many Americans and non-Americans alike. Yet, the majority of Americans lack understanding of the consequences of actions taken by present and past administrations. Wilkes College is fortunate to claim its own expert on the American Presidency. Bill Lewis, a junior political science major at the College and the son of Mr. and Mrs. William V. Lewis, West River Street, Wilkes-Barre, is a member of the “Center for the Study of the Presidency” and serves as a Center Fellow. The purpose of the Center, according to Lewis, is to extend education in the field of government. “The Center acts as a scholarly review center of presidential activities in hopes of building a better future." Lewis adds. The Center provides "citizenship education of the highest character” and is concerned with the quality of leadership in the country. It offers understanding and encourages positive action, constructive reform, and public service. “We do not study the President himself, but rather his administration and their policies, "the Wilkes junior offers. As a Center Fellow, Bill's duties are many. He serves as co-chairperson of the 1979 National Student Symposium and is responsible for planning the program, picking a theme, scheduling, and suggesting speakers. The Symposium brings together student leaders and representatives from corporations, foundations, labor unions, academic institutions, and government to discuss a major contemporary issue. It allows for the exchange of views with the nation's most outstanding students and leaders. These Symposiums play an important role in giving these young Americans a greater appreciation of American political and economic institutions. Lewis must also prepare a research paper on some aspect of the Presidency. The Wilkes student chose to write his paper on "Presidential Staffing." Although not yet completed, the paper will deal with the question of whether or not the Presidential staff matches the President’s campaign ideologies. Bill feels that his Center experience has given him invaluable insight into the presidency. “I hope to gain a better understanding of Wilkes College junior Political Science major Bill Lewis, right, is shown discussing his rule as a Center Fellow of the “Center for the Study of the Presidency," with Dr. Jean Driscoll, chairman of the Wilkes College Political Science Department. SPRING 1979 5 �SS&^ijanch, because of its relevance to any SSm^^gfonvard to a career in urban politics. H would prefer a job where he has some input in the pohey-makmg decisions of the organization. A CAREER IN MEDICAL PHYSICS Wilkes College will soon be: one of the four colleges m the United States to offer a B.S. degree in Medical Physics. The importance ot the application of physics to medicine is growing, and statistics indicate that it will offer excellent job opportunities m the future. The B.S. degree in medical physics resulted from the combined efforts of Dr. Frederick Bellas and Walter Placek, professors in the Physics department. The program is designed to train students in the applications of the physical sciences to medical problems. Many of the concepts, techniques, and devices which have been created by physicists are now being applied to medicine. These include the use of gamma rays, x-rays, infrared and microwave radiation and lasers. The Medical Physics Program includes such physics courses as optics, thermodynamics, and atomic and other courses in the disciplines of chemistry, biology, and engineering. An important segment of the program is a laboratory course in medical physics. Students are required to construct research-type projects on such topics as skeletal mechanics, lung mechanics, EEG and EKG machines, to name only a few. Six credits may be earned by working in a hospital, medical research laboratory, or a medicaloriented industrial laboratory under the supervision of a medical expert in that particular field. A student completing the baccalaureate degree program has several avenues to follow after graduation including further graduate work, health ° physics, medical school, industrial bioengineering, technical sales, and radiation physics. Dr. Bellas notes that “medicine will continue to look to modern physics, and this means °reater career opportunities in the medical physics field." The projected need m this area alone is over 13,000 posibons by the year 2000. Alono with the technological advances in 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY i&sxr physics field. the MANUSCRIPT: NOWAN alumni outlet for literary works The MANUSCRIPT, a long time literary tradition at Wilk::es College, dr. is alive, well, and expanding;, horizons to include alumni contributors. Jack Hardie’65, faculty advi of the annual publication ann °r that for the first time since IgR0^3 periodical is actively seeking & ,he literary contributions from th alumni. "The material select c the MANUSCRIPT should reft the discrimination, maturity 1 fairness, and taste representative r an academic community,” Hard 01 explains, “and the respoksibili^r the originality of the piece or * °r photograph rests with the contributor.” JAMES RODECHKO by Margaret Scholl “History is the synthesis of life,” stresses Dr. James Rodechko, professor of history at Wilkes College. The Wilkes faculty member feels that his primary goal as an educator is to create an interest in the subject and dispel the adage that history is dull and unexciting. Rodechko tries to create new interest in his classes by connecting the historical past with the present through lectures, accompanied by visual aids. Although Dr. Rodechko notes that “history doesn’t repeat itself,” he believes that people today are facing the same types of problems that our ancestors endured. In the classroom he stresses that Americans, as a whole, have never been inclined to learn from the past. They are futuristic and ignore the past. The professor believes that by looking back and learning from past mistakes, society could possibly solve some of its social problems. He considers his major responsibility as a teacher to be a ways prepared and “give every­ thing I can.” According to Dr. odechko, a faculty member should hold a positive attitude toward be^vA l5'^ ‘ JheLsarae ‘‘me he should When asked about the drop in Rod hkntofhistorymai°r= Rodechko comments, "It is unnecessary and unfortunate. Most students think that a history major must become a teacher after graduation, but this isn’t so.” The concerned educator continues, "With the right electives, a history major can become involved with anything from communications to government and law enforcement.” Not only limiting his talents to the classroom, he is the faculty coordinator for the Cooperative Education Program. Rodechko helped initiate the program which he feels "helps prepare a student for a future job and also allows the students a new type of learning experience.” The duties of his title require Dr. Rodechko to handle the academic requirements of the students. Dr. Rodechko earned his B.A. in History from Hofstra University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. At Wilkes he has served as a member of the curriculum committee, t e faculty policy committee, and an advisor to the classes of 1972 an 1973. Concerned with student 1 • the energetic professor finds Wil students to be "bright, enthusiast , and eager to learn.” Still expressing his ded*?at*°g]l. and concern for students, e .q0 liked professor advises stu e H remain as flexible as possi ’ . a which will enable them to acq certain degree of elasticity m finding future employment. o The purpose of the MANUSCRIPT is to stimulate an active interest in creative writing while providing an atmosphere for criticism and exchange of ideas among students and alumni. The periodical also serves as a means by which students may review, edit, and publish those materials which in the judgment of the editorial staff represent the most worthy efforts of creative writing. Any Wilkes College alumnus wishing to submit material for publication in the Manuscript may forward it to the Manuscript, c/o Department of Languages and Literatures, Wilkes College, 18766. PODIATRY: ANOTHER HEALTH CARE OPPORTUNITY "Many people think of a podiatrist as a person who cuts corns and calluses from a patient's foot. Actually, this is a minute part of what a podiatrist actually does.” So offers Sandra Pensieri, a Wilkes College cooperative student, now in her first year at Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine (PCPM), in Philadelphia. Miss Pensieri, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Pensieri, Plains, explains that podiatry is one of the fastest growing fields in medicine today, which may account for the gross misconception people associate with the field. Podiatric medicine is the healing art that concentrates on diseases and abnormalities of the lower extremity, particularly the foot. Podiatrists are the only health professionals who share with doctors of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry the legal authority to make independent professional judgments, and in their own discretion to administer medical and surgical treatment. Podiatry is a wide open profession with concentrations available in pediatrics, geriatrics, surgery, and also in the rapidly growing field of sports medicine. "Running is the growing trend now,” Sandy relates, "yet many people are unable to run due to a small abnormality that can be corrected with minor surgery by a podiatrist." Even belly dancers see podiatrists to correct disorders caused by the strain dancing puts on their feet. The Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine is one of five colleges in the United States that grants the degree of Doctor of Podiatric Medicine. PCPM also participates in the Accelerated Pediatric Medical Education Curriculum (APMEC) in cooperation with several Pennsylvania undergraduate institutions such as Wilkes College. APMEC requires three years of pre-professional and four years of podiatric medical education. The program recruits students of exceptional ability, generally from rural or underserved areas, who are interested in returning to those areas to practice. Wilkes became affiliated with APMEC in the spring of 1977 and was alloted a minimum of four seats into each class. Sandy, a graduate of Coughlin High School, spent her first three years at Wilkes as a Biology major under the accelerated program. After a series of interviews and evaluations, she was selected to begin her medical education at PCPM in the fall of 1978. After completing her first semester at PCPM, Sandy describes the curriculum as being "very rigorous” with a “phenomenal amount of material to learn,” but admitted she was having little difficulty adjusting. “I feel that my science and biology background at Wilkes has been a tremendous help to me," she states, and observed that many of the other students in her class were having problems with the material due to inadequate preparation. Sandy’s well adjusted studying habits undoubtedly were also a big help to her. They include studying six hours per night on week nights and between sixteen and twenty hours on weekends. If she keeps at this pace, Sandra Pensieri should have no trouble graduating with her class in 1982, at which time she plans to return to Wilkes-Barre and set up her practice as a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine. O THE WILKES college connection FOR 24-HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. 717-826-1135 Plan NOW!! for Wilkes College 32- Annual Alumni HOMECOMING Friday, Saturday, Sunday October 12,13,14,1979 Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your'home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Of­ fice at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our rec­ ords. SPRING 1979 7 �id hit I I 71 /PA r l LI t I1 FW dofthe,, beholder2SF1t > f 11V l.1 1 "I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to studv mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain." — John Adams — Mark Cohen w by Shirley Collins Whatever John Adams meant to say, he seems to assume that art is strictly for recreation after the consequential matters of the world have been settled. Only after the gun is put down, the store is closed, the factory darkened, has a serious person the right to yield to such frivolous pleasures. a WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Mark Cohen does not feel this way. A Wilkes-Barre photographer of growing national and international reputation, Cohen's art is his serious life's work. It is not that he wasn't exposed to the Adarns philosophy. In 1961 when he entered Penn State, he chose engineeringas a major and when he left Penn State to register at i ■ When Mark Cohen was asked what it is that makes photography important enough to spend all his time on, for a moment he didn't say anything at all. Then, with a note of surprise, he replied, "I don't know. All I know is that when I get a picture that's wonderful it makes me feel so good." their children a right to study painting, music, "This is a nice picture... it shows mystery." a/ w' States and in London, Paris, and Milan. Public collectors in Massachusetts, New York, Chicago, Melbourne, and London have purchased his work. He has taught at Wilkes, Princeton, the Rhode Island School of Design, and consulted for Yale. Last summer he had only one entry in the Museum of Modern Art's "Mirrors and Windows" show; but the New York Times Magazine chose that picture to display on its cover to exemplify current directions of photography in America. Like many artists, Cohen speaks about his work reluctantly. But he never tries for a moment to hide his devotion to photography. That devotion may have been what made Chester Colson want to help him, for Colson, too, chose art as his vocation out of love, in spite of various obstacles throughout his life. Wilkes in 1963, he picked mathematics. He later switched to art upon the advice of the then chairman and still art faculty member, Chester Colson. I 'ji Cohen that proved a good decision. Upon graduating in 1966 he opened a photography studio, and sin< e then Ims exhibited all over the United In some peculiar way, the representation of the world through the medium of paint or camera, aluminum or cloth, seems related to deep, though formless, longings for personal significance. That the world and the universe, time and infinity are beyond our control, perhaps even beyond understanding, seems to frustrate some impertinent, ineradicable ambition within us. Scientists may justify their probings of earth's mysteries as a search for human progress, but artists cannot prove the cost effectiveness of their attempts to express the emotional impact on man of his situation. Yel, their work may be just as critical. Dr. William Sterling, since 1976 the chairman of the Art department, speaks of Mark Cohen's work as "almost always dealing with unexpected glimpses, seeming to heighten the personality of something or somebody; by showing it in a different light, he avoids the typical or expected, and directs a different interpretation." When Chester Colson arrived to teach at Wilkes College in 1959, he came to a region whose people had not been exposed to art. While affluent Wilkes-Barreans could travel to Philadelphia or New York, there were no museums here, and the College boasted just three art majors, whose studies, Colson says, consisted primarily of lettering. I With Dr. Eugene Hammer, the chairman of the Education department, Colson designed a curriculum in art education and began to recruit students and faculty. During the 1960's the number of art education majors rose as high as 180, and Colson says graduates are teaching all over the eastern United States. One of them, Carl Knoecklein, a member of the faculty at the University of Hartford, opened an exhibit at the prestigious Wadsworth Atheneum on January 26 entitled "15 time smells." Other graduates have had success in various fields; Joe Stallone, a ceramicist, exhibits widely and lives now in New York; Randy Steele works as a photo­ grapher and artist for Aviation magazine; Kathy Fink, one of Richard Fuller's students in fibre and fabric design, went to work for Dan River on her graduation. Dr. Sterling says, though, that the primary purpose of the department is not to create professional artists or art educators, but to introduce students to the visual arts. There is, he says, "a widespread deficiency in American culture—a lack of awareness and knowledge of art. Most of our students really don't have any clear idea of what it's like to be an artist when they come to us." SPRING 1979 9 �In fact. Sterling believes that the aridity of the artistic landscape in Wilkes-Barre is only an exaggerated example of the situation in the country' as a whole. Acknow ledging that attendance figures at museums have risen, he suggests that that is more an indication that some artists or art shows have achiex ed celebrity' status than that people really understand xxhat they’re looking at. Kids in high school are heavily oriented toward doing, as opposed to a thinking or philosophical approach. It's typically American. Get your hands on the materials. Don't reflect on ideas and values." To help with study of philosophy and values, the department offers three semester length courses each semester in history of art, required of all art majors, as well as two elective courses each semester in history and theory. But even in the studio courses, Sterling says, professors approach their work in a philosophical way. The requirements of the core curriculum assure that not only art majors, but nearly all students at Wilkes will receive some introduction to the field. "We are training consumers of art as well as producers," explains Sterling, "and most of our students will continue some involvement." Certainly local interest in art has grown hugely since Chester Colson arrived here in 1959. In addition to many art graduates, are forays the faculty makes into the community in support of art related projects. With the opening of the Sordoni Art Gallery on the Wilkes campus, the valley acquired a beautiful setting for major shows. Two centuries after John Adams lived, thousands of people are studying art in Wilkes-Barre. The economy limps noticeably here, and the fever of unemployment hovers higher than elsewhere in the country. In the light of this unfinished business, the study of art may seem to be of doubtful value. Yet, the paintings on the walls of the cave at Lascaux were not made by men who had solved the problems of their world. Paradoxically, it is only by those fragile markings through which they strained against the bonds of earth, that we have any intimation that these people ever existed. Q Shirley Collins i:: an avid writer who has contributed to several publications. She is a mciid>*r of the Wilkes Coll**ge Department of Nursing staff. Little Tommy, an oil on panel by George Luks ► T Flower Picture, an oil by William Glackens Just about a lifetime ago, on February 3,1908, an important exhibition of paintings opened in New York's Macbeth Gallery. It was to be among a handful of landmark events which, over the next few years, would arouse American art out of its complacency and into the mainstream of twentieth-century modernism. The exhibition consisted of works by eight American artists who were operating either outside of or barely within the artistic estab­ lishment of the time: Robert Henri, John Sloan, William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, and Arthur 13. Davies. From the Introduction by Dr. William Sterling for the "Immortal Eight" exhibit. The Sordoni Art Gallery, beginning on March 9 and continuing through April 1, featured an impressive exhibit entitled "The Immortal Eight." The exhibition consisted of five works each of the eight men who in the early 1900’s set off "the first explosion" to seriously undermine the academic poxver structure in America. The Sordoni exhibit was the first time since the 1940’s, in the Brooklyn Museum, that a major show on the "Eight" had been done. Dr. William I. Homer, chairman of the Art History Department at the University of Delaware and author of "Robert Henri and His Circle,” lectured to Friends of the Gallery prior to a reception that formally opened the show. SPRING 1979 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY 11 �Organized Labor, Labor Management Relations and Collective Action — The Future vA By Dr. Robert Werner Futurism is, of course, as old as the prophets. Therefore, my ideas do not reveal a revolutionary concept in thinking as speculation of what may, or will happen has always been. However, a greater emphasis on futurism has been exhibited in recent years. Also, during the last decade, it has become fashionable or fadistic to deal with the future in terms of ecology, resources, and economics. 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY There should be justification to some degree for me to join the ranks of sooth-sayers. It seems valid that a contribution could be made, as I stand at a pivotal point, Janus-like, looking backward at developments of the last quarter of a century in labor management relations and alternatively looking forward to possible or probable developments. There was a time when, as a young instructor and practitioner, I thought I had all the answers. But how many times I have been proven wrong! Hopefully this experience has provided me with adequate insight and maturity. In that futurism demands a time frame, the predictor must give a time value to his projections. For now, I would prefer to limit my projections to the 1980’s. If I am wrong or right, I might be condemned or commended in my dotage by anyone who would keep or remember my efforts. Perhaps one of the most fundamental questions in the future of labor-management relations is the continued existence of unions as a socio­ economic organization. The increasing involvement of government in establishing minimum wages, wage guidelines, and health and welfare revisions may very well end thetraditional role of unions. However, analysis of current union activities indicates that while unions are constantly striving to increase the scope of bargaining and are becoming heavily involved with lobbying, they are also vitally concerned with preserving past gains and maintaining present "turf.” This becomes a crucial issue, in light of some manage­ ment's preoccupation with "buy­ back” or rescinding previous grants or conditions of bargaining. As Sidney and Beatrice Webb have noted, it appears that while government may play a greater role in social welfare on a national basis, unionswill still continue to exist to deal with problems and conditions at the work place. In fact the role of unions probably will notdiminish, but will find new expression as additional groups such as college professors, pharmacists, secretaries, nurses, teachers, and bank employees enter the collective bargaining arena. What is interesting about this trend is that collective action by groups such as these was unthinkable a few decades ago. At one time, I felt very strongly that I ,T V the scope of collective bargaining would be limited to exclude them. How wrong I was! Organizations which may have been founded as professional organizations concerned with professional standards and insurance or benevolent purposes have evolved to where their primary function is collective bargaining. The phenomenon of new occupations becoming involved with collective bargaining has created many complexities. For example, over the last 150 years, certain bargaining areas have emerged sanctioned by law and practice. Typically, legitimate and usual bargaining issues included wages and working conditions. The demands of the workers could be anticipated and responded to by management. However, the current situation has brought what could be an endless list of negotiable issues. Teachers wish to control what have been traditionally management prerogatives such as class size, length of the school day, and class assignment. In a widely publicized case, pilots of a major airline made over 100 demands, one of which, perhaps facetiously, was free vasectomies. Nurses in decaying urban areas may demand safe transportation home and college professors may demand that thei r employers pay their professional memberships. I could go on and on but certainly, the decade of the 1980’s may be fraught with many work stoppages as the bargaining process needs time to establish what will be acceptable items for bargaining. I must also note the impact of labor law on collective bargaining. The crucial point is that law must adequately reflect the needs of the current situation. This is some­ times difficult as many laws on the books date back to previous times when conditions were different. 1 his factor has increased the involvement of the courts in the collective bargaining process as society looks for more rapid change in the law. Laws must reflect a matrix of the socio-economicpolitical situations of the time. The broad needs and drives of society will determine the status of labor law in the next decade. The increased inclusion of women in the work force may hold some surprises in the 1980’s. Traditionally, women entered and left the labor force accordingto a prescribed pattern. They often entered the labor force in role oriented occupations, left the labor force after marriage, then perhaps returned when the children were old enough to be self sufficient. This created problems for unionization. The young woman did not view her life as an individual in the work force and the mature woman returningtothe work force often thought of it as a secondary career; home and family were primary. This stereotype is breaking down. of slavery, even the elderly and the disabled had their functions. We see a growing trend incur society to some sort of tenure in or "vested rights" to a job after a certain number of years. Coupled with the changing retirement laws, this will have tremendous impact. The implications and possibilities are endless. Finally, I wish to acknowledge that the thoughts in this article are not mine alone, but have resulted from many years of association with graduate and undergraduate students. As a young instructor, I taught my classes trusting that the students would learn. Hopefully this was true, but I recognize that I learned a great deal from them. Much of what has been presented here is based on ideas of my students. I thankthem forthat. q Social and economic forces are exerting pressures to change women’s role in the work force. Two obvious factors immediately come to mind: Inflation and "the pill.” Several other factors, such as "fast-food," modern appliances, day care centers, etc., have influenced women in considering the "Haus Frau” role versus the person committed to the labor market. While women, with some exceptions, were difficult to unionize, this may change. I predict that women will become more concerned with collective action in the job market. Quite simply, if they perceive themselves as permanent members of the work force, then their income and work conditions become permanent concerns. Frankly. I would expect more militancy in the future. I also perceive "job ownership as a major variable in labor relationships in the next ten years. There is really nothing new in this concept, as in the horrible days — Dr. Robert Werner, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, has been a W ilkes College faculty member since 1955. He is a widely regarded expert in labor economics. SPRING 1979 13 �Throughout the first six months of 1979, Dr. Richard T. Rees, director of alumni relations, is continuing to arrange regional alumni campaigns in areas of the nation with concentrations of 200 or more alumni. Later, alumni in other sections of the nation will be contacted by letter to seek their participation in the campaign. An alumnus''alumna who makes a three-year pledge to the "Alpha" Campaign will not be expected to contribute to the annual appeal until completing payment on his/ her expanded commitment. Wilkes alumni in the Lehigh Valley (Allentown/Bethlehem/ Easton) Area conducted a regional campaign during the Fall at the Bethlehem Holiday Inn. Michael Barski '73, a stockbroker with Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., headed the effort. Other Fall telephone campaigns were held in the Harrisburg/Lancaster/York Area and the Greater Pittsburgh Area. Responsible for leading these drives are Richard Salus '60, partner, Peat Marwick & Mitchell; and Ernest Krute '66, manager, Special Financings, P.P.G. Industries. On March 26-27, Atty. Ralph Carey '48 guided a phonathon in the Greater Scranton Area from the Third National Bank, Scranton, while the emphasis shifted a few days later to the Hazleton Area and the Peoples First National Bank. Shirley Jean Ray '57, director of Administration and Planning Commission on Economic Opportunity, and David Wetzel '60, by alumni. Update Alpha Wilkes College alumini are demonstrating a commitment to the College as the " Alpha" Capital Campaign has expanded its efforts to involve alumni throughout the nation in 1979. According to President Robert 5. Capin, as of March 1, the campaign total has reached 51,607,711 or 67 percent of its goal. This total does not reflect the efforts of the Wilkes College Campaign in Greater Wyoming Valley, which was launched on March 7,1979, or the many regional alumni campaigns. "We are encouraged that our national appeal will be successful," states President Capin. "Local alumni have contributed nearly $200,000 to the campaign and it is essential that we maintain this momentum. The projected decline in the traditional college student population and the tight job market also make it imperative for us to encourage alumni participation in the admissions and placement functions of the College. All three of these challenges are essential to the future growth of the institution." 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY 77.' dentists and other campaign leaders, from left, seated — Dr. John Hosage '62, Dr. Robert O.i.uny ec. and Dr. BV.in. HatLizi-s '62, all co-chairmen; standing — James Aikman, director of de -'.'.p'rei.t: Th as H. Kiley, annual campaign chairman; and Dr. Thomas F. Kelly '69. dean of external affairs. MB Many of the volunteers, working in the attorneys' division, gathered for an informal meeting at President Capin’s home. Seated, from left —Atty. E. Paula Quinn '73 and Atty. Louis Shaffer, a member of the College board of trustees; standing — Atty. Donald H. Brobst, Atty. Alan Ramsay, Jr. ’6'8, Daniel Koffsky and Richard Schifter, law clerks to Judge Max Rosenn; Atty. James Garraux, Atty. Bartel Ecker '48; Atty. Gifford Cappellini ’45, co-chairman; Atty. Harry Hiscox, '51; Atty. Joseph Savitz ’48, chairman and a member of the College board of trustees; Atty. Theodore Evans, and Hon. Max Rosenn, a member of the College board of trustees. executive vice president, Peoples First National Bank, were responsible for directing the Hazleton drive. Phonathons on the drawing board or already planned for the Spring include (with respective chairperson): April 16-17, Greater Metropolitan New York, Willi am Cox '60, at the AT&T facility, New York City; April 23, Southern New Jersey, Thomas Curry '67; April 24, Greater Philadelphia, William Kaye '71, at the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine; and May 9, Binghamton Area, Joseph Chanecka '66. Other phonathons are being arranged in Washington, D.C., Atty. Marc Levey '69 and Thomas Richards '69; New England, Atty. Anthony Cardinale '72; Upper New York State, Robert Linaberry '73. Alumni in the Greater WilkesBarre Area are involved with the 1979 Wilkes College Campaign in Wyoming Valley. The campaign, which is seeking a $150,000 goal, is chaired by Thomas H. Kiley, a member of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees. This year the campaign organization took on a new look with the inclusion of four professional divisions. They are headed by alumni volunteers Dr. George Hudock '50 (physicians); Dr. William Watkins '62, Dr. John Hosage '62, and Dr. Robert Conway '62, (dentists); Atty. Joseph Savitz '48 and Atty. Gifford Cappellini '46 (attorneys); and Lonnie Coombs '70 (accountants). Q 21 President Robert. S. Capin 50 is flanked by Dr. George B. Davis, left, and Dr. George Hudock '50, chairman of the physicians' division. ■■ Some of the accountants working in the annual campaign are, from left Robert Cavalari ’68 and Lonnie Coombs '70, chairman. | -! i * SPRING 1979 15 �(oioHfij*; 118 25 t ittlP Wilkes, “the almost legend , ‘J ” surprised many but their 1 fans by finishing a rather close [^lis^weTe Na^vy, Pl.^'r^emp^e^11 sport Pete Maravich Don't Look Back Wilkes sophomore Diane Kendig tallied a school record (men and women] 53 points in the final women's basketball game of the year to lead the Colonels to a 114-58 conquest of Misericordia College. The 114 points, scored by the team, also established a new one-game Basketball: overall record: 9-15 Middle Atlantic Conference: 7-6. tied for second place leading scorers: Kendall McNeil, jr.. (20.5) John Zapko, sr.. (15.3) Mike McCarrie, so.. (13.4) Career 1,000th point club additions: John Zapko, sr.. (1183) Kendall McNeil, jr.. (1057) MAC Northern Division ‘All-Star'' Team: John Zapko. First Team Kendall McNeil, Second Team Swimming: overall record: 0-9 Middle Atlantic Conference Tourn.: Michele Maguire, fr. - three medals 4th, 200-yard butterfly 5th, 100-yard butterfly 6th, 200-yard individual medley Perry Lichtinger, jr. - diver consolation finals: one-meter and three-meter diving Women's Basketball: overall record: 12-10 leading scorers: Diane Kendig, so., (25.6] Lynn Yediock, jr., (13.8) Ellie Adams, fr„ (11.ij Mary Jo Frail, jr., (10.9) leading rebounders: Lynn Yediock, jr., (9.8) Debbie Yediock, sr., (7.8) Diane Kendig, so., (5.1J Mary Jo Frail, jr., (4.8) 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Pd all the critics, and posted al’sWr their finest tournament °ner° lances of all time and barely Pcrf°Tcatching perennial EIWA m‘werhouSe Lehigh for the crown I” Fnsineers, as expected, won the «'Diamond Anniversary” EIWA grnament championship with scoring mark. Kendig. who earlier in the year became the top woman scorer of all time, has now crashed the nets for 971 points with two years of eligibility still remaining. During the 1978-79 season, the Kingston. Pa. and Wyoming Valley West product, averaged 25.5 points per game, 561 points total, to lead Wrestling: overall record: 17-4 Binghamton Invitational Tourney Champs [Four Teams] EIWA Tourney. Princeton: 2nd place (16 teams] EIWA Individual Champions: 158 — Mark Densberger, jr. HWT. — Danny House, sr. Top Wrestlers: Mark Densberger 25-0-1 (158] jr. Danny House 21-2 [HITT.] sr. Casper Tortella 23-2 (142) sr. Bryan Billig 22-3-1 [126] so. John Reese's 26-year coaching record at Wilkes: (267-58-8] MEET RESULTS Wilkes 48 0 York College 10 29 Lehigh University 17 18 North Carolina 23 17 Yale University 21 19 Navy 29 18 Tennessee 22 24 Clemson 15 27 '-.-.ij-.l- University 34 6 Boston University 35 15 Delaware Valley 23 11 Montclair State 26 ■' Sout . Connec • . 29 12 Penn St. University 27 12 Lycoming College 30 10 Binghamton State 23 15 Hofstra University 29 17 East Stroudsburg St. 32 0 Rutgers Uni'/ei Jly 29 11 North Carolina State 32 13 Buckncll University 37 7 Franklin h Marshall the lady Colonels to a 12-10 record. Diane scored 410 points and maintained a 19.5 average as a freshman. Earlier during the season Diane fired home 43 markers against Lycoming but the record turned out to be short lived as she connected on 22 of 36 field goal attempts and was nine for 12 from the foul line in the season finale. Basketball Coach Sandra Bloomberg has the highest praise for her sparkplug, “Diane is the finest athlete that I have ever coached. She is just unbelievable.” Many fans who follow women’s basketball would be quick to agree. Despite a lack of size, which probably is her only hinderance from a big time college career, Kendig has consistently ranked among the top scorers in the country and should be a bona fide All American candidate in her junior and senior years. Proud Day in Princeton Just five years ago, last March, the Wilkes College wrestling team celebrated its first and only NCAA Division III championship. But, some critics of the Wilkes wrestling program were then quick to say — “How good would Wilkes be competing against the big boys in Division I?" Wilkes bade its farewell to the NCAA Division III just one year I later and with confidence, but no short ranged high expectations, joined the prestigious 16-team | Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA). In the process they jumped up to the NCAA’s Division 1, to become the smallest Division I member, studentwise, in the nation. The Colonels of John Reese didn't place among the top six EIWA teams at the tournament that year (1976). Progress in 1977 and 1978, although considerably improved, was f ar from championship caliber. It was a different story iii 1979, mi John Reesi: ami his Colonels San Lehigh crowd at Princeton's laiestic Jadwin Gymnasium. In the Tnd, the second place Wilkes team I think we proved to everyone that Ve re caPable of wrestling with anyone on Division 1. We came so cW to the EIWA title, but we were not surprised. We will be back next *etltles-The pair joined Weisenfluh, the 167-pound champion in 1976, as Wilkes’ second and third EIWA champions. Sophomore Bryan Billig (126) barely missed making it a threesome, losing a tough 8-6 overtime championship bout. It may have been only a second place team finish but you couldn't tell it from the smiles on John Reese s face at Jadwin that night. After a slow start, the Wilkes wrestling team turned a so-so season into a milestone, winning their final 13 meets to finish the year with a 17-4 log. Some of the Colonel dual victims included Yale Navy, Hofstra, North Carolina, Penn State, and Tennessee. The 17 wins upped John Reese’s 26-year coaching mark at the College to 267-58-7. Only a handfull of college coaches have ever attained the 300-win plateau. o ■ ’HoyoNELS <V'^S iwwfiwaill The "SOUTH RIVER STREET REVIVAL" was compiled by Vesta Breakstone of the Alumni Relations Office. The information contained in the Alumni Notes was received between October 19,1978 and February 12,1979. Please send news contributions to: Alumni Oftice, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766. Over the past few years some of our graduates have given us the slip. Like concerned uncles and aunts we would be delighted to hear from you again. If any alumni can help us in our search, please drop a line with the addresses of our missing nieces and nephews to the Wjlkes College Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766. MISSING ALUMNI Walter R. Dalan, Jr. '67, George Edward Dale '63, Mrs. Carol Okrasinski Dancheck '68, Robert Danchik '66, Richard T. Dando '49, Susan Danforth '67, Pascal Joseph Danilowicz '49, Alfred D. Darte, Jr. ’50, David William David '43, Alan C. Davis '67, Mrs. Cheryl Chupak Davis '68, Daniel Stowe Davis '68, David Samuel Davis '54, Donald E. Davis '63, Mrs. Lillian Brennan Davis '41, Richard P. Davis '59, ayna R. Davis '68, Bart Joseph Davison '54, Arthur Ray Dawe '68, Kathryn Mary Day '67, Mrs. Stella Alexiou Deakos '62, Harold E. Ueboo '62, Sharon Lee DeCinti '70, Mr. & Mrs. Leon J. Decker '52 '55 ( adelyn I.. Malanoski), Robert Lee ueels '66, Rosemary Degavage '70, Mrs. Sally Beth Mason Dehart '52, v»s. Sarah Wermuth Dekker '56, 111 J. Delators '62, Barbara Joan Demko 72, John William Democko '68, Mrs. Vivian Ronan Dempsey '67, Stephen Michael Demyun '66, Jane Mary Denby '61, Mrs. Natalie Barone Deraimondo '57, Richard C. Derhammer '63, Janet Detoma 70, Joseph W. Dettmore 76, John Di Giuseppe '67, Mr. & Mrs. Gordon S. Dilley '44 '46 (Anne M. Donnelly), Mrs. Kathryn Ann Woychick Dobias 72, Mr. & Mrs. David George Dobson 72 73 (Cynthia Homan), Alan Lester Doner '64, Thomas S. Doty '59, Charles J. Dougherty '61, Leo T. Dougherty 71, Neil Robert Dougherty '64, Paul Douglas '50, Mrs. Gerald A. Downing '53, Judith Dressier '50, Cyril Hayes Drexinger '51, Klem Drozdowski '50, George Dudascik, Jr. '64, Paul F. Duddy 40, Thomas M. Dugan '59, Howard L. Duncan '55, Anthony Edward Dwojeski '54, Mrs. Mary E°u E'.ana Dwyer. Judith A. Dwyer 61,1Robert August Dwyer 75, Thomas E. Dwyer ’71 Raymon Manson Eaton 4-, Anthony Eckert'63, Mrs, Josephine A. Guiliani Edmundowicz 48 Christopher Maxwell E war• Henry Hall Edwards, Jr. 66, «>‘‘lda Roger Edwards'60. James Gary Edel '74 '71 (Beverly Buranich), Shirley Marie Ellis '71, Theresa A. Ellis '69, Raoul Elton '56, Mrs. Diane Howell Emershaw '68, Robert A. Engle '56, Mrs. Suzanne Caezza Ennis '68, Susan Epstein '65, Mrs. Linda Hearing Esopi, John J. Evan '50, George Evancho '64, Myron J. Evanich '63, John Charles Evanouskas '49, Mrs. Bonnie Grace Marconi Evans '72, Mrs. Mary Porter Evans '50, David J. Evans '40, Evan G. Evans '66, John Russell Evans '59, Lawrence Henry Evans '77, Mary Dale Evans 75, Mrs. Michelle Evans Pizzini 74, Robert J. Evans '49, Westbrooke Evans '65, Linda Ewing '64 1949 COL EDWARD F. CORCORAN is chief of staff at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. LT. COL. GEORGE SHINALY was recently married to Norma Dube. George has retired from the Air Force Reserve, and the couple is residing in New Britain, Connecticut. 1954 NANCY TAPPER is executive vice president for research at the Center for Social Redesign in Oakland, California. SPRING 1979 17 �Wilkes College Librarian. 1955 rriTruck. R PICTON, vice president ’ot ’’’’lUnck RUSSpment at Wofford College, fordevci P goulh CaroiinaF was a SPnr!?° a national conference by the Council for the ^^"ncement and Support of education (CASE) in Winston-Salem, trying is the biggest part the Revive \ Old Memories and Create ffew Ones This is an open invitation for you to attend Milkes College Alumni Association gatherings when they are scheduled in your area. In recent months, H likes alumni have participated in a variety of informal happenings throughout the East. Here is a montage of scenes highlighting Wilkes alumni in motion at SELINSGROVE (tail-gate party at the Wilkes-Susquehanna football game in November), SCRANTON (a friend-raiser in December), and PRINCETON, N.J. (a mixer at the EIWA wrestling tournament in February). Upcoming social events on the calendar include get-togethers at the Marriott Hotel, Saddlebrook, N.J., April 27; and at the Rutgers Club, New Brunswick, N.J., May 4. We will be looking for you! utal______ tind of its magic carpet with a mine 1958 has been times in our lifehave when we those 1own,i, the ’fun "n heains .. begins .... Surely, there been ANDREW SHAW, JR. has U he Lehman, Pa. native has The Lehman, aiways held a special feeling for entertained fantasies of riding a always ?childrent,_U ’s literature. As a Wilkes magic carpet - a cloud - or why children o College English major she fondly College English majoi P°’’ oven a giant pizza in the skyi of Commerce. remembers Dr. Philio Philip Rizzo’s ' -s Dr. creative writing Idle dreams or hangovers, we /riting classes. classes. “"II enjoyed eiijv,^always managed to safely rebound alli my English courses and feel robERT PITEL is vice president and I 1959 lat I received an excellent that Beverly Major Schwartz ’62 has general manager of the Scanning | to earth. '--—..nd for writing at background for wi also entertained some wild Systems Division of National the College." lommencement, she thoughts on occasion, but has Following c< iducation at the gone an extra step beyond, by Computer Systems, Inc., Edina, Minnesota. Bob and his wife, the committing her fantasies to paper furthered her er --ylvania where University former VERA WROBLE ’58, reside she earnedofanPennsylvania i M.A. in English. She SI and eventually having them with their children in Eden Prairie, soon married C.: Steve -e Schwartz, a published in the form of a 1962 Wilkes graduate, and moved graduate, ar.J ~""e children’s book entitled a suburb of Minneapolis. to Marietta, Ohio where Steve received a teaching appointment at The Magic Pizza. teaching 1960 How c"J ic A son, Bradley John, was born on — got her own taste Marietta College. <izzabeg' n^.th frienos, fnends,’ /Isritinc* _ soon _ September 6,1978, to Carol and flying DCy,,. home pizza one soon got o... _ Friday Cdrtav with W'v'"During the .he ofBeverly the classroom asne, a part-time — “ime Beverly remembers. BASIL SMITH. The family resides faculty member at Marietta. In in Raritan, New Jersey, with their course of the evening thee ,ening «\ addition to teaching a composition conversation wavered on a variety faculty llo additionHie...-to teaching a comH— three other children, Barbara Jean, fation a crazy course, she also fulfilled a longof topics until someone jokingly Bonnie Jane, and Brenda Jill. light was seededJ -" ambition, ’ihition, by developing an mentioned something about" a ‘-‘Mrpri’’s s innovative course in children itioned someiim.y '"uld fly. It was a crazy pizza that could fly. It was a ci literature for education students, 1961 THOMAS C. GODLEWSKI is senior exchange ano id before uefc.. the ' * nir "isecret She has since taught the part-time :ch fr| forr manager of Marketing Research over we had many laughs," laughs,’ ’ course many times, both at -=arbv Parkersburg uldren ’s secret book course many " ":"nand Marietta andJ m,,^, nearby Parkersou.y the Joseph Schlitz Brewing had the Company. Tom resides with his \vife> ;he adds. St Beverly always t Community Now thatCollege. The Magic Pizza is Sue, and daughter, Michelle, in urge write a children - -flying whentothe thoughts of the selling in the bookstores, many pizza returned the following day, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. friends and associates have been she wasted little time in rushing to asking Beverly what she will do for 1963 ixvasb°rIY the typewriter. “The initial draft an encore. "I’m thinking about took only four hours to complete A daughter, Samara Amy, writing a story about a trouble­ on May 15,1978, to Mr. and Mrs. but that was only the first step in maker duck named George," she Leo Gattel. Mrs. Gattel is the former offers. "It will be based on the real the long and unpredictable MYRA SCHWARTZ, and the family life story of a duck raised by our process,” Beverly recalled. "I is residing at 1530 East 8th Street, > two children (Jenny and Chip) forwarded the manuscript to during a vacation one summer at Prentice-Hall, not really expecting 1 Brooklyn, New York. my father’s farm in Lehman." a positive response. Then came She sums up her experiences as the waiting, a letter expressing the 1966 publisher's interest, revisions, and REV. DWIGHT E. GILES, SR. is an author by saying that the .(hodi minister to Sidney United Methc ” st "hardest part of writing a book is more waiting, until finally that to get started but once you do, great day when they informed me j. or.c^' 'ocate<f in the Oneonta that The Magic Pizza was ready to rnrJ1Ct °f Wyoming Annual and you have the luck to get leeVisQ nterence, Delaware County, N.Y. published, it is the greatest f The book deals with aJ°nely be published." boy. Nicky DeBanco, and his older in the world." Rad 1967 est,R?:M-MILLERhad his real friend, Mr. Cavatim, the pizza SP^1979 19 and n n 1180 transferred to Perry maker. When a pizza that Mr. Cavatini is twirling becomes a North Carolina. pioj^rasidentialrealestate �1955 AUentown division ni;|I1,a^i|!' Truck. ofM n PICTON, vice president R°SSE lonment at Wofford College, fordeVti‘°P South Carolina, was a sPa nat a national conference panel's1 a a Council for the "P°ns“rement and Support of Advance^ CAggj ;n Winston-Salem, NorthcTrolina. arTHUR Revive \ Old Memories and Create New Ones 1958 , MEREW SHAW, JR. has been ANDr„H as a “Distinguished Pennsylvanian" by the William Penn Zuttpe of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. ?/7 1959 ROBERT PITEL is vice president and general manager of the Scanning Systems Division of National Computer Systems, Inc., Edina, Minnesota. Bob and his wife, the former VERA WROBLE ’58, reside with their children in Eden Prairie, a suburb of Minneapolis. 1960 A son, Bradley John, was born on September 6,1978, to Carol and BASIL SMITH. The family resides in Raritan, New Jersey, with their three other children, Barbara Jean, Bonnie Jane, and Brenda Jill. ,U» 1961 THOMAS C. GODLEWSKI is senior manager of Marketing Research for the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. Tom resides with his wife, Sue, and daughter, Michelle, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. 1963 A daughter, Samara Amy, was born on May 15,1978, to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gattel. Mrs. Gattel is the former MYRA SCHWARTZ, and the family is residing at 1530 East Sth Street, Brooklyn, New York. 1966 REV. DWIGHT E. GILES, SR. is minister to Sidney United Methodist L'hurch, located in the Oneonta 'strict of the Wyoming Annual c°nterence, Delaware County, N.Y. 1967 e^Rr M' MILLER had his real nn in ,onse transferred to Perry iv,1 "tier, Southeast Gallery, 1,H"!Vor'9olorado.1111Q78. Barry millinBt? lis sorvice Soals of $1 J0" rea>dential real estate i r°uuction. try inf fe the biggest part the battD® i Surely, there have been those times in our life when we entertained fantasies of riding a magic carpet — a cloud — or why not, even a giant pizza in the sky! Idle dreams or hangovers, we always managed to safely rebound to earth. Beverly Major Schwartz '62 has also entertained some wild thoughts on occasion, but has gone an extra step beyond, by committing her fantasies to paper and eventually having them published in the form of a children’s book entitled The Magic Pizza. How did the journey of the flying pizza begin? “It all started at home one Friday with friends," Beverly remembers. “During the course of the evening the conversation wavered on a variety of topics until someone jokingly mentioned something about a pizza that could fly. It was a crazy exchange and before the night was over we had many laughs,” she adds. Beverly always had the secret urge to write a children's book and when the thoughts of the flying pizza returned the following day, she wasted little time in rushing to the typewriter. "The initial draft took only four hours to complete but that was only the first step in the long and unpredictable process,” Beverly recalled I forwarded the manuscript to Prentice-Hall, not really expecting a positive response. Then came the waiting, a letter expressing the < “farlev library magic carpet with a mind of its own, the fun begins The Lehman, Pa. native has always held a special feeling for children's literature. As a Wilkes College English major she fondly remembers Dr. Philip Rizzo’s creative writing classes. “I enjoyed all my English courses and feel that I received an excellent background for writing at the College." Following commencement, she furthered her education at the University of Pennsylvania where she earned an M.A. in English. She soon married Steve Schwartz, a 1962 Wilkes graduate, and moved to Marietta, Ohio where Steve received a teaching appointment at Marietta College. Beverly soon got her own taste of the classroom as a part-time faculty member at Marietta. In addition to teaching a composition course, she also fulfilled a longseeded ambition, by developing an innovative course in children's literature for education students. She has since taught the part-time course many times, both at Marietta and nearby Parkersburg Community College. Now that The Magic Pizza is selling in the bookstores, many friends and associates have been asking Beverly what she will do for an encore. '‘I’m thinking about writing a story about a trouble­ maker duck named George, she offers. "It will be based on.the real lite story of a duck ra.sed byour two children (Jenny and Chip) during a vacation one summer at as be published. innelv The book deals with a lonely to qet started but once you do, SSS^smS^-eeiing in the world. SPRING 1979 19 �_ -Chuck Yearly BETTY DOUGHERTY WOOD is a zookeeper with the Ross Park Zoo, Binghamton, New York. WAYNE BILLINGS is supervising sanitarian with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, in charge of the Stroudsburg office for Pike and Monroe counties. THOMAS CURRY is associated with New Jersey Manufacturers Association, Trenton, New Jersey. KAREN GERSTEIN and Dr. Bruce B. Borgelt were recently married. Karen is employed in the Radiation Therapy Department of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Philadelphia, Pa. 1968 JULIUS F. HARMS graduated from John Marshall Law School, and is licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Illinois. Julius is also a registered patent agent, and is employed by FMC Corporation in Chicago, as a corporate chemical purchasing agent in the Inorganic Chemical area. He resides in La Grange Park with his wife, the former ZDZISLAWA PACIEJ. MICHAEL SMITH is general manager for the Rochester Film Company, Rochester, New York. Mickey resides with his wife, the former REGINA BELDEN (’67), and their two sons. Timothy and Daniel, at 6 Bromley Road, Pittsford. ELWOOD JOHN WALZER is general counsel for the Ombudsman program for all institutionalized elderly in New Jersey. He resides in Ewing Township with his wife, the former BARBRA KALPIN ’70, and their two sons, Brett and Quincy. 1969 PATRICK J. BURKE is the new owner of the Chuck Robbins Sporting Goods Store in WilkesBarre, after being associated with the firm since 1971. Pat resides with his wife, Mary, and their two children in Dallas, Pa. DAVID A. JONES is associated with the 1st National Bank of Carbondale, Pa. 1970 ANDREA WARGO ROOD received her M.S. degree in biology from Wilkes in 1978. Andrea is a teacher­ demonstrator in energy education at Penn State University. JOHN R. WODRASKA has been appointed deputy executive director of the South Florida Water Management district. His wife, 20 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY zzezei salt water ecology. thp students take advantage of t Boston Whalers which °Ur are docked at the station. Summer is Pleasant, for the most pa?t and fnr'/h by Jane Manganclla “Sunrise, Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset — Quickly' Go The Years” ... a tune from Fiddler on the Roof? Yes, but the lyrics would also be appropriate for Chuck Yearsley ’71 as he reflects on the last five years of his life. At a spot on the New Jersey coast, between Brigantine and Beach Haven, sits a small outpost of Rutgers University known as the Marine Science Center. It is a field station environmental research area which sits on the site of a former Coast Guard station. For the past five years, this quiet, beautiful place has served as Chuck’s home. “I really like my work at the Center,” Chuck explains. “Sure, it is quiet but far from lonely, i can swim, fish, play tennis, and best of all study, in almost complete solitude. I go to classes on campus but it is here at the Center where I work.” Wilkes College was v/here it all began for Charles Yearsley. His first introduction to the College were “words of praise from a friend of my father who had a son going there,” the Runnemede, N.J. native recalls. “I heard a lot of great things about the biology department and Dr. Charles Reif. That was all the information I needed and I enrolled.” “I have no regrets about making that decision. True, CYNTHIA JACKSON WODRASKA, i, a teacher with the gifted child program in the Jupiter Elementary school system. They reside at 948 Marlin Circle, Jupiter, Florida, with their son, Todd, there was a no-nonsense attitude and we had to work hard, but Dr. Reif and Dr. (Donald) Tappa were always there when we needed help and available for questions and discussions. I still use Dr. Reif as my model, he lives by his convictions and principles, and never preaches anything he doesn’t practice,” Yearsley confides. Chuck graduated from Wilkes with honors and went on to the University of Michigan, where he earned his master’s degree. “It was a fine school,” he reflects, “but not quite me. I guess I was spoiled at Wilkes. There were some 50,000 students at Michigan and it was absolutely impersonal.” When he projected the final portion of his education, he investigated what opportunities might be available at Rutgers University, which was close to his home. He eventually was offered and accepted a research assistantship to work at the newly designated station on the Atlantic coast This outpost - in the months and years to follow - would become his year-round home. The white cluster of buildings where Chuck lives is located at the end of a causeway that can only be reached by traveling seven miles on the Bridges Road. The closest community is Tuckerton where food and supplies may be purchased and a place “where you can see a movie or obtain a drink if you feel the need for a diversion.” The seasons each have their distinct pluses and minuses. Winter, for example, spells real isolation but it provides the opportunity to do some indepth research and “get your head together.” Once in a while, the pipes freeze or the Power may go out, but if things ®a"y get bad, you can always ave the station and return when the crisis is over. scenUem?tehrpreSentSadifferent YparstWlnter’ "F°r °ne thin9.” Yearsley says with a smile winter doesn’t have green­ head flys or mosquitos, or 12 guys who snore, and all sleeping in the same place." Some of Chuck’s duties at the station include making daily trips to the inlets, marshes, and nearby islands that surround the station and take samples of the water and marine and plant life. “This is really what life at the station is all about,” says Yearsley. “Our mission is to try to preserve the salt marshes as a natural environment and maintain it as a food source for marine life.” There is plenty of discussion circulating which would take the marshes and use them for land development and housing. Much of what the biologists find in their research at the station will have a great bearing on the final outcome of this expected confrontation. Yearsley is presently completing his thesis and expects to have his doctorate soon. For the future he would like to teach at a small college “like Wilkes” and continue with his research in marine biology. “These last five years have gone by so quickly. I have enjoyed my life at the station. I am going to miss it, but I m looking forward to what comes next.” work n hem’t0 studyand ^rk on research projects in Orkon YOUNG, are residing in Mission PoSAG.NER recently accepted a Californi 1 hLDeft,lnc’ of IrvineWith th B’ "’}lcre de is involved andhiswShtif8ofpainLHe vlIe> the former BARBARA born •y th'n9S t0 be sai’d Plenty of ?hn9S StUdentS’ 1971 CLAIRE E. GODLEWSKI Ims bnun promoted to executive malinger of Bradleg Department Store in Stratford, Connecticut, and resides in Woodmount. 6 «nSeplemb(lLG;aQB7DH^ Viejo. WILLIAM R-LAZOR is a partner with the accounting firm of Baron- Strassman and Company, Barre. 1972 ^ScBlHRrreiVedam-‘-’s Hahnemann Me^icalcKg^d™ AmpSrUCCeS:fullyPas^dthe S'S ’SParticipating in research on the Philadelphia, Pa. NORA CORCORAN STRICKLAND is a school teacher in West Germany, where she resides with her husband, Steven. LT. JOANNE S. SCHOONOVER graduated from the U.S. Air Force aircraft maintenance officer course at Chanute AFB, Illinois. Joanne has been assigned to Norton AFB, California, for duty with a unit of the Air Training Command. CLARK J. HAMMAN is director of the Lehigh University Marching Band. RON RITTENMEYER has been promoted to distribution manager for the new Charlotte, North Carolina plant of Frito-Lay. Ron resides with his wife, Hedy, and son, Christopher, in the Charlotte area. A son, Steven Andrew, was born on October 19,1978, to Victor and CATHY CHANDLER OLIVEIRA. The couple has another child, Caitlin, and the family resides in Repentigny, P.Q., Canada. A son, Michael Lawrence, was born on September 19,1978, to Lawrence and JUDITH KOLE SCHREIBER. Judy graduated from the University of Pennsylvania , School of Nursing with a master s degree in science, and is an assistant professor with the nursing program at Wilkes. A daughter, Martha Lynn, was born on May 9,1978, to Deborah and THOMAS YENCHA. Tom is employed at the Naval Surface Weapons Lab in Dahlgren, - Virginia, and the family resides in Fredericksburg. SMITH Cyrus teaches English and SN5T^in the Wyoming Valley S?&USd,.olW<».w. SPRING 1979 21 �1975 , vnNDEK is a co-pilot A daughter, Monica Lynn, was born on November 12,1978, to Mark and CAROLYN KRESGE ERMAN. Carolyn will complete her master s degree in music in June from California State University. She completed active service with the Air Force in July, 1977, and now holds the grade of Captain in a Reserve detachment at March Air Force Base. The couple resides in Riverside, California. 1973 THERESA A. GODLEWSKI is Chief Cytotechnologist at Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg. Pa., where she resides. A son Robert Allen, was born on October 30.1978,r7TThe VALERIE AIELLO ATKO ( 74). family resides in Gastonia, North Carolina, where Bob is general manager of Superior Stainless Steel Products, Inc. 1974 MARSHALL KORNBLATT has been appointed data processing manager of United Gilsonite Laboratories, Scranton, Pa. JAMES B. GODLEWSKI received his master's degree in elementary Success in Steady Steps by Afar? Ellen Ah When he first heard the words "live your life to the fulest.” J. Glenn Gooch '48 must have taken them to heart. For in the years following his graduation from Wilkes College, he has worked his way up the ladder of success from accountant to president and chief executive officer of Pennsylvania Enterprises. Inc. (PEI) and the Pennsylvania Gas a-: Water Company (PG&V. . PEI is a holding company of regulated and non-reguiated companies. PG&W is a major subsidiary and is a gas and water operating utility se~ ng 11 counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it has assets of S235.000.000. revenues of S111.000.000 and serves 235.000 gas and water accounts v. th 1000 employees. Obviously successful. G'enn is a community-oriented ndi..dua who seems to utilize his time fu . and constructively. The climb in the company moved him through the ranks of branch cilice manager, audit:', head of ths Data Processing DepariTent. head of the General Accounting Department, assistant controller, and control’er. in 1971. he advanced to vice president, finance and treasurer; in 1974. he was elected to the board of directors anc in 1977. was named senior vice president. "Fate and circumstance have a lot to do with the way things work Out says Gooch modestly. "A lot of good people sometimes don 't have the opportunity or training to succeed to higher pc: ■ ons. That's where hard work, initiative. and education fit in — the three mam ingredients which Glenn says lead to success. "No matter how much they may disdain their present work, I tell my people to do the best they can possibly do. They can't advance unless they're doing a good job where they're at." 22 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Glenn started the four-year curriculum at Wilkes in February. 1946. and completed the graduation requirements two years and four months later. Why not take the four years to finish? "I was catching up for lost time." says Glenn, who nad been in the sen ice prior to enrollment. During World War II, Glenn served as chief operations and air traffic centre ler for the Air Transport Command in Greenland and at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Even while in college. Glenn displayed his drive. He was the first recipient of the annual Dobson Accounting Award Key, served as the first president of the Accounting Club, or Accounting Forum as it was called then. In 1974. he earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Wilkes and has also attended courses ano seminars at other institutions to further his expertise in management, accounting, data processing, and finance. In hi: newly elected position with PEI and PGC'W, Glenn manages the tolal enterprise including the settling of policies education from Wilkes in 1978. Jjm : a teacher and coach with the Lake8 Wallenpaupak School District. He ' resides in Tafton, Pa., and has been accepted into the Ph.D, program at Lehigh University. DR. BARRY WARNER and Evelyn Spruce were recently married. Barry is a resident in internal medicine at Harrisburg Hospital, and the couple resides in Camp Hill, Pa. JEAN VADEBONCOEUR and Barry Anspach were recently married. Jean is an elementary music teacher in Denver, Colorado, where the couple is residing. and the establishment of goals. The job — demanding, as he puts in 10 to 11 hours a day, working Saturdays, and often, three or four nights a week. But, he has gained satisfaction from his accomplishments and from achieving his position. As head of a public utility, Glenn considers it part of his responsibility to participate in community endeavors. He has served as director, treasurer, and vice president of the Wilkes-Barre Jaycees, during which time he was named '‘The Outstanding Jaycee of the Year'' and received an award for the chairmanship of an outstanding project which established funds for Wilkes and King's Colleges. He has also participated in various civic activities including those for Industrial Funds, United Way, and Wilkes College. Currently, Glenn serves as a member of the Finance and Endowment Committees as a director of United Way, and as a member of the executive committees and the boards of both the Wilkes-Barre and Scranton Chambers of Commerce. “The community needs and expects help,1' says Glenn. "If we as company heads can make the community better, we make it better for our customers and employees. Making the community better makes companies better and vice versa." A likable man, Glenn feels big business must strive to do the best possible job with due consideration to the public, employees, and stockholders. "A fair balance is needed for all three.'' Glenn is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Gooch of Hanover Township, Pa. A resident of Kingston, he is married to the former Bette Miller of Lee Park. They have one son, Bradley, who attends Columbia University Graduate School and is pursuing studies for a doctorale in philosophy. an ,d LOUIS V recent n ith Graham s rAuXcoCny-WilkesOffice SdPPy couple resides at Barre. Her Avenue, Kingston, Pa. 632 v C ATHERINE BEHM and MAR 1 C Thomas Manganiello Airman ntlv married. The couple Califorma. A daughter. ^arie, was born Raymond and residing in Wilkes-Barre P James and LINDA KERN DESSOYF announce the birth of a daughter Jillian, on September 22 197R Un 1 is a substitute teacheraithe 1 dlla Pittston Area Elementary School and the family resides in Dupont Pa r°DTBuMARGA8ETBEll ' CK1SPELL announce the birth of a son, Loren, III, on September 5 1978. Margaret is an administrative assistant in Public Relations for Penn State University. 1977 1976 CATHERINE ROCCOGRANDI is an ■ tmrtor in drama and English at XX Valley West High School. Kathy has been appointed to direct the school’s annual musical production “South Pacific , which will be presented in April. ANN ZINI COFFEY is Registrar for the University of Maryland’s European division branch at St. Mawgan, Cornwall, England, where she resides with her husband, Patrick. JANICE R. COHEN has been named assistant to the State Chairman of Young Republicans of New Jersey. MARYROSE BENDIK BURLINGTON is in charge of the afternoon program at a day-care nursery school in Clinton, Connecticut, where she is residing with her husband, Tom. VILMA SCHIFANO was awarded a Fellowship to Marywood College and is a full-time graduate student, while working in the Marywood ^onege Department of Public h!rV4Ce;Vilma h°Pes t0 complete in V u^es the M.P. A. program ln August, 1979. dInntAWRENCE stAHLER is a cnm ‘y®lssile combat crew APR e nc,' assigned to Ellsworth the ^°,Uth.Dakota. with a unit of KAPnrteglC Air Command. SUpp°nx,NA «AHN and CHARLES Kiirolinn WG>ro recently married, school t , Chuck are elementary VallBV,ers with the Wyoming is alSoyH^est ^hool District. Chuck JAMES SHOTWELL, assistant vice president with the Mortgage Department at First Eastern Bank, recently conducted a seminar on ' equipment leasing for members of the Northeastern Chapter, Pennsylvania Society of Public Accountants. LAURA ROLLMAN was selected as the 1979 Youth Ambassador for the Wyoming Valley Chapter of Credit Unions. Laura is employed as a clerk in the Controller’s Office at WilkesBarre City Hall, and is a member of the Wilkes-Barre City Employees Credit Union. BRUCE LEAR has been appointed a part-time assistant coach at Lafayette College. KAREN KUCHINSKAS and Peter Kaminski were recently married. Karen is employed at the Garfield Duncan Research Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa., where the couple is residing. MARIA LEANDRI was recently wed to Robert Yonki. Maria is employed by Insalaco’s Supermarkets, and the couple is residing in West Pittston. EVELYN LABENSKI and Stephen Czapla were recently married. Evelyn is employed by p°mer,0^in the Wyoming Valley Mall, and the couple resides in Kingston, Pa. MICHAEL JAROUN was recent y -at?oVE;Tsco'Eawo^aS ” FSaF USA WAZNIK and John Andreiko were married on November11X8 Usa is a program specialist for the Monroe County Recreation and yarks Commission, and the couple is residing in Henryville, Pa. RICHARD VAVERKA is a music e ucation teacher in the Baltimore County Public Schools, and he resides at 4 Honeybee Court, Cockeysville, Maryland. BARBARA PLACEK has been appointed director of program development at Valley Crest, Luzerne County Institution District in Wilkes-Barre. JAMES RUCK teaches special education and vocal music in the Henry B. Milnes Elementary School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. DONNA PATRIZI and Kim Dyzlewski were wed recently. Donna is employed at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. ANNETTE McINTYRE was recently married to Lt. Edward Finn, and the couple is residing in Pensacola, Florida. vJ memoriam Coughlin High School graduate, mnprioey^ed0b^yei^arrotaPiami^nsa^ Heating, Nanticoke, Pa., where the Julia bowalick and RUSSEL Sacred Hospital Center, and R is a staff accountant at the Pennsylvania P^uJtown. The couple jerry and Joel. 0 SPRING 1979 23 �■ . ........................................................................... Bera Asjjbj uappoqs «i The Wilkes College Alumni fiss©eia«i®si is filfe1 im ALUMNI SUMMER COLLEGE ALUMNI SPRING WEEKEND May 18. 19. and 20 MAY 18 (on campus) (Friday Evening) Informal Social at the Annette Evans Alumni and Faculty House First Session — June 29, 30, and July 1 (Saturday) MAY 19 Tennis and Golf Tournaments, Shopping Trip. Fine Arts Fiesta, Seminars, Campus Tours (Saturday evening) Dance (Sunday) MAY 20 Commencement at Ralston Field (Sunday evening) Traditional Alumni Graduation Party Second Session — July 27, 28, and 29 For Alumni. Spouses, and Friends, the Seminar Program will include topics in: CPR, Opera, Ornithology. Personal Communication, Broadway, and Proposition 13. For Children there will be Dance, Drama, Macrame, and Culinary Arts. Plus plenty of Family Activities. ALUMNI COLLEGE VISITATION PROGRAM Wilkes College is part of a select group of small colleges throughout the United States which can now offer you a unique summer experience on their beautiful campuses. Member­ ship in the program is available to Wilkes College alumni and to your family, or if single, to you with the option of one traveling guest. Included in the program are meals, accommoda­ tions, and use of facilities. Further information on these three unique Alumni experiences will be forthcoming under separate cover. WUkes College Quarterly Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 355 WILKES-BARRE, PA. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Spring 1979 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1979 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/0c7db51639f091748585f41b3884f0d5.pdf 8f74f53c9c91c577c94a1c540688111f PDF Text Text WLKE6 COLLEGE FRLL1979 SJMtTEIlpr r* it ■J y< LV M _ Cmb| _ F 2 Lt i! J -• 'K k 1 i ■ �Reasons Greetings Meaning is something you build into your life, You build it out of your own past, Out of your affections and your loyalties, Out of the experience of mankind as it is passed on to you. Out of your own talent and understanding, Out of the things you believe in, Out of the things and people you love, Out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together, into that Unique pattern, that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success Or failure is of less account. John W. Gardner WILkEd COLLEGE FRILL W7R Volume 3, Number 2 CM editor George G. Pawlush '69 associate editor Jane Manganella editorial staff Eddie White III '80 Vesta Breakstone Betsy Bell Condron Edward Van Buren '80 Rosemary McMahon '80 Margaret Scholl '81 Cindy Ercolani '81 ON THE COVER: Homecoming annually signals the return of young and old graduates to campus. One of the highlights of the recent 32nd Annual Homecoming, and hopefully the beginning of a new tradition, was the first homecoming parade. The parade route started from the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts and traveled to Ralston Field by way of WilkesBarre’s Public Square. Leading the 24-unit procession and featured on this issue of the QUARTERLY are none other than George Ralston and Art Hoover. Both gentlemen have participated in numerous homecomings during their long and celebrated tenures at Wilkes College. The cover photo was taken by QUARTERLY Photography Editor Arthur S. Miller. A complete pictoral presentation of the 32nd Annual Homecoming will appear in the Winter issue of the QUARTERLY. contributing staff Dr. Olivia Ayres Noreen Corbett '79 William Lewis '80 editorial advisor Psychology-. The Growing Science by Noreen Corbett '79 Dr. Richard T. Rees '62 Married Women & Careers: Breadwinner or Breadmaker? art director by Dr. Olivia C. Ayres Jon Schaffer LIBBY AND BOB CAPIN photography editor Arthurs. Miller SPECTRUM STUDIO Caution: Bureaucracy Ahead By Dr. Richard T. Rees '62 contributing photographers Robert Gaetano '80 Tanya Hallez '67 circulation manager "A Living Landmark — The Story of Conyngham Hall" by William V. Lewis Jr. '80 Tanya Hallez '67 5 8 10 12 Writing Made Easy by Cindy Ercolani'81 The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. An Introduction to Planned Giving by Betsy Bell Condron Chronicle — 4 Faculty Abstract — 7 Gallery — 14 Sports U pdate — 16 South River St. Revival — 17 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons. Honorary Member Louis Shaffer. Trustee Emeritus Alan M. Glover. Ph.D., Trustee Emeritus OFFICERS Benjamin Badman '41. Chairman Mrs. Walter M. Diener. Vice Chairman Hon. Edwin M. Kosik '49. Vice Chairman Mrs. Edward Darling. Secretary Mrs. William Davidowitz. Treasurer James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein '68 Edward Bixby, M.D. Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Henry M. Curry. 3rd Mrs. Stanley Davies Louis D. Davis. Jr. '60 Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan. Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Richard Maslow Charles H. Miner, Jr. Gerald A. Moffatt '63 F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Richard L. Pearsall Joseph J. Pinola '49 Hon. Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross. Jr. Eugene Roth '57 Joseph J. Savitz '48 Ronald W. Simms '60 William Sword E. Arthur Trabant. Ph.D. William J. Umphred '52 Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENT Roberts. Capin '50 �degree from Brown University. While a student at Brown, he was chief editor of "The Providence Review," a literary monthly, and was very active in the Brown University theater. colI©/ge@Ihig®iaM® rm - -' DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS SEMINAR Over 100 engineers and executive personnel from various telephone companies throughout the nation and other professionals interested in learning the latest developments in the telecommunications field participated in a conference on campus in September entitled “Digital Communications — Present and Future Applications." Responsible for the success of the event were Dr. Umid Nejib, chairman of the Wilkes College Department of Engineering, Engineering faculty and students, and Dr. Thomas F. Kelly, who was chairman of the planning committee. The seminar is expected to be conducted on annual basis. Presidents and chief engineers from telephone companies from 13 states, as far away as Florida, Arkansas, and California, attended the three-day proceedings. Seminar speakers and topics included: Alan Walker, Farinon Electric, DIGITAL MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION; Jim Bylander, 3 M, COAXIAL CABLE TRANS­ MISSION; Dr. Rick Jones, Harris Government Information Systems FIBER OPTIC SYSTEMS: Barry ’ Eckhart, Northern Telecom, DIGITAL SWITCHING SYSTEMS; 4 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY John Bull, TRW Vidar, REMOTE SUBSCRIBER UNITS; Neal Novak, Stromberg-Carlson, CENTRAL PROCESSORS; Jeff Adams, Commonwealth Telephone Company, DIGITAL SYSTEMS PLANNING; Don Wheeler, ITT, CUSTOMER-MANUFACTURER RELATIONS: and Dr. Edmund Howie, NASA, DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION. According to Dr. Nejib, “Many independent telephone companies, serving rural areas, are now faced with the need to expand their facilities to serve corporations and communities which are developing in rural regions throughout the nation. At the same time the tech­ nology of the industry is changing from one which employs electro­ mechanical switching and transmission devices to that which uses the new digital switching and transmission systems. The expertise of the Wilkes College Engineering faculty and the engineering depart­ ment of Commonwealth Telephone Company can be helpful to firms at this time.” Shown at the banquet which highlighted the event are, from left: Dr. Nejib: Joseph Siedlarz, vice president-Network Planning with the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, the keynote speaker; Wilkes President Robert S. Capin; William Umphred, a member of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees and president of the Commonwealth Telephone Company, and Dr. Kelly. WRITER IN RESIDENCE Mark Halladay, short story writer and poet, is serving as Wilkes College’s “Writer in Residence" during the Fall semester. The “Writer-in-Residence" Program allows the visit of a distinguished American writer to the campus annually for one semester. In addition to teaching a creative writing course on Monday evenings, Halladay will be available for consultation with the students and the community. He will conduct a reading of his works later in the semester. Previous “Writers in Residence” at the College have included Hugh Seidman, poet; Laura Furman, fiction writer; Jon Lipsky, play­ wright; and Beatrice Hawley, poet. The program is funded in part by a special endowment created by the late Dorothy Dickson Darte in memory of her father, Allan Hamilton Dickson, to encourage enlightened teaching, extended scholarship, and creative writing in the field of literature. Halladay, a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, has had stories published in "The New Yorker,” "North „ American Review,” "Confrontation, and “American Heritage.” In addition, he has published more than 70 poems in fifty periodicals „ including “New American Review, „ "Poetry Northwest,” “Ploughshares, “Western Humanities Review, an “Carleton Miscellany.” Halladay has also written two full-length play­ scripts for the Rhode Island Feminist Theatre, and lour as-yetunpublished novels. Halladay holds a B.A. and M.A. COMMUNICATION STUDIES Wilkes College has received a $4500 grant from the Association of American College’s “Project Quill" in support of Wilkes College's senior seminar program entitled "Communications in an Open Society.” The senior seminar will be an important component of the College’s new major in Communica­ tion Studies. According to Dr. Thomas N. Kaska, chairman of the Department of Language and Literature, the new major is strongly centered in the liberal arts, requiring over one hundred credit hours in traditional liberal subjects. "Communications in an Open Society” is designed to focus all that the student has learned in his professional and liberal subjects upon the significance of communica­ tions in our society. The seminar will explore the ethical and legal implications of mass communication and the problems of persuasion and propaganda. The seminar will be offered for the first time in the Fall semester of 1980. "Project Quill" is made possible by a substantial grant from the Ford Foundation. Funds are available to colleges and universities toward the support of creative efforts in enhancing liberal learning. The projects fall under three themes — (1) helping cross boundaries between or among the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences; (2) strengthening the liberal learning component of continuing education; and (3) helping integrate liberal learning with career and professional education. The major in Communication Studies at Wilkes will provide a broad background in the liberal arts as well as in communication. The program is designed to prepare students for careers in such diverse fields as reporting, public relations, broadcasting, business, and teaching. Students may choose concentra­ tions in speech, communication theory, organizational communica­ tion, journalism, or broadcasting. Each of these consists of a block of related courses totaling 15 credit hours, except for broadcasting, for which the total is 18 credit hours. CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES The Wilkes College Concert and Lecture Series will once again offer a full schedule of programs for the 1979-80 season. All performances begin at 8 p.m. and are held at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts. Both campus and community are invited free of charge. “The Magic of Broadway,” a combination of great songs from the world of Broadway and a touch of magic, will be presented on Wednesday, November 14. On Wednesday, February 27, Malcolm Forbes, Jr., Senior Editor of Forbes Magazine, will give his views on the contemporary business world today. Mr. Forbes is also founding editor of Business Today, a Princeton quarterly publication designed for students. The Rod Rogers Dance Company will perform on Tuesday, March 18. This predominately black dance group will offer a diversified program of dance ranging from modern to ritual. On Tuesday, March 25, a dynamic young group, The Alpha Omega Players, will present a melodrama, which will give the audience a chance to cheer the hero and hiss the villain as the plot unfolds. The final performance of the series will be given by The Chestnut Brass on Wednesday, April 9. This versatile quintet has a repertoire THE ALUMNI CONNECTION Utilizing a bank of telephones at the Annette Evans Alumni and Faculty House, alumni and student volunteers raised over 513,000 during a four-day period in September to bring the alumni contribution in the "Alpha” Campaign past the 5300,000 mark. Shown at one of the four nightly sessions are recent alumni, from left: Tina Falcone Stehle '78, Jim Stehle '77, Karen Klucitas '79, and Barry Harcharufka '78. ranging from traditional to avantgarde twentieth century works. ADMISSIONS PICTURE BRIGHT While many colleges and universities throughout the nation are experiencing difficulties with dropping enrollments, the picture at Wilkes College appears bright with 580 freshmen enrolled for the Fall semester. According to Dr. Gerald K. Wuori, dean of admissions, the 1979 figure for the Class of 1983 represents a 22 percent increase over the size of last year's freshman class. Another healthy sign is the overall full-time enrollment reported over 2000 students. Dr. Wuori notes that 75 percent of the freshman students ranked in the upper two-fifths of their high school class. Other statistics reveal that 48 percent of the students hail from Luzerne County. The Admissions Office will expand its aggressive recruiting program this year with more than 500 high schools set for visitation. For the first time, the Wilkes College Admissions Office will expand its efforts to a significant degree in the New England region. Another source of optimism is the unveiling of the Alumni Referral Program (ARP). The program, highlighted in the Summer issue of the Quarterly, seeks to have alumni become active in the recruiting process. The six areas covered by the telephone blitz included New England, Upstate New York, Lower Tier New York, Harrisburg/ Lancaster/York, Lehigh Valley, and Greater Pittsburgh. Another alumni telephone campaign, aimed at contacting alumni in the Greater Wilkes-Barre Area, is scheduled for February. With one year remaining on the three-year drive, the "Alpha” Campaign has realized 52.1 million of its $2.4 million goal. q FALL 1979 5 �psychology has much freedom in designing a program suited to his or her own interest within <4 The • • Growing Science by Noreen Corbett '79 A science is defined as the "observation, identification, description, experimental investigation and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena." Taking this definition and applying it to the natural processes and behavior of human beings leads to the evergrowing field of psychology. According to Dr. Robert C. Riley, chairman of the Wilkes College Psychology Department, the discipline is concerned with maintaining a high quality curriculum. This is basically little different from technical sciences in that it too must vacilate to survive from day to day. Dr. Riley notes that a student majoring in 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY the field. "We have long felt that undergraduate training in psychology should not be specialized." he reflects. "We are not training individuals to be clinical psychologists, industrial psychologists, or a psychologist of any other area." He emphasizes that Wilkes College provides a strong background or foundation in general psychology. This foundation includes several free electives which will allow the student to go beyond the basic background for psychology and to prepare for the particular road that he or she has selected. For example, students may select courses which may make their entrance to graduate school much easier; or they may elect courses and internships which will enable them to consider psychology related career opportunities. Dr. Riley mentions that the Wilkes College Psychology Department was one of the first departments in the area to allow students the opportunity to “intern in various mental health units, day-care centers, and hospitals. This provides the student with the opportunity to obtain invaluable practical experience while earning credits as well." In reference to the two basic objectives of the psychology curriculum at the College Dr Riley feels that "we have a good solid balance between the two with considerable latitude and ’ freedom for the student.” This point is evidenced in the high percentage of students who were nmrtCeStS Ul In bein9 admi"ed to graduate schools and also thos* received j0bs as a result their internships. ° rea^iv uSyCh0l09y DePartment «™«^no'lgchan9l"s e«°ZT"eou( -as?;®- note that other than the basic introductory course, the only other course required of majors ■ Research Design, which further 'S indicates the program's flexibility He continues: ’’We have an existing core of psychology courses which is adaptable to allow us to cover innovative developments in the field. The College generally has changed the curriculum for us. The Topics courses permit us to explore areas not previously covered in the curriculum such as psycholinguistics, sexual development, behavior modification, cognition, and parenting, to name only a few." The psychology faculty members do not limit their talents to classroom teaching. They are frequently called upon to deliver talks, to take part in career days, and to participate in continuing education programs. Members of the department also sit on a number of boards including the Mental Health/Mental Retardation and Drug and Alcohol Council. Other normal functions of the faculty include the publication of articles and papers, acting as consultants, collecting data, administering questionnaires, and obtaining random samples of behavior for analysis. Dr. Riley also notes with interest that Dr. Carl Charnetski, a faculty member and Wilkes College graduate, is also involved with the Health Science Office, where he is conducting statistical work and analysis of a psychological nature. Also, Dr. James Truckenmiller, another faculty member, traveled to Peru this summer to present a paper on predicting juvenile delinquency. Also he is deeply involved with conducting crosscultural personality research to determine whether or not people in different cultures see each other in the same way. The dedication of the psychology faculty members is obvious and their accomplishments and involvement are lengthy — a positive sign for anyone seriously considering psychology as a major. THE WILKES college connection FOR24-HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. 717-826-1135 by Ed Van Buren '80 Thirty-one years ago Welton Farrar joined the Wilkes College Commerce and Finance Department faculty. His first classes were comprised of what he terms “highly motivated" World War II veterans. Now, after years of observation, Farrar has found a reminder of those early classes. "The current genera­ tion of students is quite strongly motivated in terms of career goals,” he reveals.” Students are almost forced to be career oriented now, since most owe money when they graduate.” Farrar is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he received a degree in Social Studies. Continuing his education at the Philadelphia institution, he earned his master’s degree in Economics. The Massachusetts native and his wife, Esther, are the parents of four children, three of whom attended Wilkes, whereas the fourth matriculated at Texas Christian University. In addition to his teaching responsibilities at the College, Farrar serves as educational director for the Northeastern Pennsylvania Institute for Financial Education, which offers a training course for employees of various savings and loan associations. His years of experience at Wilkes have provided the popular economics professor with a qualified impression of the directions the College has taken and the directions that it will take in the future. Any problems facing Wilkes College now seem insignificant when compared to the Korean War period, recalls Farrar. "Wilkes was relatively a young four-year college. Compulsory draft had brought the enrollment down to the 600 student level. Fortunately, President Eugene S. Farley had the toughness necessary to keep the College above board. Luckily, the war ended and Wilkes survived.” Now, he is assured that the College can survive on its own and operate at a surplus through the 1980's. He points to the fact that Wilkes College is one of the few institutions of higher learning still operating in the black. "One important asset that will help Wilkes survive,” he says, "is sound fiscal management.” Farrar feels that the current College administra­ tion is evidence of the positive step being taken in this direction. Farrar’s optimism is in part due to the generosity of the community toward Wilkes. He notes that each year he is amazed at the efforts of the College’s annual fund raising drive. “Without that source of revenue and the support of the community Wilkes College could not exist,” he adds. Still, Farrar feels that there are ways in which the College can insure its future stability. He believes that the successful colleges of the future will be the ones that are most adaptable to the career orientation displayed by the students. In addition, he believes that the College must build a stronger endowment. This must be accomplished through improved alumni support. Farrar points out that since Wilkes has been in existence for only a short time, its alumni are relatively young and therefore greatly affected by cost of living pressures, pressures that limit large donations. Alumni giving patterns should improve as their life styles and responsibility change. Wilkes College also owes its success to its ability to retain quality faculty members. This will become more important in the future as the faculty' provides the life and blood of the institution. For over three decades Welton Farrar has personified the image of a quality educator, dedicated to commitment and excellence toward the advancement of higher education, q Plan NOW!! for Wilkes College Annual Alumni HOMECOMING Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Of­ fice at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our rec­ ords. FALL 1979 7 �by Dr. Olivia C. Ayres In a well known T.V. perfume ad. a sensuous young woman dances across the tube singing, I can bring home the bacon Fry it up in a pan And never, never let you forget you’re a man ’Cause I’m a woman. Not too long ago, Iranian women protested when religious leaders said that women should again wear the “chador.” It seemed to the women that they were losing their freedom just when they had gained it. In contrast, American women of this decade, in particular married women, seem to have the option of wearing as many costumes, assuming as many roles as they choose. Like the woman in the perfume ad, the American woman can dance through her day as professional, homemaker, and wife. Societal traditions or prejudices rarely prevent a woman from pursuing a career if she wants to: it is no longer always assumed that the husband will be the sole breadwinner, and married women are taking advantage of this freedom by working either to augment their husbands’ salaries or to find satisfaction that is elusive to them in the home. It would seem that the married career woman has achieved the ideal: to do all and to be all. Finally, the myth that Betty Friedan termed the “feminine mystique” has dissipated. Still, all is not well. Few women, or few people for that matter, can work eight to ten hours a day on the job and five more hours at home in the evening without collapsing, mentally and physically. Simultaneously managing a career and a home is a mammoth task, yet many women do it. In many ways, bearing the burden of both breadwinning and breadmaking seems to be the price that many women pay for their freedom, their rights to choose their roles and pursue their goals. As women accept this burden, usually without question, it appears that the myth of the “feminine mystique” has been replaced by another myth equally false and equally confining as its predecessor: the myth of the “wonder woman.” For various reasons, many of them economic, the days of the 8 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY uUo/i/tierf QUomen Cafiee/ts: ■w 1 BREADWINNER OR BREADMAKER? e passive homemaker are gone. A decade ago, the existence of most women inspired a chorus of outrage, the chords of which are vibrating even now. One of the first voices in the 60s that women and the rest of society listened to was Betty Friedan, who, in The Feminine Mystique, outlined women’s first struggle for the vote and other legal rights and also outlined, despairingly, 20th Centi Jury women s regressions into passive acceptance of confining roles. Women of the 40’s, 50’s, and 6Q, she claimed, were surrounded ' protected by what she termed th “feminine mystique": " ‘ The feminine mystique says thnl the highest value and the on/v commitment for women is th fulfillment of their own e femininity ... It says this feminity is so mysterious and intuitive and close to the creation and origin of life that man-made science may never be able to understand it. But however special and different it is in no way inferior to the nature of man; it may even in certain respects be superior. The mistake, says the mystique the root of women’s troubles in’ the past is that women envied men, women tried to be like men, instead of accepting their own nature, which can find fulfillment only in sexual passivity, male domination, and nurturing maternal love.1 In short, according to Friedan, women were placed on pedestals, protected from the ills of the world “out there.” Women “had it made.” Why would they desire more? Yet for this protection, women had to sacrifice their intellectual and spiritual growth. The workaday world demands much of its participants, but by facing these demands, and by succeeding, or even failing, one grows. Women were considered unable to cope with more than their little worlds. Women that wanted, needed, something “out there” were considered freaks and were ultimately forced to adjust to the only roles appropriate for the female — wife and mother. It was not the roles one objected to, but the limited alternatives. Today, a woman chooses freely. She is not scorned if she chooses a profession and neither is she scorned if she chooses to remain in the home, once the case at the height of the 70’s feminist movement. According to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Labor and Commerce, 42% of the U.S. work force is women. As of March 1979, in 6 out of 10 husband-wife families, both partners held paying jobs. As of May 1979, 49.4% of women workers were 'Belty Friedan. The Feminine Mr"11’””, pp 39-40 married and 51% of mothers with children under 18 worked outside the home. Career women, of course, have little reason for complacency because, even though almost half the work force is women, 80% of working women are in the less prestigious, less power-wielding, and lesser paying clerical, sales, service, and factory jobs; and because for every one dollar men earn, women earn 58.9‘. Yet these statistics are not used as the basis for an hysterical tirade on the injustices of wage discrepancies. The statistics reveal the logical state of things: women are new to the professions and to industry, and women in general are inexperienced. As women gain time, they will progress in their careers. Hopefully, no niche is reserved in a high place for a woman simply because she is a woman. Such “tokenism” is not only spiritually intolerable; it is also socially and economically debilitating. One set of statistics that I find more disturbing than those revealing the wage discrepancy is the statistics compiled in a Harvard based Project on Human Sexual Development. In a survey of 1,400 working husbands and working wives, the researchers found that in less than 3% of the households, the husband did most of the housework; in 12% of the households, husband andwife shared the housework; whereas in 85% of the households, the wife did most of the housework. Housework in this context means maintaining the order and efficient running of the household, not “puttering around” and doing an odd chore here or there. The abstract statistics can be translated into a vivid picture of a working wife’s day to day life. During the week, in 85% of the households in which both husband and wife work, the wife wakes early, prepares breakfast, washes the breakfast dishes, makes the beds, straightens the house a bit, and finally dresses for work. If the woman is also a mother, she rises earlier in order to prepare a larger breakfast, dress the children, and drop them at school or at the day care center on her way to work. Usually on her lunch hour, the wife will run errands or shop for whatever items she may need for dinner that evening (heaven forbid that she has forgotten to take something out of the freezer that morning for the evening meal). After work, the woman immediately begins to cook the evening meal, set the table, and, afterward, wash the dishes. Most conscientious wives and mothers will not, at this point, plop down in front of the T.V. for the rest of the evening. The woman must attend to certain chores in the evenings if the household is to run smoothly during the work week: laundry must be done to replenish those needed playclothes and underwear; mending must be done when the only pair of good work pants rips; the bathroom must be cleaned to ward off those creepy crawlers that tend to accumulate in a very short time; and the list goes on, some lists being longer than others depending on the amount of energy the woman possesses at the end of the day. Most working wives and mothers reserve the bulk of the housecleaning for the weekend: the vacuuming, dusting, floorscrubbing, heavy duty laundry, window washing, refrigerator and oven cleaning, changing of bed linen, and grocery shopping. More industrious women also bake, sew their children’s clothes, shampoo rugs or clean drapes. An outline of the tasks that the working woman accomplishes or attempts to accomplish during her week does not mean to imply that the husband is idle. The husband, too, has chores: fixing the dripping faucet, painting the eaves, mowing the lawn, raking, cleaning the garage, washing the cars, for example. Yet, in addition to maintaining order in the home, the woman usually has extra chores similar to her husband’s: gardening, canning, refinishing furniture, painting, wallpapering. In fact, many women work along side their husbands mowing lawns or washing the cars. The point is that the woman alone, in 85% of the households, is responsible for the day to day efficient running of the household, the essential, the central, not just the peripheral, household chores. A dirty car can wait another week, a faucet can drip for three more days, but food must be bought and prepared each day for the family to eat (eating out once in a while for most of us is an expensive luxury), the children must be bathed, clothed, and attended to, some sort of order in the house must be maintained in order, at the very best, to provide a retreat from the pressures of the job and, at the very least, to ward off chaos. In 85% of the households, the working wife and mother actually shoulders two careers — in the home and in the office — different, yet both emotionally and physically draining. Surprisingly, few working wives and mothers complain or demand that their families take over some of the essential chores. Most people in our society, these women included, seem silently to have agreed that working women will and can work both in the home and on the job. These “wonder women" take pride in the fact that they can do all and be all. To complain would be to admit failure. Women also accept their onerous dual roles in order to assuage their guilt. Many working women aren't entirely comfortable in this new role as breadwinner. For various reasons, many women still believe that their “place is in the home.” Therefore, though they have a career or job, they accept full responsibility for managing the household. The perpetuation of the myth of the “wonder woman,” by society or by the women themselves, has certain undesirable consequences. The two roles will always conflict. The woman’s talents and energies will remain divided. Sacrificing either the job or the family is unsatisfactory. If a woman abandons her family, she feels unfulfilled and guilty. If she abandons her career, she feels unfulfilled, takes her frustrations out on her family, and feels guilty. If a woman is able to balance her job and her family, she will not be able to do so for long. She will soon collapse. Theoretically, the solution is simple: the husband could share with his wife the running of the household. The husband could not only “help” his wife (working women expend as much energy FALL 1979 9 �getting their families to “help’ as they would doing the chore themselves); he could, unaided, spot chores that need doing and complete them. The husband and wife could divide the daily chores so that each knows what she/he is responsible for. Practically, it appears that the solution is not so simple or so easily accomplished as I state above since in only 12% of the households, working wives and husbands share housework. Still, there is hope that the myth of the “wonder woman” will be dispelled since “all work and no play" make Joan a very dull mate. The myth will also be dispelled out of necessity. Biologically and psychologically, a woman is no “wonder.” She is only human. One night after work, the woman will simply fall asleep before dinner and someone else will have to cook. Or a husband will start doing the laundry because it’s only then that he can find a clean pair of underwear. Chaos will reign for a while. The wife and mother may feel guilty for a while, but the guilt will diminish when her vitality increases, her days being less hectic. On a larger scale, society and working wives/mothers themselves will be forced one day to accept a woman’s limitations as we accept a man's. Inevitably, heroes rise and. just as inevitably, heroes fall. They are usually liked better for their honesty and humility. Ironically, women will rise only when they, like the heroes before them, fall. A woman will be less frustrated and more productive on the job and in the home only when she has a realistic view of her capabilities; only when she admits that she can’t do everything and decides to do well what she is capable of doing. Women will gain in human stature only if they are allowed to be human and not some “earth mother” or “wonder woman.” As 1 one of these mystical and mythical creatures, a woman fails and is not I forgiven. As a mere mortal, she’s at | least allowed a second chance. q Dr. Olivia C. Ayres is an assistant professor in the Department of Language and Literature. She holds a Ph.D. from Lehigh University and joined the Wilkes College faculty in 1978. 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY l^c BUREAUCRJY AHEAD by Dr. Richard T. Rees '62 "Strike!" "Teachers Walk Out!” "Teachers Threaten Job Action!" These newspaper headlines and many like them are rapidly becoming familiar to all as the process of collective bargaining in public education moves agonizingly along. As teacher organizations continue to flex their newly found legal muscles, there appears to be a definite shift in the power alignment in public education. Teachers are gaining concessions in areas such as salaries, fringe benefits, course load, class size, and, in some cases, they are invading policy-making territory long held by boards of education and administrators. The fact that teachers appear to be moving up the rungs of the hierarchical ladder and assuming positions alongside administrators and board members in terms of decision making would seem to imply flexibility and broad input with respect to the formation of educational decisions. Few would argue that this is a most positive result in that there is ample theory and research to indicate that the more the subordinate is involved in the planning and implementation of programs which govern his work situation, the more satisfaction and commitment he will exhibit. A major implication of the current research finding seems to be that not only is it important to involve participants in decision making but that open lines of communication and interaction should be maintained so the organization and its participants may respond, react, and change as the situation warrants. A close examination of the negotiation process in education indicates an area for concern with regard to the maintenance of an open flexible communication system. A review of contractual agreements which are emerging from the deliberations between teacher groups and boards of education provides some alarming findings. More and more elements of the work situation are being specified in formal rules and regulations. This is not to suggest that an organization should function without some rules and regulations to govern the behavior of its participants, for without institutional norms anxiety levels of participants may be unusually high as they find difficulty in assuming their roles within the organization. But, rather, the concern is with the degree to which the rules are overly restrictive. Teachers have been rebelling against the oppressiveness (perceived or actual) of hierarchically imposed demands, but it appears that as contractual agreements become more complex and voluminous, the system may become every bit as bureaucratically confining even though the rules were developed "cooperatively.'' Bureaucracy has been defined as possessing the following characteristics: hierarchy of authority, division of labor, uniformity of rules and regulations, and formalized, impersonal relationships. What is interesting to note is that the impetus in the development of bureaucracy, especially with respect to rules and regulations, need not necessarily come from the upper levels of the hierarchy, but may emerge form subordinates or from a cooperative effort between superiors and subordinates. There is also a “representative" type of bureaucracy in which both subordinates and superiors are cooperatively involved in the process of developing rules leading to the growth of bureaucracy. The major danger seems to be that while negotiations activity appears to meet the criteria for democratic processes in that those affected by the outcomes are involved in the decisions, it is quite possible that the specifications under which the school system functions may become so rigid that flexibility of operations is severely limited if not lost altogether. Restrictions imposed by subordinates may be every bit as damaging as those generated by an oppressive hierarchical structure. Board of education members, administrators, and teachers alike may experience great frustration in their everyday activities if their functions are so specifically defined that there is little room for deviation. In a case such as this, lack of compliance to the existing contractual arrangements would bring pressure not only from upper levels of the hierarchy but also from the peer group. This would seem to encourage the development of a "punishment­ centered" system which may be based on the imposition of rules and on obedience for its own sake. Activities may then focus on the adherence to the rules just because they exist and not on whether the rule is appropriate for the situation. In addition, deviation from the expected norms may result in punishment flowing upward through the hierarchy as well as downward. That is, in a "traditional" bureaucracy, if members of the upper levels of the hierarchy desire to deviate from or change existing rules or regulations, they may do so with relative ease by simply imposing the change. Subordinate deviation, however, may bring severe punishment from superiors. In a "representative" bureaucracy, superiors and subordinates alike are held to the agreed-upon rules and deviation may bring punishment to any hierarchical level in the organization. This situation would seem to be as unhealthy as a "traditional" bureaucracy if the activities within the organization were always contingent on the punishment attached to deviation. The question is not whether rules and regulations should exist, but rather to what degree they should control the day-to-day operations of the individual participants within the organization or the degree to which deviance is punished. Once a mode of behavior is formalized as a rule or regulation, it is most difficult to change, particularly when the rule was agreed to in concert and needs the support of all factions in order to change. In summary, extreme caution is urged in the deliberations between boards of education and teacher groups so that they do not fall into a trap which will sorely limit the academic and professional freedom so necessary to the effective functioning of any educational institution, if the profession is committed to the concept of adaptability and provision for change, a highly developed ruleoriented bureaucracy would all but eliminate the possibility for such activity. Innovative organizations need to be characterized by structural looseness with less emphasis on narrow and rigid definitions of duties and responsibilities. Professional flexibility should not be negotiated away; instead, the collective bargaining process should be used to maintain open communication at all levels of the hierarchy, thus providing for constant interaction and the possibility for change without major conflict at every junction. O Editor’s note: Dr. Rees, Director of Alumni Relations at Wilkes College, has published numerous articles in leading professional and research journals. Much of his writing and research activity centers on group and organizational processes with a specific focus on interpersonal relationships. This article addresses a most timely topic as many school systems nationwide are experiencing board-teacher conflicts. FALL 1979 11 �carved and inscribed fireplace. The bookshelf-lined room really came alive at Christmas time, serving as the center for holiday activity. Changing with the times, the room later became the place for viewing television. Behind the library was the dining room, elegantly set for one of the many parties which the family hosted. Along its walls were decorative plates, set on the chair rail to ornament the room. In the rear was the pantry and then the breakfast room, which, besides serving its obvious function, was where the children ate until they reached a proper age to join the adults in the dining room. Near the breakfast room was the kitchen, a room dominated by a massive gas and coal stove. To the rear of the house was the open porch, which was used to dry the family's laundry when the only type of dryer available was a breeze. The back area housed the china room where the dishes were cleaned and stored. The room was also filled with the household's collection of dinnerware. In addition, the back staircase, used mostly by the servants and children, and the family elevator were located near the rear of the house. Opposite the library, in the front, was the living room area. Originally two rooms, the partitions were removed, leaving one enormous area. A huge stone fireplace dominated one wall, and close by was the door to the sun porch. No longer existing, the porch was characterized by swan wallpaper, ceramic tile, and a small fountain in one corner. A Living Landmark 0 The Story Of Conyngham Hall by William V. Lewis '80 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY It was once observed that history tends to repeat itself. This observation takes on additional significance when the story of Conygham Hall, the new Wilkes College Student Center, is considered. Remembered by past generations as the stately home of the distinguished William Conyngham family, the building has taken on a new meaning to the present College community. As the hub of campus social life and activity, the mansion has once again come alive, its huge, restored rooms serving as the ''home'' of today's students. Yet. there was a time when this was the home of one of WilkesBarre's leading families. Within its walls grew a generation of community leaders, raised in a life style never again to be experienced. Standing on the front porch, one can visualize the past with the calm Susquehanna flowing within its dike-less banks and Model-T's and horses passing on the tree-shrouded South River Street. The main hall, with its massive Corinthian columns and the bronze lamp atop the stair post, dominated the entrance to the house. To the left was the family library: a gas fire burned in the The main staircase to the second floor faced the master bedroom. The size of the room was staggering, made to look even larger by the many windows. Beneath the windows was the roof of the front porch. This was a favorite spot during parades, giving the family an excellent view of the marchers going past. To the left was Mr. Conyngham's dressing room, a place to dress for the day and to nap after work. On the other side of the master bedroom was Mrs. Conyngham's study. Here, she took care of the many details of the running of the household, which, with a staff of up to 12 servants, was no easy task. Her activities were further evidenced by a closet off the room which she used to store the household records and her jewelry safe. Lining the hallway toward the rear of the house was a guest room, frequently occupied by one of their many visiting friends. Next was the linen room, lined with overflowing shelves and then the doors concealing the family vault. Adjacent to this was the sewing room, where, several times a week, a seamstress would come to care for the mending needs of the household. Construction on the mansion was begun in 1897 and Mr. Conyngham moved into the dwelling with his first wife sometime later. Tragedy was to strike the home with her death but a few short years later. For many years, the building was vacant, until 1918 when Mr. Conyngham married Jessie Guthrie. The new Mrs. Conyngham decided that the home needed enlarging to accommodate the growing family, so an addition was built on the back. The new section consisted of a porch area and china room on the first floor, children's bedrooms on the second floor, and a playroom and servants' room on the third floor. Several additional guest rooms were located in the front of the house on the third floor. To the right and extending down the hallway were the servants' quarters. One interesting tradition of the household was that the chief servant, in terms of seniority, always occupied the front room of the servant's area providing the best view of the river. In the back of the home, the children's playroom was located. Their model train zooming around on its track can be imagined as well as their moans as the governess dragged them to the room's wash basin after a hard day of play. The children thoroughly enjoyed living in the home as they played in the storage area of the attic, attended to their dogs on the side of the house, or sneaked over the brick wall that separated their yard from that of their uncle's. John Conyngham, to play with the children of his chauffeur. The carriage house to the mansion's rear also holds its own stories. The large building housed the family's horses and the children's ponies, later the family automobiles. Remnants of an age long gone, such as the sophisticated hay loft or the pulley elevator that conveyed carriages to the building s second floor for storage, still exist. The second floor also housed the living quarters of the family's chauffeur. The grounds generated a sense of solitude. Many threats came to this environment, but fortunately, most were averted. When the house was being built, cost overruns were mounting and. in hope of avoiding added costs. Mr. Conyngham expressed a desire to build a wooden front porch rather than one of brick and stone. Fortunately, the architect, Charles Gifford, was able to dissuade him from his intentions by showing the inconsistency of such a porch attached to so magnificent a dwelling. Flood waters have taken a toll on the building. Built by design to be above water level of the great Flood of 1865. confidence in its ability to withstand flood damage was solid. This confidence was shaken in 1936 when the basement filled with water and was shattered when the home received four and a half feet of water on the first floor in 1972. Several months after the 1972 flood, fire struck the building, damaging several walls in the library and dining room. The impact of commercial interests was also felt in the neighborhood. The lot next door to the house, formerly the site of the Wright residence, was being considered as a prime location for a gas station. Fortunately. Mr. Conyngham and Mr. Harry Hershowitz. the former owner of the present Annette Evans Alumni Faculty House, intervened and mutually purchased the land, thus preserving the beauty and character of the neighborhood. And so. a home that was once very much alive, as the dwelling of a socially active family, has once again come to life. This time, the home has been restored to serve another family, the Wilkes College Family. The halls and great rooms of this mansion are once again filled with the hustle and bustle of gatherings, dining, and also, at times, a quiet sense of relaxation. To many, it has become and will be a kind of "campus home." History really does, indeed, repeat itself. o William Lewis, a senior political science major and president of the Commuter Council, prepared the article with the cooperation of William Conyngham, a longtime member of Wilkes College Board of Trustees. The Conyngham Student Center was formally dedicated on November 10 although the facility has been in use since the start of the first semester. FALL 1979 13 �J SORDONIFEATURES ALUMNI A multi-media exhibition featuring the works of Wilkes College art alumni filled the Sordoni Gallery in September and October. Selections for the show were made by an outside juror and included paintings, graphics, sculpture, crafts, as well as photography. Shown are the artists and guests at the opening reception. Participating artists included Keith Ackerman '65, Sue Adams '78, Frances Balavage '78, Randall Bond '77, Anne Caffrey '72, Jim Castanzo '76, Candy Chilek '79, William Davis '65, Nancy DeBiase '79, Kimberly Derbin '78, Richard Derby '75, Joseph Dettmore '76, Gary Fritzges '79, Margaret Goldfarb '72, Jack Hardie '65, Karen Hendrickson '77, and Janice Kiwak '73. Also, Jane Kuniegal '73, Phyllis Lukas '68, Greg MacLean '78, Maureen Malinowski '79, Todd Mayer '78, Karen Metta '72, Robert Mikolayczak '73, Marilyn Palenchar '74, Mary Ann Petro '77, Joyce Shamro '73, David Sick '78, Catherine Skopic '65, Wayne Sittner '68, Joe Stallone '69, Marilyn Swantkowski '77, Shirley Tokach '71, and Frank Wengen '77. Coming attractions at the Sordoni Gallery include “Counterpoints in Contemporary Painting” by Joseph Shepler, Chatham College, and Harry Holland, Carnegie-Mellon University, October 27 through November 25; the "National Design Marker Presentation Show," mixed media presented by Eberhard Faber, Inc., December 1 through January 7; and "Abstract Water­ colors by Walter Stevens," January 12 through February 4. q t WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY FALL 1979 15 �—.rfSl _ a- .•An .W.V.WSJ; «RESUING COACH: John G. Reese O® ..c : iran: tn: rrng? practice or competition. With th combined effort of the trainer and the athlete, the risk of injury op even permanent damage decreases greatly. But, unfortunately, not all injuries can be prevented when dealing with sports. When an injury does occur the athletic trainer is on hand to ' Trainer Aed. right, is shorn treatment to -a Wilkes athlete. The trainer Michael Micnaei neo. ngni. /s auuwu administering ultra-sound ------- - -College maintains training rooms at the Gymnasium and at the Robert McBride Memorial Fieldhouse at Ralston Field. FIRST “AED” AND ATHLETIC TRAINING by Rosemary McMahon '80 Long gone are the days when the athletic trainer was characterized only as the person who fetches water for some thirsty football players. Paralleling the continually increasing interest Americans are taking in physical fitness and health awareness, athletic training is a steadily growing discipline which is still misunderstood by athletes and coaches alike. Athletic training, according to Michael Aed, head trainer at the College, can be defined as the cure and, more importantly, the prevention of athletic injuries. Athletes, whether they are junior 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY high school players or Olympic long distance runners, need the assurance that they are in the best physical condition for their sport and if an injury should occur, someone is on the sideline who is trained to deal with emergencies. Aed notes that at the onset of an athletic season each athlete must go through a series of events to prepare for the long season ahead. First, the athlete is given a thorough physical examination. If any joints and muscles are weak, special attention will be given to these areas. At this point the athlete and the trainer begin to work together to strengthen these weaknesses, so injuries may be prevented. The trainer will advise the athlete I as to what exercises are the most administer emergency first aid and watch for vital signs. Aed emphasizes that a trainer is not authorized to diagnose an injury and can only provide treatment under the direction of a physician. Once the injury is treated, the trainer and the athlete will work together once again in a program of rehabilitation. The trainer may suggest a series of exercises and modality treatments for the athlete. Wilkes College has a wide range of equipment for use in rehabilita­ tion. The equipment available includes heat stimulators such as ultra-sound treatment, a hydroculator, and parafin wax treatment. Also used in the rehabilitation process for Wilkes athletes are four whirlpools, a knee rehabilitator, shoulder wheel, and ice machines. Aed, a native of Washington, D. C., graduated from Lock Haven State College with a B.S. degree in health and physical education and received his master’s degree from Albany Stale College. Also, he accumulated the required 1800 hours of apprenticeship in athletic training. Following graduation from Albany State, Aed was required to lake a national level exam in or/!e|. to receive certification as an ath e i trainer. Athletic training has, indeem _ come of age in the 1970's, iand the 5 to have "water boy” stigma seems O been lost in the process. Nov. 28 Dec. 1 Dec. 6 Dec. 7 Dec. 9 Dec. 12 Dec. 28-29 Jan. 7 Jan. 8 Jan. 9 Jan. 1^ Jan. I9 Jan. 28 Jan. 26 Jan. 30 Feb. 2 Feb. 9 Feb. 9 Feb. 13 Feb. 16 Feb. 23 MEN'S BASKETBALL WOMEN'S BASKETBALL COACH: Ron Righter COACH: Nancy Roberts 2:00 h ; Nov. 29 Delaware Valley H Alumni (Exhibition) 9:00 Nov. 17 7:00 H Madison FDU H Lafayette Dec. 1 8:00 Nov. 29 2:00 A Phila. Pharmacy A 7:30 Dec. 1 Keystone Dec. 3 8:15 A (TV) A 8:00 Baptist Bible King’s College Dec. 4 Dec. 5 7:00 A OPEN King's Dec. 8 Dec. 6 2:00 H Marywood 8:00 Dec. 8 Lycoming College A Dec. 11 6:30 H Lycoming H 8:00 Dec. 13 Dec. 14 E. Stroudsburg 2:00 H Kutztown Colonel Classic H 7-9:00 Dec. 15 Jan. 4-5 7:00 A Scranton Jan. 10 (Merrimack, King’s, Bridgeport) H 11-12 Wilkes Tourney 8:00 Jan. : Kean College H Jan. 12 8:00 A F&M Moravian College 5 A . 8:00 Jan. 15 Jan. 14 6:30 A Albright 8:30 Jan. 17 A Albright College Jan. 16 2:00 H Upsala 1:30 Jan. 20 Scranton Univ. (TV) A 7:00 8:00 Jan. 19 H King's 8:00 Jan. 21 A Elizabethtown 6:00 2:00 Jan. 21 A Delaware Valley 8:00 Jan. 26 H King's College Jan. 23 6:15 A 8:00 Susquehanna 8:00 Jan. 30 A Delaware Valley 6:30 A 8:00 Jan. 26 Muhlenberg Feb. 1 8:00 H Phila. Textile 6:00 A 2:00 Jan. 28 Bloomsburg 8:00 Feb. 4 A Susquehanna Jan. 30 6:15 H 8:00 Scranton 8:00 Feb. 6 H Lycoming College Feb. 2 2:00 A LCCC Feb. 9 8:00 H Scranton University 6:15 Feb. 6 H Moravian 8:30 Feb. 13 A Madison FDU 6:15 Feb. 9 H Elizabethtown 8:00I Feb. 14 H Lock Haven State 6:00 Feb. 11 H Juniata Feb. 16 OPEN 6:15 H Misericordia 2:00 Feb. 13 8:00 Feb. 18 H Juniata College 16 1:30 Feb. 8:00 H lv„. 18 — Bloomsburg State I Feb. 8:00 Feb. 21-23 MAC Playoffs H York A Lehigh University H Oregon State H Navy A Delaware Valley H E. Stroudsburg Wilkes Open Tourney A Shippensburg State A James Madison A Tennessee H Syracuse University A Rutgers University A Elizabethtown H Lycoming College A Binghamton Connecticut/So. Conn. A H Penn State A Hofstra University A Bucknell University H F&M .... Tech/Richmond/ lecu/niv..... —, A Vir. Old* ” Dominion Vir. Tech --- ':"'nn at Vl Feb. 29 to Mar. 1 EIWA 8:00 7:30 12:00 8:00 SWIMMING 7:30 COACH: Bob Greenwald 8:00 Ursinus 2:00 Dec. 1 Dickinson Dec. 4 Lock Haven State Dec. 8 Elizabethtown Lehigh Dec. 14 Oregon State Jan. 19I Jan. 23j Swarthmore Lycoming College Jan. 26 Feb. 2 2:00 H A A H A A Feb. 6 Feb. 9 Feb. 13 4:00 Feb. 16 2:00 Feb. 19 4:00 Feb. 23 Western Maryland Lycoming College King's College OPEN Binghamton State Susquehanna E. Stroudsburg MAC H H A A H H 2:00 2:00 7:00 2:00 4:00 Mac 13-15 NCAA gcwfiwu _ The South River Street Revival” was compiled by Vesta Breakstone of the Alumni Relations Office. The information contained in the Alumni Notes was received between May 24, 1979 and September 21, 1979. Please send to: send news news contributions cor Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA. 18766 WE MISS YOU! Over the past few years some of our graduates have given us the slip. Like concerned uncles and aunts we would be delighted to hear from you again. If any alumni can help us in our search, please drop a line with the addresses of our missing nieces and nephews to the Wilkes College Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766. I MISSING PERSONS Kathryn M. Hafich '71, Mrs. Mary R. Donnelly Haggerty '39, Nicholas Halchak, Jr. '66, Mr. Paul P. Halecki '46, Mr. Mark Israel Halferin '61, Judith Ann Hall '60, Richard T. Hall '62, Mark I. Halperin '61, James C. Hansen '64, John J. Hansen '54, John H. Haracz '51. Marshall Harlan '59, John J. Harper '77, Mrs. Kathleen Loughney Harrington 72, Mrs. Marta Auchmuly Harrington '68, Mrs. Ruth Kluger Harris '46. Hubert R. Hart '37, Norman E. Hart '51, Margaret L. Hartman '38, Mark Edward Hartman '78, Warren R. Hartman '62, Miss Joan Hartmann '69, Anne M. Marton '55, Ann Joan Harvey '70, Barbara A. Ilavard '64, Captain Gene Haverlak '66, Anneta L. Hawthorne '70. Ernest A. Hayes '59. Dr. John H. Hayes '43, Raymond R. Hayward '61, John J. Hazur '46, George P. Heffernan, Jr, '51, Gary Richard Hegel '70, Mrs. Dorothy Kerchen I leidenreich '55, Mrs. Mary Parry Held '40. Jules Robert Heller '62, Paul R. Heller '64, Stefan Hellersperk '60, Dr. Robert M. Henderson '60, FALL 1979 17 �Wil’S°J^and psychometrician Mrs. Beverly Jones Henderson '35, Edward G. Hendrecks '52, Leonard M. Hendricks '60, James J. Hennigan '59, Marvin Henslovitz '50, Mrs. Dana Alfast Herberlein '71, Howard E. Hering '62, Dr. Ellen Field Herrera '78, Adolf L. Herst '63, Thomas M. Heslin '67, William E. Hess '63, David Hettenger '64, Arthur C. Hettinger ’63, Raymond J. Hicks '61, Seymour Himelstein '53, Mrs. Joyce Pupa Hines '73. Sarah M. Hinton '36, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Hiznay '61 '61 [Marie Opsitos), Timothy P. Hnedak '67, Mrs. Edward Hinchey, Phillip G. Hoffman '49, Roy Vincent Hollabaugh '72, Andrew Earl Holland '72, Robert J. Hooper '51, Judith Hopkins '55, Robert H. Hopkins '39, Walter J. Horn '51, Gary Ralph Horning '73, Jack D. Hortman '49, Gerrie Lea Houck '73, Heister V. Hower '75, Adam J. Hozempa '58, Charles Joseph Hughes '61, Arlene Hulanick '69, Anita Barbara Humer '68, Leonard Hungarter, Jr. '63, Charlotte Levenoski Hunt '65, Henry C. Hurt '51, Ralph H. Hutchinson '61, HuezLong Hwang '70, Rosalie Mazur Hyman '69. ALUMNI NOTES 1950 LAWRENCE PELESH has been appointed President and chief executive officer of the Phoenix and Valley of the Sun Y.M.C.A. Larry and his family reside in Phoenix, Arizona. ROBERT D. BARBER has been appointed vice president, finance, for the Commonwealth Telephone Company, Dallas, Pa. 1956 DR. JAMES B. MITCHELL has been promoted to full professor and named chairman of the Biology Department at Moravian College. Jim has done post doctoral work at Arizona State University, Drew University, New York University, The Marine Biology Laboratory, and the Bermuda Biological Station. He has been the recipient of numerous National Science Foundation Grants. His most recent research concerns the Electron Microscopy of skin cancer. 1957 JOHANNA BROSKE, dean of the Buffalo General Hospital’s School of Nursing in Buffalo, New York, has completed the requirements for a doctorate in education from Nova University. 18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY 1958 DR. NICHOLAS D. GIORDANO has opened his office in the Back Mountain Professional Building, Route 309, Dallas, Pa., for the practice of Internal Medicine. Nick, his wife, Jane, and their three children, Nicholas, Jr., Lisa Ann, and Joseph reside in Trucksville. MERRI JONES EARL received her master of science degree in reading from the State University of New York in August 1979. She is employed by Chenango Forks Central School District as the primary grades reading specialist. Merri resides with her husband, PAUL ’59, and their four children at Castle Creek, New York. 1960 WALTER GLOGOWSKI and Marilyn Cigarski were recently married. Walter is field representa­ tive for the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the National Education Association. The couple resides in Shavertown, Pa. A daughter, Megan Elissa, was born on August 22,1979, to Connie and FRED WILLIAMS. The family resides in South Montrose, Pa. 1962 MARY ANN FOLEY HOPKINS is an English teacher at Wyoming Seminary', Kingston, Pa. STANLEY KARMILOVICH has been promoted to the position of business director — industrial chemicals, in the water management division of Calgon Corporation. Stanley, his wife, Joan, and their three children reside in the Pittsburgh, Pa. area. 1964 MARY ANN LASKOWSKI DUBS is an editor of the Daily Digest of the U. S. Senate Congressional Record. LESLIE STONE and Dr. David Peltan were married August 25,1979. Leslie is a teacher, and the couple resides at 06110 Delaire Landing Road, Philadelphia, Pa. 1965 JOHN HYER is executive director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. DR. THOMAS PIRNOT recently received an award at Kutztown State College for “excellence in teaching." EUGENE A. MACUR is employed by the Department of the Navy at Johnsville Naval Air Development Center, and resides at Perkasie, Pa. A girl, Marla Bess, was born on October 15,1978, to Shelia and ROGER ROLFE. Roger is vice president of investments for Dean Witter Reynolds in Clearwater, Florida, where the family resides. 1967 DR. MARK BAUMAN is the 1979-80 recepient of the Jesse Lee prize of the Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church. Mark is an assistant professor of history at Atlanta Junior College, and resides with his wife, the former SANDRA WOOLF, and their two sons in Ellenwood, Ga. JACK GELLER has been appointed Deputy Commissioner by the U. S. Department of Labor, and now is in charge of the Black Lung District Office in Wilkes-Barre. Jack and his wife, the former JUDITH ANN KUSS, reside in Mountaintop, Pa., with their two children, David, age 12, and Alisa, age 11. SCOTT BURNSIDE will head the Communications Equipment Division as sales manager at Commonwealth Telephone Tech­ nologies Corporation, Dallas, Pa. 1968 JEFFREY S. GIBBS has been appointed manager of the Spring­ field, Massachusetts, branch office of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. Jeff and his wife, Elaine, have a son, and reside at 71 Granville Road, North Granby, Connecticut. DR. DANIEL KLEM, JR. received a Ph.D. in Zoology from Southern Illinois University, and is presently associated with the Biology Depart­ ment of Muhlenberg College. Dan resides at 414 Albright Avenue, Allentown, Pa., with his wife, RENEE MUCCI KLEM ’70. JOHN R. MILLER is a partner in the firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., certified public accountants, New York City. Jack resides in Rye, New York, with his wife, Cathy, and children, Stephen and Jo-El. DR. ELIZABETH A. SLAUGHTER has joined the professional staff of Opinion Research Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey. 1969 JOHN E. MACUR is employed by Allied Chemicals, Morristown, as a research physicist. His wife, DIANE Psycht°prs University. The couple al RaUPS L Dover, New Jersey. rest°e , , ^FPH STALLONE, a sculptor who vein the ceramic medium 'vork i, held an exhibition in the rece? i Art Gallery at Wilkes. Joe Sord°"tudfo at 153 Waverly Place ffew York City. THOMAS KOBLISH and Helen £ Delaware Valley School District. 1970 i DAVID LOMBARDI recently received the unique distinction of being named to the executive committee and board of directors of the Group HI Pennsylvania Bankers Association and Pocono Chapter Bank Administration Institute. Dave holds the position of assistant to the president at the Miners Savings Bank of Pittston. He resides with his wife, PATRICIA MAZZEO LOMBARDI ’71, and son, Scott David, in Highland Hills, Pittston, Pa. ANNE AIMETTI GRAHAM is director of Wilkes College’s Upward Bound program. Anne resides at 163 Horton Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (LEA) GINA WHITE is head teacher of the Connecticut area New England Farmworkers’ Council in Hartford. Gina teaches English, math, and orientation to the world of work to Hispanic adults. FRANK MICHAELS was recently married to Dolores Swiderski in Wilkes-Barre. Frank is a secondary teacher in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. ANDREA WARGO and Harold Reed were married June 19,1979. The couple resides in Houston, Texas. 1971 KAREN DONNELLE THORNTON recently received a master of science egree in Education from the College of New Rochelle. A son, Mark David, was born on nrUfx^ 3°'1979’t0 IOHN and diane pizont halliday ’70. John is financial manager of the v Brunswick Development in pP°pation' and the family resides ■hParhn, New Jersey. They'also 3yea:snSerSOn'IohnM^ae1’ 1972 EILEEN MORROW has been appointed assistant manager book JAMESHANAK is director of engmeermg at GSC Systems Development Corporation in ieaneck, New Jersey. mf„? RJtvzoc ?oTASZEwski Z0CC0 has opened an office MR. & MRS. BLAISE GAVLICK announce the birth of their first \ t 1 Edmund Paul, on July 11 1979 for the practice of Orthodontics at Tnnp^°U haMam Street' Wilkes-Barre “et^tdesm Oakwood Park Laflin, Pa., with her husband, Dan, Adaughler JiUKathJeen, was born on April 1,1979, to Bonnie and SAMEUKESH'Bi,‘Vraduated from Drew University with a master of Divinity degree, and is presently pastor of the United Methodist Church at Benton, Pa. The couple also have two other children Billv 3’/a and Lara, 2. A son, Cayle Erik, was born July 8 1979, to Cathy and CLARK HAMMAN. Clark teaches Instru­ mental Music and is Assistant Band Director at Freedom High School. He is also the Marching Band Director at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., and the family re­ sides at 150 New Street, Hellertown, Pa. They also have another son, Chadd Erik, 1 year. A son, Michael Paul, was born on May 19,1979, to Tim and ALEXIS BUCHINA KOSZYKOWSKI. Michael Paul is their first child, and the family resides in Laurel, Md. Margie and ROBERT MORGAN announce the birth of a daughter, Joy Elizabeth, on July 11,1979. Bob is employed as a compliance officer with the 'Wage-Hour division of the U. S. Department of Labor in WilkesBarre, and is also pursuing his M.B.A. degree at Wilkes. 1973 THEODORE TRAMALONI is a producer and director at Channel 17 (WNED), Buffalo, New York. DUNCAN MacINTYRE is a com­ puter systems analyst-programmer, and resides at 304 Coolidge Avenue, Manchester, New Hampshire. SHIRLEY D. NEWHART received her master’s degree in music education from Ithaca College on May 19,1979. ANN L. VIVIAN, registrar at the Boston Conservatory of Music, received a research grant from the Boston Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and has been accepted in a special doctoral program at Boston College. GI?Rnv !iCk 'S the former ,EAN Sr 7f’and‘he family resides at 2134 East Haven Road, W dmington, Delaware. Jean and aise are students at the Delaware Law School. A son, Jason Walter, was born on 1979't0 ROBERT and ANN HRYNKIW LINABERRY '76. Bob is a CPA and has been promoted to tax manager at Price, Waterhouse & Company, Syracuse, New York. 1974 DONNA L. COFFIN recently received a master of science degree in education at the College of New Rochelle. NATHAN KATZ has joined the firm of Elkins, Stroud, Suplee and Company as an account executive. Nathan resides at Lake Nuangola, Pa., with his wife Laura. FRED CROOP has been appointed business manager and board secretary of Dallas School District, Dallas, Pa. PAUL McANDREW has recently joined the Materials and Field Services Engineering Department of the Suntech Group, a subsidiary of the Sun Oil Company, Inc., located in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, to serve as a Senior Metallurgical Engineer. ALLAN FANUCCI received his master of science degree in metallurgy last May from Steven’s Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. He recently obtained the position of Manager of the Welding Advisory Department for Eutectic Corporation, Flushing, New York. Allan is married to the former KAREN KUZMINSKI. Karen is employed with the diagnostic division of Fisher Scientific, Orangeburg, New York, as a research chemist. The couple resides at 360 Livingston Street, Norwood, New Jersey. EDUARDO MARBAN and Sharon Woods were recently married. Eduardo is a candidate or the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Yale University School of Medicine and Graduate School, where he is also doing research work. FALL 1979 19 �1976 A son, David Matthew, was born on January 29,1979, to Mary and ROBERT W. RYAN. Bob is buyer for Chevron Chemical Company, San Francisco, and the family resides in Concord, California. A son, Sean Michael, was born on June 22,1979, to JOHN and KATH­ LEEN MORVILLE FAIRLEY ’76. The family resides in Bennington, Vermont, where John is manager of Writing Made Easy by Cindy Ercolani '80 Writing news releases for the media has always been a chore for the layman not familiar with the various newspaper, radio, and television news styles. While most editors complain about the ambiguous, non-professional releases, Clark Line '66, a copy editor for the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent since 1969, decided to do something about the problem. The result of his efforts is a book entitled NEWSWRITING FOR THE NON­ PROFESSIONALS, published by the NelsonHill Company, which explains to novice writers how to prepare a release that will be used by the media. "Many editors, particularly those in the newspaper field, become upset when they receive releases that must be doctored extensively before they can be used," Line explains. "Editors simply do not have the time or the staff to reconstruct entire releases submitted by publicity chairpersons from clubs and organizations who rarely know anything about newspaper writing." 20 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY the E. L. Nichols Store. John and Kathy also have a daughter, Lisa Ann. DEBORAH GREGSON received her master's degree from the University of Scranton, and is a remedial reading teacher in the Hanover Area School District. NORMAN E. SHORE is an inventory’ manager specialist at the Naval Aviation Supply, and his wife, CAROL REICH SHORE, is a key­ punch operator for Smith, Kline and French Pharmaceutical Labs in Philadelphia, Pa., where she and her husband, NORMAN '75 reside. RICHARD J. CLOMPUS, a graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Philadelphia, is a resident in family practice optometry in Birmingham, Alabama, where he resides with his wife, Linnea. The young author graduated from the Line remembers that the offer to write a college with a degree in secondary education book for Nelson-Hill came shortly after he but his interest and aptitude was always in had an article published in Writer’s journalism. "For me, writing was inevitable. Digest. The article was based on an The writing pulse in me was so strong that interview with the now famous Isaac Singer, there was little doubt that I would be suited winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. for anything else,” he says. A longtime admirer of Singer's work, Line got Line received his baptism into the writing the opportunity to interview the Russian world as a member of the Wilkes College writer during a lecture several years ago in Beacon staff. He served as sports editor Wilkes-Barre. During a discussion that followed the and was author of a weekly sports column interview. Singer mentioned that he was entitled "Lines-Up." worried about getting connections for his A stint in the military service followed but return trip to New York City. Taking his writing career was destined to continue advantage of the situation. Line quickly when he joined the Sunday Independent offered to help Singer make the necessaiy staff following his discharge as a first arrangements. What resulted was more time lieutenant in 1969. At the Sunday and a golden opportunity to obtain the Independent he has filled the positions of additional information necessary to write the reporter and feature writer, but his present in-depth feature article for Writer's post as copy editor is his favorite. Digest. As copy editor the Wilkes graduate is At first he was very hesitant about acting responsible for checking errors in style, on the inquiry from Nelson-Hall. "I thought grammar, spelling, and word usage as well as being alert for inconsistencies in a story. He that the house would publish the book only after I had paid a fee. But, after reading the must trim, rewrite, reconstruct and headline a contract through several times I realized story, always under the pressure of a Nelson-Hall published on a standard royalty deadline. "Copy editors must possess a basis.” unique personality. They cannot have a big After tossing the idea around, Line decided ego. They must submerge their own ego to let to send the publishers an outline for his the reporter's personality come through. book, never expecting to hear from them Otherwise, the paper will sound like one again. Surprise number one came a few person wrote it," he observes. weeks later when he received a letter from Although Clark has no desire to return to the publishers expressing interest in his reporting, except to do a pet project, he does outline and their request for two sample have some definite thoughts concerning the chapters. role of reporters in society. He feels that Again, he forgot about the book after there is too strong an emphasis on completing the chapters. "I guess 1 did not investigative reporting . . . "The proper want to get my hopes up too high," he investigative agencies are not doing their jobs recalls. Clark was soon ready for the second when they rely upon the media to uncover surprise when his wife called him at work to information." relate the good news that Nelson-Hall wanted It is obvious that Line enjoys writing and his book. another book could be in the offing. Since he With the contract firmly in hand he soon is very much interested in Wyoming Valley realized the difficulty that lay ahead. ”1 never history, his next effort will probably be a imagined how hard it was to put information non-fiction piece dealing with local history, down on paper so that people could adding that he still needs to find a "unique understand it. Writers must learn to stand aspect." back and look at their work objectively and In the meanlime Clark Line is content with not take it for granted that readers will know the success of his first book which should what they are trying to say." prove a valuable asset to organizations while Months of labor followed but finally the at the same time make copy editors completed book became a reality. "It was much happier. O well worth it," he reflects. "A book is like a child. It is something that comes from inside you.” M’B’A,JLtion ceremony on May 20, the gra“u sides in Wilkes-Barre, Xs EuHAiiEY-d juris doctor degree from thCeiVed Dickinson Schools1116 ofN. E. Penna. ^NIACKIER has been awarded has b m the field of psychology at degree , p0ueoe. Cheryl is Mary-Vd°m DONALD WHITTAKER, mTthe couple resides on Charles Luzerne, Pa. nK doN W. NASH, JR. has begun his clinical graduate program at the SSwjotason"CitymNew York. FRED LANCIANO is a matriculating ^dent in the graduate program of psychology at Montclair State College and is employed as a family therapist trainee for the Juvenile Evaluation Treatment Service, Memorial Hospital, Morristown, MARIANNE MACUR KOPCHO received her masters degree in social work from Marywood College in May,1979. Marianne is a medical social worker for Home Health Services, Kingston, and resides in Glen Lyon, Pa., with her husband John. DR. DEBRA ANDREWS graduated from Harvard Medical School on June 7,1979, with a degree in Medicine. Debra is an intern in the pediatric department at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. New Jersey. MARY DALE EVANS and Peter Shores were married February 17, 1979. Mary is a counselor in the Eastwood School System, Westminster, California, and the couple is residing in Huntington Harbor. DONNA J. GALANO and Joseph Yurek were recently married. Donna is an elementary substitute teacher for Wilkes-Barre Area School District, and also is employed at Suburban Casuals, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. JOHN BARON, JR. and CHRISTI­ ANA MIELE ’73 were recently married. Christiana is an elementary counselor in the Pittston Area School District, and John is an account executive with Merrill Lynch in Wilkes-Barre. The couple resides at 99 Elmwood Drive, Laflin, Pa. HARRY and JANICE YARRISH SWEPSTON III announce the birth of a daughter, Caitlin Joan, on January 22,1979, at the Nesbitt Hospital in Kingston. The family resides at 44 Myers Street, Forty ELAINE GODLEWICZ was recently married to Abraham Gale. Elaine an s Marywood College where Ipfl'3 Pursu‘nS graduate studies aru 8 !°.a meters degree in fine t10 couPle resides in W11mington, Delaware. MARK KUNKLE and Sandra MacNeely were married recently. Mark is a Kingston Township manager, and the couple resides in Trucksville, Pa. BETTYE LOU CORCORAN was recently wed to Robert Bovolick. Bettye is employed by Wyoming Valley West School District and Anthracite Newstand. The couple resides in Kingston, Pa. JEANNE BARTOSH and George Kapral were recently married. Jeanne is a department manager at Bergman’s, Kingston, Pa. WILLIAM GOLDSWORTHY, JR. was recently wed to Jannet Klick. Bill is employed by Industrial Electronics, Inc., and the couple resides in West Pittston, Pa. MARK DUBIK and JANINE POKRINCHAK ’78, were married July 7,1979, in Johnson City, New York. Mark is a substitute teacher in the Scranton School District, and the couple resides in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. EDWARD HOCKENBURY and Rosemary’ Ciampi were recently married. Edward is manager of Long John Silver’s Seafood Shoppe, 1977 mast?RA|H J' K0CHER received her masters degree in Biotogy from Ppensburg State College on May 5,1979. giacomina buzzelli bacon IS director at Children’s World Nursery School and Day Care Center n Lnomaston, Connecticut. She resides with her husband, KARL ’76. at 234 North Walnut Street, Waterbury. NED EVANS is a kindergarten teacher in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District, and resides at 44 Catlin Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. DR. THOMAS TROTSKY is a resident in internal medicine at Easton Hospital, Easton, Pa. Tom is a graduate of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Philadelphia. STEVEN B. STANDIFORD and Lisa MacNamara were married on June 16,1979. Steve is a third year student at New Jersey Medical School, and the couple resides in Harrison, New Jersey. AMY L. ALBANESE was recently married to Lt. Paul J. Mazick. 1978 JAMES RUCK has been appointed a music specialist with the Special Services School District of Bergen County, New Jersey. Jim will coordinate the music program for the district’s schools in Hackensack, Fair Lawn, and the Archie F. Hay Village School in Rockleigh. Jim resides in Fair Lawn. JAMES O'KARMA is Community Development director for the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he resides with his wife, Mary. MARGARET PELEPKO and Russell Susko were recently married, and the couple resides in Buttonwood, Pa. DR. DOUGLAS TROSTLE and MARY FEDAK ’76 were recently married. Mary has completed an internship in medical technology at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Philadelphia, and Doug is serving a surgical residency at Allentown and Sacred Heart Hospital Center. The couple resides in Emmaus, Pa. Hazleton, Pa. 1979 MARC KOVALCHIK and ALISON MILLER ’79 were recently married in Wilkes-Barre, and the couple York Medical Hospital, York, Pa. resides in Trucksville, Pa. FALL 1979 21 �s S, 1 X- » MARY LYNN JONES has had her master’s degree thesis accepted for publication by the Educational Resource Information Center, an affiliate of the National Institute of Education, Bethesda, Maryland. The paper, entitled “The Relationship of Public Control Ideology to Students’ Rights Attitudes," was written under the supervision of DR. RICHARD T. REES ’62. Mary Lynn is a social studies teacher at Montrose Area High School. An Introduction To Planned Giving by Betsy Bell Condron r-I "Planned Giving! What on earth is THAT?” they ask me. And they do ask me — __ ■ everybody — my ROXANNE M. CONIGLIO was neighbor's son, my hairdresser, the mailman, recently wed to Theodore Zurla. my kids, of course, and all kinds of other Roxanne is a legal secretary for relatives, the bridge club chums, my former Attorneys Sobota and Maguire at students, the nice couple in the airport the United Penn Bank, Wilkes-Barre. waiting room, etc., etc. Obviously, I had to The couple is residing in Swoyers­ learn pretty quickly how to answer the ville, Pa. question, and I've also learned many other things during these first busy, sometimesCHRISTINA M. FRANTZ and bewildering-but-always-exciting weeks at Richard Thomas IV were recently Wilkes. married, and the couple resides in In the process of figuring out how to Clute, Texas. respond to assorted queries about my new role in life. I’ve also had to learn all about NANCY CALLAHAN was recently WHERE I was to perform this job, i.e. Wilkes married to Carl Dymond. The couple College. I have grown up in Wyoming Valley resides at 33 Meyers Street, and, for many years, practically in the midst of the campus, so I knew the outside of the Edwardsville, Pa. handsome buildings. I spent seven years taking graduate courses here, so I knew many RUSSELL BURKHARDT and of the faculty. I had counseled dozens of high Marlene Kaczmarek were recently I school students about coming to Wilkes, so I married. Russell is a mathematician knew the admissions criteria and the basic at the Johns Hopkins University' curriculum. I also served on a WilkesApplied Physics Laboratory in Hahnemann committee and was cognizant of Laurel, and the couple resides in that excellent program. Occasionally, I Greenbelt, Maryland. attended a lecture, play, exhibit and even a o few wrestling matches ... but do you know that I was still aware of only a few sides of this many-faceted educational institution! 1 can hardly believe there is so MUCH going on and how very effectively Wilkes manages to serve both its students and its community, a relatively rare duo-purpose commitment. Another surprise in my initial learning process was the discovery that all those materials I perused in August (which kept drumming the fact that most people receive pleasure in giving), seem to hold much weight for Wilkes, at least. We are fortunate here to have had many generous friends over ROBERT J. PATTON ’40, of 15 Second Avenue, Kingston, Pa., died September 17,1979, at the age of 62. Bob was a Coughlin High School graduate and attended Bucknell Junior College as a special student. He retired in 1978 after 40 years as sports writer and sports editor of the Wilkes-Barre Record. Surviving are his wife, Eleanor; daughter, Virginia, at home; son, William, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; foster son, Major John Barrett, Fort Riley, Kansas; sister, Mrs. William Smith, Wilkes-Barre. O 22 *J Editor's note: Betsy Bell Condron was appointed Director of Planned Giving at Wilkes College on September 1. Prior to joining the Wilkes College staff, Mrs. Condron served for ten years in a variety of teaching and administrative positions at Wyoming Seminary including director■of college placement. She holds a baccalaureate degree fromi Skidmore College and recently attained an M.S. degree in Education at Wilkes College. Mrs. Condron will be responsible for working with Dr. Thomas F. Kell), dean of external affairs, and the Wilkes College Board of Trustees to communicate the strengths and needs of Wilkes College as they relate to deferred or planned giving. In appointing Mrs Condron, President Robert 5. Capin noted that "while the Wilkes College Development Office and attorneys have assisted donors tn the past who have been interested in creating charitable remainder trusts and remembering the College m their wills, the College will now develop specific programs in this regard. IV? are pleased to add Mrs. Condron to our development staff. She has a broad involvement in state and community programs and her administrative experience will be invaluable m accelerating Planned Giving at Wilkes College. "' i ! I . To: Director of Planned Giving Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 I am interested in learning more about planned gifts > Does Your Company Have A Matching Gift Program? The impact of your gift to Wilkes College can increase significantly if your company has a program to match your gift. If we can help you in any way concerning this, please contact: Office of Alumni Relations, Wilkes College, (717) 824-4651, extension 207. :i ! ’ ■ > V A Thanks to ail of you who have returned your Alumni Updatell If you haven’t had the opportunity to complete yours, we would appreciate your help. If you haven’t received one, please advise us: items do get lost in the mail. Thanks!! .) j' .; ■ V FIRE!! £ -A 'Y < \ name take place. \ I XV • 7* Oj’i undergraduate courses for Vi the prevailing tuition or graduate courses for $10 - reduction per credit. For further information contact Mr. John Meyers, Director of Division of Continuing Education and Graduate Studies, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. Telephone (717) 824-4651, extension 303. ■ ■ xxi s/ iREI! We apologize for not be confronter X. \ * J ■ -°nience and hope <0^ 'n the vW5 SPECIAL NOTE With the opening of the Conyngham student Center, funds are needed to purchase some special items such as: FIRE!! 0’ t ■ •4/ UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE TUITION REMISSION All Wilkes alumni are entitled to take Because of a major fire to the building which houses Computerized Mailing Service in Wilkes-Barre, several mailings which we had scheduled were destroyed. This necessitated reprinting and contracting with a new firm , leading to serious delays in our mailing program. As a result, you mayhave received dated material after theVO due date or after the date on which the activity was I x '1 ■ z si 1? /L ALUMNI UPDATE 1979 ■ ’Xi ■ ■ ■ * ix r’ i X -1 4* > i A t- -5- ■ address dale ite J I wish to record that I have arranged for a bequest to Wilkes College phone. x .4^ ■ ? ■ our relatively short existence . . . people who have given, and who continue to give, what they can to support this private institution which means so much to its alumni and to northeastern Pennsylvania. We know that it’s a necessity for the life of private institutions these days to count heavily on old and new friends for financial support. However, I’ve recently become aware of the diverse ways such friends can give that support to Wilkes: annual fund is a must; capital fund drives are indispensable; commitment in the form of continuous, positive public relations comments are vital; and the blessed volunteer hours given in so many instances are a godsend. All are ways we give to Wilkes. But there is still another method . . . "Planned Giving" (sometimes called deferred giving). It’s not for everybody, yet at some stage in the lives of a large percentage of Wilkes friends and alumni, it certainly is or will be an option to consider. Planned giving ("not fund-raising" said the first book I read about my new career) includes a fascinating array of ways you can help Wilkes and at the same time reinforce your own desire to give and, in most cases, ease your tax situation, cash flow, and peace of mind. When I answer the question posed at the beginning of this article, I explain how one is able to plan ahead in order to accomplish all those goals. I reel off my newly acquired terms — pooled income fund, unitrust, charitable remainder annuity trust, unrestricted bequests, irrevocable real estate gifts, etc. — and, hopefully, 1 sound impressive! To tell the truth, I’m the one who is impressed: impressed with the medley of giving plans Wilkes donors now have available to them and impressed with the foresight the College has shown in preparing such alternatives for its constituency. In the future issues of the Quarterly I will pass along to you some of the details about these programs in a manner which may be helpful to your financial planning. If, in addition to what you will read in this column, you would like further information concerning Life Income Plans, Bequests, and Trusts, please return the coupon below. There is another question "they" ask me lately . . . "How do you like your job, Betsy?" That gets an easy answer. I just love it and it is absolutely great to be at Wilkes! x — - J JI • stereo • television • pizza pretzel & popcorn machines Students and student organizations have been contributing, won’t you * j help? Please make check I payable to Wilkes college Alumni Association, send to: Office of Alumni Relations i Wilkes college, ' Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY ■ £>'. ■ ■ �THE WILKES COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ©o 0§D@fii(91 Friday, Feb. 22 — Monday, Feb. 25,1980 PRICE INCLUDES; * Roundtrip OTC CHARTER flight from Philadelphia to Freeport via Air Florida jet * Accommodations at the Beachfront Holiday Inn * Roundtrip Airport/Hotel Transfers * Rum Swizzle party TT jZX-fl 1 JJ ★ Hotel taxes, tips and baggage handling ★ Poolside chaise lounges ★ Discount booklet ★ Transportation available to El Casino and Golf Courses ★ Admission to Wreck Bar Disco child under 12 sharing with two adults, plus $7 departure tax // deParture tax single supplement For Roundtrip transportation from Wilkes College to Philadelphia Airport, add $29. Send S100 per person deposit to W.C.A.A., Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766byDec. 17. 1979 Include names, addresses, and phone numbers. Contact Joel or Rose at Jewelcor Travel 717-288-9381 for further details. All prices and features based on current Vendor's Tariffs, subject to availability and change. All passengers must sign Participant’s Contract defining payment and cancellation policies. Reservations accepted until 12/17/79. Wilkes College Quarterly Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED PERMIT NO. 355 WILKES-BARRE, PA. MR ROBERT ANTHONY 56 SOUTH SHERMAN STREET WILKES-BARRE PENNSYLVANIA '49 18702 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. The magazine went through various names including <em>Wilkes Alumnus</em>, <em>Wilkes Quarterly,</em> <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, and the current title, <em>Wilkes Magazine</em>. Some editions for the <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, will have multiple issues within the file record. Our holdings may be missing editions for certain years due to having no physical copy within the collection. </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkes University Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wilkes University Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947-present Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Fall 1979 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 1979 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/2358f2b98a76d4d6f958e67be27ccf46.pdf acaec6eb8de6c772fbc51c2f350023fe PDF Text Text - -____________ ■ . �6PRNG wao WILKE6 COLLEGE Volume 3, Number 4 editor George G. Pawlush '69 associate editor Jane Manganella editorial staff Eddie White III'80 Vesta Breakstone Betsy Bell Condron Edward Van Buren '80 Reenie Corbett '79 Cindy Ercolani '81 Margaret Scholl '81 William Miller '81 COVER: The warm weather affords Wilkes College students an opportunity to experience the beauty of the Arnaud C. Marts Courtyard of the Stark Learning Center. Two students are shown examining an aluminum sculpture which was created by Michael Welda '77. The sculpture contains three intersecting arcs built from six two-by-five-foot strips of aluminum. contributing staff Dr. Gerald Hartdagen Dr. Bruce Berryman Michael Case Brian Redmond by Dr. Gerald E. Hartdagen editorial advisors Faut. D'Vorzon. Williams and Rodechko Gordon Roberts '60 Anne Graham '70 So You Think You Know The Wilkes Campus? art director A Question of Standards 7 Reflections on the Liberal Arts by Art Miller Jon Schaffer Flooding and the Legacy of Agnes photography editor by Dr. Bruce F. Berryman. James Michael Case, and Brian T. Redmond Arthurs. Miller SPECTRUM STUDIO contributing photographer The World Listens Robert Gaetano '80 circulation manager Tanya Hallez '67 Administrative Profile — Charles Abate by Edward Van Buren '80 A Modern Day "David" Beats Goliath The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. A "Will” and a "Way" Faculty Abstract — 6 SportsUpdate — 16 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS Benjamin Badman '41. Chairman Mrs. Walter M. Diener. Vice Chairman Hon. Edwin M. Kosik '49. Vice Chairman Mrs. Edward Darling. Secretary Mrs. William Davidowitz, Treasurer 11 12 18 19 20 by Betsy B. Condron Chronicle — 4 Miss Mary R. Koons. Honorary Member Louis Shaffer. Trustee Emeritus Alan M. Glover. Ph.D., Trustee Emeritus _s James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein '68 Edward Bixby. M.D. Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Henry M. Curry. 3rd Mrs. Stanley Davies Louis D. Davis. Jr. '60 Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Frank M. Henry Gallery — 15 South River St. Revival — 17 Andrew Hourigan. Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Richard Maslow Charles H. Miner. Jr. Gerald A. Moffatt '63 F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Richard L. Pearsall Joseph J. Pinola 49 Hon. Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross. Jr. Eugene Roth '57 Joseph J. Savitz '48 Ronald W. Simms ’60 William Sword E. Arthur Trabant. Ph.D. William J. Umphred '52 Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENT Roberts. Capir. '50 �SEAL OF APPROVAL F ■ ON BUILDING A SOLID. FOUNDATION College Board SAT scores, . . especially those relating to writing skills, have shown a sharp decrease in recent years. At Wilkes College the Writing Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Patricia Heaman has proved successful in aiding incoming students at improving their basic writing skills. The purpose of the Writing Laboratory, according to Dr. Heaman, is to improve the students' writing abilities. The laboratory is geared to help students understand that English is not just a course to get through, but rather it is a useful skill to learn. Students are helped to remedy their writing deficiencies through five different self-help programs and with the assistance of student tutors. The use of upperclass English majors as tutors has shown to be beneficial in establishing good relationships with the students who are seeking help. “Students who are doing poorly in a course appreciate the opportunity to talk to someone who has faced similar problems," Dr. Heaman notes. "It is a mutually beneficial relationship. The laboratory provides an excellent opportunity for the upperclass Dr. Patricia Heaman. standing, is shown assisting a Wilkes College student with a writing assignment. The Wilkes College Writing Laboratory served 350 students during the Fall Semester. English majors to get valuable teaching experience." The Wilkes College Department of Language and Literature also offers a three-credit course, English 100, for those students who lack writing skills, or who are studying English as a second language. Students whose SAT scores are lower than 400 are required to take English 100, but only after other diagnostic tests are given. Students are also often referred to the course by a faculty member. Dr. Heaman relates that the most common writing problems range from basic grammatical errors to organizing a clear and concise expression of an idea. welcome to use the laboratory e “The laboratory is not just for remedial work. Advanced maters is also available.” However Dr * Heaman makes it clear that’the laboratory is not a proof-readins service. Students must have a specific problem or need advice She notes that many industries are beginnmg to require a written essay as part of the application process “Industry recognizes that people who can express themselves are at a premium.” Dr. Heaman feels that many of the writing problems which students face in college are the result of an insufficient high school background. "Most students miss the opportunity to study composition in high school. It has become fashionable for high schools to offer mini-courses which emphasize literature, films, and other topics, rather than grammar." Student reaction to the Writing Laboratory has been phenomenal as witnessed by the growth in the number of students who voluntarily return to the facility for help. The laboratory opened in 1975 with 80 students; during the 1979 Fall semester 350 Wilkes students were served. (X Snedden Fahey Library. * 4 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY and win enhance the enuZeTthe Eugene 2) MBA THROUGH AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Wilkes College recently innovated a five-year program leading to a bachelor of arts degree in history and a master’s degree in business administration. The program, designed to give students an opportunity to combine the advantages of a traditional liberal arts curriculum with the career options of a professional business program, provides an excellent background for understanding lhe application o intelligent business practices. Candidates must fulfill both the 30 credit hours in history lor the I ■ .. Wilkes College has again been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, according to notification received recently by Wilkes College President Robert S. Capin. In his letter to President Capin, Milton G. Bassin, chairman of the MSA's Commission on Higher Education, commended the College on its self-study report and requested a routine Periodic Review Report, which is due on March 15, 1985. Once every ten years colleges and universities in the United States are thoroughly examined by their regional accrediting associations to determine if they are fulfilling their missions with acceptable standards. The Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools conducted its study of Wilkes College in November with members of the evaluation team meeting with faculty, administrators, trustees, alumni, and students. The Middle States accreditation involves a long-range process designed to help an institution analyze its functions, appraise its educational effectiveness, and discover means by which its work can be improved. In preparation for the Middle States’ evaluation team's on-campus visit, nearly 70 faculty members, administrators, trustees, alumni, and students conducted an in-depth "self-study” of Wilkes College during the 1978-79 academic year, which resulted in a 140-page report. That report, and the report of the Middle States team, will provide a base from which the College will undertake several planning efforts through the 1980's. The history of Wilkes College dates back to 1933 when Bucknell University, responding to a request of community leaders, established its Junior College in Wilkes-Barre. Residents of Wilkes-Barre donated their homes so that Bucknell University Junior College could provide classrooms for local qualified students of limited financial means. The academic standards of Bucknell were those of the junior college. Dr. Eugene S. Farley was appointed director of Bucknell Junior College in 1936 and later became president in 1947 when Bucknell’s president, Arnaud C. Marts, turned over the assets of the junior college to the local Board of Trustees and Wilkes College received its charter as a four-year, liberal arts institution. Dr. Farley served as chief administrator of the College for 36 years and contributed greatly to the growth i of the institution. Since its inception Wilkes College has been dedicated to providing a sound and stimulating intellectual experience for students and a constructive program of service to the northeastern Pennsylvania region. On June 24,1972, the flood waters of Tropical Storm Agnes — in what President Nixon declared was “the worst natural disaster in the nation’s history — inundated all 62 buildings belonging to Wilkes College. Damage to the physical plant exceeded $12 million. Under the leadership of Dr. Francis J. Michelini, who served as president from 1970 to 1975, the College staged a massive campus­ wide effort and it succeeded in cleaning and renovating all of the buildings, enabling the College to reopen for the Fall term only two weeks late. Guiding Wilkes College throughout the past five years and into the 1980’s is Robert S. Capin, who assumed presidency of the College in 1976. Under President Capin's direction the financial condition of the College has dramatically and substantially improved. The physical plant has been upgraded and academic programs solidified and initiated. Flood recovery efforts were finally concluded last summer with the receipt of two checks, totaling $1,246,359 from the Federal Disaster Assistance Agency. The College is anticipated to complete its fifth straight year of operation “in the black." Wilkes College has a decided economic impact on the northeastern Pennsylvania region through its $12 million operating budget and subsequently through the personal budgets of those who are employed at the College. Cultural programming at the College has enhanced the quality of life on campus and in the Greater Wyoming Valley community. Outstanding concerts, musical and theatrical performances, films, and lectures are scheduled at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts. The Sordoni Gallery provides annual exhibitions of national caliber enjoyed by students and community throughout the year. The campus is aesthetically a blend of stately 19th century buildings and the newest and most imaginative designs in modern structures. Several of the buildings are listed on the National and Pennsylvania Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks and remain as living monuments to the many citizens who helped make the area great. The “nerve center" of the Wilkes College campus is the Stark ' Learning Center, completed in 1974 at a cost of $7 million. The Center, which connects with the Stark Hall of Science, provides classrooms, laboratory space, staff offices, and studios for several academic departments and also contains the Wilkes/Hahnemann Television switching station and the College’s Computer Center. The Eugene S. Farley Library possesses one of the most extensive microfilm collections in the region and has space for 500,000 volumes and a study area for 500 students. The College presently serves a full-time equivalent enrollment of about 2700 students. Many of these attend graduate and undergraduate programs in the Evening College. President Capin expressed appreciation to individuals involved in the reaccreditation process and expressed confidence that Wilkes’ outstanding record of progress and service will be maintained and enhanced. O SPRING 1980 S �baccalaureate -9—" “[^^AttheencUif four years a student receives at B.A. ■n history and has completed all M.B.A. prerequisites. Dr. Robert Heaman by Reenic Corbett 79 Rumor has it (or had it) that Dr. Robert Heaman. associate professo K English - • at• the College, was at of time aa member of the Green one time —who knows Ur. Berets. Anyone I teaman, or had him—as--an instructor, would be intrigued bj by this bit of speculation. HOMECOMING 1980 ••Where did you get that UP AND AWAY scandalous piece of information, questioned an amused Heaman Plans for the Wilkes College With a chuckle, he added, ‘ I wish Alumni Association’s 33rd Annual I knew where and how that rumor Homecoming — scheduled for not started. You are not the first October 10 through October 12 — person to ask me that question! So are currently in full swing. much for the portrait of Bob Heaman Patrick J. Burke ’69, owner of as a Green Beret. Chuck Robbins Sporting Goods, Having been a student of Dr. Wilkes-Barre, will serve as 1980 Heaman at one time, I find it Homecoming chairman. Chairman difficult to disassociate the role of Burke indicates that all homecoming Dr. Heaman, the Wilkes College events will be staged on the Wilkes professor, and Bob Heaman, the College campus. man on the street. Both of his roles Some of the events planned for generate warmth, sincerity, and the Fall reunion include a Friday genuine faith in humanity. Sounds night open house at the Alumni and like a character out of literature? Faculty House, Saturday morning Perhaps he is. parade, and the traditional Sunday Considering Bob Heaman’s morning brunch. The recently background and interests, the dedicated Conyngham Student character out of literature wouldn’t Center will serve as a site for some be surprising. He holds fond of the weekend activities. memories of a recent trip to Ireland with his wife Pat (Dr. Patricia Heaman, also an instructor at the College] and their children. “Pat “ALPHA”: A FEW was working on Irish Literature. I STEPS MORE Y was on a sabbatical . . . working on Dickens and Blake. I did my On April 1 Wilkes College reached research on Blake at Trinity College the S2.33 million mark of its threein Dublin." year S2.4 million “Alpha" Capital Campaign. Heaman admits that he is particularly interested in Ireland A successful 1980 Annual and its culture. During the stay, he Campaign, which surpassed its recalled, “one highlight happened to 5200,000 goal with S236,000, moved be every Tuesday night. We’d get the campaign within S70,000 of the together with a group of varied "Alpha" goal. people, sit around, have a few Also, a series of successful drinks and tell stories. The friendly phonathons conducted from the conversation allowed us to Wilkes College campus and at withdraw from the pressures of the locations in New York City and outside world. It gave us that Philadelphia boosted the "Alpha" distance from things which enabled Campaign in the early months of OS to view life from a different 1980. perspective." Gordon Roberts, director of Based on this kind of interaction alumni relations, reports that alumni Heaman described the people of Ireland as being "in tune with have contributed over S300 000 in l lemselves, each other, and nature " the "Alpha" Capital Campaign He sees a close similarity in the which will officially conclude in life-style of Dublin and that of December. Wyoming Valley. "There is a genuine 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY to a 15 credit M.B.A. core requirement, the candidate takes an additional 15 credits in one of five areas-marketing, managerial science, labor, accounting, or finance. ^uesriop p faculty authenticity here," he slated stated, incredible that Wyoming Vili„ s hasn't developed as a to°urist cpy„, It is a very ethnic area and the 6r' beinos0" r<! baSiCa‘ly sood kuman In addition to being a traveler it, English professor also gives the ' impression of being a "back to nature” soul, complete with his n, pastoral homestead in White There with his family he enjoys ' gardening, fishing, running, and th,, clean country air. When Bob Heaman began his teaching career at Wilkes in 1969 there was still much unrest among college students in their concern ° for almost all aspects of culture. Some of his most vivid and outstanding recollection of the College come from those years. “Wow!’’ he exclaimed, then paused thoughtfully. “It had to be my first faculty meeting. There I sat with my long hair and my bushy beard down to my chest. Dr. Farley, who was president at that time, was discussing the visitation rights in the dorms. When he finished speaking I matter-of-factly asked if he was going to invite police on campus. Needless to say, the look he gave me told me exactly how he felt and what he thought of me!" Teaching is much easier now for the Wilkes professor than in his first years at the College. “For one thing, the Writing Laboratory has taken much of the pressure off teaching freshman composition. There has been a greater emphasis on writing so by the time the student has advanced to the upper level literature courses, reading their exams is a pleasure.'' “Generally, the students of today are bright. They’re more sensitive responsive, and sophisticated, . he explained. ‘‘I also feel that within the next few years there is going to be a full swing back to the recognition of the importance of liberal arts. It is better for our culture than the technological mania." Robert Heaman, with his gift j"01 being able to communicate wit students, has influenced and wi , continue to influence those stuc en whose education he has helped to O shape. STANDARDS | by Dr. Gerald E. Hartdagen Pick a year with a sinister ring and 1984 might well be the choice. Rather than a "Brave New World” it conjures up the Orwellian vision of Big Brother and doublethink. In the realm of higher education, there are many George Orwells who have prophesied an equally gloomy future for academia, and 1984 is close to the heart of their projections. Without debating the accuracy of Orwell's predictions, it is clear that the latter prophets, who have relied more heavily upon data than imagination, must be taken with the utmost seriousness. It is a fact that the number of traditional college-age young people will begin to decline precipitously in 1983 and continue throughout the decade. This fact alone will have tremendous ramifications for all of higher education. In Pennsylvania the problem will be exacerbated by a larger-than-average decline and by the normal net loss to Pennsylvania of students who leave the State to matriculate. Realistic expectations are that 25 to 35 per cent of the smaller private colleges will not be with us in the 1990s. Many of the colleges which have been in financial difficulty during the past three to five years will be unable to withstand the devastating impact of inflation and declining enrollments. Some will barely hold on by drastically cutting staff with a concomitant reduction in quality and in academic programs. When the "tipping point" is reached, they will spiral toward bankruptcy as academic excellence is eroded to the point where students are repelled rather than attracted. This is not a scenario for Wilkes College; it is more properly a specter which should shake us from any thought of complacency. One thing is certain — if we go under, it will result from nothing less than a lack of vision and the will to survive. No, survival is the wrong word; if that is our goal, it would be better to quietly fold our tents and give up all pretense of being an institution of higher education. Our challenge is to eschew mere survival and to insist that progress can and will continue. Hot necessarily progress which is measured in terms of growth, but rather progress which can be viewed in terms of academic excellence, quality education, and distinction. This we can achieve if we have the will — and the courage. The recipe for success does not require a Julia Childs to produce the desired results. It will suffice if an adequate number of "amateur chefs" can be found who will risk “spoiling the broth” to create the gourmet feast. Should we settle for a Big Mac when filet mignon is an option? Leadership and careful planning are essential but insufficient in and of themselves. "The best laid schemes o’ mice an' men gang aft a-gley," and our experience confirms the wisdom of the phrase. Schemes or plans will go "a-gley" without the loyalty, the dedication, and the commitment of all members of the Wilkes community. Each of us, whether faculty, administrator, student, trustee, or alumnus, must lend support if Wilkes is to survive with distinction. To meet the challenge of the 1980s, Wilkes must be, beyond question, the very best institution of higher education in Northeastern Pennsylvania. More than that, we must achieve a quality which discourages superior local students from leaving the region for their education. If we are good enough, we have nothing to fear from a Lehigh, a Franklin and Marshall, a Bucknell, and certainly not from our local competitors. The bedrock of excellence can be nothing less than programs which attract and which meet the needs of students, and outstanding teachers and researchers who are committed to young people, to Wilkes College, and to their own continued growth. But sound programs and superior teachers will not automatically provide the quality we seek; one ingredient remains to be added. That extra ingredient, without which academic excellence is impossible, is none other than standards. Without impeccable standards, we can make no claim to quality. All of our claims will be hollow; we will know it, our students will know it. and so will the community we serve. An absence of the highest possible standards will debase our product — our graduates — and make any pretense to academic excellence little more than a sham. There is good evidence that the Wilkes community has perceived the necessity for higher standards. Steps have been taken, with widespread support, to address some of the more obvious weaknesses. Much remains to be done, and it will be done — gradually, yet surely. The attack must be on two fronts: in general college policies and at the departmental level. College policies must provide a framework of expectations which departmental actions can implement and support. The relationship must be mutually reinforcing in the context of a campus climate which recognizes that shoddy standards in any one area endangers the whole. A consensus is developing among faculty, administrators, students, and trustees that nothing less than the best will suffice. If students are allowed to "just get by,” if we turn our heads and allow cheating to occur, if we fail to establish policies which require that students bear a large measure of responsibility for their own education and their own development as persons, then we will not survive the 80’s — moreover, we will not deserve to survive. Wilkes College ascribes to "Gnity Amidst Diversity;" we must also insist upon "Quality Amidst Adversity." The latter involves a quest for excellence. The quest must not be of short duration lest we all become Don Quixotes. Institutional quality is, in large measure, a question of standards. It cannot be achieved without the support of everyone related to Wilkes College. How tragic it would be if ten years from now we were forced to acknowledge, in the unforgettable words of Pogo: "We have met the enemy, and he is us!” O Dr. Gerald E. Hartdagen assumed the position of dean of academic affairs at the College prior to the start of the 1979 Fall Semester. Prior to joining the Wilkes administration, Dr. Hartdagen served at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. He attained his Ph.D. at Northwestern University. SPRING 1980 7 �How does teaching the liberal arts heighten the ability of students to see relationships and distinctions? Dr. Faut:_________________ Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes Apollonius was speaking about proper education and culture with a young man building a luxury house in Rhodes. "When I enter a temple." said the Tyanian finally, “even if it is a small one. I'd much rather see a gold and ivory statue there than a statue of common clay in a large temple." npGL9fv OU flJG gG[]GC(fOU8 "Of common clay": how disgusting — yet some (who haven’t been adequately trained) are taken in by what's bogus. Of common clay. C.P. Cavafy Dr. Howard Willi Chairman. Department of and Finance Associate Professor of Economic. "Modern society offers us unlimited opportunities to look foolish and make significant blunders." The goal of a liberal arts education is to enable the student to distinguish the bogus from the genuine, to not be misled by external appearance, to recognize the beauty of a gold and ivory statue in an otherwise undistinguished setting as compared to the common clay statue in a magnificant setting, in short to recognize excellence and talent in the wide variety of disciplines which make the totality of life. The breadth and excellence of the liberal arts experience constitutes the mythological background — in the best sense — from which life’s decisions are made. This is the stated goal in the very early history of education and is still true today. - probable path io .-■& ’.r«_>re Such ...rages Ms. D’Vorzon:____________ ■itn the Ci .a XiWugh qucsfe 3: The key word of the question is, to me, the word "relationship.” Our primary function as educators is to help the student learn to survive in an increasingly confusing world; to give the student some structure to see him or herself in relation to this changing world. Somehow the word "historical" keeps coming to mind. I believe that the true study of history goes beyond the history curriculum. All of the liberal arts (and the sciences) must be seen in historical perspective. Art History, for instance, should be taught in its cultural environment. As an example, the technological advances made during the Impressionist Era, specifically the development of the camera, had an enormous effect on how the Impressionists perceived their world, how they, therefore, portrayed it, and finally, how we, through their art, experience the world of nature. By understanding relationships and changes within the historical framework, one is better equipped to put seemingly unrelated events into a workable perspective today. Dr. Williams:_____________ A student with a solid grounding in the liberal arts will find that many facts, trends, historical undercurrents and accomplishments that once seemed unrelated and random, begin to fit together in a very broad mosaic. That mosaic is the exclusive possession of people of intellect and it is the liberal arts that provide the tiles and mortar for the mosaic. No accountant, engineer, nurse or programmer holds a bona fide claim to being educated if they lack the foundation provided by the liberal arts. How do the liberal arts survive in a world that is increasingly technological and scientific? Dr. Faut:_________________ For a scientist this question could almost be reversed. The impact of the liberal arts on science and technology has been profound because the vast majority of scientists and technologists have training and education in the liberal arts. However, very few nonscientists are conversant with the fundamental ideas of science. The horrifying aspect of this to a scientist is the fierce pride taken in this ignorance by some nonscientists. C. P. Snow's idea that Newton's laws of motion and the laws of thermodynamics should be as familiar to the public as Shakespeare’s plays is viable. However, this suggestion has been lost in the educational turmoil of the seventies. Perhaps it would be well to recall a phrase from several decades ago, on the liberal arts and sciences. The ability of today's student to participate as tomorrow's citizen depends on the scope of today's education in the liberal arts and sciences. Dr. Rodechko:____________ History, my own academic discipline, is a synthesis of the human experience. It draws together a consideration of art. science, philosophy, literature, sociology, politics, economics, and a host of other fields through the common vehicle of the past. The study of history, therefore, should involve an integrative approach to the entirety of human experience. Ideally, the subject should be perfectly oriented to the student's need to see relationships among diverse areas. In my own mind, the degree to which the historian suggests those relationships, and in addition relates the past to present conditions and problems, is a valid criteria for determining that particular historian's effectiveness and importance. Ms. D’Vorzon:____________ I believe that there is a difference between the terms "scientific” and "technological.” A student who is beginning to work in visual art or in any of the creative arts will do well to read the great mathematician Henri Poincare's essay on creativity. It helps to explain the creative act in a universal manner and does away with some of the myths concerning the lack of relationship between art and science. An interesting example of similarities was the widespread reaction of artists to Watson's The Double Helix when it appeared in print. Artists found surprising connections between the world of science and the art world. The book may have been controversial, but it helped to bridge the gap between these seemingly disparate worlds. "Technological," on the other hand, means to me the application of science. And the increasingly technological quality of our world is SPRING 1930 9 �of great concern. Perhaps most devices, such as television, in ou lives. This encourages a nonthinking, passive population — and ult|mate V a dissatisfied people. I think that this growing dissatisfaction may be a good thing; that although people sometimes forget, there is a need for creative experience. Perhaps I am deceiving myself in order to survive as an artist, but I have seen glimmers of recognition of this need recently. And as a teacher in the humanities, I will do my best to encourage it. Dr. Williams:_______ __ The liberal arts survive by being necessary and being perceived as necessary by the thinking people in our society. The ideas and concepts that one derives from the liberal arts separate us from robots and computers, and there will always be a significant number of important people in the world who guide the young toward the study of liberal arts. Dr. Rodechko:_________ Frankly, I don't think that science is at odds with the liberal arts tradition. In fact, I personally believe that science is a critical part of that tradition. It seems to me that the greatest threat to the liberal arts heritage is the current career emphasis that students confront, even on the high school level. Because of a tight economic situation, students are desperately seeking out sure career goals and are inclined to view a comprehensive liberal arts program as an annoying distraction. Unfortunately, I believe that many of the students who seek occupational certainties through narrow career-oriented programs may be sadly disappointed. Since current projections indicate that occupational and professional needs will constantly change over the next two decades, many college graduates may be very well trained to pursue fields that encounter declining employment needs. Given this situation, the liberal arts student who carefully chooses elective credit hours in a variety of areas, may actually have the greatest number of career options. 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY How do the liberalarts speak to the problems of man in modern society. Dr. Faut:____________ In his poenTwai^S For T(h® Barbarians'' — Cavafy tells of the waiting to confer titles and honors on the barbarian leader. The leading citizens are dressed in their 'nest clothes and jewels. The practitioners of rhetoric and public speaking have been kept away because barbarians do not enjoy these cultural pursuits. However, the barbarians fail to arrive and the citizens are grievously disappointed. "Now what s going to happen to us without barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution." A solution to what? Kenneth Clark answers this question in his book Civilization when he suggests that all great civilizations have had a vigor, a vitality, a weight of energy behind them. Cavafy’s ancient city is listless, immobile, energyless — dead. Is it too farfetched to suggest that the energy of our civilization comes — at least in some significant part — from the rigor and discipline of an excellent liberal arts and sciences education? Is it not reasonable to believe — as part of the mythos of our present life — that the liberal arts and sciences foster the creative person who — unmindful of only his own discipline — will create tomorrow’s step forward for civilization? To me, it is not only reasonable but absolutely essential because I believe this is where the energy of our civilization originates. Ms. D’Vorzon:__________ The Humanities are to me, a humanizing force. Our problems are, after all, human problems, and the technological advances being made today must be applied in a human way. We, in the liberal arts, must not act like ostriches and ignore reality. The time of the intellectual living in an ivory tower, concerned only with an esoteric circle, is over. I believe that we must learn to use technology creatively; that we must learn to recognize the useful advances, and reject the merely frivolous junk that intrudes on our lives. Television must be used in a less passive manner And finally, we must help our students to go beyond mere survivalwe must teach them to use themselves and their world in a meaningful and enriching manner. O thinkjQu kpowthe x c\A^kes — Campus r Dr. Williams: Modern society offers us unlimited" opportunities to look foolish and make significant blunders. The explosion of knowledge and information during the past fifty years has forced us all into ever narrower specialties and created a society in which no one is a real expert in any broad area. This means we must all frequently confront facts and situations that we are not professionally competent to evaluate At such times the quality of one's mind is on trial and the verdict from our peers depends on that quality. The liberal arts provide that quality of mind. Biology and Mathematics majors of the pre1970 era would know this building. C. Bruce Payne once lived here. B. "The BIG WHITE TOWER." Dr. Rodechko:___________ The great problem of our own time and in the forseeable future is an overwhelming societal emphasis on material considerations. Since World War II, Americans have come to regard luxuries as absolute necessities. The massive effort to possess material objects, and I include in this the desire for recreation and entertainment, tends to inculcate common values. Since all of us want the same things, the logical product is social, political, and economic conformity. In this context, the humanities, emphasizing creativity, diversity, and the overall quality of life, offer an alternative. Whether or not that alternative will be accepted is, of course, questionable. Again, the almost total career orientation and materialistic direction of our society suggest an atmosphere that is not very conducive to humanistic study and contemplation. D. It's a courtyard but name it? . . . Art Miller, QUARTERLY photographer, recently journeyed around the Wilkes College campus and recorded some of the architectural subjects that made an impression on him. Can you identify their locations? Answers on page 15. B E. A premier showplace of Wyoming Valley. O F. No clue! Consider yourself you get this one. G. A carriage house near a prominent campus building. H. First Structure donated to Wilkes College. SPRING 1980 11 �i .-E K.\ - NOOIH^Il <undfh& b. / ! ' ' l ...... : w II , E;EE-L ' ■- ■■■■ ■E: by Dr. Bruce F. Berryman, lames Michael Case, and Brian T. Redmond Introduction Flooding in the Susquehanna at Wilkes-Barre is normally the result of one of three phenomena: spring thaw, rainstorms, or hurricanes (or more properly, the remnants of tropical storms). March through early April is the time of spring thaw, and if there has been a heavy accumulation of ice and snow during the winter and if the thaw is quick due to rapidly rising temperatures, the river may flood. Or if the winter has been especially severe and the river has completely frozen over upstream, a sudden thaw could result in an ice­ jam at some curve or narrow' point in the river. Once the river is jammed, it does not take a great deal of water to back up behind the jam and to begin flooding over the banks. Severe ice jams flooded Wilkes-Barre with ice and water in 1784, 1866, 1875, 1893, 1895, 1898, 1899, and twice in 1904. Precipitation in this region is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year but is slightly higher in the spring and late summer. The rainstorms generally move in slowly from the south or southwest or inland from the coast. A high-pressure area to the northeast of Pennsylvania frequently causes the slowly moving rainstorms to stall over northeastern Pennsylvania, and the collision of the two air masses produces even more rain, sometimes resulting in local flash floods. Tropical storms usually move in from the south or southwest during the storm season which lasts from about June to November. The Susquehanna is affected to some extent by a tropical storm about once every three years. Generally, there is 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY little flooding except when one storm follows immediately upon another (as in 1955) or when an especially vigorous tropical storm is held over one area for a considerable time (as in 1972). Flood History of the Susquehanna River The Indian claim that there had been no flooding of the Susquehanna at Wilkes-Barre before the whites settled in the valley seems doubtful, since there have been at least 79 floods since 1772 (see table). Official flood records do not start until April, 1889, but the earliest recorded flood occurred in the latter part of February, 1772, when it caused a Kingston town meeting to be postponed. Some of the floods were colorful, such as the Great Pumpkin Flood when great quantities of pumpkins were strewn over the lower plains of the river. The highest flood in recorded history at Wilkes-Barre was the great flood of June, 1972, which reached a gauge height of 40 9 feet. Another large flood was the St. Patrick's Day flood of March, 1936, which reached a height of 33.1 feet. This flood occurred 61 years after another St. Patrick's Day flood in 1875 which, because of an ice gorge, reportedly reached a height of 35.6 feet. The 1936 flood was surpassed by the September, 1975, flood which at 35.1 feet was the second highest of this century. However, the 1975 flood was confined to the river channel and did not spill out onto the flood plain as did the 1936 flood. Had the 1936 flood been confined to a river channel, it possibly could have reached a greater gauge height. The river height of the Susquehanna River at Wilkes-Barre is monitored behind the Luzerne County Court House by Civil Defense. A gauge has been constructed near the river and the bottom of the river designated as zero feet gauge height. (The zero mark itself is at an elevation of 512.07 feet above sea level.) Since the river is constantly excavating and redepositing sediment in its channel, it sometimes happens that the bed of the river at any given time might be above or below the zero mark on the gauge. The lowest flow ever recorded was minus 1.78 feet in September, 1964, during the Great Eastern Drought. Flood Frequency The river is said to be flooding whenever it begins to overflow its natural banks. At Wilkes-Barre, the natural banks of the river are located at a gauge height of 22 feet. The height of the natural river bank is in equilibrium with the tendency of the river to deposit material in its channel whenever it is flowing at less than bankfull (22 feet) and with its tendency to excavate material from the channel and redeposit it on the floodplain whenever the river exceeds its banks. For a river with the characteristics of the Susquehanna and unconfined by other than its natural banks, it would take about one flood every three or four years to excavate out what the river has been slowly depositing when it is not flooding. Note that the amount of work in both cases is the same, but that while deposition takes place slowly over many months and even years, one good flood can clean out the channel in a matter of hours or days. It can also be seen that if the river is confined to its channel by dikes (or more properly levees) when it begins to flood, it will tend to rise higher since it is not being allowed to il' : aw aEERaEa ■W EES SE® |gg| ■' aa aw® ..TEE-'iiiiffi '*1. WILKES COLLEGE ■ ■' s|aftE,. F&E .KI fe B'®.T.S - is < I r '.c_ was '■'TWJS ________ ■ -5^. I* ■ , 1IJ II < V .. f ' J 5^4«45IW»*»W1Trt V ■ ’ • :- c- \ i Your gift will maintain our tradition of excellence and assure a financiallystrong Wilkes College ■ ' i i.wii - .'Ew EEEBEE EE':..; ■ " • E- '■ �, >.y R.- "f H ■. A'.' ■■■ _ *5 Mfr 1 aa ife. ibsb O ■ ■Ki. ■ < ■ Sa- TST .< . ~x-„ i' > :" 64- asr * SBOIP® ■ s h W iW sBS ! V ’ ■■ j»tiliF as i 4, AS o s/sss ■ rH rh 3 : Br % t M i ;s'isH * • w, •■•.sag ■' /*• 4OT »-- ria - j «®SS'-S- ioi Stet iJ s s I H J OS IS I 1|| s- I s :..^S - S ||SS* ia STS! 1 S ■ i 3 *. <2 4s O, ‘. I -O ST'S*-” • O^-.y-S.syc . •■» -Ssi z& I SPECIAL NOTICE FOR ALL ALUMNI! The 1980 Annual Campaign is the final phase of the three-year ALPHA CAMPAIGN to raise $2.4 million. One of the major components of the 1980 Annual Campaign is to sustain the quality of education at Wilkes College. sS»SSTOS;yTSSW!BS»SSH® i 2< ........ ®»s s i |Fass®«a. < s ■ ■ If you have not made (a) a previous pledge to ALPHA or (b) a 1980 Annual Scholarship commitment through the recently concluded Alumni phonothons, please make your pledge now by completing the attached pledge card today. tA £ £ I& ft) Q 3 © 1 c/j u I h «at o s ° o £ < 2? u 2 “ tSx > t/2 2 0 Q M - J J 40§ I § CL, * sa , .^1? r ’ ■ " •. *? . ■• ii■ s 1 JgB£ ' 11 ■ > ' ■E o M « 6 cu PLEASE HELP US REACH THIS GOAL FOR WILKES! W ' * iI •3 i S is *0 CD <D 2 § tn £ j a ra O g "S X 1 & SS " o*. Q .= We are pleased to announce that we have reached $2.3 million of our $2.4 million goal. 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Certainly, considerable material is carried downstream but this is replaced by sediment imported from upstream of about 500 years.recurrence interval areas. Flood frequency will depend, 5mons other things, on the rainfall nattern in the area upriver of WilkesBarre. This area, or drainage basin, of Wilkes-Barre covers about 9960 square miles and includes the areas around Scranton, Towanda, Elmira, Binghamton, Cooperstown, and others. Only rain in the drainage basin will affect the river height at Wilkes-Barre so that it could rain "cats and dogs" in Wilkes-Barre with very little change in river height at Wilkes-Barre. However, the effects would show up downstream at Harrisburg. On the other hand, Wilkes-Barre could be suffering a drought and experience a flood caused by severe rainstorms in the Binghamton area. Since 1772, a time span of 208 years, there have been 49 years when the river has flooded once that year, 12 years when the river has flooded twice that year, and two years when the river has flooded three times in one year (1891 and 1904). Therefore, on the basis of these data, the chances that in any given year the river will not flood at all are about 70%; that it will flood once, 23%; flood twice, 6%; and flood three times, 1%. (Remember that "flood" means above the natural banks of the river, a gauge height of 22 feet; it does not necessarily mean water flowing in the streets of Wilkes-Barre.) It is of interest to know not only what the chances are that the river will flood but also what the expectations of flood size (or depth) are. Obviously, the greater the flood, the less likely that it will happen; that is, small floods occur more frequently than large floods. The z >r w > 2 O 2 td r 1 , — (-< co 2 a S <2 g M o H Hrj 2 O M CZ> ’-O X rm > s s average time between floods of a given size is the "recurrence interval," or the interval of time between flood recurrences. For instance, a 100-year flood would recur on the average once every 100 years. This does not mean that you can expect the flood to recur every hundred years on the dot If you c°Unfed fhe number of floods of that size --a o orr greater over a thousand-year Period,■ you might expect ten of them. Over the past 200 years the number of disrupting floods reported within a given time period has^ remained about the same; yet the magnitude (or depth) of the floods seems to have increased somewhat This apparent paradox can be explained by our own effects on the Susquehanna River. As a result of increased erosion and sedimentation, flood frequency of all size floods has increased. However, the construction of numerous small dams and reservoirs has resulted in the containment of the smaller floods. Thus, we experience only the larger floods, but there are as many of these as there were floods of all sizes in the past. Our Impact on the Flood Cycle Anyone living in Wyoming Valley is vitally interested in flood control and over the years a number of flood control measures have been and are being proposed; however, the ultimate cause of flooding is irregularity in the rainfall. WilkesBarre and the Susquehanna River watershed receive some 40 inches of rain a year and were this rain to fall evenly throughout the year, the level in the river would change very little except for spring thaw. Until the day comes when we can completely control rainfall, we shall have floods. A second cause of floods, over which we have very little control, is the spring thaw. If large amounts of ice and snow accumulate in the watershed and are then subjected to a fast rise in temperature, or worse yet, a warm rain — the river will rise. There are some factors, however, over which we do have some control, factors which can aggravate or alleviate flooding. For a given flow, a river can move a given amount of material (the sediment load). Coarser sediment such as sand will be dragged or bounced along the river bottom while finer particles such as clay will be carried in suspension If the sediment load in the river is low, the river will expend more of its energy moving sand along the river bottom, leaving the water clear and relatively free of suspended matter; but if the sediment load is large, the river expends more energy moving the finer clay resulting in murky water and deposition of the coarser sands in the river channel. The last 200 years have seen great changes in the Susquehanna River watershed. As a result of deforestation, agriculture, strip­ mining, construction activities, and other soil-disturbing processes, the amount of sediment reaching the Susquehanna has greatly increased. Under these conditions, sand tends to accumulate in the channel, forming sand bars, islands, and raising flood frequency. Sand bars are especially prone to form where the flow of the river is disturbed by the entry of a tributary into the Susquehanna. For example, Scoval Island is located where it is because the even flow of the Susquehanna is disturbed by the entry of the Lackawanna River; smaller bars can be seen near the entrances of other tributaries. Should Scoval Island or any similar island be removed by dredging, and assuming that the factors which control sedimentation are not altered, it would not be long before a new Scoval Island formed. Another important factor in aggravating floods is the time which it takes for rain water falling onto the watershed to reach the Susquehanna River channel. Two hundred years ago, the watershed was heavily forested and sparsely populated. Rainfall was, to a larger extent than today, absorbed by the heavily vegetated and thick soils of the watershed. Water would slowly filter into the river through the soils and ground-water. But today as a result of deforestation, poor agricultural practices, strip-mining, and urbanization with its efficient storm sewers and parking lots, more of the rain falling on the watershed is rapidly shunted into the river channel. The result is higher river peaks. Flooding and flood protection often leave behind ironic, environmental side-effects. For example, the Agnes flood left a legacy of future minefires, one of which has already started above Courtdale, near Larksville, and is now two years old. The flood left thousands of tons of good, fertile silt lying upon the infertile streets, parking lots, and residences of the floodplain. This highly organic topsoil scavenged from the entire watershed, a “gift of the Nile" so to speak, was scraped up and used to fill in some of the abandoned strip-mine pits in the valley, a legacy of the anthracite era. Unfortunately, the very organic matter that makes the flood sediments so fertile may make it SPRING 1980 13 �I Answers To Photo Feature: dig the fire out today. Meanwhile, the susceptible to spontaneous combustion when buried — especially when mixed with a witch s brew of flood debris. Since strip pits have exposed coal veins in their walls, once the fill is ignited, it is only a matter of time until the coal veins themselves start burning. In the mid 1970's, one of the filled pits above Courtdale ignited and had to be dug out. Some time later, smoke was noticed rising from an adjacent pit. Now the burning area covers over 3 acres. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources estimates that it would cost as much as 4 million dollars to I pollution problems for the residents of the area. Among the recent proposals to provide increased flooding protection to the Wyoming Valley residents is the option of river dredging. However, government engineers are not in favor of such a plan because of its exhorbitant expense and the massive logistical problems associated with disposing of the dredged materials (often termed dredge spoils). A more insidious hazard concerns the chemical Feb.1772 15 Mar. 1784" 05 Oct. 1786 Apr. 1807 July 1809 Jan.1831 14 Mar. 1833 May 1833 Jan. 1841 1842 1843 13 Mar. 1846" Sept. 1850 18 Mar. 1865 Feb. 1866" 16 Mar. 1875" 24 Jan. 1891 19 Feb. 1891 27 Feb.1891 11 Mar. 1893" 05 May 1893 03 Mar. 1895" 01 Apr. 1896 15Jan. 1898" 07 Jan.1899* 17 Jan.1899 28 Nov. 1900 II I I I 16 Dec. 1901 02 Mar. 1902 25 Mar. 1903 11 Oct. 1903 10 Feb.1904" 09 Mar. 1904" 27 Mar. 1904 Peak Gauge Height ■ ;i feen ? 30.0 29.0 30.0 ? ? 28.0 ? ? ? ? ? 33.1 7 35.6 26.8 23.5 23.0 28.7 22.0 27.0 24.0 23.2 25.0 23.5 22.0 27.0 31.4 22.4 22.0 25.7 30.6 23.5 23.4 26 Mar. 1905 02 Mar. 1909 03 Mar. 1910 03 Apr. 1912 23.0 26.1 22.6 28 Mar. 1913 28.5 Peak Gauge Height <in feet) Peak Discharge 29 Mar. 1914 188.000 198.000 178.000 232.000 165.000 132.000 128.000 118.000 137.000 132.000 118.000 167,000 213.000 122.000 118,000 26 Feb. 1915 10 July 1915 02 Apr. 1916 15 Mar. 1918 14 Mar. 1920 29 Nov. 1921 08 Apr. 1924 01 Oct. 1924 13 Feb.1925 17 Nov. 1926 20 Oct. 1927 17 Mar. 1929 22 Apr. 1929 10 July 1935 13 Mar. 1936 19 Mar. 1936 22 Feb. 1939 01 Apr. 1940 Dec. 1942 Jan. 1943 09 May 1946 21 Mar. 1948 13 Mar. 1952 16 Mar. 1955 09 Mar. 1956 06 Apr. 1956 08 Apr. 1958 01 Apr. 1960 05 Apr. 1960 27 Feb.1961 07 Apr. 1961 02 Apr. 1962 07 Mar. 1963 131.000 128.000 158,000 124,000 183.000 28.3 23.3 22.6 26.5 23.0 26.0 22.3 23.5 22.1 25.1 22.7 24.7 23.3 26.4 25.4 28.8 33.1 23.8 31.5 27.4 29.6 32.0 28.8 22.5 26.5 28.2 22.5 26.8 29.6 25.2 26.2 25.0 22.8 28.9 11 Mar. 1964 03 Mar. 1972 30 2 24 June 1972 40.9 26 Feb.1975 27 Sept. 1975 26.3 35.1 22.8 Peak Discharge lC FS.) 181.000 130.000 124,000 162.000 128,000 157.000 121,000 132,000 119.000 148,000 126.000 144,000 131,000 162,000 151,000 186,000 232,000 137,000 214,000 171,000 193,000 220,000 186,000 123,000 163,000 180,000 123,000 166.000 193,000 150,000 160,000 147,000 126,000 190,000 199.000 126.000 345.000 161,000 257,000 Gauge height at bankfuii stage is 22.0 feet or an elevation eisvation of of 533.94 533.94 feet feel above above sealevel. sealevel. Anything Anything htJiJr- lists ail si! known knnu/n flood fir,nd levels ir.u-.ir. from <____ . 1772 to 1979 .. above 22.0 feet is considered flood The table above If a year is not represented in the table, then the river did not flood that year. •That 'iood was caused by an ice gorge or jam. therefore, no discharge is given. (C.F.Sj is cubic feet per second: average flow is about 17,000 C.F.S. Most of the data was provided by Col. Souchik of Civil Defense; some data came from various historical sources. 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY A. Fascade of the old Conyngham Hall, destroyed by fire in 1968. B. Hanging lamp in the stairway of Weckesser Hall. C. Columns in front of Butler Hall, home of the Education Department, located on the comer of West Northampton and South River Streets. D. Arnaud C. Marts Courtyard of the Stark Learning Center. E. An easy one! The Sordoni Art Gallery. F. Take a close look someday at the exterior decorative work of Weckesser Hall. G. Carriage House at the rear of the new Conyngham Sludent Center, H. Stained glass window on the second floor landing of Chase Hall. Finally, it is unfortunate that we have such a strong tendency to build our cities on our most fertile farmland, thereby lessening one of FLOOD PEAKS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER AT WILKES-BARRE. PA. Dale i fire spreads, threatening nearby property and producing annoying air problems associated with the disposal of the dredge spoils. These materials may contain absorbed toxic trace metals, pesticides, and other organic compounds. Improper exposure of dredge spoils to air, rain, and freezing-thawing conditions may result in the leaching of these toxic substances, thus adversely affecting our ground-water and water supplies. In addition to these arguments, it can be added that river dredging is a short-term solution to the flooding problem since the river will preferentially re-sediment in the dredged portion of the channel. J our greatest resources — food production! If the floodplain were restricted to farmland and parks, an occasional flood would do little damage. It would even revitalize the soil! It would be very difficult to turn back that particular clock, but 3K Poland invites you additional construction on the floodplain could be discouraged Perhaps, there are legacies of tampering with the river that we are yet to encounter, hidden costs which we and the generations of the future will have to pay. Certainly, we should be careful and informed about any projects which affect the river and which may result in serious future environmental hazards and damage. Concluding Remarks Flooding is a natural part of a riverine system and will always occur. Although floods bring human misery and grief, the Susquehanna River is not an enemy which should be fought. It is just a river, whose behavior is governed by various natural processes. One great lesson that the environmental movement has taught us is that we cannot fight natural processes on a large scale and win. The only way to win, that is, live without feeling undo adverse affects from natural processes, is to understand them and adopt lifestyles which are compatible with them. O 'Dr. Bruce Berryman, chairman of the Wilkes College Department of Earth and Environmental Science, has been a member of the Wilkes College Faculty since 1973 The associate professor holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. James Michael Case is an assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences. A member of the College Faculty since 1978, Case holds a M S. from Dalhousie College, Halifax, Canada. Brian T. Redmond, a Wilkes Faculty Member since 1976, is an instructor of earth and environmental science He holds a M S from Michigan State. POLISH POSTERS From June 28 to July 27, the ______ ...ill Sordoni Art Gallery will feature an exhibit of one of the most prominent art forms in Poland - Posters. Approximately 180 posters from the early 1900’s until the present are on loan from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service to the Sordoni Gallery. The posters illustrate the internationally acclaimed excellence and the historical development of the poster in Poland. Subject matter for Polish posters has little to do with advertising in the Western sense, since competition in business has no part in the economy. Imagery, instead, is applied to social messages, cultural events, tourism, and international concerns. , Fifty-five artists are represented >n the exhibition. The show will be formally opened with a reception and a performance by the Trojaki ance Circle of Maryland. A RETROSPECTIVE An exhibit entitled “Louise Carpenter: A Retrospective” will be on display from May 31 through June 22 at the Sordoni Art Gallery. Mrs. Carpenter, of Mendenhall, Pa., and Martha's Vineyard, Mass., is a member and past president of Studio Group, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware. This group works in the famous Howard Pyle Studio. Mrs. Carpenter, the wife of Donald Carpenter, a trustee of Wilkes , College, studied design at the School , of Fine Arts and Crafts in Boston, rs where she painted under Charles Hopkinson. She has also painted under Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Mass., and now teaches classes in art and outdoor sketching. Mrs. Carpenter’s work is on display at the Delaware Art Museum, the Wilmington Trust Company, the duPont Hotel, and has been included in many private collections. SPRING I960 15 �, 7979-80 season, Diane During ‘ | record with 600 points set a uwhile averaging 25.0 points sC°tednie Through three years she I . „,v^ ■ ------------ wasasC Vaiiey West High School WyXs1°n. At Wilkes, Diane has lndKone game with over 50 points, had , r 40 12 over 30, and 30 Server the 20-point plateau. sportsw^s^® til pinball Player are: Most points Ak 1^12 , free throws (14 of by Eddie White III 'ao 1 I THE MAKING OF AN ALL-AMERICAN Junior Diane Kendig continues to make a strong bid to become the finest female athlete in Wilkes College athletic history. Recently, the 5-4 guard on the women’s IRTS ! 4 Wrestling: overall record: 19-2 (school record 18 straight wins] EIWA Tourney, Lehigh: third place [16 teams) EIWA Individual Place - winners: Mark Densberger, sr., second place —158 Bryan Billig, Jr., second place —134 Bob Matzelle, sr., second place — HWT. Bart Cook, sr., third place —177 Top Grapplers: Bryan Billig, jr., (23-6-0) Mark Densberger. sr., (18-6-0) Bart Cook, sr.. (17-3-OJ Bob Matzelle, sr., (16-6-0) John Reese s 27-year coaching record at Wilkes: (286-60-8) 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY basketball team was selected firstteam All-American by the American Women's Sports Foundation. In addition to the national recognition, Diane was named as the Middle Atlantic Conference’s “Most Valuable Player,” and garnered first-team All MAC honors. This past season, she led the Wilkes basketball team to a 16-10 record, their finest one-season team performance ever. Men’s Basketball. overall record: 10-13 Middle Atlantic Conference: 6-7, third place leading scorers: Kendall McNeil, sr., (16.1) Mike McCarrie, Jr., (15.0) Tony Madden, so., (11.6) Women’s Basketball: overall record: 16-10 Middle Atlantic Conference: 9-8 Meet Results Colonels Opponents Wilkes 54 York College 0 Wilkes 11 Lehigh U. 34 Wilkes 11 Oregon St. U. 29 Wilkes 21 Navy 15 Wilkes 38 Dela. V. College 9 Wilkes 38 E. Stroud’bg. St. 7 Wilkes 38 Shippens’bg. St. 0 Wilkes 25 Tenn. U. 14 Wilkes 33 Syracuse U. 14 Wilkes 36 Rutgers U. 6 Wilkes 41 Lycoming College 12 Wilkes 43 Binghamton St. 3 Wilkes 34 South Conn. 7 Wilkes 39 U. of Conn. 9 Wilkes 18 Penn St. U. 14 Wilkes 20 Hofstra U. 18 Wilkes 30 Bucknell Li. 9 Wilkes 23 Franklin & Marshall 14 Wilkes 23 Virginia Tech 16 Wilkes 24 Old Dominion 19 Forfeit Win Richmond University leading scorers: Diane Kendig, jr., (25.0) Lynn Yedlock, sr., (11.4) Mary Jo Frail, sr., (9.5) Middle Atlantic Conference all-star: Diane Kendig, first team (MVP) All-American, first-team: Diane Kendig Swimming: overall record: 4-7-1 Middle Atlantic Conference Championship Medal Winners: Peggy Butchkavitz, so. three medals 2nd — 200 - breaststroke 4th — 100-breaststroke 5th — 50 - freestyle Reed Bello, fr., — one medal 3rd — 1 meter diving Michele Maguire, so. — three medals 6th —200-IM 6th — loo - butterfly 6th — 200 - butterfly goals (22). She also holds the season marks in those respective categories with 600 points, 139 steals, and 103 field goals. This season, she set the Wilkes mark for most field goals with 252. careerp™,OM^stanTcoach S Vr^"—"3'5'' .occasion of making her 1000th ana Coach Nancy Roberts. o ‘^cowNEW wwwal The "SOUTH RIVER STREET REVIVAL" was compiled by Vesta Breakstone of the Alumni Relations Office. The information contained in the Alumni Notes was received between January 4, 1980 and April 12, 1980. Please send news contributions to: Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766. QJoli? Over the past few years some of our graduates have given us the slip. 1 e.jOncerriBd uncles and aunts we ou d be delighted to hear from you °ain- If any alumni can help us in the S4a>rCh’ PleaSe dr°P a line With ,n ,a LSses °f °ur missing nieces Alu nephervs to the Wilkes College A?f1F.-Lahr’56 Wesld ^Jmareoux '60 r *<• Lang ’58 Kenneth J. Lantelme '57 James J. Larkin '53 Rosemary B. Lauer '70 Edward J. Laux '55 Mrs. Catherine Kilgallon Lavin '36 Harold J. Lawrence, jr. '49 Dr. Bernice Leagus '51 Dr. Charles J. Leagus '54 Delores C. Leagus '52 Marsha Pezzner Leberson ’72 Chen Chris Lee '73 Cecile Gratkowski Lee '64 Linda J. Lee '70 Gerald B. Lefkowitz '57 Joan M. Leggetts 66 Joseph I. Leibman 58 Donna M. Lemke 72. Bernard S. Lenovitz 37 David Levin 72 Leon A. Levin 54 Janet Marie Levitski /6 Delmar George Lewis '60 George J. Lewis '52 John F. Lewis '73 William D. Lewis '53 Regina Banick Lieb '76 Alvin Lipachultz '56 Joseph A. Lipinski '64 Albert C. Lumm '68 Ann Masley Lockwood '65 Ann Lodge '55 Rita Toole Loftus '76 David J. Longmire '66 Angelo J. Lorenzoni '68 F. Kevin Loughran '70 Atty. Samuel J. Lowe '58 Carolyn Nargo Lowum '43 Joel E. Lubin '69 Edmund B. Luft '69 Dr. John A. Lupas 54 Ruth C. DeWitt Lupinski 74 Sylvia Luther 72 SPRING 19S0 17 �Services Administration, Estelle Harrington McAndrew '43 Paul E. McAndrew 74 Shelia M. McAndrew 71 Shawna L. McCarthy 75 Kevin McGinley 72 Susan Weckel McGrady 73 Brian T. McGrath '69 Gerard A. McHale '67 Ellen Hope McLoughlin '53 Mary Eileen McNally '65 Bernice Thomas McTague '56 Shiu-Wai Ma '67 Maria Franch Mabey 71 Robert T. Macey '67 Annette C. Macri 76 Harold K. Mager '67 Albert Malero 78 Carl J. Malisheski ’50 Ruth S. Malon 71 Kenneth Long Maloney ’67 Mildred Dyanick Malta 75 Edwin K. Manda '69 Betty Zeto Manfie '68 Raymond D. Marchakitus '62 Deborah A. Marchetti 77 Robert J. Marchlik '67 Thomas C. Marcy 76 Walter R. Markowski 78 John W. Marlatt '64 Richard F. Masciarella ’67 Eugene S. Mason '53 Edward J. Matthews '67 The World Listens ■ During last summer's two-week run of the internationally renowned Newport Jazz Festival, Thomas Hrynkiv '63 appeared in no fewer than 20 concerts. When questioned about Hrynkiv's value to the program, Mark Malkovich, festival director, quickly replied — "Without Tom, we’d be nowhere." Such praise is hardly new to Thomas Hrynkiv. who began piano studies at the age of eight. "I always knew I wanted to do it," he says. Both my parents were greatly supportive of my studying. Although they weren't classical, there was always music in my home.” he continues, "it's part of our heritage." And, indeed it must be. Of the six Hrynkiv children (four are Wilkes College graduates — Robert '64, Michael 71, 18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Nilus L. Mattive 72 Paulette M. Mautusavage■ 70 Constance Maximowica '('65 Harold J. Mayo 75 Frank L. Mazzeo '60 cAlofes 1942 ELMO CLEMENTE has been confirmed by the State Senate to the State Board of Examiners of Public Accountants. Elmo, owner of the accounting firm of Clemente and Snyder, resides in Kingston, Pa., with his wife, Terry. The couple has five sons, Nicholas, Robert, Stephen, James, and Thomas. 1953 PAUL B. BEERS, associate editor of “The Patriot-News” in Harrisburg, Pa., has had his new book published. It is entitled “Pennsylvania Politics, Today and Yesterday, The Tolerable Accommodation.” and Walter ’67), three are involved in the arts. Brother Bill plays popular piano music in Florida, and Robert is an abstract impressionist, living in Connecticut. Their father was a soloist in a Ukrainian folk and tap dance group while their mother plays the piano and provides encouragement. "Thomas never had to be pushed," she says. From an early age, he practiced as much as four hours a day. The practice paid off. Hrynkiv has been receiving commendations and winning competitions since the age of 13. At 14 he began playing violin, and later viola in the local symphony. By 16, Hrynkiv was conducting a youth orchestra. That same year, he appeared in Carnegie Recital Hall. In 1962, Hrynkiv won the National Music Teacher's Competition. Later, he won yet another competition, this time gaining an opportunity to play the Tschaikovsky Concerto with Leopold Stokowski conducting. Hrynkiv received his B.A. in music from the College and studied under Ann Liva. While studying for his Master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music, he received the Frank Huntington Brebe Award, and upon graduation he was given the Harold Bauer Award, the school's highest honor. Later, he won the gold medal in the Geneva competition and was the unanimous choice of the "Hour of Music" competition. ANTHONY GIUSTI, 979 Upland Drive, Elmira, New York, is director of Manufacturing Services Projects, Manufacturing Services division and the General Administrative department of the Corning Glass Works in Corning. 1958 JOSEPH SCHOONOVER has been promoted to vice president and treasurer of Ettco Tool and Machine Company, Inc., York, Pa. JOSEF M. REESE has been appointed claims manager in the Scranton branch office of the Ohio Casualty Group of Insurance Companies. Joe, his wife, Lyn, and two children, Betsy and Tom, reside in Dallas, Pa. 1961 AUDREY HUNTZINGER MORGAN has been promoted to vice-president and trust officer in the Trust Division of United Penn Bank, Wilkes-Barre, where Audrey resides with her four children, Kim, Brian, Mario, and Robin. xt « V reSldeS m D-CpS?viHe. Maryland. fores1*1 rEV. GA 1962 DEHOPE, director of cathedral School, the Epovas recently elected to puert0 R ' Board of the the G°^on °f Episcopal Schools. 1963 con V the A. L. Herst Sedation, and he resides m Washington Crossing, P . ADMINISTRATIVE profile - CHARLES ABATE by Edward Van Buren '80 JOSEPH KRATZ has been promoted to assistant inspector general for the When he made his debut in 1967 during a tour of major European cities, the critic for London's DAILY TELEGRAPH praised his "dazzlingly brilliant technique." Berlin's DIE WELT, meanwhile pronounced him "second to none of the younger pianists. Following his recording of the piano music of Glinka for the Musical Heritage Society, MUSICAL AMERICA magazine called Hrynkiv "a real discovery." His American appearances include performances at Kennedy Center, Constitution Hall,.as well as the Newport Jazz Festival. Hrynkiv is also one of the most-sought-after chamber music players in the United States, and has appeared with the Hellyer-Lucarelli-Hrynkiv Trio, the New American Trio, and the Audobon Quartet. Hrynkiv feels that he is now at the crossroads of his career. Each year his career grows bigger and a decision must be made whether to devote all his time to music or maintain his present level. "I will constantly make music, but I would never want to tour constantly." he says. "I have a good life-style, rather casual. I make a good living with my private teaching and the groups I play with. I don't know whether I want to sacrifice all this and go for the top, it’s really a major decision." Until Thomas Hrynkiv makes his decision, the world of fine music awaits.O acting aSeSvU Colleg?8 1»’’ i Li’ Charles Abate is dedicated to Wilkes College. Since 1966 he has served as Business Manager for the College: supervising the bookstore, purchasing insurance, managing the business office, and overseeing the maintenance department. He is fiercely loyal to the school, "I owe Wilkes College more than they owe me," he says, "and I'll work here as long as they'll have me." The present state of the world makes Charles Abate and his story seem almost like a "fairy tale." Fortunately, it isn't. Abate graduated born high school at the age of 16. ter three years in the service he ''ent into the grocery business with fa'm'f01'161 and began ra’s’n8 a J," Abate enrolled at Wilkes of wnat he calls "a love and thirst for education nar|Cc_'°n' " attended classes hou;‘i?e..whi?e.-^g5o to 55 working 50<’ to 55 eoaU 3 Week' Abate achieved his Laude" f957 8raduatin8 Magna Cum ‘"Accounting °llegeWithaB-Sfor^Crn11117; He beSan workin8 L—-—____ _ °Wn Nut Company, a 1965 1969 baenawaXKd^RR^ANhas research Tant in w'’ d,ssertation His wife, MARILYN THOMAS RJS^KOFSKI is a self employed artist. The couple has three children Lynn, Michael, and Keith. 1967 EMIL WARREN, trust officer for Wyoming National Bank, has been named an assistant vice president. Erml, his wife, the former PHYLLIS KRAVITZ ’66, and their four children reside in Alden, Pa, ksSSF— bysex°inSUodyt1he mVisi0n ol'labor chann r nal' *ribes as ^ey WILLIAM LEANDRI has been Promoted to vice president at yoming National Bank. Bill his Holl' ‘U and lW° dau”hters, Fort, Pand Mandy’ reside in For‘y ROBERT SILVI is personnel/ benefits manager at Bridon American Corporation, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. division of George Helen Enterprises, as assistant secretary/treasurer. He continued with the company "doing 1971 everything imaginable" until 1966. ROBERT TINNER, JR. has been "I remember receiving a phone call promoted to assistant auditor of the from John Chwalek,” Abate recalls, Hanover Bank of Pennsylvania. Bob "he mentioned that the College was and his wife, ANN UZUPS TINNER, looking for a business manager and reside at Indian Lake, Pa. that I should consider coming up and ATTY. LOUIS A. MANGANIELLO applying." He visited the College, was married to Deborah Jackson, met with Dr. Farley (then president and the couple resides in Houston, of the College) and got the job. Texas, where Louis is in private Abate, who resides on campus next practice. to the gymnasium, considers Wilkes College "one of the finest colleges around." Two of his sons graduated 1972 from the College. One is currently DEANNA GRIETZER JONES is a studying for his doctorate at Syracuse United Air Lines flight attendant, University, while the other is a and she resides in Redwood City, graduate of the Wilkes-Hahnemann California, with her husband, Program. "It would have been Thomas. impossible for my son to be a doctor WILLIAM HANBURY has recently if it had not been for the Wilkesbeen hired as associate director of Hahnemann program." the Convention and Visitors' Bureau Abate is himself one of seven of the Greater Syracuse Chamber of children, two of whom received Commerce, Syracuse, New York. college educations. He regrets that his father, a coal miner by trade, LIBRO CIARMATORI, 23 Park Lane, didn't live to see the realization of Exeter, Pa., has been promoted to his dream — to have his children vice president at Wyoming National educated. Bank. The Wilkes administrator took that JOANNE BROWN and Capt. Russell dream one step further. Twenty Nixdorf were married on December years after gaining his baccalaureate 17 1979 in Jupiter, Florida, where degree from Wilkes, he was awarded the couple is residing. Joanne was a Masters degree in Business promoted to assistant principal and Administration. summer school principal at Sabal Since that time, Abate has been Palm School, West Palm Beach. named as a Certified Purchas‘n“keS. A dauohter, Cheryl Ann, was born Manager, one of nine inhi Barre/Scranton Area. Currently, a member of the American Purchasing Society, Eastern • s Association of College and Busmess A son, Brian Michael. was born on Officers, and the National... Barbara and January 27, 1980, to E. Association of College o Services. __________ SPRING 1980 19 �MICHAEL PALKO. Brian is their first child. The family resides in La Plata, Maryland. 1973 ROBERT MATLEY has been promoted to assistant vice president, Commercial Loan Division, United Penn Bank, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Bob ... ms his wife resides in Forty Fort with Trudy. ELLA McNAMARA MILLER has be Len anointed Student AcH.viUes Advisor by the California S ate University of Sacramento. Ella resides in the Sacramento area wii her husband, Stanton. r,„ree F. Elliot arrived on a tiny Wilkes Lus in the Fall of 1950, a quiet unobtrusive young man. Nobody at that time could have anticipated the monumental influence that this great and good man would gave on the College that he loved so dearly and the generation of young lives which would be touched by his personality. The limes when he arrived were peaceful, despite the outbreak of conflict in Korea. Life on our campus was relaxing and predictable. Harry Truman presided over the nation's affairs in Wahington; campus unrulincss was unheard of; Joe McCarthy, Vietnam, and Watergate lay in a future that no rational person in an age of rationality could have anticipated. Mays, Mantle, and Snyder patrolled Centerfield in Manhattan, and we opened many discussions with George over their respective merits. Casey Stengel, with monotonous regularity, whipped George's Bums in the autumn rites of the World Series. Only in recent years did this transplanted New Englander, George F. Elliot, ALAN BRYSKI has become a Physician's Assistant-Certified, and is a member of the staff of the Luzerne-Wyoming Counties Mental Health Department. He is employed at the psychiatric unit of General Hospital and is under contract to Screen-Gems and Dreena Music. The couple resides in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. mathematics from the University of Scranton on May 27, 1979, Patricia is employed as a secondary mathematics teacher in the Pittston Area School District, Pittston, Pa. ROBERT HOWES, JR. has been promoted to vice president of Franklin First Federal Savings and Loan Association. Bob and his wife, Roberta, reside at R.D.~3, Stroudsburg, Pa. CAROLE TROYNACKI and Steven DiGiacomo were recently married. Carole is a teacher, employed by the Wyoming Area School District in the Middle School South. A son, James Edward Daoust IB, was born on February 16,1980, to JAMES and JOAN COLOGNATO DAOUST II of Jacksonville, Fla. PAUL NATISHAN recently received his master’s degree in materials Science at the University of Virginia. Paul is continuing in a Ph.D. Program in the same department. 1976 ESTELLA PARKER has been appointed Public Relations director of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce. She resides with her family in Shavertown, Pa. 1918-March 24, 19S0 Augus,{'^~^K--- .... A daughter, Megan Christine, was born on May 3, 1979, to Emanuel and MARGARET REES POSLUSZNY. The family resides in . Kingston, Pa. Five months later, Penn Central leased A son, Adam Joseph, was bom the air space above the terminal to a on February 8,1980, to Ann and British Corporation which planned to erect CLYDE FITCH. Clyde is an office building on the site. Two plans superintendent of the sales/agencwere submitted to the Commission One icy development department of Aetna' envisioned a 55-story skyscraper above Life and Casualty Company, the terminal’s root while the other called Hartford. The family resides in for tearing down the front of the building Newington, Connecticut. and encasing the terminal in a 53-story glass and steel structure. 1974 When the city rejected both plans. Penn Central went to court, claiming a violation CAPTAIN JOHN BOROWSKI has of its property rights. Originally, a trial graduated from the Squadron Officer court ruled in the railroad s favor. school at Maxwell Air Force Base, However, an appeals court reversed the Alabama. John presently is stationed decision in 1975 and the case was at Griffiss AFB, New York, where brought before the Supreme Court. he serves as a computer systems development officer. Penn Central lawyer Daniel Gribon contended that the railroad should be compensated for the revenue which the tower would have generated, estimated at over S3 million a year in rent. Wilkes College Although the legal profession provides Koerner, who argued the case tor New a great number of indications of alumni are making York City, stated that the company was their marks all achievement, there is perhaps none more not deprived of ’’reasonable use” of the honored than the opportunity to argue a over the world. terminal. "Penn Central was unable to precedent-setting case before the United MARCOS L. show that it cannot make a profit from the States Supreme Court. ESPINHEIRA terminal as it now stands," he argued. has been appointed Financial Leonard J. Koerner, a 1964 Wilkes "Our point was the fact that they made a graduate, did just that. It was quite an Planning manager for Dow Chemical profit is all that is required under the achievement when you consider that only Brazil. Espinheira joined Dow as a Landmark Law, not whether they make four percent of the cases submitted ever trainee in the Treasury Department the highest profit possible." reach the Supreme Court. What makes it of Dow Chemical Latin America, Across the country, preservationists even more of an achievement is the fact Coral Gables, in 1977. In the same were jubilant over the decision. All 50 that he won! year he was transferred to Brazil as states and more than 500 municipalities The 1978 case involved New York credit and finance supervisor for the already have preservation laws, but many City's right to preserve Grand Central Aratu site, after spending six of them were hesitant to designate Terminal as a historic landmark versus months training in Sao Paulo. commercial properties as landmarks. Now, Penn Central's right, as the property Espinheira also holds a master’s according to Randall Scott, research owner, to build a 53-story tower above it. degree in business administration director of Washington’s Environmental The constitutional question before the from Michigan State University. Lav; Institute, "the court has reassured Supreme Court was whether the New York many communities that they can move City Landmarks Preservation, by barring more rapidly on these cases." Penn Central from selling the air rights Koerner has received a great deal of over the terminal, v/as depriving the DR. GEORGE FALCONE is publicity and prestige for his successful railroad use of its property without due practicing general optometry at his argument against Daniel Gribon. a senior process (compensation). This would new office, 2 West William Street, partner of the large Washington firm of constitute a violation of the Fifth and Pittston, Pa. He is married to the Covington and Burling which represented Fourteenth Amendments through the former SUSAN C. SHERBIN ’76. Penn Central. "It was an interesting public taking of private property without experience, a high point," Koerner says, compensation. "I’d like to do it again." 1975 The battle for Grand Central Station DR. PATRICK MORAN recently Koerner graduated from the College with actually began in 1967 when Nev/ York a B.S. in accounting. He later attended received his Ph.D. degree in material I City named the terminal a landmark. This the New York University Law School. science from the University of . meant that Penn Central Transportation Currently, he serves as the Chief of Virginia Engineering School. Pat is Company, its nearly bankrupt owner, Commercial Litigation for the New York presently employed as an assistant could not make any changes on the City Lav/ Department. Koerner resides in professor in the department of building’s exterior without the consent of Chatham. N.J., with his wife, Suzanne Materials Science and Engineering the Landmarks Preservation Commission. (Stica) 65, and their two daughters. Q at the Jo’hns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. 20 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY transfer his allegiance to that perennial betrayer of loyal fandom, the Perennial Boston Red Sox. No chronicle of George's thirty years of benign influence on this campus is complete without strong reference to Wilkes athletic teams. No athlete himself, even in a vicarious sense, he was deeply devoted to the teams that represented the College in intercollegiate competition. How enjoyable il was for him to wander over to Ralston Field in the fall to observe coach Schmidt and his stalwarts. Winter sports season could not get underway without George's appearance at the gymnasium to inspect John Reese's prospects and the basketball teams. Referring to the athletes, George often speculated as lo why devoted so much lime and pain without they devoted any but the most meager and insufficient reward. "So much of my total income stems from the psychic rewards associated with Wilkes athletics," he stated on more than one reflective occasion. A whole generation of Wilkes students probably identifies their fond recollections of the man more with his landmark courses in Economic Geography rather than in any other aspect of his inspiring career. Those courses, three decades ago, were the ugly ducklings of Commerce and Finance course offerings. As junior departmental member, those courses fell to him by default. He created from those courses what will be his greatest long term memorial. The knowledge, sensitivity, and perspective gleaned from Economics 227 and 228 are such lhat one can only feel regret for those students yet to come; for they are truly losers. What a loss il is lhat he never published his volumninous notes as colleagues so often encouraged. Professor Elliot was deeply committed lo liberalism, and there was no stronger George F. Elliot BRUCE Dorothy PHAIR isDickson technical dir, for Darte rector „ ---------- . Center for the • Center for the Perfnr^:-Performing Arts at Wilkes College. •1 A Modern Day “David” Beats “Goliath” L FRANCIS A. J. KERDESKY is a post doctoral associate of Dr. S. Masamune at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Frank will receive his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania at heir May commencement. ROBERT BOSTON has been appointed manager of operations for the Luzerne County Transportation Authority. Bob resides in Kingston, Pa., with his wife, Cathy, and two daughters, Christine and Debra. STANLEY KREMSKI and Mary Beth Andei nderson were recently married. PATRICIA SCHILLACI received her master’s degree in correlated conviction within him. With the passage of time, however, he came to question the orientation of liberalism in the FDR-LBJ sense. In one of his last conversations with departmental members, he questioned the use of the oppressive powers of the state to redress economic injustices, however perceived. His commitment to liberal thought in the area of political concerns, however, increased as the years unfolded. Never did he have doubts on those affairs which broadened human right and human dignity. Earl Warren had no more supportive admirer and advocate. On March 24, 1980, George failed to appear for his noon class in Economic Geography. How uncharacteristic! Some intuitively suspected the worst. With how many human beings would it be a logical assumption that failure to meet one single ingle class on schedule could only be explained by death? On the date that he arrived on this sorrowing campus, George opened an account of conscientiousness, devotion to students, scholarship, and ethics with the College as joint tenant. Now that legacy belongs to Wilkes. We are all richer and thankful beneficiaries. 0 Editor’s Note: Professor George F. Elliot, a member of the Wilkes College Commerce and Finance Department faculty for 30 years, died unexpectedly in March. Colleagues of Professor Elliot in the Commerce and Finance Department requested the establishment of a George F. Elliot Memorial Scholarship Fund. Donations to the scholarship fund may be made through the Wilkes College Development Office. For 30 years George Elliot shared an office with Welton Farrar. They were personal friends as well as colleagues. Professor Farrar wrote these words in tribute to his friend. . . A daughter, Jennifer Jean, was born on January 26, 1979, to PHILIP and CAROL GUSGEKOFSKI BESLER. The family resides in Trenton, New Jersey. A boy, Matthew Brian, was born on April 27,1979, to David and CAROL BULLOCK CAPPER. The family is planning a move to Australia. A son, John Lewis, was born on March 4, 1980, to Lew and JANE LEWIS FORD. The family resides in McDonough, New York, where Jane is a substitute teacher in four I school districts. SPRING 1980 21 �.p1977 LISA WAZNIK ANDREJKO has been promoted to assistant director of the Monroe County Recreation and Park Commission. JOHN F. JASTREM has been promoted to senior accountant with Arthur Andersen and Company, New York City, New York. A Will" and a Way by Betsy Bell Condron 4 "Where there's a will, there's a way!" ... my grandmother used to LAURA ROLLMAN was recently admonish me when 1 1/ married to William Brace. Laura is was sure I’d never employed in the controller's office make the hockey team at Wilkes-Barre City Hall, and the or remember my lines couple resides in South Wilkesin the school play or ......... ........ alder inveigle.the handsome ol boy Io lake me to the Barre, Pa. As 1I iwu read u** all the — catchy prOm. As —1 rphrases which ..... introduce articles like this, (You Can't Take II With 1978 You Is Your Will Like Howard Hughes'? - You JUDITH MENAPACE was promoted Have A Will: By Plan or Default - Your Will or to assistant cashier at Wyoming The Tax Collector’s? - It's Your Future/Better Be National Bank, and serves as Sure - etc.), which attempt to cajole and frighten manager of the Pierce Street office and warn readers to take heed and get their Wills in Kingston, Pa. written ... I keep coming back to grandmother’s KAREN KENNEDY CAMPBELL has advice. Surely, where there is a Will there are all been named assistant comptroller kinds of ways to leave your assets and your at Wilkes College. She resides in cherished belongings to those who can use them Sweet Valley, Pa. best and who will treat them with the love and respect they deserve. ROSEMARIE ROSATI and GARY What do you want done with that tract of land in POHORELY were married on the mountains your Uncle Chester left you? What October 20, 1979. Gary works with will happen to that marvelous collection of pewter the engineering firm of Robert C. you've enjoyed over the years? Should your stocks Bogart Associates, and Rosemarie really become the property of those distant cousins is employed by Easter Seal in one you never hear from? Would you like to leave your of their Transitional Housing cameos to your grandchild or your nurse? Write it programs. The couple resides in down — formally — legally — for without a Will Flemington, New Jersey, where all kinds of things you don't want to happen to Rosemarie is working towards a your life's tangible memories might very well MSW degree at Rutgers University. happen. If you die without a Will, you lose the ability to 1979 control the disposition of your assets. The law/lhe ROBERT NEUMAN was recently stale - and not you — will decide where your notified that he passed the property goes. Furthermore, considerable tax November, 1979, C.P.A. exam. Bob savings are often lost if no Will has been prepared. is employed by Baron, Strassman Reliable sources say that seven out of every eight and Company, certified public or nine United States citizens die without valid accountants, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. O Wills AND that about 100 million of their dollars will be tied up in probate courts. A typical example of such short-sightedness is that of a wealthy New Wilkes College admits students York broker who died leaving his $25 million estate of any race, color and national and no Will. While alive, this respected financial or ethnic origin. and community leader had supported many worthwhile causes, but after his death four-fifths of his Utuuvud millions went to IOAVO, taxes, UCUU debts allU and UU1CI other CUM3 costs uw nvui tv and only one-fifth went Io his heir. Nothing went to the charitable organizations, including his college, ATTENTION PARENTS! that he'd spent much of his life's efforts upon. If this magazine is addressed to Perhaps that man was like many of us who hate your son or daughter who no to admit we’re mortal and keep putting off the longer maintains a permanent tangible sign of it, a Will, probably the most address at your home, please clip important legal document we ever sign. Remember, off the address label on back making a Will - no matter the size of the property cover and return it with the cor­ involved - is not a do-it-yourself job. The small rect address to the Alumni Of­ cost of drawing up your Will by a competent fice at Wilkes College. Thank you >— (and updating ..it periodically) ivu.Mi.iv, wui onset lawyer will oc be offset for helping us update our rec­ by the avoidance of future legal and financial binds. ords. Some alumni and friends of Wilkes have already included the College in their Wills. Others are 22 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY considering this effective means of supporting a charitable and educational institution which reflects their own values and aspirations. Planning a gift [0 Wilkes in your Will is a meaningful way to invest in the future of the College, as well as that of your more direct heirs. There are several types of Will gifts. Outright Bequests pass directly to Wilkes when the donor's estate is settled and include: a fixed sum of money; specific property such as real estate or valuable collections; a percentage of the estate; the entire (or percentage) of the residue of the estate (that portion left after expenses, taxes, debts and bequests). Charitable Remainder Gifts include life income trusts such as Wilkes' Pooled Income Fund, unitrusts, annuity trusts ... and not all these are irrevocable plans. Such Will gifts provide ideal solutions for those who don't want their survivor(s) to be deprived of regular income. Contingent bequests provide that the entire estate (or a fraction) go to Wilkes if certain other conditions are not met; for example, named beneficiaries have died before the Will is probated. Contingent bequests are thus, an excellent instrument for younger people to use. A charitable bequest receives the estate lax deduction, and substantial estate tax savings are frequently realized. More important in some ways is that when you make your Will you have the satisfaction of giving your lifetime's accumulations to those you most want to receive them: your family, your loved ones, your college, the charitable groups in which you are most interested. At the same time you gain that "measure of immortality," you also provide for the welfare of others. If you have already framed your Will to include Wilkes as a beneficiary, or if you plan to do so, we would appreciate knowing of your intention. Surprises are nice, but for you and us it is better if we are aware of a planned bequest. Wilkes may have specific needs which fit your giving plans precisely. We may be able to suggest an especially suitable memorial or a plan to enhance the value of your estate. And if you do remember Wilkes in your Will, we'd like to say thanks to YOU rather than to your executor! By returning the coupon below we'll be able to provide you helpful information and thank you for your concern. O I-------------------------------------------I To: Director of Planned Giving Wilkes College I Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 Ij I would like more information on ( I Life Income Plans and/or Wills. I I I I I | | ■ i -■K < -1 r' ; ■ ■■ 1 - Annual Homecoming October 10,11,12,1980 I All Homecoming Activities to be held on campus! Special brochure to follow. Plan now r a—— Soccer Match t K Alumni vs. Varsity , A-i T'J Saturday -i September 13, 1980 wS’esc0J"“Wa doing has SonWhing *^eresting? Thlie Quarterly" js Ralston Field ct oW day5 '■'an10 dion Alumni! The tbrance ofyour col ^.arbook. It allows you recapture those glorioi past- which might be somewhere in youritr° / 5e f the P d you can revitalize purchasing a yea froi a volume. Books ,eITiW g7661975-79 are cum.to11 papayable i i i i i i i i i This information will be keptconfidential. | I I Name Name | Address Address ______________________ ____ — . | I t •W IA J 33rd .y * r, I? Plan Wow Y in my | | >---------------------------------------------------------- | [ Phone _ ___ Phone a il I I plan to include Wilkes College in my Will. I haveincludedWilkesCollege Will. , y » V. - A . < 43. *,lk« Collegf + 'W * - *■ - r ' I I " tb? South River Stree‘ Revival section. ifyou have any ideas or n°nunationssend S'P'^Edito, Wdkes College >r, Quarterly, Wilkes c°llege, Wilk<:esBarre< Pa. 18766. I �TIPS WILKES COLLEGE ALUM San Juan PUERTO RICO 8 Days/7 Nights Sat., June 28 — Sat., July 5 or Sat., July 19 — Sat., July 26 Including: Round trip motorcoach from Wilkes-Barre and Scranton to JFK. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Spring 1980 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1980 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/93da75c99c6c84519e97765f2414552d.pdf 11815fc7b53cfc549e205af2f3d1c387 PDF Text Text - �WILKE6 COLLEGE •SUMMER «O Volume 4, Number 1 editor Gordon Roberts '60 associate editor Jane Manganella editorial staff Eddie White 111'80 Vesta Breakstone Betsy Bell Condron Edward Van Buren '80 Reenie Corbett '79 Cindy Ercolani '81 Margaret Scholl '81 William Miller'81 contributing staff Tanya Hallez George Pawlush Noreen Corbett Shirley Collins editorial advisors Anne Graham '70 art director Jon Schaffer photography editor Arthurs. Miller SPECTRUM STUDIO contributing photographer Robert Gaetano '80 COVER: Wilkes highlights five programs in the healthcare field offered at the college in cooperation with affiliated professional schools. The cover depicts aspects of Optometry, Family Medicine, Pharmacy, Podiatry and Nursing. With a combination of skill and understanding, professionals in these fields can provide a community with top-notch healthcare and concern. The cover was designed and rendered in acrylics by Gary Meyer. National Recognition for the Electrical Engineering Program 6 8 The Coming of a Dream ... Wilkes College Health Science Program by George Pawlush '69 11 17 33rd Commencement Wilkes College Works on the Energy Crisis by Shirley Collins Piano Technician — Earl Orcutt ’69 by Noreen Corbett '79 circulation manager Tanya Hallez '67 Alumni Helping Students Peaches, Anyone? The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons, Honorary Member Louis Shaffer. Trustee Emeritus Alan M. Glover. Ph.D.. Trustee Emeritus Mrs. Richard M. Ehret. Trustee Emerita Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber. Trustee Emerita Thomas H. Kiley, Trustee Emeritus OFFICERS Benjamin Badman '41. Chairman Mrs. Walter M. Diener. Vice Chairman Hon. Edwin M. Kosik '49. Vice Chairman Mrs. Edward Darling. Secretary Mrs. William Davidowitz, Treasurer by Betsy B. Condron Chronicle — 4 Faculty Abstract — 7 South River St. Revival — 20 JamesA. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein '68 Edward Bixby. M.D. Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Henry M. Curry. 3rd Mrs. Stanley Davies Louis D. Davis. Jr. '60 W. Carey Evans '41 Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan. Jr. Robert L. Jones Richard Ma.'low Mrs. Robert Mayock Charles H. Miner. Jr. Gerald A. Moffatt '63 F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Richard L. Pearsall William A. Perlmuth '51 Joseph J. Pinola '49 Mrs. Kenneth Rhodes Arnold Rifkin Hon. Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross. Jr. Eugene Roth '57 Joseph J. Savitz '48 Sports Update — 19 Ronald W. Simms'60 William Sword E. Arthur T rabant, Ph.D. William J. Umphred '52 Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendi PRESIDENT Roberts. Capin '50 SUMMER 1980 3 �I Alumni are urged rged to make plans to attend this very ■ry special Homecoming and to make the ^thTsZLlHomXing brochure, memories. MUSIC During the academic year 1979-80, the Wilkes College Department of Music, under the chairmanship of Dr Terrance A. Anderson, initiated and maintained an extremely active performance schedule. The schedule represented a diverse repertoire consisting of every type of musical preference, style and choral idiom. Dr. Anderson introduced several new programs, one of the most significant being his “Community HOMECOMING CHAIRMAN Outreach." This venture brings Patrick J. Burke, class of 1969, music from the campus to the public and owner of Chuck Robbins at large by means of concerts, Sporting Goods, Wilkes-Barre, will chorales, wind and string ensembles, serve as general chairman of the 33rd student workshops, demonstrations Annual Alumni Homecoming and school visitation. October 10-12. Of special interest to alumni is Another facet of the outreach that all Homecoming activities this concept was the founding by year will be held for the first time on Dr. Anderson of the “Masterworks the Wilkes campus. A special Chorale,” a professional 30-member Homecoming brochure mailed to all ensemble. Their first performance alumni provides details of all in April of last year was an Homecoming activities. enormous success, and the Some of the highlights of this community has let us know that it year's Homecoming are the informal looks forward to future get-together on Friday evening at performances by the group. 9:00 p.m. in the Annette Evans Other offerings by music faculty Alumni-Faculty House; the Saturday and students included the Madrigal parade and football game (Wilkes vs. Singers, directed by Richard Trenton State); the Annual Chapline; The Wilkes Chamber Homecoming Dinner, Saturday at Players, directed by Dr. Herbert 7:30 p.m. in the Farley Lounge of Garber; Band performances, Jazz Stark Learning Center, followed by and Wind ensembles, directed by the Alumni Homecoming Dance in Jerome Campbell; several student the Conyngham Student Center at and faculty recitals and appearances 9:00 p.m.; and the Alumni by guest artists of national and Champagne Brunch, Sunday at international stature. 10:30 a.m. in the upper lobby of the Both campus and community look Center for the Performing Arts. forward to another year filled with The reunion classes of 1940 1950 such outstanding performances. A I960, and 1970 are to be honored at' feature article on the music this year’s Homecoming Dinner on department is scheduled for the next □aturday evening. issue of the Quarterly. 4 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY WCLH QUARTERLY by Bill Miller The time is eight o’clock on a Saturday morning and the Darte Fun of Music at Wilkes College is la practically deserted except for the three rooms on the third floor where a white sign is flashing “ON THE AIR”. These are the studios of WCLH, the Wilkes College radio station, and the bleary-eyed disc jockey at the control board is one of the fifty students who have changed WCLH from a small six-hour-a-day station to one of the most professional college stations in the area. When WCLH started in February of 1972, under the directorship of Dr. James Berg, the station had a beginning core of fifteen interested students. Since that time, under the direction of Mr. Beck and Dr. Brad Kinney, the present advisor of the club, the station has grown considerably. As Fred Pierantoni, station manager, explains;' The ey to our success in the past few years has been the group of people w 0 have become affiliates. All oft e , announcers are very dedicated an all have received their F.C.C. licenses, which is the first time a our announcers have accompl13 this.” The station, which recently celebrated its eighth birthday, 1 also seen its audience grow considerably over the years. MAYOCK EVANS NEW TRUSTEES ELECTED The Wilkes College Board of Trustees recently elected officers and five new board members at its annual meeting according to Robert S. Capin, Wilkes College president. Benjamin Badman, senior vice president and administrative director of the NPW Medical Center, was elected for his third one-year term as chairman of the board. Other officers include: Mrs. Walter Diener, Reading, vice chairman; Hon. Edwin M. Kosik, Scranton, treasurer; and Mrs. William Davidowitz, Kingston, secretary. The board also designated three veteran members of the body to the status of “trustee emeritus.” These board members include Mrs. Richard M. Ehret, Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber, and Thomas FL Kiley. Elected as new members to the Wilkes College Board of Trustees were Mrs. Robert L. Mayock, Wynnewood; W. Carey Evans, Wyoming; Arnold Rifkin, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Kenneth Rhodes, Pierantoni explains, “When WCLH first began we were on the air for only a few hours a day, and it was very difficult to build an audience, but now we estimate our audience to be approximately 5,000,” Programming includes something for everyone, from polkas and jazz to rock and disco. A major part of programming is devoted to educational shows, which account for approximately 33% of air time. One of the features of WCLH, according to Pierantoni, is the station’s excellent relations with the community. “We distribute approximately 5,000 program guides and have a newsletter for listeners who are interested.” WCLH this year has also been awarded a first place trophy in the "Professional News Media Association of Northeastern RIFKIN Waverly; and William A. Perlmuth, New York City. Mrs. Mayock, the wife of Dr. Robert L. Mayock, is a former Wilkes-Barre resident. She is a graduate of Edgewood Park Jr. College and Briarcliff Manor College. Active in Philadelphia area civic affairs, Mrs. Mayock is a member of the Board of Women Visitors at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is co-chairperson of the American Lung Association’s 75th Anniversary in 1980. She is active with the Franklin Institute and the Junior League of Philadelphia. Mr. Evans is a 1941 graduate of Bucknell University Junior College, now Wilkes College. He is president of the Wyoming Valley Nursery Inc., Wyoming, and has worked closely with all three Wilkes presidents over the years on the landscaping of the campus. Mr. Evans has traveled the world extensively on educational, religious, and personal matters. Mr. Rifkin is president of A. Rifkin Company, San Souci Pennsylvania Contest." The station was judged “First-Overall" in the areas of news, sports, and public affairs. The future at WCLH does indeed look bright because of the core of students who are now dedicated to the success of the station. A bright hope for the station is the possibility that the college may establish a WCLH-TV station, which would be housed in the Stark Learning Center. The facilities for the television studio would also include new studios for WCLH radio, which is outgrowing its present facilities at Darte Hall. Many of the members of WCLH are active in the group for different reasons. Fred Pierantoni, who is a political science major, believes that the experience has helped him with his public speaking while Rich RHODES PERLMUTH Parkway. He is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His civic affiliations include board membership on the Friends Hospital Corporation, Philadelphia, and the Wyoming Valley Jewish Committee. He is past president of B’nai B’rith, Kingston. Mrs. Rhodes holds a B.A. from Swarthmore and an M.S. from Wilkes College. She is a mathematics teacher in the Abington Heights School District. Mrs. Rhodes is a member of the Mathematics Association of America and the Abington Township Planning Commission. Mr. Perlmuth, a 1951 Wilkes graduate, is a senior partner in the New York City law firm of Stroock, Stroock & Lavan. He received his LL.B, from the Columbia University Law School. The New York attorney is a trustee of the Aeroflex Foundation, the Harkness Ballet Foundation, and was recently elected a trustee of the Hospital for Joint Diseases and Orthopaedic Institute. O Nordheim, who is the program director, believes his experience at WCLH will help him as he plans a career in sales. Although the station has an associate club, WCLH is established as a corporation. WCLH, then, has grown from a small beginning into a productive, competitive radio station which provides for those associated with it many learning opportunities for different careers. The members have shown, through dedication over the years, their willingness to make WCLH a success. When you are driving in your car or listening at home, tune in and remember the amount of devotion and work that went into this very simple message: “You are listening to WCLH, the stereo voices of Wilkes College at 90.7 FM on your stereo dial.” SUMMER 1980 □ �national RECOGNITION for the electrical engineering program THE WILKES — Tanya April Hallez ^^^^''TenlemtoSto9 Dr Carl Charnetski addressed to the in*eJ'l9entt 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY FOR 24-HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. 717-826-1135 vehicle for service and as a seir discipline; and above all to expose and encourage them to dav,e!°P and live by a set of values. Thi seemingly idealistic goal J; all the successful alumni and, more recently, through the awarding of accreditation for the maximum duration permitted by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology , (ABET), formerly the Engineers Council for Professional Development (ECPD). The receipt of this accreditation is one of the highest honors that can be conferred on the nine professors and five adjunct professors and lecturers who have dedicated themselves to fulfilling the aspirations of their philosophy. Anyone who is acquainted with the Engineering Department and its programs knows how hard they work to maintain the high standards set by themselves for quality education in engineering and just how much they deserve this honor. The top-quality engineering education received at Wilkes is rarely seen at other undergraduate institutions today. The department’s involvement extends beyond the classroom into the community through its Technology Transfer Program, continuing education programs, and the numerous professional seminars and conferences held on campus each year. The interaction with the community and uncount­ able services rendered are in keeping with the professionalism of the Department. The purpose of accrediting is to identify those institutions which offer professional engineering programs worthy of recognition The ABET, with its accreditation committees, is the only agency recognized by the National Commission on Accrediting for accreditation of educational programs leading to degrees in Tho'S9 in the United States Jde AnET ? rale in relation to education is to promote and advance all phases of engineering CqLlEGE CONNECTION Dr. Afrashteh and studenls Ronald Kielb and Thomas Godowsky are shown at work in one of the education for the public welfare through the development of bettereducated engineers and engineering technologists. It also carries out a guidance program to maintain high educational standards for colleges of engineering and engineering technology. Accreditation is a means of accomplishing objectives. These objectives are: 1) to identify institutions and programs that meet minimum criteria; 2) to provide guidelines for development and improvement of engineering programs; and 3) to stimulate engineering education in the United States. The policy of ABET is to accredit educational programs rather than institutions and to accredit the programs, not the degree itself. The Council tries to avoid rigid standards as a basis for accreditation in order to prevent stagnation of engineering and to encourage experimentation. The process towards achievement of accreditation is lengthy and precise. The procedure begins at the invitation of the institution desiring the accreditation. Extensive documentation on the program is compiled and sent to ABET. After ABET receives the data on the program there is an on-site visit by a carefully selected team representing the Participating Bodies* of ABET. This three to cannm h=ISH assesses Actors that •heinstiai?„nn‘la“!,l0Xy|eaS?hS9SeS engineering labs. which, in turn, makes its recommendations to the Board Visitations are made only durino fall semesters and the Board meets only once a year in June. In order to qualify for accreditation, the engineering program had to be designed to prepare professional level engineers capable of coping with the problems of society that are subject to engineering scrutiny. The program must also develop the ability of its students to maintain professional competency through continued self-study. One of the basic criteria for accreditation is that the faculty and institution must insure that they will maintain the quality of the program for the duration of accreditation. Given the enthusiasm of Dr. Umid Nejib and his very competent faculty, no one doubts that the quality of the Engineering Programs will be maintained, and that the faculty will strive to make the programs even better. o ‘Participating Bodies: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.; American Institute of Chemical Engineers; American Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc.; American Institute of Mining. Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers: American Nuclear Society; American Society of Agricultural Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers; American Society for Engineering Education; American Society of Heating. Refrigerating and AirConditioning Engineers, Inc.; The American Society ot Mechanical Engineers; The Ins of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, n ., National Council of Engineering Examiners, National Society ot Professional Engineers. Society of Automotive Engineers; Socie V Manufacturing Engineers; American Aca of Environmental Engineers (Member Boy, American Society for Metals (Member National Institute ot Ceramic Engineers (Member Body). by Cindy Ercolani Imagine, getting paid for having fun! A rare occurrence? Maybe, but one individual who considers himself to be doing just that is Wilkes College assistant psychology professor Dr. Carl Charnetski. As he puts it, "I love being with my students, whether or not they enjoy being with me. I'm just having a good time and getting paid for it.” His sincerity is as genuine as is his devotion to his students and to the College. “Wilkes has educated me and provided me with a job I love," says the Wilkes alumnus. "When an institution can do this much for you there has to be close ties." Described as a people person, Dr. Charnetski considers his return to graduate school and eventually to Wilkes College as a faculty member, as a result of his own “selfishness." After graduating from Wilkes Magna Cum Laude in 1970 he entered the work force and secured a good job with Systems Research Company in Philadelphia as a consultant. “I had a good job and a family to think about, but I followed my own selfish interests and enrolled in a Temple Ph.D. program." Despite the fact that he was competing with students from "bigtime” schools, such as UCLA, Harvard and Yale, he was one of only two men who completed the program in four years. “I must admit that upon entering Temple my confidence was shaken, but I soon realized what a solid background my education at Wilkes had provided.” During his graduate study years, his life was hectic, a carry-over to present days. Along with his studies at Temple he taught a college-level course and even opened up an antique shop to supplement his teaching stipend. Since his teaching debut at Wilkes four years ago he has retained his busy lifestyle both on the College campus and in the community. Charnetski served as faculty advisor to the class of 1980 and as an advisor to the Human Services Committee. He serves as ex-officio on various selection committees for post-Wilkes medical programs. His work in the community includes membership on the Board of Directors for the Luzerne and Wyoming County Mental Health and Retardation Centers, where he is chairman of its Program Committee. He and two other Wilkes professors recently completed a grant proposal on the "Bruce Effect," a phenomena in which rats will reabsorb their litter if they come in contact with a stud male. The psych professor's main interests include the concept of "Helplessness," a laboratory analogy of depression. “At Wilkes I am able to satisfy my research interests on a small scale," he states. Charnetski involves his students in his research and views research as a “sociological phenomena." "Ego envolvement is a big part of research. You want to tell everyone about what you are doing. Fortunately,” he adds, “my students are a captive audience.” Dr. Charnetski’s favorite teaching method is the “hands-on approach.” “The only way for students to get the full flavor and appreciation of what research is all about is to do it.” His goal is to have fun doing what he likes best—that is learning more about psychology and sharing it with his students. “I want my students to appreciate the applications of psychology and to view them critically. Students must be critical of everything. I want to instill in them the ability to assess new findings.” What does a busy man do to "get away from it all?” Well, he doesn't exactly escape from Wilkes College completely. The psychologist's favorite personal therapy is stream fishing with colleagues from the College. "The College is my life,” he states, “both socially and professionally.” o Plan NOW!! for Wilkes College Annual Alumni HOMECOMING October 10-12,1980 Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. ATTENTION PARENTSI If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter v/ho no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Of­ fice at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our rec­ ords. SUMMER 1980 7 �Students who express an interest in the Wilkes-PCPM or Wilkes-PCO programs must meet the admission requirements of Wilkes College and the respective professional institutions. At the end of the third pre-professional year, a Joint Selection Committee, comprised of Wilkes and PCPM faculty or Wilkes and PCO faculty, selects students for entrance to the PCPM or PCO components of the program. A cooperative program in pharmacy with Temple University followed in 1979. Also a program in dental medicine is expected to begin in the fall of 1980. These programs add to a long standing program in medical technology and a baccalaureate degree program in nursing. The College launched its baccalaureate program, leading to a B.S. in nursing in September 1972, when it engaged Mrs. Ruth McHenry as chairperson to develop it. Currently one of the largest academic departments at the College with over 360 students, the nursing curriculum is designed to integrate the theoretical and practical aspects of nursing with the arts, sciences, and the humanities. The Wilkes nursing program is fully accredited by the National League for Nursing (NLN) and the Pennsylvania State Board of Nurse Examiners. Wilkes, for several decades, has offered a four-year baccalaureate program in medical technology. The program endeavors to complement three years of The Coming Dr<sa.i Wilkes College Health Science Program by George Pawlush ’69 Just ten years ago the first block in Wilkes College's Health Sciences program was set into place when officials of the College and the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia mapped out plans to develop a six-year undergraduate program for family physicians which would serve to upgrade the health care delivery system for one and a half million people living in a 20-county region of Northeastern Pennsylvania and contiguous areas of New York and New Jersey. While the Wilkes-Hahnemann Program, which formally got underway in 1972, did provide one response to the critical need for family practitioners, it was just the tip of the iceberg as far as the shortage of other primary health care professionals was concerned. During the 1970’s Wilkes College turned its attention to developing several other affiliated programs to meet this important demand. In 1977, Wilkes College entered into cooperative agreements with the Pennsylvania College of 8 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Podiatric Medicine and the Pennsylvania College of Optometry to provide seven-year programs leading to a baccalaureate degree from Wilkes and a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine or a Doctor of Optometry from the respective Philadelphia-based colleges. Podiatric medicine is the healing art which concentrates on the diseases and disorders of the human foot. Six seats are annually open to the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine (PCPM) for qualified Wilkes students. The program requires completion of three years of study at Wilkes Collegt ;e and four years at PCPM. college study with one year of hospital experience at one of five affiliated hospitals including Allentown Hospital Association, Allentown; Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre; Somerset Medical Center, Somerville, N.J.; General Hospital, Wilkes-Barre; and the Williamsport Hospital, Williamsport. The Wilkes-Temple University program in pharmacy is the youngest cooperative health education program at the College It is difficult to discuss the Wilkes College Health Sciences program without acknowledging the efforts of Dr. Eugene S. Farley, first president of the College who served from 1933 to 1970. Dr. Farley had an outstanding insight into local health care problems and his visions for medical education in the 1950's and 1960's paved the way for the Wilkes-Hahnemann and other health science programs. optometrists and members of the Joint Selection Committee. and began in September 1979. Following two years of pre­ professional studies at Wilkes College, a Joint Selection Committee, comprised of Temple and Wilkes faculty, may select up to ten students for entrance into the three-year pharmacy phase of the program in Philadelphia. Students who complete the fiveyear program receive a B.S. in Pharmacy from Temple University. I' Similar to the Wilkes-PCPM program, the College's cooperative program with the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) requires three years at Wilkes and four additional years at PCO. Optometry is a dynamic profession which .- ’'?ws the practitioner to perft rm clinical refractions, prescribe conventional vision ;ids, and other responsibilities which include the prevention, diagnosis, and remediation of problems of the visual system. Under the watchful eve of Dr. George Davis. chief of staff at phase of the Wilkes/Hahnemann program is shown receding hands-on dm,cal expene hJpita^' The seed for a cooperative program in family medicine was planted in the mid-1950's when Andrew Sordoni, then chairman of the Wyoming Valley Hospital Board of Trustees, approached Dr. Farley during a time when the hospital was considering the advisability of modernizing and enlarging its plant. The possibility of building a hospital and medical school on the site now occupied by the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts was explored but was dismissed because of the excessive funding needed to complete the project. Late in 1960, Dr. Charles Myers did a study for the Luzerne County Medical Society in which he found that there was a definite shortage of physicians in most areas of Northeastern Pennsylvania, but even more startling was the observation that 50% of the practicing physicians were over 55 years of age. As a result of these statistics, Dr. Farley was contacted by Dr. Charles Myers and Dr. Lester Saidman to see what could be SUMMER 1980 9 �l„ 4^ Dr. Johnyne Supulski, emergency room physician at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, right, is shown .... (o a stU(ient in the Wilkes/Hahnemann program. demonstrating emergency room procedures to a done to improve the situation. In a subsequent meeting these three were joined by Dr. Francis J. Michelini, then Dean of Academic Affairs, and Dr. Ralph B. Rozelle, then Chairman of the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Wilkes College. Subsequently, contacts were made with medical schools to enlist their support. As a result of these contacts, it was found that Dr. Wilbur W. Oaks, now chairman of the Department of Medicine at Hahnemann Medical College, was considering outreach medical education to help improve the physician maldistribution problems in Pennsylvania. Dr. Oaks subsequently became one of the moving forces in establishing the Wilkes-Hahnemann Program. Intense discussions ensued but it was not until the Federal Bureau of Health Manpower Education gave its final approval to the program in early 1972 that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was able to provide the more than $1 million in funding required to set the Wilkes-Hahnemann program in motion. Former Congressman Daniel J. Flood, then chairman of the house subcommittee on Labor, Health, Education, and 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Welfare was instrumental in getting the pioneer program off the ground. One of the primary objectives of the Wilkes-Hahnemann program is to recruit students from Northeastern Pennsylvania and contiguous areas to enter this Family Medicine program, and eventually return to their native areas to fill the need for medical service there. Phase one of the WilkesHahnemann program is accomplished on the Wilkes College campus. Each year nearly 100 students are recruited and enter the College to begin an intensive, structured premedical program qualifying them for admission into medical school. At the end of three years of pre­ professional studies, approximately 25 but not fewer than 20 of these students are selected by a Joint Selection Committee, consisting of members from Wilkes and Hahnemann, to advance to the second phase of the program at Hahnemann. The three-year curriculum at Hahnemann is designed to permit the student to master a solid core of learning which constitutes the basic medical sciences and clinical medicine. During phase two the student receives intensiv clinical clerkships in each of the 6 major divisions of medical practice and also undertakes an intensive interdisciplinary study of the application of basic science to clinical medicine. The final segment of the program, phase three, has been constructed to provide a complete clinical experience in family practice and related subspecialties. During this 48week clinical experience in the Greater Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area, directed by Dr. Anthony J Turchetti, the student is exposed to clinical rotations in primarily office-based preceptorship exposure in family medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry, with simultaneous clinical exposure in such family-practice specialties as allergy, dermatology, rheumatology, and pulmonary diseases. Hospitals involved are Wilkes-Barre General, Nesbitt Memorial, Wilkes-Barre Mercy, Wyoming Valley, Veterans Administration Medical Center and Community Medical Center in Scranton. Since 1978, three classes have completed the WilkesHahnemann programs and have been awarded a baccalaureate degree from Wilkes College and a doctor of medicine degree from Hahnemann Medical College. All three classes are now participating in various family practice residencies across the nation. Although it is still too early to measure what impact the WilkesHahnemann program and other allied programs will have on alleviating the shortage of health care professionals in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it is certain that hundreds of bright and talented students would not have found their way into the health care field had it not been for Wilkes College's far-sighted commitment to fulfill the educational and health care needs of the region, q �Wilkes Commencement Principals Louis L. Banks, former editorial director of Time, Inc. publications, was the principal speaker at the College's 33rd annual Commencement exercises. Banks told the 532 graduates that "the United States is moving into a newsocracy where the media's priorities exert an influence on all institutions which are public related." Banks, who is an adjunct professor at the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the first Nieman Research Fellow at Harvard University, was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Commencement exercises. Also honored with honorary doctorates were Msgr. Andrew J. McGowan, rector of St. Pius X Seminary, Dalton, and Roy E. Morgan, one of the founders and president of the honorary degree; Roy E. Morgan, who received an honorary degree; and Benjamin Wyoming Valley Broadcasting Badman, chairman of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees. Company. Banks stated that over the past ten years the Msgr. McGowan, who is also the diocesan media have been moving into new areas of vocational director, Diocese of Scranton, was coverage. The advances in the media, recognized for his "distinguished achievements especially in television, have provided "new in and his record of contributions to higher intensity and impact." education, political and civic affairs, social and "The media has become a dominant charitable services, and religious life in influence of news," he declared. "It has a Northeastern Pennsylvania.” tremendous influence on colleges and Roy E. Morgan, a local and state civic leader, universities, the government, and scientific was cited "for his distinguished achievements research." in journalism and his steadfast service to The speaker viewed that "it is necessary for organizations in Northeastern Pennsylvania, as these institutions to develop interface of a demonstrated by his selection for both local sense of strategy in regards to media and national accolades.” relations." Banks offered that "journalism is Another Commencement highlight was the one of the most exciting careers possible" and conferring of professor emeritus status to six said "journalists should be educated in liberal retiring Wilkes faculty members. They arts areas and other academic specialties in included Dr. Charles B. Reif, biology; Thomas which they will be covering." He concluded by R. Richards, mathematics; Dr. Angel Belie, saying "we must be ready to realize that we foreign languages; Leota Nevil, library; Michael live in a world of newsocracy." J. Barone, education; and Dr. Roy E. Williams, Bank's Doctor of Humane Letters citation philosophy. The presentation was made by read: "Conferred in recognition of his Wilkes College President Robert S. Capin. distinguished achievements in the fields of journalism and management, as demonstrated Also addressing the graduates were Benjamin by his selection as the first Nieman Research Badman, chairman of the Wilkes College Board Fellow at Harvard University and his editorial of Trustees; Dr. John N. Natzke, associate leadership of prestigious national professor of sociology and anthropology, who publications." represented the faculty; and Davida Roberts, who represented the Class of 1980. 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Blaker and ddypen Honored Shown prior to Commencement are: left to right, Dr. Dan F. Kopen, '70, first recipient of the "Distinguished Young Alumnus/a Award"; Dr. J. Warren Blaker, '55, first recipient of the "Eugene S. Farley Memorial Alumni Award"; Dr. Thomas F. Kelly, "69, Dean of External Affairs, who presented the awards. Two distinguished Wilkes College alumni in the fields of optics and medicine received the initial awards of the College's Alumni Association at the 33rd annual Wilkes College commencement exercises. Dr. J. Warren Blaker, a 1955 alumnus and chairman of the United States National Committee of the International Commission of Optics and an independent consultant in optical science, received the first "Eugene S. Farley Memorial Alumni Award." Dr. Daniel F. Kopen, a Forty Fort native and 1970 alumnus, who is chief resident in general surgery at Barnes Hospital of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri, received the first "Distinguished Young Alumnus Award." The "Eugene S. Farley Memorial Alumni Award" has been established to recognize the distinguished achievement of an outstanding alumnus. The award is granted to an alumnus who, in the eyes of alumni and the executive committee of their alumni association, represents the highest qualities of an educated person as defined by "The Marks of an Educated Man" adopted many years ago by the Wilkes Faculty. Dr. Blaker, a Wilkes-Barre native, was graduated from Wilkes with a B.S. in Physics in 1955. He continued his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he attained a Ph.D. For sixteen of the past twenty-two years, he has devoted himself to the teaching of physics at the college level. He served as chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vassar College from 1964-76. Dr. Blaker has taught in Europe in French universities and English universities, including the London Imperial College and Oxford. He has published eight books devoted to optics and quantum physics. The distinguished alumnus has also published over thirty-five scholarly papers, ranging from the topics of spectroscopy to the theory of metals. A Fellow of the Optical Society of America, Dr. Blaker is an independent consultant in optical science and deals with problems of lens design, optical systems analysis, and optical corrections for the visually handicapped. He resides in New York City. The "Distinguished Young Alumnus Award" is presented annually to an alumnus graduated not more than ten years prior to the award, who, in the eyes of alumni and executive committee of the National Alumni Association, has exhibited qualities of scholarship leadership, and service representing the highest qualities of young alumni of Wilkes College. Dr. Kopen graduated from the College in 1970 with a B.S. in Chemistry. He later attained his M.D. at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of the Pennsylvania State University. He is completing a four-year surgical residency at Barnes Hospital of Washington University Medical School. His residency was interrupted for one year, 1976-77, as a Research Fellow in the Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery at Washington University. Dr. Kopen has published articles in The Journal of Urology, Surgery, and the New England Journal of Medicine. In May, 1977, he was awarded first place in the 20th Annual St. Louis Surgical Research Forum for presentation of a paper. SUMMER 1980 13 �I I i- - J! s I * Response of Ci Response of Dan F. Kopen, M.D. I feel very fortunate to have been selected as the recipient of this year's “Distinguished Young Alumnus Award." It is with a great deal of pride in Wilkes College and respect for what our College stands for that I would like to express my appreciation. Wilkes College means many things to different people. To my family it has meant the realization of a dream. It is a story that should be familiar to many members of this audience. My grandparents and great-grandparents were immigrant coal miners. To them a college education was nothing more than a distant dream. For my parents' generation a college education could still be held only as a dream . . . there were wars to be fought or a depression to go through, and if they happened to have the time to go to college, there was no college to attend. In the 1930's some men of vision came to Wilkes-Barre, headed by Dr. Farley and still represented by a few members of the board, faculty and administration here today. They built a college where none stood before. It was a proud day in my family when one of my cousins received the first college degree ever earned in our family, and that degree was granted by Wilkes College. Since that day no fewer than six members of my generation of our family have graduated from Wilkes College. However, the full impact of Wilkes College on me was not understood until one day last November. As a chief resident in general surgery rotating through the St. Louis City Hospital I was called to the emergency room to see an eighteenyear-old boy who had been stabbed in the heart. We rushed him to the operating room as he was losing his pulse and blood pressure. As we put him on the operating table and opened his chest his heart stopped beating. We watched the last few 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY J. Warren Blaker, Ph.D. drops of blood trickle out of his heart through the laceration from the knife. We proceeded to repair the laceration in his heart, and for the next 45 r„ milinutes performed open cardiac massage, holding that pumped his * tat boy's life in our hands as we pumped . heart for him. When we were able to replace the ’ x. have , blood that he had lost, he began to spontaneous heart beats. Two hours later he was in the recovery room. Ten days later he was on his way home from the hospital to resume a normal life. As he was leaving the hospital his parents came up to me and took my hand to thank me for — , saving their son's life. At that moment I realized that they were not shaking my hand . . © /’ ,________________________________ >•___________ ■ ™ ■ ■ Also, they VJere shaking the hand of current president Capin whose outstanding leadership has lcej our College in a position of envy at a time ^hen many colleges in the nation are struggling for existence. Additionally, the hands of men like pean Ralston, who was on his way to medical over 3g ygars ago He stopped tQ earn some money in Wilkes-Barre, working at Wilkes College, and stayed here to devote his professional life to the students of our College . . . and Dean Ralston, every time I enter an operating room yourspirit is there with me. The list goes on, but the message is clear. Each of us as young alumni owes a great deal to the Rather, they were shaking the hands of those many individuals whose unselfish efforts have immigrant grandparents, and I remember well the made our present positions possible. We probably right hand of my grandfather because it was -- ( -1. owe more than we will ever realize. Some of these missing three fingers that had been lost in a mine persons to whom we are indebted will forever accident. Also, they were shaking the hands of my remain anonymous. Sadly, some of these parents, whose many years of dedication and individuals are deceased. Many others are sacrifice were for a dream held not for themselves, represented in the audience and in the front of the but for their children — a college education. How auditorium. well we all should know the hands of our parents, In return for having given so much, these people for these are the hands which cared for us before ask very little. We owe it to them to justify their we were even aware of our own identities. efforts by living our lives in such a way that we hold out our hands to our fellow man in a manner They were also shaking the hands of men like I that is in keeping with the best teachings of our Dr. Farley and the early benefactors of the College . families and in the best traditions of our College. ■ . . people whose unselfish efforts have made this ] In addition, it is fair to expect that as alumni on dream of a college education a reality for so many occasion we make an effort to express our of us. And men like Past-President Michelini who appreciation to these people, through the love of was at the head of the College when it suffered °ur families and through support of our College. through the worst natural disaster in our region's history. Although these men were proud Finally, and once again, I feel honored and very academicians, and many of them are represented fortunate to have had this opportunity to express here today in the front of the auditorium, they on behalf of my family and myself a deeply-felt were not so proud that they would not take off appreciation to Wilkes College, for what you stand their academic caps and gowns and don hard-hats, for and for what you have given. Thank you. picks and shovels to dig Wilkes College out from under the mud and debris that were Hurricane Agnes and the flood of 1972. Thank you, Dean Kelly, President Capin, Faculty, Administration, Trustees of Wilkes, Friends. I am deeply honored to receive this award. We must first remember, however, that we are all here largely due to the vision and dedication of Eugene Farley and those leaders such as President Capin who have worked with and followed him. Since this is the first time this award has been given, let me say that in accepting it, I hold it not only for myself but also in trust for all those graduates of Wilkes who, over nearly half a century now, have made some small contribution to the human endeavor. That is a long list. The College is not bricks and mortar. It is its faculty and students. You, the Class of '80 have come through the first step of your education and are now a part of your Alma Mater. Wilkes has indeed been your fostering mother, and your triumphs and defeats have been intimately shared by this faculty. Each of you owes this institution a special debt through its faculty and can only become more and more aware of that in the ensuing years. You have a second debt, and one of longer standing as well. That is to your families who have shared your successes and misfortunes for two decades or more. Many of them have made considerable sacrifice to bring you to this season. They are a real part of Wilkes as well. I salute you all. Thank you. SUMMER 1980 15 �Master's Degrees Awarded Alumni Award for Leadership WHK@S ty Included among the 532 students who received degrees at the 33rd annual commencement were 45 students who were awarded master's degrees. Recipients of master of business administration degrees, from left, front row: Rose Ann Cordora, Donald Repshas, Bernard Fagnani, Marie McCormick, Thomas Needham, Joseph Skurzynski, Frank Wassell, Nicholas Sosik, Jr., David Plaviak, Thomas Smith, J. Martin Murphy, Joyce Marie Shane, and Joseph Paddock. Those in the back row: Michael Broda, Nancy Johnson, Joseph Elechko, Robert Fredericks, James Grey, Libro Ciarmatori, Stephen Keiper, George Kaszuba, Thomas Macenka, Richard Mackey, John Rajchel, Thomas McBrearty, and William Woronko. Other masters degrees recipients, from left: Donna Passarella Cieczko Barbara Rodda Welch, Deborah Zeffer, Joseph Andrews, Theodore Weron John Kellv Martha Yohe, Marianne Montague, H. Victoria Carini, and Judy Chappell 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY wortes on the Energy crisis David L. Blumfield, Deer Park, New York, received the Alumni Award for Leadership at commencement activities. This award is given annually by the Wilkes College Alumni Association to the member of the graduating class considered by a special committee to have made the strongest contribution to student life and the student activities program of the College. Shown presenting the award to Blumfield is Gordon Roberts, Wilkes Director of Alumni Relations. Academic Average Award Recipients Recipients of the "Mabel Scott Wandell and Sterling Leroy Award" are shown near the Wilkes College Gymnasium. From left, Joseph Michael Della Croce, Freeland; Dr. Gerald E. Hartdagen, dean of academic affairs; and Lynn Jones, Gouldsboro. The award is presented annually to the man and woman graduate having the highest academic average for the four years at Wilkes College. Miss Jones recorded a perfect 4.0 average for her four years at Wilkes. engineer, is working on the o eanntyS'S'n’° hydr°9en and oxygen of a potassium hydroxide solution (water with potassium added to which" better>- a Process which, when performed conventionally, is a staple of many basic science courses. What renders his effort different and significant is that instead of requiring an electric battery to provide the energy that induces the electrolytic process, Dr Orehotsky is using nothing but the action of light. While the activity of the silicon cell upstairs is called photovoltaic, this process is called photochemical. The common bond between the two is photons, the tiny energy packets in beams of light, which, in striking the silicon cell, or the electrode in the potassium hydroxide solution, can unsettle the electrons of their materials, and create a flow of energy. '*7F > by Shirley Collins On the second floor of Stark Learning Center, Dr. Umid Nejib, chairman of the engineering department at Wilkes College, can lead you to a laboratory overlooking the Susquehanna, which contains little of the equipment usually associated with research. There are no cages of rabbits or pigeons, no bunsen burners or beakers. In their place is a blackboard, scrawled with labyrinthine mathematical formulas; at the other end of the sparsely furnished room — impaled by the eye of an eight-inch magnifying glass — rests the focus of these calculations: a one-and-a-half-inch square black object made of silicon. The drabness of its appearance is relieved only by a thread of aluminum, which, looping across the surface, creates a wavelike pattern (rather like that associated with EKG’s). The association is apt. For, as the EKG records the energy of the heart, this aluminum wire collects the energy of the photovoltaic cell. Remarkably, this cookie-sized, inert appearing the silicon out of an oven in the form of a cylinder, three or four inches in diameter, and several feet long. This cylinder must be sliced and further treated before it is ready to be used. As described by Bruce Chalmers in a 1976 article in Scientific American, single crystal silicon has four electrons in its molecules, which can be dislodged from their positions when photons of light strike them. These electrons are negatively charged, while the holes they leave are positively charged. By doping the core of the silicon cell with phosphorous to get a negative charge, and its outer layer with boron, to get a positive charge, a positive/negative junction is created, and a net flow of electrons one way and holes the other way can be induced. From a practical point of view, the difference between the processes is that the product of the silicon cell is electricity, to be used either immediately or stored in a battery, while the product of the photochemical cell is hydrogen, which, once its volatility has been controlled, may be captured and stored to be used as a gas. Energy produced directly from the rays of the sun is decidedly appealing to harassed consumers today. Produced from an inexhaustible source, byproducts of the generation are either nonexistent or nonpollutant. But Drs. Nejib and Orehotsky caution against premature expectations from solar energy. The materials used in these processes t are forbiddingly expensive, they point out, and, perhaps even more , important, the yield is disappointingly low. Take the photovoltaic cell for example. The silicon from which it is fabricated, in its natural form of sand, is among the most common materials in the world. But the silicon required for the solar cell is of a different order entirely. It must tie refined to the most elegant purity, further, it must be in the form of "single crystal" silicon, which is grown in a number of ways, all Present solar cells are inefficient, however, and yield little energy from a given amount of light. As Dr. Orehotsky explains, only the blue waves at one end of the light spectrum are powerful enough to jolt the electrons into action. Thus, only about 24 percent of the photons in a beam of light can be effective. That, he says, is the ideal. In practice, it comes down to 18 percent. This means that a large collection area is required to produce a relatively small amount of energy. Research on photovoltaic cells at Wilkes, therefore, is concentrating on designing a cell which will produce more energy from a given amount of surface, and therefore be less expensive. The silicon cell we found on the second floor of Stark was fabricated in the microelectronic laboratory there, and, Dr. Nejib says, incorporates an isolation layer in its structure to make it more efficient in terms of yield. One thing this does is prevent the whole cell from shorting out if part of its material becomes damaged. Efficiency and cost are problems Dr. Orehotsky is struggling with too. For those who have forgotten what they learned about electrolysis in basic science courses, the process involves immersing an electrode in a water solution which is to be electrolyzed. A wire extends from the electrode to a counter electrode, also immersed in the solution, so that a circuit is formed. When electricity is run through the circuit the solution is ionized, so that oxygen bubbles up from the electrode, and hydrogen is released at the counter electrode. Orehotsky's counter electrode is platinum, a substance whose high cost is familiar to all. It is the SUMMER 1980 17 �material of the electrode, however, which is critical, for this is where electricity for the process is generated by the action of light photons. Currently Orehotsky is using a barium-strontium titrate, and says other scientists are experimenting with similar substances. Near his experiment is a well-thumbed six inch pile of copies of articles written by people from MIT, Bell Labs, RCA, etc. "Before I could try out new materials,” explains the professor, "I had to be sure I could replicate the experiments that have already taken place. When I first started, for example, I was getting an efficiency of only 1 percent. But I have replicated those experiments now and am ready to start working with a new group of materials that I think will be more catalytically active." The question when technologically sophisticated solar energy systems like these will be ready to help solve the energy shortage is entangled in controversy. Generally the economic practicality of competing energy systems is assessed by comparing the capital investment required for each in order to produce a kilowatt hour of electricity (a kilowatt hour being 1000 watts, or the amount of electricity required to burn one 100-watt bulb for 10 hours). The photochemical process is nowhere near ready for commercial application, but the photovoltaic cell has been with us since the first arrays were launched into space in 1959 to provide solar power for the first space vehicle. These arrays were produced at the amazing cost of one million dollars per kilowatt hour. At that time it cost only about five hundred dollars per kilowatt hour to build a coal or oil generating plant. In the intervening years, the cost of conventional plants has risen to about $1000, while that of photovoltaic arrays has declined immensely. Nuclear plants should be included also in the economic comparisons, but according to a 1979 book, Energy Future, there has been fierce disagreement about whether they are more or less expensive than coal. Hearings on this question before utility commissions in Wisconsin and New York during 1978 resulted in total confusion, as experts selected statistics to support their biases, either for nuclear power or for coal. Something very similar to this seems to be happening with photovoltaic energy. For example, a March 27, 1980, letter to the New York Times from Philip Handler, 18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY peak kilowatt hour. On the other hand, Energy Future, which was edited by Daniel Yergin and Robert Stobaugh, and was the product of six-year study at Harvard, asserted that photovoltaic systems lately have been quoted as low as $3000 per peak kilowatt hour. Even more recent expert opinions project that photovoltaic arrays will fall to seven hundred dollars per kilowatt hour by 1986, bringing them well within the economic range. While the department continues its work to increase efficiency and to lower costs, Dr. Nejib also is working on finding practical applications for technology in its current state, by designing model photovoltaic systems on the Wilkes computer. In Cairo, in 1978, he read a paper at the Second International Solar Symposium titled "Solar Water Supply and Purification System for Remote Areas and Villages." Scientists and government officials from Thailand and Kenya, who heard it, expressed interest, and the design was provided to them at no cost. Ironically, it is in the developing countries that this super sophisticated technology becomes truly useful. "There, they have no power lines in place," explains Nejib, "and since the villages are small, the amount of energy produced, though not great, is enough.” He has also designed a solar powered television transmission system which could bring education to remote villages in countries lacking developed communications systems, and published a paper on that subject in the “Proceedings of the 3rd International Solar Symposium” in Turkey in 1979. One fact which finds nearly universal agreement among energy specialists is that cur most important current source for finding energy is through conservation. Nejib emphasizes that this doesn't mean subtracting from the quality of our life style, but more efficient management of energy resources Exemplifying this approach is a project of Alireza Afrashteh, Engineering Department faculty member. Dr. Afrashteh has designed an electronic device, which, when placed in a central area of a building can transmit orders and control thermostats in individual rooms Through this technology, individual thermostats can be overridden and the building kept at the desired temperature. It can be set like an alarm clock to lower automatically the temperature throughout the building as much as 30 degrees at night, then gradually rebuild the heat for the return of office workers in the morning. Individual codes for each room make it possible for the transmitter to vary temperatures between rooms if that is desirable A grant application has been submitted to underwrite the cost of installing this system throughout Stark Learning Center. Besides conservation, Dr. Nejib believes one part of a temporary solution to our problem is coal, and he was deeply involved in the planning for an April 23, 1980, conterence at Wilkes College titled, "Anthracite: Energy Alternative for the 80's.” According to Sandra Benyon in the Office of Small Business Development at the College, the conference was "designed to acquaint business and industry with current technology available for the utilization of anthracite as an energy source." Industry and government officials from the five county Northeastern Pennsylvania area attended the affair, which was co-sponsored by the Institute of Regional Affairs under the direction of Dr. Andrew Shaw, the Office of Small Business Development, the Engineering Department, and the Chamber of Commerce. From an overall standpoint, Nejib says we should import no more than 5 percent of our total oil consumption. But for the future he believes that a judicious mix of conservation, nuclear power, coal, solar energy, plus greater reliance on rail and mass transit will help us solve our problem . . . objective "efficient energy management." A recent space utilization study at the College produced the information that Wilkes has twice as much laboratory space per student as other colleges of its size and character in eastern Pennsylvania. The research in solar energy and energy management that is going on in those laboratories and in others across the country promises hope for energy sufficiency for America, not through abandoning our life style, but through further developing our technology. "iu’JS T7' top© by Eddie White ill '80 chick andrewscavage four-year starter by Eddie White III '80 a Very seldom does an athlete step out of high school and play the role of a starter during his freshman season in college. One of those chosen few is Wilkes College firstbaseman Chick Andrewscavage, who has been a first-stringer since his freshman year in 1978. Chick was recently named co-captain for the 1981 campaign along with hurler Jim Kearney. This past season, Chick led Coach Dave Kaschak’s 15-6 Colonels with a .391 batting average, four home­ runs and 25 rbi’s. Although he was BASEBALL coach: Dave Kaschak, second year 1980 overall record: 15-6 Middle Atlantic Conference: 5-2 LACROSSE coaches: Brian Blesi, Bill Harris 1980 overall record: 6-4 MAC record: 4-4 top hitters: Chick Andrewscavage, jr. — .391 Jim Morrissey, sr. — .3211 Phil Marino, sr. — .302 Rick Borofski, sr. — .302 top pitchers: Steve Swanson, so. — 4.0, 3.40 Carl DeFelice, sr. — 3-2, 3.29 Jim Kearney, jr. — 3-2, 3.03 Tony Vlahovic, so. — 2-0,4 saves leading scorers: Bill Adams, sr., 23 goals, 17 assists, 40 points Rich Modica, so., 28 goals, 7 assists, 35 points second-team All-Dist. AH American: Chick Andrewscavage, jr.. IB second-team, All-MAC: Jim Morrissey sr,, c MEN’S TENNIS c°ach: Tom Rokita 1980 overall record: 7-G MEN’S GOLF iooC^: R°^'e Schmidt 980 overall record: 4-8 finished 11 th in MAC Tourney All-MAC second team: Glenn Pohorley, so. Mark Sanders, sr. WOMEN’S SOFTBALL coach: Nancy Roberts 1980 overall record: 7-8 NWPIAA slate: 3-1 MAC record: 3-3 MIC mark: 1-2 leading hitters: Karen Johnson. .483 Mai;. Jean Farrell, .420 Joyce Walsh, .341 Pam Snyder, .333 leading pitchers: Linda Dayer, 5-4, 3.50 era Cheryl Frystak, 2-4,4.70 era unexplainably left off the Middle Atlantic Conference all-star team, he earned District II second-team All-American honors. "It’s a crime Chickie was left off the All-MAC team," stated Kaschak, who himself was an all-league and District II All-American catcher in his playing days at Wilkes. "I was a little upset about not making the all-MAC team," explained Andrewscavage, "but being an All-American is something special." Chick came to Wilkes from Pittston Area high school in Pittston, Pa. where he was an all-league choice in two sports — football and baseball. He was a three-year starter for the Patriots and was their captain, playing the position of catcher. Before arriving on the Wilkes campus, Andrewscavage had never even played first base. But because then-coach Gene Domzalski had All-American Ken Suchoski behind the plate, the veteran mentor moved Andrewscavage to first to keep his bat in the line-up. And Chickie has been producing ever since. In his freshman season, when the Colonels went to the NCAA Regional tournament with a 25-5 slate, Chick batted .340 with four homers and 31 rbi’s in 29 games. He was selected to the league's all-star first-team that year. In 1979, his sophomore season, Chick “slumped” to .320 with five homeruns and 17 rbi s as Wilkes recorded a 16-9 slate and missed the NCAA Mideast Regionals for the first time in four years. Through his first three seasons, Chick has rolled up a .348 batting average with 84 hits, 58 runs, 23 doubles, 13 bleacher-teachers and 73 rbi s — all in only 74 games. In the three years at Wilkes he has only missed one game and holds the school record for most douoles in a career with 23. He should set SUMMER 1900 I9 �numerous career marks following completion of his final season in 1981. During the summer, Chick kept busy while playing for the Scranton Red Sox in the Atlantic Coast League. At mid-season, he led the first-place team in homers and rbi's and has a good shot to be selected to play in the circuit’s all-star game at Yankee Stadium. He also took part in a Cincinnati Reds try-out camp and was very impressive. Following his graduation from Wilkes, Chick hopes pro-ball isin his future. “I hope to have a good year in 1981 and get drafted. I wou c like to give professional baseball a shot.” Although he was always known as a super hitter, what has pleased the Wilkes coaching staff over the years has been his adaptation to first-base "When I told Chickie he would play first, he looked at me as if I were crazy,” said Domzalski. "But over the past few seasons, he has picked it up like a veteran." And that is exactly what Chick Andrewscavage is on the Wilkes baseball team — a veteran and a four-year starter. o ESSING ALUMNI M*r or the past few years some of °Vraduates have given us the slip, our 8 ncerned uncles and aunts we L>ke. j be delighted to hear from you w • tf anv alumni can help us in Search, Please drop a line with 0 jesses of our missing nieces the/d nhews to the Wilkes College ^Office, Wilkes College, fi^s-Barre, Pa. 18766. , charon Ann Downing Meek’64 Ehael Dennis Melchior'59 Anthony Mencola 59 .WKES' Isoutiiipn^n>st. <^*§3 I 20 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY DR. JUDITH A. FARLEY is a resident in internal medicine at Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. DR. CLIFFORD FIELD is a family practice resident at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown, Pa. DR. HENRY A. FINN, JR., is a resident in general and orthopedic surgery at Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. DR. MARY L. KRISZA is a resident in internal medicine at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, New Jersey. DR. MARTIN I. LANDER is a resident in otolaryngology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. DR. JOSEPH F. LITCHMAN is a resident in family practice at United Health and Hospital Services, Kingston, Pa. DR. CAROL D. LUZZI is a resident in pediatrics at Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. DR. JOHN N. MENIO is a resident in family medicine at United Health and Hospital Services, WilkesBarre, Pa. DR. ROBERT A. MENTYKA is a resident in internal medicine at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, DR, BRIAN J. MUNLEY is a resident in internal medicine at LksaEdizab\th Anne Duszak I;? Geo^gJ Andrew- Mikula '76 UK Bruce Miles '60 Mrs. Katherine M. Scureman Miles '60 Donna Mae Miller '73 Frederick A. Miller '37 Mrs. Kathryn E. Kresge Miller '71 Mrs. Nancy Miller '72 Richard P. Miller '72 Seymour L. Miller '56 Edward L. Miner '51 Ilona Miner '71 Glenn Robert Misner '76 David D. Mitchell ’71 Ratnakar Lal Mitra '74 Paul G. Mocko '66 Donald Mohr '61 William H. Mohr '51 Marty Monaghan '70 Mrs. Rachel Young Moraski '76 Mary E. Morgan '72 Mary Lee Morgan '69 Richard Allan Morgan '64 William A. Morgan '53 Francis Morock '71 Barbara E. Morris '68 Albert L. Major Morse '50 Philip T. Moseman ’73 Robert Howard Moser '47 Daniel Motill ’59 Eugene S. Moyer ’49 Joseph M. Muccino '64 Mrs. Harriet Z. Munk '44 Mr. Gerald Munzing '49 Michael John Murtha '77 Janyne Naille '70 Dr. Naweed Najib ’72 Kenneth P. Naparsteck '62 Kathryn M. Nardone ’79 aiyood Nareesrisanasdi ’75 ™ rol Monica Nawretowicz ’72 „ omas Andrew Nemchick '54 oward H. Nesbitt '67 Melvin Neuman '53 The “South River Street Revival” was compiled by Vesta Breakstone of the Alumni Relations Office. The information contained in the Alumni Notes was received between April 13, 1980 and July 11, 1980. Please send news contributions to: Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. WILKES/HAHNEMANN PROGRAM In September, 1972, Wilkes College in cooperation with The Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital developed a program to provide primary care physicians for understaffed areas of Pennsylvania. Students who express an interest in the accelerated six-year program in family medicine must meet the admission requirements of Wilkes College and the Wilkes/Hahnemann Program. This accelerated program provides an integrated academic and medical education at both institutions plus clinical training in the hospitals of the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton area. The following students have successfully completed the program this year and were awarded their baccalaureate and doctor of medicine degrees. DR. MARK W. BOHN is a resident in family medicine at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital in Kingston, Pa. DR. TOM COHEN is a resident in family medicine at United Health and Hospital Services, WilkesBarre, Pa. DR. EDWARD A. COONEY is a resident in family medicine at United Health and Hospital Services, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. DR. CHRISTINE EVANCHICK is a resident in internal medicine at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pa. Iinnrv A. Merolli 52 Sandra Ann Mickevege 76 Homer J-Middleton'50 Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. DR. ALLAN D. NACHLIS is a resident in obstetrics-gynecology at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. DR. MARY RYCZAK is a resident in internal medicine at Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, Pa. DR. RHONDA A. SANDERSON is a resident in obstetrics-gynecology at Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island. DR. EUGENE J. SIMONI is a resident in general surgery at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. DR. THOMAS W. SWAIN is a resident in internal medicine at Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa. DR. GEORGE A. TRUCKEN­ MILLER, JR., is a resident in internal medicine at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, New Jersey, DR. DAVID M. WALLACE is a resident in obstetrics-gynecology at Monmouth County Hospital, Long Branch, New Jersey. DR. MARGARET M. WOJNAR is a resident in internal medicine at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pa. DR. JEFFREY S. YABLON is a resident in general surgery and neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., and the Downstate Medical Center, New York City, N.Y. 1956 bP^Y|D?N>ALD McFADDEN has imeon Christos Ntafos ’74 Joseph Obeid ’52 John Occhiato '63 Arthur D. O’Connor'52 Justin O Donnell '35 John P. O’Hara ’53 Andrew Joseph Oleksy ’57 Leonard V. Olszewski’43 Andrew P. O’Malley '37 Atty John F. O'Malley ’40 Frank Joseph Orlando '72 Sandra J. Orlowski ’77 Gene S. Orr ’50 Mar!ha Magner Ostrowski ’58 Barbara Ann Owen '64 James R. Owen '58 Henry S. Ozarko '49 Raymond J. Ozehoski '63 Christina Elizabeth Pagano '75 Gary John Paich '76 David E. Palmer ’69 Capt. Steven L. Panken '63 Angelo R. Pappa '55 Elizabeth J. Parra '55 Dr. Kenneth M. Patrician '71 Mrs. Beverly Edwards Patton '61 Frank Walter Paulewicz '74 Jerome Stephen Pauley '60 uMimni cAloles 1941 W. CAREY EVANS, president of the Wyoming Valley Nursery Inc., was recently elected a new member of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees. 1950 JOSEPH P. BRENNAN has joined the Wilkes-Barre office of Bache Halsey Stuart Schields Inc., the investment and brokerage firm, as vice president of investments. Joseph and his family reside in the Dallas, Pa. area. 1951 WILLIAM PERLMUTH, senior partner in the New York City law firm of Stroock, Stroock and Lavan, was recently elected a new member of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees. 1955 DR. J. WARREN BLAKER is chairman of the United States National Committee of the International Commission on Optics and an independent consultant in optical science. ith his wife, Sheila, and their three children. CHARLES NEELY is a senior medical representative for Pfizer Laboratories and he also has been p mtedn° thc Borough Council in Ridley Park, Pa. , 1958 HERMINA FRIED FINK has been appointed manager of Lincoln First uank's Irondequoit East office. Hermina resides in Rochester, New York with her husband, William and their two daughters. 1961 JAMES SKESAVAGE, marketing manager for the acrylite sheet department of CY/RO Industries, has been appointed to the board of directors of the National Association of Plastics Distributors. GLENN JOHNSON has been named vice president and associate administrative director for Clinic Services at Geisinger Medical Center. Glenn, his wife, Sandra, and their three children reside in Danville, Pa. 1962 DR. RICHARD T. REES and RICHARD J. CARPENTER ’76 have co-authored an article entitled "A Decision Making Model for Collective Bargaining" which appeared in the Summer 1980 issue of Planning and Changing, a journal for school administrators. Rick Rees is the Director of Education and Training at Mercy Hospital, Miami, Florida and Dick Carpenter is President of Carpenter Consulting Associates in Spokane, Washington. 1963 DR. JOHN PIKULSKI, a member of the University of Delaware education faculty, has been named chairperson of the department of educational development at the college. John resides in Newark, New Jersey with his wife and two children. 1963 DR. EPHRAIM FRANKEL received his Ph.D. at commencement ceremonies at the University of Wisconsin on May 18,1980. He resides at 962 Lake Court, Madison. Wisconsin, with his wife, Marian. SUMMER 1980 21 �Piano Technician Earl Orcutt, ’69 by Noreen Corbett '79 Give him a tune, he’s the piano man. Better yet, give him a piano and he'll tune it! “He" is Earl Orcutt, piano technician, a 1969 graduate of Wilkes College with a B.A. in music. Earl's first encounter with a piano was as a youngster in his hometown, Pennyan, New York. He played the piano and the 1968 EDWARD WILLIAMS received his Ph.D. in anatomy from Emory University and has been awarded an NIH grant to be a post doctoral fellow at Rockefeller University in New York City. 1969 BRYN KEHRLI and SUSAN DOWNS '74 were recently married. Bryn was awarded an M.B.A. from Wilkes in 1973 and is an Employee Relations Officer for Georgetown University. The couple resides in Washington, D.C. MARIE SKIBINSKI and Kenneth Gresko were recently married. Marie is employed as a computer specialist by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C., and the couple is residing in Arlington, Virginia. A son, Taft Achilles, was born on December 17,1979, to Ruth and MARTIN NAPARSTECK. Martin is public information officer for the Wilkes-Barre campus of the Pennsylvania State University and recently had his latest novel, “War Song,” published. The family resides at 361 Machell Avenue, Dallas, Pa. 22 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY xxasts'A 'N Curtain, chorus, and the Collegians^ tn fact, he is still an active member of the Wilkes College Wind Ensemble. “I guess what I enjoyed most during my years at Wilkes was the opportunity, for two years, to attend the lnter“de9'a ® Orchestra Festival," stated Orcutt This is an annual event in which about 70-/o students are selected from many colleges in the state. “It’s quite an honor and a wonderful experience," he added. It’s about one year now, that Earl has been working out of his shop on Barney Street, Wilkes-Barre. Here he performs his magic, restoring silent and crippled player pianos so that they gleam and sing again. With the help of his shop assistant Bob Kachline and pad-time assistant Phil Pilorz, Earl also does much refinishing work, makes his own replacement pieces for pianos, as well as tuning pianos. Earl estimated that his repair and tuning jobs are spread out over a 75-mile radius. He said that with money being tight, more and more people are looking to investing in their old pianos rather than purchasing new ones. As we walked through Earl’s shop, weaving in and out of partially-assembled players, various testing devices and equipment, and several pianos, pieces of 1970 ANDREA WARGO REED is employed as “Client Relations Coordinator" at Scientific Place­ ment, Inc. in Houston, Texas. DONALD PISARCIK has been appointed vice president of Finance and treasurer of the Wilson Group, U.S.A., Inc. Don, his wife, Karlane, and two children reside in Ringoes, New Jersey. DR. DANIEL KOPEN is chief resident in general surgery at Barnes Hospital of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri. JUDITH VERVERS CRUSE received her master of arts degree from the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. A daughter, Sarah Ann, was born on December 24,1979, to William and DONNA EDFORD MORRISON. The family resides in Kannapolis, North Carolina. A daughter, Jill Nancy, was born on May 10,1980, to Karen and KEN GORDON. Ken is a chemist for the U. S. Food and Drug Administration and the family resides in Philadelphia, Pa. pianos, and the player mechanism of an old church pipe organ, Earl talked a little about his business. "At least twice a year I receive a phone call in which the person asks, 'Do you sell the tools to tune a . . .,' and before they even finish the question I've emphatically told them NO!” Earl said. y Earl has been playing the piano since he was four, and he has been tuning them for more than 17 years. “What most people don't realize is that the strings of the average piano withstand the force of 18 tons of pressure; each string has a couple of hundred pounds of pressure on it," he explained. “When you hear a piano string break, you know for sure that something has gone wrong,” he emphasized. "That’s the main reason I don’t advocate do-ityourself piano tuning. The strings must be tightened in the proper sequence and each string has about 10 adjustments that must be made," the Wilkes graduate added. “The main thing that throws a piano out of tune is the weather." He continues, “There are about five different kinds of metal and six different types of wood that are used in the construction of a piano, if you move a piano from one house to another, it's not so much the bouncing and the jostling that throws it out of tune as it is the change in the environment. Some pianos adjust better than others," he added. “For example, big, old upright 1971 DR. THERESA KLIMEK-FRITZGES was awarded a Ph.D. in counseling psychology by Fordham University on May 25,1980. Theresa resides in East Windsor with her husband, BRUCE FRITZGES ’70, who is a standards and procedures analyst with the State of New Jersey. DR. JOHN WILLIAMS recently received his doctorate degree in counseling education at The Pennsylvania State University. Job)in is on the faculty of the Human Resources department at the University of Scranton and he resides in Kingsley, Pa., with his wife Alice. EUGENE DOMZALSKI has been appointed director of career planning at Wilkes College. CHARLES CAPPA was recently married to Susan Powers. Charles is an economist with the United States Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., and the couple is residing in Springfield, Virginia. Dominick and JOYCE ROTHER BURLONE announce the birth of a junked and /or dismantled i 9 “re'essly are interested in restorinoma °W people ?efi’niXd„COnlp0nents- Otcutt noted that line o^PS;SworrekCen,addi,iOn,° and piece'rn 75 hours to restore. from ntanos has 88 bellows which ■•player P dred “ the technician said as must be r.es.„ hose devices which produce he Poirl hOn air pressure is squeezed sound wtie" b ' Earl added that the cloth 'hr°^ instruct the bellows is of used 10,c£nesses for different uses. “sometimes we even offer our an , mers a choice of colors! Redesign of the piano has been as h nuesswork as scientific rnuch,p9rine ‘ Earl informed us. added. So ed step by step, so that through t 9 O s the attitude had developed that Wil make a player piano better than Jours.'By 1920 there were about 50 different companies producing over 350 brands of players. "Player pianos were at the height of their popularity during the 1910's and 1920's By the 1940's there was a whole daughter, Suzanne, on February 4, 1980. The family resides in Anderson, South Carolina, where Joyce is a part-time statistics instructor at Tri-County Technical College. The couple has another daughter, Karen, 3. 1972 DAVID THOMAS recently received his master of science degree in biology at Bloomsburg State College. Dave is a teacher in the Hanover Area School District. MARY COVINE BALTES, a corporate paralegal with the WilkesBarre law firm of Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald, is one of ten nation-wide appointees to the Corporate Law Advisory Committee of The iladelphia Institute for Paralegal raining Continuing Professional ucation Division. Mary, her Y<-Si ant^ R°b, and their son vllchael, reside in Blakeslee, Pe nna. ^I5,L!AM A- HANBURY has been and v- (?lrec^or °f the Convention Svrari1Slt°ot ^ureau the Greater Svrar Se <Chamber ~' lani^>er of Commerce, ^racuse, New York. d?B ' 'Ust lake a Piano >0 a dip- ppi;* mechanisms. He noted "Most nt iho it hirise i m °t9hany Pian° decided to sand . “My favorite players are the nickelodeons," Earl told us. "They’re a fun thing and it’s not too difficult to modify a player piano into a nickelodeon by adding a few parts," he said as he turned on a cassette recording of a restored 1920 nickelodeon. As the sound of the recorded nickelodeon filled the shop, Earl roamed around and showed us some of the instruments he had taken out of an old nickelodeon and had restored. "When I moved to this location last August I was concerned that it would be too big — now I don't know where lo put everything! I didn’t realize that I had 18 pianos stored in different locations until I gathered them to bring them here. "As you can see, we do a lot of work and very little cleaning," he said halfjokingly as he worked his way around an old player piano surrounded by various used a L ' ' he„°nly problem is tha’ Ded.a p «er sander 10 d° !he job and it ale right through the veneer!" When he is not tuning a piano or working in his shop, you may find Earl rehearsing with the Orpheus Society, or the Stegmaier Band. He also plays the church organ for the First Church of Christ m Forty Fort. Although Earl is kept very busy restoring player pianos, old uprights, grand pianos, antiquated reed organs, and old church organs, he always finds the time to play his piano, organ, or French horn. He admits that his friends and relatives are sometimes wary of him because "I'll sing and I'll play wherever and whenever I get the chance!" In the 11 years Earl has been out of Wilkes, he has managed to maintain associations with his alma mater. I guess you might say thal staying in touch is not enough for Earl Orcutt class of ’69 - he must also be in tune. q 1973 BLASE GAVLICK was recently graduated from the Delaware Law School of Widener University. While at Delaware, he was an editor of the “Law Forum" and a member of the Moot Court I lonor Society. Blase is trust administrator, Business Interest Division, Trust and Investment Group, of First Pennsylvania Bank, Philadelphia, Pa. He resides in Wilmington, Delaware with his wife, JEAN GILROY GAVLICK ’74, a third year student at Delaware Law School, and their one year old son, Edmund Paul. ANN ORZEK has received an appointment as assistant instructor in the Department of Counseling, University of Kansas. Currently, she is a second-year student in the doctoral program in counseling psychology and is associated with the Rape Victim Support Services of Douglas County, Kansas. JOSEPH KRACKENFELS recently received his masters degree in business administration from . California State University. Joe is an employee of Lakers Airlines and resides in Northridge, California. STEPHEN D. WASHKO has recently been promoted to the position of senior research metallurgist at Allegheny Ludlum Ind. Research Center in Brackenridge. Steve is presently pursuing his Ph.D. in physical metallurgy at the University of Pittsburgh and he resides with wife, Mary and four children in Butler, Pa. STEVEN JONES and Andrea Pastuszak were recently married. Steve is employed by Human Services Consultants as project director and the couple is residing in Nanticoke, Pa. A son, Joshua David, was born on August 13,1979, to John and BEVERLY GUYER MEDCALF. The family resides at 69 Third Avenue, Kingston, Pa. A son, Douglas, was born on May 9, 1980 to Maudene and PATRICK RATCHFORD. The couple has two other children, Maureen, 9 years and Patrick, 5 years. 1974 PAULA CASTRUCCI ATHERHOLT recently received her masters degree in learnm° disabilities from Fairleigh , ’ „ TUniversity. Tniversity. She is a music Dickinson SUMMER 1980 23 �teacher in Denville, New Jersey, and resides in Montclair with her husband, Bob. DAVID ELLIS has been appointed marketing research manager for the R. T. French Company of Rochester, New York. JEFFREY KATRA and Deborah Strish were recently married. Jeff is an education specialist in guidance and counseling at Luzerne County Intermediate Unit 18 and the couple resides at Gateway Manor, Edwardsville, Pa. 1975 DR. NELSON LANDMESSER was recently awarded his doctorate degree in organic chemistry from Duke University. Nelson is presently employed as a development chemist with Merrell-National Laboratories, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. DR. DANA HANKEY recently received his doctorate in solid state science from Penn State University. Dana is employed as a member of the technical staff with Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he resides with his wife, Becky and their daughter, Stephanie. JAMES POSTUPACK is vice president of Paint Plus, Inc., 562 SE Fifteenth Avenue, Boynton Beach, Florida. DR. ANTHONY MOLITORIS has opened his office for the practice of General Optometry and Contact Lenses at 1488 San Souci Parkway, Hanover Township, Pa. PAUL YURCHAK and Rose Ann Zangardi were recently married. Paul is employed by Burroughs Corporation and the couple is residing in Pittston, Pa. THEODORE WARKOMSKI and Joan Matusek were recently married. Ted is currently pursuing a master's degree at East Stroudsburg State College and the couple is residing in Nanticoke, Pa. Victor and JENNY WUNDER GALUNIC announce the birth of a daughter, Vonya Jayne, on September 8,1979. The family is residing in Cresco, Pa. Harry and JANICE YARRISH SWEPSTON announce the birth of a daughter, Jocelyn Nicole, June 22, 1980. The couple also has a daughter, Caitlin and the family' resides at 161 Lawn Avenue, Shavertown, Pa. 1976 ROBERT BOSTON has been appointed manager of operations for the Luzerne County Transportation Authority. Bob resides at 643 24 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Schuyler Avenue, Kingston, Pa., with his wife, Kathy and two daughters, Christine and Debra. DR. RAFAEL VELEZ received a doctor of medicine degree from Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, where he will complete a General Surgery residency. RAYMOND TOMAINE received his master of science degree at Bucknell University on June 1,1980. PAUL GHROMEY received the degree of doctor of podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) from the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine on June 1,1980. Paul is serving a residency at Scranton State General Hospital and plans to practice in Duryea and West Pittston, Pa. 1st LT. FAITH SHARER is chief personnel utilization, Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas. Faith has been selected as an outstanding young woman of America in the West Texas area. She also is a nominee for the Distinguished Military Citizenship award and for the Goodfellow outstanding junior officer award. Presently, Faith is enrolled at Angelo State University working on a master of science degree in psychology. KENNETH REX and Christina Glawe were recently married. Ken is manager and design engineer at Rex Plumbing and Heating of Kingston, and also president of Sunpower Supply Company of Pennsylvania. STEPHEN ORLOWSKI and Karen Bowman were recently married. Steve is employed at Mercy Hospital and the couple is residing in West Pittston, Pa. Xw “GS“k°UnSel “", °r at Wilkes College ANTHONY CILIBERTO and Joan Fino were recently married. Tony is employed by Prestige Pools and the couple is residing in Bear Creek Township, Pa. ma^e>N fAXELRAD received her 1977 DR. DAVID RAMSTAD recently graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School. SasK-* JULIA BOWALICK CLELLAND has been appointed head nurse on the management level at Allentown Sacred Heart Hospital Center. Julia and her husband, Russell reside in Bethlehem, Pa. WALTER KILLIAN, ANNE WALL and CHESTER DUDICK received juris doctor degrees from the Dickinson School of Law. MARY BELIN RHODES, a mathematics teacher in the Abington Heights School District, was recently elected a new member of the Wilkes College Board of Trustees. DR. KENNETH MARTIN received his doctor of osteopathy degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteo­ pathic Medicine on June 8,1980. RICHARD LACY and DIANE SHERMAN ’76 were recently married. Dick is employed as a claims adjuster by Crawford and Company, Scranton, Pa. Diane is employed by the Greater Nanticoke Area School District and the Susquehanna Savings Association, Nanticoke, Pa., where the couple resides. ROBERT POTORSKI and Laura Morganti were recently married. Bob is attending Universidad Centrel Del Este School of Medicine in the Dominican Republic. MARIA CASAGRANDE and Daniel Kepich were recently married and the couple is residing in Long Island, New York. GARRY TAROLI was recently wed to PEGGY SCHUTZ ’78. Garry is associated with the law firm of Rosenn, Jenkins and Greenwald. Peggy is employed by Jewelcor and the couple is residing in Forty Fort, Pa. JOSEPH YEDINAK and Deborah Bilski were recently married. Joe is working toward his masters degree in physics at Wilkes College and is also employed as an electrical engineer at the RCA plant in Mountaintop, Pa. The couple is residing in Wilkes-Barre. DIANE RUDZAVICH and DR. JOSEPH MAJESKI were recently married. Diane attends Temple University School of Pharmacy and Joe is an intern at Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pa., where the couple resides. A son, Charles Walter, Jr., was born April 3,1980, to Charles and DEBRA DZIECIOL ANGELO. This is their first child and they reside at 68 Courtright Street, Plainsville, Pa. Debra is a kindergarten teacher at Sacred Heart School, Luzerne. nPPther with S.O.S.” What’s q°O S 9?9 It W3S a seminar' Sk/7/S 0 SuM which utilized the mlents of successful alumni and r ends who came to the Wilkes campus to share their knowledge and experience with the undergraduate students in order to help them manage their lives and careers more effectively after graduation. This new program was developed and coordinated by Tanya April Hallez, assistant director of Alumni Relations. According to Ms. Hallez, the program was initiated to continue the Wilkes College philosophy of the education of the whole man. Academics alone will not help a person survive in the world outside the sheltering confines of parents and college. Knowledge of such basic ideas as managing money, securing and repaying loans, buying or renting a house, legal services available, consumer problems, the necessity of insurance, and the ever-present income tax are important to the transition from student to functioning member of society. The concept of S.O.S. is to help with this transition and who can ?!?V'?e beHer answers than those anrtK e besn students at Wilkes na nave become successful in nf mC^osen careers? The faculty thpbe Colle9e supplies the Drarfles,and a|umni suoply the Pract'ca rea|ities unrestricted by bet curricula. held V'rst these seminars was t Learmnr"o12’ 1980’ in stark Center with 18 alumni and other professionals participating. Attorneys, accountants, bankers, business owners, and others gave up an entire Saturday to advise the students on some aspect of personal living. Everything from how to survive in a big city to how to survive a receiving line was discussed. Plans are now being made to make this program an on­ going event at Wilkes with three or four such seminars considered for the current academic year. One seminar being planned will deal entirely with women in the professional world. Not only does this type of program assist the students with their futures, but it also allows alumni to have a meaningful part in the growth of students of Wilkes College. The alumni who participated enjoyed discussing issues with each other and also getting a fresh outlook from the students. The success of the first S.O.S. seminar can be credited to Mr. Allan J. Allan ’50, who chaired the program, and all those who took part in presentations and discussions, which include: Mr. William Cox '60; Mr. William, Mainwaring '73; Mrs. Rhea Poptis Simms '78; Mr. Lee Ciarmatori 72, Mrs. Madeleine Carlin; Dr. Bruce Brown; Dr. Herb Frye; Atty. Paula Quinn ’73; Atty. Gifford Cappellini ’74; Dr. Charlotte Lord, Mrs. Nancy Brown Williams '56; Mrs. Alice Dew Schappert '49; Mr. Dal® DeRonde '62; Mr. Lonnie Coombs ’70; Mr. Carl Zoolkoski 59, Att/_ Michael Shucosky; and Atty. Basil Russin '68. O BLIEMandDR. RICHARD BELLACOSA received the degrees of doctor of podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) from the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine. Brian is serving a residency at Moss Rehabilitation Center, Philadelphia, Pa. and Richard is a resident at Northlake Community Hospital in Northlake, Illinois. MAUREEN RINCAVAGE and EDWARD RICHARDS were recently married. Maureen is a substitute teacher in the Pittston Area School District. Ed is a professional musician and also a substitute teacher at Pittston and Wyoming Area School Districts. The couple is residing at 130 Lambert Street, Pittston, Pa. MILDRED WYSOCKI and Lawrence Roke were recently married. Mildred is employed by the Wilkes-Barre Area School District and the couple is residing in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. DR. BONITA METZGER and Paul Mancia were recently married. Bonita is a resident in obstetrics­ gynecology at the Hershey Medical Center, and the couple is residing in Forty Fort, Pa. 1979 CHARLES HOZEMPA and Rosemary McAndrew were recently married. Charles is an auditor for Blue Cross and the couple is residing in Dallas, Pa. PAUL WENGEN and ELLEN DU FOSSE '78 were recently married. The couple is residing in Sunnyvale, California. 1980 BARBARA RODDA WELCH has been appointed assistant to the dean of admissions at Wilkes College. LISA ANN HALL and John Sellam Werre7KcyHo3?alin in West Pittston, Pa. u SUMMER 1980 25 �/ J-'— r.. 'A Peaches, Anyone? by Betsy B. Condron I'm an inveterate collector of catchy phrases, heart­ rending tales, meaningful stories my children will benefit from (?), recipes I'll never live long enough to try one fraction of, marvelous JANE REESE BARTON ’50, of 848’ exercises to make me exotic . . . and Lord Leighton Drive, Virginia Beach,■ humorous items to illustrate my serious Virginia, died on February 11,1980, Quarterly messages so that everyone will feel at the age of 51. Jane received her they simply must read on 1 BA degree in social studies from I.e. something in the Christopher News Wilkes in 1950 and had been Notes titled "Think Ahead": A man watched employed as a librarian at the his 80-year-old neighbor planting a tiny peach Lancaster County Library. Surviving tree. "You don't expect to eat peaches from are her husband, William; son, that tree, do you?", he inquired. Resting on William R. and daughter, Megan, all his spade, the old man admitted he never of Virginia Beach. would. "But all my life I've enjoyed peaches — never from a tree I planted myself. MICHAEL C. WALLACE ’79, of I'd have had no peaches if other people 324 Wyoming Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, hadn't done what I'm doing now. I'm just died on April 19,1980, at the age of trying to repay the other fellows who planted 23. Michael was a Meyers High School graduate and received his for me." B.S. degree in chemistry from Wilkes We benefit in myriad ways from the fruit in 1979. He was a chemist for the that others have planted for us. And many Monsanto Research Laboratories in persons try to repay those forebears by Dayton, Ohio and was taking enriching their communities so that future post-graduate studies at Dayton generations may reap what has been sown ... University. a major reason why Wilkes College has so Surviving are his father Charles, many loyal and generous supporters among Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; sisters, Mrs. Clara its alumni and friends. English, New York City and Mrs. One of the most important ways by which Rita Uskauski, Lansdale, Pa. we can provide for our descendants is to do our estate planning NOW. Such provision, JEFFREY C. DAVIS ’79, of 1209 when it includes a Planned Gift (one you Lincoln Avenue, Nanticoke, Pa., arrange during your lifetime), can also benefit died July 9,1980, at the age of 22 in you . . . the person doing the planning. Wilkes-Barre General Hospital where he was admitted as a medical As I've mentioned in this column before, patient July 7. Jeff graduated from the Planned Gift most easily understood is a the John S. Fine High School in bequest by will which benefits Wilkes at the Nanticoke and received his B.S. donor's death. In addition, there are new degree in business administration laws which encourage charitable giving in from Wilkes in 1979. He had been other ways. Plans such as the Wilkes Pooled employed at the Hess’s Department Income Fund, Unitrusts and Annuity Trusts Store, Viewmont Mall, as a manager may: 1) entitle you to an immediate trainee. Surviving are his parents, charitable contribution deduction on income [ Charles Davis, Sheatown, Pa. and tax return; 2) save tax on long-term capital Jeanette Langelli, Havertown; gains if appreciated property is used to fund brother Charles, Havertown; sister, the trust; 3) pay an income for life, with no I Mrs. Sharon Beggs, Nanticoke. o management worries; 4) continue paying income after your death to a surviving loved [ one whom you designate; 5) reduce state taxes for your heirs and; 6) further the unique educational opportunities offered by Wilkes. "If you do not think about the i future, you will not have one." (John Galsworthy) i t- Him memoria 1 V 1 -i It is common knowledge among those who deal with bequests, wills, and estates that most people underestimate the size of their estates or don't consider themselves in the category of having an estale at all. But I'll wager that everyone reading this Quarterly has an estate. You started building it the day you received your first dollar. It consists of everything - real or personal — that you own: silver pitcher or brass vase, bracelet or cuff links, car or cottage, bank account or life insurance. Naturally you want to pass on as much of this property as possible - to family, friends, and worthy institutions. There are people to help you plan wisely so that you can achieve objectives you never thought possible: lawyers, accountants, bank trust officers, life insurance underwriters and, if Wilkes is involved, persons from our Development staff. Another of my collector's items, one of countless Chinese proverbs, reminds us: "If you plan for one year, plant rice; for ten years, plant trees; but if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." Wilkes is educating people. It is laying a foundation to provide for the future. If you would like to be part of Wilkes' foundation, of its own peach orchard (so to speak), you should consider this tip as part of your estate planning. A versatile way to make your charitable gift to the College and, at the same time, assure a certain source of income is through one of our life income plans. (You could be eating peaches while the tree is growing!) Become a collector of useful information and let us send you our brand new brochure about planned giving. Just clip and return the coupon below. The old peach tree planter had the right philosophy. Each generation owes a tremendous debt to the last and a like obligation to the next. Awareness of this fact can lead to action that will make our gratitude effective. o 0"'c 1 .. WILKES D ■i CoL LEGE CONNECTION t ' 1 — FOR 24-HOUR information ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. - -—*• —-1 J -n7-826-1135 Plan now 33rd \ Annual Homecoming October 10,11,12,1980 All Homecoming Activities to be held on campus! Soccer Match ' * r- . 1 SEE HOMECOMING BROCHURE (Separate Mailing) Plan now Alumni vs. Varsity .X . *,r ’ v/ Saturday j September 13, 1980 Ralston Field P' ■ ®fs- Xinceton Univ February°^-March ■ ? name. . '• address. •1 phone .. Do you know a Wilkes College Alumnus who has or is doing something ,v h interesting? The "Quarterly" is always seeking ■' '! Wilkes College alumni to feature in the South River Street Revival * I section. If you have any ideas or nominations send them to the Editor, Wilkes College Quarterly, Wilkes College, WilkesBarre, Pa. 18766. i 10 ft^e Eastern Intercon^ WrestlingTournamc To; Director of Planned Giving Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 I am interested in learning more about pooled income funds I wish to record that I have arranged for a bequest to Wilkes College £ vf f Ss i I ■2 * -(Zzi. I date _ 26 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY fl 3 1 ' V. 'Z * > SI. % ~S I W-7 « ■■ r7 �; ilkes College has grown and prosperedi on tradition. We of unparalleled fulfillment and promise. believe it to be a tradition i Since its founding in 1933, Wilkes College has been committed to its original mission —“Unity Amidst Diversity”— and the recognition that academic training will be of minor importance unless our graduates emerge as persons of strong character, proper deportment, and sound moral values. This commitment to quality education has been the keystone of the Wilkes College tradition. I AS,! VX VV ■ • — | — — 1 . ■ We hope that the Wilkes tradition continues to grow and flourish. If your son, daughter, or friend is interested in obtaining more information about Wilkes College, its academic programs, and admissions procedures, please cut out and return the coupon below. WRITE TO: Office of Admissions, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 Please send me a copy of the 1981 Admissions Material. Name Address City .State. Zip Code. .State. Zip Code. Alumnus Name Alumnus Address. City Additional Information Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. Wilkes College Quarterly Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED PAID PERMIT NO. 355 WILKES-BARRE, PA. MRS. BETSY BELL C0NDR0N 36 REYNOLDS STREET KINGSTON, PA *79 18/0/4 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Summer 1980 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1980 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/403f96dc1d73f092a8cb4ec943c965cb.pdf 1f5a3ca9aac2448ecb47c11b5efcf477 PDF Text Text �FRLL1QBO Though we travel the world over Volume 4. Number 2 To find the beautiful We must carry it within Or we shall find it not editor Emerson Randall J. Xenakis associate editor Jane E. Manganella editorial staff Cindy Ercolani '81 William Miller '81 Daria Morris '83 Margaret Scholl '81 William Scholl '83 Edward White III '80 Regina White '83 contributing staff Betsy Bell Condron Margaret Scholl '81 Edward White 111 '80 Regina White '83 contributing photographers Donald D. Carey Arthurs. Miller art director WILKES COLLEGE, CIMfiETOIwr ON THE COVER — Anne Vanko Liva, professor emerita at Wilkes College, has been a member of the music faculty for twenty-three years. During that time, she has devoted all her energy toward the development of talent in students as pianists. These students have been recognized in State, Eastern and National levels in Jr. High, High School and College competitions. Ms. Liva was given an unprecedented honor when she was awarded both the "Best Teacher" and the "Service Award" by the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association, the first time the two awards were given to the same person. Since 1959, Ms. Liva has conducted teachers' workshops and lectures in colleges and universities and music teachers associations in the Eastern and Southern states. In 1978, she conducted a workshop at Digby Stuart College in London, England. Still teaching at the College, she also is director of the Liva Music Studios in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Shown with Ms. Liva on the cover is Randall Perry, a student at Wilkes College. Research for Tomorrow Wilkes environmental science major Paul Hausman was tapped by the U.S. Department of Energy to research the disposal of radioactive waste. An issue of today that will affect us tomorrow. 1 A Musical Experience ... of Note by. Randy Xenakis With the implementation of a new and exciting curriculum the music department is forging ahead, notably. See why more students are enrolling in the program and why the department can be selective in its enrollment process. 8 Jon Schaffer circulation Tanya Hallez '67 Alpha Campaign Tops $Z.4 Million With the help and support of alumni and friends of the College. President Capin announces the attainment of Alpha's $2.4 million goal. Complete details and photographs inside. A Run for Life . . . Rudolph Style by: Randy Xenakis A recap of a touching lecture given by Olympic Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph in the first of the 1980-81 Concert and Lecture Series programs at Wilkes. Homecoming 1980 by: Jane Manganella A pictorial display of the people, places and events that made up the 1980 Homecoming. The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. 5151 17 1® Plato, Humorous? by: Betsy Condron In her continuing series on Planned Giving. Betsy Condron poses an interesting question in the relationship of Plato to Planned Giving. Chronicle — 4 Gallery - 12 Sports Update — 12 South River St. Revival — 14 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons. Honorary Member Louis Shaffer, Trustee Emeritus Alan M. Glover. Ph.D., Trustee Emeritus Mrs. Richard M. Ehret. Trustee Emerita Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber. Trustee Emerita Thomas H. Kiley. Trustee Emeritus OFFICERS Benjamin Badman '41. Chairman Mrs. Walter M. Diener, Vice Chairman Hon. Edwin M. Kosik '49. Treasurer Mrs. William Davidowitz. Secretary James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein '68 Edward W. Bixby. Jr.. M.D. Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Stanley S. Davies Louis D. Davis. Jr. '60 W. Carey Evans '41 Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan. Jr. Robert L. Jones Richard Maslow Mrs. Robert L. Mayock Charles H. Miner. Jr. Gerald A. Moffatt '63 F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Richard L. Pearsall William A. Perlmuth '51 Joseph J. Pinola '49 Mrs. Kenneth A. Rhodes Arnold S. Rifkin Hon. Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross. Jr. Eugene Roth '57 Joseph J. Savitz '48 Ronald W. Simms '60 William Sword E. Arthur Trabant. Ph.D. William J. Umphred '52 Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENT Robert S. Capin '50 FALL 1980 3 �[ TWENTY-SEVEN WILKES STUDENTS AWARDED PRESIDENTIAL ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS Twenty-seven Wilkes College students have been awarded Presidential Academic Scholarships for the 1980-81 academic year, according to Dr. Gerald Wuori, Dean of Admissions. The scholarships are awarded to those students entering Wilkes who have scored 1100 or above on the Scholastic Aptitude Test and rank in the upper 10% of their graduating class. ten years, and holds a B.A. and M.B.A. degree from that institution. His diverse background includes publications, media relations, direction and implementation of the news service bureau, fund raising and community relations. He also served as an adjunct professor of business administration at Southern College in Orlando. Xenakis' professional affiliations include: the University Club of Winter Park, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the Winter Park Memorial Hospital Community Relations Committee, Florida Public Relations Association, National Association of Radio Broadcasters, the University and College Relations Committee of the Orlando Chamber of Commerce, and the Orlando Press Club. An active participant in campus life at Rollins, he served as a member of the Publications Union, the Board of Directors of the Student Center, the College Life Committee, the Presidential Staff, and the Cornell Fine Arts Center Advisory Board. Randy and his wife, the former Donna McNaughton, reside in Dallas. -'-Jig test. Presidential Academic Scholarship recipients include: Paul Boyer, Millville, Pa.; Jill Burlingame Towanda; Elaine Czachor, WilkesBarre; Bernard Dardzinski, WilkesBarre; Karen DeLuke, Endwell, N.Y.; Stephen DiRocco, Fort Lee, N.J., Donna Garber, Shavertown; James Garvin, Paulsboro, N.J.; John Grosenbeck, Oak Ridge, N.J.; Thomas Hanley, Weatherly, Pa; Sean Harney, Milan, Pa.; Anthony Kubasek, Mocanaqua; Loretta Martin, Downington, Pa.; Deborah Mazzeo, Old Forge; Leo Morgan, Pittston; Donna Nitka, Kelayres, Pa.; Reesa O'Boyle, Pocono; Kathleen Roach, New Paltz, N.Y.; Mary Romanick, Plymouth; and Michael Rupp, Carbondale. Additional recipients includeDale Scanlon, Dupont; Kimberly Shealer, Auburn, Pa.; Lori Smith Kingston; Thomas Swirbel, ’ Mountaintop; Lorraine Ungvarsky Wilkes-Barre; and Jeanne White ’ Endicott, N.Y. Each merit scholar is awarded a $500 scholarship which is renewable each year for those students who maintain at least a 3.0 overall average and participate in at least one college activity. DEBATE Wilkes College President Robert S. Capin (center/ greets Pennsylvania Attorney General candidates LeRoy Zimmerman (left/ and Michael O'Pake prior to televised debate sponsored by the Wilkes College Political Science Department and the Wilkes-Barre Law Library. Broadcast live over WBRE-TV, this year marked the first time in the history of Pennsylvania that the Attorney General was elected by the people. WILKES COLLEGE ACT 101 STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN LABS XENAKIS NAMED PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR The appointment of Randall Xenakis to the position of Director of Public Relations and Publications at Wilkes College was announced in August by President Robert S. Capin. Xenakis was named to the position after a Search Committee reviewed over 100 applications. Professor of Physics Walter Placek and students from the Wilkes Act 101 “Operation Phoenix” program work on an experiment in a physics laboratory at the college. Funded by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Equal Educational Opportunity and Wilkes, the program gives pre-college level students the opportunity to become familiar with a college atmosphere and encourages the non-traditional student to go on to higher education. Approximately 105 students are now participating in the Act 101 program on campus. It provides free counseling and tutoring services as well as workshops and classes to improve reading and study skills; '™b'ng skills and mathematical skills. The program operates on a year-round basis with summer classes available. Shown with Placek are students Bonnie Keber of Nanticoke (standing) and Tom Dziak of Hazleton. ORIENTATION . Formerly Director of Public Relations and Publications for Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, Xenakis has been involvec in all areas of Public Relations for __ _J / New students entering Wilkes in September were treated to a new game-type experience, "Playfair. The audience-participation games were designed to enable students to interact with fellow students and faculty members. The experience seems to have served its purpose as a smiling President Capin is surrounded by enthusiastic students. 4 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY FALL 1980 5 i �WILKES RECEIVES MERIT AWARD FOR SPACE UTILIZATION STUDY Wilkes College was presented the first Award of Merit ever presented by' the American Planning Associa­ tion recently for their development of a Space Utilization Study and Planning Aid for the Wilkes-Barre campus. The firm of Pj'ros and Sanderson, local architects and planners, were also honored for their efforts on behalf of the study. Dr. Andrew Shaw, Dean of Management at Wilkes, received the award at the Economic Development Council dinner held recently at the Woodlands in Wilkes-Barre. The Space Utilization Study was designed to survey, catalogue and analyze the physical plant of the College and produce a master plan of action designed to reduce the operating budget while maintaining flexibility to meet future needs. TIE YOURSELF DOWN WITH A WILKES TIE I!! If you are looking for a way to ge( tied down, Wilkes Alumni Paul and Jean Adams have the answer. They are currently designing a Wilkes College tie which will be available to alumni at a nominal fee. More details will be available in the next issue of the Quarterly so make plans to leave space on your tie rack for your alma mater tie. THE WILKES WILKES SENIOR COMPLETES RESEARCH SPONSORED BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY I I I ■ TDR WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS by Margaret Scholl The Wilkes College Theta Delta Rho Sorority began activities for the 1980-81 academic year by welcoming new members at a recent informal gathering at the Annette Evans Alumni House. The sorority, a community and campus service organization, is the oldest one on the Wilkes campus. The new members, consisting of residence and commuter students, will be officially initiated into the sorority on a point system basis. Initiation will occur during the spring semester. 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY The sorority, the only organization of its kind on campus, sponsors various human service projects and social activities throughout the year. These projects include: several bake sales and candy apple sales and a traditional Golden Agers' Christmas Party. The members are currently planning a holiday fashion show to be held in late fall. Shown at the New Member Get Together are, front row (left to right): Tanya Hallez, advisor; Sandy Bottone, Waverly, N.Y.; M. Margaret McKeown, Glen Lyon; Roseanna Randazzo, Pittston; Kim Williams, Wilkes-Barre, treasurer; Roberta Price, Forty Fort, new member advisor; and Judy Solack, WilkesBarre, vice president. Second row: Marlene Brush, Kingston; Mary Jo Sagliocco, Pittston; Connie Zelinski, Plains, new member advisor; and Robin Dutko, Miami, Fla. Third row: Debbie Bartoshunas, Pittston; JoAnne Bennick, Kingston, secretary; and Cathy Price, Exeter. Fourth row: Marie Cruise, Exeter; Maurita Gries, Dallas, president; and Carmela Kobylski, Pittston. O The United States Department of Energy has been trying for years to find a way to safely dispose of radioactive waste, and, as of now has not been successful. Nonetheless, the effort to win the battle against the harmful material continues and one Basking Ridge (N.J.) resident has played an important part in that attempt. Paul Hausman, a senior environmental science major at Wilkes and son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hausman, spent ten weeks this past summer in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, analyzing water-flow characteristics around low-level radioactive waste burial sites. “My primary mission was to help find a way to contain radioactive materials and render them harmless," says Hausman, who was given a stipend of over $1,000 by the Energy Department to conduct his research. "While the project I am involved with is somewhat complicated, it may someday help solve the radioactive waste problem.” Hausman's research, conducted at the Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee, (site of the Nation’s first nuclear reactor used to produce plutonium for the first Atomic Bomb) concentrated on saturating areas of soil with water to measure the flow of radioactive-like particles underground. That procedure would be followed with chemical additives to the soil which would literally trap any harmful radioactive particles enabling them to decay on their own over a period of time. Much of Hausman’s term was spent in the lab monitoring the flow of water through a sampling of soil. “It is important that the speed at which water will flow through the soil and in what direction it flows be calculated,” stated Hausman. “Once this information is secured you can gauge the expected flow of radioactive materials when buried and saturated with water." One of 100 students from around the country to be tapped by the Department of Energy, Hausman views his research as a step in the right direction toward radioactive containment. "Some scientists feel that radioactive materials will never be contained safely while others feel a solution is as close as five years away,” offers the 21-year-old environmentalist. "My personal feeling," he continued, "is that safe containment is at least 15 to 20 years away." college connection FOR 24-HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. 717-826-1135 LOOKING AHEAD The next issue of the Wilkes Quarterly will highlight and report on: • Current trends and developments in the area of Career Services for Wilkes students. • A special in-depth look at one of the most historic buildings on campus. • The announcement of a special new lecture series scheduled to begin in the Spring. • A report on the current status of the admissions operations at Wilkes. . . . and much more. Do you have something special that you would like to see included in future issues? Drop us a note and give us the details. Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. Wilkes senior Paul Hausman analyzes water-flow characteristics as part of summer research in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. If Hausman is correct in his time estimation then he will be able to feel secure during his lifetime knowing that he has played a part in the ultimate solution of the safe disposal of radioactive waste. "Even more important than that," he says, "I will have helped make the world a little bit safer for my children." O ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Of­ fice at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our rec­ ords. FALL 1980 7 �' , • UnCe ® o JTusicai p by Randy Xenakis J 4 T £ i r Jfote r f The success of any organization is naturally dependent upon the sum of its parts. In the case of Wilkes College, its continued success, as a strong, private liberal arts college, necessitates increased demands from each of its disciplines. One of these disciplines, the music department, is certainly carrying its share of the load. Last year when Dr. Terrance Anderson assumed duties as Chairman of the Department, one of his first priorities was to convene his faculty, and, with their assistance and input, develop a comprehensive and functional curriculum. In retrospect, Anderson is the first to admit that "the previous curriculum was operational and very useful for its time. However, it became necessary for some modification and revision." Perhaps the strongest evidence which supports the validity and strength of the new curriculum is the fact that the music department does not admit students on the basis of open admissions. "We are very selective in the students we enroll in the program," said Anderson. "We will not accept students as majors who are not seriously interested in music or who do not have a strong background in the field." students the opportunity to prepare themselves for entrance into quality graduate programs throughout the country. "It is imperative that we give them the chance to Of course you cannot be meet the needs of today's selective unless you have a world," offered Anderson. "At solid program which, in fact, the same time we must is paramount to attracting enhance the academic quality quality students. To achieve of all our programs without this goal, Anderson and his merely bowing to current full-time faculty of eight market conditions.” reviewed and analyzed the Specifically, the revised previous curriculum and made curriculum provides for a the necessary changes. degree of flexibility which "We had to profile what we affords students several considered to be the ideal options for a career in music. music student within the If, for example, an setting of Wilkes College," undergraduate finds that said Anderson. "Working from one specific concentration is this ideal-student theory we no longer desirable, he or then patterned a four-year she may shift to a related course of study around the concentration without type of student we wanted to significant loss of credits or attract." That student, degree requirements. "In the according to Anderson, is the judgment of the entire music one who exhibits quality in department faculty, this both academics and music. flexibility was absolutely After a full semester necessary," reported of department meetings, Anderson. discussions, debates, and Implemented with the evaluations, the music faculty understanding that the put together a proposed curriculum would undergo curriculum which was shortly review on an annual basis, the thereafter acclaimed by a program was designed to Dean of a major school of provide students with a music as one of the finest comprehensive study of music in all areas. "In order for us to music curricula he had evaluated. In May of this year, do this we must be prepared to provide instruction in the full faculty of the College performance studies for all overwhelmingly accepted the keyboard, band and orchestral new curriculum and gave the instruments, guitar, and green light for implementation voice," said the department this past September. chairman. "Simultaneously' Designed for quality, we must maintain the the revised curriculum components necessary to concentrates on a music provide students with all the performance-oriented degree requirements leading to program which prepares certification by the State of majors for entrance into the Pennsylvania Department of competitive job market as Education." performing musicians or While the classroom teachers in the music provides an important setting discipline. It also gives FALL 1980 9 �Alpha Campaign Tops $2.4 Molllfen @<aal Alumni Giving Draws Recognition for the education of Wilkes music students, additional outside activities are constantly offered, giving the student well-rounded, liberal-arts oriented programs. Last year, for example, the department sponsored a guest series; faculty series; departmental ensemble concerts and numerous student recitals which benefited not only undergraduates, but the entire community as well. One Wilkes senior viewed her recital "a very important vehicle for demonstrating my ability to perform in a professional setting." With the new curriculum molding itself into place, Anderson has managed to retain and in fact, step up the "personal" approach to recruiting qualified students. "When we receive inquiries from students whom we think can fit into our program we immediately arrange for an audition and campus visit," Anderson said. "At the same time we like to have the parents come along so that they can ask questions which relate specifically to the program and financial concerns." Amidst our discussion about the audition process, Anderson received a call from a promising young music student who wanted to apply for admission next fall as a freshman. After a cordial conversation with both parent and student, the campus audition and visit were arranged. The new approach was obviously working. With a student/faculty ratio of 12 to 1, Anderson tells high school students that if they are looking for small classes, individualized attention, a strong faculty, and a quality curriculum, then Wilkes College is for them. Students have been listeni;ing and observing. Last year's freshman class had eleven students compared to 29 this year. Department majors have increased during the same period from 26 to 53. "There is a new spirit within the department,” boasted Anderson. "We are confident that we are achieving an increasingly ongoing growth with our ultimate goal being academic music excellence." If the current pattern of growth continues within the Wilkes College Department of Music it will, without question, forge ahead and become one of the finest small college music programs in the country. If you happen to be a historian you may be familiar with Napoleon's notable quote that "Ability is nothing without opportunity." For musically-inclined students across the country who have the ability, Wilkes College provides the opportunity. And that's music to everyone's ears. o Wilkes College President Robert S. Capin announced early this fall that the College had exceeded its goal in the $2.4 million Alpha Capital Gifts Campaign. The College received commitments which raised the total amount of gifts and pledges to $2,404,978. Wilkes alumni were recognized by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and United States Steel for their substantial increase in percentage of giving to their Alma Mater. ‘‘This increased support from our alumni was instrumental in helping us attain our goal,” remarked President Capin. The drive, initiated in December 1977, was for the purpose of (a) maintaining the scholarship program, (b) enlarging the College endowment, and (c) reconstructing selected historic facilities on campus. Benjamin Badman, Chairman of the Wilkes Board of Trustees, stated that the attainment of the Alpha Capital Gifts Campaign goal Conyngham Student Center put forth great effort on behalf of Wilkes College to make this attainment possible," stated Andrew Hourigan, General Campaign Chairman. Funds raised through the effort have been spent over the past two and one-half years to maintain the annual scholarship is ‘‘an expression of confidence program, to enlarge the College in the work of Wilkes College." endowment, and to begin projects He noted that the support of involving physical facilities on friends and alumni is essential in campus. Eighty percent of Wilkes maintaining a sound and College students receive some stimulating intellectual form of financial aid, and thus, atmosphere and in enhancing gifts from friends and alumni programs of service to the have made it possible for quality community. Badman said that the students to complete their Alpha goal was exceeded four education at Wilkes. During the months ahead of schedule. drive the former Conyngham Technically, the campaign was Estate was reconstructed to designed to run for three years create the Conyngham Student beginning December 12, 1977. Center while Kirby Hall also Funds were raised from reaped benefits from the sources which included alumni, Campaign with a complete trustees, friends, businesses, exterior facelift and extensive foundations, government, interior improvements. corporations, and from members These are landmark facilities of the administration, faculty and and contribute toward the historic staff of the College, according to character of the campus and the Richard Maslow, Chairman of the community. President Capin Development Committee of the noted that pledges made during trustees. the spring of 1980, in the College's annual campaign, are Many capital and annual being paid by friends and alumni phases of the campaign were over the coming months. These conducted over the past two and one-half years, involving hundreds gifts will primarily assist the scholarship program of the of alumni and friends who gave of College for the 1980-81 academic their substance and time. "I wish to thank the many volunteers who year. Kirby Hall FALL 1980 11 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY �THE GALLERY "In the past decades, the limits of artistic expression have been expanded beyond the ground familiar to most of us, and keeping up with the experiments of the avant-garde has required that we keep our minds both open and agile.” This quote is from Dr. William Sterling, chairman of the Wilkes Department of Fine Arts and Director of the Sordoni Art Gallery. This year, the Gallery has a variety of visual art “treats” on its exhibitions agenda. Currently featured is '69 alumnus Steve Poleskie, who has created a highly personal artform which combines aerobatic flying with visual design. Steve is an art professor at Cornell University. Other shows for 1980-81 include: “Recent Trends in Printmaking,” Nov. 16 to Dec. 7; “Paper as an Art,” Dec. 14 to Jan. 11; “Visiting Artists’ Group Show — Cohen, Pinto, Hagin and Cushing,” Jan. 18 to Feb. 8; “Regional Scholastic Art Atvards,” Feb. 14 to Mar. 8; “Wilkes Art Faculty Show,” Mar. 15 to Apr. 5; “Students of the Eight,” Apr. 12 to May 17; and “Wilkes-Barre Architecture,” May 24 to June 21. there is more specialization involved. Although the growth has been rapid and changes have been made, Saracino sees one item that has never differed over the 20 years. “Since I960 until now, whether we were involved in one sport or six, the girls have always shown great pride in themselves, their teammates and coaches, and most important, Wilkes College.” With pride as its foundation, Wilkes has been one of the very few colleges or universities to have a women’s athletic program for 20 years. Currently, Wilkes has three full-time Associate Professors in Health and Education on campus. "Having the three profs on campus is a big help to our program," adds Each year, the Gallery, operating on a year-round basis, brings in exhibits, artists and lecturers of the highest caliber. These are offered to the public at no charge. In order to sustain this program for the campus and community, the Advisory Commission is conducting a membership drive for renewal of existing memberships and to enlist the help of new “Friends of the Gallery.” Shown are volunteers for a telethon to enlist members — From left to right are: Mrs. Lee McCarthy, Jr., Mrs. Ernest Townend, Mrs. Edmund Dana, and Mrs. W. C. Gutman. Gallery hours are Sunday through Friday, 1-5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.5 p.m. and Thursdays 6-9 p.m. Parking is available next to Stark Learning Center. o - wJMut -rlSMll gnnjpcdlg^® WOMEN’S ATHLETICS AT WILKES Two Decades of Accomplishment by Eddie White III “You’ve come a long way baby,” That about tells the story when the Wilkes women's athletic program is discussed. Some 20 years ago, the lady Colonels had only one varsity sport on campus — basketball. Now, after two decades 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY i iaiiii±f:ranG'« fir of hard work, the program has grown like something out of Jack’s beanstalk. In 1980, Wilkes College has six varsity women’s sports — basketball, field hockey, tennis, swimming, volleyball and softball. In addition, Wilkes women have also joined previously all-male squads such as golf and cross-country. Women’s athletic director Doris Saracino, who has seen it all since arriving on the campus in 1960, says the growth has been “just super.” “More and more girls are coming out for the teams as the years go by,” offered Saracino, also the volleyball coach at Wilkes. “At one time, the same small group of girls played all the sports we had here. Now, with the numbers increased and interest growing, we have many different girls out for the different sports and MEN’S BASKETBALL: Ron L. Righter, coach Away Roanoke Nov. 24 Mt. St. Mary (NY) Away Nov. 30 East Stroudsburg Away Dec. 3 Delaware Valley Home Dec. 4 Lycoming (TV) Home Dec. 6 Away King's (TV) Dec. 11 FDU Madison Away Dec. 13 Home Alvernia Jan. 14 Home Misericordia Jan. 17 Home Moravian Jan. 19 Home Jan. 21 Albright Home Scranton (TV) Jan. 24 Home Elizabethtown Jan. 26 Home Jan. 28 King’s Away Jan. 31 Delaware Valley Away Philadelphia Textile Feb. 2 Home Susquehanna Feb. 4 Away Lycoming Feb. 7 Home Feb. 9 Muhlenberg Away Feb. 11 Scranton Home FDU Madison Feb. 14 Away Feb. 16 Bloomsburg Philadelphia Pharmacy Home Feb. 18 Juniata Away Feb. 21 SWIMMING: Bob Greenwald, coach Home Binghamton State Dec. 4 Away Ursinus Dec. 6 Home Dickinson Dec. 9 Away Elizabethtown Dec. 12 Home Lycoming Jan. 21 Home Swarthmore Jan. 24 Away Susquehanna Feb. 4 Away Lycoming Feb. 7 Home King’s Feb. 11 Away Western Maryland Feb. 18 MAC Championships Feb. 26 Saracino. “It allows the student­ athletes to contact their coaches during the school day.” For those of you who like statistics, over 500 scheduled varsity contests have been completed for the women since 1960. Over the past five years, Wilkes women have participated in 285 events, winning 52 percent of them. "Our program has not only grown,” says Saracino, "but it has grown successfully." Wilkes competes in the Northeastern Pennsylvania Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Association (NPWIAA), the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) and the Metro Intercollegiate Conference (MIC). In addition the College belongs to numerous organizations 8:00 7:30 8:00 8:00 2:00 7:00 3:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 3:30 8:00 9:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:15 8:00 8:00 2:00 4:00 4:00 WRESTLING: John G. Reese, coach Dec. 3 Lehigh ]Home 8:00 Dec. 6 Navy Away Dec. 10 8:00 East Stroudsburg Away Dec. 11 8:00 Tennessee Home Dec. 13 2&8 Del Val/Auburn Home Dec. 15 Clemson Home Dec. 29-30 Wilkes OPEN Home Jan. 3 8:00 Missouri Home Jan. 4 2:00 Nebraska Home Jan. 7 Home 8:00 George Mason Jan. 10 Away 7:30 Syracuse Jan. 17 2:00 Home Rutgers 4:30 Jan. 24 Away Temple 7:00 Jan. 28 Home Binghamton 2:00 Jan. 31 Southern Connecticut Home 8:00 Away Feb. 3 Penn State 8:00 Home Feb. 7 Hofstra 8:00 Home Feb. 11 Bucknell 8:00 Away Lycoming Feb. 14 2:00 Away Franklin & Marshall Feb. 21 Princeton EIWA Feb. 27 Princeton NCAA Mar. 12 WOMEN’S B’KETBALL: Nancy L. Roberts, coach 7:00 Away Lycoming Dec. 2 6:00 Home Delaware Valley Dec. 4 7:00 Away Marywood Dec. 6 7:00 Home Baptist Bible Dec. 9 7:00 Away Lafayette Dec. 11 4:00 Away Kutztown State Dec. 13 7:00 Home King’s Dec. 15 Letterwomen's Tour'ny Home Jan. 9-10 7:00 Home Scranton Jan. 13 2:00 Away King's Jan. 17 6:30 Home Albright Jan. 22 2:00 Away Upsala Jan. 24 6:00 Home Elizabethtown Jan. 26 6:00 Home LCCC Jan. 31 6:15 Away Philadelphia Textile Feb. 2 6:15 Home Susquehanna Feb. a 6:30 Home Muhlenberg Feb. 6 6:30 Home Bloomsburg State Feb. 9 6:00 Away Scranton Feb. 11 2:00 Away Misericordia Feb. 14 Away East Stroudsburg Feb. 17 6:00 Away Juniata Feb. 21 FALL 1980 13 �and associations for women's athletics. An outgrowth of the athletic program is the Wilkes Letterwomen’s Club. Any female athlete that has won a varsity letter is eligible for the club. The function and purpose of the club is to: assist the College in all branches of campus endeavors, especially in administration of women's athletics: recognize those efforts made in women's athletics; and cultivate interest and dignity in sports. The club distributes numerous awards including the annual Letterwomen's Scholarship Aivard, Service Award, and the Correen Santoro Memorial Award. Saracino says the Letterwomen's Club has been very helpful in assisting the growth of women's athletics at Wilkes. “I've relied on the club since its beginning in 1962— it supplies funds to help each sport grow and develop.” Another aid in the growth of the program was the girls’ idea of taking anything they could get. "We took advantage of whatever was available. For example, until this year, the hockey field ivas not regulation size, but it was available and we made it work for us.” In 1980, the Wilkes field hockey team played its home games on the baseball outfield in Artillery Park, giving Wilkes a regulation size field. Among the accomplishments the women’s athletic program has garnered over the two decades are: 11 NPWIAA titles; a second place finish in the MAC Northeast; two MAC Northwest Championships; and numerous qualifications for MAC post-season play. Individual achievements include: MAC Most Valuable Player awards to Diane Kendig [basketball) and Jerry Ann Smith (field hockey); Smith and Pam Snyder being selected for the United States National Field Hockey Tournament; and Kendig earning first-team All America honors for basketball last winter. Saracino says she sees more growth in the future for women s sports at Wilkes. “If we see a definite interest in another sport, we'll adopt it and try our best to supply the program. It all depends on what demands are made by the women.” When asked what she thinks about the female athlete of today, Saracino replied that today’s woman enjoys what she is doing and finds success and acceptance. “She is not just an athlete, she is a woman.” And she’s come a long way baby. WHITE NAMED TO WILKES POST Wilkes President Robert S. Capin announced recently the appointment of Eddie White III as Assistant for News and Sports Information at Wilkes. White is a 1980 graduate of Wilkes where he majored in English/ Journalism. For the past four years he has worked as a student assistant in the public relations office, serving the last two as Sports Information Director on a part-time basis. While at Wilkes, White served as sports editor for the college paper, THE BEACON, in addition to being president of the Journalism Society from 1978-1980. He has worked for the WilkesBarre City Recreation Board for the past two summers as publicity assistant and belongs to the American Football Writers Associa­ tion; Collegiate Baseball Writers Association; and CoSIDA, the national organization for College Sports Information Directors of America. O wwfiw®! The SOUTH RIVER STREET REVIVAL was compiled by Regina White of the Alumni Relations Office. The information contained in the Alumni Notes was received between July 12,1980 and October 1,1980. Please send news contributions to: Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 MISSING ALUMNI Clement N. Paycheck ’55 Arthur Pearlman«*50 Stanley M. Pearlman 70 Mrs. Eva Yaremko Penico '47 Henry Peplinski '50 Joseph Perkowski '51 Constance Perkuroski '48 Jerome J. Perry '51 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY John J. Perry '51 Sandra Jean Petersen 73 Marian S. Beach Peterson '48 Harry Gordon Pethick 72 George Petrilak '50 Bart Francis Petrini, Jr. '58 Francis Bart Petrini '62 Ellen Goldberg Pfifferling '61 Nghia Van Phan 77 Ann E. Phillips '47 Daniel D. Phillips '51 Daniel M. Phillips '48 Delbert Russell Phillips '49 Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Phillips '69 70 (Bonnie Beckford) Charles E. Piasecki '53 August John Piazza 75 Ross Dennis Piazza 72 Michael Piccarreta '62 Sam Paul Piemontese 76 Joan Adamshock Pierce ’43 Patrick A. Pierelli '50 Bonnie Jane Piestrak 70 Kenneth P. Pietrzak ’69 Annette E. Pincus ’44 Murray B. Pincus 41 Robert Alfred Pingel 61 Edward F- Pioch ’48 Patricia Ann Rossi Pisano ’63 Donald David Pisarcik 70 John Joseph Pitman ’65 Robert F. Pittman ’47 Walter Francis Pivinski '48 Lanna Vaughn Planitzer '64 Charles Adolph Pliskatt '50 Cheryl M. Pelava Plodwick 71 Mr. & Mrs. Gary Edward Pohorely 78 78 (Rosemarie Rosati) Ann (Nancy) Elizabeth Pointek '67 Richard T. Polakowski '55 Daniel Polinchak '53 Leon S. Pollard ’50 Walter Kashner Poltrock '52 Abdul Poonwala '69 Barbara Ann Poska '68 Mrs. Adeline Abrams Posner '52 Joan Martha Postupak 75 Robert H. Potter 75 ALUMNI NOTES 1949 THOMAS GILL, CPA, an auditor for Forty Fort borough, has been ap­ pointed to First Valley Banks Pittston Advisory Board. Tom, his wife Mary Elizabeth and their four sons reside in Forty Fort, Pa. DR. JAMES M. HOFFORD, Chief, Department of Medicine, Section of pulmonary diseases at St. Francis Hospital’s Medical-Dental staff, Wilm­ ington, Delaware, has been appointed to the American Lung Association Hall of Fame. 1955 IRENE HOMICK, treasurer of Horn­ ick's Apparel Store, has been named to the Board of Direc­ tors of the Finan­ cial and Opera­ tions Division of the Menswear Re­ tailers of America. She is the first woman to be elected to the financial board in the 65-year history of the association. 1957 IRENE TOMALIS STONE has been promoted to Information Services director for the New York Department of State. Irene also serves on the Board of Directors of the Spencer­ town Academy as well as the Colum­ bia County Council on the Arts. Amy-Lyn Pouser 73 James Lewis Powell ’73 John Woodrow Powell ’70 w,ril ^°an Berrett‘hi Powell '54 Walter L. Powell ’59 Lawrence C. Praeger '55 John Pregmon '63 Walter Pregmon '52 Mrs. Florence Keylock Preston ’52 Robert J. Pribula ’60 Kathy Jane Price 72 Linda Jane Price '79 Ronald George Price '57 Alfred Robert Pritchard '66 Walter W. Pryse ’50 Valentine Przezdecki ’70 William J. Pugliese '48 John T. Pulos ’50 Millicent Maria Purcell ’48 Mrs. Beverly Ann Dodson Racioppa '60 Atty. Joseph Radko '50 John Aloysius Rakofski ’47 James Rakowski 70 Marlene Ann Rampola 74 Bernice Rapczynski ’43 Joseph P. Raskin '56 Doris M. Raub '46 John Christian Rauch '43 John Earl Raudenbush ’42 Roberta Rose Rayeski '61 Thomas John Rebarchak '49 Mrs. Janice Desmond Redos '49 Clayton Meple Rees '37 Jay Leonard Reich '67 Mrs. Penny Nanstiel Reid 73 Charles Michael Reilly '55 Harold E. Rein '50 Maurice Reishtein '38 Karl F. Rekas '54 Mrs. Dorothy Plieskatt Renddell '51 Robert O. Renville '36 Robert R. Reynolds ’55 Kenneth Walter Rhiel '49 Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Rhinard '66 '65 (Marjorie Harris) Geoffrey William Rhodes 73 George R. Ribar 77 Mrs. Grace Auchmoody Rich '67 David Carl Richards 72 1958 WILLIAM J. POW­ ELL has been pro­ moted to assistant corporate control­ ler with Ethyl Cor­ poration, Rich­ mond, Virginia. 1960 EMMANUEL ZIOBRO, vice presi­ dent of United Penn Bank, recently graduated from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers Univer­ sity. He resides in Dupont, Pa., with his wife, Dorothy and three children, Joseph, James and Judy. 1962 EDMUND RESPERSKI, JR. has been promoted to asset control manager at International Salt Company, Clarks Summit, Pa. Ed resides with his wife, Bernadine, and two children, Mark and Sherri Ann, in Jenkins Township. 1963 ATTY. JEREMIAH BERK was chosen as United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York. He is a partner in the Pough­ keepsie firm of McCabe and Mack. MAN STROJNY received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. 1967 TONI SUPCHAK SAKALAS is a reading resource teacher at Anne Arundal County Schools and resides in Severna Park, Maryland, with her husband, George and two sons. 1967 JACK and JUDITH KUSS GELLER announce the birth of a son, Jonathan Eric, August 24,1980. The couple also has two children David, 13, and Alisa, 12. The family resides in Mountaintop, Pa. 1968 WILLIAM W. STINGER has joined St. Regis Paper Company as resident manager of its Consumer Products Di­ vision in Marion, Indiana. In his new capacity, he will be responsible for the production, personnel, maintenance and controller functions at the plant. KATHY YABLONKA and Kenneth Brookhart were married in April. Kathy is employed by Marriott In-Flite Services, where she is secretary to the general manager and the couple is residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. 1964 ATTY. JEFFRY H. GALLET has been appointed a judge of the Civil Court of the City of New York. Robert and JUDITH SIMONSON ARENSTEIN announce the birth of a daughter, Amy Sue, on August 5, 1980. The family resides at 15 Tanglewood Road, Scarsdale, New York. 1966 RICHARD LOUIS BUCKO received his Doctorate of Education and NOR- 1970 DR. JOSEPH PUTPRUSH has been appointed an associate in pathology FALL 1980 15 �with the Geisinger Medical Group — Wilkes-Barre and will be on the medical staff of the NPW Medical Center. He and his wife, Barbara, reside in Espy, Pa. RICHARD STANKUS received his doctor of medicine degree from Tu­ lane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La. He was awarded the Tulane Alumni Student Achievement Award and the Louisiana Pathology Society Award. WALTER BOYSON and DEBORAH BALLER ’76 were recently married. Walter is a press operator at Bridon American Corporation and Debbie is a field counselor for the Youth Em­ ployment Training Program at Lu­ zerne County Community College. The couple is residing in Exeter, Pa. A daughter, Laura, was born on March 2, 1980, to DR. JAMES and BARBARA SULLIVAN BRUNO. The family resides on Riverside Drive in Wilkes-Barre with their other chil­ dren, Emily, Matthew and Douglas. ROBERT and JUDITH OCHERFUSS announce the arrival of a daughter, Amy Lynn, on January 20, 1980. A son, Kyle, was born August 25, 1980, to SAUNDRA NAYLOR SNAVLEY and her husband, Charles. They have another son Matthew, age 6, and the family resides in Lebanon, Pa. 1971 BARBARA ROMAN KNEZEK re­ ceived her Master’s of Education and NANCY J. WALL received her Mas­ ter’s of Fine Arts from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. DR. MICHAEL I. ROBINSON has opened a new office in the Courthouse Square Towers Building, WilkesBarre, Pa. MARY ANN KUNEY and David R. Lipka were married in August. Mary Ann is employed as a consultant in the Hospital Consulting Department of Blue Cross of Northeastern Penn­ sylvania and the couple is residing in Plymouth. 1972 JUDY GREENSTEIN DAVIS is a nurse recruiter for the Baptist Med­ ical Centers of Birmingham and a part-time graduate student at the University of Alabama. Judy and her husband, Patrick, reside at 212 Vir­ ginia Drive in Birmingham. FRANK GALICKI was named assis­ tant football coach at Bloomsburg State College and he resides in Mocanaqua with his wife, Terry. GEORGE B. GETTINGER graduated from the University of Connecticut 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY for excellence in periodontology ana the Northeastern Society of Periodon­ tists. George also earned the Gustave Perl Award from UCONN for his research in periodontics and he is continuing to specialize in this: field. George and his wife, LINDSAY FARLEY GETTINGER, ’73, live in Glastonbury where she is a junior high school learning disabilities teacher in Waterford, Connecticut. JACQUELYN VAN TUYLE, was re­ cently married to James F. Kelly. Jac­ quelyn is employed by the Wyoming Valley West School District as a first grade teacher. The couple is residing in the Poconos. A son, Daniel David, was born on March 16, 1980, to DR. and MRS. DANIEL L. SON. The couple also have a daughter, Alicia Marie, age 2, and they reside in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Dan is a fourth year urology resident at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Son is the former JOYCE M. PUPA ’73. A son, Adam Scott, was born July 23, 1980, to Alan and ENID SULLUM TOPE. The family resides at 4111 Whitman Street, Allentown, Pa. 1973 LOUISE ANN BEEBE is employed by McNeil Pharmaceutical in Spring House, Pa., as compensation admin­ istrator in the Personnel Division. JOHN BENAVAGE, a Certified Pub­ lic Accountant, had been appointed to the executive staff as controller at Sus­ quehanna Savings in Wilkes-Barre. John, his wife Lois, and two children, Amy and Michael, reside in Ashley, Pa. CYNTHIA LITTZI CHISARICK has been notified that she has passed the Certified Public Accountant examina­ tion. Cynthia is employed by the public accounting firm of Albert B. Melone Co. and she resides in West Pittston, Pa., with her husband, Richard. MARY BETH FISHER CLARK has been named Coordinator of the Pediatrics Department Patient Unit at M.S. Hershey Medical Center, Her­ shey, Pa. She received her master’s degree in health administration from Penn State University. She resides in Hershey with her husband Atty. Law­ rence Clark, Jr. MARNE L. WEAVER has been pro­ moted to marketing administrative assistant for the Consumer Products Group of Norwich-Eaton Phar­ maceuticals. She resides in Sher­ burne, New York. JANE BANKUS and Michael Partel were recently married. Jane is owner of the Job Factory Employment Ser­ vice and the couple is residing in Rochester, New York. ROBERT MILLER and Millie Brush were recently married. Bob is a senior commercial account representative for the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company. The couple is residing at R.D. #1, Box 396, Emmaus, Pa. A daughter, Doramarie Ann, was born on July 26, 1980, to MR. & MRS. FRANK GALICKIS, Frank and his wife, the former TERESA BROWN ’72, reside in Mocanaqua, Pa. Teresa is a business teacher at Meyers High School and Frank is assistant prin­ cipal in the Berwick Area Junior High School. A son, Ryan Patrick, was born on February 3, 1980, to JEFFREY and MAUREEN SHAY PRENDERGAST ’79. Jeff is an account executive with Kurtz, Dowd and Nuss, Inc., Wyo­ missing, Pa. 1974 A daughter, Kristen Marie, was born on July 28, 1980, to RICHARD and JOANNE MACHONIS SIMKULAK, '73. The family resides in Meriden, Connecticut. 1975 ROBERT G. CHIMEL has been se­ lected as one of the Outstanding Young Men in America for 1980. He is a psychologist with the Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit No. 19 and serves the Wayne County Schools in Pennsylvania. SHAWNA McCarthy has been pro­ moted to managing editor of Issac Asi­ mov’s Science-Fiction Magazine and Analog, published by Davis Publica­ tions, Incorporated, New York City. DR. ROBERT A. ROSTOCK, a Fel­ low in Oncology at the John Hopkins University Hospital, has recently pre­ sented and published two man­ uscripts at National Meetings and is currently co-authoring a book in “Radiation Oncology.” MICHAEL J. SINCAVAGE and MARY ANN TELENCHO ’75 were recently wed. Michael is employed by Custom Foods Management Corpora­ tion and Mary Ann is employed by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. The couple is residing in Kingston, Pa. RAYMOND B. SUDA was recently married to Antoinette Steward. Ray­ mond is a local musician and is employed by Wilkes-Barre /Area School District. The couple will reside in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. U. coll,.itnued, on page. 22 One of twenty-two children A Run .. Rudolph Style py Randy Xenakis Every once in a while a few of us are fortunate enough to attend a lecture that really gives us a shot in the arm. Recently, at Wilkes, Wilma Rudolph, in the first program of the 1980-81 Concert and Lecture Series, gave the audience that booster shot. Her story was touching. Her person charming. Her lecture inspirational. Those of you who are not familiar with the background of Olympic Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph may find her story a little hard to believe. Even those of us who know of her accomplishments, attained through hardship, sometimes find her stamina and determination an unimaginable feat. For the first nine years of her life, Wilma Rudolph could not walk without braces as she was the victim of the inflammatory disease of polio. Imagine, if you will, what it is like to spend nine years at the mercy of leg braces and later become one of the finest and most successful female athletes of all time. Imagine again that the sport is highly demanding and requires the use of both legs — Wilma was a track star who was a three-time Olympic champion. Make no mistake, she was the best in the world. "I wanted to be the best in whatever I did," she said to a Concert and Lecture Series audience. "I was determined to overcome my handicap and I set my goals high.’’ was always too tired to help out around the house when she got home. “Besides," she offered, "I onTho hi W'bh the Other children had to get my studying done." °??he b 0Ck’ she recalled. When Ed Temple, coach of the Many of them felt I wasn't fit to Tennessee State University track play with them which made me team, invited the thirteen-year-old more determined." to train with the Tiger runners she When the Clarksville, realized that her early childhood Tennessee, native reached her dream of athletic competition was eleventh birthday she was now emerging. challenging all the boys in the "Ed Temple provided me with neighborhood to running races. •the drive, determination and "By the time I was twelve, I was understanding that made me a beating them," she said with a world class athlete,” Wilma smile. recalled. "He never let up. When I was down he helped me. He would even drive me home (about a forty-five-minute drive from TSU) when I was depressed, wait for me to overcome my insecurity, and bring me back to TSU." Wilma's training at TSU produced immediate results. At fifteen, as a member of the United States 400-meter relay team, she brought back for the United States a bronze medal from the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. Four years later, in 1960, she realized a dream that started when she was crippled with polio as a child. At the Olympic Games in Rome she won three gold medals (100-, 200- and 400-meter races) and became the first and only American woman to win three Olympic Gold Medals in one Slightly taller than the average Olympiad. female athlete, Wilma turned to Today, Wilma is the mother of basketball in the seventh grade four children and is actively and, as a result of her fortitude, involved in the Special Olympics became an All-America performer Program for the handicapped. Her in her freshman year. The six-foot enthusiasm continues to this day athlete, who weighed a mere 89 in her professional field as pounds, was on her way. vice-president of marketing for While Wilma most likely would the Multi-Educational Corporation. have been successful in any "I love my work and I want to be athletic endeavor, she was the the best marketing person I can first to admit she chose track be," she gleamed, "I have a lot because she wanted to avoid to be thankful for and I have a work around the house. "I was long way to go." always looking for a way to get If you ever have the out of doing my daily chores," opportunity to meet or listen to Wilma Rudolph, don't pass it up. said the twentieth child of the Her story is reassuring, brisk and Rudolph family. "I would sneak full of life — something we all out of class when I had a chance need to be exposed to when we and spend the entire afternoon running and running and running need a shot in the arm. some more." As expected, she X aTT edt° be "one °f the xias. | always wanted to FALL 1980 17 �. .. Homecoming '80 by: Jane Manganella The campus was a busy place on October 10, 11 and 12 as Chairman Pat Burke and his executive committee welcomed hundreds of alumni “home” for the 33rd Annual Homecoming Weekend. Honoring the classes of1940, 1950, 1960 and 1970, this year’s reunion was highlighted by a variety offestive activities. Art exhibits, music presentations, sports events, parades, brunches, dinners and tailgate picnics were some of the events where old memories and friendships could be renewed. The Weekend concluded with a brunch on Sunday morning. Shown are some of the events that were part of Homecoming 1980. ■B ■ Ipgi * ! or®®® 1 ■’ I ■ ■ is| J Mary Giblin, Palermo, NJ., was crowned Homecoming Queen. Shown are the Queen, her court and escorts. From left to right: Joseph Galli, Marla Brodsky, President Robert S. Capin, Ms. Giblin, Paul Scaliti, Peggy Mascelli and. Steve Demko. 8 Deans George Ralston (left), and Art Hoover (right) led the 2nd annual parade. In the center is Wilkes official mascot Sharon Michener. ..'' T J Homecoming Chairman Pat Burke and members of his committee met to put the final touches on plans that resulted in the very successful 33rd Annual Homecoming. Shown from left to right are: Noreen Corbett, Burke, Carol Pawlush and Allan Allan. One of the many homecoming displays designed and built by dorms and clubs for the judging that is part of the kickoff for events for the weekend. 18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Homecoming ■ George Pawlush, a graduate of the Wilkes College Class of 1969, was among the many familiar faces on campus during the festivities for Homecoming Weekend. Pawlush, currently director of public information for NPW Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, has served his alma mater in several capacities over the past ten years including sports information director, assistant director of public relations and director of public relations. if ■ ■ I pSffiJ© •< --- Up HMe HO® sifci '--- _ ... 3® h- ■M ■Si B ■R -■ IBB! �1 ! • me* ^VtA&xv- �A daughter, Meghan, was born to MICHAEL SHOEMAKER and MARY LOU MILLER SHOEMAKER '76. Michael is a physician with the U.S. Army and the family resides in Germany. Plato, humorous? 1976 H. DAVID TRETHAWAY and Anne Kollesar were recently married. Dave is a secondary mathematics teacher in the Jackson School District and also is pursuing a master's degree in guid­ ance. The couple is residing in Toms River, New Jersey. 1977 ATTY. RICHARD RUSSO received his Juris Doctor degree from Temple University School of Law in May 1980. He is an associate with the law firm of Rosenn, Jenkins and Green­ wald and resides in Wilkes-Barre with his wife, Cheryl. members and favorite charitable Fund-raising should be much more. It institutions (like Wilkes), also giving les;>s facilitates giving, which is the final to the government when the IRS man realization of selflessness. It reorders our I can hardly cometh. priorities. Mr. Bucklin views his work as believe it's been The Educator, a very good brochure, making friends, rather than risking the one whole year is put out by McKenny and Thomson. loss of them. "Inside everyone, especially since 1 assumed We send it to some of Wilkes' friends a miser, lies a philanthropist dying to get this job and began courtesy of the First Eastern Bank. If you out." One of my jobs, then, is to help writing articles would like to receive quarterly copies of those imprisoned philanthropists escape! about planned this informational pamphlet, free of Another aspect of my responsibility giving for the Quarterly! As I have charge, please clip off the coupon below, involves keeping abreast of new progressed through these past twelve note The Educator on it, and return it developments in a rather technical field; months, I've become more and more to me at Wilkes. fortunately, there are excellent aware of an aspect of my role which may One of its issues reminds us that, publications to help me in this goal. They be overlooked by some professionals, and generally speaking, tax savings are not are printed for both professionals and by those of you "out there" whom we the dominant motive for making a gift to those interested in making donations to seek to tie into our particular charitable Wilkes. "Such savings, however, are institutions like Wilkes. I must admit that institution . . . and that is, a philosophy often a welcome by-product of any whenever I find a bit of humor laced of service-to-others. philanthropic gesture and once a gift's into that pretty heavy reading, I latch on Last March I told a group of Wilkes basic purpose has been established, tax to the theme more quickly ... so, I volunteers who were working on our considerations can play a significant role assume, would you. fund-raising campaign about Leonard Plato, humorous? Not really, but read in how that gift should be made." Bucklin, a deferred-giving consultant. In Speaking of gifts ... the approaching on: "When there is an income tax, the 1 an article titled "What’s a Nice Person holiday season is a special time, a time just man will pay more and the unjust Like You Doing in Fund Raising?" he less on the same amount of income." for being impulsive, a give-from-the-heart described a recent plane trip during (Plato, The Republic Book 1, 343-Dj... time. But that doesn't mean you which he was seated next to a nun who quotes an item in Taxwise Giving, a shouldn't think seriously about your talked at length about her school. guide currently edited by Conrad Teitell. giving; because planning a gift usually Possibly realizing the conversation had Under a drawing of Mr. Plato the text means you can do more for people in the been one-sided, she paused to inquire goes on to say: "Yes, Plato, but there is end, and that surely adds to your own about Mr. Bucklin's profession . . . then an exception. A just man living in the joy, the feeling of selflessness Mr. came the revelation: he was a type of United States who contributes to Bucklin described. fund-raiser! After an awkward silence worthwhile charitable causes gets a Robert F. Sharpe, still another she said, "Well, I suppose someone has charitable deduction and thereby reduces professional counselor I turn to, wrote to do it." not only his or her income taxes, but also about holiday giving and then parodied Mr. Bucklin went on to say that a estate taxes. And, if long-term appreciated "The Night Before Christmas.” He person who is interested in PEOPLE securities or real property (which would described what it was really like (a hectic should automatically be interested in otherwise be sold) are contributed, capital household doing last minute things) and fund-raising. You may not agree with all gains taxes are saved too." Now, isn't finished the poem: "Oh, what I'd his arguments, but his comments are that easier reading with Plato as an give/To be snug in my bed/I could be, certainly appropriate to planned giving, introduction! you know,/If I'd just planned ahead." q even though most of us do not consider "While awaiting medical help, a ourselves "fund-raisers" per se. policeman used his jacket to cover a man In Case Currents magazine, Mr. To: Director of Planned Giving who had been hit by a taxi. 'Are you Bucklin wrote about GIVING. He called Wilkes College comfortable?’ asked the policeman. it joy, something that adds real meaning Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 Responded the victim, 'I make a nice to life, and a great way to help a I am interested in learning more about living ' " That IlHlo little clnrw story nrnr was 1tAzi/4 lifted from j friend find that meaning. "The pooled income funds Amicus, another pamphlet put out by misunderstanding of giving has led to a | I wish to record that I have arranged for [ Teitell, one of the deans in the field of misunderstanding of fund-raising." It is I a bequest to Wilkes College : estate planning. The item's caveat: only not: setting people up to get money out those who are truly comfortable should name. of them; talking someone into doing make significant lifetime gifts to reduce something he or she doesn't want to do; address. estate taxes . . . those who are simply getting a person to give his or her ( comfortable can often - by making fair share or tithe; nor just another tax phone lifetime gifts - better provide for family dodge. date _ , by Betsy B. Condron I BISULCA and Gerard Lis•ecently wed. Connie is man, "XTbv United Penn Bank and emP nnole is residing in Ashley, Pa. the coue »rrrNT PAUL CARBONE was V pndy married to Nancy Kay Robinr6C Vincent is employed as a systems sOni„=t at Blue Gross and the couple Sides in Kingston, Pa. <• rOSEPH DOUGHERTY III and Kathleen Krzywicki were recently ved Joe is pursuing a master's degree business administration at Scran­ ton University and is also employed at Bridon American Corporation. The couple is residing in Hanover Township, Pa. JAMES JUDGE III was recently mar­ ried to Kathryn Findora. Jim is a stu­ dent at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the couple is residing in Arlington, Virginia. WILLIAM LAVAN. JR. and Doreen Marinelli were recently married. Bill is a sales representative for Simpson Building Supply, Hanover Industrial Park and the couple is residing in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. DEBORAH ORBINATI and William Sobczak were recently married. Deb­ bie is an elementary teacher in Phil­ adelphia, Pa., where the couple is WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY PHILIP OGREN and Lynn Garrity were recently married. Philip is em­ ployed by the accounting firm of Artnur Andersen Company and the cou­ ple is residing in New York City. PAMELA MARY LEVANDOSKI was recently married to Michael Joseph Speziale. Pamela is employed as a teacher by the Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 at Meyers High School and the couple resides in Pittston, Pa. 1980 EDWARD J. WHITE, III was ap­ HI was pointed Assistant for News and News and Sports Information at Wilkes College. JOANNE PUGLIESE __________ was recently married to Guy Carpenter, Joanne is a certified ophthalmic assistant em­ cissisiant , ployed by the Joseph Pugliese 1Eye Clinic. The couple is residing in Kingston, Pa. MERLE ZIPKIN and SETH MARK SILVER were married in August. Merle is a corporate paralegal with the law firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn in Washington, D.C. Seth is in his second year of George­ town University School of Medicine. 1979 STEVE BAILEY has been accepted at Northeastern University for graduate work in Marine Biology. SHERRY FAUX is assistant comp­ troller at the College Placement Coun­ cil of Bethlehem, Pa. ANTHONY GRIMALDI was recently married to CHERYL ROMAN ’79. Tony is employed at Pennsylvania Gas and Water Company as a systems pro­ grammer in the data processing department. Cheryl is a registered nurse at Mercy Hospital in the sur­ gical intensive care unit. MICHAEL F. LOKUTA was recently married to Delores Ann Radginski. Michael is employed as a systems engineer for the Singer Company, Link Division, in Binghamton, New York, where the couple resides. MICHAEL GEORGE McNELIS and Donna Marie Klinges were recently wed. Michael is manager of Radio Shack in Scranton and the couple will reside in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. DIANE RACHAEL MARCINKO was recently wed to Anthony Louis Hojnowski. Diane is employed at the Scranton State Hospital and the cou­ ple is residing in Nanticoke, Pa. residing. SHARON WARREN and John Ratchko were recently married. Sharon is an art teacher in the Hazleton Area School District and the couple is re­ siding at 701 Peace Street, Hazleton, Pa. JUNE ZALETA and David DeFine, Jr. were recently married. June is an assistant sales manager for Holiday Inns and the couple is residing in Kingston, Pa. 1978 SHEILA KUPINSKY received her master of arts degree in community psychology from Mansfield State Col­ lege. She is currently working in a Crisis Intervention Center in Lan­ caster, Pa. JON W. McNEW recently passed the examination for certified public ac­ counting and he is employed by Baron Straussman and Company. BARRY HARCHARUFKA was re­ cently wed to KAREN KLUCITAS 79. Barry is associated with Electron TV, Furniture and Appliance Mart and Karen is employed by WILK Radio in the news department. The couple is residing in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 22 JOANN KRISCHUNIS and MARK WILLIAMS were recently married. Mark is an operations research ana­ lyst in the management information department of Air Products and the couple resides in Whitehall, Pa. CHERYL KELLAR, a second year master’s degree candidate in social work, with a concentration in Geron­ tology, has been awarded a Trainee­ ship from the National Institute of Mental Health at the School of Social Work of Syracuse University. LISA ROBAK was recently married to Don Miller. Lisa is a private piano in­ structor. O DONNA CLARKE was recently mar­ ried to Richard Mattei. Donna is employed by Mercy Hospital, WilkesBarre, and the couple is residing in West Wyoming, Pa. DIANE ALTHEA COLEMAN was married to Matthew Krolikowski in August. Diane is the assistant director of nursing at Berwick Retirement Village Nursing Home and the couple is residing in Nescopeck, Pa. CATHY HOTCHKISS and ALFRED KOTULA, JR., were recently married. Cathy is an agent with the Prudential Insurance Company and Al is a teach­ er in the Pocono Mountain School District. The couple is residing in Du­ pont, Pa. LINDA MIZENKO was recently mar­ ried to Joseph Noto Linda is em­ ployed as a medical technologist at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and the couple is residing in West Pittston, Zernt Hospital and Pa. Walter Konopka, Jr. ’69, of R.D. 1, East Berlin, Pennsylvania, died on September 6, 1980, at the age of 32. Walter received his B.S. degree in Physics from Wilkes College in 1969. He was employed as a project analyst with the United States Government in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Surviving are his parents, Walter and Geraldine Konopka, Larksville; wife, Sarah; daughter, Tamara and son, Walter III, both at home; brother, Girard, Hyattsville, Md. O FALL I960 23 �s Wilkes College approaches its 50th Anniversary (1933-1983), we are proud to say that our heritage and continuing commitment to the quality education of our students is stronger than ever. As alumni, you should be proud of the part that you have played in keeping this tradition alive, and in maintaining a strong base from which our students can build and take pride. One of the very special things about Wilkes is that it is a family place. We consider every member of the College a very special part of the life which is evident on our unique campus. As our tradition continues, we hope the family atmosphere will be shared by alumni sons, daughters and friends. If your son, daughter or friend is interested in more information about Wilkes College, its academic programs and admission policies, please feel free to return the coupon below to our admissions office. We always welcome correspondence from members of our family. WRITE TO: Office of Admissions, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 Please send me a copy of the 1981 Admissions Material. Name Address City .State. Zip Code. .State. Zip Code. Alumnus Name Alumnus Address. City Additional Information Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. WUkes Coinage Quarterly Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 355 WILKES-BARRE, PA. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. The magazine went through various names including <em>Wilkes Alumnus</em>, <em>Wilkes Quarterly,</em> <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, and the current title, <em>Wilkes Magazine</em>. Some editions for the <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, will have multiple issues within the file record. Our holdings may be missing editions for certain years due to having no physical copy within the collection. </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkes University Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wilkes University Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947-present Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Fall 1980 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 1980 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/a94baf9779ff154d1338314d4ede9032.pdf 7e1f3a8f57524b270b31d99d294538ba PDF Text Text WILKE6 COLLEGE WINTER 1960 i - I I 5f i.J'li ■ I • <V ■ _■ ■■ ' ■ '• \l- . j\'?r ■• \—Wr ■. - Bl ■ '- ' • , -' . ■ '. <W‘ . i . j,.. kft !■ 5 �WLKG5 COLLEGE WINTER ffiO Volume 3. Number 3 editor George G. Pawlush '69 associate editor Jane Manganella editorialstaff Eddie White III'80 Vesta Breakstone Betsy Bell Condron Edward Van Buren '80 Margaret Scholl '81 Cindy Ercolani '81 William Miller '81 contributing s taff Mary Ellen Alu '77 Dr. Charles B. Reif Anne Graham '70 ON THE COVER: OJARTEHLV Frank Wengen '78 has captured a glimpse of the winter season with a watercolor landscape entitled December Morning. The landscape was designed by Wengen specifically for the Winter QUARTERLY. An up-and-coming artist. Frank has completed nearly 200 art renderings. Several of his works have appeared in art exhibits across the country. During his years at Wilkes Frank was probably better known for his exploits on the football field where he played offensive guard and was a two-time Middle Atlantic Conference All-Star selection. Of Nature and Life: The Wilkes College Biology Department by Edward Van Buren '80 art director Jon Schaffer The Last Days of the B.U.J.C. photography e ditor by Dr. Charles B. Reif Arthurs. Miller SPECTRUM STUDIO contributing photographers Robert Gaetano '80 Tanya Hallez '67 circulation manager Tanya Hallez '67 Project Upward Bound — A Modern Coming of Age by Anne Graham '70 Mass Transportation in the 80's by Mary Ellen Alu '77 The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. 6 8 12 17 18 Matter of Choice byJaneManganella Pooled Income Funds & Wilkes College by Betsy Bell Condron Chronicle — 4 Faculty Abstract — 7 Gallery — 14 Sports Update — 14 South River St. Revival — 16 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons. Honorary Member Louis Shaffer. Trustee Emeritus Alan M. Glover. Ph.D., Trustee Emeritus OFFICERS Benjamin Badman '41. Chairman Mrs. Walter M. Diener. Vice Chairman Hon. Edwin M. Kosik '49. Vice Chairman Mrs. Edward Darling, Secretary Mrs. William DavidowitZ. Treasurer James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert Arenstein '68 Edward Bixby. M.D. Donald F. Carpenter William L. Conyngham Mrs. Henry M. Curry. 3rd Mrs. Stanley Davies Louis D. Davis. Jr. '60 Mrs. Richard M. Ehret Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan. Jr. Robert L. Jones Thomas H. Kiley Richard Maslow Charles H. Miner. Jr. Gerald A. Moffatt '63 F. Ellsworth Parkhurst Richard L. Pearsall Joseph J. Pinola '49 Hon. Max Rosenn Richard M. Ross. Jr. Eugene Roth '57 Joseph J. Savitz '48 Ronald W. Simms 60 William Sword E. Arthur Trabant. Ph.D. William J. Umphred '52 Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENT Roberts.Capin '50 �I < N 1 WILKES/TEMPLE PHARMACY PROGRAM Wilkes College President Robert S Capin and Dr. Marvin Wachman, president of Temple University, announced in December a coopera­ tive agreement between the two institutions of higher learning creating a five-year pharmacy program. According to President Capin the program will serve “to improve the health care delivery system of Northeastern Pennsylvania while at the same time create new educational opportunities for regional students.” The pharmacy program joins three other cooperative health care pro­ grams currently in operation at Wilkes College. These programs include a seven-year medical educa­ tion program in family medicine with Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia; a seven-year optometry program with the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Philadelphia; and a seven-year program with the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania has more under­ served counties with regard to pharmacists than any other state in the United States," relates Dr. Ralph e’ ^ean °f health sciences at Wilkes College. “Six of these underserved counties are located in w-n e ™lern Pennsylvania. The jlkes/Temple agreement should s n admission requirements of Wilkes College and the Wilkes/Temple program. Upon acceptance into the prooram the students must declare a major, in addition to the pre­ professional curriculum. At the end of the second preI professional year at Wilkes College, a joint selection committee comprised of Temple University School of Pharmacy faculty and Wilkes College faculty will select ten students for entrance into the pharmacy program. The successful candidates will then study at the Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia for two-and-a-half years and spend their final half year serving in a clinical rotation at various pharmacy sites in Northeastern Pennsylvania. “If the student is not selected for admission into the Wilkes/Temple program, he or she may then com­ plete the four years of study in order to complete the requirements for the baccalaureate degree at Wilkes College,” notes Dr. Rozelle. "As with other health education programs at Wilkes College, a number of alternate health profes­ sional careers are available to these students," the Wilkes dean adds. “ALPHA” COUNTDOWN As of December 1979, Wilkes Ke drive. Wlth°neyearremaining "Ahh^POrtant comP°nent of the sggs? SKSrSw AnSrCaamPai8nisthel980 Dorothy DirV n^heon at the 'hePerUt°2rteCenterf°r *“gu age S fffla4iSfmonitor3 actions and arf f°rdrUginter^reand purpo“ ao?d?uVi0r0nthe “ the 4 (o solicit alumni an i'^"'Wi^ seek "ew Prospects or indh?^ who are businesses wh n t, ^ividuals and meetanh‘nterest 1 COLLEGE QUARTERLY friends who made substanr- , year commitments in i97fl 'Sltj. contacted this year. Spec^7‘ notbe phonothonswillbearX'?1^ throughout the month of March ALUMNI ELECTION Results Judy Simonson Arenstein ’68, has been re-elected for a two-year term as national president of the Wilkes College Alumni Association. Also elected for two-year terms, which will run from January 1,1980 to December 31,1981, were three other members of the executive board James Ferris '56, vice president; Lauren Harris Grego '74, secretary, Steven Paradise '65, treasurer. Twelve regional vice presidents were also selected by alumni. The new alumni officers will join Gordon E. Roberts, director of alumni relations, in developing an^ implementing alumni programming for the upcoming year. Mrs. Arenstein, Scarsdale, N. •• the district operations supervisor for AT&T — Long Lines in White Plains, N.Y. Ferris, Kingston, se as principal at Wyoming Valley Senior High School in Plymou • Mrs. Grego, Lewistown, is 3 r® specialist in the Mifflin Coun Y , School District. Paradise, Me N.Y., is vice president of J. B. Para­ dise & Co., an insurance brokerage in Valley Stream, N.Y. The new regional vice presidents, who were elected by a regional ballot include: Region I, Arthur J. Hoover '55, Wilkes-Barre, associate dean of student affairs at Wilkes College; Region II, Bill Griffith '50, Bethle­ hem, a district magistrate; Region III, Atty. Ralph Pinskey '62, Harris­ burg, an attorney; and Region IV, Francis Pinkowski ’50, Pennington, N. J., director of evaluation, New Jersey State Department of Education. Also, Region V, Bernard Malian '71, West Orange, N. J., account executive, Ruh Agency; Region VI, Josephine Schifano Finlayson '73, Mystic, Conn., a teacher in the Groton, Conn. School System; Region VII, Joan Shurmanek '72, Lockport, N.Y., a teacher in the Medina School District; and Region VIII, Atty. Anthony Cardinale '72, Medford, Mass., an attorney with F. Lee Bailey Law Offices in Boston. And, Region IX, Carol Zambetti '75, Bel Air, Md., a teacher at Harford County Schools; Region X, John Wodraska '70, Jupiter, Fla., deputy executive director, South Florida Water Management District; Region XI, Illaria Sterniuk Zubritsky ’38, McKees Rocks, a teacher at Sto-Rox High School; and Region XII, Jerry Mohn '63, Houston, Texas, vice president, Kocide Chemical Corp. PHI DELTA KAPPA Wilkes College was chartered as the 512th chapter of Phi Delta Kappa on December 17. Phi Delta Kappa is an international organization for men and women in education. The membership is com­ posed of recognized leaders in the profession and graduate students in education whose leadership potential has been identified. Dr. Richard T. Rees, former Wilkes alumni director, and Dr. Eugene Hammer, chairman of the Wilkes College Education Department were instrumental in organizing the chapter whose members include classroom teachers, school admin­ istrators, college and university professors, and educational specialists of many types. The purpose of Phi Delta Kappa is to promote quality education. Particularly emphasized is publicly supported education, because it is essential to the development and maintenance of a domestic way of life. HOWARD WILLIAMS APPOINTED C&F CHAIRMAN Dr. Howard J. Williams '64 has been appointed chairman of the Wilkes College Department of Commerce and Finance. The Commerce and Finance Department is the largest depart­ ment at the College. In the 1979 Fall Semester, 475 students were registered; their majors are in the areas of Accounting, Business Administration, and Economics. Dr. Williams, who served as acting chairman of the department from June to December, notes that one of his priorities will be to develop an advisory committee which will suggest ways the department can be a service to the community. Following his graduation from the College, the Wilkes department chairperson attained his M.A. and Ph.D, in Economics at Penn State University. His major field of interest is macroeconomics. GORDON E. ROBERTS NEW ALUMNI DIRECTOR The Wilkes College Alumni Relations Office will have a new guiding force in 1980 as Gordon E. Roberts '60 has been appointed by President Robert S. Capin as director of alumni relations succeeding Dr. Richard T. Rees '62, who left the College to become director of education at Mercy Hospital in Miami, Florida. Shown during a welcoming cere­ mony at Weckesser Hall are, from left: George Pawlush '69, director of public relations; Tanya Hallez '67, administrative assistant to the director of alumni relations; Gordon Roberts; Dr. Rees; and Dr. Thomas F. Kelly '69, dean of external affairs. Roberts, who assumed his position on February 1, was chosen following a two-month search conducted by a committee composed of six alumni. There were 50 applicants for the position. In announcing Roberts’ appoint­ ment, President Robert Capin paid special tribute to Dr. Rees, who spent nearly eight years at the College as an Education Department faculty member and as an admin­ istrator. “Rick did an outstanding job in revitalizing several areas of alumni relations at Wilkes. We wish him luck in his new position.” Gordon Roberts graduated from Wilkes with a dual major in English and Religion. He has also done graduate work at Wesleyan College, Middletown, Conn.; and Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He comes to Wilkes College from New Milford (N. J.) High School where he served for 13 years as chairman of the English Department and administrator of a student exchange program between New Milford High School and the Maltby Comprehensive School, Yorkshire, England. Roberts is well known to Wilkes College alumni and prior to his position at New Milford served from 1960-67 as a director of student activities and alumni relations at the College. President Capin noted that "the appointment of Gordon Roberts brings an individual with sound administrative experience to a position which will be important to the future of the College. Gordon is well known by many alumni, who I'm sure, will work cooperatively with him in the development of Wilkes College." o WINTER 1980 5 �OF NATURE AND LIFE: THE WILKES COLLEGE BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT by Edward Van Buren 'SO As the Wilkes College Department of Biology has evolved through the years it has incorporated many of the ideas and concepts of nature's logic. The biology faculty comes from different geographic locations and brings to Wilkes a cross-section of experiences and attitudes that enhance the department's versatility. Therefore, the nature of the biology curriculum at Wilkes developed by this faculty is a prime example of how diversity with integration can produce a unique approach to learning. ■ The final two years of the baccalaureate program is composed of full-semester upper-level electives. These electives cover a variety of fields within biology, and the advanced level of treatment builds on the knowledge provided by the modules. A strong emphasis is placed on allowing students to see a "big picture" of nature through its biological properties and structures. Furthermore, the department has developed a number of locally based field courses to complement the traditional upper-level lecture and lab courses. Some of the electives concentrate on field zoology or on the flora of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Other courses have taken students to the Florida Keys to study marine biology at a biological research station. In recent years, a special field trip was taken to the Galapagos Islands, located on the Equator, 600 miles west of Equador. Also, the Biology Department philosophy has always included an emphasis on promoting undergraduate research. Under the guidance of faculty members, this endeavor helps students comprehend the self-correcting aspect of scientific pursuit. Through research students develop a keen appreciation for the vigor necessary in methodology and data analysis as well as the need for precision and accuracy. In addition, it is important for biology' majors to become "wellrounded'’ individuals. Through two student organizations within the department the Biology oi., the Student Chapter of the Am and Institute of Biological Sciences'*"2®1' (AIBSJ - students are exp0Sed . L - exposed the challenges of service-oriented J ’--1or activities and -' >ented ana leade leadership nr„ experience. " Ornoting Judging from the success of n. undergraduates and alumni of department, the objectives of ts department appear to be fulfill j Mary Lynn Krisza began stud'^’ Wilkes in 1974 as a biology „ at She was one of 25 students sel^' to continue her studies in the Witd Hahnemann program. She is Ukes’ currently in her final year and relates, "Everyone in medical scho l came into the program with four ° years of college biology background or even a Ph.D. However, even with two years of study, I found myself t be on the same academic level as mv fellow students at Hahnemann." "Looking back," she adds, "1 feef that I participated in a superb academic experience. The biology/liberal arts program at Wilkes provides a well-rounded educational background. There is a lot more about being a doctor than simply knowing medicine. Although my particular program contained a necessary amount of structure, the opportunity still existed for me to enrich my overall educational experience." Rob Wallace, a junior biology major, feels nearly the same about the liberal arts program. "It provides the individual with an understanding I that enables him to communicate more intelligently with people in other disciplines. At the same time, you are able to apply the core knowledge within your own discipline.” Rob is currently involved in undergraduate research with cactus, which involves looking into crystal formation on surfaces as an ultra­ violet wave length. "After my initial exposure to biology," he recalls, "I began to develop an appreciation for what is involved in science and how you can get involved in it. You get a good feeling by knowing that the things you learned in the past are applicable to your present research. For anyone who has enough ambition to work on a research project there is an excellent opportunity for good, meaningful interaction with the faculty." Another important source for student-faculty interaction is "Bio­ Dialogue Day." The special event allows junior and senior biology majors an opportunity to work with faculty in an informal setting, such as a campground, to develop better communication skills through various feedback and group- encounter techniques. It is an invaluable experience for students to gain understanding and to develop precise and accurate communication abilities. By uniting all the ideas and approaches to biology, the Wilkes College Biology Department has succeeded in building a curriculum that has gained the reputation for program soundness and academic excellence. o Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. difZefs clege's bioIogy pw „ eH h he many approaches used by other colleges and universities. Through a series of eight modules, each seven weeks long the '“1‘y Provi^ foundation and 6 WIUES ATTENTION PARENTSI If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Of­ fice at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our rec­ ords. Members of the Biology Department staff and faculty are shown at a rrCL’,^lir ffayes , pr. John kneeling-Dr. Henry Steuben, Dr. Charles Reif, Dr. Robert Ogren, Dr. r Rij,ley.pay a fr0,f' Dr. Clyde Houseknecht, Dr. Robert Doty, Dr. Lester Turoczi, chairman, Erickson. college quarterly Dr. Joseph T. Bellucci Faculty by Edward Van Buren '80 is one of 40 individuals serving as a hearing officer in the There is an old saying "Jack of all Commonwealth. trades, master of none." In the case The Wilkes professor is also a of Dr. Joseph Bellucci, associate psychologist for the Wilkesprofessor of education at the College, Hahnemann program where he is the adage would have to be changed called on "to help students with to “Jack of all trades, master of all anything from academic to personal trades.” problems.” He adds, "I serve as an Joe Bellucci graduated from advocate for the student at joint­ Hazleton High School as a heralded selection committee meetings, and football player and won All-State in that sense I represent the honors in his senior year. The former student.” halfback continued his academic Dr. Bellucci takes a great deal of and football career at the University pride in his position as psychologist of Scranton where he remembers for the Luzerne County Headstart some classic confrontations with the Program. The job involves conduct­ struggling Wilkes team of the late ing psychological evaluation tests 1950’s. "In those days it wasn’t a for all children associated in the question of beating Wilkes, but how program. There are four Headstart lopsided the score was going to be," program centers in Luzerne County. remembers the easy-going professor. The Conyngham resident also The Wilkes College educator serves as a statistician for the United graduated from Scranton with a States Department of Labor in degree in chemistry and quickly Washington, D. C. Currently, he is secured a job analyzing samples for under contract to do statistical a steel company in Bethlehem. It evaluation of the Black Lung disease. didn’t take long for him to realize The project, itself, is under the that industry wasn't for him so he direction of Don Ridzon, a 1969 opted to return to school. As a grad­ Wilkes College graduate, who is uate student at Lehigh University, responsible for the operation of Bellucci had the opportunity to stay statistical research and evaluation close to football; he coached at a of Black Lung disorders. Bethlehem Area high school and also But, Bellucci’s main interest is in as an assistant at Lehigh. the field of education. “Only six He joined the Wilkes College percent of the students, now enrolled Education Department faculty in in colleges and universities, are 1967, and the nearness to Bethlehem studying teacher education," he allowed him to continue his graduate says. "This is not a sufficient studies. Bellucci was awarded his number to supply the future needs doctorate in counseling psychology of public schools, especially in the in 1970. areas of pre-school and elementary Busy on and off the Wilkes College education." Dr. Bellucci predicts campus, the energetic professor is that there will be a 25% increase in engaged in a variety of related the demand for pre-school and early activities in the educational and childhood educators by 1985.” psychological field. In addition to In his leisure time, the energetic his duties at the College, Dr. Bellucci educator serves as class advisor to is proud of his position as a hearing the Class of 1982, as a member of the officer for the Pennsylvania Depart­ faculty policy committee, as a ment of Special Education. “If a psychologist for the Welfare disagreement arises concerning an Services, and the list goes on and educational program for the on. It is exactly like the new adage handicapped child and the place­ goes ... “Jack of all trades, master ment which the parent feels is of all trades." q inappropriate, I am called in to make a decision,” he relates. Dr. Bellucci WINTER 1980 7 �1 .'.'jKr .A • q 1 J Days B.U bU Dr. Charles B. Relf S the en The eager young men who attended Bucknell University Jun' Co' ege in 1943 and 1944'^Jun,or We Say ifs Bucknell.” harX 9entlernen who could bUe'yondtt0flyoffintoth^Hld Ky£3ComeKParodied‘^ attended ivy Leanne e ? .h d *"9. "High above he ™terand S^quehanna, there’s an , , Some say itresSthe aWflJ' did the S^squeh? Smelled as bad as 8 WILKES college QUarterly the word had changed from smel to "swell" because the returning veterans had increased the of enrollment of B.U.J-C. from a one hundred to well over two thousand. By the end of college (newly dubbed wi e College) was literally burst'h9 seams, and regardless of what air cadets may have thought. B.U.J.C. during its last days was a swell place to be, either as a student or a teacher. My return to the halls of ivy after two years in the U.S. Navy, still an eligible (in some respects) bachelor (among several others on the faculty), was affected in two parts. Having been discharged at Bainbridge, Maryland, I was able to travel by way of Wilkes-Barre on my way back to Minnesota. During my two years at sea I had gained fifty pounds so that my bell-bottomed trousers and middy were bursting at the seams. I personally was bursting with energy and eager to get back in the classroom but had expected to spend the summer as a camp counselor before beginning to teach in the fall of 1946. However, Dr. Farley had other ideas. His main selling point was that Mrs. Ward had not had a vacation since she took over the biology courses in 1944 and so I was to teach summer school. That was all right with me, but poor Mrs. Ward did not get her vacation. The college began what were known as trimesters. We taught three full academic terms during one calendar year for the next couple of years, and in those days the terms were a full 16 weeks long with another week for finals. The shrinking of the academic term in later years took place amidst the screams and groans of Thomas Richards and Charles Reif. But 1 digress. Let me tell you about the last days of Bucknell University Junior College because high above the Susquehanna there was much to be remembered of the happy days experienced there at old Bucknell. My return to the campus in June of 1946, having again taken up my quarters in the third floor rear of Chase Hall, with Pop Gies and John Chwalek, involved me in a catch-up course concerning changes in B.U.J.C. In the front office, Herbert J. Morris had taken over as registrar, and scheduling more than two thousand students was a bit different from finding places for fewer than two hundred. New buildings were being acquired, which eased the problem somewhat. The Stoddard Residence on South Franklin Street had been converted to the Music Department’s digs and was shared by classes from other departments. Stoddard Residence, upon the death of Pop Gies, was named Gies Hall but was later torn down to make room for the Eugene S. Farley Library. Pop, in 1946 and 1947, was at the peak of his career. He was a great cultural influence in the Wyoming Valley in addition to his extra curricular activities with the Choral Society. Weckesser Hall, on Northampton Street, where the Farley family had lived before moving to the third floor of Kirby Hall, had been established as the girls' dormitory, the first of the student residences on campus. Dean of Women Norma Sangiuliano was the very proper house mother of the dormitory. Dinner was served in a formal manner and the young ladies stood at their places at the table until “Sangy” had taken her seat. The young ladies were carefully groomed and dressed for every meal. Bobby socks were coming into vogue about then but one could not wear bobby socks to the evening meal. And it was not a lot different in the men's dormitories which soon appeared, the first being Payne Hall where Dean George Ralston was the faculty proctor. At first the Ashley Residence was used as a guidance center for the flood of veterans but that soon became a male dormitory, as did the Long Residence when that building was acquired. What probably was the most important aspect of those three residences was that their garages were converted into classrooms, which in large part made possible the academic progress of B.U.J.C. The College, thanks to Dr. Farley’s compulsive do-it-now-ism, was put together by improvisation. The Department of Biology was the first department to have its own quarters other than the usual, which were nothing more than dining rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, or even basement storerooms; the John Conyngham’s stable became Conyngham Annex and had inside walls which were new, sans wallpaper, et cetera. However, B.U.J.C. was created because both students, faculty, and administration were adaptable, and I think a lot of the wonderful esprit de corps of B.U.J.C. was due to the fact that we were "making do." In this connection 1 would be remiss in not mentioning that many of the faculty were part time and they did yeoman service. Robert West, in mathematics, held a fulltime job as a high school teacher, met a class at seven o'clock (during the days of the air cadets), taught all day at Coughlin High School, and then returned to teach an evening class. Mr. West did that for years for B.U.J.C. and Wilkes College, and it was only in his later years that he joined the faculty of Wilkes College full time. His example is typical of many dedicated people who found in Dr. Farley the inspiration to build a college on the banks of the Susquehanna. The various clubs at B.U.J.C. were going great guns. The yearbook (Amnicola was still in the future) first appeared in 1946. Joseph Donnelly, adviser, and Gloria Farkas, editor, were the guiding spirits, with plenty of helpers too numerous to mention. In those days Mr. Donnelly was the last word in style with his broad­ brimmed hat. Gloria became famous by marrying Harry Fierverker, who took my course (the old Bio. 100?), and from it remembers only that Kaiser Bill, alias William the Conqueror, crossed the Rubicon in 1492. J WINTER 1980 9 �The Student Council had become well established and in 1946 was chaired by Joseph Callahan, who, legend has it, was president of the council for four semesters because Dr. Farley was too busy to suggest that elections be held. Callahan s long tenure did not sit well with some of the students and that unrest resulted in the appointment of the Student Constitution Committee, primarily maneuvered by Joseph Savitz and John Riley, with help from Joseph Lichtman, John Burak, Joseph Hudak, William Tomusko, and Edward Dwyer. Joseph Savitz learned so much from his work on that committee that he ultimately worked his way up to be chairman of the board of Wilkes College. The new student constitution, in the years that followed its introduction, became the subject of annual amendment. Dr. Lenore Ward advised the Premedical Society and one of that group, Edith Miller, who was May If 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY _ J one of the best Queen in 1946, and the College has baseball players the ever seen, has become famous in the medical profession, almost as famous as Edythe Rudolph has become in the world of business. Doris Gorka Bartuska is another famous medic. And of course the Sociology Club with Constantin Symonolewicz (affectionately known as Kostik) included the ubiquitous Thomas J. Moran and Jay Rauscher, both of whom became well known in the newspaper world. Tom Moran acquired prominence in my class, Physical Sciences 100, by becoming the authority on the many different kinds of miles. Also acquainted with different kinds of miles were the Engineers Club, within which group Doris Raub stood out like a rose in a weed patch. Beta Gamma Chi was still extant; no longer so. Basketball and baseball teams did a terrific job with the scant equipment the College could afford. We had cheerleaders, majorettes, a military band (brought into being prim by the also ubiquitous Reese ‘*arijy Pelton), and even some girls' athletics. The big push in the last days of B.d.J.C. was for a football team. I recall passing Dr. Farley's smoke-filled office when the * equipment deals were being made The College has never been the same since. One cannot take the space to name all of those initial footballers but many of their namewould still be recognized today. At‘s one time 1 had 62 students in hygiene, in the dining room of Conyngham Hall where the biggest number ever seated formally at the Conyngham's table did not exceed 16, and I'm sure that the gang of footballers who sat in the back corner (some on the window sills) cheated me blind in that course. Oh, well! Of all the clubs in those days the Spanish Club under Professor Martha Silseth made the biggest splash during the academic year of 1946-1947. Thirty-three of the student senoritas and senors went to Cuba and set a new record by having five entire pages in the 1947 B.d.J.C. yearbook. The International Relations Club, under Dr. Robert J. Nicholson, was green with envy but never managed to pull off a coup as great as that of the Spanish Club. However, the dramatic students, with Alfred Groh, who was then assistant to Blandina Foster, presented an SRO performance of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street." Good old Chase Theater! Gone but not forgotten. Feeding the larger population of students at B.d.J.C. necessitated moving the cafeteria from Chase Hall to the renovated garage in the rear of Stoddard (Gies) Hall. The only trouble was that the new quarters were not much better, so the next move was to incorporate the Kirby Garage and build the angular section between the two garages and to call the resulting emporium “The Commons." Mrs. Brennan, who continued to purvey barbecues and other goodies, had a staff of seven culinarists. Pop Gies used to open the establishment about seven in the morning to make the coffee. Thus the nutritional needs of the student body were met. Not to be outdone by the competition provided by the cafeteria, Mildred Gittens moved her bookstore from 191 South Franklin Street to the basement of Chase Hall where she became known as Millie the Mole, with the motto, "If it's Gittens, it's good." Getting to the bookstore down in that cellar was a problem, and some of the books became a little moldy, but the bookstore did a land office business in its subterranean quarters. In 1947 the yearbook was assembled by Nelson Nelson and Faith Davis. The BEACON was put to bed each week by Thomas J. Moran (still ubiquitous) and both publications were supplied with pictures by those two demon photographers, John Burak and Douglas MacNeal, both of whom have been deceased for many years, 1 am sorry to say. And I would be making an awful [aux pas were I not to mention "The Literary Magazine," with Dr. Mary Craig, Robert Miller, and Edythe Rudolph, among others. The big room on the second floor of the First Presbyterian Church House, which could seat about two hundred and twenty-five students, was also fundamental. I can still see many of the faces in those big classes, which were composed of the non-biology majors, and because I taught the non-majors in those days I was able to know many more students than has been the case in recent years. During that period of trimesters I recall having contact-hour loads of thirty-two, thirty-four, and thirty-three hours in one year. I gave a subjective examination in each of four courses every two weeks. Overtime or a differential between lecture and laboratory periods was unheard of. That was just the way things were; and it worked. B.d.J.C. was a reality and the success of those students who passed through those halls of ivy (real ivy, too) indicates that B.d.J.C. did a sound job. But the days of Bucknell University Junior College were numbered. Within the nucleus of Dr. Farley's dream had crystalized the idea that the college on the banks of the Susquehanna should be a completely independent four-year fully-accredited institution. Dr. Farley played his cards pretty close to his vest, but little by little the moves were made which culminated in the chartering of Wilkes College. The first class to complete its four years of undergraduate study in the second block of South River Street was granted degrees in 1948 by Bucknell University, the parent, but by that time the child had grown up and B.d.J.C. was no more. That Dr. Farley should be elected to the presidency of the American Association of Junior Colleges during the gestation period of Wilkes College was confusing. Dr. Farley's oral announcement of the ceremony in which the charter was received officially was in such a low key that I did not attend. His words were, "Incidentally, if you can get away, you might want to join Gilbert McClintock and me on the lawn of Chase Hall." That sin of omission on my part has ever since been a point of embarrassment to Lv.^.,1 me. The charter was granted in May of 1947. In November of 1947 I married Carolyn Hoffa, who had by then worked for the College for seven years, but since we did not believe it was proper for the two of us to have jobs at Wilkes College, Carolyn resigned. We took up housekeeping at 68 West Northampton, in the former Beck Residence, now known as Chesapeake Hall. Since then our lives have centered in and around Wilkes College, but we shall not forget B.d.J.C. _ o WINTER 1980 11 �world " nf the changes in society, family support system te “ri,h '"•"ITZSl beC0 I .JXs the government PROJECT UPWARD BOUND A Modern Coming of Age by Anne Graham '70 If David Copperfield were suddenly dropped from the literary heavens into present day Wyoming Valley, he no doubt would be recruited to become a member of Project Upward Bound at Wilkes College. David epitomizes the youth who is served by Project Upward Bound; he is the promising student who has not been afforded all the advantages of middle-class and upper middle­ class society. He is eager to learn, waiting to be directed, and enthusiastic despite hardships and setbacks. Like David, the typical Upward Bound student needs a mentor to help him believe in himself, to realize his potential, and to take his place in the world. Of course, David found his Aunt Betsy Trotwood, who guided him, supported him, and fostered his ' growth. Those special people — 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY EX the doting auntI of the David’s of the twentieth century- This support is positiv®, energetic, and hopeful for the society that ministers it and the youth who receives it. Typically, Wilkes College has been involved actively in serving the needs of this community and in 1967 the College agreed to host a newly funded Project Upward Bound, a remedial and motivational program designed to offer support and encouragement to eligible high school students. In the nation, Project Upward Bound itself has become one of the most successful federally funded activities; the program located at Wilkes is no exception. In reaching the dual goals of students succeeding in high school and of students pursuing education after high school the program at Wilkes has served nearly six hundred students. Since its inception 100% of students who remain in the program graduated from high school, and since 1973 at least 75% of graduating seniors go on to post-secondary education. Many of these are students who often would be easily “overlooked” by the system — the underachiever, the late blossomer, the students beset by family or personal difficulties. Furthermore, the program offers one remedy to the near 10% high school drop out rate in Luzerne County.* Also, a recent survey done by Luzerne County Community College and Luzerne County Counselor Association has shown that only 57% of graduating seniors in the area plan to go on to some type of post-secondary education. The program is able to augment the efforts of guidance counselors in motivating more students to enroll in colleges and schools. Further, the services extended to the students can be highly personalized and tailored to hP^n a S/ ln area hi9h schools ratio ° 9u,dance counselor io is high, on the average 475 students to one counselor. In Student^0""'1 thS rati0 is six‘y esner^i 0 °ne counselor; this is especially important in the students’ senior year when vital decisions regarding college a career, and financial aid arn’b ■ made. In addition to the prOn ein9 counselor, the full staff activZh?1 fosters social and personal y development and maturity Counseling and role-modelina a interwoven in a positive y are atmosphere; the student is affirmed in the program — even it this affirmation exists nowhere ' else. Another important aspect of the program is its year-round ne operation. In the summer, when many students drift away from school, the Upward Bound student is actively involved in a six-week program on the Wilkes Campus The summer component offers remedial work, developmental studies, career guidance, social and recreational activities. Students live on campus; this is not only very popular with students, but it gives them an opportunity to experience dorm life — an important ingredient in success if they choose to live away from home after high school. The opportunity to adjust and grow on this personal level is just as important as the academic program. In the summer the students spend time in the classroom studying subjects that they will be taking in their own high schools in the fall. The classes stress the “basics" — reading, mathematics, composition, and study skills. Some students need remedial, individualized learning in a certain subject such as reading. The program also provides “challenge” courses —for example, independent study in creative writing. In addition to academic offerings, students also select life­ skill courses such as decision­ making, budgeting, CPR, and public recreating. The YM/YWCA, Kirby Park, the weight room, the SUB are all places that are livelier on summer evenings because Upward Bound is swimming, playing softball, volleyball, having an "Anything Goes,” or dancing the latest disco dance. These activities are all geared to produce thoughtful young men and women who are serious abou pursuing a post-secondary education. After two or three yea with the program, students who have finished their senior year a ready to “bridge” during the summer component. These students enroll in two college courses for credit; it is their firs Dear Alumnus/a: We have received an excellent response from many of our alumni to our request for Update information. We are grateful for that because an accurate data bank can assist us in providing the best in alumni services for you. If you haven't completed and returned your Update as yet, please detach this form from your Quarterly, complete it and return to the Office of Alumni Relations, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. As you will note from the article concerning my career change that Gordon E. Roberts will assume the position of Director of Alumni Relations. The data you provide on this questionnaire will be invaluable to him as he plans for the future. Won't you help? Thanks very much and best wishes. Sincerely yours, Richard T. Rees, Ed.D. Director of Alumni Relations �°mcE USE ONLY Association region # Date recorded ROUSE’S NAME: _ SPOUSE’S VOCATION: CHILDREN: WILKES COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION UPDATE / Name GRADUATE EDUCATION: I The information supplied on this questionnaire will be held in the strictest con­ fidence and will not be released without your authorization. NAME: Mr. Birthdate Institution Institution Degree Major Year Degree Major Year Please indicate the names and addresses of two individuals who would know your whereabouts in the event our current records would be inaccurate. Mrs. Ms. NAME. NAME. Miss ADDRESS ADDRESS Dr. (other). Please list any athletic teams, clubs, or student organizations in which you participated while a student at Wilkes. Middle Initial First Last Maiden Name (If applicable) ADDRESS:. Street TELEPHONE: ( City State Zip Code 1 Area Code BIRTHDATE: Day Month Year UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR:. YEAR OF GRADUATION: Continued on back INITIAL TEACHING CERTIFICATION FROM WILKES (If applicable). yes WILKES COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION UPDATE no SUBJECT/GRADE. -Please respond to the following items as candidly as possible. Your responses will be kept anonymous as the information will be used for evaluative YOUR BUSINESS/OCCUPATION TITLE: purposes only. If you wish, you may detach this section and mail it separately. YEAR OF GRADUATION:MAJOR DEPARTMENT:---------------------------------------- TYPEOFBUSINESS/OCCUPATION: DID YOU COMPLETE STUDENT TEACHING AT WILKES?--------------------- ------ CURRENT BUSINESS ADDRESS: yes no Company Please circle the appropriate response number Street Address City -'URRENT BUSINESS TELEPHONE: L 1 Area Code ! My education at Wilkes was: l.weak 2. adequate 3. very good 4. excellent State i Compared to my present colleagues' education, mine was 1. inferior 2. about the same 3. better 4. excellent Zip Code My specialized (major) education was: l.weak 2. adequate 3. very good 4. excellent THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. I feel my career (job) success has been 1. below average 2. average 3. above average 4. excellent Additional comments may be added on the back of this section or on an attached sheet. �Are you a veteran? yes know each student well, and because the staff is aware of the no Did you live in a dormitory at Wilkes? yes no If yes, please note the dormitories in which you lived. Citizenship; U.S. 3. 2. 1. Other Please specify Please list current organizational affiliations or honors; L Members of the Upward Bound staff, from left — Jean Narcum, counselor; Susan Donio administrative assistant; Anne Graham, director; and Jackie Boyle, assistant director. There may be occasions for us to provide a public relations news release concerning you and your activities If you would like us to send any release to a specific newspapers), please indicate your preference(s). NEWSPAPER NAME NEWSPAPER NAME ADDRESS ADDRESS taste of a true college challenge. The experience prepares them for the fall when they will be full-time students, and it also measures the program's success. After the intensive course work the students have done during their high school years, the “bridge” program demonstrates the growth and maturity they have achieved. During the academic year students are also involved in the program. From September to May students attend weekly classes in the evening. These classes, like the ones offered in the summer component, emphasize basic academic skills. In addition, classes designed to prepare students for College Boards offer challenging and practical knowledge. Special activities augment the studying; for example, for Halloween the students collected money for UNICEF and then had a Halloween Party and dance. Throughout the program the students are tested, evaluated, and Placed at appropriate levels of studying. This feature of individualized learning geared to e student’s needs and ability is °t unique in education; however, im'Sia theory that is difficult to implement in large and impersonal farUi?s-Jhe Project Upward Bound .„.u fy is a mixture of area high school teachers, Wilkes professors, and individuals from the community. These educators bring experience, concern, and diverse backgrounds to the program. The students' lives are enriched culturally and socially, as well as educationally, by interacting with these teachers who are truly interested in youth. In yet another dimension, the program provides cultural and social enrichment for the participants. One important goal of the project is to encourage the students to become well-rounded individuals; the program does this by traveling, by exposing them to new experiences, by challenging them to become involved in new activities. Project Upward Bound has logged thousands and thousands of miles: the program has traveled to Nev/ York, Philadelphia, Cape May, Pittsburgh, Nev/ England, Lancaster, Gettysburg, Atlantic City, Rochester, Corning — the list goes on. For many of the students the trips represent a first glimpse of a world av/ay from Northeastern Pennsylvania. In addition to all the miles and suitcases and fast-food, stops, each trip logs many “firsts . the first visit to a real zoo, the first visit to an art museum, the first Broadway show, the first — but not the last - time getting lost on a bus with forty-some other people. many students have been able to Participate in such national and state-wide events as the Presidential Classroom in Washington, D.C. and the Governor’s School for the Arts at Bucknell. Motivation is another important factor m fostering growth in adolescents. Many times students are caught up in the all-consuming present, but as they develop in the program they learn that tomorrow is shaped by the planning and decision-making skills and valuable college entrance and financial aid preparation. Seniors are eligible to go on Project Upward Bound sponsored college visits to about ten different campuses throughout Pennsylvania. When seniors have the opportunity to visit schools and see first-hand what they could be learning and doing, they are all the more eager to succeed. Of course, motivation is never truly achieved until it becomes self-motivation. The program, which is funded entirely by the Federal government, challenges the students, shifts important decisions towards the student, and encourages responsible and mature behavior. Somewhere in the time spent with the program each student comes to realize that he is accountable and in charge of his actions. When this “dawning" comes, the student has succeeded and, more importantly, will continue to succeed. In conclusion, there is no concluding that can be done. Although students graduate from the program, they continue to return with college transcripts, with news of their careers, with their children. So to draw the full circle, we are back to David Copperfield, who v/ondered in the beginning “whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my life.” Quite simply, Upv/ard Bound believes that our students are the heroes and heroines of their own lives ... and they come to believe this too. O •Statistics figured from the information supplied by the Division of Education. Pa.. Human Relations Commission, 1978. WINTER 1980 13 �been here for four years and I have with cross country ball com , the farthest thing from his — ACTIVE IN 1980 The Sordoni Art Gallery is alive in 1980! During upcoming months the Sordoni Gallery, housed in Stark Learning Center, will present several outstanding exhibits. The Regional Scholastic Art Awards will be on display at the Sordoni Gallery from February 13 through March 9. The Wilkes-Barre Junior League will sponsor a show entitled “Three Women — Mary Cassatt, Cecilia Beaux, and Martha Walter," March 22 through April 27. Herb Simon, a member of the Wilkes College Fine Arts faculty, will exhibit "Aluminum Modular Sculpture, 1975-79," from May 3 through May 28. Louise Carpenter, groundwork for a running laid tv at the College. dynasty ,. ble! That is the only “Keanus© exclaims Righter, L Mendenhall, will present a show entitled “A Retrospective,” from May 31 to June 22. The exhibit will include oils and watercolors. Beginning on June 28, approxi­ mately 180 posters from the early 1900's to the present will be on display at the Gallery. These outstanding pieces will be on loan from the Poster Museum in Warsaw, Poland, and illustrate the excellence and historical development of the poster art in Poland. Subjects include health, education, sports, music, and various areas of entertainment. The Sordoni Gallery is open Sunday through Friday, from 1 to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 to 5 p.m.; and Thursday evenings, from 6 to 9 p.m. o Vt<lS ■rSSSyf n£§® by Eddie White III ’80 SIMPLY AMAZING Running ... Running... Running ... has taken over America in recent years. And, Wilkes College is no exception. This fall, the Colonel cross country team enjoyed its finest season ever, finishing the 1979 campaign with a 13-4 dual record. But, if ever there was a story behind a story, it has been the Wilkes harriers and their first-year coach Ron Righter. A1975 St. 14 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY XiAT? teanilikethis’Weh^ t p V’ebllofeverythin8. but what fielie'vabfelTha" is the rightword ^ answer to the 1969 "Miracle tvjets” of New York. ‘ Righter's story as a coach with hardly any experience in running is fascinating itself, but consider some of the personnel problems that he had to face: one of the top runners was battling a painful Achilles heel injury, another had just come off a bout with mononucleosis, one was recovering from a serious gunshot wound, while another was running with only one kidney. The key to the Wilkes success proved to be the enthusiasm and guidance of Righter. "He really surprised us," offers senior captain Don Patrick. “All we saw at the beginning of the season was a guy with little experience, and we were deflated. But after meeting him, we quickly became psyched." How did Righter feel about coach­ ing cross country? “I was a little hesitant to coach cross country at first," says Righter. "I didn’t know how to keep score and I was unfamiliar with training techniques. I had to quickly learn the mechanics and science behind it." “I owe a lot to several people,” Righter continues. "My assistant coach Steve Justice was a real help as was George Pawlush (Wilkes public relations director). George, who helped found the sport at Wilkes and coached for six years, helped me with the basics of cross country. And, I can’t forget my team. hey were behind me all year and were very patient. They understood at I was very interested in the Program and that I wanted to win as badly as they did.” Leading the Wilkes team in 1979 was sophomore Ken Pascoe. He was e olonels’ top finisher in almost cry meet and ran most of the year with an Achilles injury. Despite the in r 1CaP’ Pascoe consistently turned ones between 27-28 minutes on the five-mile courses. Pascoe, incidently, is spending the winter as head statistician for Righter’s basketball team. Some of the other medical cases on the team included juniors Dan Thomas and Ed Eppler. Thomas came off a disappointing sophomore season and had to battle back from mononucleosis. Eppler, probably the hardest worker on the team, runs with only one kidney. "Eddie never tires and is the most inspirational runner on the team," relates Coach Righter. Pushing the "top three” were seniors Don Patrick, Roger Davis, and junior John Supinski. Patrick, an outspoken veteran, notes "I have te have most is untapped talent. In the coming years, Wilkes cross country is really going to be something. Three other unusual stories lie in three other runners - sophomores Lou Mucciolo, Ed Cunningham, and treshman Marie Eiswert, the only woman on the team. Mucciolo was a basketball candidate who had never ran cross country before and Righter now believes that Mucciolo has become a better runner than a basketball player. "Lou has really worked hard and realizes that he can become a great runner in the next few years." Cunningham might just be the "Mr. Unbelievable" of this simply unbelievable team. Last year he suffered a bullet wound in a shooting accident. One of Wyoming Valley's top high school runners as a senior, Cunningham had to fight for his life and now has recovered to aid the team. Eiswert began by running just for fun, but has worked hard and according to Righter has improved her limes to the point where she could become a factor for Wilkes in the years to come. With the one storybook season under his belt, Righter headed into basketball and at mid-year had recorded a 7-3 mark. Whether coaching cross country, basketball, or overseeing a physical education class, Ron Righter has brought a little magic to Wilkes College. FALL SPORTS RESULTS football (4-4) Wilkes 13 1Delaware Valley 3 10 Wilkes 7 Lycoming : Wilkes 20 Upsala 3 Wilkes 3 Bloomsburg St. 27 Wilkes 33 FDD Madison 0 Wilkes 28 Albright 17 Wilkes 7 Juniata 21 8 Wilkes 7 Susquehanna ECAC Southern Regional all-star: first-team defensive lineman Ed Mollahan (junior) A1I-MAC first team: back-Carmen LoPresto (junior) end — Rob Irwin (senior) def. line-Ed Mollahan (junior) women’s tennis final overall record: 0-11 MAC slate: 0-5 NWPIAA record: 0-7 women’s field hockey final overall record: 10-2-3 MAC slate: 6-0-1, N. E. Champions NWPIAA: 2-0-1, League Champions AI1-MAC, first team: Jerry Ann Smith. MVP, (senior) Pam Snyder, (junior) second team: Mary Jo Frail, (senior) WINTER 1980 15 �5a'"y’SA’4|’„,S3 ‘68'68 RbtfdU'’6 MASS TRAN SPOETATION IN THE 80’ the outlook tovrard ma'sVt Wh°le change in says Keioer "tT transportation." K<w ,M,,W Dr.K°RT jordan 50 S^!:h’59 ,(37 S^KalS“ Kaminski '68 RALSTON YEARS RELIVED Homecoming weekend brought moments of joy to many former Wilkes football players of George Ralston who returned to campus in October to recount their pigskin exploits of the late 1940's and early 1950's. Ralston, now dean of students at the College, served as football coach at Wilkes for ten years compiling an overall record of 41-32-4. His 1946 through 1949 teams posted a fouryear record of 25-4-3. o Shown at the football reunion were, from left, seated — Bill Morgan '53, Al Nicholas '55, Al Wallace '54, Jack Jones '51, Olin Thomas '51, Dr. William Meyers, Ed Gritsko '53, and Al Molosh '52; standing — Walter Hendershot '50, Dr. Norman Cromack '51, Gerard Washco '54, Dick Scripp '52, Carl Strye '52, Leo Solomon '53, Coach Ralston, Francis Pinkowski '50, Dr. Joseph Trosko '55, Ron Fitzgerald '55, and Joe Yanovltch. coloNEij r V i / Al is: Xv/Ot J r 7; ■ The "South River Street Revival" was compiled by Vesta Breakstone of the Alumni Relations Office. The information contained in the Alumni Notes was received between September 22, 1979 and January 3, 1980. Please send news contributions to: Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 Q/Ve JUiss QJou! Over the past few years some of our graduates have given us the slip. Like concerned uncles and aunts we would be delighted to hear from you again. If any alumni can help us in 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY our search, please drop a line with the addresses of our missing nieces and nephews to the Wilkes College Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766. Bueze Roland Igweze '77 Mrs. Jane Weir Farr Ireland ’65 Lee R.Isaac '75 B. William Isaacs '56 Gail A. Ishley '69 Charles F. Jackson '51 Nancy Ann Jackson '68 Mrs. Frances A. Benassu Jackson '71 Raymond Jacobs '50 Robert D. Jacobs '67 Robert S. Jacobs '58 Mrs. Rosalyn Barth Jacobs '48 Joseph Stanley Jakoboski '48 Mrs. Susan Hamilton Meister James '60 Kathy Lee Jameson '70 Linda Maria Janiw '73 Mary Ann Jankowski '69 Paul Joseph Jarecki '72 Robert Joseph Javer '54 S. Jean Jenkins '73 Mrs. Mary F. Queeney Jerrell '58 Mrs. Charlotte L. Kleintob Johnson '70 Milton V. Johnson '55 Donald Jones '54 fyanne Margaret Karpinski '62 HEsmailKathiwala’77 Anne Lynn Kaufman 78 Michael Kaufman 68 Claude E. Keller 49 Mrs. Florence D. Domashinski Kempinski '48 Susan Kempner '68 Michael Kennedy '56 William R. Kenny '74 Mrs. Lorraine D. Giacometti Kent '56 Mrs. Louise C. Hilla Key '72 Mrs. Kathy P. Karten Kimball '69 Mrs. Donna L. Brady Kindler '68 Mrs. Shirley Westberg King '65 Mrs. Patricia A. Tomaskovic Kinkele '68 John Kirschner '64 Louis C. Kiscunas, Jr. '61 Albert J. Kislavage '52 Joseph George Kitler '50 Mrs. Mary Ruth Curtis Kleinginna '63 David S. Kleinstein '73 Thomas J. Klem '48 Capt. Herbert M. Kline '61 Myra Susan Kline '78 William Klopfer '49 Atty. Charles R. Knapp '51 Mrs. Jacqueline Jenkins Knight '54 Vera Marie Kolb '52 Ann Kolinchock '72 Robert Joseph Kopicki '56 Robert Joseph Kormis '69 Victor Kotulak '51 Michele E. Kovalchik '67 John Joseph Kozloski '70 Mrs. Camille Broski Kramer '70 Mary Lou Krauser'66 Mr- & Mrs. Ira S. Krotick'71’71 (btephanie Dreher] Edward Krug '71 lanSTk°Semarie SaPorito Kubacki '72 an Thomas Kubicki '67 MardaTKuligovvski ’67 aryin C. Kurtzer '68 Chm-Yin Kwan '71 yprian J. Kwilinabe '70 There were no federal funds for ore±rer''iCes'’'hGrememhers.,'only were tS"9 equipment " Scarce also were training programs in mass transit Today, federal involvement is heavy and here are many specialized mass transportation courses available. Because ol the revitalization in mass transportation, Keiper’s job is demanding, by Mary Ellen Alu 77 requiring a 55-hour, six-day work week Additional time is devoted to meetings, When Stephen A. Keiper 72 was preparation for those meetings, and travel. unanimously named executive director of Keiper. who is married with two children, the Luzerne County Transportation is also very active in community projects. Authority in May 1976, he was then He is a member of the board of directors considered — at age 27 — one of the of the Wyoming Valley Chapter of the youngest executives of a transit system in American Red Cross, a member of the the country. Wyoming Valley United Way, the WilkesWith the public's obsession for the Barre Kiwanis Club, and the Economic automobile after World War II, mass Development Council of Northeastern Pa. transit outside of major cities was facing The transportation executive is involved extinction. This decreased demand for with several transportation organizations, mass transportation resulted in fewer is a member of the Board of Directors for young managers entering the field. Children's Museum, and co-authored a Consequently, as economic and report on innovative approaches to car­ environmental factors revived the public's pool projects. He is currently pursuing a interest in mass transportation in the master's degree at the College. 1970's, tew men were trained for Keiper’s enthusiasm for work is a carry­ management positions. over from his college days at Wilkes. For most of his four years at the College, he But, Keiper was one of the few capable pursued 12 credits a semester (mostly of filling a top position in a transit system. night courses) while working full-time and Having joined the staff of LCTA as an raising a family. He feels that “work administrative assistant in 1973, he experience is just as important as assisted the executive director in all areas education as far as getting in and being of the operation and was responsible for able to do the job.” the preparation, administration, and According to Keiper some of the major execution of grants and resulting projects. problems facing mass transportation today He also served as acting executive director are rising costs, federal requirements, and when that position was vacated. even bus shortages. Keiper says that only Keiper received his Bachelor of Science two American companies manufacture degree in business administration from the buses which makes obtaining buses more College and specialized transportation difficult. training from the Chicago Transit Authority Federal regulations — such as Technical Institute in 1975. Prior to joining provisions for handicapped - put more LCTA, he served as a planner for the City demand on the transit systems. And | Demonstration Agency of Wilkes-Barre. inflation is affecting labor, insurance, and At age 30. Keiper is responsible for the fuel costs “The price of deisel fuel was overall operation of the transit system. He oversees operations, planning, Jn nal , n 9 is up to 78 cents a gallon. Costs have I t gone up 65 percent in one year, he , and■ -budgeting. He realizes too that the | job people expect of LCTA is growing/' ^Nevertheless. the LCTA, under Keiper’s i He believes, "with the current energy problems, and with the help of federal leadership is coping. He says the coming '“Twi I see increased services for area funding, mass transportation is SeS in view of the current economy, revitalized." . For Keiper and the 115 employees of such news is encouraging. Q LCTA, this means an increased WINTER 1980 17 �“owanitCBErSNEY':nd Joseph cXfizmni JUotes 1935 EDWARD G. HARTMANN, professor of History Emeritus at Suffolk University, has had his latest book published by Lerner Publishing Company. It is entitled “American Immigration,” and will be the pilot volume for an “In America Series,” which includes individual volumes on the various ethnic groups of the United States. 1950 JOHN P. NELSON has been elected assistant vice president of INA International Corporation, one of the nation's largest diversified financial institutions. John also continues as casualty product line officer with the corporation. 1951 THOMAS JONES, vice president of Wyrough and Loser, Inc.,Trenton, New Jersey, has been elected secretary of the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society. 1952 ROBERT MORRIS has been pro­ moted to a division-level financial post in the General Electric Company’.s space division in Philadelphia, Pa. He will manage the financial and administration operation for the Philadelphia divi­ sion, reporting to the vice president and general manager. Bob, his wife, Irma, and four sons reside at 76 Glory Drive, Pittsfield, Mass. 1955 ARTHUR IMDORF has been pro­ moted to Vice President of Mack Trucks, Inc., Allentown, Pa. 1956 CAPT. JOHN J. CASHMERE, USNR, was installed as commanding officer at a change of command ceremony at the Naval Reserve Center, Avoca, Pa. 1959 STEVE POLESKIE and Jeanne Mackin were recently married, Steve is a professor in the School of Architecture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 1960 FRANK STECK has been appointed vice president, parts marketing for the North American Operations of International Harvester's Agricul18 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY MATTER OF CHOICE She entered Wilkes as an English major with a concentration in theater arts. She hadn't planned the theater arts but after trying out for a part in a play and being chosen for the role, she said, "That was it, from that moment on. I was completely hooked. I practically lived at the Center for the Performing Arts and had a part in just about everything that Al Groh directed.' “ ' e as a to home. The job market €thin9c'03 Wyoming Valley. so She Lewisburg, Pa., where she result 1968 JULIUS HARMS is purchasing agent Inorganic Chemicals for FMC Corporate, Chicago, Illinois. J£chal'engether 'She left after a Jn'J^'-'to make some decisions j'l’"”1 '"X? while watching a wEu1B-YUDKOV,'rZ"’ll(“nlll Wo I t were married April. 11)79. is a bio-chemist with Merck ami Company, Rahway. They re.....in Westfield, New Jersey. A5h0,Sr g«e lhe nightly report. ^'^C lihou'lht. "Now there s sM^’rdhke doing ” The casual more delined and before tnought bee* ovef WJS a (|fm decision tne m'l111 ' . n vr, i knew I hadn t by Jano Manganella The TV studio was a busy place. There were several people performing apparently complex duties with lights, cameras, and sound equipment. I was there to interview Debbie Dunleavy, a newscaster al the station, but I wondered how I could possibly talk to anyone in all that chaos. A technician raised his hand and pointed Io Debbie. Immediately, everylhing was still and the WDAU-TV, Ch. 22 nightly news was on the air. Her voice is well modulated and precise; it calches your altention the moment she says "Good evening, I'm Debbie Dunleavy." When the news is good, the expression on Debbie's face conveys this, and when it is bad, there is a sincerity in her voice and expression lhal lets the viewer know that, in spite of her professionalism, she is not entirely removed from it. Debbie, a 1974 graduate of Wilkes College, is the person who brings world news and local happenings to viewers of WDAU-TV, a CBS affiliate located in Scranton, Pa. The station, with a potential audience of one million, has been her "place” since 1977. She has the distinction of being the only anchorwoman in the area. That, in itself, is not surprising; she is exceptionally good at what she does. What is out of the ordinary is the path that led to the role ... but then we are getting ahead of our story. Claire Deborah Elizabeth Dunleavy was born to Mr. and Mrs. James Dunleavy, in Wilkes-Barre, September 24, 1951. She spent all but a few of her formative and adolescent years there and graduated in 1969 from Coughlin High School. During the next few months, while deciding what direction to take, she spent her time working and modeling for a local department store. She was selected "Miss Seventeen" in a contest sponsored by SEVENTEEN, a national high-fashion magazine. In spite of her success in modeling, she decided to go on with her education. i*fi •““Ss ®°aea “ L* and four sons. 1963 BONNIE JENKINS LEWIS isan elementary school Iibrilri;ln na" Lewisburg Area School Distrk• . . ' ■ , A daughter. Rebecca Gail, was bur.n on June 3. 1979, to Sylvia and GERALD E. MISSAL. Gerald is an administrative assistant for the Arlington Public Schools, and the family resides in Watertown, Ma'isacliimettii. They also have another daughter, Deborah Janine. • Id- " ' ■ ’ ■' irjh to Sme a news person There there were Debbie has memories "by the carload" from that time in her life, "nice memories,” she emphasizes. Some are amusing now, in retrospect, but then1 For example, she remembers trying out for the role of Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." When she read for it. she was so tense that Groh kept referring to her as a "cinderblock." He did give her the part, however, knowing her ability and expecting that she would loosen up during rehearsals. But Debbie still was not comfortable with the role — rehearsal after rehearsal she was still tense. ''But." she smiled, "when that curtain went up on opening night, something happened to my personality, and I certainly became uninhibited. By the end of the second act. there was a two-word message waiting for me from Mr. Groh. It said 'cool it!' I guess I got a little too far into Maggie's character." She enjoyed all the theater roles, but her favorite was Eleanor of Aquitaine in "Lion in Winter.” She still remembers some dialogue from that play. To the list of fond memories, she adds a short time when she was a vocalist with a local group called the "Velvet Touch.” Following graduation, she went to work on Capitol Hill, in Washington D.C., as an “office slave.” The job had an excellent procedures " undaunted, she went to the next, which w3s WDAU-TV. She was inierviowed by pm Powell the news director a! the sUMn and was told if anything opened up he would call her Positive thinking pa d oft early m December when Powell tailed to say he had an opening but no: tor a newscaster Would she be interested m coming in as a trainee in the newsroom’ She was delighted, and on December 6. 1977. she reported for work ■ I didn't expect it to be easy, and it wasn't i had intensive on-the-job training. l did everything from tiling film to getting cotlee. but I did learn. I absorbed everything and I could feel my confidence grow." Debbie is a pleasant combination ol sophisticate and homebody She has lived a metropolitan lifestyle and enjoyed it. but she retains strong ties to home and family. My lamiiy' stte says. ,s everything to • They have given me the support and ““uragemeni I needed to Imd my whPnU/hally'3h8 !h'nks abouI a 'someday a ms,n. e n"qn! have lbe opportunity to do p"Good X ;e?'J khappy hnmand5h°con! w'bu!-nt ,w »«! t0 say John and JEAN GODLEWSKI JANICK announce the birth of n son, Joseph Jason, on February 111, 1979. Tin- family resides in WiikenHnrrii, where J‘.in operates n day care home, They have I wo oilier sons, Jnmmi Ja .on, and John Joseph, 7. 1’109 SHARON TELIIAN, a member of the ntir'.in;', faculty ill Wllkmi, returned to thnl >!■• j>;irl iniiil mi coordiniitor for i-l IV, following ii year'n I aii .once during which ttliii nludhid ; under a II. S. Public I lealth Trainim j ship and earned her M.Ed. at Wilke; College. 1970 HOWARD JONES, JR. and Molly Gallagher were recently married. ! Inward is manager of A ft A Auto Store, Kingston, and the couple reside', in I lanover 'I ownr.hip, Pa. 1971 CAROLYN PETRUS received her master's degree in geology from Penn State University in August, ... : i . '. . :■■ W-t '■ "" ^NWae, 2m2°?bbte°Un^ O business, "Pennsylvania Made,” a wholesale and retail outlet for antique and new hand-made quilts. Carolyn resides at 234 Crestmont Road, State College, Pa. JOSEPH T. ZIMMERMAN has been elected assistant treasurer of the Stokely-Van Camp Corporation. Joe is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public J Accountants. Linda is emnluV>dT’marriedA«aSchool Dfstric/ h';’ili,n0Ver resiJ^ in Hanover Cn'hip7aPle baSista?LICENas,ei's1<i dau8htor,BethMXl:ohnD,,rlhl|ira d.. TW u-vR' ELLEN POINTER , ,KAtY'Milr>is a gui.koK,. New York School forthe Deaf in White Plains. 1972 ARLENE SUCHESKI lias been pro­ moted to cost accountant at International Sall Company j.i part uIAkzona, Inc.), Clark.; Summit. She resitlee in Scranton, t’a. A (laughter, Katie Elizabeth, was horn on December 26,1978, Io David ami WENDY BURROUGHS CONNELL of 109 Ruth Lane, Doylestown, Pa. 1973 JEFF PRENDERGAST, senior com­ mon.i;il account rcprcsunlative with Aclii.i Lilt- and Casualty, was recently awarded the professional in.'iin riiice di ^ignalion, Chartered Properly Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), al national conferment ccremonicf) in Boston, Mass. Jeff and his wife, Maureen, are residents of Drums, Pa. JOHN NOYAUS was recently married Io Susan Pierce. John serves in a management position with Jewekor. Inc. in Miami, Florida, where the couple resides. RICHARD N. JONES and Brenda Stauffer were recently married. The couple is residing in Pottsville, Pa., where Dick is employed at Penn­ sylvania National Bank and Trust, A son, Robert Alan, was bom on September 14,1979, to Alan and CYNTHIA FARMER SIEGFRIED. The couple also has a daughter, Kathryn Anne, 3, 1974 MICHAEL BREAKSTONE has been promoted regional manager for Bartolomeo Pio, Inc. of Glens.de Pa., a w ine and spirits■ brok«agehouSe. Mike recently had a role in theis College Theater productmn of -When You Coming Back, RRyder?" WINTER l®0 19 �as an Parris "ereL staff accountant with f acorp°r®te pOrated, and the }ewelcor’ gs aPt Larkmount Manor, Annual Homecoming In -''i .) S^pa- 1975 -c 9 ANDERS is a production or in the Heat Exchanger R“cJ,“do™ “th- with his '»• In Flymo Plymouth, wife1'’1®'16’ . ARMANDO received his by Robert Gaetano ’80 «'>'* h loUV and is employed by the HNDAB-HOLONIAlsan account- America for 1979 n of Law Schoo! on Notemb. )er GREGG COLLIER and Beth Dietrich were recently married. Greggi8 h ?™Ej?.yed territorial manager for Miroil Filters, a division Of I rocess Systems, Inc.. Allentown Pa., where the couple reside-; PAULETTE MICHAELS and Henry Wysocki, Jr. were recently wed Paulette is employed by Susque­ hanna Savings Association, and tin couple resides in Plains, Pa. A daughter, Jessica, was horn on April 20, 1979 to BRIAN and DOROTHY DEMKO SCHI.1ER '77 of Planlsville, Connecticut, where Brian is a certified public accountant oc°counting firm in Trenton, N.j. GARY KRATZ am! Mary Phillip . wer6 recently married. Gary is employed by Ruth Corporation of Wilkes-Barre, where the couple resides. 1976 DANIEL BABETSKI of 642 Fairfield Avenue, Kenilworth, New jersey, has been promoted to programming analyst in the computer system'; and services office of Prudential Insurance Company, Roseland. BARBARA LONG McHALE has been promoted to assistant editor of the publishing firm of Harcourt Brace and jovanovich. Barbara lives with her husband. William, in Manalapan, New Jersey. PETER ZUBRITZSKY received his Master of Education degree in guid­ ance and counseling psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, August 10,1979. Peter is presently employed as a learning and academic counselor at the .Allegheny County Community College in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. GARRy TAROLI was admitted to ’e Pennsylvania Bar Association on . c rj“er22,1979. Garv is currently "‘ “sociate in the Wilkes-Barre ’ p'v offlces of Rosenn, Jenkins and nNknx?1Q’andhf;;.......... -• KciaSn1131 DiStriCt Attorneys aDnnPHnIARCHETTI ■••as defnInrted t0 the Position of assistant College Students at Holy Cr°ss 1977 LON BAI.UM and his wife, Elaine, own and operate "Potter County K Country Ski Shop," a recreational activities etpiipmenl store, located in Coudersport, Pa. KATHY KABY ANELSMI and SANDRA SABBATINI have joined the Will eu <lollugn Nursing Depart meat faculty. Kathy, n candidate for a ma .tor's degree nt the University of Pennsylvania, In leaching part time in primary care, mid Sandra in serving mi a full-lime instructor for Level III. PANAYIOTIS KALARITIS and DEBORAH STEPHENS '711 were married at Western Maryland College on June 2,1979. The couple lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where Panos attends Washington Univer­ sity in a graduate chemistry program, and Debbi is employed by AT&T Longlines, LURICE ALEXANDER and Paul Mangelsdorf, HI, were recently married, Lurice is a customer information analyst with the Penn­ sylvania Gas and Water Company. The couple resides at South Grant Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. EUGENE MARINELLI was recently wed to Cheryl Allford. Eugene is a sales representative for Prudential Insurance Company, anc the coup ft is residing in Wyoming, Pa. RICHARD MUTARELLI was recently wed to Mary Parker Dick employed as assistant director o fiscal services at Munroe Memorial Hospital, Ocala, Florida, where the couple resides. .,A„ 1978 SBr.. ngersoll-Rand Company, and ... M fJv M'G0RM1CK and ROSE- S&ssik. Me re kevm is a student at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. ELAINE HARVILLA was recently wed to Paul Weaie. Elaine is a registered nurse al Mercy Hospital, Scranton. The couple resides in Wi-sl Pittston, Pa. ANTHONY SH1PULA and CHRISI INI-. HUDAK '77 were married on June 16,1979. Tony is a National Accounts analyst al the home office ol Aetna Lila and Casualty Com­ pany, Hartford, and the couple resides in New Britain, Connecticut. ELLEN MERTEN and TOM LUBAS were married on August 4,1979. Ellen is an accountant for Dow Jone-; Inc. in Princeton, and Tom is employed a-. a Biology teacher in the Kearney school district, The couple resides in Kearney, New Jersey. .MARIE BUIKUS and Gaise Lacek were recently married. Marie is an accountant with the Commonwealth Telephone Company, Dallas, Pa. SHARON GILLMAN and David Shipula were recently married. The couple resides in Kingston, Pa. SUSAN VOLOVICZ was recently wed to JOSEPH SHISKOWSKI. Susan is a registered medical tech­ nologist at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, and Joe is employed at Mercy Hospital also as a registered medical technologist. The couple resides in Wilkes-Barre. EILEEN GAZA and Peter Sartorio were recently married, and the couple is residing in Pittston, Pa. RICHARD MARKUNAS and MARI­ ANNE STEFANOWICZ 77 ,.e. ■ I where the couple resides. WINTER 1980 21 �1979 WILMA HURST has accepted a position on the public relations staff at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. ROSA KHALIFE is a fifth grade teacher at Saints Peter and Paul Elementary School, Plains, Pa. Rosa resides at 35 Murray Street, WilkesBarre, Pa. DAVID GULITUS has been pro­ moted to assistant trust officer at the United Penn Bank in WilkesBarre, Pa. U. S. Air Force 2nd LT. MARK A. DeFALCO has graduated from the Strategic Air Command's missile combat crew operational readiness training course at Vandenberg Air Force Base. MICHAEL TORBIK was recently wed to Melinda Granick. Mike is employed as an accountant with Management Alliance, Inc., and the couple resides in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. PAMELA J. LONG and James M. Miklosi were married August 18, 1979. Pam is an advertising representative for the Country Impressions Suburban News in Sweet Valley. The couple resides in Hunlock Creek, Pa. ELAINE GAUGHAN was recently wed to Michael Potsko. Elaine is employed by McDonald's Family Restaurants, Wilkes-Barre. The couple resides in Kingston, Pa. MARK NEYLON was recently wed to Helen Savinski. Mark is employed by Friedman Electric, and the couple resides in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. KAREN GLUSHEFSKI and Joseph Alberola were recently married. Karen is employed by Wilkes College. LINDA J. FERRARO and William Obremski were recently married. Linda is director of the Jenny-Lynn Ferraro Academy. SUSAN REED was recently wed to Robert Tomascik. EDWARD RZONCA and THEANNE MURATA '77 were married on May 26,1979. Ed is a third year student at the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, and Theanne is a regis­ tered nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit of Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio, where the couple resides. 22 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Farley wanted to give a gift to Wilkes, yet needed some assured income for his lifetime. He was glad to have the tax deductions generated by his gift. He also wished to set an example for many of us to follow. The Wilkes P.I.F. was the perfect instrument for all this and his beloved college benefitted in the long run. And it's the long run we are talking about. Making a will is future planning. Setting up a (rust is future planning. Taking part in a pooled income fund is future planning. Should you "future-plan?" Well, should you? Although many of you will be interested in becoming part of Wilkes's Pooled Income Fund very soon, it may nol be possible for others to give monies away now, even with the incentives mentioned and even with the pleasant thought of letting someone else, a qualified trustee, do this aspect of your financial management for you. But you can certainly plan ahead. You can even dream of putting that money into a specific scholarship fund or fellowship or laboratory. Dr. Farley preferred that his P.I.F. gift be unrestricted and yet the consideration of HOW you wish to help this institution, now or later, is another aspect of your own future planning. The reason you are beginning to hear more and more about life income plans such as pooled income funds, is that these kinds of charitable trusts were only established about 10 years ago. by the 1969 Tax Reform Act. Whether you are a Wilkes Pooled Income Fund prospect in the immediate or distant future, you should certainly understand what such funds are all about. And, no matter what you do or don't do about planned giving for Wilkes, you should definitely have a will. Do you? Is it up to date? If not, don't wait to read more about wills in a future Quarterly ... get thee to a lawyer. And, if you'd like to know more about our pooled income fund, please let us know via the coupon below. Pooled Income Funds and Wilkes College by Betsy li. Condron I've just rewritten this entire article. My first draft dealt with the nitty-gritties of the "medley of giving plans" Wilkes donors have avilable to them, mentioned in the last Quarterly. Then I attended a 3-day seminar in Washington D.C. given by John Brown' (10-11 hour work days - no sight of impressive monuments — no taste of record breaking warm December air — no Trader Vic's, but did I ever learn a lot!) . . . and I became even more convinced about the value of pooled income funds (P.I.F.), so I decided to share with you NOW some interesting information about Wilkes's fund. We are lucky to have one! Many of the seminar participants were just getting theirs off the ground. Dr. Farley, prescient here as in so many instances, set the wheels in motion and Wilkes' P.I.F. became official in 1971. In fad, Dr. Farley was its first contributor. He took some of his own assets and transferred them to Wilkes's fund receiving an income tax deduction the year he gave the gift. (Assets may be appreciated securities, cash or the cash surrender value of a life insurance policy.) Sometimes an estate tax deduction is available and if long-term properly is used to fund the gift, substantial savings in capital gains taxes are common. Some persons own low yield securities and when they are used as a P.I.F. gift, the donor's annual income will often increase. Then they may "unlock" themselves from those seemingly useless assets, which are then sold by the trustee and invested in the higher yield fund. If the donor were able to reinvest such assets for greater return in the Wilkes P.I.F., coupled with income and capital gains tax savings, increased income would certainly allow something extra special. The donor could take a trip, turn the heat up a degree, or even make a bigger annual gift to Wilkes. Neat! Dr. Farley received an income for life from his share of the units he owned in the P.I.F., which has recently averaged about 7% per year — pretty good earnings on top of the aforementioned advantages, and with no need to worry about money management either! If Mrs. Farley had been living at the time, he could have chosen to have her (or anyone else) be the income beneficiary for the remainder of her life. o 'We are delighted that John Brown, a top-notch planned giving expert and marvelous speaker, will give a Seminar here on May 6th. Wilkes and Wyoming Seminary are cosponsoring two seminars; the second will be held in the fall on the Seminary campus and will feature another well known person in the planned giving field. | I |! ), t When Dr. Farley died his share of the fund i was taken out and it automatically reverted to [ Wilkes which was, of course, the prime reason for the gift in the first place. Dr. < To: Director of Planned Giving Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 I am interested in learning more about pooled income funds I wish to record that I have arranged for a bequest to Wilkes College name. address. phone date L 4LFMNI BULLETIN - �THE WILKES COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSC - - ON AT IF^WA DIRECT FROM WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON AIRPORT S.S. STATENDAM JULY 11 TO JULY 14, 1980 JUNE 28 TO JULY 5, 1980 INCLUDES: ★ Selected Cabin ★ All Meals and Entertainment ★ Special Parties ★ More Parties ★ Midnight Buffet ★ All Sports and Recreational Activities ★ Casino, Disco, Movies ★ All Tips and Taxes ★ Much Much More A Round Trip Transportation Package from Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton directly to the New York Pier Is available at a rate of only $29.00 per person. 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For further details contact Joel or Faye at Jewelcor Travel (717) 288-9381 Trip ★ Complimentary Rum-Swizzle ★ English tea every afternoon ★ Shopper’s Bonus Book, Guide Book and a map of Bermuda ★ Personal Tour Escort ★ Plus Much Much More FROM ONLY Sg<g)<S)®3 PER PERSON Name City State Zip Wllkes College Quarterly Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 NON-rROTtT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED rtKMTT NO 355 WILKES-BARRE, PA. '•USS LEOTA NEVIL 62 W. SOUTH STREET, WlLKEs-BARRE, pa '75 APT. 2 187 02 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. The magazine went through various names including <em>Wilkes Alumnus</em>, <em>Wilkes Quarterly,</em> <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, and the current title, <em>Wilkes Magazine</em>. Some editions for the <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, will have multiple issues within the file record. Our holdings may be missing editions for certain years due to having no physical copy within the collection. </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkes University Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wilkes University Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947-present Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Winter 1980 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Winter 1980 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/c9c02611990679169668a918b842db20.pdf ee1184dee56da4d2e60f2dc05f13eeef PDF Text Text �lit 41c)61 VOlUme4. Nu| "4n>ber' editor Randallj.Xenak.s associate editor JaneE'Mangane||a alumnus editor I I ©©nn®^ y~-i> VW Richard Raspen contrlbuting stall 8 A Family of Friends by Jane Manganella 55 13 14 From Cotton to Cooking by RandyXenakis Rigley Research to Benefit Dolphins by Jane Manganella Commencement 1981 "What's in This For Me?” by Betsy B. Condron ALUMNUS Chronicle — 3 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Miss Mary R. Koons. Honorary Member Donald F. Carpenter. Trustee Emeritus Mrs. Richard M. Ehret. Trustee Emerita ^nF?mhardL'Faber'7'fusfeef™r,7a NEHRING TO HEAD NURSING DEPARTMENT conl'^tingptlologra0h Donald D. Carey Arthurs. Miller art director Jon Schaffer circulation Tanya Hallez '67 past four years, has headed the Associate Degree Nursing Program at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. "I look forward to continuing the tradition of preparing expert nurses at Wilkes who can provide quality patient care to people in the Wilkes-Barre area as well as Northeastern Pennsylvania," said Nehring. "One of my goals is to prepare and educate nurses to be aware of the latest court decisions in the field of health care," she said. "In addition, I feel it is very important for nursing students to be sensitive to the patients’ rights movement, and conversant with health and the self-care health trend." Nehring has published numerous articles and papers and is currently working on her most recent book, Ethics in Nursing, She has been a speaker at both the Hawaii and Idaho state nursing conventions and the regional convention of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in Nursing. She also served as consultant to the Idaho State Board of Nursing. The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. insertI Callery — 7 Sports Update — 9 OFFICERS William L. Conyngham. Chairman Richard M. Ross. Vice Chairman Mr aw-,r Umphred '52’ Treasurer Mrs. William Davidowitz. Secretary James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert D. Arenstein '68 Benjamin Badman 41 Edward W. Bixby. Jr.. M.D Mrs. Stanleys. Davies Louis D. Davis, Jr. '60 Mrs. Walter M. Diener 2 WLKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Betsy Ben condron Dana Morris '83 Edward White in Alexandra Ehret W. Carey Evans '41 Frank M. Henry Andrew Hourigan, Jr. Robert L. Jones Hon. Edwin M. Kosik '49 Richard Maslow Mrs. Robert L. Mayock Charles H. Miner, Jr. Gerald A. Moffatt '63 Richard L. Pearsall William A. Perlmuth '51 Joseph J. Pinola '49 Mrs. Kenneth A. Rh Arnold S. Rifkin Harold Rose. JrHon. Max Rosenn Eugene Roth 57 Luciana Surad ©©©“ ■50 The appointment of Dr. Virginia Nehring, RN, as chairperson for the Wilkes College Department of Nursing, has been announced by Wilkes President Robert S. Capin. “We are indeed fortunate to have someone of Dr. Nehring's background and qualifications to head our nursing program," said Capin following the announcement. "She will most certainly be a welcome member to our faculty.” Nehring received her BSN from the University of Bridgeport, her MSN from the Yale University School of Nursing and completed her doctoral course work at Boston University’s School of Nursing. Former faculty member at Yale University, Nehring has served as Director of Nursing at Hawaii Community College and, for the 503 Wilkes students received degrees on May 17 as the College conducted its 34th Annual Commencement at Ralston Field. Several distinguished guests who participated in the ceremonies included (left to right): The Honorable Max Rosenn, Judge U.S. Court of Appeals; The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Judge U.S. Court of Appeals and Commencement Speaker; Dr. Gerald Hartdagen, Dean of Academic Affairs at Wilkes; Congressman James Nelligan, 11th Congressional District; Wilkes President Robert S. Capin; and Mrs. Max Aronoff, who accepted a posthumous Doctor of Humane Letters in her husband's memory. More stories and photos inside. SUMMER 1981 3 �WILKES COLLEGE ROTC DETACHMENT COMMISSIONS NINE I Artists rendering of new residen^ NEW RESIDENCE HALL PLAN UNVEILED In an official announcement made on Wednesday. February 25. i President Robert S. Capm said that the College plans to build a new residence hall which will house 205 students and be ready for occupancy in August of 1982. The new facility, which will cost m excess of S3 million, will be located on the corner of South River and Northampton Streets in Wilkes-Barre. "The new facility is necessary if the College is to maintain its enrollment in the future, said Capin at the press conference. "Many of our present housing facilities are very old and extremely costly to maintain. The new residence hall will give us the flexibility we need while, at the same time, enabling us to use our energy resources more efficiently and productively," he said. In addition to the campus housing currently available to Wilkes students, the College has, over the past several years, had to house some of its resident students in the Sterling Inn Towne in Wilkes-Barre. "While the Sterling has benefited us in the past we cannot depend on its availability in the future,” Capin said. "Our new residence hall will make it possible for us to bring the students who are currently in the Sterling back on to the main campus, benefiting both the students and the College," he said. The 205-bed, four-story structure will also enable the College to move some of its resident students out of buildings which are becoming cost-prohibitive to maintain. The new facility is designed for energy efficiency and low-cost maintenance. Scheduled to begin this summer construction of the residence hall' 4 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY will complete an extensive campaign by Wilkes to beautify and preserve the South River Street area between Northampton and South Streets. Over the past few years the College has refurbished and preserved such landmark buildings as Kirby Hall, Chase Hall, Bedford Hall and the Conyngham Student Center. The Stark Learning Center and the Annette Evans Alumni and Faculty House also add charm and beauty to that section of the campus and the city. In a continuing commitment to preserve and maintain historic preservation, the College will incorporate the Conyngham ‘Facade’ (remains of the Conyngham House destroyed by fire in 1968) into the architectural design of the new facility. In addition, the College will preserve several Copper Beech Trees which have long been a landmark on the South River Street Causeway. In commenting on the new campus addition, Wilkes College Dean of Management Dr. Andrew Shaw saia "construction of the new residence hall is another endorsement of faith that Wilkes has in the city and the community. The facility will help to stimulate the local economy by providing much-needed jobs at a time when there is extensive unemployment in the area." Shaw also said that the residence hall will help attract new students to the area as well as educational conference and seminar groups helping to stimulate the local economic base. Mr. Donald Sanderson, architect with the Wilkes-Barre architectural firm of Pyros and Sanderson, said the architectural design of the new residence hall will "maintain the cornice lines and features of adjacent buildings which will assure that the building blends naturally with its setting.” The fully air-conditioned facility will consist of approximately 55,000 square feet of floor space and will be of red-brick construction. of the Oath of Office, Commissioning and Presentation of Gold Bars. Shown following the ceremony are Lieutenants Michael Angley, Richard J. Gaetano. Joseph Pelchar, John W. Dykes, Bernard Krappa, Jr., Thomas W. Godowsky, Kathy Kollar. Stanley E. Jones, and Barbara J. Aponick. ALUMNI AWARD RECIPIENTS in Washington, D.C. in 1976. The Wilkes-Barre resident is a member of the Wyoming Valley United Way and Executive Board Member of the Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis Club. He is active in the American Red Cross and former vice president of the Pennsylvania Association of Municipal Transportation Authorities. Dr. Joseph Lord received the Eugene S. Farley Memorial Alumni Award presented to an alumnus(a) who epitomizes the characteristics of an educated person. Lord attended Wilkes from 1933-35 when the College began as Bucknell University Junior College. He received his B.A. in 1937 and, in 1946, was accepted for graduate study by the Department of Social Relations in Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Since the early 1950s Lord has served as Chief Psychologist and Director of Psychological Training in the internationally-recognized Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center, the pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Lord, who has had numerous publications appear in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry and the Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, has served as a Clinical Associate at Boston University and is a Fellow in the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Orthopsychiatric Association. Both Keiper and Lord were selected for the awards by the National Alumni Executive Committee. Mr. Stephen A. Keiper. Executive Director of the Luzerne County Transportation Authority, and Dr. Joseph P. Lord. Chief Psychologist and Director of Psychological Training at Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center were the recipients of annual Wilkes College alumni awards presented at commencement exercises for the Wilkes Class of 1981. f evv Shaw, Dean of Management, look on. Prior to commencement exercises for the Class of 1981, the Wilkes ROTC Detachment commissioned nine officers at ceremonies held in the Schaeffer Lecture Hall of the Stark Learning Center. The impressive event included the presentation of the Distinguished Graduate Certificate, Administration Keiper, a 1972 graduate of Wilkes, received the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award for best exemplifying the traditions of Wilkes College. Those long-standing traditions include vision, understanding of people, maintenance of convictions and loyalty, respect for differences, and adherence to ideals that create unity and good will amidst diversity. A native of Hazleton, Keiper holds an M.B.A. from Wilkes and co-authored a paper on energy conservation which was presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Research Council, Transportation Research Board U.S. COURT OF APPEALS CIRCUIT JUDGE TELLS WILKES CLASS OF 1981 THAT WE MUST ALL STAND UP FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN Delivering his commencement address to an audience of over 4.500 people. The Honorable Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, told members of the Wilkes College Class of 1981 that "we must all stand up for the downtrodden and that we who are learned must plead for the rights of those whom society may call dumb." Referring to a theme which was developed by Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist slave and a superman of his time. Higginbotham referred to Douglass’ answer back in 1852 when he was asked what the role of a free negro should be. He replied, "To stand up for the downtrodden, to open my mouth for the dumb and to remember those in bonds as if bound with them." "One hundred and twenty-nine years later," said Higginbotham, "Douglass' theme is a relevant message for all 1981 College graduates. "In our own way, we who are privileged must stand up for the downtrodden; we who are learned must plead for the rights of those whom society may call dumb — for most are not intellectually deficient, but their abilities have been thwarted by an inadequate educational system or an insensitive environment. We must do this, in Douglass’ words, ’as (if) bound with them.’ "As we witness the steady decline of our cities, as we feel the polarization, as we hear the rhetoric SUMMER 1981 5 �Following his address Higginbotham received = of hatred, as we see skilled Wheai tenan farm will get adequate [“ uh care live in a decent home h6d receive a quality education. Ihese goals at home must become a NEW FINANCIAL AID DIRECTOR NAMED our society-whatever Ae.r race tocontroHnflation while at the same ttoie°escalating justice and dignity to our nation. We need dreamers who can imagine an improved criminal justice system so that our streets will be safer and our correctional system will rehabilitate. We need courageous men and . women who recognize that a society is hypocritical and woefully inadequate if it makes venal condemnation of riots in the ghetto but fails to keep its own house in order at the executive mansions of our cities, states, and nation, or at the seats of our schools, Courts, or businesses. "At home and abroad we must support and exemplify the values of peace, love, dignity, and respect symbolized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Pope John Paul II, both of whom were victims of violence Wilkes President Robert S. Capin though they served as apostles of has announced the appointment of peace. We must pray for, work for, Rachael L. Lohman to the position and dream of a world which Martin of Director of Financial Aid at Luther King described as a planet the College. Lohman replaces Lindtla where 'people everywhere can have Giordano, who will join the Wilkes three meals a day for their bodies, Education Department as a member education and culture for their of the faculty. minds, and dignity, equality and Ms. Lohman received a B.S. freedom for their spirits’." degree in Business Education from Wilkes College in 1971 and a Master of Education degree with a specialization in Business Education from Bloomsburg State College in 1979. Prior to her appointment at Wilkes, Ms. Lohman served as Director of Student Services and Registrar for the Wilkes-Barre Center of Lackawanna Junior College, Scranton. Her duties included responsibility for the Office of Financial Aid. The Wilkes-Barre native, between 1974 and 1976 served as Dean of Students and Instructor at the Wilkes-Barre Business College. In her capacity as Dean of Students, she was responsible for the Financial Aid Office there. She has also worked extensively in the area of admissions at both acuity and administration and Lackawanna Junior College and Wilkes-Barre Business College. EreOvenJerfOrtheyear-end President Capin stated, "We are delighted lo have Ms. Lohman as our Wond°r^0n the Picturesque new director, she brings with her an in-depth knowledge of all aspects o financial aid. We also are very pleased to welcome back Ms. Giordano as a member of the Education Faculty." religion or national origin - must oe touded-Only then will many move from potential to accomplishment, from rhetoric to attainment, an from disillusionment to hope. “These goals and these challenges which I raise are not pipe dreams, they are possible. This country was not built by a group of cynics who felt that the best days were m the past and that the future had no hope. When Franklin, Jefferson. Washington and Madison met to write the Declaration of Independence, they were dreamers for a better America and a better society. The greatest men in our society always will be those who say we love our country not merely for what it was, not merely for what it is, but that we love it most of all for the dreams we can some day make real. “We need you to be a part of the dreamers of America to hitch your dreams with efforts for a better tomorrow. We need leaders who can help right the wrongs while continuing the good and the most noble ideals of our society. We need dreamers who believe that the most affluent nation in the world can ™d™-danceheldat THE WOODLANDS A highlight in the festivities of ^dua(1°n week for the Class of 1981 was the Annual President’s The dinner-dance brings graduating seniors, members of the 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY HONORARY DEGREE AWARDED POSTHUMOUSLY TO FOUNDER OF THE CURTIS STRING QUARTET When the late Max Aronoff was nominated for a special award by the Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts, the Council said of him. “Max Aronoff was raised and trained in Pennsylvania and spent his entire musical career here as a performer and teacher. The founder of the first internationally-acclaimed American Trained string quartet. The Curtis String Quartet, Aronoff was a major factor in the development of a wide-spread audience for chamber music, heretofore an esoteric art known only to professional musicians and serious amateurs." ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent addressatyour home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Of­ fice at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our rec­ ords. Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin. On Sunday, May 17, Max Aronoff was posthumously awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree from Wilkes College. Mrs. Aronoff was present to receive the honor. “It is indeed a pleasure for us to honor today a man who has thegSilllkM^ The summer calendar of events for the Sordoni Art Gallery includes a showing of works from the permanent collection and two trips abroad called "Tours a la Carte” which will allow art lovers to explore the artistry of past centuries. From June 28 to July 31, the Gallery will present Works from the Permanent Collection. The works will represent a variety of styles and periods from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century, During August, the Gallery will be closed to allow time for renovation and will re-open in the Fall. The first of the two trips begins August 31 and will continue through September 14. The Lord of the Vikings trip will take tourists done so much for the cultural advancement of our State and Nation,” said Wilkes President Robert S. Capin. “His knowledge and love of music, which inspired the founding of the New School of Music, has left an enriching legacy for future generations.” W /J1 to Norway with special visits to museums and markets. The trip is being sponsored by the Brandywine River Museum. Friends of the Museum of Art of Pennsylvania State University, and the Sordoni Art Gallery. Between September 29 and October 7, Impressionism in France — Trail of Monet, as this unique trip is entitled, will take art lovers on tours and visits to sites inside and outside of Paris which inspired the Impressionist Movement. The trip is sponsored by the Brandywine River Museum and the Sordoni Art Gallery. For more information concerning the summer schedule of events, contact Cara Berryman at the Sordoni Art Gallery. The Butler Society The Wilkes campus provided the happy setting in June for the annual reunion of the descendants of Zebulon Butler. The festive occasion brought together over 75 persons whose genealogy traces back to a man who made an indelible mark on the history of the Wyoming Valley. Zebulon Butler came to the Valley from Connecticut in 1769 and is among four early settlers credited with bringing law and order to the early settlements. Among the many descendant-, at the North American Region meeting were: Mr. Charle Butler M.B.E. Marquis of Ormonde: Sidney Butler, chairman of the North American Region of the Butler Society John Lord Butler, Jr : and Lord Dunbojne of London. SUMMER 1981 7 �A Family of Friends By: Jane Hanganella The Wilkes College family is always pleased to welcome new members and especially pleased when it can add an entire family of five to its ranks. Featured on this month's cover are Joseph and Anne Marie Cries and their children Colleen, Maurita, and Joseph, Jr., all of whom have attended, or are currently attending, Wilkes College. Joseph, Sr., holds a degree in English. He has been in radio and television for the past several years, serving twenty-five of those years as Station Manager and Sports Director for station WERE, and currently he fills the same position for the newly-formed station WKRZ. Joe is entirely positive about Wilkes, both as a former student and as a parent. 0^ October 30-31, November 1 Fun, Food, Frolics, and Fellowship Watch for special mailer but reserve the weekend NOW! 8 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY "Wilkes has more than fulfilled every standard, and I recommend it to everyone." Joe has also been the voice of the Colonels for most of Wilkes football and basketball games broadcast over the last 15 years. Anne Marie, noiv working as a Library Media Specialist for the Dallas (Pennsylvania) School District, attended Wilkes on a part-time basis when her children were elementary-school age. "Our experiences (Joe's and mine) as students at Wilkes probably influenced the children, but we didn't choose for them. They were given the option to choose for themselves. After looking at all the local colleges, they chose Wilkes, and we re glad they did." Colleen, who graduated in May with a degree in Accounting, states emphatically, "Wilkes gave me four of the best years of my life!" Colleen gave Wilkes a lot in return. She was an active participant in everything concerning student life, serving as a president of her junior <•’ member of Theta I --------Delta Rho Sorority, co-captain of th, the captain of majorettes and a national a, ™da "ationak winner as a member of the 7ard team. Colleen has been hir.: Uebate be. e recently by the Hew York ’eg accounting firm of Arthur Andersen and Company. Maurita and Joseph have both chosen Business Administration as a major and seem to be following in Colleen s footst. active students on campus.:ePs as Maurita is a member of commute, council, a past president of Theta Delta Rho, and co-captain of the Wilkes College Strutters. Joseph who just completed his freshman year, is a member of commuter council, and on the staff of WCLfi the Wilkes radio station. Both Maurita and Joe, Jr., assist Joe, Sr., when he broadcasts sports events for WKRZ. All five members of the Cries family are warmly welcomed to the ever-growing Wilkes College Family membership. 7lai*. a 5 <7 < 7X3 1933 WILKES COLLEGE • WILKES-BARRE » PENNSYLVANIA 18766 The masthead above will bring back memories of an earlier publication from which the title "The Wilkes College Alum­ nus" was taken. Those Alumni who received the quarterly publication prior to the '70's remember that the official title was the "Alumnus" and was for the most part, an Alumni publication. With the growth and ex­ pansion of the College during the past decade, the publication has become the Col­ lege magazine called the "Quarterly" and was distributed to a much broader consti­ tuency than had been the case. Over the past several months, a number of suggestions have been received from Alumni which indicate that an increased emphasis should be placed on campus news that would be of particular interest to Alumni and on class notes: those little tidbits that tell what classmates have been doing and noting changes in family, employment, or residence. To gather the latter information, the Alumni Office sent to all members the three-part "Update Cards," asking that one be filed im­ mediately and the other two held until a change occurred. The response to that request for informa­ tion has been just great! The office has already received over 1,000 cards from Alumni updating the information in our files and giving us plenty of data for a full class notes section. We received so many cards, in fact, that we decided to include only about half in this issue of the "Alumnus." We tried to list those items that include the most recent changes; the balance of the update cards will be held for the next issue, when they will be published along with those arriving too late for this issue. We are sure you will agree that the follow­ ing section of class notes makes for some very interesting reading. But also keep in mind that the only way that the Alumni Office can continue to publish such a wealth of class notes is for us to receive Update Cards from you. So if you have not sent in a card yet, please do so now. Your friends and classmates are interested in what you are do­ ing and where you are — in addition, the Of­ fice has been able to obtain some current ad­ dresses that were completely new to us, thus increasing our efficiency back here on cam­ pus. In other words, you can help us all by sending in a card today. Please send all information regarding mar­ riages, births, promotions, employment changes, and address changes to the Office of Alumni Relations, Wilkes College, WilkesBarre, PA 18766. 1939 DOROTHY (SMAILES) NUTT has retired as of June 15, 1981, and will relocate to Exeter, NH. We wish Dorothy our best for a happy and productive life of leisure and include a little bit of envy too. 1940 MARY ELIZABETH (SCHWAGER) BURNAFORD is a part-time typist in the Pharmacy Department of a drug store. Betty and her husband William reside in Lancaster, PA. CHARLES F. E. TEMPLETON has asked us to correct his second initial, noting that after 32 years as "Charles R." he feels entitled to a correction. We’re sorry for the delay, Charles, and promise to get it right this time. Charles resides in West Islip on Long Island. 1942 JAMES and OLIVE (THOMAS) PEARN wrote to us from their home in Emmaus, PA where James is a sales engineer with the Fuller Company and Olive teaches in the East Penn School District. Congratulations on your two granddaughters born in October 1980 and January 1981. ROBERT ROVINSKI retired on February 29, 1980. He had been section head of the satellite structures section al the spacecraft technology center with the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Robert and his wife Helen now reside in Allentown, PA. 1944 ETHEL (FARLEY) DOUGLASS is Secretary of the Liv­ ing Word Community in Springfield, PA. She resides in Chester, PA. JANET (POST) PHILLIPS is Director of Marketing with Maternal and Family Health Services in Kingston, PA. Janet received an MS from Temple in 1970 and an MPA from Marywood College in 1975. She resides in Trucksville, PA. 1948 ROBERT T. MIKULEWICZ will retire in June 1981 after 32 years of teaching, with his last assignment as an Instructor of Journalism and Director of the Nev/s Bureau of Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ. Robert earned the M.Ed. from the University of Colorado and a Masters in Journalism from Berkeley. MARINO RUGGERE is a Quality Assurance Represen­ tative with the Defense Contracts Administration, current­ ly assigned to ITT in Easton. Marino notes that his life is rather uneventful, but with memberships in the American Society for Quality Control, the American Federation of Government Employees, a Masonic Lodge, the Reading Stamp Collectors Club and the UNICO Service Club, it sounds like a rather hectic situation. Marino lives in Shill­ ington, PA. HELEN DAVIDSON’ SIEGEL is currently enrolled in the Masters program at Wayne University and expects to receive her degree in Marriage Counseling in August 1981. Helen resides in Birmingham, MI with her husband Robert. 1949 GEORGE J. SHINALY retired from General Electric and as a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, and VOL. 1, NO. 1 established a special industrial engineering consulting service in the New Britain, CT area. George was President of the Economics Club here at Wilkes. RICHARD H. WIDMAN will retire in June 1981 from his teaching position in the Business Department at Wellsville, NY. Richard received his MS from Alfred in 1966. 1950 GRANT H. BARLOW is a Senior Research Associate with the Michael Reese Research Foundation in Chicago. Grant and his wife Marion recently moved to Lake Forest, IL L. ARLENE (PLETCHER) GARFIELD will receive the BS in Biological Science degree from Empire State College. She is a Head Laboratory Technician with Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, NY. She resides in Endwell, NY with her husband Joseph. 1951 DR. PETER COREY was elected President of WilkesBarre General Hospital's medical staff and will serve as the staff's chief administrative officer. He and his wife Ann are parents of four children. DR. CHARLES F. JACKSON has recently been in­ ducted into the Chapels Legion of Honor. His name will become a permanent part of the Chapel of Four Chaplains record. Dr. Jackson is on the staff of the School District of Philadelphia. 1952 RICHARD F. LAUX was recently promoted to Presi­ dent and Chief Executive Officer of the United Penn Bank here in Wilkes-Barre. Dick received his MA in Manage­ ment from Florida Stale. DR. ROBERT J. SHEMO, D.D.S. will serve as general chairman for the slate-wide convention of the Penn­ sylvania Dental Association to be held in Philadelphia. This is another fine example of the leadership roles played by Wilkes Alumni in so many community and professional organizations. 1953 EARLE BARRALL is retired from his teaching career and is now residing in Bakersfield, CA. RICHARD E. WILLIAMS is Chief Engineer of the Gas & Water Distribution Division of Pennsylvania Gas & Water Company. Richard went on to Brown and received •the B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1956. He and his wife Joan are parents of three children — Bruce, a student at Wilkes, Darrell, a student at Penn State, and Loren, at home. 1954 HAROLD H. COOK is regional Sales Manager with the National Gypsum Company and lives in Dallas, PA, with his wife Lois and son Gregg, a 1980 Wilkes graduate and daughter Bonnie, currently in high school. DR. THOMAS E. KELLY is an Associate Professor of French with the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures of Purdue University. Thomas earned the Ph.D. in 1968 from Berkeley, was the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and has just received an Eli Lilly Endowment Faculty Fellowship to work on develop- ALUMNUS 1 �ing American cross-'xllural P^^^tatniclional other languages. He wiB be worta^ Chinese for 1955 niCHARD L BUNN is Vice-President of the gas utility dirision of the UGI Corporation and haads risSaK&gt O Joan for her help as our repress tative. HELEN (KOELSCH) NIELSEN received an MA m Human Development from Fairleigh-Dickinson University in 1978 and has relocated to San Anselmo, CA after a twoyear sabbatical with her husband Hans and their teenagers during which they sailed their family sailboat to Europe and back and visited 15 countries enroute. Where do we sign up for tours, Helen? 1956 ROBERT V. LYNCH is director of Sales for the eastern United States with Gibson, Inc., a division of Norlin Music. Robert earned the B.S. in Music Education at Wilkes, and now resides in Worthington, OH. ALLAN and SHERRY (WASSERSTROM) ROSENBERG reside m in Wheeling, Allan EllDLIlU iCOlUt niiLviuif,, WV, ■< where ----------- -------illy joined West Liberty Stale College recent.; w as an Associate _____ t ___ —ka ;«■ in Arlinnrf Prnfp«nF Professor of Economics - he is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Steubenville and Director of the Regents BA Degree Program. Sherry, '58, is a fifth-grade teacher with the Ohio County Schools system. ANTHONY (TONY) SCARANTINO is Vice-President and a Senior Account Executive with Finance America Private Brands, Inc. in Allentown, PA. Tony and his wife Shirley have four children and reside in Allentown. SAMUEL R. SHUGAR, of Geneva, IL received an M.S. in Marketing from Northern Illinois University in May, 1980. Our latest information shows that Samuel is a Sales Consulting Manager with Western Electric and is listed in Who's Who in the Midwest — congratulations! 1957 CHARLES R. ABATE received the MBA degree from Wilkes in 1977 and is Business Manager here at the Col­ lege. Charles and his wife Lois are parents of four sons, each of whom attended the College. In between an im­ proving golf game, Charles earned the designation Cer­ tified Purchasing Agent. WILLIAM JACOBSON is Production Control manager with the Okonite Company. Bill and his wife Sylvia reside in Cranbury, children juui Jodi uuu and Jtll. Jeff. J' NJ J with ....... — JAMES A. PALEY___________ is a state mediator with _ .mu the mt Bureau uuicau nf the th» State Department n=__ ___ . _r off Mediation of of rLabor and. .In­ dustry; James lives in Kingston, PA. 1958 LEONARD V. GALLICK passed the Pennsylvania state brokers examination in February, 1981, and is an As­ sociate Broker with Jones Real Estate in Muncy, PA. Leon­ ard earned an M.S. degree from the University of Scran­ ton, and resides with his wife, Anne Marie in Muncy. DR. ANDREW SHAW, Dean of Management al Wilkes College, was informed that his biography will be included in the 18th Edition of Who's Who in the East. Andy and his wife Vi reside in Dallas with their three children. Daughter Linda just completed her freshman year here at the College. JAMES J. WILLIAMS reports a new position as Equal 2 ALUMNUS family! 1959 nR RONALD T. GAUTREAU is an Associate Pro'Sute'in Newark, NJ. He lessor’with the New " "Schaum's Outline in recently co-authored the book translated into Modern Physics" which hasis dI3 alsoo been 1 Ronald and wife Joan reside French, Spanish, and Haban. E..... in Rahway, NJ. . ■nSm is>s Vice-President for EDWARD S. KOZLOWSKI Medical, Inc. He earned the Manufacturing of Burron resides in Bethlehem, PA. _ ~ and MARY [ANCHEL] SABEL -.— ihas a new position as Sales Representative with Country Heritage Real Estate, in East Stroudsburg, PA. Mary resides in Milford, PA. CHARLES A. SORBER was named Associate Dean for the College of Engineering in the University of Texas at El Paso in September 1980. Charles earned the MS al Penn State and the Ph.D. at University of Texas at Austin, both in Engineering. He and his wife Linda reside in Austin TX. 1961 DR. ROBERT L. CHEW is a senior specialist, Distributed Systems Planning with Honeywell Informa■’ Systems, p in lion in Waltham, MA. Robert holds an MS in Science from Stanford and the Ed.D, in Computer "Sri.... —----Management from the University of.HeMassachusetts. ’ifh hi? resides in Tnneftolri Topsfield U-with his wifp wife Sallv. Sally. RAYMOND S. LITMAN was recently promoted to Vice-President with Manufacturers Hanover Trust Com­ pany. Raymond holds several listings in Who's Who publications, and was awarded lifetime membership in the Internationa! Association of Credit Card Investigators for the services he performed for the organization. He resides in Plymouth Meeting, PA. American Society for Health Training, and will serve as one 0H *7 Edu<Stin ASHET's Graduate Thesis/Dissertai „ l'Ve ’•d wish Rick, his wife Linda, and chnd?(Com"’i|t^w relocale from Miami to Lakeland " °ur **st a al1 as they 1963 ERWIN F.GUETIG was married l0 AARON G. and JANICE IMACDONALni are residmg m Berw.ck, PA with their chdd ' HASTIF and Suzanne. Janice, '63, is a School Nnr< Aar»n P wick Area Schools, and Aaron is Pastor nr .c Wllh lhe Be, Presbyterian Church, also in Berwick he Firsl unihM REGINA (RITZ1E) HOELSCHER and x Wilfred reside in Bakersfield, CA with n?" hust»nd Karen and Janet. Janet was bom on Iu|v i Liters earned an MA from Penn State, and ha7b m o' Programmer with Cal Slate. cen a c°mputer WILLIAM MENEELEY, CMDR., U S N named to command the Texas Naval Ira” ■Vy’1,35 N.26, the Tigers. He and his wife Cath^^ JERRY and ROWENA (SIMMS) MOHN , -a Houston, TX where Jerry is President of Ma„,“ Resources, Inc., and serves on several board. ?clure« Calabrian International Corp., Chemall ' ‘as the Calabrian-Cuproquim, S.A., of Mexico terrvi * and known Io Region XII Alumni as their Rrei0IM*sj wellPresident on the National Alumni Executive Cm, i will be in touch with area graduates in the n£ vuuijjuivi 1962 FLORENCE (GALLAGHER) BISCHOF is the Director of Music Ministry at Ohio Dominican College in Colum­ bus, OH. She and her husband Charles are parents of two children and also reside in Columbus. RICHARD BONA was recently named Assistant Treasurer of Kowecki Berylco Industry, Inc. of Reading, PA. He resides in Whitfield, Reading. WILBUR N. DOTTER is an Associate Professor at Montgomery College, Takotna Park, MD. He holds the MST degree from Rutgers University and resides in Silver Spring, MD with his wife Mary and children Margaret and William. (RUNDLE) --------— DOUGLAS is an rwjuviaiv Associate ____ o- °f Chica —...w-J8j0 W.’ cm. She vallitu earned uu MS MS degree degree from from Boston Boston University in in 1067 1967, an,! and resides an in Chicago with her husband Walter. ROBERT L. EVANS announce the birth of their third son, Steven on April 8, 1980, joining brothers Robert and Sean. Robert is Vice-President for Marketing of radio sta­ tion WYZZ-FM here in Wilkes-Barre. The Evans family resides in Hanover Hills. RAYMOND J. NUTAITIS, of Tempe, AZ is a realtor­ _____ , *Cuipc. nay earned a Master associate with Century 21 in Tempe. Ray earned a Master °f Mllrir Music HdepcP “ fram »Eastman of Music and taught of TTDO —«"School • a* Wilkes before moving to the Sun Belt, DR. DAVID S. and JOAN (PITNEY) PETERS reside in Tenafly, NJ. David holds the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Portland and is cofounder and Director of Clinical Services of the Institute tor Counseling and Psychotheray ' _ n MARGARET nr organize an alumni get-togelher in the Houston area STEPHEN E. PHILLIPS has been named Project Coordinator of CAHN, Inc. of Forty Fort, PA. Sleph ' earned an MA from Bloomsburg (PA) State College in Mav 1980 and resides in Wanamie, PA. DR. PATRICIA V. ROSSI has been named Director of the Department of Pediatrics at Wilkes-Barre's General Hospital. She and her husband Al reside in Bear Creek Village and are the parents of three sons. JAMES W. WALTERS assumed a new position as Director of Financial Planning with Boslilch Textron in East Greenwich, Rl. James holds an MS-BA degree from Bucknell, and he and his wife Jane announce the birth of their first child, Matthew James, on August 4, 1980. The Walters reside in Coventry, RI. 1964 ARLENE (COHEN) GORDON is now a social worker with the Jewish Home for the Elderly in Fairfield, CT. She received an MA degree from lhe University of Bridgeport in May, 1980, and is married to Dr. Leonard Gordon. They reside in Easlon, CT. JOAN (HAND) DUPKANICK gave birth to a son Christopher William, on December 22, 1980. Joan is a teacher in the Union-Endicott (NY) Central Schoo District. She and her husband William also have,a daughter Rebecca Lynne, age 2, and reside in Vestal,, WENDELIN (DOMBOSKI) MOBERG has a new posi­ tion as Instructor of Nursing at Triton College, Riv“ reside in Grove, IL. Wendelin and her husband Clarence ret Chicago. , ROBERT O. MYERS is department chairman ai teacher in the Mathematics Department at Linda e■ j High School, Glen Bumie, MD. Robert and s Maralyn just gave birth to their first child, s . March 13, 1981 - congratulations! Robert holds an degree from George Washington University, a Myers reside in Arnold, MD. . |e CAROL (PLONNER) SAVONA received her Cerri^ - n—- • "mnlnvmpnl Of the ™th™^ d r35 re Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, PA. Keith holds a Masters degree in Math from Temple University, and lives in Yardley, PA with his wife Florence. Son Mark is a Junior at the Coast Guard Academy and son Scott is a freshman at the Naval Academy. A real "All-American" y appointed Chairman Florida- Rick- we all k^ow Gen<Ml H°SpilaI “ MiddIe Scho°L EliMbeth- NJ- been elected --ice. He has also committee for the With RCA in Rockville, MD. Louis is married to to a select national , xnrf former Margaret Whyte and they reside in Zionsville, MD with a daughter Christa and a son Marc. 1965 NELLO AUGUSTINE is the Coordinator of Outpatient Psychiatric Services with the Luzerne-Wyoming County Mental Health Center. Nello and his wife Maryann reside in Plains, PA with a son Michael. Congratulations to BARRY J. HARTZELL on his January 1, 1981 promotion to Vice-President and General Manager for the eastern division of Safeguard Business Systems in Fort Washington, PA. Barry’ and his wife Janet have two sons and reside in Souderton, PA. LESLIE (TOBIAS) JENKINS received the AS degree in Graphic Arts from the University of Hawaii in May 1980. She and her husband, JAMES, '65, reside in Mililani Town, HI with their daughter Karen Leah. JOHN J. LEVANDOSKI was recently promoted to pro­ fessional territory manager of the Health Care Division of Johnson & Johnson Co. John was made a member of the company’s Ring Club, one of the highest sales honors given by the Division, and was also awarded the grand award winner of a trip for two to Rio deJaneiro. John and his wife Elaine reside in Bowie, MD with their two daughters. CARL J. MISSAL is now a Supervising Principal with the Groton (CT) Board of Education. Carl earned an MS in Education from Eastern Connecticut College and a 6th Year Certificate of Educational Administration from the University of Hartford. He and his wife Patricia reside in Oakdale, CT with their four children. DONALD W. UNGEMAN is an Associate General Counsel with the Johns-Manville Corporation in Denver, CO. Don received the JD degree from Villanova Univers­ ity and has been named to Who's Who in American Law. Don resides in Littleton, CO with his wife Marie and sons David and Joseph. SUSAN (WEIGEL) YOUNG is a Speech/Language Assistant at the Etna Elementary School. She and husband Craig reside in Etna, CA with children Ian and Felicity. 1966 SANDRA (WOOLF) BAUMAN is a reading tutor. San­ dra received the MS from Lehigh University in 1968, while husband MARK, '67, earned the Ph.D. in History from Emory University. Mark is an Assistant Professor at the Atlanta Junior College. The Baumans reside in EJlenwood, GA with sons Peter and Joel. R. JACKSON BERKEY is a musician with American Gramaphone Records in Omaha, NB, where he just had two solo albums of piano music released — he is also ac­ tive in writing choral music. Jackson and his wife Almeda reside in Omaha. FORREST J. EICHMANN is Director of Music at A. P. Schalick High School in Elmer, NJ. Forrest and his wife Donna reside in Woodstown, NJ with their four children: Kristen, Shannon, Lauren, and Steven. RAYMOND D. FREY, of Dallas, PA is Regional Manager for the Kitchenaid Division of the Hobart Cor­ poration, based in Kansas City. DONALD A. PAHLS (MS in Physics) is a Senior engineer, Field Support with the Electronic Components Division in Allentown, PA. Don is a 1959 graduate of Penn State University and resides in Allentown with his wife Betty, a registered nurse, and their two daughters. F. CHARLES PETRILLO has been winning his share of elections recently. He was elected to the Board of Direc­ tors of Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and Secretary-Treasurer of Harvey's Lake Historical Society. Inc. In May 1981, Chuck was also elected to the Board of the Greater Wyoming Valley Chapter of the College Alum­ ni Association. Chuck holds the JD degree from Dickinson College of Law and is Executive Director of the Luzerne county Legal Services. Mrs. Petrillo, the former MARION BOYLE, '70, received an MA from Duquesne University and was a part-time Instructor at the Luzerne County Community College. The Petrillos reside in Wilkes-Bane with their son Matthew. DR. SARAH (BUTLER LEONARD) RICHARDSON is an Associate Ichthyologist with the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, MS. Sally earned the Ph.D. in 1972 from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. She has published numerous writings in the areas of fish taxonomy, ichthyoplankton, and life history studies of fishes, and is married to Michael, a Biological Oceanographer. They reside in Bay St. Louis, MS. Congratulations to DR. NORMAN STROJNY who earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in May, 1981. Norman is an analytical chemist/Methods Development Pharmaceuticals with Hoffmann laRoche in Nutley, NJ. ALLAN D. WICHSTE1N updated his file by telling us of the birth of a daughter Amy in May, 1979. Allan is a Systems Analyst with Hornblowcr-Weeks in New York Ci­ ty. Wife Barbara is an elementary school music teacher, and the Wicksteins reside in West Merrick, NY. NEIL MILLAR was promoted last year to General S Supervisor of the Financial Department of the General ’ Motors Assembly Division in Wilmington, DE. Neil and \wife Bonnie reside in Landenberg, PA with their two t daughters. BARRY M. MILLER is presently a broker associate in a Denver Realty Company and is part owner of MCM ( Construction, a building and remodeling concern. Wilkes students were very impressed with Barry at the recent Cir­ cle K convention in Pittsburgh, which Barry attended. JUDITH A. MISTICHELLI has coedited a bibliography entitled "Technology and Values in American Civilization: A Guide to Information Sources." She has also published several bibliographic guides, journal articles, and reviews, and co-authored "Beyond Technics" and "Jules Verne: A Guide to Science Fiction." HARRY G. and ALICE (PANOWICZ) MORGAN reside in Jacksonville, FL where Hany is a Senior Engineer with Offshore Power Systems. He received Masters Degrees from Drexel in Mathematics and from Penn in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. The Morgans have two children, Brian and Kristy. DANIEL R. PRICE earned the MS degree from the University of Scranton, and is a Social Studies teacher with the Windsor (NY) Central Schools. Dan won a Freedom Foundation Scholarship in 1980, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Methodist Church of Windsor. Dan and his wife Carolyn have two children. GORDON ROBERTS has been commissioned to con­ duct the Schuylkill Area District Choral Festival. He is director of music at Elm Park Church, Scranton, PA, and entertains regularly on Sunday evenings at many Pocono Mountain resorts. JEAN (COOK) SPANARELLI is a Business Instructor at the Luzerne County Community College in Nanticoke, PA and also works with the Displaced Homemakers Pro­ gram. Jean and her family reside in Mountaintop. WINDSOR S. THOMAS is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the State University of Nev/ York at Utica. He and his wife Barbara reside in Rome, NY with their two children. WAYNE P. and CAROLYN (OBERZUT) YETTER reside in Mechanicsville, PA, where Wayne is director of Marketing Economics and Development with Merck Sharp & Dohme, a division of Merck & Co. Wayne and Carolyn, '69, have twins John and Jenny born in 1972, and Michael, born November 3, 1980. 1967 JOSEPH BRILLINGER is a lawyer in private practice in Norwich, NY. Joe and his wife Kathleen have one daughter, Amy Elizabeth. SALVATORE A. BUFALINO is a Lead Engineer with McDonnell Douglas Corporation in St. Louis, MO. Salvatore earned a B.S. from Virginia Tech in 1969 and an MS from the University of Missouri in 1980. He and his wife Cathrene have three children and reside in Maryland Heights, MO. MICHAEL CURILLA is a business teacher al JFK High School in Willingboro, NJ. Mike and his wife Barbara have three children, Timothy, Nancy, and Michael. LEONA (SOKASH) DUFOUR is also a teacher at the Carmel Central School in Carmel, NY. She and her hus­ band George live in Carmel with son George and daughter Alexandra. MARILYN L. GOODMAN teaches in the Groton (CT) public schools. Marilyn earned the MS degree in Psychological Examining from Southern Connecticut State College and resides in Mystic. SYLVIA (CARSTENSEN) HUBER resides in Athens, GA with her husband Albert and children Christina, Wen­ dy, and Laural. Sylvia is a Rehabilitation Specialist with International Rehabilitation and holds the M.Ed. degree from the University of Georgia, 1980. EDITH ANN (MILLER) KACHURAK is an Instructor at the Northampton County Area Community College. She received the MA from the University of Scranton in 1975 and resides in Bethlehem with her husband Joseph and children Rachel, 6, and Joseph, Jr., born June 22, 1980. RICHARD L. KRAMER is an Accountant with Laventhol & Horwalh here in Wilkes-Barre, and is also VicePresident of Luzerne County Youth Services Commission. Rich and his wife Ruth live in Forty Fort with daughter Rebecca. NORMAN H. KRESGE resides in Whitney Point, NY, where he teaches in the Central School. His wife Andrea is also an elementary Teacher. Norm earned advanced degrees in Economics at SUNY Binghamton and in Educa­ tion at SUNY Brockport, and has taken additional courses at Marywood College in Scranton. MARTHA (THOMPSON) KVORTEK resides in East Brunswick, NJ with husband Albert and children Eric, Rosanne, and Andrew. Martha used the update card to ask■ us to correct the spelling of her married name, which we: had incorrect since 1968. Sorry, Martha. JUDITH (NOYLE) LANE is a Certified Rehabilitation! Counselor and has a private practice in Center Valley, PA. Judy and her husband James announced the birth of a son James II on March 13, 1981. RICHARD F. MASCIARELLA is employed as an Economist GS-110-5 with the Bureau of Labor Statistics Office and resides in Philadelphia. EVELYN (MORENKO) MATELSKI earned an MS degree in Business & Office Education from Rutgers University. She was a buyer for the Bell Telephone Com­ pany, and resides in Edison, NJ with husband Leon. 1968 JUDY (SIMONSON) ARENSTEIN was recently pro­ moted to Staff Manager-Marketing with AT&T Long Lines in Bedminister, NJ. Judy, our National Alumni Association President, gave birth to a daughter, Amy Sue on August 5, 1980. The Arenstein gals reside with husband and dad Bob, a practicing attorney, in Short Hills, NJ. JUDITH E. BEYER received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979, and is now an Assis­ tant Professor in the Graduate Program of Pediatric Nurs­ ing at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. STEPHEN BOSCH, an attorney, is the Deputy City So­ licitor for the City of Philadelphia. He resides in the City of Brotherly Love. DONALD and KATHLEEN (HAY) BOHL reside in Berwick, PA, where Don is a Sales Representative with the Zeiser Vault Company of Nescopeck. The Bohls (Kathleen graduated from Wilkes in 1970) have three children, Erin. Tyson, and Justin, who was born January 5, 1981. LCDR. ROGER D. BREWER is a cryptologist with the Naval Air Force, and serves with the Navy's Atlantic Fleet out of Norfolk, VA. Roger resides in Virginia Beach with his wife Barbara and children Janesse and Jason. JOYCE (CHRISTIAN) DETTER resides in Silverdale WA with husband Gary and daughters Elizabeth and Rebecca. Rebecca was bom on April 8, 1981. NANCY (NOTERMAN) DOWNING and husband Thomas announce the birth of a son, Thomas Joseph on ALUMNUS 3 �■ EILEEN (LUFF) SHOEMAKFo ,. the College. The Belluccis reside in Rer freshman ^A'^nd daughter Lisa. , Conyngham wi |rKENHEAD is a laboratory CHRISTINE IF ?H «)B>RK^Hosp.tal s supervisor al the e now 8, and the family resides^ o" Jan,«. taN DR. ROBERT M. SMITH is a "d M> h reside ;n Dallas, PA, SUZANNE SWENSKI was mw-. "X'- REV DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK was recently ap. j | tLe Board of Directors of Herkimer ( tae children, Dawn, Dale, and David. GEORGE (MATT) MORAN resides m Lancaster, PA with wife Jacquelyn and daughter Jennifer. Matt is with Fiberfill Division of Dart Industnes. Inc. NICHOLAS S. REYNOLDS and wife Libby announce the birth of daughter Nicole on June 15, 1980, joining Elizabeth and Courtney in lhe Reynolds family. Nick earn ed lhe ID degree at George Washington University and is a partner in the Washingion law Firm of Debevoise and Liberman. The Reynolds live in Alexandria. VA. MYRNA (BRODBECK) SCHAEFER gave birth to a daughter Renee on April 7,1981. Myrna leaches English at Meyers High School in Wilkes-Barre and received an MA from the University of Scranton. She resides in Pittston, PA, with husband Lawrence and number one daughter Stephanie. JOHN E SHELDON is a Senior Engineer with Raytheon of Bedford, MA. John earned an MEE degree from the University of Delaware and resides in Nashua, NH with wife Mary Jane and daughter Vicki. MICHAEL D. and REGINA (BELDEN) SMITH reside in Pleasanton, CA where Michael is manufacturing manager with the Diablo Systems Division of Xerox. He and Regina, '67, have two sons, Timothy and David. CARL SPONENBERG is chairman of the Music Department of Big Spring School District in Newville, PA. Carl earned the M.M. degree from the Eastman School and resides in Shippensburg, PA, with wife Jean and daughters Krista and Becky. WILLIAM and NANCY (WANCZYK) STINGER reside in Marion IN, where William is now manager of operations - paperware with the St. Regis Paper Com­ pany. He is in charge of paperware factories in Marion, IN; Pryor, OK; and Taylor, PA. William earned the MBA from Widener University in 1979, and he and Nancy, '69, have a son Eric. DR. DAVID A. THOMAS was recently made chief resi­ dent of Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. David earned the MA and Ph.D. degrees from Temple and the DO from lhe Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Congratulations to ARTHUR H. TREVETHAN, who received the MBA degree from the University of Dayton in May, 1981. Arthur and wife Cheryl live in Delaware OH with son Arthur R. and daughter Elizabeth ^MandNANCYjFRUSHONJWOLPEresidein family is now residing in Wilkes SHARON G. TELBAN earned a M degree in Nursing from the Penn Slale n of Mathematics a from (he Unjveraly oj ^“K^Ses with bis wife Kay and their birth to lheir first child. Bethany Jane, on January 31, 1980. They are residing in Plymouth, PA. DR. THOMAS F. KELLY, our Dean of External Affairs at Wilkes, is serving on the Boards of the American Red Cross and the United Rehabilitation Services. He earned the MA in Economics from Lehigh and the Ph D. from Cornell and resides with wife Nancy Kay and children Christopher and Cynthia Kay in Mountaintop, PA. WILLIAM J. LAYDEN is currently with lhe Bendix Guidance Systems Division of Bendix Corporation in Teterboro, NJ. Bill and his family reside in Nutley, NJ. WILLIAM LEANDRI was recently promoted to vicepresident with lhe Wyoming National Bank of WilkesBarre. Bill also earned the MBA from Wilkes in 1976 and resides wilh wife Paula and daughters Holly and Mandy in Forty Fort, PA. ROSALIE (DEMKO) MUROSKI is a Lecturer in Sociolog)' at the Wilkes-Barre campus of lhe Penn State University. She holds an MA from the University of Hawaii and resides in Plymouth, PA, wilh husband Michael. MARTIN NAPARSTECK of Dallas, PA, is fasl becom­ ing an accomplished author. He won a crealive writing award from lhe Book-of-the-Month Club and was a co­ winner of a Freedoms Foundation award for a newspaper series. His novel "War Song" was published in March 1980, and he has also published numerous magazine ar­ ticles. Martin, who is also an Adjunct Professor of Jour­ nalism here at Wilkes, and wife Ruth Anne have one son, Taft. ANDREA L. PETRASEK is a supervisor/group worker with the Child Development Council of Northeastern Pen­ nsylvania. Andrea earned an MA from Penn State and is a member of the Executive Council of the Wyoming Valley Chapter of the Alumni Association. She resides in Kingston, PA. ROBERT W. REYNOLDS is a teacher at the Casady ■School in Oklahoma City, OK. He and his wife Gail have Itwo daughters, Julie and Rebecca. Robert earned an MS ‘degree at the University of Oklahoma and an M.Ed. degree ‘al Central State University. The Reynolds reside in (Oklahoma City. EstaliM Sailboats with TOM WILLIAMS, '69, locaWhere intte oty. Best of luck with this new ventie. DavW Ala8^?' u°KE announces the birth of a son, ------ •«<« nil, UULU UI d oUIl, °" 23' 1981' "bert received ... BARBARA (TALKOWSKI) BELLUCCI is currently in Center of Reading Hospital. He and . uiiiuj 1 laeuLc Reading, a alumnus he;a “ ™kes-Barre. Barbara's and reside in " Edu«lion her® EDWARD G. ZACKO is a teacher ana r ' fessional musician. He holds a Master's a ee'lanc'Pro Education from Mansfield Stale Coll(.(,,.dCEr?e Musk Spring Valley, NY, with his wife EHen ' r“idtt in sons Nicholas and George Alexander. ,.V!?™A |T!,0M.AS] R'NEHIMER is assistant direci^^ in Nanticoke, PA. She Md huSband Ed'™d -side in Mountaintop. ” gram at l_o„ husband Joseph lives in Avoca, PA. °f Scie„ 1970 EARL J. BALLIET is on the technical « « Laboratories. He and wife Carol reside in BiaTh fu”ZS^SS^s:^i He and his wife Joan have two Sen Christopher, and reside in Newington, CT ’ anii ANDREW J. CASPER is in a new position as ih wastewater treatment plant superintendent for Borough of Berwick, PA. Andrew also leaches for the p? nsylvania Department of Community Affairs in lhe area f wastewater treatment. He resides in Plymouth PA wi his wife Lee and their two children. DR. MARY (KAISER) DYBOWSKI is supervisor of the separations group with the DuPont Company in Wilm­ ington, DE. She earned the Ph.D. in 1976 from Villanova University, and currently lives in Newark, DE, wilh hus­ band Cecil. DONALD E. GOOD received an MA in Education and the Master of Divinity degree from Liberty Baptist Seminary. Don lives in Lynchburg, VA. KENNETH GORDON is a chemist with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration in Philadelphia. Ken's wife Karen gave birth to their first child, Jill Nancy, on May 10,1980. PAULA (GILBERT) GRAY gave birth to a daughter, Debbie, on April 30, 1980. Paula and husband Daniel and other child Darrah live in South River, NJ. TRUDIE (CARLE) KERTULIS announces the birth of a son, Jon Ellis, on December 18, 1980. Trudie is a mental retardation case manager at the Children's Service Center here in Wilkes-Barre. She, husband Robert, and daughter Michele live in Swoyersville, PA. JOAN (LATSKO) KOZICH gave birth to a daughter. Kara, on December 15, 1980. Joan, husband Robert, an Kara reside in Plains, PA. VIRGINIA (LARSON) SCHOFIELD earned the degree in Music from Trenton State College. She ano husband John now reside in Pleasantville, NJ. J. DAVID LOMBARDI was recently senior vice president of the First National more, PA. He, his wife Patricia, and son co 1 (COM- announce the birth of a daughter, Amy y ' r^ct, 20, 1980. Bob is a teacher in the Pennndge Scho Perkasie, PA. .p(.v were THOMAS and LINDA (PHILLIPS) OF supervise married on October 21, 1578. Tom IS engineer - optical properties measureme c[ioral Optical Glass, Inc., of Duryea, PA, while ^1 director and band director for the Berw c ^es, District. Tom also earned the MS in Phys rograni and Linda is currently enrolled in the Educatio here. The Orsecks reside in Plymouth, rn- CAPT. WALTER P- PETROFSKI is an Air Launched r Missile Curriculum Development Manager, Offen• Avionics System for the USAF Strategic Air Comsived at carswell AFB in Texas. Walter and his wife u^nmarie have two children, Amy and Jason, and reside "eFort Worth, TX. DR. JOSEPH R. PUTPRUSH has been named ociate pathologist at the NPW Medical Center in Plains, PA Joe earned the MD degree from Temple University School of Medicine in 1976, completed four years of esidency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, and recently pass­ el the American Board of Pathology examination. He resides in Plains with his wife Barbara. KATHRYN M. REESE and William Kupstas were recently married. Kathryn is employed at Easton Hospital, and they will reside in Bethlehem, PA. ROBIN L. RENNINGER and wife Sandra announce the birth of their third child, Jodi Lee, on March 14,1981, joining sisters Kimberly and Tamera. Robin teaches high school instrumental music in the Haddon Heights (NJ) schools. The Renningers reside in Maple Shade, NJ. LOUISE (RICCI) ROOD gave birth to a son Christopher on May 13, 1980. Louise and husband Donald have another son, Thomas, born in 1978. Louise also earn­ ed MS degree in Education from Wilkes in 1974. The Roods reside in Pittston, PA. PATRICIA (SRNA) REGAN gave birth to a son, Bren­ dan David, on September 9, 1980. She holds a Master's degree from the University of Florida. She, husband Edards, and first son Kevin reside in Gainesville, FL. SANDRA (CARDONI) TIMKO resides in Plains, PA, with husband Ronald and children Ronald, Jr. and daughter Dina. LINDA (WALKER) MACK gave birth to a son on August 14, 1980. She and husband Clarence also have another son, Matthew. Linda is a kindergarten teacher in the Mahonoy Area (PA) School District, and the Macks reside in Barnesville, PA. LEA GINA WHITE has accepted a new position as a vocational counselor with the Hartford (CT) Area Training Center. She is also working on her MSW degree at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Gina resides in East Hartford. FRANCES (JASIULEWICZ) YOUNGBLOOD is living in Wilkes-Barre with husband Thomas and son Tommy. Frances earned the Master's degree in Chemistry Educa­ tion at the University of Scranton. 1971 DANIEL L. ALTERS was recently promoted to opera­ tions chief with the Pennsylvania Department of En­ vironmental Resources, Williamsport, PA. Dan and his wife, SHIRLEY (KNAUTZ), live in South Williamsport and have a son Daniel F. and a daughter Jennifer Lynn. Shirley '72, is a Chemist at the Williamsport Hospital. MADGE (BRESLOF) ALTHOUSE is a senior contract negotiator with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. She has received advanced specialization in govern­ ment contract management at UCLA in 1979. Midge and her husband William reside in Pasadena. RUSSELL C. BAYNE has been promoted to vice presi­ dent for employee relations and personnel with the Armour-Dial Company, in which capacity he will manage the personnel and employee relations departments and employee training and development at the company's nine facilities. Congratulations, Russell. Russ and his wife, LIN­ DA (PHILLIPS) '71, reside in Phoenix, AZ. CHRISTINE (HINCKEN) BLOOM is a teacher of English at Haddonfield (NJ) High School. She, husband Thomas, and son Timothy reside in Somerdale, NJ. SANDRA (PERKOSKI) BRADBURY is a data process­ ing teacher at the West-Side Vocational-Technical School in Pringle, PA. She and husband Louis have two children, Tara and Joseph, and reside in Dallas, PA. STEPHAN N. BRANDO is a recruiter/screener for the AFL/CIO Job Corps center at Nanticoke, PA. Stephan lives in Mountaintop with his wife Gwen and son Vincent. T* |ROTHER1 BURLONE was right MARY ANN (KUNEY) L1PKA has a new position as a hospital consultant with Blue Cross of Northeastern Penn­ sylvania. Mary Ann and her husband David were married in May, 1980, and reside in Plymouth, PA. JANET (LUSSI) MATTHEWS announces the birth of a w?th Phand reid“ in Anderson, SC, daughter, Elizabeth Anne, on May 9, 1980. She earned an v.ith husband Dominick, and daughters Karen and M.Ed. degree from Penn State, and resides in Maryville, Suzanne. Thanks for the update, Joyce Ann. TN, with her husband William. MARTIN M. CEBULA received the MS degree in GEORGE J. MATZ is now a communications consul­ “X T-B1°™sbur8 Stale College m December, tant with the Continental Telephone Company of Penn­ , “art“ 15 an a,r pollution specialist with the Bureau sylvania, of Hershey. George and wife Jean Ellen are of Air Quality Control of the Department of Environmen­ residing in Palmyra, PA. tal Resources, and resides in Hazleton with his wife Diane. SUSAN McDONNELL is national sales manager for the JOHN P. CHERUNDOLO is now an associate manage­ NBC affiliate KXAS in Fort Worth, TX. Susan currently ment consultant with CACI, Inc., of Mechanicsburg, PA. lives in Dallas, TX. He earned his MBA from Penn State and resides in JEANETTE (ABRAHAM) ROPPA and her husband Mechanicsburg with his wife Donna and their son John Phillip have moved to Larksville, PA. Jeanette was a Marcus. teacher in the Wilkes-Barre School District. SUSAN (STANIORSK1) DAVIS gave birth to a son, JACOB SCHULTZ is a salesman with the Eastern Penn­ William Joseph, on March 7, 1980. Susan and her family sylvania Supply Company here in Wilkes-Barre. Jack and reside in Warrior Run, PA. his wife Pat announce the birth of their first child, Erin, on MARY (DEMKO) ERNEST is now residing in Fort March 11, 1981. Erin weighed in at 6 pounds, 7 ounces, Lewis, WA, with husband Franklin and children Michael and measured 20 inches long. Best wishes to Jack and and Laura. Pat!!! RONALD and PATRICIA (MORAN) FEDOR are SHARON (FORLENZA) STEVENS earned the MS residing in Waterford, CT, where Ron is manager of a degree from the University of Maryland and is an assistant restaurant and Patricia '74, teaches in the Groton School professor in our Nursing Department here at Wilkes. District. They have one son, Michael, born October 19, Sharon and her husband John were married October 18, 1980. 1980, and reside in Wilkes-Bane. BONNIE (ARENA) GAMBLE gave birth to a son. ROBERT J, VIGNOLI is a teacher at Green Brook Michael Adam, on November 30, 1980. She and her hus­ High School in New Jersey. Bob's wife Krystyna gave band Richard live in Wilmington, DE, where Bonnie is a birth to a son, Michael, on December 21, 1980; the family supervisor for lhe Bureau of Juvenile Corrections. resides in Somerset, NJ. MAUREEN (KLAPROTH) GARC1A-PONS is presi­ CANDICE (CATES) ZIENTEK is in her second year of dent of a newly-formed non-profit corporation, the Dance coaching the women's field hockey team at the University Association of Northeastern Pennsylvania. She is also the of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She is also a staff member of assistant editor of the women's page for the Scranton the U.S. Olympic Field Hockey Training and Development Tribune. Maureen and her husband Jorge reside in Program, and was a player in the 1979 and 1980 National Moscow, PA. Tournaments. She and her husband Stanley reside in Ypsi­ MARION (BUCHEK) GRAHAM gave birth to a son, lanti, MI. Ryan Robert, on May 7, 1980. Marion, husband Robert, 1972 and daughter Stephanie live in Mechanicsburg, PA. CAROL ICELAND) AREND is a teacher at St. John's JOHN M. HALLIDAY has recently been named con­ School, Houston, TX. Carol and her husband Robert re­ troller of the New Brunswick Development Corporation. side in Houston. John resides in Parlin, NJ, with his wife DIANE PIZONT ROBERT M. BABSKIE is director of inpatient services '70, and sons John and Mark. of the Hazleton-Nanticoke MH/MR center. Robert earned CLARENCE HOFFNER announces the birth of a an MA from Marywood College, and he and his wife Janet daughter, Frances, on August 18, 1980. Clarence and wife reside in Sugar Notch, PA. Mary reside in Pittston, PA, JANE (WHEELER) BASILE is reference librarian at NELSON W. JOHNSON is a research scientist with the Montana State University at Bozeman. She holds an MLS Toxicology Department of Burroughs Welcome Co. in degree from Villanova University and resides at Bozeman, North Carolina. Nelson and wife JoAnn have three MT, with her husband Michael and son Benjamin. children, Aubrey 6, Carissa 5, and Kristen — bom on PAUL T. BROOKS is a sales manager with the Doyle December 18, 1980. The Johnsons reside in Cary, NC. Pharmaceutical Company of Minneapolis. Paul and his JOANN (KONDEK) KATUNA gave birth to a daughter, wife Frances have two sons, Paul T. age 3, and Peter, born Cara, on July 12,1980. They and husband Elliot reside in June 11,1980. They reside in Nutley, NJ. Shavertown, PA. ALICE (BUDZELEK) KLINK resides in Bethlehem, PA WILLIAM M. KAYE was promoted to Assistant Dean with her husband John and their son, David. of Students at the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric BRYCE BURGESS is now terminal manager of the Tuc­ Medicine in Philadelphia. He is a member of the American son, AZ, facility of Roadway Express. Bryce and his wife Personnel and Guidance Association, the American Col­ Irene live in Tucson. lege Personnel Association, and the Association of College ROSE (DITCHKUS) DALE is manager of the critical and University Housing Officers. Bill is listed in lhe 1980 care-bum center of Allentown-Sacred Heart Hospital. International Who's Who in Community Service and Rose, her husband Allan, and daughter Jessica reside in was named to Outstanding Young Men in America for Emmaus, PA. 1981. Congratulations to ERIC B. DAVENPORT, who received GEORGE and BARBARA (ROMAN) KNEZEK are his MS degree from James Madison University in Decem­ residing in Ocean. NJ, where George is division credit ber 1980. Eric is corporate controller of Klockner-Pentamanager for Amerada Hess Corporation and Barbara form­ plast of America, Inc., of Gordonsville, VA. He resides in ed Business: Writing Dynamics and gives business Somerset, VA, with his wife Jean and sons Eric, Jr. and seminars on writing effectively. George holds an MBA John. Eric alos teaches part-time in the accounting depart­ from Monmouth College, while Barbara holds a master s ment of Piedmont (VA) Community College. degree in English Education from Rutgers. GRETCHEN (WINFIELD) FOLKMAN is office DR. STEPHEN T. KOSAGE, a member of lhe science manager of Polyfusion, Inc., of Buffalo, NY. Gretchen and faculty at Keystone Junior College in La Plume, PA, has her husband Ronald live in Lancaster, NY. been named the new chairman of the Math, Engineering, JUDITH S. FRIED is a teacher in the Wilkes- Barre and Science Department at Keystone. He and his wife Area School District. She also earned an MS degree from Patricia have three children and reside in Blakely, PA. jssx-.'sx'isassj" ij ALUMNUS 5 �Wilkes-Barre. Leo and his wife Joan Ann are residing in Wilkes in 1976. Judith resides in Wilkes-Barre. Shickshinny. PA. about lhe DAVID A. FURMAN, formerly of Louisiana, has re­ CARLTON E. PHILLIPS sends^ located to Savannah, GA. Dave, as soon as you send us up­ v.valrt°f Eltrta and lhe Phillips reside in Harnsdated information, we will let other Alumni know whal ™dpA X ^bmther Breit Carlton is an accounyou are now doing in Savannah. tantwith lhe Department of General Services. BARBARA (DEMKO) GARCIA had a very busy Spring of 1980. On March 12, she gave birth to a daughter, Jo­ LINDA (BURKHARDT) anna Michele. On May 9, she was awarded the MS degree in Aerospace Science from East Carolina University, an then a week later on May 16, she was promoted to Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. Congratulations on all three events, Barbara. She and husband Juan are living in Fay­ etteville, NC. FREAS L. HESS III was graduated from the Chubb In­ stitute for Computer Technology in September 1980, and is now a computer programmer with Public Service Elec­ Farmington, NM. tric & Gas of Newark, NJ. Freas and his wife, PATRICIA (VOLPE),73, reside in Convent Station, NJ, with their daughter, Laurie May. Walter in Bloomsbury, NJ. IVAN and DOROTHY (WEBB) HOYT announce the CYRUS O. SMITH and wife Katherine announce the birth of their first child, Ethan Ivan, on January 26, 1981. birth of their second child, Cyrus 0., II, on April 9 1981 Ivan is an art instructor with the Crestwood School Dis­ joining sister Katy, now almost 3 years old. Cyrus s trict in Mountaintop, PA, and Dorothy is a caseworker teacher of English and reading m the Wyoming Valley with the Family Service Association of Wyoming Valley. West School District, and the family resides in Edwards­ The Hoyts reside at Wapwallopen, PA. ville, PA. MICHAEL T. HUGHES is the Assistant to the Vice BRENT S. SPIEGEL is a computer systems analyst President for Campus Life at Stockton State College in with the Fleet Material Support Office in Mechanicsburg. Pomona, NJ. Mike earned the MA from Glassboro State He holds an MA in Industrial Relations from St. Francis College in 1980, and resides in Ventnor, NJ with his wife College and resides in Camp Hill, PA, with his wife Mary Linda and sons Michael and Sean. STANLEY R. KOLLY is president of S. Robert Kolly As­ Alice. DEMETRIA (DEAKOS) TARUD is also a systems an­ sociates, Inc., a world-wide advertising agency. Stanley earned the MS from Wilkes in 1972, and resides in Wap­ alyst, with Hazleton Tech Services in that city. Demelria, wallopen, PA. her husband Solomon, and their one-year-old daughter Di­ JOSEPH W. KOVELESKI is a computer specialist with ana reside in Hazleton, PA. the Navy Fleet Material Support Office in Mechanicsburg, ENID (SULLUM) TOPE is now living in Allentown, PA. He and his wife Patricia announce the birth of their PA, with husband Alan and son Adam. Enid earned lhe first bom, a daughter Erin Marie on January 18, 1980. MS in Counseling from the University of Scranton and has They reside in Mechanicsburg. become active in several service groups in the Allentown PAMELA (KRAKOWSKI) LAWSON is a teacher- aide area. with the Luzerne Intermediate Unit in Kingston, PA. She DEBORAH (BERTI) WALSH is a caseworker with the and husband James reside in White Haven, PA. PA Department of Public Welfare in Wilkes-Barre. Debbie DONNA M. LEMKE is executive director of the New resides in West Pittston with her husband Joseph W. and Jersey Special Olympics, Inc., located at Montclair State their son Joseph. III. College in New Jersey. Donna and her husband, John F. 1973 Fritz, III, reside in Ringoes, NJ. SANDRA (HUGHES) ANSELL is an elementary JAN LOKUTA, of Dupont, PA, was good enough to take teacher, and a good one, in the Hanover Green School of the time to let us know that he disagreed with the recent the Hanover Area School District. Sandra and husband decision of the College to raze some structures on South Craig reside in Hanover Township. River Street and East Northampton Street. But while we RICHARD BERKHEISER is a proprietor of the Tee to may disagree on this, Jan, all of us here at the College Green Golf Shop in Berwick, PA. Richard is married, and want you and the Alumni to know that we are interested he and his wife Janice live in Bloomsburg, PA. in your thoughts and your feelings, and when you commu­ MARY BRANIGAN is a resource room specialist at nicate them to us in the Office, we will see that they are George Washington High School and resides in Philadel­ passed on to the proper individuals. So whether you ap­ phia, PA. prove or disapprove of what the College is doing, let us hear from you! DIANE (CHISARICK) BRENNAN is a teacher with the Dallas School District. She and husband Frank have JEAN (MAZIARZ) LYNN is a teacher with the Scranton two children, Timothy, age 2, and Patrick, just going on 2 (PA) School District. She and her husband John reside in the Electric City. years old. The Brennans are residing in Shavertown, PA. JOSEPHINE (SCHIFAN0) FINLAYSON is teaching in LOUIS A. MAZZA and Margaret Alleman were married on May 17, 1980. Louis received the MBA degree in the Groton (CT) Public Schools at the Cutler Junior High Accounting from Penn State University, and our most cur­ School. Josie resides in Mystic with husband George and rent information shows that Louis is an accountant with son Daniel and daughter Nicole Marie. Those folks in Re­ the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. gion VI know Josephine as the Regional Vice President of the national Alumni Association. EILEEN M. MORROW has been promoted to assistant manager with the Bucknell University Bookstore in Lewis­ DfANA (GREGORY) FINSTAD is a staff programmer burg, PA. Eileen started with the Bookstore as a book with Allstate tn Northbrook, IL. Diana had a daughter buyer in 1974 and is working her way up the ladder there. Ann Irene tn July, 1980, and lives with husband Ronald in Wheeling, IL. Along the way, she also earned an MA from Bucknell and also studied through management seminars of the National JOEL FISCHMAN is now the stage manager of the Association of College Stores. Pennsylvania Ballet Company based in Philadelphia. His GRACE (RICHIE) OSTRUM and husband Matthew are Perf„rieMeS ?' lhe frothy Dickson Darte Center for the owners-operators of their own tractor-trailer rig for I.R.L. Lines. Grace passed the necessary state and federal exam­ inations in 1980. The Ostrums reside in Dallas, PA. LEO C. PETROSKI is an audit officer with the Data Processing Department of the United Penn Bank here in E-txas1- herTaXW *X1J: 6 ALUMNUS “ * Sch°o1'as a stude"' ddren Belh Md Sco"' a?cs 3 1 re- MARGARET (MUTARELLI) FRAIND te Crestwood School District at Mountaintop paS lhe and husband Stanley reside in Berwick, PA * ^ar8aret fnishing and collecting antiques. She also has a love ° 'ess restoring furniture and teaching restoration small bus10 husband Alan have two children, ,ecbt°5,UTand Robert, 2. 101 ocf’iM iDRUGACHI BARTO is a sales analyst with N0Rb she earned an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson MeldlS<:'des in Montclair, NJ, with husband Raymond. “’d.'niPTTE (LOEFFLAD) BENT received her MPA f Marywood College in May, 1981. She and husband ROBERT D. GENNARO has a new posit* ager of financial reporting for Eller & Co in p°n 35 rnaudale, FL. Bob and wife Claire reside in Davie Fl* Lauder‘ DR. ROBERT and SUSAN (PEZZNERI cm n are residing in Riverdale, NY, where Robert is dent in general surgery at the Montefiore Hosnim'¥ Fesi* ical Center of the Albert Einstein College of M -^ed’ the Bronx. He and Susan, 74, have two children age 4, and Benjamin who will be 1 on June 17, OnDR. JOSEPH GRILLI has been promoted tn administrator of Wilkes-Barre's Mercy Hospital i assis,ant an MPA from Penn State in 1974 and an MPa f °eearned University in 1977. His doctorate is also (rom°M Nova 1980, and he received the Certificate in Health Aa tration from St. Louis University in 1981. ioe " .,.dn,lnishis wife Diane and son Christopher who was bn ' ” Wil11 uary 9,1981, in Plains, PA. uoraOnJan. ^inY COUP is an instructor of nursing at the Williamsrt Hospital- Judy also resides in that city. ^iaMES W. McGRATH earned the M.Ed. degree in J Kno Psychology from Temple University and is a enicei^counselor with the Camden (NJ) Youth y°“ • es Hiswife, MAUREEN (KENNEDY), '74, received FA in reading from Glassboro State College in May, 1981. The McGraths reside in Lindenwold. NJ. SUSAN (McKEEVER) MUTH is a laboratory-medical technologist al the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital in Kingston, PA She resides in Wilkes-Barre with husband John and daughter Michelle, 4. C JULIE MORSE is in a new position as bookkeeper for United for Progress of Denver, CO. She has an MA in Theater from the University of Denver and is currently working on the Ph.D. KAM1LLE WARKALA is teaching in the fifth grade of the Wilson School District, West Lawn, PA. She resides in Wyomissing, PA. DEBORAH (BOYER) WEBSTER holds an MS degree from Marywood College and teaches remedial math with the Luzerne Intermediate Unit. She and husband Steven reside in Reeders, PA. FREDERICK A. WILLIAMS is a psychologist with the Salvation Army Facilities in Hawaii. Frederick earned the M.Ed. at Temple and is now enrolled in the Ph.D. pro­ gram in Psychology at the University of Hawaii. He and his wife Julia reside in Honolulu. JAMES V. YANORA is a material control analyst with Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., at Trexlertown, PA. Jim resides in Bethlehem, PA. MARGARET (WALIGORSKY) HUGHES is now , •. ing in Covington, PA. She and husband Anthnnv S'd' married on September 27, 1980. Were NORMA (ROPER) KEENEY is living in Middlelow PA, where husband Ronald is an aircraft technician Th' Keeneys have two children, Michelle, who will be 3 1/ summer, and Sharon, who was just 1. Norma also fa substitute teaching in the Middletown Area School 0° trict. Is’ PATRICIA (KEATING) KEIGHTLEY gave birth to son, Mark Patrick, on December 18, 1980; number one son, Brian Charles, is now three. Patricia and husband Charles and family reside in Springfield, VA. EDWARD KOCIOLEK is the proprietor of D.J.'s Cut­ ting, in Pittston, PA. Ed and wife Bernice have one child Dustin, who was born September 20, 1980. The family re­ sides in Dupont, PA. MARY-BETH KORUTZ is now the art director at the Jewish Community Center here in Wilkes-Barre. She is a resident of this city. SHARON (HUMBLE) NARDONE is teaching in the in­ termediate grades of the Dallas (PA.) Area School District. She and husband FRANK, 71, have one daughter, Heather, 4, and reside in Pittston, PA. HOWARD L. RIFKIN is an attorney with State Farm Insurance in Los Angeles. We sort of lost track of Howard for a while, so please, Howard, send in a note telling us what has been happening for the past several years. Howard and wife PATRICIA (COLUMBUS), 73, reside in Valinda, CA, with son Aaron, age 2, and new-born Gregory, who became a Rifkin on February 12,1981. Con­ gratulations, folks. GILBERT V. RIDDLE is now a market research analyst with the Eaton Corporation of Flemington, NJ. Gilbert re­ sides in Easton, PA, with wife Hermine and children Stephen, Michelle, and Diane. DAVID L RITTER earned the MPA from Marywood College and, since 1978, has been serving as the director of housing services with the Commission on Economic Op­ portunity in Wilkes-Barre. David and his wife JANICE (REINDEL), '74, are residing in Sweet Valley, PA. MARCIA (MINKOFF) ROSENTHAL is a fine arts con­ sultant in the City of Philadelphia. She and husband Law­ rence were married on October 19,1980. DONNA (OSTROFSKI) ROTHER is residing in Ash­ ley, PA with husband Robert and sons Robert, age 3, an Michael, born February 20,1980. JASHINDER (JAY) SIDHU, (MBA), is vice president and director of marketing of the American National Ban in Morristown, NJ. GEORGE P. SILLUP is a sales engineer with the Honeywell Corporation. He earned an MA in Human havior and Development at Drexel University in ' 1980, and resides in Medford Lakes, NJ, with ms w Jeanne and son G. Patrick, who was born on February 1980. CYNTHIA (FARMER) SIEGFRIED reports from CrO ton, MD, that she is now pursuing a lifelong ho y I' 1974 ANN (BERKISE) ANDERIKA teaches al the YMCA Nursery School in Pittston, PA. The Anderikas announce the addition of a daughter, Rachel, born on December 5, 1980 to their Wilkes-Barre, PA home. LEE DAVID AUERBACH has accepted a position as an associate with the law firm of Hall, Dickler, Lawler, Kent, & Howley of New York City. David earned his JD degree from the University of Vermont, and resides in Yonkers. WILLIAM A. BARTUSKI is a sales engineer with Frog, Switch & Mfg. Co. of Carlisle, PA. The Bartuskis have three children, Jennifer, Allison, and Jeffrey, and reside in Chambersburg, PA. DIANE (SELTZER) BLOSS is a teacher with the Lu­ zerne Intermediate Unit in Kingston, PA and resides in Wapwallopen with husband Barry and son Jeff, born De­ cember 20,1980. THOMAS C. BOSHINSKI is director of internal audit of the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ. Tom resides in Marlton, NJ, with his wife, MARIANGELA (SANTOS), 72, and daughter Allyson, born June 26,1980. CHARLES BRESSLER is an assistant professor of English at Houghton College, Houghton, NY. He earned the MS degree in 1975 at the University of Scranton and resides with his wife, DARLENE (GIFFORD), '74, in Houghton. They have a daughter Heidi. DONNA (COFFIN) CATANESE was married on July < 1980 to husband Michael and teaches children with earning disabilities in grades 4 and 5 at the Windward School, White Plains, NY. Donna earned the MS in 1978 “om the College of New Rochelle and resides in Port Chester, NY. DORIS DOBRANSKI is a counselor with the Florida partment of Health and Rehabilitation Services and lives in Winter Park, FL. PA withstand P?tricFk°mdEdNZA?residin8“Pi«s‘on, brates her first birthday at the; end S who cele' 4^1^ ssssiS®: JEAN (GILROY) Gm TWral,h- adelphia firm Ab™ derk With lhe MBUSE, '73, earned at trust Xtautm w“h ^S00' f°' Bla« « a son, Jason, into their home, bom on April 13, 1980- they reside in Sauk Rapids, MN. Y DmAN^ ‘?‘OVANN1NII MIGL10RINO was married Nasser Realty in Scranton, where the couple reside. JAMES GODLEWSKI recently "retired" from coach­ ing the Buckhorn (PA) girls' track and cross country team, which compiled a very impressive record under Jim's leadership and guidance. He has been employed as a filth grade history and English teacher in the Wallenpaupack District (or six years. NANCY GREENBERG has a new position al Fisher Junior College in Boston as the director ol the Travel & Tourism Administration Program. Nancy resides in Brigh­ ton, MA. LINDA (HILL) RILEY is a substitute teacher with the Ipswich Public Schools. Linda resides in Ipswich, MA with husband Stephen and son Shane who just recently celebrated his first birthday. MICHAEL G. H1SCHAK is a real estate accounting manager with Jewelcor, Inc., in Wilkes-Barre. Michael and wile Cheryl have one daughter, Alison, who was born on October 27,1980. The llischaks reside in Larksville, PA. PETER JADELIS was promoted to the position of vice president in charge of savings at Susquehanna Savings A Loan of Pittston. Pete and wife, MARGARET (GATUSKY), '73, reside in West Pittston, PA. NATHAN G. KATZ is an account executive with Dean Witter Reynolds in Atlantic City, NJ. Nathan earned the MBA from Lehigh University in 1976 and resides in Ocean City with wife Laura and daughter Laura Christina. JANET (CENCETTI) KNOX is a medical technician at the Medical Center of Princeton, NJ. She and her husband James reside in Manville, NJ. MINDY (MILLER) LISMAN is residing in Riverdale, NY with husband Elliot and son Josiah. Mindy earned an MA from Lehigh in 1978. EDUARDO MARBAN recently received the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. As part of his pro­ gram in physiology of the heart, Ed has written several scientific articles, and he has presented his work at major meetings in Boston, New York, Denver, and London. He is currently doing a research fellowship at the Yale Med­ ical School and will begin residency training in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in Ju­ ly. Eduardo is the son of Drs. Ediliberto and Hilda .Marban of Wilkes-Bane. MARY (BECKER) MARSHALL is an intake inter­ viewer with the Pennsylvania Department of Employment Security in Scranton. She was married to husband James on September 6,1980, and resides in Wilkes-Barre. RICHARD A. McGUIRE is the assistant town manager of Avon CT. Richard earned the MPA from the University of Connecticut in 1976 and resides in Collinsville. sHIRLEY (MICHAELS) MICNICOSKI gave birth to a . . pU ?? March 7‘1981- Congratulations to Shirley and tad, Franklin. They reside in Duryea, PA. MICHAEL A. NIEHOFF started a new position as analyst/programmer with Air Products & Chemicals in Trex­ lertown, PA. He resides in Whitehall with wife Karen and daughter Nicole Amber. DR. PETER NORDLAND completed a one-year hos­ pital general practice residency in June, 1980, at Loma Linda Medical Center and has begun and just completed the first year of a 2-year residency in the specially of perio­ dontics at Loma Linda University School of Dentistry. Dr. Nordland resides in Grand Terrace, CA. LEONARD J. PACZKOWSKI is presently pursuing a masters program in counseling at Marywood College in Scranton. He is a pulmonary function technician at Wilkes-Barre's General Hospital and was named an "Out­ standing Young Man of the Year." Len and wife Barbara reside in Wanamie, PA, with daughter Lynette, age 1. THOMAS PANETTA wrote to tell us of his receiving the MS in Education from Hofslra University. Now, Tom, send us more on what you have been doing in the Ash­ land, MA, area. MOLLIE (O'CONNELL) PHILLIPS gave birth on Feb­ ruary 10, 1981 to a son Matthew. She and husband Frank also have a daughter, Mamie, age 2, and reside in Dallas, Congratulations to ROBERT D. PRENDERGAST who received an MBA from Penn State in May. Bob is associ­ ated with the Pittsburgh National Bank. He and wife SUZANN (YOUNG), '73, reside in While Oak, PA, with son Christopher. BARBARA (LUCCA) RIZZITELLO is a teacher in the Brick Township (NJ) Schools. Barbara resides in Brick Town, NJ, with husband Edward and son Evan who will be a year old in September. SHARON (RODGERS) NAPLES is art director for Sheldon Vale Associates, an advertising agency here in Wilkes-Barre. Sharon and husband Gary reside in this city. ELLYN (MacDONALD) SALMON is currently residing in Forty Fort, PA. She and husband Harold were expecting a third child in May, 1981, so we will ask Ellyn to tell us about it. The Salmons have a son Sean, 4, and a daughter, Jennifer, 2. ROGER SANDS is a hospital administrator al the Vet­ erans Administration Medical Center in Saginaw, MI. Roger and wife Stephanie announce the birth of their son Joshua on February 17, 1981. The Sands reside at 3153 Sapphire Way, Saginaw, Ml 48603. ELAINE (SMITH) TRAYNOR was married to husband Joseph on October 18, 1980, and is a control supervisor with Bamberger's in Newark, NJ. The couple resides in Cranford,NJ. CAROLE (WARKE) STASHIK stopped by the Alumni Office recently to say hello. Carol, originally from New­ port, PA, now does social work and teaches at North Orange County Community College in California. A daughter Chris is enrolled in the pre-med program at Ful­ lerton State while a son Ken will be a senior in high school. Carol resides in Anaheim, CA. DR. JOSEPH E. STELLA received his MD degree in 1978 from Temple University Medical School. He will complete a family practice residency at Geisinger Medical Center in June, 1981, and will then join a group practice in Scranton, PA. Don't forget to send us your new address once you settle in, Joe. KENNETH H. STONE is a senior partner in the law of­ fices of Wampler, Holzman, Imhoff & Stone in San Diego, CA. Ken earned the JD degree from Western State Univer­ sity School of Law in 1978. He and wife Tamalin reside in San Diego. HARRIET R. STULTS is an art teacher at Herbert H. Lehman High School in New York City. Holly studied at Kulecki-Starke Academy of Jewelry Art from 1975-1977, and her jewelry and cloisonne enameling was in an exhibi­ tion sale at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Smithso­ nian Institution's National Museum of Design for Christ- ALUMNUS 7 �Physics in 1978I and an MS “ “’“^^"have one mas, 1980. She is also scheduled to show at the CooperHewitt Museum in -Crafts in Carnegie Mansion and has exhibited in galleries in New York City, Great Neck, L.I., and Gallery 10-Soho, New York City. Congratulations to DR. JOHN J. TROSKO who.received the DPM from the Pennsylvania College of Podiatnc Med icine this year. John and his wife have a son, Enc, but we don't have your wife's name on file, John. You will have to send in another update and fill us in with your current address, too. DR. BARRY A. WARNER is an endocrinology fellow at the Penn State University College of Medicine. Barry re­ ceived the DO from the Philadelphia College of Osteo­ pathic Medicine in 1978 and had been a resident at the Harrisburg Hospital. He resides in Hershey, PA with wife Evelyn and daughter Christina, age 2. DR. STEVEN WASKO maintains a dental practice in Albrightsville, PA. Steve received the DDS degree from Temple University Dental School in 1978. DAVID T. WOJTOWICZ recently established his own business in Catawissa, PA - D.R.W. Associates, a Market­ ing/Business management consulting firm. The Wojtowicz family resides in Catawissa. 1975 EUGENE B. ASHLEY is president of the Ashley Realtors, Inc. in Montvale, NJ. Gene and wife April have two sons, Timothy, 3, and Benjamin, 6. They reside in Montvale. DR. ROBERT J. BALFOUR is engaged in the practice of dentistry in Pleasantville, NY. Bob received the DMD in 1978. Congratulations to DR. ANN MARIE BARTUSKA, who earned the Ph.D. degree at West Virginia University in May, 1981. DIANE (KEENEY) CRONK is residing in Montrose, PA, with husband Jerry and daughter Amber Lee, who was born on October 10,1980. EDWARD M. CROUGHN is an ESEA Title I math teacher with the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. Ed holds the MA in Elementary Administration from the Uni­ versity of Scranton and Commonwealth Certification as an elementary principal. He and wife Louise reside in White Haven Poconos, PA. JAMES M. DAVIS is a domestic relations counselor with the Luzerne County Court here in Wilkes-Barre. Jim and Loretta had double blessed event on May 11, 1980 with birth of twin sons, Jeffrey and Jason. They reside in the city. ROBERT E DERLUNAS is an administrative super­ visor with the F&M Schaefer Brewing Company in Allen­ town, and promised samples if we put a "plug" into the Alumni Notes. Bob resides in Coaldale, PA, with his wife, Anne, and son Brian Robert who just celebrated his first birthday. PAUL L. DETWILER is an associate store supervisor with Acme Markets, Dallas, PA. Paul resides in Kingston, PA, with wife Kathy and son Paul, 3. ROBERT A. DOMBROSKI is a systems analyst with Sperry Univac in Blue Bell, PA. Robert and his wife Vic­ toria reside in Philadelphia. LT. ALBERT G. DUNN is serving with the U.S. Air Force at their Chanute, IL base. Al and wife Lisa have one son, Christopher, age 3. ROBERT G. EDGERTON has joined the executive staff of the First Eastern Bank as an assistant vice presi­ dent in the Commercial Loan Department. Bob and his wife Lisi are residents of Kingston, PA. RICHARD C. EVANS is controller and co- founder of Zircon Laboratories, Inc. Richard and his wife, PAMELA (SCHINSKI) 77, reside in Orlando, FL. STEWART W. FEENEY teaches at the Lisbon Elemen­ tary School while his wife, PATRICIA (CLEGG), 75, teaches at the Chaplin Elementary School, both in Connec­ ticut. They reside in Griswold, CT. KENNETH R. GARDNER is at Cornell University pur­ suing a Ph.D. in Applied Math. He earned an MS in 8 ALUMNUS “«a^ k DR RALPH C. GATRONE is a research chemist with at^ord He and wife Colleen reside in Kenmore, NY, NANCY (RODDA) TOPOLEWSKI is ministpr ( ley and Warrior Run (PA) Presbyterian Churches received the M.Div. degree from Princeton Th i ncy Seminary in 1978 and has published several prof° • *** articles. Nancy and her husband John, a Methodist5101131 ter, reside in Mountaintop with their three children ANITA (MILLER) WILLIAMS is enrolled in our M ters program and is pursuing a degree in Elementary IM cation and Reading Specialty. Anita lives in Forty P with husband Lewis and daughter Holly Anne. Fort CARLA (LOUCKS) YASENCHAK is an accoun. with Leslie Fay, Inc. and resides in Ashley with hi«hj Michael and sons Mark, 2, and Michael, 4. and with their daughter Laura. EDWARD P. GORSKI is a senior planner foJ lhe De­ partment of Urban and Economic Development of the C,ty of Utica NY. Ed earned an MCRP degree from University in 1977 and is also enrolled in the Ph.D. pro"American Government at Syracuse Umversdy. DONNA (GALANO) YUREK is currently residing ■ Wilkes-Barre with husband Joseph. The Yureks just I*” brated their second wedding anniversary in May. Ce e’ The Gorskis reside in Utica. DR. DANA LYNN HANKEY is a member of the tech­ nical staff of the Ceramics Division of Sandia National Laboratories. Dana earned the MS in Male"als S“n“ a! Northwestern University in 1977, and the Ph.D. in So State Science at Penn Slate in 1980. Dana and wife Mary reside in Albuquerque, NM, with daughter Stephanie They They are are expecting expecting a second child in August, so we will look for another update for the Fall Alumnus. DR. FRANCIS A. J. KERDESKY is presently em­ ployed as a pharmaceutical chemist with Abbott Labora­ tories in Chicago. He is also under contract to co-author a book on Adriamycin, a potent anticancer drug. DR. NELSON G. LANDMESSER is a development chemist with Merrell Pharmaceuticals in Milwaukee, WI. Nelson earned the Ph.D. at Duke University in 1980. DEBORAH (MAHALICK) CORSO is an associate with Massachusetts Mutual in Phoenix, AZ. She is also a mem­ ber of the Business and Professional Women's Association, and is a candidate for the Life Underwriters Training Council. Debbie and husband, PHILIP '74, reside in Scottsdale, AZ. DR. DONALD W. NASH is completing his Family Practice Residency at the C. S. Wilson Memorial Hospital, Johnson City, NY. Don earned his MD degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1979, and was married on February 14,1981 to the former Mary Ann Panarello. GEORGE OFFSHACK is director of video engineering for D. Gottlieb & Co. of Bensenville, IL. George received his pilot's license in 1979, and has travelled extensively since then, visiting 38 states, 15 countries, and 5 contin­ ents. He and wife Rebecca have two children, Bethany, 4, and Jeffrey, 1. DOMINICK P. PANNUNZIO was sworn in as an Assis­ tant District Attorney here in Luzerne County. Dominick plans to open the first law office ever (??) in Dupont, PA. THOMAS W. PEZZICARA is a sales representative with Pitney Bowes in Cedar Knolls, NJ. Tom lives in Randolf, NJ. BEHROUZ BEN-SABZEVARI completed his MS de­ gree at C. W. Post College in 1977. He and his wife Janet reside in Kew Gardens, NY. JAMES M. SANDERS is a production supervisor with Air Products & Chemicals Company in Hanover Township (PA). He and his wife Irene have one daughter, Sarah, who will be one year old in July. MARY (EVANS) SHORES is a public relations associ­ ate with Western Electric Company in Anaheim, CA. She and husband Peter reside in Huntington Beach, CA. REV. GARY SITKOWSKI is pastor of the Calvary Bible Church in Buffalo, NY. Gary earned the Master of Divinity degree from Bob Jones University in May, 1980, and re­ sides with wife Lisa Sue and children Jeremy, age 2, and Jessica, who was born on October 7,1980. RAYMOND J. TERWILLIGER has been promoted to vice president with responsibilities for all personnel activ­ ities within Leslie Fay, Inc. Ray and his wife Calherine re­ side in Kingston, PA, with their three children. Congratulations Io DAVID C. and BARBARA (SMITH) THORNE, both members of this class, on the birth of their first son on October 19, 1980. David, Barbara and Steven reside in Willow Grove, PA. DR. JOHN T. ZUCOSKY, III, received the DMD d gree from Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Dentis try in May 1980, and opened an office for the practice ( general dentistry in Ridgefield, NJ, John and wife RCKp MARY (KAMINSKI), 75, reside in Ridgefield. 1976 PHILIP and CAROLANN (GUSGEKOFSKI) BESLER operate a nursery school in Mercerville, NJ. The Beslers have two children, Jennifer, 2, and Jonathan, who was born on November 7,1980. They reside in Trenton, NJ JOHN R. BRABANT is budget director for the Brad­ ford National Corporation in New York City. Jack holds an advanced degree from St. Johns University, and now lives in Brooklyn. THOMAS E BRENNAN is a caseworker at the Com­ monwealth's White Haven Center. Tom resides in Hazle­ ton, PA. EDWARD A. BOSHA is an assistant zone manager for the Bic Pen Corporation. He resides in Wilkes-Barre with his wife, Paula. MARYROSE (BENDIK) BURLINGTON is a dental as­ sistant in the office of Dr. H. P. Ayotte in Clinton, CT. She and husband Tom also reside in Clinton. PAUL DOMOWITCH is a sports columnist with the FL Worth (TX) Star-Telegram. Paul and his wife Shelley re­ side in Arlington, TX. DEBORAH ANN DORMAN is an assistant head nurse at the W-B General Hospital. She resides in Kingston, PA. LOUISE (BROZZETTI) FRYE teaches at Bishop Han­ nan High School in Scranton. She resides in Scranton with husband James and daughter Camille. GAIL ANN GARINGER is a sales coordinator with The Sterling Telecommunications Supply Company in King­ ston. SANDRA (AKROMAS) KERSHAW is a stenographer with the Workmen's Compensation Board in St. Cather­ ines, Ontario, Canada, where she resides with husband Robert and daughter Valerie who was born October 6, 1980. JEANNE (NORCROSS) KRAVITZ received the MS de­ gree from Wilkes in May 1981. Jeanne was married on September 6, 1980 to husband William. They currently live in Harveys Lake. PAUL MACIK is an assistant supervisor with the Tissue Culture Department of Flow Laboratories in McLean, VA. Paul resides in Annandale, VA, with wife JANET (MAR­ KOWITZ) 75. Wedding bells will be ringing for MARY LOU MURRAY who will become Mrs. James Brady on August 8, 1981. Mary Lou has been teaching since 1976, and cur­ rently lives in Budd Lake, NJ. Best wishes to Mary Lou and James — be sure to update your new address once things settle down. LINDA T. PAPATOPOLI received a diploma in piano from the Mozarteum in Austria, and earned the MA from the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1978. She is now an Instructor at the Conservatory, and lives in Brookline, MA. JOYCE (HOOLEY) REGNA is residing in Hudson, PA. with husband Thomas and son Thomas, Jr., bom October 8,1980. tTE M SCAVONE completed the W-B bERNADE1 ‘ Scbool of Medical Technology in June, r^-neral H°SP certification by the American Society of Jjo and grists. She is a medical technologist here in ^ilkes-Ba^- TH is a charge nurse in the Ortho- B now pursuing the Ph D in pSVchTY °f Arkansas: he ton. He lives in Fayetteville, ar y h° 08y “ lhal institu' successfully ron^SV’eu lhal he ELLrf nt of the Dover (NJ) General Hospital. pedics ^0 She resid'5 “■ N (PRENDERGAST) TROST of THO^no^ce the birth of their first child. iANE philadelP1^ “ A n 12, 1981. Tom was recently pro­ Thomas manager with Christmas Club, Inc. muted io 1 walTZ is now the associate market manWILBiJR L- s00.Battery here in the Wilkes-Barre! J8er with Go earned the MBA at Wilkes in Scranton maj teside in Scranton. (978. He an W|NTER earned the MS from Bucknell SVILLfAM • ^d s|arted a new position as sales repUnivc's,|7 “,[h w'inter Associates in Boonton, NJ. resentalise z(JBR|tzkY earned an M.Ed. from the FCTE, ^Pittsburgh in 1979 and is an associate profesUniversity academic counselor at the Alleof Psychology ano an. pA _ rheny County . . McKees Rocks, Reeks. PA. resides in 1977 iWAZNIKI ANDREJKO is a teacher of elemenE voc 1 music in the J. M. Hill School in East StroudsPA. Lisa and husband John res.de in Cresco, PA. CAIL AZAIN is a research assistant with the Virginia State Center of Aging in Richmond VA. She earned the MS degree at Virginia Commonwealth University, and resides in Richmond. JUDITH (BALENT) BACHKOSKY gave birth to a daughter Alison on March 11. 1981. This is the second child for Judy and husband Robert. Alison’s brother Robert J is now two years old. They reside in Altoona. PARAYMOND and JOAN (CHEMNITIUS) BEST are both accountants. Ray is a senior accountant with Finkle & Co. of Fort Lee. NJ. while Joan is an associate accountant with the Public Service Electric & Gas Co. of Newark. The Bests reside in Cedar Knolls, NJ. Ray earned the MS from Seton Hall University in May 1980 and became certified in June 1980. LARRY COHEN assumed the position of vice president of the Wyoming Paint Co. in Scranton and Kingston. Larry lives in Clarks Summit, PA, with his wife Sandra and daughters Junnifer and Milissa. CHESTER and JOAN (STEMPIN) DUDICK are resid­ ing in Wilkes-Barre, where Chet has joined the law firm of Hourigan, Kluger, and Spohrer. He earned the JD degree in 1980 at Dickinson. RONALD G. EVANS is residing in Wilkes-Barre with wife CYNTHIA (EDDY) '80. JOHN J. GALLO was recently promoted to vice presi­ dent in the Trust Division of the United Penn Bank. John earned the MBA from Wilkes in 1979, and resides in Con­ yngham, PA, with wife Barbara and son Matthew John. PETER GRABKO and wife Lynn announce the birth of their first child, Peter Jason, on December 19, 1980. The Grabkos reside in Harrisburg, PA. CAROL ANN HASINUS and Bryan B. Curry were mar­ ried this past May. Carol is a sales representative with KyeliD8S CorPoration' and theY wdl reside “ JUDITH (KEATS) HATCHER is self-employed as an teacher in Wilkes-Barre, where she offers private inwuetton. She and husband Robert have one child, Sarah ^Wey, born April 26,1980. MARK JACOBS is an evaluation specialist with Emerlive^ ^endces Avoca. Mark and wife Susan ln ilkes-Barre with children Michael and Alison. to n^^^JAROUN was married on October 28, 1978 nlumt-°r J Mike is associated with the family business and resides in Nanticoke, PA. insure a successful venture '1 'h Paulet,e and ...xa?,"1”"- partmmt of The?” ° edil" “ lhe Llfo'Vles De' partment of The Times-Leader here in Wilkes-Barre taSYunmit'SNjrVln8“inlernShlp the Overl°okHospital ANN MARIE (GRUZDAS) and husband Carey recently moved to Exeter, PA. We wish we could tell you more news aboul the PIRAGUS family, but this is all we have. JOSEPH \V. SEKUSKY is a caseworker with the Lu­ zerne County Children and Youth Services in WilkesBarre. He and wife Gloria reside in Exder, PA. DR. SIEVEN IL STAND1FORD received the MO from New Jersey Medical School in May, 1981. He is now residing in Philadelphia, PA. JAY G. 1 HOMAS is a transplant co-ordinator with the Delaware Valley Transplant Program ol Philadelphia. THOMAS P. WAHL is a research metallurgist with Magnetics o( Butler, PA. Tom wenl on In M.I.T. (Anyone remember Dr. Mike's favorite story aboul MIT?) where he earned the M.S. degree. He resides in Buller with wile Joan and son Christopher. MARIA (LEANDRI) YONKI is an accounts payable bookkeeper with Insalaco's Markets in Pittston, PA. Maria resides in West Pittston with husband Robert and son Robert. from MLArKnP.‘NSKY earMd MA ^bology te r * Cu°’le8e'and 15 a recentlv rn / 11 Crisis lntervenlion Center. She Sh C?'auflh°red “ article “ professional journal andbook of Rural Community Mental Health. She uses in Lancaster, PA. Congratulations to STEPHEN M. LIPKA who earned , Mb in materials science at the University of Virginia in January, 1981. Steve lives in Charlottesville. VA. JOHN O. LYCHOS, JR. is manager of corporatee accounting with Industrial Inspection Industries in in Me North Canton. OH. He lives in Massillon. OH. BRIGETTE McDONALD teaches in the East Windsor School District. She is residing in Plainsboro, NJ. PATTI A. MOSER was married on March 7, 1981 to MICHAEL F. YANCHUK 77. Patti is a staff nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Hershey (PA) Medical Center while Mike is manager-in-charge at Friendly Fam­ ily Restaurant in Hershey. The Yanchuks live in Annville, PA. DONNA M. PAPE received her graduate degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981, and is a nurse on the Medical Floor of the University's Hos­ pital in Philadelphia. MANDY S. WILLIAMS recently became engaged to Nicholas R. Pennington of London, England. Mandy is a senior staff analyst with the Superior Oil Company of Houston, TX, after earning the MBA with Honors at NYU’s London Graduate School. ANTHONY J. PINTO is assistant program coordinator of the Deutsch Institute in Scranton, PA. Tony resides in Dunmore, PA, with his wife Elaine. STEWART RAE is a medical technologist at the Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, PA. Stewart was married on May 31,1980, to Barbara Cochi. ANTHONY J. SHIPULA is a national account under­ writer with Aetna Life & Casualty Company in Hartford, CT. Tony's wife CHRISTINE (HUDAK), 77, is a programmer/analyst with Aetna. They live in New Brittain, CT. MARCIA STRATTON earned the M. Ed. from the Uni­ versity of North Carolina in 1979, and is now an instructor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. LT. ANTHONY D. YOUTZY is an air weapons control­ ler with the U.S. Air Force attached to the 71st Tactical Control Flight at MacDill AFB in Florida. Tony completed Officer Training School in 1980. He and wife Patricia re­ side at MacDill. MARK ZAVOY is a shipping executive with Stein World Products, Inc. of Renton, WA. Mark earned the MA in the History of the Hopi Indians, and resides in Renton with wife JULIE ANN (BANOS), 78, and their daughter Julie, born October 17,1980. 1978 ANDONIS APOSTOIAROS is the proprietor ol a wholesale fruit and produce business in Trenton, NJ. LINDA (GOSS) BELL is an intake counselor with Stepby-Step in Wilkes-Barre. She and husband David reside in Edwardsville, PA. HENRY J. BOBBIN is leaching with lhe McDowell County Board of Education tn Welch, WV. Henry lives in Yukon, WV. KATHRYN A. BOZINSK1 is a beat reporter - and a good one - with WBRE-TV here in Wilkes-Barre. CHRISTINE (BROZUSKY) was married on June 21, 1980 10 Richard E. TRAVER and now resides in Mehoopany PA. She is with Procter 1 Gamble. JOANNE (PUGLIESE) CARPENTER and husband Guy were married on June 28,1980. Joanne became certifled as an ophthalmic technician in November. 1980 and is associated with Dr. Joseph F. Pugliese in Kingston. LOUIS ELEFANTE is a manager with Gould, tne BATTERY people. Lou has made himself very visible tn the local community. He resides in Tannersville, PA. DAVID W. EVANS and wife Gail are now residing in Philadelphia. Dave earned an MA degree at arem Men’s College. BARRY HARCHARUFKA and wife KAREN in Wilkes-Bane, where (KLL'CITAS) '79 are residing dously. 1979 KAREN (GLUSHEFSKI) ALBEROLA is co-ordinator of the Job Locator and Development Program in the Ca­ reer Guidance and Placement Center on Campus. Karen and husband Joe reside in Hanover Green, PA. STEVEN L BAILEY is now residing in Roslindale, MA. Tell us more about what you are doing, Steve, so we can pass the news along through the Alumnus. HEIDI L BEUCKER is a staff primary nurse al the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh. GAYLE-JEAN (BERRY) CRAWFORD is with, the ......> -----•... i n _ _ n_ t. b uiuvoe.Uarrp Unto penn Wiito-Bane. She and and husband hustand Bob Bob weiemaniedfe June, 1980, and reside reside in in Wdkes-Barre. Wilkes-Barre. ------ ................ .. .™t IT MARK DEFALCO commands a SAC missile crew with the U.S. Air Force. His wife JOAN (MANCINI) ’80, teaches at St. Peter & Paul Elementary School in Great Falls, MT. RONALD DELEVAN is an electrical engineer - loco­ motives with Conrail. He resides in Norristown. PA. PRESTON DYER is a field representative with the A.C. Neilson Company. He lives m West Covina, CA. ALUMNUS 9 �University in Washington, D.C. We all remember Shep for mark m. drobish is a “‘““Vrp^Idette his tireless efforts on behalf of his class and the CollegP ANN MARIE (STEFANOSKI) GORGONE is a comLife Insurance Company. He and wife BERNADETTE Goodluck! 8 munity organizer with the Citizen's Choice Coalition in (SWIDERSKI)'80 reside in Forty Fort, FA. Wilkes-Barre. Congratulations to RODNEY R. WYFFELS - he has JOHN DESALVO is an administrative specialistwith been named business manager for the Galeton, PA, School ROBERT GREENWOOD (MBA) announces the birth IBM in Philadelphia. John and wife Joy reside in PaulsDistrict. of a daughter, Kathryn Helen on September 11, 1980. boro, NJ. . Bob's wife Barbara was director of the Upward Bound LYNN MARIE YEDLOCK is a staff nurse at WilkesLAURA EGAN was recently promoted to assistant store Program here at Wilkes. Congratulations to you all 1 Barre's Mercy Hospital. She is residing in Ashley, PA. manager of HomeFair Linens, Eynon, PA, a ivision o • SHEILA ANN IMLER is a housing fieldworker with W. Kalkin, Inc., of West Orange, NJ. Laura lives in Scran­ the Commission on Economic Opportunity in WilkesWe feel quite confident that you have enjoyed ton, PA. Barre. reading about your friends and classmates at CAROL ELKINGTON is a research assistant whn W. KEITH JONES and JOANN PERANSKI '81, were Wilkes. We ask those Alumni who sent an Update CACI-Inc. Federal, of Mechanicsburg, PA. Carol worked married on May 30, 1981. The couple will reside in Endi­ Card to us but who were not included in this issue as a student aide in the admissions office here. cott, NY, and when they tell us what they are doing there, to bear with us — we will be including another CYNTHIA (EDDY) EVANS is an optomelric assistant we will pass it along to the Alumni. section of class notes in the Fall issue. And for with the Doctors Hurwitz. She and husband RONALD ROSA KHALIFE is teaching in SS. Peter & Paul School those of you who have not yet sent in an update, 77, reside in Wilkes-Barre. in Plains, PA. She became engaged on December 24, 1980, we urge you to do so now. It takes only a minute to JANET J. FALCHEK is a staff nurse at the Albert Eins­ but we don't know to whom, or the details of their wed­ tell us about your family, your career, and your ding plans. Rosa? tein Medical Center in Philadelphia. educational achievements, but yet it makes very ROBERT J. GAETANO teaches at Bishop Hoban High LT. JOHN D. KOZE is stationed at Homestead Air interesting reading for your friends. School in the city. He is also advisor for their Yearbook, Force Base in Florida. Street addresses are included in class notes only and maintains his interest in photography. JOHN P. LOHMAN is associated with the Luzerne Na­ upon the specific request of an Alumnus/a. If you DR. HENRY A. FINN received the MD degree from tional Bank in Luzerne, PA. He resides in Wilkes-Barre. are interested in contacting a friend or classmate, Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He is now however, you can do so through the Alumni Of­ W. BRADLEY McLENNAN is stationed at Mather Air on the staff at Hahnemann Hospital. Wife CATHERINE fice. Just drop us a note indicating who you want Force Base in California. (HUGHES) 78, teaches at the Holy Rosary School in to contact, and we will do it for you. ELIZABETH ANN (WASELEWSKIE) MEKOSH is a Cherry Hill, NJ. The Finns are residing in Vorhees, NJ. The Alumni Office is also interested in getting nurse in the Intensive Care Unit of Holy Spirit Hospital in reader reaction to both the Quarterly magazine KATHRYN (TYAHLA) ISGANITIS is a production co ­ Camp Hill, PA. She and husband Nicholas reside in Mar­ as well as the Alumnus insert. Whether your ordinator with Plastics, Inc., of Montgomeryville, PA. She ion Heights, PA. message is complimentary or critical about either and husband Dave reside in Lansdale, PA. MARK A. NEYLON was recently promoted to sales­ the format or the contents of this publication, send LINDA C. KNORR is an operating room nurse intern at man at Friedman Electric Company in Wilkes-Barre. Mark your comments to the Editor, the Quarterly, the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Richmond, VA. and wife Helen reside in the city with son Mark, Jr., who Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. We will will be a year old in August. DIANE (BRODBECK) LOWE is a math teacher in the select those most representative letters and publish Columbia County (GA) School System. She and husband MARYELLA (BOOTH) POKLEMBA gave birth to a them in a subsequent issue as "Letters to the George reside in Augusta, GA. daughter, Joella, on September 17, 1980. The gals reside in Editor." So please, folks, take advantage of these Jessup with husband and father Joseph. AMY (GORDON) SHERIDAN resides in Towanda, PA, opportunities to use the Alumni Office, and, at the with husband Frederick. She is a nurse with the Memorial MARY CATHERINE ROSTOCK and Eugene Kudey same time, provide us via your feedback with some Hospital of Towanda. were married on July 12, 1980. They are now residing in direction for future issues. West Pittston, PA. MICHAEL F. LOKUTA is a systems engineer with Singer-Link Division at its Hillcrest plant in Binghamton, Congratulations to CARLA SECHREST, who is now a chemist with the Parsippany Troy-Hills Water Pollution NY. Mike resides in Johnson City, NY. Control Plant. Carla resides in Morristown, NJ. PATRICIA J. LUPI has relocated to Whitehall, PA. Tell MYLES M. STEMPIN, who did such good work with us more, Patti. our Veteran's Office on campus is now a media program­ JOSEPH J. MAJEWSKI is a branch office supervisor mer with the Luzerne County Community College in Nan­ with Washington Inventory Service in Hazleton, PA. ticoke. He resides in Wilkes-Barre. SHARON ANN MANGANIELLO is a laboratory tech­ PAUL WENGEN is a product line cost accountant with nician with the Kirby Health Center in Wilkes-Barre. She Teledyne MEC of Palo Alto, CA. He and wife ELLEN lives in Exeter. (DUFOSSE) '78, reside in Sunnyvale, CA. DANIEL PATRONICK is a teacher of English at Bayley ANN MARIE YANUSHEFSKI earned the M.Ed. degree Eiland High School in Madison, NJ. from Lehigh University's School Psychology Program in MARK RADO teaches in the Business Education De­ May, 1981. Ann Marie is currently living in Bethlehem, partment of Bishop McDevitt High School in Harrisburg, PA. PA. 1980 FRANK J. RAGUKONISand wife Annmarie announce the birth of their first child, a daughter Annie Christine, on JUDITH BELLAS is now residing in Boulder, CO. Tell March 28,1981. us what you are doing, Judy. JOSEPH RIGOTTI is currently enrolled at the Philadel­ TAMI ANNE BERAUD is a tax auditor with the Cali­ DR. BRIAN W. BLIEM, 25, of 44 Christopher Drive, phia College of Osteopathic Medicine where he is pursuing fornia Franchise Tax Board in New York City. Tami re­ Bucks County, died at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadel­ the D.O. degree. sides in Staten Island, NY. phia. Born in Newtown, he was a 1978 graduate of Wilkes THOMAS SALLEY has a new position as an engineer DR. MARK W. BOHN received the MD degree from College, and received his medical degree in June, 1980 with the A.A.I. Corporation in Baltimore. He resides in Hahnemann Medical College and is practicing Family from the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine. His Lutherville, MD. Medicine at the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Kingston, PA. wife, the former Linda Carcaci, is a native of WilkesLISA (HALL) SELLANI is a nurse at the Wilkes-Barre D. CHRISTOPHER BRISBANE was married to Barbel Barre. General Hospital. Lisa and husband John reside in West Settle on September 27,1980. RICHARD C. BANTLE, of Woodstown, NJ, passed Pittston, PA. KATHERINE ANN BURKE is a nurse at Northwestern away. He was a member of the Class of 1942 and is sur­ DR. EUGENE J. SIMONI is a surgical resident at femorial Hospital in Chicago. vived by his wife Beverly and daughters Barbara and Deb­ Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he is living with LEWIS B. CELLITTI is a field engineer with Owens-Ilbie. wife Sheena. aois, Inc., in Columbus, OH. Lew was married on April CHARLES G. GOLOB died on October 15, 1978. JANICE (BURCAK) VERINI has relocated with her S 1981, to Janice Lee Wishau — best wishes! Charles attended Bucknell University Junior College in husband to Coatesville, PA. Tell us more, Jan, so we can DIANE CIMAKOSKY is currently pursuing an MS de1936-37, and earned a B.S. degree at Penn State Universi­ pass the news along. ee in Biochemistry at Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelty. He had been plant manager for the Superior Generator DONNA LEE WHITMORE is a nurse in the Critical <ia. and Armature Company in Scranton, and is survived by Care Unit of Kingston’s Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. Donna JREGG H. COOK is a technical programs analyst with his wife Louise and two children. lives in Wilkes-Barre. Gulf Oil Company in Pittsburgh. He resides in MonDR, JOHN M. KOHL, a member of the Class of 1943, SHEPARD C. WILLNER is currently enrolled in the ville, PA. died on October 4,1980, in Wayne, PA. John was a Radiol­ Master of Public Administration program at American ogist at Montgomery Hospital in Norristown, PA. He was originally from Kingston. ALUMNUS nim PICKETT, JR-. Class 1952> died Febru.vilUAM J- f . e after a long illness. He was a long71981.alhlS X at Flagstaff, AZ High School. He f926, in Wilkes-Bane. After beginning "f. bom M’f "L at Wilkes, he transferred to Northern University- Surviving are his wife Mary, a ^^‘’ioShEFSKD PINKOWSK1 of Mill her graduation in 1969 shP Let,envomen’s Club Sinr S“ddEKeX,iVedbyhi5WiIeS“sa“ RARO|OBd£rKl!'r\eX'enLd'd Thomas, parents, and sister Ruth CONSTAN. „ Friday. June 5, 1981, in WUliamsport Halt PA J'Vas a 1951 graduate of Wilkes and had been H»Pila) Sb an anpointment secretary m a Lock Haven loW"1 “ surviving are her husband Daniel, and chilSicd office- " 6and Daniel. Her mother resides in dienBom“eL<,U' tVdkes-Barr • $TITZER died Sunday, March 29, JANE IM1"Wi|kes-Barre, Jane was a graduate of E. L. 1981. Boni 8 her husl™d a>'°[ >’56. passed away was a resident of West Pittsto " p'lh A,U1 “d Kenny. Hc September thefc*^ “ Blackwood, NJ IC Servic“ of the Savik Libra^ofGl 'e8eSU,K 1TO- Walter was Xb^Xof 2nd stepsons UNDA J° (FER- Saturday, June killed o„ lapsed. He was zi and a * digging colgraduated from Wilkes io 1979 S Colle8e- Li”da Contributions to a claw ■ Ceased friends md!or rZt^ 'r^l"'^ Pnate. Gifts will he art™ 7 j S a'ws appruWll as to tlle f' u^ ° dged 10 ,he *nor as appredaM k eceased and are »'■ « C^''ons ni Office zoT f l', 0 Wd^ College AlumPA 8766 ' Fmnkl,n S,reel' Wilkes-Barre, . ..vMsX d. w.uUsY'MMfj1 Is® or t TJ I~-1 by Eddie White III '30 1980-81 SPORTS AWARDS WINNERS The 1980-81 Wilkes College athletic year came to an official close with the annual Sports Awards Banquet at the college’s dining hall. Junior Tony Madden, a football and basketball standout from Pringle, was selected as the school's male “Athlete of the Year" while sophomore Karen Johnson of Bloomsburg earned the female award for her endeavors in field hockey, basketball and softball. John Moffatt, a senior swimmer from Forty Fort, was named as the male Scholar-Athlete" while senior ,, egan Ward took female honors for held hockey. Megan hails from Boonton, New Jersey. Other special award winners were: Gallagher Award for Football: wen Colvin. Commack, N.Y.; vnit'TJJ11616 Award: Tenn.; Sarah gteyball, Greenville, Farley. Cina anPoro Memorial Award: wndyRossii voUeybaUi pIains. for rr AC0N Coach of the Year" Tak S Country- Ron Righter. footbau °ffensive XIVP honors for of Pitio,Was senior Carmen LoPresto °n as Ed Mollahan of Dover, 'isuiiiWFfr W-ViMR '4W? Wife jmwjr-iram^jE nW 1------------------------------------------------ N.J. earned defensive honors. The soccer MVP’s went to senior John Brill of Wilkes-Barre and Stillwater junior Mike Karns. Ed Epplcr, a senior from Washington, N.J.,’ look the MVP award for cross country while teammate Ken Pascoe was named as the “Hustling Harrier.” A pair of underclassmen took MVP honors for field hockey as junior Helen Gorgas of Swarthmore took defensive honors and sophomore Diane Hall of Ephrata was named as offensive MVP. Mary Kay Price, a senior from Carbondale, was selected as the offensive MVP for women’s volleyball and Cindy Rossi earned defensive honors. Cathy Price, a freshman from Exeter, took the MVP award for women’s tennis. Pete Creamer, a sophomore from Bellmore, N.Y., was selected as the top wrestler this past year and senior heavyweight Rick Smith from Wilkes-Barre took the Tim Adams Award. Capturing the MVP for men’s swimming was sophomore diver Reed Bello (Holland, Pa.) and earning women s MVP honors was freshman Megan Maguire rom Bear Creek. Mike McCarrie, a senior from Philadelphia, was selected as men’s basketball’s MVP and junior Kevin Walker (Springfield. N.J.) took the “Hustling Colonel’ trophy. A pair of underclassmen took MVP honors in women’s basketball. Sophomore Stacy Keeley from Mount Holly, N.J. was the top defensive player while freshman Kim Smith, out of Plymouth, earned offensive MVP accolades. Senior Chick Andrewscavage captured the MVP for men’s baseball and senior Mark LePore (Mt. Laurel, N.J.) took the golf MVP trophy. Larry Buffaloe, a sophomore from Hempstead, N.Y. was the offensive MVP for lacrosse, and freshman Dave Szczepanski took the "Tool” Award for lacrosse. Barry Spevak, a junior from Syracuse, N.Y. earned the MVP honors for men’s tennis while sophomore Cheryl Frystak took MVP defensive honors for women's softball and Karen Johnson accepted offensive honors. THE WILKES CoLLEGE CONNECTION FOR 24-HOUR INFORMATION ON WILKES COLLEGE EVENTS. 717-826-1135 SUMMER 1981 9 �photo C. Catcher is former Wilkes great Dave Paolinelli while Dean Gerald Hartdagen serves as umpire. In photo D. former Colonel standout Ted Yeager drills a deep drive while ump Hartdagen and Wilkes baseball coach Dave Kaschak can only watch in photo E. And in photo F, winning pitcher Dean Ralston and “Oldtimer's" top hitter Ted Yeager receive congratulations from a young Colonel fan. The game was organized by former Wilkes diamond coach Gene Domzalski and all former Wilkes players are invited back for next year's contest. OLDTIMER'S SOFTBALL GAME For the second straight year, the “Oldtimer's" downed the varsity Colonels, 17-6, in the annual softball game at Artillery Park. Dean George Ralston was on the mound for the "Oldtimer’s” and he picked up the win, outdueling Wilkes pitching coach Jerry Bavitz, who hurled for the 1981 Colonels. In photo A. Dean Ralston is showing his "southern" form which helped him to three hits in the game while Athletic Director John Reese drills a single in photo B. Big hitter for the 1981 Colonels was all-league Chick Andrewscavage, who belts a triple in prom Cotton to Cooking Rilkes Chef has Served the Best MOVING? Please help your Wilkes Alumni Association reduce the cost ofpostage by telling us when and where you are moving. You can help, too, by telling us of a friend whom you know to be an alumnus or alumna that has moved. Thanks for your help! Please clip off the address label below and return it with the correct address to Wilkes College Quarterly, 170 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766. Name____________________________ (Please use name under which you graduated) Street City. State____________ Zip.__________ Degree(s) you received and the year CREATIVE COLONEL 1I Have you received your Swissembroidered Colonel emblem yet? The 2-inch high blue and gold Colonel will stick on your shirt, cap, lapel or tie and become a special part of your wardrobe. To receive your emblem stop by the Alumni Office or send us a note telling us what you are doing these days ... we will, in turn, send you a complimentary Colonel. 10 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY by Randy Xenakis If you select at random any Wilkes College student and ask, "Who cooks your meals at the College?", the answer would be ’Freddy the Chef.’ If you had the opportunity in the 1930's to ask President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Who makes the best liver and onions dish?", he would have said, 'Freddy the Chef.' If you enjoy meeting with pleasant, down-to-earth human beings, and you enjoy good food, you'd enjoy 'Freddy the Chef.' His life began in 1917 when he became one of eighteen children born to the Wall family of Rockingham, North Carolina. His fourteen brothers and three sisters were brought up in a typical Southern setting where the only livelihood for a black family was working on the plantation. "I could bring in over 300 pounds of cotton a ay. boasts Freddy. "Every time 1 would drop the cotton in my 530 el I would think 'eighteen cents a pound — eighteen cents a Pound' and that would make my nands g0 faster and faster .. cj-j admits that he certainly lcJn't become wealthy by picking sharecr enterprising son of a sharecropper, Freddy would soon "l hls Potentials a dishwasher and seek out advanced status in e restaurant business. "When LWaSj • Workin8 n'ghts at my econd job - helping to dig under Washington streets for utdity lines - I spent time at Howard University learning the techniques of how to cook," Freddy says proudly. "I Was soon given the opportunity to cook hotcakes on the grill, later assist with special orders and, ultimately, prepare lunch for' Franklin Delano Roosevelt." Freddy admits that cooking lunch for the President was a lot of fun but, he is quick to add, that the responsibility and the work involved was demanding. "I always had Secret Service Agents looking over my shoulder watching every move I made cotton, but, compared to the in preparing food for Mr. other cotton pickers who only Roosevelt," Freddy reminisced. averaged 150 pounds per day, "The President would come by he was certainly someone to be for lunch at noon but I would looked up to. have to prepare the meal before When Freddy was 13 he 10 a.m. so the security agents remembers several visits from could test the finished product. relatives who lived in That would give them at least Washington, D.C. "They two hours to find out if the food always came to Rockingham with would make them ill or not. It hundreds of dollars in their never did,” he said proudly. pockets,” he recalled. "I "Oh, and by the way," added Freddy, "the President's favorite kept saying to my mother that dish was liver with onions Washington must be the land of (hold the garlic) and a bowl plenty where you can work and of consomme soup.” Freddy earn good money." A year later, remembers those as happy times at the ripe age of 14, he set when he not only served the out to find what riches, if any, President but became friends awaited him in the nation's with several Treasury capitol. "Those were the days Department officials who when you could take a train from controlled the currency in the North Carolina to Washington for adjacent building. "The tours only $8 - today, it costs you that they used to give me of the vaults much to tip the bellhop, he and the money making machines chuckled. were so exciting," Freddy said Upon his arrival in the Capitol enthusiastically. "Did you know City, Freddy searched out that they print money like they employment and found work as a print newspapers?" he asked. dishwasher at Press Cafeteria "They use these big sheets of located c 'y two blocks from the paper and print a bunch of bills White He e. Little did he know on each one before being cut into that he would later be preparing the proper sizes. Fascinating, luncheon specials for the just fascinating!," he said. President of the United States. SUMMER 1981 11 �After serving the President meals for one year, Freddy assumed new duties as head cook for Highland's Luncheonette atop of the Press Cafeteria. In 1936 he was transferred to Wilkes-Barre where he was head cook for Highland's Public Square Luncheonette. "I made the move during the flood of '36," said Freddy. "Wilkes-Barre has been special to me ever since." One reason that the personable connoisseur has a special place in his heart for Wilkes-Barre is that it was here that he met his wife of 35 years. Laura Jones Wall died of cancer in 1975 and Freddy proudly says that, "she gave me 35 wonderful years." When Laura was admitted to Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and diagnosed as having the terminal illness, Freddy arranged to rent living quarters at the hospital to be with her every minute. Laura died two weeks later. By this time, in the mid-70's, Freddy had already been at Wilkes College for twenty-five years doing what he now says is the most rewarding work of his career. As Head Chef for the College Dining Hall, Freddy admits that while cooking is his livelihood, much of his real satisfaction comes from working with the students. "The students have kept me young and energetic," says the 63-year-old Mountaintop resident. "They think of me as more than a cook. They ask me my opinion when they need help and they offer me assistance when I need theirs. I live for the students and I love the College," he said softly. His long hours, many times seven days each week, attest to his loyalty and love of Wilkes and its students. When he does find time for special hobbies, he says without hesitation that fishing is the only game in town. "I have been fishing all of my life and I have spent many days at fishing holes between Portland, Maine and Jacksonville, Florida." One of Freddy's few secrets rests in knowing exactly where the best fishing holes can be found. He will casually let on that New Jersey has its share of excellent fishing spots and that he does, in fact, spend a lot of leisure time there seeking out unsuspecting trout, bass and bluegill. Only after he divulges that information will he tell you that he has a 'special' friend there by the name of Rosa Malloy who he has known since 1977. "This gives me two good reasons to go to the Garden State," he says laughingly. They call him Freddy the Chef. Students will say, as an often heard trademark, that "his food is very tasty." When Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson was at the College as a guest of Wilkes' first president Dr. Eugene S. Farley, she told Freddy personally, after he prepared her meal, that he has an open invitation to visit with her anytime he is in Texas. He hopes to accept that gracious offer someday. Freddy is a unique man. He is kind, gentle, loving, sharing and caring. He is a man of integrity — learned not through the formal halls of education, but rather through determination and a strong will. From picking cotton, to preparing food for President Roosevelt, to being chef and friend to Wilkes students, Freddy Wall does one thing exceptionally well — he loves to help others. And that can serve as 'Food for Thought' for all of us. SCHOLARSHIP LUNCHEON Over fifty Wilkes scholarship students and their scholarship sponsors attended a special luncheon at the College sponsored by the College's Financial Aid Office. The luncheon was followed by a tour of the Sordoni Art Gallery which, at that time, was exhibiting works of "The Students of the Eight." Scholarship recipients in attendance include [from left to right) first row: Joyce Walsh, Donna Gardner, Marie Suchoski, Maria Smigel, Linda McCarthy, Joan Knapich, Marilyn Thaler, Gabor Varsanyi, Byron Petruska, Colleen Gries, Dina Sauer, Susan Kuzminski, Karen Worlinsky, Sandy Tomko. 12 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Second row: Pich Zamkowski, Eugene Neary, Joan Thomas, Cheryl Connor McLaughlin, Marta Baker, JoAnne Bennick, David Sedor, Marie Olshefski, Marylou Hizny, Donna Heidel, John Saxe, Tony Kubasik. Third row: Stephen Lewitski, Mike Sulcoski, Vince Turosky, Roy Brady, Gary Michael, Scott Keller, Molly Brace, Michael Cook, Edward Salley, Stanley Kman, Michael Skovira, Tom Brogan. Mike Regeic, Ed Miskiel. Fourth row: Dale Scanlon, Leo Morgan, Michael Satkowski, Francis Rowe, David Hottenstein, Joseph Mitchell, Bill Dempski, Dave Popeck, Jeff Garbor, Ed Czeck, and Ed Hayduck. Rig ley ...to , jie^earch benefit polphin® nyijane Manganella In 1979, Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, visited Wilkes College. It was during that visit that Cousteau and Dr. Louis Rigley, a specialist in animal behavior and a member of the Wilkes Biology Department, were introduced. It was soon apparent that the two scientists shared not only an interest in the same field of study, but also a mutual respect and reverence for the environment in general and marine life in particular. z\n invitation was extended by Cousteau to Riglev to work with "Project Ocean Search” for the summer of 1979, in South Carolina. Rigley accepted the invitation which afforded him the opportunity to work with other top researchers in marine biology. It also gave hjm t[le opportunity to work on a special project — to investigate the shallow water feeding habits of wild, Atlantic bottle-nose dolphins. Dr. Rigley’s research in this area has now warranted the awarding of a grant by the merican Philosophical Society o support further study during e summer of 1981. There are R- 5I a' objectives, according to ^-v, for the proposed arch. Primarily, there is very little information currently available on shallow-water behavior, and the study will provide this information. Other objectives include: statistical population estimates; cooperative feeding behavior; correlation of group movement to tide change, water temperature and water salinity; acoustic communication in correlation to specific sound production for specific behavior; and the effect of recreational power boating on dolphins during feeding or movement. Rigley, who recently presented a paper on the subject at the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences, conducted an 8-day pilot study at the May River in South Carolina last year. During the study it became clear that dolphins could be identified by distinguishing dorsal-fin markings. This is important in that it enabled observers to determine that many returned to the same feeding spots on consecutive summers. It was also determined that these dolphins followed a type of cooperative herding feeding method whereby schools of fish were herded into shallow areas and dolphins actually slid up on the mud bank to catch fish as they The grant will enable Rigley to t esearch another area in which he is vitally interested — underwater communication by dolphins. Rigley has demonstrated in several previous experiments that fish do communicate. Their method of communication is accomplished when they produce sounds by rubbing bone parts together or by vibration of the muscles on their swim bladder. Recognized as an authority on the subject, Rigley has done intensive research for several years in this area. He conducts behavior modification experiments by using an underwater microphone, called a hydrophone, to record sounds. He then plays them back to correlate a specific sound with a specific behavior pattern. Rigley has been at Wilkes College since 1974 and is becoming a well-known authority in his field. His unique teaching” methods, which include intensive class participation and field trips, provide students with a kind of "best of both worlds educational experience. This experience, he believes, is the key to the protection and preservation of our environment. were forced out of the water. SUMMER 1981 13 �S' G WILKES COLLEGE the the end of all the ■ HI Yesterdays. �"What's In This For Me?" or "Drive Off Bridge"' AWARDS DINNER HONORS COLLEGE PERSONNEL Twelve members of the Wilkes faculty and staff were honored for their service to the College. Twenty-Year Service Awards Ten-Year Service Awards and retiring members of the faculty and staff were honored at the special awards dinner held in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts. Among those in attendance at the event were — first row from left: Afs. Ruth Spear retiring administrative aide- Afrs. A’ance Cordy 20 years service; Mrs. Rita Zula 10 years service: Afs. Mary LoRusso. 10 years service; Mrs. Judith Griffin 10 years service: Afrs. Harriet Frew, 10 years service. Second row from left Dr. Gerald Hartdagen, Dean of Academic Affairs; Dr. Fred Bellas. 20 years service; Mr. Eugene Manganello, Director of Personnel; President Robert 5. Carin- Dr. Andrew Shaw Dean of Management: Mr. Louis Gettinger retiring faculty member and Mr. A.7ex Pawlenok also a retiring member of the Wilkes Faculty. Mrs. Ruth McHenr. and Dr. John Orehotsky were also honored for 10 years of sendee to the College. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ELECTS NEW OFFICERS The Greater Wyoming Valley Chapter of the Wilkes Alurnni Association announced the election of new chapter officers recently who will serve for two-year terms. Elected were |above 1. to r.) Carol Pawlw.h, Secretary; Andrea Petrasek, Executive Council; Alan Zellner, Executive Council; Marvin Antinnes, President; Robert Silvi, Executive Council; and Virginia Zukor, Executive Council. Also elected were Carolyn Rome, Vice-President; John Holland, Treasurer; and Executive Council members Loretta Farris, Joanne Levanowski, and Charles Petrillo. The new officers were announced by Mr. James Ferris, Executive Vice-President of the Wilkes National Alumni Association at the Chapter's Annual Dinner held at Irem Temple Country Club. 16 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY by Betsy B. Condron 1 happen to be a William Safire addict and often get my kicks from his linguistic forays _£ in the New York Times. He recently expounded upon signs which try to cram a message into a few words, leaving the reader confused and/or in hysterics. THIS DOOR IS ALARMED AFTER 6 P.M. makes the city hospital employees it warns realize they, too, "get a bit nervous in that neighborhood after dark." Safire is insulted for the laborers toiling under SLOW MEN AT WORK. We chuckle about SLOW BUMP and IN EVENT OF AIR ATTACK DRIVE OFF BRIDGE, but what about these I came across this winter: INSIST YOUR DOLLARS WORK and MONEY GIVING TIME! Are we supposed to set our greenbacks to cleaning the house or are they adding hours to our day? On second perusal we realize we should not let our money languish under the mattress, but instead, put it in the local bank where it will earn extra benefits. Since the second sign came during December, it reminds us that we have little time left to contribute our excess funds to charity in order to gain tax deductions before the year ends. Do you have excess funds? Do you give them away to gain tax savings? Why DO you give your money to Wilkes, the United Way, your religious organization, or the kid who sells candy for the- scouts (candy you don't need at all!)? We have myriad, individual reasons for our philanthropies, | big or small. (A good description tn __ "love towards of P^daTshown by practical niai’kin “ - suggests one doesn t wealthy to give!) ne<-’d . can demand that you N°b0 ysoffle institution created donale 0 Qthers That's a personal to bene 1 what encourages people deC‘S1so? I hear theSe reasons: lOd°Tnner Satisfaction: the joy of •vfng of helping Other5’ floral Commitment: the "there Mor the grace of God go I", the I e for improvement of the less fortunate's lot. Tax Benefits: the government ahoX"6 taX d^duYcti0n®’ often lessening estate taxes and bate costs as well. Life Income Plans: allow regular income for the donor, and beneficiary, while providing above "perks", too. You've read, herein, frequent references to the last two facets of charitable giving, and I've also talked about it as "a final realization of selflessness," reordering one's priorities, so to speak. Simply stated, most donors want to know two things about their gift: "What's in this for me, and what's in it for you?" Wilkes' planned giving program recently received a tangible property gift, in excess of $10,000. Firstly, that donor believes in Wilkes. He feels we're doing a good job of what we've set out to accomplish. He has tax incentives, sure, and wants life income, too. But, he wanted his gift funds used wisely and for a good purpose . . . voila . . . Wilkes College. People give to institutions which they perceive as reinforcing their own values. If a person has extra money and an interest in an institution, if he is convinced its goals and directions are sound, then a Prime motivation for him is that he's helping to create something of astmg value. Our recent donor's ecision to contribute property to Ur Program was the result of an ssoemtion with the College and a insTi'01'011 that the of the Und Ut'°n WaS worl' dle investment. ren«er rheSe c'rcumstances, another Cre-?1 f°r 8'Vin8 might bc called ■bstitutf SUpp0Vtine Valuable Members of Wilkes College Planned Giving Advisory Committee met this spring at the College to review progress reports and future plans as outlined by College President Robert S. Capin and Mrs. Betsy B. Condron, Director of Planned Giving at the College. Members of the Advisory Committee include (1. to r.) seated: Atty. Harry Hiscox, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Esther Davidowitz, Kingston; Mrs. Condron: President Capin; and Mrs. Judy Schall, Shavertown. Standing: Ms. Virginia Masters, E. Stroudsburg; Mr. Bruce Gover, Lehman; Mr. Guthrie Conyngham, Shavertown; Mrs. Dolores Laputka, Hazleton; Mr. Frank Henry, Dallas; Mr. Joseph Petz, Shavertown; and Dr. Thomas Kelly, Dean of External Affairs at Wilkes. Other members of the committee include Mr. Noel Caverly, Shickshinny, Mr. Lonnie Cnnmbc Coombs, Wilkes-Bane; Mr. IM: Ronald Mr ' Ertley, ^Mr^^irby Shavertown; Mr. Richard Maslow, Dallas; Mr Gerald Moffatt, N y c . Mr. William Shull, Hazleton. There is a special character to this charitable institution ... its unique origins, its half-century history, its traditions, and the quality mentioned above. Those strengths caused one successful alumnus to say: "Wilkes is the product of the people in Wyoming Valley, a community which decided it had to help itself by helping its youth. I owe Wilkes and I'll pay my debt in every way I can!" Although that particular Wilkes friend isn't a Methodist, he might agree with good, old John Wesley whose philosophy was "Make all you can; Save all you can; Give all you can" ... to Wilkes' planned giving, maybe? Would you believe that when I started this article I was going to talk about memorial gifts, all kinds of ways you can give to Wilkes in honor of a loved one! Well, I've just -----remind run out of space, and canju.. you that there is no more thoughtful way to show sympathy for the loss of a friend, relative or respected citizen than a gift that lives on in memory of Many Wilkes friends make such condolence gifts a habit, thus assuaging their own sense of loss, demonstrating their sympathy to the family by a lasting gift of value to the whole community, and helping a favorite charitable institution. Of course, such gifts are tax free . . . William Safire would admonish me. The phrase is a redundancy, for there's no such thing as a "free gift". That's what a gift is . . . "free!" I'm going to Ireland soon and have come across this lovely Irish proverb in my reading: "Bare is the compassionless shoulder." For goodness sakes, keep your shoulders covered and, whenever you want to INSIST YOUR DOLLARS WORK, send them along to Wilkes as a "free gift" .. - sorry, Willy. .i , i i To: Director of Planned Giving Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 1 am interested in learning more about Annuities, Charitable Trusts, and the Wilkes Pooled Income Fund. I wish to record that I have planned a bequest to Wilkes College. that person. Elsewhere in this magazine you'll find a notice about sending such gifts to the College. An j Name appropriate acknowledgement is sent i ! Address to the family, noting that a gift has been made, by whom, but not the , .. , i Phone gift amount. ______________ |_____ _ SUMMER 1981 17 �. . . if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau / / The End. 0 the beginning of all the tomorrows. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Quarterly Alumnus Summer 1981 Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marketing and Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1981 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/d1c48968770e3ea7e9261070aa9d39bb.pdf b77ce7f908970b8780e9e196d93beed8 PDF Text Text �V/1LKG6 COLLEGE raiLi9a< nnmn Wilkes College Volume 5, Nuim|)'Y I Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18766 x r-; -. V SB! . The academic year of 1980-81 was one of continued progress and achievement for Wilkes College. It was an important year, economically and politically for our nation; a year of consolidation for American higher education; and a year of academic and fiscal advancement for our institution. I am certain that all who have a vested interest in Wilkes College will want to review the following Institutional Annual Report of this forty-seventh year in the history of Wilkes College. This report, in the form of a year-end review, highlights in a summary fashion, the important events and activities of a significant year. Some of the chief accomplishments for the year include: u-_-. COVER A To trustees, alumni, and friends - . ........... .............. •• .......... T / - ■ w:.? • ■■ ■ - ■ - " . ■ editor Randall J. Xenakis uus the completion of pswri construction of a -- >— provide ix? space f - :■ ’ " associate editor Jane E. Manganella Continued academic advancement, including the establishment of an affiliated program with Temple University in their pharmacy and dental programs. alumnus editor Richard Raspen PRESIDENT'S REPORT ACADEMICS STUDENTAFFAIRS ADMISSIONS BALANCE SHEET CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS LOOKING AHEAD SOUTH RIVER ST. CULTURAL EVENTS 3 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 contributing staff Betsy Bell Condron Daria Morris '83 Edward White III '80 contributing photographers Donald D. Carey Arthurs. Miller James A. Adonizio Mrs. Robert D. Arenstein ’68 Benjamin Badman '41 Mrs. Stanleys. Davies Louis D. Davis, Jr. ’60 Mrs. Walter M. Diener 2 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY Charles H. Miner Jr. Gerald A. Moffatt<63 RicnardL. Pearsall •'•MiamA.Perhnuth’51 Jf^eph J. PJnoJa Mrs-Kenneth A. Rhodes Arnold S. Rifkin Harold Rose, Jr. Hon, Max Rosenn Eugene Roth '57 MephJ. Savitz'48 Ronald W. Sirnms '60 Luciana Suraci Norman E. Weiss Joseph A. Wiendl PRESIDENTS REPORT — 1980-1981 The WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY is published quarterly by the Wilkes College Public Relations Office and the Alumni Relations Office. PRESIDENT TRUSTEE EMERITI Miss Mary R. Koons, Honorary Metiiber Donald F. Carpenter, Trustee Enter! Mrs. Richard M. Ehret, Trustee Et>^ Mrs. Eberhard L. Faber, hush1 ■ Man M.CAover.Vh.D.. Trusteed A concerted effort to renew a Reaffirmation of Values at Wilkes. An active year in our expanding student affairs program. Continued substantial philanthropic support for Wilkes from many friends and alumni. Although these accomplishments have helped to strengthen and advance our institution, our job is far from completed. The challenge for the future betterment of Wilkes remains an exciting and worthwhile task in which I hope you will continue to participate. Our progressive development as an institution depends, in nearly equal portions, upon a qualified and responsible student body; upon a dedicated and industrious faculty and staff; and upon loyal alumni, parents and friends who maintain an active involvement in the affairs of Wilkes College. I am pleased to present to you this 1980-81 Annual President's Report which summarizes our progress towards reaching a level of true distinction among the nation's foremost independent liberal arts colleges. circulation Tanya Hallez '67 Robert S. Capin '50 A review of Policies and Procedures for Tenure, Faculty Evaluation, and Administrative Evaluation. Development and approval of plans to build a 205-bed residence hall. art director OFFICERS Alexandra Ehret '•'• Carey Evans 41 FrankM. Henry Andre-. .'Hourigan [r I .../ , - The completion of a Long-Range Planning Document for the College. Jon Schaffer BOARD OF TRUSTEES William L. Conyngham. Chairman RichlardM. Ross, VwCWu, ''Lmphred 52 Mrs. WIlhamDavidowitz,Santiny The implementation of the Wilkes College Nursing Program: Hazleton, which replaces nursing diploma programs and allows Hazleton area nursing students to take Wilkes College courses in Hazleton. Sincerely, Robert S. Capin President "Our progressive development as an institution depends, in nearly equal portions, upon a qualified and responsible student body; upon a dedicated and industrious faculty and staff; and upon loyal alumni, parents and friends who maintain an active involvement in the affairs of Wilkes College." Thomas JI. Kiley, rrw^^rrtw F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Trustee L Louis Shaffer, Trustee Emeritus FALL 19S1 3 �• A new Freshman Honors Program will enable high ability, highlymotivated freshmen to enroll in a special two-semester course. The Program is an interdisciplinary course involving the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, philosophy and the sciences. ACADEMICS The academic programs at Wilkes College continue to be of excellent quality. The College is blessed with a dedicated and highly qualified teaching faculty which numbers 156 with over half of them holding doctoral degrees from fine universities throughout the country. In a continuing effort to ensure that Wilkes graduates receive a broad and rigorous education which prepares them to be productive citizens, standards have been re-examined and re-emphasized throughout each of the academic departments. » The electrical engineering program received accreditation this year from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), formerly the Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD). The purpose of accrediting is to identify those institutions which offer professional engineering programs worthy of recognition. "In a continuing effort to ensure that Wilkes graduates receive a broad and rigorous education which prepares them to be productive citizens, standards have been re-examined and re-emphasized throughout each of the academic departments." • The College continues to offer students excellent opportunities in the health care field. Degrees are available in Nursing, Medical Technology, and, for eligible students, a seven-year Family Medicine Program leading to a B.S. Degree from Wilkes and an M.D. from Hahnemann Medical College. Other options include a Podiatric Program in cooperation with the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine; Pharmacy and Dental Programs in cooperation with Temple University; and an Optometry Program in cooperation with the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. » A new Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Degree Program has been introduced which will allow students to take a more intensive curriculum in art in preparation for graduate school or a career in the visual arts, or as a means to greater fulfillment as an artist. • Approximately twenty students enrolled in the first class of our new four-year nursing program in Hazleton which filled a void left when the State withdrew its support for Hospital Nursing Diploma Programs. Some Wilkes courses will be taught to students at the Hazleton State General Hospital Complex where their clinical experience will also take place. These students will also experience classes and laboratory periods on the Wilkes campus each week. A new Nursing Department Chairperson, Dr. Virginia Nehring, was appointed in July, following the retirement of Ruth McHenry. As we strive to maintain our tradition of quality and excellence we secured several academic grants this year including: » $24,970 to the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department for equipment for research; « $60,000 to Act 101 for remedial assistance for economically deprived college students; » $129,999 to Upward Bound where underprivileged students receive educational and cultural experiences to assist them in preparing for college; » $32,436 to the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department for radiation monitoring equipment; • $1,200 to Dr. Louis Rigley of the Biology Department for research on dolphins; • $39,000 to Dr. Owen Faut of the Chemistry Department for research; and, • $43,843 to Dr. Joseph Bellucci of the Education Department to work with elementary teachers on energy and pollution. I am also pleased to report on activities relating to the continuing professional development of our faculty. Dr. John Orehotsky, Associate Professor of Engineering, was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for work in Portugal while full-year sabbatical leaves were taken by Dr. David Leach, Professor of History, and Dr. James Bohning, Professor of Chemistry. One semester sabbaticals were taken by Dr. Clyde Houseknecht, Associate Professor of Biology; Mr. Chester Colson, Professor of Art; Dr. John Orehotsky, Associate Professor of Engineering; and Dr. Bing Wong, Professor of Mathematics. Other areas of academic influence continue to flourish with increased enrollments in the Graduate and Part-time Undergraduate Programs as well as the Division of Continuing Education. Further support of the academic program is provided by the Office of Career Services. It continues to offer guidance to undergraduates and alumni concerning graduate or professional school enrollment and permanent or part-time employment opportunities. The Cooperative Education Program also integrates a student's academic studies with productive working experiences in employing organizations. As reported in the August, 1981 issue of The Wall Street Journal, such experiences effectively augment students' academic preparation. While many of our efforts are being focused on current academic trends, we have not lost sight of the future. With this in mind, a Long-Range Planning Committee was established and has subsequently completed a Long-Range Planning Document for Wilkes College. Released in May of this year, the 140-page Document has three major purposes: 1. to identify and describe the economic forces that will have an impact on W'ilkes over the next five years; 2. quantify (wherever possible) the magnitude of these forces; and 3. articulate some of the implications of these economic forces for Wilkes. The Document is available for review at the College. Additional highlights of the 1980-81 academic year can be found in the Chronology of Special Events at the end of this report. FALL 1981 5 �Since our most important resource is our students, we continue to exert much of our time and energy into making their stay at Wilkes both enjoyable and educational. The best way to underscore the efforts of the Student Affairs staff this past year is to note that they continued to be creative, progressive, and highly STUDENT AFFAIRS productive. All in all, 1980-81 was a good year in Student life. The year began with what we felt was a positive orientation program in which freshmen were adequately introduced to the campus. The counseling and advisement of students remains the chief responsibility of the student affairs office and continues to be the most important aspect of student life at the College. The staff again counseled every’ new student on an individual basis during the fall term which aided significantly in our retention rate and positive performance of students. Housing was an area of concern for the Student Affairs staff this year as a fall overflow of resident students required last minute evaluation of housing availability. As a result of the need for increased housing, the College acquired facilities at the YMCA and converted the area into a women s residence for ninety coeds. The Sterling Hotel again served as a residence hall allowing us to accommodate all the remaining students who would not be housed in College residence facilities. Student Activities was a highly productive area in 1980-81. Under the direction of strong student leadership the students enjoyed numerous social' and cultural events throughout the year and made great strides in centralizing the efforts of student activir offices into the Conyngham cS ar « and Center. ^udei -snt The Intramural Program has expanded, and there were b ft opportunities for students in th F extracurricular area than ever h as evidenced in higher student f°re During the year, the health of110rale' students was maintained at an * °Ur unusually satisfactory level. Th services were efficiently admim Ith by our nurses, and no infections „ epidemics were experienced. OUr relationship with the Family praclResidence Center was continued and their efficient service was an asset to the College and to our students Meeting the financial needs of students remains a significant asneet; the overall life of the College. Durjni>n the year, we feel that the needs of 8 students were reasonably well methowever, we must anticipate the future financial needs of our students in light of probable cutback in federal funding In the area of food service, an area which traditionally is a focal point for problems in student life, we were fortunate to maintain an efficient program at a reasonable budget figure. Much of the success in food service is due to a very cooperative management and an active, constructive student committee. While the College athletic teams posted an overall win-loss record of under .500 with 114 wins and 125 losses, several teams had outstanding seasons during what was considered to be a rebuilding year. The cross country, women's volleyball, field hockey, men's basketball, wrestling, men's baseball, golf, and men's tennis teams all enjoyed winning campaigns. While substantial numbers of private colleges throughout the country continue to be plagued by decreasing numbers of applications and dwindling enrollments, Wilkes College has continued to prosper. A total of 557 freshmen and an additional 150 transfer students were admitted for enrollment last September from better than 1,700 applications. The overall full-time undergraduate enrollment for this past academic year was 2,087 comprised of 52.5% male and 47.5% female students. Approximately 55% of our students were commuters. As a means of comparison, I offer you the following table of admissions statistics for the past two recruiting years: ADMISSIONS burden for the College is of singular importance. More significantly, the fact that three of the new people (two replacements, one expansion) came on board last summer necessitated the development of a training program which, with its success, has allowed us to assemble a topnotch team of professional recruiters and counselors. Having such a team has enabled us to increase our recruitment visitations from 225 to 700 (800 by the end of next year) in just three years. Correspondingly, we have seen increases in inquiries, applications received, deposits received, and enrolled students. In spite of the heavy personnel involvement which these recruiting increases entail, the office has also increased the average Registrations Inquiries Applications Acceptances number of on-campus interviews of •750 1979 7,132 1,628 1,488 prospective students by over 300 per year during this time period. •755 1980 8,485 1,729 1,529 A second, although perhaps less • includes readmitted students dramatic area of significant achievement involves the nearly complete 78% of last year's entering class were computerization of operations in the from Pennsylvania, with 11% from Admissions Office. Our ability to New Jersey, 7% from New York and correspond and exchange information 1% from Connecticut. Several other with prospective students has increased states and foreign countries were dramatically. Our applicants are not also represented. only receiving a better and more prompt While the admissions officers were response to their needs, but they are successful in their recruiting efforts, also receiving better information; in the they also achieved two additional long run, their decisions concerning objectives which strengthened the Wilkes will be more informed, allowing office. First, the office witnessed us an improvement in student retention. a long-overdue expansion in personnel A third area of encouraging success and, second, it made great strides has been in the increase and toward the nearly completed improvement of our on-campus computerization of operations. visitation program. The Visitation Day Since statistics published by this past Spring — our third — was such the National Association of College that we are convinced it should be a Admissions Counselors indicate that an permanent addition to our annual Admissions Office for a college the size calendar. The Junior and Senior of Wilkes should have an administrative National Honor Society Days, Science staff of approximately seven, our ability Expo, and numerous small-group events to go from a staff of three to a staff of have helped us markedly to "open up" six in three short years without causing the campus to a wider constituency. major budgetary or administrative V,, ■■ W “The counseling and advisement ofstudents remains the chief responsibility of the Student Affairs Office and continues to be the most important aspect of student life at the College." 6 WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY While substantial numbers ofprivate colleges throughout the country continue to be plagued by decreasing numbers of applications and dwindling enrollments, Wilkes College has continued to prosper. FALL 1981 7 �administra1 Much attention was devoted to the physical plant of the College during the past year. After several months of research and analysis, the Board of Trustees approved plans for the construction of a S3 million, 205-bed residence hall which will be located at the corner of South River and Northampton Streets on our campus. Construction of the new facility is now underway with an expected completion date of August, 1982. Additional information regarding the new facility can be found on page 12 of this special issue. Improvement of our physical facilities continues as construction of the new residence hall proceeds. Work on buildings and grounds this past vear includes: New roofs and insulation on Pickering Hall, the Center for Performing Arts and several dormitories. Repointing of Weckesser Hall. Exterior painting of Sterling Chapman, Catlin, Weiss, and McClintock HaUs. TIVE AFFAIRS Interior painting and replacement of floor in the College Dining Hall. Demolition of several garages and buildings as called for in our Space Utilization Study. Resurfacing of several badly deteriorated parking lots. “Although these accomplishments have helped to strengthen and advance our institution, ourjob is far from completed. The challenge for the future betterment of Wilkes remains an exciting and worthwhile task in which I hope you will continue to participate." Cleaning, repainting, new roof and windows on Chesapeake and Delaware Halls. Site preparation for new residence hall. Completion of Bedford renovation, including removal of exterior garage. General landscaping to enhance appearance of the campus. Mechanical repairs and interior painting at the Center for Performing Arts. I am pleased to report that with these renovations and additions our campus continues to provide a healthy setting for our students and ren. comprised of both Wilke? C°nirtattPo officials has made great ®nd BUcknL WSiiXSW? ... — special convocation willoffin,?*^. A vvx.vuuauon will officially the celebration which will comm. September of next year. The 19S1 Annual Campaign, the capable leadership of Mr Roth (Wilkes' Class of 1957), raise ’d'sViW successful. The College r:- _ , ibliskoj 1,0°0 which exceeded the established a goalused by $11,000. Funds raised are being are beir to provide additional scholarship tarship assistance to capable and deservii students. tag A concerted effort thr troughout the year by the entire Wilk, revitalize and rekindle res community t0 a Reaffirmation of Values was high on our priority ljst This entailed the continuous challenge of reminding all of 'r th. 1’re campus constituencies that values rcrnc remain an important and very part of the process of education. I pointed out earlier in this report that a dedicated committee comprised of administrators, faculty, staff, and students spent many hours establishing a Long-Range Planning Document for the College. The lengthy report, which will aid us as we move progressively into the 80's, deals with many phases of the College including student enrollment, financial aid, personnel, physical plant, student services, admissions, and development. WILK cfu 1933 VOL. 1, NO. 2 The following Class Notes were compiled from updates received prior to August 1. Please send all information regarding mar­ riages, births, promotions, employment or address changes, advanced degrees, or deaths to the Wilkes College Alumni Office, Weckesser Hall, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1935 WILLIAM G. McDONALD is a chemical engineer for the Stackpole Corporation. He resides in St. Mary's, PA with his wife Ruby and children Margaret, Jane and Mark. WILLIAM R. ORLANDI is now retired and living in Sun City Center, FL, with his wife Arlene. 1938 ROBERT ENGLAND of Athens, PA has retired from his teaching position at Waverly School District. His wife Mary Rose is also retired from teaching. CHARLES F. MILLARD is a partner in the company Whitman Requardt & Associates. He and his wife reside in Towson, MD. 1939 HELEN COATES GRAHAM has been librarian at La Marque School District of Texas for almost twenty years. Her husband, the Reverend Robert Graham, is retired. They live on the Texas Gulf Coast, south of Houston. 1940 LILYANNE BABSKIE QUINN is now a consultant in mental health and physical therapy. She resides in Bevlaville, NC with her husband Emory, who is a chemist. 1941 MARION WATERS BRESSLER is still teaching at State College Area Schools. Her husband Leo is now a retired professor of English. They reside in State College, PA. 1942 ATTORNEY JOSEPH B. FARRELL is an associate of the Flood, Brown, Farrell & Burns law firm of WilkesBarre. He lives with his wife Margaret in Mountaintop, PA. BERNARD J. FLADD of Syracuse, NY is an electronic technician with the General Electric Co. Bernard and his wife Marguerite have two sons, Robert and Joseph. 1943 GEORGE I. RIFENDIFER now works for the Du­ quesne Light Co. where he holds the position of vicepresident. George and his family live in Oakdale, PA. 1945 JEAN C. (STEELE) IBA resides in Hershey. PA with her husband Mark and their four children. Both Jean and Mark are active in their church and they have been MILKES COLLEGE QUARTE. WV traveling around the country in their tent camper. Stop by and see our "new" campus when you are in Wilkes-Barre, folks. 1946 STEWART HETTING, JR. is the manager of inter­ national products, for the General Electric Corporation. CALVIN W. KANYUCK is a teacher at Lake Lehman Senior High School. Calvin resides in Sheatown, PA with his wife Ruth and their two children Dwight and Karen. 1948 FRANCES (WILKI) ABRIBAT is a medical reception­ ist. Frances lives in Franklin Lakes, NJ with her husband Marc and children Mark, Carl, James & Kim. WILLIAM DOBERSTEIN is a senior product engineer for the General Electric Co. of NC. He is married to the former Agnes Aster Zolico. They reside in Chapel Hill, NC. PAUL R. DORIS of Binghamton, NY works for S.P. Ainslie Inc. where he is the secretary of the corporation. Paul and wife Alberta have four children. DRS. SHELDON & JUNE (WILLIAMS) TURLEY are both economic planners for Dow Chemical of Michigan. June Turley is a '50 grad of Wilkes and received her Ph.D from Penn State. 1949 ROBERT ANTHONY of Wilkes-Barre is both secretary and assistant treasurer of Pennsylvania Gas &. Water Company. He's married to the former Jane Spraw, and they have two sons, Robert and James. ELEANOR E. (KRUTE) BEETS is an estate analyst trainee for the Veterans Administration Office in Reno, Nevada. NAOMI (HONS) HAAG of Reading, PA is a librarian at Antietam School District. Naomi holds the M.L.S. from Kutztown State and is presently doing graduate work in guidance counseling. DR. DAVID KATZ is the chairman of the Dermatology section of Orange Memorial Hospital in NJ. Dave earned the M.D. from Hahnemann Medical College. DAVID T. MARTIN is an engineering supervisor for the Aetna Life Company of Scranton, PA. David and his wife Kathryn reside in West Wyoming with their two children. MR. & MRS. JOHN B. MERRITT now reside in Bath, PA with their four daughters, Holly, Susan, Patti, and Marcy. CAROL (WEISS) MORRISON lives in Wyncote, PA. Carol is a counselor for the Philadelphia Board of Educa­ tion. DOLORES (HARTMAN) RICHARDSON of Cham­ paign, IL is a district review supervisor for the Professional Standards Review Organization. 1950 ALLAN JOHN ALLAN is the owner of Allan Industries. He resides in Nanticoke with his wife Catherine. Allan is an extremely hard worker for the College in our fund drives and for the Association. He is Chairman of the Dinner-Dance Committee for Homecoming '81. ROBERT S. CAPIN is the president of Wilkes College. He resides in Wilkes-Barre with his wife Libby. While that in itself is not news, the President asks us to send his regards to the Association through the ALUMNUS. DANIEL E. DORIS, JR., is a staff industrial engineer for the IBM Corporation of Owego, NY. David and family reside in Apalachin, NY. ARMIN J. GILL is a sales representative for the Monroe Calculating Machine Company. Bud resides in Bridgeport, West Virginia with his wife Betty and their children Linda, Donna, and A. J., Jr. THE REVEREND LESTER S. GROSS, JR. is the pastor at St. Alban Episcopal Church of Kentucky. He holds the D.Min. from the Louisville Presbyterian Semi­ nary and resides in Louisville, KY. DR. JOSEPH M. MARINO is a self-employed Osteop­ athy physician in private practice. His wife Rosemary is a pharmacist. They reside in Philadelphia, PA with their three children. 1951 DR. & MRS. THOMAS D. MORGAN reside in Sherrill, NY. Dr. Morgan earned the Ed.D. at Buffalo and is a junior/senior high school principal. His wife ANNE (PERRY) is a '52 Wilkes grad in social studies. JEANNE (CLAYPOOL) VAN NEWENHIZEN and her husband John are fruit farmers in Michigan. Jeanne earned her B.S. in Chemistry. 1952 JANE (SLAWOSKI) D'ANGELO is a teacher for Newark Valley Middle Schools. Jane resides in Newark Valley, NY with her husband Domenico and their sons Anthony and John. MR. & MRS. ROBERT M. EVANS reside in Peoria, IL with their children Lynn and Bruce. Robert is the President of Graham, Roberts Associates. HELEN (SCHERFF), a '53 Wilkes grad, is assistant director of human evaluation operations at Bradley University, where she earned an M.A. in Education. GEORGE LIDD1COTE is second vice-president and assistant branch manager for Employers Reinsurance Corporation of New York. BERNARD D. PRICE is the director of the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Alabama. He earned the M.B.A. at Xavier University and is presently living in Tuscaloosa, AL. 1953 MR. & MRS. LEONARD FELD reside in Binghamton, NY. Leonard is an assistant administrator for Ideal-Wilson Hospital. He received his M.P.A. from Marywood College in 1977. NAOMA (KAUFER) is a teacher at Binghamton School District. ELIZABETH (CHAMPLIN) PARSONS is the President of Psychological Associates of Wisconsin. She resides in Salem, WI with her husband Robert and children. Congratulations go out to ATTY. SANDOR YELEN, who has been elected to the Board of Trustees at the Dickinson School of Law. He and his wife Janice and their children reside in Kingston. ALUMNUS 1 �1954 MR. & MRS. THEODORE KANNER reside in Los Angeles CA. Theodore is executive vice-president of the Jewish Federation Council. He earned the M.S.IV. at Columbia University in 1955. DR. STANLEY 5. KNAP1CH is an associate professor of biolog)’ at College Misericordia, Dallas. PA. Stan holds the D.Ed. in Biolog)- from Penn State and resides in Sweet Valley, PA. 1955 LEONA (GOLDBERG) ALARKIEWITZ is a teacher at New Castle County School District. Leona resides in Wilmington, DE with her husband Kenneth and their sons Martin, Andrew, and Robert. LUC1ANA (DIMATTIA) SVR.ACI a homemaker in Clarks Green. PA. was recently elected to membership on the Wilkes College Board of Trustees. We offer our congratulations and welcome her back. WILLIAM A. ZDANCEWICZ of Edwardsville. PA was recently named director of management services for Penn's Wood Girl Scout Council. Good luck in your new position. Bill. 1959 STEPHEN J. ECHAN, JR. is an equalization director for Saginaw County, Michigan. ELLEN C. (KEMP) GER.AKD is teaching at BayportBlue Point Schools. Ellen and her husband Berni and their four children live in Blue Point, NY. DR. JEROME R. GUTTERMAN is a self-employed dentist in Sacramento. CA. He earned his D.D.S. at Temple University. MR. & MRS. ROBERTJ. PITELreside in Minneapolis, MN. Robert is vice-president of marketing for National Computer Systems while VERA (WROBLE) is a student at the University of Minnesota. DAVID K. WAGNER is president of B & W Inc. of Harrisburg, PA. He is married to the former Marilyn S. Patterson. 1956 JOHN L COATES is presto of LaBar Enterprises, Inc. of Berwick, PA. John also earned the MAA. here in 1974. JOHX P. KfSHXERICK is 3 pablisier. vice-president and general manager for the Chiltcn Bc’k Ccmpan;. He is also on the Board of Dators of the And# Bureau of Circulation. John and his wife Leatric live m Media. PA with their two children. CHESTER H. MILLER is a materials manager for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation of Baltimore, MD. Chester earned his M.S. at George Washington University and is married to the former Alice Bollinger. They have three children, Carolyn, David. and John. JOSEPH P. POPFLE was recently promoted to Deputy Controller of the ILS. Air Force. Headquarters Wash­ ington, D.C. He also received the Presdenfekank award of Meritorious Executive. He is married to the former JUDY (GOMMER), a '57 grad focm Wilkes and they re­ side in Oakton, VA with daughters Holly and Kimberly. MR. & MRS. ROLAND GROVER reside in Edison, NY. Roland is a Quality Control Engineer and MONICA (UTRIAS) is the section head for Colgate Palmolive Company. JOHN F. SHIMSHOCK is project msra-gr at the Electric Power Research Institute, in Palo Alio CA We seem to have some confusion with your addresses, John. Please send us a note and clarify our records. 1957 FAITH (STCHUR) KUHARSKY is a science lab teacher at Rutgers Preparatory School. She resides in South River, NJ with her husband Sergius and four children. Congratulations to DR. GEORGE SILES, Director of Act 101 al Wilkes College. He was recently elected to be Act 101 "Cluster D" Chairman for 1981-82 and to serve as the chairman of the Eastern Regional Executive Committee. He resides in Dallas, PA with his family. NEIL A. TURTEL is President of Tortuga Enterprise Inc. He resides in Woodbury, NY with his wife Reva and children. 1958 MR. & MRS. ANTHONY BIANCO reside in Lancaster, PA. Anthony is a production superintendent at the Slay­ maker Lock Company. MAX BERK GREENWALD is a piu parole administrator for California Department of Correctioi —-3ns. Max earned an M.S.W. at Yeshiva in 1962. NANCY (CASTERL1N) KNIGHT is a salesperson for Odyssey Realty of Texas. ATTORNEY GEORGE R. KUC1K i. _ a partner in the firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin t is Kahi graduate of Villanova Law School a.J m. He is also a and in a D.C. law firm consisting of 120 law) a trial lawyer “Wyers. 2 ALUMNUS 1960 THOMAS D. EVANS of Montrose, PA is a guidance counselor at Montrose Area High School. Tom earned the M A at Oweanta College. DR MARTHA HADSEL assistant professor of English at Penn StateAViLkes-Barre. has received a Residenttai Fellowship for College Teachers front the National Endowmeet for the Humanities. Martha resides in Dallas, PA. THE REVEREND St MRS. AARON G. HASTIE reside h Berwick, PA. The Reverend Hastie is a graduate of the Pittsburgh Seminary with the M.Div. degree and is a min­ ister at First United'Presbyterian Church. JANICE (MAC­ DONALD’ '63, is the school nurse at Berwick Area Schools. ALLYN CARLTON JONES is group vice-president at Bambergers of NJ. He is married to the former Kathryn Messner and they have three children. MARILYN [WARBURTON! LITTER is the director of social services at the Hospital for Sick Children, Wash­ ington, D.C. She earned an M.S.W. at Pitt and is married to Rudolph V. Latter, Jr., Esquire. They reside in Washington, D.C. WILLLAM G. MAXWELL of Philadelphia, PA is a teacher at Philadelphia Public Schools. He holds an M.5. from Temple University. FRANK LEO MAZZEO is the assistant principal at Tunkhannock High School. Frank resides in Old Forge, PA with his wife Marie and their children. RICHARD J. MYERS, former director of marketing at Martz Trailways, has been named vice-president of marketing at Catawese Coach Lines, Shamokin. He resides in West Nanticoke, PA with his wife, LOIS (TREMAYNE), a '57 Wilkes grad, and their two children. MR. & MRS. RONALD PHILLIPS reside in Fleming­ ton, NJ. Ronald is the superintendent of Holland Township Board of Education, while Beverly is an elemen­ tary school nurse. Ron earned the M.Ed. at Temple. BERNARD R. SHUPP is a pilot plant manager for the Fasson Division of Avery International of Ohio. PiOSE (NEUSER) SICNER is the co-owner of Sicner investment Company. Rose resides in Houston, TX with her husband Karel and their children Mark, Karla, and Madeleine. .m°HBrRTc“;WASHBt,RN is Presently working with married to the former CAROLYN Wilkes grad. They have two children i • S°N) RICHARD C. BRAYSHAW oI u, “ and Neil. President of R. C. Brayshaw & r arncr- Nil ■ 'M married to the former FRANCIS ANN >nc u"1.' they have four children. IWALLS). -fc"'' ROBERT S. CLOSKEY is the assist, ' Banking Bureau for the Pa. Department"' fR «' Ike DIRK DUNLAP of Bucks County p/. nk,n8 at Newtown Friends School. Dirk rarnJSl..eadn'«ttt History at Lehigh University. “ "ls M.A. [n MARY ANN FOLEY is a teacher at Wvom' of Kingston, PA. Mary Ann resides in DaHa"1 pSen"natY SALLY (ZUPKA) HIGGINS is a psv . Monmouth Medical Center. Sally resides in T Cta'1'lsl al NJ with her husband James and their child™FallsClaire. and ARLINE (HARRISON) JONES of Guerneville r. ■ teacher at Guerneville Elementary School. She i " “a to the Reverend Robert Jones, and they have IwJ’a'"'’1 ters Juliette and Carolyn. Y WILLIAM LEE MORRIS is a brokerlexchaneer r Mike Power Realtor of Naples, Florida. 6 ” WILLIAM FINE RAUB is the associate direr the National Institutes of Health. He is also the ■rtor fOr of NIH Intramural Research Programs. Bill manager Ph.D. from Penn in 1965. earned the HAROLD ROSE of Dallas, PA has been elected to the Wilkes College Board of Trustees. Rose serves as President and Chief and Executive Officer of the Wyoming National Bank of Wilkes-Barre. Congratulations, Harold! BARBARA (PRICE) SCHAFER is an asslsiai .assistant chief for the Connecticut State Department of Mental "™al Barbara has published many articles such as " ‘ Health. _..r„ "An Expertential Learning Laboratory." She holds a Master's degre ree in Nursing Education, earned at Pitt. FRANK M. SCUTCH of Woodbridge, VA is a personnel officer for Defense Logistics Agency, located in Alexan­ dria, VA. 1962 ELVA ICHERNOW) BERGER is an administrative assistant for Open Doors/Economic Development Council of NY. JOHN DIMOND is the president of Bergman's Depart­ ment Store, Kingston, PA. JOEL P. HARRISON is senior vice-president of Benton & Bowles Inc. of NY. He resides in Wyckoff, NY with his wife Sally and their two sons. JACK A. PRITCHARD is a self-employed insurance agent. He resides in Wyoming, PA with his wife Sandra and their children Vern, Cynthia, and Jack. He earned the M.A. from Iowa in 1967. CLYDE ROBERTS of Colmar, PA is now the vicepresident of Finance for Amchem Products, Inc. PHILLIP W. STEVENS has been elected as an officer of the Keystone Junior College Alumni Association Execu­ tive Committee for the 1981-82 school year. Phillip resides in Clarks Summit, PA. DARIUS F. THOMAS of Bellevue, WA is the manager of the Aviation Division of the Insurance Company o North America. DR. JANET (SIMPSON) WILKINSON is now residing in Lynchburg, VA. She is Coordinator of ^ou.ns,e.. Services at Central Virginia Community College an an Ed.D. from the University of Virginia. ,nc'and holds the P°sition of Insurer. 1961 GIL HO BAI is a systems analyst for Anheuser Busch Co., Inc. He resides in St. Louis, MO with wife Bernet and their two children. F. ROBERT BOBKOWSKI for the Pall Corporation of 1 1 is a regional sales manager Bridgeport, CT. Robert is 1963 JOHN S. ADAMS is the president of Adams & Adams Inc. located in Allentown, PA. John resides in Emmaus, PA with his wife Diane and their children Peter, Richard and Arianne. DR. MARY (REGALIS) ALTHAUSER is an assistant professor of microbiology al Colorado Stale UniversityMary resides in Longmont. CO with her husband William. She earned the Ph.D, at Kentucky. LINDA (PALKA) BORICK is a French teacher al Danville Area School District. Her husband DR. RONALD received his associate degree from Wilkes in 1962. They reside in Danville, PA with their sons Steven & Matthew. RUTHANNE (MACRI) PORTER is a physician's assistant. She resides in Perkasie, PA with her husband William and their four children. ANN (LIGETI) RUPE is a career education specialist for Seattle Public Schools. She resides in Mercer Island, WA with her husband William and two children. JOHN B. SHEVCHUCK is an administrator at Citizens General Hospital of Houston, TX. John resides in Tombell, TX with his wife Cora and their son Eric. His M.S. in Hospital Care Administration was earned at Trinity College. CLAIR (HANDLER) SILVERSTEIN owns Cheshire Cat Jewelers of Caldwell, NJ. She is presently enrolled at Montclair State College, NJ for certification in TESOL. She also earned an M.S. at Brooklyn College. SHEILA (MILLER) SULLUM and her husband Harold reside in Honesdale, PA. Sheila is the treasurer for Sullum's Inc. 1964 RONALD L. BALDWIN teaches music at Branford Public Schools. His wife Sandra is also a teacher. They have three children and reside in Branford, CT. Ron earned an M.A. in Music from Yale University. LOUIS H. COOPEY is a self-employed photographer. In 1979 he was selected Wisconsin Photographer of the Year. In 1980 he was awarded the Associate Fellow of Photography Degree. He also owns the Keystone Group, a real estate investment firm. Congratulations on all your accomplishments, Lou. Best wishes from all your Nanticoke friends. JOHN ANTHONY GAVENONIS is a Force Develop­ ment Officer at Tobyhanna Army Depot. He resides in Larksville, PA with his wife June and sons John and Jason. JEROME GERALD has recently joined the Sears, Roebuck and Company staff as a customer service manager at the Eastern Territory Office, St. David's, PA. MALCOLM D. GROPPER of Holmdel, NJ is senior vice-president at Leisure Technology Corporation. J. DOUGLAS HAUGHWOUT is a planning manager for Contel Data Services Corporation. He's also a member of the National Guard and holds the rank of Major. ROBERT H. KRESSLY is the assistant supervisor for the American Cigar Company of Mountaintop, PA. DR. & MRS. VINCENT McHALE reside in Cleveland Heights, OH. Dr. McHale is the chairman of the Depart­ ment of Political Science at Case Western Reserve Univer­ sity. ANN (COTNER), '61, is an elementary teacher. WILLIAM J. MULFORD is a teacher for the Berryessa Union School District of San Jose, CA. SHEILA (ROSEN) NACHLIS resides in Wilkes-Barre with her husband Harry and their sons Warren and Brian. JAMES E. PACE holds the position of Auditor at Morris County Savings Bank, NJ. He’s married to the former Lenore Granitzki, and they reside in Morris Plains, NJ with their children Brian and Brenda. LORRAINE (DYERS) PRICE of Newport, VA is an Interior Designer for Miller & Rhoades Department Store. DAVID SIMPSON of Mountaintop, PA has been appointed chief of the local office of the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of Interior. Dave also earned an M.S. in Chemistry here in 1968. HARRIS TOBIAS is a self-employed earth artisan. He earned an M.A. in 1972 at New Mexico State and resides in North Montpelier, VT with his wife Ellen and their children Avrom and Jonah. DR. GERALD W. WILLIAMS is the director of the Office of Management Practices for the Michigan State Government. He holds a Ph.D. from Washington. 1965 BOYD AEBLI is now an advisory programmer for the IBM Corporation of Endicott, NY. He resides in Endwell, NY with his wife Mary and their two daughters, Kathryn and Melanie. DR. CATHERINE DeANGELIS is director of pediatric primary care at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. DALE H. EDWARDS is the regional supervisor for the United Republic Life Insurance Company. Dale earned an M.A. from Lehigh University and resides in Catasauqua, PA. DELMER F. GIBERSON is a teacher for the Lake Lehman School District. Delmer holds an M.Ed. from Temple and resides in Wyoming, PA with his wife Carmela and their son Scott. MR. & MRS. RONALD GROHOWSKI reside in Boulder, CO with their sons Steven and Robert. Both Ronald and MARY (CRAHALL), '60, work for the l.B.M. Corporation. MOLLY (BOYLE) KRAFCHIK is a homemaker in Nanticoke, PA. She is married to David Krafchik, a math teacher, and they have three daughters, Julie, Amy and Beth. Molly received her M.Ed. from Temple Univer­ sity. DR. W. DAVID LARMOUTH is presently teaching chemistry al Dundee Central School, Dundee, NY. Dave, sorry about the mix-up on your graduation year. From now on you will be with the class of '65. He also earned an M.S. from Wyoming in 1973. DR. HERBERT N. MAIER is the plant manager for Ideal Gas Products, Inc. He earned his Ph.D at Penn State and is married to the former MILDRED GROSS, a '66 Wilkes grad. JOSEPH P. MALONEY has just received his Ph.D. in human development from the University of Maryland. Joseph is a doctor/major in the U.S. Army. He resides in Silver Springs, MD with wife Catherine and their children Joseph & Patrick. MICHAEL MOSTELLO is the director of shortage control at Gimbels in Philadelphia. His wife BARBARA (YANUNZIO) is a '66 Wilkes grad. They have two sons, Michael and John, and they reside in Drexel, PA. ROBERT PRITCHARD is a chief in the U.S. Coast Guard, Research Programs Branch. He resides in South Weymouth, MA with his wife and children. JAMES REID is the owner of Captain Newicks Lobster House in South Portland, ME, and invites all his friends and alumni to stop by and say hello. EDWARD TROYAN is a professor of electronics at Lehigh County Community College. He is married to the former BARBARA GRAYTOCK, a '67 Wilkes grad. Ed earned his M.S. in 1972 at Rochester Institute. DAVID CHARLES WALKER is a labor relations assistant at General Dynamics of Pomona, CA. He resides in Irvine, CA. MARY (BUTKOSK1) ZALESKI has a new position with Nesbitt Memorial Hospital as a discharge planner. Mary resides in Glen Lyon, PA with her husband Francis and children Aimee and Peter. 1966 BEVERLY (GRANAT) ACHENBERG will be studying al the Center for Studies of the Person, La Jolla, CA. Beverly is an art teacher. DAVID L. CHRISTMAN is a software engineer for Smiths Industries, Inc. David resides in Holiday, FL with his wife, Deborah. DONALD L. DAVIS is the director of accounting and crediting at Asher & z\sher, Philadelphia, PA. ROBERT H. ERICSON is a financial systems consul­ tant tor Sun Company of PA. He earned an M.B.A. at the Wharton School and resides in Phoenixville, PA. ALAN C. GAMBLE is a program manager for l.B.M. of Princeton. NJ. He resides in Yardley, PA with his wife Susan and their daughter Marie. CLEMENT A. GAYNOR of Oxon Hill, MD is a super­ visory evaluator for the U.S. General Accounting Office of Washington, D.C. ROBERT C. HARDING is the principal at Souderton Area School District. Dr. Harding resides in Telford, PA with his wife Ann and their daughter Cheryl. EUGENE A. MACUR is working as an electronics engineer for the U.S. Navy. He is married to the former Nancy L. Ogle, and they reside in Perkasie, PA. Gene earned an M.S. in Engineering al Penn. MARTHA (DOMINGUEZ) MAGUIRE of Captain Cook, Hl is a Student Activities Coordinator at Ka'u High and Pahala Elementary School. She is married to Charles T. Maguire, and they have two sons, Kale and Alika. RHODA (ORAM) MELLNER is a teacher for the Scranton Area School District. Rhoda resides in Scranton with her husband Michael and their two children Marni and Stephen. She earned an M.A. in English from the University of Scranton. JOHN R. NOVAK is the vice-president of Pullman Standard of Chicago, IL. John, tell us more about your recent experiences so we can pass the news along to the Alumni. C. ROBERT ORNER, II of Montrose, PA is a teacher at Elk Lake School District. He holds an M.A. from Marywood College. DR. JOHN R. ROKITA is a peridontist in private practice. He resides in Doylestown, PA with his wife Maureen and children. John studied dentistry at Temple. ROGER ROLFE is vice-president of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. Roger resides in Clearwater, FL with his family and makes his many clients smile. JUDITH (VANSLETTE) RUBOW is a teacher at the Education Opportunity Center al State University of NY. She resides in West Islip, NY with her husband Eugene. WILLIAM SCHNEIDER is leaching al Hazleton Area School District. Bill resides in Hazleton with his wife Janet and children. His M.Ed. was earned at Lehigh. RUTH (NEWHART) SINCLAIR of Waverly, PA is a guidance counselor in the Abington Heights School Dis­ trict. Her M.S. in Counseling was earned at Scranton in 1970. STEPHEN AMER VAN DYCK resides in Philadelphia, PA with his wife Pamela. Steve is the president of Inter­ state & Ocean Transport Company. DONNA (TROIANO) ZANE is a project engineer for the New Jersey Department of Transportation. She resides in Yardville, NY with her husband James. ROBERT J. ZEBROWSKI is a teacher of remedial reading at New York City Schools. He holds an M.S. in Education from C. W. Post and resides in East Meadow, NY with his wife Anne and their daughter Nichole. 1967 JOSEPH M. ADOMIAK of Newark Valley, NY is presently teaching at Newark Valley Central School District. He holds the M.S. degree in Elementary Educa­ tion from SUNY. LEWIS CHERE is an assistant professor of history at Mesa College. Lewis received his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1978. He resides in Grand Junction, CO. MR. & MRS. MICHAEL DZIAK reside in Binghamton, NY with their sons Todd and David. Michael is a sites service manager for l.B.M. Mike's wife RACHEL (PHIL­ LIPS) is a 1964 Alumna. DR. THEODORE J. GOURLEY, JR. is the Director of the gifted education program of the New Jersey State Department of Education. Theodore resides in Vincetown, NJ with his wife Marlene and their daughter Katrina. He earned the Ed.D. degree from Temple University in 1976. SANDRA M. GRINZI is a teacher at Groton Public School District. She holds the M.A. in Education from Connecticut. ALUMNUS 3 �GEORGE POT^AfXfMano^ulol We" Chester, . ^’et]ands Institute. P°nlvN'E SK1BAI REYNOLDS of Jersey City, NJ has a J0AXNE| . „ practice in Jersey City and also pri\J'7SL ler” City Board of Education. 70 Wilk® JANET (BL41RI. 68. " wARON (STRZELCZYK) ROBINSON is the chairSHA??he business education department at W alienXck Area Schools. Sharon resides m Rafton, PA Williamsburg, VA' 1S a Dr. Park holds a Ph.D. from Colorado. 1968 •T BALTUSAVICH received her BRONWYN (REESE) State College in 1978. She resides M.Ed. from Kutztown S« husband Michael and son in Pottstown. PA with her JI«XE (HEINEMANl BATORY is currently a student ManW working towards her with her husband George. DOROTHY (DELON) RODZVILLA ts a domestic 1,0 the Rodzvilla children. Dorothy resides X m PA with her husband, Dr. John Rodzvilla, and their three ch^ SCH0NFELD reside in AllenMR. & MRS...pi ...hh their three children. Ivan is the executive town, 0........ 0f the lewsh Federation of Allentown. Mrs. $donfeld°fr theJformer JILLIAN GOLD, class of'69. ROBERT F. SKRINAK was recently certified as a Regional Seminar Coordinator and Community Trainer by Ph.D. Good luck, Anne! the Personal Dynamics Institute of Minneapolis. He MR. & .MRS. BRUCE BROWN reside in Mt. Laurel. resides in Dupont, PA. NJ with their children Kara and Erica. Bruce is a. esman DR. ALBERT EDWARD STOFKO is a dentist. His for the Regal Corrugated Box Company. D D is from Temple, and his major field of dentistry DR. ROBERT L. BROWN has been appointed director is ’ in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Albert resides in of medical education'infection control officer at WilkesBarre General Hospital. He fives m Dallas with hb Wilkes-Barre, PA. BARRY TIRAS of Walnut Creek, CA is owner/direclor wife and two children. MAURICE D. CARDONE is the chairman of the of Community Services Child Center. He received his business department at Northwest Area High School ALA. from Sonoma State University in 1977, in addition Marty resides in Nanticoke. PA with his wife Lucy and to an M.A. in Education from California in 1976. their son Daryl. He can be reached at 735-1234 for the PAUL L WILLIAMS is now the editor of THE best pizza in Nanticoke. There's your plug, MartyMETRO - an arts news magazine for the Pocono North­ ANTHONY J. CHERL NDOLO is an associate broker east. We'll keep you in mind, Paul, the next time we're for James R. Nasser, Realtors. He resides in Old Forge. reading THE METRO. PA with his wife Marie and daughters Teri and Christina. MR. & MRS. MICHAEL J. WORTH reside in Colum­ SALLY CORBISHLEY is a teacher at Jefferson Town­ bia. MD. Mihael is the director of development at the ship High School Sally resides in Lake Hopatcong, NJ. University of Maryland while his wife HELEN (DUGAN), BERNICE (LUCKENBACKT DORAN is in the precess '68, is a newsletter editor for Feingold Associates of the of getting her graduate degree from Hood College Freder­ United States. ick, MD. Bernice also works as a management analyst. Bernice is married to John A. Doran, and they have 1969 three girls. ROBERT BURNAT of New York is a controller with ALICE (FRONDUTB EDWARDS of Tunkhannock, PA Arthur H. Ross, Inc. He is married to the former Elissa is a teacher at Tunkhannock Area School District. Abelow, and they have a son, Benjamin. We enjoyed PAUL P. FOSKO is the chief planning engineer for seeing Bob at a New York City Alumni reception last fall. the Pa. Department of Environmental Resources. He earned an M.A. in Engineering at Pena State. KENNETH W. CHAPPLE is a credit manager for Metropolitan Wire Corporation and is also a CPA. He lives DR. BRUCE H. GOODMAN opened a new practice in Shavertown, PA. for optometry in Forestville. MD. Congratulations on your appearance on the "Good Morning Wsshington Siow." Congratulations are extended to JOHN J. CHOPACK n—i 1/_____ • We are sure you were great. Bruce earned his D.O. upon being admitted »<> to partnership in Peat, Marwick, degree at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. .Mitchell & Co. RICHARD HARMON teaches at Bridgewater Raritan THOMAS G. EVANS has a new position as principal High School. He resides in Bo-and Brook, NJ with his of Bay-View Middle School of Anne Arundel County. He wife Roberta and their two sons Thomas and James. lives in Linthicum, .MD with his wife Monica and their Rick's M.A. is in Psycholog)- from Montclair State. three children. JULIUS F. HARMS is a purchasing agent for EMC CAROL H. KLIMCHAK is the Director of Partial Corporalion of Chicago. IL. His wife ZOZISLAWA Hospitalization at the Friendship House Children's Center. (PACIEJI is also a '68 grad. They reside in Brookfield. Carol resides in Plymouth and earned her M.S.W. at IL With their children. Eric and Sarah. Marywood College. nrSr £J|Tf KS0N of Ea-^on, PA is the assistant MATTHEW D. KOPETCHNY holds the title of principal for the Easton School District. His M.Ed. was Assistant Administrator/Assistanl to Medical Director at earned at Lehigh. Polyclinic Medical Center, He lives in Harrisburg PA mJ,A?UE™ |RLW| KAPLAX « 4 teacher al ShenMatt earned an M.P.A. in 1975 at Marywood College endehowa Central Schools. DR IRVING MENDELSSOHN is an assistant profes- al Louisiana State University Center for Wetland ITT' P?nSidK Bal°n R°U«e' LA wilh hi* ILwhhLMRS' holds an M.Ed. from Ha°ntWilm*n' MA- He a'S° 0R™ reside in NaPe™He, ezeculiv mN”5 7 7 a"d John' R°ber1 is an acc°unl NANCY INFWFnde" ln'er"a,,onal °f New York. Wife AANLY (NEWEL) is a 1968 Alumna. at fc^N?E)'reC,°r '"f0'™1'00 Ee™ces as first 4 ALUMNUS Awards Competition, conducted of Hospital Public Relations n,„ bY the a =m,. M,M<KSHAROU)H^HrSo^ r"£r' Plains' PA' has b“" selected P e winner in the nationwide 1981 MacEachern V"h 'heir DANIEL MARK SALSBURG ' back bookshop in Philadelphia Pa °' vni;r of, °'vn er of{J GAIL (HADSALL) THOMPSON l”Pe" with her husband Robert and thni .rcs,d« in F,n ELLEN A. (TAGGART) ±'rdaU^Ne^PA tant for the Cortis Publishing Cnn/" “'""^1 , in Indianapolis, IN. E °mPany. Elten ,7"’ MARGERT (FISHMAN) UFBFRc PA with her husband and VthR^^d“ - Ki„gs(on ELVA (COSTELLO) VALENTINE They reside in Dallas, PA, ' " ne Suzuki sa7 Sales. MARJORIE (SHAFFER) VICTOR ■ • with her husband Michael and ((,„;' “777 and Meredith. "eir child, Melissa DAVID WORTH, King of Prussia p. , tai music instructor for the Upper'll “ lnslru nienr«menDistrict. He is married to the former n ? Scho°l Zikosky. They have three children »•»* JUDITH (SHENESKY) YOST has „ pointed to lab manager al Allentown Hospfra" V"” apin Breinigsville, PA with husband, RichardI Sh'resides SUZANNE (SWENSKI) YUNKUNIS rerid - , Barre, PA with her husband William d “Wllkes’ writes magic books and invents new new magic magic effM« effects. 1970 DR. ROBERT E. BURKE is ccurrently -c..^ aa third year medical student at the University, of — Texas -™.s Medical School at San Antonio. ANDREW D. CHEPLICK of Oakland, NJ is a financial ^StenJjSYanalySt f°r lhe S°ny CorP°ralion' Long Island JUDITH (VERVERS) CRUSE received her M.A. from Indiana University of PA in 1979. MR. & MRS. BARRY J. DAVENPORT reside in Clifton Park, NY with their sons Ryan and Matthew. Barry is a field supervisor for Metropolitan Insurance Company. CHERYL (SLOMPAK), '69, is a counselor for the hearing impaired at Saratoga-Warren Boces. THEA (CHESLUK) ESCARGE is a teacher for the Wilkes-Barre School District. She resides in Wilkes-Barre, PA with her husband John and their two daughters. J. TERRY FALSTROM is a senior salesman for Hilti, Inc. of Massachusetts. Terry resides in Plympton, MA with his wife Angela and daughter Gentian. FRED HARKINS is a chiropractor at Harkins Chiro­ practic Office in Lancaster, CA. DAVID JENKINS resides in Wilkes-Barre with his wile Debra and their son James. Dave is an insurance agen for the Western-Southern Life Insurance Company. JOSEPH R. KOLM is the assistant controller for the Geon International Corporation of Woodbury, JJOSEPH KOLSBY is the owner/manager of Stride- j[e He shoes located in Willowbrook Mall, Wayne, resides in Clifton, NJ wilh his wife Susan. WILLIAM D. KUSS works and lives in Seoul, ou Korea and travels extensively throughout Kom. F and Hawaii. Bill is chief for the Systems Software Bran of Joint Command Information Systems. senior research JANICE (SAUNDERS) MALIN is a : , She resides in mathematician for Systems Control, Inc. Saratoga, CA with her husband Mark. STEVEN J. NEWMAN is an account ««-<> E. F. Hutton of Washington, D.C. Steve resides m A ton, VA. ANDREA (WARGO) REED is an environmental impact statement task leader for Oak Ridge National I ab TN. Andrea and her husband Harold reside in Knox­ ville, TN. MELVIN C. ROGERS, JR. resides in Perryville, MD with his wife Cindy and son Steve. Melvin is a pilot for Eastern Airlines. ROBERT SCHWARZ is vice-president of Harry L. Schwarz & Company. He is also the treasurer of Morris County Board of Realtors for the 1980-81 year. He resides in Budd Lake, NJ with his wife Monica. CHARLES A. SPANO, JR. obtained certification as an elementary principal in February, 1980. He is also a published science fiction writer listed in Contemporary Authors. Charles resides in Scranton with his family. LEWIS H. STROUSE is the director of music education at Hanover College, IN. He received both his M.M. and M.S. degrees from Indiana University in 1976 and 1977 respectively. GREGORY R. SUMMERS is a computer specialist for the U.S. Army Computer Systems Command. He resides in Petersburg, VA with his wife Gloria and their children Shari and Mark. THOMAS J. TIMPERMAN is a senior buyer for Johnson & Johnson of NJ. Tom resides in Pennington, NJ with his wife Patricia and their son Jeffrey. ROSEMARY (D'ELIA) VARONE resides in Newark, DE with her husband Vincent and their children Stacey and Karen. RICHARD WETZEL resides in Toms River, NJ with his wife Sandra. Our last report shows Rich as a teacher in Jackson, so we will ask him for another update. 1971 CAMILLE (STANIS) BALENT is a teacher associate for the Luzerne Intermediate Unit of Kingston, PA. Camille resides in West Pittston, PA with her husband Edward. JOHN C. BARANOWSKI of Dallas, PA is a teacher at the Lake Lehman School District. John holds an M.A. from Bloomsburg State and resides with his wife Judith and three sons, John, Jarrod, and Jeremy. MARY (SNYDER) BEATY is pursuing a degree in Interior Design at Northampton Area Community College. DR. & MRS. JAMES BUTKIEWICZ reside in Newark, DE. Jim is an assistant professor at the University of Delaware. MARY ELLEN (FISCHER), 71, is a reading teacher at Perryville Middle School. They have a daughter, Erica. THOMAS C. DEMOVIC is the credit manager at Houbigant, Inc. Thomas resides in Union, NJ with his wife Janet. CHERYL (PETYAK) GIBSON is the assistant director of the Cooperative Education Office here at Wilkes College. Her husband Larry' manages the local Radio Shack Outlet. They have one daughter, Christy. MR. & MRS. ANDREW GUBANICH reside in East Texas, PA with their daughter Rebecca. Andrew is the manager of Air Products & Chemicals of Allentown, PA. MARY L. HANCOCK is a teacher at the Wyoming Area School District. Mary resides in West Pittston. RACHEL (WALISON) LOHMAN has been appointed to the position of director of financial aid at Wilkes College. Congratulations - glad to have you as a member of our staff. BERNARD K. MALLAN is an accounting executive at Fred S. James Inc. Bernard resides in West Orange, NJ with his wife Edwina. Region V Alumni know Buck as their regional Vice-President on the executive council. DAVID J. McAFEE of Gresham, OR is district Sales Manager at Rockwell International. DONNA (SERINO) MICHAYLO of Old Forge, PA is a teacher at the Abington Heights School District. BARBARA (WARD) NIXON is a teacher for Anne Arundel County. She resides in Arnold, MD with her husband Terrence. MRS. HELEN (LEWIS) NIXON is the Director of the Lower Division classes at De Matha Catholic High School in Maryland. She is married to Lt. Alan Nixon. RONALD L. PRYOR teaches at Hanover Area School District. Ronald resides in Pittston, PA with his wife Nancy and their daughter Lara. WENDY ANN (REIDER) SIMKO is a biochemist for the American Hoechst Company. Wendy resides in Lin­ den, NJ with her husband Ronald and their son Jeffrey. GAY (ROBERTS) STAHLEY is a teacher at the Wyom­ ing Area School District. MARY ELLEN (POINTER) TRACY is a guidance counselor at New York School for the Deaf. She resides in White Plains, NY with her husband James and daughter, Elizabeth. GEORGE G. JONES is a manager of clinical research at Ethicon, Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson. TERRY S. JONES is a C.P.A./manager at Baron, Strassman & Company of Stroudsburg, PA. Terry and his wife Carol reside in Tannersville, PA. KATHLEEN KATARYNICK of Harleysville, PA is a teacher at North Penn School District. MR. & MRS. EDWARD KONDRAD reside in Burke, PA with their children Heidi and Shannon. Ed is a mer­ chandise manager at K-Mart, and wife ILENE RUTH (GELB) is a 75 Alumna. ALEXIS (BUCHINA) KOSZYKOWSKI is a staff analyst for C & P Telephone of Maryland. Alexis resides in Laurel, MD with her husband Timothy and their son Michael. KATHRYN (RAMSEY) KRYSIUK is a teacher for the Wilkes-Barre School District. Kathryn resides in Trucks­ ville, PA with her husband Joseph. HENRY M. LABODA, JR. works for the Department of Biochemistry at Hahnemann Medical College. Henry resides in Philadelphia, PA and earned an M.S. degree at Temple University. THE REVEREND WILLIAM N. LUKESH is the Pastor of Benton United Methodist Church. He received his Master's of Divinity from Drew University in 1979. SCOTT C. RASWYCK is a sales engineer for Hexcel Chemical Products of NJ. He resides in Nashua, NH with his wife Dawn. BARBARA (COHEN) REILLY is a teacher for the Dallas Area School District. Barbara resides in Edwardsville, PA with her husband Kevin. JULIE (LEVOY) SAUDER is the music director at Trinity Lutheran Church of Dover, NJ. Husband WILLI­ AM is also a 1972 grad. BARBARA (McNICHOLL) SCARPINO is a district representative for Curriculum Instructional Management System. Barbara resides in Oriskany Falls, NY with her husband Arthur and their three children. JOAN SHURMANEK is a teacher at Medina Senior High School. Joan earned her M.A. at Notre Dame and resides in Lockport, NY. MICHAEL SKVARLA is a technician at Cornell University of New York. His wife JOANNE (WARGO) is a 72 Wilkes graduate. They reside in Lansing, NY with their children Michael and Natalie. JAMES TARITY has recently assumed the position of President of the Schuykill Business Institute in Potts­ ville, PA. Congratulations! Jim earned the M.P.A. degree at Penn State and served as Department Chairman at Lackawanna Junior College. JOANNE R. WASCOLONIS is an art teacher at Quaker­ town Community School District. Joanne resides in Allentown, PA. THEODORE YEAGER is a teacher at Danville High School. Ted resides in Riverside, PA and performed well at our Alumni softball game last May. MELINDA (DAWSON) TURNBULL, of Northfield, VT is a consulting teacher assistant at Northfield Jr.-Sr. High School. Melinda is taking graduate courses through the University of Vermont in Special Education. RICHARD A. URCIUOLI of New York City, NY is a buyer for Colosuem Book Company. ROBERT R. WALP is the manager of Industrial Engineering for Knoll International, Inc. SANDRA B. WATKINS, of Forty Fort, PA is activities director/volunteer coordinator at the Wesley Village of Pittston. DR. JAMES C. WEAVER is a senior research chemist for Eastman Kodak. Dr. Weaver resides in Rochester, NY. He holds a Ph.D. from Penn State. LUCRETIA (GEIGER) WOOLF is an elementary teacher at Encinitas Schools. Lucretia resides in Encinitas, CA with her husband Dr. Nigel Woolf and daughter Shaylyn. 1972 JOSEPH BOYANOWSKI is a systems analyst for Emery Air Freight of Dunmore, PA. He resides in Avoca with his wife Wendy. MR. & MRS. GUY J. COMPARETTA reside in Old Forge, PA with their daughter Cara. Mrs. Comparetta is the former SANDRA HOLL, 72. Guy is the division controller for the Leslie Fay Company. JUDITH (GREENSTEIN) DAVIS has recently been promoted to the position of Corporate Manager for Professional Placement with the Baptist Medical Centers of Birmingham, Alabama. RICHARD GARINGER is a teacher of music at the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. MR, & MRS. SHELDON GERMAN reside in Clifton Park, NY with their son David. Sheldon is the program director of Saratoga County Association for Retarded Children. Mrs. German is JANICE (KATUNA), also a member of the Class of 1972. Congratulations to GEORGE & LINDSAY (FARLEY) GETTINGER on the birth of their daughter, Eliza. KATHLEEN (KOTERBA) GOOBIC of Laurel, MD is a teacher for Prince George's County Company Public Schools of Maryland. BRUCE E. GOVER was recently promoted to vicepresident, assistant secretary, and regional trust adminis­ trator of Northeastern Bank of Wilkes-Barre. Bruce and his wife ELIZABETH (CLEMENTS), 73, reside in Lehman, PA. CLARK J. HAMMAN is assistant band director at Bethlehem Area School District. Clark resides in Heller­ town, PA with his wife Catherine and their children Chadd and Cayle. WILLIAM A. HANBURY is the director of convention and visitor bureau of Syracuse Chamber of Commerce. Bill earned an M.A. degree from Syracuse University. DEAN R. HOUCK was recently elected President of Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, District IX for the 1981-82 year. MR. & MRS. ROBERT JARRETT reside in Paines­ ville, OH with their daughter. Amy. Bob recently was promoted to Senior Research Chemist at Diamond Sham­ rock Research Centers. PATRICIA (CHAPURA) is also a 1972 graduate. 1973 DONNA MARIE (PISTON) AUF1ERO is a teacher. Donna resides in Mountaintop, PA with her husband, John. NOREEN F. (DRUGACH) BARTO is a sales analyst for Mel Disco. Noreen holds an M.Ed. from Lehigh University and resides in Montclair, NJ with her husband Raymond. MR. & MRS. THOMAS BEHMKE reside in Toms River, NJ. DOREEN (PELLEGRINI), 74. is a project engineer for the Naval Air Engineer Center while Thomas is also a project engineer. PAULETTE ANN (LOEFFLAD) BENT resides in Dallas, PA with her husband John. Paulette received her M.P.A. from Marywood College this past May. MARIE (BARBELLA) BLACKBURN is the associate director of engineering admissions at Cornell University. Marie and her husband James reside in Ithaca, NY. ALUMNUS 5 �DR. FKEDERIC|w “t ville. fX a second language Io Haitian and Cuban refugees. THOMAS J. TUNIL4, a member of the executive staff of First Eastern Bank, has recently been promoled to senior EDP auditor. Congratulations, Tom! LT. JOSEPH A. WASSELL, MSC, USN, is chief, Patient Affairs Service, for the U.S. Navy. SARAH |HART1 WELKER is a teacher al the Dallas School District. Sarah resides in Trucksville. Congratulations are extended Io DEBORAH (KOCH) WHITE and her husband Michael on the birth of their son Daniel on March 4, 1981. They have another son, Matthew, who is three years old. CAROLINE (TR.AIGISI ZIELINSKI is teaching at Jonathon Wright Elementary School. Caroline resides in Fmnklin, OH with her husband Ronald and their daughter Franklin, OH Christa. 1974 -pened an m:"el£nter. the * Narrows in Edwards, the opening M|„. undenvntmg ‘ also 4 •-,vl0 iS an ag*nl • Hinsh3111’ .UARG.ARET^RE.SchoolDLstrirt. LINDA ISCATENA) ALFANO resides in Danville, PA with her husband Dr. Salvatore Alfano and soon a baby bov or girl. Let us know when the good news happens, Kirhard resides PA Corporation of NJ- She CAROL |GH ■ : ;; ■-= ST to tetniem Glenn is presently a-“1 Vel ton- Israel. c= Air fee Ccnsiructton ^PATRICK R- KOONS is a eniteerig tracer for Motorola of Austin. IX P^jesifa m Roundrock, with his Wife Peggy and their three chni-en. ROBERT P. ALAILEY is assistant -.^president at the United Penn Bank of Wilkes-Barre. He resides in Kingston, PA. DENISE (GOOB1C1MECK is a teacher for the WilkesBarre Area School District. Denise resides in WilkesBane. PA with her husband John and their son PauL DENNIS MILLETT is a retail clerk for Pathmark of Lawnside, NJ. Dennis resides in Blackwood. NJ. DAVID J. MILORA is a project leader for Pennwalt Corporation of King of Prussia. PA He resides in Norris­ town. PA with his Wife Christine and daughter. Jennifer. SHIRLEY (DAVIS) NEWHART is a professor of secondary music education of Elizabethtown College. She is married to the Reverend David Charles Newhart, and they reside in Middletown, PA. CONNIE (SHELOSKI) PARKS is a claims representa­ tive for the Social Security Office of Colorado. Connie resides in Fort Collins, CO with her husband Thomas and their son Ryan. TERRY (MACDONALD) PARKS is an investigator for Somerset County Prosecutors Office. Terry and her husband Dr. John Parks reside in Somerville, NJ with their sons Bradford and Thomas. ROBERT RADICE, of Scarsdale. NY is the resident manager of The Rye Town Hilton Hotel of New York. Thanks for your nice letter, Bob. ANN (MARINO, RUTKAUSKAS is a teacher al North at North Pocono School District. She received herteacher M.S. from the University of Scranton in June of 1980 MARGARITA (TSATSAROUNOU) SAVOIE resides in ChZ ,h herMargar h"!band aad childraa Cbnstopher and m Elene. jla isRichard a meraber . , technical staff of Rockwell International ESG folks. DONNA (COFFIN) CATANESE is a teacher at Wind­ ward School. Donna resides in Port Chester. NY with her husband Michael. GAIL A. CHARTERS is an executive secretary for BHCD Engineers, Inc. of Colorado. Gail resides in Lake­ wood, CO. CAROLE |LOWANDE) DEDDY resides in Bridge­ water, NJ with her husband. Joseph. Carole earned an M.A. in Education from Rutgers and is a business adminis­ trator for the Middlesex Board of Education. FRANK J. ESTOCK (MBA) is an industrial engineer at Tobyhanna Army Depot. Frank resides in Wilkes-Barre, PA with his wife Marlene and their son, Frank. DR. & MRS. ROBERT GOLDSTEIN reside in River­ dale, NY. Robert is chief resident of general surgery at Montefiore Hospital, following his study at the Hershey Medical Center. SUSAN (PEZZNER) is a 1974 Alumna. DR. PAUL H. GOODMAN received his doctor of osteopathy degree on May 31 during commencement exercises of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Congratulations. Paul — Good luck. NANCY E. GREENBERG of Brighton, MA is the director of travel and tourism at Fisher Junior College. MR. t MRS. ROBERT T. HOOLEY reside in Richmond, VA. Robert is a claims processor at Aetna Life and Casualty while ELAINE (OWEN) is assistant cataloger at the Union Theological Seminary Library. JOSEPH M. KLOCKO of Springfield. VA is a group manager of finance at Bendix Corporation. MARSHALL I. KORNBLATT is D.P. manager at United Gilsonite Labs of Scranton, PA. PAUL J. LAVELLE, JR. and Patricia Ann Sternes were united in marriage on June 20. 1981 at St. Margaret Mary s Church, Harrisburg. They will reside in Harris­ burg. We wish you both our best. , NANCY (HARRIS) MEBANE is a teacher at Wyoming Valley West School District. Nancy resides in Kingston, PA with her husband Richard. KURT D. MOSER is a metallurgical development engineer for Johnson Matthey. Inc. Kurt and his wife Deborah reside in West Chester, PA. Congratulations to MR. & MRS. FRANK MROZ on the birth of their son Ryan Joseph on March 13, 1981. The proud mother is former BARBARA (BERKANT). SHARON (ROGER) NAPLES is the art director for Sheldon Vale Associates. MR. & MRS. RONALD A. NOYALIS reside in Kings■ d “ a “cial worker al Merci' Hospital le Christine is the music education director at National Center. MR. & mrs. ROD ROBERT OGONOWSKI, JR. reside m Hollywood, , ----- .Florida, .orida, with their son Jason. Robert is the vice-president of Central Bank and Trust Co. Mrs. Oa------ ----.is rintr DENISE (BOWEN). Ogonowski the fori Fa^oTvitliTVKONlEsK. Jennifer. Debbie also “Sband RalPh a^ Cu 1976. SHARON (ENGFt ci S' ln Mt?Cr isl at Wallenpaupack A is in Lakeville, PA with *a S^ol Dislrica ^ding s JOSEPH E. PAV.LL s U a"dJ»4Sharoa^ unNAI.D D. KARSKO is a purchasing agent for the , corporation of Endicott, NY. Ron resides in BinghamtonPNYwilh his wife Mary. ANASTASIA (KELLY) KIDA is a teacher at Roxbury' High School. Anastasia resides in Parsippany, NJ with jr^alnsurancecoa^ her husband Neil. DAVID C. KOWALEK is assistant treasurer at the Chase Manhattan Bank of NY. David resides in Merrick, is an brook. NJ. Paramus, OfParamU ^ Ej^rBurns ALAN B. ROSENCRANCF ■ " S’*' WILLIAM SAUERS r. a his Children Kelly and Wfc "J^rre p. the Wdkes-Barre Area School District a d PSych4s'llh m Counsel,ng at the University ‘ d eara^ th PAMELA (EGGERT) SCHnm Bryant and Stratton Busing Srh * * a '«cher Goleta, CA with her husband, Cark ’ ?am rcsi*s in DEBRA (RINKEN) SHARP „ town, PA with her husband. David Sha’«ROBERT P. SINGER 0I Vanco AW sales manager for Joseph chi t" B?" is dR'ri t your •■plug," Bob. Now send us the C°' JAMES P. STRICKLER (MBA) is ,h Energy Miser. James and Ejs ’ ,s ke President of Vienna, VA. “e Patn™ reside in DR. JOHN J. TROSKO was awarded a podiatric medicine from Pennsylvania (doclor 01 Medicine. He received the higher aS m' °a in radiology. Dr. Trosko is a capiat he'u sT’” Where he is beginning his residency Jo X„ Hood Hospital, Texas. 8 ' a Fo,t KAREN ANN (SHAUGHNESSY) TWOMEY received her M.A. in special education from Southern Connect­ icut State College in January, 1981. MR. & MRS. JOHN WALTERS reside in Kingston, PA. JANE (FREAS), 77, is a caseworker for the Luzerne County Children & Youth Services. JEAN (ROSTOCK) ZAVACKI resides is Exeter. PA with her husband Gary and sons Michael and Richard. Jean is a teacher at Wyoming Area School District. FRANK J. ZEMETRO is the chief planner for Bridon American at Hanover Industrial Estates. Frank resides in Warrior Run, PA with his wife, Helen, and son, John. 1975 RAYMOND BARTOSH is the director of finance al Mercy Hospital of Wilkes-Barre. Ray lives in Wilkes-Barre with his wife Karen and children Amy and Raymond. JOANNE BONANNE of North Brunswick, NJ is a teacher for North Brunswick Public Schools. THOMAS L. BURNS resides in Totowa, NJ with his wife Pam. Tom works at Morristown Memorial Hospital. SALLY (CHUPKAJ CIOLEK is an R & D technician at Schott Optical Glass, Inc. of Duryea. Sally resides in Luzerne, PA with her husband Ronald. PHILIP J. CONRAD is a management trainee for the U.S. Postal Service. Philip and his wife Therese reside in Wilkes-Barre, PA. KEVIN G. DONALESKI is a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. Kevin resides in Irvington, NJ. MARY ANN GRIES of Richmond, VA is a secretary for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. DONNA (MACHESKA) HEADLY is a quality o"'™1 assistant for Potlatch Forests, Inc. of Ransom, I ‘ ■ 1L resides in Tunkhannock with her husband Ihomas aand music ESL Teacher ,eactl« English as 6 ALUMNUS their Sarah. MR.daughter & MRS. RICHARD II. KINGSTON resi. F .to Franklinville, NJ with their daughter Jane. 11 ’• an art teacher at Monroe Township Board of Ed • NY with his wife Patricia. GARY M. KRATZ resides in Wilkes-Barre with his wife Mary- Gary is a foreman for the Ruth Corporation. SUSAN (TOW) LOUIS is a self-employed piano instruc­ tor She resides in Fort Lauderdale, FL with her husband Larry. Congratulations are extended to MONICA ANN LUKE who was recently married to Con J. Abbott. The couple is residing in Swoyersville, PA. DAVID K. NIEMAN is a sales representative for Goodwin VW, Inc. David resides in Forty Fort, PA. JOANNE V. OLIVER, CDA, of Kingston, PA is an orthodontal therapist for Dr. Jan Olenginski, D.D.S. JOHN ORMANDO is a senior process engineer for Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corporation. John resides in Santa Clara, CA. BONNIE (GRANT) ROSICK is a bank clerk at Peoples National Bank of Edwardsville, PA. Bonnie resides in Kingston, PA with her husband Stephen and their daughter Stacey. SALLY (KANNER) SEASOCK is a manpower techni­ cian at State-Labert Industry-. Sally resides in Harrisburg with her husband John and soon, if not yet, a little baby­ boy or girl. Let us know, Sally. ANN (SHULTZ) TRIBENDIS of Wilkes-Barre, PA is a teacher at St. Leo's School in Ashley. MR. & MRS. EDWARD WEBER reside in Horsham, PA. Edward is the director of purchasing at Toll Brothers, Inc., while LESLIE (COOK), 75, is the assistant con­ troller for the Strick Corporation. 1976 SUSAN M. BRIMO of Langhorne, PA is presently taking classes in business administration and mass media at Bucks County Community College. DR. ROBERT D. CLEMENTS, JR. recently graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Dentist­ ry. He also received an award from the school in recogni­ tion of his service, dedication, and leadership abilities. Congratulations io MR. & MRS. PATRICK E. COFFEY (ANN REBECCA ZINI) on the birth of their son Zachary Edward on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1980. We also welcome you back from England. DR. SHELDON G. COHEN, D.Sc., was the recipient of the 9lh Annual Clemenson Pirquet Memorial Lecture­ ship Award. This award, which is sponsored by the Schering Corporation, is presented each year to an indi­ vidual who has made significant contributions to the field of clinical allergy and immunology-. ANDREA (MAHALLY) DANILACK is a senior pro­ grammer for Standard Brands, Inc. of Wilkes-Barre. Andrea resides in Mountaintop, PA with her husband David. JACQUELINE (PICKERING) DZUREK is a secretary/ bookkeeper at Dzurek & Sons Lumber. She resides in Swoyersville, PA. KATHY FLUCK is a sales representative with Bell Telephone in Philadelphia. She has returned to study at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA. JAMES R. FRALEY is a family nurse practitioner at Valley Community Medical Center. PAUL E. GALLAGHER is manager of Gallagher Floral Supply in Plains. Paul resides in Kingston with his wife Patty and their three children. WILLIAM J. GOLDSWORTHY, JR., is a marketing representative at Golden Business Machines. He resides in West Pittston, PA with his wife Janet Marie. Thanks for stopping by to say hello, Bill. J°SEPH, G’- GRIFFIN ls currently working on his Ph.D. in chemistry at North Texas Slate University. Joe resides in Denton, Texas with his wife Diana. UkU,kABvEMH Ar N GULLA haS taken 2 "eW P°silion with the K-Mart Corporation of Wilkes-Barre as a merchandising supervisor. ROBERT J. HADDCK is a construction inspector for the Pennsylvania Testing Laboratory. Robert resides in Duryea with his wife Cynthia. JOSEPH W. JEDJU is a music teacher at Montgomery Township Public Schools. Joseph resides in Plainsboro, 1 Medicine. He will intern at Grandview Osteopathic I Hospital. 1 DONNA (GEFFERT, YOZWIAK is a teacher at the Pleasant Valley School District. VICTOR ZUCK resides in Saskatchewan. Canada. 1977 GLORIA ANN AGURKIS was united in holy matrimo­ ny to Dennis Patrick Cavanaugh. Mrs. Cavanaugh is employed as a programmer/analyst at the Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia. The couple resides in Philadelphia, PA. NJ. GIACOMINA (BL'ZZELLI) BACON has been appoint­ DIANE R. JONES of Wilkes-Barre is a financial ed director and head teacher of the Children's Corner counselor for Finance America. at Cedar Lane. Jackie is presently working toward a LINDA (BARON) KAUFER is a travel agent for Fantas­ degree in early childhood education. She resides with her tic Adventures of Mt. Laurel, NJ. husband KARL, a 76 Wilkes grad, in Watertown, CT. MARK A. KUNKLE resides in Trucksville, PA with ROBERT B. BERRETTINI of Bellefonte, PA is a his wife Sandra. Mark is the Kingston Township manager. project coordinator at Educational Modules for Materials, University Park, PA. MR. & MRS. ROBERT L. STANTON LARMOUTH reside in Hudson, NH. Robert is a materials development DAVID P. CHERUNDOLO is engaged in a private engineer at General Electric of Wilmington, MA. practice of law at Scranton National Bank. David resides in Old Forge, PA. REGINA (BANICK) LIEB is the director of medical MR. & MRS. RUSSELL R. CLELLAND are living records at Kings Harbor Health Care Center of Bronx. NY. in Bethlehem, PA. Julia is head nurse at ASHHC in Regina resides in New Rochelle, NY with her husband Allentown while Russell is a staff accountant for P.P. & L. Robert. THERESA R. DOMANSKI is a retail store manager at BEVERLY (PISTON) LIPSKI is a teacher at Wyoming Jacques’ Sweater Outlet, Edwardsville, PA. Valley West. Beverly and her husband William reside in Plymouth, PA with their daughter, Sarah. DR. ROBERT EVERHARD graduated on June 10 from Hahnemann Medical College with a degree in medicine. JOHN J. MATUSEK is a project supervisor for the Dr. Everhard will be a resident al Monmouth Medical Luzerne County Office of Community Development. Center, Long Branch, NJ where he will do his internship John resides in Mocanaqua, PA with his wife Penelope. in internal medicine. JOHN C. McDERMOTT is a chucker operator for KIM A. FLIS is the department manager for Filene's R7H Manufacturing of Edwardsville, PA. John resides of the Natick Mall, Natick, MA. Kim resides in Roslindale, in Swoyersville, PA. MA. Congratulations are extended to MR. & MRS. GAYLE (KOLLAR) GARUBBA recently moved to MICHAEL MERCINCAVAGE on the birth of their Encino, CA when her husband David took a new job with daughter Lauren Marie on February 11, 1981. Alco Dispensing Systems as a customer service manager. MARIANNE MONTAGUE is the assistant director of ALBERT M. GAYDOS is the director of financial student activities at Bloomsburg State College. analysis at Curtiss-Wright Company. Albert is a Certified KATHLEEN ANN O'MALLEY of Harrisburg, PA is an Public Accountant and resides in Kearny, NJ with his wife associate attorney for Ball & Skelly of Harrisburg. She Maureen and sons Anthony and Albert. is also a member of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity DONNA J. GRANAHAN of Manville, NJ is a sales International. representative for BBL Microbiology Systems. MR. & MRS. JAMES E. ORASKY reside in Chambers­ MR. & MRS. RICHARD HOFMAN are living in Pine burg, PA. James is working with the DARCOM Corpora­ Hill, NJ. Richard has a new position with Sybron Chemi­ tion. cal as an environmental and safely engineer. SUZANNE (FISCHER) OSTROSKI is the patient DR. GARY A. HUGHES of West Wyoming. PA has care coordinator al Fairmont Institute. Sue resides in been awarded his D.M.D. degree from the University of Philadelphia with her husband Raymond. Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine. Doctor Hughes will NAOMI (PRAMICK) PIZANO is a nurse at Moses do a one-year residency in general dentistry at Geisinger Taylor Hospital. Naomi resides in Exeter, PA with her Medical Center, Danville. husband Thomas. KATHRYN M. KRAVITZ was recently wed to David Congratulations to MR. & MRS. MICHAEL S. RIFKIN A. Jenkins in the Eaton Township Baha'i Center, Tunkhan­ on the addition to their family. Their daughter Laura nock, PA. Congratulations, MR. & MRS. DAVID A. Jill was born on January 15, 1981. JENKINS. FAITH SKORDINSKI and Coy Williamson were _____ are extended to MR. & MRS. JAMES Congratulations married in January. Faith is employed as a personnel McCORMICK on the birth of their son, Ryan James, officer at Goodfellow Air Force Base in the rank of on February 18, 1981. First Lieutenant, and her recent promotion to captain was WILLIAM C. NARDONE is a member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone Labs. Bill resides in Edison, NJ effective in August. ROBERT L. SLEZAK has a new position with UGI with his wife Beth and son Andrew. Corporation as district engineer. He resides tn Laflin, PA BRIAN L NEWIRTH of Wyomissing, PA is a programwith his wife Sandra and their daughter Andrea. mer/analyst for Gilbert Commonwealth. JOHN E. SMOLKO of Weymouth. MA is the unit MARIE (SULLIVAN) RAFFIO has taken a new position as a second grade teacher at St. Rita School, NY. manager of Kimco, Inc. She is also a distributor for the Shaklee Corporation. a marketing representative MARK F. SUCHTER is ............. . t Companyy of Rochester, NY. Mark KAREN E. SNOW is a staff nurse for the Visiting for Allingo „ & Cory resides in Scranton, PA with his wife Linda and their son Nurse Association of Boston, MA. MR. & MRS. JAMES STEHLE have recently moved Mark. ROBYN (SPEAK) WALSH is the budget coordinator to to Laflin, Laflin, PA. PA. Jim Jim is the territory manager for Carnation at NPW Medical Center, Plains Township, Wilkes-Barre, Company, while Tina is a teacher at the Pittston Area PA. LEONARD D. WASMANSKI is a partner in the firm Don-Len Trophies. Len resides in Conshohocken, PA. ROBERT N. YANOSHAK received a doctor of osteop­ athy degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic School District. DR. JOSEPH STERN of Wilkes-Barre. PA is a recent graduate of California College of Podiatric Medicine. He will reside and work in San Francisco. ALUMNUS 7 �R. JOHN UPDYKE recently received the Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree from the California College of Podiatric Medicine. San Francisco. John resides in San Francisco. Congratulations to Joe and John, and thanks for taking Wilkes to the West Coast. 1978 SAMUEL F. BARBETT of College Park. MD is a com­ puter programmer for the Office of Education, Washington. D.C. „ DENISE C. CASEM is presently working at George­ town University Hospital as a medical technician of blood banking. JOSEPH J. DOUGHERTY has been promoted at the First Eastern Bank. Joseph is currently pursuing the designation of chartered financial analyst Joe and his wife Mary Theresa reside in Hazleton with their two children, Joseph and Michelle. Double apologies are in order to two DAL ID ELANS for the erroneous middle initial in the last class notes section. It seems we reported that David W„ <8 was married and living in Philadelphia. That update belonged to DAVID A., '79. DAVID W. is residing in Kingston PA. Sorry to each of you. ELLEN M. FIELD, M.D. was married to Jonathan H. Munves. M.D. They reside in Mayfield Village. OH. WAYNE R. GROSDIDIER was married to Linda Ann Bendy on May 30, 19S1. Wayne works for Schott Optical Glass, Inc. of Duryea as an attorney personnel administra­ tor. They reside in Wilkes-Barre. It's good to have you back in the Valley, Wayne. SHARON L HOHOL of Rochester, NY works at Strong Memorial Hospital of Rochester, NY. CAROL ANN (PASHCHUK1 HIGGLER resides in Slate College, PA. Carol is an I.V. therapy nurse at Centre Community Hospital. DAVID A. JOLLEY became assistant director of information sendees at NPW on March 30, 1981. David resides in Courtdale, PA. BETH ELLEN KERR is a systems administrator for ANESCO of Kingston, PA. MR. & MRS. JOSEPH M. LACAVA reside in Duryea, PA. Mrs. Lacava is a secretary for World Gospel Mission of Wilkes-Barre. STEPHEN J. LEAR is the regional credit manager for Air Products, Inc. of Allentown. PA. Stephen recently moved to Allentown. CARL E. LONG of Schickshinny, PA is a general mananger at Thermolator, Inc. of Exeter, PA. JOHN O. LYCHOS, JR. has been appointed manager of corporate accounting for Industrial Inspection Indus­ tries, Inc. John resides in Massillon, OH. SHARON (BUTERAI LYONS was married on June 27, 1981 to Patrick Lyons. Sharon is a teacher at Dallas School District. TERRI ANN MACKAVAGE and Raymond J. Kovalski were united in marriage recently. Terri is employed by Sperry Univac. The couple resides in Rosemont, PA. MAUREEN R. MAGLIRE of Bear Creek recently graduated from the Wyoming Valley Family Practice Residency Program of the United Health and Hospital Services, Inc. She will stay at UHHS as coordinator of the surgical rotation. JOSEPH J. MONCZEWSKI received his graduate degree from the University of Scranton this past June. He is an M.R. program coordinator at N.E. Tri-County MH/MR Center. DEBORAH PINCOFSKI graduated from the Family Practice Program. She is now ready to enter the field of family medicine. She will join a group practice in Abington. PA. DIANE POLACHEK, of Kingston, PA received her M.S. degree from Wilkes this past May. She also received her Pennsylvania Reading Specialist Certificate from Temple University in December 1980. 8 ALUMNUS PUDLOSKY is the Eastern Regional SUZANNE SI. sor for Standard Brands. Inc. of WilkesClaim Supervise Barre. PA. RONALD P. REAGAN, of Athens. PA. is the loan assislanl al Farmers Home Administration of Towanda. PA. BRIAN C. ROTH is an assistant group insurance consultant for Prudential Insurance Company. Brian resides in Haskill. NJ with his wife Carol. SHAWN E. ROZETT of Bradford. CT is lhe student life coordinator for Drew University ol NJ. PATRICIA L. SEBRING of Slehoopany. PA is an engineer for the Bechtel Corporation of Berwick. PA. DARL1NE (SNYDERI MOYER and her husband Carl were blessed with a baby girl on February 9, 1981. Her name is Stephanie Lanette. PATRICIA LEE TROTTA is now working as a pediatric instructor al Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Scran­ ton. Patricia resides in Dunmore. PA. EDWARD J. WALL1S0N. JR. was awarded the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree by the Law School of the University of Notre Dame. This summer he will begin a year of service as a law clerk for Judge John F. Kilkenny, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Port­ land. OR. JUDY WENDORF was married to Brian J. Selenski in May. Judy is pursuing her graduate work in nursing. She is also employed on the faculty of College Misericordia. THERESE L WRIGHT is working towards her M.S. in nursing at California State College. 1979 BARBARA C. AGURKIS of Philadelphia, PA is a tax accountant for the Science Management Corporation of Bridgewater, NJ. SUSAN CA.MELI. RN is a second term student in the fifteen month master's degreeladult nurse practitioner program at the University of Pittsburgh. Susan was awarded a Professional Nurse Traineeship through Pitts­ burgh's Graduate School of Nursing. DANIEL J. CARDELL is a financial analyst for Equibank of Pittsburgh. PA. CATHRYN M. CASTNER was married recently to Joseph G. Evans. Mrs. Evans is employed as an elemen­ tary teacher at Sacred Heart School. Luzerne. They will reside in Wilkes-Barre. TERRY L CONRAD is a reimbursement specialist at NPW Medical Center. Terry resides in Kingston, PA with his wife Doreen and their son Christopher. MICHAEL H. COOK of Shavertown, PA is an account executive trainee at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Inc. DEBRA S. FORTINI is working as a registered nurse at Allentown and Sacred Heart Hospital Center in Allen­ town. NIGEL GRAY is a tooling engineer for Dynapac Manufacturing, Inc. We all remember Nigel for the great photography he did while a student here. NANCY JOHNSON of Wilkes-Barre is an assistant fleet administrator at Standard Brands, Inc. CHERYL ANN KLIMEK was wed in May Io Arthur E. Fahey. Jr. Cheryl is employed at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital as a registered medical technologist. NICHOLAS A. KOFIRA of Taylor, PA is an insurance company examiner for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvan­ ia Insurance Department. MR. & MRS. STEPHEN J. KOZUP now reside in Reston. VA. Stephen is an air quality specialist lor the Engineering Science Company. AHMAD M. MAHMOUD is an el electrical engineer al Shadie Electrical Associates. ...... ...... .. ,Ahmad u<ulad resides in WilkesBarre with his wife Charlotte and their son Raji. PAMELA (LONG) MIKLOSI is a teller at Wyoming National Bank, Plymouth, PA. Pam resides in Hunlock Creek with her husband James. KURT MOODY is presently attending pcm College ol Optometry in Philadelphia. Kurt ‘“Mania Forty Fort, PA. “ 'rom Congratulations to JOSEPH J. MONKA promoted to auditor at First Eastern Bank, who vWas with his wile Lois in Plymouth, PA. He resides JENNIFER MONTAGNA was awarded scholarship to Bucknell University where a '"'I tuition a master's degree in English literature. she will Pursue LYNN (WERKHE1SER) MUC1ILER is a group worket for the Child Development Council of Wilkes-Barre. JOHN PETREWSKI is a metallurgical engineer Ior Bowen-McLaughlin-York. He is currently attending York College for a master's in business administration. RUSSELL MYRON SAM1LO is a coordinator al Joint Owned Projects of Pennsylvania, a division of Pennsylvania Power & Light Company. 1980 MARGARET MARY CALLAHAN of Avoca PA ' staff nurse at the University of Pennsylvania HosniM Peggy presently lives in Philadelphia. P a’ CATHERINE RUTH DAVIS is the band director at Elk Lake School District, Dimock, PA. JOHN R. HAFFNER is now residing in Wilkes-Barre John is a circulation district manager at the Wilkes-Rar™ Publishing Company. EDWARD F. MELBER, JR. of Jim Thorpe, PA is the assistant manager of sporting and auto departments at K-Mart Enterprises, Inc. JOHN A. MIRANDA of Cinnaminson, NJ is 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. KATHY ANN MLODZIENSKI of Pittsburgh, PA is a staff nurse at Western Psychiatric Institute. EDWARD M. OHMOTT is residing in Northridge, CA. Ed is the circulation district manager of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. FRANK A. PASCUCCI is an accountant at Scranton Army Ammunitions Plant. JOHN G. SULEWSKI of Nanticoke was recently married to Karen Brokenshire of Dallas. EDDIE WHITE, HI, Sports Information Director at Wilkes College, was named vice-president of the Middle Atlantic Conference Sports Information Directors Associa­ tion. Eddie was recently published in Sporting News with an article on Mayor Tony Madden. Congratulations, Ed, from all your "third floor" neighbors. CYNTHIA ANN YAGLOSKI recently became the bride of Richard Daniel Spak. Be sure to keep us abreast of job and address changes, Cindy. MICHAEL JAY STERNLIEB of Wilkes-Barre recently received his doctor of medicine degree from Hahnemann Medical College. Michael will complete a general surgery residency al Hahnemann. all members of the Class of SI: Welcome To Alumni Association. Your friends, classto the and faculty will want to know about events mates, in your personal and professional life. Take a minute to send in an update card so your Alumni minute to pass the information along our system. Office can j I fi.® ° I STEPHEN L. COONEY, '60, of Ashley, PA died this past July after having suffered a heart attack. He was on the faculty of Meyers High School for the past two decades, taught in our Summer Theater Workshop for several years, and was known throughout the community for his work with local theater. He is survived by his widow, Mary Anne. THOMAS S. DOTY, '59, passed away in June from an apparent heart attack. He had been employed as a super­ visor in the Child Support Division of the Department of Welfare. He was also a well-known PIAA foolball and basketball official. He resided in Wyoming. PA. Contributions to the College or to a Class Fund in memory of deceased friends or relatives are always appropriate. Gifts will be acknowledged to the donor and a memory card sent to the family of the deceased. Contributions and inquir­ ies may be sent to Wilkes College Alumni Office, Weckesser Hall, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. LOST AND FOUND The ALUMNUS received update cards from 21 alumni without enough information for complete identification. All alumni are reminded to be sure to indicate name, address, and home telephone number on card submitted. New addresses are also each update signified by checking the proper box above the address line. The following individuals are asked to submit another update card, beacuse we are unable to identify them: ... Michael Loy Berger's wife, who earned MSW and MSPH degrees from Tulane in 1979 and 1980 ... Bette Mullen's husband ... Donna Lantz's husband who earned MS and Ph.D. degrees from Penn State ... Juanita Gregory's husband who earned the M.Ed. from William and Mary in 1961 ... Liquid Air Corporation's sale representative for industrial gases who married Barbara Gregory and has three children ... B. June Este's husband who is a Warrant Officer with the U.S. Army in Fort Camphill, KY ... Rebecca Donici's husband who retired from the Navy in 1975 ... the general manager of McDonald's on Ocean Avenue in Pleasant Beach, NJ who married Catherine Clayton ... Mary Ann Chuba's husband who is a Labor Relations Specialist/Negotiator with our Governor’s Office in Harrisburg ... Paulette Dovin's husband who earned a B.A. from Wilkes in 1969 ... an assistant professor at Chestnut Hill College who holds a Ph.D. degree from Temple ... the systems engineer with HRB-Singer, Inc. of State College, PA ... an assistant method and procedure analyst with Prudential of Holmdel, NJ ... the choral/orchestral director at Somerville, NJ High School ... the maintainability engineer with Amecom, Litton Systems of College Park, MD ... a voca­ tional counselor for Maricopa County, Tempe, AZ ... Control Data Corporation's financial manager whose daughter Nancy earned the DVM in May from the University of Missouri ... Janet Ellen Oren's husband and father of Sharon and Robin. <4 50th ANNIVERSARY ALUMNI DIRECTORY TO BE PUBLISHED 1981 STEPHEN L. HUDACEK recently married Sharon Smith. Stephen is employed as a producl manager by Eureka Resale Products. EDWARD ALLEN KEPP received his doctor of medicine degree from Hahnemann Medical College. WILLIAM KOSCINSKI was recently married to Donna Marie Snipas. Bill is employed by the accounting firm ol Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company of Bethlehem. JAMES P. MILLER recently graduated from Hahne­ mann Medical College. Jim will complete a general residency at Case Western Reserve University, Cleve­ land. JOHN R. MOFFATT has accepted a posilion of auditor with lhe accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Company. John now resides in Voorhees, NJ but is formerly from Forty Fort, PA. CHARLENE M. SMITH received the degree of doctor of medicine from Hahnemann Medical College. Dr. Smith will complete a diagnostic radiology residency at Reading Hospital. PATRICIA SPARLOW recently joined lhe executive staff ol Penn's Wood Girl Scout Council as lhe director of communications. We're sorry to inform you that VINCENT P. MACRI, '50, passed away in June. Vincent was a life resident of the city of Wilkes-Barre. Our deepest sympathy is extend­ ed to his family. DR. ROBERT B. MORRIS, '59, passed away on April 15, 1981 following a sixteen-month battle against cancer. An account of his career appears in the "College Chroni­ cle" on page 12. Our condolences are extended to ILARIA (STERN IAK) ZUBRITZKY, '38, on the passing of her husband, Paul. Ilaria has been Region XI Vice-President for the past four years, and we send her our thoughts and prayers. The Zubritzkys resided in McKees Rocks, PA. Our condolences are also sent to DR. PATRICIA (YOST) PISANESCHI, '59, whose son Andrew was killed in an auto accident in early August. We are indeed sorry' to learn of your loss. i Good news alumni . . . the college has responded to numerous inquiries and requests by authorizing the preparation of an updated alumni directory to commemorate the college's 50th Anniversary. This new directory will be a valuable reference volume to alumni, and it will be helpful on campus in planning alumni activities and programs. The Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company, Inc., has been selected as the official publisher after a thorough review of this firm's extensive experience and success. Recognized as the oldest and largest exclusive publisher of alumni directories, they have completed over the past two decades alumni directories for more than 400 colleges and universities. The project will be undertaken at virtually no cost to Wilkes. The Harris Company has contracted to compile, publish, and market the directory, financing the operation solely through the sale of individual directory copies to alumni only. The college will not benefit financially from the directory sales, but will derive substantial benefit from the completely updated records and other valuable information obtained. The main body of the directory will consist of an alphabetical listing of alumni, with each entry to include name, class, degreejs), home address and telephone, and business or professional information, including title, firm name and address, and telephone. Two complete indexes of alumni, one arranged geographically by towns within states, and the other by class year will follow the main listings, providing ready references and cross references. Updated material will be derived from brief questionnaires mailed to alumni this January and followed up by telephone for verification of information to be included in the directory. At that time only, alumni will be able to purchase a copy of the directory. Only enough directories to fill these pre­ publication orders will be printed, and circulation will be restricted to alumni. Release of the directory is scheduled for Fall 1982. WILKES COLLEGE APPOINTS 13 NEW STAFF MEMBERS Dean of Academic Affairs, Dr. Gerald Hartdagen, has announced the appointment of 13 new faculty members who will begin teaching at the college this fall. The recent faculty appointments include: Dr. Claude W. Anderson, III, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, formerly of University of Illinois. ALUMNUS 9 �Sheila Carapico, filling a joint position as teaching associate in the political science department, is currently working on her Ph.D. in political science at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Cynthia Chisarick. assistant professor of accounting, is a graduate of Wilkes College. For the past four years she has been an accountant with Albert B. Melone Certified and Registered Public Accountants of Pittston. Fred Croop, assistant professor of accounting, received his M.B.A. from Wilkes in 1979 and has served as Business Manager for the Dallas, PA. School District since 1979. He has also served as a part-time faculty member at Wilkes in the Department of Commerce and Finance. Gary Dolny, assistant professor of engineering, is currently a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Members of the 34th Annual Mildred Krzywicki, assistant professor Homecoming Committee met on of nursing, has served as Associate campus regularly this past summer Director of Nursing Education at the to make plans for this year's gala Pottsville Hospital School of Nursing Homecoming scheduled for October 30, and Nursing Instructor at Luzerne 31, and November 1. County Community College. Members present at the August Dr. Richard Minasz, assistant meeting include: (seated L. to R.) professor of chemistry, holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and has extensive experience as a lecturer in both general and organic chemistry at Dr. Chang John Yu, assistant Canisius College, the University of professor of engineering, received Pittsburgh, and SUNY/Buffalo. his Ph.D. in ceramic engineering from Mohammed K. Moussavi, assistant the University of Illinois at Urbanaprofessor of engineering, has served Champaign. For the past two years as a part-time consulting engineer with he has served as Research and Satellite System Engineering. Inc. Development Manager for Centralab, and as a faculty member at George Inc., North American Phillips Company Washington University. He is currently of Los Angeles. working towards a D.Sc. degree in Communication Engineering from George Washington University. WILKES PROFESSOR HAS Dr. Virginia Nehring, professor and CHEMISTRY BOOK PUBLISHED chairman of the Nursing Department, completed her doctoral course work at In today's synthetically supplemented the Boston University School of Nursing world, most people would agree that it and, since 1977, has served as Director is beneficial to have at least a nodding of the Associate Degree Nursing acquaintance with the chemistry of Program at Boise State University. things. Whether we are reading contents Dr. Purisai Sethuraman, assistant from a food label or trying our hand at professor of chemistry’, holds a Ph.D. organic gardening, we are faced with from the Indian Institute of Technology having to understand the chemistry in Madras and joins Wilkes after serving which affects our daily lives. as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Georgetown Dr. William Stine, a professor of University for the past three years. Chemistry at Wilkes College, has Dr. Aysit Tansel, assistant professor of written a book which recognizes the economics, received her Ph.D. from the requirements of the layman who needs State University of New York at or simply wants to know about the Binghamton and has served on the chemistry which confronts him on a teaching faculty of SUNY/Binghamton regular basis. since 1976. The book is entitled "Applied Richard Tutwiler, filling a joint Chemistry” and is published by position as a teaching associate in the Allyn and Bacon, Inc., Boston. sociology/anthropology department, According to Stine, "The non-scientist is currently completing his Ph.D. work faced with the necessity or desire to in Anthropology at the State University learn chemistry is often treated like a at Binghamton. second-class citizen," he said. ■ ■ B H ■ ■ K I E I I I s I homecoming committee i 10 ALUMNUS ! >] n • „».=• Multiple Sclerosis, three ^Olympics and Project Care. SPecia P?eedawas elected governor, the S‘an ffice in the Pennsylvania hi8heStt0consisting of 23 colleges. Jeff pistnct, coi ted iieutenant governor Gavlick t Division; Sal Alaimo, the Nived ‘he first plaCe trophy in the Jr., re-eal contest on the current theme orator'^1 „Caring . . . Life's Magic." of Circ „der was given a Secretary J wardUf°r pr°mpt submiSsi°n °f al‘ reports. ;ES HIKES TUITION FEES VVILIG The Board of Trustees has armounced Ms. Mildred Gittens, Honorary Chairman; Carol Pawlush, Andrea Petrasek, Mary James, Tanya Hallez, and Marta Baker. Standing: Chris Baron John Baron, Dick Raspen, Dr. Carl Urbanski, Margaret Scholl, Bob Silvi, and Gina Davies. "Necessary areas are treated superficially and in a way that is less than desirable for both student and instructor. This book gives a clear picture of practical applications of chemistry rather than principles." Stine first became aware of the need for a practical approach to chemistry while teaching. "Principles of chemistry are fine for the chemistry major,” he states, "but not for the student who is non-science or the student who is taking an elective chemistry course . . . they are more interested in everyday applications." WILKES CIRCLE K CLUB WINS HONORS Fifteen members of Wilkes College Circle K Club attended the Pennsylvania District Convention of Circle K Clubs in New Kensington, bringing home many awards and trophies, in competition with the clubs of 22 other colleges. They received the first place trophy for "Inter Clubbing", and the first place trophy for "Achievement", which is given to the Club whose projects are most in tune with the goals and ideals of Circle K. A second place trophy was received for "Single Service", which was their Haunted House project, proceeds to Multiple Sclerosis. Another second place trophy was awarded for "Special Service", which consisted of 198^1-82 “academic year will be increased 200 while room and board charges l0|| be set at $2,100. The new costs ict a $450 increase in tuition.and a S200 addition to room and board fees. ■The increase is necessary if the college is to maintain its programs of nuality for its students," said Robert S Capin in making the announcement. "We made every attempt to keep the increase at a minimum, and, m doing so we were able to keep the total percentage increase below the current rate of inflation." The increase will assist in maintaining academic quality and will also be able to help meet increased costs. WILKES DEBATERS COP AWARDS The Debate Union recently captured seven awards including a fourth place team award at a tournament at Shippensburg State College which attracted teams from 51 colleges and universities representing 11 states and the District of Columbia. The debate team of Jon Sparks, Fred Deets, Forty Fort and Patti Sparlow, Kingston, defeated 11 schools in Lincoln-Douglas Debate, with Sparks being named third best debater at the tournament. Member of the public speaking division, Colleen Gries, Dallas, finished with fourth place in sales. Linda Esrov, Kingston, received a fourth place in original oratory and Darlene Schaffer, shley, earned a second place in sales an a fifth in impromptu speaking. onna Krappa, Dupont, won a fourth Place in prose interpretation. Darrell Lewis, Shickshinny; Joe Rubbico, xeter; and Nancy Ginter, Bloomsburg, completed the Wilkes squad. ‘hese awards raise the number of thi. vS W°n by the Wilkes squad to 52 tn„ryear and rePresents 21 consecutive ournaments that Wilkes has attended and the t °n' DurinS the past eight seasons, team won 388 trophies. coaeh„aat,e and sPeech divisions are Kinnevdknd dlrected by Dr- Bradford L. “,Ly. Kingston. 'ENTS Colleges Science Conference research papers on scientific investigations carried out during the academic year. The annual event allows undergraduate students from approximately 80 colleges and ° universities to present their work in a professional setting before peersand Present^™ PartlC1Patin8 institutions. Presentations were previewed at Biology Seminar Night held at Wilkes Debra Feldman and Robert Wallace working with Dr. Peter Siver did research on "Competition Between Two Planktonic Microalgae in Dilute and Concentrated Media." Diane Kuzminski presented a paper entitled "Rapid in vivo Test for Potential Mutagenicity." Her research was jointly sponsored by the Biology and Chemistry Departments under Jessica Jahngen and Dr. Lester Turoczi. Dr. Louis Rigley worked with student Debra Prater who presented a paper entitled, "Recognition and Preference by the Female Vole." Dr. Rigley also worked with Valerie Van Dyke who presented a paper entitled "Feeding Behavior in the Dolphin." Dr. Charles Reif worked with student Edward Stachowiak to present a paper entitled "Estimating Areas of Lakes;" Stachowiak is a sophomore biology major. The conference, which is held on different campuses each year, took place this year on the campus of the Jersey City State College, Jersey City, NJ- STUDENT LEADERS NAMED ..... gamzations on campus Government. ent Wi?LSePuKn°X' a re5ident Of X^^dp-dCommunity and has been elected president of the Inter-Residence nail Council. ennK^DER STUDENTS HAVE GOAL IN MIND A desire to learn, to get a higher education, to become eligible for better promotions in the job, and to begin a new career are several of the most common reasons non-traditional, adult students give for enrolling in the Weekender Program at Keystone junior College. Patricia A. Davis, 31, Scranton, who earned her two-year associate's degree from the Keystone Weekender Program, and who has graduated from the Wilkes College Weekend Program with her bachelor's degree in business, said that she began her college as a KJC weekender because "It was a way for her to get the college education she wanted in a comfortable atmosphere with older, non-traditional aged college students." Mrs. Davis, the mother of five children, said that her husband, Albert, encouraged her to go to school. iltis Election Time!! Every two years, the Alumni Association through the election process chooses sixteen individuals across the country to act as the guiding influence for the Office of Alumni Relations and our programs, as well as to serve as contacts "in the field" within the various geographic areas. You can help in the selection of those Alumni who will serve in 1982 and 1983 by becoming involved in the nominations process. Send us the names of persons whom you would like to see on the official ballot — we will then contact each of them to determine their willingness to serve if elected. The following offices are to be filled: President, Executive Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and a Vice-President from each of the twelve geographic regions. Send the names and offices for which you nominate them to the Office of Alumni Relations, Attn: Nominating Committee, Wilkes College, P.O. Box 111, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. And as you consider fellow Alumni, please consider yourself as a possible candidate. In other words, if you are interested in serving the College and'the Association in an elected capacity, submit your own name to the Committee for consideration. The nomination letter need not be signed; time, however, is important. Please try to get any nominations to us before October 2, although later nominations will be considered as time permits.________________ ALUMNUS 11 �"I enrolled in the Keystone-Wilkes Weekender because I felt more comfortable going to school with people my own age, who shared the common situation of combining job and family responsibilities with school work," she said. "My biggest problem in returning to school was getting back into the habit of studying and finding the time to do Mrs. Davis' goal is to become a certified public accountant and to earn a master's degree in business. She presently is employed as an accountant at Pollock and Smith, Clarks Summit. "Someday, I'd also like to teach accounting in the Weekender Program, she noted. WILKES ROTC RECOGNIZED The Air Force ROTC Detachment has recently been moved to higher status by the Department of the Air Force because of increased enrollment during the 1980-81 academic year. The Air Force recognized the unit for surpassing all previous enrollment records. Due to the increase, the Detachment has moved its offices to Church Hall in order to better accommodate the expanding Aerospace Studies Department. rJ ROBERT B. MORRIS (1933-1981) Whenever the Alumni Office receives word of the death of a graduate we are saddened not only by the passing of the individual, but also because part of the College dies as well. And when that individual is one who contributed both as a student and as a staff member, the loss is doubly felt. Such is the case of Robert B. Morris, a member of the Class of 1959, who died on April 15, 1981, in Cooperstown, N.Y. Bob was a native of Forty Fort, PA, and graduated from its high school in 1950. After a four-year tour with the U.S. Navy, he entered Wilkes as a Commerce and Finance major and immediately became involved in the life of the College. He was a member of the wrestling team, an officer of the College Chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, senior class president, and was presented the Alumni Association's award as the Outstanding Graduate of the Class of 1959, while maintaining 12 ALUMNUS Manuscripts Encouraged "Violence — An American Institution" "DNA Research — Blight or Blessing" "Drug Abuse: Another Problem for the Elderly” The Rising Tide of Marine Studies " Do they sound like interesting titles for an Alumni magazine? They were — each of these articles appeared in recent issues of the Temple University Alumni Review and were authored by students, alumni, or faculty' of the institution. a position on the Dean's List in recognition of his academic endeavors. Bob served the College as Assistant to President Farley from 1959-1962 and as our assistant wrestling coach. He earned the M.S. in Education in 1962 and the D.Ed. in 1964, both at Penn State University. His professional career was a varied one, serving as Dean of Men, Dean of the University College, and Dean for Undergraduate Studies at SUNY, Albany. From 1976 to 1979, he was Dean of Students at Indiana University in Gary’. Until his death, he was Vice President for Student Affairs at SUNY, Delhi. Many groups will miss Bob's participation, for he was dedicated to family and to community and professional service. He was an active member of his church, and published numerous articles in national education and student personnel journals. We send our condolences to his wife PATSY (REESE|, '57, and to his children Pamela, Susan, and Jeffrey. While Bob lost his 16-month battle with cancer, know' that his contribution to Wilkes and to higher education are remembered, respected, and appreciated. WILKES PLANS COURSE FOR FRESHMEN A special two-semester course entitled "Freshman Honors: Problems of Inquiry" will be offered in the fall of 1981 at Wilkes College. The course is designed for the high-ability and highly motivated freshman and is geared to provide both an intellectual challenge and a format for an exciting and interesting learning experience. Students will be introduced to a variety of materials including films, In an effort to diversify the content of the Quarterly-Alumnus we are rec n,*acf5"" submission r”-u—• we are requesting of' manuscripts for for consideration consideration for foi manuscripts publication. Articles mzmay range from 500 to 2,500 words °n topics of general interest to our readership or of special interest to a group of readers. Please submit manuscripts in double-spaced typewritten form to Director of Alumni Relations Wilkes College, P.O. Box 111, ' Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. Manuscripts not selected for immediate publication will be held on file in the Alumni Office for possible publication in a future issue short stories, novels, essays, and case studies. The question-and-answer approach to the learning process will be followed in an attempt to involve both student and faculty in the group discussion. The goal of the course will be to deepen, enrich, and sharpen students' understanding of all the disciplines in which they will study during their college years. The concept for the course is to introduce the basic problems of knowledge and the difficulties which all people share in an attempt to understand the world in which they live. According to Dr. Jean Driscoll, chairman of the Department of Political Science and co-director for the course: "The course should be an exciting exploration of some of the ways of knowing developed in the disciplines of psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, philosophy, and the sciences. ATTENTION PARENTS! If this magazine is addressed to your son or daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please clip off the address label on back cover and return it with the cor­ rect address to the Alumni Of­ fice at Wilkes College. Thank you for helping us update our rec­ ords. frntn ttje Hast * GAIN degrees 1N forces prevented five memServi«>"theaH Jl f m receiving their drplo- ffmnasw®' Thomas D. Morgan, Plymouth; 8 The fiveme" *r Naniicoke; and Norman P. Korn^aRobert J Smith, and Gerard F. Rogers, all of Wi^X'an the only of the five who was still in Tom Morgan, <n co|ors JS sefvlng colleg! Wafi7th Armored Batallion al Fort Sill, OklawilhthA Wi kes, Tom sang with the Mudgutters hoiM. At VVHK president of the DeSZsSy.Many alumni will also remember b'certified toZch on the secondary level last Jann Don Kivler, who was active at Wilkes m Edu■^Denartment functions and in the Economics Qub? is now stationed at the U.S. Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Md. Norm Kornblau, who holds a lieutenant s com­ mission in the Army Air Force, is at Mather Field, Calif. He took a Bachelor of Science degree m Commerce and Finance. 1961 THEATER ALUMNI RAISES THE CURTAIN This past May the Wilkes College Theater Alum­ ni marked its first birthday with the production, "Recollections in Three Acts," in which former Cue and Curtain members returned to Chase Theater to do scenes from previous dramas, com- “•» ••• u mark - or rmarker, for the monial dinner ,, — ««.r went a / malter of that. The testiwat a teacher can shlP and still be "Ot 0I11y "peeled but liW. Loved,even. Debating Society and the International R.iJClub at Wilkes, Bob also received Ms £”fo Commerce and Finance. 6 Gerard F. Rogers once a member of the Naval Reserve, is currently being trained as an infantrvman at Fort Jackson, S.C. While at Wilkes he par­ ticipated in German, Psychology, and Sociology Club activities and played in the college band. Up to the time of his call to service, he worked in the Testing Bureau here. CLASS NOTES lARCZYKlol'0™^ Ctaplain AI™ "'-WINby the Armv A Z ° Th“ bEen announced different sensentWiSZ^Xk now professor of military science and tactics at Chnstmn Brothers College in St. Louis, Mo., where he is m charge of the ROTC. He is a veteran of ten years service He commanded a medium tank company of the 14th Armored Division in France and Germany during World War II and afterwards served with occupation forces in Korea.... LEON J. SHUMOSIC, '51, has been accepted as senior cost clerk at the Newark, N.J., plant of AnheuserBusch, Inc. A native of West Nanticoke, Leon was a member of the Economics Club and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce and Fi­ nance. . , . ROBERT HALL, '51, has reported to Sampson, N.Y., to begin training with the Army Air Force. A member of the Wilkes football, baseball, and ice hockey teams, Bob received his B.S. degree in Commerce and Finance.... TRIBUTE TO TEACHER One of the pleasantest events on the Wilkes cam­ pus this spring was the testimonial dinner given for Dr. Frank J. J. Davies of the English Department. Dr. Davies himself was the first to point out that his being selected for the honor really did not sig­ nify. What was significant - and altogether gratify­ ing to the entire faculty, we suspect - was the fact that Wilkes students recognized quality instruction when they encountered it, that they were properly grateful to a teacher who was doing a conscientious job of work. There is a further reason for our pride in the stu­ dents who planned the dinner - a reason Dr. Davies did not comment on. As many of the alumni know, Dr. Davies is not and never has been an easy edies, and musicals. This production served to in­ crease the enthusiasm the members have shown in strengthening the association. Past President Bert Stein states, "Our's is a progressive organization, and our work on the campus in such activities is but a prologue to what we hope eventually to do. Our thoughts are constantly on the future fulfill­ ment of our goals." During the summer, the nominating committee met to make the necessary arrangements for the I J I | | election oi new officers. Election results were: Paul Thomas, '51, President; Bert Stein, '52, Vice-Presi­ dent; Steve Cooney, '60, Treasurer; and Jane Obitz Lind, '56, Secretary. These officers will preside over the theater Alumni meeting Homecoming week­ end. At a final meeting of the Executive Planning Committee on August 12 at Bert and Addie Stein's home, plans for the coming year were formulated. They will be submitted to the Alumni members for approval. CLASS NOTES ... LAWRENCE V. PEGG, JR., of 671 Cypress Avenue, Johnstown. Pennsylvania, is Assistant District Scout Executive in Johnstown. Larry attended the 232 National Training School for Scout Execu­ tives at Schiff Scout Reservation Mendhan New Jersey, during the months of April and May. He be can his duties with the Boy Scouts on April 1. ■ ■■ JOHN F. WOZNIAK, Brookling Manor Apart- Wilkes College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin, ALUMNUS 13 �1971 1970 WILKES GRADUATE PROVES THAT BOOKS AND BEAUTY DO MIX If your image of a librarian is a little old lady who tells you to be quiet and not disturb the books — you haven't seen Joan Harvey! Joan Harvey, a member of the Wilkes class of 1970, is an assistant children's librarian at the Osterliout Free Library on South Franklin Street in Wilkes-Barre. But she's also a tiny (five-foot), 105pound, brown haired, blue-eyed bundle of charm who holds the title "Miss United Fund.' For all her charm, Joan is quick to point out that the Miss United Fund title is not just part of another beauty queen pageant, however. Her pri­ mary responsibility in the next few months will be to urge people throughout the Wyoming Valley to give generously to the United Fund cause hopefully reaching a goal of 51,503,000. All of this excitement has happened very quickly to the bubbly young librarian. She was approached in August to represent the Osterhout in the pageant, and as Joan describes it, "I hesitated about three seconds and said yes." Of the contest itself, Joan says she found even­ part of it to be fun, especially meeting the other contestants, who represented 23 area organizations. "It wasn't like we were competing with each other. We just all wanted to do the best job possible. We had fun, but we were also aware that it wasn't only for fun. The United Fund was in the back of our minds — and for that reason we wanted to put on a good show." She confides that she didn't think she'd even make the semi-finals, and what happened after that is pretty much a blur. All at once, Lee Vincent's or­ chestra was playing the Miss America theme song, and last year's winner, Judy Zeedock, was placing a tiara on her and handing her roses. Then came the camera flashes and the microphones. WILKES HIGH IN MAC RECORDS Although insufficient league games will again bar Wilkes from any Middle Atlantic Conference team and individual football statistical honors, the Col­ onels nevertheless will be keeping an eye on the MAC logs which find eight Blue and Gold marks still withstanding. A memorable Saturday afternoon on September 30, 1967, found defensive halfback Dan Malloy grabbing off five interceptions against Moravian. The amazing feat was only one pilfer shy of the NCAA record but stands alone in the MAC annals. Joe Wiendl still holds two entries in the MAC journals on the strength of 90- and 56-yard inter­ ceptions against PMC in 1967. Wiendl compiled the one-game standard of 146 yards and then pro­ ceeded to establish the one-season interception mark with 220 yards. The Blue and Gold also hold two records in the placekicking department with Bill Staake's nine placements against Haverford in 1967 and Paul Purta’s 1965 season total of 23 points via the PAT route still highwater marks. Teamwise, the charges of Coach Roland Schmidt have set standards for yards gained in a game, 654 versus Haverford. 1967; game rushing yardage, 473 versus Haverford, 1967; and fewest yards allowed in a season, 27.1 average, in 1965. CLASS NOTES Dr. June Turley, the former JUNE WILLIAMS, has been promoted to research manager in the Dow Interdiscipline Group of laboratories with responsi­ bility for both X-ray and emission spectroscopy in chemical physics research. She resides with her husband. SHELDON, '48, al 1208 Wakefield Drive, Midland, Michigan. . . . RICHARD BEL­ LAS recently received his doctor of medicine de­ gree from the University of Arkansas and was pro­ moted to the rank of major in the Air Force. Major Bellas is serving his internship at Baptist Medical Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, where he resides with his wife, Mary Ann, and their three sons, Joseph, John, and Robert. . . . RICHARD REES is an assistant professor of education in the depart­ ment of curriculum and instruction at Montclair State College. He resides with his wife and children at 57 Koyen Street, Fords, New Jersey. ... A daughter, Jean Allison, was born on May 28, 1971, to Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD RASPEN. They reside at 90 Charles Street, Wilkes-Barre. . . . FRANK HUSBAND and SANDRA DUNGAN were mar­ ried recently. Frank is presently working as a spe­ cial education teacher at the White Haven State School and Hospital. Sandra is a second grade teacher in the Dallas School District. They reside at 420 Market Street, Kingston, Pennsylvania. ------------------------------------------------------------- ATHERTON COMES HOME Jim Atherton, 1954 Wilkes graduate and former Colonel cage standout, has returned to the campus to serve the college as our new men's basketball coach. Jim, who for the past 13 years compiled an impressive career mark of 228-86 at Luzerne County Community College in Nanticoke, replaces Ron Righter who resigned to take the assistant position at Washington State in the Pac-10. Atherton, who was selected to the all-time basketball squad at Wilkes for ais outside shooting, will serve Wilkes inly as its head basketball coach while :eeping his duties at LCCC as director if student affairs and athletics. "I’m very elated," offered Atherton, onsidered one of the finest basketball aaches on the East coast. "As an umnus, I have great pride in Wilkes. ALUMNUS FALL SPORTS PREVIEW It's an excellent college and I'm honored to coach here." While at LCCC, Jim's teams captured six conference titles, including a 55-consecutive win streak at home. LCCC was also involved in post-season play in 11 of his 13 years. A feeling of confidence is in the air as the six fall season sports teams of Wilkes College prepare for the 1981 campaign. The Colonel teams will be trying to come back from an overall record of 37-47-5 during the 1980 fall season. Coach Rollie Schmidt's gridders will be looking to improve on their 3-6 mark of 1980. Schmidt has a host of top-notch 1981 slate will be tough with such top-notch opponents as national powers Bloomsburg State and Scranton. Wilkes will meet cross-town rival King's College on Nov. 11. Another Wilkes team trying to turn things around is the women's tennis team, which went 1-11 last year and has been 2-33 over the past three seasons. One of the highlights for coach Nancy Snee's crew last fall was the play of freshman Cathy Price of Exeter. Price went on to garner the team's "MVP" award while playing number one singles and represented the college at the Middle Atlantic Conference tournament. With a host of letterwomen returning and some recruits in camp, imp,in Snee is looking for a few more wins 1981. Sept. 19 Sept. 26 Oct. 3 Oct. 10 Oct. 17 24 31 6 14 1:30 H Upsala 1:30 A Lycoming H 1:30 •Susquehanna 1:30 A Trenton State 1:30 A Juniata 1:30 H Delaware Valley 1:30 H #johns Hopkins A 7:30 FDU Madison 1:30 A Albright ’Parents' Day ft Homecoming Women's Volleyball Doris Saracino, coach Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. 17 21 22 25 29 1 4 6 Oct. 8 Oct. 12 Oct. 14 Oct. J? Oct. 20 Oct. 22 °ct. 23-24 Oct. 28 Nov. i Nov, 3 W. Maryland (scrim.) Wilkes Tourney (Allentown. Scranton. Messiah) Elizabethtown Upsala Scranton King's Dickinson King's FDU Madison Delaware Valley Misericordia L.C.C.C. PennStatelLehman Moravian Baptist Bible Susquehanna East Stroudsburg Tourn. Bucknell Misericordia Scranton A H Women's Tennis - Nancy Snee, coach Soccer - Ernesto Lopez, coach Football-Rome Schmidt, coach Sept. 11 Sept. 12 Jim, who resides in South Wilkes-Barre with his wife Patricia and their five children, was the subject of a special sports feature in the Winter-1977 issue of the Quarterly. Atherton is shown being greeted on the Wilkes campus by 1981 co-captain Kevin Walker of Springfield, N.J. forced IO check elsewhere on his team for offensive firepower. And the answer might rest with junior Carlos Ribiero of Union, N.J. The 1981 WILKES FALL SPORTS SCHEDULE Oct. Nov. Nov. by Eddie White III ’BO Lopez. With the loss of co-MVP lohn Brill and leading scorer Dung Chi Duong to graduation, Lopez has been But Saracino and Co. were ,. 1 , ,, hit hard by graduation and 1981 could become ecome a rebuilding season for the Colonelettes onelettes Expected to bolster the Wilkes attack are the co-captains junior Cheryl Frystak of Montrose and senior Cathy Dudick of Wilkes-Barre. Coach Gay Meyers and her women's field hockey team also might be involved in a rebuilding season. Last year, the ladies started out fast, winning six and tying one of their first eight encounters. But the lady Colonels dropped three of their last four to finish with an overall mark of 6-4-3. Gone via graduation are two of the top three scorers with only junior Diane Hall of Ephrata, Pa., (nine goals) back to aid the offense. Among the schedule highlights is an encounter with "bigtime" foe University of Pittsburgh. Also looking to improve in 1981 is the men's soccer team of coach Ernesto Alew coach Bart Bellairs will have 14-7 year. some key lettermen returning with a host of highly-touted newcomers. Expected to lead the Wilkes running attack this fall is senior captain Ken Pascoe of Nanticoke. Another successful team a year ago was the women's volleyball team of Oct. Wli veteran mentor Doris Sac iracino. year, the ladies went 11-8, settirLast .ting the school record for most wins ■_'.s in one season. recruits in camp and is fresi,'I’°Lward to the 1981 schedule. Iodine games, the Blue and Gold Of ‘IS "home at the friendly confines will bi,n Field on four occasions, of ^,5.°on to the traditional Middle In Conference foes. Wilkes will ^non-league Trenton State and "'ei time opponent John Hopkins diversity, the latter contest serving year's Alumni Homecoming £ on October 31. The most successful of last year's Wilkes fall sports teams, the cross country unif, will be even stronger in 1981. Last year, under coach Ron Righter the Blue and Gold harriers compiled a school record 14 wins in a Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. 12 16 19 26 30 3 10 15 22 24 28 31 7 11 Alumni Game Scranton Upsala FDU Madison Muhlenberg Lycoming Moravian Elizabethtown Albright Susquehanna Baptist Bible Bloomsburg Delaware Valley King's H H A H H H A H A A H A H H 2:00 3:30 10:30 2:00 3:30 10:30 2:00 3:30 3:00 10:30 3:30 1:00 2:00 3:30 6:00 2:00 H 4:00 A 7:00 A 7:00 A 7:00 H 6:30 H 7:00 H 2:00 H 4:00 H 7:00 A 7:00 H 7:00 A 11:00 A 7:00 H 6:30 A II 3:30 H 2:00 H 7:00 Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. 12 17 22 25 30 2 3 8 10 13 14 17 20 Sept. 12 Sept. 19 Sept. 23 Sept. 30 3 7 Oct. 10 Oct. 13 16 Oct. Oct. 20 Oct. 28 Nov. 7 Oct. Oct. Elizabethtown Del. Vai./King's Phila. Pharm./ Textile Scran./King's/ Muhlenberg Baptist Bible Lebanon Valley Moravian Albright Scranton Susquehanna Baptist Bible MAC'S A H A 2:00 1:30 4:00 A 4:00 A H A H A A H 4:00 1:00 4:00 Sept. 5 Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. 17 19 24 26 30 2 Oct. Oct. Oct. 6 8 10 13 17 Oct. 28 Oct. Oct. 4:00 4:00 A 11:00 H 4:00 A 3:00 A 3:30 H 3:00 A 4.00 H 11:00 H 3:30 H 11:00 A 3:30 H 3:00 A 1:00 H 4:00 Field Hockey - Gay Meyers, coach Sept. 12 Cross Country - Bart Bellairs, coach King's Scranton Lock Haven Upsala Bloomsburg Scranton Baptist Bible Marywood Misericordia Lycoming Mansfield East Stroudsburg King's Oct. 30 Nov. 4 Club Team Scrimmage Pre-Season Scrimmage (Messiah. Mansfield) Elizabethtown Alumni Game East Stroudsburg Albright Misericordia University of Pitt Bloomsburg State (both games at BSC) Delaware Valley Marywood FDU Madison Lycoming •Susquehanna Bucknell Scranton Lafayette H 9:00 H 9:00 H H A A H A 4:00 11:00 3:00 11:00 4:00 1:00 3:30 H H A A H H A A 4:00 4:00 12:30 4:00 11:00 3:30 3:00 2:30 ALUMNUS 15 �A WILKES COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WILKES COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 5 0 PRESENTS PRESENTS AN ARUBA FLING! SKIING IN THE SWISS ALPS Take Your Place in the Sun This Winter January 3 to January 12 December 26 to January 3 Features of This SPECTACULAR Trip Are: Al! Inclusive Philadelphia Departure • Round Trip Charter del Fight • Beachfront Hotel Acwsincxa: :ns ter 7 N jhls • Transfers Between Aip-t 2-2 • Baggage la Cl. ;• ■ Manager s Cocktail Party • Beach and Pcclside Cic.se Loec-ge ■n Sound Trip del Flights — New Yoik-Zurich on Swissair ficund Trip Transfers Between Zurich and Interlaken Three Star Hotel Accommodations With Bath lor 7 Nights Continental Breakfast and Full Dinner Daily Bus Transpwtltfon Between Hotel and Ski Lilts Information Briefing By Ski Expert Includes AH Tips, Taxes, and Service Charges May 31, 1981 anci jggg. •a ■* « * •* ONLY $589 S649 ~ U Manchebo Beach Holiday Inn ASSEtS: COMPLETE - »S39.00 jrountsReceivable;; Fuei-Heiated ^creases * At> WILKES COLLEGE ALUMNI. P.O. BOX 111. WILKES-BARRE. FA 18755 ramand Friends of Wilkes Alumni Are Invited Along DETACH AMO MAIL WITH YOUR CHECK FOR 5200 PER PERSON DEPOSIT TO WILKES COLLEGE ALUMNI, P.O. BOX 111, WILKES-BARRE, PA 18766 Name: Name Address: Address Families and Friends of -,ss .4 —?; .4 re tsc A/c.tj DETACH AND MAIL W TH 1C.S CHECK FOR S50 PER PERSON DEPOST TO 1981 $ Term investments 4,699,931 3,724,107 273,030 26,136,591 InVeSt Assets (Total) J" Buildings and Equipment, Etc TOTAL................................... _ homecoming HBB WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS: FRIDAY 3 p.m.— Women s Field Hockey 7 p.m. — Display Judging and Campus Tours 8 p.m.—Friday Frolic SATURDAY 9 a.m. — Tennis Tourney Departmental Presentations 12:15 — Homecoming Parade 1 p.m. — Soccer 1:30 — Football Homecoming Run 4 p.m. —Fifth Quarter 6 p.m.— Cocktails before Dinner Smorgasbord Dinner 9 p.m.— Homecoming/ Halloween Ball SUNDAY 8:30 —Brunch to Order 2 p.m. — Women’s Volleyball 7:30 —Piano Concert 9 p.m. — SG Film: "Terror Train" 16 ALUMNUS COMMITTEE MEMBERS: j§l 567,120 534,785,683 liabi: Gina (O'Brien) Davies '77 Registration Desks Marta Baker '81 & Margaret Scholl ’81 Friday Frolic Tom Rokita '68 Tennis Tourney Bob Silvi '69 Parade Marshall Ed Eppler '81 Homecoming Run Joanne Rice '83 Halftime Ceremonies Paul Purta '67 Fifth Quarter Allan Allan ’50 Dinner and Dance Andrea Petrasek '69 Sunday Brunch Carol (Corbett) Pawlush '79 Secretary of the Committee Chris (Miele) Baron '73 John Baron '75 Pat Burke '69 Dave Davies '76 Joanne Levandoski '70 George Pawlush '69 Alan Zellner '72 4,269,745 31,297,375 TOTAL Millie Gittins '46 Honorary Chairman Art Hoover '55 Executive Council Meeting Carl Urbanski '57 Judging of Displays & Floats 278,723 400,000 4,504,476 3,974,679 263,531 25,364,274 LITIES and fund balance Tel. No. Total Liabilities Fund Balances. 34th ANNUAL WILKES COLLEGE 1980 733,461 s 4,265,867 30,519,816 535,567,120 534,785,683 SUMMARY STATEMENT OF REVENUES, EXPENDITURES AND CHANGES IN FUND BALANCES For the Years Ended May 31, 1981 and 1980' REVENUES AND OTHER ADDITIONS: 1981 Educational and general Auxiliary enterprises Private gifts and grants Government appropriations (restricted) Investment income (restricted) Interest on loans receivable Retirement of indebtedness Realized gain on investments Expended for plant facilities (Included in current fund expenditures) . TOTAL EXPENDITURES AND OTHER DEDUCTIONS: Educational and general Auxiliary enterprises Refunded to grantors hedges canceled Roan cancellations and write-offs ministrative and collection costs Die menJ Pr*nc*Pal and interest.................................................... ^Posal of plant facilities... al‘«d loss on investments 291,588 309,329 15,329,192 14,397,141 12,093,410 1,771,143 30,573 17,048 125,693 20,981 194,686 228,866 69,233 11,015,153 1,619,500 40,748 13,924 122,003 20,934 192,531 306,248 5,549 14,551,633 13J36J90 total NET INCREASE ^UND BALANCE (BEGINNING) 'UND balance (ending)..................................... pared summary financial statements not subject to audit. 1980 S 9,655,832 5 8,517,360 2,033,171 1,841,202 748,183 506,156 2,169,565 2,572,648 287,470 260,292 51,505 47,981 90,319 95,402 248,330 777,559 1,060,551 30,519,816 29,459,265 531,297,375 530^519^816 • • • __===== FALL 1981 9 �ISIS '"f '» TO CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS - ACADEMIC YEAR 1980-1981 SEPTEMBER • Hosted a television debate for Attorney General Candidates Michael O Pake and Leroy S. Zimmerman in the Center for the Performing Arts. • Received a challenge grant of $100,000 from Kresge Foundation for renovations to Chase Hall, Kirby Hall, and Bedford Hall. • Welcomed 707 new students during Orientation exercises. • Mayor Thomas McLaughlin signed a proclamation designating an International Literacy Day” and presented the document to Dr. George Siles in recognition of the Volunteers for Literacy Program at the College. • Featured an appearance by Olympic Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph as part of the Concert and Lecture Series. • Featured the works of John Stascak at the Sordoni Art Gallery. • Offered a series of six seminars entitled * Seminars for Financial Awareness ' through the Division cf Continuing Education and the Commerce and Financial Department. • Presented the National Shakespeare Company’s production of ‘‘Romeo ana Juliet as part of the Concert and Lecture Series. OCTOBER • Presented Tony Mcmazaro Mime Theatre as pari of the Concert and Lecture Series. • Featured Dr. Armor R. Upgrea, Director of the Van Meek Observatory, Wesleyan University, as a cues: lecturer. • Hosted a debate on the pros and cons of using nuclear power in Pennsylvania. Report has^^ • Initiated The lob Location and Development Program" to give area employers the opportunity to hire quality students. • Hosted a Women in Careers Seminar lor women seeking information on how to prepare for and select career opportunities. • Exhibited works by Mark Cohen, Vai Cushing, Jody Pinto, and Nancy Hagin in the Visiting Artists Group Exhibit at the Sordoni Art Gallery. • Initiated the Nursing Program at the Hazleton State General Hospital. • Received a check from the National Council of Jewish Women appropriated for the College's scholarship fund. L FEBRUARY • Presented the musical "Celebration" as one of the College’s Theatre Productions. • Hosted the Pennsylvania-Anthracite Section of the American Institute of Mining Engineers for their spring meeting/seminar. • Official kick-off event for Campaign '81. MARCH • Hosted the Thirteenth Annual Seminar of the National Honor Society. • Sponsored a workshop cn public law in conjunctkm with the Lucerne County Intermediate Unit #18 and C’mmrm s Service of Wyoming Valley. • Presented a lecture on "Sex and Single Cell — Reproduction in Mircoalgae" by Francis Trainor, Professor of Botany at the University of Connecticut. • Received the Firs: Award cf Merit presented by the American Planning Association for developing a Space Udlizadon Study and Planning Aid for the campus. • Announced that the $500,000 goal was exceeded during the 1981 Annual Campaign. • Hosted the 27th Anzeai Tax C:r.:c co-sponsored by Wilkes College and the Northeast Chapter. Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. • Featured Dr. Manin Seligman, Professor cf Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania as part cf the Concert and Lecture Series. • Received accreditation for the Electrical Engmeering Program at the College by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABED. • Established the endowed .Max Rosenn Lecture Series in Law and Humanities. ° Appointed Richard M. Ross, Jr. to the Chairmanship of the Community Drive for the 1981 Annual Campaign. 0 Hosted “Science Expo, 1980“ for several hundred visiting high school students. • Hosted approximately 200 guests for a candlelight supper and reception to open the major exhibit "Students of the Eight" at the Sordoni Art Gallery. 0 Featured Dr. Mark Hite, Director of Toxicology and Pathology a! the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research a: lecturer on ' The Potential of Chemicals to Cause Tumors and Cancer." ® Sponsored a “Careers Day” through the Nursing Student Organization and the Careers Center at the College. ° Named Eugene Roth to the Chairmanship of the 1981 Annual Campaign. 0 Hosted Luzerne County Counselor: Amoriation for a meeting to discuss recent trends in student counseling. • Named Gerald Moffatt to the Chairmanship of the 1981 Alumni Appeal. DECEMBER ® Hosted a seminar on the “Fundamental Principles of Income Tax” which was co-sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education. • Presented the original play by Writer-in-Residence, Philip Bosakowski entitled "Flood." • Exhibited the works of forty-six artists from across the United Slate: who use paper as an art form in an exhibition endowed in honor of Roy E. Morgan called "Paper as a Medium." MAY • Featured local alumna, newswoman Debbie Dunleavy, as guest speaker at the Annual Spring Dinner of the Greater Wyoming Valley Chapter of the Wilkes College Alumni Association. • Hosted 33rd Annual Luzerne County High School Mathematics Contest. • Featured U. S. Court of Appeals Circuit Judge A. Leon Higginbotham as Commencement Speaker. • Hosted a seminar on Small Business at Stark Learning Center. • Hosted a seminar entitled "Advertising for the Small Business" in Stark Learning Center. • Hosted descendents of Zebulon Buller al the 1981 Buller Society Conference held on campus. ° Appointed new Chairman to Board of Trustees, William L. Conyngham, and elected Harold Rose, Jr., Mrs, Luciana Suraci, and Miss Alexandra Ehret to serve on the College’s Governing Board. • Selected Mildred A. Giltins to serve as Honorary Chairman of the 34th Annual Homecoming of the Alumni Association. ® Added a new major, "Communication Studies," to the curricula of the Department of Language and Literature, RESIDENCE HALL FACTS Location: Comer of Northampton and South River Streets in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Construction Begins: September, 1981 Completion DateAugust, 1982 No. of Floors; Four (4) Capacity; WFeeiandflVe 12051 55-»00 (approximate) “"mated Cost; WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY FiniCTHAANNNG STAGES celebratjon A. Establish an Ad Hoc committee to: 1. 2. 3. Study the probable reductions which will be made in financial aid for 1982-83 Assess the impact of anticipated reductions on students at Wilkes Provide an analysis of the probable consequences of ®uc"neU wiU^takTpa6^11*5 Ask the Long-Range Planning Committee and the Faculty Policy C. Publish calendar of key events D. Establish budget for extraordinary expenses IV. EXPLORE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A MARKET PLANNING AND RESEARCH PROGRAM WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE COLLEGE MORE EFFICIENTLY TO: Identify the individuals and groups it serves Assess the extent to which it meets the needs of those it serves Identify potential constituencies it could serve consistent with the nature of the institution Such a program would involve determinations as to the practicalities of: A. B. An assessment of the College s current position with respect to its actual and potential areas The design and implementation of a Market Research project which would identify the type of marketing effort needed by the College The planning and implementation of C. a range of market strategies Committee to: Study the report provided by the 1. ... • Announced the initiation of an Honors l.’.„, Program entitled "Freshman Honors: Problems of Inquiry" to begin Fall “ ‘I semester 1981. WR1Cb B' ^ly develop oths related n°n’Buckndl rcla^d eVem? events Complete history of Wilkes college 2. kevn'iShpr0?ram of events with y community groups 3. AlLP’e n .AnniversarY edition of Alumni Directory 4. Finalize plans for alumni special events F 5. Prepare plan for media communications 6. Define faculty departmental activities 7. Establish special cultural events programming 8. Plan with student organizations for appropriate student activities financial aid reductions on student enrollment at Wilkes B. versary A' Sv^X^^BuckneU ENROLLMENT JULY "’BS' Red brick IO for II. STUDY THE EFFECT OF FINANCIAL AID REDUCTIONS AND TAKE STEPS TO MINIMIZE THE IMPACT OF A POTENTIAL REDUCTION IN • Held 34th Annual Commencement in Ralston Field with over 400 students receiving degrees. JUNE I. DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT PLANS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW RESIDENCE HALL Establish a management system for coordination of the Construction Program B. Create a communication system to keep key personnel and agencies of the College informed of the status of the construction C. Establish procedures for the transfer of new facility to the College D. Develop a procedure to insure smooth occupancy of the facility E. Implement fund-raising and financing plans to provide the required resources for the project APRIL • Commissioned nine cadets in the ROTC program to the rank of Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. projects will require our conUnued guidance and evaluation there conf to be many new areas that we m° st‘nUe explore. st As we enter into the 1981-1982 Academic Year much remains to be done. In an effort to guide us through the next twelve months we have established, as> in ’ years past, Institutional Objectbives that pinpoint four major areas iof concern. Those objectives are to: A. NOVEMBER • Featured an appearance by Har.k Aaron, former major-league baseball player, as part of the Coxa! and Lecture Series. this work that has been donT d °fthe academic year. WhUl°“^XePaSt JANUARY • Hosted members of the ah-r-w at the 33rd Annual Alumni Homecoming. • Hosted a seminar on taxes and financial aid through the Division of Ccntmuing Education. III. • Received $102,000 Grant from the Pew Memorial Trust for renovations to academic facilities. • Honored members of the John Wilkes Club with a formal recognition dinner. 2. SSK-d impact R^con^endSs which — be 3. taken to minimize the impact C. Implement recommendations C°re °h °Ue shall continue to strengthen “Sol FALL 1981 H �rlt CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY SOUTH RIVER STREET: A NW LOOK 1-Of{ Over the past few years the South River Street section of the Wilkes campus has become the center of academic and cultural activity for both the college and community. In addition to the educational opportunities afforded by the facilities on that part of campus, the refurbished and renovated physical plant provides an impressive landscape for travelers who journey down South River Street past our campus. We invite you to take thatjourney. RESIDENCE HALL In September of 1981 construction commenced on our new 205-bed, four-story residence hall which will provide living space for tomorrow’s leaders and scholars. Designed architecturally to blend with adjacent buildings., the new structure is scheduled tor completion in August of 1982 and will house students beginning in the Fall of that year. The fully air-conditioned facility is designed for energy efficiency and low cost maintenance- CONYNGHAM STUDENT UNION The Conyngham Student Union building, given by the Conyngham family and refurbished with the help of funds raised by the College through its Alpha Campaign, is a multi-functional unit which is available to campus clubs and organizations for student activities and for relaxation. The Student Union building is also the home of all Student Government offices. The basement of the Union serves as a social center where students can plan and hold various activities throughout the year. A cafeteria on the main floor is available to students, faculty and staff each day which encourages an informal exchange between all constituencies of the College on an ongoing basis. The Conyngham Student Union provides a home away from home for all members of the Wilkes family. A ANNETTE EVANS ALUMNI AND FACULTY HOUSE of Office. pecial Pr°grams The Gracious English Tudor structure is used extensively for meelmgs, social functions and as a ■ “ a.t_146^Riv_er Street served as the home of Dr'" Eugene™ Tart" ! i^1” ; contains classrooms, < S”, facuhy ofhees the first President of Wilkes College" J* jdS i and materials in nCaJ earth and *K2'lal sciences, art, J^cs-computer science, I and psychology. ' trtae Computer Center is i fe Stark with facilities Fa ® iSfe* I £awilable,ostudenls S> time, Chase Hall provides for them their initial stopping place. Home of the admissions office, Chase Hall was presented to the College in 1937 by Rear Admiral Harold R. Stark as a memorial to Fred Chase and his wife, who was Admiral Stark's sister. Extensive renovations during 1980 have kept the historical tradition and significance of the 65-year-old structure intact. Admiral Stark was bom in Wilkes-Barre over 100 years ago and attended Wilkes-Barre High School. He became a member of the Wilkes Board of Trustees in 1947 and became Chairman of the Board in 1960. The long time friend and benefactor of Wilkes was accorded the unique distinction of appointment as Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees, a lifetime appointment conferred upon him by the Board following his retirement in 1965. Chase Hall, which also houses the political science and psychology departments, serves as a constant reminder that one man’s vision and generosity can mold future generations and lifestyles. KIRBY HALI 0 BEDFORD HALL S^KSr to the Coll »eiXi uWaS8iven The beautiful three-story structure is the home of the Language and Literature Department and, as history would have it, was the site of the first ®1 !” ^oming Valley back on April 1 of 1769. In 1980, with the help of funds raised during the College's ftree-year Alpha Campaign, Kirby Hall was completely renovated including a new tile roof and specially made windows. Support from the F. M. Kirby Foundation helped to make this possible. Kirby Hall, featured in the Winter, 1981 issue of The Quarterly, stands as a symbol of strength for both the College and Wyoming Valley. Today, Bedford Hall serves as a residence hall for upperclassmen Students residing in the charming Sructure come to Wilkes from different parts of the country and are seeking varied degrees which allow for a diversified living experience during the students' residence at Wilkes. Bedford Hall underwent extensive exterior refurbishment tn 1980 and is one of several showcase buildings on campus. The Bedford Hall lawn area is the site of many outdoor social events throughout the year including an annual carnival which raises funds for local charities. *&, >X3 jV cn O d H K fc'r <z> a ■ j .J-4* : i i" Wg ® JSy involved in computer pjrtnuning, research, and Lsole problem solving. Bi Wilkes College Stark laming Center-a modern icility with flexible educational opportunities for today's student ad tomorrow's leader. sgggg; .a Ti CHASE HALL When prospective students visit rk Learning5e$7 niilHon sa oz \ ARNING iff tfl W zO ----- A L, ■ ~~ SOUTH RIVER STREET j Frothy ■' 1 RIVER COMMON .fo. A' " " '-'‘A . . ? ; ' I. i kMi. < -7 :.rr. cS0N DaRte I $83, ^7pD>Darte ^reMs ml Jn memory of her susquehamiva the hub of cultural activity on the campus. A 500-seat auditorium with 2,640 sq. it. of stage area provides a beautiful setting for Concert and Lecture Series Programs, Theatre Productions, Music Concerts, Major Lectures, Films and Assemblies. The facility, dedicated in April of 1970, is also made available to community groups who wish to hold their special programs on our campus. Adjacent to the CPA is Gies Hall which is the home of the College music department. While major concertsand recitals are held m the CPA, individual student performances as well as Prac, sssions are held in an acoustically designed auditorium m Gets Hall. The Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts ano Geis Hall - serving the culuira needs of the College and the Community. FALL 1981 13 �rationally CULTURAL EVENTS CALENDAR 1981-1982 Programs for the College and the Community Date Event 11 FILM: Caddyshack ($25) Center for the Performing Arts (CPA) 18 FILM: The Shop on Main Street Stark Learning Center (SLC) 22 CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES: Jean Kilbourne, "The Naked Truth — Advertising's Image of Women" (CPA) 25 FILM: Love at First Bite ($25) (CPA) 7 & 9 p.m. 22 FILM: Psycho (SLC) Room 1 7:30 p.m. 24 FILM: The Rose ($25) (CPA) 7 & 9 p.m. 29 FILM: Jazz Singer ($.25) (CPA) 7 & 9 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9-11 FILM: Potemkin (SLC) Room 1 FILM: Murder by Death ($.25) (SLC) Room 101 14-Mar. 7 7:30 p.m. MUSIC: Concerto Concert (CPA) 23 FILM: The Sea Gull (SLC) 7:30 p.m. 24 FILM: Fame ($25) (CPA) 27 CONCERT £ LECTURE SERIES: Tony Montanaro, Mime (CPA) 26-28 2 1 FILM: Terror Train ($.25) (CPA) 12 CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES: The Annapolis Brass Quintet (CPA) 13 FILM: Juliet of the Spirits (SLC) 14 FILM: Private Benjamin ($.25) (CPA) 15 CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES: William Bolcom and Joan Morris, "The American Songbook" (CPA) 7:30 p.m. 7 t 9 p.m. ini-n 8 p.m. 7:30 p.m. FILM: The Big Sleep (SLC) Room 1 7 & 9 p.m. 7 & 9 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9 p.m. CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES: McCarter Theatre in Shaw's "Arms and the Man" 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. ART EXHIBIT: Berenice D'Vorzon: Paintings. Sordoni Art Gallery FILM: Breathless (SLC) Room 1 FILM: Electric Horseman ($.25) (SLC) Room 101 7 & 9 p.m. MUSIC: Alumni Concert (CPA) Total enrollment *ud«mlc year 8:15 p.m. 7 & 9 p.m. MUSIC: College Choir Concert (CPA) 8:15 p.m. 7:30 p.m. MUSIC: Cap and Bell Singers Gies Hall 8:15 p.m. 4 FILM: "M" (SLC) Room 1 7:30 p.m. THEATRE: "The Servant of Two Masters" 27 ART EXHIBIT: "Ed Meneeley: Paintings Prints & Sculpture" Sordoni Art Gallery 8:15 p.m. 30 S 940 51.310 95.9 118.8 154.5 95.0 128 6 156.2 1978- 79 ...................... Change from 1977-78 11,392.000 + 0.8% 206.4 -r 9.5% 217.1 + 7.9% 54,000.000.000 + 8.0% 1979- 80 ...................... Change from 1978-79 11.707.000 * 2.8% 230.3 + 9.8% 58,500,000.000 + 8.3% ' 1967 - 100 T Adjusted io 1967 dollars, according fo 232.1 -r-12.5% 2.547 3.133 3.769 4,740 + 7.1% 2.656 2.637 2.439 2.297 - 2.1% 2.153 - 6.3% Por itudent Total S 240.000.000 1.440,000,000 1,860,000.000 2.160.000,000 3.230.000.000 ♦ 6.3% 3.800,000.000) *17.6% Ad|utt*dt 5 90 241 215 209 5126 251 181 135 284 * 5.6% 325 ♦ 53% 138 - 3.5% 140 + P*» ctnt ot total 9.6% 9.5% 6.9% 5.6% 6.0% ♦ 7.1% 6.4% ♦ 6.7% Consumer Price Index by Betsy B. Condron THEATRE: "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" 7:30 p.m. ART EXHIBIT: "David Armstrong: Paintings" MUSIC: College Choir & Wind Ensemble (CPA| 8:15 p.m. MUSIC: Chamber Orchestra (CPA) 8:15 p.m. MAY 4 7 & 9 p.m. Ad|uitedt 5.967.000 8.649.000 10.322.000 7 & 9 p.m. 21 FILM: Last Year at Marienbad (SLC) Room 1 Current ...................... ..................... ...................... ...................... 3:30 p.m. FILM: The Man Who Loved Women (SLC) Room 1 23 Total Per etudent S 2,500,000.000 15,200,000.000 27.100,000.000 38.900.000,000 1949-50 1965-66 1970-71 1974-75 Eitlmited voluntary support Higher Education Prlca Index• 2.659.000 7:30 p.m. 16 25-May 23 2 FILM: Godspell (SLC) Room 101 Consumer Price Index * Source: Council for Financial Aid to Education 26 22-24 1877-75 College and University Fund-Raising Resultsfrom 1950 to 1980 Compared with Trends in Prices, Spending, and Enrollment 7:30 p.m. 27 2 1875-71 Academic Year APRIL MUSIC: Wind Ensemble Concert (CPA) WILKES COLLEGE QUARTERLY 1B51-S2 Initltutlonal eipendRurex CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES: Smithsonian Jazz Ensemble (CPA) 19 28 8:15 p.m. FILM: Young Frankenstein ($.25) (SLC) MUSIC: Chamber Concert (CPA) FILM: Once in Paris (SLC) Room 101 CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES: The Temple Trio (CPA) 21-Apr. 18 18 FILM: Blues Brothers ($.25) (SLC) Room 101 1SSW« 1H9-50 THEATRE: "110° in the Shade" A musical (CPA) 18 ART EXHIBIT: Paintings of Edwin Zoller. Sordoni Art Gallery CONCERT &: LECTURE SERIES: Anthony and Joseph Paratore, Duo Pianists (CPA) 7:30 p.m. 7 & 9 p.m. ■ . MARCH 8 p.m. DECEMBER U FILM: Brubaker ($.25) (CPA) FILM: Citizen Kane (SLC) Room 1 7 & 9 p.m. 20 8 19 21 1 IS!.’00' ART EXHIBIT: Scholastic Art Competition Sordoni Art Gallery 26 28 8:15 p.m. MUSIC: Cap and Bell Singers Gies Recital Hall 6-Jan. 3 8:15 p.m. 12 23 11 6 7:30 p.m. MUSIC: Wind Ensemble Concert (CPA) 13 NOVEMBER 4-6 FILM: (To be announced) (SLC) Room 1 9 S p.m. THEATRE: "The Glass Menagerie" (Admission Charge) (CPA) 1-29 5 7 & 9 p.m. OCTOBER FILM: On the Waterfront (SLC) »UiO FEBRUARY ART EXHIBIT: "An Analysis of a Project" Sordoni Art Gallery 2 (Millions of dollars) ».«»■ ART EXHIBIT: "Invisible Light: Photographs" Sordoni Art Gallery 10-Feb. 7 ART EXHIBIT: "A Range of Contemporary Drawings" — Sordoni Art Gallery SEPTEMBER 27-Oct. 25 Tinie(s) JANUARY AUGUST 30-Sept. 20 Event Date Time(s) UM, 30 Years of Giving to Higher Education ART EXHIBIT: Summer Show Sordoni Art Gallery Note: Since programs and timesare ______-----------z— • you are encouraged subject to change to contact the Wilkes Connection al 826-1135 prior to each event. Hta In keeping with this special issue of the Quarterly and President Capin's Annual Report, I'd like to brief you on one aspect of our Planned Giving Program's progress. A highlight of my first two years in this role has been the discovery that there are so many Wilkes friends who include the College as part of their regular philanthropy. These men and women not only give to our annual fund and contribute to special scholarship, endowment, or building needs. .. they also form the base of a planned gifts network. Among such friends are those who have recently told us that Wilkes is included in their wills, that is, their estate planning. During the past year the College has received several such bequests, from the $500 and $1,000 level up to a charitable remainder trust of an entire estate, which will ultimately come to Wilkes. The Pooled Income Fund is of particular interest to one of our loyal donors who has purchased units in it via several gifts, thereby earning tax advantages, life income for himself and his beneficiary, and supporting this school which means so much to his hometown. I've just described two kinds of estate planning that have given us financial support... life income plans and bequests made under wills. They are the essenti Phi • lan • thro • py (fe-lan-thra-pe) ingredients of this program: the donor makes a planned gift now Io benefit Wilkes later. Some people believe that wills are an unnecessary provision for a far-off inevilability. Not so! Your will is the cornerstone of your estate plan which has two aims: property disposal according to your wishes and protection against lax shrinkage. The friends described above discovered that bequests to Wilkes satisfied both goals. by will, large or small, can be tailored to A bequest fit your circumstances. You may have priorities to take care of before Wilkes becomes a beneficiary. In that case, Wilkes could be named a contingent beneficiary. Remember that a bequest can be made to honor your family name or a teacher or friend who influenced your life. Wilkes' rolls are replete wilh such meaningful memorials: those fine names are a continual tribute and reminder of the people who built and supported this unique educational institution over the past decades. Wilkes is certainly grateful (or its ever-widening cirde of planned giving friends. If you are, or plan to be, a part of that circle, it may be comforting to recall Thoreau's words: "Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind." FALL 1981 15 �THE RHYTHM OF TIME You must build a firm foundation Within you, a State, a Nation, Not let Hope be your constructor, Expect Time to change the structure. You should be a careful workman, If you wish to get fine work done, Giving strength where strength is needed, Hearing words before unheeded. Wilkes College Quarterly Wilkes College Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Time can only work by using Strengths or faults you've been excusing, The foundations you have charted, Or the building you have started. Time moves on with steady rhythm, Causing firmness or indecision, Moving on in strength or weakness, Magnifying each uniqueness. Eleanor Coates Farley NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 355 WILKES-BARRE, PA. Llewellyn W KlWlCirCIrt:® � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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