Quinnipiac Magazine Summer 2010

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DoctorsNeededSTATMedical school in the works

EYE ONTHE WORLD

FISHSTORY

REFEREESRULE!

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Departments

3 – QUTODAY Community scores infirst “Big Event”; columnist Eugene Robinsonand humanitarian GregMortenson deliverinspiring lectures; MayWeekend depicted inphotos; Gwen Ifill accepts Fred FriendlyAward.

9 – QU SPORTS Men’s basketball teammembers and coach TomMoore talk aboutcoming within seconds of an NCAATournament bid; women’s ice hockey hasstellar season as well.

34 – IN PURSUIT OFKNOWLEDGE Professor SharonMagnarelli, chair of modern languages,fosters appreciation of Spanish literature.

36 – INDUCTIONCEREMONY14 individuals and two teams will be inductedinto Athletic Hall of Fame duringHomecomingWeekend in October.

38 – QU ALUMNI Class notes, profiles,events calendar. Homecoming returns to thefall—come back to campus Oct. 8, 9 forfoliage, fun and athletic contests.

47 – GOODTIMES Alumni connectat social and sporting events.

48 – ONE LAST THING Rob Stowell’78 says his daughter has learned valuable lifelessons from QU’s female athletes.

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Features12 –Referees Rule! Two alumni pals reflect on their passionate pursuitof fair play.

16 –Doctors Needed Stat Medical school would provide desperatelyneeded infusion of primary care physicians.

22 – Photo Op Young alumnus uses talent to raise awareness of global poverty.

26 –Caring for History Nursing professor’s collections documentevolution of nursing.

28 –What’s the Catch? Fishing buff makes splash in entrepreneurialwaters on Cape Cod.

32 –Taking the Lead Teachers have more options with new graduateteacher leadership degree.

LEFT: Tim Folan ’03 helps Cape

Cod fishing enthusiasts find what

they’re after. Photo by Daniel

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Contents SUMMER 10V O LUM E 1 9 • N UMB E R 2

Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 2010

VICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Lynn Mosher Bushnell

DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS & DESIGN

Thea A. Moritz

EDITOR

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ASSISTANT EDITOR

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SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Cynthia Greco

MANAGER OF PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES

Mark Stanczak

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS

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Forster, Stan Godlewski, John Hassett,

Robert Lisak, Sarah Putnam

CONTRIBUTORS

Jamie DeLoma ’06, Steve Higgins,

Lawrence Mohr, Donna Pintek,

Stephen P. Schmidt, Ken Sweeten

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Another run at NCAAThe 2009–10 season was historic for ourmen’s basketball program.We set a schoolrecord with 23 wins, captured our firstNortheast Conference regular season cham-pionship with a 15–3 record, and earned thefirst bid in school history to a Division Inational postseason tournament when weplayed atVirginiaTech in the NIT.We alsoset attendance records at theTD BankSports Center—we were undefeated athome (12–0) and in the state (16–0) in theregular season.The culmination was a thrilling NEC

championship game against Robert MorrisonMarch 10 that aired on national TV.Theestimated crowd of 4,500 created an electri-fying atmosphere and showed the countrythe unique enthusiasm that defines theQuinnipiac University community. To all ofyou alums who have “come home” to see usplay at the arena, thank you. For those ofyou who haven’t, we expect to make anotherrun at the NCAATournament bid and wehope you can be part of the action.—TomMoore, head men’s basketball coach

Williams lauds Motley tributeQuinnipiac deserves a great deal of credit forhosting “The Celebration of ConstanceBaker Motley’s Life andWork” (covered inlast issue). There are some special momentsthat thrill you and stay with you long after-ward, and this tribute was such a momentfor me. It was special on several levels. Themost obvious was the presence of so manypeople who are stars in their own right, fromVernon Jordan to Henry Louis Gates toCalvinTrillin, Charlayne Hunter Gault andDoug Schone. Each told stories about differ-ent parts ofAmerican history involving the

late JudgeMotley.With their star power,they helped shine a light on her brilliance.There are also moments when people like

JudgeMotley finally get their credit. Toquote Dr. Martin Luther King from his 1965Montgomery,Ala., speech: “…truth crushedto the earth will rise again. How long? Notlong…because you reap what you sow. Howlong? Not long…because the arc of the moraluniverse is long but bends toward justice.”If that is the case, then what we saw atQuinnipiac was truth in the form of longoverdue credit to JudgeMotley come alive.It was not only a commemoration, but amoment of celebration that I found inspira-tional.—Juan Williams, broadcast journalist

Greek ForeverIn the last issue, the article on Greek lifepainted a good picture of how it has grownat Quinnipiac. Greek organizations nation-ally have shifted paradigms, committing todeveloping members intellectually, physi-cally and emotionally. The bonds sharedbetween members go far beyond theobservable camaraderie to shared valuesand beliefs that set fraternal organizationsapart from other student organizations. Mytime at Quinnipiac was defined not only bythe lessons I learned in class, but throughthe interpersonal and leadership skills Ideveloped with Tau Kappa Epsilon. I hopeQU continues to foster Greek life so thatmore students can have the opportunity tobecome future leaders and responsiblemembers of society.—Richard Wallace ’09

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YOUR VIEWS

Enjoyed meeting AdamiI attended the Financial Leadership Forum with GuyAdami,who was pictured in the last issue.While astudent, I was on the “Face to Face” segment ofCNBC’s “Fast Money,” the show where Guy is atrader. As an alumnus, I’m proud that we are able toget such distinguished speakers to give real market/

timely information to students.These events also create a tremendousnetworking opportunity. It’s great to talk with current students andpass wisdom on to them. I would love to see more events, especiallyat night to encourage alumni attendance.—Ted Koly ’07, MBA ’08

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QU students work in the garden atMaple Woods at Hamden assistedliving center. From left: BiancaFernandez ’12, Sonel Martinez ’12and Talia Monroy ‘10.

One Saturday inApril, 750 stu-dents headed to 53 agenciesfromWallingford to Stam-ford, cooking meals, collect-ing trash and painting as part

of a nationwide community service programcalledThe Big Event.JenWalts ’10, a Student Government

Association officer, had looked into the pro-gram launched 27 years ago byTexasA&MUniversity that has expanded to 200 univer-

sities. It took a year to plan the event andget community organizations and studentvolunteers on board.“We’re benefiting so many people who

need the help and making a large impact onhow the campus views community service,”she said.Walts also wanted to do somethingto leave a mark on the campus community.“I think the enthusiasm of college stu-

dents really provides a valuable resource,”said HamdenMayor Scott D. Jackson.

Junior Caitlin Guarino spent the daycleaning debris from the LongWharfNature Preserve in NewHaven. “It alwayssurprises me what little effort it takes tohelp out in a substantial way,” she said.Sophomore Louis Durak felt “a surge of

pride” when he laid down his brush to surveythe benches and swing sets he painted at theWallingford Community Day Care Center.“Just to know we helped somebody and tookthe time out of our day felt so right.”

750 students lend helping hands in first ‘Big Event’


IRISH FAMINE EXHIBITTRAVELS TO NYC

“Ireland’s Great Hunger, An Gorta Mór:The Quinnipiac University Collection,”is on display through Sept. 3 at theConsulate General of Ireland, 345 ParkAve., New York City. The exhibition show-cases sculpture, paintings, and writingson the famine, which lasted from1845–1850. The exhibit is permanentlyhoused in the Lender Special Collectionroom in the Arnold Bernhard Library atQuinnipiac. For more information on thisexhibit, visit www.thegreathunger.org.

EXPLORING “THE WALL”

In February, filmmaker Ricardo Martinezscreened his documentary, “The Wall,”about building the controversial structurethat stretches 700 miles along the U.S.and Mexico border from Brownsville,Texas, to San Diego, Calif., and how thewall affects people living and workingnear it. After, he took questions from theaudience. During the three years heworked on the project, Martinez spokewith illegal immigrants, immigrationlawyers and homeowners, and lawenforcement officers in both countries.

EARTH DAY DRAWS CROWD

In the largest Earth Day event inUniversity history, students poured intoAlumni Hall in April to take part in a vari-ety of activities focused on raising con-servation and sustainability awarenesson campus. In addition to perusing anextensive collection of eco-themedposters and presentations, event goerswere offered organic food and plants. A“York Hill Goes Green” presentationhighlighted the 25 wind turbines on theYork Hill campus expected to generate32,000 kilowatts of power annually.

Flowing black Commencementgowns may be traditional, butthey’ve never been terriblyfashionable or functional,especially on a warm spring

day. This past May, however, the gownsworn by the 1,432 undergraduates werefashionably sustainable.Each gown was woven from plastic pellets

made from recycled drink bottles––about 23in each to be exact. Quinnipiac’s MariaBimonte, who works with vendors, askedsome students to compare an old and newgown and guess which one was made frombiodegradable materials. The one theythought was coarser, more wrinkle-proneand shiny turned out to be the traditionalgown.This year, blue and gold tasselsreplaced the former black ones on theirmortarboards, made of recycled cardboard.Commencement speaker Bill Nye, “The

Science Guy,” continued the theme in a live-ly speech in which he challenged studentsnot just to conserve resources but to inventnewmethods of attaining, storing and shar-ing energy. Nye hosts threeTV series: “The100 Greatest Discoveries” on the ScienceChannel; “The Eyes of Nye” on PBS and“Stuff Happens” on Planet Green. Nye andIrish character actor Milo O’Shea received

honorary degrees at the ceremony.Aweek earlier, 573 graduate students

received degrees at a ceremony where theywere addressed by Patrick A. Charmel ’81,president and CEO of Griffin HealthServices. Charmel, president of QU’sAlumni Association National Board ofGovernors, had good news for job seekers.“The current unemployment rate for thoseholding an advanced degree is under fivepercent,” he said.The School of Law awarded juris doctor

degrees to 100 students after an address byConnecticut Supreme Court Chief JusticeChase T. Rogers. She and Judge Samuel S.Freedman were presented with honorarydegrees.

Grads sport ‘green’ garbBill Nye


T his spring, campus audi-ences heardWashingtonPost columnist Eugene

Robinson, right, share his thoughtsabout the historic election of Pres-ident Barack Obama and authorand humanitarian Greg Morten-son, top right, discuss the impor-tance of promoting peace througheducation in politically unstable countries.In February, Robinson delivered the Black

History Month lecture, “We’re SomewhereWe’ve Never Been: Race, Diversity and theNewAmerica.” He discussed his own experi-ence with segregation, the violence he wit-nessed in 1968 as young protesters fought for

equality, and the pride he felt seeing a blackman elected president. His series on theelection earned him a Pulitzer Prize.InMarch, theAlbert Schweitzer Institute

broughtMortenson, author ofThe NewYorkTimes bestsellers “Three Cups ofTea”and “Stones into Schools,” to discuss thebenefits of education in poor regions, partic-ularly for girls. Educating women reduces

infant mortality andprevents violence.Mortenson has

helped build schoolsin some of the mostvolatile regions of Pak-istan andAfghanistan.His efforts wereinspired by childrenhe encountered inPakistan.Without ateacher or classroom,they used sticks to

write in the dirt. One child asked him if hecould build them a school, which he did.Mortenson has been successful in buildingschools because he puts local residents incharge, which gives them a sense of owner-ship, he said. “We want to help people, butwe also want to empower people.”

Mummy gets high-tech exam

Last semester, two Quinnipiac pro-fessors examined a 4,000-year-oldmummy from The Barnum Museumin Bridgeport, Conn., using powerfulnew diagnostic imaging equipmentin the School of Health Sciences onthe North Haven Campus.Ronald Beckett, professor emeri-

tus of diagnostic imaging, and JerryConlogue, MHS ’77, professor ofdiagnostic imaging, investigatedwhat appeared to be a foreign objectin the body, which some peoplethought might be a bird. They foundthat assumption not to be the case.The mummy, named Pa-Ib, has

been on display at the museumsince 1896. The duo had examined itin 2006. This year, they used a64-slice Aquillion CT unit that pro-vided more precise data. The Schoolof Health Sciences also has labswith an MRI and an Ultimax digitalX-ray/fluoroscopic system. With thescans, researchers can learn moreabout the people whose bodies weremummified, including how theylived, how they died and the typesof medical problems they had.Conlogue said Pa-Ib was a woman

who probably died of dental diseasewhen she was in her early 30s. Theyunveiled their findings at the presen-tation, “A Night at the Museum:Secrets of the Barnum Mummy,”at the Barnum Museum in March.

Politics, peace and change discussedIN FACT

Judy Norsigian, right, executive director of OurBodies Ourselves, a nonprofit women’s healthorganization, delivered the keynote address at the16th annual Celebrating Women’s CreativityConference in February. The organization’s book,“Our Bodies Ourselves,” first published in 1970,helped inspire a movement to improve women’shealth and has been translated into 29 languages.At the conference, Norsigian discussed issues stillaffecting women, including misinformation in phar-maceutical advertising, the need for more midwivesin health care and the growing popularity of cos-metic surgery among young women and its dan-gers. Other conference highlights included a talk byMary Ann (Urban) Cordeau ’86, assistant professor of nursing, on nursing during theAmerican Civil War, and a discussion moderated by Professor Sharon Kleinman titled,“Our Culture of Efficiency: Flourishing in a Time-Pressed World.”

Women’s health concerns author

In retrospect

Hundreds of alumni gathered at ReunionWeekend in late May. Highlights includeda party at the Ratt (now the Bobcat Den) and singing along on the Quad to thetunes of Dave Binder.

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1. President John L. Lahey, center, with,from left: Marc Jomini ’75, RobinJomini, Duane Paul and Pamela(Lockyer) Paul ’80

2. Kristen (Stikkel) Nowacki ’99, MPT ’01,with daughter Olivia, 13 months.

3. John Lipka ’54, left, his wife, Eva, andEd Gorman ’59

4. Louis F. Venturelli ’11, current StudentGovernment Association president,with Marilyn (Villano) Lyons ’55 andPaul Falcigno ’54, SGA presidents from1955 and 1954 respectively

5. Scott Mirmina ’85 assists fellow alumniwith photos.

6. Alumni relive May Weekend by doingDave Binder’s version of “The UnicornSong.”


QUAD QUOTES

Lisa Kito, parent of Chris ’10,management, and Ken ’13, finance

“We should teach children aboutwhat’s going on around the world. Iwant them to think about humanityand get them to see what’s happen-ing outside their little worlds sowe’ll have a whole generation willingto help people in other countries.”

Hillary Federico ’10, journalismand political science

“We should be encouraging theadvancement of developing nationsbecause that is truly the only hopewe ever have of achieving a univer-sal peace.”

Jameson Cherilus ’11, politicalscience

“To improve education in less devel-oped nations, I believe U.S. citizenshave to be much more politicallyengaged. Since we all are concernedwith combating extremist activities,we must recognize that we have aresponsibility to ensure that accessto education is not a privilege, but afundamental right. Assessing ourforeign policy, questioning our elect-ed officials, and not waiting to betold to take action is what needs tobe done; that is, if we are truly con-cerned with improving education inless-developed nations.”

Derek Stanley ’11, political science

“We need to understand the cultureto determine how best to help. I’mgoing to Nicaragua. I’m going tolearn Spanish to be able to commu-nicate and to ask the people therewhat they need instead of assumingwhat they need.”

Chris Tsagaris ’10, management

“We should continue to collectresources—pencils, paper, note-books—and send them to thesecountries. Through my travels toNicaragua and Guatemala, I’ve seenthe conditions of their classrooms,and they aren’t very good.”


“We all have the ability to make changes ineducation, communication, health care,economics and poverty. Imagine what we allcould do together if we focused on helpinga cause.”—JENNAULIANO ’11, JOURNALISM

What, if anything, should the U.S. or citizens doto improve education in less-developed nations?(Question posed before humanitarian Greg Mortenson’s lecture)

Gwen Ifill never met Fred Friendly, but the former president ofCBS news shaped her career. Ifill, moderator and managingeditor of the PBS program,“WashingtonWeek,” and seniorcorrespondent for the “PBS NewsHour,” accepted the School ofCommunication’s annual Fred Friendly First AmendmentAward at a June luncheon in NewYork City. She said she hasFriendly to thank for her tenure at PBS.“He was the one whofigured out that noncommercial television could be thesmartest platform available, that it could be a home for newsand information and for his Fred Friendly Seminars, too,” shesaid. Hoda Kotb, a host of NBC's “Today,” said,“Gwen is thequintessential journalist, and the award reminds us of what'simportant… The big ‘j’ in journalism needs to be preserved.”Visit www.youtube.com/quinnipiacuniversity to see the video.

IFILL ACCEPTS FRIENDLY AWARD

From left: Hoda Kotb, Robert P.Mitchell ’73, and Gwen Ifill.

Greg Mortenson with journalismstudents Jenna Uliano ’11, left,and Hillary Federico ’10


Exploring Nicaragua

Students createtraining video

Quinnipiac students collaborated withan advocate for rape victims to cre-ate a training video for law enforce-

ment officers who work with victims of sex-ual assault. Communications ProfessorRebeccaAbbott recruited four seniors toteam with Donna Palomba, founder of JaneDoe NoMore, an organization that works toraise awareness and improve the way societyresponds to victims of sexual assault.Michael Billera, Curtis Conroy, Tara Gor-

don and Farrell Henneberry—all 2010 gradu-ates—worked alongside veteran filmmakersRichard and Didi Dobbs. Richard Dobbshas directed episodes of “Law &Order” and“Law &Order: SpecialVictims Unit.”

Crescendo!Fred Rossomando, who teaches musicappreciation at Quinnipiac, remembershis first year directing the QU Singers,when four people showed up for prac-tice. Undaunted, he told them to invitetheir friends. Each year, the group hasgrown larger and more talented. Thisyear, almost 60 sopranos, tenors, altosand basses filled the Clarice L. BuckmanTheater stage for the April concert, belt-ing out such numbers as “One,” from “AChorus Line,” “Somewhere Out There,”“Band on the Run,” “Africa” and a med-ley from “Man of La Mancha.” Watch fortheir next concert in December.

InMay, the Albert SchweitzerInstitute at Quinnipiac organizedfour service trips to León,Nicaragua. A group of 20 School ofLaw students and professors and

four Connecticut lawyers collaborated withtheir legal counterparts in Nicaraguaduring a three-day conference addressingdomestic violence, mediation and humanrights. The conference explored some ofthe changes in the Nicaraguan legal system,as well as the country’s legal challenges.Students from the law school atUniversidad Nacional Autónoma deNicaragua attended. During theconference, they heard from sugar caneworkers who are experiencing healthproblems after working with pesticides.Danielle (Robinson) Briand, JD ’10, co-

president of the QU International HumanRights Law Society, was moved by theworkers. “It’s powerful to meet with peoplewho are suffering and have fewopportunities to make a change in theirlives, but are organizing against injusticenevertheless,” she said.

Seven Quinnipiac nursing students andtwo faculty members visited the city’shospital and witnessed the challenges ofworking with aging equipment and limitedresources. Theater professor Crystal Brianand six theater students created three playsbased on Nicaraguan folk tales andperformed them at two different schools.Sean Duffy, associate professor, and

seven political science students learnedabout the political economy of the regionand visited a factory that makes parts forAmerican car companies. The students alsojoined with Nicaraguan veterans to paintthe first of three panels in a mural thatrepresents reconciliation efforts in acountry that remains politically divided.“We’re helping this group of veterans telltheir stories as a way to move beyond theconflict,” said Duffy.

Top: Political science students helped paintthis reconciliation mural; left, nursingstudent Kristen Kozlowski; right, LawProfessor Jeffrey Meyer in Nicaragua withSheila Hayre, a lawyer with New HavenLegal Assistance.

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The women’s ice hockey team led the nationin scoring defense on the way to its bestoverall record (19–10–8) and conferencerecord (11–4–7) in program history. Thesingle season turnaround from the

2008–09 season––when the Bobcats went 3–26–5––marked a first in college hockey history. After finishingthis season in a third-place tie in ECACHockey,Quinnipiac hosted its first-ever postseason series inFebruary and picked up its first tournament win.

Head Coach Rick Seeley was named theECACHockeyWomen’s Ice

Hockey Coach of theYear.Victoria Vigilanti, whofinished the yearranked first in ECACHockey in goals-against average

(1.24), save percentage(.951) and saves (901),

was named one of twogoaltenders on the NewEnglandWomen’s Division IAll-Star Team. She also wasnamed the ECACHockeyGoaltender and Rookie oftheYear in the postseason.


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Skating circlesaround old records

Victoria Vigilanti was named the ECAC HockeyGoaltender of the Year in her freshman year.


SIMPLY THE BEST Women’s lacrosseplayer and graduate student KatieLatonick and men’s basketball incomingsenior Justin Rutty, pictured with CoachTom Moore, left, and Coach Danie Caro,were named female and male athletesof the year at the 2009–10 ScholarAthlete Recognition Awards.

GRAND OPPORTUNITY After men’shockey ended the ECAC Hockey confer-ence tournament quarterfinals with a 2–1loss to Union, senior forward BrandonWong signed an amateur tryout contractwith the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Griffins, thetop minor league affiliate of the NationalHockey League’s Detroit Red Wings. Wongfinished his career at Quinnipiac with 68goals and 75 assists (143 points), placingfifth on the all-time points list in theschool’s Division I history. Senior captainJean-Marc Beaudoin, who had 14 goalsand 20 assists this season, was named tothe second team of the Lowe’s SeniorCLASS Award & All-American Team. Inaddition, the New England Hockey WritersAssociation awarded senior forward MikeAtkinson the Joe Tomasello Award, whichgoes to the most unsung player.

GOOD START Competitive cheer placedthird out of five teams in the NationalCheerleaders Association CollegeNationals on April 9 in Daytona Beach,Fla. The Bobcats received a score of 7.952in the All Girl I division to conclude itsinaugural season. In March, the Bobcatscaptured the New England CheerleadersAssociation title in Kingston, R.I.

SPORTS BRIEFS


Tonight’s the night.Thatwas the simple messageon the sign clutched byone of the spirited 4,500fans who attended theNECChampionshipgame inMarch.The

men’s basketball team was poised to winboth its first NEC crown and a trip to theNCAATournament.The national TV audience must have

shaded their eyes from the glare of theyellowT-shirts. The atmosphere in theTD Bank Sports Center was electric, theenergy palpable and infectious.Forward Justin Rutty, now a senior,

remembered thinking, “This is somethingthat this Quinnipiac team has created, andit’s something that’s always going to beremembered.”The Bobcats had all the elements required

for “the big dance”—except experience onsuch a grandiose stage. Quinnipiac’s oppo-nent, a seasoned group from Robert Morris,showed how crucial that missing ingredientcan be by handing the Bobcats a crushing52–50 loss in the championship game.“We were so close…We could taste it,”

said James Johnson, a guard entering hisjunior year.“I’ll never forget it,” added Quinnipiac

coachTomMoore, who led the team to a23–10 record in just his third year at thehelm. “It was an incredible atmosphere. Itmade for an incredible range of emotions.”Although the Bobcats did not accomplish

their ultimate goal, the team participated asa No. 8 seed in the school’s first Division Iappearance in the National InvitationalTournament by winning the regular season

NEC crown with a conference record of15–3. Quinnipiac ended up losing toNo. 1–seededVirginiaTech just a week afterthe Robert Morris game.When the season came to an end, Moore

had been named the NECCoach of theYear, while Rutty earned NEC Player of theYear honors after averaging 15.3 points and10.9 rebounds a game.Anchored by Rutty’sefforts, the team ended up second in thecountry in rebounding margin (plus 8.6).Heading into the Robert Morris game,Quinnipiac had won 17 of 19 games and14 consecutive home games.As the wins were piling up, Moore had

little time to reflect.“It’s always tricky duringthe year because you have the next practice,the next game, the next challenge ahead ofyou, but as we were going through it, I wasenjoying it a great deal,” he said.Following the Robert Morris loss, Moore

asked standout guard James Feldeine ’10 andother seniors not to dwell on the loss, but tothink about the hard work they put in tocreate that magical night.“On the flip side, to the guys who are

returning, you want them to remember52–50.You want them to remember thecrowd not being able to run out onto thecourt because that’s something you wantthem to carry through the offseason.”That should not be a problem.“It will be great motivation,” Rutty said.

“All we’ve got to do is think about when thathorn went off, when we were only down twopoints.”When the arena went silent.With Rutty, Johnson and a host of other

key players returning, the team will strive tosurpass the impressive season.“The challenge for every team here on out

is to maintain being a top team,” Moore said.“You don’t ever want to take a step back, soevery time we accomplish something, I’mjust going to keep raising the bar higher.”Just like the fans’ voices on that memo-

rable night. “I just hope that last game willbe like every game next season,” Rutty said.“That would be beautiful.”JO

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Their NCAA dream dashed, the Bobcats are regroupingfor next year By Stephen P. Schmidt

They had a shot

“We were so close…we could taste it.”—JAMES JOHNSON

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NCAA hockey refereePete Torgerson ’81 inaction at the TD BankSports Center


W ithin the wide world of sports, the spotlight shines most often on

the players, coaches and fans. Yet there is a fourth person involved,

indispensible but rarely celebrated: the referee––or the umpire or

linesman––who ensures the rules are followed and the outcome is fair.

The anonymity of his job never bothered Pete Torgerson ’81, who retired in

December from a 25-year career as an NCAAhockey referee. “The best thing I could

do was to make it so people didn’t even know I was out there on the ice,” he said.

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RefereesRULE!

Alumni pals reflect on theirpassionate pursuit of fair play

B Y S T E V E H I G G I N S


Torgerson was celebrated at his last game as a referee––the Dec. 12clash between the American International College Yellow Jackets andthe Quinnipiac Bobcats at the TD Bank Sports Center. Officials withECAC Hockey presented him with a clock and a plaque before thefaceoff, and family and friends threw him a postgame party. Fittingly,the Bobcats won 5–2.“Being a referee keptme young; it keptme involved,” saidTorgerson.

“It’s a ton of fun, and I will miss it.”Torgerson is not leaving the game completely. He has signed on as

a referee supervisor for ECAC Hockey and will train new referees.He also serves as director of a weeklong Nantucket summer youthcamp and coaches his two daughters’ youth hockey teams on an alter-nating basis.“Hockey is in my blood,” he said. “I’ve been playing since I was 6

years old. I have a passion for it.”In fact, those who referee ECAC Hockey games consider them-

selves to be the league’s “13th team,”Torgerson said. “I would look for-ward tomy Friday nights. I would be just as excited as the players whenI hit the ice.”

Officiating at Quinnipiac games never felt like a conflict of interestfor him, and no one ever suggested it might. “I’m out there to do thebest job I can, and I havemy professional integrity on the line,” he said,noting that nearly every referee played for a team at some point.Torgerson, who lives in EastWalpole, Mass., grew up in East Haven,

Conn., and played hockey at EastHavenHigh School.He played centerfor Quinnipiac, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing. Ref-ereeing has always been a second job—he sold sporting goods and laterentered the health care industry.Today he is a marketing consultant forMEDITECH, which makes software for the health care industry.After he tore a hamstring and some abdominal muscles over the last

few years, Torgerson noticed his recovery time was longer. He realizedhe could no longer keep up with the players flying around the rink anddecided to hang up his skates after turning 50.“I always strived every night to have a perfect game,”Torgerson said.

“It was a competition for me as much as for the players. No one feltworse than me if I missed a call.”

He refs for kicksNCAA soccer referee Lou Labbadia ’81 feels the same way. He is stillcoaching college soccer matches nearly 30 years after graduating fromQuinnipiac with a BS degree in legal studies. He was a midfielder forthe Bobcats and played in the state championship his senior year.“Playing at Quinnipiac was a great experience,” said Labbadia. “We

had great guys who were very passionate about playing. It becomes apart of your life.”Labbadia, who grew up in Middletown, Conn., and now lives in

nearbyWallingford, played baseball, soccer and basketball at Middle-town High School. He plans to continue as a soccer referee as long ashe is physically fit.Labbadia and Torgerson were friends at Quinnipiac and remain

friends today. Labbadia became a youth and high school referee afterTorgerson encouraged him to do so and introduced him toTorgerson’sbrother, Lev ’70, who was a high school soccer referee in NewHaven.Labbadia started officiating high school games and then moved on

to college games, joining the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials’Association in 1990. Since then he has refereed 16 final-four matches,the Atlantic Coast Conference championship and the Big East cham-pionship twice.“What started as a lark and a way to get a little exercise and make

extramoney turned into a 20-year career,” Labbadia said.He considershimself a “player’s referee,”meaning that he understands the passion ofthe players and the coaches. There is irony in that, however.“If you talked tomy former teammates or coaches, they would never

have believed that I would get into the officials’ world. I was an offi-cial’s nightmare. I argued all the time and gave referees a lot of trou-ble,” he admitted with a laugh.BothTorgerson and Labbadia agree that the downside of officiating

college sports is the travel and time commitments that can take a tollon the personal lives of many referees. Torgerson, who is married andhas two daughters, brought his family alongwith him onweekend tripsduring the season, but as his daughters got older and more involved insports and activities of their own, that strategy became more difficult.He said the need to spend more time with his family was part of thereason he retired.

Lou Labbadia ’81recalls that hegave referees “alot of trouble” inhis playing days.


Labbadia, a paralegal, said the constant travel during the soccerseason is wearing. “It’s challenging to work full time, because we ref-eree a game nearly every day from September to November,” he said.“My employer, Evans, Feldman & Ainsworth in New Haven, is veryunderstanding.”Working as a referee is a competitive endeavor. Both alumni started

at the high school level and moved on to officiate at college games atthe Division II andDivision III levels before moving up toDivision I.Only after several years of refereeing Division I games were they ableto oversee playoff and championship games.“There are always observers at your games who recommend you

based on your conditioning, your knowledge and your performance,”saidTorgerson, who primarily worked for ECACHockey but also didgames for Hockey East, the Atlantic Hockey League and MAAC, allEast Coast leagues.Labbadia officiated at NCAAsoccer games throughout the country

and worked for leagues ranging from the Big East and theACC to theIvy League and theAmerica East Conference.When asked which games as a Quinnipiac midfielder stand out in

his memory, Labbadia has a ready answer: “I remember one matchagainst Bryant College that was played in a terrible rain storm,” hesaid. “It was the worst conditions I ever played in, and I think itmight have been ParentsWeekend, but we won in a very sloppy, uglygame. Another game was against Eastern Connecticut State Univer-

sity when we were trailing by two goals and my teammate, JohnDeMezzo ’82, scored three goals in the last six or seven minutes towin the game—it was incredible!”Torgerson remembers a game against Connecticut College in New

London in which he scored the winning goal in overtime. “That was apretty big win for us,” he said.

What about the insults?Of course, there are some abusive fans who scream obscenities orthrow objects from the stands.“You try not to let it affect you,” said Labbadia. “It’s human nature

to hear things that are said about you, but you are so focused on thegame that you become thick-skinned.The players’ and coaches’ dissentbothers me much more than the fans––they are participating in thematch.The fans are not playing.We’re not always right, either.”Torgerson said fan abuse is “part of the game.We get an occasion-

al knucklehead who’d cross over the line, but mostly it was just peo-ple out there having a good time.”Labbadia said the hardest part about being a referee is the fact

that someone has to lose. “It’s tough when both teams play at a veryhigh level—you can see the losing team’s disappointment. It’s toughto know these guys played their hearts out and didn’t get the resultthey wanted.”JO

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“It’s human nature to hear things said about you, but you are sofocused on the game that you become thick-skinned.”—LOU LABBADIA ’81

Torgerson keeps his eye on the play.


As a medical student working in theTemple

University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa.,

Dr. Kelly Loftus ’06 routinely treated patients

who waited until they were extremely sick

before going to the emergency room. By then, treatment

options were limited—and expensive.


Medical school would providedesperately needed infusionof primary care physicians

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Most of the time, these patients waited because they didn’t havehealth insurance or the money to pay for doctor visits. “People haddiseases that were in far worse states than if they had access to healthcare. We would see people with stage-three bladder cancer becausethey didn’t have anywhere else to go,” said Loftus, who graduatedfromTemple School ofMedicine this year and in June started her res-idency program in urology at Georgetown University Hospital inWashington, D.C. At Quinnipiac, she majored in biology.Even with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of

2010, which is expected to add 35 million to the rosters of the insured,the sick may continue to flood emergency rooms. There just aren’tenough primary care physicians—and the numbers are dwindling. Ahealth insurance card won’t help people who can’t get a doctor’sappointment, health professionals say.Quinnipiac University intends to be part of the solution.Citing Quinnipiac’s strong foundation in health sciences education,

the University in January announced plans to create a medical schoolfocused on training primary care physicians. The goal is to welcomethe first class in 2013 or 2014.

Currently, about a dozen newmedical schools across the country arein the works. University President John L. Lahey envisions a moreinnovative approach for Quinnipiac’s School of Medicine—one thatprovides more clinical opportunities earlier in medical school, incor-porates collaborative work with other primary care health profession-als, and encourages doctors not only to stay in primary care, but also totake positions in underserved urban and rural areas.“We’re not going to re-create a Harvard Medical School or Johns

Hopkins Medical School,” explains Lahey. “We’re not training peoplewho are going to do pure research or become medical educators. Weare talking about a new kind of prototype of medical school that bothaddresses the needs that are out there, but also one that fits into ourmission of preparing and educating people who actually will practice.”He anticipates that the addition of a medical school will boost the

University’s reputation and provide opportunities to enhance andexpand existing health sciences programs.“We’ll be in a fairly select group of institutions, mostly major,

nationally known universities,” says Lahey, noting that fewer than 100universities have both a medical and a law school. “I think that willcertainly boost the reputation and quality of all of our health sciencesprograms.”

The doctor isn’t inThe need for primary care physicians is dire. Currently two-thirds ofall physicians are nearing retirement age, and given the anticipatedhealth care needs of the aging baby boomer population and the mil-lions of newly insured who will be seeking a doctor, demand is expect-ed to escalate. Plans for the medical school have been enthusiasticallywelcomed by many hospital administrators and health care providers,many of whom are grappling with the rising costs of doing business.“Right now, many primary care doctors don’t have room for new

patients,” says Joseph Pelaccia ’67, president andCEOofMilfordHos-pital. “That does affect hospitals. Unless the primary care doctors areavailable, patients will either have to travel outside their area, or theyare going to get really sick and end up in our emergency rooms.”Those expensive ER visits contribute to the rising costs of health

care and put hospitals into debt, says Pelaccia, who was the hospital’schief financial officer formore than 30 years until he took over his cur-rent post in January.“The challenge is to keep this institution financially viable in an era

when the demand for care really outweighs the availability,” he says.

The next logical stepQuinnipiac’s strong programs in health sciences, as well as the acquisi-tion of the North Haven Campus, make it possible for the Universityto open a medical school.“It’s not a big leap forward for us. It’s a quite logical next step for

Quinnipiac,” explains Lahey.Constructing a medical school building from scratch could cost

between $150–200 million, which for most institutions is virtuallyimpossible to fund in this economy.Quinnipiac expects to invest about$75 million of its own resources—$40 million to renovate an existingbuilding on the North Haven Campus and the remainder to subsidizethe medical school’s operating budget during its initial years.

Dr. Kelly Loftus ’06 began her residency inurology at Georgetown University Hospitalin Washington, D.C.

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The campus, which the University purchased for $32 million fromAnthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in 2007, will have two buildings dedi-cated to health education. The 180,000-square-foot School of HealthSciences building is home to all health science programs and highlysophisticated labs and equipment, including a state-of-the-art MRIand aCTscanner.This equipment could be incorporated into themed-ical school curriculum.The campus also has a 160,000-square-foot building, which is set to

house the future medical school. The required resources and equip-ment are expected to enhance existing health science programs andencourage growth of new programs. The University currently is devel-oping an anesthesiologist assistant program and a doctorate of nursepractice program.The proposed school also could benefit from the strong relation-

ships the School of Health Sciences has cultivated with its 1,500 clini-

cal affiliates. Several hospitals already have voiced interest in workingas clinical partners with Quinnipiac.“If you’re a health care professional, the North Haven Campus will

become a destination for exceptional primary care education,” saysLynn Price, associate professor and chair of nursing.Primary care often is compared to a stool supported by three legs:

physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Quinnipiacalready has two, and the medical school will complete the triad.More often, hospitals and clinics are turning to registered nurses and

physician assistants—health professionals who provide primary care—to compensate for the dwindling number of available doctors.“We could be one of the first to develop a new model of a medical

school that emphasizes primary care to amuch greater degree and alsoallowsQuinnipiac to integrate the education of our nurse practitionersand physician assistants with our medical students,” Lahey says.

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“Unless the primary care doctors are available, patients will either have totravel outside their area, or they are going to get really sick and end up inour emergency rooms.”—JOSEPH PELACCIA ’67, PRESIDENT&CEO, MILFORDHOSPITAL

Joseph Pelaccia ’67, president and CEO of Milford Hospital,says the demand for health care surpasses the availability.

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Team medicineThe Institutes of Medicine of the National Academies, a nonprofithealth think tank, reported that training health professionals to workin teams can improve the efficacy of patient care, but they need tobegin working in teams during their education.Loftus says working in teams is crucial in the surgical intensive care

unit, where nurses and pharmacists join themedical team rounds.Tem-ple, where she attended medical school, is trying to incorporate moreteam rounds on the general care floors.Having all of the care providerspresent at the same time allows them to col-laborate on how best to treat the patientand prevents miscommunication, she says.The nurses, for example, really get to

know the patient, she explains. “We get 15minutes with them; the nurse sometimesspends a whole day with them.”Loftus recalls treating patients who were

so anxious to leave the hospital that theywould not mention pain or problems—orsometimes lie. Nurses often knew the truestate of patient’s condition. Not all physi-cians and nurses have good working rela-tionships, she admits.“If we worked with nurses from day one,

I think there would be more of a mutualrespect and understanding of each other’sprofessions,” Loftus says. “The first thingwe learn is be nice to nurses because they’regoing to tell us most of what we need toknow.”School of Health Sciences program direc-

tors and chairs are currently developing col-laborative projects that could be expandedto include medical students.“You get an idea of what nurses bring to

the table and what physician assistants andother professionals, such as those in physi-cal therapy, occupational therapy and diag-nostic imaging, bring to the table,” saysPrice. “Each one of us looks at the patientthrough a different lens.”Nurses, for example, are trained to be

aware of the psychological and social con-cerns of the patient, such as being aware offinancial or emotional problems thatmight affect a person’s recovery, sheexplains. Quinnipiac’s physician assistantsalready collaborate with nursing, medical,dental and pharmacy students in serviceprojects, such as migrant farm workerclinics.Edward O’Connor, dean of the School of

Health Sciences, is interested in a programused at anothermedical school that involvesassigning a team of health professionals—often including a nurse and a medical stu-

dent—to a multigenerational family. The team monitors the health ofthe familymembers, provides information on preventivemedicine andconnects them to resources.“Understanding what other health care professionals do can make

the team more efficient and improve the quality of health care,” saysO’Connor, who serves on the dean’s search committee. “I envisionworking closely with the dean of the school of medicine to embracethis idea of inter-professional education.”

Keith DeSonier, MHS ’10, performs an exam.The health care industry is turning tophysician assistants, such as DeSonier,more often to provide primary care.

perhaps researching alternative educational timelines that mightshorten the time it takes to get a medical degree.This could get physi-cians in the field faster and reduce the cost of medical school. It alsocould make it appealing—or at least more economically feasible—forphysicians to enter primary care medicine. Many medical studentsselect specialties over primary care because of the wide difference inpay. According to an article in the May 2010 issue of Health Affairs, acardiologist could earn about $3 million more than a primary carephysician over his or her career.The goal, Lahey emphasizes, would be to produce well-trained

physicians, and simultaneously inspire them to stay in primary care.Moreover, it might be attractive to nontraditional students, perhapsadults working in another health care profession.

Back to basicsQuinnipiac’s medical school with a focus on primary care medicine iswhat many health care providers hope is part of a return to an empha-sis on preventive care.“Creating a medical school with a focus on primary care, you’re

going back to basics,” says Cynthia Lord, MHS ’97, director of thephysician assistant program. “It’s not just about making heath careaffordable, it’s about changing how we deliver health care.”For many years, the medical community responded to health prob-

lems with medications or new procedures. With more primary carephysicians—and the anticipated growth of physician assistant andnurse practitioner programs—the medical community can work hard-er to prevent illnesses, says Lord. In the spring, she took several stu-dents toWashington, D.C., to advocate for the government to expandthe role and responsibilities of PAs.“It’s clearly going to have a big impact on the health of our nation

and on our fiscal health,” she explains. “If we didn’t spend billions ofdollars treating people with diabetes, we could spend that money giv-ing every child a well-child visit and immunizations or counselingsomeone who is overweight before they become obese.”The medical school is another milestone for the University, which

has grown and expanded programs tomeet society’s educational needs.“It’s stimulated a lot of excitement,” Lord says. “It’s renewed the pas-

sionwe have in health care about howwe can reallymake a difference.”The proposal has instilled a sense of pride in alumni and members

of the University community who have watched the University’stransformation. Pelaccia, who was a member of Quinnipiac’s firstclass on the Mount Carmel Campus, calls the plans for the medicalschool impressive.“It’s good for the community, it’s good for the state, and it’s good for

my alma mater.”

MD in charge

The School of Medicine’s founding dean will spearhead the directionof the new school, which makes finding the right person to lead theschool a priority.“In order to have a medical school with a culture consistent with a

mission of training primary care physicians, you have to take great carein how you build it from the ground up,” says MarkThompson, seniorvice president for academic and student affairs. “Once you have amed-ical school up and running, it’s very difficult to change direction.”Thus far, Quinnipiac has receivedmore than two dozen applications

from candidates who already hold leadership positions at other med-ical schools, says Thompson. The University expects to have the deanin place by Fall 2010.The dean will help navigate the University through the accredita-

tion process and meet with the Liaison Committee onMedical Edu-cation, the accrediting body of medical schools. The job will includerecruiting faculty and administrators, defining the admission poli-cies and designing curriculum, as well as collaborating with clinicalpartners.

In touch with patientsBeing immersed in a clinical setting is where physicians-in-traininglearn the most, Loftus explains.“Working with patients, some of whom are very ill, can be chal-

lenging and intimidating for a medical student,” she says. Loftusremembers how nervous she was the first time she was evaluating apatient—even though “the patient” was an actor playing the role ofan injured man.“I remember being alone in a roomwith him and Iwas literally shak-

ing like a leaf when I was trying to put the stethoscope on him,” sheexplains. “As a physician, you’re going to be dealing with people whoare in physical pain. You want to touch someone in a way that is goingto make them feel comfortable and not cause them more pain.” Easeand comfort come with experience.Quinnipiac administrators are investigating ways to give medical

studentsmore experienceworking in an emergency roomor clinic, andas early as the first year of medical school. Traditional medical schoolsusually have classroom work during the first two years and clinicalwork in the last two.“There’s a wall that has traditionally separated those parts of the

education,” Lahey says. “Particularly with the emphasis on primarycare, we think that needs to be broken down and changed.”Quinnipiac’s School of Medicine likely is not going to remain with-

in the boundaries of traditional medical schools. There is even talk of


Quinnipiac administrators are investigating ways to give medicalstudents more experience working in an emergency room or clinic,and as early as the first year of medical school.


Alumnus uses talentto raise awarenessof global poverty

BY STEPHEN P. SCHMIDT • PHOTOS MATT ANDREW ’10

PHOTOOP


At left, Matt Andrew behind the lens in Nicaragua.Above, a photo he took of a Guatemalan girl whoweaves to support her family.

ASABOY, MATTANDREW ’10 would standat the window, camera poised, and attempt tocatch a lightning bolt on film. His motherexplained it would be nearly impossible, butthat didn’t stop him from trying.“For some reason, wherever I am, I just enjoy

capturing that moment,” says the native ofNaugatuck, Conn.


WHEN ANDREW TRAVELS, HE BRINGS HIS CAMERA tocapture lightning bolts of a different variety: people who face diresituations, but are surviving and sometimes contentedly thriving. He’sphotographed Nicaraguan children receiving school supplies for thefirst time, the empty stare of a Guatemalan girl working a loom ofgreen yarn to raise money for her family and a teenage student holdinga cardboard sign with the word “hope.”“He has a vision for it. I think he has a gift,” says David Ives, the

director of theAlbert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac.From November 2009 through this past March, 21 of Andrew’s

photos were displayed at the institute to provide a glimpse of life inimpoverished regions of Nicaragua, Guatemala and Kenya. Hisphotographs provide a window into lives mostAmericans never see.Andrew was a sophomore when he went on an alternative spring

break trip sponsored by the Schweitzer Institute. “I wanted to traveland experience different cultures and see how other people lived,” hesays.Before graduating in May with a bachelor’s degree in media

production, Andrew had traveled to Nicaragua five times, Guatemalaonce and spent six weeks in Kenya as a delegate of a select group ofcollege students representing the StudentMovement for Real Change.Days after he graduated, Andrew returned to Nicaragua a sixth timewith a group of Quinnipiac law and nursing students to capture theirtrips in photos.His dream job would be to take photos all over the world for a

publication such as National Geographic while using his images toraise social awareness of the poor conditions a large percentage of theworld’s population endures. “These trips have helped me develop intowho I am today and who I want to be,” he explains.In a restaurant on a Nicaraguan beach this past May, Andrew

encountered a group of children he recognized from previous trips.

They were selling jewelry and trinkets. The boys grinned when theysaw him.Despite the restaurantmanager’s glare,Andrew brought eachof the boys a napkin with food.“I don’t know when they last ate,” he explains, recalling the harsh

conditions of their home life. “It’s just a terrible childhood.”

ANDREW’S PHOTOS TRANSLATE EXPERIENCES thatlanguage barriers usually stymie. His gentle smile and youthful laughhelps open communication lines between him and his subjects. Herecalls in particular all the times that he tried to overcome his lack ofSwahili and the Kenyan children’s lack of English. “I’m sitting thereand I’m just trying to think of other ways to communicate, whether it’sthrough hand gestures or I would point at pictures.Whether I’m withthe kids in Kenya or the kids in Nicaragua, I feel like I develop thesame relationships and friendships.”Andrew’s exhibition showed the exuberance of children running

and playing, as well as a Guatemalan woman with spina bifida tetheredto a wheelchair. He uses discretion andjudgment for each situation.“I try to be as respectful as possible

because I try to think about it the otherway:If I’m them, do I really want a camera in myface?”Andrew says.His humanitarian interests inspired

Andrew to apply for Student Movement

MATTANDREW

Andrew always makestime for his youngCentral American friends,top and at right. Above:A young Kenyan boyherds his family’s cattleat the end of a day.


for Real Change—now called ThinkImpact. The organization takesyoung leaders abroad to investigate ways to curb poverty. He wasonly one of eight students chosen to live in various parts of Kenya forabout six weeks in the summer of 2009. Andrew raised $5,500 to go,collecting donations from friends, including the Quinnipiaccommunity, and making appeals in local news media. He also usedsome of his savings and sold a few of his possessions, including hisdirt bike.He created the photo exhibition and gives presentations to share his

experiences. “My goal was never to just go to Kenya, and then comeback and forget about it,” explains Andrew. His dedication topublicizing the plight of and bringing positive change to people he hasmet in other countries has not gone unnoticed. Andrew received the2010 Student Government Association’s Eubie Blake HumanitarianAward and the 2010 School of Communication’s OverallAchievementAward this past spring.In addition, he and two friends founded a grassroots organization

that is awaiting approval of its trademark and nonprofit status.Andrew, ChristianNielsen ’08 andTruongNguyen ’08 weremotivatedto start the organization after their first trip to Nicaragua in 2008.

THEYRAISEFUNDSFORSCHOLARSHIPS to enable children toattend Alianza Americana, a bilingual academy that has had a long-standing relationship with the Schweitzer Institute. Theirorganization currently sponsors four students at the school. The trioalso has ideas simmering for projects in Kenya and SouthAfrica.Their efforts all began with a boy named Pedro after a group of

Quinnipiac students chipped in $10 each to pay for his $250 tuition atthe school.They were impressed by Pedro’s ability to speak self-taughtbroken English, courtesy of an English dictionary he had borrowedfrom a cousin. Pedro, who currently is studying biology at a localuniversity in the hope of one day being a doctor, turned out to be thebest student in the academy’s history.OnAndrew’s last trip to Nicaragua, he had dinner with the budding

scholar. Pedro was the same young man Andrew had photographedyears before with the “hope” sign.“It proves to us the power of opportunity that you can give people,”

Andrew says. “You give somebody a little opportunity, and they can goanywhere with it.”To learn more about Andrew’s humanitarian endeavors, visit his

website at www.mattandrew.com

Andrew met Pedro on his first trip toNicaragua. He helped raise funds for Pedro’seducation, and the duo keeps in touch.

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Assistant Professor Mary AnnCordeau ’86 preserves nursinghistory by collecting artifactsincluding the antique dolls andfirst-edition book pictured.


Historical background has always fascinatedMary Ann (Urban) Cordeau ’86. “Not know-ing the history of something is like starting abook in the middle––there is no context tounderstand the story,” says the assistant pro-fessor of nursing.As a child, her curiosity for historical arti-

facts blossomed on her grandfather’s farm in Wolcott, Conn. “Theshed was filled with old stuff, which was junk to other people, but Iloved spending time there looking at all the treasures,” she explains.Today, she collects dolls, books, images and objects related to nurs-ing. She feels that it is important for her to preserve and share nurs-ing’s rich history.Her doll collection shows the evolution in nursing uniforms and

caps and gives insight into hownurses have been viewed over the years.She has a cherub-faced MadameAlexander doll with a white smock, acandy striper, and a Red Cross doll with a blue cape and the tradition-al red cross on its apron. The dolls fill a case and the shelves in heroffice, which also displays newspaper clippings and historic posters.Cordeau serves as co-curator of the Josephine A. Dolan Collection

at the University of Connecticut School of Nursing. She showed someof the items from the collection, including nursing uniforms, antiquebedpans and syringes, on “TheMartha Stewart Show” in 2008.Her collection of rare nursing textbooks begins with an 1804 edition

of instructions for nursing the sick and includes the 1860 first Ameri-can printing of FlorenceNightingale’s “Notes onNursing,” a CivilWarcollection of books and an 1885 edition of the first nursing textbookwritten by a nurse, ClaraWeeks. She named Quinnipiac’s first patientsimulator ClaraWeeks, and weaves her findings into her courses.While working on her dissertation on American CivilWar nursing,

Cordeau examined primary sources including letters, diaries, journals,reports, government records, art, as well as nursing, medical and allo-pathic textbooks. She unearthed the conditions and the intellectual,physical and spiritual challenges of providing nursing care during thatwar. Cordeau, who completed a doctorate in nursing from the Univer-sity of Connecticut, shared some of her findings on the experience ofcaring for soldiers during theAmerican CivilWar at theWomen’s Cre-ativity Conference in February at Quinnipiac.

Inmedical camps during the CivilWar, the humid air was thick withthe odor of spoiling food, human waste, decomposing horse carcassesand rotting flesh as hundreds—sometimes a thousand—soldiers layinjured and diseased.Despite the devastation, from 1861–65 approximately 9,000

women left their families and traveled south to become nurses andcare for the ill and wounded. They went for patriotic reasons andbecause they felt they had a calling, Cordeau says. They had no train-ing, and those who were familiar with healing practices of the daywere not familiar with bodily harm caused by “minie ball” rifle bulletsfirst used in this war.“These were very courageous women who stepped out of their nor-

mal roles to care for strange men in a strange place. Just as the soldiersweremarching off towar, sowere thewomen,” saysCordeau. She looksover at a glass case with some of her collection of nursing dolls dressedin pristine uniforms from several eras—a stark contrast to the difficultand harsh conditions she describes.The nurses endured the conditions because they had a sense of

patriotic duty, Cordeau explains. In a letter describing the amputatedlegs, arms, feet and hands that littered the ground around the amputa-tion table, nurse Sophronia Buckland stated, “They were strewnpromiscuously about—often a single one laying under our very feet.White and bloody, the stiffened members seemed to be clutching atour clothing.”EllaWolcott, a nurse, was one of the first to write about sanitation.

She observed how quickly disease spread when buckets and spongeswere shared. “They were unaware of the germ theory yet knew certainsigns and symptoms were ominous.They used scientific reasoning andtrial and error in caring for the soldiers,” Cordeau explains.Nurses often challenged authority—bucking their expected role as

women—to advocate for soldiers. Mary Newcomb, a nurse, oncerefused to allow a surgeon to cut off a soldier’s arm because she knewfrom experience that the arm could heal and that the young man wasat greater risk of infection and death with an amputation. Despite fac-ing a possible dismissal from duty, “Newcomb informed him, ‘As longas I am here, this arm stays,’” recounts Cordeau with a wide smile.Over her shoulder on a bookshelf, a framed quote states, “Well-

behaved women rarely make history.”MARKSTANCZAK

CARINGFOR HISTORY

Professor’s research and collections document evolution of nursing

BY ALE JANDRA NAVARRO

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catch?What’s the

Fishing fanatic makessplash in entrepreneurialwaters on Cape Cod

BY JANET WALDMAN


Tim Folan ’03 casts for stripersin Squeteague Harbor off BuzzardsBay. Inset, at left, he shows theQuinnipiac lure that sports theUniversity’s colors.D

ANIELFORSTER

Bad Fish store manager Chris Parisi, right, instructsa customer in the fine points of kayak fishing.

There may be plenty of fish in the sea, but somebait shops like to keep that a secret. Bad FishOutfitters in North Falmouth, Mass., is notamong them. Founders and fishing buddies TimFolan ’03 and KevinMalone know that the moretheir customers catch, the more bait and gearthey’ll need.

“Our approach separates us from the other, more unfriendly baitshops that won’t give you the time of day unless you’re a salty old regu-lar.We greet you with a smile, tell you about the tide and give you thelatest fishing report so you come back,” says Folan as he studies aMas-sachusetts coastal waters map spread on the shop’s counter.Located on the Cape’s Route 28A, the three-year-old shop’s dark-

shingled exterior looks like a cottage, but the fridge contains no eggsor milk. It’s crammed instead with crabs, eel, night crawlers and otherbait. Running water bathes a tank of eels and shiners nearby.Bad Fish does not fit the mold of “stinky bait shop,” according to

Folan. Customers will find fishing tackle, including homemade lures;shirts and hats with the Bad Fish logo; rods, reels and boating gear.The staff can repair your broken rod or sell you a shiny new one, andoutfit your new boat for fishing or get your old one seaworthy. BothFolan and Malone are willing to hop aboard to show you where thefish are.No boat?You can charter one of Bad Fish’s two vessels and choose

to fish the waters around Falmouth for striped bass and bluefish orhead offshore in search of shark, tuna and mahi mahi.“These offshore fish fight differently, swim faster and harder, and

you need to hunt them and know how they behave.” There is more

skill involved, more trial than error. “There are more thrills, andthere’s nothing like it,” Folan says. The largest shark he’s caughtweighed 450 pounds; the biggest fight he wagedwas with a 350-poundshark that hit him in the chest and left him battered.On this Saturday, the first day ofMay, Folan is off to hunt striper and

blackfish in Buzzard’s Bay. Aboard the Bad Fish, a 30-foot Cobra Cat,a blue panorama surrounds us. Cruising at 40miles per hour, the spark-ingwater blinds us and thewind pins us to our seats as we speed towardthe horizon in pursuit of the perfect fishing spot.Seagulls dive for baitfish as we circle the area, make some casts, and

continue our quest for more fertile waters. Randy Masters, anotherpartner of Folan’s, cuts the engine as we approach a small fleet of boats.Folan’s body sways slightly as he grabs the marine radio.“I don’t see any bent rods here, Kev, how about where you are?”

Folan queries. Malone is also somewhere in the bay aboard the Dia-blo, a 28-foot Carolina Classic. Both Folan and Malone go fishing asoften as they can. “It’s important. People want to hear that we wereout yesterday catching fish––it adds to our credibility.”Folan often logs 12-hour days, but he confesses that it sure doesn’t

feel like work.“We take a more proactive approach to the customer,” says Mas-

ters, hands on the wheel and eyes scanning the water for fish schoolsboiling to the surface.Store manager Chris Parisi is minding the shop meanwhile and

preparing for a late-morning seminar on kayak fishing. Free Bad FishSaturday seminars educate fledgling fishing enthusiasts in trollingand bait-rigging techniques, knot tying, surf fishing, bottom fishing,cooking and cleaning your catch, among other topics.

DANIELFORSTER


Lures of all sizes in sherbet colors of raspberry, orange and lime givethe shop a festive atmosphere. Parisi even fashioned a blue and yellowlure in honor of Quinnipiac. It’s designed to catch sea bass once apiece of squid is attached. Hanging spreader bars and daisy chainscatch the eye. They are designed to resemble a school of bait fish andconsist of about 30 rubber faux fish connected with nylon netting.Fishermen sling the contraptions over the side of a boat to fool mahimahi and marlin into sensing that easy prey is within reach.

Rather be fishin’Folan, a native of Mansfield, Mass., moved home after graduatingwith a marketing degree and took a job selling medical software. Onweekends, he’d fish withMalone and they’d dream about turning theirhobby into a business. Folan’s mother owns a summer home in NewSilver Beach, near North Falmouth, so he was familiar with the area.On a fishing excursion in 2004, he andMalone discovered the thrill

of offshore fishing. “We were out for a while, and zero was happening.We were bored, and then all of a sudden, a blue shark showed up andfought us for half an hour.We caught it and released it, but the chumin thewater attracted others, andwe caught about 50 that day,” he said.The guys were hooked.The dream moved closer to reality one sunny fall day in 2006 as

Folan sat at his computer at work. “I found myself staring out thewindow at the guy mowing the lawn, and I was jealous. I wanted tobe outdoors. It was depressing.”

Folan began to develop a business and marketing plan anddesigned a logo. The partners applied for a Small Business Adminis-tration loan. The shop opened in 2007, and Masters and Eric Kraus,an avid fisherman, joined as partners later.Dave Peros, a Falmouth-area professional fishing guide and newspa-

per columnist who frequents Bad Fish Outfitters, says he continues tobe impressedwith Folan’s knowledge of fishing and howwilling he is tolearnmore about the sport. “His strengths are his fantastic personalityand his rapport with customers. He treats them all with the sameenthusiasm and is willing to help everyone enjoy fishing,” Peros said.Besides serving as charter boat hosts and fishing guides, Folan and

Malone enjoy organizing fishing tournaments. They are particularlyproud of the Bad Fish/PAL Tournament and the Falmouth OffshoreGrand Prix, the only International Game Fish Association qualifyingtournament in theNortheast. Folan and Parisi also have taught fishingskills to Boy Scouts earning merit badges.In the off-season, the Bad Fish staff attends trade and boat shows

and concentrates on producing merchandise and filling online orders,which have been brisk, as it’s always fishing season somewhere. “Incountries like Costa Rica, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Aus-tralia, the fishing season is fantastic during our off months, and thesemarkets are in need of quality tackle,” Folan says.

Quite the catchOnMay 8, Folan was “reeled in” by his longtime girlfriend, Molly, whobecame his bride in a ceremony on Nantucket, Mass. His new wife, aconference producer with Wellesley Information Services, does notfish but enjoys boating. The couple recently vacationed in Costa Rica,whereMalone has built a home and purchased a boat.Abed and break-fast and charter operation there is in the works, Folan says.Masters steers the Bad Fish into Squeteague Harbor, where a stone

bridge and stately homes create a feast for the eyes. Stripers and blue-fish inhabit this area. Casting again, Folan muses about his decision tobecome an entrepreneur. “Idid not want to regret nottaking the opportunity todo something I love.”Somebody gets a bite,

but the fish escapes. In fish-ing, as in life, there are noguarantees. Today, the fishwere hiding. The next day,they were biting. The BadFish website attests to theirprowess as guides withmany photos of smiling cus-tomers displaying theircatches.Fishing folks will tell you

there is no catch to a greatday on the water. “And that’swhy they call it fishing, notcatching,” quips Masters ashe turns the boat aroundand heads for the dock.

Folan checks rod inventory at hisNorth Falmouth, Mass., bait shop.

Sam McSherry’s striped bass wasthe largest fish caught in the PALFishing Tournament organizedrecently by Bad Fish Outfitters.

JOHN

HASSETT


Becky (Olsen) Frost ’05, MAT ’06 has a traditionalclassroom with colorful posters, a white boardand desks sized for third-grade bodies atHighland Elementary School in Cheshire, Conn.Her teaching methods, as well as her role as ateacher, however, are anything but traditional.“Now, everything is very student-driven,” explains

Frost, who doesn’t rely on rigid curriculum and textbooks that oncedrove classroom instruction. She and her colleagues, for example, mayuse “constructivist” learning theory. Students learn throughexperiences. Instead of teaching a method to solve a problem, thestudents explore and sometimes collaborate to discover solutions withthe teacher’s guidance, Frost explains.New teaching methods require a little more creativity—and

training. Teachers are turning to each other to unearth the best waysto instruct.“We talk a lot about what makes good curricula,” says Frost, who

has taught in Cheshire for four years. Today, teachers are assumingroles and responsibilities that traditionally have been handled byschool administrators.More often, teachers are mentoring new teachers, giving

professional development presentations in their specialty areas andleading special academic programs to boost student achievement.Frost has a master’s degree in elementary education, and is a studentin Quinnipiac’s sixth-year diploma in educational leadershipprogram with the hope of becoming a principal or schooladministrator.Teachers who enjoy these added responsibilities, but want to remain

in the classroom now have the option to earn a master of science inteacher leadership at Quinnipiac. The School of Education developed

Third-grade teacher Becky(Olsen) Frost ’05, MAT ’06,works with a student atHighland School inCheshire, Conn.

TAKING THELEAD

Teacher leadership graduate degreegives educators advancement opportunities

BY ALE JANDRA NAVARRO


the teacher leadership program to give educators more administrativeexpertise based on their classroom experience.“Our schools have become more complex,” explains Gary Alger,

assistant professor of education and director of the educationalleadership and teacher leadership programs. “There’s a movement todistribute some of this administrative work, particularly workinvolving the coordination and management of the instructionalprogram, to many in the teaching ranks.”Teachers who specialize in a subject, such asmath or science, often

have master’s degrees in these areas. The master’s in teacherleadership gives educators skills to build better schools.The programfocuses on transforming school culture, improving student learning,teaching best practices in literacy instruction, embracing diversityand leading school improvement.“We want to have people lead with vision, and understand how to

motivate everyone to achieve common goals focused on improvingstudent learning,” says Alger. The program will begin this fall onlineto be convenient for working teachers and available to a nationalaudience.The teacher leadership movement began about 15 to 20 years ago,

as schools worked to close the student achievement gaps, he says.The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 increased the pressure onschools to have all students reach proficiency in core subject areas orface stiff penalties, including being taken over. Improving studentachievement requires an extensive amount of administrative work,including developing curriculum and programs, analyzing assess-ments and refining teaching skills.“Principals could not possibly achieve what needs to be done

without the help of teachers,” Alger explains. “They are an untappedresource, especially in improving the instructional program.”

In addition to informal, volunteer teacher leadership positions,more paid positions are available. Alger says the Connecticut Boardof Education has proposed requiring a certificate, beginning 2014,for any teacher assuming a leadership role for more than 40 percentof the day, which the master’s degree would fulfill.Alger says it’s ideal to tap teachers for leadership positions because

they are good liaisons between the administration and the teachingstaff, and are trusted by their colleagues. Teachers also understandthe social, economic and cultural backgrounds of the students thataffect academic achievement, and they have experienced classroomchallenges. Providing experienced teachers with an opportunity tohold leadership roles also helps schools retain these valuableeducators. A master’s degree in teacher leadership has becomedesirable as a way to expand on how teachers can contribute beyondthe classroom.Lindsey Marut, a second-grade teacher at Highland, says she can

see the advantages of the teacher leadership degree, especially asteachers continue to facilitate discussions about teaching methods.“In curriculum development, the teacher leader is able to do much

of the investigating and research that we don’t have time to do,” saysMarut, who has a master’s in elementary education. She’s in thesixth-year diploma in educational leadership program at Quinnipiacto become a reading specialist.In the spring, Marut gave a presentation to her colleagues about

using inferences to teach reading, which encourages students to useclues from a story to understand the meaning of the words.“Lindsey has a passion for reading and she presented a great

workshop,” Frost says. Instead of spending money on experts forprofessional development, “We’re using the talent we have at theschool.”

Pictured l-r, Becky (Olsen) Frost ’05, MAT ’06, Jessica (Dempsey) Boutilier ’04,MAT ’05, and Lindsey Marut from Highland School, are among the many teacherstaking leadership roles that expand on their classroom expertise.


JAMIE

DELOMA

IN PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

FACULTY alienation, and the middle class. Magnarelli’sinterest in theater began with a project tocompare narrative and theater. After com-pleting a book on familial metaphors used inMexican andArgentine theater, she decidedto concentrate exclusively onArgentine the-ater for her next book on the use of space intheatrical productions.Magnarelli’s involvement in theater

has introduced her to a new, innovativegeneration of artists. “Most of the play-wrights I’m working with now direct theirown plays, and I get to go to rehearsals andsee how all sorts of decisions are made.It’s exciting to see how they use space inthe theater. Sometimes they use it to makesure we know it’s theater, make believe,and sometimes it’s set up to make usforget that.”But she cautions that the term “Spanish-

America” can suggest a homogeneity thatsimply does not exist. “Although they sharea language to some degree, the cultures ofthe various countries can differ consider-ably. For example, the culture of Argentinaand that of a Central-American country oreven Mexico, are worlds apart.”Magnarelli is immersed in more than one

research project at a time, and each influ-ences the others in unexpected ways. Shecurrently is working on a project onArgentine theater, completing a paper ondocumentary theater that she will presentat an international conference in the fall,and finalizing two other articles that takeher back to two authors she has worked onsince the beginning of her career: DonosoandValenzuela. That eclecticism is reflect-ed in her teaching at Quinnipiac. In herwords, she teaches, “de todo un poco—a little of everything.” Her courses are asdiverse as contemporary theater written inSpanish at one extreme and “Don Quijote”at the other.Magnarelli’s roots are very “un-Spanish.”

Born in Seneca Falls, N.Y., she completedher undergraduate work at SUNY-Oswego,taught high school Spanish near Syracuseand earned her doctorate from Cornell. Sheis married to Louis Magnarelli, who has adoctoral degree in medical entomology andis director of the Connecticut AgriculturalExperiment Station.“The irony,” she says, “is that I went to

college as a math major but soon becamemore interested in Spanish literature.”

Scholarship recognized

Some of the greatest authors in theworld are almost unknown tomanyAmericans. Howmany haveread Jorge Luis Borges, JulioCortázar, LuisaValenzuela,

Gabriel GarcíaMárquez or IsabelAllende?Their works are rich in their description of

the human experience, according toProfessor SharonMagnarelli, chair of mod-ern languages.The common thread is that allof them are from SouthAmerican countries.To appreciate their works, Magnarelli says

Americans first must open their eyes toother countries. “Our perception of SouthAmerican countries and their literature is allwrong. I suppose it’s our commercialismthat’s at fault.When people travel, theydon’t really want to experience anythingnew,” she says. “They just want a cute spin

on what’s already familiar—‘take me to anAmerican chain to have a hamburger andfrench fries with a Coca-Cola.’”Magnarelli is an international figure in

Spanish-American narrative and drama and aconfidant to many authors and playwrights.She is also the author of four books andmorethan 90 articles.This spring, she was nameda recipient of the University’s Scholar of theYear award for the College ofArts andSciences. She previously received a FulbrightFellowship and theArmandoDiscépoloPrize for Excellence inTheater Research,awarded byGrupo de Estudios de TeatroArgentino e Iberoamericano in BuenosAires,Argentina.Her earlier research in literature concen-

trated on narrative, notably José Donoso,who writes about the disintegrating family,

Professor fosters appreciation of Spanish literature By Lawrence Mohr

Professor SharonMagnarelli received aScholar of the Year award.


STUDENTS

MARKSTANCZAK

Corporate culture lesson

The task seemed daunting atfirst: Present your findings toa large group of strangers atthe prestigious Academy ofInternational Business’

Northeast chapter’s annual conference.WhenAnthony DeTurris ’10, Matthew

Weiss ’10 and Kailey Maher ’10, took theirturns, they saw a much smaller crowd thanthey anticipated sitting before them in aroom comparable in size to Quinnipiac’sMancheski Executive Seminar Room.“We were a little relieved at first,” said

DeTurris of the event that took place lastOctober on the campus of the NewYorkInstitute ofTechnology in NewYork City.“It was a lot more personal, a lot of Q-and-A, and a lot more interactive.”DeTurris andWeiss gave a 10-minute

PowerPoint presentation on their paper,“Consumer Perception of Corporate SocialResponsibility: ACross CulturalComparison Between Germany and theUSA,” while Maher presented the materialfrom her co-authored work, “BusinessStudents’ Perception of Corporate SocialResponsibility: ACross CulturalComparison of France and Germany.”

Maher had written the paper along withEhren Schneller ’10 and NickAlvanos ’09.DeTurris, who received his international

business degree inMay, remembered howeveryone—MBAstudents, doctoral studentsand professors—made a point of talking tothem during a post-presentation reception.Their moment in the academic spotlight

served as an impressive ending to an experi-ence that began in the spring of 2009 as partof a European Union business studies classtaught by Professor Mohammad Elahee.Corporate social responsibility became a

hot-button topic after a series of scandalsbroke in the early portion of the last decade,beginning with the Enron fiasco in 2001,Elahee said. “We started actually integratingcorporate social responsibility into our cur-riculum long before it became fashionable,”Elahee added.The professor said most papers published

before 2000 focused on corporate socialresponsibility practices in the United States,but not in other countries.The students spent about 10 weeks

researching their papers during the classbefore heading with Elahee to Europe forthree weeks, beginning at the end of May2009.They spent extensive time both at theESC Rennes School of Business in Rennes,France, and Otto-von-Guericke UniversityinMagdeburg, Germany, west of Berlin.As part of their research, DeTurris and

Weiss administered questionnaires, whichhad been translated into German, to theGerman business school students. Theiranswers then were compared with theresponses gathered earlier from School ofBusiness students at Quinnipiac using a scalethat measured their aptitude toward corpo-rate social responsibility. Their paperexpounded on four levels of corporate socialresponsibility that were initially the focus ofa 2001 paper written by Isabelle Maignan, aprofessor of corporate compliance at theFree University inAmsterdam: economy,legality, ethics and philanthropy. They

addressed what Elahee referred to as “gaps”in her research in relation to undergraduatebusiness students.“The papers really established a link

between culture, ethics and social responsi-bility,” Elahee said. “They showed how ourcultural values impact our ethical orienta-tion and socially responsible behavior.”

Students present papers on social responsibility By Stephen P. Schmidt

Corporate social responsibility became a hot-buttontopic after a series of scandals broke in the earlyportion of the last decade.—MOHAMMAD ELAHEE

Anthony DeTurris ‘10

Mohammad Elahee, left,and Matthew Weiss ‘10


Richard Buckholz ’88Men’s Ice HockeyRick Buckholz was a four-year member ofthe men’s ice hockey team, from 1983–87. Heholds the all-time single-game records forgoals and points. He totaled six goals, themost in school history, against Scranton onFeb. 21, 1987, after totaling eight pointsagainst Lehigh on Jan. 28, 1986. Buckholzsits in third place all-time in goals in a season(31), and in fifth place all-time with 76 careergoals. His 126 career points put him in a tiefor 15th all-time.

Michael Buscetto ’93Men’s BasketballMike Buscetto finished as one of the great-est point guards in school history. Buscettowas the all-time assists leader with 624helpers—a mark that stands today. In addi-tion, he also broke the single-season, three-point field goals record and ranks eighth all-time in that category. Buscetto ranks in theTop 20 in career points with 1,165, secondall-time in steals with 195, and also compiledthe top two, and three of the top 10, single-season assist totals.

Catie Canetti ’00, MS ’02Field HockeyA four-year member of the field hockeyteam, Catie Canetti was named FemaleAth-lete of theYear after earningAll-NortheastConference honors after her junior season in1999; she earnedAll-Region honors as well.She was named to theAll-NEC team twiceand earnedAll-Region honors in her finaltwo seasons. Canetti graduated as the all-time leader in goals (30) and points (69). Sheheld single-season records with 13 goals in1999, while also totaling 33 points. She cur-rently ranks second in career goals andpoints, while her single-season goal and

point totals also stand second all-time.Canetti also played two seasons for thewomen’s lacrosse team.

Chris Cerrella ’01Men’s Ice HockeyChris Cerrella, who played from 1997–2001,is Quinnipiac’s all-time leading scorer. Hemade an immediate impact as a freshman,scoring 32 goals while assisting on 34 morefor 66 points. His first-year totals standtoday as program records. A two-timeAll-MAACHockey FirstTeam selection in2000 and 2001, Cerrella holds the record forgoals (99) and points (205) in a career and isthe only player in QUDivision I history toscore four goals in a game. Playing his finalthree years at the Division I level, Cerrellaholds the University’s Division I record forcareer goals (67) and points (149), while his72 assists ranked second.

Colleen Dooley ’01Women’s LacrosseIn 2001, Colleen Dooley finished her careerat Quinnipiac as the program’s all-timeleader in goals (84), assists (29) and points(113). In addition, she was one of two playersto score 20 goals and 30 points twice in afour-year career. A two-timeAll-NEC selec-tion, Dooley was the leading scorer for mostof her career in the early stages of Quinnipi-ac’s Division I history. She became the firstwomen’s lacrosse player at Quinnipiac toscore in her first seven collegiate games, win-ningAthlete of theMonth honors.

Queen (Edwards) Smith ’96Women’s BasketballQueen Edwards’ successful career culminat-ed in 1995 with 1,207 points, 594 rebounds,476 assists and 394 steals. She ranks in Quin-nipiac’sAll-TimeTop 10 in all categories

today.After serving as a reserve as a fresh-man, starting in just seven of 27 games,Edwards cracked the starting lineup as asophomore and started 74 of her final 76games. That season, she scored a career-high451 points for a 16.7 per-game average, whilealso collecting a career-best 156 assists. Shewas a three-yearAll-Northeast-10 Confer-ence selection, while also earning DefensivePlayer of theYear honors twice.

Lou Iannotti ’82BaseballAs a four-year starter, Lou Iannotti ledQuinnipiac to the first NCAADivision IIRegional Tournament in the school’s history.Following a successful freshman campaignthat saw Iannotti lead the team in triples (3),he also was tops in the most offensive cate-gories over his final three seasons. In 1982,he was selected to the Division IIAll-NewEnglandAll-StarTeam as well as the GreaterNewHaven Diamond ClubAll-Collegeteam. His 15 career triples stand today as theprogram record.

Steve Kulpa ’93BaseballSecond baseman Steve Kulpa was the first toreach the 200-hit mark—his 201 career hitswere a record in 1993 and rank fourth today.He also broke the record for doubles (40),while ranking among the top three in careerhome runs (19) and runs batted in (137).Kulpa was a four-timeAll-Northeast-10 Con-ference andAll-New England Region hon-oree, and also earned Northeast-10 Confer-ence Rookie of theYear honors in 1990. Hewas the only Division II player chosen forthe New England College BaseballAll-StarGame for four straight years. In 1993, he washonored with the Edwin L. SteckAward andwas the QuinnipiacMaleAthlete of theYear.

Athletic Hall of FameInductees 2010Quinnipiac will induct 14 individuals and two teams into itsAthletic Hall of Fame onOct. 9

duringHomecomingWeekend.An induction brunch will take place at 11 a.m. at theTDBank Sports Center. Cost is $45 for adults and $12 for children, age 12 and under.

Register online at www.quinnipiac.edu/events.xml or call 203-582-8610 for more information.


Roland Lavallee ’01Men’s Cross Country/TrackRoland Lavallee enjoyed a storied career atQuinnipiac as a member of the men’s crosscountry team. In 1997 he was named North-east-10 Conference Runner of theYearwhen, as a freshman, he won the NE-10Championship while setting a course recordat the Catamount Family Course. That year,he was named the Quinnipiac Freshman oftheYear and in 1997-98, was named theQuinnipiac MaleAthlete of theYear.Lavallee was a two-time Northeast-10 FirstTeam Selection and two-timeAll-NortheastConference FirstTeam selection. He alsowon the Division II New England Champi-onship with a course record time in 1997.

Patrick Nguyen ’97Men’s TennisPatrick Nguyen holds the distinction ofbeing the first Quinnipiac men’s tennisplayer to reach 100 wins for his career. In afour-year span that saw him compete atNo. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles each year,Nguyen posted a 101–36 combined record,good for a .731 win percentage. He ledQuinnipiac to its first Northeast Confer-ence Championship in six seasons withwins at No. 1 singles and doubles in 1997,earning him NE-10 Player of theYear hon-ors. Nguyen was a two-timeAll-Northeast-10 Conference selection and a two-yearcaptain for the men’s tennis team that wona then-program record 18 matches in 1997.

Sharon Polastry ’98Women’s SoccerSharon Polastry became the first player inNE-10 history to be named Freshman andPlayer of theYear on her way to earningAll-America Honorable Mention andNSCAA/ UmbroAll-Northeast honors.In addition, she broke the single-seasonrecords for goals, assists and points, andwas the first player in Quinnipiac historyto tally three assists in a game. In her sec-ond season, she was the first sophomore inNortheast-10 Conference and Quinnipiachistory to pass 100 career points. She fin-ished her four-year career as both theQuinnipiac and the Northeast-10 Confer-ence all-time leader in goals (77) and points(176), while also ranking among the all-timeleaders in career assists (22). She also hasthe two highest single-season goal andpoint totals of all time.

Julie (Smith) Ryan ’02Field HockeyJulie Smith played field hockey for Quin-nipiac from 1998–2002. She finished hercareer ranked among the all-time leaders ingoals (24), assists (14) and points (62). In2001, she broke the single-season goalsmark with 15 tallies for the year. Her 35points that season still hold as the all-timesingle-season best and helped Quinnipiacgo to the Northeast Conference Tourna-ment Championship in 2001. That seasonshe also was named NEC Field HockeyPlayer of theWeek twice as she led theNortheast Conference in goals and pointswhile ranking among the national leaders inboth categories.

Joe Trimarchi ’98Men’s BasketballIn Joe Trimarchi’s four-year career, he start-ed in 101 of his 105 games. Trimarchi wascharacterized as a “workhorse” and in morethan 3,400 minutes played at a variety ofpositions, he never fouled out. He finishedhis career averaging 12.3 points, 2.6 assistsand 1.3 steals, as well as 4.1 rebounds pergame and was Quinnipiac’s career leader inthree-point field goals made with 237. In1995, his 167 field goals broke Quinnipiac’ssingle-season record for three-pointers. Healso finished his career ranked 11th incareer points (1,293), sixth in steals (136)and 11th in assists (274).

LindaWoosterAthletic AdministratorLindaWooster served in Athletics from1984 until her retirement in 2009. She wascoordinator of women’s athletics, assistantathletic director, an associate professor ofphysical education and sports informationdirector. In her last role, as the associateathletic director of athletics and recreation,she oversaw recreation on campus, theUniversity’s fitness center, intramurals,physical education, evening recreation andspecial events. In 2005, she received theUniversity’s Excellence Award for Serviceto Students. She was inducted into theConnecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame in2006 and the Connecticut High SchoolCoaches’ Association Hall of Fame in 2004.

2000Women’s Soccer TeamIn 2000, the women’s soccer team posted a13–6–1 record, winning eight of its last 10games heading into the NortheastConference Tournament. The Bobcatsblanked Long Island and Monmouth to winthe NECTournament before defeatingLoyola (Md.) in overtime to advance to theNCAADivision I women’s soccer firstround. Roster: JaymeAlambra, Dana Blom,Lauren Carmody, Rachel DeCastro,Theresa Domingo, Mary Kate Galusha,Melissa Ganias, Elisa Goncalves, JillGregoire, Lisa Horowitz, Alison Jaquith,Meghan Kennedy, Megan Knapp, LinneaLampe, Christine LaVallee, Jenna Lawless,Chandra Manuelpillai, Kristin Marcous,Jen Monaco, Renee Morin, Katie Nelsonand Kristin Rathbone. Dave Clarke, headcoach, and Megan Schuck, assistant coach.

1993–94Women’s Tennis TeamIn 1993, the women’s tennis team won its firstNortheast-10 Conference Regular-SeasonChampionship, the first of four.That year,at 12–1 overall, including a perfect 9–0markagainst NE-10 schools, Quinnipiac alsoadvanced to theNCAADivision II EastRegionals for the first time. Roster: Jill (Avis)Burger, Rachael (Barry) Doherty, ReneeBulman-Allen, Meghan Cahillane, Sarah(Giannuzzi) Ciofrone, NicoleManglass, RianMcManus, JenNoonan, Paula (Rembac)Miller, Jodi (Robidoux) Smigelski, JenniferScarano, Erin (Wharton)Walsh and CarolWiltshire. Mike Quitko, head coach, andKeithWoodward, assistant coach.

PatrickNguyen ’97

as the director of COFASA, a tradingcompany that has operations in theU.S., Peru, Colombia and Mexico.Sharon (Rosenblatt) Halperin ofChapel Hill, NC, is a board memberof the Eastern North Carolina Chap-ter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society.She is the founder and former co-chair of the women’s philanthropydivision of the Durham-Chapel HillJewish Federation.Richard Rochefort has retiredfrom BASF Corporation after morethan 30 years in the chemical indus-try. Richard lives with his wife, Anita,in AnnArbor, MI.

78 Janice (Ziembroski) Kenney is anexperienced dog groomer who worksat All About the Dog Grooming inFairfield, CT. She also breeds andshows dogs. She lives in Monroe, CT,with her four dachshunds and adoberman.

79 David Reynolds received the Dis-tinguished Alumni Award at Quin-nipiac’sWinter Homecoming cele-bration in February 2010. He is aprincipal with Konowitz, Kahn &Co., P.C., a public accountant and acertified fraud examiner.

80 Jean (Coleman) Jackson has beenappointed vice president of commer-cial lending for Rockland Trust’sLending Center in Hyannis, MA.She lives in Duxbury, MA.

81 Allen Ciociola of Branford, CT, hasjoined Citizens Bank in New Havenas a mortgage loan officer. He volun-teers with Habitat for Humanity.

82 Paula (Tomasetti) DominickofWilton, CT, received theDistinguished Alumni Award atQuinnipiac’sWinter Homecomingcelebration in February 2010. She isthe director, global markets/banking

67 Joseph Pelaccia of Orange, CT, hasbeen named president of MilfordHospital. He is on the board oftrustees and chairman of the auditcommittee of The Milford Bank. Heis treasurer of the Milford Columbus500 Committee, a member of thefinancial oversight committee of theConnecticut Hospital Association,a member of the CHACouncil ofFinance, treasurer of Home CarePlus and a member of the CHAAdHoc Committee on the Status of theHealthcareWorkforce Shortage. Heis also an accomplished pianist.

69 Eugene Singer of Branford, CT,received the Outstanding Service

Award at Quinnipiac’sWinterHomecoming celebration in Feb-ruary 2010. He is a certified publicaccountant and owns his own firm inNorth Haven, CT.Robert Switz received the Distin-guishedAlumniAward at Quinnipi-ac’sWinter Homecoming celebrationin February 2010. He is the chairman,president and CEO ofADCTelecom-munications Inc. in Minneapolis,MN. He lives inWayzata, MN.

72 Paul Prokaw of Miller Place, NY,owns an audio/video productioncompany and writes original musicfor television. He and his wife,Nancy, have two children, Julia, 18,and Ben, 13.

74 Casimir Grygorcewicz wasinducted into the New EnglandBasketball Hall of Fame in October2009 for his collegiate coachingexperience at Mitchell College andCommunity College of RI. He livesin Norwich, CT.Edward Roulhac of Blue Bell, PA,is principal of Frederick DouglassK–8 School in Philadelphia, PA.

75 Robert Butler of Nacogdoches, TX,owned and operated a 63-acre poul-try farm and cattle business for 17years before returning to college toearn a teaching degree. He nowteaches 10th-grade world history.He and his wife, Sarah, have

three grown children and twograndchildren.Joan (Darcy) Juba of Carteret, NJ,is a medical laboratory technologist,specializing in chemistry. Last year,she traveled to Ireland with her sis-ter, fulfilling a lifelong dream.

76 Raphael Castaldi ofWesterly, RI,owns Castaldi Financial Solutions,Inc. He is a wealth manager/retire-ment planner. He is studying tobecome a deacon for the Diocese ofProvidence. He and his wife, Sandy,have been married for more than 30years and have three children.

77 Hugo Galarza is working and livingin Lima, Peru, andWethersfield, CT,


Arthur Rice ’73 of Fort Lauderdale, FL,has been elected to the board of trusteesfor the Miami Art Museum. He is apartner in the firm Rice Pugatch Robinson& Schiller, P.A.


SARAHPUTNAM

Quinnipiac taught him to hustle By Alejandra Navarro

As a Quinnipiac tennis player, Brooks Marston ’87was never a candidate for the most valuableplayer award. Marston was the player who—evenwhen playing a formidable opponent or trailingin a match—never gave up. This attitude won

him then-coach Bill Mecca’s “Hustle Award”—twice.“I was never going to be the best player on our team, but

I could try to outwork everyone,” says Marston, who wascaptain of the tennis team his senior year. “I didn’t have thetalent, but being the best teammate and the hardest workerwere things I could control. It’s exactly the same mentalitythat will make you a success—or a failure—at work.”It’s just one of the lessons he learned from Mecca and

Burt Kahn, who served as the tennis coach for ayear, and one he recently shared with Quinnipiacstudents at the School of Business Career Day inBoston, Mass. His mentors’ emphasis onmaintaining a positive attitude and strong workethic guided him through his college years andhelped him advance his career in the brokeragebusiness. Today, Marston is director of the Bostonregional office for Pershing LLC, a BNY MellonCompany, and the world’s largest clearing firm forfinancial securities transactions and global custody.After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in inter-

national business, Marston became a trader atFidelity Investments. He worked there for eightyears before joining Pershing in 1993. With theexception of two years when he returned to Fidelityas senior vice president of its institutional brokeragegroup, he’s been with Pershing since. At Pershing,Marston is in charge of customer relationships andbusiness development for the Northeast. In addition,he chairs the online brokers and e-solutions cus-tomer segment.When he pitches Pershing to a prospective client,

he touts the dedication and teamwork that hasbrought his firm success. He tells potential clients:“We will outwork our competitors.” According toMarston, “This is the daily hustle award that startedwith what coach Mecca established as a goal over20 years ago.”Marston enjoys returning to Quinnipiac, where he

met his wife Terri (McGroary) Marston ’84 in hisfreshman year. The couple married in 1988. Terrigraduated with a BS in mass communications andworked in advertising and public relations beforefocusing on raising their three sons: Grant, 19, JB,18, and Hunter, 13. This fall, Grant will return toQuinnipiac as a junior management major and JBwill join his brother as a freshman studyingcommunications. Next season, Grant, a midfielder,

and JB, a defenseman, will play lacrosse for coach EricFekete.The boys being at QU has given the Marstons the

opportunity to run into college friends, including Mecca. InMay, Marston brought clients to play in the 19th annual BillyMecca Roundball Open. “We bring the overall score for thetournament way up, but our clients love the event.”Marston continues to hit the tennis courts. Eight years

ago, the couple purchased a 200-year-old former historicinn in Duxbury, Mass. The colonial home is charming, but itwas the red clay tennis court that sealed the deal.“We bought a tennis court with a house attached,”

Marston jokes.

Brooks Marston 87

The Marston family,from left: Grant, Hunter,JB, Brooks ’87, and Terri(McGroary) Marston ’84.

compliance for Bank of AmericaMerrill Lynch.

83 Deborah (Whitaker) Aminireceived her doctor of educationfrom North Carolina State Universi-ty in May 2010. Her dissertation,“An Exploratory Study of the Profes-sional Beliefs and Practice Choicesof Novice Occupational TherapyAssistants,” received the outstandingdissertation award through theNCSU department of education.Debbie is the program director ofthe Cape Fear Community CollegeOTAprogram inWilmington, NC,where she lives. She is also the chair-elect of the AOTACommission onPractice.Robert Moore of Fairfield, CT,received a DistinguishedAlumniAward at Quinnipiac’sWinterHomecoming celebration in Febru-ary 2010. He was recently namedthe chair of the School of HealthSciences Advisory Board.

85 Donna (LeFrancois) Patton ofGuilford, CT, has joined The PertGroup, a research-based consultinggroup, as group director.

87 Richard Pepe is senior vicepresident of technology at Bank ofAmerica located in Providence, RI.He lives inWakefield, RI.

88 Dyann (Savo) Vissicchio of NorthHaven, CT, was elected to the NorthHaven Board of Finance for a four-year term.

90 Jason Levy ’90, MBA ’92, ofWilton, CT, was sworn in as a policeofficer in Greenwich, CT. He iscompleting a 26-week training pro-gram at the Police Academy inMeriden, CT.John Loyer ofWatertown, CT, is arespiratory therapist for J&LMedicalServices in Middleburg. In Decem-ber 2009, the American Associationfor Respiratory Care presented himwith the Invacare Award for Excel-

lence in Home Respiratory Care inSanAntonio, TX.Simone Morris is a digital technol-ogy specialist at Diageo in Norwalk,CT, where she lives. In May, shereceived the Diversity Best Practicesorganization’s 2010 Network andAffinity Leadership Congress Above& BeyondAward for her work aschair of the African HeritageEmployees at Diageo EmployeeResource Group.Richard Simione of Southington,CT, is a business development

manager for Ford Motor CreditCompany. The National MultipleSclerosis Society has named him a2009 MS Corporate Achiever. Hewas one of only 20 business leadersrecognized.

91 Michele (DeNuzzo) Loughlin is atax director specializing in estate andtrust planning at Blum Shapiro & Co.inWest Hartford, CT. She lives inHigganum, CT, with her husband,Rob, and their daughter, Ava.JohnMeuser ’91, JD ’97, of


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Houston, TX, was selected to begin athree-year term as secretary of theCollege and University ProfessionalAssociation for Human Resources-Western Region. He is the directorof human resources at the Universityof St. Thomas in Houston.

92 Christopher Canetti, chief operat-ing officer of the Houston Dynamo,was named in March as one of Sports-Business Journal/Daily’s 2010 FortyUnder 40, a list of the most promis-ing young executives in the sportsbusiness. He lives in Houston, TX.

93 Thomas Johnson and his wife, Katy,announce the birth of their son,OwenThomas, on Nov. 10, 2009.Thomas is vice president of qualityassurance at Covidien, a medicaldevice/pharmaceutical company. Thefamily lives in Jamestown, RI.Jodi Pellegrino of Riverside, CT,is an associate tax counsel withNestle USA, Inc.

96 KathleenAbel received a master’sdegree in educational counseling fromMonmouth University onMay 29,2009. One month later she gave birthto a baby boy, Jackson David Shea.Wesley Benbow, MBA ’96, ofWestwood, MA, has been appointedassociate dean for finance and chieffinancial officer for Harvard MedicalSchool.Richard Madonna of Branford,CT, is a certified fraud examiner.David Pepsoski, MAT ’96, ofWaterbury, CT, was appointed assis-tant principal atWhisconier MiddleSchool in Brookfield, CT.Michelle (Porro) Sweeney andher husband, James, announce thebirth of a daughter, Elizabeth Anne,on Sept. 24, 2009. The family lives inNorwood, MA.

97 Maritza Bella-Reiss and her hus-band, Jonathan, announce the birthof their first child, Maxwell Alexan-der, on Nov. 7, 2009. The family livesin Stamford, CT.


Raising awareness of rare bone disorder By Janet Waldman

Holly Pullano 06

Holly Pullano ’06 once considered herself shy. In school, shewas hesitant to speak up in class. Her rare medical conditionchanged all that.In 2005, she spoke on Capitol Hill to a roomful of senators,

legislative aides and others about the importance of allocat-ing funds for the research of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a rarebone disorder that affects one in 2 million.Pullano, of North Haven, Conn., was diagnosed at age 16 with the chron-

ic, genetic condition that causes soft tissue to transform to bone. “Thebone grows in places it shouldn’t and can lock up joints, tendons or liga-ments forever,” she says. “There is no cure and no stopping it.”Pullano, 29, was interviewed for a March National Geographic TV docu-

mentary titled, “Rare Anatomy: Bones.” While most FOP victims are diag-nosed as infants, Pullano had no symptoms until she was a high schoolsophomore. Although FOP has deprived her of some life experiences, it’sgiven her others.“I don’t let it define my life,” says the marketing manager at Banton

Construction in North Haven. The journalism major writes brochures,marketing materials and Web content.Some days, a range of motion restriction is the only reminder Pullano

has FOP. Occasionally there are flareups, during which she can observebone rising under her skin. Once the swelling subsides, a bony ridgeremains. A bump or fall could spark a flareup, so she must be careful.Her Washington, D.C., speaking engagement came when she served on

the board of the International Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Asso-ciation several years ago. In addition to raising awareness, she mentorsyoung people living with the disorder. Because only 300 people in the U.S.have FOP, victims can feelisolated. Pullano spoke inCalifornia last summer ata workshop for teens withFOP. She encouragedthem to build a communi-ty on Facebook.“It can be a huge relief

to know that someoneunderstands what you’regoing through. I believe Iwas given this for a rea-son—to be a role modelfor kids who don’t dealwith it as well.”Pullano is grateful she

has not been as signifi-cantly affected as otherswho cannot stand uprightor walk. “I have often won-dered why I’ve been sofortunate, but I’ve neverwondered, ‘why me?’”

tor of clinical education at MercerCounty Community College.Jamison Bazinet is a communica-tions specialist with the ConnecticutHouse Republicans. He lives inWallingford, CT.Julie (Laflamme) Bousquet andher husband, Robert, announce thebirth of a son, Brendan Robert, onJune 9, 2009. Julie is a certified handtherapist for Orthopedic Associatesin Hartford, CT. The family lives inSouthWindsor, CT.April (Duval) Eriksen and herhusband, Greg, announce the birthof a son, Tate Gregory, on Aug. 11,2009. He was welcomed by his bigsister, Savannah, 2. The family lives inScituate, MA.Graham Fox and Stephanie (Nell)

Fox announce the birth of a daughter,Courtney Rose, onMarch 7, 2010.Eric Garvey andDana (Cantiello)

Garvey ’03 of Meriden, CT,announce the birth of a daughter,Chelsea Lynn, on Nov. 21, 2009. Shejoins her big sister, Brooke.Jared Grasso of Syosset, NY,recently coached the FordhamUniversity’s men’s basketball team.Ethan Jamron wedMelissa

Corrao ’01 on Sept. 12, 2009. Thecouple lives in Forest Hills, NY.Chantelle Landry wed HerbertCurtis Jr. on Oct. 17, 2009, at theKinney Bungalow in Narragansett,RI. Chantelle is a registered occupa-tional therapist at a rehabilitationfacility inWarwick, RI.Kristen (Steimers) Lenig andher husband, Charles, announcethe birth of a son, Jasper Jay, onOct. 22, 2009. The family lives inAmsterdam, NY.Jennifer (Zarrella) Manochio andher husband, Rocco, announce thebirth of a daughter, Gianna Eliza-beth, on Sept. 20, 2009. The familylives in Toms River, NJ.Sarah Mathers has been promotedto detective-investigator for theNYC Police Department, assignedto the Special Victims Squad inBrooklyn. She lives in NewYork, NY.


the director of marketing for the NewYork Islanders Hockey Club.Thefamily lives in New Rochelle, NY.

00 Eric Brodsky andMelanie(Bowman) Brodsky ’01 announcethe birth of a son, Ian Kelsey, bornon Jan. 28, 2009. The family lives inHolbrook, NY.Lisa Gold of Bayshore, NY, is themidday radio personality, “Chloe,”of Long Island’s 106.1 BLI. Shevoice-tracks the night show atPower 100.1 inAthens, GA. She livesin Bayshore, NY.Janet Johnson ’00, MBA ’02,opened her own business, Quail Run

Ventures, LLC, which providesbookkeeping services to smallbusiness owners. She and her hus-band, Aaron Johnson ’00, live inTerryville, CT.Laura (Zalak) Soos ’00,MAT ’02,of Milford, NJ, and her husband,Jeffrey, announce the birth of a daugh-ter, Juliana Elizabeth, onMay 2, 2009.

01 Michael Nguyen ’01, MAT ’02,wedKristi Kniehl on Oct. 11, 2009.Michael is an elementary school-teacher in Stamford, where they live.Kristi is a pediatric occupationaltherapist at Connec-to-Talk inWilton, CT.Beth Rosenfeld wed Jed Bell onAug. 15, 2009, in Providence, RI.Beth is a recreation therapist. Thecouple lives in Columbus, OH.

02 Holly Alexander ’02, MPT ’04, ofEwing, NJ, is an academic coordina-

Dale Sweet of Prospect, CT, is thedirector and physical therapist forThomaston Physical Therapy inThomaston.

98 Jonathan Bailey of Hamden, is anassociate director of online graduateadmissions at Quinnipiac University.Jorge Cabrera was named a part-ner with CampaignsWon.com. Helives in Hamden with his wife,Rebecca (Gayorski) Cabrera ’98,and their twin boys.Robin Forte and his wife, Lauren,announce the birth of a son, ColinDeryck, on July 29, 2009. He was wel-comed by his big sister, Addison, 2½.

Stephanie (Muron) Grimaldi ’98,MHS ’00, andNicholas GrimaldiJr., JD ’02, welcomed a son, ParkerAnthony, on July 10, 2009. Stephanieis a physician assistant at ShorelineHematology and Oncology in NewLondon, CT. The family lives inQuaker Hill, CT.Rajeev Pahuja ’98, MBA ’04, ofHamden is a Hollywood/Bollywoodactor doing commercials and moviesin NewYork and New Jersey.

99 William Brucker and Beth (Brac-cia) Brucker announce the birth oftheir son, Matthew Robert, on Aug.4, 2009. He was welcomed by his bigbrother,Will. The family lives inStamford, CT.Jessica (Sousa) Tuttle and her hus-band, Darrell, announce the birth of ababy girl, Olivia Hope, on Oct. 25,2009. She was welcomed by her bigsister, Madalynn Grace, 2. Jessica is

William Kohlhepp, MHA ’97, has beennamed the new associate dean for QU’sSchool of Health Sciences. He is thedirector of the entry-level physicianassistant master’s program.


Friday–Saturday, October 8–9, 2010The Alumni Association invites you, your family andalumni friends to gather on campus to enjoy autumnweather, peak fall foliage and a big athletics weekendas Homecoming returns to the fall.

Friday, October 8• Women’s soccer vs. Monmouth• Men’s ice hockey vs. Ohio State University• Alumni 2-for-1 tickets for Quinnipiac Theater forCommunity’s fall show, “The Trojan Women,” at theClarice L. Buckman Theater

Saturday, October 9• Quinnipiac Invitational men’s tennis tournament• Athletic Hall of Fame induction luncheon (see list ofinductees on page 36)

• Women’s ice hockey vs. Northeastern• Homecoming “Tailgate Barbecue”• Men’s ice hockey vs. Ohio State University• Alumni 2-for-1 tickets for Quinnipiac Theater forCommunity’s fall show, “The Trojan Women,” at theClarice L. Buckman Theater

Plan now to come back to Quinnipiac!

A complete schedule of events, prices and registrationinformation will be mailed to all alumni by August 1, 2010,or visit www.quinnipiac.edu/QUhomecoming.xmlto view/register online and find links for local hotels.

Homecoming

Erin Giroux wed Brian Antonellison Aug. 29, 2009. Christine Murphy’03, MHS ’06, Erica Peltz ’03,MPT ’05 and Alison Samia ’03 werepart of the bridal party. The couplelives in Belmont, MA.Carla LaMendola of Syosset, NY,is a registered critical care nurse atCross Country Travel Corp.Marlon LeWinter is an accountsupervisor for Catalyst Public Rela-tions in NewYork, NY, which wonBoutique PRAgency of theYear 2010.Michael Mahan ’03, MBA ’04,wed Jill St. Laurent on July 18, 2009.Michael is a senior account executivewith PC Connection. The couplelives in Somersworth, NH.WilliamMarsh andMonique(Melanson) Marsh announce theadoption of their first child, Chris-tian Mekonnen, from Ethiopia inFebruary 2010.JosephMordecai’s band, Shark,released its self-titled album,which was named one of the BestAlternative RockAlbums of 2009according to iTunes. Joseph lives inBethany, CT.Clayton Predmore wedAnnaHannen on Sept. 6, 2009, at theMystic Aquarium and Institute forExploration in Mystic, CT. Clayton isa software developer at ForeSiteTechnologies in East Hartford, CT.The couple lives in Meriden, CT.Lisa Quinn wed Ryan Johnston onAug. 29, 2009, inWyckoff, NJ. Thecouple lives in Riverdale, NJ.Brianne (Piteo) Rosa of Middle-town, CT, is a technical writer forIngenix, a United Healthcare compa-ny. She writes for the EASYGroupsoftware suite.Viktoria Sundquist ’03, MS ’06,has been named the editor of theMiddletown Press. She lives inNaugatuck with her husband, AlbertYuravich.

04 Lindsay D’Ambra wed Jim Heberton July 11, 2009. They couple lives inGardner, MA.Gregory Glynn is an account

Belinda Russell ’02, MS ’03,ofWallingford, CT, is a webmasterfor Albertus Magnus College inNew Haven.Lauren Stanley wed Jason Hunts-man on Oct. 24, 2009. The couplelives in Melville, NY.DerekTomaselli wed DanielleLynn Pard on Sept. 18, 2009. Derekis the co-owner of Tomaselli Brothersin Cranston, RI, where they live.EricYutzy, and his wife Jennifer

(Smith) Yutzy, announced the birthof a son, Elias Jordan, on March 16,2010. He was welcomed by his bigbrother, Isaiah. Eric is the weekendsports anchor/reporter atWTHR-TVChannel 13, the NBC affiliate inIndianapolis, IN.

03 Kevin Bickart, Jonathan Kroll andDanielMcCaffrey, all of Boston,MA,founded iB-LIEVE, a company thatoffers high-impact leadership trainingand workshops to business profession-als, college students and organiza-tions. Kroll also serves as a member ofEmerson University’s student affairs

staff. Bickart andMcCaffrey are med-ical students at Boston University andHarvard University, respectively.Laura Cafarelli ’03, MAT ’04,is a teacher in the Seymour publicschool system.Jonathan Carlson of EastSetauket, NY, wed Jessica Edge onOct. 24, 2009. He is a televisionnews reporter forWSPA-TV, a CBSaffiliate in Spartanburg, SC.Casey Cormier of Austin, TX, isthe director of creative endeavors forAngel-GUARD Products, Inc. ofWorcester, MA.Jonathan Degnan of Milford, CT,was named an audit and accountingsupervisor at Henry, Raymond &Thompson LLC, with offices inHamden and SouthWindsor, CT.Amanda (Gauld) DiGangi andher husband, Frank, announce thebirth of a son, BraydenWilliam, onFeb. 2, 2010. The family lives inStatesville, NC.Ryan Gillies of Great River, NY, isthe Long Island young alumni repre-sentative for Quinnipiac University.


MAKE PLANS WITH US

AUG. 5: Boston Young Alumni Night & Happy Hour, 6–8 p.m., BellIn Hand Tavern, Boston, Mass. Open to all Quinnipiac alumni.

AUG. 12: Fairfield/Stamford/Westchester Young Alumni Night & Happy Hour, 6–8 p.m.,Tiernan’s Pub & Restaurant, Stamford, Conn. Open to all Quinnipiac alumni.

AUG: 12: Young Alumni Night & Happy Hour, 6–8 p.m., Stonebridge Restaurant, Milford, Conn.Open to all Quinnipiac alumni.

AUG. 21: 17th Annual Quinnipiac Night with the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park, Boston Red Soxvs. Toronto Blue Jays, 5-10 p.m. Hosted by the Greater Boston alumni chapter.

SEPT. 25: Boat cruise from Mystic, Conn. Sponsored by the Rhode Island & Connecticutalumni chapters.

OCT. 8–9: Homecoming & Athletic Hall of Fame Induction, Mount Carmel & York Hillcampuses (see pages 36, 37 & 43.).

OCT. 22–24: Parents & Family Weekend, Mount Carmel Campus.

NOV. 9: Business Leader Hall of Fame honoring Peyton Patterson, chairman & CEO ofNewAlliance Bank, 6–9 p.m., New Haven Lawn Club.

Visit www.quinnipiac.edu/events.xml or call 203-582-8610 or toll-free 877-582-1929.

Alexa Smith wed Nabih DaaboulonAug. 9, 2008, in Anfeh, Lebanon.They live in Norwood, MA.

06 Jennifer Alexander ’06, MPT ’08,of East Setauket, NY, is a physicaltherapist.Christine Arnesen, MHS ’06,wedAnthony Pascucci, JD ’06, onApril 25, 2009. The couple lives inMountainside, NJ.Ernest Gentile wed SilviaTomai atthe bride’s uncles’ farm, Lodi Hill, inUpper Black Eddy, PA. Ernest is anassociate producer with theYESNet-work.The couple lives in Cos Cob, CT.Elizabeth Gernat wed BrianMontgomery on Oct. 18, 2008. Eliza-beth is a registered nurse at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The couplelives in Cheshire, CT.Patrick Hart ’06 and Adam

Hart ’06 from New England CableNews were guest presenters at anEnglish class at Reading HighSchool, Reading, MA, taught byBrian McVety ’06, MAT ’07.Trevor Rank of Chester, NY, wedAmandaWaice on Sept. 19, 2009, inthe Chocksett Inn in Sterling, MA.PatrickTrayes wedDanielle Roc-

chio ’06, MAT ’07, on July 18, 2009.Patrick is a traffic director at CitadelBroadcasting in New London, CT,and Danielle is a teacher at RacebrookElementary School in Orange, CT.The couple lives in East Haven, CT.AnneWrobel of Alexandria, VA, isan educational assistant at the Amer-ican Association for the Study ofLiver Diseases.

07 Tara Duffy wed John Girard onAug. 8, 2009, in Greenville, RI. Sheis an elementary schoolteacher inNorth Haven, CT. The couple livesinWaterford, CT.Natalie Paterson is a FOX44 LocalNews reporter inVermont. She workedfor two years as a crime reporter atthe NBC affiliate in Casper,WY.Kelly Rider of Boston, MA, is thehead girl’s varsity ice hockey coach atCanton High School in Canton, MA.

coordinator/copywriter for NancyMarshall Communications. He livesin Augusta, ME.Irene Hopkins of NewMilford,CT, is the director of individualgiving and major gifts for the NewMilford Hospital Foundation.Salvatore DiGiacomo wed

Kristen Reilly on Dec. 31, 2009, inLong Island, NY. The bridal partyincludedMelissa Dudra ’04, AlissaDandrilli ’04, Amanda Nucifora’04, ’07, and Richard Calabrese ’04.Salvatore is serving as an explosiveordinance disposal technician for theU.S. Air Force in Iraq.Melissa Majocha ofWest Sims-bury, CT, completed her first half-marathon—theVirginia BeachRock ’n’ Roll Half Marathon—onSept. 26, 2009.Brian Salerno ’04, MS ’05, of Mil-ford, CT, is the director of e-learningat the University of New Haven.AngieYack of Gap, PA, isworking for the Associated Press inPhiladelphia on the broadcast desk.

05 Aldin Beslagic ’05, MBA ’06,MS ’10, ofWethersfield, CT, ispresident of BestLogic Staffing LLClocated in Hartford.Jennifer Cannella earned a mas-ter’s degree in elementary and specialeducation in 2009 fromQueens Col-lege, where she co-taught a class inhumanistic psychology. She teachesmath and science to special needs stu-dents at theVincent Smith School inPortWashington, NY, where she lives.Allison DePaola ’05, JD ’08, ofNorth Branford, CT, is an attorneyand counselor at law with CantorFloman and is vice president of theboard of OpenYour Heart, Inc.,a nonprofit organization helpingConnecticut families in need.Pamela Festa Mangini ’05,

MBA ’07, of Hamden is the businessmanager for The Board of Educationin Derby.Courtney Nebons of NewYork,NY, is a programming coordinatorfor MSNBC.


Sarah Winters Papsun ’03 climbed threeof Africa’s highest peaks in less than amonth. She didn’t do it only for theadventure or to experience the over-whelming beauty of Mount Kilimanjaroand Mount Meru in Tanzania, and MountKenya in Kenya. She also climbed toraise money and awareness for threeAfrican grassroots charities: the Schoolof St. Jude, the Laikipia Wildlife Forumand Support for International Change, anonprofit organization addressing AIDS.

Papsun, of Greenwich, Conn.,blended her passion to help others withher love for hiking and joined 10 otherwomen to complete the “3 Peaks, 3Weeks Africa Challenge 2010.”

“To see the sun rise over the snow-dusted peaks of Point Lenana and PointBatien (on Mount Kenya) was justbreathtaking and gratifying,” she says.“The fact that we summited for a goodcause made it that much moremeaningful.”

Papsun, who graduated with degreesin business and communications, raisednearly $13,000 with the help of friends,including many Quinnipiac alumni andco-workers at Axiom InternationalInvestors, where she is a marketingassociate. Her service trips with theAlbert Schweitzer Institute atQuinnipiac shed light on thehumanitarian needs around the world.

In Tanzania, Papsun visited childrenat the School of St. Jude. She alsospent a day with a mother and childliving with AIDS, which Papsun said washumbling. “They have such anoptimistic take on life and are so brave.”

Learn more about Papsun’sadventure at www.3peaks3weeks.org.

PEAK PERFORMANCE

SarahPapsun ’03on summit ofTanzania’sMount Meru.

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ance which was chosen by The LifeFoundation and was featured inNewsweek in September 2009.Todd Ryder of Hamden is a labcoordinator at Protein SciencesCorporation located in Meriden, CT.Jenn Zemke ’08 of South Meriden,CT, is a clerk at the Cheshire PublicLibrary, Sunday technical assistant atthe Hamden Public Library, a projectmanager at Central ConnecticutFoot Care Center and a teacher forThe Flute Fairy.

09 Kelly Dean, MAT ’09, wed JamieBebrin on Sept. 5, 2009. Kelly is akindergarten teacher at BrooklynElementary School inWaterbury, CT.The couple lives in Monroe, CT.Lisa DiVirgilio, MS ’09, ofSyracuse, NY, is a producer andsocial media lead at SyracuseOnline, LLC.Timothy Genck, MS ’09, is atraining and performance consultant,working with companies such asMcDonald’s, TimeWarner Cable,Macy’s, Del Monte Foods and TheAmerican Management Association.He lives inWest Hartford, CT.Jaclyn Hirsch is a reporter at theTracy Press in California.Susan Kosman, MS ’09, is a chiefnursing officer for Aetna. She lives inWethersfield, CT.Jessica Kruzel of Cheshire, CT,is a graphic designer for e-Integrity,a marketing automation softwaredevelopment company inWindsor, CT.Adam Pacio is freelancing inManhattan as an interactive projectmanager. He lives in Stratford, CT.Carolyn Phillips was electedpresident of the board of directors atChrysalis Center inWest Hartford,CT. She owns Fit Behavior, a fitnessand wellness facility in Rocky Hill,CT, where she lives.DaisyVargas is an administrativeassistant for the Center of Compre-hensive Care Department atRoosevelt Hospital. She lives inNewYork, NY.


girl’s varsity ice hockey coach atCanton High School in Canton, MA.Maria Iova of Bucharest, Romania,earned a doctoral degree in massmedia and cinematography. She is amanagement counselor/consultant forTVRHD, the high-definition chan-nel of Romanian public television.Patrick McGown of Mahopac,NY, is a production assistant forWorldWrestling Entertainment inStamford, CT.AdamMileikowsky is a collec-tions analyst at Glencore Interna-tional AG in Stamford, CT, wherehe lives.Laura Ogonowski of Boston, MA,co-authored an essay about life insur-

PamelaVitta of Denville, NJ, hasbeen promoted to client manager forCigna Health Care Corporation.PaulWolfer of North Haven, CT,is the marketing coordinator atGround Up, Inc., in Meriden, CT,and co-owner ofTheTriviumGroup, LLC.

08 Michael Boisvert of Glendale, CA,is a partner/producer with Grand-view Productions. His most recentwork, “Retirement” (2009), won bestshort comedy at theW.H.A.T. FilmFestival and won official selectionat the Hollywood East andWoodsHole Film Festivals.Sarah Handman is the assistant

IN MEMORIAM

2007Alice (Roberts) Boudreau ’40

2009Pasquale Aceto ’61Francis P. Bujalski ’54Robert Burnham ’51Joseph Cadieux ’52Robert Comins ’48Joseph Curran ’37Charles Doolittle ’40Sylvia (Silverman) Evans ’37Frank Fappiano ’39Roberta (Roche) Ford ’81John Fritz ’65John Gara ’59Richard Gibbons ’61Marie (Sonnichsen) Hilton ’49Geraldine (Seagrave) Kelly ’42Elinor King ’41Ellen (Smith) Kirschner ’32Thomas Mahoney ’70Dorothy (Cochrane) Oblinger ’47Gale Pollen ’70Felice Sagnella ’58Richard Schueler ’48Johannes J. Shattuck, MAT ’00Mary (Morton) Sokolosky ’57ToddTirozzi ’89

John J.Whalen ’75Madelyn (Reynolds)Williams ’36

2010Wanda (Bowman) Azzola ’92Leon Burrows ’68Mary (Nejame) Castelano ’57Anne (Ahearn) Chiappinelli ’75Salvatore Esposito ’64MarkA. Fanion ’99Peter H. Goodenow ’80Catherine (Smith) Goodkin ’71Jacqueline (Knight) Greco ’52FrancisW. Heim ’49John Holuba ’74Charles Hughes ’67Janet B. Kaphish, MHS ’76Edwin Kelley ’50Annette (Nastri) Montano ’41Margaret Noonan ’05Frank Pappalardo ’47JohnW. Putney ’48Walter A. Remian ’59Michael Rostock ’93Michael Sage ’02Glorian (Lentine) Santini ’51AlbertW. Siclari ’47Rudolfo R.Verrilli ’66


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Alumni connected at avariety of events both onand off campus.1. Kristin Wedekin ’06, right, andguest Jeanette Crawford at the QUNight at the Islanders-Rangerspregame reception in March.

2. Robert ’85 and Lori Simon meetauthor Greg Mortenson, left, before hisMarch lecture. They are the parentsof Kevin Simon ’11.

3. At the President’s Cup GolfTournament in Ringoes, N.J., from left:Laura (Wolfensohn) Sequenzia ’89,publisher of Golf World; Leeza Scoble’10; Judy Lahey ’99; and Barbara(Dearborn) Weldon ’71.

4. Kerry Ann (Guiney) Feeny ’87 andher children at the 2010 St. Patrick’sDay Parade in New York City.

5. Rich DeCapua ’99, his wife, Kari-Ann(Feeney) DeCapua ’00, and daughtersKayla and Kara joined alumni at theBoston Museum of Science to tour theHarry Potter exhibit. Rich is presidentof the Boston alumni chapter.

6. Broadcast journalist Gwen Ifill,recipient of the 2010 Fred FriendlyFirst Amendment Award, with, fromleft: Lawrence Lafferty ’84, associatedirector of broadcast operations, ABCNews Radio; Brian Kelly ’99, MS ’02,editor at ESPN.com; and MichaelBarrett ’85, director of development,School of Communications and Collegeof Arts and Sciences at QU.

7. Occupational therapy studentsLaura Passarelle ’12, Nicole Sawyer ’11,Danielle Quinn ’12, and Arielle Abbato ’11gathered to network with alumni at theQuinnipiac reception during the annualAOTA meeting in Orlando in April.


ONE LAST THING

I’ve been fortunate over the years toattend many QU athletic contests.Lately I’ve been privileged to beaccompanied by my 9-year-olddaughter, Michaela. Together, we

attend many home field hockey, soccer,softball, lacrosse games and competitivecheer meets.We are also avid hockey and basketball

fans and attend almost all home games. Thefirst thing Michaela noticed early on wasthe discrepancy in the fan support betweenthe men’s and women’s teams. Aftercounting fewer than 50 people in the TDBank Sports Center, Michaela would ask,“Daddy, why don’t people come to see thegirls play? They work so hard, just as hardas the boys. People should be here.”I agree, but how do you explain to a

9-year-old that the casual fan discriminatesagainst women’s sports?The most important lesson Michaela has

learned from watching these female heroesis to never, ever give up. This was broughthome to me one night in 2008 after

Dartmouth shelled our women skaters0–6. On the way home, Michaela notedthat even down by five goals, “the girlskept playing hard…like they could still winthe game.”The next day, after losing to Harvard 0–4,

QU goalie JamieMiller handedMichaelaher game stick after keeping the Crimsonscoreless with it in the third period. Jamiesigned the stick later that night, and theBobcats had a fan for life. The stick remainsa prominent feature inMichaela’s room tothis day.I’ve also noticed howMichaela focuses

on the small things the players do andhow they can add up to big results.Unbeknownst to me, Michaela focused ontwo field hockey players, Bonnie Shea andMacKenzie Liptak, during some earlyseason losses last year to Columbia andUMass and during a win over Siena. Towardthe end of the season, the same two playersblogged about their trip to the NECconference tournament.Upon reading the blog together, Michaela

remembered not only the players but howthey “worked real hard” and both scoredduring the Siena game. I had to go back tothe box scores to see that she was right!Without knowing or trying, the female

athletes of Quinnipiac University havetaught my daughter life lessons. Andbecause she came to them on her own andnot through her father’s insistence, they areingrained into her psyche. I see the resultsevery day when she’s practicing the piano,rollerblading, climbing just a little higher,doing her homework or doing cartwheelsin the yard.I have every confidence that my little girl

will grow to be a remarkable young womanthanks, in large measure, to the remarkableyoung women who represent the Quinnipiaccommunity on their respective fields of play.For that I am ever grateful.

Robert Stowell ’78 lives in Bethel, Conn., with hiswife, Kathleen (Coughlin) ’79, and their family.When not seated in the TD Bank Sports Center, heteaches mathematics at Danbury High School.

Female teamsinspire alumni familyPerseverance does not go unnoticed By Rob Stowell ’78

MARKSTANCZAK

Robert Stowell ’78 and his daughter,Michaela, chat with field hockeyteam members MacKenzie Liptak,left, and Bonnie Shea at the fieldhockey/lacrosse turf field.

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Quinnipiac Magazine Summer 2010