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VOL. 66, NO.1

9 Vision 2003

A bridge to our future. BY DR. RANDOLPH W. BROMERY

G The Crisis of Education in America: A Call for Community

A look at the factors influencing today's classrooms. BY DR. PAUL LEBLANC

.0 Can Our Cities Survive? The Role of Human Services in Urban America

Creating a better Ufe in a sometimes hostile environment. BY DR. STEPHEN BERGER AND JOSEPH W. VALENTINE '50

.9 The Changing Face of Health Care

What health care in America may become. BY PROF. CHARLES REDMOND '68 AND PROF. THOMAS RUSCIO G'6S

.~ Commencement '93

A Photo Wrap Up

DEPARTMENTS

A Letter From the President ............................................................................... 2

Faculty Insights ................................................................................................. 16

SC Students in the 90's .................................................................................... 17

Alumni in Focus ............................................................................................... 20

Class Notes & News .......................................................................................... 21

Class Notes Form .............................................................................................. 28

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Fall 1993

Dear Alumni/ae:

IT n my letter to you in the Spring 1993 issue of The Triangle,

J1 I identified a number of initiatives being undertaken to help

position the College for the 21 st Century. As the 1993.,94 ;

academic year commences, I am gratified by the progress being

made on the Springfield College Vision 2003, a broad based strategic

planning effort.

As many of you heard me say at this year's Commencement and Reunion Weekend,

I have been "infected" with the Springfield College Hurnanics virus. I am convinced the

College is one of the "best kept secrets" in higher education. However, the time has come

when we need to let the rest of the nation know about the excellence of the students we

educate and the programs we offer.

The next decade wiU be an exciting one for Springfield College. The article I have

Mitten for this issue of The Triangle provides an outline of some of the directions the College

is preparing to take in the weeks, months, and years ahead.

I ask that you join with the College as we move boldly into the 21 st Century.

Sincerely,

R·fA}, Randolph W. Bromery President

THE SPRINGFIELD

COLLEGE VISION 2003, BOLDLY

INTO THE 21 ST CENTURY

BY DR. RANDOLPH W. BROMERY

. A century ago, John Stuart Mill stated,

"There is no ground for inferring a certain fact to be impossible

merely from our inabiUty to conceive of its possibiUty." Three centuries

before Mill, Francis Bacon, who must have certainly influencedJohn

Mill, stated, "It would be an unsound fancy and self contradiction

to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done

except by means which have never yet been tried."

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For Springfield College, the boldness of its Vision 2003 is based on the

philosophies of Mill and Bacon and on the fact that the College has been doing

the "right" thing very successfully over the past century. Springfield College

is, and has been, the leader in the fine art of co ... minglingintellectualstudies with

service to others completely permeated with a spiritual Humanics Philosophy.

Past members of the College family ofttimes, during the history of the College,

could not conceive of the many possibilities which have now become an integral

and important part of the fabric of this institution; however, they were not

deterred. Therefore, carryingforth in this noble tradition, we today should not

hesitate to step forward to do things that "have never yet been tried."

Today, the traditional fabric of this

institution has been further enhanced by the

growth of our academically superb liberal arts

base; our broad, comprehensive and intellec,

tually sound Allied Health Sciences and

fitness programs; our smaller yet significantly

strengthened physical education and sports

programs; and another jewel in our crown,

our extremely promising and exciting School

of Human Services. The combining of these

equally important components when

catalyzed by our traditional Humanics Phi,

losophy, makes Springfield College a unique

and outstanding institution that stands apart

from the entire population of traditional

American colleges.

Strangely, the role and mission of

Springfield College has not only withstood

the myriad of changes in the American

college scene over the last century, but it now

uniquely positions the College for the 21st

Century. At long last, the world of American

higher education is catching up with Spring,

field College; however, no other institution

has created our unique and secret Humanics

philosophy catalyst.

One of the many things that Springfield

College does well and will continue to do into

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the future is to be innovative. Several new

initiatives are being examined during our

current strategic planning effort. First, an

intellectual "think tank" and research unit is

being planned which will bring together

several campus academic departments and

the School of Human Services. This newly

created interdisciplinary "Institute for the

Study of the Human Condition;' will com'

bine highly sophisticated social theory with

the applied social sciences using copious

amounts of our Humanics Philosophy.

Second, we are once again returning to

our past with a mutually advantageous close

relationship with the YMCA of the USA. An

historic agreement has been signed which

will provide in,service professional training

and formal academic programs specially

designed for a broad spectrum of the YMCA

professional staff throughout the country.

Future expansions for this program will

include components of the YMCA Interna,

tional Division. One could say that we

are experiencing a "family reunion" with

the YMCA.

Third, preliminary discussions are now

underway by the College with the YMCA of

the USA, the National Urban League, and

the Visiting Nurses Association of America

to form a unique and exciting health care

consortium. This formidable coalition would

design, develop, and test an array of preven,

tative health care programs focussed on our

urban areas. The,YMCA provides a cadre of

trained professionals who are dispersed in a

network of urban facilities; the Urban League

would provide highly trained professionals

and a network of physical locations in urban

areas combined with an established accept'

ability by our urban populations; the Visiting

Nurses Association provides a cadre of expe,

rienced and skilled professional nurses and

nurse practitioners who have a long and

distinguished history of service to our urban

populations; and Springfield College

provides a broad range of excellent academic

programs in preventative health care and

rehabilitation combined ," with comprehen,

sive academic programs for the education and

training of human service providers. Newly

created and enhanced traditional health care

programs may also be the beginning of a

positive change in our urban environment.

These programs would certainly have the

potential of bringing about significant cost

containment in our nation's health care.

The College is also increasing efforts to

recruit bright and promising student scholars.

We are making a careful study of student/

teacher ratios with the goal to consider

lowering the current ratio, a requisite for

increasing our already excellent academic

quality. The College has adopted a high

priority for looking for quality in our new

faculty hires. Carefully planned programs are

being considered to improve total faculty

compensation in order to reward our current

extremely competent faculty.

As I stated at our recent Commence'

ment Exercises, Springfield College is one of

the nation's best kept secrets. This accolade,

however, presents serious problems in our

future planned fund raising programs. We

must become much more visible, we must

inform the nation of the significant and unique

educational contributions Springfield

College provides to our American society. To

achieve financial stability and to provide the

required levels of scholarship aid in order to

be competitive in today's collegiate market

place, the College's current endowment must

be at least quintupled by the year 2003.

In summary, Springfield College is in the unique position of having a weU

established mission that wiU carry it into the 21 st Century. We are developing

several bold new initiatives to both challenge and showcase our excellent

academic program offerings. We are planning an aggressive fund raising

program to increase the College's endowment to a level appropriate for an

institution of our stature in this country. Springfield College is a unique

academy of scholars with a unique philosophy, committed to service to the

fellow members of our society. We have and wiU continue to define the truly

American college and the Springfield College Vision 2003 wiU now teU the

ld " ho " war w we are. 'Y

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A CAll FOR COMMUNITY BY . DR PAUL LE BLANC

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~~K.1R~ASgl' ...

Only a few miles separate the broken

pavement and rundown tene~

ments of the Holyoke "flats" and

the manicured lawns and gardens

of suburban Longmeadow, two communities in western Massachusetts. Yet in terms of public education, the two places may as well be light~years apa~t and, in their differences,

they reflect the crisis of equity and quality in

American education. Visiting schools in both places, an

observer might surmise the following that in America, brown and black children are less

valuable than white children; that segrega~

tion thrives in America, despite Brown vs. The Board of Education; that the quality of education a child receives is directly tied to where that child is born; that the goal of educating poor children is to prepare them for

low skill, low~paying jobs and

the goal of educating wealthy children is to prepare them for

increasingly they are the same) will have far fewer resources invested in their education

than wealthy children. For example, the white and prosperous town of Princeton, New

Jersey spends almost $8,000 per year on each student enrolled in the system while the mostly African~American city of Camden

spends about $3,800 per year per pupil.

Assuming a child graduates from high school

(an unreliable assumption in poor schools), Princeton will have invested $104,000 in a student's education while Camden will have spent less than half that amount, $49,400.

Furthermore, because the local property taxes

which largely fund public education are tax

deductible, the Federal government essen~ tially subsidizes this inequity in funding and helps to widen the gap between wealthy and poor children.

IIEDUCATION IS THE

puts it, "This proposal seems like Metco (busing students of color w the suburbs) for

white people." The plight of poor schools is further

exacerbated by society's growing reluctance to adequately fund education. Property tax ceilings like those created by California's Proposition 13 and Massachusetts' Proposi~

tion 2 1/2 have effectively created artificial funding levels for schools regardless of infla~

tion, deteriorating facilities, aging resources, and changing demographics. More disheart~

ening to many educators is the refusal of

voters to approve override for additional fund~

ing. They see a breakdown in the genera~

tional compact that asked voters to support public education after their own children graduated. Only 25% of American house~ holds have school age children, thus making

high skill, well~payingjobs; that schools in most communities

are not preparing children for

thepost~industrialeconomyinto

which they will enter; that many

Americans have given up on

public education.

PUBLIC ENTERPRISE IN OUR COUNTRY

THAT IS CLOSEST TO PEOPLE'S HEARTS ••• AND

adequate public funding hostage

to a majority which either sees no benefit in increased educational funds orthat no longer cares about schools once their children have

left them. This lack of support has

extended into many suburban communities. A combination of President Ronald Reagan's cut~

ting of Federal assistance to local schools by almost half, cutbacks

EDUCATION IS THE ENTERPRISE THAT IS CRUCIAL

The irony is that the

country's future largely depends

TO SUCCESS IN EVERYTHING WE ATTEMPT

AS A NATION." in state funds, and the failure of

tax ceiling overrides has resulted in growing class sizes, cuts in programming, and mounting

on its brown, black, and other' non~white children. In the next

century, they will constitute a majority of the nation's population. Our pros~

perity depends upon their success. Without

dramatic reform of public education, we have

stacked the odds against them and, ultimately,

against ourselves. The challenge of reform is a formidable

one because it means grappling with this

country's ongoing racist legacy. Despite the advances of the Civil Rights Movement, the elections of African~American politicians at

almost every level of government, and the

central presence of non~whites in our sport

and entertainment industries, objective analy~ sis of such indicators as employment rates, infant mortality rates, wage earnings, general

health indices, and crime statistics reveal the

disheartening truth of our failure to overcome

our racist past. This is no more true than in our funding of public education. Simply put,

non~white children and poor children (and

-JAMES B. HUNT GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROUNA

The "savage inequity" that exists within

American public education is worsened by

ostensible reforms that only serve to further drain money from impoverished embattled city schools. For example, mandatory school

choice programs, which allow students to

sign up for schools in other districts, has become state subsidized "white flight" with already poor districts paying out much needed education dollars to wealthier suburban sys~

tems. In Massachusetts, during the 1991~92

school year, 95 percent of the choice students

were white and almost 80% of the $4. 7 mil~ lion spent on choice went to just 12 districts, all of them suburban and generally wealthy.

In Springfield, 151 students left the system,

141 were white, and most of them attended

school in the prosperous communities of Longmeadow and Wilbraham. As Spring~

field School Superintendent Peter Negroni

deferred maintenance projects. The number

of leaking or collapsing school roofs in city

and suburban schools is a wet reminder of the mounting toll taken on public schools. The suburbs are becoming less of a refuge for those

fleeing city school systems. When A Nation At Risk, the landmark report on the state of the nation's public education system, was released in 1983, the authors reaffirmed the public's philosophical commitment to educa~

tion, but they failed to address the lack of commitment to proper and adequate fund~

ing. The ten years since the release of the report reveals a continued belief in the importance of education, according to public surveys and political rhetoric, yet a contradic~

tory unwillingness to pay for the quality of

education in demand. Because so much of the discussion around

school reform ignores the larger underlying

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questions of race, class, and equity that form a foundation of sand for any even well, intentioned attempts at change, some critics become reactionary. Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett's canonization of}oe

last, desperate efforts of an educational philosophy coming face,to,face with the full weight of its own shortcomings and the disintegrating social fabric within which

schooling takes place. Indeed, schools often

Melanie Landers '93 and her students attempt to identify pond life from Springfield's Forest Park as part of the Ecos Program. Another SC grad, Juanita Martinez '82, began the program to give youngsters firsthand exploratory experiences that are imposssible to provide in a classroom setting.

Clark, a bull,hom and baseball bat wielding

principal in Paterson, New Jersey and subject of the film Lean On Me, was a celebration of "get tough" reforms that included expelling

problem kids from schools, boot camp disci ... pline, and back,to,basics. Yet, sllch measures

merely substitute abandonment for improve, ment, control for education, and out ... of ... date pedagogy for effective learning. They are the

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become the scapegoats for much larger problems. After all, school violence is really family, neighborhood, and community vio, lence brought into the schools. In attentive and unmotivated students are often students hungry from lack of food, or ill from lack of

health care, or tired from lack of a good or safe place to sleep. The crisis of education is as much a crisis of family, a crisis of health care,

a crisis of poverty, a crisis of housing, a crisis of drugs and crime, and the distressing list goes on.

Still, educational reform can be a rally,

ing point for all members of the community to come together. Schools can be a place around which to rebuild community; where people with different talents, resources, and needs

can begin talking to one another. When schools work, so do the communities in which

they are located. Where education is effec ... tive, employers have skilled and productive workers to hire, health care workers have more informed patients with better health

practices, the elderly have safer streets and better care providers, colleges and universi ... ties have better prepared graduates to accept, religious leaders find a renewed sense of mean' ing and value in tomorrow's adults.

Schools will have their own consider ... able share of responsibility in the movement towards reform. For example, when the Hatfield, Massachusetts school district became one of the first in the state to make condoms available in the schools, the deci,

sion was made in relative isolation and with ... out involving members of the community. The decision was then met with emotional opposition, leading to its repeal, the replace ...

ment of school board members, and a growing

alienation from the schools by parents and many others. Educators must reach out to the community and work towards consensus and support involving everyone in solving the problems, not just calling on them to support

the solutions after the fact. Educators must

give parents a more central role in education, a role that comes with responsibilities. They must demonstrate to those without children in the

system that they are directly impacted by what happens in the schools and that their commitment is necessary as well.

Moreover, educators need to dramati, cally rethink what they teach and how they

. deliver that instruction. American schools mostly reflect the 19th Century industrial

economy they were designed to serve. Their emphasis on individual performance, their highly defined and hierarchical organization both for administration and student group' ing, poor integration of new technologies,

and isolation of students from students and teachers from teachers is ill ... suited for our post ... industrial economy, with its stress on

information handling, collaboration, new technologies, and flattened organizational

structures. Serving the needs of these new work structures means radically rethinking

everything from the notion of grade levels to the length of class periods, school days, and

school years to h?w we arrange classrooms to the content of the curriculum.

Schools evolve slowly, yet revolution,

not evolution, is called for if we are to prepare

our students for the next century. Corpora,

tions are finding that failure to

change may mean their demise.

Schools are rightfully insulated

from such dire risks, but assum,

ing we support needed change,

educators must be more accountable for what happens within the schools and must

move more decisively to

remake their schools in mean,

ingful ways.

Institutions like Spring' field College can playa power,

ful role in the restructuring of

education. The College's

involvement in the "I Have A Dream" Program brings disad,

vantaged children on campus

for support and employs many

of them in summer jobs. More

importantly, these students see' the College as a place they know

and a place where they can see

themselves in the future. The

tered in programs such as Dr. Robert Barkman's Real World Science Program and in the College's

model Child Development Center. With its strong emphasis on the Allied Health profes,

sions, SC is positioned to lend guidance and support in public health efforts located within the schools. It will take the continuation of

ongoing efforts such as those just described,

and efforts of many others, to effect real reform of the public educational system.

Failure to make those efforts poses great

system of have and have,nots that cuts against the grain of the nation's democratic prin,

ciples. Our belief in justice or fair play is belied by our current educational practices, particu,

lady in funding and current "reforms," prac,

tices that have institutionalized both racism and class ism on a national level. Where our children begin should not dictate where they

should end; the dream of America has always

dictated the opposite. When we address that

issue and assert in practice as well as in

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College has also entered into a

partnership with the DeBerry

The magic of books is clearly evident as children from the DeBerry School sit enraptured during story time while Diane Smith 0'90 reads from the imaginative stories of classic author Rudyard Kipling.

Elementary School and the Rebecca]ohnson K,8 School, both in one of

the city's poorest neighborhoods. These part'

nerships include placing student teachers in the schools, making available College re,

sources, a mentoring program between SC students and children in the schools, and

teacher training programs for teachers in the

schools. The new Masters Degree Program in

Public School Administration is helping future administrators rethink their notions of education and school management. Access

to the powerful array of new technologies

currently in use at the College is allowing

educators to imagine possibilities for their schools that were unthinkable only a few

years ago. Innovative teaching is being fos,

risk to the nation. In 1983, Governor of North Carolina] ames B. Hunt wrote, "N oth,

ing matters more-nothing. Education is the

public enterprise in our country that is closest to people's hearts-and most important to their lives. And education is the enterprise

that is crucial to success in everything we

attempt as a nation." Educational reform means community

reform and the instinct of many to flee in the face of such challenge is perhaps understand,

able, but a profusion of "gated and guarded"

communities and school choice programs

and quasi, private charter schools and other

attempts to escape the problems are doomed

to failure. They contribute to a two' tiered

rhetoric that the baby born in Holyoke is as valuable to us as the baby born in

Longmeadow, our educational system will

regain its integrity and vitality. 'Y

I want to acknowledge the importance of my conversations with Dr. Peter N egroni and the influence of Jonathan Kozol's writing, lectures, and interviews on the closing thoughts.

A nationaUy recognized expert on educational technology, Paul LeBlanc has worked extensively with teachers and school systems on issues of equity, access, and technology. He has been an SC faculty member since 1987, is an associate professor of English, and the Chairperson of the Department of Humanities.

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The Role of Human Services in Urban America

BY DR. STEPHEN BERGER AND JOSEPH W. VALENTINE '50,

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uman Services (also called Social Services)

have changed exten,

sively over the last quarter century, as part of,

and in response to, major changes in Ameri,

can society. From the government level, Medicare, Medicaid, and SSI, in addition to

Social Security p'ensions, have made a major

impact on the lives of many people, particu,

lady older people. From a personal level,

physicians took the lead in defining child abuse as a major problem. The women's

movement pioneered in defining battering,

rape, and child sexual abuse as major social

issues. AIDS care and prevention activities

have demonstrated what caring for each other may mean. Former addicts have pioneered community, based drug and alcohol programs.

Communities have banded together to try to

deal with drugs and crime.

At the same time, welfare programs,

never adequately funded, have increasingly come under attack as supposedly creating "dependency." Housing subsidies and public

housing programs have been devastated as

have been job training and job creation

programs. It is a mixed picture because America is a large, contradictory landscape.

We celebrate the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Day, and yet politi,

cians use concerns about safety, crime, drugs,

taxes, and welfare in ways which often amount to appeals to racism. We celebrate the Statue

of Liberty, but turn back Haitian boat people.

Some have much more money than they

have ever had and others still have much less

than they need-much less than the poverty line. Cities and public education are declin,

ing and there is a crisis in health care and

health insurance. Above all, there is a crisis

about diversity, about who is "us" and who is

"them." We struggle over whether we should only be concerned about ourselves and "our own," or whether we are all in this together;

whether we can be a community despite our differences or should treat each other as

potentially dangerous aliens. Three major places where the future of

human services will be shaped are financing

(which connects to the taxation debate), the

privatization issue, and the arguments over

self, help and empowerment.

Much of public debate over human services occurs within the politics of taxation.

A revolt against increases in property taxa,

tion has been extended to income and other

taxes. There are legitimate concerns about

tax equity, not only about progressive taxa'

tion, but also regarding what taxes on income

and wealth should be used for which purposes. The burden of financing public

education should not fall primarily on taxes on people's homes.

This is different from arguments about

what government should do and not do and who should and should not be helped or

subsidized. Some oppose welfare "depen,

dency," but usually fail to define as

dependency subsidies for home ownership or

businesses. The outcomes of the struggle over taxation will determine significantly the shape and nature of entitlement programs and

public human services for the American people as a whole.

Some argue for the privatization of government services, under the claim that competitive businesses are more efficient and effective, so they will make money while

saving public money. While there are prob,

lems of bureaucracy and corruption in government, there are also such problems in

private industry. The claim to be able to make

money while saving public money is largely misleading. Instead, we are seeing the lower,

ing of wages and fringe benefits and the undoing of the union status of public service workers who are disproportionately women

and people of color. The reality of public human services is

largely inadequate funding, not overfunding.

There is no money to be saved there except at

the expense of workers and recipients. Indeed, the desire to save money often leads

to providing inadequate services in demean' ing ways in the hope that people will not

make use of what should legitimately be theirs. There is also an argument against public

human services that claims it is for "self,

help," that people should do for themselves

rather than have others do it for them. This is

based on a false dichotomy. The reality is that moving towards a humane society requires both self,help (e.g. the civil rights movement) and government action (e .g. , Brown vs. Board

of Education, civil rights, and voting laws). Some things need to be provided for us; some

things we need help with; some things we will do ourselves. Government is not magic, nor

should it do everything, but some things

can only be done by government or with government.

The current human service system is often one,sided. It focuses on providing

services to needy individuals while neglect, ing activities which would bring people together and which would benefit communi,

ties as a whole. A method of paying for

services (fee for service), a notion of profes,

sional human service work (casework), and an ideology about the causes of human problems ( that the causes are to be found with individuals) sometimes combine to produce this kind of a skewed human service system. Part of the

current struggle is to find a place for those human service activities which do not fit this mode: for preventive work, for community organizing, for community development work.

These are activities which do not fit neatly

into the model of providing specific services, of implementing specific technical knowledge, and of providing help to individuals. Sometimes services need to be individually,based and sometimes they need to be community,based.

These are only a few of the issues in the struggle over what human services will be like

in the United States in 2003. In the course of

this struggle we will be working out what we

as a country (and as part of a larger world) will mean by "empowerment" and by "community." Springfield College has been

committed for over 100 years to the ideal of service for and with others. We stand

challenged over the next ten years. As we

seek to realize President Bromery's Vision 2003, our success or failure will be measured not only by what happens with our students

in our classrooms, on our campus, and at our sites, but also by how we relate to the neigh,

borhoods, communities, and people around us. America's challenge is to bridge and to narrow the widening gap of income and class, of race and ethnicity, of gender and sexual

orientation.

Education, jobs, family, and a system of community support services are essential to the well,being of the people who comprise

our cities. These are the dimensions of life

that provide stimulation and hope for each person. They are the underpinnings that fash,

ion a society that works, a society of mutual

supporters, a society of contributors.

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There are so many questions and issues surrounding access to sound education, satis, factory jobs, and functional families that the

larger issue of survival for our cities can be

assessed only in the context of the value that

education, jobs, and family have for each person that makes up our cities. If your access

to these fundamentals of life is limited or

blocked, then your thoughts are on your

survival and not the survival of your city.

Community support services can assist with "access"-access in the context of

personal readiness and access in terms of open

community systems. In'

tennediary organizations

such as the YMCA and

the Urban League are two

such organizations which assist the people of our

cities to take advantage of educational opportu,

nities, to acquire job train,

ing, and to function more

fully as family units.

miles apart, both provide "English as a Sec,

ond Language" classes to Asian immigrants

and refugee families to prepare them for other

general education classes and for job training.

The Quincy Y observes that they provided

similar classes 100 years ago for German immigrants!

The Y prides itself on its responsiveness to the ever, changing needs of the community

within which it works. In Sarasota, Florida,

the Y makes its facilities available to recover,

ing drug and alcohol abusers allowing them to

workout as a part of their therapy program. In

The Y and the Urban League are good examples of the commitment that commu,

nity organizations have to the welfare of our

cities' youth. Over its long history as well as

today, the YMCA continues as a place where

the youth of our cities are encouraged and assisted to stay in school. The mission of the

Urban League in Western Massachusetts is to

"Promote programs that promote the welfare

of children." They carry out their mission by

providing education and job training programs for parents so that they are reinforc,

ing family stability. The Y in Northampton,

Massachusetts now con,

ducts physical education

classes to replace those

formerly provided in the schools as its way to

help with cuts in public

education budgets.

The history of

Springfield College is

rooted in the YMCA movement. The College

has been educating Y pro'

fessionals for over 108

years. Educating the whole person in spirit,

mind, and body and

service to others are the

essence of our Humanics

Philosophy. Currently,

There ~re so many facets to life in American cities that it is impossible

~o state that anyone issue

will make or break the

cities of tomorrow, but it

should be easy to see that access to education, avail,

ability of jobs, and

support for the family

are critical to healthy survival. Unfortunately, political interests and

prevailing social policy

have a lot to do with After,school YMCA programs such as this one provide important social and academic growth to young city children.

whether opportunities are

sufficiently available in our cities. Nonethe,

less, our cities are improved through the programs of organizations such as the YMCA

and the Urban League. Springfield College

cares about the people of our cities and it is ready to continue to help overcome the prob,

lems of the cities. T

Springfield College is very active with the Y

to once again playa unique role assisting with

the Y's education and training needs. In

addition, we have recently been invited to

work with the Urban League to meet similar

training needs for their personnel. The

College plays a very special role in preparing men and women for services careers in those

organizations that are of considerable benefit

to the people of our cities.

The YMCA's in San Francisco, Calif or'

nia and in Quincy, Massachusetts are

excellent examples of intennediary organiza' tions that provide support and developmen,

tal services to youth and adults th~t enhance

substantially their ability to be educated and to function successfully in our American

cities. For example, these two YMCA's, 3,000

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New York City, a Korean American Y direc,

tor holds classes for newly arrived Koreans to

not only teach them English, but also to help

them preserve their national culture.

The Urban League in Oakland, Calif or'

nia and its counterpart in Springfield, Massachusetts each provide job training programs along with family support services

such as child care for those attending classes under their auspices. The Urban Leagues

around the country actively collaborate with many other service agencies, public and

private, so that individuals and families can

improve their lives in the city. The Urban

League more than any other community

agency knows how to work with the business

community to develop jobs and job training

programs that result in jobs.

Stephen Berger became a member of the SC faculty when the School of Human Services joined the College in 1988. Currently, he is a professor of human services at the School's Springfield site. He holds his Master's and Doctoral degrees from Harvard.

Joseph Valentine joined SC as a Special Assis, tant to the President in 1992 following a long and distinguished career in the United Way concluding with fourteen years as the Executive Director of the United Way of the San Francisco Bay Area. He has also served as a member of SC' s board of trustees.

GING FACE OF HEALTH CARE

BY PROF. CHARLES REDMOND '68 AND PROF. THOMAS RUSCIO G'65

~the health care proposals of the

Clinton administration are being developed and we await the

debate in the U.S. Congress,

many people are becoming anxious and con~

cemed about the changes they will face and how it will affect their own health care services. Naturally, there are still many ques~ tions to be answered before the "future of

health care" arrives and they impact people at

that most basic level-individually. A few

fictional examples will serve to illustrate this.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, 67 and 65~years~

old respectively are both recently retired and living on Social Security, Medicare, and a

small pension from his 30 years of employ~

ment as a tool and die maker. She has a chronic arthritic condition that is restricting

some of her usual activities of daily living

from personal hygiene to meal preparations

and housekeeping. He has had a mild stroke

with some slight speech problems and left side paralysis. They are worried about possible

cuts in their Medicare Insurance. Will they

still be able to get their medicines? Will they have to pay more? And what about doctors visits and therapy? What if either of them required hospitalization again and/or more

long term care? Ms. Wilson, 19~years~0Id, is an unem~

ployed parent with a six~month~old daughter

who has been diagnosed with an endocrine disorder and neurological problems which

must be treated to ensure future growth and

prevent damage to major organs. While her

companion, the father of the child, is working and providing some financial support, they

have no health insurance. They worry

about just being able to get coverage to

treat their daughter. If some prenatal care had been available, would their daughter be alright now?

Mr. Symmons, a 45~year~0Id manager of asales unitofa major insurance company, has

been fortunate enough to have had a very good major medical plan through his em~ ployer. However, they have been changing

the medical benefits packages and are now

offering PPO (Preferred Provider Organiza~ tion) and HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) plans at lower costs while requiring the employee to contribute and pay

more for their major medical plan.

Mr. Symmons has hypertension and

hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol and complica~ dons) and worries about having to change his

plan simply because he cannot continue to

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afford the major medical plan for himself and his family (wife and four children). Will he have to change doctors? And will his prescriptions change to generic brands ?What ifhe will need further treatment? Will it cost him more and will it be readily available?

These are but three small examples of the kinds of concerns and issues that the national health care debate has already generated. Health care providers, the insur,

ance industry, employers of big and small companies, individuals and families are all justifiably concerned and nervous about the future. However, much of the concern and debate really centers on changing the meth,

• A Focus On Primary and Preventative Health Care

The focus in treating the major diseases that have caused the most disability and deaths in our society has been on specific procedures such as bypass surgery for coronary artery disease or surgery and chemotherapy or radiation therapy for various can, cers. In the past, studies which have

suggested that there might be other ways to look at such diseases and illnesses have been either ignored or scorned by much of the medical community. Today and in the future,

Karen Stuart '94 assists a young patient during her internship in pediatric rehabilitation at Baystate Medical Center. Karen represents a growing segment of health care workers outside of the traditional physician,nurse arrangement that will become more important in the coming years.

ods of the delivery of health care (managed care organizations I single payer system etc.) as well as the cost of health care and how to pay for it. Very little of the current discussion is focused on what are good quality health care services and how to get those services deliv, ered efficiently and effectively to those who need it. Regardless of what comes out of the Clinton administration health care reform initiative, here are some of the ch~nging faces of health care over the next several years which are not waiting for Hillary, Bill, or Congress.

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however, there is and will be a continuing focus on prevention and early interventions. Prevention oflong term and chronic illnesses and diseases requires a long term effort of health promotion. Behavioral, lifestyle, and environmental influences are increas, ingly being accepted as contributors to

disease and illness. Can you believe, for example, that beta carotene, Vitamins C and E, and aspirin have now been linked to the prevention of heart disease? A broader array of health

care providers from physician ass is, tants to nurses, from rehabilitation therapists to teachers and counselors, as well as individuals and families them,

selves, will increasingly become more involved in their own primary and preventative health care.

• A Focus On Basic Primary and Preventative Health Care For All

Virtually everyone in the health care services business seems to agree on one point. Basic primary health care has to become available to all including the some 36 million uninsured Americans in this country. In order to be able to do this, there will likely need to be shifts in the delivery of basic services to the elderly, chi!, dren and adults, as well as the poor and disadvantaged in both urban: and rural settings. Again there will be more emphasis on prevention, health education, and rehabilitation in the community with major medical,surgi,

cal procedures and hospitalizations becoming a part of a community network of services. (Ability to pay for some major medicaI,surgicaI procedures will likely continue to be an issue.) Examples of this effort, such as expan, sion of immunizations and other public health initiatives, are already being seen in many communities as is the affiliating of hospitals and health and rehabilitation centers into net' works of service providers.

• A Focus on Outpatient Treatment and Rehabilitation

Patients and consumers want the best possible care for themselves and family members. In addition, however, they usually do not want to remain hospitalized or bedridden more than is necessary. Increasingly consumers are asking the hard questions and express' ing their concerns about maintaining both the quantity and quality of life. There is an increasing focus on the maintenance of self,dignity and self,

worth of each individual to assist them to maintain as much independent and productive living as possible. This is

Basic primary health care has to become available to aU including the

some 36 million uninsured Americans in this country.

consistent with the trend towards a continuum of care with an emphasis

on returning individuals to their home

environment or to rehabilitation facilities and outpatient clinics for services. An increasing body of literature is suggesting that this community,based emphasis is not only

more cost effective, but also helps in the recovery process and in a better quality of life.

How might these factors impact the family by the tum of the century? While the following is certainly not an all, encompass,

ing example, it will serve to illustrate some typical health concerns.

Mrs. Jones had just spoken on the phone

with the athletic trainer at the local high school. Having cared for her highly athletic children for several years, the trainer had

called to tell her that her daughter had injured her ankle at soccer practice. After

evaluating the injury, he had recommended icing the ankle and using crutches. CoHec, tively they would decide the next day if further care was indicated. If appropriate, they would make an immediate appointment not with doctor, but with the orthopedic physician assistant at the medical clinic.

When the athletic trainer called, Mrs. Jones had been waiting for her husband, a construction worker, to come home. They were going to attend the second in a series of Health and Wellness Workshops conducted at the local medical clinic. During the first session, a physical therapist and a fitness exercise specialist had completed a musculo,

skeletal screening on her husband and had

identified several predisposing factors that could lead to back injury which could put him out of work. A series of preventative exercises

were suggested. The therapist recommended

that Mr. Jones make an appointment with a physical therapist/athletic trainer who spe,

cializes in industrial work hardening pro' grams.

Mrs. Jones, who has problems with weight maintenance and high blood pressure, also has a family history of heart disease. This

second session interested her particularly in that techniques for weight loss and stress management were to be presented and prac, ticed.

The hypothetical health problems of the

Jones family illustrate what health care may well look like before the tum of the century. Clearly, economic and social factors are mandating change from a pure reactive medi,

cal model to a more proactive wellness model.

Instead of health care beginning when some' one becomes sick or injured, the system will include and perhaps emphasize prevention techniques and wellness education. Physi, cians will continue as the definitive care

givers in treating illness and injury. However, the physician and health consumer will be interacting more often with various other health professionals as part of the total health care package. Consumers will have a broader choice of health professionals to seek input for prevention, treatment, or education. Sci, entific revelations in the fields of health and medicine also demand changes in our health care system. The new body of knowledge

supports the wellness/prevention model and will expand the need for many more well, trained allied health professionals.

Spiraling health and medical costs will encourage consumers to utilize cost 'effective, yet quality systems for their health care.

Instead of visiting a physician, the consumer may choose to see a physician assistant, a

physical therapist, or an athletic trainer for

initial assessment. These professionals can

direct the individual to a physician on a need basis and thus provide a quality, timely, and cost effective managed care approach.

"Being" healthy costs far less than "getting" healthy. More importantly, it improves the quality of life. Realizing this, the U.S. health care consumers are beginning to take more responsibility for their own health. The inclusion of the prevention and wellness model to the total health care system certainly makes sense. Diseases and injuries will not disappear. However, a population that purposefully works toward health and wellness will be more productive and may keep health care costs under control.

Springfield College with its Humanics Philosophy of helping others is positioned incredibly well. Its commitment to the high, est quality professional preparation of a wide range of allied health professionals is firm­from art therapy to nutrition, health promo, tion, therapeutic recreation, and a wide vari,

ery of other fields. Whether it will be through direct patient care or through implementa, tion of wellness programs, Springfield College graduates can be expected to be significant contributors to this evolving health care model of quality and cost effecti ve health and wellness. 'Y

A faculty member at SC for twenty,five years, Charles Redmond is a licensed athletic trainer and physical therapist. He also serves as the Director of Emergency Medical Services Management under, graduate majors and the Director of Movement and Health Sciences graduate programs.

A certified rehabilitation counselor , Tom Ruscio has been an SC faculty member since 1968. He is currently a professor of rehabilitation and in addition to his regular duties, is also the director of the College's Substance Abuse Studies Institute.

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. LATE BLESSING

I could not look at my mother's disfigured hands,

but I could do for her what her hands refused.

Scrape the new potatoes, untangle strands

of hair, plant with my children the bruised

red geraniums on my father's grave.

My children played on the stone as if used

to such a place to play. Hanging with brave

defiant smiles over the grey granite,

balancing upside~down to trace the engraved

name-their own name-with clear delight,

the cross my daughter called a sword, and finally

his date of birth and death at fifty~eight.

I wanted them to think of the close body

that remains and show another kind

of respect or awe. I wanted them to see

his head, hands, feet. Know the compromised mind

which I had to let go without a final

struggle or blessing, anything to remind

me I was loved and forgiven then and still.

With spades, a watering can, and an empty basket

in our hands, we left the cemetery hill.

NEAR THE SHORE

I like these rocks which change

every day with the sea.

Clear pools of water in reefs

with fish swimming in them.

The cormorant in the harbor

floating alone. I like

this rock which fits my foot

as I rest from the way

small rocks hurt.

My eyes enjoy looking

at the woman who spots two

wild black swans in the sea.

She can't take her eyes off them

as she walks along the pier.

Bryn finds a dark stone,

gives it to me,

and asks over and over

why I like it. I say

because it is round, smooth

with a perfect white circle

and he found it for me.

I like the way late afternoon

mountain shadows darken

the sea near the shore.

And knowing in this moment

that no cine

with my blood is hurting.

THE SAME RIVER

Her son takes her breath away

as she watches him stand quietly

letting the cat move its long tail

around and around his thin, bare legs.

In this moment of pleasure which has nothing to do with her, she thinks of a friend

who spoke of losing something easily

because he didn't value it ;

and then, upon recovery, finding it

precious. A game he said he plays.

She wanted to tell him, to tell

herself, this is dangerous.

We bring children down to the river to swim.

In the same river a man wades in waist deep

scattering his wife's ashes.

We don't see this man or know ashes

float in our mouth, catch in our hair.

All we know is the longing engendered

by each familiar portion of our lives.

A boy loving a cat,

a mandolin on a couch,

the wild apples of late summer.

4 ...... ~~ ... , •..• '.«.) ~} 't

. Margaret Lloyd was bom in Liverpool, England of Welsh parents and grew up in a Welsh community in central New York State. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England and has been teaching at Springfield College since 1986. She is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities. In April, 1993, alice james books published her first book of poems, This Particular Earthly Scene. She has also published a book of literary criticism on William Carlos Williams. She lives in Florence, Massachusetts with her husband and two children. We are honored to present a selection of works from her book. Available from the publisher for $9.95.

These works reprinted with permission by alice james books , 33 Richdale Avenue, Cambridge, MA 10210. AU rights reserved. © 1993

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• EARTH-FRIENDLY

W ith the merging of the new Recycling Club with the older

Environmental Club this

academic year, the resulting "Earth Watch"

Club will comprise approximately 25 mem,

bers dedicated to reducing waste on the

SCcampus. "We were two clubs with the same basic

premise, so it made sense to join forces," says

JenniferGuertin '95, a physical therapy major

from West Hartford, Conn., who will serve as the Earth Watch Club's president for '93,194.

She had been a member of the Recycling

Club for two years. The biggest events occur during Earth

Week in March. "Last March," Jennifer says,

"we set up a demonstration in the Beveridge Center to show how easy it is to recycle paper.

We used the receipts for a day from the B.C.

itself. We tore the paper into small pieces and

added them to water and com starch in a blender. After we ground it up, we flattened it with paper towels and dried it. It wasn't

perfect because we had no way to separate the

ink out, so it ended up as splotchy marks on

the paper, but you could still write on it. And more importantly, we got out point across."

How much waste does a place as relatively smaU as Springfield College gener,

ate? "Y ou' d be surprised," Jennifer says. "Also

as a part of Earth Week, we took the garbage from International Hall and separated out what was 'recyclable and what wasn't. We

went from 45 bags of trash to 35 bags of

recyclables, mostly glass and plastic, and 10

bags of trash, mostly contaminated paper."

The educational demonstrations seem

to be working. Jennifer reports that some halls have bought their own recycling bins to make

recycling more convenient. Ironically, the

one commodity that most people think of

when recycling-newspapers-are not recy­

clable at SC. "The firm that takes our recyclables does it for free. Unfortunately, a

BY LEE ENDERLIN

lot of our newspaper is contaminated which means they have to take time to separate it,

and there isn't a bigmarketfor it yet, so it's not

worth their effort to take it. We're hoping to

arrange with local farmers next year to take it for animal bedding and things like that."

Jennifer got involved because "there's so much waste on the campus and students generate most of it. Not because they don't

care, but simply because they're the largest

population segment here. So it's a matter of

constantly reminding them." Jennifer notes that student apathy isn't

the biggest dilemma the Earth Watch Club faces. If anything, student interest is growing. The problem is confusion. "Every commu­

nity has different recycling rules," she notes,

"so we're always trying to find ways to remind the SC community what our guidelines are. The problem with newspapers is a good

example of that. It's almost second nature for

people to recycle newspaper through their

hometown programs, but we don't do it here. But," she says with a note of optimism, "we're

working on it." ...

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RETIREES HONORED

During the Commencement ceremonies, SC honored six members of our

distinguished faculty for their long service and to wish them long life and Godspeed

during their retirement. The following individuals have totaled 131 years of

dedication to the College and its students:

Carroll Britch, Professor of Drama and English; Dr. Roberta Heston, Associate

Professor of Education; Gertrude Lamb, Instructor in Physical Therapy; Thomas

O'Connor, Professor of Political Science; Bruce Oldershaw, Associate Professor of

Education; and Sherrod Shaw, Professor of Physical Education.

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ALUMNI IN

DR. SAM MOLIND '62

~ hree or four weeks ___ a year in Jamaica

sounds like a pretty darn good

summer vacation for most people,

but to Dr. Sam Molind '62, it's far

more than that. It's an opportunity

to set the Humanics Philosophy in

action. Every year since 1985, he has

gone to places like Jamaica, Ecuador,

and the Dominican Republic to

provide free medical care in his specialty of maxillofacial surgery.

"Y ou don't think of]amaica as a

third world country," he says,

"because of its booming tourist busi,

ness, but we go to places the tourists

never see."

He travels to these countries

with a team of physicians under the

auspices of the Christian Medical & Dental Society headquartered

Richardson, Texas. Often, there are 100

people on each team and while an individual

only goes once a year, different teams will

return to these countries four or five teams a

year to provide follow,up. That's particularly

critical since these patients are often in worse

shape than the patients that the doctors see in

America. "These people often suffer from

years of neglect before they see us," Molind

explains. "So their needs are greater from the

beginning." The teams also provide lectures

to local doctors.

Sometimes, the trips have unexpected

consequences. "We couldn't go on a planned

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trip to Ecuador this year because of political

unrest, but instead, ! sponsored a Jamaican woman to my practice in Barre, Vermont for

treatment of a tumor that she couldn't receive

in her home country. That was my mission for this year."

Sometimes, cultural differences hinder

such a basic necessity as health care. "In the Dominican Republic, a cleft palate is re,

garded as a sign of the devil," Molind ex,

plains. "It is a test of our faith as well as our

professional abilities to explain the physical

causes of the problem and what can be done

to correct it. Once the people see the results,

there is a great change in their attitude."

His wife, Dorothy Cain Molind '62, has accompanied him on occa,

sion. He laughs as he says, "There are two things she says she'd never do-­

be a nurse and go on these missions.

Well, she's been on two missions

now and some of her duties were that

of a nurse. She's a wonderful person.

I wouldn't have been able to do half the things I've done without her." Sam was a pre,med major and Dor,

othy a physical education major at

SC. Today, they have three sons and

a daughter ranging in age from twenty

to thirty years old.

Medical team members pay for

their own transportation, meals, and equipment. At times, the equipment

can be cumbersome. "Occasionally,

we know what our team will be dealing with,

such as cleft palates. Other times, especially

in Jamaica, I have to bring a lot of equipment

because I don't know what I'll see," Molind

explains.

The benefits, Molind says, are universal.

"They know we're going to be there to help

them; that we are donating our own money,

care, and effort for them; and that it costs them nothing. That we are offering an oppor,

tunity for love and healing-physically, emo,

tionally, and even educationally. Spirit, mind,

and body. We are simply there to share the

love of the Lord." T

22 LoRee B. Twist turned 94 in June and his wife, Madeleine, turned 90. They celebrated t heir 69th wedding anni versary in 1993.

28Dr. Ralph Piper had a stroke, but he gets around via a wheelchair and walker. Joseph Candia's daughter, Jane Coleman, received the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Award for her book on the Southwest, "Stories of Mesa Country," not Niesa country, as previously reported.

30 The Gold Key Award was presented to North Buffalo resident Emil Mosier at the YMCA's annual dinner meeting. The award is given each year to one individual who has demonstrated outstanding volun­teer service and long-time commitment to the YMCA.

3 6 For three and one half months, Jack Huang traveled through Taipei, Hong Kong, and Beijing where he attended a memorial seminar for Professor John Ma '20. Claremont, CA was the site of the Lyon Chapter Meeting where Edith and Richard Coo­per handled arrangements for the meet­ing and pot luck lunch.

38 David Ward still operates the Sea Space Sailing School which he started in 1969. He and his wife, Harriet, travel in the off-season recently taking a motor home trip to Mexico. They have a new great grand­daughter, Katherine Peters, born March 15,1993.

39 Leon A. LaFor­tune celebrated his 50th wedding anni­versary with a cmise to the Carribean which he received from his two children and six grandchildren. Bob Hettler who spent 33 years as a high school coach and five more as an athletic director was inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.

The Class of '43 presents their generous 50th Reunion Class Gift to President Bromery on the steps of Marsh Memorial.

43 Earle R. Buckley from Fort Myers, FL, on a return trip to Japan where he once was a fraternal secretary, met with the newly formed Association of Retired YMCA Direc­tors in Japan.

48 The Pitman, New Jersey Y's Men's Club honored Jerry G. Lawton by phlCing his name and a tribute in the Y's Men Interna­tional Golden Book which is on perma­nent display at the International Head-

The Class of' 48 proudly carries its banner durin/{ the parade of classes.

quarters in Geneva, Switzerland. M.J. McCarty is in his 46th year of teaching and coaching in Illinois. The Chicago Sports Writers lists himas the only coach in the u.S. who has been inducted into his state's Hall of Fame in 3 sports. He and Julie were recently married in 1991.

T49 Jack and Mil Sullivan celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on April 3, 1993. Howard "Tug" Crozier was inducted into the New England Council Hall of Fame, Wrestling Division; the Massachusetts Interscholastic Wrestling Hall of Fame; and was named Wrestling USA "National Man of the Year." He retired as athletic director at North Andover High School and is still coaching wrestling and track.

50 Don Spencer's first book, A Unique Perception which deals with the psychoJynamics of cop­ing with chronic disabling illness will he out in April, 1993. The annual reunion of Florida grads was held in Vero Beach at the home of Louis Choquette. The golf match was rained out after 9 holes with Carl Rees showing great skill. The cocktail party was attended by Cliff Hallas, Carl Rees, Dinty Moore, Mel Schmidt, Bob Alvord, Ace Kruger. Wally LaFountain, Pappy Frink. Other guests included Ray Mooney '49 and John Lay '49. Anyone interested in attending next year's festivities should contact Cliff at 4401 S.W. 85th Way, Gainesville, FL. Dr. Gerald Weiss spent two weeks in Antarctica with his son who was giving a Wilderness Medical lecture on their tour ship. He now spends his winters at Jensen Beach on Hutchinson Island in Florida. Professor Emeritus Alan C. Moore of the Univer­sity of Florida College of Health and Human Performance, Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences was inducted as an honorary member of the Univer­sity of Florida Blue Key Leadership Fraternity.

51 Peter F. Larosa is secretary of finance and administra­tion of the World Alliance of YMCA's in Geneva, SwitzerJanJ. Dr. Matthew Maetozo recently retired after 20 years as Dean, College of HPERA, Lock Ha­ven University in Pennsylvania. He has

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traveled to 52 countries as an invited consultant in the organization and ad­ministration of physical education and athletics. James Bosco won the Grand Masters I National Badminton Singles Championships in March at the Wimbledon USA Racquet Center in Palos Heights, IL. In May, 1993, Hadley­Luzerne Central School dedicated their new gymnasium in memory of George Doherty. Dr. Howard Barnes is retir­ing after 38 years of coaching and teach­ing to become a full-time cyclist. Perry Kling moved from Massachusetts to New Bern, North Carolina to be south of the Pothole Line.

53 Myrtle Jewelle Brown Hyman (G) was elected 1993 National Secretary of National Retried Athletic Directors at the twenty-third Conference of the National Interscho­lastic Athletic Administrators Associa­tion in Indianapolis. Ken Hobaugh is on his fourth year of retirement at Ma­sonic Homes in Elizabethtown, PA do­ing volunteer work there. As tour guide he would be glad to show this 1,728 acre facility to Springfield folks traveling in the area. Sam Simpson was named Paul Harris Fellow by the Christiana, DE RotaryClub; Given the "District Award of Merit"; and retired from the National Guard after 39 years of service.

T 5 4 Roger Martin is retired from the San Diego Downtown YMCA after 38 years as its director. He was elected California state-wide chair­man of the senior olympics and is serv­ing as vice-chairman of the San Diego Senior Olympics where he won three golds; one silver; and one bronze medal. His wife, Gerry, also won a gold and a silver. Nils Parma retired after 34 years of teaching P.E., German, and coach­ing. He has two grandsons born in 1992. Robert Bartlett, of Durham, NC received the Catherine Worthingham Fellow distinction at the 68th Annual Conference of the American Physical Therapy Association.

55 Douglas Riley retired after 10 years of coaching and teaching in the Quebec school system and 25 years as a professor and chairman of the Department of P.E. at McGill University. He presently lives in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. After 31 years of service, Dr. Bernard R. Miller retired as director of athletics for the Rye, NY, City School District.

56 Gilman Williar retired after 36 years with the Carroll County, MD. Board of Education. For the last five years, he was the principal of Elmer A. Wolfe Elementary School. A gala retirement dinner was attended by 200 colleagues and friends on exactly 40

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A packed audience in Fuller Arts attended a panel discussion on "Co~hin~ Athletes and Humanics." The panelists included (I. to r.) fonner Syracuse University and New England Patriots Head Coach Dick MacPherson '58, Ohio State Women's Head Basketball Coach Nancy Darsch '73, and Sacramento Kings Head Coach Garry St. Jean '73.

years to the day that he graduated from the same school when it was a high school. Laurence "Laurie" Smith had the Ridge High School Track in Basking Rid,ge, NJ named after him. He is still teaching physical education at the high school but gave up the positions of ath­letic director, track coach, and cross country coach. He is a New Jersey track official that also has been selected to officiate at state track meets.

5 7 Robert G. Bow­man, D.O., was recently given the Dis­tinguished Service Award by the Ameri­can Osteopathic College of Anesthesi­ologists. Williams College men's and women's swimming coach Carl Samuelson was recently named the NCAA Division III Women's Swim­ming Coach of the Year at the champi­onship meet in Atlanta.

58 Nelson "Tim" Wood (G) retired in june, 1993 from Rhode Island College and promoted to associate professor emeritus in Septem­ber, 1993. He was also the recipient of honor award RIAHPERD. He designed and administered the only B.S., M.Ed. program in Rhode Island for 20 years. After spending 32 years as an army wife, Patricia (Lewin) Horne and her husband, Colonel John Horne, have retired to Madison, NH. Dr. Malcolm Williamson is chief of medicine at Riverside Osteopathic Hospital, recently took a trip to Israel, and has a golf handicap of 4 and placed eighth in the Michigan Seniors out of 400 contestants.

60 Hamilton College at Clinton, New York collected its 400th basketball win under the tute­lage of Tom Murphy who also serves as the school's athletic director and has enjoyed 19 straight winning seasons.

Bill Decker retired from Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. after 28 years, completing a career as vice president and chief life marketing officer. Golf, traveling, and five grandsons will keep him busy. The gym at john Read Middle School in Redding, CT will now be known as the John S. Hichwa Gymnasium.

61 Frederick P. Toot is the executive director of the YMCA of Greenwich, CT. As past presi­dent of the White Plains, NY Rotary Club, he represented the club in dedi­cating a school in Ecuador which the Rotary Club sponsored.

62 D. Marian Franck (G) was named the director of the PSAPERD P .E.-L.I.F.E. Curriculum Project and received AAHPERD Honor Award in March, 1993.63

63 Allison 5chorer) Sheridan received a Masters of Social Work degree from Hunter College in New York. Donald S. Broas was elected to Medic Alert Medical Foundation National Board, appointed to Lighthouse Building as co-chairman for 26 million buildings in New York, and appointed president of Health Care International. Robert Vadeboncoeur received the Marketing Achievement Award from Digital Equipment Corporation.

T64 Donna (Yates) Tate became a partner in the law firm of Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, et al. David Jacobs, director of athletics and basketball coach at Whittier College, spent two weeks in Australia giving bas­ketball clinics for Basketball Australia, the national governing body of basket­ball in that country.

65 Jim Bullock was named the Baltimore Sun's 1992 All­Metro Girls Cross Country Coach of the Year. Michael West was sworn in before The Supreme Court of the United States and is a member of the Supreme Coun Bar. Dr. Virginia Jones, SS), a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Nazareth, MI, has assisted her community in found­ing Nazareth Center for Environmental Spirituality and serves as its coordinator.

66 Pelham Mead received his doctoral degree in Educa­tion Administration from Teachers College in Columbia and retired from gymnastic coaching after 25 years.

67 Robert Kaminski (G) received the Profession Leadership Award presented. by the American College Counseling Associa­tion at its National Convention in Atlanta.

68 Herbert Grant was appointed to the position of Direc­tor of Labor Relations for Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn. Norma McLaughlin Neumann-Johnson is the creator/facilitator of and teacher in a K-6 "School within A School" at McDonough Elementary in Hartford which was honored as a selected change effort educating for high performance by the Connecticut State Education Department and Connecticut Business & Industry Association. An article about her and her mini-school recently appeared on the front page of the Hart­ford Courant. Dr. Russell R. Pate is a professor and chairman of the depart­ment of exercise science in the School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.

T 69 St. Louis Com­munity College at Meramec's athletic director, Bob Bottger, was inducted into the NjCAA Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame. Robert Goldberg was the 1993 New England Coach of the Year for Swimming at the University of Con­necticut and the 1993 NCAA "YES" clinician at Indianapolis.

70 Pyllis R. Bebko is an instruction designer at the Profes­sional Development Centre of Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale. Dr. Bonnie-jean Buckett was awarded the SCAHPERD Founders Teaching Excellence Award for the elementary level and was teacher of the year in the elementary P.E. level. Allan Sander is coordinator of P.E. at the University of

North Florida and is also an instructor for the American Master Teacher Program for Children's Physical Educa­tion for Human Kinetics Publishers.

71 Charles J. Weinmann Jr. (G) finished planning for a new facility at Western New En­gland College. He would like to hear from Richard Zapf and Frank LeSueur. Linda Arslanian was elected vice presi­dent of the Massachusetts Chapter of American Physical Therapy Associa­tion. She also published a collaborative research article entitled "Scapulothoracic Motion in Normal Shoulders and Shoulders with Glenohumeral Instability and Impinge­ment Syndrome." Kurt Aschermann has been named Boys & Girls Clubs of America's assistant national direcror for marketing and resource development. Pat Ready is a licensed family therapist practicing in California and is past presi­dent of a Rotary International Club.

7 2 Herbert H. Curkin (G), senior director of admis­sions at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland has been elected vice president for Admissions and Financial Assistance of the Middle States Association of Collegiate Regis­trars and Officers of Admissions. He has also recently been appointed to the na­tional association's committee on Re­cruitment and Marketing. Dick Seibert has been coaching the Braintree High School Boys Gymnastics Team for three years, and this year the team was the Mass. State Champs and he was awarded Coach of the Year for 1993.

73 Sadly, Caleb Snyder, son of Scott and Alexcia Snyder passed away on February 26, 1993. Many of our baseball alumni donated money on Caleb's behalf as he awaited a kidney

transplant. Tom Bowler recently made a presentation entitled "Preschool Play­ground Equipment: Past, Present, and Future Directions," at the National AAHPERD convention in Washing­ton, OC. Hilary Lawrence is assistant art director with Flying Magazine and continues ro be a member of the ski patrol at Bromley Mountain in Ver­mont. Donna (Closs) Anderson is a personnel representative at Indian River County in Florida.

• 74 Dr. Linda Opyr will have her poetry appear in "Chi­mera," "The Poetic Knight," and "Peoplenet."

7 5 Marine Lt. Col. John K. Young was promoted ro his present rank while serving with Head­quarters Battalion, Henderson Hall, Arlington, VA. Nicholas Macrino has joined Sikes Tile Distributors, Inc. as local manager in Miami.

76 Mary (Mc­Kenzie) Nimer is teaching physical edu­cation in Danbury, CT. She received her sixth year degree in Administration! Supervision from Southern Connecti­cut and raises four boys. Carl "Buzzy" Goveia recently moved to Eastham, MA to manage and reside at Oak Grove Cottages while still maintaining his in­surance position. Stephen D. Bradley is a group and conference direcrorat Camp Hazen YMCA in Chester, CT. Bob Johnson, head coach for the Emory & Henry College men's basketball team, has been named Region Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He was named as the rop coach in the eight-state South Region of the NCAA Division 111, hon­oring his success in taking Emory & Henry to a 23-5 record. Betty Lou

The Class of '73 held a successful silent auction during Reunion Weekend.

Friday night's Hawaiian luau always prodttCes its share of loud shirts, loud shorts, and smiling faces!

Knowles has been named academic counselor for the Tri-Cities campus. Deborah Ennis was promoted to be YMCA of Greater Seattle Association Child Care Director. She received a Masters in Education from Seattle Pa­cific University.

77 Tom McGrath has returned to New England from Colo­radoafter 14 years with USA Basketball culminating with the implementation and direction of the Olympic Dream Team. He is thedirecrorof special events for the Boston Celtics and executive director of the Auerbach Youth Foun­dation. Richard Derby has assumed the role of golf course superintendent at Longmeadow Country Club. He gradu­ated from the UMASS School of Turf Management. Sharon (Trace) Grossman is living in Boothbay Harbor, ME where she teaches part-time at the Boothbay Region YMCA. Karen (Budd) Gill and her husband, Joe Gill '74, recently moved to New Orleans. Joe is director of athletics at SI. Martin's Epis­copal School and Karen is development associate for special events/volunteers/ communications at Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation. John Kelly was promoted to District Managerwith TDS Financial Services in West I-brtfonl, CT. Robert E. Rice isa Federal prosecu­tor in the Organized Crime Unit of the United States Department of Justice in New York City. Lisa Minotti Zbikowski is doing P.T. and works as an R.N. in Portsmouth, NH. She is presently work­ing as the patient case coordinator for a plastic surgery pmctice.

78 Michael McCombs was promoted to national sales manager for national accounts for the Gillette Company. Dr. Robert Corran completed a two year term as

president of the Canadian Intenmiversity Athletic Union and was appointed chairman of the International Hockey Centre of Excellence in C~lgary. Alberta. Yvonne (Grenon) Benelli is manager a! the Concord Fitness Club in Concord, MA . Edward Adamchek (G) recently completed for an M.Ed. and Certificate of Advance Stud)' in Reha­bilitation in Alcohol/Substance Ahuse Counseling from SC and has just been hired as case manager by the Hampden County Sheriff's Department.

.79 Mary (Naumchik) Hull and her hushand. Rich. built their log home in Idaho where she manages the home and cares for their sons, Isaac and Silas. Steve Merkel is a partner in a firm that manu­factures frozen cook ie dough called Van­Merkel. Inc. Gary Enright has enjoyed "moonlighting" as a part-time instruc­tor for the psychology department at SC for the last four years. Roberta (Harlow) McFarland returned to Texas as the Houston Outdoor Education Center's coordinator. She and her hushand also started a retail catalog of organically grnwn cotron clothes called "Reflec­tions."

80 Andrew J. Kittell is working in international school ad­ministration at Tasis England Ameri­can School, 18 miles from London. He and his wife. Patricia (Colby) '79, have taken rrips !O the Netherlands and Is­rael. James Webb ran in a 5.6 mad race puton hy his roommate, Tony Penta. to

r~ise money fora local leukemia child in Douglass, MA. C. Michael Gerrish re­ceived a Master of Science in Counsel­ing Psychology from SC and plans to

continue on to his doctorate. Dr. Rich­ard laRue is presently involved in [X,st­doctot<.l work as a visiting schobr at

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Harvard School of Public Health in Cambridge, MA and will be running for national office as chair-elect of the Fa­cilities and Equipment Council of ARAPCS in Washington, DC at AAHPERD. Mae Barrett has been work­ing in the London office of an environ­mental defense law firm based in San Francisco. She'll return to San Fran­cisco thiss fall. Debbie (Blanchard) DiBlasi is happy to stay at home with her three sons and volunteer at the el­ementary school helping in the office. Jim Oliver is vice president of sales/ board of directors for Central Florida Health Alliance Medical/Pharmaceuti­cal Sales. Suyatna Atmaja was appointed president of the Indonesian Searsolin Alumni Association and is secretary of Budi Daya Multhy Purpose Coopera­tive.

81 Diane 1. (Wolf) Beaulieu is Northern Zone NYSAHPERD president and teacher/ coach at Colton-Pierre Point Central School in New York. Deborah (Cabaniss) McCausland is head of the specialchemistrydepartment at the V.A. Medical Center in Togus, ME. Dr. Deborah (Fein) Millar is a diagnostic and interventional radiologist at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh. Jeffrey Neumann recently joined the sales force at Crescent Cardboard Com­pany in Chicago as territory manager for Michigan and Ohio. Anthony Perri is a senior counselor and baseball coach at Glen Mills HighSchool in Concordville, P A. He has been appointed to the Chester County Juvenile Task Force to

handle teenage problems in the county. Jeff Allen is director of competitive swimmingat the Naperville,lL, YMCA. In 1993, his teams were Illinois YMCA Swimming State Champions; lSI Junior Olympic Champions; and finished sev­enth at the YMCA Nationals. Dr. Laurie J. Goodyear is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.

82 Karen (A very) Hixson is enjoying a new job as teacher and coach at Salem College in Win­ston-Salem, NC. Rick "Budda" Libuda is living in Worcester, MA working as a sound consultant at WCRB Sound Sys­tems, Inc. Ingeborg (Lucas) Kilduff is working in the Athletic Department at M.I.T. coordinating the intramural sports program and summer day camp for children. She has also hecome an AFAA certified aerobics instructor. Kevin Quinn was appointed executive directnroftheSalem,MA YMCA. Gary Crowell is employed by the Bristol County Sheriff's Office as Assistant Deputy Superintendent of the Eastern Mass. Correctional Alcohol Center in charge of security of a minimum security jail. Mary~Lee (Potrepka) Dube was promoted to an echocardiographer at Bristol, CT, Hospital. Pamela (Moylan) Basham is an inpatient program direc­tor at Glancy Rehab Center in Duluth,

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GA. Thomas A. Worroll is a physical education teacher at West Short Middle School in Milford, CT.

83 Bill Greider is director of research and development at Dur-A-F1ex, Inc. in East Hartford, CT. Ellen (Jarvis) Swedberg is a prevention coordinator at Social Advocates for Youth. John J. Kelley has been pro­moted to vice president of community banking at Fleet Bank. Gina Bucci is manager of the Executive Fitness Cen­ter at the Vista Hotel in the World Trade Center where she was knocked off her chair when the bomb exploded there!

T 84Michael Smolens was named assistant athletic director at the U.S. Merchant Marines Academy in Kings Point, NY and named Skyline Conference Soccer Coach of the Year. Debbie (Naglieri) Prescod is in her

and moved to a 200-year-old home in the country, and is awaiting the birth of her second child.

85 Jean Marie (Little) Romano received her Master's Degree in Elementary Education N-6 from Manhattanville College. Susan Loftus recei ved a teaching assistantship at the University of Maryland where she is pursuing a Master's Degree in Physical Education Curriculum and Instruction. Janet (Bovaird) Zamary is a full-time athletic trainer at Staples High School in Westport, CT and enjoys being a mommy. Sue (Hippler) Stevens is stay­ing home with her boys while working for pro fisherman Jerry Rhyne and the Fishermans Bass Circuit in Denver, NC. Chris Wedholm and his wife, Jenny (Hagen), recently bought a home in Edina, Minnesota. Jenny is the annual fund director at the Blake School in Minneapolis and Chris is the midwest sa les director for Mankato-Kasota Stone Inc. Janet (Gillis) Coleman was pro-

The parade of classes draws participants of all ages, although some just come along for the ride.

sixth year as an adjunct professor of biology at Springfield Technical Com­munity College; thirrd years as an AIDS researcher for the National Institutes of Health at Baystate Medical Center; and seventh year as a curriculum specialist at Springfield Science Museum. Maura (Hurgin) Callahan is the park and rec­reationdirector for the Town of Redding. Cathleen (Brennan) Brennan is work­ing as a sportswear buyer for Nicole Summers.she is living in Hingham, MA. Karen Lee (Nagle) De Freese is work­ing pamime at home for Hydroscience & Technologies, Inc. in Southern Cali­fornia writing computer programs. Annette (Orlandi) Scannapieco has been running her own husiness in mas­sage therapy for five years, got married

moted to underwriter for Aetna's Na­tional Commercial accounts in Hart­ford. Eileen Reading was promoted to associate professor, Department ofPhysi­cal Education, Athletics, and Recre­ation at Carleton College in Minnesota.

86 Marymichelle "Shelli" Lotano graduated from Al­bany bw School and is engaged to Tim Lavery. Laurie Ann Kozubal is an occu­pational therapist working and living in the Nonhern Virginia area. Christine (Lozier) Sousa is an orthopedic medical sales representative covering all of New England for Sutter Corporation. Her

husband, Michael Sousa '87, works for Raytheon in Waltham, MA and was promoted to project supervisor. Tim Flannery was promoted to lieutenant in the u.s. Navy.

87 Glenn Legault teaches physical education and health at Littleton, MA public schools and recently built an extensive adventure project including low and high ropes courses; incorporated a weight room fa­cility; and serves as intramural director, baseball coach, and peer leader assis­tant. Marie Gonzales moved to Atlanta and is a medical representative for Gynopharma, Inc. Diane Yavis is get­ting married in November to Jeffrey Cohen. She received her Master's De­gree in Elementary Education from the College of St. Rose in Albany. Jody (Pavano) Heady resigned from Kraft General Foods as a sale representative to stay home a be a full-time mother. Tim McCullough is enrolled in Old Domin­ion University's Physical Therapy Master's Degree program. Carol Persson was recently named President-Elect of AAHPERD. When she's not chasing Bruce Springsteen around (who recently pulled her up on stage and kissed her), Barbara Cordes is assistant physical edu­cation director at the Springfield Jewish Community Center. Cindy Glickstein completed her M.S. in Occupational Therapy and is currently residing in New York City where she works at St. Vincents Hospital and Medical Center. Dan Zevon opened a bar in Manhattan, "Crossroads", at 77th and 2nd Avenue in New York.

88 LeeAnne (Sandlin) Martin is currently working at the Association for Community liv­ing. Steven Smith (G) was recently named women's softball coach at Bay Path College in Longmeadow, MA and completed his first year. His wife, Sara (Schirmer) G'89, is director of student activities at Bay Path. Tim Pedersen was promoted to lead clinician of the Braintree Hospital Rehabilitation Clinic at Truesdale in Fall River, MA and will be attending the National Academy of Sports Medicine's Personal T rainerCer­tification course in Chicago with Peter Henry and Todd Haynes. Renee Higgins, Rita Hawker, and Virginia Duncan '91 were all attendants at the wedding of Kristin (Pebley) Morgan. Chad Joyce and his wife, Yvonne (Watkins), were married on August 13, 1988 and now have two children, Mitchell William and Bryan Carlise. Chad is a program coordinator in Lex­ington, V A City & County Recreation Department. Kim (Hines) McCormack resides in Natick, MA where she is pur­suing R.N. status at Metrowest Medical Center School of Nursing. Noiel Fontaine graduated from Babson with a Master's Degree in Business Adminis­tration, is working with Heller Finan­cial, ran in the 1993 Boston Marathon,

and is interested in a Boston Alumni Association. Karen Chalker is the se­nior education manager of Junior Achievement ofNorthern New England in Boston where she manages over 100 classes in grades 7 -12 in the Boston area per semester. Julie (Gustafson) Sampson recently became a reporter for the New York Times where she writes about is­sues and covers events on Long Island.

T 89 Jennifer Katz graduated from Northeastern Univer­sity School of Law and is working as a family law attorney and pro bono coor­dinator at Legal Services for Cape Cod and the Islands in Hyannis, MA. Susan (Tozzi) Heschle was promoted from staff physical therapist to supervisor of P.T. services at Rickard Rehabilitation Services in Ridgewood, NJ. Robin (Randall) O'Connor is teaching physi­cal education in Virginia Beach. Leslie (Edmonds) Reid is living in Freeport, Bahamas where she teaches physical education in an elementary school and her husband is a tennis professional at a resort on the island. Lynn Ouellette is teaching elementary physical education and coaching high school golf at Moriah Central School in New York. Emo Hol­land, Dave Savignano, Rusty Miller, Chris Daly '91, Kelly Harbinger '90, and Laurie Phaneuf will be in the wed­ding party when Beth Broderick and Jeff Monahan get married October 3. Michael Argir is employed by the Marriott Corp. and is currently assistant director of facilities for Glens Falls, NY, Hospital. His wife, Audra (DeMadona) ('90) is employed by Independent Ce­ment Corp. and is currently the cus­tomer service coordinator. Kyle Tripp received an MBA from Wagner College and is working for Key Brokerage as a financial consultant in Albany. He works out at Key Corp Wellness where Matt Tyson '88 is director. Robert Canonico graduated from medical school and will he doing emergency medicine residency in Philadelphia. Vance Morris was pro­moted to manager at Walt Disney World in Florida. Kristin (Mangiulli) Theve received a Master's Degree in Elemen­tary Education from Worcester State College. Denise Robertson (G) is a wellness director at Bauusch & Lomb in Rochester, NY. Julie (Bergdoll) Sopczak is a pre-school teacher in Montville. Steven Monson is working as a meeting and event planner for the Pillsbury Com­pany in Minneapolis. Kimberly (Wolcott) Joyce and her husband, David Joyce '87,just purchased a lOO-year-old home in Kennebunk, Maine where she is director of quality assurance and cli­ent relations at Dunhill Systems and he is vice president of sales and marketing at J and N Companies. Navy Lt. (j.g. ) Luther B. Jennings recently completed his first solo flight at Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Florida where he is undergoing primary flight training with Training Squadron Three.

After a trip to the College Bookstore, this young lad is decked out in the latest fashions of toddler-wear.

90 Neallie (Hart) Budway is an early intervention special education pre school teacher at the Cerebral Palsy Center in Portland, Maine. Abby Rabinovitz is working as a counselor on a cognitive/behavioral rehab unit at Franciscan Children's Hospital in Brighton, MA and is cur­rently taking classes toward a nursing degree. Michelle (Bibeault) Belanger is an employment specialist for projects with Induustry, Inc. and is an M.A. candidate at Assumption College in Re­habilitation Counseling. Keith Leighton recently moved to Miami where he is working as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and will be married in September. Judith Jennings is a physical educator for ages 5-15 at Girls Incorporate of Worcester; basketball commissioner for grades 4-7; teen programmer for girls and boys 11-18; working as a personal trainer for Athletic Clubs of American in Shrewsbury; and is an assistant basket­ball coach at St. Peter-Marian Jr./Sr. High Schoo!.

91 Amanda Daley is engaged to Daniel Monson, received a master's degree from SC, and accepted a j(;b with Olympic Regional Develop­ment Authority Figure Skating Program in bke Placid, NY. Heidi Pimental plans to marry Chester Ovesen in Au­gust, 1994. Dominick Darcangelo is employed as general manager of Sports Complex in Vern Beach, FL. His wife, Laurie (Cairns) Darcangelo, is a sec­ond grade teacher at Glendale Elemen­tary in Vero Beach. Tina (Gove) Kebalka is coaching field hockey with her twin sister at Hanover High School

in Hanover, NH. Robert Speare is the new T eacher/Naturalist at Laughing Brook Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary in Hampden, MA. John Whalen Jr. is president-elect ofMRPA and is state coordinator of NYSCA and chairman of the Mass. Professional Cer­tification Board.

92 David Brock is the new program director for the Sioux YMCA's in Dupree, SO. Helen (Watson) Wood is a pre-school teacher at Lucky Leprechaun Nurseryy School in Monson, MA. Merylina (Ina) Santiago is working at the Department of Social Services in Springfield, MA as a social worker. Kerry Griffin is teach­ing physical education to grades K-4 at the Moorestown Friends School and is coaching gymnastics in New Jersey. Katie Keegan is attending Rutgers University pursuing a Master's Degree in Criminal Justice. Sharon Varni is a physical edu­cation/health teacher at Indian Orchard Elementary School in Springfield, MA. Alicia H. Collins has recently been accepted for graduate studies at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, NH.

93 Marine Lance Cpt. Vincent P. Loparco recently participated in two weeks of active duty training for reservists. Janice P. Gouin of Northampton, MA has recently been accepted for graduate studies at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, NH.

Y'indicates reunion year

11. • 1964~ Donna Yates to Dr. Douglas A. Tait, July 18, 1992

1975 Gail Carter to Richard Delia, April 6, 1991 Eileen Cox to Rev. Mike Ricci, November 28, 1992

1976 Steve Crawford to Stephanie Lewis, December 31, 1992

1978 Yvonne Grenon to Thomas Benelli, July 13, 1991

1979 Carol Sue Brown to Brian L. Sleator, July 13, 1991

1981 Norman R. England to Pamela J. Borges, August 29, 1992

Anthony Perri to Jill Cummings, October 17, 1993 1982 Janet Hasbrouck to David]. Rathjens, February, 13, 1993 Marcia Rogers to J. Michael Stanford, April 3, 1993

1983 Kelly Ann Kellar to John J. Ciavardoni, December 14, 1991

1984 Cathleen Brennan to Francis Brennan, J lily 27, 1991 Nadine Luzzi to David Friess, May 16,1992 Maura Hurgin to Kerry Callahan, August 24, 1991

1985 Jean Marie Little to Patrick Palll Romano, June 26, 1992 Kathleen Hardcastle to James Bretta, January 9, 1993

1986 Christine Lozier to Michael Sousa ('87), November 16,1991

1987 Jody Pavano to Russell D. Heady, September 21, 1991 Ted Robbins to Belinda M. VanDreel, March 27,1993

1988 Tim Pedersen to Christine Ferreivz, June 21,1991 Steven J. Smith (G) to Sara Schirmer (G'89), June 20, 1992 John Keenan to Susan Speulda, February 26, 1993 Stacey A. Phillips to Scott E. Stilwell, March 27,1993 Kristin M. Pebley to Joseph S. Morgan, May 22, 1993

1989 Michael Argir to Audra DeMadona ('90), October 5,1991 Vance Morris to Janet Tribbe, September 20, 1992 Robin Randall to Timothy O'Connor, April 25, 1992 Susan Tozzi to Robert Heschle, May 16,1992 Leslie Edmonds to Kevin S. Reid, August 22, 1992 Robert A. Russell Jr. to Kathleen Emerson, March 6, 1993 Kristin Mangiulli to Rob Theve, June 27, 1993 Robert Canonico to Monique Blanche Metzgar, August 28, 1993 Beth Broderick to Jeff Monahan, October 3, 1993 Julie Bergdoll to Andy Sopczak, May 8,1993

1990 Michele Fitzsimmons to Peter Russomanno, November 20, 1992 Neallie Hart to John Budway, December 28, 1992 Michelle Bibeault to Paul Belanger Jr., April 3, 1993 Keith Leighton (G) to Kelly McCann, September 25,1993

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Donald Rusconi II to Lisa Grandfield, June 26, 1993 1991 Dominick Darcangelo to Laurin Caisus (,92), April 17, 1993 Lisa Watkins to Robert Brown ('92), June 12, 1993 Amy E. Conklin to Richard E. Zeglen, August I, 1992 Tanya Fontaine to Terry Yake, May 29, 1993

1992 Helen Watson to Jeffrey Alan Wood, June 14, 1992 Dina Cava to Paul Demos, August 14, 1993 Joseph Schwartzmon to Edene Turk, June 27, 1993

1963 A son, Gregory Michael, to Dr. & Mrs. Donald S. Broas, August 13, 1992

1971 A daughter, Bethea Alden, to Mr. & Mrs. Dan Phelan (Sharon Curtis), Fehruary 14, 1993

1973 A son, David Andrew, to Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Hashagen, May 2, 1992.

1974 A son, Joseph Anthony, to Mr. & Mrs. Bob Bertucci, March 25, 1993

1975 Two sons, Michael James and Andrew Patrick, to Mr. & Mrs. James L. McLean, May 14, 1991 and May 20,

1992 respectively A daughter, Rebeccah Catherine, to Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Thornton, March 16, 1992 A daughter, Lauren Elizabeth, to Mr. & Mrs. David Brown (G) (Gail Trusiak), October 25, 1992

1976 A daughter, Kara Lee, to Mr. & Mrs. Paul Peters (Beverly Carlson), July 25, 1992 A son, Ross Thomas, to Mr. & Mrs. Carl "Buzzy" Goveia, October 18, 1992 A son, Scott Arthur, to Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Bradley, November 23, 1992 A daughter, Christina Erna, to Mr. & Mrs. Mark William Behr (linda Pearson '84}, January 11, 1993

1977 A son, Patrick John, to Mr. & Mrs. John P. Kelly, November 7, 1991 A daughter, Emily Elizabeth, to Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Grossman (Sharon Trace (G», February 12, 1993

1978 A son, Kevin Vincent, to Mr. & Mrs. Michael McCombs, December 7, 1992 A daughter, Audrey Raye, to Mr. & Mrs. Chris Bartholomew, January 8,1993

1979 A daughter, Chloe, to Mr. & Mrs. Steve Merkel, adopted August 17, 1991 A daughter, Amy ,to Mr. & Mrs. Russell Daday (Thea Penny), April 14, 1992 A daughter, Brandt Elizabeth, to Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Royal (Darby R. Quirk), August 2, 1992 A daughter, Rebekah Frances ,to Mr. & Mrs. Rob McFarland (Roberta

Alexandra Lucey, daul#er of Alumni Relations Director T amie Kidess Lucey '81 , and Alexandra Gilson, daughter of Howie Gilson '74, discuss sharing a room together when they arrive as freshmen with the Class of 2013. Both one~year~old Alexandras would be third generation SC grads-their grandfathers are Prof. Emeritus Ted Kidess G'35 and Tarbell Medallion recipient Howard Gilson' 44. Of course, they do hat'e to worry about pre~school first. ..

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Harlow), October 18, 1992 A son, Silas Dylan, to Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hull (Mary Naumchik), December 18, 1992 A daughter, Dorothy Eldred, to Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Cooper (Mary Farnham), January 26, 1993 A daughter, Hannah Ruth, to Mr. & Mrs. Harris D. Foster, February 17, 1993 A daughter, Carly Michelle, to Mr. & Mrs. Michael Fumai (lisa Scott), March 4, 1993

1980 A son, Matthew William, to Mr. & Mrs. William DiBlasi (Debbie Blanchard), March 18, 1991 A daughter, Elizabeth Ann, to Mr. & Mrs. Peter Audruszkiewicz (Danielle Schiffer), October 29, 1992 A son, Cameron Moore, to Mr. & Mrs. Brad Dodge (Diane Moore), August 13, 1992

1981 A daughter, Olivia Kauffman, to Mr. & Mrs. Jon Hook (Christine Bennett), March 9,1992 A son, William Bayard Corbin, to Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Ox toby (Jane Corbin}, July 10,1992 A daughter, Kathryn Marie, to Mr. & Mrs. Michael Holmes, August 4, 1991 Two daughters ,Lindsey Jean and Amy Elizabeth, to Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hewins (Joanne Egan), September 10, 1991 and November 26, 1992 respectively. A daughter, Katelyn Ann, to Mr. & Mrs. John McDonough, November I, 1992 A daughter, Julia Marshall, to Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gordon Holz Jr. (Sue Marshall), February 12, 1993 A daughter, Meredith Tucker, to Mr. and Dr. Douglas Tucker Millar (Deborah L. Fein), February 17, 1993 A son, Montgomery Edward, to Mr. & Mrs. Edward Herbert (Barbara Granger), March 21,1993 A daughter, Darcy Kathleen, to Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Rzepka (Christine M. Cormier), October 29,1992 A daughter, Bryce Lauren, to Mr. & Mrs. Sylvester Thomas Jr., September 3, 1991 A daughter, Kerri Lynn, to Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Allen, January 29, 1992

1982 A daughter, Kayla Ann, to Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Worroll, September 28,1991 A son, David V. Jr., to Mr. & Mrs. David V. Dube Sr. (Mary,Lee Potrepka), June IS, 1992 A daughter, Sarah Matie, to Mt. & Mrs. Mark Howell (Linda Stahlbush), September 29, 1992 A daughter, Morgan Elizaheth, to Mr. & Mrs. Charles Furgal (MaryBeth Campbell), December 28, 1992 A son, Benjamin Richard, to Mr. & Mrs. Rick "Budda" Libuda, April 14, 1993 A son, James Alexander, to Mr. & Mrs. Gary J. Crowell, May 31, 1992.

1983 A son, Erik Jonathon, to Mr. & Mrs. Brian Swedberg (Ellen Jarvis), January 3, 1992 A daughter, Gabriella Eva, to Mr. & Mrs. John J. Ciavardoni (Kelly Ann Keller), September 3,1992 A son, John "Jack" Richard, to Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Carrier (MaryBeth McMahon), November 24,1992 A son, Derek Charles, to Mr. & Mrs. Dave Stevens (Sue Hippler '85), December 8, 1992 A daughter, Haley Deforrest, to Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Knight (Donna Goudey), January 4, 1993

1984 Twin daughters, Danielle and Alexis, to Mr. & Mrs. Vernon DeFreese Jr. (Karen Nagle), January 28,1988 and February 10, 1993 A daughter, Maggie, to Mr. & Mrs. Francis Brennan (Cathleen Brennan), January 24, 1992 A daughter, Kimberly Gayle, to Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Houston (Dorothy Curran), October 1, 1992 A son, Colan Jeremiah, to Mr. & Mrs. Kerry Callahan (Maura Hurgin), January 5, 1993 A son, Cameron Michael, to Mr. & Mrs. Alan Prescod (Debbie Naglieri), March 2, 1993 Twin daughters, Victoria Rose and Elizabeth Rose, to Mr. & Mrs. Carey Weiss (Jane DiSpagna), April 15, 1993 A daughter, Antonia, to Mr. & Mrs. Ed Scannapieco (Annette OrlandO, May 27,1992 A son, Timothy Peter, to Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Bond, February 12, 1992. A daughter, Hannah Elizabeth, to Mr. & Mrs. David Criswell (Elaine Schiff), August 24,1992

1985 A son, Maxwell Taylor, to Mr. & Mrs. Steven Litvak (Susie Chapin), May 23,1992 A daughter, Shannon Jessica, to Mr. & Mrs. Jack Zamary (Janet Bovard), June 12, 1992 A daughter, Margaret Kathleen, to Mr. & Mrs. Michael Russotto (Kathleen Jenkins), July 29, 1992 A son, Clinton Nicholas, to Mr. & Mrs. Neverill Coleman (Janet Gillis), December II, 1992 A daughter, Manolita Borrero, to Mr. & Mrs. Osvaldo Borrero (Manolita Santiago), AprilS, 1993 A daughter, Shannon Elizabeth, to Mr. & Mrs. Kevin King (Cherie Cancelliere '86), May 8,1993

1986 A son, Stephen David, to Mr. & Mrs. Steve Beneduce, July 12, 1992 A daughter, Kayley Ann, to Mr. & Mrs. Scott Ryan (Karen Kopycinski), August 24, 1992 A daughter, Megan Elizabeth, to Lt. and Mrs. Tim Flannery, February 24, 1993

1987

A daughter, Jennifer May, to Mr. & Mrs. Russell Heady (Jody Pavano), December 1, 1992 A son, William Buck, to Mr. & Mrs. Brian Cogswell (Elizabeth Rathbun), March 30, 1992 -A son, Ronald William, to Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Jensen (Patricia Odell), September 3, 1992 A daughter, Amy Elizabeth, to Mr. & Mrs. Steven Stupienski (Stephanie Finster), January 15, 1993 A daughter, Jocelyn Melissa, to Mr. & Mrs. William M. Taylor, February 28, 1993

1988 A daughter, Alexa, to Mr. & Mrs. Jim Vemadakis (Tina Thomas), January 26, 1993

1989 A daughter, Caitlyn Elizabeth, to Mr. & Mrs. David Cannone (Cheryl Heath), March 9, 1993 A daughter, Chelsea Anne, to Mr. & Mrs. Cameron Paine, March 11, 1993

1991 A daughter, Allison Yates, to Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Kramp (Mary,Ellen Coutu), March 27, 1993

We remember with fondness the following Springfield College alumni and extend our deepest sympathy to their family and friends. They will be commemorated at the Alumni Memorial Service on Reunion Weekend.

1923 Harold A. Mountain, July 14,1992

1925 Clifford J. Beisaw, July 10, 1992 Oscar J. Liljenstein, January 13, 1993 Ruth Sweeney, January 27, 1993

1926 Richard F. Crawley, December 21, 1992 Richard Perschke, January 9, 1993

1927 Merle F. Miles, February IS, 1993

1928 William E. Lang, August 3,1989 Henry T. Ellard, January 27, 1993 Norman H. Roggow, April 24, 1993

1929 Thomas K. Cureton (G), December 18, 1992

1930 Clifton E. Lord, August 22, 1992 Alex B. Robinton, March 29,1993

Hal Vasvari'66 (left) shares a laugh with SC President Dr. Randolph Bromery.

1931 Richard H. Bond, May 1,1991 Henry A. Detering, February 14, 1993 Adren G. Allen, April 10, 1993

1932 Tasuke Yuasa, May 3, 1992 Wendell C. Beecher, August 23, 1992 Walter G. Streeter, January 4, 1993 Henry E. Wilhelm, February 3, 1993

1933 Howard A. Meyers, April 6, 1990 Essig R. Young, January 12, 1993 Frederick A. Jordan, March 20, 1993

1934 Donald H. Drake, September 10, 1992 Stuart M. Townsend, October 2, 1992 Dr. Roger E. Makepeace, February 26, 1993 Richmond Hayden, March 10, 1993

1935 Kenneth A. Morris, February 24, 1993 Montefiore Daniels, March 24, 1993

1936 Arthur P. Iversen, December 23, 1992

1937 Frank Brittingham, November 24, 1992 Stanley F. Murphy, April 5, 1993

1938 Maurice D. Kling. March 11. 1993

1939 J. Roy Holmes. Decemher 11. 1992

1940 George H. Johnson, February 5, 1993

1942 Robert S. Barna, November 5, 1992

1943 J. Allison Miller, February II, 1993

1944 Lillian R. Benton, February 22, 1993

1949 Robert 1. Pooler Sr., December 27, 1992 Dr. James E. Haines, February 18, 1993

1950 Lewis A. Pillsbury, November 29, 1992 Kennetth J. Briggs, March 5, 1993

1951 Madelyn M. Flaherty, December 10, 1992

1952 Richard J. Noonan, April 14, 1992 Robert C. Galbraith, December 28, 1992

1956 Robert W. Freeman, April 11, 1993

1958 Arthur Herbert Miller, Fehruary 23, 1993

1959 Julius 1. D'Agostino Jr .. April 3, 1993

1960 Florence C. Swenson, Novemher II, 1992

1965 Dr. Margery A. Bulger, January 22. 1993

1966 David Keith. Fehruary 11.1993

1967 Kenneth B. Thompson. June 28. 1992

1968 Raymond 1. Rosa, June 24, 1992 Lynda J. Fergerson, January 18, 1993 Philip Hertz, April 3, 1993

1969 Theresa A. Cimini, February 9, 1993 Henry A. Wiatrowski, March 27, 1993

1970 Robert D. Carr, March 18, 1993 Lt. Col. Michael P. Winters, April 19,1993

1971 Barbara 1. Raymond (G), January 19, 1993 .

1972 Lee Evan Keimach, March 16, 1993

1973 Kenneth N. Breese, October 2,1992

1977 Rev. Dr. Manford H. Saunders, June 9, 1992

1983 Frema D. Gold, March 31, 1993

1986 Thomas P. Tracy, December 5, 1990

1991 George J. Curry, March 7, 1993

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1; JOIN THE FUN

HOMECOMING '93 NOVEMBER 5-7, 1993

TO BETTER SERVE YOU ..•

In recent years, more and more of you have been writing to us telling about the exciting events in your lives. Weare especially happy to be able to share your news with other members of the Spring~ field College family via our Class Notes section in The Triangle.

We have found, however, that our growing ranks combined with the grow~ ing interest among our Alumni to keep in touch is causing severe space limitations. So, in an effort to serve more of you more effectively and efficiently, we have devel~ oped an easy form for your use when reporting items for Class Notes. This will help ensure our accuracy and allow more Alumni to share news. All we ask is that you follow the instructions on the form carefully and completely. Every issue hence forth will contain a form for sub~ mission and, if you contact us by phone, we'll put your news items onto a form for you. We've tried to make it simple, so it will be easy to continue to keep in touch. Also, due to space restrictions, Death announcements will always appear in the following format:

Year Name, Date of Death

We thank you in advance for your cooperation and patience.

.:t* REUNION '94 JUNE 9-12,1994

FOR CLASSES ENDING IN 4 & 9

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r------------------------, ALUMNI CLASS NOTES FORM

I have some news to share with or announce to my fellow SC Alumni: (Please check and complete all applicable information below. Failure to complete all pertinent

information may result in not getting your announcement into "The Triangle".)

Name/SC Class Yr. ___________________ _

(Alumnae please include maiden name)

Spouse __________________________________________________ ___

(Please include maiden name and SC class year if applicable)

1--- Birth: n Male [] Female

Child's Name ____________________ -'---

Date of Birth _________________________ _

CJ Marriage:

Date of Marriage ________________________________________ _

Other: (Tell us briefly about your latest achievement, promotion, or significant life event.)

Remember: While all news about our Alumni is important to us the growing popularity of Class Notes is causing space constraints. Therefore,

to better serve you, we must require this form for aU listings in the Class Notes. We can only accept news about yourself--not fellow classmates or SC relatives. All news should not be more than two years old. Death notices must be reported

via an obituary or written notification by the immediate family. Publication deadlines may either delay your submission until a future issue or preclude its use.

Please return this completed fonn to: Springfield College, Office of Public Relations, 263 Alden Street, Springfield, MA 01109,3797.

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Springfield College & YMCA

President Bromery and David R. Mercer, National ExecttCive Director of the YMCA of the USA, sign an agreement co revitalize the historic relationship between SC and the Y. The agreement calls for Springfield College to /JTovide continuing education fur YMCA officials nationally, the creation of a Y liaison director on the SC campus, and a protocol to establish a joint t'Cnture with the Urban League and the Visiting Nurses Association.

Sign Historic Agreement

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