The Haven Magazine Spring 2018

ALUMNI news
Margery Krevsky Dosey –
Celebration of the Arts
On Thursday,
March 22 Lock
Haven University
held its annual
Margery
Krevsky Dosey
Celebration
of the Arts
ceremony. The event featured various
displays of talent by students and faculty,
including singing, dancing, spoken word,
and piano and jazz performances. The
event also included an art exhibit by
featured student and Margery Krevsky
Dosey Scholarship of the Arts Award
winner, Zach Hommey.
Hommey’s artwork wowed attendees
who were taken by the artistic manipulation
of still photos he alters via Photoshop.
Hommey, a senior graphic design major,
said digital art allows him to create the
abstract visions he sees in his head.
“It is important to me that my work
hold the viewer’s attention whether that
comes from the sensory beauty or a deeper
message, or simply the beauty of the
process,” he said.
Krevsky Dosey, a member of the Lock
Haven University Council of Trustees since
2007, established the scholarship in her
name in 2011 to award artistic excellence
at LHU. “What a creative mind,” she said
of Hommey.
The arts at LHU are of high value
to Krevsky Dosey. As a successful
businesswoman she understands
the importance creativity has in the
workplace, and the pivotal role the arts
play in fostering creativity and innovation.
“We have many academic courses
at Lock Haven University, but it is my
opinion that you must get involved in
the arts to develop innovative thinking
because if you don’t, you will have a job,
but you won’t be able to take it to that
next level,” she said.
“Every one of these performers went
through a creative process, and no two
creative processes are ever the same,’”
she added. “Learning to think differently
is a commodity that is very critical right
now.”
Krevsky Dosey closed the night by
thanking the faculty who helped the
students orchestrate their performances
and develop their respective talents.
“When you put on performances like
this there are so many people to thank,
but I especially want to thank the faculty
who are working with these students
behind the scenes,” she said. “They
don’t always get the applause or the
spotlight, but they are the people who
are making our students the stars that
they were tonight.”
Alumni Enjoy
Food, Friends,
and Fun in the
Florida Sun
In February,
members of the Lock
Haven University
Alumni Association,
including former
President Dr. Michael
Fiorentino Jr., made
their way to Florida
for some fun in the
sun with alumni and
other members of the
LHU family.
The trip took them
from dinner in Ft.
Lauderdale at the
15th Street Fisheries
Restaurant, to brunch
in Bradenton at
the Waterlefe Golf
and River Club. A
gathering in The
Villages at the Palmer
Legends Country
Club, another at the
M Waterfront Grille in
Naples, and an alumni
happy hour at the Big
Fin Seafood Kitchen
in Orlando rounded
out the trip.
Barbara Rusko ’58,
referred to the event
in Bradenton as, “a
good time.” Barbara
Langheim Freas ’79,
said she, “enjoyed
meeting everyone.”
The LHU Alumni
Association is
committed to keeping
alumni connected
to the University
through special
events and additional
outreach. To learn
more about the Lock
Haven University
Alumni Association,
visit www.alumni.
lhup.edu.
Trent Turner Receives
Excellence in
Coaching Award
Coach is part of his title, but
life lessons are what Trent
Turner is most focused on
teaching his students. Turner’s dedication to
his students has culminated in being honored
with the 2017 Excellence in Coaching Award by
the Pennsylvania State Association for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
(PSAHPERD).
Turner graduated from LHU in 1991, while
also winning the Health and Physical Education
Department’s Golden Whistle Award. The
recognition is given to the graduating senior
majoring in health and physical education with
the highest GPA, who is also expected to best
represent the program in the future. Since
graduating from LHU, he’s done just that.
Turner is the wrestling coach at Conestoga
Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., a position
he’s held for the past 21 years, while also
teaching health and physical education. He
comes from a strong coaching background. His
father, Neil Turner, was Lock Haven University’s
wrestling coach from 1979-1990.
He was nominated for the Excellence in
Coaching Award by his colleagues, without
his knowledge, but even with such a strong
coaching pedigree and years of dedicating
himself to his students, he was still surprised
upon news of winning the honor.
“I’m just humbled that somebody recognized
the time and effort I’m putting into the
profession,” Turner said.
One person who recognized Turner’s
commitment to his profession from the very
beginning is his father. He’s proud of his son, not
just because he won the award, but because of
the “why” behind it.
“The nature of the award is exactly what
we all should be doing,” Neil Turner said.
“Keeping our eye not on the objective results,
but the subjective effect that it’s having on the
participants and what they’re gaining from the
experience.”
“I’ve tried to do some things through our
wrestling program that are character based,”
Trent Turner said. “We’re focused on the
character that drives the process of developing
life champions.” His wrestlers need to look no
further than their coach for the embodiment of
what being a life champion is.
18 SPRING 2018 THE HAVEN LOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY