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WP HAS A “SIT-DOWN” WITH JOE PISTONE/DONNIE BRASCOFormer FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone ’65 talks candidly abouthis undercover life in the Mafia and subsequent career as anauthor and television/film producer and consultant.

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SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE, UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SERVE THE COMMUNITYWilliam Paterson students demonstrate the growing nationaltrend of civic engagement programs and community-basedlearning.

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Dear Friends,

Last March, a group of William Paterson students headed south for springbreak but, instead of the traditional relaxation at the beach, they spent the week inMechanicsville, Virginia, volunteering on a Habitat for Humanity project to build ahouse for a family in need.

These, and many other dedicated William Paterson students, are vibrant examplesof a national trend toward increased volunteerism and civic engagement by youngpeople. The devastation of lives and property caused by hurricanes Katrina andRita have brought out the best in many Americans who have donated time, energy,and financial resources. Examples of these volunteer efforts are heart-warming andinspiring. So are the efforts of those, including our own students, who work on anongoing basis to assist people and programs in their communities.

In a feature story in this issue of WP Magazine, we highlight the dedicationof a wide range of William Paterson students and the institutional commitment toincorporate civic engagement into the learning process.

Last year, the University began participation in the American DemocracyProject, a national program that works to create an understanding of and appreciationfor civic engagement by undergraduate students. The project is sponsored by theAmerican Association of State Colleges and Universities and the New York Times.Our participation has blossomed into a civic engagement across the curriculuminitiative highlighted by faculty development of courses with a civic engagementcomponent in all five of our colleges.

The American Democracy Project has conducted a number of other successfulinitiatives on campus, including an effort to encourage students to vote in the 2004presidential election and then, an effort to build on the success of that voting driveby encouraging students to vote in the fall gubernatorial election.

The response of our students and faculty to the project, combined with theindividual efforts of so many other students, provides much optimism for the futureand demonstrates what can be accomplished when people care and act to have apositive impact on others.

As always at William Paterson University, we feel an obligation to providestudents with the education and experiences that create a foundation for successfullives. Our commitment to a balance between academic and experiential learning isevident throughout the University. It is heartening to see so many of our studentsbuild on those experiences to reach higher levels of achievement as students and asdedicated citizens of the world.

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HELPING TO SHAPE THE UNIVERSITY’S FUTUREI’m just so happy with the education I received at William Paterson. I’ve always beenindebted to the University for preparing me so well for a very rewarding, forty-yearcareer as a teacher…The University has expanded so much since the time I was lastthere...That’s why I feel I need to support this wonderful institution of learning…I’m verymuch interested in furnishing scholarships, not only for students who can’t afford to go tocollege, but also for people who want to further their education in the field of teaching.

Like Richard Kulp, alumni and friends who make a planned gift to William Paterson willbe recognized as members of the University’s newly established Hobart Society.

For information on leaving a bequest to William Paterson or other planned givingopportunities, contact Joanne Nigrelli, executive director of development, at 973.720.2332or via e-mail at nigrellij@wpunj.edu.

2006 Legacy HonoreesJoseph and Marcia Bograd • Founders, Bograd’s Fine Furniture

The Pharmaceutical and Medical Technology Industry of New Jersey •Award Accepted by The Honorable Robert D. Franks, President, HealthCareInstitute of New Jersey; U.S. House of Representatives, Seventh District (1993-2001)

The Reverend Louis J. Scurti, Ph.D. (“Father Lou”) • Director, CatholicCampus Ministry, Bishop Rodimer Catholic Campus Ministry Center, and theJesus Christ Prince of Peace Chapel

Distinguished Alumni AwardEdna Cadmus ’76, Ph.D., RN, CNAA • College of Science and Health •Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center

Marjorie Falck Heller ’62, Ed.D., College of Education • Superintendent ofSchools, Little Silver, NJ

Susan Lisovicz ’78, College of the Arts and Communication • Correspon-dent, CNN; Co-host, In the Money

Vincent Mazzola ’73, College of Humanities and Social Sciences • VicePresident, Emerging Markets, Business Development, Lucent Technologies

Faculty Service AwardMarion P. Turkish, Ph.D. • Professor, Department of Elementary and EarlyChildhood Education, College of Education

Honoring the leadership of faculty, alumni, and members ofour community and supporting the development of future

leaders—our students

The Villa at Mountain Lakes, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey

Cocktails, Dinner, Dancing, and Silent/Live AuctionFestivities begin at 7:00 p.m. • Black Tie • Invitation to Follow

16th AnnualLegacy Award Galaand Silent/Live Auction

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Pictorial History Published In Celebration of University’s150th Anniversary

The University’s150th anniversary iscommemorated in a new, 128-page pic-torial history titledWilliam Paterson University, written byVincent N. Parrillo, a William Patersonprofessor of sociology.

It features morethan two hundred

photographs along with compelling histori-cal narrative that chronicles the significantgrowth and development of the institutionfrom its founding in 1855 as PatersonNormal School to its present stature as acomprehensive regional university witheducational innovation and exceptionalprograms.

William Paterson University was published by Arcadia Publishing as part of its Campus History Series. The book is available at online bookstores and through Arcadia Publishing at www.arcadiapublishing.com or 888.313.2665. It retails for $19.99.

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tographs and documents at the PatersonPublic Library and the Passaic CountyHistorical Society, as well as in the campuscollections of the William Paterson University Alumni Association and theUniversity Archive.

“The book is filled with historical pho-tos, narration, and insights that tell of thepeople, places, and events that togethershaped William Paterson into the compre-hensive, regional university it is today,” saysParrillo. “My goal was to capture the essenceand spirit of the institution throughout itshistory, not just the chronological unfoldingof its evolution from normal school toregional university. I wanted to acquaintreaders with the people behind the namesaffixed to buildings and to have each cap-tion not just describe its picture but alsoadvance the story of the University's past,

present, and future. Moreover, asa sociologist, I looked to add astrong human dimension to thishistorical portrait.”

The book covers the institu-tion’s early years, from its foundingin 1855 in a Paterson schoolhouseto train teachers for the publicschools of Paterson to its moveto the current campus in Waynein 1951. It also documents the

institution’s tremendous growth in academicprograms and facilities in the 1960s, itstransformation to a multipurpose liberalarts college in the 1970s, and, in 1997, itsdesignation as a university. The book alsoincludes chapters on academics, athletics,college life, and the future direction ofthe University.

Parrillo joined the William Patersoncommunity in 1966. An internationallyrenowned authority on immigration, multi-culturalism, race, and ethnic relations, heis the author of six books and numerousscholarly articles. He produced, wrote, andnarrated the 1990 award-winning PBS-TVdocumentary, Ellis Island: Gateway toAmerica, and the critically acclaimedPBS-TV documentary, Smokestacks andSteeples: A Portrait of Paterson.

The recipient of Fulbright Scholar andFulbright Senior Specialist awards, Parrillohas served as scholar-in-residence at theUniversity of Pisa. Since 1991, the U.S.Information Agency has sent him abroadmore than a dozen times to confer withgovernment officials and give lectures andpress conferences on minority rights issues.He is also the co-author, with Beth Parrilloand Arthur Wrubel, of Ridgewood, a picto-rial history of his hometown.STUDENTS AT BARBOUR’S POND IN WEST PATERSON, 1941

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Gallery Exhibit Focuses On150 Years of Women’s Collegiate FashionAn article in the January 13, 1967 edition ofthe campus newspaper, The Beacon, focusedon a controversial campus issue: wasn’t ittime that women be allowed to wear pantsto class?

This article offers just a brief glimpseinto one of the most visible changes in the150-year history of the University—namely,what students, particularly women, wearon campus.

“Clothing often reflects the larger con-cerns of a society, from economics and poli-

tics to social issues,” says Nancy Einreinhofer,director of the University’s Ben Shahn Galleries. “The role of women in society inparticular has been reflected in the clothingthey wear.”

Drawing on archival materials dating fromthe institution’s earliest years as the PatersonNormal School to current photographs, Ein-reinhofer explored the history of women’scollegiate fashion in the context of a dynamicAmerican culture in a semester-long exhibit,“Revelation and Revolution.”

“It was really a fascinating project,” saysEinreinhofer, who read numerous books,pored over hundreds of photographs, and

scoured local vintage clothing and antiqueshops to document the evolution ofwomen’s collegiate fashion, which she out-lines in a catalog that accompanies the

WOMEN’S FASHIONS CIRCA EARLY 1900S

Bill Cosby Headlines BenefitPerformance for Creation ofThe Clark Terry Concert HallAt the University

The Bill Cosby Dream Band, featuring jazzlegend Clark Terry, fellow jazz great JimmyHeath, Terry’s Titans of Jazz Big Band, andWilliam Paterson University students,joined together on November 8 in a specialfund-raising musical performance to bene-fit the creation of the Clark Terry ConcertHall at the University. The event drew afull house in Shea Center on campus.

Last year, Terry, one of the most influentialjazz trumpeters and a founding father of thejazz education movement, donated his extensivearchive, including manuscripts, recordings andmemorabilia, to William Paterson, home of the

internationally renowned jazzstudies program. As part ofthe establishment of the ClarkTerry Archive, the Universityannounced its intention toraise funds for the Clark TerryConcert Hall that will housethe archival materials andserve as the new home forWilliam Paterson’s acclaimedJazz Room Series and otherperformances.

“Sometimes, when we jazzpeople perform or have a spe-cial occasion, we think that‘it’s only amongst ourselves,’that it’s not important, that

‘it’s only us, it’s only jazz’ – but this is tremen-dously important,” said Cosby prior to theevent. “The fact that an institution likeWilliam Paterson University would have thevision to build Clark Terry Hall and name itafter a living jazz icon is just incredible. Peopleshould realize how important it is and supportthis effort.”

Cosby, who beganhis career as a warm-upact and emcee in jazzclubs, served as masterof ceremonies and“band frontman” forthe event, and per-formed several humor-ous routines with Terry,Heath, and the band.Terry opened the con-cert by performing sev-eral of his originalcompositions with a

POSING PRIOR TO THE EVENT WERE (REAR, L. TO R.) MULGREW MILLER AND DAVIDDEMSEY, LEADERS OF THE UNIVERSITY’S JAZZ STUDIES PROGRAM, BILL COSBY, PRESIDENT ARNOLD SPEERT, (FRONT, L. TO R.) JIMMY HEATH, AND CLARK TERRY

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group of William Paterson jazz studentsfrom the new ensemble class he now teach-es at the University. Then, joined on stageby Cosby, he performed with his Titans ofJazz Big Band, which includes, among oth-ers, William Paterson faculty, students, andalumni.

“This was a memorable evening insupport of an exciting initiative,” saysArnold Speert, president. “We are hon-ored that Bill Cosby joined with us to helpto build excitement for our plans to con-struct an outstanding concert hall that willbenefit students and the community. Thehall will ensure that the wealth of impor-tant material in the Clark Terry Archivewill be visible and accessible to scholarsand jazz fans.”

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Sesquicentennial CelebrationIncludes Charter Day ReceptionMore than one hundred faculty, staff,alumni, and friends of the Universityattended a special Charter Day Receptionat the Paterson Museum on April 20 tocommemorate the institution’s foundingin 1855 in Paterson as the Paterson Normal School.

“One hundred fifty years ago, three orfour people gathered in Paterson to createan institution to train teachers for thechildren of the city’s millworkers. Theycould not have imagined its growth into auniversity,” says President Arnold Speert.“We are fortunate that we began in this city,and that we continue to have a connectionto Paterson through many of our programsand initiatives.”

During the event, Sandy Williams, aPaterson businessman, presented Speertwith a framed portrait of his father, HenryA. Williams, a former New Jersey assem-blyman, state senator, and editor and

publisher of the Paterson Morning Call.Sen. Williams was involved in drafting thelegislation that transformed the institutionfrom the Paterson Normal School, an entitycontrolled by the city, to the New JerseyState Normal School at Paterson. He wasalso co-chair of a committee in the 1940sthat looked at a building program for thecollege and spearheaded the eventualpurchase of the Hobart estate, where theUniversity has been located since 1951. Theportrait is on display in Hobart Manor.

University Establishes DegreePrograms in Asian Studies,Professional SalesWilliam Paterson has added two timely newundergraduate bachelor’s degree programs.

The University has become the first highereducation institution in the world to offera bachelor of science degree in professionalsales. The program is an outgrowth of theUniversity’s Russ Berrie Institute for Profes-sional Sales (RBI), a unique partnershipbetween the private sector and higher edu-cation that provides educational and trainingprograms for undergraduate students andsales professionals.

The degree will prepare students forcareers in sales and sales management, pro-viding them with the academic knowledgeand practical skills required for success intoday’s complex business environment. Afocus on experiential learning allows studentsto apply and demonstrate their understand-ing of the concepts and theories acquired inthe classroom through realistic hands-on salesand business settings.

The Department of Professional Sales inthe Christos M. Cotsakos College of Busi-ness offers courses such as professional sell-ing, negotiation, global perspectives in sales,sales management, strategic account andcustomer relationship building, andadvanced sales. In addition, the Institutecontinues to provide consulting and salesforce training for a variety of businesses.

All courses in the professional sales pro-gram are highly interactive and experientialand make extensive use of the Russ BerrieProfessional Sales Laboratory, a state-of-the-art facility that supports the development ofoutstanding sales skills in an interactive sim-ulated office environment.

“Virtually every aspect of the selling pro-cess has changed dramatically over the lasttwo decades,” says Jim Brown, executivedirector of RBI. “This bachelor of science

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exhibit. “In 1855, when we were founded,there were no ready-made clothes and nosewing machines, so a woman’s dressesneeded to be made for her. That fact, alongwith social class, really restricted the numberof garments a woman could own. Theindustrial revolution, and the developmentof ready-to-wear clothing, especially theboom in manufacturing after World War II,gave women broader choices.”

The exhibit features a variety of materi-als, including photographs, actual vintageclothing, and other memorabilia such asfashion magazines and sewing patterns todemonstrate how much times have changedon campus. Photographs depict the PatersonNormal School Class of 1903, outfitted inlong, white, high-necked Victorian dresses;1950s co-eds in wide skirts and cardigansweaters; students dressed in hippie-stylejeans and fringed jackets in the 1960s;designer label chic worn by female studentsin the 1980s; and current students sportingtoday’s casual and retro styles.

In particular, Einreinhofer says, collegewomen were responsible for the trend ofdenim as a fashion staple. “The denim revo-lution is an on-campus phenomenon,” sheexplains. “In the 1960s, what began as astatement by the era’s flower childrenbecame a uniform. Blue jeans became thegreat equalizer, crossing class lines and thegeneration gap.” When many colleges still

had dress codes and slacks were forbiddenfor women, as they were for women atWilliam Paterson until 1967, denim was away to show independence and freedom.Today jeans are ubiquitous on campus, butworn in a variety of styles—bleached, dyed,embroidered, ripped, cuffed, and more.

In conjunction with the exhibit, studentsin a summer design course taught by AngelaDeLaura, associate professor of art, assistedin designing the catalog. Participants includ-ed Karen Kozlowski, a senior majoring in art,who created fashion illustrations for eachtime period, and Daniel Fernandez, who tookphotos of current students. Also, six studentsfrom a fashion design course taught by NishaDrinkard, an assistant professor of art, creat-ed their own contemporary fashion designs,which have been featured on mannequinsas part of the exhibit.

degree in professional sales offers thebroad-based curriculum and the practicalskills needed to meet the challenges of thefast-changing business world. Customersincreasingly want salespeople who are pro-fessionals, who understand their businesses,who can solve problems, and offer excellentcustomer service.”

A new bachelor’s degree in Asian studies,with courses taught by faculty from a widearray of departments and programs,enhances the internationalization of the Uni-versity’s curriculum. The multidisciplinaryprogram, housed in the College of Humani-ties and Social Sciences, is built on thestrength of the University’s diverse faculty.Asian studies faculty, including many whoare Fulbright scholars, are based in depart-ments such as art, anthropology, communi-cation, economics, geography, history,languages and cultures, philosophy, politicalscience, sociology, and women’s studies.They provide expertise and research coveringmost of Asia, including India, Pakistan,China, Japan, and Southeast Asia.

“This program is the way of the future,”says Isabel Tirado, dean of the College ofHumanities and Social Sciences. “Much ofthe world’s population lives in Asia, andbecause United States trade with Asia isnearly twice that with Europe, our economyhas become very interconnected with coun-tries including Japan, China, and India.”

The program is designed to prepare stu-dents for careers in teaching, government,international business, non-governmentalagencies and organizations, journalism,communications, and for advanced study.The thirty-credit bachelor’s degree curriculumintegrates the study of language with Asianhistory, culture, economics, and politics. Stu-dents may choose from east Asian or southAsian track courses, and language coursesinclude Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi.

John Martone Named Vice President for Student Development

John Martone, whojoined the Universitythree years ago asassociate vice presi-dent and dean ofstudent development,has been appointedvice president forstudent develop-

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Claudette Barry, associate professor ofnursing, died in June 2005. A specialistin home health care nursing, Barryjoined the University in 1983. Previous-ly, she served as an assistant professor ofnursing at Seton Hall University, a pub-lic health nurse in Essex and Hudsoncounties, and in the health departmentsin New York City and Washington, D.C.The author of numerous journal articleson home health care nursing, Barry wasa member of Sigma Theta Tau, the inter-national nursing honor society. Sheearned a registered nursing degree fromthe Lenox Hill Hospital School of Nurs-ing, a master’s degree in nursing fromthe Yale University School of Nursing,and a doctorate in educational adminis-tration from Seton Hall University.

James Karge Olsen, who served aspresident of William Paterson from 1968to 1972, died in March 2005 at age 83.Olsen was the first William Patersonpresident whose background was not inteacher education. He presided over theinstitution’s state-mandated transforma-tion in mission and curriculum from afocus solely on teacher education to thatof a multipurpose liberal arts college, aswell as the name change from Paterson

I N M E M O R I A MIt is with great sadness that we mourn

the passing of three members of the University community.

State College to William Paterson Col-lege. Olsen was instrumental in intro-ducing a culture of shared governanceand the importance of celebratingdiversity. A professor of political sciencefrom 1949 to 1967 at Kent State Uni-versity in Ohio, he served as dean ofarts and sciences at Illinois State Uni-versity prior to assuming the presidencyat William Paterson. In 1973, he becamedirector of the Zanesville campus ofOhio University, a position he helduntil his retirement in 1977.

Ronald Parris, professor of African,African American, and Caribbeanstudies, died in October 2004. Parris,who joined the faculty as professorand chair of the department in 1989,previously served as the CovingtonDistinguished Professor at DavidsonCollege in North Carolina, a programofficer for the UNESCO Sector ofHuman and Social Sciences, Paris,France, and dean of the School ofArts and Sciences at Virginia UnionUniversity in Richmond, Virginia. Aspecialist in issues of sustainable devel-opment and the environment in theCaribbean, he served as president from1998 to 2000 of the International Sci-entific Council for Island Development(INSULA), an international non-gov-ernmental organization concerned withissues of sustainable development andthe environment based at UNESCO inParis. The author of numerous publi-cations, Parris earned a bachelor’sdegree in sociology and anthropologyfrom the University of Rochester, amaster’s degree in sociology from theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara,and a doctoral degree in sociologyfrom Yale University.

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Art Professor Launches GlobalFund-Raising ProjectsThrough the Web

Multimedia artist KristenPalana has always had an inter-est in volunteer work. She hastraveled to India to help under-privileged families, and, mostrecently, spent three weeks thispast summer teaching at theMaua Hills Vocational TrainingCentre in Tanzania, where shehelped set up an art, music, andcomputer program to enable thelocals to learn marketable skills.

Two years ago, Palana, anassistant professor of art atWilliam Paterson, decided tosponsor a child through Chil-dren International, a nonprofitorganization dedicated toimproving the lives of childrenliving in dire poverty. Shelooked at countless photos ofchildren from poverty-strickencountries like Chile and Colom-bia until she found eleven-year-old Aura Hernandez ofGuatemala. “Aura likes to drawand paint, and has chubby

cheeks, just like I did as achild,” says Palana. “She alsowants to be a first grade teacherwhen she grows up.”

After learning that Aura’sfather, a farmer, makes only$74 a month, and that Aura,her mother, and five siblingswere living in a two-room,mud-walled house, Palanadecided to combine her talentsin Web design, electronic pub-lishing, and animation with herdesire to make a difference. InJune 2004, with assistance fromstudents and faculty and inputfrom Children International,she launched the Web site,www.aurashouse.com, to raisethe $4,500 needed for a newhome for Aura and her family.

To date, the site has raisedmore than $11,000: $5,700 forAura and her family, and$5,500 for a second project forthe Rojas family of Honduras,who were living in a one-roomshack. Visitors to the Web siteare able to read about bothprojects, make online dona-tions, and see photos of both

happy families, as well asAura’s newly built house.

Palana says she is gratefulfor the overwhelming supportshe received from the Univer-sity community, particularlyher students. “Some workedon the Web site, while othersmade posters and postcardsand even donated their changeinto a jar,” she says.

Inspired by Palana’s grass-roots method of raising sup-port for Aura’s house, ChildrenInternational launched its Spon-sor Thon feature on its ownWeb site. Sponsors interestedin spreading the word aboutsponsorship can sign up andcreate their own personal cam-paign to help a child in need.

Palana is continuing to addinformation about new pro-jects to her Web site, includingplans to raise funds for a waterwell for a village in India andfor school uniforms and sup-plies for children in Zambia.She also will be teaching acourse on campus in summer2006 for the University’s newcivic engagement initiative,which will involve students increating a Web site for a localnonprofit organization. “Whileit’s true that we can’t alwayshelp everyone in the world, itis true that everyone can helpsomeone,” she says.

Faculty Receive Fulbright Awards

Theodore F. Cook, a professorof history and an expert onJapan and World War II, andStephen Newton, an assistantprofessor of English and direc-tor of the Writing Center, havebeen named Fulbright scholars.

Cook, who received a seniorresearch award, will conduct

THE ROJAS FAMILY OF HONDURAS MIKE SEBETICH, RICHARD PARDI, AND A STUDENT DAVID SHAPIRO LECTURES ON ARTTAKE WATER SAMPLES

THE HERNANDEZ FAMILY’S CURRENT HOME

University Awarded$400,000 Grant toStudy Pollution ofLocal Brook

The New Jersey Departmentof Environmental Protectionhas awarded the University$408,586 to develop a plan toreduce pollution in nearbyPreakness Brook in Wayne.

Richard Pardi, a WilliamPaterson professor of environ-mental science, and MichaelSebetich, a professor of biolo-gy, will direct the eighteen-month project, which willfocus on reducing stormwaterrunoff, which can carry fertil-izers, pet waste, motor oil, andlitter into the brook, severelyimpacting water quality.

The 8.9-mile-long Preak-ness Brook begins on HighMountain in High MountainPreserve, winds through theUniversity campus, and even-tually meets up with the Pas-saic River. One of the cleaneststreams in northeastern NewJersey at its headwaters, thebrook is significantly pollutedat its juncture with the Passaic River.

“This is a particularlyinteresting project because thebrook is in a suburban/urbansetting, and because the waterquality of the stream changesso dramatically from its pointof origin to its end,” says Pardi.

The project will includewater quality sampling at vari-ous locations along the brookto determine sources of thepollution, development of rec-ommendations for managingstormwater runoff along thewaterway, and creation ofeducational and informationalmaterials for the local commu-nity. A number of Universitystudents are expected to par-ticipate in the project.

Psychology ProfessorAsks: Are Mothers andFathers Treated Differently in theWorkplace?

Women worried about hittingthe “glass ceiling” as they tryto climb the ladder to leader-ship positions in the workplacemay face an additional barrierif they are mothers: the mater-nal wall.

Elizabeth Haines, an assis-tant professor of psychology atWilliam Paterson, along withthree other researchers, con-ducted a study that indicatesthat women who are mothersare less likely to be hired andpromoted than childless work-ers. The study, Mothers andFathers in the Workplace: HowGender and Parental StatusInfluence Judgments of Job-Related Competence, was pub-lished in a recent issue of TheJournal of Social Issues.

In the study, which usedWilliam Paterson undergradu-ates as one group of partici-pants, students were asked toevaluate a candidate applyingfor a job as an entry-levelimmigration law attorney. Allparticipants reviewed the sameresumé, but with a few keydifferences. Two candidates,one man and one woman, wereidentified as single and child-less. Two other candidates,again one man and onewoman, were each identified asmarried with two children.

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research during 2006 in Aus-tralia at the invitation of theUniversity of New SouthWales in Canberra and theAustralian Defense ForceAcademy. His research willfocus on how Japan and theJapanese were assessed andviewed by Australians duringWorld War II and in its after-math. In particular, Cook willexamine materials held byinstitutions such as the Aus-tralian War Memorial, whichcontains, among other docu-ments, unique records ofJapanese efforts at reeducationand reorientation in post-warPOW camps in the SouthwestPacific. He also plans to inter-view Australian veterans abouttheir war experiences. A spe-cialist in how World War II wasexperienced by the Japanese,Cook is the co-author of Japanat War: An Oral History andnumerous articles. This is hissecond Fulbright award.

Newton is the recipient of aFulbright grant, and is lectur-ing in the American StudiesDepartment at the Universityof Graz in Austria throughJanuary 2006. While there, heis teaching three courses—The Literature of the BeatGeneration, Films and Litera-ture, and Twentieth CenturyAmerican Popular Fiction—and continuing work on arange of writing projects.Newton is the co-editor ofRediscovering New York: Our-selves and Our Environment; hiswork has appeared in numer-ous literary magazines andacademic journals.

The Fulbright program isthe U.S. government’s flagshipinternational exchange pro-gram for scholars. WilliamPaterson’s faculty has receivedthirty-one Fulbright awards.

Participants weretold some aspects ofwhat the jobentailed. They werethen asked to ratethe job candidateon job-related com-petence, standardsfor hiring (e.g., howoften would thepotential employee need to bearound to be hired, what kindof standardized test scores orGPA the candidate wouldneed in order to be hired), andlikelihood for hiring and pro-motion. Some participantswere asked to make judgmentsabout the “ideal worker” to useas a baseline.

“In general, parents werejudged as less committed totheir jobs and less available atwork compared to those with-out children,” Haines explains.“Surprisingly, participants setlower employment standardsfor fathers than they did formen with no children and formothers. Fathers requiredlower ability scores in order tobe seen as hirable and wereseen as needing to have lesspresence in the office thansingle men and the mothers.The female parent was lesslikely to be hired or promotedwhen she was a parent than anon-parent.”

Haines says she was sur-prised by how leniently thefathers were treated. “Manypeople view a father as needingthe job more because he has astay-at-home wife and mustwork; whereas, a lot of peopleview the mother, assumingshe’s heterosexual and married,as having a spouse who is theprimary wage earner. Andthat’s a stereotype becausethat’s not the case for a lot ofpeople applying for jobs,” shesays. “We think of stereotypesas only being negative anddamaging to people. But at the

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C L A S S N O T E SLearning About Art in Its Own MilieuArt in New York, Professor David Shapiro

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Saturday mornings take an artisticbent during the spring and fallsemesters for the group of studentswho enroll in Professor DavidShapiro’s Art in New York class.

He has taught the art classfor more than twenty-five yearsin much the same way. Althoughthe art he exposes the studentsto changes, the manner in whichthey view it is the same—all artis viewed in its own milieu. Allfifteen weeks of the semester areheld in museums such as theMetropolitan Museum of Art, theGuggenheim Museum, and theFrick Collection. He guides thestudents to art in studios, gal-leries, and museums all over thecity in a never-ending quest tobring the students to the artinstead of bringing the art to thestudents.

“I wanted to get the studentsaway from the torpor of the slideshow,” he says. “I am particularlyconcerned with the idea that artmust be touched, seen in the realenvironment, not hinted at in therumor of a slide. It is a class inurban space and a class in museol-ogy.

In one lesson, held at Poet’sHouse on Spring Street in SoHo,Shapiro had his twenty studentslook at a painting with the assign-ment of writing a poem about it.The work, by Elise Asher, depictedbirds, villages, and a lonely boatwith a ghost inside.

“Some students rhyme theirpoems, even after I say they don’thave to,” Shapiro says. “Somewrite full-length stories. Then eachstudent recites and each responds.We are then able to see howcriticism can be creative. In othermuseums, students stand in frontof a masterpiece and do what Icall ‘communal seeing,’ a phrasefrom my own mentor MeyerShapiro, who taught at Columbia.They critique each other’s cri-tique. Gradually, we build up to aclass that hardly wants to leaveby the two-hour mark. We takeno prisoners, have no lunches orinterruptions. And I always tellthem to continue in the galleries.Often students are with me until5:00 p.m. from 10:00 a.m. or soin the morning.”

One student, Milmari Ramirez,a senior majoring in graphic

design, says this class was “anawesome experience. Mostly inschool students get used to seeingthe Old Masters, not art that isvery contemporary. We went toa lot of different galleries,” shesays. “We met the artists whocreated the works we were see-ing. Looking at art in a book islimiting—to see the size andtexture of a piece makes it moreof an experience.”

Another student, Nancy V.Wicks, was also drawn to thegalleries the class visited. “Theidea of going to visit small gal-leries in the city appealed to me,”she says. “Dr. Shapiro really madeit all worthwhile. He was the typeof person that was great just tolisten to. To walk with him alongthe streets of Manhattan andenter random galleries was alarge eye-opener and such aneducational experience.”

Multitalented, Shapiro is anart historian, poet, the author ofthirty books, and a musician inaddition to being a professor, andthis is his favorite class.

“I am able to bring true artistslike Connie Buckley, Lucio Pozzi,

or Israeli artist Tsibi Geva to speakto my classes, and often in theirstudios,” Shapiro says. “What isa subtler, yet more direct way tolearn? We have heard so manyartists over the years. More than one hundred have devotedthemselves, usually gratis, to our classes.“

Infinitely curious, Shapirowants to share his interest andknowledge of art with the luckystudents who sign up for hisSaturday morning class.

“Art is a vast array of experi-ences,” he says. “It is specific, likelove. It is also so complex thatwe will fight about the family ofarts forever. It includes us, butalso history, materiality, and theaddressee. The adventure is filledwith experiences that we maynever decode, or always argueabout. When students think theyhave learned nothing, they areoften changing their lives imper-ceptibly, like an apple on a tree.Then we all fall…upwards.”

Students appreciate the uncon-ventional approach to learningabout art. “My favorite momentof the class was when we wereall supposed to meet at the Met,”Wicks remembers. “After wegathered the class together, Dr.Shapiro decided to skip the Metand walk to see the Gates (atemporary installation by theartists Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, in Central Park lastFebruary), which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Gateswere only displayed for a fewweeks, so he thought it was onlyappropriate. To walk through theGates in Central Park with Dr.Shapiro on that Saturday afternoonwas so nice that I will rememberit for the rest of my life. To be sospur of the moment and so freewas exciting and memorable.”

DAVID SHAPIRO LECTURES ON ART IN POET’S HOUSE IN SOHO

College ofEducationProfessor ConductsResearch atOxford

Melda N. Yildiz,assistant professorof secondary andmiddle school edu-cation, was a visiting researchscholar at the Summer Instituteat Harris Manchester College,Oxford University, for a weeklast July. Yildiz, whose researchfocuses on media education,studied “the integration of newmedia and technologies intomedia literacy curriculum froma British point of view.”

According to Yildiz, mediaeducation is necessary becauseit promotes critical autonomy,democracy, and health, anddevelops a global point ofview. “Kindergarten to gradetwelve teachers need to inte-grate media literacy and mediaproduction skills throughoutthe curriculum to enhancelearning,” she explains.

Yildiz was recommended forthe fellowship by a Universitycommittee of faculty, and wasonly the second member of theWilliam Paterson faculty select-ed to attend the institute. w

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Lift Your Soul,” which willfocus on his music and on jazzas a unique American art form.

“This is truly an excitingopportunity to hear one oftoday’s jazz masters performand discuss his music,” saysDavid Demsey, professor ofmusic and coordinator ofWilliam Paterson’s Jazz StudiesProgram, who was a classmateof Marsalis’s at The JuilliardSchool in the late 1970s.

The artistic director of theprestigious Jazz at LincolnCenter program, Marsalis isalso a distinguished classicalmusic performer. He has wonnine Grammy awards and isthe first jazz musician to behonored with the PulitzerPrize for music. He has pro-duced thirty-three jazz andeleven classical records and hassold more than seven millionrecords worldwide, includingthree certified gold records. In2001, United Nations Secre-tary General Kofi Annan pro-claimed him an internationalambassador of goodwill andappointed him a UnitedNations messenger of peace.

Marsalis is also a dedicatedjazz educator. He meets withstudents wherever he is, regu-larly conducting master classesin schools.

Separate tickets arerequired for each event. Forinformation on either event,call the Shea Center Box Officeat 973.720.2371.

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Philosophy ProfessorWrites Book About Childhood

Marie-Louise Friquegnon, aprofessor of philosophy, exam-ines the needs of children andapplies a philosophical perspec-tive to their rights in her newbook, Reflections on Childhood:A Philosophical and Psychologi-cal Study of the Nature, Rights,and Needs of Children.

She starts by posing aquestion for parents: “What arethe grounds of responsibilitiestoward children over and abovethe obvious ties of family life?”She also discusses childhood asa developmental process whichis “marked by the acquisitionof certain rights and assump-tions of new responsibilities.”

Based on this tenet, shebelieves that “childhood is arehearsal for a life of adultresponsibilities…with moreand more expected from theperformers as opening night(adulthood) nears.” Problemsensue, she writes, becausepeople reach adulthood at dif-ferent ages. In adolescents, theparts of the brain that governbehavior are often underdevel-oped, leading to differences in maturity.

Friquegnon says she wrotethe book primarily because ofconcerns about “theories thatfailed to understand the valueof giving children both protec-tion and freedom, and thepractice of treating children asadults in criminal courts.”She sent copies of thebook to Supreme Courtjudges before they ruledagainst executing juve-niles. “Perhaps my bookhad some influence ontheir decision,” she says.

same time that some stereo-types are damaging and keeppeople back, other stereotypesmove people forward in thecontext of privilege, or who ismore deserving.”

How can we prevent socialfactors and stereotypes frominfluencing these on-the-jobjudgments in the future?Haines says the first step is toshow that these stereotypesexist, followed by educationabout the fact that not all fami-ly organizations are traditional.“The data also can be used tohelp prosecute sex discrimina-tion cases. Once companiestake responsibility for theseactions, then they will makemore of an effort to try tochange the way their humanresource departments operateand educate managers aboutbias,” she adds.

Jazz Icon WyntonMarsalis Slated for JazzRoom Concert and Distinguished LecturerSeries Appearance

Wynton Marsalis, the jazztrumpeter, bandleader, andcomposer who is one of theworld’s most recognized jazzartists, will be on campus onSunday, March 19, 2006, for aspecial dual appearance as partof the University’s nationallyrenowned Jazz Room Series aswell as the twenty-sixth seasonof its acclaimed DistinguishedLecturer Series.

Marsalis and his Sextet willperform at 3:00 p.m. in SheaCenter in the final concert ofthe spring 2006 Jazz RoomSeries. Later that evening, at7:30 p.m., Marsalis will returnto Shea Center for his Distin-guished Lecturer Seriesaddress, titled “Letting Jazz

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The Beacon:

Shining a Light on

The Campus for

Nearly Seventy Years

IT WAS NOVEMBER 2, 1936—NEARLY A DECADE BEFORE TELEVISION,

THE DAY BEFORE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT WAS RE-ELECTED TO A

SECOND TERM, AND WHEN AMERICA WAS CLIMBING UP FROM

THE MIDST OF THE DEPRESSION. IT WAS THE DAY A STUDENT

NEWSPAPER CALLED THE BEACON WAS BORN AT PATERSON

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

James Houston, an enterprising twenty-five-year-old freshman with some

experience in printing, recognized the needfor a paper. He was one of four hundredstudents attending the college located atSchool No. 24 in Paterson, New Jersey. Itwas a young institution with a big futureand news to share. Houston published thefour-page tabloid under the flag ThePaterson State Beacon, and became its firsteditor-in-chief. “I think I called it theBeacon because I tend to like lighthouses,”he later reflected.

There were no earth-shattering headlines or boldannouncements in the firstissue. Just upbeat newsabout the success of theHalloween dance, field tripsplanned, and a plea for anew school photograph.Front-page headlinesannounced that thelibrary added two hun-

dred new books and explained why certaincourses were popular.

But what began as a seemingly innocu-ous monthly also signaled the start ofsomething important. “New ventures areboth fascinating and thrilling,” wrote RobertH. Morrison, the principal, in a letterpublished in the first issue. “Publishing astudent newspaper is one of the finestventures that you can have. You can makethe traditions that will guide and directthe publishers of the student newspaperfor years to come.” The Beacon traditionhad begun.

Houston returned to the campus toteach from 1952 to 1981, and witnessed

the newspaper’s growth and change. “Wedid not anticipate solving problems orsetting the world straight when we started.We just wanted a college newspaper for thefun of it and to tell what was happening,”he commented years later. In 1986, severalformer Beacon editors banded together topublish a special fiftieth anniversary issueand included an interview with Houston,now 95 and a resident of Newton, NewJersey. “It amazes me how the Beacon hasgrown and what a tremendous thing it hasbecome,” he told them.

Glancing through past issues of theBeacon, whether yellowed originals orthose preserved on CD, is like taking avirtual ride through time. Editors dutifullychronicled the institution’s growth from itsquarters in the upper floors of an elemen-tary school in the Silk City to the 370-acresprawling campus in Wayne. They wroteabout each new president, each new studentleader, and each new academic program.Enrollment soared and along with it, sodid the hopes and dreams for the institu-tion. Years rolled by. Building after buildingwas erected; and years later, many received

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facelifts. As the college grew, so did theBeacon. It went from a meager tabloid witha $139-a-year budget to a computer-for-matted newspaper independently financedby $30,000 worth of advertising. Fromsock hops to student protests, from theKennedy assassination to September 11,and from a teacher’s college to a compre-hensive regional university, the Beaconcovered every milestone.

Those who held the job of editor-in-chief of the Beacon say it was one of themost memorable, life-altering events oftheir lives. It doesn’t matter if it was lastyear or four decades ago. They stillremember the grueling schedule, relentlesshours, staff shortages, and pulling “allnighters” to meet the final deadline. Fromthe days of tediously working on a hunt-and-peck manual typewriter to today’sstate-of-the-art computers, most Beaconeditors put in fifty to seventy hours a weekworking on the paper.

John Byrne ’75, Beacon editor from 1973to 1975, says he didn’t sleep on Thursdaynights. “I stayed up at the Beacon officewith my team of people, working throughthe night into the next day. I’d go to classes,would inevitably go out on a date on Fridaynight, and would finally get to bed at 1:00a.m. Saturday morning. That was myschedule for two years.” Byrne, an authorand journalist, is now executive editor ofBusinessWeek magazine.

“It was not unusual for us to be up allnight long for days in a row working onthe paper— it was just crazy,” remembersJoseph Farah, a Beacon editor known forputting out massive, forty-page issues in1977. Farah is the founder, editor, andchief executive officer of WorldNetDailyNews and a nationally syndicated radiotalk-show host.

Scott Sailor ’86, owner of Bruised AppleBooks in Peekskill, New York, says hepretty much lived in the newspaper officewhen he was editor. “I was there aboutseventy hours a week, sleeping on the

couch, eating chicken pot pies out of thelittle toaster oven. I guess my enthusiasmwas infectious because everybody else onthe paper pitched in and we got it all done.I don’t know what it’s like now, but it surewas a lot of fun.”

One of the most rewarding benefits ofthe Beacon experience has been the cama-raderie shared among the staffers. “We wereall very close and good friends. We had tobe because we worked closely with eachother late into the nights on production,”says Mike Palumbo ’87, now an attorney.The newspaper office generated manyromances, like that of Emma Trifiletti ’64and Michael J. Burns ’64, who took turnsserving as editor and later married. It’s alsothe bond that brought together friends, likeJudy Smagula Farah ’77, editor for KFCKradio in Sacramento, California, and SusanLisovicz ’78, anchor and correspondent forCNN Business News. When the terroristattacks occurred on September 11, 2001,Farah was on vacation and visiting Lisoviczin Hoboken. The two women journalists,once Beacon staffers together, went out and

reported on the historic tragedy. Workingat the Beacon was an experience thatforged lasting relationships, marriages,lifelong friendships, and put many on thepath to remarkable careers.

Joining the Beacon could be intimidating.Lisovicz still remembers how nervous shewas the first time she walked into theBeacon’s office in the Student Centerbuilding. Once in, she says, “the Beaconhelped me hone my skills as a fledglingreporter and gave me the confidence tostick with journalism.”

Student editors learned on the job,gaining confidence, raising questions,investigating, sometimes instigating, andflexing their editorial muscle. The Beacon’seditors also learned how to budget theirtime and juggle responsibilities. Andbecause they also squeezed in time forhomework, part-time jobs, and a sociallife, they admit to making their share ofmistakes. Typos, grammatical mistakes, andblurred photographs were not uncommon.More than one editor remembers walkinginto class after the day of publication, head

HERB JACKSON, THE LATE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION (STANDING, CENTER) ON PRESS DAY 1985 WITH FORMER BEACON

STAFFERS (STANDING L.TO R.) STEWART WOLPIN ‘78, MICHAEL REARDON ‘78, JOHN BYRNE ‘75, HEIDE ALEXANDER ‘83, (SEATED, L. TO R.)COLIN UNGARO ‘75, SUSAN KELLIHER UNGARO ‘75, AND BARRY M. RUBENSTEIN ‘82

For more on the history of the Beacon, including photos, remembrances, and past

issues, please visit the University’s Web site atwww.wpunj.edu/alumni/beacon

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few cars at the time we felt fortunate whensomeone could drive the dummy paste-upsto the printer.” Audrey Betts ’53, Beaconstaffer from 1949 to 1951, remembersthose days too. “We worked on the Beaconwherever we could—in the cafeteria, out inthe park across the street, or at home,” shesays.

The Beacon cheered for the expansion ofthe college, and supported Dr. Wightman inhis plea for a new campus and buildings.After delays, disappointments, and uncer-tainties, the Beacon’s headline on November30, 1951 proclaimed “College CampusDream Comes True for State; StudentsPass Through Gates for the First Time.”“It was a happy time to be growing up. Thewar was over. And many of us were thefirst person in our families to go to college,”remembers Betts, who worked as assistantdirector of financial aid at William Patersonbefore retiring in 1990.

Throughout the 1950s, the editors ofthe Beacon never dared to make waves.The editorial policy, which bore the initialsof Emily Greenaway, the newspaper’s long-time faculty advisor, was spelled out in theMarch 5, 1956 issue. It said, “The Beacondoes not print anything that would discreditthe Government of the United States,

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hung low, hoping no one would notice hisor her mistakes. Through it all, mosttook the job of being a journalist veryseriously, voicing student concerns,and pushing for a better campus.

In its earliest years, the Beaconinformed the campus about schooldances, exam schedules and teachersconferences. It could also be an outspo-ken participant, admonishing studentswhen they lacked school spirit and cheer-ing them on to support social events andattend ball games. In 1939, a typical con-troversy involved the overcrowding andmisuse of the “social room” which wasclosed and later reopened on the conditionof good behavior. “Try to remember thatthere are people below who are trying towork. Keep the radio turned down and the‘jitterbug stuff ’ turned off,” scolded theMarch 27, 1939 editorial.

The mood turned serious as World WarII gripped the nation. By 1943, nearly allmale students were called into service. TheBeacon was mailed to every student-turned-soldier and a special section of the paper,called “Staters in Service,” was devoted tonews about servicemen. Excerpts fromservicemen’s letters to Dr. Clair Wightman,president of the college, included poignantand heartrending reports from the frontline. “Combat isn’t as bad as it’s supposedto be—it’s plenty bad,” wrote Lt. GeorgeReilly, the twenty-two-year-old pilot of aB-17 Flying Fortress. “Every time I start abomb run I say my prayers. Flack looksharmless, just puffs of smoke, but at thetarget the sky is black and when you can seeflame in the bursts, it’s too close. I’ve hadflack holes in my plane on every mission sofar.” In the following edition of the paper,Reilly was reported missing in action; hedied in combat in November 1944.

After the war, the college was floodedwith men who took advantage of the G.I.Bill of Rights. Not all of them wanted tobecome teachers. Many enrolled with theintention of fulfilling two years of liberalarts requirements before transferring toanother college. Paterson State was out-growing its space in School No. 24 and sohad the Beacon.

“It was difficult (being the editor)because our office was the closet in thelibrary,” recalls Mary Lobosco Zanfino ’49,who served as Beacon editor from 1946 to1947. “We had one typewriter. And with

the State of New Jersey, Paterson StateTeachers College, the Administration of theCollege, or the Student GovernmentAssociation.” The underlying spirit of theBeacon, it said, was “Malice toward none;with charity toward all.”

As the Bob Dylan song predicted,“The times, they are a-changin,” and inthe 1960s so did the Beacon. In 1961, afterthe death of Greenaway, Fred Clossbecame the newspaper’s faculty advisor.“He was very supportive of our opin-ions, our rights, and what we felt wasgoing on,” remembers Emma TrifilettiBurns, editor in 1962. When studentsstaged their first protest in 1962—aboycott of cafeteria food because ofpoor quality and high prices—thestory was splashed in a bold headlineabove the masthead. The Beacon wasno longer under the thumb ofadministrators. “The editorial col-

umn is the soul of ideas, and the mind ofopinions. It is the voice of the student,”said the Beacon on October 12, 1962.

Two years later, President Marion Sheacaused a major uproar by suspendingseven student leaders, including three offi-cers of the Student Government Associa-tion, “for actions detrimental to thecollege.” Beacon co-editor Michael J.Burns ’64 and staffer Al Pecci interviewedthe president, but she offered no detailson the suspensions. Local newspapers gotwind of the story, and President Shea wasforced to issue a statement discountingrumors that the school newspaper wasbeing censored. Burns, who went on tobecome a CEO of several major corpora-tions, still recalls the day the New YorkTimes called his house. “My mother was anervous wreck because she thought I wasgoing to get suspended too, but I told hernot to worry.” The Beacon carried storiesand editorials on the incident, includingphotographs of students conducting apeaceful march in protest. Two weeks aftertheir suspension, the students were rein-stated. Today, Mike and Emma Burns livein Bellevue, Washington. Mike is the presi-dent and CEO of Pioneer Human Ser-vices, a Seattle-based non-profitorganization; Emma works as an adminis-trative assistant at First PresbyterianChurch of Bellevue and is the author ofnumerous Christian devotionals.

In 1969, the paper endorsed a Morato-

A SECOND CAMPUS NEWSPAPER, THE PIONEER TIMES, WAS

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Herbert G. JacksonFondly Remembered:A Journalist, Teacher,Mentor, and Friend

Herbert G. Jackson had a major

influence on every student he

taught in class and guided as a

faculty advisor to the Beacon from

1973 to 1990.

Former students describe him as an

“old school” newspaperman, “slightly

gruff,” with a good sense of humor.

At heart, he was a teddy bear.

Jackson was an award-winning

journalist who spent nearly twenty-five

years as a newspaper editor before he

was hired in 1973 to build a journalism

curriculum at William Paterson. He

served as an assistant professor of

communication until his death in 1990.

“He was like a character out of the

movie The Front Page,” says former

Beacon editor John Byrne ’75. “He loved

telling stories about his newspaper days

at the Times-Union in Rochester.”

Beacon staffers will never forget

their weekly critique sessions with

Jackson, when he would bring in a copy

of the paper all marked up with red

edits. “It was scary because he would

rip apart your work. But it was great

because you learned,” remembers

attorney Mike Palumbo ‘87.“I would sit

there shrinking in my seat. And he’d

say, ‘Mike, don’t get discouraged, keep

going at it.’

“Jackson always made himself

available,” says Palumbo. “Late-night

production sessions for the paper

were on Sunday night, and he would

say, ‘If you need help, you can wake

me up in the middle of the night. Just

call me.’ I remember calling Herb late

into the evening on Sunday, and

asking, ‘What do you think about this

or that,’ and he’d spend hours on the

phone with me.” Today, Palumbo is an

attorney with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene

& MacRae, a New York City law firm.

Byrne, now executive editor of

BusinessWeek magazine, remained

lifelong friends with Jackson and

delivered the eulogy at his funeral.

“Jackson was like a father figure

because he was my first professional

role model. He was a mentor, an

advisor, a friend, and a role model for

me to emulate.”

“He was a real inspiration,” recalls

Joseph Farah ‘77, a syndicated writer

and talk show host. “I remember taking

my first class with him and thinking

that maybe I’ll do something in jour-

nalism. Before that class was even over

I decided that this was it. This was

what I was going to do for the rest

of my life.”

Susan Kelliher Ungaro ‘75, former

Beacon staffer and journalist, agrees.

“Herb had a wonderful, passionate

crusty attitude that really made you

feel that this is practically God’s work.”

“Jackson guided us well,” adds

Colin Ungaro ‘75, a division president

with Reed Business Information, who

marvels at how many Beacon staffers

pursued careers in journalism. Many

rose to high positions, writing books,

becoming editors of major magazines,

and presidents of publishing compa-

nies. The reason, says Ungaro, is

“directly tied to both Herb Jackson

and the influence that The Beacon

had on all of us.”

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rium Day boycott of classes to protest theVietnam War. “It was a chaotic time ofstudent unrest,” recalls Beacon editor MaryAnn Ross Cooper ’70, now executive editorof Hispanic Outlook in Higher Educationand a syndicated columnist. “I could lookout the newspaper office’s Coach Housebalcony window any time of day and stu-dents would be protesting, yelling, andparading with signs for all kinds of reasons.The wonderful thing is that the racks forthe Beacon were always empty. Everybodywanted to know what was going on.”

At a time when the rallying cry was forfree speech and student power, the Beaconwas sometimes criticized for going too far.“I think I was the first editor who publisheda four-letter word in the newspaper,” saysJoe Di Giacomo, editor from 1970 to 1972.“I remember hearing about it not only fromthe administration but from my father whenI got home. It was a quote from the SGApresident at the time, and I felt stronglythat it had to be there because that was howhe spoke.” Di Giacomo is now administratorfor the Borough of Tenafly, New Jersey.

Herbert G. Jackson, a newspaper journalist, was hired as assistant professorof communication in 1973 to expand thedepartment and add new journalism classes.Beacon editor John Byrne, a student in hisfirst journalism class, asked him to be thepaper’s faculty advisor. Under Jackson’sguidance, the newspaper became a serioustraining ground for aspiring journalistsand the investigative age of journalism haddawned. The Beacon didn’t hesitate todenounce a teacher’s strike, demand theresignation of a dean, or blast administratorsfor a lapse of campus security. FormerBeacon staffer Susan Kelliher Ungaro ’75remembers writing an explosive exposé onthe wage gap between male and femalefaculty on campus. “These were theWoodward and Bernstein days,” saysUngaro, who went on to build a thirty-yearcareer at Family Circle magazine. “TheBeacon taught me the basics of good journalism.”

The Beacon grew more confident in theyears that followed. Beacon editors JosephFarah and Colin Ungaro scored a stunninginvestigative coup when they looked intothe actions of William Paterson PresidentWilliam McKeefery. On November 18,1975, in a one-page cover story, they

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Seated in a high-backed chair anddrinking iced tea in the lounge of a well-known New York City hotel, Pistone—nowin his sixties—wears a black shirt and khakipants and is without the trademark sun-glasses he dons for television appearances.With one eye on the door, he talks candidlyabout his undercover life in the Mafia andhis subsequent career as an author andtelevision/film producer and consultant.

WP: You spent your childhood in NorthJersey?

Pistone: Yes. I was born in Pennsylvaniaand grew up in the Sandy Hill section ofPaterson. I have a brother, Dominick, whoalso attended William Paterson, and a sisternamed Geraldine—she goes by Geri.

WP: Any recollections about your timeat William Paterson?

Pistone: My wife, Maggie, worked as anurse in a doctor’s office while I went toschool. I switched between day and nightclasses, depending on my work schedule.I played basketball at William Paterson…I also remember that the school had somegreat professors.

WP: You graduated in 1965 with adegree in elementary education/socialstudies. Did you consider teaching?

Then again, Pistone—the only FBI agentever proposed for membership in the

Mafia—has good reason to be cautious. Fornearly twenty-five years, this WilliamPaterson alumnus has lived with a $500,000Mafia contract on his head, ever since it wasrevealed that the man his associates in NewYork’s Bonanno crime family knew as jewelthief and burglar Donnie Brasco was in factan undercover federal agent.

From 1975 to 1981, Pistone spent sevendays a week immersed in an underworldof corruption, crime, and murder. The evi-dence he gathered during his unprecedentedMafia infiltration dealt them a damaging

blow—leading to more than one hundredfederal convictions—and continues to haverepercussions for organized crime today,as demonstrated by the recent trial ofBonanno crime boss Joey Massino, who inJune 2005 was sentenced to life in prisonfor eight Mob murders, including that ofPistone/Brasco’s Mafia captain, Dominick“Sonny Black” Napolitano. Officiallyretired from the FBI since 1996, Pistone’sremarkable story is captured in his NewYork Times best-selling book, DonnieBrasco, and is the basis of the 1997 featurefilm starring Johnny Depp as DonnieBrasco and Al Pacino as Lefty Ruggiero.

—By Christine S. Diehl

SETTING UP AN INTERVIEW WITH FORMER SPECIAL AGENT JOSEPH D.

PISTONE ’65, A.K.A. DONNIE BRASCO, IS A COVERT OPERATION. YOU MAY

HAVE TO PASS A BACKGROUND CHECK BEFORE HE’LL MEET YOU. HE LIVES IN

AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION AND HIS PHONE NUMBER AND E-MAIL ADDRESS

ARE CLOSELY GUARDED SECRETS. HE TRAVELS UNDER ASSUMED NAMES, SO

YOU CAN’T ASK FOR HIM AT THE DESK IN A HOTEL LOBBY. INSTEAD, YOU’RE

INSTRUCTED TO WAIT FOR HIM TO CALL YOU ON A CELL PHONE SO YOU

CAN MEET. WANT TO TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH? FUHGEDABOUDIT.

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Pistone: While I was a senior atWilliam Paterson, I took the police examand passed it, but I wanted to finish college.When I graduated, I got a job as a teacherat Paterson School No. 10. I enjoyedteaching, but I really wanted to get intolaw enforcement. So after a year, I enteredNaval Intelligence.

WP: How did you get into undercoverwork?

Pistone: I took the FBI exam andbecame a special agent in 1969. My firstoffice was in Jacksonville, Florida. At thattime I was doing basic criminal cases: bankrobberies, vice, prostitution. That’s when Istarted doing undercover work—nothingheavy—a week here, a couple days there.From there I got transferred to Virginia…and then New York, where I workedtruck hijackings and started to do a lot ofundercover work…I had an undercoverassignment up and down the East Coastwith a theft ring that stole high-end auto-mobiles, trucks, a couple airplanes. I wasusing the name Donald Brasco at that time.When I came off that assignment, I had asupervisor by the name of Guy Beradaand we had this idea for an undercoveroperation that would infiltrate fences thatwere dealing with the Mafia in stolengoods. We went over the operation and hesaid, “you want to do it?” and I said, “yeah.”I was Italian and I knew the Mob fromgrowing up in Paterson.

WP: Was that how you were able toblend into the Mafia so successfully?

Pistone: It’s called having street smarts,and you only get that by growing up…with the streets as your environment. It’shanging out in high school and knowingguys from the neighborhood who are notinvolved in anything legitimate. You find inlaw enforcement that you can’t teach streetsmarts—somebody either has it or theydon’t. With the Mafia, you know when totalk and when not to talk, and when to getup and walk away. People observe this, andevery little bit adds to your credibility.

WP: Why a jewel thief as your under-cover occupation?

Pistone: I chose a jewel thief becauseyou need a legend [a back story] that’snon-violent. As an undercover FBI agent,you can’t be saying you’re going to breaksomeone’s legs or shoot someone. A jewelthief is a profession where you can say youoperate alone, which is key. You can comein with some jewelry and diamonds andsay, “I did a score last night,” using stuffconfiscated by U.S. Customs or whatever.

WP: Did you know at the outset thatthe Donnie Brasco operation would lastsix years?

Pistone: When I took on that assign-ment, it was supposed to be for sixmonths…And after six months, I hadn’treally done too much. You can’t just walkin and say, “Hi, I’m Donnie the Jeweler

and I want to do business with you.” ButI was in the right places and seeing theright people in the restaurants and bars inNew York. Finally after about nine months,I got into a conversation with one of thebartenders and…he introduced me to somepeople. Eventually I started getting inviteddown to social clubs and restaurants inLittle Italy, and it just rolled from there.

WP: How did you memorize events sowell for later courtroom testimony?

Pistone: It was probably my trainingat William Paterson. [Laughs.] I did verylittle taping and I never took notes, but whatI had was the ability to separate what wasimportant and what wasn’t. To me, what[a person was] wearing made no difference;I concentrated on the conversation. Mytheory was I was only going to remembertwo things: [items] of evidentiary value for

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use in court, and intelligence informationof vital importance.

WP: You had to miss a lot of familyoccasions while your three daughters weregrowing up. This must have been tough.

Pistone: It was. Number one, in theFBI when you work undercover, you’revolunteering, so your family knows yousigned up for it. And for security purposesyou’re prohibited from discussing the casewith anyone from outside, even your wife.So that’s an added stress, the “Why aren’tyou here?” “I’m working undercover.”“Doing what?” “I can’t tell you.”

WP: When you did get home, was ithard to transition back to being a husbandand dad?

Pistone: You’re only home for a day ortwo, so there’s not much of a transition.I’ll give you an example of how things goin undercover work—and I spent twentyout of twenty-seven years working under-cover. The first time you come home,everybody’s there—you’ve been away forfive months, they’re anxious to see you.Then four months go by and you comehome the second time and everybody’sthere, but they’re antsy. And the thirdtime, they’re there but they’re out of therean hour after you get home. And thefourth time, you’re lucky if anybody’shome at all—and the reason is, “hey,you’re here for two days every four or fivemonths—everything’s running fine with-out you.”

WP: In the movie, your character[played by Johnny Depp] rearranged thecabinets every time he came home, drivinghis wife crazy. Was that based on reality?

Pistone: Yeah, I’m kind of a freak likethat—it’s a very true piece of the movie. Ilike my clothes just right in my closet—one shirt can’t touch the other on thehangers. [Laughs]

WP: There is a compelling chapter inyour book about the time your wife was ina terrible car accident in California, whichillustrates the challenge you faced in meet-ing your family’s needs while maintainingyour undercover role.

Pistone: It’s a thing that really tugs atyou. You’ve got this operation and it’sgoing great. You’re someplace no one elsehas ever been as far as an undercover infil-tration, but your obligation is really to yourfamily and not to your job. And the longeryou’re away, the more [the Mafia guys are]suspicious. When you’re with the Mob,your life is controlled by whoever you’reresponsible to—as far as where you’re at,what you’re doing, how much money you’reearning. So you’re dealing with the Mob guyon where you’re at, and with your familywho can’t understand why you have to leaveand doesn’t know what you’re doing. It’sdefinitely a burden on them.

WP: Your closest Mafia associates,Sonny [Napolitano] and Lefty [Ruggiero],were always keeping tabs on you. Was yourvalue to them all about money?

Pistone: With the Mafia, it’s also aboutrespect and power. But let’s face it, thewhole idea of being a thief is to earn moneyillegally. I had the ability, they thought, toearn them money. I would bring aroundthe precious gems. Plus, I had a skill thatnot many of them had, which was pickinglocks, burglar alarms, safes. That’s a skillthey needed and I had from my years inNaval Intelligence and taking differentFBI courses.

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WP: You had a couple of close callsduring the operation, for example, when apicture of the boat you had used to enter-tain some Mafia guys appeared in the newsas the federal boat used in ABSCAM [the1978 sting operation in which FBI agentsposed as associates of an Arab sheik andoffered public officials bribes in exchangefor special favors]. There was also a meetingwhere you were grilled for hours regardingyour legitimacy and could have been“whacked.” How did you handle that?

Pistone: You can’t control everything.ABSCAM was not supposed to have surfaced; someone leaked it to the news.When it did hit…one of my guys saw theboat in, I think it was Time or Newsweek.But I always laid out a story a month or soahead of time…I had told a story that theboat belonged to the brother of this girl Iknew. So I was able to talk my way out ofthat one…When you’re undercover, youhave to be able to verbalize and communi-cate with people. You have to get your pointacross and be able to get in a conversationwith them and deal with it that way, becauseviolence is the last resort.

WP: The FBI pulled you out just monthsbefore you were to be inducted into theMafia. But doesn’t a “wiseguy” have to killsomeone first?

Pistone: Look, there’s no honoramongst thieves. They lie, they steal, theycheat, and they kill, and in their mind it’sall legitimate. And they lie for each other.Sonny and Lefty did lie and say I was pre-sent at a hit and that’s how I was proposedfor membership. They had given me con-tracts to kill a couple people, but I didn’tfind the guys I was supposed to kill.

WP: After spending seven days a weekwith these guys, did you feel any remorseabout bringing them down?

Pistone: It never bothered me knowingguys were going to jail. My job was togather evidence to put them in jail. Now, Iknew at a certain point that guys were goingto get killed. I didn’t want to see anybodyget killed as long as they weren’t trying to

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kill me. I knew Sonny would get killed. Iknew [Tony] Mirra would probably getkilled…I figured Lefty would get killed…he actually died of cancer—he was on hisway to get killed when the FBI arrestedhim and saved his life. When everythingwent down, the FBI gave these guys achance to come over to our side and savethemselves, and they refused. My way ofthinking, and that’s what kept me alive,was look, I had nothing to do with youbeing a gangster. You were a gangster waybefore I got here. I did nothing to enticeyou to commit crimes or murders. That’syour life. You chose it; you live it. Somepeople think that’s callous, but I’m not asocial worker. You either make anotherchoice or you take the consequences.

WP: Looking back, was it all worth it?

Pistone: You don’t become a lawenforcement officer or an FBI agent tobecome rich. You do it because you feel likeyou’re helping society. I really feel thatwhat we did in those six years—me and allthe others who worked on the case—wasthe beginning of the breaking of the Mafia’sstronghold on the American public.

WP: Your work clearly had a hugeimpact. What’s your take on the present-day Mafia?

Pistone: Today’s Mafia is not what itwas ten, twenty years ago. My estimationis they’re operating at about fifty percent—heavy into drugs, gambling, loan sharking,white-collar crime, credit cards, identitytheft. But why their strength is less thanever is they don’t control the labor unionslike they once did. When they controlledthe labor unions, they controlled…inter-state commerce. And by not controlling thelabor unions, they’ve lost their ability toget politicians elected…or appoint judges.They’re pretty much out of the gamblingbusiness in Vegas and Atlantic City in thatthey don’t control the money in the casinosanymore…You’re never going to totallybreak them because you’re always going tohave people who don’t want to work, whoare just inbred to be gangsters and thieves.

WP: You and your wife live under secretidentities, yet you’re out doing book toursand television appearances. How do youreconcile the two and how real is the threatto your life?

Pistone: In part it’s because I don’t likenotoriety. My neighbors don’t know whoI am. I’m not a rock star—I don’t needpeople patting me on the back all time. Ifanything, my worry is about some guy who’sa cowboy and thinks, “If I do in DonnieBrasco, I’ll make a name for myself.” Onthe other hand, you’ve got to get out there.We take precautions like not using the samehotels, changing names on airlines, notallowing photos at events, things like that.

WP: Did Johnny Depp doa good job portraying you inthe movie?

Pistone: He was the best…I spent a lot of time withJohnny for about two monthsbefore we started shooting andevery day on the set during theshooting…He picked up mymannerisms so well…Mymother came on the set oneday, and when she heard himtalking, she thought it was me.

WP: You’ve also taken theDonnie Brasco character intothe world of fiction.

Pistone: Yes. I’ve writtenthree “Donnie Brasco” novels [Deep Cover,Mobbed Up, and Snake Eyes, Onyx Books,1999, 2000, 2001].

WP: Your most recent novel, The GoodGuys (Warner Books, 2005), was co-writtenwith Bill Bonanno, son of the late Mafiaboss Joe Bonanno. How did that collabora-tion originate?

Pistone: A good friend of mine, DavidFischer, who is also an author, called meand said, “What do you think about doinga book with Bill Bonanno?” Remember,Bill was not involved in my case. His familyleft New York in the 1960s; the Mafia justkept using the name. I had never met Billnor had any illegal dealings that involvedhim. We had a “sit-down” in New York

and sparred for an hour, and we came toan agreement: I don’t talk about the Moband he doesn’t talk about the FBI [in aderogatory manner]. So, we came up witha storyline. I wrote the FBI chapters, Billwrote the Mob chapters, and David put itall together. We’ve just signed a deal to sellthe rights to a movie company.

WP: Any other upcoming projects?

Pistone: I just got done producing amovie called 10th and Wolf, which is aboutthe Mob wars in Philadelphia during the’80s and ’90s. I’ve been writing a one-manshow based on my book, The Way of theWise Guy (Running Press, 2004), which

we’re negotiating toopen in Las Vegas…I’mworking on anothernon-fiction book withRunning Press with theworking title, DonnieBrasco II: UnfinishedBusiness, which picksup where the firstbook left off, includingsome of the moredynamic courtroomtestimony... I’m alsodoing a column for anew publicationcalled Justice Magazine.

WP: The Mafiacertainly provides great fodder for theentertainment industry. What do you thinkof The Sopranos?

Pistone: Sopranos is great writing. Dothey get a lot of stuff right? Yeah. Do theyget a lot of stuff wrong? Yeah. But maybethe stuff they get wrong is on purpose.What you have to remember is the reasonthey’re doing this is so people will watch.And a lot of times, the way things happenis not going to put people in the seats.The public’s fascination with the Mafia isnuts though, isn’t it?

WP: But it’s good for you, right?

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These students are part of a growingnational trend, as more and more

colleges and universities across the nationmake service learning—the practice ofintegrating service with academic study,voluntarism, and civic engagement—partof the curriculum.

“Civic engagement, service learning,and voluntarism are critical to being aneducated and well-rounded citizen,” saysJohn Martone, the University’s vice presi-

Socially Responsible,University Students ServeThe CommunityTUTORING, MENTORING, TEACHING HUMAN RIGHTS, BUILDING HOMES,

RAISING MONEY FOR WORTHY CAUSES, AND OTHER SOCIALLY RESPON-

SIBLE ACTIVITIES ARE PART OF THE DAILY ROUTINE FOR MANY

WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AS THEY MAKE TIME TO

HELP OTHERS DESPITE THEIR HECTIC SCHEDULES.

—By Barbara E. Martin ’93, M.A. ’94

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dent for student development. “Civicengagement is something we need in orderto have a society and a good quality of life.”

On the William Paterson campus, thisinterest in community-based service trans-lates into as many kinds of activities as thereare imaginations to dream up projects thatwill help someone who needs it.

University students manifest that senseof social responsibility in numerous ways.Sophomore Rickiann Pack joined theCatholic Campus Ministry, through whichshe volunteers as a tutor for St. Therese’sSchool, an elementary school in Paterson.April Verhuez, a junior and president of theUniversity’s Pi Iota chapter of Alpha KappaAlpha, Inc., the oldest African Americansorority in the nation, was motivated toparticipate in, among other things, a five-mile fundraising walk for the March ofDimes. And Jennifer Riggins, a May 2005graduate with a degree in political science,volunteered as secretary general of theMiddle School Model United Nations, acampus program held for Paterson studentsthat duplicates committees and projectsof the United Nations in New York City,providing them with a valuable learningexperience.

And these are just a few of the morethan one thousand students on campus whocombine service with academics. Nationally,almost one-third of college and universitystudents are engaged in community service,according to Campus Compact, a nationalcoalition of more than nine hundred col-leges and university presidents who arecommitted to fulfilling the civic purposesof higher education. The organizationpromotes community service initiativesthat develop a student’s citizenship skillsamong other activities.

Introducing a service-learning compo-nent into the curriculum represents a shiftfrom the traditional pedagogy of teaching.According to a 2002 survey by the Institutefor Higher Education Policy, “seventy-fourpercent of college courses rely on lectures,but a growing number are adopting anarray of other strategies, including servicelearning, experiential education, problem-based learning, and collaborative learning.”

Service learning has gained the mostpopularity. At William Paterson, studentsbelong to numerous student service groups,including fraternities and sororities andreligious organizations. Some are involved

in new civic engagement-focused academicclasses through the American DemocracyProject (ADP) on campus. This project ispart of a national initiative sponsored bythe American Association of State Collegesand Universities (AASCU) and the NewYork Times that seeks to increase the civicengagement levels of U.S. students attend-ing public colleges and universities in thetwenty-first century.

“Civic engagement programs andcommunity-based learning courses are aburgeoning trend nationally,” says ChristineKelly, associate professor of political science,who teaches civic engagement classes andis the director of ADP at William Paterson.

For the past two spring semesters, Kellyand Wartyna Davis, a professor of politicalscience and chair of the department, havetaught a pilot course, Civic Engagement:Theory and Practice. The course requiresstudents to read texts on American government, public policy, communitypolitics, and moral and ethical dimensionsof service; identify a community problemand/or issue of interest; evaluate historicaland contemporary responses to the prob-lem; and spend a minimum of thirty hoursin the community.

The purpose of the service componentis to “give students an opportunity to becritically engaged and to test the theoriesof citizenship and democracy in the realworld,” says Davis. “The ADP, variousstudies, and all the major civic organizationsfind that lifelong participation is a productof combined intellectual and experientiallearning. This is most powerful whenacademics are combined with work in thecommunity.”

Readings in class give context to theconcept of civic engagement. “Volunteeringprograms are often temporary, and notdeeply cognitive,” says Kelly. “But contextemerges when understanding of a problemis combined with reflection, experience,

and discussion—and classrooms providethat space.”

She adds that “ADP is a citizenshiprevival program; it’s rediscovering yourrights—and the lesson is ‘stand up, don’tbe passive.’”

According to Davis, students who participate in volunteer activities gain anunderstanding of the political contextaround which social problems arise—themoral, religious, and political perspectives.“Students begin to understand how complex many community issues are,” shesays. “They also see that their involvementis important, and that without time spentin the field, nothing is accomplished.”

Perhaps most gratifying, both facultymembers say, has been the response of thestudents. “I think the course has providedan empowering experience, and an epiphanyfor the majority of the students,” says Davis.“I’ve seen that spark, when they make theconnection between political theories andthe real world they’re functioning in. It’swhat I love as a teacher.”

According to Kelly, “Given the financial,work, family, and academic pressures onso many of our students, a credit-bearingcourse such as ours simultaneously providesthe context for intellectual growth andcommunity service. What we have seen is ahunger and a touching air of gratitude onthe part of the students for the opportunity.This simply says it all.”

“Communities and citizenship can bedifficult concepts,” Kelly adds. “But citizen-ship without community is inconceivable.We think of citizenship as an individualstatus, but it doesn’t really make sense onits own. It’s a truly collective concept.”

This is a lesson learned by YeseniaMazariegos, who graduated in May 2005with a degree in political science and aminor in Latin American studies. Herfamily comes from Guatemala.

“There are many reasons why I chose to

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participate in this ADP course,” she says.“My family came to this country, like manyothers, as immigrants…searching for the‘American dream,’ a better life for them-selves and their children. When I learnedabout this course, I felt it would be a greatopportunity to help out my communityand people like my family.”

Mazariegos worked at the HispanicDevelopment Center in Newark, whichprovides many services to the Hispaniccommunity. While there, she helped teach aclass designed to assist clients in preparingfor their citizenship test by reviewing test questions.

For prospective citizens, the appointmentwith the Immigration and NaturalizationService (INS) is nerve-racking, especiallyfor those whose first language is not English.They must meet with a representative whoasks them questions in English. Passing thetest, and achieving American citizenshiprequires only correct answers. A lot rideson knowing the right answer—it is the keyto the door that opens the American dreamfor many.

“One of the things I learned from thisproject is that one person can make a dif-ference in others’ lives,” says Mazariegos.“I also learned that there is a lot of socialinjustice in the world. When these peoplego to the INS to take their citizenship testthey get treated as inferiors, not equals. Ifthey make one mistake or sit down beforethey are told to, they do not pass and haveto wait three months to go back. Since Inever had to go through this because I wasborn here, I did not know exactly whatthey go through. They have to go to thisbuilding and wait there for hours, nervous,and wait for their name to be called. Oncethey are called, they have to make sure theydo not make one mistake, or their chance isblown. This is very hard for them, especiallywhen they have been part of this societyfor so long, to be rejected.”

Another student in the University’scourse, Elvis Arias, spent his communityservice time at a literacy center in Patersonworking with clients who couldn’t read.He discovered “illiteracy exists in massivenumbers, especially in poor urban areassuch as Paterson. It would have beenimpossible to gain the level of understand-ing I now have about literacy just by readingarticles and listening to lectures. Withoutthe experience of working directly with

those who are illiterate,” he adds, “I wouldhave the same preconceived notions thatmany others have. The course’s centralobjective was to demonstrate that civicparticipation and community empowermentare the keys to a healthy democracy.”

The American Democracy Project iscontinuing to develop more classes with acivic engagement component. Up to ninenew classes in a variety of departmentsincluding art, middle school education,women’s studies, Spanish, environmentalscience, urban studies, political science, andnursing are in the planning stages, withmany scheduled to be offered during thespring 2006 semester.

Often, a willingness to make a differencein someone’s life is the necessary spur thatmotivates a student, or an awareness ofthings that need to be done.

Rickiann Pack, an anthropology majorand president of the Catholic CampusMinistry Club, calls herself “volunteer

addicted.” She began volunteering as astudent at Mary Help of Christians HighSchool, where service hours were required,and was also a member of her church’syouth group.

She decided to attend William Patersonbecause of the very active and establishedcampus ministry run by Father Louis J.Scurti, through which she could continueher involvement in the community. “OneSunday before I enrolled, I attended Massat the chapel,” she recalls. “There wassuch a welcoming environment, I felt rightat home.”

The campus ministry club offers stu-dents who are service-minded many

opportunities to volunteer and they canselect those that appeal to them, have aninterest in, or can simply fit into theircrowded schedules. Volunteers help seniorsat the Preakness Nursing Home; tutorstudents at St. Therese’s in Paterson; assistpeople at the North Jersey DevelopmentalCenter; feed the hungry at Eva’s Kitchen,a homeless shelter in Paterson; work onFather Lou’s television talk show, TheWord: Alive and Well (which is filmed atthe chapel), and airs on more than forty-fivecable networks nationwide; or serve aslectors or music ministers in the JesusChrist Prince of Peace Chapel.

Father Lou believes that volunteeringis a way for students to grow as individuals.“It’s important to volunteer to come outof our shells and our own worlds,” hesays. “Sometimes, it’s easy for us to makejudgments about others. As volunteers oureyes can be opened.”

He says that service to poor, homeless,and hungry people provides students withan experience that is meaningful and edu-cational. “Our mission is to offer studentsthese many different opportunities to beactive and involved,” Father Lou adds.

This past spring, Faith Zahn ofVoorhees, unity chair of the Greek Senate,the governing body of fraternities andsororities on campus, was looking for avolunteer activity for spring break. Hersearch led her to the Habitat for Humanity’sCollegiate Challenge. A junior majoring insociology, Zahn says she always wanted tovolunteer for Habitat for Humanity, whichis also the national philanthropy of hersorority, Alpha Sigma Tau.

She spread the word around campusand easily recruited thirteen students fromfour sororities and fraternities and severalstudents who were unaffiliated with groups,who were eager to join her in the project.Zahn and her group chose to travel toMechanicsville, Virginia and spend the weekhelping to build a house for a working fatherwith a young child and disabled parent.

“It was hard work and we were sore, butwe were so happy doing it,” says Zahn.“Our group chemistry was amazing. We hada very positive energy and we were proudof what we were doing.” The studentshad an opportunity to meet the father andyoung boy who will live in the home, andZahn describes the entire experience asgratifying. “I don’t think people have an

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understanding of how much poverty thereis. People who need help are no differentthan the rest of us,” she says.

Zahn looks forward to a career in socialwork when she graduates, and says she’dlove to volunteer again. She established aHabitat for Humanity student chapter atWilliam Paterson this year, which hasbegun working with the local Habitatchapter in Paterson. The student chapteralso will be raising funds so that they canparticipate in future regional or nationalHabitat projects.

“Volunteering like this to build a house,showing up at a church, or helping to tutora child, changes students,” Martone says.“They will reflect back on it, and this willbe something they will remember for therest of their lives.”

Some students, like April Virhuez ofNewark, seek out their own opportunitiesin ways to help others. Virhuez serves aspresident of Pi Iota, a William PatersonUniversity chapter of Alpha KappaAlpha, Inc.

Virhuez and her sorority sisters volun-teer for a variety of activities that fulfill thecommitment embodied in Alpha Kappa

Alpha’s theme, “To Serve Mankind.” Everyother Saturday, Virhuez and the membersof Pi Iota participate in the Ivy ReadingAKAdemy, a reading tutorial program forstudents at Paterson Academy elementaryschool. “We bring the children muffins andjuice for breakfast, read stories to them,and encourage them to appreciate readingas a leisure activity. It’s rewarding for thevolunteers, including many who are teachersor aspiring teachers, to have an opportunityto work one-on-one with the children,”she says. The literary program is part of ajoint project between Alpha Kappa Alphaand the U.S. Department of Education.

A physical education major who lives oncampus and keeps a full schedule workingnights and weekends at a car dealership,Virhuez still finds the time to volunteer.She views it as an opportunity to havenew experiences, learn business skills, andmeet new people. “If I can work and go toschool, I can find some time to help mycommunity too,” she says.

Learning to live in a global society ispart of the mission of the Model UnitedNations Club organized by the Departmentof Political Science. The Model U.N. is a

simulation of the United Nations, the“world parliament.” The worldwide systemis a collection of conferences, mostly in theUnited States, but also in many nations,where students gather and represent nationsor diplomats in debating real world issues.Some of William Paterson’s students havetaken this a step further and each year hosta Middle School Model United Nationsstaffed mostly by volunteers from thePolitical Science Club.

This year, Riggins, who also served aseditor-in-chief of the Beacon, served assecretary general of the Middle SchoolModel U.N. More than two hundred stu-dents from schools in Paterson, all seventhand eighth graders, participated in theevent, with approximately fifteen to twentystudent leaders from the University.

“We run the program, which takes upan entire semester, for no academic credit,”Riggins reports. “But this is the most fulfill-ing thing that I’ve done at this University. ”

Students are taught all the rules andprocedures, and they spend time research-ing their chosen country’s policies. “Thekids are amazing,” Riggins says. “They learnabout public speaking; most of them areinitially terrified but in the end they loveit. Also, as they find out more about thecountries they are representing, theybecome very passionate about the issues.It’s important to find out what’s going onin the world.”

Through the program, William Patersonstudents forge a strong connection withPaterson and get to see what kids fromPaterson are like, Riggins adds. “But italso opens the eyes of the younger studentsabout a college that’s so close to theirhomes,” she says.

Martone, the vice president for studentdevelopment, maintains that volunteeringand being otherwise involved in the com-munity permits a student the opportunityfor self-reflection. “Reflection, with thehelp of a professor, lets a student figureout what’s really going on,” he says. “Itallows students to see the world through adifferent lens. We’re a part of a global society,and civic engagement can help students tounderstand what’s going on in society andin their own neighborhoods. When peopleget involved we see ordinary people doingextraordinary things.”w

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William Paterson University's $30 millioncomprehensive campaign, Affecting Lives,Shaping Worlds, is now in its final stages. Todate, the campaign has raised $24.8 million,representing nearly eighty-three percentof the goal. Funds are still being soughtfor endowment, scholarships, the annualfund, and strategic academic initiatives.

“We continue to make tremendousprogress, and we are immensely grateful forthe support of the many alumni and friendsof William Paterson whose generosity isessential to the continued success of theUniversity,” says Sandra S. Deller, vicepresident for institutional advancement.“The campaign has already affected thelives of our students by providing schol-arships, academic support, and new pro-grams. With $5.2 million in gifts still to beraised, we invite our friends and the Uni-versity community to join us in having animpact on the lives of our students and thefuture of William Paterson University.”

Recent highlights of the campaign include:■ The John Victor Machuga Foundationhas offered gifts totaling $1 million forscholarships, endowment, and studentprogramming support. The MachugaFoundation became the University’s first$1 million donor in 1999 with a gift forscholarships and student programming

■ An anonymous gift of $150,000 to supportscholarships for financially needy studentsfrom historically underrepresented groups

■ A $100,000 gift from Robert Devine ’74,president and CEO of Hartz Mountain,Inc., in support of the Christos M. CotsakosCollege of Business

■ An $80,000 gift from the Holly BeachLibrary Association to support theresearch on dune grass by Michael Peek,assistant professor of biology

■ A $50,000 gift from Aaron Van Duyne’75 and his wife Jacqueline for scholarshipsfor nursing students dedicated to oncologynursing

■ A $50,000 gift from Richard Miller tocreate an endowed scholarship in honor ofhis wife, Sharon Miller ’57, a retired teacherfrom the Wayne Board of Education

■ A $50,000 gift from State Farm InsuranceCompanies Foundation in support of theFinancial Literacy Program

■ A $50,000 gift from Maryann Carroll-Guthrie ’76, president of King HarborMarina, to create a Family Business Ini-tiative to study and lend expertise to thepractice and management of family-ownedbusinesses.

■ A $50,000 gift from Dr. Marjorie Heller’62, superintendent of schools, Little SilverBoard of Education, to support the educa-tional leadership program

■ A $50,000 gift from Frank Maltese andthe Maltese family to create an endowedscholarship

■ A $50,000 commitment from Dr. Orlandoand Lorraine Saa towards the Maria Saa/Marietta Cutillo Family Scholarship Fund,an endowed scholarship named in memoryof their mothers.

Additional donations have providedsupport for a student leadership program,athletics, student activities, faculty research,the Jazz Studies Program, the SmallBusiness Development Center, PatersonTeachers for Tomorrow, and the firstWomen’s Leadership Conference.

A three-to-one $25,000 challenge grantfrom philanthropist David F. Bolger kicksoff the Hobart Manor RevitalizationCampaign, which seeks to refurbish HobartManor. The oldest building on campus,Hobart Manor is listed on the NationalRegister for Historic Places.

One of the few remaining examples ofTudor castle architecture in the area, HobartManor is the centerpiece of the University.With its public rooms furnished in periodstyle, it serves as the location for many ofthe institution’s most important events,including the Hobart Manor Recital Seriesand receptions for the DistinguishedLecturer Series.While the building receivedexterior repairs and interior renovationsduring the 1980s and 1990s, its continualuse once again necessitates structuralimprovements and refurbished furnishings.

Bolger, through his organization, theBolger Foundation, is furthering the impe-tus to restore the building to its formerglory by offering funding to renovate itspublic spaces. “The building should beinspirational and should be as attractiveas your home,” he says. He offered thechallenge grant because he wants the

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“Helping people reach their goalswas her focus. Education is moreimportant today than ever and thisis a wonderful way to contributeto the University and supporteducation.”

Simmons, who was a teacher/librarian in the Newark schooldistrict, also worked part time as aflight attendant on an internationalroute for Trans World Airlines(TWA). Her weekday job, teaching,fulfilled her altruistic wishes tohelp the students who needed her, whileher weekend job, flying, indulged her pas-sion for travel, meeting new people, andhaving new experiences. She kept up herbusy schedule despite also suffering froma rare form of arthritis.

“She loved teaching, and never wouldhave given that up,” Emerson says. “Shefelt that’s where she was needed, and feltthat she could make a difference there. Butshe loved to fly because it was an opportu-nity to travel to distant cities such as Paris,Rome, and Monte Carlo.”

Simmons would pick up flights onweekends, and also flew during the summermonths when she wasn’t teaching. Emersonoften traveled with her to visit friends andrelatives. Simmons was working on TWAFlight 800 to Rome on July 17, 1995; theplane crashed shortly after take-off nearthe coast of Long Island.

“That was a rough time,” Emersonremembers. “But thinking of all the wonder-ful times we had together is what keeps megoing. She was a wonderful, caring person.”

Emerson retired as a supervisor in theRegistrar’s Office in 1989, after a thirty-yearcareer on campus that began in the PrintShop, or the duplicating room as it wascalled then. She came to campus in 1959because she had previously worked the nightshift as a lab technician and wanted to behome for her three young daughters in theevening. She enjoyed being on campus, andattending cultural events at Shea Center.

Today, Emerson continues to visit theUniversity, often bringing her two otherdaughters and her grandchildren along tointroduce them to the campus that changedher and Simmons’s lives.

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DEVELOPMENTNEWSUniversity community to be a part of theprocess of the renovation.

“We are pleased that Mr. Bolger hasgiven us this challenge grant to assist uswith the revitalization and redecorating ofHobart Manor,” says Judith Linder, execu-tive director of alumni relations, who hasorganized a committee of alumni and friendsof the University to assist with the project.“We are excited about the opportunity tokeep this University treasure a welcomingplace for the University community andits visitors for generations to come.”

Over the years, Bolger’s philanthropyhas focused often, though not exclusively,on the needs of children, senior citizens,and quality of life issues. The BolgerFoundation has awarded grants to manyorganizations in New Jersey, includingThe Valley Hospital, the Ridgewood, GlenRock, and Midland Park libraries, theChristian Health Care Center, and otherlocal and national organizations.

Bolger is one of five children; his parentswere immigrants from the Netherlandswho scrimped and saved for their children’seducation, eventually putting them allthrough college. His father worked in thePennsylvania steel mills, and his motherraised chickens, ducks, and sheep, grewvegetables, and bred and sold Irish setterpuppies to pay for their tuition.

He achieved his success by working forit. His long career, which began in the AirForce and moved on to real estate, insurance,and banking, is ongoing. He is chairman ofthe holding company of the Farmers andMerchants State Bank, a firm with assets ofmore than $550 million and more than twohundred employees.

As a teen, while attending the Universityof Pittsburgh, he followed his father into thesteel mills on nights and weekends. Workingin the local mill, he met and worked withpeople of all ages, from other walks of life,other ethnicities, and countries.

“Working in the steel mill brought meinto contact with many different people,”Bolger remembers. “These folks, many ofthem from different cultural backgrounds,befriended me and helped me. I’ve neverforgotten that. Philanthropy helps me torepay the obligation for what I receivedthen. Not to those people specifically, butto the generations that followed who mightneed help.”

The terms of Bolger’s $25,000 gift to theHobart Campaign require the Universityto raise $75,000 in donations or pledges byJanuary 15, 2006. Those interested indonating to the campaign can contact theOffice of Institutional Advancement at973.720.2615.

Retired UniversityEmployee Is First Member ofHobart Society

Dottie Emerson, a retired member of theWilliam Paterson University staff, hasbecome the first charitable gift annuitydonor in the University’s history. Herdonation, given in memory of her daughter,Olivia Phillips-Simmons ’68, has earned hermembership in the newly established HobartSociety, created to recognize those alumniand friends of the University who includethe institution in their long-term plans.

Emerson previously established ascholarship in her daughter’s name, givenannually to a single parent pursuing adegree in teaching. She sees the annuityas a way of honoring her daughter, andhelping out students as well.

“The annuity is a way of continuingwhat Olivia wanted to do,” Emerson says.

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Support WilliamPaterson UniversityWith a Planned GiftGenerations of William Paterson alumniand friends have made the future of theUniversity a philanthropic priority bymaking a planned gift.

college education,” says President ArnoldSpeert. “We thank all our donors for theirgenerosity and for their commitment toour students.”

Recipients of the Legacy Award wereThe Russell Berrie Foundation, located inTeaneck; John Hovey, president of VidexEquipment Corp. in Paterson; and Provi-dent Bank, located in Jersey City.

The Distinguished Alumni Award ispresented by the William Paterson AlumniAssociation to outstanding Universityalumni in recognition of significant achieve-ment. Recipients were: Anthony Coletta ’64,professor of elementary and early child-hood education, William Paterson Universi-ty; Stephen Collesano ’74, vice president,

Foundation Raises More Than $125,000 for Scholarships at Annual Legacy Award DinnerThe William Paterson University Founda-tion raised more than $125,000 for itsscholarship fund during the Foundation’s15th annual Legacy Award Dinner andSilent/Live Auction held on April 9 at TheVilla at Mountain Lakes. Three hundredforty guests attended, making last year’sdinner the largest and most successful inthe history of the event, which also includ-ed the presentation of the University’sDistinguished Alumni Awards and FacultyService Award.

“Support for the Legacy Dinner helpsto continue a tradition of philanthropicsupport that provides opportunities forstudents who may not otherwise be able tofollow through on their dreams to receive a

American International Group; StephanieGoldberg ’81, chief nursing officer andvice president, Hospital for Special Surgery;Mark Kozaki ’79, M.A. ’80, media andentertainment industry executive; andMaryann Carroll-Guthrie ’72, M.A. ’76,president, King Harbor Marina, Inc.

The Faculty Service Award is given bythe University’s Alumni Association tofaculty members nominated by WilliamPaterson alumni in recognition of demon-strated career achievement and commitmentto the University. Recipients wereStephen Marcone, professor of music anddirector of the music management pro-gram, and Gabriel Vitalone, professoremeritus, curriculum and instruction.

TOP: ARNOLD SPEERT (FOURTH FROM LEFT), PRESIDENT, DOMENICK STAMPONE (SEATED), PRESIDENT OF THE ALUMNI

ASSOCIATION, AND SANDRA S. DELLER (FOURTH FROM RIGHT), VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT AND

PRESIDENT OF THE WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, JOIN DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD RECIPIENTS (FROM

LEFT) MARK KOZAKI, MARYANN CARROLL-GUTHRIE, STEPHEN COLLESANO, ANTHONY COLETTA, AND STEPHANIE GOLDBERG,AND FACULTY SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENTS STEPHEN MARCONE AND GABRIEL VITALONE

BOTTOM LEFT: PRESIDENT ARNOLD SPEERT AND VICE PRESIDENT SANDRA DELLER (RIGHT) WITH ANGELICA BERRIE (CENTER),VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF RUSS BERRIE AND COMPANY, INC., WHO ACCEPTED THE LEGACY AWARD

ON BEHALF OF THE RUSSELL BERRIE FOUNDATION

BOTTOM CENTER: PRESIDENT SPEERT (RIGHT) CHATS WITH PAUL PANTOZZI, CEO AND CHAIRMAN OF THE PROVIDENT BANK,AND LINDA NIRO ‘76, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER FOR PROVIDENT, WHICH ALSO RECEIVED THE

LEGACY AWARD

BOTTOM RIGHT: PRESIDENT SPEERT PRESENTS THE LEGACY AWARD TO JOHN HOVEY, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF VIDEX

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Louise Theiller. “Patti loved nursing andwe wanted to perpetuate that by setting upa program to help other nursing students.

“We’re very happy that we choseWilliam Paterson as the place to set upthese scholarships because we felt thatmoney would go further at a state schooland would be of more value to the studentsto use for their education.”

Lori Bravenboer was one of threerecipients of the Theiller Scholarshippresent to express her gratitude for theirgenerosity. “The scholarship is motivatingbecause it’s nice to know that there arepeople who want to help me with my

Annual ScholarshipLuncheon Brings Donors and StudentScholars TogetherThe University’s outstanding scholars,and the many generous William Patersonalumni and friends who support the Foun-dation and Alumni Association scholarshipprograms, come together each year to cele-brate at the annual scholarship luncheon.

“This event gives our scholarshiprecipients an opportunity to meet theirbenefactors and express their appreciationfor their scholarships,” says Sandra Deller,vice president for institutional advancement.“And our donors are able to witness first-hand the impact that their philanthropymakes in the lives of our students.”

Among those present at the 2005 lun-cheon were Charles and Louise Theiller,who established five $2,000 scholarshipsin memory of their late daughter, PatriciaTheiller Franklin ’86, who loved her job asa nurse and was a wife and dedicated motherto Katelyn, now seventeen, and Saralyn,now twelve.

“We chose to establish the scholarshipsas a tangible way to give meaning to herexperience at William Paterson,” says CHARLES AND LOUISE THEILLER (FAR LEFT AND SECOND FROM LEFT) WITH SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS (L.TO R.) SHERYL HUTCHINSON,

LORI BRAVENBOER, AND MARISA FUENTES. STANDING IN THE REAR ARE THEIR TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS, SARALYN AND KATELYN FRANKLIN

Hobart SocietyCHARLES ANDERSON ’63, M.A. ’66 — Bequest forEducation Scholarships

DAVID CHENG — Charitable Lead Trust; The Library

HELEN DEMAREST ’27 — Charitable Remainder Trust;Scholarship Fund for Education

CHRISTOS COTSAKOS ’73 AND TAMI

COTSAKOS ’71 — Irrevocable Bequest

GRACE DEGRAAF ’36 — Charitable Gift Annuity

DOROTHY EMERSON — Charitable Gift Annuity

BARBARA GRANT ’54 — Charitable Gift Annuity

AGNES GRIMSHAW — Bequest; Chemistry and BiologyScholarships

RICHARD KULP ’58 — Bequest; General Endowment

HOWARD LEIGHTON — Bequest; Art Scholarships

FRANK MALTESE — Bequest; Maltese Family Scholarship Fund

RAYMOND MILLER — Bequest; Paterson Teachers forTomorrow Scholarships

JACOB RUBIN — Bequest; The Honors Program

CLAIR WIGHTMAN — Estate; Scholarship for Educational Leadership

UNIVERSITYREPORT“William Paterson University cherishes

the trust that donors bestow upon uswhen making a planned gift,” says JoanneNigrelli, executive director of development.“The University is grateful for the gen-erosity of those who have planned for thefuture of William Paterson University andour students.”

In honor of these special donors, and inconjunction with the celebration of theUniversity’s 150th anniversary, the HobartSociety has been established to recognizealumni and friends who include WilliamPaterson in their long-term plans.

Donors can become a member of theHobart Society by including a gift (regard-less of the amount) to William Paterson intheir will, trust, life insurance policy, orretirement plan, or with a gift—such asthe charitable gift annuity—that pays themand/or a loved one a lifetime income.

William Paterson offers planned givingopportunities that can provide a generous

education,” says Bravenboer, a three-timerecipient of the scholarship who will grad-uate in May 2006. “I’m a student, I have ajob, and I commute. The scholarship helpsme because I don’t have to work as manyhours, which gives me more time to study.”

During the 2004-2005 academic year, theWilliam Paterson University Foundationawarded more than $425,000 in Alumni andFoundation scholarships. Approximatelyone hundred fifty of these scholarshipswere awarded to undergraduate and gradu-ate students through an online applicationprocess that drew 334 applicants. Awardsranged from $400 to $5,000. w

return and the benefit of tax savings, pluspublic recognition if desired. At the sametime, the University receives much-neededsupport to continue major projects thatenhance the institution and the quality oflife of its students.

A deferred charitable gift annuity canalso offer an income tax deduction nowand supplement retirement income later,with even higher rates of return. For thosewho have maximized their contributionsto their pension plans, a deferred annuitycan offer a special opportunity to supportWilliam Paterson.

“You can make a gift that costs younothing during your lifetime by makingWilliam Paterson University a beneficiaryof your will, your life insurance policy, oryour retirement plan,” says Nigrelli. Fora confidential illustration or a copy of abrochure on charitable gift annuities,contact her at 973.720.2332 or nigrellij@wpunj.edu.

In recent months, KevinBurkhardt ’97 has become a

major voice on the New Yorksports radio scene. His distinc-tive baritone booms throughthe speakers of New Yorkmetropolitan-area sports junkieswho tune in to WFAN-AM660, one of the nation’s preem-inent all-sports stations. Hiredin September 2005 to cover theNew York Jets following a stintas afternoon sports anchor forWCBS-AM Newsradio 880,

Burkhardt has clearly made aname for himself in New Yorksports radio.

“You have to be good andyou have to be lucky,” Burkhardtsays. “I guess that I have beenboth.”

That’s an understatement,given the breadth and depth ofBurkhardt’s assignments andsubjects. Prior to landing thefull-time position at WFAN—where he also does occasionalcall-in shows—he provided

daily sports updates for WCBS-AM, where he covered PhilMickelson winning the 2005PGA Championships, U.S.Open Tennis, New York Giantshome games, and other profes-sional and college events.

It is the perfect job for asports junkie—even one who,despite never being much of anathlete growing up, admits, “Iknew I wanted to do somethingin sports.”

Burkhardt arrived at William

Paterson in the fall of 1992with every intention of becom-ing a television sportscaster.He covered Pioneer athleticevents for WPBN-TV andwas a consistent contributorto the network’s news andsports shows.

However, a senior-yearinternship at WGHT-AM 1560,a local radio outlet located justoff Hamburg Turnpike inPompton Lakes, led Burkhardtdown a different broadcastpath. Upon graduating in 1997with a bachelor’s degree incommunication, he turned apart-time job into a full-timespot that enabled him to build asports department that broad-cast year-round.

“The owner, John Silliman,liked me and believed in me,”Burkhardt says. “It was a smallstation, so I was able to makemistakes and learn from them.I had the chance to learn onthe fly.”

He also became the publicaddress announcer at Pioneerathletic events, includingmen’s and women’s basketballdoubleheaders. Meanwhile, he kept sending out tapes tovarious radio stations hopingto make a leap up from thelocal radio ranks. One of thosestations was WCBS. After a

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disposition on the air. He’s gota lot of positive traits.”

Says Burkhardt: “I reallystarted to see rewards that dayfor the hard work I put in. Itwas awesome, just such a greatfeeling.”

Another opportunityknocked in November 2004,when WCBS sports anchorScott Stanford was leaving fora similar job at WWOR-TV.The station held on-air audi-tions; when the spot was filled January 1, 2005, it wasBurkhardt offering the latesthappenings in the sports world.

her to predict theSuper Bowl.

Clearly,Burkhardt hasfound his nicheover the airwaves.

“Not everyonegets to go to workand enjoy his jobeveryday, but I do,”Burkhardt says.“My friends allthink it’s thecoolest job in the world, to talkabout sports for a living. I thinkthey’re right.”w

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few years came and went, hefigured his voice would neverboom across those airwaves.

But one day out of the blue,WCBS called, and Burkhardtjumped at the chance. He wentto work at WCBS part-time onThursdays and Sundays doingsports updates and covering theNew York Giants beat, whilecontinuing to work full-time atWGHT. In 2003 he made theboldest move of his career:quitting his job at WGHT andbecoming a full-time car sales-man at Pine Belt Chevrolet inEatontown while hoping a full-time position would develop inNew York.

Fortunately, his work atWCBS remained steady. Andthe general manager of the cardealership, Mike Terbino, letBurkhardt maneuver his sched-ule around opportunities toearn precious on-air experience.

Burkhardt’s radio careerfurther advanced in late 2003.A call to colleague Eric Spitz,then the assistant program-ming director at WFAN, led tohis WFAN debut on a Saturdaymorning doing updates on theChris “Mad Dog” Russo show.The following Tuesday, he wasgiving scores and news everytwenty minutes on the nation-ally known “Mike and the MadDog Show.” The duo devoteda ten-minute portion of theirshow, in fact, to praisingBurkhardt’s voice and style;Russo and Mike Francesa tookturns proclaiming him “thenext big star” of sports radio.

“We needed some people tofill in and called on Kevin. Hedid a great job,” says Spitz, whois now programming directorat WFAN. “He is very smoothon the air, has a good knowl-edge of sports, thinks quicklyon his feet, and has a pleasant

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“Even now, every time Ihear him on the radio I getbutterflies,” says RachelBurkhardt ’97, who met Kevinin 1996 at WPBN and marriedhim in June 2000. “I rememberhis first night, making sure Iwas listening to the radio everytime he came on. I’m just soproud of him for all of the hardwork and dedication he put in.”

His witty and winningreports have made him a risingstar: a bit he used at WGHTfeaturing his grandmother,“Football With Nana,” wasused as a two-minute skit for

The William Paterson soft-ball team enjoyed a dream

season last spring. Althoughthe Pioneers came up a fewvictories short of their quest towin a national championship,they reached the NCAADivision III Softball NationalChampionship Finals and fin-ished as one of the top eightteams in the nation.

The Pioneers’ (37-11-1)success followed the scriptsthe players wrote prior topostseason play. On the eve ofthe playoffs, head coach HallieCohen urged her players towrite newspaper-style articles

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to predict how the season wouldend—and then go out andprove themselves clairvoyant.

Each of the players envi-sioned the Pioneers beatingNew Jersey Athletic Conference(NJAC) rival Rutgers-Camdenfor the conference title andEast Regional championships.In the NJAC tournament, thePioneers battled out of theloser’s bracket to beat Rutgers-Camden twice for the champi-onship, including a 1-0,fifteen inning victory thatlasted nearly three-and-a-halfhours. In the East Regionaltournament, the Pioneers out-

lasted their rivals again, withboth games being decided byone run, to capture their secondregional crown.

Individually, sophomoreutility player Liz Sisca (.372,school-record 13 HR, 34 RBI)became the ninth All-Ameri-can in school history when shewas named to the NationalFastpitch Coaches Association(NFCA)/Louisville SluggerAll-America first team. Shealso earned All-NJAC and All-East Region first team honors.Freshman pitcher DianaSchraer (17-1, school-record0.65 ERA) was named to theAll-NJAC first team and All-East Region second team alongwith junior catcher MindyCoxe (.329, 3 HR, 26 RBI) andjunior third baseman NickyArias (.296, 15 RBI). Coxe wasalso selected to the 2004-05NJAC All-Academic first team.

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eled to Australia last summer asmembers of the USA AthletesInternational women’s fieldhockey team that competed at

the 2005 DrinkSmart* North-ern University Games inCairns, Queensland. Bard andShannon joined other student-athletes and coaches from thenortheastern United States toplay field hockey against uni-versity teams from Australiaand New Zealand.

USA Athletes Internationaloffers amateur coaches andathletes the opportunity toparticipate in Olympic-stylesporting events throughout theworld, while allowing them tobroaden their educational andcultural knowledge. The non-profit organization coordinatesteams for both men and womenin sports ranging from softballto lacrosse, with competitionsheld in fourteen countriesthroughout the world. Bothplayers and coaches must berecommended to the organiza-tion in order to be consideredfor selection.

The United States fieldhockey team competed in adouble elimination tournamentagainst ten other teams. It fin-ished sixth.

“The field hockey competi-tion was exciting because wewere able to play againstwomen from Australia and NewZealand and see how differenttheir style of play was,” saysShannon.

In addition to participatingin four days of competition,Bard and Shannon also visitedtwo of Australia’s natural won-ders, the Great Barrier Reefand the Wet Tropics Rainforest,as well as the CurrumbinWildlife Sancturay in Brisbaneand a number of aboriginalvillages. “Everyone in Australiawas just so incredibly friendly,”says Bard. “It was a great cul-tural experience.”w

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Under the leadershipof new coach MikeMiello, the 2005William PatersonUniversity footballteam finished with a5-5 record for itsmost successful sea-son since 1993. ThePioneers completed

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FOOTBALL TEAM FINISHES SEASON WITH 5-5 RECORD

the season with three straightvictories, including a dramatic20-19 upset of Rowan Univer-sity, which had been rankedNo. 2 in Division III.

“We've taken some stepstoward getting to where wewant to go, and we will get bet-ter,” Miello said. “Our playersshowed a lot of heart all seasonand I am encouraged by theway we ended the season. It isa nice building block towardnext year and the future.”

The season was full ofhighlights. The Pioneersdefeated two NCAA DivisionIII playoff teams in Rowan andWilkes University. Also, theyshut out two opponents in a

year for the first time ever.Individually, twelve student-athletes earned weekly awardsfrom the New Jersey AthleticConference, Eastern CollegiateAthletic Conference, and

d3football.com. In addition,Miello tied John Crea (1982)for the best showing by a first-year coach.w

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Dear Alumni,

There is a great deal ofexcitement on campus.The renovation of the

John Victor Machuga StudentCenter and Wayne Hall, the con-struction of two new residencehalls, and the introduction of newmajors in Asian studies and pro-fessional sales are among the manyvisible signs of progress at theUniversity. While the institutionmoves forward, we have all enjoyedlooking back at historic photosand listening to stories of alumni,faculty, and staff as we celebratedWilliam Paterson’s 150th anniver-sary during 2005.

Our alumni programming con-tinues to expand. Last year wehosted eight new events includingan alumni employee luncheon atthe Alumni House during the hol-idays; a Nets Day sponsored by theYoung Alumni Chapter; alumnievents in Florida including recep-tions after a Pioneers baseballgame in Tampa and at the home ofDick Stone ’57 and his wife Jean-nine on Marco Island; and aValentine’s Day champagne recep-tion for our William Patersonsweethearts.

The Association’s chapters alsohad a successful and exciting year.Congratulations to the NursingAlumni Chapter, which reached itsfund-raising goal in support of ascholarship honoring deceasedclassmate Yvonne Parisen. TheSpotlight Theater Companyreceived eight nominations for theoriginal stage production of Poems

Under the Pool Table and won twoPerry Awards for OutstandingOriginal Production of a Play andOutstanding Sound Design. ThePerry Awards recognize achieve-ment in community theater inNew Jersey. The Young AlumniChapter’s Senior Send-Off con-tinues to grow…last January’sreception (our first in the RecCenter) was well attended andlast spring’s Send-Off was thelargest in the five-year history ofthis event.

All of the above alumni out-reach activities are made possiblethrough your support of theAlumni General Fund. Whenyou’re contacted by phone orreceive an appeal in the mail ask-ing for support, you are beingasked to help fund alumni pro-gramming, scholarships, andgrants. In order for your AlumniAssociation to continue to growand make an impact, we count onyour continued participation.

To update your home andbusiness contact information,please visit our secure site atwww.wpunj.edu/alumni and followthe link for change of address. Besure to include your preferred e-mail address so that we can contin-ue to keep you informed about theexciting things happening atWilliam Paterson University.

GREETINGS FROM YOUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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HERE I AM PHOTOGRAPHED WITH NINETY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CELIA BRENNER ROSEN ’29. I MET MRS. ROSEN AT PATERSON DAY 2005 FESTIVITIES IN FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA IN

FEBRUARY. SHE WAS RECOGNIZED AS THE OLDEST LIVING ATTENDEE AND I WAS FORTUNATE

TO SPEND A FEW MINUTES WITH HER. THIS NATIVE OF PATERSON AND CURRENT RESIDENT

OF PORTLAND, OREGON SHARED WITH ME HER STORIES ABOUT ATTENDING THE NORMAL

SCHOOL AND TEACHING IN THE LODI SCHOOL SYSTEM. IF YOU KNOW MRS. ROSEN OR

SOMEONE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN HER STUDENT, PLEASE CONTACT ME IN THE ALUMNI

OFFICE AT ALUMNI@WPUNJ.EDU OR AT 973.720.2175. I WILL BE HAPPY TO CONNECT

YOU WITH MRS. ROSEN.

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Paterson Day 2005, co-chaired by William Paterson alumnae RonaRosenberg Simmons ’68 and Roslyn Rosenkranz Wagner ’69, washeld on February 20, 2005. I had a chance to catch up with Roz andRona, lifelong friends and Florida residents with roots in Paterson, atthe Annual Florida Chapter Reunion held the same weekend at TheRiverside Hotel, also in Ft. Lauderdale.

Chances are, if youlive and drive in

the northeastern UnitedStates, you've benefitedfrom the work of StephenT. Boswell, M.A.'76. As aprofessional engineer,planner, municipal engi-neer, public works manag-

er, and environmentalprofessional, he has usedthese skills to design manykinds of infrastructureincluding roads andbridges.

Boswell is president,CEO, and managing officerof Boswell Engineering, afamily-owned engineeringand construction manage-ment firm founded by hisgrandfather, David C.Boswell, more than eightyyears ago. The firm hasgrown from a small two-person operation to onethat employs more thanthree hundred people.Clients have included theNew Jersey Department ofTransportation (the Route17/Route 4 interchange, a$120 million project hisfirm brought in two yearsahead of schedule) and theNew York State ThruwayAuthority (the reconfigu-ration of I-87/I-287 fromthe Tappan Zee BridgeToll Plaza to the Saw MillRiver Parkway).

Despite the fact thatBoswell has reached the

top of the engineeringfield, he didn't begin hiscareer as an engineer,although, like all mem-bers of the family, hestarted out at the tenderage of fourteen workingsummers in the familybusiness.

Meanwhile, the lure ofengineering was elusivefor Boswell. After earningan undergraduate degreein biology and chemistryfrom New York Universi-ty in 1974, he taughtchemistry, physics, andbiology at WestwoodHigh School for fouryears. During this time,he decided to pursue amaster's degree becausehe realized with such adegree he could earnmore money.

This path led him toWilliam Paterson sincehis wife and childhoodsweetheart, Karen AxbergBoswell '74, M.A. '95, wasa graduate of the institu-tion, and he was familiarwith it. He earned a mas-ter's degree in 1976 inbiological sciences.

After leaving teaching,he moved to California towork for a large Fortune100 company. “In 1987,my older brother, whowas president of the com-pany, asked me to comeback to become the chief

operating officer,”Boswell says. “However, ifI was going to run anengineering company, Iwas going to need to bean engineer, so I signedup at Stevens Institute ofTechnology.” He subse-quently earned a doublemaster's degree in civilengineering in 1989, andlater a doctorate in envi-ronmental engineering atStevens in 1991. Heaccomplished this bygoing to school fournights a week, fifty-twoweeks a year.

The master's fromWilliam Paterson,although not directlyrelated to engineering, has

been helpful, according toBoswell.

“The William Pater-son degree was excellent,”he says. “I was able to usethat even though it wasunrelated to engineeringbecause I was able to usea combination of my lifeexperience and qualifyingexams. Plus, Stevensaccepted all thirty creditsfrom William Patersontowards the otherdegrees.”

Karen equally valuedher time on campus. Inmany ways, she was typi-cal of her generation andof the many other stu-dents at William Patersonat that time. A commuter

student who lived athome with her family, sheearned a bachelor's degreein English, taught Englishfor a while, worked inpublishing, and was astay-at-home-mother.

“The education Ireceived at William Pater-son was very strong,” shestates. “This schooloffered me a very goodeducation.” Some of theprofessors on campussparked her interest inEnglish. “When I startedat William Paterson, I didnot know which field tostudy,” she remembers.“Studying English wasnot only a positive experi-ence for me, but a perfectfit as well.”

“I felt very prepared,”she continues. “The smallclass sizes allowed me toget to know each studentand I felt that I was notjust a number, but thatthe professors took a realinterest in me and myeducation.”

“I have a soft spot inmy heart for WilliamPaterson, and very fondmemories of my timethere,” Karen says. “Imade some fine friendswhile I was on campusthat I am still close to.”She taught English atSaddle Brook HighSchool for several years,and worked as an assistanteditor at HOME maga-zine for several more.After their daughter,Kristen, was born, Karenbecame a stay-at-home-mother, and used the timeat home to pursue a mas-ter's degree in Englishthat she received in 1995.

Stephen Boswellinsists his success is allabout hard work. Hequotes Thomas Edison,who said “genius is onepercent inspiration, and

ninety-nine percent per-spiration.”

“If you have someintelligence and are willingto work hard, you will suc-ceed,” he says. “Nothingyou learn is ever wasted.Learn as much as you can.Be a sponge and soak upevery experience. Educa-tion and training are veryimportant. Pursue whatyou like and what you'regood at in school, and do itwell. Our motto aroundhere is do your best every-day. The most valuablething we all have is time,so get as much out of eachexperience as you can, anddon't forget to give some-thing back.”

Now that Kristen is inher senior year at DukeUniversity, studying engi-neering, Karen Boswelldevotes her time to help-ing others. Self-identifiedas a “consummate volun-teer,” she tutors an eighth-grade Ridgefield Parkstudent in English, and isan active volunteer atGrace United MethodistChurch in Wyckoff, whereshe serves on the board oftrustees, chairs the wor-ship committee, and isinvolved in numerousother activities and com-mittees. She and her hus-band, who just celebratedtheir thirtieth weddinganniversary, also enjoytraveling out to their vaca-tion home in Arizona.

They keep their con-nection to William Pater-son strong by donating tothe Annual Fund. “Eachyear, we send the dona-tion, and in return, we geta note from a studentwhom that money hashelped,” she says. “Thisrelates back to the personalexperiences we had as stu-dents and we are gratefulfor that personal touch.”w

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Building Communities in Different Ways: Stephen T. Boswell,M.A. ’76, and Karen Axberg Boswell ’74, M.A. ‘95

STEPHEN T. BOSWELL

KAREN AXBERG BOSWELL

Avisit to the campusmany years ago,

three influential profes-sors, and a growing desireto be a writer shaped thecollege life of GwendolynPough ’92.

“The very first timeI came to the WilliamPaterson campus, I felt animmediate connection,”Pough says. “This iswhere I needed to be.”

Now an associateprofessor of writing,rhetoric, and women’sstudies at SyracuseUniversity, Pough is alsoa published writer withseveral books in differentgenres in various stagesof publication.

“I knew I wanted tobe a writer since I wastwelve years old,” shesays. “I majored inEnglish, with a creativewriting focus.” Duringher undergraduate yearson campus, her focuson writing shifted as shecame into contact withprofessors who bothadvised and inspired her.

“In my senior year, Ihad three black womenprofessors, Linda Day,Virginia Whately-Smith,and a visiting professorwho was a linguist inthe African, AfricanAmerican, and CaribbeanStudies department. Thiswas a pivotal moment forme,” Pough remembers.“It made me think notonly about graduateschool, but that I coulddo what they were doing.It crystallized the ideafor me.”

She is also indebtedto Leslie Agard-Jones,dean of the College ofEducation, AubynLewis, assistant director

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Gwendolyn Pough: Combining Writing WithFeminism to the Tune of Hip Hop

ered being a rapper whilein high school. As shebegan to look at hip-hopmore critically, she real-ized that female rapperswere given short shrift.

“Hip hop as a culturewas not explored from thewoman’s point of view,”she says. “I didn’t likethat their participation inthe culture was given aone-minute response andthen forgotten.”

To correct that omis-sion and to start a dia-logue about women in hiphop, she wrote a book:Check It While I Wreck It:Black Womanhood, HipHop Culture, and the Pub-lic Sphere, a scholarly lookat the topic. The bookfocuses on the contribu-tions of women rappersand their function as rolemodels to young women.

“A lot of women par-ticipate in the hip hopculture,” Pough says. “It’sa youth culture that’smore than just music. Itstarted out as grafittiwriting, and moved on torap music, dee-jaying, andbreak dancing. It’s a cul-tural folk art form inwhich women wereinvolved from the begin-ning and are still involvedon various levels.”

Women, Pough says,use that culture to claim apublic voice, a fact shewanted to highlight in thebook. While a lot morewomen rappers are record-ing songs these days, thereis not the variety that wasin existence early in themovement.

“Most of the womenare following the samepattern,” she reports.“Many are scantily clad,and are using sexuallyexplicit lyrics, leading to

Me, to be published inMarch 2006, and SweetSensation, scheduled forJanuary 2007. Genesis is asmall, black-owned pressthat publishes multicul-tural novels. She has also written a romance bookfor Harlequin Books newimprint of African Ameri-can books called The Har-rington Legacy, set to hitthe shelves in July 2006.

Pough is married toCedric Bolton, coordinatorfor student engagementand outreach for the Officeof Multicultural Affairs atSyracuse University.

She enjoys the balanceof writing scholarly worksand romance novels com-bined with an academiclife. Her education madeher realize that she couldblend the two worlds. As aprofessor, she likes work-ing with young people, andteaching women’s studiesand writing courses, butmostly she likes being ableto combine writing withfeminism and developingnew curriculum, whichshe calls her dream job. w

cookie-cutter femaleimages. Earlier, there wasmore diversity. Today,everyone wants to be Lil’Kim or Foxy Brown.There are some rapperslike Jean Grae who refusesto take her clothes off, butcan’t get a record dealwith a major label. Theproblem also lies with thecommercialization of thesame images of women,when we could have avariety of women.”

Pough says this createsa problem for young girlsbecause they are looking atthose images and thinkingthat’s the only way they canbe. Male rappers run thegamut, according to Pough.

After several foraysinto non-fiction writing,Pough, who has just fin-ished researching a bookabout women’s book clubsfunded by a grant fromthe American Associationof University Women, hasreturned to fiction writing,her first love. She haswritten two romancenovels for Genesis Press,authored under the nameof GwynethBolton: I’mGonna MakeYou Love

of advisement, and KayOglesby, a former staffmember in career ser-vices, for “their tremen-dous role in shaping meas a student leader andmaking me the person Iam today.”

She also discoveredan inchoate interest infeminism, while enrolledin a class given by CaroleSheffield, professor ofpolitical science, calledPolitics and Sex.

“This class totally

opened my eyes andexposed me to feminismand women’s rights,” shesays. “At the time, I waspresident of the BlackStudents Association, andit was all about race forme. This class openedmy eyes about issues ofgender and widened mypolitical understanding.”

Meanwhile, PhillipCioffari, professor ofEnglish, encouraged herto apply for graduateschool, which she did,earning a master’s degreefrom NortheasternUniversity in 1994, anda doctorate from MiamiUniversity in Ohio in2000.

Along with scholarlyinterests, Pough had astrong interest in music,specifically hip hopmusic, and even consid-

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How does a high-ranking executive

in charge of a globalcompany give some-thing back to his alma

mater? In the case ofMichael Fitzgerald ’78, hejoins the William PatersonUniversity FoundationBoard to help guide thefutures of the next genera-tion of University students.

“I believe I can makea contribution to the boardwhether it’s through contacts in business, orthrough my ability to goout there and find peoplewho can support the Foun-dation’s economic needs,”he says. “I think I can offera lot to that process.”

Fitzgerald is the presi-dent and CEO of GlobalResource Management(GRM), an internationalcompany that managesrun-off businesses forCNA Financial Corpora-tion (CNA), a property andcasualty insurance business.

“About ten years ago,CNA, in acknowledging a

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continuing obligation toour policyholders, decidedto form a single businessunit (GRM) to manage itsproperty and casualtyrun-off business,” he says.“I manage the dispositionof the liabilities of theproducts we have stoppedoffering to our customers.If a claim occurs, we havea continued obligation topay it.”

Another of GRM’sresponsibilities is closing

down companies, gettingrid of the liabilities, andrepatriating the money backto the parent company.Fitzgerald’s unit managesapproximately $5 billionin CNA liabilities world-wide with the assistanceof one hundred and eightypeople in four locations:New Jersey, New York,Chicago, and London.

Always intrigued bydollars and numbers,Fitzgerald earned anundergraduate degree inaccounting. Believingfinance to be the driver ofthe business world, hehas built a solid career asa business executive work-ing for just one company,CNA, for twenty-six years,which is highly unusual intoday’s business environ-ment, where people oftenleave their jobs to moveup in the corporate world.

“For the first half ofmy career, I had chieffinancial officer jobs,”Fitzgerald remembers.“For the last ten to fifteen

years I have been leadingand managing multiplefunctions, people, anddivisions.”

Although no longerpracticing accounting, heuses what he learned oncampus in his business lifetoday. “The discipline andunderstanding of finance,the fundamental elementsand training I received atWilliam Paterson arealways there in front ofme,” he says. “A+ B=Cis a premise I’ve alwaysfollowed. It is the businessof finance, and that is atthe core of what I learnedat William Paterson.”

Fitzgerald was a com-muter student, workingfull-time while attendingschool full-time, and subsequently didn’t havemuch time for extracur-ricular activities.

“I didn’t take fulladvantage of WilliamPaterson as a student,” hesays. “I had to work myway through school. As acommuter student, I didn’tget connected to the insti-tution, and didn’t getconnected to the opportu-nities available. I missed theinteraction and integrationof students who belong toclubs and organizationsthat make up the collegeatmosphere. That’s proba-bly one of my biggestcareer regrets, not accom-plishing that, but it’s alsoone of the reasons I wantto give something back.Joining the Foundationboard might be my recon-nection to the University.”

He earned his successeven though he did notattend a traditional busi-ness school. “I’ve had apretty successful businesscareer, and attendingWilliam Paterson was partof that success. If anything,it made me work harder.It was what I could afford

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at the time, and I’m proudof my time here. It was thebest place for me at thatpoint in time.”

And this is what hehopes to pass on to stu-dents during his term onthe Foundation board.

“I want to improve theinstitution, the programs,and opportunities for stu-dents at the University,”Fitzgerald states. “If Icould give advice to stu-dents here, it would be toencourage them to takesome financial classes. It’san important part of anydegree. I would like to seethe students of today getintroduced to that and notto find it out after ten orfifteen years.”

Fitzgerald believesstrongly in mentoring.Earlier in his career, he hada mentor who was veryinfluential in his career.“This person opened uptheir world for me, helpedme, supported me, andshowed me that the thingsthat are difficult for meare the areas that I shouldbe working on,” he says.

As a result, he’sinvolved in a mentoringgroup at CNA, and is aboard member with anorganization called Inroadsthat provides opportunitiesto minority students. Thisis in addition to his workon the University’s Foun-dation board.

“I want to help stu-dents to be open to thingsoutside of their bound-aries,” he says. “This isthe key to learning andmoving forward. There areso many opportunities forstudents today. They areexposed to so much morethan I was. But they needto have a balance in theirlives to realize what’s outthere for them.”w

Jennifer Riggins, a May2005 graduate of

William Paterson with abachelor’s degree in polit-ical science, received theAlumni Association’s 2005Outstanding Senior Award.The award has been pre-sented annually by theassociation since 1962 to agraduating senior basedon strong involvement inextracurricular activities,demonstrated leadershipability, service to theUniversity, and high aca-demic standing.

Riggins, who graduatedmagna cum laude, servedas editor-in-chief of theBeacon, the University’sindependent student

Jennifer Riggins Named “Outstanding Senior”newspaper, during the2004-2005 academic year,after previously holdingpositions as a staff writerand managing editor. Shealso served as the 2004Secretary-General ofWilliam Paterson’s MiddleSchool Model UnitedNations Program, whichmentors and trainsapproximately two hun-dred seventh and eighthgrade Paterson publicschool students to becomedelegates representingvarious nation-states ofthe United Nations andculminates with a confer-ence at the University.Riggins also participatedin the University Model

United Nations Club,receiving an award orhonorable mention atfour of the competitionsshe attended.

Named to the Societyof Success and Leadershipand a participant in Col-lege Leadership NewJersey, she has been activein several political cam-paigns and communityoutreach programs inPaterson. Named for fouryears to the Dean’s List,she was inducted into PiSigma Alpha, the NationalPolitical Science HonorSociety. She is a residentof Prospect Park. w

“The Hobarts arean old Paterson fami-ly,” DeVries says.“They were generouspeople. The school issuccessful, even now,and still supported bythe trust.”

DeVries continues tostay connected to theUniversity throughdonations to the AnnualFund, helping studentsin a way similar to theHobart family’s philan-thropy with the Memo-rial Day Nursery. w

Alumna Administers Hobart Trust

When Vanda DeVries’87, M.B.A. ’90,

joined PNC Bank in1973, she learned aboutthe institution’s historicconnection with thefamily of Garret Hobart,who originally owned theestate on which WilliamPaterson has been locatedsince 1951.

As vice presidentwith PNC Bank Advisors,DeVries administers thetrust established morethan one hundred yearsago by Jennie TuttleHobart, the wife ofGarret Hobart, to sup-port the Memorial DayNursery in Paterson,founded in 1887 to carefor the children of the

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The William PatersonUniversity Alumni

Association ExecutiveCouncil has elected fournew members to its ros-ter. The governing bodythat represents the University’s more than50,000 alumni members,the Executive Councilincludes thirty volunteerswho meet throughoutthe year. Their responsi-bilities include awardingalumni scholarships andgrants and alumni pro-gramming. The councilalso reviews applicationsfor regional and specialinterest alumni chapters.

The new membersare Douglas Hamilton’75, Rola Hannoush ’88,Khadijah Livingston’73, and Marilyn Mattei-Rabenhorst ’69, M.A.’70.

Douglas Hamilton isthe controller for VictoryBox Corporation, a posi-tion he has held since1995. Previously, he

Executive Council Adds Four New Membersserved as vice presidentand controller of YorxElectronics Corp. and asa senior accountant forthe City of Paterson. A1975 graduate of WilliamPaterson with a bachelor’sdegree in accounting, heholds a master’s degreein business administra-tion from FairleighDickinson University. Amember of the AlumniAssociation’s AnnualFund Committee since1999, Hamilton servedas chair of the committeefrom 2000 to 2002 andwas a member of theClass of 1975’s twenty-fifth reunion committeein 2000. He and his wife,Carole, reside in MidlandPark; their son, DouglasJr., is a 2002 graduate ofthe University.

Rola Hannoush hasbeen a special educationresource center teachersince 1991 at RenaissanceSchool No. 1 in Paterson,

part of the Patersonpublic school system. A1988 graduate of WilliamPaterson with a bachelor’sdegree in psychology,Hannoush earned amaster’s degree in coun-seling /school guidancefrom Montclair StateUniversity in 2000. Therecipient of a Governor’sTeacher RecognitionAward in 1996, she alsoreceived the EducatorsMake a Difference Certificate from KappaDelta Pi, the Interna-tional Honor Society inEducation. She is aresident of Wayne.

Khadijah Livingstonis the founder andpresident of KAL Inter-national MarketingSpecialists, a distributorof custom-imprinteditems, executive gifts,seasonal and religiouscards, and trophies andawards. A 1973 graduateof William Paterson with

bachelor’s degrees inAfrican, African Ameri-can, and Caribbeanstudies and history, shehas previously worked asa public school teacher inPaterson, in pharmaceuti-cal sales for Bristol-MyersSquibb, and as directorof marketing for HospiceCare Chicagoland. Sheholds a master’s degreein philosophy and socialscience from ColumbiaUniversity. She hasbeen inducted into theNational Association ofNegro Business andProfessional Women and100 Black Women ofLong Island, and wasnamed a Black WomanHistory Maker by theCaribbean AmericanChamber of Commerce.She and her husband,Charles Livingston ’72,reside in New Jersey.They are the parents offive children.

Marilyn Mattei-Rabenhorst is a humanresource consultant anda realtor associate withSpecial Properties, adivision of Brook HollowGroup, Inc. in SaddleRiver. She retired in 2004after a successful thirty-year career in humanresources, most recentlyas director of humanresources for ARC-Bergen and PassaicCounties. A graduate ofWilliam Paterson withbachelor’s and master’sdegrees in English, shehas pursued doctoralstudies at New York Uni-versity. An avid operasinger, she has appearedin a number of opera andtheatrical productions inthe tri-state area. Sheand her husband, David,reside in WoodcliffLake.w

men and women work-ing in the city’s silk millsand one of the earliestday-care centers in thenation.

DeVries was fasci-nated by the connectionbetween her alma mater,the Hobarts, and thetrust. She correspondedwith Elizabeth HobartKingsbury, the daughterof Garret A. Hobart Jr.,before her death lastyear, visiting her inFlorida and sendingnewspaper clippings ofstories about Patersonshe thought might beof interest to Mrs.Kingsbury.

19 forty 4MICHAEL LOBOSCO, whoretired from teaching in 1983,was a lecturer at the New JerseyScience Convention. During theconvention he shared with othereducators innovative and effectivetechniques he used to teach mathduring his career.

19 sixty RICHIE ADUBATO, M.A. ’70,was hired as head coach of theWNBA Washington Mystics inApril 2005. Adubato bringsnineteen years of experience as acoach in the NBA to the team.

19 sixty 3MARTIN ALBOUM presenteda lecture at the Maurice M. PinePublic Library in Fair Lawn.The focus of the presentationwas politics and faith, includinga discussion of Sam Harris’sbook, The End of Faith. He wasinvited by the Humanists ofNorth Jersey.

19 sixty 4JAMES NEWQUIST, a retirededucator, combining his love forchildren and teaching, along withhis lifelong interest in scienceand nature, joined the board ofdirectors of the CommunityChildren’s Museum in Dover.

19 sixty 6NORMAN TRACY joined thestaff of Villa Julie College inStevenson, MD as director ofeducational technology.

19 sixty 8GEORGETTE (KLEMCHALK) LENTZwas recently accepted into theIndiana University chapter ofPhi Delta Kappa, a professionalorganization for educators, andwill be listed in its centennialedition. Lentz, who serves as adelegate to the Teacher PensionAnnuity Fund of New Jersey, hasalso been named to Who’s Who

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19 plus...Among America’s Teachers forthe second consecutive year…JOHN STRAUB II, a delegatefrom the Passaic County Educa-tion Association, was re-electedto the Teacher Pension AnnuityFund of New Jersey. Straub isalso a member of Phi DeltaKappa and is an active boardmember of the WestminsterPresbyterian Church in Paterson.

19 sixty 9SUSAN (SHELHAMER)BROWNING, M.ED. ’73,earned recognition for her devo-tion to the students, teachers,and staff at the Selden LandingElementary School in Leesburg,VA when she was honored by hercolleagues as Loudoun CountyPrincipal of the Year.

19 seventyVENICE HARVEY, M.A.,hired as one of the first AfricanAmerican teachers in Passaic in1953, was recognized for pavingthe way for other black educatorsin an article in the HeraldNews…JUDITH STEIN, an arteducator, recently displayed herworks at the University MedicalCenter in Princeton.

19 seventy 1RUSSELL TITUS, M.A.,retired as assistant superintendentafter thirty years of service in theRidgewood school system wherehe began his career as a teacher.

19 seventy 2DONALD LARSON, a twenty-five-year veteran of the bankingindustry, was appointed vicepresident of the commercialreal estate department at The Provident Bank…PAT(O’NEILL) VASILIK was therecipient of a merchandisinggrant, the only one awarded inthe country, from the AmericanLibrary Association. The grant isfor a traveling display that willgive her the opportunity to bringbooks to different elementaryschools in the city of Clifton.

19 seventy 3JAMES CAPPARO, a memberof Atari, Inc.’s board of directorssince February 2002, has beenappointed the company’spresident and chief executiveofficer…KHADIJAH A. LIVINGSTON, president ofKAL International, was honoredby Macy’s during Black HistoryMonth as an African-Americanbusiness leader...MIKEMULCHAHY, M.A. ’77, wasfeatured in an article concerninghis profession as a personal andbusiness life coach. During theinterview he talked about peopleover age forty who are makingcareer transitions and how hisbusiness is focused on meetingthe needs of these individuals inthe “third age”…CHERYLROSKOWINSKI, M.A. ’85,who has taught for twenty-eightyears at the fifth grade level,was presented the Governor’sTeacher of the Year award forMidland School of RochellePark. The award is given inrecognition of providing an envi-ronment that inspires learningand the utilization of effectiveand creative teaching tools andtechniques…ELEANORESHAFFER, M.ED. ’73, whorecently retired from theBlairstown school district whereshe was a learning disabilitiesteacher/consultant and directorfor special services, is currentlyserving in Newton on the boardsof education for Hampton Town-ship and Kittatinny RegionalHigh School. Shaffer was thefirst person to be honored by theHampton Township EducationalFoundation for her exceptionalservice as an educator andboard member.

19 seventy 4BERNADETTE BOTBYL,M.ED. ’84, an educator in NewJersey for thirty years, is currentlyserving as president of the StateVFW Auxiliary. She joined theLadies Auxiliary in 1980 underthe eligibility of her husbandPatrick, a Vietnam veteran…PATRICIA (BALDWIN)HONSZER was ordained adeacon of the Moravian Church,North America. She is now thepastor of Fry Valley MoravianChurch in Ohio…IRIS(WECHLING) KARNAS wasappointed principal of ApshawaElementary School by the WestMilford Board of Education…JULIE SONNENSCHEINjoined the faculty of the ChapinSchool in Princeton as a part-time technology collaborator. Inthis position she will work

with the faculty to integratetechnology into the curricu-lum…SUSAN (KINDER)TURCONI’S acrylic artwork,Read This, was displayed at theTampa Museum of Art inFlorida from July 25 throughSeptember 26, 2004.

19 seventy 5ROBERT ANDRIULLI is alandscape artist and associateprofessor of art at MillersvilleUniversity, PA. His recent work,Direct From Nature, was dis-played at the Peninsula Galleryin Lewes, DE…DR. JOANNEPATTERSON ROBINSON,author of “Urinary Incontinencein Men with Parkinson’s Dis-ease,” presented her research atthe National Congress on theState of the Science in Nursing Research…SUSAN(KELLIHER) UNGARO, theformer editor-in-chief of FamilyCircle magazine, was featuredin Irish America’s Annual Business 100.

19 seventy 6HUELL (ED) ALBERTY wasnamed vice president and man-ager of Hopewell Valley Commu-nity Bank’s loan productionoffice in Cranbury. He bringsmore than twenty years ofexperience to the position…PATRICIA BURROUGHS, areal estate representative forWeichert of Hamburg, was com-mended for leading the office inresale marketed listings…EDNACADMUS received the NurseExecutive Award presented bythe Organization of NurseExecutives in New Jersey. Thishonor acknowledged her leader-ship skills and contributions tothe overall development of thenursing program at EnglewoodHospital. She is also the co-cre-ator of the Cadmus/VreelandNursing Scholarship...KEITHJONES, president of the NewJersey State Conference branch

of the National Association forthe Advancement of ColoredPeople, was interviewed by theNew Jersey Education Associa-tion about his analysis on equityin public education fifty yearsafter the landmark case ofBrown vs. Board ofEducation...EILEEN SCOTT,former chief executive officer ofPathmark Stores, Inc. inCarteret, addressed the NewYork Metro Group of Networkof Executive Women in January.She spoke about the challengesand rewards of being a femaleexecutive…FATHER ROBERTWISNIEFSKI celebrated thetwenty-fifth anniversary of hisordination to the priesthood inApril. Fr. Wisniefski has servedSt. Joseph’s parish in Patersonsince 1986.

19 seventy 7DONNA SELLITTIANTONOW, a jazz pianist, per-formed at the Ringwood PublicLibrary in November 2004…DOUGLAS SCHERZER,police chief in Morris Plains, hasworked on strengthening rela-tionships among police officersand the community by featuringthe officers on baseball cardsdistributed to the residents ofthe town. He spoke about hisprogram in an interview with theDaily Record.

19 seventy 8JOSEPH FERRANTE, M.A.’80, police chief of North Hale-don, received the D.A.R.E. Chiefof the Year Award in honor ofhis dedication and service to theprogram and the community…K. CASEY LAROSA, a socialstudies teacher in Montclair, wasselected as a 2004 recipient ofthe $10,000 Disneyland TeacherAward. She was one of 150,000nominees.

19 seventy-nineJUNE NICHOLSON was hiredas a special education teacher bythe Ridgewood school district.She brings twenty years of expe-rience in the field to her newposition…NOREEN ANN(BOYLE) PRICE is assistant tothe director of Project Help Cri-sis Center, a non-profit organiza-tion in Naples, FL…ROBINSCHWARTZ, whose photogra-phy has been shown in majormuseums, exhibited her pho-tographs of stray dogs in theHoboken Historical Museum.Schwartz, who is best known

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recognition of his contributionsas both a player and coach…JANE UNHJEM, M.ED., isthe assistant superintendent forcurriculum and instruction forthe Goshen, NY school district…THEODORE (TED) WASKYwas named supervisor of theFBI’s Cleveland, OH officewhere part of his focus will becounterterrorism.

19 eighty 2CHRIS DEXTER assumedgeneral management of Condit’sToyota World of Newton, inaddition to his current positionas general manager of their Forddivision…LESLEY WEINER,M.ED., recently recognized asNew Jersey Association ofWomen Business Owners’Business Woman of the Year, wasinterviewed by the Daily Record.The article focused on her com-pany, Heritage Financial Advisors,and her personal and businessdossier…JAMES WYNNE,M.ED., directed Haydn’s TheCreation at Ridgewood UnitedMethodist Church, where he hasbeen organist and director fortwo-and-a-half years.

19 eighty 3 PAUL BREMBT was sworn inas captain of the South Plainfieldpolice department, where he willtake on the role of commanderof the service division…PAULFADER, featured in an articlein the Bergen Record, spoke ofhis journey from a janitor andsecurity guard to his currentappointment as chief counsel toNew Jersey Acting GovernorRichard Codey…ANGELAMUSELLA is the health officerfor the Northwest HealthCommission and is the boroughrepresentative for seven townsin Bergen County, addressingsuch issues as communicablediseases and age enforcementfor the sale of tobacco.

19 eighty 4HAROLD ENGOLD JR.retired after twenty-eight yearsof service to the Haledon policedepartment…MARY T.KUNERT, M.ED., was one offour teachers in the Ringwoodschool district to be honored inthe Passaic County/Governor’sTeacher Recognition Program.This is one of many accoladesshe has received during herthirty-four-year teaching career.

19 eighty 5AL GRECO, M.A., is the citymanager for Clifton. He bringstwenty-seven years of localgovernment experience to theposition…KEITH and KEVINPLACE, keyboardists and vocalarrangers for Jazzy Bear &Friends Band, performed at the40th Annual Art in the Parkshow at Van Saun County Park,Paramus…PAUL STABILE isthe business administrator andsecretary for the school board inBergen County’s office of thedepartment of education.

19 eighty 6LORRAINE LAPIETRA,M.ED. ’93, won re-election toMaywood’s town council. LaPi-etra works as a media specialist atHackensack Middle School.

19 eighty 7MAUREEN (MAZZEO)DECICCO, a certified publicaccountant for WithumSmith+Brown in New Brunswick, one ofthe largest accounting and con-sulting firms in New Jersey, waspromoted to senior manager…KEITH SILVERSTEIN, anoral and maxillofacial surgeonpracticing in Paoli, PA, was listedas a runner-up for the best den-tists in his area of specialization.This list appeared in the June2004 edition of Main Line Today.

19 eighty 8SAM DEDIO and IRENE(VITALE) DEDIO, M.A.’92,announce the birth of theirdaughter, Ava Alexandra, on July29, 2004…BILL STEWART, arenowned and accomplished jazzdrummer, was interviewedrecently by Modern Drummer.The article highlighted many ofhis past and present accomplish-ments including the recentlyreleased CD, EnRoute, on whichhe is featured with two legendaryjazz musicians.

19 eighty 9ANDREW CHOFFO is thedirector of human resources forRoseland Property Co., a devel-oper of luxury apartments andhomes…TRISHA FISHEL-MAN, M.ED., a former educatorand administrator, joined thestaff of the Glen Rock PublicLibrary as the children’s librari-an…FRANK LAROCCA, amatrimonial and divorce lawyerwith the firm Spinato, Novem-ber, Conte & LaRocca P.C, wasnamed to the list of “The TenLeaders Age 45 and Under ofMatrimonial and Divorce Lawof Northern New Jersey” for2004…CARMINE MAR-CHIONDA, M.B.A. ’95, CEOand president of Spectrum forLiving, a not-for-profit organi-zation providing services fordisabled adults, has been com-mended for being instrumentalto the growth of the organization.The company has expanded itsprograms under his guidance asthe company’s first chief execu-tive officer.

19 ninety ERIC ALEXANDER, arenowned jazz tenor saxophonist,performed with his quartet in theMarblehead, MA Summer JazzConcert and in the 2004 Jazz inthe Garden Series in the AliceRansom Dreyfuss MemorialGarden at the Newark Museum.He also performed at the twenty-second annual Jazzfest at theUniversity of Wisconsin, in acentennial tribute to ColemanHawkins at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, and made his debut atShanghai Jazz, a Zagat Award-winning club located in Madison.In addition, Alexander releasedhis latest album, Dead Center…TOMMY DELUTZ JR., whoranked twenty-first on the2003-04 Professional BowlingAssociation (PBA) tour, madepersonal appearances in Middle-town and Chester to give bowlingtips and sign autographs…BASIMA MUSTAFA, recentlyappointed to the Arab and Mus-lim advisory committee to theNew Jersey Attorney General,was born in Jordan and raised inPaterson where she is currently ateacher. Mustafa was moved toaction following the events thatculminated in the Iraq war. Hercivic involvement has led her tojoin various Arab-American orga-nizations in an effort to be a voice

in the Arab/Muslimcommunity… VIRGINIA(VITALE) PICCOLO,C.P.A., was promoted tosenior manager for Withum-Smith+Brown, one of thelargest accounting and con-sulting firms in New Jersey.

19 ninety 1MICHAEL D.RINDERKNECHT is GlenRock’s school business adminis-trator. During his tenure he plansto address the issue of highproperty taxes and its impact onschools. He served in a similarposition for the River Vale andOradell school districts…PAULA GWIAZDA RISOLI,M.ED. ’96, and her husbandMark announce the birth oftheir daughter, Milaina Grace,on April 21, 2004…LAURASANTORO was appointed tothe Regional Heart and VascularCenter at Danbury Hospital, CTas nurse manager of the 10Tower Cardiac Step Down Unit.During the past ten years of hercareer she has taught nursingstudents and served as a clinicalresearch coordinator. Prior to hernew position, she was nursingcare coordinator in the intensivecare unit at Sound ShoreMedical Center…MARGARET(PEGGY) STEWART wasselected as the 2004 New JerseyTeacher of the Year. After gradu-ating she received her master’s inliberal arts with a concentrationin multiculturalism and laterwas chosen as a fellow in YaleUniversity’s Program in Interna-tional Education (PIER). Herpersonal and educational travelhas provided a multicultural andglobal perspective to her studentsat Vernon Township HighSchool. Stewart has also beeninstrumental in tailoring Vernon’scurriculum to be inclusive of abroader world view. As Teacherof the Year she receives a six-month paid sabbatical to collabo-rate with other educators andpursue teaching initiatives as wellas speaking engagements.

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for her photography of animals,has embarked on a new subject,her daughter Amelia. Her series,Amelia Photographs, was ondisplay at the Johnson & JohnsonWorld Headquarters Galleryfrom September 20 throughNovember 15, 2004.

19 eightyBARRY BARDONE is theauthor of No Choice: AndrewKimble in the RevolutionaryWar, which was published anddistributed last summer in paper-back. The book chronicles eventsthat took place during the Revo-lutionary War in the Bergen andPassaic county area…STEVELONEGAN, mayor of Bogota,was one of seven candidates whoran for the Republication nomi-nation for governor in New Jer-sey…RONNI NOCHIMSON,M.A., was hired by the PassaicCounty sheriff ’s department tomanage the implementation ofthe first responders identificationcard program and to furtherdevelop community outreachand service initiatives…JEFFPINES headlined the twenty-fifth anniversary season of Musicat Noon, a concert series in Mor-ristown…JOYCE POWELL,M.A., newly elected president ofthe New Jersey Education Asso-ciation, was recognized as a dis-tinguished alumna byCumberland County Collegewhere she received her associate’sdegree. Her portrait will be dis-played with those of other hon-orees at the college’sDistinguished Alumni Hall ofFame…RICHARD SLADE, aphysical education teacher foreleven years in the FranklinLakes school district, was oneof three educators selected torepresent the district in the2003-04 Governor’s TeacherRecognition Program…HELENE (PIWNICA) TRACHTENBERG was named2004 Teacher of the Year for theHawthorne school district.

19 eighty 1MARY L. GRUCCIO, M.A.,was re-elected to the Cumber-land County Freeholder Seat,serving as chairman of publicworks…CAROL LUSCHERjoined the staff of Sussex Bank asassistant vice president anddirector of training. She will beresponsible for the implementa-tion and development of an in-house training program…EDPAIVA was inducted into theSussex Sports Hall of Fame in

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19 ninety 2RICHARD LUTHER DODSON and KATH-LEEN (HAWLEY) DOD-SON ’93 announce the birthof Jake Luther on April 13,2004. He joins his sistersEmma Rose and NicoleFaith…ALYSSA (FELD-

MAN) FERSTENFELD andher husband Mitchell announcethe birth of their son, StevenNoah, on February 8, 2004…MICHAEL LOMBARDI isthe vice president of sales, EastCoast region, for UndertoneNetworks, a provider of onlineadvertising services. His resumeincludes such companies asBloomberg.com, Imedia Commu-nications, Inc., and Darcy &Darcy Advertising and PublicRelations, where he served invarious sales and sales manage-ment positions including vicepresident of sales...JILL SUMMERS, whose grand-mother died from cancer whenshe was a child, raised $1,800for the Avon Breast CancerFoundation during the twenty-six-mile fund-raising event heldin October 2004. Summers is atechnology coordinator for theNewark Board of Education.

19 ninety 3TOMOKO OHNO, a composerand jazz pianist, performed at theCornerstone Café & Bistro inMetuchen and Shanghai Jazz ofMadison. Her quartet kicked offTeaneck’s First Night festivitieswith a performance at the TeaneckPublic Library. She was featuredwith the Dizzy Gillespie AlumniAll-Stars Band and has a CD,Natural Woman, available throughAmazon.com.

19 ninety 4 KRISTIN (HASENSTAB)BOYCE and her husbandChristopher announce the birth oftheir third child, Emily Kristin,on October 11, 2004. She joinsbrothers Christopher and Ian…ROB DAVIS, who began the suc-cessful football program at Brack-man Middle School in Barnegat,assumed the position of footballcoach for the Bengals at BarnegatHigh School…KAREN A.LAKE, M.ED., superintendent ofthe Hillsborough school district,was recently listed as one of eightwomen superintendents in theMorris County school district.Her career in education includedpositions as a fifth-grade teacherin Irvington and principal of

Haskell School in Wanaque…TOMMIE PATTERSON, aformer Kennedy High Schoolbasketball player, participated ina “throwback” basketball tourna-ment at Paterson Catholic HighSchool. The games broughttogether former basketball playersfrom the Paterson area whoplayed at various schools duringthe ’80s and ’90s. The proceedswere used to start a summer foot-ball program…DOMENICKSTAMPONE, an attorney andpresident of the Haledon towncouncil, was named to the boardof trustees of the New JerseyState Bar Association (NJSBA).The forty-three-member boardmanages the affairs and propertyof the NJSBA. Stampone iscurrently president of the WilliamPaterson University AlumniAssociation.

19 ninety 5CHRISTOPHER BUDINICH,president of Spotlight TheatreCompany, a chapter of theWilliam Paterson UniversityAlumni Association, announcedthat the company received eightnominations for the original stageproduction of Poems From Underthe Pool Table. Spotlight TheatreCompany received two PerryAwards for Outstanding OriginalProduction of a Play and Out-standing Sound Design from theNew Jersey Association of Com-munity Theaters, which recog-nizes excellent amateur theatre.The production was selected fromamong two hundred shows.Recently the theatre companystaged the comedy Mr. 80% as afundraising event for the YvonneE. Parisen Memorial Scholarshipfor the Alumni Association’sNursing Chapter…BETHPROL joined the real estateteam at RE/MAX PropertiesUnlimited in Sparta as a salesassociate. She has been a realestate professional for more thanfive years and in 2001 was namedto the Weichert Million DollarSales Club.

19 ninety 6ANAT FORT entertained audi-ences with her own compositionsat the Puffin Cultural Forum inTeaneck. She is an accomplishedpianist and composer who hasperformed around the world withthe Anat Fort Trio and recentlysigned with ECM records…DAVID KEMLER joined thestaff of Tekmark Global as anaccount executive...AMANDA(MONACO) HENKIN, a gui-

tarist for the all-girl band, Lasciv-ious Biddies, performed at thePine Loft in Berlin, NY to kickoff the group’s New Englandtour. The group, known for itsunconventional, eclectic style ofmusic, released a second album,Get Lucky, which is available onAmazon.com or via their Website, www.biddies4ever.com…DANIEL METRO is the infor-mation systems site manager forCedar Crest Village, a facility formiddle-income people over sixty-two years old in Pompton Plains.Metro’s responsibilities includeinformation systems support andmanagement…MICHAEL J.OWENS, a six-year veteran ofthe Cranbury police force, waspromoted to sergeant. He assumesthe responsibility of conductingand leading investigations aswell as other managerial duties…TIMOTHY S. PLOTTS wasselected by the Morris PlainsBoard of Education as principaland special services director of itsBorough School. His previousexperience as an educator includespositions as assistant principal atKittatinny Regional High Schooland fifth grade teacher at RichardButler Middle School.

19 ninety 7SCOTT CARLSON, a Rutgerslaw school student, worked as asummer associate at Riker DanzigScherer Hyland and PerrettiLLP in Morristown…GLENNFOCARINO was appointedprincipal of Hilltop School inLodi where he attended schoolas a youth. One of his goals is toinstitute an anti-bullying programmodeled after the one he helpedto successfully implement at themiddle school…JEREMYHEINZE was promoted to headcoach of the Cougars, ChathamHigh School’s field hockeyteam…KEVIN VALLUZZI,owner of A&B Fitness, is a per-sonal trainer and a licensed fit-ness-by-phone coach…MARCWILLIAMS, national branddirector for Champs Sports, wasrecently honored in The NetworkJournal as part of a third wave ofunder-forty young black womenand men paving the way in theirprofession. A reception was heldin honor of these aspiringindividuals at the Alfred LernerHall at Columbia University lastsummer. He was also appointedto the board of directors of TheChildren’s Dream Fund, a non-profit organization.

19 ninety 8JUDY BADY was recently fea-tured in an article in the HeraldNews, which focused on what ithas taken to establish herself as avocal artist in the industrythrough self-marketing. Bady hasperformed at such venues as theOskar Schindler Performing ArtsCenter in West Orange and TheKennedy Center in Washington,DC. Recently, she appeared withBilly Harper in Szczecina,Poland. Her debut CD, Blackbird,has received numerous accoladesin various jazz magazines includ-ing a three-star review in DownBeat magazine…JILL (MORAN)STAUFFER, M.ED., was therecipient of the 2004 MilkenFamily Foundation NationalEducator Award. A teacher in theWyckoff district for fifteen years,she is credited with instilling inher students a love of learning bytailoring the lessons to their indi-vidual needs. She was among onehundred educators honored withthis prestigious award during aceremony in Washington, DC…MEREDITH OLARTE waspromoted to community relationsdirector at Home Care Options…BRIAN TIMMONS and hiswife Megan announce the birthof their second daughter, Alanna,who joins sister, Kaleigh.

19 ninety 9MARY HASSENPLUG, M.A.,was one of four teachers selectedfrom among eighty-two nomineesto be honored by PrincetonUniversity during its 2005 com-mencement ceremony. She wasrecognized as an outstandingsecondary school teacher in NewJersey. Hassenplug has been ateacher at High Point RegionalHigh School since 1984. In theclassroom her aim is to stimulateindependent thinking amongher students by fostering anenvironment where each studentis encouraged to offer his or heropinion. In addition, she isworking on a project to integratea “cyber classroom” into the

English curriculum…JOSEPHLEONE is the assistant vicepresident/branch manager ofLakeland Bank in Little Falls. Hebrings twenty-four years of bank-ing experience to the company.

2 thousand JOSE ANTUNES graduatedfrom the Essex County PoliceAcademy…DEBORAHARMENO is the recreationdirector in Florham Park. Shepreviously served as recreationcoordinator in Hopatcong inaddition to coaching recreationalsports as well as the creation andimplementation of programs andactivities for the area’s seniorpopulation…LINDA HOGANreceived her doctor of optometrydegree from Pennsylvania Col-lege. She plans to practice in thenorthern New Jersey area…DELORES SCHANEN, M.A.,recently had her artworks,Thought Fragments, exhibited atGallery 110 North in Wisconsin.The show included such pieces asMoving Nuns III and Fragments.Her works have previously beendisplayed at galleries in theMilwaukee area.

2 thousand 1SHAINA LEWIS, a socialstudies teacher at Clifton HighSchool, received the October 2004Feature Teacher Award. It wasgiven in recognition of her workwith the Teen Institute of theGarden State (TIGS) program.TIGS is a program aimed ateducating adolescents, teens, andyoung adults to remain drug-freethrough workshops, presentations,and discussion groups… ADAMG. SMITH joined the faculty ofGlen Ridge High School as achemistry teacher. Previously, hetaught physical science in Wayne.

2 thousand 3LAUREN BREIER was hired aswellness director for the YMCAin Sussex County… GARYCALTABILOTTA has joinedNew England Financial of NorthJersey as a financial representa-tive…ADAM R. JAEGER, aftercompleting a new agent trainingprogram for Century 21, washired by Gross & Jansen Realtorsin Sparta.

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1999Robert Fraserto Crystal IvoryApril 2005

Michael T. Gavinto Laurie RothSeptember 2004

Michael Greenwoodto Shannon Neville ’03June 2004

Robert McCorryto Jamie Lynn KealyMay 2004

Nova L. Osowskyto James J. Vazquez2004

Rosemary Elizabeth Ramosto David Enrique OrtegaApril 2004

Scott Ryanto Tara PalmieriJune 2004

John Sangisto Teresa SilversMay 2004

2000Allison DeBernardisto Marc CabezasDecember 2004

Jesse William Girkeshto Melissa Ann ManniJuly 2004

Kristian B. Hubbardto Sarah C. FrankJune 2004

Brian Patrick O’Sullivanto Katherine Quinn MurrayOctober 2004

Michele Popolato Serafino BerardiMarch 2004

Alexandra L. Patrickto Keith F. KnippenbergJuly 2004

Angela Scaturroto Anthony CiaccioJuly 2004

Keri Van Lentento Shawn FrawleyNovember 2004

Eric W. Holgersonto Lisa Ann Annitti ’99May 2004

Kelli-Ann Mallekto Reese RileyOctober 2004

Amanda Wagner Monacoto Andrey Alexandrovich HenkinApril 2005

1997Michael Vincent Bonaccoltoto Pamela Ann SzekerOctober 2004

Michael Kelly Dettlingerto Karen Ann KennyJune 2004

Steven P. Fulseto Kathleen Ann GanzMarch 2004

Jaray E. Harveyto Kevin GillespieNovember 2004

Jeremy Heinzeto Courtney ReeseSeptember 2004

Jill Lombardoto Mark MelitoJuly 2004

Jill E. Tarulloto Jason BarnesJune 2004

1998Colleen Ann Adamsto Craig Alan HookAugust 2004

David F. Andersonto Lucille Anne CampanaJuly 2004

Derek R. Clarkto Joanna V. RockSeptember 2004

Nicole Collurato Louis MagliardittiJuly 2004

Tracie Mataluccito James KennisonMay 2004

Stuart Zissu, M.A.to Bernadine ChinJune 2004

1989Charles Terroneto Deborah DinkleOctober 2004

1991Michelle L. Perrone to John P. Latko Jr.September 2004

1992Marlena Rickardto Lee BeatonJuly 2004

Robert Sangiamoto Monique Lyn RibandoJuly 2004

1993Tanya Ellen Catini to Louis Mark TrentoJanuary 2005

Janine Marie Ferranteto Lawrence Peter VarhaulSeptember 2004

Christopher D. Florioto Jodi L. SmigelskyApril 2004

Lisa Ilchisinto R. Scott MacClementsJune 2004

Edward Oldakto Katherine McDermottAugust 2004

1994Anthony Salvatore Arabia,M.B.A.to Lynn Ella NilesJanuary 2005

1995Alice Donlinto James McDermottJuly 2004

Pamela Sue Ticeto Michael J. SolovayJuly 2004

1996Yariv Cohento Ronit Ben Ze’evJune 2004

Jill Danielsto David MitchellJuly 2004

2001Lori L. Berish, M.B.A.to Christopher R. KotesOctober 2004

Christina S. Berian, M.A.to Richard J. PeloskyJune 2004

Christopher Dalbyto Sarah Augusta Barba ’02March 2004

Melissa DiMaggioto Oliver RuizNovember 2003

Lori Ann Fischto Anthony J. RomanoSeptember 2004

Julia M. Gomezto Andrew C. WardellAugust 2004

Jennifer Ann Griffithto Dr. Michael Philip EspositoMay 2004

Paul Jenneto Krista HawthorneJanuary 2005

Laurin Pecoraroto Joseph ApruzzeseJuly 2004

Cheryl Pinglorato Michael RourkeApril 2004

Steven A. Teitsmato Melissa I. CelentanoOctober 2004

2002 Maria Cappuccia to Paul Tommasi September 2004

Janice Lynn Davidsonto Michael Todd DolceJuly 2004

Margaret L. Duffto Christopher T. CastelluccioFebruary 2004

Kristine A. Frangipaneto Justin A. DeppnerJuly 2004

Paul R. French Jr.to Jennifer Lynn DavisJune 2004

Nicole C. Hillerto John H. Borie Jr.August 2004

2003Susan M. Antonettito Albert A. PelosiJune 2004

Meredith Duddy, M.S.to Josh HandtJune 2004

Stephanie Dykovitzto Steven AbbottAugust 2004

Nicole Freeman, M.S.to John FritzkyAugust 2004

Kathleen Higginsto Sean CouillardJune 2004

Heather Larattato Joseph RowensOctober 2004

Donna Lindlsey, M.Ed.to Matthew StrianseAugust 2004

Christina Petilloto John DilkesMay 2004

Carol Sharar, M.Ed.to Robert LutzJuly 2004

Catherine Marie Starickto Michael Donald CostaFebruary 2004

Adrienne A. Sviderskito Thomas J. CarrollJuly 2004

2004Thomas D’Angelo IIIto Kimberly McGrathOctober 2004

Jaclyn Philipsonto Ryan ZinckNovember 2004

Richard Thomas Scholz Jr.to Kristen Lynn SasoOctober 2004

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2 thousand 4KATHERINE BONILLA wasone of twenty people sworn in asnew volunteers for AmeriCorpsin Paterson. During her year ofservice she will work at heralma mater, Paterson CatholicHigh School…STEPHENCRAWFORD is an art directorfor Joselove-Filson Advertising,Inc. He received the 2003 ArtDirectors Club of New JerseyGraphic Design Award whileworking for Will Whiteley as agraphic designer…CHERYLDUNKIEL is supervisor of thegifted and talented programsfor the Westfield public schools.Bringing several years of experi-ence with other gifted and tal-ented programs to the position,she will work with other educa-tors to ensure the incorporationof effective strategies into theschool system for gifted andtalented students…ITAYGOREN, an accomplishedclassical pianist and accompanist,performed at the Mahwah PublicLibrary to a standing-room-onlycrowd. Goren was born in Israelwhere he composed pieces for aballet and a symphony orchestra…SOTERIOS GEORGHIOU,with three of his neighbors,received eleven medals and theJames Corrado Amateur Wine-maker of the Year award inCorrado’s sixth annual amateurwinemaking contest. A self-taught winemaker, Georghiouspecializes in such blends aswhite malvoise and sangiovesered. He received two gold medalsfor these wines and a silver medalfor his grappa… NICHOLAST. GUARDABASCO, M.ED., isa guidance counselor at HeritageMiddle School in Livingston…ANDREW GUTAUSKAS ison the road to a successful careerin jazz. The Southington Observerincluded a feature on Gutauskas,who has performed with well-known artists such as SlideHampton, Jim McNeely, andBill Goodman. Gutauskas iscontinuing his jazz studies atThe Juilliard School…JILLNITKINAS, a math teacher atWest Milford High School, pro-vided the inspiration for one ofher honor students to enter andwin the Trig-Star Award. Thisnational competition is sponsoredby the National Society of Pro-fessional Surveyors…KAELAQUINCE was one of the musi-cians invited to perform at an

By Dale Dreisbach ’55

It all began on a hotAugust day in

2004. A message onmy voice mail fromAudrey Bonaparte-Watts, assistant directorof alumni relations,invited me to serve onthe 50th Year ReunionCommittee. I called inmy acceptance and start-ed on a ten-month pro-ject that would bemarked by emotionalhighs and pleasant sur-prises, culminating in a

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wonderful three-day cel-ebration from May 15 to17, 2005.

I thoroughly enjoyedworking with formerclassmates Pauline(Schneider) Gikas, Joan(Sojka) Gusciora,Eleanor (Stegemoeller)Redfearn, and Doris(Smith) Seale, alongwith Audrey, who pro-vided wise counsel andsupport services.

We met once amonth to plan our over-all strategy, outline thedetails of the three-day

50th Year Reunion: A Rewarding Experienceaffair, and assign tasksfor the month. Our majorgoals were to maximizeattendance, encouragesupport for a class schol-arship fund, and create amemory book for theenjoyment of alumni andtheir families. We sentout correspondence toClass of 1955ers, keep-ing them abreast of ourprogress, soliciting theirsuggestions, and enlist-ing their aid in locatingmissing classmates.

We were elated whenwe located a missingclassmate and saddenedwhen we learned a personwho had been a vibrantpresence on campuswas incapacitated ordeceased.

As we approachedthe month of May, wewere delighted to receivedonations to the Schol-arship Fund and reser-vations for the campusactivities. We also enjoyedreviewing the returnedpersonal informationquestionnaires that would

be part of the memorybook. These question-naires told of the careersand family events of thepast half-century. Onthe other hand, we weredisappointed that someof the people we lookedforward to seeing wouldnot be able to attend.

The Reunion Week-end itself was a wonder-ful experience: renewingold friendships, revisitingthe vastly expandedcampus, and reveling inthe excitement of thecommencement activitiesfor the Class of 2005.The featured eventsincluded an eveningbanquet at a picturesquecampus site on Sunday;campus tours followedby participating in theClass of 2005 SeniorSend-Off dinner onMonday; and being hon-ored guests at the Classof 2005 commencementfollowed by a farewellluncheon on Tuesday.

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CLASS OF 1955 MEMBERS JAMES MEISTERICH (SECOND FROM RIGHT)AND DALE DREISBACH (FAR RIGHT) WITH THEIR SPOUSES PATRICIA MEIS-TERICH (FAR LEFT) AND JEAN DREISBACH (SECOND FROM LEFT)

LOOKING OVER PHOTOS AND MEMENTOES FROM THEIR TIME ON CAM-PUS ARE (SEATED, L. TO R.) ELEANOR (STEGEMOELLER) REDFEARN, LIL-LIAN (BOYAJIAN) CHAPIAN, GWEN (GILMORE) MALATESTA, (STANDING,L. TO R.) DOLORES (MENDELLO) SHEPTOCK, MARIE (PARISI) MOORE,JUDY LINDER, PAULINE (SCHNEIDER) GIKAS, JAMES MEISTERICH, GRACE

(DAVENPORT) SCHAUS, AND ALICE (BLAIR) FORBES

GRACE (DAVENPORT) SCHAUS, ALICE

(BLAIR) FORBES, ELEANOR (STEGE-MOELLER) REDFEARN, (STANDING)AND GWEN (GILMORE) MALATESTA

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ENJOYING LUNCH AT THE ALUMNI HOUSE FOLLOWING

COMMENCEMENT ARE (SEATED, L. TO R.) DOLORES

(MENDELLO) SHEPTOCK, MARIE (PARISI) MOORE,DORIS (SMITH) SEALE, ELEANOR (STEGEMOELLER)REDFEARN, JOAN (SOJKA) GUSCIORA, (STANDING, L.TO R.) GRACE (DAVENPORT) SCHAUS, ALICE (BLAIR)FORBES, DALE DREISBACH, FREDERICK GUSCIORA,CONNIE (WHITEHEAD) MCCABE, GWEN (GILMORE)MALATESTA, AND RAE ANN (BALDINO) JANDRIS

’29 BLANCHE (GOETSCHIUS)COPELAND, M.A. ’61Clifton, NJOctober 2004

THERESE (MARINI) DICELLONaples, FLMay 2004

’35 MARY M. DYKESGlen Rock, NJFebruary 2005

’38 DR. STEPHEN J. GERACEPompton Plains, NJFebruary 2005

’39 LILLIAN C. (SIESS) ARMITTPittsfield, MAMarch 2005

JOHN ROBERT ALBINSONShelter Island, NYAugust 2004

ELLA (KISS) RINGERSCharlottesville, VAJuly 2004

’40 EDITH (BABB) HALLIWELL, M.A. ‘59Hackettstown, NJJanuary 2005

’41 MERIEL (WILSON) FREESWICKWayne, NJNovember 2004

’46 LOUISE (PEARSON) MAGGESEVoorheesville, NYFebruary 2005

ELIZABETH (THOMPSON) RITTGERClifton, NJSeptember 2004

’47 KATHERINE (SIMPSON) BOCIMFreehold Township, NJJuly 2004

LOIS CORNELIA (MARKVART)HABERKOSTWestmont, NJAugust 2004

’50 HELEN SUE HAMEETMANWyckoff, NJNovember 2004

RICHARD LASKOWICH, M.A. ’66West Paterson, NJFebruary 2005

’53 ELSIE (FLEISCHER) FERNANDIGarfield, NJAugust 2004

’56 RICHARD PERNA, M.A. ’62North Haledon, NJApril 2005

’57 PATRICIA (VREELAND) BOYLEWyckoff, NJFebruary 2005

’61 GRACE A. (DEVRIES) PONTIER,M.A. ’61Orange City, IADecember 2003

’62 NORMAN MARTINABrookside, NJMay 2005

HELEN (DILIBERTI) TEN BROEKEFranklin Lakes, NJJanuary 2005

’63 LOIS (RIPATRAZONE) DONOVANCranford, NJApril 2005

’65 GRACE (IRMIERE) FALCO, M.A. Paterson, NJJuly 2004

’64 EDITH (WYLIE) DARDIAWayne, NJDecember 2004

MARGARET A. (VOKES) KAELIN,M.ED. ’76Pompton Lakes, NJMay 2005

SUSAN (WAGNER) MILLERParsippany, NJMarch 2005

RICHARD SHELLClifton, NJFebruary 2005

MARIETTA ANN (CATALDO) VECOLIClark, NJApril 2005

’65 MARY (BRUNZLICK) DONERSparta, NJNovember 2004

’67 NATALIE (ASHKENAZY) ALBINParamus, NJDecember 2004

JOSEPH S. GRASSO, M.A. Monsey, NYJune 2004

JOSEPH J. TULLYBloomington, INAugust 2004

’68 MARIE (GEAIR) WICOFFBeachwood, NJJuly 2004

’69 LINDA M. (SCHWEIZER) HARTLEYPequannock, NJSeptember 2004

’70 EVELYN (DOWLING) FERRARABrick, NJNovember 2004

MARIAN E. (OSWALT) GIANNETTI,M.A.Naples, FLSeptember 2004

JUDITH (LEVENTHAL) RECHT,M.A.Ho-Ho-Kus, NJMay 2004

DENNIS WYKAWest Paterson, NJSeptember 2004

’71 KATHLEEN L. (OATES) BULLOCH Anaheim, CAMay 2004

SHIRLEY (FRIEDMAN) DVOSKINNew York, NYNovember 2004

FRANK J. REPASYNewton, NJJune 2004

’72 JOHN J. BRUNOCliffside Park, NJJune 2004

MARIE (HYNES) HUSTED, M.A. ’74Wayne, NJOctober 2004

MICHAEL S. MORINHamilton Square, NJJuly 2004

’73 FELIX P. SHARKEY, M.A. ‘78Brick, NJOctober 2004

’74 PATRICIA CROMPTONEaston, PAApril 2005

JAMES D. EDWARDSOakland, NJJune 2004

THOMAS E. KANE SR.Cranford, NJJanuary 2005

SHARON RAE (NELSON) LAUGELKearny, NJJanuary 2005

’75 CYNTHIA (BASKINGER) BURCZYNSKI, M.ED. ’01Pompton Lakes, NJNovember 2004

KATALIN J. (KOVESDY) DELBENOgdensburg, NYApril 2005

MARY LU GARDNER, M.A.Overland Park, KSMay 2005

HERBY HERRONRoxbury Township, NJJanuary 2005

’76 DOROTHY MARIE (REID) CUSACKClifton, NJOctober 2004

KAPS NANNI JR.Hackensack, NJJanuary 2005

’77 JOHN J. SHERROWWayne, NJFebruary 2005

’78 JOSEPH LABADIAGasper, GAApril 2005

YONEKO (TAJITSU) NASHSan Diego, CANovember 2004

’79 KANDACE M. (ANTONICK)HOWEHawthorne, NJAugust 2004

ANNE MARIE(GUNDERSDORF) LEISTMANManchester, NJSeptember 2004

’80 JOSEPH T. MARMOPocono Lake, PAJanuary 2005

ANNETTE B. (BARONE) TRIGNANOWayne, NJMarch 2005

’82 JANE (PITMAN) FIKSLINWayne, NJSeptember 2004

’83 ELLEN D. (TAUB) HENDRICKSTotowa, NJJanuary 2005

’84 NANCY (BOER) MOORHOUSEHawthorne, NJJune 2002

’86 GUGLIELMO “BILL” GOFFI Dumont, NJAugust 2004

’88 KENNETH KLENKFranklin Lakes, NJFebruary 2005

’90 SANDRA (FERN) LAPINER, M.ED.Port Murray, NJJuly 2004

SANDRA D. LINDENorth Caldwell, NJOctober 2004

’93 JOHN PETER DOUGHERTYClemmons, NCFebruary 2005

’02 SALVATORE P. MARALittle Falls, NJDecember 2004

’05 KARL J. WEBER Verona, NJ December 2004

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annual banquet held at Rutgersto honor exceptional blackwomen…SHARYL SALEMMEis an elementary support teacherfor the Summit school district…JENNIFER SCULLY wasappointed to the HawthorneBoard of Education by a unani-mous vote from the board. Scullyis the youngest member on theboard…TYSHAWN SOREY,a rising young jazz performer,was interviewed by the DailyRecord in Morristown…JAIMETUCKER is the full-time dis-patcher for the Matawan PoliceDepartment.

2 thousand 5JAMES BUTCHER performedin a concert at WestwoodRegional High School as partof a saxophone trio called theOriTriO…JENNIFERLUBERTO returned to heralma mater, River Dell HighSchool, as a program coordinatorfor the School to Work programof which she was a former par-ticipant. The program offershigh school seniors the opportu-nity to take college courses,participate in community service,and be involved in internships…BRYAN RUDDERROW, aclarinetist, was one of the fea-tured artists at the scholarshipbenefit recital for the WednesdayClub, an organization founded in1882 to stimulate musical interestin Harrisburg, PA.

We extend our sincere apology toLinda McCullough ’84, whoinadvertently was listed asdeceased in the last issue of Spot-light, Spring 2005. McCulloughwould like all to know that she is“alive and well”… and sellingreal estate for RE/MAX Proper-ties Unlimited in West Milford,NJ. Please feel free to give her acall at 973.657.1000!

With great sadness the University communitymourns the passing on July 14, 2005 of Arthur

Gonzales, a 1993 graduate of William Paterson with abachelor’s degree in history. He was 49. Gonzalescompleted his undergraduate degree while working asa custodian on campus, yet also found time to serve aspresident of the Student Government Association.

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wide committee of faculty, administrators,and students is working with a search con-sultant to select candidates.

Students Awarded DegreesAt Spring CommencementThe University celebrated its 181st commencement on May 17, 2005. At themorning ceremony for undergraduates onWightman Field, 879 diplomas wereawarded. Dave Marash, an Emmy Award-winning correspondent for the ABC Newsbroadcast Nightline, received an honorarydoctor of humane letters degree and deliv-ered the commencement address. ClariceB. Jackson and Gwendolyn P. Taylor, bothformer chairs of the William PatersonUniversity Board of Trustees, each receivedan honorary doctor of laws degree.

Also honored at the ceremony wasRobert Devine ’74, president and CEO ofHartz Mountain Corporation, who receivedthe President’s Medal for serving as “amodel of leadership in philanthropy andcommunity involvement.” In his remarks,Devine urged the graduates to take risks,

work hard, keep a clear conscience, andstrive for lives of balance. “Success can onlybe attained by vision, hard work, and difficultchoices. So graduates, choose wisely,” he said.

In a departure from the long-standingtradition of an address by the senior classpresident, the honor of giving a studentspeech was offered to seniors who had anexcellent academic record and significantcampus involvement. Andrew Monaco, anhonors student who earned a bachelor ofarts degree in French, summa cum laude, andminors in political science and economics,was selected and spoke of his four-yearintellectual journey at the University, whichbegan eight days before the terrorist attacksof September 11, 2001. Monaco spoke oflearning to embrace constant change. “Neverbe too sure of your own world,” he told hisfellow graduates. “Don’t be afraid to stay

University Report continued from page 7the University’s student development activi-ties, Martone has assumed responsibilityfor recruitment, enrollment, and retention.

“In his three years at William Paterson,John Martone has demonstrated that hecan successfully develop and manage pro-grams that enhance student success,” saysPresident Arnold Speert. “His accomplish-ments in developing new orientation pro-grams, creating a proactive mission for theHealth and Wellness Center, improving stu-dent leadership programs, and developingenhanced services and transportationoptions for commuter students are evidenceof his effective and successful leadership.”

Martone says he is excited about thecurrent direction of the University. “We havegood quality of life programs here,” he says.“In addition to the construction and renova-tion of the Student Center and Wayne Halland the construction of the new residencehalls—projects aimed at enhancing studentlife on campus—we are building a strongstudent development program. We are alsofocusing on a student service model thatwill involve admissions, the bursar’s office,financial aid, and the registrar.”

Chernoh Sesay Steps Down As Provost and Executive Vice President; Plans Return To FacultyChernoh Sesay, who joined the University inJanuary 1996 as provost and executive vicepresident, stepped down from his position inJuly to prepare for a return to a full-timeposition as a faculty member in the depart-ment of political science in September 2006.Sesay is currently on leave from the Univer-sity, during which he is working on devel-oping a graduate program in highereducation for William Paterson.

“While the University will miss his ener-getic leadership and I will personally miss hiswise counsel, we look forward to his returnto the faculty and his continued contributionsto student success through his teaching,scholarship, and service,” says UniversityPresident Arnold Speert.

During his tenure, William Patersonattained University status, developed newmission, vision, and diversity statements thatreflect the institution’s values, and created aStudent Success Plan as a blueprint for pur-suing the University’s mission.

A national search was launched inSeptember for a new provost. A University-

HONOREES DAVE MARASH AND ROBERT DEVINE WITH

PRESIDENT SPEERT

open to the vast possibilities of the universe.”At the afternoon graduate ceremony in

the Rec Center, master’s degrees were con-ferred on 333 students who completed theirdegree requirements between August 2004and May 2005. Dr. Maria Nuccetelli ’63,M.A. ’77, the superintendent of schoolsfor the Wayne School District, received aPresident’s Medal “for her numerous con-tributions to the field of public education.”

College of Business Dean AcceptsPosition at University of New HavenJess Boronico, who served for nearly fouryears as dean of the Christos M. CotsakosCollege of Business, has accepted a newposition as dean of the School of Business atthe University of New Haven.

During his tenure at William Paterson, theCotsakos College of Business made greatstrides forward, including the attainment ofaccreditation by the Association to AdvanceCollegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), arecognition afforded to only fifteen percentof business schools internationally.

A national search for a new dean waslaunched in September. C.K. Leung, a pro-fessor of economics and finance, is currentlyserving as interim dean.

Dennis Santillo Retires AfterThree Decades at UniversityDennis Santillo, the University’s director ofexternal relations, has retired after a morethan three-decade career at William Paterson.

Santillo joined the institution in 1971 asdirector of information and publication services, and was later named director of col-lege relations. Since 1991, he served as direc-tor of external relations, a position thatinvolved working as the University’s liaison tofederal, state, and local politicians and to NewJersey’s business community. He was active inPassaic County’s four chambers of commerce,serving as chair of the Joint GovernmentalAffairs Committee, a member of the board ofUnited Way of Passaic Valley, and as formerchairman of the Greater Paterson Chamber ofCommerce. He also coordinated the Universi-ty’s Distinguished Lecturer Series, now in itstwenty-sixth season.

“Dennis’s impact on local government andissues affecting our region’s businesses wasextensive,” says President Arnold Speert.“Through him, William Paterson Universityserved the interests of our neighbors andbecame a resource for good government.” w

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reported that McKeefery had allowed nearlytwo thousand more students to enroll at thecollege than was permitted by the Depart-ment of Higher Education. Three monthslater, he resigned as president.

The following year, Farah publishednews that McKeefery, who was then atenured professor in the philosophy depart-ment, was moonlighting as president of theDetroit Institute of Technology. “The waywe actually confirmed it was to call thepresident’s office in the college in Detroitand they answered ‘Dr. McKeefery’s Office.’I almost fell off my chair when I heardthat,” remembers Farah.

One of the biggest milestones in thepaper’s history occurred in 1977, when theBeacon, a club under the Student Govern-ment Association (SGA), separated itselffrom SGA funding. “We always consid-ered that if you took money from theSGA, you couldn’t cover them accurately,”says former editor Stewart Wolpin ’78,now a freelance writer living in New YorkCity. Conflicts did occur periodically, andit made economical sense to typeset thepaper in-house rather than rely on outsideprinters. The SGA gave the paper $30,000to purchase its own typesetting equipmentand a $10,000 loan to start the 1977-1978school year. “We started out $18,000 in thered, and by the end of the first year wewere making a profit,” says Wolpin. TheBeacon set itself up as a separate operatingbusiness, hired a business manager, andprofited from selling printing services tothe rest of the campus. In its first indepen-dent issue, the Beacon said this representeda $60,000 yearly savings to the SGA andthe student body.

In subsequent years, the Beacon contin-ued to exercise its editorial clout to influ-ence campus policy. Scott Sailor ’86, editorfrom 1985 to 1986, was considered a bit ofa gadfly by administrators but also earnedtheir respect for his accurate reporting.He was living on campus when, much tohis dismay, he received a notice that thedormitories would be closed duringThanksgiving week. “I read the back ofthe contract—the fine print,” says Sailor.“Turns out it said you only have to leavefor Christmas break. So I put that on thefront page of the Beacon, saying it was aflagrant violation of the contract. The

decision was overturned in an hour, andeverybody who wanted to stay, got to stay.”

The early nineties marked “the begin-ning of the whole PC (politically correct)movement,” says former Beacon editorDomenick Stampone ’94, now an attorney,president of the William Paterson AlumniAssociation, and president of the Haledon,New Jersey town council. He recalls facingchallenges when a comic strip used certainderogatory words that some groups on cam-pus “deemed inappropriate.” The paper hadits brighter moments too, like when it wontop honors from the Columbia ScholasticPress Association and launched a fundraiserthat helped to streamline the paper’scomputer production from top to bottom.

The Beacon faced a difficult period adecade later, when the balance of freedomand responsibility was put to a new test.The April 17, 2000 issue of the Beaconraised the ire of the campus communitywhen it ran an advertisement from a California-based group that claimed theHolocaust never happened. Weeks later,the May 1, 2000 parody issue the Bacon,an annual end-of-year tradition, reacted tothe criticism by lampooning the topic ofthe Holocaust. The issue, which includedseveral racial and religious stereotypes,drew sharp criticism from students, faculty,and University President Arnold Speert,and was pulled off the stands by Beaconstaffers within twenty-four hours of publi-cation. Administrators announced thatthe University would no longer advertisein the Beacon or grant interviews to itsreporters. The editor-in-chief wrote a letterof apology in the following issue, saying,“Apologies aren’t strong enough to mendthe hurt that we have inflicted. It wasclearly a mistake in judgment.” The BergenRecord wrote an editorial on the incidentthat said, “If nothing else, the studentswho publish William Paterson University’sstudent newspaper have learned a valuablejournalistic lesson: Free speech comes withgreat responsibility.”

With the Beacon in disfavor, TinaLesher, associate professor and coordinatorof the journalism program, requested agrant for the creation of a second campus

newspaper, the Pioneer Times, to be pub-lished by the Communication Department.Lesher had long advocated setting up astudent-run newspaper as a training labo-ratory for the journalism program, andElizabeth Birge, assistant professor ofcommunication, also took an active role inoverseeing the project. The first editionof the Pioneer Times was published onMonday, October 16, 2000.

Larry Clow, a sophomore, took over asthe Beacon’s editor in May 2001 when thepaper reached its lowest point. “We wereshunned by the University, deactivated bythe SGA, and deeply in debt,” says Clow.He spent the first year rebuilding thenewspaper, re-establishing ties with thepresident, faculty, and administrators,building up the staff, revising the advertisingpolicy, and obtaining new revenue. “Mostof all, I tried to bring the focus of theBeacon back to campus news and issues,”he says. By the end of that first year, thenewspaper was financially solvent, he had astaff of about twenty-five people, and wasonce again on good working terms with theUniversity. “My four years at the Beaconwere probably one of the best learningexperiences I ever had,” says Clow, whograduated in 2004 with a prestigious fel-lowship from Poynter Institute in St.Petersburg, Florida. He is a staff writerfor the Wire, an alternative weekly inNew Hampshire.

Clow is one of several students in recentyears who has written for both the PioneerTimes and the Beacon. Both newspapershave won awards and respect for theirjournalistic integrity, and each gives studentsan opportunity to develop their skills asreporters, editors, photographers, cartoon-ists, business managers, and salespeople.

The Beacon, now nearing its seventiethyear and flanked by the young PioneerTimes, is sure to continue the tradition ofshining a light on the campus, its leader-ship, and progress for generations to come.

This article includes material contained in theBeacon’s fiftieth anniversary issue publishedon October 20, 1986.w

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ARCHERY CLASS, 1950S. LEFT TO RIGHT: NATALIE MARTEN, BARBARA SMITH, CAROLE WHITE (ALL CLASS OF ‘57), MRS. RAY COLE (JOAN CONNIE)

UPCOMINGEVENTSWPY O U R G U I D E T O C U L T U R A L A C T I V I T I E S

A T W I L L I A M P A T E R S O N U N I V E R S I T Y

A R TJanuary 30-March 3 2006 SOUTH GALLERY: David Krivin: A Life’s Landscape;COURT GALLERY: Sheba Sharrow: Paintings; EAST GALLERY: Rene Bord:Prints and Drawings

March 20-April 21, 2006 SOUTH GALLERY: American Impressions: National PrintCompetition; COURT GALLERY: Intimate Connections: Contemporary Art inAll Media, co-sponsored by the Montclair Studio Group, Donald Kuspit, juror;EAST GALLERY: Elaine Chong, winner of the 2005 National Print Competition

L E C T U R E SMarch 19, 2006 Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter, “Letting Jazz Lift Your Soul,”7:30 p.m.

April 21, 2006 Richard Gephardt, former Democratic majority leader, U.S. House ofRepresentatives, “Opportunity, Responsibility, and Community: Building Strength,”8:00 p.m.

M U S I CFebruary 25, 2006 Viswa Subbaraman, conductor

April 29, 2006 Mae and Fletcher Fish Young Artist Competition, George Mathew, conductor

HOBART MANOR RECITAL SERIES Hobart Manor, Recital, 5:00 p.m., Reception, 6:00 p.m. Call 973.720.2371 for tickets and information

February 5, 2006 Friends and Enemies of New Music

April 2, 2006 Aaron Wunsch, piano

JAZZ ROOM SERIESShea Center, 4:00 p.m.; “Sittin’ In” pre-concert lecture, Shea Recital Hall 101, 3:00 p.m.,973.720.2371 for tickets and information

March 19, 2006 Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

OTHER MUSICAL EVENTS

January 27, 2006 Colin Hay: Man @ Work, SheaCenter, 8:00 p.m.

March 11, 2006 Peru Negro: CulturalAmbassadors of Black Peru, featuringsingers, dancers, and musicians, SheaCenter, 8:00 p.m.

April 22, 2006 Richard Shindell andLucy Kaplansky, singer-songwriters,Shea Center, 8:00 p.m.

T H E AT E RFebruary 3, 2006 My Soul is a Witness by David Barr III, a reenactment of impor-tant moments in the civil rights movement, performed by the Jena Company,Shea Center, 8:00 p.m., children under age five not admitted

February 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, and 18, 2006 Winner of the Second Annual New Jersey Playwrights’ Contest, Hunziker Black Box Theatre, 8:00 p.m., also February 12 at6:00 p.m. and February 16 at 12:30 p.m.

February 11, 2006 The Blue Barrel Show, featuring virtuoso drumming and side-splitting comedy, SheaCenter, 8:00 p.m.

February 24 and 25, March 1, 2, 3, and 4, 2006 Stop Kiss byDiana Son, Hunziker Black Box Theatre, 8:00 p.m.,also February 26 at 6:00 p.m. and March 2 at 12:30 p.m.

April 6, 7, 8, and 10, 2006 Triumph of Love, book byJames Magruder, music by Jeffrey Stock, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, based onthe play by Marivaux, Shea Center, 8:00 p.m., also April 9 at 3:00 p.m. and April11 at 12:30 p.m.

S P E C I A L E V E N T SJanuary 22, 2006 Winter Commencement, Rec Center, 1:00 p.m. (snow date, January 29), 973.720.2222

April 8, 2006 16th Annual Legacy Award Dinner, cocktails,dinner, dancing, and silent/live auction, The Villa atMountain Lakes, 7:00 p.m., 973.720.2934

May 14-16, 2006 Class of 1956 Reunion Activities, 973.720.2175

May 16, 2006 Spring Commencement, undergraduate ceremony, Wightman Field,10:30 a.m. (rain date, May 17); graduate ceremony, Rec Center, 4:00 p.m.,973.720.2222

BEN SHAHN GALLERIESMonday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. For further information, call the galleries at 973.720.2654

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIESShea Center, 973.720.2371 for tickets and information

HIGH MOUNTAIN SYMPHONY Shea Center, 8:00 p.m. 973.720.2371 for tickets and information

COLIN HAY

THE BLUE BARREL SHOW

PERU NEGRO

Call 973.720.2371 for tickets and information