Big Man on Campus - Moravian College

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<strong>Big</strong> <strong>Man</strong> on Campus 

Meet Christopher Thomforde 

Student Journals Give 

Dorm’s-Eye View 

One Moravian’s Quest for 

A More Beautiful World

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02 Prelude: My Lisbon Lessons 

A stranger in a strange land finds that his 

journey grants him insights to his own identity. 

10 Move-In Day 

You’ve got your key, you’ve found your room . . . 

now all you need to do is unload your stuff and 

meet your roommate. Welcome to the first day 

of the rest of your college life. 

12 A View from the Top 

Why are small liberal arts institutions like 

Moravian College more important than ever? 

New president Christopher Thomforde shares 

his thoughts on truth, community, sports, and 

more. 

16 “I Can Do This” 

Linda Evans Shotkus ’69 turned down an 

enticing job offer so she could follow her 

passion. That plucky choice led to three 

decades of fashionable success. 

04 Out & About 

18 Sports 

19 Alumni News 

21 Class Notes 

Moravian College Magazine : executive editor, Susan Overath Woolley; 

managing editor, Rick Chillot; sports editor, Mark J. Fleming; web manager, 

Christie Jacobsen; director of public relations and marketing, Michael P. 

Wilson. 

Creative Direction: Jane Firor & Associates. 

Alumni Relations: acting director, Penni Zimmerman; class notes assistant, 

Patricia Murray Hanna ’82; student assistant, Kristin Gratz ’08. 

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prelude 

Larger-than-life Ideas 

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My Lisbon Lessons 

Peter Cunha ’07 explores Portugal and his past 

I believe you have to stay busy. You always have to be involved in 

something whole-heartedly, always evolving, always advancing. For 

college kids, that means an internship in the summer. The Career 

Center at Moravian has convinced me that experience is necessary if 

I want to progress successfully to the next level of my life. A previ- 

ous internship advanced my understanding of journalism. This time, 

I wanted an experience relating to my other major, international 

business. And I wanted to see if I really could survive on my own in 

another country. 

My internship was six weeks at the Luso-American Foundation 

(FLAD, Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento), in Lisbon. 

FLAD was founded in 1986 by the Portuguese government to help pro- 

mote relations between the United States and Portugal. The two nations 

share a diplomatic alliance that’s 

one of the oldest—if not the old- 

est—in American history. This was 

the first time that someone outside 

of my family invested so much in me 

in more than just a financial way. 

I worked in Lisbon in the Es- 

trella neighborhood. <strong>Man</strong>y interna- 

tional embassies are located there, including the U.S. embassy, which 

is just across the street. Our building was one of the first built in the 

area after the 1755 earthquake that destroyed a large part of Lisbon. 

My office had an unbelievable view of the Tejo River. One of my proj- 

ects, an analysis of American students studying abroad in Portugal, 

resulted in the largest document I’ve ever produced—78 double- 

spaced pages. It took a lot of research and analysis, but working for 

people I admired and respected made it enjoyable. 

I’m the son of immigrants who left Portugal in 1968. The week- 

ends were great for discovering my ancestral stomping grounds 

firsthand. I went to my folks’ home town. We still have family there. 

I saw my paternal grandparents’ graves, my dad’s crib, and I did 

some genealogical research. I visited the house where my dad grew 

up, and the neighborhood he lived in before he left for America. The 

area’s still very rural. It’s easy to imagine my roots because the way 

of life there hasn’t changed much. I found out that my dad’s house, 

now occupied by my aunt, has been in the family for six generations. 

Most Americans know the nationality of their ancestors, and a few 

lucky ones know where in that nation—in what town or region—their 

Left: Peter Cunha at Lisbon’s Parque Eduardo Setimo. 

right: Rooftops of Lisbon, World Cup euphoria, Peter and co-workers. 

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family originated. But I know exactly where my ancestors lived some 

four hundred years ago. To find out that you’re part of something that 

extends so far back in time is a new discovery about yourself. 

I’m a soccer nut, and when the World Cup tournament is going 

on, so is everyone in Portugal. I experienced the World Cup in a soc- 

cer-crazy nation, one that went far in the tourney at that. Portugal’s 

fourth-place finish that summer was its best in 40 years, and I was 

there for the final five matches. It was the best. When the team won 

against Holland and England, everyone headed to the monument 

to Marques de Pombal* in the city’s center. I was stationed down 

the street, and after every victory I’d march down there and cheer 

with the rest of Lisbon’s population. People waving flags, rigging up 

their cars so that their automobiles look like caravels—15th-century 

explorers’ ships—with the Portuguese 

flag as a sail . . . it was a phenomenon 

that just doesn’t exist in the States as 

far as soccer is concerned. 

After being transplanted for those 

six weeks, I learned skills that can’t 

be transmitted in any other way. 

Working in a foreign nation teaches 

you to function successfully within another culture, something I feel 

many Americans don’t understand. You can read about social differ- 

ences in a textbook, but you have to practice them or that knowledge 

is useless. My generation is going to have to deal with concepts like 

globalization and the European Union. After this internship, I’m very 

familiar with these notions. 

And I learned a lot about me that I didn’t know before. I grew up 

with very little knowledge of my great Portuguese heritage. Getting 

thrown into it headfirst made me come out with a new appreciation 

of names like Vasco da Gama, Fernando Pessoa, Luis Camoes. I came 

to appreciate an element of my personality that helps me understand 

who I am. Since I was little, I’ve always been looking at pictures in 

textbooks or watching movies and wishing that one day I could go 

there and see those places. I’ve always had this interest in what’s out 

there. Maybe that’s just the Portuguese in me: the blood of the explorers 

still going strong. W 

Prelude features stories of Moravian College community members in their own words. 

Send your submissions or suggestions to: rickc@moravian.edu. 

* The statesman noted for his leadership after the 1775 earthquake. –eds. 

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out&about 

Dance with Your Ears 

HAPPENING . . . 

February 1 – March 11 

Edouard Matthiew Pannetier 

PAyNE GAllEry • An exhibit of never- 

before- displayed drawings and paintings by 

the French-Cambodian surrealist, known as 

“Peccadet” to artist friends like Picasso. 

February 21 

Lawrence Brownlee, tenor 

Foy CoNCErt HAll • A remarkable 

evening of music with one 

of today’s leading bel canto 

tenors. 

A Kulu Mele 

dancer teaches 

Moravians the 

right moves. 

Good dancing starts with good listening, says Dorothy Wilkie, artistic 

director and choreographer of Kulu Mele African American Dance 

Ensemble. “Beginners have to learn to listen to the drum,” she explains. 

“Each rhythm has its own call, and that tells you when to start, change, 

and stop.” The ensemble, whose name means “voice of our ancestors,” 

visited the Moravian campus in December 2006 for a program of dances 

and rhythms from Africa, Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, and the U.S. Students and 

faculty members had an opportunity to move to the beat of African 

drumming during a pre-concert workshop. The steps may be different, 

but music and dance play similar roles in African and American culture, 

says Wilkie. “They play music for many reasons—for the birth of a baby, 

for a celebration, for a naming ceremony. Here we have music at baby 

showers, parties, and weddings.” 

March 15 – April 15 

The Design of Dissent 

PAyNE GAllEry • renowned graphic designer 

Milton Glaser and illustrator Mirko Ilic present 

an exhibit of socially- and politically-driven 

graphics. 

Medieval Is Good for You 

How did the Reformation alter the represen- 

tation of women? What narrative strate- 

gies did Chaucer use in the Canterbury 

Tales? How were dreams interpreted in the 

Carolingian period? <strong>Man</strong>y such questions 

were answered—or at least thoroughly dis- 

cussed—at the Undergraduate Conference in 

Medieval and Early Modern Studies, hosted 

by Moravian College on Saturday, December 

2, 2006. The conference featured 28 research 

presentations by students from Moravian 

and several other colleges and universities. 

The 220 attendees, representing 25 schools, 

also witnessed performances and demon- 

strations (including two Moravian music 

majors who constructed a 15th-century 

trumpet). Other events included a plenary 

speech by Arthurian literature specialist Kel- 

ley Wickham-Crowley, associate professor of 

English at Georgetown University in Wash- 

ington, D.C., and a performance of Sephardic 

Blow your own horn: Moravian students Christopher 

A. Lucca ’09 and Sean Mason ’08 demonstrate the 

15-th century trumpet they created for Moravian’s 

Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 

music by members of the Baltimore Consort 

and Quartetto Brio. 

Vespers in Televisionland 

Taking a close look at these periods 

in history does more than solve historical 

enigmas or offer glimpses into a bygone 

mindset, says John Black, assistant profes- 

sor of English at Moravian and one of the 

conference organizers (with Sandy Bardsley, 

assistant professor of history). It teaches 

you to think outside your own particular 

box. “One of the main appeals of this field 

is its interdisciplinary aspect,” says Black. 

“You can’t approach it with blinders on.” 

While it’s possible to view the Middle Ages 

strictly from, say, an art history perspective, 

real understanding only comes from bring- 

ing together information from history, art, 

literature, religion, music, and other fields. 

And professors or students who learn to do 

that will find it’s a skill that’s sorely needed 

in today’s world. “Our modern worldview is 

utterly fragmented,” Black says. “We’re so 

drawn and torn and pushed and shoved and 

rushed and frantic that there’s hardly time 

for synthesis, for seeing how you or anyone 

else fits into the big picture.” 

A Moravian College tradition gained its widest audience yet when thirteen NBC-tV affiliates around the 

country broadcast The Music of Vespers from Bethlehem . . . the Christmas City on Christmas day 2006. 

the program featured a repertoire of sacred and spiritual songs from a wide variety of cultures performed 

by the Moravian Choir, under the direction of Paula ring Zerkle, and by the Women’s Chorus, under the 

direction of Eduardo Azzati. Selections included an Australian aboriginal chant, the words of John Milton 

and Walt Whitman, and music composed by Moravian students. Also featured were Vespers standards 

like the hymns Morning Star and Jesus, Call Thou Me (Jesu, rufe mich). While nearly 6,000 members of 

the Moravian College community attend the Vespers services every year in Bethlehem, the broadcasts 

allowed viewers as far away as Michigan and oklahoma to enjoy them. or, in the case of former Choir 

soloist Susan Mcleish ’75, to enjoy them again. “Imagine my surprise,” says Mcleish, who lives outside 

of Atlanta, Georgia, “when I arose at 5:00 a.m. to make Moravian sugar cake, turned on the tV in hopes of 

finding something holidayish, and found the Moravian Vespers being broadcast!” 

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out&about 

Reaching Readers, 

One Book at a Time 


March 22–25 

Steel Magnolias 

ArENA tHEAtrE • Flowery on the outside but 

tough on the inside, six southern belles laugh, cry, 

and support each other. Performed by the Moravian 

College theatre Company. 

Esther Tutella likes a challenge. “I wanted to 

teach in a school that really needs teach- 

ers,” says the 2006 graduate. “I feel strongly 

that some kids get overlooked, and I wanted 

to fill that gap.” So she applied to Teach for 

America (TFA), an organization that places 

recent college grads in underserved public 

schools. Because TFA wants teachers who 

will excel in difficult circumstances, their 

selection process is a demanding one. “There 

was a long application 

process,” Tutella says. 

“I had to write essays 

explaining how I’d over- 

come obstacles in my 

life.” After undergoing an 

extended interview and 

teaching a sample lesson 

for the selection commit- 

tee, Tutella became one of 

2,400 teachers accepted 

into the TFA program 

(out of 19,000 applicants 

nationwide). 

Tutella’s assignment, teaching English 

to 150 tenth and eleventh graders at Forrest 

City High School in rural Arkansas, came with 

challenges of its own. To help her class im- 

prove their vocabulary and reading skills, she 

decided to assign each student a book match- 

April 14 

Relay for Life 

NortH CAMPuS quAd • Come and support 

Moravian students, faculty members and staff in 

this fund-raising event for the American Cancer 

Society. 

Above: Donated books, packed by Moravian students and future educators : Daniel 

Huster ’08, Karla Erdman ’07, Christine Holmfelt CC, and Keith Brotzman ’08. 

Left: Esther Tutella ’06 and students. 

ing his or her ability and interests. The individual attention works. In 

one case, a struggling reader was assigned to read forty pages; the next 

day she complained that she was only able to read sixty pages before 

her mom told her to turn out the light and get to sleep. 

This approach did bump up against a significant difficulty, 

though: a scarcity of books. “We’re in a rural area, the library doesn’t 

have much, and there aren’t many places to buy them,” says Tutella. 

Help came when Tutella described her situation to mentor Joseph 

Shosh, assistant professor of education at Moravian College. Shosh 

put a call out for donations, resulting in a collection of about 500 

books contributed by Moravian students, faculty members, and staff- 

ers. They arrived at Forrest City High just in time for the December 

holidays. “One day I got a call from the school office telling me I had 

nine boxes that needed to be picked up,” Tutella says. She was able 

to hand-pick a book for each student to read over Christmas break, 

with enough left over to keep in her classroom library and share with 

a fellow English teacher. “I seem to get more support from my former 

professors and classmates than most teachers do,” Tutella says. 

April 19 – May 13 

Moravian College Senior Show 

PAyNE GAllEry • Get a glimpse of the 

next generation of artists, as the College’s 

graduating seniors in art show off their 

creations. 



Preserving a 

Singular Treasure 

Few structures provide as many years of useful ser- 

vice as Moravian College’s most historic building, the 

Single Brethren’s House. In the decades after its 1748 

construction, it served as a dwelling for single men, a 

workplace, a hospital for the Revolutionary army, and 

a dining spot for Bethlehem visitor George Washing- 

ton (once). Today the Brethren’s House contains music 

practice rooms, classrooms, and offices. In 2006, a 

Save America’s Treasures matching grant from the 

Department of the Interior, National Park Services, 

enabled a welcome spruce-up: the windows were re- 

glazed, 39 rotted windowsills were replaced, all sills 

were painted, all the carpeting and subfloors were 

removed and replaced, and the hallways and stair- 

wells were painted. A new air conditioning system 

was installed as well. For all that, George Washington 

would still recognize the building, since its layout and 

stone exterior appear much as they did 259 years ago. 

Washington’s fellow revolutionary Ben Franklin 

also visited the Brethren’s House, where according 

to his autobiography he “was entertain'd with good 

musick” in January 1756. These days, the technophilic 

Franklin would be able to use his laptop to post blog 

entries while strolling around campus. Thanks to a 

grant from the George I. Alden Trust, Moravian’s wire- 

less computer network is now available in and around 

more than a dozen College buildings, including the 

Brethren’s House. Eventually even the school’s out- 

door spaces will be covered, which should allow users 

to follow one of Franklin’s many adages: “Employ thy 

time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.” 

April 20–22 

Presidential Inauguration Weekend 

Christopher thomforde is inaugurated as the College’s 

15th president. Celebratory events will include 

a parade down the Moravian Mile, a barbecue at 

Bethlehem City Hall Plaza, and a fireworks display. 

MorAVIANBooKSHElF 

■ Medieval moralists considered the tongue 

a dangerous weapon, and in the later Middle 

Ages deviant speech became 

increasingly feminized. Women 

of all social classes risked 

being charged as “scolds” and 

prosecuted in court for insult- 

ing others or talking too much 

in public. This phenomenon and 

its consequences are examined 

in Venomous Tongues: Speech 

and Gender in Late Medieval 

England (University of Penn- 

sylvania Press, 2006) by Sandy 

Bardsley, assistant professor of history at 

Moravian College. 

■ Saving money for a down payment on a 

home, choosing between health insurance 

alternatives, under- 

standing survey results 

reported in the media… 

sometimes mathemat- 

ics is about more than 

abstract numbers. 

The new textbook 

Quantitative Reason- 

ing: Tools for Today’s 

Informed Citizen, by 

Alicia Sevilla and Kay 

Somers, professors of 

mathematics at Moravian College, prepares 

students to make informed decisions in their 

daily lives. (Key College Publishing, 2007). 

■ What happens when a 

mouse’s deepest wish comes 

true and the whole world turns 

into cheese? The answer may 

surprise you, as it does the 

title character of the children’s 

picture book Scuttle's <strong>Big</strong> Wish 

(Regan Books, 2006). Author 

and Moravian alum Sean Delo- 

nas ’84 enlisted the help of his 

then six-year-old son Ryan to 

craft the tale. Sean is a painter 

and illustrator best known for 

his cartoons that appear daily on the 

New York Post’s Page Six. 

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out&about 

Online Journals Offer Inside Stories 


May 12 

Commencement 

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America’s sixth-oldest college concludes 

its 265th academic year. 

“I wouldn’t include a tirade about the three 

sleepless nights in a row I spent studying for 

finals,” says Rachel Beard, a freshman music 

education major. “But at the same time, I like 

to present life at Moravian as it is. I won’t 

spin a tale that college life is a cakewalk.” 

She’s not talking about e-mail, or something 

as antiquated as a snail-mailed letter. Beard 

chronicles her Moravian College experi- 

ence every week on the College’s website. 

Each diary entry includes musings on recent 

events—anything from a master class with 

jazz trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis to Hal- 

loween ghost hunting on south campus—and 

a few snapshots. 

Weekly glimpses into the lives of 

Moravian students, provided by Rachel and 

six other volunteers, were initiated by the 

College’s Admissions Office in September 

2006. The journals are intended to give pro- 

spective students a sense of what it’s like to 

attend Moravian College. The idea seems like 

a natural for a generation that’s into blogs, 

MySpace, and other forms of online journal- 

ing, says assistant director of admissions 

Amy Weiss. “The students want to share their 

experiences,” says Weiss, “and we think that 

because the information is coming from the 

students, it’s particularly valuable.” 

Rachel agrees. “Reading a journal like 

this would have been a great aid when I was 

looking at colleges,” she says. “You’re told 

so much about schools and campus life, but 

these journals are a real behind-the-scenes 

peek.” Because today’s media-savvy teens 

can easily spot marketing hype, a key strat- 

egy is to let the students write what they 

want, says Weiss. “If they had a bad week, 

they’re free to go ahead and say they had 

a bad week. We want the entries to be real 

and true, and from their point of view.” The 

journal entries and photographs are posted 

at www.moravian.edu/journals. 

Above left: Moravian student diarists Rachel Beard 

’10 (top), Lindsey Rice ’08, Andrew Piccone ’08 

May 18-19 

Alumni Weekend 

this year’s itinerary includes a tour of historic 

buildings in Bethlehem. 


GuEStSPEAKING 

Making 

Connections 

tomorrow’s all well and good, but what about the next day? In a lecture 

titled “Staying Ahead: Innovation for the day after tomorrow,” visiting 

speaker James Burke showed how understanding technological 

innovations of the past helps predict social changes of the future. the 

science historian and author, famous for his PBS series Connections, 

also demonstrated his Knowledge Web, a computer-based interactive 

tool that creates visual links between diverse people, places, and things 

throughout history. the K-web, as it’s also called, will allow knowledge 

seekers to explore information that’s connected in an almost infinite 

number of ways. Such connections are often unexpected: start at 

earth-orbits-the-sun astronomer Nicholas Copernicus and you may end 

up with Mexican general and dictator Santa Anna (who also happens 

to be the person credited with introducing chewing gum to the united 

States). Burke’s visit marked the 23rd year of the College’s Cohen Arts 

and lectures Series, which has brought guests as varied as Burl Ives, 

Kurt Vonnegut, and Jimmy Carter to the Moravian campus. “Everybody 

and everything is interconnected,” says Burke. “And because of that, 

every one of us, whoever we are, contributes in some way. Nobody is 

just a nobody.” 


Master Planners 

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Some married couples can’t decide where to go for dinner without getting 

into a 4-alarm argument. But Cy (’65) and Brenda Krajci seem able 

to work shoulder to shoulder all day and come up smiling. As co-chairs 

of the committee for the April 2007 inauguration of Moravian College 

president Christopher Thomforde, the pair grapple with conundrums 

like whether a fireworks display can be held if it rains, or how to make 

sure the post-inauguration dinner dance is lively. (The answers: it can, 

and invite students.) The opportunities for communication are that much 

more plentiful when you share an address as well as an office, says Cy. 

“Just this morning, we were talking about the event budget over breakfast,” 

he adds. Among the other events the pair has lined up for inauguration 

weekend (April 20-22) are a Moravian Mile parade and a combined 

worship service at Central Moravian Church. Expect to see plenty of 

Moravian student involvement, too, including performances by student 

bands, and displays by student academic and community service groups. 

“We have great students here,” Brenda says, “and getting to know them is 

what it’s all about.”

Move-In 

Like your first kiss, your 

first step into a college 

dorm room is a clear 

indicator that your 

life is about to take an 

interesting new turn. 

At Moravian College, 

moving in is also a group 

experience, thanks to 

the help of volunteer 

upper classmen (in the 

white T-shirts), campus 

safety officers, a college 

president willing to do some heavy lifting, 

and somebody dressed as a greyhound. 

Not to mention choked-up parents, and 

siblings who secretly look forward to 

having the run 

Day 

of the house. W 

2006 

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A View from the Top 

A Conversation with Moravian’s New President 

Christopher M. Thomforde assumed the presidency of 

Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary 

on August 1, 2006, succeeding Ervin J. Rokke. The 

institution’s 15th president earned a Bachelor of Arts 

degree in medieval and Russian history from Princeton 

University in 1969, a Master of Divinity from Yale Univer- 

sity Divinity School in 1974, and a Doctor of Ministry from 

Princeton Theological Seminary in 2000. He is an ordained 

minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 

Thomforde had a varied career before coming to Mora- 

vian. He was an outstanding basketball player at Princ- 

eton, and was drafted by, although he did not have a career 

with, the New York Knickerbockers. After graduating from 

Princeton and taking intensive courses in <strong>Man</strong>darin Chinese 

at Middlebury College, he taught Western languages and 

medieval European history at Tunghai University, Taichung, 

Taiwan, until 1971. From 1974 to 1978, he was an assis- 

tant chaplain and instructor in philosophy and religion at 

Colgate University. From 1978 to 1986, he served as pastor 

at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Dansville, New York. From 

1986 to 1996, Thomforde served as chaplain at Susquehanna 

University and taught in the Department of Philosophy and 

Religion. From there he embarked on a presidential career, 

becoming president of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, 

where he served from 1996 to 2000, and then president of St. 

Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, serving from 2000 to 

2006. 

The editors of Moravian College Magazine recently sat 

down with Moravian’s new president and invited him to 

talk about his role and the institution’s future. 

What made you want to come to Moravian? 

A couple of things. One, the school is in a good position; 

it has a good sense of positive energy about itself. You don’t 

always get a breathing space at a small liberal arts college to 

consider the institution’s strengths and to ask how it could 

become stronger, but the work of all of you—Dr. Rokke, the 

administration, the faculty, the board—has helped the school 

gain a kind of stability in which we can consider where we 

go from here. Second, I sort of grew up in the eastern part of 

the United States, and I have family here, so the opportunity 

to come “home” was very attractive to me also. 

Last fall I conducted the funeral service for the wife of 

my old friend Peter Carril, Princeton’s former basketball 

coach. After the service was over I talked with Pete and 

with Bill Werpehowski of Moravian’s class of ’51. Bill, who 

grew up with Pete on Bethlehem’s South Side, over on 3rd 

Street, said, “Chris, you should really think about coming 

to Moravian. Our president is retiring, and I think you’d be 

great there.” So it was the Carril-Werpehowski axis that got 

me interested. 

With both you and your predecessor, Ervin Rokke, 

Moravian’s been lucky in getting a president who has 

had previous experience as a president. What have you 

learned in your previous presidential experience, both 

from mistakes and from successes, that will help you be 

a better president at Moravian? 

Probably more from the mistakes! I would say one 

thing is that I bring with me from all of my professional 

experience an appreciation for the great value of our 

country’s small liberal arts colleges. I also bring a sense of 

how fragile they are. They are very tuititon-dependent, so 

they can be in real trouble in a hurry if enrollment growth 

slows, because they don’t have a lot of other resources. So 

they’re very fragile, but they’re very valuable, and because 

they’re valuable, any effort put into making them more 

stable, more viable, is worth it because of the great benefit 

they have on the lives of students, in thinking, in profes- 

sional training, and in moral character development. 

I think, since I’ve seen a lot of how three other schools 

work—Susquehanna, where I was the chaplain, Bethany 

and St. Olaf where I was president, and now here, so this is 

the fourth school like this—there are not too many things 

that would surprise me. I feel more mature, frankly, as a 

leader of a small liberal arts institution now than I did at 

any of the previous three places where I worked. I think 

having a leader who doesn’t panic or get too anxious or too 

fidgety is probably good for everybody. Maybe part of that 

maturity is knowing what things are really worth worry- 

ing about, and what are the daily trials and tribulations of 

small academic communities. And not taking either myself 

or the problems that we might face too seriously is helpful 

for a more steady kind of leadership. 

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A View from the Top 

Basketball 

Dynasty 

Chris Thomforde’s undergraduate experience at 

Princeton University included a stellar career 

on the varsity basketball team. Bill Bradley, 

Princeton class of ’65, helped basketball coach 

Willem Van Breda Kolff persuade him to come 

to Princeton. He was featured on the cover of 

the February 27, 1967, issue of Sports Illustrated 

with teammate Gary Walters (class of ’67, and 

now director of athletics at Princeton) as a 

sophomore, captained the team as a senior, 

and, like Bradley, was drafted by the New York 

Knickerbockers for a professional career in 

basketball (which lasted only through a two- 

week training camp in 1974) after graduation. 

Although he found the ministry and academe 

more rewarding than a professional sports 

career, athletic endeavor remains a significant 

influence on his outlook. 

You use sports metaphors to express many 

things, and sports evidently provided a great 

learning experience for you that carries over 

into your life now. How does Moravian’s 

Division III athletics program fit into its liberal 

education and purpose? 

I think wonderfully. The 

idea of Division III is that 

athletics should be part of 

the learning experience that 

students have. So it’s not 

that a student learns calcu- 

lus or Greek or biology over 

here and then plays football 

over there. Paul Moyer, our 

athletics director, is good at 

asking: what learning takes 

place on those fields? Or in 

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those locker rooms, or on those buses, or during 

a game? What have I learned about dealing 

with pain, or dealing with the judgments of other 

people, or getting along with people I don’t like, 

or dealing with success? Those are the things 

that can be learned there, that can’t be learned 

in a chemistry lab or history class. 

You cite the value of liberal arts colleges 

in general. How would you say Moravian is 

different from other places? What makes 

it special? 

Every school of which I’ve ever been 

a part, either as a student or as a teacher, 

chaplain, administrator, has had some 

sense of community. But I think the Mora- 

vian religious tradition informs the value 

of community here. Probably not explicitly. 

But the Moravians, the religious group, 

had a notion that the truth is discovered 

in community. Much of scholarship, as you 

know, can be kind of a solitary, isolated kind 

of endeavor. I’ve been impressed, just in a 

couple of months, to find that community 

is very important here, that we discover the 

truth in community, and we live out our lives 

together in community. 

I was just reading Zinzendorf, who’s 

quite clear that the interpretation of the gos- 

pel only takes place in community. It’s not 

ex cathedra, in which a bishop says this is 

what this passage means, and you all believe 

it. That value is intersected by a realiza- 

tion that is occurring in many small liberal 

arts colleges, driven by the complexity in 

scientific discovery, that the understanding 

of the world is not really departmental any 

more, but that you need interdepartmental, 

interdisciplinary work. I think the 

days of having a major in one area 

and thinking that that was enough 

probably don’t exist any more. So 

you have the sciences, in particu- 

lar, seeing that the world is quite 

complex, and you need a number of 

disciplines in order to understand 

the world. And this is aided by this 

piece out of our religious tradition. 

I think that can be very fruitful 

here. 

I also sense a balance here 

between the liberal arts—how do 

you think broadly, how do you articulate 

complex ideas and paradoxes cogently, how 

do you become familiar with your own great 

traditions as well as other people’s—and 

a healthy kind of pre-professional train- 

ing. We’re not a school to train bankers, or 

to train doctors, but if you’re going to be 

a banker or a doctor, this would be a good 

place to come to get some of the skills that 

are necessary to do that, balanced with the 

sort of broad thinking, creative expression, 

careful articulation that comes along with 

the liberal arts. And our artistic tradition, 

our very important attention to music and 

art, also provides a balance between aesthet- 

ics and technique. 

The other piece, as compared to other 

schools I’ve been at, is that we’re in the 

middle of a city with the rusty remains of 

the Industrial Revolution. The city poses the 

educational question: what kind of future 

are we building for our students in the new 

technological era that’s coming up, when all 

our institutions—health, government, educa- 

tion, religion—were shaped by the industrial 

era that, at least in North America and Eu- 

rope, is essentially over. The blast furnaces 

are large monuments to something that was, 

and they are reminders that Moravian has an 

opportunity to help think about what comes 

next, and what will be required of us as hu- 

man beings both professionally and person- 

ally in this new order that’s coming. 

What personal values and traits are 

most important for the president of a col- 

lege like Moravian? 

One quality that’s very important is clear- 

headedness: to be able to think clearly about 

issues that are complex. I think another 

virtue you might have to have is an apprecia- 

tion for people. Because these are small com- 

munities, the motivations of the people who 

are here are other than power and success 

or capital accumulation. So you have to be 

sensitive to their motivations, and know how 

to appreciate them, and support and sustain 

them. And then I think there would have to be 

a love for the things of the mind. Running a 

college is different from running a business, 

because our business is thinking, learning, 

and performing, and if you don’t love those 

things, and don’t enjoy reading, or you don’t 

enjoy listening to music or watching a good 

football game, you’re going to be fundamen- 

tally out of step with the primary function 

of the place. And then you need a pretty good 

work ethic, because there’s a lot to do, and it 

never stops. 

Where do you intend to focus your ef- 

forts as president? What’s your number- 

> 

one short-term goal, and what are the 

longer-term goals? 

My number-one short-term goal is simply 

to learn about this community. In any com- 

munity there are espoused values or rhythms 

that you can see on the surface of things, and 

they’re good or bad as the case might be, but 

they’re obvious, and you should take them 

seriously. Then there are also operational 

values, and you won’t learn about those 

until you’ve gotten into some kind of crisis, 

because then you really see how people be- 

have or what they really think is important. 

So I think number one is to get to learn who 

we are and what we are all about. There are 

many good things in place here, so I don’t 

have to come and invent everything. 

Next would be to do some strategic 

thinking. We have good people, we’re in a 

good city, we have a good heritage, and we’re 

doing many things well. What would it mean 

for Moravian to grow and become better or 

more mature? We’ve gone through a period 

of enrollment growth and financial growth, 

so maybe in some ways we’re like teenagers, 

in that regard. Things are growing, and we’re 

getting used to the size of our feet and hands 

and body. But you don’t just keep growing 

infinitely. You reach some sort of point of 

physical growth, and that stops, and then you 

have to become more mature in other ways. 

You’ve said that Moravian is on the move. 

Where is it going, and what are the chal- 

lenges and what are the scary parts? 

One of the destinations I would like to 

arrive at is to become an “exemplary” institu- 

tion. You don’t have to be big or famous to 

become exemplary. I’d like Moravian to come 

to mind if somebody were to ask, “where is a 

really good art department,” or “what schools 

with seminaries also have really good nurs- 

ing programs,” or any of a number of other 

questions. If we were known amongst our 

companions, peers, and aspirant group as re- 

ally knowing how to do things well: that’s the 

sort of destination I would rather get to than 

being number 25 or 62 or 198 or number 1. 

I think that the risky part for us will be 

two things, and they are manageable, but 

risks. One is on the revenue side: how do 

we increase revenue so that the school can 

continue to run, and even increase revenue a 

lot, so that it can be enriched, without rais- 

ing tuition exorbitantly, so that we would 

eliminate our historical market. For me, 

that would be, how do we really make the 

endowment grow, how can we make the an- 

nual fund grow. The second big issue is how 

we keep access open to capable students 

regardless of their ability to pay. Especially 

in the forties and fifties, we were recognized 

as a place where the son or daughter of a 

steelworker, or a high school teacher, or a 

postman could come and get a really good 

education and end up being a doctor or a 

teacher. So that’s sort of our calling, or voca- 

tion, you might say, but with the change in 

demography—more and more new immi- 

grant groups coming into the country—how 

do we have enough revenue to make sure 

that people can come to Moravian who are 

intellectually able but maybe not financially 

able. So I think creating revenue and keeping 

the door open to people of ability are our 

two big challenges going forward. 

What do you see as the role of a liberal 

arts institution today? And in the future? 

A liberal-arts education is absolutely 

essential for men and women going forward, 

for this reason: at its best a liberal arts edu- 

cation should enable someone to distinguish 

between things, think clearly about certain 

matters, and gain a kind of moral agency, 

having sorted and having thought through 

a decision, and taking action for the sake 

of the common good. I think historically 

the liberal arts have fostered those kinds of 

thinking, discerning, and acting on behalf of 

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everybody. 

In our time and going forward we have 

this huge explosion of access to informa- 

tion. But how do you know which piece of 

information is authentic, or which is helpful, 

or what relationship exists between this bit 

of information and that bit of information? 

A liberal arts education helps you not only 

discern differences, but also make connec- 

tions. And to distinguish between the good 

and the bad, and to prefer the good, and 

have the courage to act upon what you think 

is authentic. W

“I Can Do This” 

Linda evans Shotkus ’69 is living her dream and 

making the world more beautiful, one woman at a time. 

By Caroline Funk Rabold ’69 and John Greenya 

I 

can do this myself, thought Linda Evans 

Shotkus as she left the job interview with 

Nancy Talbot of Talbot Clothing Stores & 

Catalogs. The year was 1977, the city was 

Boston, and Linda, class of ’69, an eight year 

veteran of the retail clothing wars, had just 

been offered a very good job. But Linda was 

tired of working for other people, and as 

soon as the light bulb went on, she could 

see with clarity what was in her heart. She 

would follow her dream and open her own 

store. 

Today, the wisdom of that decision is 

readily apparent. Founded in 1978, Lyn 

Evans for Potpourri Design is a thriving 

business with nine stores—six in the Boston 

area (Concord, Danvers, Hanover, Hingham, 

Wellesley, and Westborough) and three in 

Connecticut (Canton, New Canaan, and West 

Hartford), 80 employees, and a very happy 

owner. Linda even convinced her husband, 

Stan Shotkus, who had been in the manu- 

facturing end of the retail business, to come 

aboard as manager of operations. Their 

current goal is to expand Lyn Evans for Pot- 

pourri Design to 15 stores. 

In keeping with its corporate motto of 

“Making the world more beautiful, one wom- 

an at a time,” the high-end boutique chain 

offers an intriguing mix of fashionable yet 

comfortable clothing with accessories, for 

everything from black tie to casual Friday. 

The stores’ unique niche is that they cater to 

women who are looking for fashion direction 

and also to the sophisticated buyer who is 

too busy to spend much time shopping. Lyn, 

who sees herself as “the middle man between 

Left: Linda Evans Shotkus has a passion for fashion. 

Right: Scenes from Potpourri Designs. 

the wholesaler and the consumer,” prides 

herself on taking an active part in the design 

and décor of all her stores to ensure that 

their creative displays and window dress- 

ings lure the customers in to see more. 

Linda Evans 

Shotkus credits her 

psychology major at 

Moravian with giving 

her the background 

necessary for suc- 

cessful competition 

in a field where 

people skills are 

essential: “Moravian 

helped me gain the 

self-esteem and self- 

confidence to pursue 

my dream.” An active 

and involved alum, 

Linda advises stu- 

dents interested in a 

career in retailing to 

study a mix of courses in business, especial- 

ly marketing and retail management, as well 

as courses in the social sciences. She says, 

“Moravian’s new Leadership Program is an 

excellent course of study.” 

For Linda, Potpourri is anything but a 

9-5 job. “But life isn’t a 9-5 job either,” she 

says. “It takes commitment to excel, but you 

don’t have to be a rocket scientist. If you use 

common sense and capitalize on a solid work 

ethic, you’ll be successful.” W 

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greyhoundnews 

MORAVIAN TRAINER 

ELECTED PRESIDENT 

“A lot of people still look at the athletic 

trainer as a person who just tapes ankles,” 

says Bob Ward, head trainer at Moravian 

College. “But these days, I think taping ankles 

is one of the things we do the least often.” 

Athletic trainers are highly-educated allied 

health professionals, he adds. And in his new 

role as president-elect of the Eastern Athletic 

Trainers Association (EATA), Ward says he’ll 

be working to get trainers the specialized 

instruction that will help them do their jobs. 

The association, which includes 3,000 

members located in ten East Coast states, 

provides educational seminars to members 

and offers scholarships to students. “Our 

profession is growing by leaps and bounds, 

and EATA is growing with it,” Ward says. 

“We provide cutting-edge information to our 

members and I wanted to be a part of that.” 

Women’s Tennis Team 

Earns First-Ever NCAA 

Tournament Berth 

The 2006-07 Moravian College women’s 

tennis team has clinched the program’s 

first-ever NCAA Division III Tournament 

Championship berth. The Greyhounds, who 

completed the fall portion of the season 

with a 12-1 mark and as Commonwealth 

Conference Champions, will play five 

matches in the spring before the NCAA 

Tournament begins in May. 

Moravian’s 5-4 win over Elizabethtown 

College for its eighth conference championship 

took a while to play. The match 

began at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 15, 

and after nearly five hours of play and the 

score tied at 4-4, Moravian junior Rebecca 

Angstadt was still on the court. Angstadt 

led her match, 1-0, and the second set was 

tied 6-6. Nine days later, Angstadt and several 

of her teammates made the trip back 

to Elizabethtown where Angstadt finished 

the match for the conference title. 

Junior Brittany Popaca was named the 

Commonwealth Conference Tournament’s 

Most Valuable player while two Moravian 

players, senior Margo Kokolus and sophomore 

Dyana Swan also earned Commonwealth 

All-Conference First Team honors. 

The team is ranked 11th in the South 

Atlantic Region heading into the spring 

season. 

Cunha Leads Fall 

Academic Honors 

Senior defender Peter Cunha earned a spot 

on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All- 

District First Team College Division Men’s 

Soccer this fall. Cunha has maintained a 

3.82 grade-point average at Moravian and 

was a three-year starter on the men’s soccer 

squad. 

Moravian also had four studentathletes 

make the ESPN The Magazine 

Academic All-District Second Team with 

senior midfielder Alisha Davy making the 

women’s soccer squad and senior wide 

receiver Shawn Martell and sophomores 

running back Tyler McCambridge and 

DIVISION III TENNIS CHAMPS: Assistant Coach 

Jason Toedter, Jennel Yelito, Courtney Hall, 

Head Coach Dawn Benner, Rebecca Angstadt, 

MaryKate Kelly, Brittany Popaca (Tournament 

Most Valuable Player). 

kicker Brian Reckenbeil earning spots on 

the football team. 

Moravian had 57 of its fall student-athletes 

named to the 2006 Middle Atlantic 

States Collegiate Athletic Corporation Academic 

Honor Roll for maintaining at least 

a 3.20 grade-point average as a sophomore, 

junior, or senior. 

Martell Finishes Career 

Playing Both Ways 

Senior Shawn Martell barely came off the 

field in his final collegiate football game. 

Martell, who was a three-year starter at 

wide receiver, also started his final game 

as a cornerback on the Moravian defense. 

Martell, whose father, Gary Martell 

’76, has been an assistant coach for the 

Greyhounds since graduating and is also 

a member of the Moravian College Hall 

of Fame, had three catches for 78 yards 

including a 54-yard touchdown reception, 

and he made three tackles. 

Martell completed his career with 79 

catches (12th in school history) for 1,436 

yards (eighth all-time) with 12 touchdown 

receptions (seventh all-time). He also had 

38 career tackles, two fumble recoveries 

and a forced fumble and averaged 20.1 

yards per kickoff return and 3.8 yards per 

punt return. Martell also scored a rushing 

touchdown while playing in 41 of a possible 

42 games in his career. 


alumninews 

2006 Alumni 

AWARD WINNERS 

Priscilla Payne Hurd 

Named Honorary Alumna 

In grateful acknowledgement of her 

extraordinary support of Moravian College, 

on October 13, 2006, the Alumni 

Association awarded Priscilla Payne Hurd 

the status of honorary alumna. Since her 

appointment to Moravian College’s board 

of trustees in 1974, Mrs. Hurd’s steadfast 

service, inspirational leadership, 

and unparalleled financial support have 

had a profound impact. Her accomplishments 

include the creation of the 

Priscilla Payne Hurd Center for Music 

and Art and the Frank E. and Seba B. 

Payne Gallery, financial leadership for 

the construction of the Priscilla Payne 

Hurd Academic Complex, and establishment 

of both the Priscilla Payne Hurd 

Chair in the Arts and Humanities and 

the Ervin J. Rokke Endowment for student 

research. In 1999 she was elected 

Moravian’s first female chairman of the 

board. Whether interacting with students 

or conferring with fellow trustees, Priscilla 

Payne Hurd exemplifies the credo she 

wrote four decades ago: “No one is greater 

than the service he renders the world.” 

Left to right: The award recipients at the 2006 Moravian alumni award ceremony, 

held on Homecoming weekend, October 13, 2006: Ryan A. Mehl ’96, Young Alumni 

Achievement Award; Henry E. May Jr. ’60, (’63 M. Div.), Haupert Humanitarian Award; 

Bruce C. Coull ’64, Comenius Alumni Award; Brian C. Corvino ’02, Emerging Leader 

Award; Robert K. Gratz ’75, Benigna Education Award. 




Homecoming Lectures 

Enlighten Listeners 

Last fall, two alumni on campus for Homecoming 

shared their scholarly passions 

with the Moravian community. Bruce Coull 

’64 and Ryan Mehl ’96 each presented two 

slide lectures, one to a class of Moravian 

students, and one to a wider audience of 

students, faculty, 

and guests. Bruce, 

who’s dean emeritus 

of the School of the 

Environment at the 

University of South 

Carolina, discussed 

near-microscopic animals 

that live in the 

sediment of rivers 

and tidal waterway. 

His lecture described 

Bruce Coull ’64 shared big 

news about little creatures. 

how the wee critters 

are vital for the 

health of aquatic 

ecosystems. “I wanted the students to learn 

that there are millions of small invertebrates 

in every meter of sediment surface, 

and these animals play very important roles 

in food chains and as early sentinels of pollution,” 

he says. 

To a class of biology, chemistry, and 

biochemistry students, 

Ryan Mehl described 

the research he’s done 

with “unnatural amino 

acids.” These manmade 

protein building 

blocks give scientists 

tools for creating new 

medicines and other 

substances, he says. 

As a relatively recent 

Moravian graduate, 

Ryan found that the 

students were as curious 

about his career Ryan Mehl ’96 unlocked the 

secrets of designer proteins. 

path as his research. 

“I think because I’m not that much older 

than they are, they could identify with me 

and it allowed us to converse more openly,” 

he notes. “I was very pleased; it was really 

rewarding to be that engaged with a classroom 

of Moravian students.” 

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photo by John Kish iV

alumninews 

Augustus “Gus” Rampone ’59 (right), with 

Tony Matz ’59 and visiting canine celebrity 

Steverino (from the Steve Allen Show) in 

a picture from the 1959 Benigna. Gus was 

posthumously inducted into the Moravian 

College Athletic Hall of Fame on October 

27, 2006. The citation was presented to 

Gus’s wife, Jean, by Tony. Also inducted 

were Tracy Wartman Bozik ’96, Paul J. 

Calvo ’52, Charles J. Hoch Jr. ’91, Shane 

Hollawell ’94, and Melissa Newhard Torba 

’94. Caroline Smith ’96 was awarded the 

Robert Martin Herbstman Award. (For reminiscences 

about the award ceremony, see 

the note from Sam Maczko ’61 on p. 26.) 

CALENDAR 

OF EVENTS 

March 22 

Washington, D.C., Area 

Alumni Welcome Reception 

for President Thomforde 

at the Army Navy Country 

Club, Arlington, Virginia 

March 29 

Hershey Area Alumni 

Welcome Reception for 

President Thomforde at 

Hershey Country Club, 

Hershey, Pennsylvania 

Homecoming 2006 . . . 

On a beautiful sunny fall day in October, over 800 alumni 

gathered for Moravian’s Homecoming Tailgate for the first 

time since 2002. Classes from the 1950s through the 2000s 

filled the Locust Street parking lot for some good old- 

fashioned tailgating. It was a day filled with eating, 

drinking, quoits playing, and of course reminiscing. 

This year’s Homecoming offered alumni of different 

affinities the opportunity to get together. Over 80 Greek 

alumni from many of the past local fraternities and sororities 

gathered in a large tent in front of Colonial Hall. The 

Grads of the 2000s hosted a Happy Hour for nearly 100 

alumni at the brand-new Starters Pub. And members of the 

classes of 1981, 1986, 1991, and 1996 held their reunions. 

<strong>Man</strong>y alumni volunteered their time and effort to 

make this year’s Homecoming a success. Next year’s 

Homecoming Weekend will be October 19-20, 2007. 

photos by GreGory m. fota ’69 

April 20-22 

Presidential Inauguration 

Weekend 

May 18 

Founder’s Day 

“Exploring Our Heritage: 

A Day on Church Street” 

Tailgating Returned! 

May 18-19 

Alumni Weekend 

June 30 

Lehigh Valley Home Club 

bus trip to King Tut Exhibit 

at the Franklin Institute in 

Philadelphia 

classnotes 

2006 

Lauren Bahnatka; 1107 Carolina Avenue; West 

Chester, PA 19380; laurenbahnatka@gmail.com 

From the Alumni House: 

Hannah Azzalina is a community health 

specialist for the Bethlehem Bureau of 

Health. She works with city grants that promote 

health education in Bethlehem. 

Joe Oppold is working in the accounting 

department of Lehigh Cement. As a Moravian 

alumnus, he is in good company as there are 

a good number of Moravian alums in that 

department. 

2005 

Michael McCartney; RR3 Box92; Pole 271; 

Lakeside Dr.; Harveys Lake, PA 18618; 

MMcCartney@alumni.moravian.edu 

2004 

Jessica Naugle; 443 Grove Road; Mohrsville, PA 

19541; jln13@comcast.net 


Kate Chiminec recently moved to <strong>Man</strong>hattan 

and is working as a staffing specialist 

for AIG on Wall Street. 

Melissa E. Sadecki and Jeff Micari are 

happy to announce their marriage on September 

9, 2006, in Hampton Bays, N.Y., where 

they currently reside. Tracy Smith and Amy 

Detrick ’03 were bridesmaids. Other alumni 

in attendance were Kim Broadbent and 

Laura Werner. The Micaris honeymooned 

with a cruise in the Caribbean. 

2003 

Regina Lacombe; 161 Brown St.; 

Philadelphia, PA 19123; 

pjfairy@aol.com 

From Regina: 

Jennifer Strobel was married to Jason 

Barnes on September 20, 2006, and I was in 

her wedding. 

Tara Wozniak will be getting married 

to David Miller on July 28, 2007. In the 

wedding will be Jean Marie Guffin and 

Michele Kluk. 

Jen Tori Shick and Ryan Shick ’00 had a 

baby boy, Cohen Lee, on September 22. 


Maribeth Ealey was married on September 

30, 2006, to Jason Pfeiffer. Jennifer 

Mack ’02 and Brienne Wilson ’02 served as 

two of the ten bridesmaids. Brandi Christine 

’01 and Kristina Palmisano ’04 served 

as the greeters. Other Moravian alumni 

in attendance were Bill Kenney ’02, Chris 

Boyajian ’02, and Janelle LaValva Frank 

’01. After a honeymoon in Barbados they 

returned to their home in Pen Argyl, Pa. 

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2002 

Reunion Homecoming 2007 

October 19-20 

Brienne Wilson; 105 Princeton Ave.; Kingsway 

Commons; Princeton, NJ 08540; 

briennewilson@gmail.com 


Christopher Colley is a graduate student 

at People’s University in Beijing. He is 

enrolled in a master’s program for contemporary 

Chinese studies with focus on the emergence 

of Chinese civil society. He has been in 

China for five years and will stay through the 

summer of 2008. Next fall he plans to participate 

in developmental field work in Tibet. 

Julie Jones and Philip Shilane are 

happy to announce their marriage on August 

13, 2006, in Warrington, Pa. Rachel Toroney 

Morissette and Sarah Ahlgren were 

bridesmaids. Susan Carr did a beautiful 

job as vocalist during the ceremony. Also in 

attendance were James Morissette, Erica 

Pysher, Amanda Morgenstern Duane, Patti 

Smith, Tim Hoyt, and Lauren Schwetje 

Olimpaito. Phil and Julie honeymooned in 

Maui and reside in Princeton, N.J., where 

they are both graduate students at Princeton 

University. 

2001 

Kourtney Parrella; 18209 Cornerstone Drive; 

Yardley, PA 19067; sunshine92779@msn.com 

From Kourtney: 

Gerald Vinci and his girlfriend, Larissa, 

were married in May 2005. They relocated to 

the Florida Gulf Coast to start a design firm 

in June. Since then, the business has taken 

off and they have successfully landed large 

clients on the Gulf Coast, Tennessee, New 

York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and even 

Canada! The business name is Vinci-Designs 

& Publishing and the link to their website is 

www.vinci-designs.com. 

Gerald and Larissa purchased a 2,500square-foot 

home on a one-acre, beautifully 

landscaped plot of land in September 2006. 

So they have relocated from Miramar Beach, 

Fla., to Milton, Fla. In his spare time, Gerald 

still writes, plays music, and loves to hang 

out by the pool. 

Torine Pasek has recently moved to 

Chicago to finish up her graduate degree in 

medieval history. 


Maggie Awad Abboud and her husband, 

Kenneth, welcomed their second son, 

Nathaniel Kenneth, on October 7. Their first 

son, Nicholas Michael, celebrated his first 

birthday in September. 

In September 2006, Keri Schantz began 

working as an associate attorney for the law 

firm of High, Swartz, Roberts, & Seidel in 

Norristown, Pa. 

2000 

Lisa Hahn; 25-D Sycamore Road; Clifton, NJ 

07012; Lisahahn13@hotmail.com 

Faithann Cheslock; 26 Hill Ave.; Morrisville, PA 

19067; LadyBugFVC@aol.com 


Elizabeth DiFebo and Jason Drott were 

married on October 14, 2006, in Allentown. 

Their reception was held at the ski lodge at 

Bear Creek Mountain Resort, in Macungie, 

Pa. Moravian alumni in attendance included 

Lynn Keily, Jill Schwab, Josh Daly ’04, Lori

classnotes 

Brennan, Ryan McGarrigan, and Tiffany 

Van Gorden from ’00; Chris Francese ’01, 

Morris Balacco ’03, and Kim Broadbent 

’04. In mid November, they went to Dublin, 

Ireland, for their honeymoon. They live in the 

Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia 

where Elizabeth is a designer for Philadelphia 

magazine’s custom publishing and 

Jason works for Merck as a researcher. 

1999 

Christina Fulton; 21 Pocahontas Road; 

Hi-Nella, NJ 08083; cfulton1124@yahoo.com 


Jeremy Schoenberger is currently working 

at Merck in Salt Lake City, Utah. He plans 

to return to the east and work at Fox Chase 

Cancer Institute while taking classes in the 

pursuit of his doctorate. 

Katy Fiandaca married Mark Dwyer on 

September 16, 2006. Mark Turdo ’97 and 

Michael Honsaker ’99 were ushers. 

Maura McGowan Domashinski is now 

the band director at Middletown High School 

in Middletown, N.J. She said it is a dream 

come true for her to direct at the high school 

level. 

Our <strong>Man</strong> in Beijing 

If Chris Colley ’02 had gotten his way, he would have left for China at age 13. 

“I wanted to apply as an exchange student to Hong Kong, but they told me 

I was too young,” he says. Chris, who’s pursuing a master’s degree in con- 

temporary Chinese studies at People’s University in Beijing, says that China 

has interested him for as long as he can remember. “My great-grandfather, 

John C. F. Tilson, was the American military provost marshal to Beijing after 

the Boxer Rebellion in 1900,” he explains. “And right after I graduated from 

high school, I spent a large part of the summer traveling in Asia.” In the past, 

Chris has lived with two different Chinese families; he’s since been living in 

apartments with various foreign and Chinese roommates. 

Perhaps not surprisingly, Chris finds that his presence among the popu- 

lace of Beijing doesn’t go unnoticed. “I do stick out. When I first came here, 

it seemed that everyone wanted to have their picture taken with me because 

I’m a foreigner. Little kids would follow me and pull the hair on my legs.” That 

said, living in the university district has enabled him to make many Chinese 

acquaintances. “There are only six foreigners in my classes, no other 

Americans; the rest are Chinese students. Most of my friends are Chinese.” 

1998 

Jennie Coughlin Crotty; 5402 Fountain Circle; 

North Ridgeville, OH 44039; 

jennie.crotty@aventis.com 


Melissa Hege Ayala and her husband, 

Mario, had a baby girl, Aurora Irene, on 

October 29. Melissa was the maid of honor 

in the wedding of Rebecca James-Poole 

and Daniel Michalski, who were married on 

November 24, 2006, in Stroudsburg, Pa. Rebecca 

has recently started an up-and-coming 

jewelry business named Nanuk’s Igloo. 

Sandra Novack reports that Random 

House has recently acquired both her partial 

novel and short story collection. Her short 

stories have appeared in such 

notable venues as the Gettysburg 

Review, the Iowa Review, the Mississippi 

Review, Gulf Coast, the 

Chattahoochee Review, and others. 

Her work has been nominated 

several times for the esteemed 

Pushcart Prize. 


1997 

He notes that his Chinese classmates are much more aware of American 

society than Americans are aware of Chinese society, in large part thanks to 

ubiquitous American television programs. 

The country of China, or at least the urban portion, is undergoing vast 

changes, says Chris. “Beijing is morphing right before my eyes,” he notes. 

“Not long ago I woke up to find the old stone neighborhood outside my 

kitchen being torn down by hand. In its place a new high-rise apartment will 

be constructed.” The rapid changes have produced huge numbers of migrant 

workers traveling to the cities in the hope of making a successful life. In the 

countryside, however, life goes on much as it always did. “For me it’s the 

countryside that’s the most fascinating part of China,” he says. “In many ar- 

eas the soil is still tilled by oxen and rice paddies are fertilized by hand. I like 

to spend my holidays trekking through remote corners of China, especially 

areas inhabited by the country’s 56 ethnic minorities. I stay with families who 

don’t speak <strong>Man</strong>darin, and we communicate by gestures and symbols. It’s a 

China that few foreigners ever see.” 


October 19-20 

Jennifer Kastle; One Franklin Town Boulevard; 

Apt. #708; Philadelphia, PA 19103; jennkastle@ 

hotmail.com 

1996 

Deb Yuengling Ferhat; 308 Highland Drive; Pottsville, 

PA 17901; dyferhat@yuengling.com 

Chris expects to return to the States in 2008, after the Beijing Olympics. 

1995 

Krisa Murray Arzayus; 9002 Eastbourne Lane 

Laurel, MD 20708; krisaym@alumni.moravian.edu 

1994 

Denise Bradley; 173 Red Haven Drive; North 

Wales, PA 19454; dbradley@comcast.net 

1993 

Michelle Litzenberger Trent; 1559 Surrey Road; 

Bethlehem, PA 18015; mmt@trentgroup.com 

1992 


October 19-20 

John S. Nunnemacher; 11607 Acama St. Apt 11; 

Studio City, CA 91604-2906; classnotes92@ 

griffinparkstudio.com 

Michael Q. Roth; 944 Renaldi Road; Wind Gap, PA 

18091; stanger@epix.net 

1991 

Melissa dePamphilis Jarman; 1601 Piedmont 

Park Road; Greenville, SC 29609; 

mdepamph@yahoo.com 

Christine A. Palermo Wallach; 12172 Glenmore 

Drive; Coral Springs, FL 33071-7828; 

capw516@aol.com 


Patricia Sudol Roke has accepted a new 

position with CIGNA as director of human 

resources in its healthcare business, and will 

relocate to West Hartford, Conn. Previously 

she was in CIGNA’s international business 

office in Philadelphia as a leadership development 

manager. 

Brian Sarisky was recently appointed to 

senior vice president of Selective Insurance 

Company of America and CEO of Selective 

HR Solutions Inc. and continues to lead 

Selective’s large and alternative market operation, 

Selective Risk <strong>Man</strong>gers. 

David Zinczenko made his 17th apprearance 

on the Today show in September. 

He appeared with Steve Schirripa from the 

television show The Sopranos. Steve spoke 

on the subject of heavy men and referenced 

David’s 2004 best seller, The Abs Diet. 

1990 

Mary Beth Sierzega Afflerbach; 4425 Spruce St.; 

Whitehall, PA 18052; afflerbachmb@ yahoo.com 


James Feher has been named vice 

president for advertising at the Morning Call 

in Allentown, Pa. He has been with the Call 

since 1993, and previously served as director 

of retail/national advertising at the newspaper, 

a position he had held since 2003. 

1989 

Kerri Selland Pepoy; 9409 Foulks Ranch Dr.; Elk 

Grove, CA 95758; kerripepoy@yahoo.com 

From Kerri: 

Krista Enholm Smyth and her husband, 

Craig, live in Apopka, Fla., with their two children, 

Chynna, 8, and Wyatt, 4. Krista reports 

that everyone is going great and that she keeps 

in touch with several friends from Moravian. 

1988 

Donna Male Siegfried; 5625 Grove Point Road; Alpharetta, 

GA 30022; donna.siegfried@comcast.net 

1987 


October 19-20 

Lauren Kelly Lawn; 1948 Stirling Drive; Lansdale, 

PA 19446-5561; laurenlawn@aol.com 

Diane Hvizdak Taylor; 89 Fieldstone Drive; 

Springfield, NJ 07081; dianektaylor@hotmail.com 


In September Wendy Tretheway Condron 

was inducted into Stroudsburg High 

School’s Hall of Fame for her individual suc- 

cess in field hockey, basketball and softball. 

Her high school recognized her as “best 

female athlete.” Wendy is an eighth grade 

math teacher. 

1986 

James and Lynda Farrell Swartz; 153 Lilac Drive; 

Allentown, PA 18104; lfswartz@rcn.com 


Jeffrey Ethan Lee, a critically acclaimed 

and award-winning poet, was on campus 

last fall to read his work. Lee is a professor 

of creative writing at the University of 

Northern Colorado. He has had over a hundred 

poems, stories, and essays published, 

as well as a full-length poetry collection 

entitled Invisible Sister. 

1985 

Lynn Muschlitz LaBarre; 651 Long Lane Road; 

Walnutport, PA 18088; labarrefam@fast.net 

Paula Colizzo Lewinski; 118 Springdale Lane; 

Lansdale, PA 19446-3529; pjlewinski@comcast.net 

1984 

Dianne Sciabica <strong>Man</strong>dry; 9 Vista Court; 

Phillipsburg, NJ 08865; mandryd@fast.net 


Laurie Ann Yeisley-Drogin was installed 

as a minister of Resurrection Lutheran 

Church in Roxbury, Mass., on September 10, 

2006. She is the parish’s first female minister. 

She finds this ministry both exciting and 

extremely rewarding. 

1983 

Dawn Bullaro Stawiarski; 47 Chestertown Road; 

Sicklerville, NJ 08081; dawnstar@comcast.net 


classnotes 

1982 


October 19-20 

Lori Vargo Heffner; 1481 Sanbrook Court; Bethlehem, 

PA 18015; laheffner@verizon.net 


Bruce Bender currently works at Sea 

River Maritime and was promoted to utility 

cook in 2000. 

1981 

Craig “Kegger” Bartlett; 2405 W. Bayberry Drive; 

Harrisburg, PA 17112; cbavfco@aol.com 

1980 

Molly Donaldson Brown; 1906 Wenner St.; Allentown, 

PA 18103; unsinkable@fast.net 

From Molly: 

John E. “Woody” Snyder recently accepted 

a position at Cardiff University School of 

Engineering, in Cardiff, Wales, as a senior 

lecturer (equivalent to associate professor 

in the United States). Woody recently was 

employed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s 

Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University as 

an associate scientist. Woody wrote, “Wolfson 

Centre for Magnetics at Cardiff University 

is expanding, with new faculty hired, and 

lots of new state-of-the-art equipment to be 

purchased, and my former group leader in 

Ames is the new centre director, so I decided 

to make the big jump. Any Moravian people 

coming to the U.K. or passing through—feel 

free to give me a shout!” 

1979 

Steve Vanya; 3119 Red Lawn Dr.; Bethlehem, PA 

18017; van0087@enter.net 

From Steve: 

Congratulations are in order for Ken 

Rampolla and Ann McCandless-Rampolla, 

who received the 2006 Gillespie Award for 

outstanding support of Greyhound athletics. 

Nice job! Your dedication and commitment to 

service are commendable and appreciated. 


Robert Honor is the director of career 

development for the Tisch School of the Arts, 

New York University. He was the 2003 and 

2005 distinguished administrator nominee 

responsible for career development programming 

and event planning for 3,500 currently 

matriculating Tisch students and 4,000 active 

alumni. He also acts as industry liaison 

and is responsible for job development and 

career programming for Tisch. 

1978 

Dawn Allen; 7 Shelby Hill Lane; Danville, CA 

94526; Dawnallen726@gmail.com 

From Dawn: 

Kathy Ozzard Chism ’77 sent a ticket to 

me for her first gala fundraising event for 

the charity nonprofit she created, Dream 

One World, Inc., so I drove several hours to 

attend. It was a beautiful affair. You can see 

all the photos from it on the “Past Events” 

page at www.dreamoneworld.org. I was able 

to meet Susie Hyer ’76, who had flown in 

from Colorado to volunteer for the evening 

and had donated a lovely painting for the 

silent auction. Paintings were also donated 

by Jeff Epstein ’76 and Harry Douglas ’75. 

You can see more of their artwork at Kathy’s 

wonderful charity art gallery at www.galleryoffriends.com. 

Kathy told me that Bill 

Savoth ’76 recently saw Jeff Epstein’s work 

on the Gallery of Friends site, contacted Jeff, 

and purchased a painting! Twenty percent 

or more of all art sales from the gallery site 

gets donated to Dream One World, Inc. Even 

Mark Felt (“Deep Throat” from Watergate) 

and his daughter, Joan, attended and spoke. 

It was a very inspiring evening, and I was 

really proud to be a part of it. 

Dave Wilmer is back in Connecticut after 

spending his yearly six months in Canada 

as innkeeper to his two lovely establishments 

on Prince Edward Island. He is now 

an empty-nester with both children in college—Andrew, 

a junior at the University of 

Connecticut, studying communications, and 

Cristina, a freshman at the University of Delaware. 

And speaking of kids in college, Judy 

Primiano Bream is happy to report that her 

daughter, Allie, is settling in very nicely at 

Northwestern University as a freshman. 

Please pay attention to my new e-mail 

address. I am happy to say, though, that 

there have been a few reports of rekindled 

friendships since some of you have been 

writing in, so come on Class of ’78—what 

have you been up to? Please take just a few 

minutes to drop a line. 

1977 

Reunion May 18-19, 2007 

John Fauerbach; P.O. Box 162; Chester, MT 59522; 

johnjfauerbach@yahoo.com 

1976 

K. Dale Zusi Scolnick; 45 Lake Trail East; Morristown, 

NJ 07960 


Jeff Zettlemoyer was recently appointed 

borough manager of West Easton, Pa. He 

comes to the job with more than 17 years of 

municipal experience. In addition, Jeff is a 

certified building inspector and does work 

for two consulting firms part time. 

1975 

Susan Bacci Adams; 402 Willow Road West; 

Staten Island, NY 10314; sba402@aol.com 

1974 

Cyndee Andreas Grifo; 6988 Crystal Springs Rd.; 

Cincinnati, OH 45227; Cgrifo@zoomtown.com 

1973 

Dennis Jones; 833 Hoover Drive; Apollo, PA 

15613; djones@keystone-auto.com 

Priscilla Barres Schueck; 703 W. Goepp Street; 

Bethlehem, PA 18018 


1972 


Terrell Mc<strong>Man</strong>n; 712 Fire Lane; Bethlehem, PA 

18015; mcmann1@enter.net 

1971 

John Madison; 5749 Blue Grass Trail; Coopersburg, 

PA 18036-1835; Aretiredst8ie@aol.com 

Constance M. Sokalsky; 1441 Hillcrest Court No. 

210; Camp Hill, PA 17011-8021; Connie_sokalsky@ 

hilton.com 

1970 

Denise Maday Greiner; 309 High Street ; 

Catasauqua, PA 18032-1428; damg1210@aol.com 


Garry Earles is a licensed independent 

clinical social worker. He has returned to 

Massachusetts after living in Pennsylvania 

for a few years. He continues to pursue his 

career in working with children and adolescents 

challenged by neurobiological/developmental 

disorders such as attention deficit/ 

hyperactivity disorder, obsessive compulsive 

disorder, bipolar disorder, and Tourette’s 

syndrome, among others. 

He is gaining a national reputation as an 

expert speaker on impulse control difficulties 

and executive functioning, the core feature of 

ADD, as he tours the country presenting seminars 

to mental health professionals and educational 

personnel. His website, www.bridgingthechasm.com, 

is dedicated to informing 

and assisting others to better understand the 

intricacies of these disorders. The website 

also lists his seminar schedule. He would love 

to hear from his old classmates. 

1969 

Caroline Funk Rabold; 232 Oxford Circle; Stroudsburg, 

PA 18360; ccrabold@yahoo.com 

From Caroline: 

I talked with Greg Fota at Homecoming 

this past fall. He lives in Bethlehem with his 

wife, Georgia. They raised two daughters: 

Catherine, a vice president for Wachovia 

Bank, and Lauren, a doctoral student at the 

University of Delaware. They have a granddaughter, 

Alison, and are awaiting the birth 

of their second grandchild. After graduating 

in 1969 with a B.S. in biology, Greg went to 

Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y., for an 

M.S. in microbiology. He worked for several 

Lehigh Valley hospitals for the next nine 

Gulf Update 

More than a year later, 

Katrina moments still linger 

The storm is long gone, and the aftermath 

doesn’t command national media attention 

anymore. But at the University of New Orleans 

(UNO), hurricane Katrina still looms large in the 

lives of faculty, staff, and students, says Mora- 

vian College alumna Janice Thomas ’84. 

As the director of UNO’s Office of Inter- 

national Students and Scholars, Thomas had 

to keep track of some 800 students displaced 

by the hurricane’s August 2005 landfall—while 

she and her staff were themselves scattered to 

the proverbial four winds. “I ended up in New 

Jersey for six weeks, hosted by Brookdale Com- 

munity College,” she says. “Their international 

center provided me with a work space and 

other necessities.” In the first days post-Katrina, 

Thomas and her coworkers formed a virtual 

office connected by phone, fax, and e-mail as 

they worked to reestablish contact with their 

charges. Being unable to meet face-to-face 

with students was perhaps the hardest part, 

she adds. “You forget how much of what we do 

in academe is on a personal level. One young 

woman called me and was in tears because I 

couldn’t meet with her in person.” 

While young people far from home and fam- 

ily might seem especially vulnerable to a disaster 

of this magnitude, Thomas says her students 

were well-equipped to cope with the trauma. 

“<strong>Man</strong>y come from countries that also deal with 

hurricanes, or with earthquakes or tsunamis,” 

she says. “And if you’ve chosen to come halfway 

around the world to study, you’re in a group of 

resilient risk-takers.” Even so, the incident did 

take a toll. “<strong>Man</strong>y students lost their apartments 

and everything in them. Some weren’t able to 

evacuate and had to be rescued by boat or 

helicopter.” On the other hand, the generos- 

ity of the larger academic community yielded 

some unexpected opportunities. “Some of our 

students got a chance to take courses at institu- 

tions they wouldn’t otherwise have attended, like 

MIT, Berkeley, or Penn,” says Thomas. 

The University of New Orleans experienced 

flooding and wind damage, but was able to offer 

courses at its satellite campuses in fall 2005. The 

main campus reopened in January 2006. Never- 

theless, many in the UNO community are still af- 

fected by Katrina. “My home came through fine; 

it was the luck of the draw. I have colleagues 

and staff still living in trailers, still fighting with 

insurance companies and the state to get money 

to rebuild,” says Thomas. “There’s still a lot of 

work to be done, homes that need to be gutted, 

families that need assistance—we could use 

busloads of folks coming down to help.” One 

sign of Katrina’s lingering presence is how often 

the disaster comes up in casual chats. “We call 

them ‘Katrina moments,’” she says. “And I think 

all of us are longing for the day when we can go 

to a social gathering without Katrina becoming a 

topic of conversation.” 

Thomas suggests that readers who’d like 

to volunteer for relief work in the New Orleans 

area contact the Louisiana United Methodist Di- 

saster Recovery Ministry (www.laucstormrelief. 

com), the Association of Community Organiza- 

tions for Reform Now (ACORN, www.acorn.org) 

or Operation Helping Hands (Catholic Charities, 

www.catholiccharities-no.org/operation_help- 

ing_hands.htm). 


classnotes 

years as a clinical microbiologist. In 1979 he 

left to take a position with the Morning Call 

in Allentown, Pa., as a photography lab technician 

and part-time photographer. He gradually 

started his own freelance photography 

studio, Fotagraphy, in Bethlehem, working for 

AT&T, Sports Illustrated, Lafayette College, 

Moravian College, Cedar Crest College, and 

the Pennsylvania Stage Company, to name 

a few. Greg took an early retirement from 

the Morning Call in December 2005, after 27 

years as the photo lab supervisor and photo 

assignment editor. He now works for Pittman 

Photography in Northampton, Pa., as a 

photo editor and event manager for the youth 

sports photography section. He also exhibits 

his art photography in local Bethlehem galleries. 

Several of his photos have won juried 

awards. And of course he still shoots alumni 

events at Moravian. We would appreciate 

more updates from other alums like Greg. It’s 

fun to read about what other classmates have 

been doing. 

1968 

George Berger; 107 Mohawk Drive; Johnstown, 

PA 15905; berger@vms.cis.pitt.edu 

Jill Stefko; 671 Ferry St., #1; Easton, PA 18042; 

ravenfirephd@yahoo.com 

1967 

Reunion May 18 -19, 2007 

Kathie Broczkowski Klein; 1734 Sycamore St.; 

Bethlehem, PA 18017; cklein6886@aol.com 

1966 

Fay Stover Iudicello; 1659 Kirby Road; 

McLean, VA 22101; Fax: 703-827-0431; 

fay_iudicello@ios.doi.gov 

David Berg; 2058 Quaker Way, #45; Annapolis, 

MD 21401; dgberg@erols.com 

1965 

William F. Horwath; 22300 Maplewood Drive; 

Southfield, MI 48034; will@m-m-s.com 

1964 

Kathleen Cavanaugh; 448 King’s Highway East; 

Haddonfield, NJ 08033; katcav1@gmail.com 

1963 

Bill Leicht; 16819 N. 59th Place; Scottsdale, AZ 

85254; Fax: 602-493-1949; Leicht1@cox.net 

1962 


Merr Trumbore; 1040 Ebenezer Church Road; Rising 

Sun, MD 21911; merr@dol.net 

Emma Demuth Williams; 1013 Nicholas Street; 

Bethlehem, PA 18017; eldw@ptdprolog.net 

1961 

Sam Maczko; 14 Sunrise Way; Towaco, NJ 07082; 

sfmaczko@yahoo.com 

From Sam: 

The Sixth Annual Gus Rampone Scholarship 

Fund Golf Tournament was a huge success. 

The turnout was the largest to date. Our 

class was represented by Jim Kritis, James 

McCrudden, Joe Castellano, Ken Sepe Barry 

Gaal, and me. Mike Payonk ’59 and Tony 

Matz, with his son, represented the class of 

1959. Pete Chimera ’88 did a commendable 

job of organizing the entire affair. 

I have received some nice e-mails from 

Chuck Merkel in Illinois who is well and enjoying 

retirement. He sends his best regards 

to all. If anyone is in the area of Wheaton, 

Ill., Chuck would like to receive a call and 

get together with them. You can e-mail him 

at merkel@speakeasy.net. 

The weather cooperated for Homecoming 

this year and the day was enjoyable. The new 

tailgating arrangement seemed to work out 

favorably and all who participated appeared 

to have a good time. The football team made 

the day complete with a win. Joe Castellano, 

Ken Sepe, and I volunteered with the parking 

at the tailgating area before the game. 

We met Barry Gaal and John Bregman and 

his wife and two grandchildren. I think the 

grandkids are prospective students, judging 

by the new Moravian shirts and jackets they 

were wearing. John and Melissa are expecting 

their eleventh and tweflth grandchildren 

this fall. Barry Gaal is enjoying retirement 

and keeps active with community affairs and 

his family. Ken Sepe and John Bregman will 

be leaving for the warmer climate of Florida 

as the holidays approach. 

Joe Castellano and I attended the Moravian 

College Athletic Hall of Fame induction 

ceremony on October 27, 2006. We were 

primarily interested in the induction of Paul 

Calvo ’52 and the posthumous induction of 

Gus Rampone ’59. Paul was our offensive 

line coach in football. In addition he played 

football and basketball at Moravian. He also 

served as an assistant football coach for 

the Greyhounds from 1954-1971. Gus was 

a teammate of mine and personal friend 

and fraternity brother to Joe and me. Gus 

was awarded the Robert Martin Herbstman 

Award in 1998. He served as co-captain in 

1957 and captain in 1958 of the football 

team. He earned several ECAC Weekly Team 

honors during his playing days. On the 

wrestling mat, Gus became the first wrestler 

in Moravian history to make the MAC finals. 

Tony “Monk” Morelli ’59 and Tony Matz 

’59 presented the induction speeches for 

Gus and Jean, his wife, accepted the award. 

Monk, Tony, and Jean each gave a moving 

talk on Gus’s behalf. Also at this affair was 

Jack Finelli ’58 who was a teammate of Gus. 

Jack came up from Florida for the induction. 

Jack is still working as a barber in Fort 

Meyers, Fla. Charles Bartolet ‘60 was in attendance. 

Charles is kept busy with his work 

as a member of his local board of education. 

Jim Kritis ‘61 was in attendance, since he 

was coached by Paul and was a teammate of 

Gus. The accomplishments of all of the inductees 

were extremely impressive and their 

affection for Moravian College came through 

in all of their acceptance speeches. 

1960 

Peter French; 7018 Honeysuckle Terrace; Bradenton, 

FL 34202; french@sar.usf.edu 

1959 

Kathy Werst Detwiler; 1383 N. Allen St.; State 

College, PA 16803; wld2@psu.edu 


From Kathy: 

Fall greetings from your class correspondent 

in Happy Valley. This season Wayne and 

I did again cheer on our Lions at all home 

football games; we also attended the Notre 

Dame and Ohio State away games. It is so 

much fun to travel, now that Wayne and I are 

retired—but we do primarily “theme” travel. 

We enjoyed touring New York during the 

colorful changing of the leaves, visiting the 

Fenimore Museum display of Grandma Moses 

and taking a boat ride through the Erie 

Canal Locks. We have been planning to attend 

Christmas Vespers at Moravian College 

with family this year. Your holiday messages 

with your news for our next column are enthusiastically 

awaited. Bye for now. 

1958 

Daneen Jones Phelps; 1547 Bonnie Drive; Bethlehem, 

PA 18018; dhphelps@ptd.net 

1957 


Pearl Stein; 3 Tulip Court; Marlton, NJ 08053; 

steinpearl@msn.com 

From Pearl: 

May 18-19, 2007! Save that special date 

for our 50th Reunion at Moravian College. 

The reunion committee has been meeting 

regularly, planning events that will surprise 

and delight you. If you have not been back to 

visit the campus, you will be so impressed 

by the facilities available to students today. 

The committee members are: Pearl Stein, 

Pat Miller Helfrich, Carl Ackerman, Shirley 

Kunsman Bilheimer, Don Bortz, Irene 

Breslin Genther, Bev Love and Jerry Potter 

’61, Gordon Sommers, George Toth, and Earl 

Zeiner. 

Following our meeting with Bertie 

Knisely, alumni director, on November 10, 

the female members of the committee were 

invited to pour at a tea for female faculty, 

administrators, and students in the beautiful 

atrium of the Priscilla Payne Hurd Academic 

Complex. Pat, Irene, and I were joined by Bev 

Bell ’56, Anne Frankenfield Howlett, Dani 

Jones Phelps ’58, and Carolyn Edwards 

Simmons. What a lovely and relaxing setting 

to meet and greet students and faculty! All 

this and Moravian sugar cake, too! 

1956 

Robert Gray; 98 Mill Run North; Augusta, SC 

29860-8704; bobsrs@aol.com 

Renee Johnson Dragotta; 341 Biery’s Bridge 

Road; Bethlehem, PA 18017 

From Renee: 

Our 50th reunion on May 19-20 had 

grand events from start to finish. Some women 

started early Friday morning by meeting 

at the president’s house on Church Street for 

the Founder’s Day celebration. After coffee 

and sugar cakes there we proceeded to the 

chapel for a speaker, entertainment, and a 

lovefeast. The morning ended with a luncheon 

in the South Campus dining room. On 

Friday evening all the men and women from 

our class joined together for the Reunionfest 

reception and dinner in Johnston Hall. This 

was the time we learned who came back to 

celebrate being away for 50 years. 

Saturday started with our class members 

attending our first 50+ Club Breakfast. Dr. 

Rokke introduced each of us individually 

and called us to the stage to receive our new 

50+ pin. From there, the Parade of Classes 

began, the route being from North Campus 

to South Campus along Main Street. Our 

class led the parade, some walking, and 

some riding in convertibles. At the judging 

stand we acted out our class reunion theme, 

“North Meets South.” The women wore 

purple and gold sashes and men wore blue 

pants and Moravian gray shirts. The women 

and men then greeted each other and joined 

to sing to the College alma mater. All of this 

was done with such enthusiasm that we won 

the “Most Creative” award in the parade. We 

also won an award for the highest percentage 

of attendees for a reunion class. 

Following the parade we all attended the 

Alumni Grand Reunion Luncheon where Dr. 

Rokke gave his “last” state of the college address. 

We then sang both alma maters to finish 

this part of the festivities. Late in the afternoon 

there was a veteran’s reunion where 

Dr. Rokke was honored. The day ended with a 

Class of ’56 reception and dinner in the HUB. 

The following 29 classmates connected again 

and talked of the past and present. 

Marietta Schwartz Banach is a medical 

technologist working part-time at Sacred 

Heart Hospital. She is proud of her daughter, 

Kelly, a judge of the Lehigh County Court of 

Common Pleas. 

Beverly Bell retired after many years 

with Bethlehem Steel and is presently active 

in many Moravian College functions. 

Richard Benner and Pauline Ritter 

Benner deserve the credit for guiding our 

class to a successful class reunion. Dick is 

a retired pastor and Pauline was a teacher. 

They love their new home in a retirement village 

in Hanover, Pa. 

Jeanette “Bobby” Marossy Brady and 

Elenor Beck Schleicher with her husband, 

Henry, returned to the campus for their first 

reunion. 

Jack Burke and wife Pat ’71 and Richard 

Stine are retired from the Bethlehem Area 

School District. 

Stanley Banach is a retired physician 

who continues to lecture on the impact of 

exercise and nutrition on chronic degeneration 

disease. 

There are more retired teachers: 

Gail Dangler Miller, from the Pottsgrove, 

Pa., school district, presently is a tour escort 

for a travel agency. 

William Marsh, living in Carolina 

Shores, N.C., retired from the Hillside Board 

of Education. 

Renee Johnson Dragotta and her 

husband, Vince, taught mathematics and 

computer programming for 40 years at Phillipsburg 

High School in New Jersey. 

Gil Stelter and his wife Sally and Tony 

Kochenach are retired university professors. 

Gil and Sally made the trip from Ontario, 

Canada. Tony and his wife, Marie, attended 

as well. 

Jim Johnson and his wife, Edith, came 

up from Charolette, N.C. Jim retired as a 

CEO of United Family Services. Also coming 

from North Carolina was Roger Kimbal, a 

retired Moravian pastor, and his wife, Mitzie 

Pennington Kimbal ’57. 

Others seen at the luncheon were: James 

Ovady, Bob Brennan, Ron Saderholm, Rudy 

Kresh, Millie Siftar Kimock, Art Jolley, 

Harold Frack, Jay Jones, Bill Stifnagle, and 

Joan Boyer Rathbone, who now lives in 

Biltmore, N.C. 

Joanne Albright Hoodmaker spends 

most of her time as a soloist for the Bethlehem 

Area Church Women United and as the 

vocalist for the Hanover Township <strong>Big</strong> Band. 


classnotes 

Tom Labert came with his wife, Nancy. 

He retired after 40 years from the finance 

department of Bethlehem Steel and has been 

a realtor for 13 years. 

Fred Woitscheck and his wife, Wanda, 

are probably used to being last in a list and 

he is again. Fred is CEO and owner of his 

family business, Hi-Way Concrete Products. 

1955 

Helen Varady Keyser; 2038 Kemmerer Street; 


1954 

Helen Desh Woodbridge; 3574 Browning Lane; 

Bethlehem, PA 18017; ligon@enter.net 

From Helen: 

Dottie Ruyak was in Bethlehem in 

August and came for a cookout at my home 

with another high school classmate, Anne 

Enright ’52 Secretarial. 

The Bach at Noon concerts performed in 

Central Moravian Church by the Bach Choir 

of Bethlehem and the Bach Festival Orchestra 

attracted, among others this fall, classmates 

Lois Lutz Geehr and her husband, 

Fred, Shirley Beck Dutt and her husband, 

Karl, and Bev Bell ’56. We were sorry to hear 

about the death of one of Lois’s sisters, Martha 

Lutz Samuels ’50, but were glad to hear 

that Lois and Fred enjoyed attending the 

Shakespeare Festival in Canada this summer. 

Our son John, from Michigan, was home 

for this dad’s 85th birthday in early November, 

and our son Rob and his family of four were 

home for Thanksgiving. A highlight of their 

visits here was a trip to Hawk Mountain with 

lunch atop the north lookout. Both grandsons 

will graduate this spring, Tim from Purdue 

University and Brian from high school. 

1953 

E. Allen Schultz; 1601 43rd St. North; Unit 230; 

St. Petersburg, FL 33713-4666; e.allen.schultz@ 

worldnet.att.net 

Polly Rayner; The Court, Apt. 2-F; 2830 Linden St.; 


1952 


Mary T. Pongracz; 321 W. Fourth St.; Bethlehem, 

PA 18015 

1951 

Andy Jasso; 35 W. Greenwich St.; Bethlehem, PA 

18018-2439 

Carol Buechner McMullen; 9 Magnolia Ave.; 

Montvale, NJ 07645; cbmcmullen@aol.com 

From Carol: 

June Shafer Scholl recently moved to an 

apartment at Moravian Village in Bethlehem. 

On September 21 she invited a group 

of classmates to join her for lunch at the 

Moravian Village dining room. Present were 

Vanita Egge Marvin, Betsey Freas ’50, Jane 

Kincaid Missimer, Fern Bachman Koplin, 

Harold Gesell and his daughter Anne Marie, 

Lois Shafer Smith and Dick, Janet Fabian 

Andre and Paul with their daughter, June, 

and myself. We enjoyed a delightful lunch 

and admired June’s new home. 

As I write this, Thanksgiving is almost 

here. I hope all of our classmates have much 

to be thankful for. 

1950 

Bob Scholl; P.O. Box 5083; Bethlehem, PA 18015 

1949 

Norma Boldt Wynne; 1570 Glen Hardie Road; 

Wayne, PA 19087-1002; nbwynne@aol.com 

Thomas F. Keim; 335 Spring St.; Bethlehem, PA 

18018 

From Tom: 

I received a nice note from Bernie Terzigni. 

He says that he is enjoying his family 

and all the “good things God has given us.” 

Retired from medicine, he does consult with 

his boys and daughter-in-law as they are 

practicing. He is busy finishing his book, A 

Satire on the Motel Business. It contains cartoons 

and many funny stories based on the 

experiences he and Joyce had during their 

17 years as hotel owners in Wildwood Crest, 

N.J. He still hopes to take that cruise on the 

QE2 someday. 

1948 

Jean Baxter McCracken; 490 Penllyn Pike; 

Blue Bell, PA 19422-1628; Charleyandjean1@ 

verizon.net 

From Jean: 

I received the following e-mail from 

Edythe Steers Smith, who regrettably was 

with our class for only one year, yet we all 

enjoyed her presence. Thanks so much, Edie, 

for responding. 

“Hi, Jean, I’m answering your request 

to hear from old classmates. Kip Voorhees 

Pels and I met last Tuesday on Long Beach 

Island, N.J. This was our fourth meeting in 

four years. It’s so good talking old times 

and catching up on current times. Last year 

our grandchildren played together. Who 

would have thought we’d do that sixty-odd 

years later? Kip and her husband, Al, are 

still very active in their community in New 

Hampshire. They look great. On a sad note, 

my sister Ruth died March 7. She hadn’t 

been sick, so it was a shock. Fortunately, she 

didn’t suffer. I hope all is well with your and 

family. Take care.” 

Charley and I are still active, he painting 

and I busy with a chair caning business. 

These activities keep us both out of trouble. 

We don’t travel much, although I did spend a 

week in Cancun on a mission project—most 

likely my last. Our daughter Faith took a 

teaching job in New Zealand last February— 

teaching English. It has been a hard year for 

her, but she loves it there. Daughter Julie 

and I went to her in July, and I survived the 

twenty-hour plane trip! 

Our 60th reunion will be coming up in 

2008, so I hope to see some of you when you 

come to celebrate! 


1947 


George Kirkpatrick; 11250 Caravel Circle, No. 308; 

Fort Myers, FL 33908-5236 

Peg Loveless Browne; 256 Medford Leas Way; 

Medford, NJ 08055; Pegbrownenj@medleas.com 

Mary Jean Spangenthal has decided to take 

a break from being class secretary, and Peg 

Loveless Browne has agreed to take over. 

From Mary Jean: 

We’re ba-a-a-ck!! Thanks to some communication 

glitches, we lost an issue or two, 

but I think we’re on track again and the 

first order of business is a mighty thanks to 

Helen Kanuskey Canfield, Charlotte Unangst 

Schisler, Kitty Nies Geiger, and Jean 

Achey Schrader. They compose our reunion 

committee and were very helpful in getting 

information coming to me for this column. 

Your letters reflect an effort to settle in 

comfort for this next period in life, a move 

to retirement communities or a rearrangement 

of family members so that personal 

independence can be preserved along with a 

feeling of being cared for. Everybody sounds 

upbeat and forward looking, accepting 

responsibility for doing as much as possible 

for ourselves to maintain good health and 

to contribute to the world in which we still 

live. 

Mickey Coleman Silverberg is living at 

Country Meadows, a retirement community 

in Allentown, while Kitty Neis Geiger is still 

maintaining her home and herself in ways 

that will enable her to stay in her own home 

a very long time. She says she feels cared for 

by the young families living near her. 

Jean Zehner Lombardi isn’t driving 

much anymore, but her son has moved in 

with her since the death of her 95-year-old 

mother. She is active in two senior groups, 

and frequently goes on trips with them. She 

says that winter is coming and she’s ready for 

it, since she won’t have to drive in the snow. 

June Urffer Moyer and Bob are quite 

content in California. They remain very active 

in spite of Bob’s macular degeneration 

and manage to maintain the trip schedule 

they have enjoyed for many years, including 

a trip east to visit with their son and 

daughter. 

Unfortunately, some of us are limited by 

physical problems, vision being a major one. 

Doris Trine Kennedy has had cataract surgery 

and a recent procedure for her macular 

degeneration. She said it was an arduous 

process but she is doing well. 

Betty Riegel Mesner, who lost her vision 

many years ago, recently had two knee replacements, 

but expects to be dancing again 

in six weeks. She obviously has accommodated 

to her handicap, for she knits caps for 

babies and is learning to play a new Lowery 

organ with special buttons for automatic 

A Guide for Life 

After leaving Moravian College 

with a bachelor’s degree in 

economics, Jean Sun Shaw 

’75 saw the business world 

from many angles. “I held staff 

and line positions in different 

corporations and different 

sectors: commodities trading, 

management consulting, 

technology,” she says. But 

she came to realize that what 

she really wanted to do was 

offer guidance to the corporate 

professionals she’d been 

working with. So, equipping 

herself with advanced degrees 

in counseling, she created 

Life’s Journey LLC. “I’ve had an 

interest in psychology since high 

school, so the career change 

was really coming full circle to 

an earlier interest,” she adds. 

In her New York City-based 

counseling practice, Sun Shaw 

works with mid-life professionals 

who seek to make meaningful 

change in their lives. Rather than 

simply offering conventional 

wisdom about networking and 

transferable skills, Life’s Journey 

also helps clients grapple with 

deep questions like “Who am I, 

really?” and “How do I express 

myself more fully in my career 

play. This is all in addition to her work and 

activity in her church and family. 

But the overwhelming theme of the mail 

was family: accomplishments of children 

and grandchildren and the joyous anticipation 

of new members being born. Janet 

Parks Weinland and Bob seem to lead the 

pack with four daughters, eight grandchildren 

and seven great-grandchildren! Three of 

the four children and families live within an 

hour and a half away. 

Doris Trine Kennedy, Charlotte Unangst 

Schisler, Ruth Heitz Bachman and I 

also are enjoying the “great” generation and, 

in my case, a second is on the way. Charlotte, 

by the way, is still riding her horse, Rusty, 

once or twice a week. In her words, “It helps 

my morale and old muscles.” 

Jean Achey Schrader and her husband 

spent the last year looking forward to the 

next dinner event honoring their granddaughter, 

Jackie, who obviously is a very 

talented person, both academically and 

sportswise. Her sister, Jessie, occasioned 

more celebration by marrying in June. 

Helen Kanuskey Canfield had very different 

news to send us. Her husband Don, a 

veteran of the Battle of the Bulge in World 

War II, has an e-mail relationship with a 

Belgian doctor whose grandparents lived 

in the battle area and had great admiration 

and my life?” This approach 

yields a more meaningful 

process for both client and 

counselor. “It’s very gratifying 

to walk with my clients through 

the exploration,” she notes. And 

her time at Moravian seems to 

have influenced Jean’s ability to 

help her clients find their paths. 

“My college years allowed me 

to experience a wide variety of 

subjects,” she says. “I met lots 

of people, and had rich, diverse 

experiences that gave me an 

appreciation for the different 

walks of life people are called 

to take.” 


classnotes 

for American troops. On a visit to Belgium 

six years ago the Canfields met Don’s e-mail 

partner on the night of the birth of the doctor’s 

second son, who was given Don’s name. 

In May of this year, the doctor and his family 

spent five days visiting Helen and Don in 

Bethlehem. Though language was a problem, 

I’ll bet communication was not. 

Kitty Nies Geiger is very busy with her 

volunteer work at Lehigh Valley Hospital in 

the gift shop. She also helps at one of her 

church services each week. 

I know Jean and Ruth will not be at the 

Reunion, but I hope some classmates who 

didn’t write this time are going to be there. 

See you in May! 


Peg Loveless Browne moved back to 

New Jersey after living in Devon, Pa., for 

41 years. She currently resides in a Quaker 

continual care community in Medford, N.J., 

where she has her own apartment. It is a 

lovely community in a beautiful wooded area 

and located close to town and stores. She 

currently tutors foreign students at a local 

community college and is involved in a news 

discussion program. She has been traveling 

a lot lately, primarily to watch her granddaughter 

play field hockey at the University 

of Iowa. She even went to Chile last fall to 

watch her granddaughter play on the U.S. 

Team in the World Cup championships. It is 

very enjoyable for her to watch these games 

because she played in high school and at 

Moravian, watched her three daughters play, 

and refereed for 25 years! She misses the 

college contacts and visits hockey games 

provided her. 

1946 

Ada Zellner Flower; 834 Hilltop Road; Oyster Bay, 

NY 11771 

Ileen Whitehead Birnbuam; 4167 Green Pond 

Road; Bethlehem, PA 18020 

From Ada: 

Dotty Wilmer Schlottman spent the 

summer keeping house and garden “in reasonable 

order” while Al went to Priest Lake, 

Idaho, to do lookout tower duty. 

Marie Holt Nash suffers from severe osteoarthritis. 

She’s had one knee replaced and 

is considering when to have the other knee 

replaced. She is surrounded by children and 

grandchildren who are most helpful. She’s 

proud to have two great-grandchildren. She 

says, “Bless them all!” 

Frank and I made a brief visit to Moravian 

recently. We learned that Phyllis Clark’s 

piano and music library have arrived there 

and will be used in the Music Department. 

(Phyllis’s death was reported in the last 

magazine.) 

We also learned that the College has 

employed a part-time archivist who would 

welcome memorabilia concerning our time 

at Moravian. Original materials such as 

photographs, scrapbooks, albums, diaries, 

journals, small artifacts, and school publications 

such as yearbooks and catalogs are 

encouraged. Examples of coursework such as 

essays and art/sketches are also valuable. 

If you are interested in contributing to 

the archives call the archivist, Jan Ballard, 

at 610 861-1594 or e-mail jballard@moravian.edu. 

1945 

Jane Smith Ebelhare; 805 Buckeye Street; Ft. Collins, 

CO 80524; jebelhare@aol.com 

From Jane: 

Eleanor Beidelman Kline and her 

daughter went to Charlottesville, Va., last 

summer where they enjoyed the beautiful 

scenery and toured the James Madison 

homestead. The spent a wonderful visit with 

Eleanor’s sister while there, and the timing 

was most fortunate. When they returned 

home, they received the sad news that 

Eleanor’s sister had passed away shortly after 

they had left. Eleanor still goes to water 

aerobics three times a week. She continues 

her civic duties, having just completed the 

“yard of the month” selections, with the 

judging of the Christmas decorations in her 

subdivision in the near future. 

Dorothy Stump Lied is improving her 

skills in the game of mahjong, which originated 

as a Chinese gambling game. Dottie 

first heard of it in the movie Driving Miss 

Daisy. Then her daughter-in-law, who had 

learned to play it from a neighbor, taught 

Dottie and a friend of hers. Now Dottie and 

her friend play just for fun, or at least that’s 

what she says. Dottie still keeps busy painting, 

knitting, and making peanut butter cups, 

which are big sellers at the local bazaar. She 

also does a lot of reading, and especially 

enjoys novels about the Amish, a people she 

very much admires. 

Jackie Stout McGiffert spent three 

weeks in September in the East attending 

reunions with a friend, but she was back in 

Missoula, Mont., in mid-October when she 

wrote to me. She will be leaving for Florida 

in January. 

Janet Moyer Paulus‘s daughter and 

older son have settled in comfortably in 

what Janet calls their basement, the “Hyatt 

Regency.” They have been staying there 

while construction is completed on Janet’s 

daughter’s town house, which has been 

promised for early December. Also, the 

younger son was to visit for Thanksgiving. It 

sounds like great fun. Janet’s husband, Dick, 

was to undergo cataract surgery in October, 

which hopefully will bring improvement to 

his vision. Janet “imposed on a hornets’ nest 

in August and felt their revengeful sting.” 

She has recuperated, but now is “armed with 

an EpiPen,” an automatic injector of epinephrine. 

Florence Fritts and Jackie Bauder 

joined Janet for lunch last summer, and they 

had their usual happy reunion. They will try 

to make it again before getting snowed in for 

the winter. 

Lois Moser Harke reports the Marguardt 

Village, the complex where she lives in Watertown, 

Wis., has opened a hospice unit. Of 

course they need a lot of volunteers, so Lois 

is helping with clerical/office work. She says 

that she “has folded lots of paper” lately. 

I got a short e-mail from Beryl Harrison 

saying that “everything is status quo” and 

that she is fine and healthy. 

Jackie Haas Bauder sent a great e-mail. 

She mentioned the luncheon in September 

with Florence and Warren Fritts and Janet 

and Dick Paulus at the Minsi Trail Inn, where 

they caught up with everyone’s news. Florence 

still has a daughter living in Easton, so 

when they come to the area, they have a nice 

place to stay. Jackie said that Florence had 

just had surgery for a deviated septum but 

was still going on as usual. Jackie attended 

her 65th high school reunion in September, 

and there were sixty people at the luncheon. 

Lillian Stefko Schaedler and some of her 

friends were instrumental in organizing 

the luncheon. Jackie says that the age of 

the group was showing “in the number of 

walkers and canes present.” Jackie stays in 

touch with Doreen Coburn Walters. Doreen 

and her husband, Don, live in Sarasota, Fla. 


They missed the high school reunion because 

they had planned to visit a son in Cedarburg, 

Wisconsin. Two other sons and a grandson 

joined them for a “great family mini-reunion.” 

Jackie and Betty Wachstetter Griffis went 

to the Muhlenburg Festival and plan some 

other activities. She says that Betty is now a 

“proud great-grandmother.” Jackie was leaving 

on October 24 on a trip to Washington, 

D.C., to accompany a friend whose daughter 

is at American University. She was anxious 

to see the Indian Museum again and hoped 

to see the newly-reopened National Portrait 

Gallery and the new Smithsonian American 

Art Museum. As she says, “naturally my children 

and grandchildren are part of it too.” 

Then the following week, there was a family 

get-together in Pottstown, Pa., where her 

granddaughter, Amy, was to be married. 

Gloria Gately Chipman and husband, 

Frank, enjoyed the cruise which they took 

last July around the British Isles. They went 

to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, Dublin, 

Belfast, Wales, and Western Britain. Then 

when they returned, their oldest daughter, 

Ann, was married on the beach at Atlantic 

Beach, N.C. They were leaving on October 28 

for Florida to take a seven-day Caribbean 

cruise. One of their stops will be at Grand 

Turk and Caicos, which is a new port to 

them. On their return, they will visit their 

youngest daughter in Deerfield Beach, Fla., 

before driving home. 

In August, Alice Joyce Yeager’s husband, 

Bob, was diagnosed with prostate cancer. 

He is facing a series of radiation treatments 

followed by seed implants, which has been 

shown to be an effective treatment with good 

results. Alice and Bob are very optimistic. 

They visited their daughter, Robin, and her 

husband in Tennessee in July. Robin came to 

visit them in Florida this summer also and 

while there, impressed everyone at Alice and 

Bob’s church with her marvelous singing 

voice. Alice battles chronic fatigue immune 

dysfunction but keeps going. She and Bob 

have tickets for the West Coast Symphony 

concerts, and the plays at their Little Theater 

have been great. They also enjoy the local 

restaurants. 

Andy and I leave on November 9 for our 

annual trek to Wellington, Fla. We should get 

back home about the second week in April 

after an even busier schedule than ever. I 

will send you our home address and phone 

numbers after we get there. 

1943 

Margaret L. Albright; 129 N. 11th St.; Allentown, 

PA 18102 

June Bright Reese; 801 N. Wahneta St., Apt 203; 

Allentown, PA 18109; bjreese@webtv.net 

From June: 

Members of the baccalaureate and 

secretarial classes recently met for lunch at 

Moravian Village. Betty Adams Roach and 

Betty Karte deserve a big “thank you” for arranging 

the meeting. After a delicious lunch 

in the Village dining room, we visited Betty 

Karte in her lovely apartment. 

Betty Roach is still tutoring, and she and 

her husband, Jack, enjoy playing bridge. Marian 

Carty Durkee spent ten days vacationing 

with her daughter and family at the Outer 

Banks. Janet Williams Sander and her husband 

spend a lot of time in Long Beach Island 

with friends. They have four grandchildren, 

one of whom, Amanda Seyfried, has been in 

several movies, including Mean Girls. She is 

also currently in <strong>Big</strong> Love on Home Box. 

Peggy Mason Marcks spent her 14th 

season working at Yellowstone Park. She 

drove there and back alone, stopping on the 

trip home to visit her son and grandson. 

Betty Karte recently had a surprise visit 

from Grace and Lee Schuchardt, who were 

in the area to see relatives. Mary Lou Patton 

“Pat” Phillips joined us for lunch. She and 

husband Jim are still in their big house. 

Sadly we report the passing of Marie 

Fehr Goodyear’s husband, Jack. In addition 

to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, 

twelve grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 

He was predeceased by a daughter. 

We extend our deepest sympathy to his 

family. 

Let us hear what is happening in your life. 

1942 


Mary Kuehl Concevitch; 1036 Center St.; Bethlehem, 

PA 18018 

From Mary: 

A note from Avis Gordon states that 

she sold her home in Bethlehem and moved 

to Moravian House II on Main Street. She’s 

close to downtown and especially the 

Moravian Book Shop. From her window 

she watched the Moravian Mile parade on 

Alumni Weekend 2006, from one campus to 

the other. She hopes to see us in 2007 for our 

reunion. 

Two letters from Peggy Lutz Gray are so 

full of activities that it’s a miracle she had 

time to write. After months of writing and 

rehearsals they presented “Longwood Radio 

Hour II”—Peggy wrote the commercials 

(one was to the tune of Chiquita Banana’s 

theme song). Her new computer arrived, 

so now she’ll be busier than ever! Another 

classmate, Ruth Schantz Fortino, and her 

husband, Pat, have moved to an apartment 

at Moravian Village in town. Remember 

2007—our 65th! 

1941 

Ruth Hemmerly Kelly; Moravian Village; 526 

Wood St.; Apt. 104; Bethlehem, PA 18018 

From Ruth: 

A nice note from Dottie Ritter Comegys 

brings us up to date on her activities—involvement 

with health problems of relatives 

and leaving Moravian Hall Square and 

moving back to Main Street in September. 

She was in Durnstein, Austria, and learned 

of Zinzendorf’s connection with the area 

of Wachau (Wachovia), where his ancestral 

home was located. Dottie suffered the loss of 

her daughter two years ago and we extend 

our sympathy to her and her family. 

Ruth Overfield Fidorack and Mike 

continue their travels back to Tahiti and they 

are now planning a cruise around South 

America. 

In September there was a huge reunion 

of former students of Fountain Hill High 

School held at Lehigh University’s Stabler 

Auditorium. There were only two members 

of the class of 1937 there: Leona Quinn and 

I, both members of Moravian College for 

Women’s freshman class that year. 

I am enjoying life at Moravian Village, 

involved in puppet shows, of which we did 

four this week for kindergarten and first 

graders at Donegal School. It was the notorious 

Three Little Pigs and the Wolf, a very 

intellectually stimulating production, just 

off Broadway (South Side of Bethlehem). 

Beyond that I did some traveling, a 

cruise of the Mediterranean a year ago, and 


classnotes 

last July another of the Baltic with stops in 

St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, etc. 

Please classmates, if you want this 

column continued, send notes to me about 

yourselves and your families. 

Men of 1941-46 

Lloyd Fatzinger; 8434 Braewick Dr.; San Antonio, 

TX 78239; Mlfatzinger73@sbcgolobal.net 

1939 

Arlington A. Nagle, M.D.; 12 Orchard Hill Rd.; 

Robesonia, PA 19551; jgrabold@att.net 

1938 

Christine Roberts Fraley; 800 Hausman St., Apt. 

208; Allentown, PA 18104; grandmaf@mymailstation.com 

From Christine: 

There is very little news that I am able to 

report for the Class of 1938. Please send me 

a line to let me know how you are doing so 

that I can report it. 

Olivia Musselman Barnes is settled into 

her new home at Country Meadows here in 

Allentown. In my note for Fall 2006 I mistakenly 

said that Olivia was in the assisted 

living section of Country Meadows; she is in 

the independent living section and enjoying 

it very much. She has kept her car for the 

present and is still actively engaged in community 

affairs and bridge. 

Mary Fabian Strock is well and told 

me that she still keeps in touch with Rose 

Beidler Polentz. Rose lives in Richland, Wa. 

and says she is still upright. I, also, am still 

upright but use a walker when I leave my 

apartment. 

1937 

Reunion May 18 -19, 2007 

Bertha Finkelstein Cohen; 11 Island Ave. Apt. 

1404; Miami Beach, FL 33139-1326 

1935 

Wilma Kistler Uhrich; 300 Willow Valley Lakes 

Dr.; Apt. A-319; Willow Street, PA 17584 

Comenius Center 

Sherron Quinn M.B.A. ’00; 222 Bushkill Terrace; 

Nazareth, PA 18064; Shquinn222@yahoo.com 

From Sherron: 

Greetings from the Moravian M.B.A. I 

heard from Janette Roman ’05. She has a 

new addition to her family, son Alexander 

James Roman, born on June 5, 2006. Janette 

is enjoying every minute of baby Alexander. 

The M.B.A. Advisory Board has started a 

newsletter; all M.B.A. graduates should have 

received a copy in November. Please contact 

the M.B.A. office or drop me a line if you did 

not receive one. 

The fall 2006 Networking Night was 

held on November 16 at the Edge restaurant 

in Bethlehem. Some of the M.B.A. alumni in 

attendance were Chris Szutar, Rich Goch, 

Rick Subber, Gretchen Walters, Kevin 

Boucher and Rob Wentling. Save March 22, 

2007, for the spring networking night also at 

the Edge. 

Please send me your news! 

Changes 

Marriages 

2004 Melissa Sadecki and Jeff Micari, 

September 9, 2006. 

Jennifer Strobel and Jason Barnes, 


2003 Maribeth Ealey and Jason Pfeifer, 


2002 Julie Jones and Philip Shilane, 

August 13, 2006. 

2001 Brooke Dancho and Brian Swinteck, 

June 10, 2006. 

2000 Elizabeth DiFebo and Jason Drott, 

October 14, 2006. 

1999 Katy Fiandaca and John Dwyer, 


1998 Rebecca James-Poole and Daniel 

Michalski, November 24, 2006. 

1974 Carol Goldfeder and Philip D. 

Moskowitz, September 3, 2006. 

Births 

2004 Lauren Castellano Compitello and 

Joseph, a daughter, Sophia Nicolette, 

August 14, 2006. 

2003 Jen Tori Shick and Ryan Schick, a son, 

Cohen Lee, September 22, 2006. 

2001 Maddie Awad Abboud and Kenneth, 

a son, Nathaniel Kenneth, October 7, 

2006. 

1998 Melissa Hege Ayala and Mario, a 

daughter, Aurora Irene, October 29, 

2006. 

1993 Betty Terry Snyder and Michael, a 

son, Levi, August 1, 2006. 

1991 Kate Bochnak Burke and Sean, a son, 

Christopher Fitzpatrick, August 1, 

2006. 

Deaths 

1983 Robert A. Kurtz, October 13, 2006. 

1973 Susan Sargent Riggins, September 2, 

2006. 

1972 Lester E. Brookfield, October 4, 2006. 

1960 Richard S. Casey, September 28, 2006. 

1955 George Gonda, June 26, 2006. 

1953 Joyce B. Hains Timm, September 5, 2006. 

1950 Martin Black, September 11, 2006. 

Martha Lutz Samuels, February 20, 

2006. 

1941 William A. Konrad, October 21, 2006. 

1938 Miriam Schaeffer Romig, October 10, 

2006. 

Comenius Center 

1997 Edward John Cummings, August 26, 

2006. 


Who will be be the Moravian Idol? 

Or contact: 

On June 30, 2007, our first-ever Moravian Idol will be crowned. 

Will YOU be in the running? All graduates of the last ten years (1997-2006) are eligible! 

Here’s how it works: 

1. Become a contestant by making a gift to the Moravian Fund. 

2. Tell friends, family, coworkers and classmates to log onto www.moravianidol.com 

and vote for you. Each vote costs only $1.00, with proceeds going to the Moravian 

Fund. 

3. Scores are determined by adding each contestant’s Moravian Fund gift to the 

number of votes he or she received. Every month, the highest-scoring alums to date 

are profiled on the Moravian Idol website. In June 2007, the alum with the highest 

total will be named the 2006-2007 Moravian Idol! 

Go to www.moravianidol.com to make your gift, to vote, or to see the awards that will 

be to the Moravian Idol and runners-up. 

The MOravian FUnd OFFice 

Moravian College 

1200 Main Street • Bethlehem, PA 18018 

800 429-9437 • 610 861-1339 

moravianidol@moravian.edu 

With a dollar and a dream, it could be you! 


The Liberty Bell visited Moravian’s south campus? 

Probably not, unless you’re class of 1777. 

In that year, the Liberty Bell was trekked 

from Philadelphia to present-day Allentown 

to keep it safe from British forces. Along 

the way, a broken wagon wheel forced 

the bell’s keepers to stop in Bethlehem, 

practically on the grounds of the Moravian 

Seminary. The Moravian community of 1976 

witnessed a reenactment of this event on 

Founder’s Day (then held on September 

24). The ’76-77 yearbook tells us that the 

Liberty Bell Trek—a wagon train carrying 

a full-sized Liberty Bell replica and about 

140 costumed reenactors—arrived at Main 

and Church streets at about 12:30 p.m. 

Following speeches and a performance by 

the Moravian College Band, “an Ox Roast 

was held behind Main Hall for all Moravian 

Students, faculty, alumnae and Trek 

members.” 

1200 Main Street 

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