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� TroubleshootingOur Schools

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For the most up-to-date information or to register online,visit http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/reunion2004.Registration Deadline: May 17Reunion Hotline: 315-312-5559

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Troubleshooting Our Schools 14Joe Farmer ’60 comes out of retirement to share his school leadership skills.

It’s Good Company 16WRVO celebrates 35 years on the air from Lanigan Hall on campus.

Snowed In! 22Oswego’s famous snow strikes again — and students get a rare two-day break from classes.

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Campus Currents 3Club News 12Class Notes 25Weddings 42The Last Word 48

O N T H E C O V E R :

John Krauss ’71 (left) and John Hurlbutt ’71 prepare for another day in the WRVO studios.

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When our kids were little, we had the

“idea bag.” A plastic briefcase, with

“The Idea Bag”painted on its side, it began life

as a salesman’s kit for an advertising novelty

company.When the ad agency where I worked

at the time was clearing out the clutter in a

back closet, the bag was destined for the

dump. I rescued it and filled it with activities

for the long car trips we’d take on family vaca-

tions.At first, I’m sure my little ones thought it

was a magic sack that produced goodies on

demand, like one of their favorite Disney

books, The Magic Grinder. “Mom, I need an-

other idea!” they’d shout when the long ride

made them restless. As the kids grew, so did

the idea bag’s contents, from coloring books

and crayons to comics, handheld electronic

games and audio books. Our nest is empty

now and the idea bag, no longer needed, went

to Goodwill. I hope another family found its

enchantment. But sometimes, as I sit staring at

the computer screen, trying to envision the

next Oswego magazine, I wish I had a magic

idea bag, where stories and pictures would

appear without the sweat of creative labor.

This issue, we’re calling on you for help in

filling the idea bag. Our next issues will feature

stories on alumni involved in politics, success-

ful alumni under age 40 and — my personal

favorite — all sorts of things related to food.

And, we’re asking you to get creative in 17 syl-

lables. Yes, it’s Hideo Haiku time again. Look

for the notes scattered throughout Campus

Currents and send us your ideas. Make that

bag overflow!

Michele A. Reed

Oswego editorOswego is published three times a year by theOswego Alumni Association, Inc., King Alumni Hall,State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY13126. It is distributed free of charge to alumni,friends, faculty, staff and families of current students.Printed April 2004.

Elizabeth Locke OberstPublisher

Michele ReedEditor

Jim Russell ’83Staff Photographer

Kiefer CreativeGraphic Design

Lisa Potter Memorials

Emily King ’05Class Notes

Janel Armstrong ’03Bookshelf, Weddings

Shannon Mahar ’04Emily King ’05 Editorial Assistants

Janel Armstrong ’03Julie Harrison BlissertLyle FultonEmily King ’05 Linda Morley

Loomis ’90, M ’97Shannon Mahar ’04Tim NekritzRandi WeinerContributing Writers

Lyle FultonBob MescavageContributingPhotographers

Lori Golden Kiewe ’84President

Mark Tryniski ’85First Vice President

Jennifer Shropshire ’86Second Vice President

*Dr. David Cristantello ’74

Past President

Elizabeth OberstExecutive Director

Debbie Adams-Kaden ’78William Bacon ’59Elizabeth Nichols

Bates ’68 Mary Beth Beaton ’05Connie Holmes Bond ’51 Tomasina Boyd Boone ’93Norman Brust ’49*Maurice Bullard ’80 Saleem Cheeks ’01Sherman Cowan ’91,

M ’94

John Daken ’66Sylvia Muncey Gaines ’76*Lester Gosier ’37Elizabeth Gura ’84 *Tracy Chamberlain

Higginbotham ’86 Lyndsay Jenks

Hanchett ’92David Kidd ’49*Edith Maloney

Knight ’50Patrick Magin ’91Alice Massimi ’02*Carol McLaughlin ’45 Davis Parker ’47*Joseph Savage ’77 *Herbert Siegel ’40 Olive Brannan Spargo ’31Molly Casey St. John ’99*Barry Thompson ’77 Jon Vermilye ’66Cheryl Webster

Crounse ’98* At large

Deborah F. StanleyPresident

Dr. David KingInterim Provost

Nicholas LyonsVice President forAdministration andFinance

Dr. Joseph GrantVice President forStudent Affairs and EnrollmentManagement

Kevin MahaneyVice President forDevelopment and Public Affairs

Two occasions this January

gave me cause to be thank-

ful for people not normally in

the spotlight. Mother Nature

dumped over four and a half

feet of snow on Oswego in a

few days. Our cleanup crews

worked incredibly hard to clear

roads and walkways for our

students and staff, especially

given the size and duration of

the storms they faced this year.

All the people who work so

hard to make the college acces-

sible deserve our thanks and

praise for succeeding in a task many people

may take for granted. We had to cancel classes

for two days in a row — something not seen

here in generations — but without the dedica-

tion and commitment of our maintenance

employees, it no doubt would have been even

longer.

The second group I am thankful for falls

into the “heard but not seen”category.The cre-

ative and dedicated men and women of

WRVO, the public radio station in Lanigan

Hall,celebrated 35 years on the air this January.

Over the decades we have come to rely on this

committed crew to bring us many of the

events that have shaped our lives — the Chal-

lenger and World Trade Center disasters, the

Gulf wars, elections and yes, even Oswego’s

legendary weather. WRVO gives our students

opportunities to learn and stretch their wings

in a professional, yet supportive, environment.

And it makes SUNY Oswego’s name known to

nearly a million potential listeners.

So many people contribute to making

our campus community a worthwhile place,

a haven for learning and growing. After you

read about the work of these two groups in

this issue, I’m sure you will be as thankful as I

am for their dedication.

Deborah F. Stanley

President

FROM THE

PresidentDeborah F.Stanley

President’s Desks

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Oswego Alumni Magazine

The Oswego Alumni Association, Inc. Board of Directors

State University of New York at Oswego

Office of Alumni and Parent Relations

King Alumni HallSUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126Phone: 315-312-2258 Fax: 315-312-5570E-mail: alumni@oswego.eduWeb site: http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu

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Thanks to a Fulbright study

abroad grant, Nicole Darcan-gelo ’03 of Vestal is spending her

first postgraduate year working on

a research project and taking classes

at the University of Waterloo in

Ontario, Canada. She is one of four

Fulbright Program winners this

year at Oswego — a college record.

A Presidential Scholar at

Oswego, Darcangelo planned to

conduct a comparative study on child poverty

issues between the United States and Canada

for her Fulbright work. She credited psychol-

ogy Professor Virginia Gregg for pointing her

toward the program.

Distinguished Teaching Professor of

History Dr. Geraldine Forbes is in India right

now researching the historical value of late

19th- and early 20th-century photographs of

Indian women.

Dr. Alfred Frederick, professor of cur-

riculum and instruction, spent his winter

break at the Universite d’Abomey-Calavi in

Benin, conducting workshops for faculty at

the West African university on curriculum

design in a culturally pluralistic society.

Dr. John F. Lalande II ’71, professor and

chair of modern languages and lit-

eratures, spent three weeks in June

traveling to Berlin, Rostock, Frank-

furt and Mainz. His Fulbright

studies resulted in a new course at

Oswego in German culture and

civilization.

The Fulbright program is

sponsored by the U. S. Department

of State. �

Oswego scholars garner record number of Fulbright awards

Dr. Al Frederick, right, discusses with grad-uate assistant Don Waddell preparations for his Curriculum Reform Seminar at theUniversite d’Abomey-Calavi in the Republic of Benin, West Africa.

College to offerrare semester-longstudy in Cuba

When a dozen students started a study

abroad experience in Cuba in early

February, SUNY Oswego established one

of only three comprehensive college-run

semester-long programs in that country.

Participants in Oswego’s first-ever Cuban

semester exchange program from Feb. 12 to

June 12 at the Universidad de la Habana had

to be academic achievers fluent in Spanish

because of the rigorous demands of the

university there, said Dr. Walter Opello, direc-

tor of international education at Oswego.

Students will take mainly social science

courses and will learn more about the culture

from out-of-classroom experiences. Plans are

to pair a Cuban student with each incoming

student to serve as a guide and cultural

mentor throughout the semester.

The program’s seeds were planted when

Eugenio Basualdo, an associate professor of

vocational teacher preparation, asked to bring

two Cuban professors to speak on campus.

After speaking and meeting with members of

the college community, they proposed an

exchange program. �

Nicole Darcangelo ’03

OVER 250 STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF MEMBERS SIGNEDa Letter to the Academic Community during a two-day campaign in Hewitt Union in December, affirming the college’s commitment to diversity. “The diversity of the ethnic heritage that exists among ourmembers enriches the quality and breadth of our learning,” read the letter in part. “Native Americans have a rich culture and sacred tradi-tions . . . This culture, along with many other cultures present in our academic community, should be respected and celebrated here.” The letter was in response to an incident on Halloween, when a student ranthrough a classroom taught by a Native American instructor, aiming a toy bow and arrow at him and making racist remarks. “The campustakes a position on this type of behavior, that it’s not acceptable,” saidCathy Santos ’87, assistant dean of students for judicial affairs. “This is a living and learning environment.” She added that the campusresponded under the Code of Student Rights, Responsibility and Conduct. Pictured at left, Beisan Hamdan ’05, an international relations major, signs the unity letter. Looking on, from left, are Tara Blunt ’06, a political science major; Beth LeBeau ’04, a marketing major; andTravis Stafford ’06, a math major.

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Acollection of short stories by Sherman

Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto

Fistfight in Heaven, is the Oswego Reading

Initiative choice for the campus community

to read next summer. It is the third annual

choice, and the first fiction book selected.

ORI book selections each year inspire events

programming, from films

and speakers to in-class

projects.

A highlight of next

year’s activities will be a visit

by the author. Alexie will be

on campus Oct. 5 to read

from his book and speak to

campus audiences.

Alexie’s tales of charac-

ters struggling on a modern

Spokane Indian reservation

were an overwhelming

favorite of campus voters, one of the factors

considered by the ORI committee. Votes in

favor of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in

Heaven ran at about a 20-to-1 ratio to the

next runner-up of six choices in the largest

electronic voting turnout for the

program to date, according to

Associate Provost Rhonda Mandel.

The book served as the foundation for

the critically acclaimed movie “Smoke Sig-

nals,” which earned two Sundance Film Festi-

val awards and a deal with Miramax Films. ●

ORI author to visit

Sherman Alexie

NSF continues scholarships The National Science Foundation

found SUNY Oswego’s first ef-

fort through their scholarship pro-

gram so successful that it has funded a

second four-year version.

Oswego’s computer science and

mathematics scholarship program

was awarded a $396,000 grant. It was

among only 65 approved out of 220

applications.

Approximately 30 juniors and

seniors majoring in mathematics,

computer science, information science

or education with a math concentrate

will receive $3,000 scholarships each

year during the program.

For more information go online

to www.oswego.edu/CSEM. ●

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Alumni return to stage for opera’s 25thWHEN INEZ PARKER TOOK her curtain callat the Oswego Opera Theater’s 25th anniver-sary production of “A Little Night Music,” shedid something she has never done in hermany years as a performer — she cried.

“It was just so emotional for me,”Parker said. “It was so thrilling to be a part

of a company I love, a company I’ve been a part of for so many years.”

Parker, also the show’s producer, wasan employee of the Penfield Library for 41 years, and the only member of thenight’s cast to have performed in “H.M.S.Pinafore,” the premier performance of theOswego Opera Theater. To take the stage25 years later, Parker said, was an excitingthing. “It was overwhelming,” she said. “Ifelt as though there were ghosts in the theater, all of the people who I haveworked with, who have died, who havegraduated and moved on. I felt as thoughthey were all there.”

In fact, many of them were. Karin “Pinky” Franklin-King ’71 had

never sung opera before, but that didn’tkeep her from tackling the role of Desireein the production.

“It was a dream come true,” Franklin-King said. “I love having the opportunity to

go to Oswego and see performances, or bein performances. It felt good getting backon campus again.”

Dr. James Soluri, one of the foundersof the Oswego Opera Theater and profes-sor emeritus of music, was glad to attend.

“I return as often as I can,” he said. “I have not missed a performance since I moved to Massachusetts.

“The existence and survival of a profes-sional opera company in a small town likeOswego is remarkable, and due largely to the support of the community and thededication of many board members overthe years,” he said.

Also performing in last November’s production were Dani Gottuso-Boudov ’98,Rebecca Sutter ’03 and Michael “Clem”Climek ’05. Rick Sivers ’70, is president ofthe board of directors and members includeKristine Hyovalti Bushey ’72. ●

— Shannon Mahar ’04Karin “Pinky” Franklin-King ’71 as Desiree

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Write to Oswego and send your best poetry — Hideo Haiku

IT’S TIME FOR THE SECOND HIDEO Haiku

contest, honoring Hideo Takamine 1877, a

young man who graduated from Oswego over

125 years ago and went on to found a teacher’s

college in Japan. The rules are simple:

Haiku is the traditional Japanese poetry

form written in 17 syllables, usually three lines

of five, seven and five syllables each. Often

haiku will incorporate a theme from nature or

a seasonal reference, but this is not necessary.

For the Hideo Haiku contest, poems should

make some reference to Oswego State.

You may enter as many poems as you like.

Simply type or print the haiku on an 8 1/2 x 11

sheet of paper, no more than five poems on

a sheet. Please include your name, address,

telephone number and e-mail address on each

sheet. Also state your relationship to the

college: alumnus/alumna (include class year),

faculty, staff, emeritus/emerita or student. Em-

ployees of the Office of Alumni and University

Development are not eligible to win.

Prizes will include Oswego State memora-

bilia, provided by the Oswego Alumni Associa-

tion. Winning haiku will be published in a future

issue of the magazine.

Mail entries must be postmarked by Sept.

1, 2004. Send entries to Hideo Haiku Contest,

King Alumni Hall, 300 Washington Blvd., Os-

wego, NY 13126. Or enter online at www.oswe-

goalumni.oswego.edu/haiku by Sept. 1.

So have some fun, honor a fellow alumnus

and celebrate Oswego’s enduring connection

with Japan. Write and submit some haiku

today! �

T he generosity of one alumnus and the

talents of another came full circle this

semester. The first Ernst and Young Visiting

Lecturers in Women’s Studies were named,

thanks to a donation by Robert Feinberg ’78

matched by his employer, Ernst and Young.

One of the two visiting scholars is Melina

Dello Stritto Carnicelli ’70, lecturing on

“Women in the Workplace.”

“I’m thrilled to be doing it,” says Carni-

celli. “I’ve always considered the role of

instructor to be so deeply rich: Not only is

there the teaching component, but there’s

also the learning component.”

She’s no stranger to the classroom. Before

founding her 10-year-old consulting firm,

Treble Associates, which provides leadership

training and professional staff development,

she was a school administrator and teacher.

For the past four years, she’s also been Mayor

of Auburn and previously served on the city

council there.

In addition to her new course, Carnicelli

began a new job: working as a project associ-

ate in the college’s Center for Business and

Community Development.

It’s a homecoming in more ways than

one for Melina. This year her daughter,

Regina Carnicelli ’06, is new on campus too,

having transferred from SUNY Albany.

Melina’s son, Luke Carnicelli ’96, M ’00

CAS ’04 teaches locally and her daughter-in-

law, Lisa Festa Carnicelli ’98, is working on

her master’s at Oswego. Melina’s sister, Maria

Dello Stritto ’73, is also a graduate.

Also lecturing under the new program

is Rosemary Hartigan, an attorney from

Syracuse, who is teaching “Employment

Equity and the Law.” She has most recently

been program director and associate profes-

sor of MBA and executive programs at the

University of Maryland University College.

She also has taught at Antioch University,

Babson College and the Rochester Institute

of Technology, and has practiced law in

Wisconsin and Massachusetts. �

First Women’s Studies lectures begin

Melina Dello Stritto Carnicelli ’70 lectureson “Women in the Workplace.” Class mem-bers include, front row from left, childhoodeducation major Chris Saunders ’05 andAmerican studies major Pearl Gardner ’04and, in the back row, elementary educationmajor Jessica Koopman ’05.

Oswego alumni magazine was awarded

a silver award as part of the Accolades

Program at the Council for the Advancement

and Support of Education’s District II

conference this spring. CASE is the interna-

tional professional organization for advance-

ment professionals at all levels who work in

alumni relations, communications and devel-

opment. District II has the largest CASE

membership, including more than 660

institutions and 4,800 individual members.

Oswego was recognized in the category for

one- to three-color magazines with a budget

of over $20,000, for the Fall 2002 and

Spring and Summer 2003 issues. Last fall,

the magazine was honored by the Oswego

County Press Club in two categories: Best

Article: Government for “Homeland Security

101” in the Spring 2003 issue, about

Jerome DuVal ’92; and Best Editorial,

for that issue’s “From the Editor’s Pen,”

memorializing Theresa Greco ’73. �

You’re holding silver in your hands!

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A NATIONAL PROGRAM THAT AIMSto boost the number of Ph.D.s amongmembers of underrepresented groups isgetting under way at SUNY Oswego.

The McNair program, which is offer-ed to students through a new grant fromthe Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureateAchievement Award Program, is designedto promote diversity among the nation’scollege professors. Its goal is to providefinancial assistance and practical learningexperience to African Americans,Hispanic Americans, American Indians,

economically disadvantaged first-genera-tion college students, and — in math-and science-related fields — women.

The U.S Department of Educationprovided Oswego with $190,216 for this academic year, with more fundingexpected through 2006-07, totaling$760,864.

The number of students participat-ing in the program is expected to growfrom 10 to 15 this spring, to approxi-mately 20 juniors and seniors a year. �

Program to generate Ph.D.s

A1975 alumnus of the college, who

parlayed his work ethic and business

sense into a successful commercial real estate

enterprise in Florida, has remembered SUNY

Oswego in a foundation set up as part of his

estate.

Maurice R. Gelina ’75 named Oswego as

one of the beneficiaries of the Maurice R.

Gelina and Barbara McCleese Foundation.

As one of the 10 beneficiaries of the trust

fund, Oswego will receive a disbursement

each year in perpetuity, or until the fund is

depleted. As of Dec. 31, 2003, the fund con-

tained over $950,000 and was not yet fully

funded.

He named Oswego as a beneficiary

“only because he thought so much of the

college,” said his former wife, Judith FarwellGelina ’75, co-trustee. “It really gave him his

foothold in education and gave him what he

needed.”

Maurice loved Oswego so much he re-

turned to it despite adversity and convinced

Judy to finish her degree here, too.

He started at Farmingdale Community

College and came to Oswego to study indus-

trial arts education. When his mother be-

came ill, he had to leave Oswego and return

home to run the family business. He returned

to school at Suffolk Community College,

where Judy was a student, and convinced her

to come to Oswego with him to finish their

degrees. They came to Oswego in 1973 and

did their student teaching, Maurice in Syra-

cuse and Judy in Fulton.

After graduation in 1975, the couple

moved to Florida and married. Maurice

landed a job teaching the arts in a middle

school, but school budgets were tight and

Judy could only get subbing jobs. So the

couple took courses in real estate and got

their licenses. Judy favored residential sales,

but Maurice gravitated toward commercial

real estate.

At the time, Miami was just becoming a

large metro area. Maurice worked for Merrill

Lynch and Studly International, and over the

years he closed several large commercial

deals in Miami. He opened his own agency,

Maurice Gelina and Associates, and had been

in business about 16 years when he passed

away in December 2002 of a heart attack.

Maurice Gelina was noted for his deals

on large commercial buildings, such as

Carnival Cruise Line’s move into their new

building, Judy said.

“He was a very talented man,” she said.

“He was brilliant in putting some of these

deals together.

“When he started, Miami was a very

small big town. Now it has grown by leaps

and bounds. He was really instrumental in

that.”

A real-estate genius and savvy business-

man, Maurice Gelina did more than help

Miami’s commercial entities cement their

presence in the city. Through his generosity,

he has ensured that generations of Oswego

students will be able to build a firm founda-

tion for their dreams. �

Real estate magnate donates to Oswego

Maurice R. Gelina ’75

Poleto to chair College CouncilDavid M. Poleto ’79, a member of theOswego College Council since 1997, wasappointed chair of that body in January by Gov. George Pataki. A political sciencemajor at Oswego, Poleto is vice president of Park Strategies, LLC.

He previously was the director of the New York State Governor’s Office of Regulatory Reform, before that serving as Pataki’s director of regional affairs anddirector of scheduling.

Poleto was former U.S. Sen. AlfonseD’Amato’s director of state operations from1991 to 1998 after working as D’Amato’scapital region coordinator/director of casework. �

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CorrectionsIn a story in the Fall/Winter 2003 issueabout the scholarship she named for herparents, Oswego reported Jean Pietroski’smaster’s degree incorrectly. She earned herbachelor’s degree in 1971 and her master ofscience in education in 1974.

Robin VanLoan Jones ’70 and John Jones ’73 were incorrectly listed in the2003 Honor Roll of Appreciation asSheldon Associates. They should have been listed among members of the SheldonLoyalty Society.

Maria Correa Gonzalez ’03 presentedthe Oswego Alumni AssociationDecember Class of 2003 banner andsome words of wisdom at the Dec. 20graduation ceremony. “To Oswego, ourAlma Mater, the memories and lessonswill live on forever, and as we leave thegrounds of the Oswego State campus,it is with great pride and admirationthat we will hold our heads high andcontinue to give back,” Gonzalez toldher classmates. “Go and take the worldby storm — the Oswego way.”

The Laker Days 5K walk/run gave students a chance to relieve their cabin fever outdoors. “I came outbecause my friend works at the school, and I thought it was for a good cause,” Tracy Searle ’02, said.“I wanted to get out into the air and get some exercise. It was fun.”

“Pursue what you love. That is the most

important thing.”

This is the message that Travis Cook ’78

sent faculty and students during the panel

discussion “Sports: Past, Present and Future”

as part of Laker Days in early February.

Cook, the director of recreation for the

Oneida Indian Nation and a charter member

of the Oswego Athletic Hall of Fame, was

among five speakers to address students on

issues such as job placement in professional

and amateur sports, women and minorities

in sports, and the athletic tradition at SUNY

Oswego.

A lacrosse standout at Oswego and a

torchbearer at the Winter Olympics in 2002,

Cook said he was excited about the opportu-

nity to visit Oswego and share his experiences

with students.

“I love coming to Oswego,” he said.

“Things were right for me when I was here.

I love the enthusiasm of the students, and I

wanted to be a part of it.”

Michele Tackett–Spinner ’98, co-director

of the panel along with Jean Conway M’95,

said that it’s helpful for students to hear from

alumni in their prospective professions.

“It’s good for them to see others who have

made it within their field,” Tackett-Spinner

said. “It gives them hope that they can be

successful, too.”

The panel discussion was one of many

events in the college’s first-ever Laker Days,

a new campus tradition that featured a

weekend of activities to promote institutional

pride through strengthening active participa-

tion of the student body in intercollegiate

athletic contests and other alcohol-free,

campus-sponsored events.

“It’s really a celebration of what the cam-

pus has to offer,”Sonia Robinson, coordinator

of the event, said. “It’s about sports and

athletics, and about making healthier choices.”

Laker Days, which was made possible

through an NCAA Choices grant, featured

a bonfire, pep rally, human dog sled race,

band and banner competitions, and a 5K

walk/run. �

— Shannon Mahar ’04

Travis Cook ’78 (right) speaks as part of theLaker Days sports panel.

Laker Days celebrate sports, school pride

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Dr. Frances Moroney Whited ’44 comes

from a long line of educators — she

can count five generations of teachers

among her ancestors, stretching back to

Ireland. So, when she wanted to set up a

memorial to her parents and siblings, she

chose to endow a scholarship for Oswego

students majoring in elementary education.

She has endowed the John P. Moroney

and Frances Murphy Moroney Merit Schol-

arship with $35,000 in memory of her par-

ents, John and Frances Murphy Moroney;

her sister, Marie Moroney Fox ’40; and her

brothers John P. Moroney and William J.

Moroney.

“I wanted to honor our parents because of

their dedication and commitment to educa-

tion,” she said. “They had a love of learning

and valued education highly, instilling these

values in their family, all of whom were gradu-

ates of schools of higher education. Their 12

grandchildren are college graduates and sever-

al have two, three and four advanced degrees.”

The Moroney family comes from Mon-

tezuma, where their father was on the Board

of Education of Port Byron Central Schools.

“He and my mother were very community-

oriented,” said Moroney Whited. “My father

was very civic-minded, interested in politics,

and served in many capacities in the commu-

nity.” His sisters were all educated, during an

era in which many women weren’t, she said.

Two of her aunts, Helen Moroney Mullin ’13and Regina Moroney Greiner, graduated

from Oswego Normal School.

Frances’ sister, Marie, also attended

Oswego and became a teacher. She later mar-

ried and raised seven children. Brother Jack

graduated from Georgetown University and

went on to a career in government, spending

many years at NASA. William was a graduate

of Niagara University, Syracuse University and

Northeastern University, and became an engi-

neer noted for his work in semi-conductors.

A professor emerita of education and

human development at SUNY Brockport,

where her husband, Dr. Clark V. Whited, is a

professor emeritus of physical education and

sport, Frances was drawn to support students

with a scholarship, giving them the opportu-

nity to enter college and succeed once they

are enrolled.“It’s support; it’s encouragement

and also I view it as a recognition of their

potential and what they have accomplished,”

she says.

Believing in young people and their

potential is key for her.“If they make a start in

college, they can succeed,” she said. During a

visit to Oswego, she met with many Presiden-

tial Scholars and was impressed with them,

their program and staff.

She sees herself as an investor in the

future for students who will become leaders.

“If one looks back at the history of the alumni

from Oswego State Teachers College, its grad-

uates were leaders in their field — outstand-

ing teachers, principals and superintendents.

When Oswego became a comprehensive

college, its graduates continued in leadership

roles throughout the state,” she said.

“Thanks to Frances Moroney Whited’s

generosity, countless Oswego students will

have the opportunity to receive a strong liberal

arts and professional education, enabling

them to become exemplary elementary teach-

ers of the future,” said Kevin Mahaney, vice

president for development and public affairs.

“This scholarship is a perfect way to remem-

ber her parents, her siblings, and those genera-

tions of Irish teachers who preceded them.” �

Scholarship is teaching family’s legacy

Food, glorious food!SOME PEOPLE EAT TO LIVE, OTHERS live to eat. Whatever category you fallinto, we’re sure you’ll gobble up an issuewe’re planning next year to celebratefood and alumni connections with it.Send us your memories and currentstories. We want to hear about:

� your favorite dining hall foods

� your favorite hangouts and placesto eat on or near campus

� your favorite dining hall workers

� any Oswego food memories

� alumni food businesses: If you run a restaurant; make wine, chocolateor other yummy food; write cook-books or have another food-relatedinterest, we want to hear from you.

And don’t forget to vote for “The Best Foods in Oswego” at http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/foodpoll. If you don’t have Internet access andwant to vote, call or write us for a copyof the survey.

Send your ideas to Oswego alumnimagazine, King Alumni Hall, 300 Wash-ington Blvd., Oswego, NY 13126, call315-312-2258 or send us an e-mail atalumni@oswego.edu (put Food in thesubject line.) You can also submit storiesonline at http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/magazine. �

Dr. Frances Moroney Whited ’44 visits with students.

John P. Moroney Frances M. Moroney

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Under 40? Doing fine?If you’re one of Oswego’s young alumni and are doing somethinggreat, unique or interesting, we want to hear from you! Oswego isplanning an issue next spring on alumni under 40. So if you are anunder-40 success story, or know of someone who is, please write to Oswego alumni magazine, KingAlumni Hall, 300 Washington Blvd., Oswego, NY 13126, call 315-312-2258, or e-mail us at alumni@oswego.edu (put Under 40 in the subject line.) You can also submit stories online at http:// oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/magazine. Submissions will beselected based on interest and space available. �

Former Oswego student David Levy will beamong those returning for “Don’t Forget toRemember!” Safe Haven’s 60th anniversarycelebration, set for Aug. 6 to 8. Residents ofthe Fort Ontario Refugee Shelter and commu-nity members will gather to reminisce aboutthe days in World War II when Oswegohoused the only refugee camp on Americansoil. Events will include a synagogue service,Safe Haven museum tours, video stories ofshelter and community residents, and ananniversary dinner. For more information,contact Mary Vanouse at 315-342-3582 ormvanouse@twcny.rr.com, or Judy CoeRapaport at 315-342-4265 orerapapo1@twcny.rr.com

“ALL MY LIFE I HAD MY HEART IN preserving nature,” Dr. Anthony “Tony” VanGeet, professor emeritus of chemistry, used to say. So when Johanna Van Geet wanted to honor the memory of her husband after his death in 2002, the choice was obvious: ascholarship for an Oswego chemistry studentinterested in environmental science and a tree in Tony’s memory near Snygg Hall, where he taught.

“He was very interested and very involv-ed in preserving nature and was a chartermember of several environmental organiza-tions,” she said.

He was president of Save Oswego Coun-ty, which eventually combined with Save theCounty in Onondaga County. A counselor forthe Nature Conservancy, he was active as aleader for outings sponsored by the group.

“He was involved in the Audubon Society,Rails to Trails, anything that had to do withnature,” Johanna said.

The Van Geets came to America fromtheir native Netherlands as a young marriedcouple. Tony was an engineer at Proctor andGamble and was one of the original “CrestKids,” when he helped to test the new tooth-paste. The couple moved to Los Angeles,where he earned his doctorate in chemistryat the University of Southern California.

After post-doctoral work at Massachu-setts Institute of Technology and a teachingjob at SUNY Buffalo, the Van Geets settled inOswego, where Tony taught in the chemistrydepartment from 1970 to 1998. “Tony wasvery involved in his work,” Johanna remem-bered. The couple raised three children, allgrown.

“Dr. Van Geet loved the land and spent hislife fighting to preserve it for future genera-tions,” according to the chemistry departmentnewsletter.

“It is inspiring to consider the concentricwaves of influence that this man, with his intelligence, expertise, energy and moral com-mitments, has had and will continue to have,”said Dean of Arts and Sciences Sara Varhusat the tree-planting ceremony. “The tree thatwe are planting here today will remind me, atany rate, of this continuing influence here atOswego and out in the world, where his 5,919environmental science students are, in theirturn, passing along his influence.”

Through her generous scholarship, Johanna Van Geet has insured that her husband’s passions will continue to live on in generations of Oswego students. �

Scholarship, tree to honor Van Geet

Dr. Anthony “Tony” Van Geet, shown in this2000 photo, advocated turning abandonedrailroad tracks into biking and hiking trails.

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Election 2004We’re working right now on a story for the summer issue about alumni involved in the 2004 elections. If you’re a candidate, campaign worker, analyst or poll watcher, let your

alma mater know. Please write to Oswego alumni magazine, King Alumni

Hall, 300 Washington Blvd., Oswego, NY 13126, call 315-312-2258, or e-mail us at alumni@oswego.edu (putElection in the subject line.) You can also submit storyideas online at http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/magazine.We may not be able to use all story ideas, due to spaceavailable and deadlines. �

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Women’s Soccer

The Lakers continued their long string of

playoff appearances as they advanced to

the finals of the New York State Women’s

Collegiate Athletic Association

Tournament. It marked the 15th

consecutive year the team has

qualified for post-season play.

The team finished the season

with nine victories and also won

the season-opening Hartwick

Tournament.

Maureen Kasperek ’06 (Ful-

ton/G. Ray Bodley) had a huge

season for Oswego State, setting a

school record for goals in a sea-

son with 27. She also added four

assists, giving her another school

record with 58 points. She not

only led the Lakers in scoring,

but she led the SUNY Athletic

Conference and was named

Second Team All-SUNYAC.Kas-

perek was joined on that team by

senior defender Dara Lisiecki ’04(Manlius/Fayetteville-Manlius).

Earning Honorable Mention All-

SUNYAC were Laura Feeley ’04 (Syracuse/

Westhill) and Ashley Maltagliati ’07 (East

Islip). Maltagliati was second on the team in

scoring, with 19 points on seven goals and five

assists, while Feeley was third with 15 points

with four goals and team-high seven assists.

In goal, Alecia Scorsone ’04 (Geneseo)

made 151 saves and recorded five shutouts.

Men’s Soccer

Despite coming up

short in their bid to

qualify for the conference

tournament for the second

straight year, several Laker

players were recognized for

their efforts both on and off

the field. Goalie JohnSpuhler ’05 (Fulton/G. Ray

Bodley) was named Second

Team All-SUNYAC, mark-

ing the third straight season he has earned a

conference honor. Spuhler was also cited for

his effort in the classroom, as he was the

recipient of the prestigious Fred Holloway

Award presented by the SUNYAC to the

Academic Player of the Year. The keeper fin-

ished the year with 95 saves and one shutout.

Chet Lunt ’05 (East Moriches/Center

Moriches) and Paul Palucci ’06 (Syracuse/

Liverpool) both received Honorable Mention

All-SUNYAC. Lunt earned the honor as a

defender and Palucci at midfield.

Danny Hammer ’05 (Syracuse/Not-

tingham) led the team in scoring with four

goals and one assist for nine points.

Volleyball

It was another record-

setting season for the

Lakers, as the team broke

several individual season

and career marks. Hitter

Erin Hanlon ’04 (Ful-

ton/G. Ray Bodley)

became the first Laker to

earn AVCA All-Ameri-

can honors, earning

First Team All-Region

and Honorable Mention

All-American status.

Hanlon led the state and

SUNYAC with kills per

game en route to her

second year on their

respective First Teams.

The talented outside hitter established Laker

records in career kills (1,168), kills in a season

(612), career hitting percentage (.346) and

digs in a season (505).

Assisting her was record-breaking

co-captain and setter Jenn Prievo ’05 (Carth-

age), who established a new career assist

mark of 2,792.

They had a strong showing in the

opening weekend at Ithaca, toppling NCAA

qualifier Skidmore in five games, and went

on to post wins over Geneseo and Buffalo

State as well as St. Lawrence and Hamilton.

Other outstanding efforts fell shy in tough

losses to St. John Fisher (2-3), RIT (1-3),

Union (1-3, 2-3) and Nazareth (1-3, 2-3).

The team finished the year with 14 victories.

SPORTSSPORTS

Chet Lunt ’05, center, received HonorableMention All-SUNYAC for his defensive play.

Maureen Kasperek ’06, (No. 15), set twoschool records this season and was namedSecond Team All-SUNYAC.

Hitter Kelly Vescio ’05 serves theball.

Kristin Sterling ’05 was the top of the teamthis season with five individual wins.

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Women’s Tennis

The young Oswego State

squad was paced by Kristin

Sterling ’05 (Oneida), as she led

the Lakers on the court this

season from the second singles

spot. She topped the team in

individual wins with five. Sarah

Hobart ’07 (Walworth/ Wayne

Central) was second on the team

in wins with four, competing at

sixth singles. In doubles action,

the top team for the Lakers was

Sterling and Theresa Ruane ’07

(Cortland), as the duo finished

the year with a record of 2-2.

Men’s Golf

The Lakers had a strong fall campaign on

the links, winning a pair of invitationals,

including one on their home course. Oswego

State opened the season by taking top honors

at the Elmira College Invitational with a

team score of 310 — 13 strokes better than

the second-place team. Ryan Hawkins ’06

(Amherst/Clarence) was the medallist, firing a

two-under-par 70.

Oswego State reclaimed its own invita-

tional, topping the 12-team field in the

event held at the Oswego Country Club.

Hawkins was second overall, shooting a 77

as the Lakers boasted four of the top seven

finishers. Paul Harvey ’06 (Weedsport) and

Evan Figiel ’07 (Trumansburg/Dickinson)

were tied for fifth, finishing with a 78, while

J.P. Myers ’04 (Fulton/G. Ray Bodley) was

seventh, with a 78.

The success in the fall season carried

over into the spring as the Lakers entered

the second semester ranked 13th in the

Atlantic Region.

Field Hockey

Oswego State took on many of the state’s

best teams playing many close contests,

including seven that were decided by one goal.

A pair of freshmen stepped right in and

contributed for the Lakers with their efforts

being recognized by the SUNYAC. Midfielder

Hayley Schmitz ’07 (Sag Harbor/Pierson)

and defender Eileen Smith ’07 (Cicero/

Cicero-North Syracuse) both earned Second

Team All-SUNYAC. Schmitz led the team in

scoring with eight points on three goals and

two assists, while Lauren Gallinger ’04

(Auburn) was second, with three goals and

one assist.

Another freshman, Kaitlin Daniels ’07

(Sag Harbor/ Pierson), came within one save

of tying a school record as she stopped 31

shots in a game at Houghton College. She

finished the year with 129 saves.

Cross Country

Susan McWilliams ’04 (Central Square/

Mexico Academy) became the first Laker

woman to earn All-American honors in cross

country as she placed 30th at the NCAA

Division III Cross Country Championships

hosted by Hanover College in Hanover, Ind.

McWilliams, making her fourth straight

appearance at nationals, finished the 6K race

with a time of 22:52.2.

McWilliams also won the Geneseo

Invitational and the Ronald C. Hoffman

Invitational hosted by St. Lawrence during

the season, in addition to strong performances

at the SUNYAC, where she placed second,

and the Atlantic Regional Championship,

where she was fourth.

Maureen Stellrecht ’06 (West

Falls/Iroquois) added to the

team’s fourth-place finish at the

conference championships,

placing 20th.

The men’s team had sever-

al solid outings during the

fall campaign, including

a fifth-place finish at

the SUNYAC Champi-

onships. Ade Ellis ’04

(Nyack/ Nanuet) led

the charge, placing

13th with Weston Fellows ’06

(Morris/Gilbertsville Mount

Upton) placing 30th.

Fellows followed that per-

formance up by placing 13th at

the NYSCTC Cross Country

Championships, where he was

named conference Rookie of the Year.

Oswego State also hosted the

Pat Peterson Invitational with the

men’s team placing fourth out of 11

institutions and the women placing

seventh out of 12 teams.

Ryan Hawthorne ’07 prepares to putt.

Ade Ellis ’04 led the Lakers to a fifth-placefinish at the SUNYAC Championships.

Mid-fielder Bethany Patterson ’07 goes for the ball.

Susan McWilliams ’04earned All-American Status.

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O S W E G O ● Sp r i n g 2004 12

Atlanta

The Atlanta Club is collaborating with other

SUNY alumni groups to expand networking

possibilities and event offerings. On Feb. 6,

over 120 alumni from 19 different SUNY

schools gathered for the third annual Business

Card Exchange. Special guests at this event

included SUNY Chancellor Robert King and

SUNY Research Foundation Vice President

for Philanthropy and Alumni Affairs Dr.

Michael Luck. Alumni volunteered to help

Georgia Public Television March 13 and

cheered on Oswego’s own Charlie Leitner at a

New Jersey Devils versus Atlanta Thrashers

hockey game Friday, March 26. During

intermission Charlie competed in the finals of

an on-ice golf tournament to win a BMW

two-year lease. For the latest information

about upcoming events in the Atlanta area,

check out the club’s Web site located at

www.geocities.com/sunyalumniofatlanta or

contact Jeffrey Travis ’89.

Boston

Join area alumni July 10 for a day of fun and

frivolity at Fenway Park for a Red Sox baseball

game and pre-game get-together. The alumni

office is currently looking for volunteers in

the Boston area. If you would be interested in

coordinating alumni activities, please contact

Associate Alumni Director Jeff Pratt ’94,

M’97 at jpratt@oswego.edu or 315-312-2258.

Buffalo

The Buffalo Club gathered in November to

watch the Oswego Lakers hockey team beat

Buffalo State and for a post-game reception.

During the reception, alumni and parents

were able to hear from new head coach

Ed Gosek ’83 and see architectural drawings

of the first new building to be erected on the

Oswego State campus in over 30 years, the

Campus Center, which will include a new

convocation center and hockey rink. Larry

Coon ’83 asks Buffalo area alumni to contact

him with future event ideas.

California

Receptions were held in California with Presi-

dent Deborah Stanley: March 23 in San Fran-

cisco at The University Club, March 24 in Los

Angeles at the W Hotel and March 25 at the

home of Ed ’58 and Laura Kelly Scarpelli ’59.

Capital District (Albany)

Tammy Secord Friend ’98 and Melissa Guz-

man Mazurak ’97 have agreed to coordinate

alumni activity in the Capital District area.

A planning meeting was held with area volun-

teers Feb. 24. Numerous event ideas were

discussed, so if you live in the Albany area,

watch your mail and e-mail for upcoming

details. If you have club event ideas, please fill

out the club survey at http://oswegoalumni.

oswego.edu/albany

Florida

President Deborah Stanley was greeted

warmly by Oswego alumni in Florida as she

shared successes and excitement for the

future of Oswego State. She met with alumni

in Tampa March 10, in Boynton Beach

March 12 and in Naples March 13, hosted by

Bill Spinelli ’84.

Long Island

Jessica Pristupa Hillery ’95 is interested in

helping to coordinate alumni club events on

Long Island, but would like the assistance of

other area alumni in the form of volunteers

and event ideas.A meeting to gather all volun-

teers is being planned for April, so if you

live on Long Island or would attend events

there, please fill out the survey at http://

oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/longisland

New York City

The alumni office is looking for volunteers to

help rejuvenate activities in the New York City

area. A meeting to gather all volunteers is

being planned for April. If you live in New

York City or would attend events there, please

fill out the survey at http://oswegoalumni.

oswego.edu/nyc

North Carolina

A group of area alumni are trying to get activi-

ties going in North Carolina. If you live in the

Club NewsAlumni Club ContactsNEW YORK CLUBSBinghamton – Margaret Clancy Darling ’82, 607-748-5125 (H)Buffalo – Larry Coon ’83, 716-852-1321 (O), 716-873-2695 (H)Capital District – Tammy Secord Friend ’98, 518-454-5197 (O),

518-226-0147 (H), e-mail: friendt@strose.eduMelissa Guzman Mazurak ’97, 518-339-4819 (cell), e-mail: jeffandmelissamaz@earthlink.net

Long Island – Jessica Pristupa Hillery ’95, 631-842-8844 (H),e-mail: Jess28754@cs.com

Mohawk Valley – Liz Fowler ’68, 315-337-9895 (H), e-mail: efowler1@twcny.rr.com

New York City – Volunteers needed, please contact thealumni office.

Oswego – Sylvia Gaines ’76, 315-342-2662 (H), e-mail: sgaines@oswego.org

Rochester – Penny Koch ’95, 585-899-9716 (H), e-mail: koch_penelope@yahoo.com

Syracuse – Kitty Sherlock Houghtaling ’87, 315-656-2457 (H),e-mail: Kitty6of6@aol.com Paul Susco ’70, 315-656-3180 (H)

OTHER AREASAtlanta – Jeffrey Travis ’89, 770-926-7580 (H),

e-mail: jeffreytravis@hotmail.com Boston – Volunteers needed, please contact the alumni office.Dallas – Kelly Russell ’98, 214-621-6473 (cell),

e-mail: kellyrussell7@hotmail.comHouston – Tammy Moffitt Komatinsky ’97, 832-928-4108 (cell),

e-mail: tkomatinsky@houston.rr.comNorth Carolina – Eric Setzer ’91, 919-786-4269 (H),

e-mail: esetzer@nc.rr.comDavid P. Jones ’92, 919-245-3620 (H), e-mail: david_jones@unc.eduGary Applegate ’87, 704-658-0727 (H), e-mail: gapplegate@sherpallc.com

Northern New Jersey – Fran Lapinski ’72, MS ’74, 973-763-8788 (H), e-mail: cmhl3@att.net

Philadelphia – Jennifer Shropshire ’86, 215-842-1748 (O), e-mail: jpshrop4@aol.com

Phoenix, AZ – Andrew Brown ’94, 480-705-9096 (H), e-mail: azbrown@ikon.com

South Carolina – Sonya Nordquist Altenbach ’91, 843-881-9503 (H), e-mail: sonyan@charleston.net Karen Parker ’91, 843-873-1548 (H), e-mail: kparker98@yahoo.com

Southern California – Julie Joseph Greenberg ’92, 909-787-0480 (H), e-mail: socalozalumni@yahoo.com

Washington, D.C. – Kim Brooke ’87, 703-845-0788 (H), e-mail: kbrooke@nvcc.edu

Oswego Alumni Association, Inc., King Alumni Hall, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126Phone: 315-312-2258Fax: 315-312-5570E-mail: alumni@oswego.eduhttp://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu

Club Event Notices Using E-mail

Club events are publicized through

the alumni magazine, on the Os-

wego Alumni Web site, and through

mailings and e-mails. If your e-mail ad-

dress has changed for any reason, or if

you haven’t given us your e-mail address

yet, please update your current informa-

tion at http://oswegoalumni.oswego.

edu/alumni/where.html You may also

notify our office by completing and

mailing us the “Tell Us About Yourself”

form on page 47. We thank you in

advance for your help.

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May 14 Commencement Eve Dinner andTorchlight Ceremony

May 15 CommencementJune 3 - 6 Reunion 2004June 12 Annual Business Meeting, Oswego

Alumni Association, Inc.July 22 - 25 The City of Oswego’s fantastic

Harborfest! On-campus housing availableto alumni, friends and family.

August 2 Emeriti LuncheonSeptember 9-10 15th Annual Oswego State

Fall ClassicOctober 9 Athletic Hall of Fame InductionOctober 23 Communication Studies Dinner

Plan ahead forReunion 2005!JUNE 3 - 5, 2005

Classes of 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001

area or know any alumni who do, please

have them fill out the online survey at

http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/north-

carolina

Phoenix, Ariz.

Phoenix area alumni gathered in November

for a day of family fun and games at “The

Monastery,” and at the third annual alumni

luncheon March 27 with special guest speak-

er, Kevin Mahaney, SUNY Oswego vice

president for development and public affairs.

To inquire about future events, contact

Andrew Brown ’94.

Rochester

Area alumni gathered in November for the

comedy of EstroFest, which includes alumna

Dresden Engle Olcott ’88. In January, alumni

braved the weather to cheer on the Oswego

Lakers men’s hockey team as they battled RIT.

During a post-game reception, everyone

enjoyed hearing from new head coach Ed

Gosek ’83 and seeing architectural drawings of

the first new building to be erected on the

Oswego State campus in over 30 years, the

Campus Center, which will include a new

convocation center and hockey rink. Penny

Koch ’95 has agreed to coordinate activities in

the Rochester area, so if you have event ideas,

contact the alumni office or Penny.

South Carolina

In October alumni gathered in Columbia for a

trip to the zoo as well as brunch at the home of

Bob Sparks ’90. In November a get-together

was held in Hilton Head, and in January

Oswego alumni joined alumni from other

SUNY schools to attend the 21st annual Low-

country Oyster Festival in Charleston. If you

have ideas for future events, please contact

Sonya Nordquist Altenbach ’91 or Karen

Parker ’91.

Syracuse/Oswego

In December over 100 alumni from the 1960s

through 2000s gathered at Coleman’s of

Syracuse for a Holiday Social. Upcoming

events include a Finger Lakes winery tour and

a May 8 production of “The Dragonslayers”

by Oswego’s own Bruce Coville ’73, followed

by a reception at the OnCenter. If you have

other event ideas for the Oswego/Syracuse

area, please contact the alumni office.

Washington, D.C.

Recent events included a Holiday Social in

December, Ice-Skating in February, and a

SUNY Alumni reception on March 30 with

President Deborah Stanley, SUNY Chancellor

Robert King and NYS Congressional staff.

Other upcoming events include a Flag Day

social June 13, a canoe outing July 17, the

annual picnic Aug. 14, the King Street Krawl

Sept. 25, a reception with President Deborah

F. Stanley and Dr. Thomas Schaller ’89, an

expert on presidential politics, at the Tower

Club in Virginia Sept. 28, and the annual

Holiday Social Dec. 7. If you have any

questions about future events, please contact

Kim Brooke ’87.

Alumni at a November reception in Hilton Head, S.C., included from left, Karen Parker ’91, MaryAnn Burke Kaufman ’64, Clif George, Josephine Parkhurst George ’45, Elsie Schulz Tietjen ’57,Kim McGuire and Sonya Nordquist Altenbach ’91.

Events

Save the DateJoin President Deborah F. Stanley

for a Special Oswego Event for

Alumni and Friends

Oswego at Carnegie Hall

Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

June 15, 2004

Featuring:

SUNY Oswego Music Faculty

Seung hee Yang - Violin

Robert Auler - Piano

(Tickets will be available exclusively

through the Oswego Alumni Association,

not Carnegie Hall.)

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JOE L. FARMER BELIEVES THAT IT’S A

leader’s job to make the tough decisions. The

new interim principal at Ramapo High

School said he sees his job as a long-range

project, one he plans to work on as if he were

hired to be there for the next 10 years.

“This school is close to where it needs to

be in management, in deportment and how

we feel about one another,” the 65-year-old

educator said. “Where it’s lacking is in the

academic achievement level not being where

it ought to be.There’s a sense of complacency

on the part of the students that the criteria

for high school is ‘passing.’ That has to be

eliminated. I want every child to go on to an

institution of higher learning. We need to

work on expectations.

“Our goal is to blast ourselves out of that

complacency and have every child raise their

grade average 10 or 15 percent,”he said.

Farmer is used to challenges. Much of

his administrative career has been spent

fixing what’s wrong within the schools he’s

been assigned.

He helped Yonkers schools and city deal

with a federal desegregation order; he raised

scores and expectations at schools on Long

Island and in Yonkers; and he took the school

superintendent’s job in Yonkers after the dis-

trict went through a teachers strike that was

instrumental in driving his predecessor out.

“He was the healing calm that our

school district needed,” said Mary Ellen

Winnicki, who was Yonkers Council PTA

president at the time. He helped unify

parents, teachers and staff, she said.

Farmer said he has a knack for working

with people and helping them reach

consensus.

Farmer was born in North Carolina in

1938, the day that boxer Joe Louis knocked

out Max Schmeling. Family tradition said

that that’s how he got his name: Joe Louis

Farmer.

Farmer said he wasn’t a brilliant

student, but he found something that

interested him: mechanics. While in high

school, he created a modification for an

Elizabethan style crossbow — a way of

loading the arrows and pulling back the

spring — that earned him a cover story on

the magazine Popular Mechanics.He was a football player and wrestler.

With a view toward becoming a mechanical

engineer, he accepted a wrestling scholarship

to Syracuse University that was replaced by a

full football scholarship based on his high

school career.

However, Farmer didn’t attend Syra-

cuse. When he got to school for summer

training, he found that the school had

chosen a major for him: physical education

and recreation. It was explained to him that

he needed to concentrate on football.

“Even at 18, I was appalled and insulted

by that,” Farmer said. “Fortunately, one of

my former high school coaches worked at

Oswego, and he asked me if I wanted to go

there.”

TroubleshootingOur SchoolsJoe Farmer ’60 takes on one more challenge in his educational careerWhen he was growing up down South, Joe Farmer’s mother cared so

much about education, she started a school in a log cabin for local

black children. Her passion instilled Joe with a desire to make sure

every kid got the best education possible. And he’s parlayed that drive

and his Oswego education into a string of successes in educational

administration that even retirement can’t stop. This winter he came

back to take on one more challenge.

By Randi Weiner, The Journal News

Although a star athlete at Oswego, Joe Farmer ’60 wants young people toknow that sports is not the way to success — education is.

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SUNY Oswego, Farmer said, was a

teachers college. Even though it had no foot-

ball team, he made the switch to Oswego,

joined the wrestling team and became an

industrial arts teacher.

His first job out of college was teaching

at a junior high in his home district in Bay

Shore, Long Island. When his draft number

came up, he joined the National Guard,

training as a tank driver, then he returned to

teaching. He is a captain in the New York

Guard.

Farmer spent six years in the Valley

Stream Central district, teaching architectur-

al drafting. For the first two years there, he

moonlighted as a tight end with the Titans —

who became the New York Jets in 1963 —

until a knee injury ended his pro football

career.

After Valley Stream, he received his

master’s degree from Hofstra University in

guidance and became a guidance counselor.

“I loved being a counselor,” he said.

“Then, during the late ’60s, early ’70s . . .

there were a lot of disruptions in the schools,

especially those with significant minority

populations.

“I was trained as an administrator —

I had gotten my certification, took a course

or two — and there were about four, five

districts after me to become an administrator

because there were very few administrators

of color. I was living in Roosevelt, and the

superintendent there made me an offer I re-

ally couldn’t refuse,” he said. He became

principal of Roosevelt High School in 1969.

He was worried at first, how he could be

a disciplinarian with a background in guid-

ance. But his skills as a guidance counselor

were what helped him become an effective

administrator, he said.

In 1973,Farmer went to Yonkers schools

as an administrator, retiring in 1995.He then

spent four years working as a special assis-

tant for housing and redevelopment in

Yonkers. He played a major role in the city’s

attempts to comply with a federal desegrega-

tion order. In 2000, he was asked by the

Yonkers mayor to take over as superintend-

ent of Yonkers schools, a job he held until

he resigned in March of [last] year to run,

unsuccessfully, for mayor.

Three days after his defeat, he got a call

from East Ramapo Schools Superintendent

Jason Friedman, who was looking for an

interim leader for Ramapo High School.

Farmer was chosen from among five finalists

and took over Dec. 1.

Among the projects he expects to begin

are requiring all 11th- and 12th-graders

to apply to at least one college and adding

a military-aero-space component to the

school’s career academies.

He is a strong believer in the state’s high

educational standards, although not a fan of

the federal No Child Left Behind legislation,

which he said is too generic. National educa-

tion policy ought to take into account state

education policy,he said,or it becomes more

of a burden than a help in raising standards

for all children.

Farmer is a committee member of the

Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the organization

that successfully sued the state on behalf

of New York City schools to get the state

funding formula changed.

Yesterday [Dec. 21], the Alliance of

African-American Educators — an organi-

zation he founded in Westchester — held

its Kwanzaa celebration, and named the

group’s annual scholarship in his honor. It

was just another in a string of local, state and

national honors — including a Congres-

sional Citation for Excellence in Educational

Reform and Leadership — that has marked

Farmer’s career.

Being asked to lead Ramapo High

School was an unexpected and welcome

return to his education roots, he said. He is

ready to dig in.

“I would like to see this school with that

wonderful richness and diversity, pave the

way as a school that went over the top

academically,”he said.“We can’t slow down.”

Editor’s note: The preceeding story, first

published Dec. 22, 2003, in The Journal

News is reprinted with permission of the

author.

“There’s a sense of complacency on the part of the students that the criteria for

high school is ‘passing.’ That has to be eliminated. I want every child to go on to

an institution of higher learning. We need to work on expectations.”

John Krauss ’71 isn’t sure

just how many radios were

tuned into WRVO when he

began broadcasting at a

mere 10 watts at 11:58:13

a.m. Jan. 6, 1969. He only knows for sure

that there were two: one in the station

manager’s office and the other in town,

recording the big moment.

This Jan. 6, now the station manager

himself, Krauss replayed that tape, made

when he was just an undergraduate at

Oswego, for a potential audience of

nearly a million.

For Krauss and fellow WRVO staffer

John Hurlbutt ’71, it’s been an incredible

journey. They’ve been on the air at

Oswego’s only public radio station since

Day One. They’ve seen hundreds of fellow

broadcasters come and go, and brought

world events into homes and vehicles

throughout Central New York. Watergate,

the first Gulf War, the Challenger disaster,

impeachment hearings — all came to life

for listeners to FM 89.9.

For the two veteran broadcasters, the

journey began even before that “cold and

dreary” January day. They auditioned in

the winter of 1968 before the late Bill

Shigley, WRVO’s legendary first manager,

who was recruited from Purdue University

to build an educational radio station in

Oswego. Dave Nellis, a professor with a

background in commercial radio and later

Oswego’s public affairs director, then-

President James Perdue and Professor Lew

O’Donnell hoped to make Oswego’s non-

commercial radio station a reality. Shigley

had would-be broadcasters read a script

that included news and classical music

references. “It scared the daylights out of

me,” admits Krauss. He looked up from

the script and all he could see was Shigley,

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in a lit-up room, assessing his perform-

ance. “Luckily I grew up in a household

where my father played classical music. I

could pronounce the composers’ names!”

Hurlbutt, too, survived the “fairly

stressful” audition, but the beginnings of

WRVO had to wait while Shigley built his

staff and awaited approval of the license

application.

Borrowed equipment . . . and showers

The new station needed somewhere to

set up shop. Lanigan Hall had been built

with three television studios, but nothing

for radio, so WRVO got an unused TV stu-

dio. “The control room was a converted

TV dressing room,” Hurlbutt remembers.

“We had men’s and women’s showers.

They’re now since gone down the drain.”

Actually, the space occupied by the

station now isn’t much different from the

original studio. “Only now, 18 of us are

working in space three of us worked in

back then,”Krauss says. The former control

room has become a production studio.

The fledgling station ran on loaned

equipment. “We had two tape machines

borrowed in 1969 from the music depart-

ment. They only had room for so many in

the listening library, we got the extras,”

Krauss recalls.

‘Eclectic’ programming“We had very limited hours of opera-

tion at first,” remembers Hurlbutt. They

broadcast weekdays only, while school was

in session, from noon to 10 p.m. Even now,

he and Krauss can recite the sequence of

shows by memory. There was the “Reader’s

Corner,” where Shigley read from classics

of humorous writing, followed by public

affairs programming on reel-to-reel tapes

and classical music on vinyl LPs. “Platters

and Placards” mixed popular music with

community calendar notices.

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Balloons, cake and silly hats were the order of the day Jan. 6 as WRVO’s staffers celebratedthe station’s 35th birthday. In the front are Matt Seubert ’97 and Kate DeForest Percival ’96 (holding the birthday cake) and Deanne Ross. Standing from left are (secondrow), Pam Allen ’92, Kathy Gurney ’02 and Skye Rohde; (third row) Rick Annal ’03, Bob Hanson ’00, John Krauss ’71, Jeff Windsor ’96 and Jonathan Peck ’03; and (back row) Fred Vigeant ’02, John Hurlbutt ’71, Chris Ulanowski, Bill Gowan and TomHerbert. Missing from the photo are Elizabeth Christensen ’98 and Mark Lavonier.

JIM R

USSELL ’83

A MentorRecalledBy John Krauss ’71

I n a cozy corner in the studio at WRVO

a lamp has been burning, the reading

glasses poised near a stack of well-read

books. The worn chair sits waiting for its

owner’s return. June 3rd (2000), the lamp

was extinguished, but the memory of the

man, William “Bill” Shigley, will burn brightly

in the hearts, minds and ears of all who were

blessed with his friendship . . .

WRVO and Bill Shigley — just like

Castor & Pollux, Amos & Andy, Fibber McGee

& Molly, George Burns & Gracie Allen, and

Romulus & Remus — these two names have

been interlocked for 30 years. From the day I

watched as Bill Shigley and Dr. James Perdue

signed WRVO on that wintery day in January

1969 until his untimely

retirement a few years

ago, Bill led the WRVO

staff though lean times

and growing times . . .

Bill Shigley’s legacy

is the nearly 1,000

professional and part-

time employees and

students who have

worked for WRVO in

many capacities. Each

has been challenged to

perform to the best of

their ability. They have moved on to impor-

tant positions throughout the broadcast

arena. Seventy-five percent of WRVO’s

current staff trained as students under Bill,

and the rest have grown with their experi-

ences at WRVO . . .

Radio waves never end. They just drift

off into space. Somewhere on a distant

planet or aboard some future space mission,

someone may tune to 89.9 and hear, “That’s

all for today. I’m Bill Shigley in the Reader’s

Corner . . .”

William “Bill” Shigley1937-2000

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T o Elizabeth Christensen ’98 it doesn’t seem that long ago that she

wandered into the WRVO offices, a political science major looking for an

internship. Little did she know that she would be launching a career in

radio, or that, as assistant news director and a supervisor of interns now herself,

she would be helping a new generation of Oswego students embark on their own

broadcasting futures.

Her face lights up as she recites the names of recent WRVO interns who have

been successful in broadcasting: Joelle Myszka ’02, who works at “NBC Nightly

News,” just down the hall from Tom Brokaw; Maria Leaf ’00, news director at

WGY in Schenectady; Kevin Mooney ’00, a producer at Syracuse’s WSYR.

“People we’ve had work here have gone on to bigger markets . . . It’s nice to know

that people you helped to learn to write, etc., have moved on,” Christensen says.

“The unique thing about having an internship here, is that in Syracuse,

you might get people coffee. Here we take the best and the brightest and

we let them do things: do long form stories, call Congressmen, listen in on

conference calls with [U.S. Senators] Hillary Clinton or Chuck Schumer.”

WRVO gives its interns a more professional experience, teaching them

not only how to show up on time and dress properly (“You never know when

you will go out into the field”), but also to talk with senators. “You learn how

to treat them with respect, but learn to question them, in a nice way.”

It’s that type of experience that appealed to the young Christensen, and

helped her decide on a career on the airwaves. And the experience started

early. “[News Director] Chris [Ulanowski] gave me a writing test. I started

working that very same day,” she recalls. After working as an unpaid intern, she

came back after summer break and was a paid student employee, working 20 to

30 hours a week while she was in school. After graduation, she was hired as a

reporter/producer, and took on her current role when the former assistant news

director, Eugene Sonn, moved on to NPR’s WHYY in Philadelphia.

Now she gets to work alongside one of the icons of her childhood. Her father

listened to WRVO all the while she was growing up. The 5-year-old Elizabeth used

to wake up to the voice of John Hurlbutt ’71. “I would yell at him when the

schools didn’t close,” she says with a grin.

But to her that’s part of what makes WRVO so special, and makes her want to

stay. “There’s such an institutional memory. Everyone went to school here. They are

more loyal and more willing to stay the extra couple of hours to get it done or

come in on the weekend for fundraising.”

— by Michele Reed

Former Intern Now Trains Student Helpers

January 6, 1969WRVO signs on

1971WRVO goes to

1,000 watts

WRVO joins NPR

197624,000-watt transmitter on Fallbrook Hill erected

1979WRVN 91.9FM Utica goes on air

1981WRVJ 91.7 FM Watertown added

1995WRVD 90.3FM Syracuse begins broadcasting

WRVO begins broadcasting with WSUC

Cortland

2005 50,000-watt transmitter (projected)

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Elizabeth Christensen ’98conducts a news interviewat WRVO

Audience1972 1,1002003 100,000

Coverage area1969 Part of City of Oswego2004 15 counties and two

provinces

Employees1969 32004 18

Watts of power1971 1,0001976 24,0002005 50,000

10,700 Programs in the Old Time Radio library

145 Awards on WRVO’s wall7 Rank in Syracuse market

Fundraising1978 $1,8002003 $462,000

Budget1969 $180,0002004 $1.9 million **nearly $1 million from listenersand business sponsors

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The 5 o’clock hour was “Newscope,”

devoted to wire news copy and features

from agencies like the U.S. Agriculture

Department. Classical music played

evenings from 6 to 10, with orchestral con-

certs featured at 8 p.m.

The late night programming was de-

voted to a mixed bag.

“If you looked up ‘eclectic’ in the dic-

tionary, that would be us,” Hurlbutt says

with a wry chuckle. Because WRVO used

volunteer student broadcasters, the pro-

gramming was as diverse as the staff.“Classi-

cal, folk, jazz, all mixed in together,”he says.

Fritz Messere ’71 was one of those

volunteers. The current chair of the com-

munication studies department worked

mostly in TV, but in his senior year he

hosted a late-night folk program.

Messere remembers WRVO as a

“grassroots” operation.

“As humongous as it is now, it was

different then,” Krauss agrees. Non-

commercial radio was just in its infancy,

and Oswego was in on the first wave.

In 1971, WRVO obtained a 1,000-watt

license and joined the National Public

Radio network. The students went home

for the summer break, and when they

returned, the station was an NPR affiliate.

It continued to run with limited hours

until 1973. The Watergate hearings were

holding America in thrall, and WRVO

stayed on all summer to broadcast them live.

“Watergate put NPR on the map,”

Hurlbutt remembers. “The feed was over

telephone lines, pretty miserable quality.”

“The Vietnam news, too,” adds

Krauss. “Reporting was done over poor

telephone circuits. It could be days before

we had stories on the news.”

Year-round soundIn 1976, WRVO began broadcasting

year-round, and reached a larger audience,

thanks to a new 24,000-watt capability.

It increased its hours of broadcast, too,

with a new slate of programming before

noon. “Here Comes the Sun,” a morning

news show, was followed by “Hurlbutt’s

Department Store,” a music program.

National Public Radio was growing,

too, and in 1979, WRVO got a satellite dish

so it could tap into the programming

choices made possible by the emerging

technology.

With those new choices came a major

shift for Oswego’s station. “We started

switching to all news, as we could afford

the programs,” explains Hurlbutt.

“We wanted to get our own place in the

Syracuse market,” Krauss says. They knew

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Grant to Help UpdateEquipment

Many staff members at WRVO toil

on broadcasting and production

equipment that is older than they

are. But that is scheduled to change, thanks

to a $139,593 matching grant through the

U.S. Department of Commerce’s Public

Telecommunications Facilities Program.

WRVO must match that money, through

fund-raisers “over and above” existing efforts,

to ultimately purchase the $279,186 worth of

equipment replacing outdated technology that

is no longer serviced or even built, said General

Manager John Krauss ’71.

The mixing console in WRVO’s main control

room, where staffers do on-air work and fade in

NPR programming, is around two decades old.

Such vital pieces as production room equip-

ment exceed the quarter-century mark. Fred

Vigeant ’02, WRVO’s operations director, often

trains workers on equipment older than he is.

The goal is “to put in place current tech-

nology able to restore our ability to do local

programming such as ‘Talk of the Region,’’’

Krauss said. That award-winning show was

shelved because of technical limitations at the

station’s patchwork studio, he said.

“We have a lot of 1970s and ’80s techno-

logy tied to newer technologies and comput-

ers,” said Jeff Windsor ’96, the station’s chief

assistant engineer. “Modern technology will

integrate more smoothly into our operating

system.”

New equipment will include a studio-

transmitter link. “It should improve our signal

quality,” Windsor noted. “That will be one of

the things listeners will hear.”

The grant also will provide equipment to

preserve the old-time radio collection.

—by Tim Nekritz

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To donate to the New Sound for a New Century Project, send a check made payable to WRVO (put New Sound for a New Century in the memo section) to: The WRVOStations, 7060 State Route 104,Oswego, NY 13126, or make a secure credit card donation online at www.wrvo.fm or by calling 1-800-341-3690.

WRVO Traffic Manager Kate DeForest Percival ’96 works in a production room in theWRVO studios in Lanigan Hall. The console in front of her dates to 1976, and much of theequipment around her is more than 20 years old. The outdated technology is due to bereplaced as part of a federal grant that the National Public Radio affiliate recently received.

JIM R

USSELL ’83

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Al Roker ’76Co-host, NBC “Today Show”

It made me realizehow much fun youcould have at workwith friends. WRVOtaught me live radioand taped mayhem.

Special memories of WRVO: Bill Shigley calling me “Tubby.”

ChristopherMaloney ’91Self-employed Musician

Special memories ofWRVO:Waking up at 7 a.m. ona Sunday after sleeping

two hours and trying to function like a normalhuman being. Having the general manager fromthe station hear me while he was washing hiscar and asking my supervisor why I would pos-sibly be employed by the station.

I actually think WRVO is a great station,and the people who worked there were veryprofessional and cool. I appreciated the oppor-tunity to be a small part of everything there.

Dave Eichorn ’79WIXT-TV, Syracuse,Chief Meteorologist

I did weather forWRVO from ’76 to ’79.I actually started theweather program they

have there, in 1976. WRVO and I kind of wentthrough some of the great winters of 76–77and 78–79 together. The snow and the cold,you name it. We started this whole thing fromscratch, the weather, I mean. People probablythought I was a little crazy, chasing after lakeeffect snow. I think everyone at WRVO prettywell knew I was going to be a meteorologist.

It was a good experience to learn how togo out and sell my own program. The format Iworked in was great, because it was non-com-mercial. I could get up there and talk weather,and cover some subjects in depth, and I lovedthat. I would talk about things like the jetstream and big weather fronts. . . It helped meto develop conversation skills in speaking aboutthe weather. I’d like to do the weather for themagain sometime.

Special memories of WRVO:I remember joking around with Bill Shigley, whorecently passed away. I have fond memories ofhis sense of humor, and having fun at the radiostation with him, and of his support for theweather (program) and for me.

Linda Cohn ’80 ESPN SportsCenterAnchor

First off, WRVO gaveme a vehicle, an oppor-tunity, a chance to kindof dip into the field and

get firsthand experiences in using my voice andhaving people hear me in Hewitt Union.

What was so wonderful was you didn’thave to be a superstar. You did not have to begreat. There was always that opportunity if youhad the passion. WRVO gave me that earlyopportunity and gave me a start to figure out ifthis was something I really wanted to do.

Special memories of WRVO:I remember the camaraderie when you walkedinto that office or the little studio. Everyonesort of knew each other, they were on the samepage, had similar interests. There was always asmile or laugh or two. You could go in at anytime of day and you would feel at home.

That’s what I’ve had wherever I’ve workedin this field. That’s what I’ve had at ESPN forthe last 11-plus years. It’s very tight, almost likeanother family. When you’re away from homeat college, you’re young, you appreciate that.The camaraderie I had with my colleaguesthere, it was special.

Ed Garsten ’73The Detroit NewsAutomotive Reporter,Former CNN BureauChief

At the most rudimen-tary, WRVO taught me how to operate a

transmitter and take the readings, but it was awonderful, practical experience that gave methe opportunities and responsibilities that made

that WCNY was noted for its classical pro-

gramming, and WAER, which started life as

Syracuse University’s student-run station,

was making a name for itself in jazz. “We

wanted to find our niche,”Krauss says.

“This was very gradual,” explains

Hurlbutt. “We didn’t sit down in 1980 and

plan a switch to news.”

But it was a natural fit for FM 89.9.

Shigley came from an educational back-

ground and loved the spoken word.

“I grew up in the New York market where

all-news stations had been pioneered,” says

Krauss.“I was a news jockey to begin with.

There weren’t news services.”

“Morning Edition” started in 1979

and WRVO picked it up in January 1980.

The first Gulf War in 1990 saw NPR

include news-related programming across

the noon hour. “Talk of the Nation” was

born in the coverage of that conflict, and

WRVO was one of the first to carry the

call-in show.

“The Gulf War started the trend to talk

radio,” Krauss says. “We were one of the

leaders in going to talk, although we didn’t

get national notice.”

The Gulf War was a watershed for

WRVO’s listenership as well. Before that,

35,000 or 40,000 people listened in,

according to a count known as the “weekly

cume,” which counts once each week every

listener who tunes in for at least five

minutes. After the war, the audience was in

the 60,000-listener range. And they’ve had

a steady growth ever since.

Last spring, the station saw a loyal

listenership of 100,000 during coverage of

the war in Iraq. “People were hungry for

information,” says Krauss.

An expanded signal also helped boost

the numbers of those tuning in.

Regional nicheIn addition to the syndicated news

shows, WRVO quickly became known for

its locally produced news. From remote

broadcasts at the New York State Fair and

WRVO Alumni Open MicMany WRVO alumni have gone on to successful careers

in the communications industry. Oswego contacted a few

of these familiar faces and voices, and asked them, “How

did working at WRVO affect your career?”

it possible to begin my professional broadcastcareer immediately after graduating.

Special memories of WRVO: I first became aware of WRVO as a listener toMike Lazar’s “Night Sounds,” a fabulous pro-gram. As a staffer there, I have very warmmemories of pulling the 10 p.m. to midnightshift directly after Mike, doing a folk-rock pro-gram which pulled in listeners as far away asSyracuse University who would call in requestsor just make comments.

Other memories: Trying to cue up the 7-inch reel with “All Things Considered” duringa break, and running down the janitor afterreturning from the men’s room during a recordonly to have the door lock behind you. Of course,no WRVO memory would be complete withouta mention of Bill Shigley, who winced everytime we butchered the name of a classicalmusic composer. Together with WOCR, WRVOwas just a great place to get real world broad-cast experience in a totally professional andinstructive atmosphere.

Benita Zahn ’76WNYT, Albany,Anchor/HealthReporter

WRVO gave me thefoundation for being a reporter, i.e.: the

courage to ask questions — to organize mythoughts quickly — to write “news.”

Special memories of WRVO:Working the midnight to 3 a.m. shift and “hear-ing the ghosts.” Honestly, word is that buildingis haunted. I once had to call security to get mehome after hearing footsteps in the buildingand no one was there. Also, great camaraderiewith the staff and the students working there,and the phone calls from “the guys working at

the water treatment plant” during those latenight hours. What a world! Working at WRVOwas among the best times I spent in college!!!!

Mike Lazar ’70President and GeneralManager, CapitalPublic Radio,Sacramento, Calif.NPR Board of Directors

The experience I got atWRVO helped define my whole career. Wewere in on the ground floor, almost inventingpublic radio as we went along. As one of theoriginal staff starting a brand new radio sta-tion, I got to do everything: news, classicalmusic, production. If I had gone to a factory-type school with a large broadcasting program,I would have been a little fish in a big pond.

Special memories of WRVO:I enjoyed working with Bill Shigley. As a youngbroadcaster I tried things and took chances thatI would think twice about if someone did thatnow. Like one night, when I had so many requestsand was having such a good time, I kept the station on half the night. Bill handled that in aprofessional way. He let us grow into the job,spread our wings and take some chances, yetpulled us into the professional atmosphere hewas trying to create.

I didn’t sign on the station the first day,but I did sign it off the first day and thenext two years after that, with my rockshow, “Night Sounds.” I wound up interview-ing most of the top rock groups in theworld: the Doors, Simon and Garfunkel, TheAssociation, Deep Purple. When you’re sit-ting in a room by yourself in front of a mic,you have no idea who’s listening. The lastnight I got so many calls from people whorelated what they were doing while listening

to my show. It’s really neat to get that kindof feedback and know you were importantin their lives.

Steve Levy ’87 ESPN SportsCenterAnchor

Working at WRVOwas great practicalexperience. While Iwas always thrilled

to work at the college radio station (WOCR),WRVO had a much more professional feel —where I was surrounded by professional adultsin the industry rather than college broadcasters.I also felt like I had to be more buttoned-up,more professional. I respected those who werecritiquing me and doing it constructively. Forexample, they told me I was a mispronouncingthe words “tournament” and “Orangemen,” (in the Downstate way). So now I never mis-pronounce those words!

I always attributed a great deal of my success to Oswego for having the facilities tohave a real professional radio station on ourcampus. It’s one big perk of Oswego.

Special memories of WRVO:I worked there for three years. I rememberdoing the very early morning weekend sports-cast. After a rock-n-roll Friday and Saturday inOswego, you had to be really dedicated to getup and do that. It was a long walk from NewCampus in the cold. Even though you didn’thave to look good, you had to sound good! So,it helped me prepare for some early morningsthat are so vital in broadcasting.

— Compiled by Shannon Mahar ’04 and Michele Reed

Read more alumni memories online athttp://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/magazine

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Oswego’s Harborfest to veteran News

Director Chris Ulanowski’s “Talk of the

Region” and award-winning election night

coverage, the station built up a loyal base

of news-hungry listeners.

“People found us,” says Hurlbutt.

“What a jolt it is to have people from 50

miles away saying they heard your station

and it was the best!

“We have people who really work to

hear us. They even get upset if they can’t

hear us on their Walkman.®”

The listenership has built up over the

years, as WRVO covered the significant

events of the last quarter of the 20th

century. Anwar Al-Saddat’s assassination in

1981, John Hinckley’s attempted shooting

of President Ronald Reagan that year, the

Challenger disaster Jan. 28, 1986 — these

are the kinds of moments that drew people

to WRVO’s coverage.

In the days before C-Span, concerned

citizens heard the Senate hearings on the

Panama Canal treaties and the Clarence

Thomas nomination, and other important

debates, carried live throughout the day on

WRVO.

Eventually, the station evolved to its

current format, 20 hours of news and infor-

mation followed by Old Time Radio. What

started as a half-hour program on Sunday

nights has grown into a popular feature for

WRVO listeners, who tune in to hear “The

Shadow,” “Fibber McGee’s Closet” and

other entries from over 10,700 shows in the

station’s reel-to-reel tape library.

It seems a far cry from that converted

TV dressing room filled with borrowed

equipment, and the handful of listeners to a

10-watt station, but the spirit of WRVO

hasn’t changed much over 35 years. �

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Even if you’re outside ofWRVO’s broadcasting range,you can lisen to the Webcast atwww.WRVO.fm

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There was 1958, 1966, 1978,

1993 . . . and now 2004. Fu-

ture alumni will talk about

the winter just ended with

memories to rival those of

earlier classes who lived through Oswego’s

notorious “big snows.” They’ll even have

something more to brag about — for the

first time in nearly 40 years, the college

cancelled classes for two days in a row.

A huge snowstorm buried Oswego

with nearly 54 inches of snow during the

last week of January. Bitter cold and harsh

winds buffeted the city and campus. Classes

were cancelled from Wednesday evening,

Jan. 28, through Friday, Jan. 30, something

that hasn’t happened “since at least 1969,”

according to Bernie Henderson, retired vice

president for administration. He joined the

college that year and used to be the person

responsible for deciding to cancel classes.

“It definitely ranks up there with the

top snowstorms in Oswego’s history,” says

Scott Steiger ’99 of the meteorology faculty.

He got to experience the effects of lake ef-

fect first-hand, as he was “literally trapped,”

with all roads leading from his Oswego

home impassable. Meteorology Professor

Robert Ballentine was stuck along with

Steiger, unable to return to his home in

Syracuse for three days.

Ballentine called the January storm “a

once-in-a-50-year-event,”and said the near-

est equivalent would be the Blizzard of 1966.

Snow actually started falling on the

26th, when a general snowstorm deposited

a modest 7.2 inches on the city by the 28th,

said Oswego weather watcher Bill Gregway.

On that Wednesday afternoon an Arctic

cold front swept through and changed the

general snowfall to lake effect.

“We saw this one coming,” Steiger said.

“It was just the way the wind flow was —

the wind direction wasn’t changing.”

Very cold air — temperatures at a

kilometer high were at negative 20 degrees

Celsius — wrapped around moisture in

Maine and the system stayed put, dumping

snow on Oswego County, Steiger

explained. “The big thing meteorologically

was the wind did not change much and it

just sat over the county,” he said. “Cold air,

the persistence of the wind direction, and

moisture wrapping around that low really

made this event significant.”

The 113-hour snowfall dropped 53.7

inches of snow on Oswego, said Gregway.

The entire county was socked in, and

the weather made the national news.Parish,

to the east of Oswego, recorded 86 inches,

the single greatest amount recorded by a

snow spotter from Western or Central New

York, according to the National Weather

Service Web site.

“Other places may get more snow, but

the wind literally blows it off campus,”

Steiger explained.“We had a six-foot drift in

front of Piez Hall when I came in on Friday,

just to check on things. It was the strongest

snow storm I’ve ever experienced.”

Future alumni from the classes of 2004,

2005, 2006 and 2007 will echo his words in

years to come as they recall the history-

making snow event that cancelled a pair of

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By Michele Reed

2004 Photos by Jim Russell ’83

Remembrances of Snows PastDuring the winter of ’77-’78, we lived in a house off the railroad tracks on West

Fifth Street. The plow went down the railroad tracks and threw up snow that totally

blocked the side entrance to our house. It took us two days to tunnel out. Across the

street from our house on Fifth Street there was a bar made out of a snow bank. A

picture of it made national news. We were in that bar when the famous picture was

taken. So that’s my claim to fame.

—BILL PRECHT ’78

I always loved the first big snow (usually before Thanksgiving) and the old campus v.

new campus snowball fight — all out to defend the bridge!! (New campus all the way!)

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In!Singin’ in the SnowOswego’s “Big Snow” of 1958 inspired the late Dr. Maurice O. Boyd, who directed the

Symphonic Choir, to pen a song now famous among alumni. In 1966, it was updated

to reflect that year’s historic blizzard.

Oswego Is Famous For Its SnowWords and Music by Dr. Maurice O. Boyd

Softly and gently and peacefully,White as fleece and silently,It started to snow so beautifullyAnd then it snowed and snowed and snowed AND SNOWED!

Oswego is famous for its snowWe hear it wherever we goOn December 7th in ’fifty eightIt started to snow at a terrific rate,It snowed so much it was hard to appreciate.Oswego is famous for its snowIt snowed and snowed for seven days in a row,The snow plows came and dug us out,Yes there was much to shout about,Oswego is famous for its snow!

Read all the lyrics or download an MP3 of the Symphonic Choir

singing this song in 1967 at http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/magazine

(Special thanks to Mrs. Eleanor “Fergie”Boyd, for sharing the recording.)

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Campus snow-removal staff cleared:

4 miles of roads

25 miles of sidewalks

26 acres of parking lots

January 2004

9 days with temps below zero

105 inches

2nd snowiest January since 1900

7th coldest January since 1844

January 26-30: 113 hours53.7 inches966 classes cancelled

Snow Stats

Two days off! We werejumping into the snowbanks at Onondaga. Weplayed football in it.Snow’s great!Justin Ortega ’07BaldwinsvilleMajor: Art

For three days I couldn’tsee the sun. I stayedindoors and refused to go outside, even whenthe dining hall closed. I’drather starve than freeze!Therisa Samuels ’03New York CityMajor: Graduate student inEnglish and Public Relations

It was movie days — too dangerous to go out on the roads.Kim Schiefer ’07LiverpoolMajor: ElementaryEducation

I spent time online talking to people. I didn’t leave fromWednesday night toMonday morning.Bonita Biyson ’05EndwellMajor: Math and Art

Wednesday night, whenit was all coming down,my housemates and Idecided to get on top ofthe snow mounds anddive for catches in thesnow banks. We madesome fun of it — wewere out for an hour, allbundled up.Lemarr Young ’04Hudson FallsMajor: Broadcasting

On the (Snow-Covered) StreetAt the end of the storm, students reflected on their first brush with Oswego’s legendary snow.

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JUNE 4–6

1939 65th1934 70th

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1944 60th

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1949 55th

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1929 75th

DOROTHY DALEY MIZEN ’18celebrated her 105th birthdayJuly 7 at Pontiac Care andRehabilitation Center in Oswego.She was born July 7, 1898, andreceived her teaching degree at Oswego Normal School. Shetaught in North Rose and inNew Jersey. She marriedEdward Mizen in 1929. After his death in 1945, she returned

to the classroom, this time in the Oswego City School District.Dorothy was very active in civic affairs, having served on OswegoHospital’s board of trustees, and was active in the hospital auxil-iary, Twigs, reports longtime friend Rosemary Skillen. A worldtraveler who visited Spain, Italy and France, Dorothy kept a jour-nal of her travels. She always enjoyed keeping up with the newsand used to be an avid bridge player.

MARY APPLETON BIRD ’29is 95 years of age and ties to Oswego run strong in herfamily. She met her late husband, Howard Bird ’28,at Oswego, where they were“constantly seen together,”writes her son A. David Bird ’62. She was a memberof AGO sorority and Howardwas a brother of Psi Phi.Mary is the mother of twochildren, six grandchildren

and six great-grandchildren. David’s father-in-law, the lateCarlton D. Durfey ’28, was director of vocational education inPoughkeepsie, where Howard Bird taught industrial arts. Davidspent five summers over his career taking graduate courses atOswego. During the 1990s his son, Thomas, spent a year atOswego before finishing his college work at Marist College.David and his wife try to visit Oswego every other year duringHarborfest. He has great memories of Oswego, especially hisfreshman year in Hillcrest in 1958-59, the year of the “BigSnow.” David and Janet have two other children, Howard andCarlton, and enjoy visiting with their grandchildren.

Mary Appleton Bird ’29 and herson A. David Bird ’62 reminisceabout Oswego.

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JUNE 4–6

1954 50th

JUNE 4–6

1964 40th

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’68, ’69, ’70 35th Cluster Reunion

When Albert W. Hawk ’51retired from school boardservice after 31 total years onlocal and BOCES boards, hewas called upon to presentthe first Albert W. HawkAward for DistinguishedSchool Board Service — tohimself.

The Genesee Valley SchoolBoards Association createdthe award to honor Hawk, andthen kept the first recipient’sname secret from him until the Sept. 15 awards ceremony.

Hawk was cited for his 13 years on the Dansville Board of Education, 25 years on Board of Cooperative EducationalServices, and 23 with the Rural Schools Program Board andexecutive committee. In addition, he served four terms on the board of directors of the New York State School BoardsAssociation, representing the 64 school districts in Area 2, andserved two years as president of the NYSSBA board.

On Board, the NYSSBA publication, wrote, “Over the years,Al Hawk’s contributions on a local, regional, statewide andnational level have helped to shape the educational experiencesof countless children.”

Hawk retired in 1990 after 32 years with the New YorkState Office of Mental Retardation — Developmental Disabilities.In addition to his work and volunteering, he is also passionateabout antique toy trains, and is a founding member and presi-dent of the Toy Trains Collectors Society with 700 members inWestern New York. He has a 1937 DeSoto sedan and is a mem-ber and president of the Dansville Area Historical Society. Heand his wife, Janice, have two children and five grandchildren.

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Dr. Colleen Enwright O’Leary ’74, an associateprofessor of anesthesiology at SUNY UpstateMedical University and a past president of theOnondaga County Medical Society, has beennominated for a prestigious national distinctionby Congressman James T. Walsh. Walsh nomi-nated O’Leary for the “Changing the Face ofMedicine: Local Legends” exhibition adminis-tered by the American Medical Women’sAssociation. The nomination letter from Walshreads, in part, “Dr. O’Leary is a friend and some-one I hold in the highest esteem. Throughoutmy tenure in Congress, I have repeatedlyremarked at her tremendous personal qualities

and amazing professional abilities. Simply put, she is a pillar ofour community and a lead contributor to the success our regionhas achieved in providing the very highest quality of healthcare.” O’Leary is part of an exhibit on Local Legends which willbe on display at the National Library of Medicine campus inBethesda, Md. She is featured, along with nominees from allover the country, on the Web site at www.locallegends.org. Baltus Honored by

Women Engineers Dr. Ruth E. Baltus ’77, ClarksonUniversity professor of chemicalengineering, was the recipient ofthe 2003 Society of WomenEngineers Distinguished Engineer-ing Educator Award at SWE’snational conference in October.

Baltus was honored for excel-lence in teaching and dedicationto her students, leadership ofundergraduate students throughthe SWE student section, mentor-ship of strong graduate engineers,and her contributions to mem-brane science and engineeringresearch.

“Women bring a unique sensibility and set of interper-sonal skills and talents to theengineering profession and the importance of these skills is

being increasingly recognized by industry and academia,” saidBaltus. “But girls and young women need to feel there is a placefor them in engineering.”

She earned her doctorate at Carnegie-Mellon University in1982 and joined the Clarkson faculty in 1983. Baltus receivedthe Student Life Award from Clarkson University in 1999 inrecognition of her superior efforts as a faculty advisor. She hasbeen chosen to receive the Oswego Alumni Association’s 2004Lifetime Award of Merit.

Dr. Ruth E. Baltus ’77(center) discusses chemicalengineering thermodynamicswith Clarkson University stu-dents Charlotte Okwudi (left)and Tru Trinh Tran.

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A research trip to Jamaica as part of an undergraduate geologycourse over a quarter century ago set Bill Precht ’78 on the path to his professional career. This fall viewers around the world will see him back at the very same research site,Discovery Bay in Jamaica, sharing his expertise as a coral reefexpert on a National Geographic special. “The Living Machine”will be aired on the Public Broadcasting System. Precht’s seg-ment on coral reefs will be a 10-minute feature in a show devot-ed to the removal of top predators from the ecosystem, one ofthree programs in the series.

Precht is an ecological science program manager at PBS & J,a company devoted to engineering, planning and science inMiami, Fla. After Oswego, Bill earned a master’s degree in earthand environmental sciences at Adelphi and a doctorate at theUniversity of Miami. In addition to his work at PBS & J, he holdsan adjunct faculty position at Northeastern University, where heconducts a winter program at Discovery Bay’s marine lab. Lately,

he jokes, some of the stu-dents weren’t even bornwhen he and his Oswegoclassmates went on the tripin 1978!

He also holds a visitingscientist position with theSmithsonian and travels toBelize regularly to doresearch.

With his life come fullcircle from that Oswegogeology course, he oftenthinks of the impact the triphad on him. “Without the

marine science program at Oswego and our trip to Jamaica in 1978, none of this would have been possible,” says Precht.“Also without the interest and guidance provided by Dr. David J.Thomas of earth sciences, it’s hard to know what professionalpath I would have chosen. The only thing about which I am certain, I owe Dave Thomas a lot! I only hope that I can pass on similar integrity, values, enthusiasm and scholarship to mystudents and employees.”

Oswego students and faculty on the 1978 trip to Discovery Bay, Jamaica,included (not all are identified) in the back row, Teri Moresco ’78, BrucePierce ’78, Bill Precht ’78, Earth Sciences Professor Dr. AnthonyDelPrete, Biology Teaching Assistant Bill Baxter ’77, Jim Denier ’78,Steve Strategis, Earth Sciences Professor Dr. David Thomas, MikeParker ’78 and Matt Hoag ’78; in the middle row: Jim Cooper ’78,Barbara Maswick Grimes ’79, Marisa Comple ’78 and DawnHolsapple ’79; and sitting in the front row, Robin Wylie Weaver ’79and Biology Professor Dr. Tony Nappi (at far right).

Oswego Trip Leads to Lifelong Career

Bill Precht ’78 (right)

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IN THE GOSIER FAMILY, LOVE FOR OSWEGO TRANSCENDS

generations. The family reunited on campus last fall for the grand

opening of the Penfield Library café, to which Les Gosier ’37donated $75,000 in memory of his late wife, Carolyn Heath Gosier,

as part of his $100,000 pledge. Seated are Les Gosier ’37,

and Meg Gosier Hauptfleisch ’78, his daughter; and standing,

from left, are Jim Hauptfleisch ’77, Colleen Beylo and Greg

Hauptfleisch, Jim and Meg’s son. Meg has spent her entire career

in the classroom, except for time off when Greg was young.

Currently, she has been a first-grade teacher at Chenango Forks

School District for the past eight years. At Oswego, Jim was a

Scholastic All-American, lettering in track and wrestling, in which

he was a two-time state champ at heavyweight and in his senior

year placed sixth in the nationals. A technology education teacher

throughout his career, he has been Region 43 Teacher of the Year.

For the past 23 years he has had a Technology Student

Association at his schools, and often brings his students to the

fall technology department conference at Oswego, as well as to

regional and national competitions, where they have placed well.

He has held leadership posts at the regional and statewide level in

the TSA. A teacher at Maine-Endwell High School, he is making

his 1941 Chrysler into a street rod.

Larry Rubinstein ’81 (left), technical director and senior editor atMagno Sound and Video in New York City, returned to campus toshare his expertise with students at Oswego’s student-run televisionstation, WTOP, this fall, sponsored by the Oswego Alumni Association’sAlumni-in-Residence Program. Here he looks over some of the studioequipment with Matt Romano ’05, a broadcasting major, and WTOPgeneral manager; and Philip Rankin ’05, a journalism major and chiefnews producer.

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Alumni BookshelfThis column celebrates the

publishing success of Oswego

alumni authors, illustrators and

recording artists. Please keep us

informed about new books and

CDs by requesting that your

publisher or distributor send a

copy for the Oswego Alumni

Bookshelf at King Alumni Hall.

Virtual Life by David Hitchcock ’79 is the

story of John Clayton, a teenager in rural New

York who stumbles across a virtual reality hel-

met that is part of a classified virtual reality sim-

ulator lost in a traffic accident. John uses the

helmet to run combat situations, and to sit at the

feet of history’s greatest thinkers. John’s expand-

ing intellect puts him in direct conflict with his

parents, church and community. “Virtual Lifeportrays the best and worst of humanity as all

the passions and longings; love and hate, courage

and fear, ambition and apathy, erupt while John

struggles to understand what he’s learned,”

writes Hitchcock. David has degrees in physics

and engineering and has worked as a computer

consultant on the MX missile, the Milstar satel-

lite program, and advanced

capability torpedoes. He

currently resides with his

family in Twinsburg, Ohio.

iUniverse, 2003.

A Taste for Blood, is a

vampire epic by Diana Lee’83. Ryan was born when

Vikings raided the British

coast and the highland clans

of Scotland feuded with blood-

lust and vigor. Killed and

reborn as a vampire at 16, she

is now over 800 years old. Over

the centuries, Ryan has ravaged

the lives of many helpless victims. Now as

Lord Wolf — for few mortals know she is a

woman — Ryan has risen to a position of

power and influence in Victorian-era

Scotland. “A rich and intricate tapestry of

characters. Lee takes you on a night ride

through an eerie forest of dark desires,

charging headlong toward the cliffs of

immortal rage and eternal desire,” writes

Roselle Graskey, author of OctoberEchoes. Alice Street Editions, Harrington

Park Press, 2003.

Sanford Sternlicht ’53 has published the

Student Companion to Elie Wiesel, part of the

Student Companions to Classic Writers series.

The book offers a critical analysis of all of Wiesel’s

major writings, with full chapters on Night, Dawnand The Oath as well as commentary on his other

works, including his five most recent novels. Plot,

character development, thematic concerns and

style are discussed, as are the historical context

and alternate critical perspectives. The Student

Companion to Elie Wieselincludes a biographical sec-

tion and a chapter on his

nonfiction writings.

Sternlicht is the author

or editor of over 30

books. At Oswego he

was professor of

English, director of

graduate studies in

English and chair of

the theatre depart-

ment, until his retire-

ment in 1986. He

now teaches at

Syracuse University.

Greenwood Press, 2003.

Al Roker’s Hassle Free Holiday Cookbook:125 recipes for Family Celebrations All YearLong, by well-known weatherman and foodie

Al Roker ’76 came out just in time for the 2003

holiday season. Featuring recipes like hot crab

dip, blueberry coffee cake and Buffalo wings, the

book includes tips on stocking a pantry and mak-

ing holiday food preparations run smoothly. In a

Dec. 16 Woman’s Day article promoting the new

volume, Roker once again hearkened back to his

college days. “I went to school at the State

University of New York at Oswego, just up the

road from Buffalo,” he is quoted as saying. “For

the longest time I thought Buffalo was named

after the wings. My college roommate took me

home to North Tonawanda, New York, and it was

there that I had my first taste of Buffalo wings.

Nirvana!” Scribner, 2003.

In Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution,

Marcia Robinson ’86 and Dr. Ravi Kalakota,

authors of the best-selling e-Business: Roadmapfor Success, aim to present “a balanced perspec-

tive of what managers need to know to make

effective technology decisions.” The book covers

topics like the need for digitization, examples of

services blueprints and case studies of AT & T

and IBM. The authors note: “We are writing both

to challenge the dominant orthodoxy of current

piecemeal strategies and to address three critical

issues: How to plan in an economy where differ-

entiation is achieved not through products but

through technology-enabled services; how to

translate business imperatives into better tech-

nology execution; how to organize the changes

Web Services have wrought on the business

landscape.” Addison-Wesley, 2003.

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Donald D. Cox, professor emeritus, is the author of ANaturalist’s Guide to Forest Plants and A Naturalist’sGuide to Seashore Plants. The books include a wide range

of information about the forest and seashore plants of

Eastern North America, including the origins, methods of

naming, and climate factors. Throughout the guides, Cox pro-

vides complete and accurate details for readers interested in

collecting plants and preserving plant collections. Also

included in the series is A Naturalist’s Guide to WetlandPlants, which was released in 2002 (see Oswego Fall/Winter

2002). Syracuse University Press, 2003.

In Backstory: Inside theBusiness of News, KenAuletta ’63, turns a critical

eye on the state of journal-

ism and the media today.

This compilation of his

“Annals of Communication”

columns for The NewYorker shows a troubled

industry, one that often

doesn’t live up to its ideal

as a public service. With

the keen eye of a prac-

ticed observer and the

skill of a master story-

teller, Auletta gives the reader a glimpse into the trou-

bled New York Times newsroom under Howell Raines, and

the rise of new media stars like Roger Ailes and Fox News.

He explores the conflicts between profit-driven media giants

and their own news divisions, New York City’s tabloid wars,

“gotcha” journalism and right-wing commentators spouting

the words “fair and balanced” about their partisan diatribes.

Auletta is the author of eight previous books, including four

national bestsellers. In a review of Backstory, BusinessWeek wrote, “Ken Auletta is the James Bond of the media

world, a man who combines the probing mind and easy

charm of a top intelligence agent with the glamour that

befits the holder of a high-profile job.” The Penguin Press,

2003. (See page 48 for an except from Backstory.)

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Shaw’s Career Takes OffWilliam C. Shaw III ’89 has been involved inorganizing the logistics for the rebuilding ofIraq. As executive vice president of World ClassShipping, his family’s business, he organized oneof the first humanitarian flights to reachBaghdad airport. Shaw’s company flew in mate-rials to build a new intensive care unit at themain hospital in Iraq, for Franklin Graham, sonof the famous evangelist Billy Graham, and hisSamaritan’s Purse organization. He also didwork in Iran for the earthquake and flew ship-ments to Afghanistan for the Central Intelli-gence Agency and Department of Defense. Hehas organized efforts in Kosovo, Angola andevery major problem area of the world.

World Class Shipping’s main business is providing international logistics solutions forcorporations looking to import, export and customs clear their products from around theworld. Over the years the company has evolved to specialize in dealing with troubled regions of the world and handling valuable, difficult and hard-to-handle shipments.

It’s a global enterprise and Shaw deals with agents all overthe world. A typical day sees him on the phone to 10 or 12countries and e-mailing to 10 times that. In Bangkok he meetsonce a year with all his global agents — 500 in one place fromall different countries.

While the work is “stressful — everybody wants everythingyesterday,” Shaw adds, “If you are educated and can think onyour feet you can do well.” He credits Oswego with some of hissuccess, especially in teaching him “social skills and adapting tocold weather conditions.”

JUNE 4–6

’88, ’89, ’90 15th Cluster Reunion

William C. Shaw III ’89 flew to Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Alumna’s Work is Picture Perfect“Chimpanzee Stripping a Vine” by Kristin J. Mosher ’89 hasbeen highly commended in the Animal Behavior: Mammals category of the 2003 Wildlife Photographer of the YearCompetition, organized by London’s Natural History Museumand BBC Wildlife Magazine. Mosher’s image was among morethan 20,500 entries, from over 60 countries, in the world’sbiggest and most prestigious wildlife photographic competition.

“I had been following the chimpanzees, Freud and Gimble,since dawn, in Gombe National Park, Tanzania,” said Mosher.“The two males spent their morning grooming and eating inMkenke, one of Gombe’s main river valleys, then disappearedinto a thicket of leafy vines. When Gimble reappeared, he was‘vine-stripping’: selecting sections of a vine and using his teethto strip off and eat the cambium and pith.”

“Chimpanzee Stripping a Vine” is on display with other win-ning images in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibitionat the London Natural History Museum’s Jerwood Gallery untilApril 18. The photo and 2004 competition information can befound at www.nhm.ac.uk/wildphoto/

Mosher has been working since 1997 as a photographer inTanzania, where she takes photos for renowned primate author-ity Jane Goodall. Oswego featured her African landscape as thecover of our spring 2001 issue.

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Democrats seeking to win in 2004have to think of a strategy that doesnot necessarily rely on victory in theSouth, Thomas F. Schaller ’89 wrotein a think piece for The WashingtonPost Nov. 16. In “A Route for 2004That Doesn’t Go Through Dixie,” theassistant professor of political scienceat the University of Maryland,Baltimore County, analyzed recentraces and how they might impact the

upcoming election. “A non-Southern strategy isn’t the only pathback to the Oval Office,” he wrote. “But it may be the shortest.”He was featured on CNN Saturday, Jan. 31. Schaller was thekeynote speaker at the 2003 Communication Studies AlumniDinner in November, co-sponsored by the Oswego AlumniAssociation. He will receive the Oswego Alumni Association’s2004 Anniversary Class Award.

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They shared a house together at Oswego and in July they shared the Waldron family camp on Panther Lake in Constantia. Gettingtogether were 1992 alumnae, from left, Bethann Talty, Katie Collins Krawcyk, Lynda Aylward Gerst, Jeanie FinocchiaroKinahan, Jennifer Waldron Whitley and Laura Ciccone Smith. Also present was Mike Kinahan ’93. “We really missed Donna FarryMorse, Joe Manna and Amy Placzkowski Manna (all ’92!),” theywrote. A yearly reunion for the ex-housemates has been planned.

Honoring the Athletes Five alumni athletes and a former coach were inducted into theOswego State Athletic Hall of Fame in October. They are, front rowfrom left, Francis Verdoliva ’74, honored for his achievements in crosscountry and track and field; Fernando Suarez ’74, honored for hisachievements in cross country and track and field; and Linda DeRykeEakin ’86, honored for her achievements in basketball and softball;and back row from left, Dr. John Glinski, former athletic director andcoach of basketball, baseball and tennis; Armond Magnarelli ’50, a starin basketball, baseball and soccer; and Peter Low ’63, a basketball, base-ball and soccer standout. Also honored but unable to attend the dinnerwas David Lair, recognized for his achievements in ice hockey. Friends ofVerdoliva made donations in Fran’s honor to help current students.

If you would like to nominate an alumni athlete or former coach (living or deceased) for future consideration to the Hall of Fame,please call the Alumni Office at 315-312-2258 for a nomination formor submit online at http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/halloffame. This year’s dinner and induction ceremony will be Oct. 9.

In recent months, my personal

life has come “full circle” in

many ways in relation to my

“Oswego Family.” Many people

are surprised that I did not

graduate from Oswego, but

rather from another college

(though I did earn my teaching

certification from Oswego in

1984). Through my husband,

Jerome ’77, however, I feel as

if I have many of those same

Oswego connections and feelings

of family that so many of our

alumni do, since we dated

throughout his years at Oswego.

That feeling of Oswego family is an intangible that so many of us talk

about and, more importantly, feel. It is about our bonds and our memo-

ries — my personal opinion is that surviving the weather (snow, wind

and more!) somehow binds us all together in some inexplicable way!

My Oswego Family Circle widened this summer to include my

parents, Jean and Bill Locke. When my father became ill in early summer,

we made a decision to move my parents, lifelong residents of Rochester,

to Springside at Seneca Hill, a senior retirement community near my

home in Oswego. And thus began the widening of the Oswego circle for

me and my parents — who knew no one in Oswego other than me! The

staff and fellow residents at Springside embraced my parents into their

Springside Family — which is in many ways an extended Oswego family!

And so, the circle widens…

Teresa Ferlito ’76 manages the retirement community. Many

alumni and faculty emeriti and their spouses reside there, including

Eleanor “Fergie” Boyd, wife of the late Dr. Maurice O. Boyd, beloved

music professor who wrote “Oswego is Famous for Its Snow.” Dr. Ralph

Spencer, who served in many positions including professor, dean, provost

and interim president, and his wife Marian; Dr. Sherwood Dunham, who

served as principal of the Campus School, vice president, interim president

and professor, among other positions; Dr. Harold “Hop” Powers, retired

zoology professor, and his wife, Georgiana; Dr. Harold Nash, retired educa-

tion professor, and his wife, Lorraine; and Charles “Bud” Coward ’49,

emeritus industrial arts professor, campus construction planning coordi-

nator and assistant to the president, and his late wife, Ann; are just a

few of the many residents who have been added to my and my parents’

Oswego Family Circle.

It seems so true that our lives come full circle as we travel through

life. The most important part, I think, is to make the most of the journey.

A favorite saying of a dear friend, Tom Jacobsen ’77, who died suddenly

a few years ago, was “Happiness is a journey, not a destination.”

From the executive director

OswegoMatters

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Love Rings TrueAn alumni couple’s love storyinspired the readers of News-day last October. Bill ’96 andLara Jacobs McKenna ’95met at Oswego, where, Laratold Newsday, it was “love atfirst sight.” When Bill pro-posed in 1999, he gave Larathe traditional ring, a perfect-ly round diamond in anantique setting with heartsfastening the stone to thering. Fast forward to Jan. 2,

2001. Six weeks before the Feb. 10 wedding, Lara lost the ring.She had cut her finger in the morning making lunch and put thering on her pinky, since her ring finger was bandaged. After herworkday she headed to a crowded, post-holiday Penn Stationto take the train home. She waited in a long ticket line andwalked around much of the station, then boarded the train,only to notice her ring was gone. Panicked, she called Bill, whoworked at 11 Penn Plaza, across from Madison Square Garden.He told her he would find the ring and not to worry, then head-ed to the station. After looking in all the places Lara describedand then some, he checked at the police station. “Good luck,”the cop on duty told him. Then he checked the lost and founddesk, waiting for clerk Selina Pride to return from her break.When Bill described the ring, she reached into a Ziploc bagfilled with assorted jewelry. “I just found this old ring on myway to … my break,” she told him. She hadn’t even had time tolog it in. He headed home where he told a worried Lara,Newsday reported, “There’s only one person in the world luckierthan me, and that’s you.”

Their love still rings true, as Lara (sister of Laker lacrossecaptain Adam Jacobs ’04) and Bill recently celebrated theirthird wedding anniversary, along with their son, Liam, born inJanuary 2003.

N E W S M A K E R

Bill ’96 and Lara JacobsMcKenna ’95

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IN NOVEMBER OF 2002, A FORMER OSWEGOState student, who goes by the pseudonym HeruPtah ’01, finished his first novel, A Hip-Hop Story.But instead of taking it to the publishers, he took tothe streets, peddling his work on New York Citysubways and at readings.

Ptah, along with fellow alumnus and businesspartner, Steve McAlpine ’97, who goes by thename Tehut-Nine, sold over 10,000 copies of thebook before landing a publishingdeal with MTV Pocket Books inFebruary 2003.

“We were selling books topeople that probably hardly everwent to bookstores,” Tehut-Ninesaid. “I think they were intriguedby two young people doing whatseemed like an impossible thing.We got a lot of support from people.”

Since its debut, A Hip-HopStory has enjoyed great success,and is hailed by USA Today “as the beginningof a new subgenre of the urban or street novel: thehip-hop novel.” According to The New York Timesthe book, which tells the story of two feuding rap-pers, Hannibal and Flawless, combines a hefty doseof love, sex, ambition and corruption, with all thetrappings of the hip-hop lifestyle.

But Ptah said he hadn’t always planned onbeing a writer. Although the Jamaican-born authorsaid he has been a fan of Shakespeare since child-hood, when he attended Oswego State he studiedhistory and Spanish. It was there, Ptah said, that hebecame interested in poetry.

“I was inspired by the different talent shows andso on that would take place on campus,” he said.

“My love for writing and words in generalwould lead me into writing prose.”

Ptah said he also found support for hiswriting from faculty and staff. So much infact, that he fashioned one of the charac-ters in A Hip-Hop Story after friend andadviser, Roosevelt Muhammad, assistantdean of students.

“I wrote him in the book: name, body and man-nerisms,” Ptah said. “Muhammad was for me, as he was and is for a lot of students, a mentor, and I will always love and admire him for his years ofcounsel.”

Ptah and Tehut-Nine are currently the CEOs of their self-formed publishing company, SunRaSonProductions, which has published 10 books by various poets and authors.

Ptah is also the author of a book of poetry,Love, God and Revolution, which first appeared in2000. Tehut-Nine has written several poetry booksincluding The Fire in Me and Mental Eye-roglyphics.

— Shannon Mahar ’04

A Hip-Hop Success Story

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Elliot T. Boyce ’94 is an investigator with the NewYork State Police in Pulaski. He earned a master’s incriminal justice from SUNY Albany and master’s in pub-lic administration from Marist College. Contact him atet1329@aol.com.

Q. Tell us a bit about your current job.

A. My major function is to assist troopers with felonylevel criminal investigations — from child abuse, homi-cides and robbery investigations, to things like creditcard fraud and identify fraud. A lot of my functions areadministrative in the sense of preparing cases for crimi-nal prosecution in the district attorney’s office.

Q. How did you get where you are today?

A. I was recruited by the New York State Police when Iwas at Onondaga Community College.

After I had taken the test and passed it, I had alreadyentered Oswego. In 1987, I withdrew from school andwent to the State Police Academy. From there I was stationed in Oneida, troop headquarters, then transferredto the Syracuse area where I worked and returned to col-lege, and completed my bachelor’s degree at Oswego.

Q. What’s the most satisfying part of your job?

A. The most satisfying is being able to help someone.It’s not the big crime — a lot of times those affect thebig businessmen. It’s when you get the old lady or oldgentlemen who’ve had their lawnmower stolen or housebroken into. We do a lot more community-orientedwork: explaining to people their rights and how toreport a crime. It’s not the glamour people see on TV —running down the bad guys and throwing them in jail. A lot is community service and sharing information.

Q. What’s the toughest part of your job?

A. It is by far notifications, where you have to tell aloved one that a spouse, or especially a child, is nolonger with them. That is probably the toughest part of the job. It’s not often, but it’s always a challenge.

Q. A typical day?

A. In law enforcement no day is the same. No crime isthe same. It’s always evolving and we, as police officers,have to get better as crimes change.

Q. Sounds like you love your job.

A. It’s the best job ever! It’s a great experience andgreat opportunity financially, benefits, opportunities toexpand. I have two master’s degrees and a lot of thefinancial burden has been paid by the State Police.

Q. Any special influences at Oswego?

A. Three come to mind: Dr. Bernard Boozer. His style of teaching in some cases goes against the grain of tradi-tional teaching. For me to be able to discuss freely thingsthat were going on in the world was beneficial — and I was a police officer, so everyone benefited. That’s why I come back every semester to teach in his class. Dr. (Celia) Sgroi ’70, who was head of Public Justice.

She was always very positive, always opened doors to theState Police for recruitment, to give students in publicjustice a fair chance to not only get an education, but alsoto get a good job when they’ve completed their educa-tion. Also Roosevelt Muhammad. He continues to makesure that if there is an issue in the community he willreach out for help and say, “I need a class taught. Canyou teach about this issue or recommend someone?”

Q. Have a message for your fellow alumni?

A. It’s very important for alumni — from whateverwalks of life — to come back and help out in whateverway you can. Alumni should be giving back: If notmoney, time; if not money or time at least information,even if it’s in the form of a letter.

Q. And your advice for students?

A. Volunteering, volunteering, volunteering. It’s becominga major requirement on job applications. What have youdone besides sit in a classroom? Who have you benefitedbesides yourself?

Q. So giving back is important to you?

A. I am affiliated with a variety of national organizations:National Organization of Black Law EnforcementExecutives, Guardian Association of NYS Troopers,National Black State Troopers Coalition and the NationalAssociation of Black Law Enforcement Officers . . . Theseorganizations are dedicated to education, recruitment,scholarships. We have the Elliott T. Boyce Superior WorkEthic Scholarship given by NOBLE CNY Chapter. We give$1,000 each year to a high school senior who demon-strates a commitment to bettering their communitythrough hard work and diligence. Members in the organi-zation are police chiefs, lieutenants and colonels. As aninvestigator it was an honor for them to highlight me inthis particular way.

Q. Why is involvement so important to you?

A. My main goal is to see that Elliot T. Boyce Jr. makesit to the next level in life. I am a single parent. For me,being able to raise my child was important. As role models,men should always contribute to the lives of our children,and not our children only, but our children’s friends.

I try to stay active in the community, in theAfrican-American and Latino communities. I taughtSunday school for five years at the Abundant LifeChristian Center. I do a lot of volunteer work in commu-nities I visit around the country. As national vice president of the National Association of Black LawEnforcement Officers, I do a lot of training for minorityofficers to keep them informed and involved. I am aproduct of an urban environment; I grew up in the project setting in Brooklyn. I experienced bussing,where they bussed black students to white schools. Oneof the things I learned from a stable single-parent homeis: You don’t have to treat people the way they treatyou. You have to be better and treat them the way youwant to be treated.

Elliot T. Boyce ’94

Elliot T. Boyce Values Involvement

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She’s One in a MillionMillions of New Yorkers watch Michelle Fortino ’97 with batedbreath. They’re hoping the New York Lottery Draw Team mem-ber will call out the numbers that will transform them intoinstant millionaires. The former Funnelle Hall resident assistanthas been a member of the draw team for three years, hostinglive lottery drawings on a rotating schedule with three othermembers, including Yolanda Vega , who is “every bit as wonder-ful as she seems,” says Michelle. “She’s a fantastic woman and avery good friend.”

Michelle applied for the job after hearing on the radio thatthere would be a statewide talent search. The former radio pro-ducer went up against 500 to 600 people, auditioning in a sim-ulated lottery draw. Of that huge pool, only three people werechosen, with Michelle representing the Central New Yorkregion.

Even though each draw takes only a few minutes, it’s a fulleight-hour day, as the crew runs through pre- and post-testsand examines everything to be sure there is no tampering ormalfunction with the machines for the three daily shows. Herfavorite part of the job is participating in the many promotions,including one where a lucky New Yorker sank a basket fromhalf court at Madison Square Garden to win a million dollars.

Michelle travels throughout the state, doing promotions andvisiting stores that sell lottery tickets. That means time awayfrom her new husband, Keith Calveric ’91, who owns KCNYDesign in Syracuse. The couple was wed in November. But thelottery is “home away from home” and she has many friends inthe organization.

If Michelle’s picked a millionaire, she’s never met the per-son, but she has plenty of fans who approach her — one evenplayed her license plate number.

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Neil Schreiner ’02 has a job many wouldenvy — he is the gaming manager at GameOn! in Boston’s Financial District, one of anew breed of gaming centers springing uparound the country. Patrons gather to playgames like “Counterstrike” or “Call of Duty”with each other over the LAN (local areanetwork). Seated at cutting-edge AlienwareArea-51 PCs in their state-of-the-art Aeronchairs, players can compete with each otherin the same room or with opponents world-wide over the Internet. “It’s like going to seea movie,” Schreiner told the Boston Herald.“You could do it by yourself, but it’s more fun

to do it with other people. You call your bud-dies together and come down.” The information science major,who found his job through monster.com, updates the games,brings in new titles, and organizes tournaments for Game On!patrons. As a student, Neil made several dedicated servers forpeople on campus to play each other and other people or clanson the Internet. Asked whether he avoided homework to playgames with his Hart Hall friends and coworkers from the net-working department, Neil replied: “Who doesn’t?”

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Bakers Doesn’t Two unrelated Bakers shared more than a name in the lastissue of Oswego — information about the women got blendedinto two mixed-up Class Notes. Here are the correct versions:

Nancy Baker Kellar ’63 received her master’s degree fromSyracuse University in special education. She is now a retiredteacher from Baldwinsville schools and lives with her husband,Roderick, in Baldwinsville.

Cammie Baker Clancy ’83 received her master’s degree in edu-cational administration and policy studies from the University ofAlbany. She is the assistant director of graduate studies at EmpireState College. She lives in Saratoga Springs with her husband,Shaughn. Cammie is active in SUNYCAP (State University of NewYork College Admissions Professionals)and Saratoga PreservationFoundation, and she owns an online store specializing inChristmas and holiday collectibles (holidayshopsaratoga.com).

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Jessica Pristupa Hillery ’95 and Darryl Hillery ’94 weremarried April 26, 2003. They had an intimate gathering offamily and friends in Key West to celebrate their nuptials.Pictured from left are; the bridegroom, the bride, DaniellePristupa ’98 (maid of honor) and Johnny Garcia ’94 (bestman).

Sheri Kerness Krugman ’98 (DphiE) and Matt Krugman ’98 (DeltaSig) were married Oct. 19, 2002. Oswego alumni in attendance were, top row from left, Jason Martin ’98 (Zeta),Jim Parise ’00, Mark Silverio ’00, Todd Parks ’00, Pete Calabro ’02, Jeff Mischler ’00, FrankieFernandez, Nick Renaud ’00, Mike Doody ’97, and Matt Bartley ’98 all members of theDeltaSig fraternity. Bottom row from left, Allison Eades Sutton ’98, Karen Israel ’99, DianePray Nolan ’98, and Maeghan O’Keefe ’99 all sisters of DphiE sorority, Dana Segall ’99, Karmin Valerio ’03 and Rachel Stewart ’00; and front, Capt. Richard McGahhey USMC ’96 (DeltaSig).

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Kris Graham ’99 and Jill Hutchins ’00 were married Aug.23, 2003, in Liverpool. Oswego alumni present at the weddingwere, from left, Rachel Roman ’00, Kristin Bannon ’01,Jeremy Mikels ’02, the bride, bridegroom, Jaime Nagy ’00,Chris Leece ’01, Kirsten Bauroth ’00 and Cory Fitzgerald ’01.

Elia Canalda Imler ’94 andJohn Imler were married July 12, 2003. Bridesmaidsincluded Bonnie McCarthyHogan ’94 and Ivy Diorio ’94,Sharlene Mitrione Cito ’95,Jacki LaFache ’96 and Gail E. McCarthy ’68 (sincedeceased). Elia completed hermaster’s degree in communi-cations from Ithaca College in 2002. She invites her HartHall friends to email her at eliaimler@yahoo.com.

Lauren Elbaum Duran ’95 (Phi Sig) and Julian Duran, Jr. ’96(TKE) were married Sept. 21, 2003, at the Whitby Castle in Rye.Oswego alumni attending the wedding included, back row fromleft, Ronald Dinger ’96, Thomas J. Reilly ’95, middle row fromleft, Neeraj Sharma, Robert Collado, Richard Rivera, and CesarMurillo ’94 all brothers of TKE, the bride, bridegroom, TinaSkurpski Krupa ’95, Deborah Ptalis ’95, Christine Amodeo ’95(Phi Sig), Jodi Kessler Jeran ’94 (Phi Sig). Missing from picture,but in attendance, was Christopher Cunneen (TKE). The couplehoneymooned for two weeks in Hawaii. They currently reside inthe Upper West Side of New York City. Lauren is a communica-tions associate for the National Center on Addiction andSubstance Abuse at Columbia University and Julian is a winesand spirits consultant for Peerless Importers, a major distribu-tor in New York City.

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Christine Storie Winston ’03and Richard Winston weremarried Aug. 23, 2003, inCanton. Oswego alumni inattendance were KimberlyAlarcon ’03, Deb Robertson’00, Ellen Diament ’02, JenProulx and Ken Proulx ’01.The couple honeymooned inthe Poconos. They currentlylive in Canton.

Jaime Palzer Antifonario ’99 and Carl Antifonario ’00were married July 18, 2003, in West Orange, N.J. Oswegoalumni in attendance, top row from left, were KathleenMcKenna ’98, Becky Love Picarillo ’98, Dara Bartick Solan ’95,M ’97, Katie Hilton Halecki ’95, second row from left, LaraSchukman, Kate Stout ’98, Kelly Kinirons ’98, the bride, bridegroom, Caroline Hemstreet Cascella ’97, Gina GometzJuneau ’96, Matt Juneau ’96, Brian Defeo ’98, JP Prevost ’99,third row from left, Marc Scher ’98, Bob Picarillo ’97, JeffSolan ’95, Scott Halecki ’97, Anthony Cascella ’97, MarkDiCintio ’97, Mark Mackisoc ’99. The couple currently lives inFort Lee, N.J. Jaime is a third-grade teacher in Fort Lee andCarl works for a stockbroker in New York City.

Thomas Woodruff ’88 and Julie Loomis Woodruff were married Aug. 2, 2003. Oswego alumniin attendance included, front row from left, Christopher Stephens ’87, Judi Woodruff Stephens’89, the bridegroom, the bride, Kimberly Ungleich Rice ’01, M ’02, Faith Rogers Berretta ’90,Susan Monz Pompo ’90. Middle row from left, Gretchen Stoltz Fronk ’99, Maura Caughey ’76,Geri Klingler Bosco ’80, Lisa Vinciguerra ’00, Dr. Jodi Weinstein Mullen ’92, M ’94, MarkBerretta ’88 and Anthony Pompo ’89. Back row from left, Kirk Coates ’94, M ’03, Sean Walsh ’95, Shawn Yandon, Michael Mullen ’94, and Mark McClave ’91.

Debra Vuoso Pasho ’98 (Alpha Delta Eta) and Patrick Pasho Jr. ’99 (Psi Phi Gamma) were married April 26, 2003, in LongIsland. Best men included Michael Wing ’99 and Gregory Kipp ’00. Grooms men in attendance were Michael Woodworth ’94,Andrew Ayres, Erik Hansen ’00, Andrew Marcik ’98, and Tom Squires ’90, all brothers of the Psi Phi Gamma fraternity.Bridesmaids included Liesel Kipp ’97 (Alpha Sigma Chi), Nicole Kooney ’99 (Alpha Delta Eta), Stephanie Crudo ’01 (Alpha Delta Eta), Dena Hansen (Alpha Delta Eta), and Colleen Casey ’97 (Phi Lamda Phi). Debra teaches for Syracuse City Schools and Patrick works for LaMarsh Associates as a claims adjuster.

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Michelle Neish Brown ’99 and Sean Brown ’00 were married July 19, 2003, in Syracuse.Oswego graduates at the wedding included, top row from left, Tyler Naselli ’99, Ted Hartman,Vinny Pietrafesa ’00, JP Prevost ’99, Josh Zweben ’00, Jahid Mirza ’00, My Amthap; front rowfrom left, Robyn Hindmarch-Carlson ’98, Jen McCullough ’99, Brittany Moth ’01, the bride,bridegroom, Mary-Kay Bateman ’99, Ryan Ewanow ’99 and Mindy Constance ’01. The coupleresides in Syracuse.

Mandy Morrell Dedrick ’98, M ’02 and Robert Dedrick weremarried Aug. 2, 2003. Oswego alumni in attendance included,top row from left, Wendy Mitchell-Titus, Meredith Ambrose M’02, Mara Bryden M ’02, Jack Hassall ’99, Erin Cooper-Hassall’99, Davina Young M ’02, Tedra Gaun-Gerstner ’95, bottom rowfrom left, Joanne Tomi ’00, the bride, bridegroom and DeborahMorrell-Kirkendall ’99 M ’01.

Kirsten Riley Pantalena ’95 and Peter Pantalena were married Sept. 2, 2001, in StatenIsland. Oswego alumni in attendance at the wedding were, left to right, Brian VanZandt ’97,Julie Hidalgo ’97, Eric Ellison ’95, Kimberly Heimiller ’95, the bride, bridegroom, Lianne Nestler ’95, Jill Tobin ’96, Penelope Koch ’95, Sergio Sardera ’96, Keith Vanlderstine ’03 and Paul Pennock ’95. The couple resides in Cranford, N.J.

Jeanna Walters Hilton ’00 and Kevin Hilton ’99 were married Aug. 16, 2003. Oswego alumni attending the wedding included, front

row from left, Desiree Lobianco ’00, Thomas Trinchitella ’01, Jennifer Andolina ’00, bridegroom, second row from left,

Brian Sheehan, Andrea Walters ’01 (maid of honor), Leslie Marie Ruiz,Laurie Barnet Radman, the bride, Christine Coriale ’01,

Paul Van Luven, Sabrina Rossi ’98, Terence Watkins ’98, Devon Eisenberg ’01, Monica Ruiz ’00, Andrew Berlin ’98, Jennifer

McCullough ’99, Alyson Levine ’00, Jill Priano ’00, Melissa Mettler ’99, Jill Britton ’97, Edward Classen ’99,

third row from left, Timothy Norton and Justin Hawkins ’97.

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Sarah Stark Vakkas ’99 and Thomas Vakkas ’98 weremarried July 4, 2003, in Island Park. Oswego alumni in atten-dance included, back row from left, Scott Dawson ’02, ReggieHouston, Mia Houston ’02, the bride, bridegroom, PatrickLadd ’98, Larry Rowe ’98, Jason Brennan ’98, bottom rowfrom left, Amanda Dawson, Pamela Nolasco ’99, Ian Kelly ’98,Zoraida Aguirre ’99 and Andrew Swayne ’96. Tom and Sarahcurrently live in Ithaca. Tom is a fourth-grade teacher andSarah works as a guidance counselor.

Caroline Hemstreet Cascella ’97 and Anthony Cascella ’97 were married Aug. 2, 2003, inChester. Oswego alumni in attendance from left to right were, Brooke Ricci ’97, Liz Thornton-Heffner ’96, Sarah O’Neil-Sirgany ’97, Scott Halecki ’97, Mike Cascella, Renee Fanning ’96,Melissa Cooper-Pollina ’97, Jeff Solan ’95, Dara Bartick-Solan ’97, the bridegroom, the bride,Jaime Palzer-Antifonario ’99, Katie Hilton-Halecki ’95, Pete Migneault ’95, Mark Mackisoc ’99,Carl Antifonario ’00, Frank Smith, and Mark DiCintio ’97. The couple currently resides inManalapan, N.J.

Kari Walsh Reed ’93 and David Reed were married Jan. 17,2003. Oswego alumni present were, standing left to right, JohnCarpinello ’91, Gary Nestler ’93, Yaa Adjei, the bride, KellyNestler ’93 and Erin Carter Procopio ’93; and, front, BradAnderson. The couple resides in Cohoes.

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Eileen Schaffer Pierson ’27 ofOswego died Oct. 21. She taught atOak Hill School in Oswego and in the Endicott School District. She issurvived by a son, two grandsons,a great-grandson and her sister,Cathleen Schaffer ’40.

Olympia Mariani Bartholo-mew ’32 of Rome died Nov. 10. She was a substitute teacher in Rome’sCatholic schools for many years.Surviving are her husband, Germo“Red”; two sons; and three grand-children.

Agnes Kraft ’33 of Oswego diedSept. 3. Prior to her retirement shetaught kindergarten for 35 years inthe Auburn and Oswego school dis-tricts.

D. Mary Crisafulli ’34 of Fultondied Oct. 7. She did graduate work atOswego State and Syracuse Universi-ty, and attended Otis School of Art inLos Angeles. Mary taught at the LoveSchool, a one-room school house, inPhoenix for nine years, then taught atPhoenix Junior High and HighSchool for 29 years. She is survived bya sister and a brother.

Arlene Truax Bock ’38 of Fultonpassed away Feb. 28, 2003.

William Clemens ’38 of Colum-bus passed away Feb. 28, 2003. Heearned his bachelor’s degree fromOhio State University. William is sur-vived by his wife of 60 years, Frances;a daughter, two sons; a granddaugh-ter and a great-granddaughter.

F. William Cunningham ’38 ofFredonia passed away Jan. 3, 2003.

Edwyn E. Mason ’38 of Zephyr-hills, Fla., passed away July 9. He issurvived by his daughter, Martha; ason, Richard; and his wife, Eileen; agrandson, Shawn, serving in Iraqwith the U.S. Marine Corps; a grand-daughter, Heather; and close friends,Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spurling ofZephyrhills. Edwyn was a veteran ofthe U.S. Army serving in World WarII, a graduate of Albany Law Schooland former New York state senator.He was active in veteran’s affairs andwas past commander of the StamfordAmerican Legion Post. He was a for-mer justice of the peace and a mem-ber of the National Historical Societyand the American Bar Association.

Helen Weston Nostrant ’38 ofPort Byron passed away Nov. 2. Shetaught in one-room school housesand elementary schools for manyyears. Helen is survived by her hus-band, Earl; a daughter; four grand-children and three great-grand-daughters.

Clarabell Chatterton Nash ’39 ofHubbardsville died Oct. 15. Shetaught for over 30 years in the upstateNew York area. Clarabell is survivedby a sister and a brother.

Charles Lower ’46 of Pulaski diedNov. 23. He earned his master’s de-gree at Oswego. Charles served in theU.S. Army Air Force during WorldWar II. He taught in Phoenix, Pulaskiand Oswego high schools for 35years. Surviving are three step-chil-dren, 10 grandchildren and fourgreat-grandchildren.

Helen Patricia Sherwood Webb ’47 passed away Dec. 13. Shetaught in the Marcellus CentralSchool District and at St. Cecilia’sSchool. Pat is survived by her hus-band, James; a son,Paul; three daugh-ters, Nancy Hefti ’77, Martha Taylorand Mary Beth Warner; and eightgrandchildren.

Jane Zurek Trepacz ’49 of Fayet-teville died Aug. 27. She earned amaster’s degree at Columbia Univer-sity. Jane taught in Oriskany and De-Witt. Surviving are her husband, Ed-mund; a son and a granddaughter.

Bernard Black ’50 of SilverSpring, Md., died Sept. 27. He is sur-vived by his wife, Jean.

Andrew Harris ’50 of Bingham-ton passed away Aug. 17.

June Kallio Laakkonen ’51 ofNorth Babylon died Aug. 22. Shetaught in the North Babylon schooldistrict from 1951 until her retire-ment in 1988. June is survived by twosons and two daughters.

Doris Hitzelberger Caldwell ’54of Potsdam and Oswego passed awayNov. 19. Prior to her retirement in1975, Doris taught for 20 years. She issurvived by a son, a daughter, fourgrandsons and two great-grandchil-dren.

Kathryn Smith McGregor ’54 ofRome died Nov. 9. She taught in theWhitesboro school district for 40years until her retirement in 1992.Kay is survived by her husband,Wayne; her mother, Helen Smith; adaughter; four sons and 12 grand-children.

Irene Pryor ’55 of Dansvillepassed away Feb. 14, 2003.

Charles Sweeting ’56 of Oswegodied Nov. 29. He earned his master’sdegree at Oswego and did post grad-uate work at the University of Mis-souri. Prior to coming to OswegoState, Charles taught technology at Il-lion High School, Trenton State Col-lege and McGill University. He was anassociate professor of technology atOswego State prior to his retirement.He was the Minetto town historian.

Charles is survived by his wife, BetsyGriswold ’54; daughters HeatherSweeting and Pam Kuczawa ’91; andtwo grandchildren.

Susan Cooper Fassler-BabcockMA ’57 of Utica died Dec. 10. Sheearned her bachelor’s degree fromSyracuse University. She taught formany years at Altmar-Parish-Wi-lliamstown High School for manyyears, where she also directed playsand developed a curriculum in jour-nalism. Susan is survived by a daugh-ter, a son and four grandchildren.

Amber Greggains Palmer ’61 ofTaberg died Sept. 4. She taught inCamden and Rome until her retire-ment in 1974. Amber is survived by adaughter, six sons, 16 grandchildrenand 24 great-grandchildren.

Robert Rupracht ’61 of Bald-winsville died Dec. 5. Robert taughtin the Baldwinsville Central SchoolDistrict for 33 years before his retire-ment. He is survived by his wife, Jane;a son; three daughters and eightgrandchildren.

Karen Johnson Dudeck ’62 ofUnion Springs passed away Nov. 28.She is survived by three children andtwo grandchildren.

Gail Egan McCarthy ’68 of Romedied Oct. 18. She is survived by herhusband, Michael; a daughter; twosons and three grandchildren.

Jeanne Egan ’72 of Little River,S.C., and formerly of Oswego andBaldwinsville, passed away Aug. 17.She taught in the Fulton school dis-trict for 24 years before retiring in1996. She is survived by her husband,Larry.

Elizabeth Kaplenk Owens ’73 ofAlbany passed away March 24, 2003.

Dennis Adamy ’74 of Hamiltonpassed away Aug. 21. He earned hismaster’s degree in social work fromWest Virginia University. Dennis issurvived by his son, John.

Patricia Hines ’69 of Brick, N.J.,passed away April 28.

Gary Cole ’80 of Memphis diedOct. 13. He was employed at NewVenture Gear. Gary is survived by hiswife, Nadine; and two children.

Patricia Green ’85 of Oswegopassed away Dec. 3. Pat earned an as-sociate’s degree from University Col-lege of Syracuse University beforecoming to Oswego, and was workingon a master’s degree in health servicesmanagement at New School for So-cial Research. She is survived by herpartner, Stephanie Davis, a sister anda brother.

Thomas Hester ’92 of NorthSyracuse passed away Jan. 1. He was adetective with the Syracuse Police De-

partment. Tom is survived by hiswife, Suzanne; daughter, Abby; andsister, Karen ’90.

Kym Bisnett ’93 of Canastota andDunnellon, Fla., died Oct. 17 after along illness. She was a sister of ADHsorority. She is survived by her hus-band, Sean Denmark; a son, ConnorDenmark; her mother, Judy Bisnett; atwin sister and three brothers.

James Clarke III ’98 of Smyrnadied July 9. Surviving are his father,James; a brother and three sisters.

Aaron Gordon ’99 of Oswegopassed away Oct. 30. He was theowner of Freelance Graphic Design.Aaron is survived by his wife, ErinFoley ’98; his parents, Norman,emeritus professor of psychology,and Diana ’85; three brothers andtwo sisters.

J. Robert Harrison, emeritus pro-fessor of zoology, of Oswego diedNov. 20. He served with Patton’sThird Army in the European Theaterof Operations during World War II.Bob earned his bachelor’s degreefrom American University, then laterstudied at Johns Hopkins Universityand the University of Minnesotawhere he received his doctorate in bi-ology. Prior to coming to OswegoState, he taught at Miami of Ohio,and Washington and Jefferson Col-lege in Pennsylvania. At Oswego, Bobwas department chair for 17 years be-fore retiring in 1986. Surviving are hiswife, Muriel; a son; a daughter andtwo grandchildren.

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irreplaceable tools: the curiosity to ask questions

and the ability to listen to the answers. Each

requires modesty because each requires us to

assume we don’t already know the answers. Ask-

ing and listening assume an ability to understand

someone’s position, to empathize. Sources talk to

journalists for many reasons — because they

have something to say; because they are vain and

believe in themselves; because they wish to pro-

tect themselves should we be talking to adver-

saries; because they honestly believe they have

something to sell; because the publication, or the

journalist, carries some weight. But sources also

talk if they sense that a reporter genuinely seeks

understanding (and not just a headline). Sensing

this, they are more likely to open up and to help a

journalist to better sort truth from fiction.

There are varied reasons to fret about where

journalism is going. If I made a list — giant

media companies that keep score by profit

margins and stock price, not the content of their

journalism; “gotcha” and horse-race journalism;

Matt Drudge’s rumor-mongering; Jayson Blair’s

fictitious stories — it would be hard to climb out

of bed each morning. But there is another list

worth keeping: of the daily miracle that is the

New York Times; the weekly miracle that is The

New Yorker or Economist magazines; the Internet

and how it grants readers access to almost any

newspaper or periodical in the world, and how it

will allow authors to self-publish and citizens to

defy their government censors. Or as Albert

Camus said when he battled the Nazis, “A good

hope is better than a bad holding.”

Editor’s Note: This excerpt is reprinted from

Backstory: Inside the Business of News,

published in January 2004 by Penguin Press,

with permission of the author.

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The Last Wordcontinued from page 48

I WAS FIRST INFECTED WITH THE IDEA OF

becoming a journalist while studying political

science in graduate school. The bylines I re-

member belonged to Murray Kempton, David

Halberstam, Homer Bigart, Gay Talese, I. F.

Stone, Lillian Ross, among others. Why not, I

thought, extend school through my life and get

paid to learn, travel, and meet people? Journal-

ism also held some allure as a profession where

independence was prized. Didn’t reporters

brave Bull Connor’s dogs to report on the strug-

gle for Civil Rights? Didn’t the New York Times

face down President Kennedy when he wanted

Halberstam yanked from Vietnam? Didn’t the

Washington Post back two cub reporters over an

incident known as Watergate? I saw how Lillian

Ross — and then years later, Gay Talese, Nor-

man Mailer, and Tom Wolfe — perfected some-

thing called the New Journalism, a way to marry

narrative fiction techniques to nonfiction. This

was a profession that could educate and enter-

tain. It could inspire change. True, it conferred

power without responsibility, and thus was a

wonderful way to prolong adolescence. But it

was also a noble calling, a vital public service in a

democracy where citizens rely on information

to vote and to form and freely express opinions.

I’m still a sucker for the romance of journal-

ism, but I’m also a realist. My adult lifetime

graduate course has taught me that my métier’s

virtues, like those of the Greek heroes, often

become its vices. Its very successes — illumi-

nating the civil rights revolution, helping open

America’s eyes to Vietnam or Nixon’s depreda-

tions or financial mismanagement — induced

excess. Reporters wanted to be famous, rich,

influential. As a media writer, I’ve reported on a

new generation of windbags, of callow people

who think they become investigative reporters

by adopting a belligerent pose without doing the

hard digging, of bloviators so infatuated with

their own voice that they have forgotten how

to listen, of news presidents who are slaves to

ratings, and of editors terrified they may bore

readers. As in any profession, some folks take

shortcuts.

The shortcut I worry most about today falls

under the rubric of “business pressures.” I worry

about the owners of journalistic properties

making business decisions that harm journal-

ism. Recall the oft-told story of the wasp with a

crippled wing that pleads with a frog to carry

him across a pond. After promising not to sting

him, the wasp finally induces the frog to lug him

across. Arriving on the other shore, alas, the

wasp stings him. As the frog is expiring, he

plaintively asks,“Why’d you sting me?”

“What can I tell you? I’m a wasp. It’s my

nature.”

As a reporter, I’ve learned it’s the nature

of corporate executives to extol the virtues of

synergy, profit margins, the stock price, cost

cutting, extending the brand, demographics,

ratings, and getting on the team. Journalists

rarely share these concerns, so we often de-

nounce what we see as dumb corporate deci-

sions that do violence to journalism. We would

do better to recognize that this is the nature

of the business culture and figure out how to

translate our journalistic concerns into language

corporate executives can understand. Since they

write the checks, somehow journalists must

persuade our corporate chiefs to broaden their

too narrow definition of success.

The cultural gap between the business and

news divisions at media companies is as wide as

the gap between scientists and government that

C.P. Snow wrote about nearly a half century ago.

Media corporations prize teamwork to create a

“borderless” company that eliminates defensive

interior barriers among divisions, strive to use

leverage to boost sales, and push synergy. But

journalists are meant to prize independence, not

teamwork, and to value distance from advertis-

ers or sources, not synergies with them.We jour-

nalists need borders — that is to say, a degree of

independence — to do our jobs. We don’t aspire

to a “borderless” company because we want the

advertising department to stay the hell out

of the newsroom. The “leverage” journalists

seek is the kind that pries loose the story, not the

kind that boosts the parent company’s other

“products.”

The public is no mere spectator to this

dialogue. If readers don’t trust journalists, if they

cynically believe we’re all in the tank, or make

things up, or push our own political agendas,

politics will become more shrill and uncivil with

no trusted referee to sort out the facts.We would

be perceived as partisans, the way too many

European journalists are. If journalism was not

about more than profits, we would not receive

special protections under the First Amendment.

We receive such sanction because in a democracy

voters get much of their information from the

press. While journalism is about concrete things

like reporting facts, it’s really about fulfilling a

public trust. That trust can’t be synergized or

quantified, but you know it when you lose it.

The acorn of good journalism is humility.

Humility is more essential than good writing or

hard work — though these are obviously vital.

Humility is required to use two of a journalist’s

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Ken Auletta ’63

While journalism is about concrete things like reporting

facts, it’s really about fulfilling a public trust. That trust

can’t be synergized or quantified, but you know it

when you lose it.

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