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The
Spring 2012
The Magazine of Hartwick College
The Art of Science,
The Science of Art
An Essential Conversation with Faculty
Limitless Learning through J Term
Disciplinary Boundaries and Academic DNA
Strength and Artistry through Sport
“Hartwick offers a rigorous education that really prepares
students for life after college. Owen became focused and
passionate about learning here, and he improved as a writer.
We attribute that to the faculty, the program, and the College’s
broad commitment to study.” —Francis Landry P ’06, Hartwick Trustee
“Our children went to three different liberal arts colleges; this is
the one we continue to support.” —Maureen Kilfoyle P ’06
The new Landrey Family J Term Endowment Fund
will help future Hartwick students pursue their
own experiential learning abroad.
Owen Landrey ’06 studied abroad through J Term courses in Ireland,
South Africa, and the Czech Republic.
Hartwick College
Board of Trustees
2011-12
James J. Elting, MD | Chair
Diane Hettinger ’77 | Vice Chair
Betsy Tanner Wright ’79 | Secretary
John K. Milne ’76 | Treasurer
Margaret L. Drugovich, D.M. | President
A. Bruce Anderson ’63
John Bertuzzi
Carol Ann Hamilton Coughlin ’86
Jeanette S. Cureton
Elaine A. DiBrita ’61
Edward B. Droesch ’82
Arnold M. Drogen
Virginia Elwell ’77
Debra Fischer French ’80
Thomas N. Gerhardt ’84
Robert Hanft ’69
Sarah Griffiths Herbert ’88
Kathi Hochberg ’73
Halford Johnson P’86
Paul R. Johnson ’67
William J. Kitson ’86
Francis D. Landrey P’06
Ronald P. Lynch ’87
Erna McReynolds
Nancy M. Morris ’74, H’06
John W. Nachbur ’85
Rory Read ’83
Lisa Schulmeister ’78
Robert Spadaccia ’70
Francis Landrey and Maureen Kilfoyle celebrated the marriage of their son, Owen Landry ’06, to
Sheileen Nicholson ’07 at Camp Chingachgook on Lake George in 2010. The couple met as
co-leaders of Hartwick’s Awakening program.
A history and education major, Owen teaches special education classes at BOCES Glens Falls.
Sheileen, who majored in Art History and minored in Museum Studies, is an Outreach Educator at
the World Awareness Children’s Museum in Glens Falls.
To talk about how you can get more involved at Hartwick, please
contact Vice President for College Advancement Jim Broschart at
607-431-4026 or broschartj@hartwick.edu.
The
Spring 2012 | Volume LIV: No. 3
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
David Conway
MANAGING EDITOR
James Jolly
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Elizabeth Steele
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Christopher Lott, Jennifer Nichols-Stewart
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In this issue:
Inside Cover
For the Future: Trustee Francis
Landry P ’06 and Maureen
Kilfoyle P ’06
2 President’s Perspective:
Think, Talk, Don’t Text
3 Assessment at Hartwick:
Comprehensive and Continuous
4 Biotechnology in Practice:
Promises & Perils
5 College Preview: New Summer
Program is Launched
6 Faculty News: Promotion,
Tenure, Research, and Field
Work
8 Breakthrough: Eroding
Disciplinary Boundaries
10 An Essential Conversation:
The Art of Science, the Science
of Art
18 Expressions: Student
Photography Reflects Work in
Both Art and Science
20 Portrait in Philanthropy:
Henry L. Hulbert, Esq. PM’10
22 Limitless Learning in a Signature
Program: J Term Abroad
30 In the Arts: Theatre Alumni
who Shine
31 A Body in Motion: the Treadwells
on Strength and Motion
32 One for the Books: An
Unforgettable Winter Season
34 Alumni News: MetroLink and
Upcoming Events
35 Class Notes
44 Class of 2007: Take Note
45 In Memorium
48 Flashback: J Term with
Dr. Wendell Frye
Inside Back Cover
Volunteer of Note:
Scott Holdren ’80
On the Cover: Artist Statement | Shaun Kaminoff ’00, Human Question?
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Since I have been doing darkroom photography starting this past fall, I have often thought
about its overlap into both science and the arts. Although these categories exist, I think the
best work is done when one does not confine themselves in any specific field, because it
results in narrow thinking. I recently came across a quote that went something like this: “The
best work in science comes from those who can think freely and creatively; and to be a good
artist one must be able to balance their creativity with some structure.” I find this idea very
important and true, and photography is one of the best examples of the how two subjects that
are in many ways opposite, become integrated and work together. I think the most obvious
intersection of science and art in photography is the basic chemical developing process with
all the specific timing and routines, but for me art and science comes together in a more
conceptual way. There are infinite possibilities in manipulating the image, and in the overall
final presentation, but there are rules and procedures attached to these possibilities that act
as a constant, and keep creativity and procedural ‘scientific’ thinking in balance. Going back
to the quote I used, when that balance is achieved, which I think is very hard, the resulting
form of expression (artistic or scientific) is the most pure
From the President
May I Speak
With You?
There is something powerful in those five words. They hold
promise, something on the edge of our knowing. Something
exciting. When we share our ideas, there is expectation, and
potential—will we create something new together?
When I asked a group of five Hartwick faculty to speak with
me about the art of science and the science of art, I assumed
nothing and expected everything. I was not disappointed.
This was an essential conversation. We spoke of the unity
of art and science. Of cultural change and the temptation to
deconstruct art and craft. Of interpretation (through words
and images) that make our ideas manifest. Of the need to
fathom the fourth dimension of time. Of the essential skill of
deep observation.
We explored the ways in which a liberal arts education allows
Hartwick learners, faculty and students alike, access to these
ideas. We concluded that, in a world begging for learners who
will continue to educate themselves long after their formal
education is over, liberal arts education is not a luxury for the
privileged few. It is actually a necessity for all.
Can we text? Modernity draws us into technology-enhanced
spaces, and texting is the perfect metaphor for an educational
short-cut that cannot deliver. Texting, for all of its currency,
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is much more about limits than it is about potential. The
limits of our ability to type with our thumbs. The limits of
our ability to see. The limits of our patience. The limits of
our imagination. Texting maintains the distance between
us. Texting is not thinking; texting lets us off the intellectual
‘hook.’ Texting will never be the basis of the transformation
that Hartwick students experience during their J Terms.
Dance instructor and assistant cross country coach Elizabeth
Treadwell notes that “mental preparation is the cap of
performance.” I could not agree more. Our mission states
that we will inspire curiosity, creativity, critical thinking and
personal courage. Don’t try texting about these ideas—you
don’t have to be driving for texting to be hazardous to your
intellectual health.
Please think responsibly. And talk, don’t text.
Best,
Campus News
Assessment:
Hartwick’s Operational Buzz
(everyone’s doing it)
Strategy is good, a strategic framework for progress is better. Goals are good,
a roadmap to reach them is better. Vision is good, an organizing principle that
drives all progress is so much better.
Setting the College’s direction, and creating the means to make and
measure progress, was a priority for the President when she arrived
in 2008. It still is. Hartwick College embraces an organizational
commitment to quality, with a shared focus on the student experience.
Every investment or reallocation of resources is made in alignment
with the Organizing Principle and Strategic Framework (OP&SF). A
clear and concise vision statement stands at its core: “We will be the
best at melding a liberal arts with experiential learning.” That straightforward proposition sets the agenda for our work together, and begs
for an evaluation of whether and where we are making progress. The
College has set measureable goals, a shared ruler for success, in every key
dimension of our work together.
Assuring a quality outcome, whether in student learning or institutional
effectiveness, is an ongoing process. Our second Annual Assessment
Forum in March focused on the measurable effectiveness of our work.
The two hour presentation by faculty, staff, and students helped us, as a
community, to gauge our success to date in setting goals that align with
our mission, defining measurable outcomes, assessing our work, and
adjusting what we do to assure that outcomes improve. From the work
of the Board to the learning of Hartwick students, ours is an endless
cycle of improvement.
We have made measureable progress. New technologies in the
classrooms, improved facilities, enhanced services for first year students,
and effective marketing to make the strengths of Hartwick College
more accessible to students around the world. The result? The hiring
and retention of talented and engaging faculty and staff, improved
student learning outcomes, a far more robust student applicant pool,
and students who are well prepared for the challenge of a Hartwick
education.
Sound fiscal management, strong leadership, collaborative and
committed faculty and staff, and strategic investments by College donors
combine to strengthen the foundation of Hartwick College. Assessment
continues, and with it our assumptions are tested, goals are met and
reevaluated, and progress is measured.
The work continues.
Assessing institutional effectiveness
1. Align divisional and departmental missions with the
College mission
2. Identify organizational goals to be addressed within
each division
3. Establish measurement metrics
4. Assess progress
5. Adjust tactics to improve outcomes
Webextra | www.hartwick.edu/organizingprinciple
Spring 2012 | The Wick | 3
Biotechnology in Practice:
Promises & Perils A Hartwick College Symposium
The theatre in Anderson Center for the Arts was packed and not for a performance. Students, faculty, staff, and guests from the
community had gathered to hear firsthand the experiences and insights of experts in the field of biotechnology, a field that Biology
Professor Stan Sessions calls, “The wave of our future.”
Alumni and parents on the cutting edge—researchers, educators, and entrepreneurs—brought their varied perspectives to bear in
panel discussions on topics ranging from the future of biotechnology to the ethical issues.
“Biotechnology, like many other sciences,
has advanced through a small number
of what I call discontinuous advances.
Major discoveries … would never have
been fully realized if it were not for a
series of smaller advances, innovations,
and inventions that supported them.
… How important it is, once you have
a seminal discovery, to pull in the other
sciences and see what can be done. It was
really chemistry, engineering, biology,
medicine, even communication, that
made a major difference in how these
advances were realized.”
Kathy Ordoñez ’72, H’00
Keynote address, “Practical Applications of
Biotechnology Innovations”
Symposium Panelists:
Burton Zweigenhaft P’13 (event sponsor)
CEO, Oncomed and BioPharma Partners;
manages strategic health markets services
for pharmaceutical, biotech, genomic, and
managed health sectors.
Burton W. Wilcke, Jr. ’69, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Department
of Medical Laboratory and Radiation
Sciences, University of Vermont; clinical
and health sciences.
Gary Vellekamp ’73, Ph.D.
Fellow, BioProcess Development, Merck
Research Laboratories; global joint projects,
purification and evaluation of products for
quality, new analytical techniques, product
development.
Applications of the polymerase chain reaction
(PCR), what Ordoñez calls “truly a major,
radical innovation,” include:
Molecular biology research; drug discovery and
development
Carrier screening, in particular cystic fibrosis
Identity testing (The Innocence Project)
Paternity testing (child support and welfare
cases)
Forensic testing and analysis
Environmental applications (how Legionnaire’s
Disease was detected)
Ordoñez Senior Vice President, Discovery and
Development, Quest Diagnostics will deliver
the Hartwick College Commencement
address on May 26, 2012.
The human genome project … “We used to call
this, in our company, the 100 million dollar
experiment.”
Medical, such as viral testing and combination
therapies for HIV/AIDS
Robert Siegler ’78, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Pharmaceutical
Development, Lantheus Medical Imaging;
strategic planning, quality management,
and new product development, Pet
Radiopharmaceuticals.
Kathy Ordoñez ’72 (keynote)
Senior Vice President, Discovery and
Development, Quest Diagnostics; President,
Celera Diagnostics; manages innovation
pipeline and cycle time to introduce new
technologies.
Salvatore Salamone P’12, Ph.D.
CEO, Saladax, Inc.; health care and
medical device industries, personalized
medicine pharmacodiagnostics, dose
management for improved therapeutic
efficacy, and drug monitoring.
Louise Hecker ’00, Ph.D.
Instructor of Medicine, Division of
Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care
Medicine, University of Alabama at
Birmingham; CEO, Regenerative Solutions
LLC.
James A. Hayward P’13, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Chair, CEO and President, Applied
DNA Sciences; entrepreneur; expert
in biotechnology, pharmaceutical,
life sciences, and consumer products
industries.
A College Preview:
Hartwick’s Newest
Summer Program Engages
High School Students
Hartwick’s Summer College for High School
Students is a brand new opportunity for young
people to get a head start on their academic career
and earn credits transferable to most colleges. In the
process, they will pocket some invaluable experience
at a college characterized by close student-faculty
interaction, advanced study, and experiential
learning.
Participants will study animation and video, pursue their acting passion, develop
their creative writing or scientific research skills, or learn programming. Outside
the classroom, they will live in a College residence hall, join campus events,
participate in recreational activities at Hartwick’s Pine Lake Environmental
Campus, and enjoy supervised, off-campus excursions.
The Summer College for High School Students is a three week program—July
7 to 27— for students between the ages of 16 and 18. The fee is $3,800, all
inclusive, or $2,800 for commuter students. Small classes are assured and space
is limited.
“Hartwick’s Summer College program is meeting a need for high-quality
summer educational opportunities for high school students,” says President
Margaret L. Drugovich. “Accepted students will have access to the best of what
Hartwick has to offer—in-depth learning with the guidance of Hartwick faculty
who are experts in their field. These courses are ideal for high school students
who want to challenge themselves intellectually and broaden the base of their
understanding, experience, and skill.”
Hartwick is a hub of activity throughout the year. Sport camps, classes,
programs, and special events take advantage of this gorgeous campus
in the summer months. Highlights include: Boys’ Basketball Camp,
Competitive Swimming & Diving Camps, Boys’ & Girls’ Soccer Camp,
Girls’ Field Hockey Camp, Hartwick College Summer Music Festival
and camp, SOAR (Start Out Academics Right) and New Student
Orientation for accepted students, a Little Delaware Youth Ensemble
concert, The Yager Museum for Art & Culture exhibitions, and Pine
Lake Summer Courses.
Summer College high school students will learn from
Hartwick faculty and earn three college credits for
successfully completing a course.
Introduction to Animation & Video [ART 250] —
learn the core concepts for creating various styles of
animation and shooting video; explore the creative
use of “time” in this digital media course.
Introduction to Creative Writing [ENGL 213] —
write every day while exploring topics in poetry and
fiction, covering several genres and forms; create a
personal portfolio.
Learning to Program Using Alice [CISC 150] —
use 3D animations and games to learn the
fundamentals of programming; create an e-greeting, a
music video, and an animated game.
Topics in Biology: Research in Biology [BIOL
150] — learn to find, understand, and communicate
scientific information, construct and test hypotheses,
and make connections between science and society.
Acting I [THEA 150] — working as part of an
ensemble, learn acting skills such as creative risk
taking, character building, improvisation, and
audition and performance techniques.
Webextra | www.hartwick.edu/summercollege
For more information about Hartwick College’s Summer
College for High School Students, including course
descriptions and admission requirements, e-mail
summercollege@hartwick.edu, or call 607-431-4102.
Faculty News
Career Milestones | Promotion and Tenure
At Hartwick, professors are at the top of their careers and are widely
recognized as leaders in their field. They have made a positive impact on
their profession, on the College, and on the lives of hundreds of students.
commitment to their discipline, and a dedication to working with the
College’s students. Tenured faculty members are particularly significant
because they represent the future of Hartwick’s academic programs.
Hartwick’s assistant professors who are granted tenure—and
automatically promoted to associate professor—display an outstanding
The following faculty members have been granted tenure and promotion,
effective with the 2012–13 academic year.
“More than at any time before, the newly tenured faculty member
becomes mutually responsible for the success of the college
and its well-being,” says Hartwick College President Margaret L.
Drugovich. “So begins a 20- or 30- or 40-year commitment as
the faculty member becomes a truly invested shareholder of the
College’s future.”
Faculty promoted to professor “have demonstrated that our
confidence in them, when we chose to invite them to Hartwick,”
Drugovich says. “By promoting them we signal that they have
lived up to our high standards for quality, and that we place our
continued trust with them to assure that Hartwick remains strong,
and becomes even stronger.”
Granted Tenure (2012–13)
Granted Promotion (2012–13)
Associate Professor of Mathematics Min Chung began teaching at
Hartwick in 2004, including such courses as Statistics, Introduction to
Abstraction, and Multivariable Calculus. His areas of expertise include
wavelets, Fourier Transform Theory, digital image processing, histogram
equalization, and reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and Riesz bases.
Prior to Hartwick, Chung taught at Indiana University and was a
research assistant at Kyunghee University in Seoul, Korea. He holds a
B.S. and a M.S. from Kyunghee University and a Ph.D. from Indiana
University.
Professor of Nursing Penny Boyer has been teaching at Hartwick
since 1995. A registered professional nurse, she holds a Ph.D. from
Binghamton University. Her areas of focus include adult medicalsurgical nursing, adult and childhood obesity, and trans-cultural nursing.
She co-led the 2012 Transcultural Nursing: Jamaica J Term program.
Johanna Mitchell, Associate Professor of Education, came to Hartwick
in 2008. Her areas of specialization include Elementary Education
methods in math, science, language arts and social studies, policy
analysis, and the history of education. Among the courses she teaches
at Hartwick are Educational Psychology and Methods of Elementary
Education I and II. An experienced elementary school teacher, Mitchell
has also taught at Montana State University and the University of Utah.
She earned a B.A. from the University of Guam and an M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of Utah.
Associate Professor of Physics Parker Troischt joined the Hartwick
faculty in 2006. The classes he teaches include General Astronomy
and Classical Mechanics. He is also the Hartwick project leader for
ALFALFA, a consortium of 18 colleges working with students to
research galaxies using the giant Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Before Hartwick, Troischt taught at SUNY-Buffalo and North Carolina
State University. He also was a researcher at the Canadian Institute for
Theoretical Astrophysics. Troischt holds an M.S. from Michigan State
University and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Allen Crooker, Professor of Biology, came to Hartwick in 1994. A
former research scientist for Procter & Gamble, Crooker previously
taught at the University of Washington Medical School, and he
holds a Ph.D. from Washington State University. His expertise is in
entomology, pathology, and neurobiology. Most recently, Crooker led a
biology class to Madagascar for J Term 2012.
Professor of History Cherilyn Lacy joined the Hartwick faculty in
1998. Her areas of specialization include Modern European history,
French history, women’s history, and the history of medicine. Lacy holds
a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She was one of two faculty
members to help design Hartwick’s acclaimed Three-Year Bachelor’s
Degree Program.
Mieko Nishida, Professor of History, arrived on Hartwick’s campus
in 2004. She specializes in Latin American and Brazil studies, and
social history. Nishida holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University
and previously taught at the University of Virginia and the University
of Maryland. She is currently on sabbatical and was awarded a National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to conduct advanced study
at the National Humanities Center in Durham, N.C.
Clark Foundation Funds
Nursing Technology
A $250,000 grant from the Clark Foundation is putting Hartwick College
on the leading edge of nursing education with the purchase of state-of-the-art
patient simulators. The lifelike maternal, newborn, and adult simulators have
pulses, bowel and heart sounds, can speak, and are programmable.
“Simulation technology like this enables our students to keep up with a wide
range of skills so we can ensure that they are much better prepared for the
realities of the healthcare field,” explained Professor of Nursing and Department
Chair Jeanne-Marie Havener.
“It was a little bit crazy,” Professor of English Thomas Travisano
laughs, reflecting on 2011. The leading scholar and co-founder
of the Elizabeth Bishop Society spent the centennial of the poet’s
birth traveling to conferences and symposia from Nova Scotia to
Brazil, leading panels from The American Literature Association
to NYU, and researching a forthcoming biography. Travisano also
completed work editing The New Anthology of American Poetry,
volume 3: Postmodernisms and Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st
Century: Reading the New Editions, both of which are being issued
this spring.
The grant will also be used to acquire the latest lecture capture and electronic
health records systems. This new technology will enhance the nursing
department’s ability to offer flexible learning options, meet the needs of
students in multiple locations, collaborate on the delivery of instruction to
pre-service nursing students, and offer continued training to nurses practicing
throughout the region.
The Clark Foundation, founded in 1931, is one of the largest charitable
foundations in the United States. Under the leadership and guidance of
President Jane Forbes Clark, the Foundation supports nonprofit organizations,
institutions, and programs in New York City and Cooperstown, New York.
Update From the
World’s Largest
Telescope
Recently, Hartwick physics majors
Catherine Weigel ’12 and Nathan Nichols
’14 accompanied associate professor Dr.
Parker Troischt to the National Astronomy
and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) in Arecibo,
Puerto Rico in order to participate in the
2012 Undergraduate ALFALFA Workshop.
Both students presented results of work
they completed last summer at Hartwick
in collaboration with Troischt and Jaclyn
Patterson ’13. The NAIC is used to observe
everything from distant galaxies and pulsars
hundreds of millions of light years away, to
phenomena in this ionosphere that can help
with studies of the Earth’s climate. Troischt
and his students also have been using the
giant radio telescope remotely from confines
of the Johnstone Science Center on Oyaron
Hill.
Breakthrough
Eroding Disciplinary Boundaries:
Is it in our
Academic DNA?
By Michael G. Tannenbaum P’14, Ph.D.
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
I didn’t know how to respond, so I just walked away. I was a
biology major midway through my junior year of college. My
father, a secondary science teacher and high school principal, had
just asserted that biology was not suitable for undergraduate study
because, as a mere “branch” of chemistry and physics, it was worthy
only of specialized graduate study. Moreover, he had declared that
to understand biology well, I should drop my plans to focus on
animal behavior, and learn all I could about DNA. I recall leaving
the room at that moment, muttering something about the older
generation being too constrained by the reductionist approach.
Little did I know; especially the part about DNA. Half a lifetime later, I
think I understand his point, though it’s now too late to tell him. After
nearly 35 years of teaching college biology; reviewing and revising
biology curricula; consulting on course design, student learning
outcomes, and undergraduate research; and embracing not only the
other natural sciences as a science dean, but the entire spectrum of the
liberal arts as Hartwick’s provost and vice president for academic affairs,
I realize what Dad was really trying to say: you cannot isolate biology—
or any other discipline—and claim to know that discipline fully. Even in
those cases where the reductionist approach doesn’t result in disciplines
neatly nested within one another, true knowledge, and the power to use
that knowledge to address real-world issues, derives from our ability to
think critically in ways that transcend disciplinary boundaries.
My colleague Jill Schneiderman, a geologist at Vassar College, once
described disciplinary boundaries as “places of danger” in which some
scientists do not wish to linger, and where others become “invigorated
as they operate in unfamiliar terrain.” I agree that we need to habituate
undergraduates to studying and working across disciplinary boundaries;
doing so is the only approach that will be effective in solving most
applied or “public interest” scientific problems. Certainly this is the case
for environmental study, which typically extends beyond the natural
sciences to embrace the social sciences.
Over the past 10 to 15 years, disciplinary boundaries have been
blurring among the natural sciences. Academic departments at many
research universities, and at a smattering of primarily undergraduate
institutions, now bridge the gaps between biology and chemistry,
biology and physics, and other pairs (and even triplets) of the natural
sciences. There are even departments of chemical biology, unheard of (at
least in the U.S.) less than a generation ago.
Perhaps this signals a maturation of attitudes coupled with, or
characterized by, an erosion of territoriality. Perhaps it is a response
to shrinking funding and the need for the scientific enterprise within
higher education to become more efficient (we certainly have seen a
spike in the funding priorities espoused by both public and private
foundations being shifted to interdisciplinary projects). Or perhaps it
is a function of the tremendous advances in technology, and especially
Illustrating the evidence of DNA—three generations of Tannenbaum men at age 20:
(center) Provost Tannenbaum as a student at Cornell University; (left) his father Mort
who served in the U.S. Navy; (right) his son Evan’14 on J Term in England this year.
in biotechnology, we have seen since the mid-1980s. Whatever the
reasons—and despite the resistance that will inevitably occur—I don’t
think it will be too long before natural science departments at many
small liberal arts colleges, like Hartwick, will experience “mergers and
acquisitions” and evolve into unified science departments. Students will
choose interdisciplinary majors—public health, energy science, integrated
science, and water studies, among others—designed to teach them how to
ask and answer questions that arise not only from their own curiosity, but
also from the world around them. I assert that this will be the best way to
prepare those students interested in the natural sciences for a future that
is likely to be increasingly dominated by technology and, especially in the
health arena, biotechnology.
And how do we best prepare those students who choose to major in the
arts, humanities, or social sciences for the same future? I am convinced that
the interdisciplinary approach is the best way for all students to learn about
the natural world, especially a rapidly changing natural world that is poised
for even more change as human populations continue to grow, species
continue to go extinct, fossil fuels become more scarce, the climate warms,
and the risks of food and fresh water shortages rise. The natural sciences
must be taught together and in context in order for our graduates to make
informed choices about these and so many other issues, including their
own health care.
For more than 20 years, the Hartwick community has selected an annual
campus theme of inquiry (e.g., Globalization, Water Works, Food in Our
Lives. and Energy) as a co-curricular mechanism to explore disciplinary
boundaries. I want to see courses develop out of these and other themes,
taught across the boundaries of the natural and social sciences, the arts,
and the humanities.
The extraordinary promises and potential perils of biotechnology were
presented to the Hartwick community at a Fall 2011 Symposium
featuring alumni and parent scientists, educators, researchers, and biotech entrepreneurs (see page 4). The complex issues they presented
clearly outline our responsibility to ensure that all students sufficiently
understand DNA, its cousin molecules, and its inextricable involvement
in virtually every aspect of life so that they may participate intelligently in
critical decisions affecting their own lives and those of others.
The best way to start students on the road to such deep and complex
understanding cannot be left solely to the biologists, or the chemists, or
any single disciplinary group. Instead, as educators, we must accompany
our students into the unfamiliar terrain embodied by disciplinary
boundaries, however uncomfortable we, or they, are in doing so. It is in
these boundary zones that we have the most to learn, where the greatest
strides will be made, and the most complex questions answered, whether
our initial passions lie within a single sub-discipline—such as animal
behavior—or not. n
Commentary
Study the science of art. Study the art of science.
Develop your senses—especially learn how to see.
Realize that everything connects to everything else.
—Leonardo da Vinci
An Essential
Conversation
Inspired by the “Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci” exhibition
at Hartwick’s Yager Museum of Art & Culture,
President Drugovich convenes five faculty to consider
The Art of Science,
The Science of Art
Margaret Drugovich: If you think
about bringing art and design and the
aspirations of humanity together with
the principles of science, I think you have
an opportunity to create something new
and very important. It’s inspirational. It’s
transformational. It’s this convergence
of art and science that makes it obvious
that the liberal arts is a very sustainable
approach to learning.
“The liberal arts is a
privilege. I’m trying to
draw attention to the
complexities of this.”
—Dr. Mary Allen
of what I do, or that my students do, is
finding ways to tell stories. Every time
we’re talking about a topic, we’re telling
or illustrating a story. It’s scientific
illustration, or the ability to show
information pictorially or in a graph or
a table. There is an art to making the
graph something you can understand
independent of a person there to explain
it to you. To me, [science and art] are
functionally inseparable.
Jason Antrosio
Stephanie Rozene, Min Chung
Jason Antrosio: There was an original unity of art and science. In
part, this is all about getting us back to ideas from da Vinci’s time when,
in fact, there was no separation between art and science and craft. That’s
one of the things I’ve been most excited to explore and try and do in my
classroom.
MLD: There’s an idea here about creating a portal to understanding
which certainly is in the performance arts, particularly in the graphic arts
and the material arts that you work with, Stephanie.
Mary Allen: I resonate with Jason and think in terms of history. At
one time, everything had to be drawn. Everything that was observed was
preserved in these phenomenal journals that people drew. If you look
back at the origin of microscopes, our first visions of microorganisms
were drawn. We have those documents still. No one else had the capacity
to view [the microorganisms]. They didn’t have microscopes themselves.
They couldn’t see it [without the drawings].
MLD: You are hinting at a third dimension and that is interpretation.
MA: Right. You need interpretation of science through art. So much
Stephanie Rozene: Creativity is really bound up in this idea that links
the sciences and the art. Mary’s students have to come up with creative
problem-solving solutions to form an idea and find the answer. My
students have to be creative in a similar way. I’ll give them problems to
solve with a different material than they’re used to. And those skills take
practice in the same way that learning how to do statistics takes practice.
The fact that we have all of these disciplines in one institution where
students can make those connections is so important for me in particular.
I teach a course called Raw Materials and that is the science of clay. Half
of my students are geology and chemistry majors and half of my students
are ceramics majors. We’re breaking down clay into molecules and talking
about sheet silicates and looking at the ways in which we can use math and
science to alter a glaze to do what we want it to do.
only for the mathematician. The [artists] showed how we understand the
world more effectively. There is perfect mathematical structure.
By separating the arts from the sciences or technology from art, I think we
are doing ourselves such a disservice as a culture. They rely on each other.
MLD: You can see that in the da Vinci exhibit here in the Yager Museum.
I think about the mathematics that would have been involved in some of
da Vinci’s calculations. You also noted something else very important
and that is the idea of practice and mastery; you must see that with your
mathematics students, Min.
This next picture is a Picasso, the famous picture, the Weeping Woman.
He wanted to study about, he wanted to know about, the fourth
dimension. We are living in three dimensions; the fourth dimension does
not exist, but people want to make a fourth dimension. I don’t understand
that kind of fourth dimension even if I’m the mathematician. This picture
gives me some sense. This picture shows we can see the left ear but still
we can see the right ear and still see the left eye so we right now see the
three dimension thing in a two dimension picture. That is Picasso’s
Mary Allen, Jason Antrosio
Margaret L. Drugovich
Min Chung: During J term I taught a
junior seminar about geometry. We start
from just a point and a line. For 2,000 years,
people believed that when we have a line and
point not on L there is only one parallel line.
And for 2,000 years, people tried to make
the system perfect. Then they invent newer
[ideas]; there are now infinitely many parallel
lines. The question is: how do we visualize
that kind of thing? In mathematics, we use
graphs to understand.
And this picture is drawn by the Dutch
graphic artist Escher. If you look at this
graph there are many birds but basically
there is art. There are lines in his work.
Maybe this kind of new geometry is not
“It’s this convergence
of art and science
that makes it obvious that
the liberal arts is a very
sustainable approach
to learning.”
—Dr. Margaret L. Drugovich
understanding about the fourth dimension
in a three dimension world.
The artist Magritte was very interested in
the physics idea. This picture is based on
Einstein’s Principle of Relativity. If we move
at the speed of light, then length and width
have no meaning. We can see the face and
the back of the head at the same time. Inside
the application and imagination. I believe
that the main source of science is endless
curiosity.
Jason Curley: Pythagoras is the hero of
all music. He set the baseline for everything
in terms of the ratio, the Pythagorean
comma.
“I teach a course called Raw Materials and that is the science of clay.
By separating the arts from the sciences or technology from art,
I think we are doing ourselves such a disservice as a culture.
They rely on each other.”
—Professor Stephanie Rozene
We are constantly looking back at mathematicians and engineers to
develop the baseline for music and this fundamental language that
we have that is all explained in math, every bit of it. On top of that,
composers use polyrhythms which require a lot of rations and time
and space over the measure of music that we’re using. We could devise
a measure of music in a million different ways, but what works most
naturally is what sounds most beautiful to the ear. So we’re always
MLD: Let me ask you about technology. Min, in trying to communicate
to us about the idea of the third and the fourth dimension, you used your
laptop as opposed to drawing the picture. You brought your laptop today
because you have some ideas that you want to be able to reference readily.
I assume that your students do this as well. Can you each comment on, is
technology a tool, is it a hindrance to creativity, does it enhance creativity
in each of your disciplines?
Margaret L. Drugovich, Jason Curley
Stephanie Rozene
looking for the most complex and then we have to make sure we’re getting
the bigger picture and that the music sounds beautifully in the most
natural state as possible. It almost always comes down to finite math.
MC: I think it is in a positive way. In my research I study about the digital
image and then how to change this kind of thing, convert to numbers and
how to improve the picture like that.
MLD: I wonder, Jason, how often do you step back from the students’
actual performance and ask them to think about the environment in
which they are performing and its impact on the sound?
One similarity between a mathematician and an artist is that we never
stop. We like to change things. We want to invent and develop new ideas.
If that means money, we don’t care. In mathematics, the theory itself has a
meaning, it has a beauty.
JC: Most music is inspired culturally. We are always looking back at the
language of our craft. We still play music from hundreds of years ago
because it has new purpose today. It’s not just because we want to have
it live historically; we want to relive it every time in a new generation and
that’s what makes it so beautiful. Sometimes you just have to put the
instrument down and take a breath and go, ‘Ahhhh, this is still beautiful
music and I can still do this.’ They did it 300 years ago.
SR: My hands are my best tool. The computer is just yet another tool
which I think is certainly at the forefront of contemporary art making.
Within my discipline computers [run] programs that run kilns. Another
way: to shed my slide collection and move to digital images [to] teach
from. That’s huge!
“When we take students for this very,
in fact, very privileged time with them, how can we best
make them aware of this world and contribute to it and develop
these new techniques so that we can all move forward?”
—Dr. Jason Antrosio
MLD: Let me challenge you. We all grew up with crayons and there isn’t
a child now in school who won’t have learned how to draw on a tablet. Is
there a loss there?
across the liberal arts tradition—when and how and where to use a tool.
SR: I work in a very traditional medium. I believe that you still need to
master those traditional tools and skills as well as this digital technology
and find some way to marry them. I would hate to see a loss of the skill
SR: There is always tension between technology and the arts. Look at the
industrial revolution and what that brought. If we look back at the history
of ceramics, the idea of making a bowl; that was a technology; it was for
a purpose to eat out of or to store. So many disciplines of art actually
originated as technologies.
Mary Allen, Jason Antrosio
Stephanie Rozene, Min Chung
of the ability to draw. I hope that this maintains itself in art curriculums
and certainly liberal arts curriculums. You will run across any number of
students who say, ‘I can’t draw.’ Well, it’s practice.
MLD: The variable speed drive that da Vinci designed so many years ago
is a good example. There is a certain efficiency that comes with this type
of creativity. Should we mourn the potential loss of these more tactile
things like drawing with a crayon versus designing on a tablet from a
science point of view?
JC: It’s the same risk of not doing cursive in elementary school anymore.
It’s about applying yourself, your connectivity, your body to creating
something versus a mouse that will draw it for you and generate it for you.
JA: There is a risk here, and it gets back to something that Mary started
us off with about the skill of drawing and that you couldn’t be a person of
science without some sense of that skill.
I do think it is important to return to that notion of skill, and in skill
practice. I’m not an anti-technologist, I have one of those buttons and
thumbs tools, but I think that we do need to keep concentrating on the
human skills. … That’s something that we can cultivate at Hartwick
MA: I think there’s a lost art of observation. Darwin spent hours and
hours and hours at the barnacles and he learned an enormous amount
by watching them so he could draw them so he could describe them to
people who didn’t have the advantage of being able to call an image up on
a computer. Whatever he described was the only way they were ever going
to see it. That was the only way to communicate the science.
I think to some extent, that’s what I fear we’ve lost: the patience of
observation. Technology makes it possible for things to happen so
“It’s about applying yourself, your connectivity,
your body to creating something.”
—Dr. Jason Curley
quickly that we’ve discounted the value of time to mull over. The pressure
to turn things out faster is there.
JA: I keep thinking of the sound of a Stradivarius from 300 years
ago; it still sounds stellar and is insured for tens of millions of dollars.
Even though we had the industrial era, nothing compares to the sound
quality because of the craft of the people creating it. That entire family
of Stradivarius and Amati built bows and violins and taught their sons
and taught their daughters. They all made them the same way with the
same type of hands, which are actually very beautiful if you think about
it, these human beings, the same bone structure crafted over time these
instruments and their discipline is still long lived and celebrated today,
and nothing compares.
SR: If we practice over and over again regardless of the discipline that’s
where you can really start to have some insight. That’s something that
really interests me about the way in which Hartwick functions and
operates; we have the ability to instill those kinds of ideas, we’re not just
pumping students through to get the degree to go on to do something
else. They’re here for a period of four years and we can really immerse
them in these ideas and hopefully instill this idea of practice so that they
can really start to answer or ask the right questions.
JA: The liberal arts is a privilege. I’m trying to draw attention to the
complexities of this. When we take students for this very, in fact, very
privileged time with them, how can we best make them aware of this
world and contribute to it and develop these new techniques so that we
can all move forward?
MA: Do you think that’s the strength of a liberal arts education? I would
hope that my students would take away that there are not firm lines
drawn, that there are nuances. It’s not enough to know the science; it’s
meaningless if you can’t reach the population that you’re trying to reach.
I want my students to understand all sorts of complex associations that I
can’t teach them, that are beyond my training.
JC: I think the best insight we have is that we have so many collaborations
between our students and faculty. I’m working with a student right now
on the physics of music; he’s a physics and music major. He’s asking all
the right questions, questions I never would have come up with. What
we’re looking for is to try to make discoveries together. I think yes, it’s
absolutely a privilege and I hope they can look back on that and support
the rest of the students that will come for generations.
MLD: The contexts that we’ve been talking about today—history,
culture, science, technology, art—make me feel as though we must
continue with this type of learning if we want to progress as a society. Is
this a luxury? Is it a privilege and a luxury? Is it a privilege and a necessity?
SR: I really think [the liberal arts] is a necessity. Being a practicing
artist is not just about throwing pots on a wheel. It’s about my broader
place in the culture, which for me has to do with sciences on the basis of
engineering my clay to getting my glazes to melt at the right temperature,
using the right colors. There is a science behind what I’m actually doing
but then it’s also culturally based. My work is using history and the 18th
century French porcelain as a vehicle to talk about contemporary politics
and the economy. I don’t think that artists today or throughout history
“I believe that the main source of science is endless curiosity.”
—Dr. Min Chung
could separate themselves from any of the things that make up our world.
I don’t just make art to make pretty things; I make things that are going
to live and speak about our culture. I would argue that one of the most
valuable things an artist can do is to reflect on culture and society; that
will leave clues for our future anthropologists.
MA: I think it’s necessary to understand in a sort of historical context.
I really think we are not educating [students] completely; we are preparing
them to continue to educate themselves. They’re going to need to
continue to educate themselves. The political sphere will change. The
global community will change. New opportunities will arise for them. You
have to consider the perspectives of a lot of other people who come with a
lot of other experiences and expertise; you really want to be able to rely on
that. We all have to be able to view issues from multiple perspectives.
JA: If we are to bring our human life into balance in front of issues that
are facing us, or to think about 500 years ago or 500 years hence, this
is exactly the time to do it and this is exactly the way to prepare people
to make that kind of contribution in the world. We have to take as much
responsibility as we can to do our best. Make it right.
MLD: This is an essential conversation and I’m really grateful that you all
came together and wanted to spend this time. Thank you. n
Webextra | www.youtube.com/hartwickcollege
Note: This transcription of their Essential Conversation has been condensed for publication.
Margaret L. Drugovich, D.M., President
Min Chung, Ph.D.
Research interests: transformational leadership and consensus-making
structures in higher education
National speaker on innovation in education (including the threeyear program), institutional planning, and the impact of leadership
approaches on organizational change
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Research interests: Theory of Wavelets, Fourier Transform Theory,
Digital Image Processing and De-noising
Areas of focus: wavelets, Fourier Transform Theory, digital image
processing, histogram equalization, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
and Riesz bases
Mary Allen, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Biology Department Chair
Primary research interest: the community ecology of microorganisms
Areas of focus: microbiology, microbial ecology
Past recipient: Margaret Brigham Bunn Award for Outstanding Teaching
and Hartwick Teacher-Scholar Award
Jason Curley, D.M.A.
Jason Antrosio, Ph.D.
Stephanie Rozene, M.F.A.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar (2010)
Areas of focus: Latin America, consumption and development programs,
peasant production, globalization
Web editor: http://anthropologyreport.com/
Author: www.LivingAnthropologically.com
Assistant Professor of Studio Art
Head of Ceramics at Hartwick
Focus: the conceptual nature of functional utilitarian ceramics; using
ornament as a visual language
Current recipient: Winfred D. Wandersee Scholar-in-Residence Award
Assistant Professor of Music
Director of Instrumental Music
Director of the Hartwick Summer Music Festival; instructor in horn and
conducting
Professional conductor and performer (freelance)
Photography: The Quintessenial
Model Affair Between Art and Science
The late photographer Ansel Adams
achieved fame as much for his
enhancements in the darkroom as for
his oversized and documentary-style
landscapes of the American West. He
pulled back from what the eye sees as
color, building layers of black and white
and shades between until his science
made a new form of art all its own. The
work of Adams, and so many great
photographers, is beautiful as much for
what it creates as what it captures.
Nevin Price-Meader ’00 | untitled photo | Best in Show
Lighting, aperture, shutter speed, focal length,
angle, meters, format, electrical charge.
Photography is science.
Inquiry, artistry, vision, concept, color, timing, reflection.
From the Greek, “drawing with light.”
Photography is art.
Chemistry, latent image, negatives, positives, sensors,
digitize, contrast, computer science.
Photography is art and science.
A purest might say that nothing
can compare to the development of
a photograph in the darkroom. The
creative process comes to life through
the transference of an image from a
negative on to paper and then from
paper to developer, fixer, and stop.
The delicate dance of creativeness and
scientific depth is made richer by the
pure nature of the process.
In contrast, the science of digital
technology is feeding a new art form.
Built on the past while opening new
avenues for creation and expression,
camera and computer continue to push
the boundaries. To varying degrees,
everyone with the equipment (the
science) now has the ability to create,
edit, and print their work.
Alyssa Pearson ’00, untitled
Honorable Mention
Hartwick students continue the advances
and contribute to the debate. Pine Lake’s
Environmental Campus, with its peaceful
and unspoiled beauty, is a prime domain
for photography. For the past eight years,
students have entered their work in both
fall and spring photography contests
sponsored by Pine Lake. This fall’s
winners who were invited to depict the
campus theme “The Human Question,”
and showcased here, represent well both
the art and science of the medium, the
magnificence of the place, and the deep
inquiry typical of Hartwick College.
Caitlin Rejman ’00 | Reflection 2
Second Prize
Generosity
Portrait in Philanthropy:
Henry L. Hulbert, Esq. PM’10
Attorney. Businessman. Family man. Confidante. Friend. Henry L. Hulbert changed the
world around him, and made his mark as an investor—in people.
By Elizabeth Steele | Elizabeth Steele is a professional writer and the partner of President Margaret L. Drugovich.
“By honoring the wishes of those
great members of our community
who came before him, Henry
himself became a force that
shaped the future of our children,
our institutions, and, in turn, the
future of this city.”
Community leaders of the past have lived on through the work
of their trusted ambassador, Henry L. Hulbert. A trustee or
managing trustee of numerous charitable foundations, Henry
worked to assure that good works continued, organizations were
strengthened, and generations of individual lives were changed
through philanthropy.
—President Margaret L. Drugovich
Henry’s work was that of assuring that promises were kept and that priorities were
honored. He helped others to establish philanthropic trusts, provided valued advice
on giving, and personally made certain that philanthropic priorities were realized.
For decades he assured that the intentions of philanthropists to support Hartwick
were realized.
Throughout: A few of the comments made during the
memorial service honoring the life of Henry Hulbert. The
Hartwick community proudly hosted the gathering.
Below: “The Wall,” was painted with words of thanks
and remembrance soon after news of Henry Hulbert’s
passing spread across campus.
Hartwick was honored to host family, friends, and colleagues in the Anderson
Theater on March 12, 2012 to remember him and celebrate his life of service.
He was easy to like, and admire. Intelligent and well read, he was always interesting
company. Thoughtful and serious, he was driven by a sense of responsibility to
others. He was kind. The combination made the man a force of good for Hartwick, its
students, and community.
Just hearing the name Henry Hulbert evokes a smile, said the Rev. Dr. Cynthia L.
Walton-Leavitt at the service; all who knew him or benefitted from his foresight can
smile in agreement. n
“Everyone liked Henry. He was a solid
friend, generous, always supportive, and
never critical.... I really think Henry
recharged his batteries every time he
helped someone.” —Geoff Smith, longtime friend
“Henry Hulbert was an educated man who embraced the transformational
power of education and then made that education possible for others.
He believed in the importance of good work made possible by philanthropy.
He completely understood the role of legacy. He was an uncommon man.”
—President Margaret L. Drugovich
Credentials of
A Community Leader
Hartwick College Trustee
(1986–2003)
Hartwick College Trustee Emeritus,
(2005–2012)
Hartwick College Citizen’s Board
Managing Trustee, Riley J. and
Lillian N. Warren and Beatrice W.
Blanding Foundation
Managing Trustee, Margaret Ford
Leonard and Marion E. McKinney
Charitable Foundation
Trustee, Nila B. Hulbert Foundation
Trustee, Philip E. Potter Foundation
Trustee, A.O. Fox Memorial
Hospital Foundation
Chairman of the Board, Huntington
Memorial Library
Founding member, College at Oneonta
Foundation Board of Directors
Member, Board of the Oneonta
Boys and Girls Club
Maureen and Henry Hulbert arrive for Commencement 2010 and are greeted by President
Margaret L. Drugovich. He was honored with the President’s Medal for Extraordinary and
Exemplary Loyalty to the College.
“Henry did more good quietly, without recognition, than
any dozen of us ever did with fanfare... He rarely took credit.
Anonymous was his name.... It was because he believed it was
his obligation to give... He simply felt it was the right and proper
thing to do.” —Tom Morgan, family friend
Attorney, Farrington, Hulbert,
Molinari and Haus, 50 years
Co-founder, Astrocom Electronics
Husband to Maureen
Father to sons Bill Hulbert, Thomas
Hulbert, and Thomas Wolek;
daughters Katharine Haas, Anne
Wolek, Sue-Anne DeBergh, and
Sally Dunleavy
Grandfather, Great-grandfather
Veteran, U.S. Army, Korean War
Webextra | www.hartwick.edu/philanthropy
Field Notes
J Term
Abroad
Limitless Learning in a Signature Program
Hartwick College, an engaged community, integrates a liberal arts education with experiential
learning to inspire curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, personal courage, and an enduring
passion for learning.
Academic courses for credit, complete with readings, written assignments, oral
presentations, quizzes, and exams; many with prerequisites. Each one off-site and facultyled; each one intense and exhilarating.
Faculty report that whether they’ve led a study abroad course twice or 20 times, each
experience is novel, each destination brings revelations, each student group is unique.
Elizabeth Steele
accompanied the
Irish Culture and Society II
course to Ireland during
J Term 2012.
Students are changed by the experience. Smarter, braver, by the end of J Term they feel
ready for the next challenge and the one after that. Hartwick students learn to expect, to
embrace, the unexpected.
Listen to the students’ words, see J Term through their eyes, study at their side, and
experience the Hartwick College mission in action. It’s extraordinary.
Highlights of One | J Term 2012
The Riches of
South Africa
[ANTH 350] with Dr. Connie Anderson
Johannesburg and the Mbizi Lodge: Apartheid and
Hector Pieterson Museums; church services in
Soweto; De Wildt Endangered Species Centre and
“Cradle of Humankind” fossils sites; Sterkfontein
and Maropeng caves (World Heritage Site).
Drakensberg Mountains: Giant’s Castle camp
(World Heritage Site) and game reserve; hiked to
see ancient Bushman paintings on the rock.
Babanango Valley Lodge and Ecological Centre:
main battlefields of 1879 Anglo-Zulu War; Zulu
capital at Ulundi; Zulu Cultural Museum in
Ondini; Koningsdal Orphanage.
Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve: Africa’s oldest
game park (1895), famous for saving the white
rhino; saw lions and two huge male rhinos
fighting.
St Lucia Estuary and Cape Vidal Marine Reserve:
(World Heritage Site); Crocodile Centre, toured
estuary, snorkeled in Indian Ocean. Called
“iSimangaliso,” Zulu for “a Miracle.”
Blyde River Canyon in Mpumalanga and Swadini,
northern Drakensberg: (World Heritage Sites);
hiked, swam in a waterfall in the mountains,
observed Shangaan Chungolo Dances.
Kruger National Park: Letaba Camp (“river
of sand”). Green oasis of bird and wildlife;
surrounded by veld. Marooned there by the
typhoon!
University of the Witwatersrand: squatter camps
with Dr. Luke Sinwell ‘03, professor; toured
Origins Centre collection of ancient artifacts
(starting from 80,000 years ago!), fossils,
Bushman painting, and other cultural material.
“This is a once in a
lifetime opportunity.”
Courtney Desmond ’12, Economics major
Journal entry while in China for the course
Doing Business in Asia
[BUS: 350, ECON: 350]
Courtney’s next move: a career in market
research, Boston
Opposite: South African school children gather
to greet Hartwick’s anthropology class.
Above: Aaron Rexford ‘14 and classmates hike in
Andasibe, Madagascar, home to the Indri lemur,
whose cry is audible for three kilometers.
> Sierra Schultz ‘13 is welcomed by the family
she cared for, and learned from, in Jamaica.
Right: Joe Porto ‘13 surveys the waterfall of the
Inca area on the class’ first day of hiking, Here
they started to learn what it means to live in a
vertical country (Perú).
Below: At OTS La Selva Biological Research
Station in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, students
learn from a local expert about the beneficial
effects of tree falls in a tropical rain forest.
> Courtney Desmond ‘12 and Dr. Jiang Bao, a
professor at Ocean University in Qingdao who led
some site visits for the class in China.
J Term Photography Credits:
Rebecka Flynn ’12 and Leah Mooravian ’13 in Austria;
Courtney Desmond ’12, Elizabeth Blevins ’14, and Dr.
Larry Malone in China; Mackenzie Shipley ’13, Jessica
Spitz ’14, and Dr. Stan Sessions in Costa Rica; Veronica
Hudak ’14, Michaela Shipman ’14, and Cassie Howe ’14
in England; James Buono ’14 and Beth Steele in Ireland;
Alex Forst ’13, Tyler Smith ’15, Ben Yacavone ’14, and
Dr. Doug Zullo in Italy; Cassie Jonaitis ’13, Sierra Schultz
’13, and Prof. Sharon Dettenrieder in Jamaica; Mike
Itgen ’13 and Liz Kelly ’12 in Madagascar; Liz Greco ’14
in Peru; Lindsay Zweigenhaft ’13 in South Africa; Phoebe
Blume ’15, Kyle Murray ’15, and Dr. Jason Curley in
Arizona and Sean Coppola ’15 in New York City.
Generosity
“Watch your step! Incredible history can be felt instantly
and constantly.”
Alex Forst ’13, Philosophy major, journal entry for Art and Architecture of Italy [ARTH 307]
Above: Rebecka Flynn ’12 in the Library of the Melk Abbey, Austria; one of the world’s most famous monastic sites, it is also renowned for its
manuscript collection. > On a site visit for their Irish Culture and Society course, Joe O’Brien ’12, Carrie Gauthier ’13, and Ashley Pacicca ’13 explore the
Norman and Gothic ruins of Muckross Abbey outside of Killarney. > Elizabeth Blevins ’12 experiences political history for herself when the business class
led by Dr. Steve Kolenda and Dr. Larry Malone visits the Great Wall of China.
Below: Tyler Smith ’13 teaches his Art and Architecture of Italy class about the ancient Roman bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius. It was the first of his
three presentations on equestrian monuments throughout Italy. > Michaela Shipman ’14 studies the structural marvels of Stonehenge on an independent
site visit during Dr. Kim Noling’s Shakespeare in England course. > Guest speaker and 30-year veteran of the Irish National Police Force Martin Reilly
explains biblical depictions on Muiredach’s 10th century Celtic cross, Monasterboice, Ireland.
“Culture lies within
the arts.”
Rebecka Flynn ’12, German major | John Christopher Hartwick Scholar
The first line of her second paper for German Term in Vienna [GERM 298/498]
Rebecka’s next move: Master’s in Public Administration, The New School,
Greenwich Village, New York City
Right: Deep cultural understanding comes
in knowing the people, as Hartwick’s
Transcultural Nursing students can attest
about the children, families, and nurses of
Jamaica.
Center: Hartwick Theatre and English students
stood in awe where William Shakespeare’s
plays debuted; the refurbished Globe Theatre
was one of many historic sites they visited.
Below: Hartwick students do chores while
living with their indigenous host families in the
peasant community of Huilloc, Perú. Michaela
Finnegan ’15, Valerie Herz ’13, and Megan
Lawrence ’14 take the sheep to pasture as
they work to understand life in the high Andes.
Above: Art and Architecture of Italy with
Dr. Betsey Ayer and Dr. Doug Zullo brings
opportunities to study and to sketch. Ben
Yacavone ’14 attracts young admirers as he
works; Ben’s sketch of his favorite work of art;
and (top) his reflections on the original.
Left: For 30 years, Dr. Wendel Frye has shared
Austrian culture with his German Term Vienna
students through museums, operas, concerts,
castles, and abbeys. > Dr. Reid Golden’s Irish
Culture and Society II course includes live theatre.
Ashley Pacicca ’13, Tasha Bradt ’12, Erin Solano
’14 and Brendan Dieck ’15 enjoy front row seats
for The Government Inspector at the Abbey
Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland.
”How do you
calculate
biodiversity?”
Liz Kelly ’12
Pre Med, Sociology major
Field notes from Madagascar: Culture,
Conservation, and Natural History [BIOL 244]
Liz’s next move: Fellow; National
Institutes of Health, Washington, DC;
HIV-specific immunity research laboratory
Above: Mackenzie Shipley ’13 surrounds herself with a Poor Man’s Umbrella (Gunnera insignis) near
V. Poas, Costa Rica. The plant is characteristic of high mountain cloud forests. > The field notes of
Jessica Spitz ’14, from the Costa Rica first evening lecture, Geography and Climate of Costa Rica.
On-site lectures were presented by program leaders Dr. Stan Sessions and Dr. Peter Fauth.
> Liz Kelly ’12 becomes a spontaneous perch for a common brown lemur and her pup while Dr. Allen
Crooker’s biology class paddled down river in a nature preserve near Andasibe, Madagascar.
Below: Through his stunning photography, Mike Igen ’13 provides seldom seen details of species
endemic to Madagascar: the strawberry dart frog (Oophaga Pumilio) shows the vibrant colors typical
of rain forest creatures; nocturnal species such as this Leaf Tailed Gecko (Uroplatus Phantasticus)
provide the impetus for many night hikes. > Students conduct a tidal pool biodiversity study under the
direction of Dr. Diana Lieberman, a revered tropical ecologist and director of Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica’s
only absolute reserve. Access to the reserve is very limited and Hartwick is one of only a few colleges
invited to study there. This collection session yielded an unusual number of octopus samples.
“Mi vida es solamente lo que yo toco y lo que yo veo. Aqu en Per,
yo estoy viviendo. Toco y veo cosas, voy a lugares, trabajo con la gente,
estoy inmersa en la cultura.”
“Here, I am living. I touch and see new things, go places,
work with the people, and am immersed in the culture.”
Liz Greco ’14, Spanish and English double major
Journal entry for Perú: Social Justice, Cultural Diversity, and Language [SPAN 105/205/305]
Top: Hartwick students were welcomed to observe a muChungolo dance competition, but only after
receiving formal permission from the local chief. Erin Doyle ’13, Meg Luce ’14 observed the Shangaan
cultural event in Mpumalanga province. The beads worn by the boy at left indicate he is a dancer.
> Inspired by one of history’s greatest artists, Justin Chaires ‘14 and Connor Specht ’14 spontaneously
recreate da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.
> Liz Greco ’14 reconsiders her world view in the vast open lands of Perú.
Center: Casey Mullaney ‘12, Chelsea Ziegler ‘14, and their classmates are befriended by village
children following hikes and field work in Madagascar. > Dr. Marc Shaw and some of his Theatre in
England students - Lindsay Wynne ’12, Cassie Howe ’14, and Shannon Turnbull ’14 - strike a lion’s
pose at the base of Nelson’s Column monument in Trafalgar Square, London. > At the National
University Ireland - Galway, Jennifer Giraudin ’13, Daniel Valliere ’12 and other Hartwick students
compare and contrast education systems with their Irish counterparts.
Right: Ilona van der Ven ’13 develops the relationships charactieristic of nursing while caring for
four-year-old Davana in Port Morant, St. Thomas, Jamaica. Ilona worked with Professor Emerita Sharon
Detternrieder, who led the J Term with Dr. Penny Boyer.
Students Abroad
Faculty Proposals for J Term 2013
Bahamas: Island Biogeography
[BIOL 240]
The Arts of Brazil
[MUSI 250/ARTH 250]
The Religious Culture of Ancient Egypt
[RELS 360/HIST 360]
The Psychology of WWII:
England and Germany
[PSC 250]
Ghana: Multicultural and Urban
Educational Field Experience
[EDUC 390]
”We’re all looking at the
bigger picture.”
Veronica Hudak ’14, Theatre major
Shakespeare’s England [ENG 283]
Social Work in Great Britain
[SOCI 350]
Global Marketing in Italy
[BUSA 350]
Transcultural Nursing: Jamaica
[NURS 346]
London/Paris: Museums and Monuments
[ARTH 350]
Golden Prague: Music and History
[MUSI 217/HIST 217]
Language and Cultural Immersion
in Senegal
[FREN 106/206/306]
South Africa: Change and Challenges
[ANTH 355]
Language Immersion in Spain
[SPAN 105/205/305]
People, Animal and Plants of Thailand
[BIOL 242]
Post-Communist Transition in the
Ukraine/Czech Republic
[ECON 350/POSC 350]
Education, Language and Culture
in Vietnam
[EDUC 255]
Top: Community service is a core component of
J Term in Perú with Dr. Esperanza Roncero. The
Hartwick crew poses with their young friends
after working together to repaint their school.
Middle: James Buono ’14 at Sliabh Liag cliffs in
Gleann Cholm Cille, with Anna Ní Chuinneagáin
who taught Hartwick students the Irish language
and traditional dances at Oideas Gael college.
> Sean Hoyt ’13 awaits the start of Year of the
Dragon at West Lake (Xi Hú). The freshwater lake
in Hangzhou, China, has been named a UNESCO
World Heritage site.
Left: Another World Heritage site, Schönbrunn
Palace offers political and cultural insight for
Leah Mooravian ’13, Rob Tracey ’14, Anthony
Russo ’14, Dominick Consalazio ’15, and Joan
Carregal ’13 in Austria.
Domestic Experiences
Faculty Proposals for J Term 2013
Geology and Natural History of Hawaii
[GEOL 275]
The Psychology of Creativity: Hawaii
[PSYC 150]
Sustainable Public Policies in Arizona
[ECON 350/POSC 250]
Theatre in New York City
[THEA 205]
The Philosophy of Drawing, Thinking,
Making, Seeing: New York City
[PHIL 250]
“I really hope that other students
get this chance to express and find
themselves as much as we have.”
Kyle Murray ’15, Music and Physics double major
Journal entry for Chamber Music in Arizona [MUSI 350]
Above: Hartwick students gained field experience closer to home when Dr. Jason Curley took
musicians to teach and learn in Arizona.
Below: Professor Ken Golden immersed his First Year Seminar in the theatre of New York City.
Top: Hartwick musicians in Arizona presented,
performed, and instructed students in a
reservation school and a school for the deaf and
blind, among others. Young hosts were invited to
touch the instruments and ask questions.
> Composer/conductor/musician Kyle May ’12
leads his peers before an elementary school
audience.
Center: Technique notes Kyle Murray ’15 took
during his advanced piano lessons with Dr. Kim
Hayashi in Arizona.
Left: The Theatre in New York City First Year
Seminar class, spent an intense week viewing and
reviewing work on and off Broadway, including
How the World Began and Avenue Q. n
On Screen and Stage, Behind the Lights, Calling the Shots
[A few of the many] Theatre Arts Alumni Who Shine
Robert Cuddy ’80 on the set of
Shutter Island with Leonardo
DiCaprio, director Martin Scorsese,
and cinematographer Robert
Richardson.
Jen Garvey Blackwell ’91 and Tony
Award Winner Susan Stroman, who
directed and choreographed the
Vineyard Theatre’s world premiere
musical The Scotsboro Boys that
transferred to Broadway.
Michael C. Blundell ’79 (Hartwick Athletics Hall of Fame, 2011)
Leo Award-winning Cinematographer (British Columbia Film Society;
2010, 2009) > Director of Photography, SGU Stargate Universe and
Takedown action drama (aka Transparency) > Director of Photography,
The Philadelphia Experiment (2012, TV); Past Obsessions (2011, TV)
> Early credits: Chief Lighting Technician, Northern Exposure (TV) and
Electrician, Dances with Wolves (1991 Oscar for Best Picture).
Robert Cuddy ’80 (Hartwick Athletics Hall of Fame, 2011)
Electrician, Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, director; $80 million budget,
2010) > Lighting Technician, post-production: Here Comes the Boom
(2012, Kevin James) > Electrician, Gone Baby Gone (Morgan Freeman,
2007); Edge of Darkness (Mel Gibson, 2010) > Some early credits: Lamp
Operator, Cider House Rules (Toby McGuire, Charlize Theron, 2000);
Electrician, Gosford Park (Robert Altman, director, 2001) > Current
television credit: Body of Proof (ABC).
Jen Garvey Blackwell ’91 (Distinguished Alumna Award, 2009)
Executive Producer, The Vineyard Theatre, New York City > Premiered
Pulitzer Prize-winning works: Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive and
Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; premiered Avenue Q, winner of three
Tony Awards; transferred Tony-nominated Scottsboro Boys to Broadway;
latest transfer: The Lyons. > Recognition for The Vineyard: special OBIE,
Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for Sustained Excellence.
Joel Patterson ’96
Supervising Producer, Pawn Stars and Cajun Pawn Stars, 7.7 million
viewers, the History channel > Segment Producer, The IFC Media Project
(2008); Associate Producer, Future Car (2007) > Producer, LeftField
Pictures; Producer, IFC: Independent Film Channel; Producer, WE TV;
Executive Producer, Insomnia Media; Associate Producer, 60 Minutes
> First production: Jesus Christ, Superstar, his senior project at Hartwick.
Robert Shimko ’98, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramaturgy > Program Head:
M.A. in Theatre Studies; Program Head B.F.A. in Playwriting/Dramaturgy
> School of Theatre & Dance, University of Houston > Named a “100
Creatives” by the Houston Press (2011).
Robert Shimko ’98 Ph.D. conducts
research on 17th century theatre
historiography, political drama
in the English Restoration, and
dramaturgical theory.
Geno Carr ’99, a double major in
Music and Theatre, was a John
Christopher Hartwick Scholar and is
now a member of the Actors Equity
Association.
Geno Carr ’99 (John Christopher Hartwick Scholar; All-American)
Actor, Singer, Director, Educator > Member, Actors Equity Association and
the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society > Off Broadway in Bush
Wars; National Tours of Phantom, The Buddy Holly Story and Grease.
> Regional credits include: Leo Bloom in The Producers; Harold Nichols in
The Full Monty; Sparky in Forever Plaid; Bat Boy in Bat Boy: The Musical;
Feste in Twelfth Night. > Assistant Professor Drama, Stephens College,
Semester at Sea.
Luke Moyer ’00
Award-winning Lighting Designer > Los Angeles Critics Circle’s Angstrom
Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design (2010) > Ovation Award
for Lighting Design – Intimate Theatre category > Staff Lighting Designer,
American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) and Theater Tribe, Los
Angeles > Resident Lighting Designer, NoHo Arts Center and Open at the
Top.
Faust Checho ’01
Actor/Producer > Latest film releases: The Fields, producer, actor
(featuring Cloris Leachman); Six Degrees of Hell (actor, with Corey
Feldman) > Theatrical credits include: Tony Kushner’s Terminating, Harold
Pinter’s Celebration, Neil Simon’s Rumors, Tennessee Williams’ Ten Blocks
on the Camino Real, and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
> Founder, FSC Productions; owns intellectual properties and projects in
development.
Christie Santiago ’05
Production Manager, Manhattan Children’s Theatre, NYC > Stage Manager
credits include: The Elves and the Shoemaker, If You Give a Mouse a
Cookie, Little Tales (series), Hansel and Gretel, Goodnight Moon, and
Brave Irene for Manhattan Children’s Theatre. > Also stage manager for
Ignited States Production Company, Four Chairs Theatre, (re:) Directions
Theatre, Overlap/Reverie Productions; and Creative Place Theatre.
Athletics
A Body in Motion
Dereck and Elizabeth Treadwell on Strength and Artistry
“Fine ballet dancers and world-class
runners all exhibit strength and
grace. Elastic and powerful, they
appear to be the essence
of effortless.”
—Dereck Treadwell,
Head Coach, Cross Country
Take one record-holding triathlete and distance runner, add one professional dancer formerly with the New York
City Ballet, and you have a pair of Hartwick coaches/teachers who know something about winning. Passing
over the obvious measures of distance, time, or position, Dereck and Elizabeth Treadwell focus on the one
achievement that furthers all others.
“We measure success by how healthy our students are,” says Elizabeth
Treadwell, Hartwick’s dance instructor and assistant coach of cross
country. “Our marker each season is simple: let’s not get injured.”
“Discomfort is good, injury is not,” says Dereck Treadwell, seventh year
head coach of Hartwick’s cross country team. “As a director or a coach,
you must be able to distinguish between training stress and injury. Each
athlete is different, so how much stress is too much?”
Understanding each student as an individual and as a complete person
advances good coaching. “When you reach a state of homeostasis, your
body’s working the way it’s supposed to,” says Dereck. “You’re getting
enough food, enough rest, and a lot of the right kind of training. If any
one of those is off, something gives. That’s when you have injury.”
“You might think that injury is not predictable, but we can see it
happening,” explains Elizabeth. “We can see an athlete or a dancer
tightening up, losing focus, and we know what’s next.”
Prevention requires patience and perseverance. “Making changes in the
body has to happen very slowly,” Elizabeth says. “Small advances while
staying healthy; that’s the plan. Even imperceptible change can yield
significant results. Whether it’s sport or dance, training prepares you.
Mental preparation is the cap of performance.”
“The body is an adaptive organism; it reacts to specific stresses,” says
Dereck. “With training you create a new norm, allowing the individual
biochemistry to act. That’s the art of athleticism.”
“Those who go the farthest push themselves into discomfort,” reflects
Elizabeth, making a distinction between that and pain. “Going to your
hardest place in dancing or sport will help you push to your hardest place
intellectually. You just have to keep going, one foot in front of the other.
Doing so through sport, through art, helps us advance in life.” n
One for the Books:
Three Coaches of the Year, Many Broken Records, and Post-season Play
Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams reached the NCAA
Division III Tournament this season—a feat last accomplished in 1996.
Both teams also had the most conference wins ever in a single season.
At the close of regular season, the men were No. 1 in the NCAA
Regional Rankings. The Hawks stood alone at the top of the Empire
8 for the first time in College history, were ranked 21st in the nation,
and advanced to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the second
straight year. In the end, the men tied the Hartwick record for most wins
in a season—23—set in 1973–74 and 1987–88.
The NCAA Regional Rankings placed the Hartwick women at No. 3.
The women’s basketball team went into post-season in second place in
the Empire 8, advanced to the Empire 8 Tournament championship game
for the first time, and competed in the NCAA Division III Tournament
in Rhode Island. Overall, the women racked-up the most conference wins
in College history (12). Their 22 wins on the season are the most since
1989–90 and third-most in College history.
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams set program
records for dual meet wins in a season—16 for the men and 14 for
the women. The men were ranked as high as 18th nationally and sent
six swimmers to the NCAA Division III Championships, where they
earned All-America honors. The women set a new program benchmark
of 14 victories in a season, marked their 200th win under Coach Dale
Rothenberger, and achieved a national ranking of 30.
Hartwick College Athletics has a dynamic new Web
site that gives fans a cutting-edge platform on which
to follow the Hawks.
Features include
embedded video,
fan polls, a team store,
and lots of photos.
Please Join Us.
Hartwick Athletics
Wine & Beer Tasting
Reception and Benefit Auction
Thursday, May 10, 2012 | 6:30–9 p.m.
Stella Luna Ristorante | 58 Market St., Oneonta
Sponsored by the Wick Athletic Association
www.hartwickhawks.com
’Wick student-athletes earned accolades and achieved personal bests this season:
Men’s Basketball
Swimming
Jared Suderley ’14: first sophomore in Hartwick history to reach the
1,000-point mark. Empire 8 Player of the Year; National Association of
Basketball Coaches East Region All-District First Team and Division III
All-America Second Team; D3hoops.com All-East Region First Team and
All-America Second Team; and more.
Kaird Durocher ’12: NCAA honorable mention All-America—200 Free
Relay.
Chris Ryder ’12: Empire 8 First Team; reached 1,000 career points.
Mark Blazek ’12: Capital One Academic All American First Team; Capital
One Academic All-District Team. (Reached 1,000 career points last
season.)
Women’s Basketball
Maria Foglia ’14: Empire 8 First Team; Eastern College Athletic
Conference Upstate First Team; ranked 13th nationally for free-throw
percentage (87.1%).
Kate Purcell ’14: Empire 8 Second Team; Empire 8 All-Tournament
Team; Capital One Academic All-District Team.
Swimming
Michael Phillips ’12: NCAA All-America, 200 breast; NCAA honorable
mention All-America—100 breast, 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 800
free relay; UNYSCSA Championship Male Swimmer of the Meet; Empire
8 Championship Male Swimmer of the Meet; UNYSCSA and Empire 8
titles—200 IM, 200 Free, 200 Breast, 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay;
Empire 8 Second Team—400 Medley Relay.
Kenny Kleso ’13: NCAA honorable mention All-America—500 Free, 800
Free Relay; UNYSCSA and Empire 8 titles—500 Free, 1,650 Free, 800
Free Relay.
Lydon Schultz ’13: NCAA honorable mention All-America—200 Free
Relay, 400 Free Relay; UNYSCSA and Empire 8 titles—50 Free, 100
Free, 400 Free Relay; Empire 8 Second Team—400 Medley Relay.
Miles Blaney ’15: NCAA honorable mention All-America—500 Free, 400
Free Relay, 800 Free Relay; Empire 8 Championship Rookie of the Meet;
UNYSCSA and Empire 8 titles—400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay; Empire
8 Second Team—200 Free, 500 Free, 400 Medley Relay.
Brad Ranson ’14: NCAA honorable mention All-America—200 Free
Relay, 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay; UNYSCSA and Empire 8
titles—400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay.
Cody Cupit ’13: Empire 8 Second Team—400 Medley Relay.
Luke Grunewald ’14: Empire 8 Second Team—1,650 Free.
Gwendolyn Mathias: Empire 8 First Team—1,650 Freestyle.
Diving
Lindsay Bowker ’14: Empire 8 Second Team—3-meter diving.
Alumni News
Celebrate, Network,
and Accept our Thanks
Upcoming
Alumni Events
MetroLink Boston 2012
Students Benefit when Alumni Network
It was January break and 22 Hartwick students,
some of them fresh from J Terms abroad, were
on the road to Boston and New York City. With
business suits slung over their shoulders and
laptops in hand, they were bound for meetings,
shadowing experiences, panel discussions, and
receptions with Hartwick alumni and parents
working in a cross-section of careers.
Hartwick’s MetroLink, a nationally-recognized
career services program, is now in its 23rd year.
Alumni who benefitted as students enjoy returning
the favor for the next generation; Charlie Hulbert
’93 participated as a student and is now chair of
the Boston MetroLink Committee and Emily
Weisenbach ’03 twice participated in MetroLink
as a student and now volunteers on the New York
Committee. A total of 63 alumni, parents, and
friends offered insights and guidance through
shadowing or Network Nights in Boston and New
York City. Later this spring more than 30 students
met with and shadowed alumni and parents in
Washington, DC.
April 25 | New York City
John Christopher Hartwick
President’s Reception
Hosted by Allen Freedman H’00
and Judy Brick Freedman
“MetroLink gave me an experience I wouldn’t have
been able to obtain myself,” says Krista Marzano
’12, who shadowed Physician Assistants at the
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences in Boston and Lenox Hill Hospital in
New York. “This program proved to me that I am
on the right career path!”
April 26 | Bethesda, MD
Donor Appreciation and
Faculty Lecture
featuring Dr. Sara Rinfret
Political Science
Bethesda Country Club
Hosted by Stephen Baldacci ’83
May 10 | Oneonta, NY
Hartwick Athletics Wine Auction
Stella Luna Ristorante
A Call for Exceptional Alumni
The Hartwick College Alumni Association
recognizes outstanding alumni each year at
Homecoming and Reunion.
n The Distinguished Alumna/us Award is
presented to an individual of outstanding
performance, competence and achievements
in his or her profession and/or civic or
volunteer activities.
n The Outstanding Young Alumna/us
Award honors the same qualities and
dedication in one among all graduates of the
last two to 15 years.
n The Meritorious Service Award recognizes
an alumna/us or friend of the College who
has demonstrated outstanding loyalty and
effective service on Hartwick’s behalf.
Do you know one or more Hartwick
graduates who possess these qualities?
Please nominate them at www.
hartwickalumni.org/2012alumniawards.
For more information on these and
other Hartwick alumni events, contact
Duncan MacDonald ’78, Director of
Alumni Engagement, at macdonaldd@
hartwick.edu, 607-431-4032, or visit
The Wall at www.hartwickalumni.org.
Party on the Cape
this Summer!
Do you vacation on Cape Cod?
Have a summer home there?
Live within driving distance?
We’re planning a summer picnic
on the Cape and want you to
be there.
Please contact Carrie Guarria at
guarriac@hartwick.edu or 607-431-4064
to make sure you’re on the invitation list.
May 25 | 5:30 p.m. | Oneonta, NY
Baccalaureate Ceremony
Foothills Performing Arts Center
May 26 | 11:30 a.m. | Oneonta, NY
Commencement Ceremony
Elmore Field
June 14 | Freeport, ME
Student Send-Off & Lobster Bake
Gritty McDuff’s Freeport Brew
Pub & Restaurant
Hosted by Ed Stebbins ’85
June 20 | Albany, NY
Hartwick Hudson Cruise
Dutch Apple Cruises
June 28 | Cazenovia, NY
Student Send-Off
Hosted by Thomas Gerhardt ’84
Class Notes
Homecoming & Reunion Weekend | Join Us | October 3-5, 2012
1937 | 75th reunion
1942 | 70th reunion
1944
Send your updates to your class correspondent:
David Trachtenberg, davsel@att.net
1947 | 65th reunion
1950
George Grice, geog@3rivers.net
1952 | 60th reunion
1957 | 55th reunion
1959
Dalene Davis Cross, poppabob@verizon.net
1962 | 50th reunion
Send your updates to your class correspondents:
Sharon Dorff Conway, asadsac@aol.com, or
Dinah McClure, Dinamo32@aol.com
Class Correspondent Dinah McClure writes: “In October 2011,
the nurses from the Class of ’62 held our 49th annual reunion! This
year, we met in Sarasota, FL, and stayed in a mobile home/RV park.
Carol Stapleton Andersen was our very able on-site hostess. Norma
Trottere Grimaldi was the activity director. We had a fabulous
time and would love to return there another year. Others present
were: Merry Baker Boening, Becky Brink Brown, Ann Collson
Johnson, Sharon Dorff Conway, Rose Elliot, Liz Ireland Barnes,
Barb Joseph Schilling, Karin Karlsson Engkvist, Patty Post
Brink, MaryLu Wade Eshelman, Emily Walter Mikulewicz, and
Jeannette Waterman. While at that reunion, a small gathering of
Gamma Phi Deltas was held when Sandy Miller Kellam joined the
group from North Venice.”
Marjorie Turrell Julian wrote that she plans to attend the reunion in
the fall.
Richard Juve and his wife, Ruth, are planning to attend our 50th
reunion at Homecoming this September. He has been in the Far
East the past three years, but hopes to be in the states for the reunion.
Richard will be meeting with other classmates in the Albany area and
will urge them to attend, too.
John Ressmeyer is living in Norman, Oklahoma, and spends summers
in Grand Lake, Colorado, where his wife, Kris, is a park ranger. John
continues is be an avid cyclist and competes in local and regional races.
Kris and John are planning to return for the 50th anniversary and, along
with Ken Buechs, are encouraging other ADOs to return in 2012.
Robert F. Swift and Margot Werme Swift have announced their
retirement from conducting/accompanying the 140-voice Pemigewasset
Choral Society of Central New Hampshire after 33 years. The Choral
Society and Plymouth State University have established an endowed,
annual Margot W. and Robert F. Swift Scholarship for music majors
Reunion: Nurses from the Class of 1962 gathered in October in
Sarasota, FL, for their 49th annual reunion. (See 1962 class note for
more.)
at the university in their honor. Margot retired from college teaching
in 2002 and Bob continues teaching as professor of music at the
university.
1967 | 45th reunion
Bruce Cameron, bpsychia@stny.rr.com
George Cifa writes: “I just returned from a Tourism Workshop in
Cremona, Italy, so I did not have an opportunity again this year to
attend. However, I plan to be at a Homecoming one of these years!
1968
Judy Elving Bethe has retired as Hoag Hospital director of nursing
education after 40-plus years of nursing ... and isn’t having any trouble
keeping busy. She and John Bethe ’67 live in San Clemente, California,
and look forward to more visits to Kauai, as well as foreign adventures.
1971
Barbara Klapp Vartanian, birhbev@omh.state.ny.us
Foxie Proctor writes: “Lots of great happenings in the past two years.
My husband, Ken Brown, retired in 2010, which allowed us to play
and travel more. My son, Patrick, graduated from Central Washington
State in 2010 and my daughter, Brittany, graduated from Oregon
State University in 2011. Outside of family and travel, I spend a fair
amount of time serving on an education outreach committee with the
Oregon Society of American Foresters, as well as on the Board of the
American Lung Association of Oregon. One highlight of 2011 was
a five-week trip back east which enabled me to visit with friends such
as Marilyn Miller Marshall in PA and then travel to Oneonta for
alumni/homecoming weekend, visit with the women’s field hockey
coach and team, and take in the game! Awesome! I only wish more of
my classmates would have made the trip. E-mail: foxieproctor@comcast.
net.”
Giving Back: Ralph
Walker ’73 has spent
the past few years
involved with Habitat
for Humanity, and is
president of Community
Bridgebuilders,
a coalition of 20
churches in Fairfield
County, CT, that helped
fund an eight-family
complex. Here, Ralph
is shown on a recent
Jimmy Carter Project
trip to Leogane,
Haiti, the epicenter
of the country’s 2010
earthquake. One of
400 volunteers, Ralph
helped erect 100
houses in five days.
1972 | 40th reunion
Scott Griswold, urfree@bellsouth.net
1973
Ronald Stair, ronalds@att.net
Michael Doherty retired from the U.S. Army Reserve on January
1 after nearly 31 years of commissioned service. For the past three
years, he served as assistant chief of the Clinical Operations Section
and environmental science and engineering officer assigned to
the Operational Command Post of the Third Medical Command
(Deployment Support) at Fort Gillem, GA. He is now employed by the
U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command at the Washington Navy
Yard, where he is chief of the Environmental Planning Branch within the
Environmental Directorate. Mike’s wife, Kristine Kingery, is employed
in the Pentagon as the director of the Army Sustainability Policy and
leads the Army’s Net Zero Installations Initiative. Mike’s daughter,
Catherine, works at the Spring Mill Bread Company and is a volunteer
for the Smithsonian Institution. Mike and his family reside in North
Potomac, MD. He invites fellow Hartwick alumni to drop by when in
the D.C. area.
1974
Mike Brown, mike.g.brown@comcast.net
1975
Peter and Rosemary Gold’s daughter Rebecca graduated from William
Smith College with a degree in English. She is pursuing a career in film/
screenwriting.
Mini-Reunion: A group of Hartwick alumni from 1974-76 celebrated
Sarah Adams Lunn ’76’s visit from her home in Denmark. With her are
Cathy Cummings Haker ’76, Nancy Wollenberg Nickerson ’76, Diane
Korntheuer ’75, Gaile Greenwood ’74, Leslie Zanetti Berg ’75, Fran
Schept ’76, Janet Milone Sikes ’75, and Susi Fecht ’75.
Margaret Halpin writes: “After nearly 17 years, I retired from
Georgetown University. I am taking time to develop my skills in fused
glass and silversmithing while I consider what my next life adventure will
be.”
Richard K. Rabeler is assistant research scientist for the University
of Michigan and is one of the principal investigators on an NSF grant
titled “Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the
study of Tri-Trophic Associations.”
1977 | 35th reunion
1981
Larry Tetro, ldtet2004@yahoo.com
Nancy Darlymple Keith is sorry she missed October’s 30th reunion!
She writes: “Congratulations to the soccer team for their induction to
the hall of fame. You guys were amazing back in the day! I had never
watched soccer before and you showed me how it was done at its best!
I’m thrilled you are all being recognized.”
1982 | 30th reunion
1985
Rhonda Foote, rhondasfooteworks@yahoo.com
Class Correspondent Rhonda Foote is celebrating her 25th year of
business as owner/director of Rhonda’s FooteWorks dance studios in
Watertown and Lowville, NY. The celebration includes an alumni gala
recital and four shows at the Dulles State Office Building. She writes:
“I am still thankful for the education Hartwick gave to me and the fact
that I was allowed to grow as a dancer there, both under the direction
Cherry Street Mini-Reunion: Paul ’76 and Pamela McConnell ’77
Vandenberg played host at their Long Beach Island, NJ home to the
35th year reunion of 41 Cherry Street Hartwick housemates and friends
from 1976. Looking good in their bathing suits from left to right are
Bernadette and Mark Jones ’77, Ginny and Ted Kern ’77, Jay ’77 and
Carol (Latino ’79) Boyd, Pam and Paul, John Peirson ’77, Micky Mann
’77, Diane (Schoelkopf ’77) and Gady Hazum, Dave Mackey ’77, and
Todd Kasten ’77.
of Mrs. Janet Bresee and as president and choreographer of Orchesis. It
is a statement to the longevity of our college that both Mrs. Bresee and
Orchesis remain mainstays of the campus.” She says one of the greatest
honors of her career happened in late Summer/early Fall of 2011 when
her dancers were featured in a broadcast and print article for CNN as
one of 10 national stories recognizing the 10th anniversary of the war.
Rhonda’s FooteWorks was chosen for its close involvement with the
military community of Fort Drum and its ability to bring a sense of
belonging and peace to the military families who are part of the studio’s
dance family. Rhonda’s family celebrated the studio’s anniversary with a
cruise to the Bahamas in January.
1986
Rob DiCarlo, rdicarlo@brockport.edu
1987 | 25th reunion
1988
Kathy Fallon, kfallon@pcgus.com
1989
Dorothy Holt, holtcrew@maine.rr.com
Class correspondent Dorothy Kehm Holt writes: “I was lucky enough
to run into ’Wick Field Hockey Coach Anna Meyer (used to be lacrosse
coach) at the U.S. Lacrosse Convention in Philadelphia in January.
We had a mini reunion with Melissa Campbell Calendar ’90 (who
coaches Wacussetts varsity lacrosse). It was so fun to catch up. When
you get a chance, drop me a note and let your classmates know what you
Friends Reunited on Space Project: Timothy Daggett ’76 (left) and Don
Tripple ’76 met on Oyaron Hill their freshman year. Friends throughout
college, they lost track of each other after the summer of 1976. Then, in
2007, Tim overheard two people in his office talking about a Lockheed
Martin colleague called Don Triple. The company has 140,000
employees, but after a short e-mail exchange, the two discovered they
were long-lost Hartwick friends. They also discovered they had once
worked in the same building on the same project proposal together, even
passed each other in the hallway, but just didn’t know it. Since their
chance reunion in 2007, Don has joined Tim on the Orion Project—
which will take astronauts to the International Space Station and
beyond—and their families have gotten together on several occasions.
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Fun in the Sun: Kristin Yager ’97 and former staff member Donna
Panzella, Professor of Religious Studies Gary Herion, former staff
member Carol Herion, Tom Panzella, Jen Panzella, Justin Worden ’06,
Patrick “Patch” Panzella ’06, and Kristin’s children, Noah and Sabrina,
visit the Herions at their home in North Carolina.
Mini-Reunion: A ’Wick mini-reunion took place last July at the homes
of Amanda Schaake Bromberg ’97 and Wendy Gibbons Pittorino ’97. In
attendance were Rachel Falzarano Goldberg ’97, Stephanie Carabetta
D’Andrea ’99, and Cathy Smith Schmeer ’97. Thirteen kids enjoyed a
fantastic weekend of swimming and playing. Missing from the 92 West
group were Allison Barstow Krause and Jen Chapin Keller. Shown are
Stephanie, Cathy, Rachel, Wendy, and Amanda.
are up to. You can send your notes to holtcrew@maine.rr.com.
Lisa DiClemente McGowan was appointed magistrate of the
Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division
on January 3. She was sworn in by Judge David Lewandowski on
December 21.
Marty Hamilton has joined the graphics design team at Bath &
Body Works NYC as a senior production designer. Previously, he was
a production manager at Johnson & Johnson Global Strategic Design
Offices and did seven years at Raison Pure International, where he
worked on all things Dove, Williams-Sonoma, and Evian. He writes:
“I can go into any home and find a product that I’ve played some part in
helping to produce. Reflecting back to long studio hours creating stone
lithographs or painting in beautiful Anderson Center for the Arts, you
can’t imagine at the time how these experiences will be with you for a
lifetime, but they are. I’m thankful for the tremendous arts education I
received at Hartwick, the patient mentoring of my professors, and to still
be working creatively.”
1991
Rena Switzer Diem, rnmommy@yahoo.com
1990
Leisyl Ryan Kleinberg, leisyl@kleinbergs.com
Mike Powell writes: “I am in my 14th year as a high school guidance
counselor after spending six years as a high school math teacher. I do a
lot of coaching in my free time. I help run a soccer camp in the summer
and take groups of students on camping trips in the Saranac Lake
region. My wife, June, and I will be sending our first child, McKenna,
off to college next fall, which doesn’t seem possible . Our son, Cam, is a
sophomore in high school, while our twins, Mary and Noel, are in fifth
grade. I am looking forward to returning to Hartwick sometime soon to
see all the changes. My e-mail is michael.powell@bhrsd.org.”
1992 | 20th reunion
Rory Shaffer, rorysw@gmail.com
Class correspondent Rory Shaffer-Walsh writes: “This May marks
the class of 1992’s 20th anniversary of our graduation from Hartwick.
It’s hard to believe that 20 years have passed so quickly. It seems like it
was yesterday when we were walking across the stage in Binder, shaking
hands with President Wilder. What an amazing and transformational
day for us. Twenty years later, I’m living on the eastern part of Long
Island with my husband and two beautiful boys, Parker (6) and James
(4). I work in fundraising and raise major gifts for a local university. I
still stay in touch with many Hartwick friends and can’t imagine my life
without them. I hope to see you at our reunion this fall! Stay in touch:
Rorysw@gmail.com.”
Jennifer Hayes writes: “It is amazing to think that the most influential
time in our lives occurred over half of our lives ago. Some memories
seem like yesterday. As we watch our three boys grow, however, we
realize time is passing—and quite fast! Tom Hayes ’90 and I are
enjoying the hectic life of work and parenthood with Connor (8), Ronan
(5), and Finn (3). We live in Columbus, OH, where I am a pediatric
nurse practitioner and Tom has his own law office devoted to criminal
defense. We stay busy with hockey, soccer, and pretty much any outdoor
pursuit. We would love to stay in touch. Please send us an e-mail at
jlhayes@columbus.rr.com or thayes@thomasfhayes.com.”
Alyssa Farling writes: “I’m the school counseling director at a middle
school outside of Richmond, VA, and the head coach for the field hockey
Wedding Bells: A September wedding brought together Ed Mancini ’93,
Maura Mancini ’00, Judy Sandford Cliszis ’69, and Chris Mancini ’00.
(See 2000 class note for more.)
Ringing in the New Year: This New Year’s Eve reunion featured Taryn
Chase ’00, Caraly Benak ’00, and Sarah Pettit ’00 in Maine. (See 2000
class note for more.)
team at our neighboring high school. Those two jobs keep me very busy!”
Andrea Wight was selected to participate in the The Greater Boston
Chamber of Commerce Women’s Leadership Program.
send your updates and any new contact information to me at maletzke@
hotmail.com . Cheers!”
Edward Bonnie and Carol Wynperle were married on July 29 in
Kings Point, NY. Edward is a police officer with the New York City
Police Department and Carol is a structural engineer with Parsons
Brinckerhoff in New York City.
Kristin Panzella Yager writes: “I’m living in Longwood, Florida, and
working in Dr. P. Phillips Hospital in Orlando as the neurosurgery
team leader in the operating room. I’m excited to announce our success
in the EPA’s Energy Star Battle of the Buildings Competition. It was
a national competition between 245 teams across the nation to reduce
energy consumption. We ranked fourth out of the 10 hospitals. I
spearheaded a huge recycling program in the operating room and led
our OR team to save enough energy every day to run four two-family
homes for a day! On a personal note, we’re just loving living in Florida.
It’s always nice to pick tomatoes from the garden and buy the Christmas
tree on the same day! To all you ’97 alumni, I’m sure you’re all doing
great things! Zip out an e-mail so the rest of us can see!”
1994
Missy Foristall, foristallm@yahoo.com
1995
Louis Crocco, lbcrocco@aol.com
1996
Amy Krasker Cottle, amycottle@comcast.net
Carol M. Ryan has joined United Health Group as a complex case
manager and is looking forward to the challenge. She writes that she is
“forever grateful for the education Hartwick College afforded me.”
Lisa VanDenburg Turcott and her husband, Eric, welcomed their
first baby, Remy Liam, on Easter. They also celebrated their 10-year
anniversary. Lisa writes “I love working from home as the graphic
designer for Dig Safely New York! Life is great!”
1997 | 15th reunion
Amy Maletzke Moore, maletzke@hotmail.com
Class correspondent Amy Maletzke Moore writes: “After 15 amazing
months living in England, we have been drawn back to our Maine
roots. While living in southwest London, we completely embraced the
experience of living in a different country and enjoyed its culture and
lifestyle. Our sons Evan, 3, and Andrew, 6, attended British schools and
made lasting friendships. Now, we have moved back “home” and have
been keeping busy re-establishing ourselves and settling back in. Please
1998
Jamie Sommerville O’Riordan, jamieoriordan@yahoo.com
Ekaterini Vlamis is doing well in New Paltz, NY. She is still working
hard trying to win new teambuilding clients for her business, Edgewood
Consulting & Services; referrals from fellow alumni would be greatly
appreciated. She recalls a favorite Hartwick J Term experience: “While
abroad in Spain, on the streets of Madrid, the students, along with
amazing Profesora Vandenhuevel, each attempted to eat 12 grapes
(uvas) in the 12 seconds following the stroke of midnight on New Year’s
Eve. Fortunately, we all managed to swallow our intake and no one
died. Amongst the cheer, coughing, and intense chewing, La Profesora
insisted we had the authentic Spanish experience for ringing in the
New Year!”
1999
Kristen R. Falk, hartwick99@yahoo.com
Class correspondent Kristen Falk writes: “I have been saddened
in reading The Wick to learn that we lost two classmates last year.
Stephanie Layton Schwarze and Noah Henry both died in April
2011. I know they are remembered fondly and missed by friends and
family. It is a reminder to all of us to live every day to the fullest. Since
it is January as I write, and many current Hartwick students are off
exploring the world, I asked my classmates to tell about their J Term
adventures from years past.”
Kanchan Banga has decided to make Australia her home for good.
She returned to working in the public sector, at the Department of
Infrastructure and Transport where her team has earned a Department
of Infrastructure and Transport Australia Day Achievement Award.
She writes: “The award is a pretty big deal, as it recognizes that we did
good work from both a public-sector and workplace perspective, so I
am super chuffed (and it’ll look good on the resume)! In answer to your
query, I didn’t go on any J Term trips, but I used to work at StevensGerman Library, and what I can remember was how quiet it got during
that month. I could catch up on all my homework and extracurricular
reading, and it wasn’t as frantic as sitting at the circulation desk during
the regular semester.”
Aaron Beatty reports: “We are looking forward to many good things in
2012. Madeline turned four in February and loves going to preschool;
Nathaniel is 20 months old and loves counting and saying the alphabet.
We just finished adding a long-needed second full bathroom to our
house with the help of Jenn’s father. I recently joined the board of
the local town library (Becket Athenaeum—www.becketathenaeum.
org). am leading a regular playgroup for little kids, and continue to do
freelance writing and editing . Jenn (Holmes) ’99 continues to work
at Social Security and has become creatively good at hiding vegetables
in our dinner so our son will eat them (our daughter has always liked
vegetables). All in all, life is very good.”
Bonin Bough was named to the Fortune 40 Under 40 in December.
Emily Dexter Bunting was married on 4/11/11 in Playa Del
Carmen in Mexico. Hartwick alums in attendance were Sarah
Smithson Barrett, Meggen Mitchell ’98, Erin McGrath ’00, Jamie
Sommerville ’98, and Eoin O’Riordan ’97. Emily writes: “My
favorite J Term was my sophomore year trip to the Bahamas to complete
my biology credit. We had a great group. We spent our days snorkeling
and hiking in the jungle, and at night we would identify what we saw. It
was an excellent trip, and one I will always remember.”
Mike Burbridge recently moved to Roanoke, VA, to pursue a new
opportunity in academic medicine. He was in private practice in
Greensboro, NC, for the past five years and now is teaching pediatrics at
Virginia Tech Medical School and working as a pediatric hospitalist. He
loves his new job and is excited about the new teaching opportunities
there. He writes: “I spent one J Term on campus and did an internship in
the OR at the hospital in Orlando another year.”
Geno Carr writes: “I am still recovering from an exhausting but
awesome run starring as Papa Who in The Old Globe Theatre’s
production of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas and just finished
an encore run of The Servant of Two Masters at Lamb’s Players Theatre.
I was lucky enough to be nominated for a San Diego Theatre Critics
Circle Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical for my
work in this show. I’m into the spring semester at Grossmont College,
teaching intermediate acting, and have started rehearsals for Cygnet
Theatre’s production of the musical Parade. This summer, I’m heading
to my brother’s wedding in Maine, going with my wife and her side of
the family to Hawaii, and then Nancy and I will once again be serving as
faculty with Semester at Sea. Busy, busy, busy, but truly blessed and
duly grateful! Track me down on Facebook or check out my website
(www.GenoCarr.com) to keep in touch!”
Jennifer Martin Dolan remembers her junior year, when she went to
South Africa during J Term. She writes: “It was an amazing experience,
and I would love to someday return. I have a lot of really great memories
from that trip!”
Kristen Falk remembers all her J Terms vividly. She spent her first two
on campus: first taking Horror in Film and Story with Drs. Hickey and
Hartley, then Electron Microscopy with Dr. Crooker, which involved
countless hours in the dark room. “The best part about J Term on
campus was that when it snowed, you really felt like you were at a ski
resort; no one was around, everything was very quiet, and sometimes
people were actually skiing or sledding down by the library.” Junior year
she joined Dr. Sessions for The Natural History of Costa Rica, where
she solidified friendships with Melissa Kalicin (while sharing a room
with Dr. Sessions’ son), Scott Beiter ’98 (best adventure/research/
mosquito-killing buddy), and Ekaterini Vlamis ’98. Finally, she
spent senior year with Drs. Murphy and Hamilton for Biology of the
Bahamas. Fond memories of time with Chris Valligny ’00, Aubrey
Walters Pitula, and Ginneh Lewis ’00 still linger.
Anne Fallon shares this great story: “I went to Jamaica for J Term
one year. I taught English at the Marcus Garvey High School. It was
an incredible experience; I learned a lot of about myself, life, and other
cultures. I also put it on my resume—people are always curious about
it and it is great to kick off an interview or just show a different side
of myself. When we got to the high school, the kids were a lot better
at math than we were, but they didn’t know much about English. The
teacher I taught with was really good at keeping the students in check
and keeping the lesson on track. The taxi drivers were always trying to
charge us way too much, and negotiating for souvenirs was very foreign
to me, but we got the hang of it by the end of the month. I look back with
fond memories.”
Gayle Huntress says her favorite J Term was sea kayaking in Mexico
on a NOLS trip for credit, and then the next year, gallivanting around
Europe with Kenli Schaaf. No credit for that trip unless you count
passport stamps and accumulated adventures.
Chrissy Quinn Husvar had a very busy 2011. She writes: “We finally
bought our first house! We moved two weeks before Christmas and it
has been interesting with a 2-year-old and my 8-year-old stepdaughter!
It’s in Ballston Spa and I just love it! We were happy to find a house
where my husband could stay in the same fire department where he’s
a volunteer. What’s funny is that John Mancini is one of the town
councilmen!”
David Imoto made partner at his law firm last year. He is now the
managing partner of their Orange County office. It’s been a great
opportunity and a challenge at the same time. All in all, life in Southern
California is going well.
Amanda Wait Januswicz writes: “After three months of seriously
boring bed rest, my husband, Paul, and I welcomed twin boys on
November 2. Jack and Graham were born one minute apart at almost
Congratulations: Joe Fayton ’08 and Katie
Faria ’10 were married August 20 in
Pelham, NH. They celebrated with Mark
Phillips ’08, Krystle Crouse ’10, Brian
DelBene ’08, Lindsay Snogles ’08, Melissa
Wasson ’07, Randy Brown ’08, Brian
Calitbiano ’08, Mike Angstadt ’08, Rachel
Drucker ’08, Moriah Drucker ’10, Marissa
Crisi ’08, Natalie Schnick ’08, Trish Shorey
’08, Kathleen Youngs ’10, Shannon Dion
’10, Charlotte Gabrielson ’09, and Kelly
Fayton ’13.
35 weeks. We are totally exhausted but loving every minute of it. In the
midst of everything, we moved into a new house to accommodate the
whole doubling in size thing, and to be closer to family. 2011 owes us
nothing!”
Kate Warner and Joe Johnson brought in the New Year discussing
milestones with their children over sushi dinner. She writes: “This year,
our eldest child will reach double digits in October and be in the fourth
grade in the fall. Our youngest child will reach 5 years old and start
school in the fall. I will graduate with my MBA; I am going to stay at my
current job for a while because I have tons to learn about being a case
manager still. We hope to be taking a big trip in the summer with my
family to Colorado. As for J Term, I will always think fondly of my trip
to Jamaica with the nursing department. I learned so much about what
can be done with little medical technology.”
Amanda Minker Kowalczuk remembers J Term as one of her favorite
parts of her Hartwick experience. She writes: “I spent three of them
away: theatre in England, anthropology in South Africa, and painting
in the Caribbean. Each one was a truly amazing experience, and I think
really helped shaped me during my college years. I think every college
student should experience a study-abroad program if they have the
opportunity.”
Nicole Barnhardt LaPlante did an internship at a veterinary hospital
for one J Term, stayed home and worked for two, and took a class her
senior year. She writes: “Senior year was my favorite, though, but mainly
because I took a class with two of my closest friends, Angie Fletcher
and Cari Malcolm, both of whom graduated early that year.”
Michael Lomasney’s favorite J Term was a trip to Syria, Jordan, Egypt,
and Israel in 1998. He is co-owner of Spring Close Restaurant in East
Hampton, which opened in Spring 2011.
Chad Lynch and Shelley Polinsky ’00 are happily raising baby Jack.
As the heir to the Shark Bar enterprise, Jack has already proven to
be a more useful leader than some of his co-conspirators. In a hostile
takeover, he reduced the roles of Andy Levy and Kean Bouplon to shot
girls. His biggest improvements include installing a mechanical shark to
ride in the Acton, MA, location, and adding celebratory bartenders in
the Delaware location. They write: “We’re very excited about his future
plans for worldwide Shark themed bar domination. Stay tuned!”
Kristen Mastromarchi shares more experiences from Italy: “I take
modern dance and flamenco lessons. I also started tai chi three months
ago. Other than that, I read a lot and I just finished writing a book. I
used to write poems, but prose seems to come easier for the moment.
And, of course, I always find time to hang out with friends. The big
thing here is to go out for a spritz, which is kind of like going out for
happy hour, only they fill you with food and you normally only get one
drink. It’s just a way to see your friends after work.”
Melissa Martin Mattimore would like to announce that she and her
husband had a baby boy on January 2. She writes: “His name is Rory
and he is an angel. We got the most wonderful New Year’s gift!”
Maria Johnson Messier has taken a position with Maria College in
Albany as an adjunct nursing instructor. She is teaching clinicals for
peds, med-surg, and OB. She writes: “This has been such an amazing
experience overall. I often think about my experiences at Hartwick,
especially those with Peggy Jenkins. Her teaching style always impressed
me, and I have tried to follow suit with my own students. I am still
working part time in peds home care, as well as providing conscious
sedation at Albany IVF. I have always said, the beauty of nursing is that
you can have your hand in many pots and still be home with your family.
Life is good!”
Kathleen Brennan Mills is working away at her dissertation (hoping
to graduate in the fall) and enjoying the antics of her 10-month-old! She
writes: “I took two J Term trips. In 1998, I went to Vienna, which was
a great trip with good friend Ann Whittaker Woelfersheim and Dr.
Frye, among others. The next year, I went with Sandy Huntington and
a group of 10 to Varanasi, India. One significant event of that trip was
the romance of Tara Hoffman Savage and Joe Savage! Those were
experiences I am so grateful for and will not forget.”
Dan and Jamie Irwin Morency write: “Jamie’s soccer team made it
to the finals of sectionals; the first time the Argyle Central boys soccer
had made it that far. Jamie was nominated for coach of the year for small
schools. I have taken a new position with the City School District of
Albany, working with teachers and administrators on the new evaluation
process. Our son Johnathan, 3, is a die-hard Adirondack Phantoms
fan and even has begun youth hockey. Our other son, Christian, is
very mobile for a 7-month-old. He has been crawling for two months
and already pulling himself trying to keep up with his big brother. I’m
looking forward to a visit from Brad Callahan, as we are headed to Lake
Placid to watch the Bobsled World Championships.”
Molly Myers shares this exciting news: “After over 8.5 years of dating,
we figured it was finally time to get married. Andrew Belden and I will be
getting married on October 7 in Mattapoisett, MA.”
Olya Guzman Nikulin and her husband, Eugene, had a baby boy,
Daniel, on February 17, 2011. Daniel keeps her very busy, and she is
looking forward to going back to work soon.
Dan Shapley has plenty to be happy about: “Our son, Ben Burroughs
Shapley, was born December 2. We’re looking forward to upcoming
visits to show him off to old Hartwick friends. Add to that a new job
with Riverkeeper (Riverkeeper.org), a nonprofit devoted to protecting
the Hudson River and the drinking water supply for 9 million New
Yorkers, and you have the recipe for happiness. Riverkeeper inspired
the waterkeeper movement that has created 200 citizen watchdog
groups worldwide. I’m proud to be working here (alongside Mackenzie
Schoonmaker, a lawyer in our Watershed Program who is the daughter
of Hartwick’s own Prof. Elizabeth Schoonmaker). As of this writing, I’m
also still a contributing editor at TheDailyGreen.com.”
Meg Katcher Shivel has this announcement: “Our family is growing!
Patrick James Shivel was born on 1/11/12 at 4:48 p.m., 8 pounds, 10
ounces, 20 inches long. Kevin and I are completely exhausted but so
in love with our son. While Claire (21 months) is adjusting to sharing
mommy and daddy, she is such a sweet big sister to Patrick. I am still
working in preschool special education and have spent the fall as part of
a multidisciplinary evaluation team, working with children who are just
turning 3 and transitioning from early intervention to early childhood
services. I am taking time off to spend time getting to know Patrick, and
then will be back to work for the rest of the school year, counting down
the days until summer break.”
Eric Shoen moved to Washington, D.C., in November to work on a
multimillion-dollar campaign for a nonprofit called C-Change, in the
hopes of preventing and curing cancer throughout America. He writes:
“The work challenges me, but I love it. I continue to run as often as I
can, with a few 5k, 10k, and a 10-mile race coming up. I was fortunate
to celebrate my birthday this year with Christopher Fredericks ’98,
Victor Willingham ’00, and Bethel Huller Willingham ’00. It’s
good to have some Hartwick connections in D.C.”
Meg McConnelee and Mitch Soden and their son, Adam, welcomed
Bethany Alana Soden on 1/1/12. She was 18.5 inches and 5 pounds,
13 ounces.
Shannon Sullivan writes: “December 14 marks the day that my wife
Brandi and I welcomed our beautiful baby girls into the world. We
had twin girls and they are amazing. They were a little early, as twins
sometimes are, but we are all home from the hospital and they seem
whole and healthy. They are eating well and growing like weeds. I
have had contact with other Hartwick Class of ’99 alums (which have
previously had twins) such as Brooke Bennett Thomas and Paul
Munsch, and although they offer small bits of advice, their words of
wisdom are priceless. I am very grateful for my daughters and feel very
blessed to have fine Hartwick family that I can depend on for support. I
am working for the Air Force, and all said, am feeling very blessed.”
Jonathan Wood writes: “2012 brings me back to Maryland full time.
Dan and I packed up and left Boston in December and have relocated
to Silver Spring, just outside Washington, D.C. I am excited to be back
and look forward to more regular camping trips on the Eastern Shore,
hiking in the western mountains, and starting school at the Corcoran
College of Art and Design to complete my masters in interior design.
Our wedding plans are moving along and we will have a photo to share
in the fall issue of The Wick. Would love to connect with D.C.-area
Hartwick folk—especially those in the art/design community.” E-mail
Jonathan at juanywood@gmail.com.
2000
Kristin Hall, hartwick2000@hotmail.com
Class correspondent Kristin Hall has been keeping busy as always.
Between working, buying a house (which comes with so many
projects), and going to a couple of conferences, she managed to fit in a
trip to Florida for Angel Marie Howe Swindell ’99’s wedding last
November. It was beautiful, lots of fun, and a nice break from November
in Maine! Also went to Acadia National Park the second week of January
. . . it was very cold, but there weren’t any crowds to contend with, either.
Caraly Benak writes: “Had a great time celebrating the New Year at
Sunday River in Maine with Taryn Chase ’00 and Sarah Pettit ’00.
Looking forward to June, when we will again celebrate, this time for
Sarah’s nuptials.”
Brooke Sandler Coleman added a son to her newly formed family of
four. Her daughter is 3 and couldn’t be any happier to be a big sister.
Brooke still lives just outside the Philadelphia area, still using her social
work degree, but is open to a move as her husband just completed his
Ph.D. and they are excited to see where this next chapter takes them.
Steve Horton writes: “Hortie, Brocktoon, Carhart, Hammer, and the
Smith Hall Ninja have not been in the same room since 2008. This
streak is in no danger of being broken. Thank you, and good night.”
Craig Laughlin writes: “I am about to take the most amazing step
in my professional life when I launch my own business (aiming for
4/2/12) and make my own future. Kinani Blue, LLC is a social media,
marketing, and corporate identity company serving small business/
entrepreneurs. Would love the support of the Hartwick Community!”
Find him online at www.facebook.com/kinanibluellc,
www.twitter.com/kinaniblue, and www.kinaniblue.com.
Ginneh Lewis writes: “I am teaching at the Girls Athletic Leadership
School in Denver, CO. Sixth grade science! Pretty entertaining.
Dancing in my spare time! I was in Buffalo for Christmas; always miss
NY!”
Maura Mancini writes: “Chris and I have had a lot of life changes
in the past year and a half. Our daughter, Lake Alexandra, arrived
on May 17, 2010, and we moved to Stowe, Vermont, a little over a
year later. We’re loving VT! I am teaching middle school science and
Chris is a sales rep for Patterson Dental. We’ve been enjoying hiking
and exploring our new state and are ready for the snow! We went to
a wedding in September and found ourselves surrounded by some
Hartwick alumni—Ed Mancini ’93, Judy Sandford Cliszis ’69,
Chris Mancini ’00, and me.”
Ria Megnin writes: “Life in Dayton, Ohio, is surprisingly awesome. I’m
living well as an independent writer and editor for small- to mid-sized
Celebration: Ian Kimball ’08 and Kayti
Adolay were married July 16 in Washington,
CT. The newlyweds were joined by friends
Melissa LaReau ’08, Stephanie Crane ’08,
Jesse ’09 and Sara Jane McCullagh ’09,
Trip Hoar ’09, Steve VanDuzer ’09, Maria
Beaudoin ’09, Marty Nee ’09, Craig Vitale
’07, Ali Gray ’08, Craig Leaness ’08, Kurt
Cedo ’07, Shaina Shorell ’08, best man
Paul Layton ’08, Kevin Milkovich ’09,
Erin Mosher ’08, Chris French ’09, and
Men and Women’s Swimming and Diving
Coach Dale Rothenberger with his wife
Cathy Rothenberger ’88. Ian and Kayti live
in Virginia Beach, where Ian is stationed,
flying for the United States Navy.
organizations with socially and environmentally responsible missions.
I’ve also begun art modeling and acting in community theatre, and will
hold a number of workshops in writing and peaceful communication
this year. It’s always great to connect with Hartwick family on my travels
and on Facebook—see you soon!”
Emily Moore writes: “I have been super busy! I am halfway through my
third year of teaching and absolutely love it! I completed my masters in
teaching this past December and am happy to have some time for just
me and my newly born niece, Annalise Janae! I also closed on a house
in April 2011 and this house is extra special because it belonged to my
late grandmother. I cannot imagine living anywhere else—except maybe
Florida after the snow we have gotten! I can only hope that 2012 brings
more joy and happiness to my family.”
Heather Piscione Falvo has been living in San Angelo, TX, for the
past two and a half years after three years in the Azores, Portugal, and
three and a half years in Lakenheath, England. She writes: “My husband,
TSgt. Michael Falvo (USAF-Radio/TV Broadcaster for the American
Forces Network), and I will be moving to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa,
Japan, this summer. I am in my 11th year of teaching biology to middle
and high school students around the world. My students love to hear
about deformed amphibians, and I still use the Scientific Method
website with them at the beginning of every school year!
Lindsay Silverman ran her second Boston Marathon (and eighth
marathon overall!) this past April, raising money to help Boston’s
homeless population. She writes: “I’m looking forward to spending
more time painting, volunteering with disabled adults, and trying new
beers!”
Jenn Persson Vennesland writes: My husband, Kenny, and I welcomed
our second child into the world this past April. Alana Debra (named
after her two grandmothers) is bubbly and adores her big brother, Shane
Hudson, who just turned 3. We moved into a new house in the fall and
are trying to get settled in. I work full time for SAS in Cary, NC, and am
working on my dissertation at UNC Chapel Hill.
2001
Jessica Hyde, JessicaHyde@yahoo.com
Class correspondent Jessica Hyde writes: “I am still gainfully employed
at Jefferson County Department of Social Services as a child protective
caseworker. I have no idea how I ended up here, but I think I like it. I also
bought a dirty house this year, which took a solid six months to clean. It
is now livable and no longer smells, so I consider it my greatest success
of this past 12 months.”
Shawn August writes: “Crystal got a new job down by the World Trade
Center and is now working normal hours so we get to see each other
more often. We are planning a two-week trip to London and Paris for
the summer and house hunting for a home in Rockland/Westchester
County, NY. We recently moved to a condo in Hartsdale and our living
room has several large windows allowing Newman to go nuts barking at
the black squirrels.”
Kristen Boschetto McMahon writes: “My husband and I bought a
home in Canton, MA, and are expecting our first child this May! On
top of buying a house and the new baby, I am also part owner in our
family business, Boston Baking, Inc., in Indian Pond Country Club,
Kingston, MA.”
Jenn Brooks writes that she is “spending most of my time these days
chasing kids or driving them places, but I’m also training for a 50-mile
trail race, doing lots of yoga, and camping with the family.”
Art Schouten writes: “I’m still busier than ever. This past spring, I
graduated from SUNY New Paltz with my CAS in school leadership.
I continue to work for Orange-Ulster BOCES as lead technology
integration specialist, overseeing technology applications and
professional development for 17 school districts. My wife and I
welcomed our third child, Madelynn Grace, on October 13. Life
continues to keep me busy between kids and work with the off chance of
visiting Oneonta and/or fellow alumni a few times a year.”
Jennifer Strekas Coombs writes: “My husband, Josh Coombs, and
I have moved to the Orlando, FL, area with our beautiful daughter,
Class of 2007
It’s your turn to choose this year’s recipient of the Margaret B. Bunn Award for Outstanding
Teaching. Like the award’s namesake—a dedicated Trustee and friend of the College—the faculty member you select will be
honored as the most influential professor during your time at Hartwick. Watch your mail and e-mail for voting instructions.
Cadence, who just turned 1. I am now teaching ninth-grade English
and still facilitating online classes and teaching group fitness. Now that
I’m not in Alabama, all my ’Wick girls have promised they’ll come visit
more often … apparently Disney World is more exciting than Auburn
football. War Eagle!”
Kim Treacy writes: “We welcomed our second daughter, Rory, on
September 5. She was 8 pounds, 7 ounces and 21 inches long. She joins
her big sister, Payton, who is now almost 4 years old. We are still living
in CT and I am working as a senior account manager for Gallagher
Bassett Services.”
Daniel Wagoner writes that his baby girl was due around Christmas.
“We are sure she will be smart, athletic and beautiful … or she will take
after us. Either way, we are looking forward to looking down at other
parents’ performances while ignoring our own faults. It’s going to be
awesome. For all the accountants, yes I told the ob-gyn that we must
induce by 12/31!”
Noreen Verbeck Pieper and Matt Pieper welcomed a baby girl, Sydney
Clare, on April 8, 2011.
Lindsay Ward Cogan writes: “My husband and I welcomed our new
baby, Zachary Cogan, on July 5, 2011. His sister, Shannon, is very
excited to be a big sister. I also have defended my Ph.D. thesis proposal
and am busy working on completing my final project and may someday
soon actually be done with school.”
2002 | 10th reunion
Meredith Robbins, meredithrbbns@yahoo.com
Jess Dakin Boldyga and husband Nick welcomed their son, Greyson
Liam, on November 12. He was 7 pounds, 10 ounces and 22 inches
long. Jess and Nick are loving being parents and Greyson is keeping
them on their toes.
2003
Erin Rowe, drowe214@hotmail.com
2004
Bry Anderson, bryanna.anderson@uconn.edu
Emily Reynolds Stringer lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her
husband, Matt, and two children, Lilah Jean (3) and Charlie Rey (born
March 20, 2011). Emily has branched her writing career out to a
blossoming food blog, www.definingdelicious.com.
2005
Edwin Siegfried, edwin.siegfried@gmail.com
Kevin Brennan writes: “I am getting married this August to Katie
Hansen. We live in our home town of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. I work
as a staff analyst for the NYC Parks Department. She is working as a
substitute teacher until the hiring freeze is lifted.”
Qi Liao welcomed a baby girl, Margaret Liao, on December 24.
He received his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the
University of Notre Dame and started his academic career as assistant
professor at Central Michigan University. Find him online at cps.cmich.
edu/liao1q.
Cynthia Oldfield works for the Office of the General Counsel at the
global law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP.
2006
Send your updates to your class correspondents:
Brian Knox, brian.j.knox@gmail.com, or
Florence Alila, fakoth@hotmail.com
Caitlin Dwyer and James Jewitt became engaged in September.
Caitlin is completing her Ph.D. in political science at the University
of Minnesota and James is finishing his Ph.D. in art history at the
University of Pittsburgh. They are planning a December 2012 wedding
in Utica, New York.
2007 | 5th reunion
Sara Caldwell, caldwells@hartwick.edu
2008
Nathalie Aall received her master of science in biology with a
concentration in herpetology from Marshall University. She is working
with the USGS in Sierra Nevada this summer, looking at Yosemite load
distribution.
Alison Brooks was inducted into Alpha Upsilon Alpha, the
International Reading Association honor society. She also was elected
secretary of the Alpha Pi Chapter at Framingham State University. She
is enrolled in a post-baccalaureate teacher-education program at the
university and will complete her student teaching this spring.
2010
Wyatt Uhlein, wuhlein@cpexre.com
class notes deadline
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Send your news to alumniclassnotes@hartwick.edu or the class
correspondent listed under your class year. Please understand that
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In Memoriam
1950 | Grace (Wardner) Winne of Kingston, NY, a member of an
extended Hartwick family that spans a century, died on December 16.
Mrs. Winne was deeply interested in history, particularly the 18th
century sloop, “The Lady Washington,” and was fascinated by family
genealogy and the history of Ulster County, NY. She served as an
aircraft spotter during World War II.
She ran the family rental housing business, was employed by the
Ulster County Mental Health Department and, later, by Sears in the
purchasing department. She supported the Ulster County SPCA and
sponsored the rehabilitation of many abused animals.
Mrs. Winne was devoted to her family: her husband of 54 years, Robert
J. Winne ’49, now deceased; their children, Dr. Michael W. Winne ’76
and Lauren Winne Papadakis ’70 and their spouses Debra Ziros Winne
and Alec Papadakis ’71, Esq.; and her grandchildren Brooke, Kristine,
and Ryan Winne and Maria Papadakis ’06 and Robert Justin Papadakis.
She is also survived by her sisters Elizabeth Wardner Foote ’49 and
Margaret Wardner Edwards ’55, brother-in-law Major Captain Leslie
R. Edwards ’54; as well as her niece Margaret Foote Palmer ’77 and
her husband, Bruce Palmer ’77. Mrs. Winne was predeceased by her
brother-in-law Robert A. Foote ’50.
The family’s Hartwick tradition began with Mrs. Winne’s grandfather,
the Rev. Loren T. Cole, Hartwick Seminary Class of 1908.
Gifts in memory of Grace Wardner Winne ’50 can be made to
Hartwick College, Office of College Advancement, One Hartwick Drive,
Oneonta, NY 13820.
1969 | Colleen (Madden) Goldsack, of North Plainfield, NJ,
died November 9. She is survived by her husband of 40 years (The
Hon. Canon) John Wood Goldsack ’69, their children DorothyJane Goldsack Porpeglia ’99 and Kevin Grant Goldsack, two
granddaughters, her sister Aileen Gaumond and sister-in-law Caryle
Steggall, and a niece and nephews.
Colleen was born in Oneonta while her father, William H. Madden ’49,
was a Hartwick College student. She met her husband on a Hartwick
choir tour and they shared a love of music throughout their life together.
Their daughter, DJ, is an attorney, Hartwick volunteer, and former
member of the Alumni Association Board and Hartwick Board of
Trustees.
Colleen taught high school mathematics in New Jersey for many years
before retiring to raise their children. Always a teacher, she continued to
tutor and was a Girl Scout leader. She enjoyed music, writing poetry and
letters, photography and many other creative endeavors throughout her
life. A musical memorial service was held at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church,
Albany. At the invitation of the family, members of the Hartwick
College choir performed throughout the service, led by Assistant
Professor of Music Jason Curley. President Margaret L. Drugovich and
her partner Beth Steele; Lillian Dox, widow of longtime choir director
Thurston Dox; and development officer Kathryn Gibson were among
the many friends who paid their respects.
Gifts in honor of Colleen Madden Goldsack ’69 may be made to
Hartwick College, Office of College Advancement, One Hartwick Drive,
Oneonta, NY 13820.
Friend | Grace Brandt Binder, the First Lady of Hartwick College
from 1959 to 1969, died on February 5. She served the College
with her husband, Dr. Frederick Moore Binder, while he was the fifth
president of Hartwick.
Mrs. Binder was born in Philadelphia in 1922. During World War
II she taught high school history and later worked as a full-time and
substitute teacher of history and English. As First Lady of Hartwick,
she was known as a gracious hostess and valued partner to her husband.
She later accompanied him on a Fulbright Scholarship to Yugoslavia,
supported his presidencies at Juniata and Whittier Colleges, and
enjoyed their life of travel.
Mrs. Binder was predeceased by her husband of 60 years in 2004. She
is survived by their daughters, Janet Binder Houts, Esq. and Roberta
(Robin) Binder Heath, Esq.; sons-in-law, John Houts, Esq. and Richard
Heath; grandson Frederick Houts, M.D.; granddaughter, Kathryn
Houts Houlihan and her husband, Aaron; great-grandchildren, Abigail
Houlihan and Sean Houlihan. She is also survived by grandson Connor
Heath; and step-grandsons Andrew Heath and Derek Heath.
Contributions in memory of Grace Brandt Binder can be made to the
Frederick M. Binder Scholar Athlete Award, Hartwick College, Office of
College Advancement, One Hartwick Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820. The
annual prize recognizes a senior male and a senior female whose four
years at Hartwick reflect excellence in both scholarship and athletics.
1941 | Kathryn (Yeckel) Lang of West Simsbury, CT, died
December 26. She was a librarian at the Hartford and New York City
public libraries before retiring. She is survived by her two daughters,
Joanne Nelson and Martha Watts; five grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild; and was predeceased by her husband, Nathan, and son,
Matthew.
Hospital in Redlands, CA; served as a nurse at the Community
Hospital; and retired in 1990 as geriatric nurse at Manor Care Nursing
Facility in Albuquerque. She was an active member of her church,
serving on the Women’s Association and teaching Sunday school.
She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Jaime; four children, seven
grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.
1944 | The Rev. Rowland S. Conklin of Schenectady, NY, died
October 25. After Hartwick, he received his master of divinity degree
from Drew Theological Seminary and served as a pastor for six years
before becoming superintendent of the Albany district of the United
Methodist Church. He retired from Burnt Hills United Methodist
Church in 1985 and continued his ministry until May through weekly
bible study with his fellow residents at Kingsway Manor in Schenectady.
He was predeceased by his wife of nearly 64 years, Ruth, and son Bruce.
He is survived by daughter Carol, five grandchildren, and nine greatgrandchildren. 1950 | Gerald E. Watkins of Earlville, NY, died November 29. He
joined the Army immediately after graduation and retired in 1970 with
the rank of lieutenant colonel. He then worked for Proctor & Gamble
until his retirement in 1983 and owned and operated Leatherstocking
Fish Lures for nearly 30 years. He is survived by his wife, Mary; four
children; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren; and was
predeceased by his daughter, Teri. 1945 | John S. Thomas of Tucson, AZ, died September 19. He
was prominent in the Indianapolis community, serving as an executive
with Eli Lilly and the Humane Society, as well as an active volunteer for
numerous civil and charitable organizations. He was predeceased by his
wives Margaret and Patricia and is survived by his wife Ruth Ann, son
Mark, daughter Beth, brother George, granddaughter Lindsey, and two
great-grandchildren. 1947 | James G. O’Neil, Sr. of Fort Lauderdale, FL, died August
26. He attended Hartwick on an athletic scholarship and was an avid
golfer throughout his life. He was president of Keith Clark, Inc (AtA-Glance) in Sidney. He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Jean; their
sons, James and Dennis; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren;
and his brother, Thomas O’Neil ’37. 1948 | Ross E. McCarthy of Geneva, NY, died September 12.
After graduating from Hartwick, he received his M.S.W. from the
University at Buffalo. He worked as a psychiatric social worker for
Family Services in New Haven, the UConn School of Social Work, the
Milford Mental Health Clinic, and in private practice. He volunteered
for the Army during World War II, served in the Pacific, and attained
the rank of staff sergeant. He was predeceased by his wife of 40 years,
Barbara, and his companion Geraldine. He is survived by his son
Robert, daughter Christine, and five grandchildren. 1949 | Arthur J. Hillis of Davenport, NY, died on March 11. He
was a math teacher at the Treadwell High School and a veteran of World
War II, serving in the United States Navy. Surviving are his daughter,
Deborah A. (Andrew) West; two sons, John D. and Steven A. Hillis;
four sisters, Nellie Dent, Mollie (Marvin) Young, Irene Buel, and Joyce
(Clifford) Shoemaker; one brother, Ralph(Mabel) Hillis, and several
grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins. He is also survived by his
wife Carolyn Hillis and her two children.
1949 | Ruth Quinones of Albuquerque, NM, died November
23. She received her Hartwick degree in nursing and spent time as
a missionary nurse in Puerto Rico. She was supervisor at Children’s
1950 | Ignatius DiBello, of Clay, NY, died December 3. A native
of Oneonta, he was a member of Hartwick’s football team, first golf
team, and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. A World War II Navy veteran,
he served at the Battles of the Philippines and Okinawa and was highly
decorated. He worked for General Electric for 37 years and was a
founding member and past president of the Clay Sportsman’s Club.
He is survived by his wife, Elinor; daughter Lorraine (Thomas Grier)
DiBello; and son John (Randi Mason) DiBello; granddaughters Kylynn
Grier and Sara DiBello; and sisters Victoria Grodevant and Yolanda
Carroll. 1959 | Florence A. Christoph, of Selkirk, NY, died July 4. She
earned her Hartwick degree in mathematics with honors and soon
married Peter R. Christoph ’60. She taught high school mathematics
before becoming a homemaker and mother. Her community service
included PTA president and volunteer for the Bethlehem Historical
Association and the Town of Bethlehem. Her hobbies included
genealogy and she discovered that all her immigrant ancestors were
in America before 1760. She eventually became a nationally certified
genealogist and wrote and edited many books, including multi-volume
genealogies of the Schuyler and Van Voorhees families. She and Peter
also co-edited several volumes of colonial New York government
documents. She was active in the First Lutheran Church of Albany,
serving on the congregational council and in the choir. Her final project
was an illustrated timeline of the history of the First Lutheran Church,
the United States, and Lutheranism which is displayed in the Hartwick
Lounge. She is survived by her husband of 52 years, two sons, a
daughter, and a granddaughter. She was predeceased by a sister and four
brothers.
1963 | Patrick John Fish of Ballston Lake, NY, died January 15. An
Army Reservist from 1960 to 1966, he received his JD from Albany
Law School, became an attorney for the New York State Assembly,
and was recruited by the New York State Department of Corrections
in 1971, where he helped to institute prison reform. At 35, he became
chief counsel to the commissioner, the youngest to have held that
position. He later worked for NYS Environmental Conservation
and Facilities Development Corporation before entering into private
practice. He was predeceased by two brothers and is survived by his wife,
Mary; daughters Erin, Patricia, and Cristin; seven grandchildren; and
two brothers.
1966 | Harriett (Cook) Galasso of Loveland, CO, died December
14. She had taught music in schools in upstate New York before
working at Hewlett-Packard Company, first in New Jersey, then
Colorado. She retired in 2000. The many joys of her life included
Windjammer Cruises to the Caribbean and traveling to Paris, France.
She was predeceased by her parents and a brother and is survived by
her husband of 30 years, Francis “Hank” Galasso; close friends; two
“adopted grandchildren;” and several cousins.
1968 | Courtland B. Fitch of Rutland, VT, died November 8. He
is survived by his twin sister, Janice Fitch Hansen ’68 and her husband,
Gerald, of Rutland. After receiving his Hartwick degree in psychology,
he served in the Air Force and was stationed in Japan. He later worked as
a psychiatric social worker at the Central New York Psychiatric Center in
Marcy, NY. 1971 | Garry D. Brown, M.D. of Hutchinson, KS, died on March
23, 2012 after a short illness. He was a pathologist and a graduate
of Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is survived by his
father, George A. Brown; brother, Collins G. Brown (Sandra); and niece,
Stacy B. Husted (Joel).
1970 | John R. Crawford of Edgewater, MD, died August 31. He
earned his Hartwick degree in physics and spent the majority of his
career as a physicist and engineer for the National Security Agency
at Fort Meade. He enjoyed the outdoors, especially camping, fishing,
boating, and bicycling and became interested in operating amateur
radios later in life. He is survived by his wife Sandra, daughter Christin,
son Jeffrey, and sister Joan. 1973 | Jerome T. Kacprowicz, Sr. of Spring Lake Heights, NJ,
died December 28. He played basketball at Hartwick, was a retired
school teacher and basketball coach, and served as an usher and
CCD instructor for St. Catharine’s Church in Spring Lake. He was
predeceased by his parents and a nephew. He is survived by his children
Angela and Jerome Jr., his sister and brother, and numerous nieces and
nephews.
1979 | Robert “Bob” T. Stillman of Leominster, MA, died
peacefully on March 20. A political science major, he enjoyed a very
successful career in the insurance industry. Bob is survived by his three
children James Stillman, Jonathan Stillman, and Elizabeth J. Stillman
’14; his parents Paul and Joanne Stillman; his three siblings Jacqueline
D. Halowack ’81, Phillip Stillman, and Deborah Stillman; his ex-wife
Rebecca (Goff) Stillman ’79; and friends Steven B. French ’80 and
Debra F. French ’80. His children respectfully request that gifts in his
honor be made to the Robert T. Stillman Memorial Fund at Hartwick
College, One Hartwick Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820.
1981 | Robert P. Patterson III of Brooklyn, NY, died January 12.
After graduating from Hartwick, he received his CSW from NYU
School of Social Research and studied for a postgraduate degree in
Gestalt Psychotherapy. He worked as a social worker in Manhattan,
where he had a clinical psychotherapy practice. He is survived by his wife
Cristina, his father, and three siblings.
1983 | Trygye B. Swift of Marshfield, MA, died December 10.
After graduating from Hartwick, he received his master’s degree in
biology from Harvard University and worked as an environmental
analyst for the Massachusetts DOT. He was an avid photographer with
a passion for travel and was a coach for the Marshfield Youth Soccer
League. He is survived by his wife Laurene and children Alexandra and
Andrew. 1993 | Florence Jill Thorp, of Baltimore, MD, died October 3. She
received her Hartwick degree in art history and her master’s in library
science from Syracuse University. She was a slide librarian at Hartwick
for seven years before becoming media resources director at the
Maryland Institute College of Art. Most recently, she was the institute’s
director of Decker Library. She is survived by her parents, two brothers
and sisters-in-law, two nephews and a niece, and many more family and
friends. Friend | Barbara C. Dailey, a former member of the Hartwick
Citizens Board , died on January 14. She was a longtime Oneonta
business woman, first helping her father manage Roslyn Shops, then
running Oneonta Family Cleaners and U-Totem Laundromat with her
husband. She is survived by her husband, Willis C. Daily; a brother; two
sons; grandchildren; and great-grandchildren.
Parent | Philip Camponeschi, father of John Camponeschi ’06,
died January 4. He is survived by his wife Nejla, five children, nine
grandchildren, and a niece and nephew. He earned his law degree
from the University of Maryland and became a member of the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights, a speech writer for Vice President Hubert
Humphrey, and a leader in the Peace Corps.
Family | Karen Atchinson Hart of Raynham, MA, died December
30. She was predeceased by her father, William K. Atchinson, Jr.; and is
survived by her husband, Kenneth Hart; her mother, Joyce Atchinson;
brother William Atchinson III ’78 and his wife, Deborah ’79; brother
Robert Atchinson ’79 and his wife, Michelle ’79; aunt Barbara Harrison
’52 and her husband, Bob; and many nieces and nephews.
Family | Frederic Rahr of Sun Lakes, AZ, died December 1. He
is survived by his wife, Irma (Donaloio) Rahr ’50, daughters Patricia
Lakowske and Phyllis DeCremer, stepdaughter Brenda Donaloio-Lee,
two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Friend | WC Kuhn of Laurens, NY, died October 21. He was a
United States Navy veteran, having served in Vietnam. He is survived
by his mother, Margaret; companion Deborah Spataro; son Walter;
and a granddaughter. He was predeceased by his father, Walter Kuhn,
Hartwick College vice president of finance from 1963 to 1982.
Parent | Ruth K. Webber, mother of Jane Webber Shernow ’80,
died August 13. She is survived by three children, a brother, nine
grandchildren, and her extended family. She was predeceased by her
husband of 48 years, Ralph.
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Study Abroad –
The Early Years.
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you in these pictures of 1983 or 1992?
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The experience continues: Students in
German Term in Vienna 2012.
Generations of Hartwick
alumni feel tied to one man:
Dr. Wendell Frye. They share
powerful memories with him
in one timeless place: Vienna,
Austria. Over the course of 30
years, hundreds of students have
taken his German Term in Vienna
course, practiced their German
among native speakers, studied
centuries of European history as it
intertwined culture and place and
politics, and tried out a bit of their
own independence.
50 Years, 50 Gifts
A Long and
Lasting Reach
Scott Holdren ’80
Hartwick is fortunate to have many stalwart
advocates; individuals who have witnessed and
experienced personal transformation through
their association, who make direct links to
ensuing professional and personal success, and
who continue to nurture lifelong relationships
that began on the Hill.
Scott Holdren ’80 is tops on that list. Recognized as the 2009
Outstanding Volunteer, he serves on the Alumni Association Board;
is active on the Capital Region Alumni Network Committee with his
wife, Susan Pomeroy Holdren ’81; and joins every possible alumni
event. His greatest satisfaction comes not from an award, though, but
from his many students who have moved on and made Hartwick
their own.
A career educator, Holdren teaches physics, forensics, and computer
science at Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Senior High School and serves
as advisor to the school’s National Honor Society and National
Science Olympiad team. Conversations can wander in his labintensive courses, and he often “switches from teacher to coach.”
Invariably the talk turns to college.
“People often ask me: why do you like
Hartwick so much? I left with two very
important things: a job in my field and
a wife. I still have them both; I still love
them both.”
By Elizabeth Steele | Elizabeth Steele is a professional writer and the
partner of President Margaret L. Drugovich.
Scott Holdren ’80 with his wife, Sue ’81, and three of his recruits:
three-year student Britney Lintner ’12; ’Wick assistant football coach
Keith Geraldsen ’09; and James Buono ’14, who spent J Term in
Ireland.
“Everyone knows I went to Hartwick—you can’t miss it,” he
laughs. “I have a Hartwick bumper sticker on my classroom door
and a Hartwick cup and coffee mug on my desk.” One of his email
signatures proudly announces he is Hartwick Class of ’80. “The kids
will ask me about Hartwick,” he says, “or I might casually interject
when something they’re interested in is something I know they could
do at Hartwick.”
Holdren is discerning in his referrals. “Before recommending
Hartwick, I ask myself: Is this student someone who could do well in
that close environment? Would they avail themselves of and benefit
from the many opportunities offered at Hartwick? Could I see them
on a J Term abroad and networking through MetroLink?” He further
considers each of his students as a potential Hartwick graduate. “Five
years from now, would I enjoy sitting with them at an alumni event? If
the answer is no, then I don’t mention it.”
When the answer is yes, then a mention is all he makes; at first. “If I
think a student would be good for Hartwick and Hartwick would be
good for them, I want them to look at it,” he says. “If they want to take
the conversation further, that’s great. Only then do we get in a heavier
conversation. That’s when I’ll try to put them in touch with one of
my students who’s there now. I’m a firm believer in person-to-person
networking.”
He honed this approach early. “Sue and I met at Hartwick in select
choir with Dr. Thurston Dox; she was the cute soprano in the front
row,” he remembers, grinning. “We studied together until the library
closed and then it was off to the Coffee House.” The couple was
engaged before graduation.
“People often ask me: why do you like Hartwick so much?” Always
quick with the answer, Holdren says, “I left there with two very
important things: a job in my field and a wife. I still have them both;
I still love them both.
“I love this place, we both do,” he says. “It’s natural to weave Hartwick
into our lives.”
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Coach of the Year, Three Times Over.
Hartwick’s Todd McGuinness (men’s basketball), Missy West (women’s basketball), and Dale Rothenberger
(swimming and diving) all earned recognition for their coaching and leadership this season. West and
McGuinness are the Empire 8 Men’s and Women’s Coaches of the Year; Rothenberger is the UNYSCSA
Men’s Coach of the Year. West was further honored as one of nine finalists for the Women’s Basketball
Coaches Association’s Division III National Coach of the Year. Turn to page 32 for more Hawks news.

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