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WINTER 07<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Big</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Campus</strong><br />
Meet Christopher Thomforde<br />
Student Journals Give<br />
Dorm’s-Eye View<br />
One <strong>Moravian</strong>’s Quest for<br />
A More Beautiful World
<strong>Moravian</strong><br />
winter<br />
photo by John Kish iV<br />
2007<br />
02 Prelude: My Lisb<strong>on</strong> Less<strong>on</strong>s<br />
A stranger in a strange land finds that his<br />
journey grants him insights to his own identity.<br />
10 Move-In Day<br />
You’ve got your key, you’ve found your room . . .<br />
now all you need to do is unload your stuff and<br />
meet your roommate. Welcome to the first day<br />
of the rest of your college life.<br />
12 A View from the Top<br />
Why are small liberal arts instituti<strong>on</strong>s like<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> more important than ever?<br />
New president Christopher Thomforde shares<br />
his thoughts <strong>on</strong> truth, community, sports, and<br />
more.<br />
16 “I Can Do This”<br />
Linda Evans Shotkus ’69 turned down an<br />
enticing job offer so she could follow her<br />
passi<strong>on</strong>. That plucky choice led to three<br />
decades of fashi<strong>on</strong>able success.<br />
04 Out & About<br />
18 Sports<br />
19 Alumni News<br />
21 Class Notes<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> Magazine : executive editor, Susan Overath Woolley;<br />
managing editor, Rick Chillot; sports editor, Mark J. Fleming; web manager,<br />
Christie Jacobsen; director of public relati<strong>on</strong>s and marketing, Michael P.<br />
Wils<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Creative Directi<strong>on</strong>: Jane Firor & Associates.<br />
Alumni Relati<strong>on</strong>s: acting director, Penni Zimmerman; class notes assistant,<br />
Patricia Murray Hanna ’82; student assistant, Kristin Gratz ’08.<br />
Copyright 2007 by <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>. Photographs and artwork copyright<br />
by their respective creators or by <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>. All rights reserved.<br />
No porti<strong>on</strong> of this publicati<strong>on</strong> may be reused or republished in any form<br />
without express written permissi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Cover photo by John Kish IV<br />
Spread photo by John Kish IV
prelude<br />
Larger-than-life Ideas<br />
MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE WINTER 2007<br />
My Lisb<strong>on</strong> Less<strong>on</strong>s<br />
Peter Cunha ’07 explores Portugal and his past<br />
I believe you have to stay busy. You always have to be involved in<br />
something whole-heartedly, always evolving, always advancing. For<br />
college kids, that means an internship in the summer. The Career<br />
Center at <strong>Moravian</strong> has c<strong>on</strong>vinced me that experience is necessary if<br />
I want to progress successfully to the next level of my life. A previ-<br />
ous internship advanced my understanding of journalism. This time,<br />
I wanted an experience relating to my other major, internati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
business. And I wanted to see if I really could survive <strong>on</strong> my own in<br />
another country.<br />
My internship was six weeks at the Luso-American Foundati<strong>on</strong><br />
(FLAD, Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento), in Lisb<strong>on</strong>.<br />
FLAD was founded in 1986 by the Portuguese government to help pro-<br />
mote relati<strong>on</strong>s between the United States and Portugal. The two nati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
share a diplomatic alliance that’s<br />
<strong>on</strong>e of the oldest—if not the old-<br />
est—in American history. This was<br />
the first time that some<strong>on</strong>e outside<br />
of my family invested so much in me<br />
in more than just a financial way.<br />
I worked in Lisb<strong>on</strong> in the Es-<br />
trella neighborhood. <str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>y interna-<br />
ti<strong>on</strong>al embassies are located there, including the U.S. embassy, which<br />
is just across the street. Our building was <strong>on</strong>e of the first built in the<br />
area after the 1755 earthquake that destroyed a large part of Lisb<strong>on</strong>.<br />
My office had an unbelievable view of the Tejo River. One of my proj-<br />
ects, an analysis of American students studying abroad in Portugal,<br />
resulted in the largest document I’ve ever produced—78 double-<br />
spaced pages. It took a lot of research and analysis, but working for<br />
people I admired and respected made it enjoyable.<br />
I’m the s<strong>on</strong> of immigrants who left Portugal in 1968. The week-<br />
ends were great for discovering my ancestral stomping grounds<br />
firsthand. I went to my folks’ home town. We still have family there.<br />
I saw my paternal grandparents’ graves, my dad’s crib, and I did<br />
some genealogical research. I visited the house where my dad grew<br />
up, and the neighborhood he lived in before he left for America. The<br />
area’s still very rural. It’s easy to imagine my roots because the way<br />
of life there hasn’t changed much. I found out that my dad’s house,<br />
now occupied by my aunt, has been in the family for six generati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
Most Americans know the nati<strong>on</strong>ality of their ancestors, and a few<br />
lucky <strong>on</strong>es know where in that nati<strong>on</strong>—in what town or regi<strong>on</strong>—their<br />
Left: Peter Cunha at Lisb<strong>on</strong>’s Parque Eduardo Setimo.<br />
right: Rooftops of Lisb<strong>on</strong>, World Cup euphoria, Peter and co-workers.<br />
><br />
family originated. But I know exactly where my ancestors lived some<br />
four hundred years ago. To find out that you’re part of something that<br />
extends so far back in time is a new discovery about yourself.<br />
I’m a soccer nut, and when the World Cup tournament is going<br />
<strong>on</strong>, so is every<strong>on</strong>e in Portugal. I experienced the World Cup in a soc-<br />
cer-crazy nati<strong>on</strong>, <strong>on</strong>e that went far in the tourney at that. Portugal’s<br />
fourth-place finish that summer was its best in 40 years, and I was<br />
there for the final five matches. It was the best. When the team w<strong>on</strong><br />
against Holland and England, every<strong>on</strong>e headed to the m<strong>on</strong>ument<br />
to Marques de Pombal* in the city’s center. I was stati<strong>on</strong>ed down<br />
the street, and after every victory I’d march down there and cheer<br />
with the rest of Lisb<strong>on</strong>’s populati<strong>on</strong>. People waving flags, rigging up<br />
their cars so that their automobiles look like caravels—15th-century<br />
explorers’ ships—with the Portuguese<br />
flag as a sail . . . it was a phenomen<strong>on</strong><br />
that just doesn’t exist in the States as<br />
far as soccer is c<strong>on</strong>cerned.<br />
After being transplanted for those<br />
six weeks, I learned skills that can’t<br />
be transmitted in any other way.<br />
Working in a foreign nati<strong>on</strong> teaches<br />
you to functi<strong>on</strong> successfully within another culture, something I feel<br />
many Americans d<strong>on</strong>’t understand. You can read about social differ-<br />
ences in a textbook, but you have to practice them or that knowledge<br />
is useless. My generati<strong>on</strong> is going to have to deal with c<strong>on</strong>cepts like<br />
globalizati<strong>on</strong> and the European Uni<strong>on</strong>. After this internship, I’m very<br />
familiar with these noti<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
And I learned a lot about me that I didn’t know before. I grew up<br />
with very little knowledge of my great Portuguese heritage. Getting<br />
thrown into it headfirst made me come out with a new appreciati<strong>on</strong><br />
of names like Vasco da Gama, Fernando Pessoa, Luis Camoes. I came<br />
to appreciate an element of my pers<strong>on</strong>ality that helps me understand<br />
who I am. Since I was little, I’ve always been looking at pictures in<br />
textbooks or watching movies and wishing that <strong>on</strong>e day I could go<br />
there and see those places. I’ve always had this interest in what’s out<br />
there. Maybe that’s just the Portuguese in me: the blood of the explorers<br />
still going str<strong>on</strong>g. W<br />
Prelude features stories of <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> community members in their own words.<br />
Send your submissi<strong>on</strong>s or suggesti<strong>on</strong>s to: rickc@moravian.edu.<br />
* The statesman noted for his leadership after the 1775 earthquake. –eds.<br />
WINTER 2007 MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE
photo by John Kish iV<br />
out&about<br />
Dance with Your Ears<br />
HAPPENING . . .<br />
February 1 – March 11<br />
Edouard Matthiew Pannetier<br />
PAyNE GAllEry • An exhibit of never-<br />
before- displayed drawings and paintings by<br />
the French-Cambodian surrealist, known as<br />
“Peccadet” to artist friends like Picasso.<br />
February 21<br />
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor<br />
Foy CoNCErt HAll • A remarkable<br />
evening of music with <strong>on</strong>e<br />
of today’s leading bel canto<br />
tenors.<br />
A Kulu Mele<br />
dancer teaches<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong>s the<br />
right moves.<br />
Good dancing starts with good listening, says Dorothy Wilkie, artistic<br />
director and choreographer of Kulu Mele African American Dance<br />
Ensemble. “Beginners have to learn to listen to the drum,” she explains.<br />
“Each rhythm has its own call, and that tells you when to start, change,<br />
and stop.” The ensemble, whose name means “voice of our ancestors,”<br />
visited the <strong>Moravian</strong> campus in December 2006 for a program of dances<br />
and rhythms from Africa, Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, and the U.S. Students and<br />
faculty members had an opportunity to move to the beat of African<br />
drumming during a pre-c<strong>on</strong>cert workshop. The steps may be different,<br />
but music and dance play similar roles in African and American culture,<br />
says Wilkie. “They play music for many reas<strong>on</strong>s—for the birth of a baby,<br />
for a celebrati<strong>on</strong>, for a naming cerem<strong>on</strong>y. Here we have music at baby<br />
showers, parties, and weddings.”<br />
March 15 – April 15<br />
The Design of Dissent<br />
PAyNE GAllEry • renowned graphic designer<br />
Milt<strong>on</strong> Glaser and illustrator Mirko Ilic present<br />
an exhibit of socially- and politically-driven<br />
graphics.<br />
Medieval Is Good for You<br />
How did the Reformati<strong>on</strong> alter the represen-<br />
tati<strong>on</strong> of women? What narrative strate-<br />
gies did Chaucer use in the Canterbury<br />
Tales? How were dreams interpreted in the<br />
Carolingian period? <str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>y such questi<strong>on</strong>s<br />
were answered—or at least thoroughly dis-<br />
cussed—at the Undergraduate C<strong>on</strong>ference in<br />
Medieval and Early Modern Studies, hosted<br />
by <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>on</strong> Saturday, December<br />
2, 2006. The c<strong>on</strong>ference featured 28 research<br />
presentati<strong>on</strong>s by students from <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
and several other colleges and universities.<br />
The 220 attendees, representing 25 schools,<br />
also witnessed performances and dem<strong>on</strong>-<br />
strati<strong>on</strong>s (including two <strong>Moravian</strong> music<br />
majors who c<strong>on</strong>structed a 15th-century<br />
trumpet). Other events included a plenary<br />
speech by Arthurian literature specialist Kel-<br />
ley Wickham-Crowley, associate professor of<br />
English at Georgetown University in Wash-<br />
ingt<strong>on</strong>, D.C., and a performance of Sephardic<br />
Blow your own horn: <strong>Moravian</strong> students Christopher<br />
A. Lucca ’09 and Sean Mas<strong>on</strong> ’08 dem<strong>on</strong>strate the<br />
15-th century trumpet they created for <strong>Moravian</strong>’s<br />
C<strong>on</strong>ference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies.<br />
music by members of the Baltimore C<strong>on</strong>sort<br />
and Quartetto Brio.<br />
Vespers in Televisi<strong>on</strong>land<br />
Taking a close look at these periods<br />
in history does more than solve historical<br />
enigmas or offer glimpses into a byg<strong>on</strong>e<br />
mindset, says John Black, assistant profes-<br />
sor of English at <strong>Moravian</strong> and <strong>on</strong>e of the<br />
c<strong>on</strong>ference organizers (with Sandy Bardsley,<br />
assistant professor of history). It teaches<br />
you to think outside your own particular<br />
box. “One of the main appeals of this field<br />
is its interdisciplinary aspect,” says Black.<br />
“You can’t approach it with blinders <strong>on</strong>.”<br />
While it’s possible to view the Middle Ages<br />
strictly from, say, an art history perspective,<br />
real understanding <strong>on</strong>ly comes from bring-<br />
ing together informati<strong>on</strong> from history, art,<br />
literature, religi<strong>on</strong>, music, and other fields.<br />
And professors or students who learn to do<br />
that will find it’s a skill that’s sorely needed<br />
in today’s world. “Our modern worldview is<br />
utterly fragmented,” Black says. “We’re so<br />
drawn and torn and pushed and shoved and<br />
rushed and frantic that there’s hardly time<br />
for synthesis, for seeing how you or any<strong>on</strong>e<br />
else fits into the big picture.”<br />
A <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> traditi<strong>on</strong> gained its widest audience yet when thirteen NBC-tV affiliates around the<br />
country broadcast The Music of Vespers from Bethlehem . . . the Christmas City <strong>on</strong> Christmas day 2006.<br />
the program featured a repertoire of sacred and spiritual s<strong>on</strong>gs from a wide variety of cultures performed<br />
by the <strong>Moravian</strong> Choir, under the directi<strong>on</strong> of Paula ring Zerkle, and by the Women’s Chorus, under the<br />
directi<strong>on</strong> of Eduardo Azzati. Selecti<strong>on</strong>s included an Australian aboriginal chant, the words of John Milt<strong>on</strong><br />
and Walt Whitman, and music composed by <strong>Moravian</strong> students. Also featured were Vespers standards<br />
like the hymns Morning Star and Jesus, Call Thou Me (Jesu, rufe mich). While nearly 6,000 members of<br />
the <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> community attend the Vespers services every year in Bethlehem, the broadcasts<br />
allowed viewers as far away as Michigan and oklahoma to enjoy them. or, in the case of former Choir<br />
soloist Susan Mcleish ’75, to enjoy them again. “Imagine my surprise,” says Mcleish, who lives outside<br />
of Atlanta, Georgia, “when I arose at 5:00 a.m. to make <strong>Moravian</strong> sugar cake, turned <strong>on</strong> the tV in hopes of<br />
finding something holidayish, and found the <strong>Moravian</strong> Vespers being broadcast!”<br />
MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE WINTER 2007 WINTER 2007 MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE<br />
photo by John Kish iV
out&about<br />
Reaching Readers,<br />
One Book at a Time<br />
HAPPENING . . .<br />
March 22–25<br />
Steel Magnolias<br />
ArENA tHEAtrE • Flowery <strong>on</strong> the outside but<br />
tough <strong>on</strong> the inside, six southern belles laugh, cry,<br />
and support each other. Performed by the <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> theatre Company.<br />
Esther Tutella likes a challenge. “I wanted to<br />
teach in a school that really needs teach-<br />
ers,” says the 2006 graduate. “I feel str<strong>on</strong>gly<br />
that some kids get overlooked, and I wanted<br />
to fill that gap.” So she applied to Teach for<br />
America (TFA), an organizati<strong>on</strong> that places<br />
recent college grads in underserved public<br />
schools. Because TFA wants teachers who<br />
will excel in difficult circumstances, their<br />
selecti<strong>on</strong> process is a demanding <strong>on</strong>e. “There<br />
was a l<strong>on</strong>g applicati<strong>on</strong><br />
process,” Tutella says.<br />
“I had to write essays<br />
explaining how I’d over-<br />
come obstacles in my<br />
life.” After undergoing an<br />
extended interview and<br />
teaching a sample less<strong>on</strong><br />
for the selecti<strong>on</strong> commit-<br />
tee, Tutella became <strong>on</strong>e of<br />
2,400 teachers accepted<br />
into the TFA program<br />
(out of 19,000 applicants<br />
nati<strong>on</strong>wide).<br />
Tutella’s assignment, teaching English<br />
to 150 tenth and eleventh graders at Forrest<br />
City High School in rural Arkansas, came with<br />
challenges of its own. To help her class im-<br />
prove their vocabulary and reading skills, she<br />
decided to assign each student a book match-<br />
April 14<br />
Relay for Life<br />
NortH CAMPuS quAd • Come and support<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> students, faculty members and staff in<br />
this fund-raising event for the American Cancer<br />
Society.<br />
Above: D<strong>on</strong>ated books, packed by <strong>Moravian</strong> students and future educators : Daniel<br />
Huster ’08, Karla Erdman ’07, Christine Holmfelt CC, and Keith Brotzman ’08.<br />
Left: Esther Tutella ’06 and students.<br />
ing his or her ability and interests. The individual attenti<strong>on</strong> works. In<br />
<strong>on</strong>e case, a struggling reader was assigned to read forty pages; the next<br />
day she complained that she was <strong>on</strong>ly able to read sixty pages before<br />
her mom told her to turn out the light and get to sleep.<br />
This approach did bump up against a significant difficulty,<br />
though: a scarcity of books. “We’re in a rural area, the library doesn’t<br />
have much, and there aren’t many places to buy them,” says Tutella.<br />
Help came when Tutella described her situati<strong>on</strong> to mentor Joseph<br />
Shosh, assistant professor of educati<strong>on</strong> at <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>. Shosh<br />
put a call out for d<strong>on</strong>ati<strong>on</strong>s, resulting in a collecti<strong>on</strong> of about 500<br />
books c<strong>on</strong>tributed by <strong>Moravian</strong> students, faculty members, and staff-<br />
ers. They arrived at Forrest City High just in time for the December<br />
holidays. “One day I got a call from the school office telling me I had<br />
nine boxes that needed to be picked up,” Tutella says. She was able<br />
to hand-pick a book for each student to read over Christmas break,<br />
with enough left over to keep in her classroom library and share with<br />
a fellow English teacher. “I seem to get more support from my former<br />
professors and classmates than most teachers do,” Tutella says.<br />
April 19 – May 13<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> Senior Show<br />
PAyNE GAllEry • Get a glimpse of the<br />
next generati<strong>on</strong> of artists, as the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
graduating seniors in art show off their<br />
creati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE WINTER 2007<br />
photo by John Kish iV<br />
Preserving a<br />
Singular Treasure<br />
Few structures provide as many years of useful ser-<br />
vice as <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s most historic building, the<br />
Single Brethren’s House. In the decades after its 1748<br />
c<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong>, it served as a dwelling for single men, a<br />
workplace, a hospital for the Revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary army, and<br />
a dining spot for Bethlehem visitor George Washing-<br />
t<strong>on</strong> (<strong>on</strong>ce). Today the Brethren’s House c<strong>on</strong>tains music<br />
practice rooms, classrooms, and offices. In 2006, a<br />
Save America’s Treasures matching grant from the<br />
Department of the Interior, Nati<strong>on</strong>al Park Services,<br />
enabled a welcome spruce-up: the windows were re-<br />
glazed, 39 rotted windowsills were replaced, all sills<br />
were painted, all the carpeting and subfloors were<br />
removed and replaced, and the hallways and stair-<br />
wells were painted. A new air c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>ing system<br />
was installed as well. For all that, George Washingt<strong>on</strong><br />
would still recognize the building, since its layout and<br />
st<strong>on</strong>e exterior appear much as they did 259 years ago.<br />
Washingt<strong>on</strong>’s fellow revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary Ben Franklin<br />
also visited the Brethren’s House, where according<br />
to his autobiography he “was entertain'd with good<br />
musick” in January 1756. These days, the technophilic<br />
Franklin would be able to use his laptop to post blog<br />
entries while strolling around campus. Thanks to a<br />
grant from the George I. Alden Trust, <strong>Moravian</strong>’s wire-<br />
less computer network is now available in and around<br />
more than a dozen <strong>College</strong> buildings, including the<br />
Brethren’s House. Eventually even the school’s out-<br />
door spaces will be covered, which should allow users<br />
to follow <strong>on</strong>e of Franklin’s many adages: “Employ thy<br />
time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.”<br />
April 20–22<br />
Presidential Inaugurati<strong>on</strong> Weekend<br />
Christopher thomforde is inaugurated as the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
15th president. Celebratory events will include<br />
a parade down the <strong>Moravian</strong> Mile, a barbecue at<br />
Bethlehem City Hall Plaza, and a fireworks display.<br />
MorAVIANBooKSHElF<br />
■ Medieval moralists c<strong>on</strong>sidered the t<strong>on</strong>gue<br />
a dangerous weap<strong>on</strong>, and in the later Middle<br />
Ages deviant speech became<br />
increasingly feminized. Women<br />
of all social classes risked<br />
being charged as “scolds” and<br />
prosecuted in court for insult-<br />
ing others or talking too much<br />
in public. This phenomen<strong>on</strong> and<br />
its c<strong>on</strong>sequences are examined<br />
in Venomous T<strong>on</strong>gues: Speech<br />
and Gender in Late Medieval<br />
England (University of Penn-<br />
sylvania Press, 2006) by Sandy<br />
Bardsley, assistant professor of history at<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
■ Saving m<strong>on</strong>ey for a down payment <strong>on</strong> a<br />
home, choosing between health insurance<br />
alternatives, under-<br />
standing survey results<br />
reported in the media…<br />
sometimes mathemat-<br />
ics is about more than<br />
abstract numbers.<br />
The new textbook<br />
Quantitative Reas<strong>on</strong>-<br />
ing: Tools for Today’s<br />
Informed Citizen, by<br />
Alicia Sevilla and Kay<br />
Somers, professors of<br />
mathematics at <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>, prepares<br />
students to make informed decisi<strong>on</strong>s in their<br />
daily lives. (Key <strong>College</strong> Publishing, 2007).<br />
■ What happens when a<br />
mouse’s deepest wish comes<br />
true and the whole world turns<br />
into cheese? The answer may<br />
surprise you, as it does the<br />
title character of the children’s<br />
picture book Scuttle's <str<strong>on</strong>g>Big</str<strong>on</strong>g> Wish<br />
(Regan Books, 2006). Author<br />
and <strong>Moravian</strong> alum Sean Delo-<br />
nas ’84 enlisted the help of his<br />
then six-year-old s<strong>on</strong> Ryan to<br />
craft the tale. Sean is a painter<br />
and illustrator best known for<br />
his carto<strong>on</strong>s that appear daily <strong>on</strong> the<br />
New York Post’s Page Six.<br />
WINTER 2007 MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE
out&about<br />
Online Journals Offer Inside Stories<br />
HAPPENING . . .<br />
May 12<br />
Commencement<br />
photos by John Kish iV<br />
America’s sixth-oldest college c<strong>on</strong>cludes<br />
its 265th academic year.<br />
“I wouldn’t include a tirade about the three<br />
sleepless nights in a row I spent studying for<br />
finals,” says Rachel Beard, a freshman music<br />
educati<strong>on</strong> major. “But at the same time, I like<br />
to present life at <strong>Moravian</strong> as it is. I w<strong>on</strong>’t<br />
spin a tale that college life is a cakewalk.”<br />
She’s not talking about e-mail, or something<br />
as antiquated as a snail-mailed letter. Beard<br />
chr<strong>on</strong>icles her <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> experi-<br />
ence every week <strong>on</strong> the <strong>College</strong>’s website.<br />
Each diary entry includes musings <strong>on</strong> recent<br />
events—anything from a master class with<br />
jazz tromb<strong>on</strong>ist Delfeayo Marsalis to Hal-<br />
loween ghost hunting <strong>on</strong> south campus—and<br />
a few snapshots.<br />
Weekly glimpses into the lives of<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> students, provided by Rachel and<br />
six other volunteers, were initiated by the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s Admissi<strong>on</strong>s Office in September<br />
2006. The journals are intended to give pro-<br />
spective students a sense of what it’s like to<br />
attend <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>. The idea seems like<br />
a natural for a generati<strong>on</strong> that’s into blogs,<br />
MySpace, and other forms of <strong>on</strong>line journal-<br />
ing, says assistant director of admissi<strong>on</strong>s<br />
Amy Weiss. “The students want to share their<br />
experiences,” says Weiss, “and we think that<br />
because the informati<strong>on</strong> is coming from the<br />
students, it’s particularly valuable.”<br />
Rachel agrees. “Reading a journal like<br />
this would have been a great aid when I was<br />
looking at colleges,” she says. “You’re told<br />
so much about schools and campus life, but<br />
these journals are a real behind-the-scenes<br />
peek.” Because today’s media-savvy teens<br />
can easily spot marketing hype, a key strat-<br />
egy is to let the students write what they<br />
want, says Weiss. “If they had a bad week,<br />
they’re free to go ahead and say they had<br />
a bad week. We want the entries to be real<br />
and true, and from their point of view.” The<br />
journal entries and photographs are posted<br />
at www.moravian.edu/journals.<br />
Above left: <strong>Moravian</strong> student diarists Rachel Beard<br />
’10 (top), Lindsey Rice ’08, Andrew Picc<strong>on</strong>e ’08<br />
May 18-19<br />
Alumni Weekend<br />
this year’s itinerary includes a tour of historic<br />
buildings in Bethlehem.<br />
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GuEStSPEAKING<br />
Making<br />
C<strong>on</strong>necti<strong>on</strong>s<br />
tomorrow’s all well and good, but what about the next day? In a lecture<br />
titled “Staying Ahead: Innovati<strong>on</strong> for the day after tomorrow,” visiting<br />
speaker James Burke showed how understanding technological<br />
innovati<strong>on</strong>s of the past helps predict social changes of the future. the<br />
science historian and author, famous for his PBS series C<strong>on</strong>necti<strong>on</strong>s,<br />
also dem<strong>on</strong>strated his Knowledge Web, a computer-based interactive<br />
tool that creates visual links between diverse people, places, and things<br />
throughout history. the K-web, as it’s also called, will allow knowledge<br />
seekers to explore informati<strong>on</strong> that’s c<strong>on</strong>nected in an almost infinite<br />
number of ways. Such c<strong>on</strong>necti<strong>on</strong>s are often unexpected: start at<br />
earth-orbits-the-sun astr<strong>on</strong>omer Nicholas Copernicus and you may end<br />
up with Mexican general and dictator Santa Anna (who also happens<br />
to be the pers<strong>on</strong> credited with introducing chewing gum to the united<br />
States). Burke’s visit marked the 23rd year of the <strong>College</strong>’s Cohen Arts<br />
and lectures Series, which has brought guests as varied as Burl Ives,<br />
Kurt V<strong>on</strong>negut, and Jimmy Carter to the <strong>Moravian</strong> campus. “Everybody<br />
and everything is interc<strong>on</strong>nected,” says Burke. “And because of that,<br />
every <strong>on</strong>e of us, whoever we are, c<strong>on</strong>tributes in some way. Nobody is<br />
just a nobody.”<br />
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Master Planners<br />
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Some married couples can’t decide where to go for dinner without getting<br />
into a 4-alarm argument. But Cy (’65) and Brenda Krajci seem able<br />
to work shoulder to shoulder all day and come up smiling. As co-chairs<br />
of the committee for the April 2007 inaugurati<strong>on</strong> of <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
president Christopher Thomforde, the pair grapple with c<strong>on</strong>undrums<br />
like whether a fireworks display can be held if it rains, or how to make<br />
sure the post-inaugurati<strong>on</strong> dinner dance is lively. (The answers: it can,<br />
and invite students.) The opportunities for communicati<strong>on</strong> are that much<br />
more plentiful when you share an address as well as an office, says Cy.<br />
“Just this morning, we were talking about the event budget over breakfast,”<br />
he adds. Am<strong>on</strong>g the other events the pair has lined up for inaugurati<strong>on</strong><br />
weekend (April 20-22) are a <strong>Moravian</strong> Mile parade and a combined<br />
worship service at Central <strong>Moravian</strong> Church. Expect to see plenty of<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> student involvement, too, including performances by student<br />
bands, and displays by student academic and community service groups.<br />
“We have great students here,” Brenda says, “and getting to know them is<br />
what it’s all about.”
Move-In<br />
Like your first kiss, your<br />
first step into a college<br />
dorm room is a clear<br />
indicator that your<br />
life is about to take an<br />
interesting new turn.<br />
At <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>,<br />
moving in is also a group<br />
experience, thanks to<br />
the help of volunteer<br />
upper classmen (in the<br />
white T-shirts), campus<br />
safety officers, a college<br />
president willing to do some heavy lifting,<br />
and somebody dressed as a greyhound.<br />
Not to menti<strong>on</strong> choked-up parents, and<br />
siblings who secretly look forward to<br />
having the run<br />
Day<br />
of the house. W<br />
2006<br />
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A View from the Top<br />
A C<strong>on</strong>versati<strong>on</strong> with <strong>Moravian</strong>’s New President<br />
Christopher M. Thomforde assumed the presidency of<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> and <strong>Moravian</strong> Theological Seminary<br />
<strong>on</strong> August 1, 2006, succeeding Ervin J. Rokke. The<br />
instituti<strong>on</strong>’s 15th president earned a Bachelor of Arts<br />
degree in medieval and Russian history from Princet<strong>on</strong><br />
University in 1969, a Master of Divinity from Yale Univer-<br />
sity Divinity School in 1974, and a Doctor of Ministry from<br />
Princet<strong>on</strong> Theological Seminary in 2000. He is an ordained<br />
minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.<br />
Thomforde had a varied career before coming to Mora-<br />
vian. He was an outstanding basketball player at Princ-<br />
et<strong>on</strong>, and was drafted by, although he did not have a career<br />
with, the New York Knickerbockers. After graduating from<br />
Princet<strong>on</strong> and taking intensive courses in <str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>darin Chinese<br />
at Middlebury <strong>College</strong>, he taught Western languages and<br />
medieval European history at Tunghai University, Taichung,<br />
Taiwan, until 1971. From 1974 to 1978, he was an assis-<br />
tant chaplain and instructor in philosophy and religi<strong>on</strong> at<br />
Colgate University. From 1978 to 1986, he served as pastor<br />
at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Dansville, New York. From<br />
1986 to 1996, Thomforde served as chaplain at Susquehanna<br />
University and taught in the Department of Philosophy and<br />
Religi<strong>on</strong>. From there he embarked <strong>on</strong> a presidential career,<br />
becoming president of Bethany <strong>College</strong> in Lindsborg, Kansas,<br />
where he served from 1996 to 2000, and then president of St.<br />
Olaf <strong>College</strong> in Northfield, Minnesota, serving from 2000 to<br />
2006.<br />
The editors of <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> Magazine recently sat<br />
down with <strong>Moravian</strong>’s new president and invited him to<br />
talk about his role and the instituti<strong>on</strong>’s future.<br />
What made you want to come to <strong>Moravian</strong>?<br />
A couple of things. One, the school is in a good positi<strong>on</strong>;<br />
it has a good sense of positive energy about itself. You d<strong>on</strong>’t<br />
always get a breathing space at a small liberal arts college to<br />
c<strong>on</strong>sider the instituti<strong>on</strong>’s strengths and to ask how it could<br />
become str<strong>on</strong>ger, but the work of all of you—Dr. Rokke, the<br />
administrati<strong>on</strong>, the faculty, the board—has helped the school<br />
gain a kind of stability in which we can c<strong>on</strong>sider where we<br />
go from here. Sec<strong>on</strong>d, I sort of grew up in the eastern part of<br />
the United States, and I have family here, so the opportunity<br />
to come “home” was very attractive to me also.<br />
Last fall I c<strong>on</strong>ducted the funeral service for the wife of<br />
my old friend Peter Carril, Princet<strong>on</strong>’s former basketball<br />
coach. After the service was over I talked with Pete and<br />
with Bill Werpehowski of <strong>Moravian</strong>’s class of ’51. Bill, who<br />
grew up with Pete <strong>on</strong> Bethlehem’s South Side, over <strong>on</strong> 3rd<br />
Street, said, “Chris, you should really think about coming<br />
to <strong>Moravian</strong>. Our president is retiring, and I think you’d be<br />
great there.” So it was the Carril-Werpehowski axis that got<br />
me interested.<br />
With both you and your predecessor, Ervin Rokke,<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong>’s been lucky in getting a president who has<br />
had previous experience as a president. What have you<br />
learned in your previous presidential experience, both<br />
from mistakes and from successes, that will help you be<br />
a better president at <strong>Moravian</strong>?<br />
Probably more from the mistakes! I would say <strong>on</strong>e<br />
thing is that I bring with me from all of my professi<strong>on</strong>al<br />
experience an appreciati<strong>on</strong> for the great value of our<br />
country’s small liberal arts colleges. I also bring a sense of<br />
how fragile they are. They are very tuitit<strong>on</strong>-dependent, so<br />
they can be in real trouble in a hurry if enrollment growth<br />
slows, because they d<strong>on</strong>’t have a lot of other resources. So<br />
they’re very fragile, but they’re very valuable, and because<br />
they’re valuable, any effort put into making them more<br />
stable, more viable, is worth it because of the great benefit<br />
they have <strong>on</strong> the lives of students, in thinking, in profes-<br />
si<strong>on</strong>al training, and in moral character development.<br />
I think, since I’ve seen a lot of how three other schools<br />
work—Susquehanna, where I was the chaplain, Bethany<br />
and St. Olaf where I was president, and now here, so this is<br />
the fourth school like this—there are not too many things<br />
that would surprise me. I feel more mature, frankly, as a<br />
leader of a small liberal arts instituti<strong>on</strong> now than I did at<br />
any of the previous three places where I worked. I think<br />
having a leader who doesn’t panic or get too anxious or too<br />
fidgety is probably good for everybody. Maybe part of that<br />
maturity is knowing what things are really worth worry-<br />
ing about, and what are the daily trials and tribulati<strong>on</strong>s of<br />
small academic communities. And not taking either myself<br />
or the problems that we might face too seriously is helpful<br />
for a more steady kind of leadership.<br />
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A View from the Top<br />
Basketball<br />
Dynasty<br />
Chris Thomforde’s undergraduate experience at<br />
Princet<strong>on</strong> University included a stellar career<br />
<strong>on</strong> the varsity basketball team. Bill Bradley,<br />
Princet<strong>on</strong> class of ’65, helped basketball coach<br />
Willem Van Breda Kolff persuade him to come<br />
to Princet<strong>on</strong>. He was featured <strong>on</strong> the cover of<br />
the February 27, 1967, issue of Sports Illustrated<br />
with teammate Gary Walters (class of ’67, and<br />
now director of athletics at Princet<strong>on</strong>) as a<br />
sophomore, captained the team as a senior,<br />
and, like Bradley, was drafted by the New York<br />
Knickerbockers for a professi<strong>on</strong>al career in<br />
basketball (which lasted <strong>on</strong>ly through a two-<br />
week training camp in 1974) after graduati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Although he found the ministry and academe<br />
more rewarding than a professi<strong>on</strong>al sports<br />
career, athletic endeavor remains a significant<br />
influence <strong>on</strong> his outlook.<br />
You use sports metaphors to express many<br />
things, and sports evidently provided a great<br />
learning experience for you that carries over<br />
into your life now. How does <strong>Moravian</strong>’s<br />
Divisi<strong>on</strong> III athletics program fit into its liberal<br />
educati<strong>on</strong> and purpose?<br />
I think w<strong>on</strong>derfully. The<br />
idea of Divisi<strong>on</strong> III is that<br />
athletics should be part of<br />
the learning experience that<br />
students have. So it’s not<br />
that a student learns calcu-<br />
lus or Greek or biology over<br />
here and then plays football<br />
over there. Paul Moyer, our<br />
athletics director, is good at<br />
asking: what learning takes<br />
place <strong>on</strong> those fields? Or in<br />
James draKe/sports illustrated<br />
those locker rooms, or <strong>on</strong> those buses, or during<br />
a game? What have I learned about dealing<br />
with pain, or dealing with the judgments of other<br />
people, or getting al<strong>on</strong>g with people I d<strong>on</strong>’t like,<br />
or dealing with success? Those are the things<br />
that can be learned there, that can’t be learned<br />
in a chemistry lab or history class.<br />
You cite the value of liberal arts colleges<br />
in general. How would you say <strong>Moravian</strong> is<br />
different from other places? What makes<br />
it special?<br />
Every school of which I’ve ever been<br />
a part, either as a student or as a teacher,<br />
chaplain, administrator, has had some<br />
sense of community. But I think the Mora-<br />
vian religious traditi<strong>on</strong> informs the value<br />
of community here. Probably not explicitly.<br />
But the <strong>Moravian</strong>s, the religious group,<br />
had a noti<strong>on</strong> that the truth is discovered<br />
in community. Much of scholarship, as you<br />
know, can be kind of a solitary, isolated kind<br />
of endeavor. I’ve been impressed, just in a<br />
couple of m<strong>on</strong>ths, to find that community<br />
is very important here, that we discover the<br />
truth in community, and we live out our lives<br />
together in community.<br />
I was just reading Zinzendorf, who’s<br />
quite clear that the interpretati<strong>on</strong> of the gos-<br />
pel <strong>on</strong>ly takes place in community. It’s not<br />
ex cathedra, in which a bishop says this is<br />
what this passage means, and you all believe<br />
it. That value is intersected by a realiza-<br />
ti<strong>on</strong> that is occurring in many small liberal<br />
arts colleges, driven by the complexity in<br />
scientific discovery, that the understanding<br />
of the world is not really departmental any<br />
more, but that you need interdepartmental,<br />
interdisciplinary work. I think the<br />
days of having a major in <strong>on</strong>e area<br />
and thinking that that was enough<br />
probably d<strong>on</strong>’t exist any more. So<br />
you have the sciences, in particu-<br />
lar, seeing that the world is quite<br />
complex, and you need a number of<br />
disciplines in order to understand<br />
the world. And this is aided by this<br />
piece out of our religious traditi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
I think that can be very fruitful<br />
here.<br />
I also sense a balance here<br />
between the liberal arts—how do<br />
you think broadly, how do you articulate<br />
complex ideas and paradoxes cogently, how<br />
do you become familiar with your own great<br />
traditi<strong>on</strong>s as well as other people’s—and<br />
a healthy kind of pre-professi<strong>on</strong>al train-<br />
ing. We’re not a school to train bankers, or<br />
to train doctors, but if you’re going to be<br />
a banker or a doctor, this would be a good<br />
place to come to get some of the skills that<br />
are necessary to do that, balanced with the<br />
sort of broad thinking, creative expressi<strong>on</strong>,<br />
careful articulati<strong>on</strong> that comes al<strong>on</strong>g with<br />
the liberal arts. And our artistic traditi<strong>on</strong>,<br />
our very important attenti<strong>on</strong> to music and<br />
art, also provides a balance between aesthet-<br />
ics and technique.<br />
The other piece, as compared to other<br />
schools I’ve been at, is that we’re in the<br />
middle of a city with the rusty remains of<br />
the Industrial Revoluti<strong>on</strong>. The city poses the<br />
educati<strong>on</strong>al questi<strong>on</strong>: what kind of future<br />
are we building for our students in the new<br />
technological era that’s coming up, when all<br />
our instituti<strong>on</strong>s—health, government, educa-<br />
ti<strong>on</strong>, religi<strong>on</strong>—were shaped by the industrial<br />
era that, at least in North America and Eu-<br />
rope, is essentially over. The blast furnaces<br />
are large m<strong>on</strong>uments to something that was,<br />
and they are reminders that <strong>Moravian</strong> has an<br />
opportunity to help think about what comes<br />
next, and what will be required of us as hu-<br />
man beings both professi<strong>on</strong>ally and pers<strong>on</strong>-<br />
ally in this new order that’s coming.<br />
What pers<strong>on</strong>al values and traits are<br />
most important for the president of a col-<br />
lege like <strong>Moravian</strong>?<br />
One quality that’s very important is clear-<br />
headedness: to be able to think clearly about<br />
issues that are complex. I think another<br />
virtue you might have to have is an apprecia-<br />
ti<strong>on</strong> for people. Because these are small com-<br />
munities, the motivati<strong>on</strong>s of the people who<br />
are here are other than power and success<br />
or capital accumulati<strong>on</strong>. So you have to be<br />
sensitive to their motivati<strong>on</strong>s, and know how<br />
to appreciate them, and support and sustain<br />
them. And then I think there would have to be<br />
a love for the things of the mind. Running a<br />
college is different from running a business,<br />
because our business is thinking, learning,<br />
and performing, and if you d<strong>on</strong>’t love those<br />
things, and d<strong>on</strong>’t enjoy reading, or you d<strong>on</strong>’t<br />
enjoy listening to music or watching a good<br />
football game, you’re going to be fundamen-<br />
tally out of step with the primary functi<strong>on</strong><br />
of the place. And then you need a pretty good<br />
work ethic, because there’s a lot to do, and it<br />
never stops.<br />
Where do you intend to focus your ef-<br />
forts as president? What’s your number-<br />
><br />
<strong>on</strong>e short-term goal, and what are the<br />
l<strong>on</strong>ger-term goals?<br />
My number-<strong>on</strong>e short-term goal is simply<br />
to learn about this community. In any com-<br />
munity there are espoused values or rhythms<br />
that you can see <strong>on</strong> the surface of things, and<br />
they’re good or bad as the case might be, but<br />
they’re obvious, and you should take them<br />
seriously. Then there are also operati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
values, and you w<strong>on</strong>’t learn about those<br />
until you’ve gotten into some kind of crisis,<br />
because then you really see how people be-<br />
have or what they really think is important.<br />
So I think number <strong>on</strong>e is to get to learn who<br />
we are and what we are all about. There are<br />
many good things in place here, so I d<strong>on</strong>’t<br />
have to come and invent everything.<br />
Next would be to do some strategic<br />
thinking. We have good people, we’re in a<br />
good city, we have a good heritage, and we’re<br />
doing many things well. What would it mean<br />
for <strong>Moravian</strong> to grow and become better or<br />
more mature? We’ve g<strong>on</strong>e through a period<br />
of enrollment growth and financial growth,<br />
so maybe in some ways we’re like teenagers,<br />
in that regard. Things are growing, and we’re<br />
getting used to the size of our feet and hands<br />
and body. But you d<strong>on</strong>’t just keep growing<br />
infinitely. You reach some sort of point of<br />
physical growth, and that stops, and then you<br />
have to become more mature in other ways.<br />
You’ve said that <strong>Moravian</strong> is <strong>on</strong> the move.<br />
Where is it going, and what are the chal-<br />
lenges and what are the scary parts?<br />
One of the destinati<strong>on</strong>s I would like to<br />
arrive at is to become an “exemplary” institu-<br />
ti<strong>on</strong>. You d<strong>on</strong>’t have to be big or famous to<br />
become exemplary. I’d like <strong>Moravian</strong> to come<br />
to mind if somebody were to ask, “where is a<br />
really good art department,” or “what schools<br />
with seminaries also have really good nurs-<br />
ing programs,” or any of a number of other<br />
questi<strong>on</strong>s. If we were known am<strong>on</strong>gst our<br />
compani<strong>on</strong>s, peers, and aspirant group as re-<br />
ally knowing how to do things well: that’s the<br />
sort of destinati<strong>on</strong> I would rather get to than<br />
being number 25 or 62 or 198 or number 1.<br />
I think that the risky part for us will be<br />
two things, and they are manageable, but<br />
risks. One is <strong>on</strong> the revenue side: how do<br />
we increase revenue so that the school can<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tinue to run, and even increase revenue a<br />
lot, so that it can be enriched, without rais-<br />
ing tuiti<strong>on</strong> exorbitantly, so that we would<br />
eliminate our historical market. For me,<br />
that would be, how do we really make the<br />
endowment grow, how can we make the an-<br />
nual fund grow. The sec<strong>on</strong>d big issue is how<br />
we keep access open to capable students<br />
regardless of their ability to pay. Especially<br />
in the forties and fifties, we were recognized<br />
as a place where the s<strong>on</strong> or daughter of a<br />
steelworker, or a high school teacher, or a<br />
postman could come and get a really good<br />
educati<strong>on</strong> and end up being a doctor or a<br />
teacher. So that’s sort of our calling, or voca-<br />
ti<strong>on</strong>, you might say, but with the change in<br />
demography—more and more new immi-<br />
grant groups coming into the country—how<br />
do we have enough revenue to make sure<br />
that people can come to <strong>Moravian</strong> who are<br />
intellectually able but maybe not financially<br />
able. So I think creating revenue and keeping<br />
the door open to people of ability are our<br />
two big challenges going forward.<br />
What do you see as the role of a liberal<br />
arts instituti<strong>on</strong> today? And in the future?<br />
A liberal-arts educati<strong>on</strong> is absolutely<br />
essential for men and women going forward,<br />
for this reas<strong>on</strong>: at its best a liberal arts edu-<br />
cati<strong>on</strong> should enable some<strong>on</strong>e to distinguish<br />
between things, think clearly about certain<br />
matters, and gain a kind of moral agency,<br />
having sorted and having thought through<br />
a decisi<strong>on</strong>, and taking acti<strong>on</strong> for the sake<br />
of the comm<strong>on</strong> good. I think historically<br />
the liberal arts have fostered those kinds of<br />
thinking, discerning, and acting <strong>on</strong> behalf of<br />
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everybody.<br />
In our time and going forward we have<br />
this huge explosi<strong>on</strong> of access to informa-<br />
ti<strong>on</strong>. But how do you know which piece of<br />
informati<strong>on</strong> is authentic, or which is helpful,<br />
or what relati<strong>on</strong>ship exists between this bit<br />
of informati<strong>on</strong> and that bit of informati<strong>on</strong>?<br />
A liberal arts educati<strong>on</strong> helps you not <strong>on</strong>ly<br />
discern differences, but also make c<strong>on</strong>nec-<br />
ti<strong>on</strong>s. And to distinguish between the good<br />
and the bad, and to prefer the good, and<br />
have the courage to act up<strong>on</strong> what you think<br />
is authentic. W
“I Can Do This”<br />
Linda evans Shotkus ’69 is living her dream and<br />
making the world more beautiful, <strong>on</strong>e woman at a time.<br />
By Caroline Funk Rabold ’69 and John Greenya<br />
I<br />
can do this myself, thought Linda Evans<br />
Shotkus as she left the job interview with<br />
Nancy Talbot of Talbot Clothing Stores &<br />
Catalogs. The year was 1977, the city was<br />
Bost<strong>on</strong>, and Linda, class of ’69, an eight year<br />
veteran of the retail clothing wars, had just<br />
been offered a very good job. But Linda was<br />
tired of working for other people, and as<br />
so<strong>on</strong> as the light bulb went <strong>on</strong>, she could<br />
see with clarity what was in her heart. She<br />
would follow her dream and open her own<br />
store.<br />
Today, the wisdom of that decisi<strong>on</strong> is<br />
readily apparent. Founded in 1978, Lyn<br />
Evans for Potpourri Design is a thriving<br />
business with nine stores—six in the Bost<strong>on</strong><br />
area (C<strong>on</strong>cord, Danvers, Hanover, Hingham,<br />
Wellesley, and Westborough) and three in<br />
C<strong>on</strong>necticut (Cant<strong>on</strong>, New Canaan, and West<br />
Hartford), 80 employees, and a very happy<br />
owner. Linda even c<strong>on</strong>vinced her husband,<br />
Stan Shotkus, who had been in the manu-<br />
facturing end of the retail business, to come<br />
aboard as manager of operati<strong>on</strong>s. Their<br />
current goal is to expand Lyn Evans for Pot-<br />
pourri Design to 15 stores.<br />
In keeping with its corporate motto of<br />
“Making the world more beautiful, <strong>on</strong>e wom-<br />
an at a time,” the high-end boutique chain<br />
offers an intriguing mix of fashi<strong>on</strong>able yet<br />
comfortable clothing with accessories, for<br />
everything from black tie to casual Friday.<br />
The stores’ unique niche is that they cater to<br />
women who are looking for fashi<strong>on</strong> directi<strong>on</strong><br />
and also to the sophisticated buyer who is<br />
too busy to spend much time shopping. Lyn,<br />
who sees herself as “the middle man between<br />
Left: Linda Evans Shotkus has a passi<strong>on</strong> for fashi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Right: Scenes from Potpourri Designs.<br />
the wholesaler and the c<strong>on</strong>sumer,” prides<br />
herself <strong>on</strong> taking an active part in the design<br />
and décor of all her stores to ensure that<br />
their creative displays and window dress-<br />
ings lure the customers in to see more.<br />
Linda Evans<br />
Shotkus credits her<br />
psychology major at<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> with giving<br />
her the background<br />
necessary for suc-<br />
cessful competiti<strong>on</strong><br />
in a field where<br />
people skills are<br />
essential: “<strong>Moravian</strong><br />
helped me gain the<br />
self-esteem and self-<br />
c<strong>on</strong>fidence to pursue<br />
my dream.” An active<br />
and involved alum,<br />
Linda advises stu-<br />
dents interested in a<br />
career in retailing to<br />
study a mix of courses in business, especial-<br />
ly marketing and retail management, as well<br />
as courses in the social sciences. She says,<br />
“<strong>Moravian</strong>’s new Leadership Program is an<br />
excellent course of study.”<br />
For Linda, Potpourri is anything but a<br />
9-5 job. “But life isn’t a 9-5 job either,” she<br />
says. “It takes commitment to excel, but you<br />
d<strong>on</strong>’t have to be a rocket scientist. If you use<br />
comm<strong>on</strong> sense and capitalize <strong>on</strong> a solid work<br />
ethic, you’ll be successful.” W<br />
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greyhoundnews<br />
MORAVIAN TRAINER<br />
ELECTED PRESIDENT<br />
“A lot of people still look at the athletic<br />
trainer as a pers<strong>on</strong> who just tapes ankles,”<br />
says Bob Ward, head trainer at <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>. “But these days, I think taping ankles<br />
is <strong>on</strong>e of the things we do the least often.”<br />
Athletic trainers are highly-educated allied<br />
health professi<strong>on</strong>als, he adds. And in his new<br />
role as president-elect of the Eastern Athletic<br />
Trainers Associati<strong>on</strong> (EATA), Ward says he’ll<br />
be working to get trainers the specialized<br />
instructi<strong>on</strong> that will help them do their jobs.<br />
The associati<strong>on</strong>, which includes 3,000<br />
members located in ten East Coast states,<br />
provides educati<strong>on</strong>al seminars to members<br />
and offers scholarships to students. “Our<br />
professi<strong>on</strong> is growing by leaps and bounds,<br />
and EATA is growing with it,” Ward says.<br />
“We provide cutting-edge informati<strong>on</strong> to our<br />
members and I wanted to be a part of that.”<br />
Women’s Tennis Team<br />
Earns First-Ever NCAA<br />
Tournament Berth<br />
The 2006-07 <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> women’s<br />
tennis team has clinched the program’s<br />
first-ever NCAA Divisi<strong>on</strong> III Tournament<br />
Champi<strong>on</strong>ship berth. The Greyhounds, who<br />
completed the fall porti<strong>on</strong> of the seas<strong>on</strong><br />
with a 12-1 mark and as Comm<strong>on</strong>wealth<br />
C<strong>on</strong>ference Champi<strong>on</strong>s, will play five<br />
matches in the spring before the NCAA<br />
Tournament begins in May.<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong>’s 5-4 win over Elizabethtown<br />
<strong>College</strong> for its eighth c<strong>on</strong>ference champi<strong>on</strong>ship<br />
took a while to play. The match<br />
began at 2:00 p.m. <strong>on</strong> Sunday, October 15,<br />
and after nearly five hours of play and the<br />
score tied at 4-4, <strong>Moravian</strong> junior Rebecca<br />
Angstadt was still <strong>on</strong> the court. Angstadt<br />
led her match, 1-0, and the sec<strong>on</strong>d set was<br />
tied 6-6. Nine days later, Angstadt and several<br />
of her teammates made the trip back<br />
to Elizabethtown where Angstadt finished<br />
the match for the c<strong>on</strong>ference title.<br />
Junior Brittany Popaca was named the<br />
Comm<strong>on</strong>wealth C<strong>on</strong>ference Tournament’s<br />
Most Valuable player while two <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
players, senior Margo Kokolus and sophomore<br />
Dyana Swan also earned Comm<strong>on</strong>wealth<br />
All-C<strong>on</strong>ference First Team h<strong>on</strong>ors.<br />
The team is ranked 11th in the South<br />
Atlantic Regi<strong>on</strong> heading into the spring<br />
seas<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Cunha Leads Fall<br />
Academic H<strong>on</strong>ors<br />
Senior defender Peter Cunha earned a spot<br />
<strong>on</strong> the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-<br />
District First Team <strong>College</strong> Divisi<strong>on</strong> Men’s<br />
Soccer this fall. Cunha has maintained a<br />
3.82 grade-point average at <strong>Moravian</strong> and<br />
was a three-year starter <strong>on</strong> the men’s soccer<br />
squad.<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> also had four studentathletes<br />
make the ESPN The Magazine<br />
Academic All-District Sec<strong>on</strong>d Team with<br />
senior midfielder Alisha Davy making the<br />
women’s soccer squad and senior wide<br />
receiver Shawn Martell and sophomores<br />
running back Tyler McCambridge and<br />
DIVISION III TENNIS CHAMPS: Assistant Coach<br />
Jas<strong>on</strong> Toedter, Jennel Yelito, Courtney Hall,<br />
Head Coach Dawn Benner, Rebecca Angstadt,<br />
MaryKate Kelly, Brittany Popaca (Tournament<br />
Most Valuable Player).<br />
kicker Brian Reckenbeil earning spots <strong>on</strong><br />
the football team.<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> had 57 of its fall student-athletes<br />
named to the 2006 Middle Atlantic<br />
States Collegiate Athletic Corporati<strong>on</strong> Academic<br />
H<strong>on</strong>or Roll for maintaining at least<br />
a 3.20 grade-point average as a sophomore,<br />
junior, or senior.<br />
Martell Finishes Career<br />
Playing Both Ways<br />
Senior Shawn Martell barely came off the<br />
field in his final collegiate football game.<br />
Martell, who was a three-year starter at<br />
wide receiver, also started his final game<br />
as a cornerback <strong>on</strong> the <strong>Moravian</strong> defense.<br />
Martell, whose father, Gary Martell<br />
’76, has been an assistant coach for the<br />
Greyhounds since graduating and is also<br />
a member of the <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> Hall<br />
of Fame, had three catches for 78 yards<br />
including a 54-yard touchdown recepti<strong>on</strong>,<br />
and he made three tackles.<br />
Martell completed his career with 79<br />
catches (12th in school history) for 1,436<br />
yards (eighth all-time) with 12 touchdown<br />
recepti<strong>on</strong>s (seventh all-time). He also had<br />
38 career tackles, two fumble recoveries<br />
and a forced fumble and averaged 20.1<br />
yards per kickoff return and 3.8 yards per<br />
punt return. Martell also scored a rushing<br />
touchdown while playing in 41 of a possible<br />
42 games in his career.<br />
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alumninews<br />
2006 Alumni<br />
AWARD WINNERS<br />
Priscilla Payne Hurd<br />
Named H<strong>on</strong>orary Alumna<br />
In grateful acknowledgement of her<br />
extraordinary support of <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>,<br />
<strong>on</strong> October 13, 2006, the Alumni<br />
Associati<strong>on</strong> awarded Priscilla Payne Hurd<br />
the status of h<strong>on</strong>orary alumna. Since her<br />
appointment to <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s board<br />
of trustees in 1974, Mrs. Hurd’s steadfast<br />
service, inspirati<strong>on</strong>al leadership,<br />
and unparalleled financial support have<br />
had a profound impact. Her accomplishments<br />
include the creati<strong>on</strong> of the<br />
Priscilla Payne Hurd Center for Music<br />
and Art and the Frank E. and Seba B.<br />
Payne Gallery, financial leadership for<br />
the c<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong> of the Priscilla Payne<br />
Hurd Academic Complex, and establishment<br />
of both the Priscilla Payne Hurd<br />
Chair in the Arts and Humanities and<br />
the Ervin J. Rokke Endowment for student<br />
research. In 1999 she was elected<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong>’s first female chairman of the<br />
board. Whether interacting with students<br />
or c<strong>on</strong>ferring with fellow trustees, Priscilla<br />
Payne Hurd exemplifies the credo she<br />
wrote four decades ago: “No <strong>on</strong>e is greater<br />
than the service he renders the world.”<br />
Left to right: The award recipients at the 2006 <strong>Moravian</strong> alumni award cerem<strong>on</strong>y,<br />
held <strong>on</strong> Homecoming weekend, October 13, 2006: Ryan A. Mehl ’96, Young Alumni<br />
Achievement Award; Henry E. May Jr. ’60, (’63 M. Div.), Haupert Humanitarian Award;<br />
Bruce C. Coull ’64, Comenius Alumni Award; Brian C. Corvino ’02, Emerging Leader<br />
Award; Robert K. Gratz ’75, Benigna Educati<strong>on</strong> Award.<br />
photo by John Kish iV<br />
photo by John Kish iV<br />
photo by John Kish iV<br />
Homecoming Lectures<br />
Enlighten Listeners<br />
Last fall, two alumni <strong>on</strong> campus for Homecoming<br />
shared their scholarly passi<strong>on</strong>s<br />
with the <strong>Moravian</strong> community. Bruce Coull<br />
’64 and Ryan Mehl ’96 each presented two<br />
slide lectures, <strong>on</strong>e to a class of <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
students, and <strong>on</strong>e to a wider audience of<br />
students, faculty,<br />
and guests. Bruce,<br />
who’s dean emeritus<br />
of the School of the<br />
Envir<strong>on</strong>ment at the<br />
University of South<br />
Carolina, discussed<br />
near-microscopic animals<br />
that live in the<br />
sediment of rivers<br />
and tidal waterway.<br />
His lecture described<br />
Bruce Coull ’64 shared big<br />
news about little creatures.<br />
how the wee critters<br />
are vital for the<br />
health of aquatic<br />
ecosystems. “I wanted the students to learn<br />
that there are milli<strong>on</strong>s of small invertebrates<br />
in every meter of sediment surface,<br />
and these animals play very important roles<br />
in food chains and as early sentinels of polluti<strong>on</strong>,”<br />
he says.<br />
To a class of biology, chemistry, and<br />
biochemistry students,<br />
Ryan Mehl described<br />
the research he’s d<strong>on</strong>e<br />
with “unnatural amino<br />
acids.” These manmade<br />
protein building<br />
blocks give scientists<br />
tools for creating new<br />
medicines and other<br />
substances, he says.<br />
As a relatively recent<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> graduate,<br />
Ryan found that the<br />
students were as curious<br />
about his career Ryan Mehl ’96 unlocked the<br />
secrets of designer proteins.<br />
path as his research.<br />
“I think because I’m not that much older<br />
than they are, they could identify with me<br />
and it allowed us to c<strong>on</strong>verse more openly,”<br />
he notes. “I was very pleased; it was really<br />
rewarding to be that engaged with a classroom<br />
of <strong>Moravian</strong> students.”<br />
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photo by John Kish iV
alumninews<br />
Augustus “Gus” Ramp<strong>on</strong>e ’59 (right), with<br />
T<strong>on</strong>y Matz ’59 and visiting canine celebrity<br />
Steverino (from the Steve Allen Show) in<br />
a picture from the 1959 Benigna. Gus was<br />
posthumously inducted into the <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> Athletic Hall of Fame <strong>on</strong> October<br />
27, 2006. The citati<strong>on</strong> was presented to<br />
Gus’s wife, Jean, by T<strong>on</strong>y. Also inducted<br />
were Tracy Wartman Bozik ’96, Paul J.<br />
Calvo ’52, Charles J. Hoch Jr. ’91, Shane<br />
Hollawell ’94, and Melissa Newhard Torba<br />
’94. Caroline Smith ’96 was awarded the<br />
Robert Martin Herbstman Award. (For reminiscences<br />
about the award cerem<strong>on</strong>y, see<br />
the note from Sam Maczko ’61 <strong>on</strong> p. 26.)<br />
CALENDAR<br />
OF EVENTS<br />
March 22<br />
Washingt<strong>on</strong>, D.C., Area<br />
Alumni Welcome Recepti<strong>on</strong><br />
for President Thomforde<br />
at the Army Navy Country<br />
Club, Arlingt<strong>on</strong>, Virginia<br />
March 29<br />
Hershey Area Alumni<br />
Welcome Recepti<strong>on</strong> for<br />
President Thomforde at<br />
Hershey Country Club,<br />
Hershey, Pennsylvania<br />
Homecoming 2006 . . .<br />
On a beautiful sunny fall day in October, over 800 alumni<br />
gathered for <strong>Moravian</strong>’s Homecoming Tailgate for the first<br />
time since 2002. Classes from the 1950s through the 2000s<br />
filled the Locust Street parking lot for some good old-<br />
fashi<strong>on</strong>ed tailgating. It was a day filled with eating,<br />
drinking, quoits playing, and of course reminiscing.<br />
This year’s Homecoming offered alumni of different<br />
affinities the opportunity to get together. Over 80 Greek<br />
alumni from many of the past local fraternities and sororities<br />
gathered in a large tent in fr<strong>on</strong>t of Col<strong>on</strong>ial Hall. The<br />
Grads of the 2000s hosted a Happy Hour for nearly 100<br />
alumni at the brand-new Starters Pub. And members of the<br />
classes of 1981, 1986, 1991, and 1996 held their reuni<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>y alumni volunteered their time and effort to<br />
make this year’s Homecoming a success. Next year’s<br />
Homecoming Weekend will be October 19-20, 2007.<br />
photos by GreGory m. fota ’69<br />
April 20-22<br />
Presidential Inaugurati<strong>on</strong><br />
Weekend<br />
May 18<br />
Founder’s Day<br />
“Exploring Our Heritage:<br />
A Day <strong>on</strong> Church Street”<br />
Tailgating Returned!<br />
May 18-19<br />
Alumni Weekend<br />
June 30<br />
Lehigh Valley Home Club<br />
bus trip to King Tut Exhibit<br />
at the Franklin Institute in<br />
Philadelphia<br />
classnotes<br />
2006<br />
Lauren Bahnatka; 1107 Carolina Avenue; West<br />
Chester, PA 19380; laurenbahnatka@gmail.com<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Hannah Azzalina is a community health<br />
specialist for the Bethlehem Bureau of<br />
Health. She works with city grants that promote<br />
health educati<strong>on</strong> in Bethlehem.<br />
Joe Oppold is working in the accounting<br />
department of Lehigh Cement. As a <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
alumnus, he is in good company as there are<br />
a good number of <strong>Moravian</strong> alums in that<br />
department.<br />
2005<br />
Michael McCartney; RR3 Box92; Pole 271;<br />
Lakeside Dr.; Harveys Lake, PA 18618;<br />
MMcCartney@alumni.moravian.edu<br />
2004<br />
Jessica Naugle; 443 Grove Road; Mohrsville, PA<br />
19541; jln13@comcast.net<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Kate Chiminec recently moved to <str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>hattan<br />
and is working as a staffing specialist<br />
for AIG <strong>on</strong> Wall Street.<br />
Melissa E. Sadecki and Jeff Micari are<br />
happy to announce their marriage <strong>on</strong> September<br />
9, 2006, in Hampt<strong>on</strong> Bays, N.Y., where<br />
they currently reside. Tracy Smith and Amy<br />
Detrick ’03 were bridesmaids. Other alumni<br />
in attendance were Kim Broadbent and<br />
Laura Werner. The Micaris h<strong>on</strong>eymo<strong>on</strong>ed<br />
with a cruise in the Caribbean.<br />
2003<br />
Regina Lacombe; 161 Brown St.;<br />
Philadelphia, PA 19123;<br />
pjfairy@aol.com<br />
From Regina:<br />
Jennifer Strobel was married to Jas<strong>on</strong><br />
Barnes <strong>on</strong> September 20, 2006, and I was in<br />
her wedding.<br />
Tara Wozniak will be getting married<br />
to David Miller <strong>on</strong> July 28, 2007. In the<br />
wedding will be Jean Marie Guffin and<br />
Michele Kluk.<br />
Jen Tori Shick and Ryan Shick ’00 had a<br />
baby boy, Cohen Lee, <strong>on</strong> September 22.<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Maribeth Ealey was married <strong>on</strong> September<br />
30, 2006, to Jas<strong>on</strong> Pfeiffer. Jennifer<br />
Mack ’02 and Brienne Wils<strong>on</strong> ’02 served as<br />
two of the ten bridesmaids. Brandi Christine<br />
’01 and Kristina Palmisano ’04 served<br />
as the greeters. Other <strong>Moravian</strong> alumni<br />
in attendance were Bill Kenney ’02, Chris<br />
Boyajian ’02, and Janelle LaValva Frank<br />
’01. After a h<strong>on</strong>eymo<strong>on</strong> in Barbados they<br />
returned to their home in Pen Argyl, Pa.<br />
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2002<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> Homecoming 2007<br />
October 19-20<br />
Brienne Wils<strong>on</strong>; 105 Princet<strong>on</strong> Ave.; Kingsway<br />
Comm<strong>on</strong>s; Princet<strong>on</strong>, NJ 08540;<br />
briennewils<strong>on</strong>@gmail.com<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Christopher Colley is a graduate student<br />
at People’s University in Beijing. He is<br />
enrolled in a master’s program for c<strong>on</strong>temporary<br />
Chinese studies with focus <strong>on</strong> the emergence<br />
of Chinese civil society. He has been in<br />
China for five years and will stay through the<br />
summer of 2008. Next fall he plans to participate<br />
in developmental field work in Tibet.<br />
Julie J<strong>on</strong>es and Philip Shilane are<br />
happy to announce their marriage <strong>on</strong> August<br />
13, 2006, in Warringt<strong>on</strong>, Pa. Rachel Tor<strong>on</strong>ey<br />
Morissette and Sarah Ahlgren were<br />
bridesmaids. Susan Carr did a beautiful<br />
job as vocalist during the cerem<strong>on</strong>y. Also in<br />
attendance were James Morissette, Erica<br />
Pysher, Amanda Morgenstern Duane, Patti<br />
Smith, Tim Hoyt, and Lauren Schwetje<br />
Olimpaito. Phil and Julie h<strong>on</strong>eymo<strong>on</strong>ed in<br />
Maui and reside in Princet<strong>on</strong>, N.J., where<br />
they are both graduate students at Princet<strong>on</strong><br />
University.<br />
2001<br />
Kourtney Parrella; 18209 Cornerst<strong>on</strong>e Drive;<br />
Yardley, PA 19067; sunshine92779@msn.com<br />
From Kourtney:<br />
Gerald Vinci and his girlfriend, Larissa,<br />
were married in May 2005. They relocated to<br />
the Florida Gulf Coast to start a design firm<br />
in June. Since then, the business has taken<br />
off and they have successfully landed large<br />
clients <strong>on</strong> the Gulf Coast, Tennessee, New<br />
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and even<br />
Canada! The business name is Vinci-Designs<br />
& Publishing and the link to their website is<br />
www.vinci-designs.com.<br />
Gerald and Larissa purchased a 2,500square-foot<br />
home <strong>on</strong> a <strong>on</strong>e-acre, beautifully<br />
landscaped plot of land in September 2006.<br />
So they have relocated from Miramar Beach,<br />
Fla., to Milt<strong>on</strong>, Fla. In his spare time, Gerald<br />
still writes, plays music, and loves to hang<br />
out by the pool.<br />
Torine Pasek has recently moved to<br />
Chicago to finish up her graduate degree in<br />
medieval history.<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Maggie Awad Abboud and her husband,<br />
Kenneth, welcomed their sec<strong>on</strong>d s<strong>on</strong>,<br />
Nathaniel Kenneth, <strong>on</strong> October 7. Their first<br />
s<strong>on</strong>, Nicholas Michael, celebrated his first<br />
birthday in September.<br />
In September 2006, Keri Schantz began<br />
working as an associate attorney for the law<br />
firm of High, Swartz, Roberts, & Seidel in<br />
Norristown, Pa.<br />
2000<br />
Lisa Hahn; 25-D Sycamore Road; Clift<strong>on</strong>, NJ<br />
07012; Lisahahn13@hotmail.com<br />
Faithann Cheslock; 26 Hill Ave.; Morrisville, PA<br />
19067; LadyBugFVC@aol.com<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Elizabeth DiFebo and Jas<strong>on</strong> Drott were<br />
married <strong>on</strong> October 14, 2006, in Allentown.<br />
Their recepti<strong>on</strong> was held at the ski lodge at<br />
Bear Creek Mountain Resort, in Macungie,<br />
Pa. <strong>Moravian</strong> alumni in attendance included<br />
Lynn Keily, Jill Schwab, Josh Daly ’04, Lori
classnotes<br />
Brennan, Ryan McGarrigan, and Tiffany<br />
Van Gorden from ’00; Chris Francese ’01,<br />
Morris Balacco ’03, and Kim Broadbent<br />
’04. In mid November, they went to Dublin,<br />
Ireland, for their h<strong>on</strong>eymo<strong>on</strong>. They live in the<br />
Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia<br />
where Elizabeth is a designer for Philadelphia<br />
magazine’s custom publishing and<br />
Jas<strong>on</strong> works for Merck as a researcher.<br />
1999<br />
Christina Fult<strong>on</strong>; 21 Pocah<strong>on</strong>tas Road;<br />
Hi-Nella, NJ 08083; cfult<strong>on</strong>1124@yahoo.com<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Jeremy Schoenberger is currently working<br />
at Merck in Salt Lake City, Utah. He plans<br />
to return to the east and work at Fox Chase<br />
Cancer Institute while taking classes in the<br />
pursuit of his doctorate.<br />
Katy Fiandaca married Mark Dwyer <strong>on</strong><br />
September 16, 2006. Mark Turdo ’97 and<br />
Michael H<strong>on</strong>saker ’99 were ushers.<br />
Maura McGowan Domashinski is now<br />
the band director at Middletown High School<br />
in Middletown, N.J. She said it is a dream<br />
come true for her to direct at the high school<br />
level.<br />
Our <str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g> in Beijing<br />
If Chris Colley ’02 had gotten his way, he would have left for China at age 13.<br />
“I wanted to apply as an exchange student to H<strong>on</strong>g K<strong>on</strong>g, but they told me<br />
I was too young,” he says. Chris, who’s pursuing a master’s degree in c<strong>on</strong>-<br />
temporary Chinese studies at People’s University in Beijing, says that China<br />
has interested him for as l<strong>on</strong>g as he can remember. “My great-grandfather,<br />
John C. F. Tils<strong>on</strong>, was the American military provost marshal to Beijing after<br />
the Boxer Rebelli<strong>on</strong> in 1900,” he explains. “And right after I graduated from<br />
high school, I spent a large part of the summer traveling in Asia.” In the past,<br />
Chris has lived with two different Chinese families; he’s since been living in<br />
apartments with various foreign and Chinese roommates.<br />
Perhaps not surprisingly, Chris finds that his presence am<strong>on</strong>g the popu-<br />
lace of Beijing doesn’t go unnoticed. “I do stick out. When I first came here,<br />
it seemed that every<strong>on</strong>e wanted to have their picture taken with me because<br />
I’m a foreigner. Little kids would follow me and pull the hair <strong>on</strong> my legs.” That<br />
said, living in the university district has enabled him to make many Chinese<br />
acquaintances. “There are <strong>on</strong>ly six foreigners in my classes, no other<br />
Americans; the rest are Chinese students. Most of my friends are Chinese.”<br />
1998<br />
Jennie Coughlin Crotty; 5402 Fountain Circle;<br />
North Ridgeville, OH 44039;<br />
jennie.crotty@aventis.com<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Melissa Hege Ayala and her husband,<br />
Mario, had a baby girl, Aurora Irene, <strong>on</strong><br />
October 29. Melissa was the maid of h<strong>on</strong>or<br />
in the wedding of Rebecca James-Poole<br />
and Daniel Michalski, who were married <strong>on</strong><br />
November 24, 2006, in Stroudsburg, Pa. Rebecca<br />
has recently started an up-and-coming<br />
jewelry business named Nanuk’s Igloo.<br />
Sandra Novack reports that Random<br />
House has recently acquired both her partial<br />
novel and short story collecti<strong>on</strong>. Her short<br />
stories have appeared in such<br />
notable venues as the Gettysburg<br />
Review, the Iowa Review, the Mississippi<br />
Review, Gulf Coast, the<br />
Chattahoochee Review, and others.<br />
Her work has been nominated<br />
several times for the esteemed<br />
Pushcart Prize.<br />
22 MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE WINTER 2007<br />
1997<br />
He notes that his Chinese classmates are much more aware of American<br />
society than Americans are aware of Chinese society, in large part thanks to<br />
ubiquitous American televisi<strong>on</strong> programs.<br />
The country of China, or at least the urban porti<strong>on</strong>, is undergoing vast<br />
changes, says Chris. “Beijing is morphing right before my eyes,” he notes.<br />
“Not l<strong>on</strong>g ago I woke up to find the old st<strong>on</strong>e neighborhood outside my<br />
kitchen being torn down by hand. In its place a new high-rise apartment will<br />
be c<strong>on</strong>structed.” The rapid changes have produced huge numbers of migrant<br />
workers traveling to the cities in the hope of making a successful life. In the<br />
countryside, however, life goes <strong>on</strong> much as it always did. “For me it’s the<br />
countryside that’s the most fascinating part of China,” he says. “In many ar-<br />
eas the soil is still tilled by oxen and rice paddies are fertilized by hand. I like<br />
to spend my holidays trekking through remote corners of China, especially<br />
areas inhabited by the country’s 56 ethnic minorities. I stay with families who<br />
d<strong>on</strong>’t speak <str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>darin, and we communicate by gestures and symbols. It’s a<br />
China that few foreigners ever see.”<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> Homecoming 2007<br />
October 19-20<br />
Jennifer Kastle; One Franklin Town Boulevard;<br />
Apt. #708; Philadelphia, PA 19103; jennkastle@<br />
hotmail.com<br />
1996<br />
Deb Yuengling Ferhat; 308 Highland Drive; Pottsville,<br />
PA 17901; dyferhat@yuengling.com<br />
Chris expects to return to the States in 2008, after the Beijing Olympics.<br />
1995<br />
Krisa Murray Arzayus; 9002 Eastbourne Lane<br />
Laurel, MD 20708; krisaym@alumni.moravian.edu<br />
1994<br />
Denise Bradley; 173 Red Haven Drive; North<br />
Wales, PA 19454; dbradley@comcast.net<br />
1993<br />
Michelle Litzenberger Trent; 1559 Surrey Road;<br />
Bethlehem, PA 18015; mmt@trentgroup.com<br />
1992<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> Homecoming 2007<br />
October 19-20<br />
John S. Nunnemacher; 11607 Acama St. Apt 11;<br />
Studio City, CA 91604-2906; classnotes92@<br />
griffinparkstudio.com<br />
Michael Q. Roth; 944 Renaldi Road; Wind Gap, PA<br />
18091; stanger@epix.net<br />
1991<br />
Melissa dePamphilis Jarman; 1601 Piedm<strong>on</strong>t<br />
Park Road; Greenville, SC 29609;<br />
mdepamph@yahoo.com<br />
Christine A. Palermo Wallach; 12172 Glenmore<br />
Drive; Coral Springs, FL 33071-7828;<br />
capw516@aol.com<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Patricia Sudol Roke has accepted a new<br />
positi<strong>on</strong> with CIGNA as director of human<br />
resources in its healthcare business, and will<br />
relocate to West Hartford, C<strong>on</strong>n. Previously<br />
she was in CIGNA’s internati<strong>on</strong>al business<br />
office in Philadelphia as a leadership development<br />
manager.<br />
Brian Sarisky was recently appointed to<br />
senior vice president of Selective Insurance<br />
Company of America and CEO of Selective<br />
HR Soluti<strong>on</strong>s Inc. and c<strong>on</strong>tinues to lead<br />
Selective’s large and alternative market operati<strong>on</strong>,<br />
Selective Risk <str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>gers.<br />
David Zinczenko made his 17th apprearance<br />
<strong>on</strong> the Today show in September.<br />
He appeared with Steve Schirripa from the<br />
televisi<strong>on</strong> show The Sopranos. Steve spoke<br />
<strong>on</strong> the subject of heavy men and referenced<br />
David’s 2004 best seller, The Abs Diet.<br />
1990<br />
Mary Beth Sierzega Afflerbach; 4425 Spruce St.;<br />
Whitehall, PA 18052; afflerbachmb@ yahoo.com<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
James Feher has been named vice<br />
president for advertising at the Morning Call<br />
in Allentown, Pa. He has been with the Call<br />
since 1993, and previously served as director<br />
of retail/nati<strong>on</strong>al advertising at the newspaper,<br />
a positi<strong>on</strong> he had held since 2003.<br />
1989<br />
Kerri Selland Pepoy; 9409 Foulks Ranch Dr.; Elk<br />
Grove, CA 95758; kerripepoy@yahoo.com<br />
From Kerri:<br />
Krista Enholm Smyth and her husband,<br />
Craig, live in Apopka, Fla., with their two children,<br />
Chynna, 8, and Wyatt, 4. Krista reports<br />
that every<strong>on</strong>e is going great and that she keeps<br />
in touch with several friends from <strong>Moravian</strong>.<br />
1988<br />
D<strong>on</strong>na Male Siegfried; 5625 Grove Point Road; Alpharetta,<br />
GA 30022; d<strong>on</strong>na.siegfried@comcast.net<br />
1987<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> Homecoming 2007<br />
October 19-20<br />
Lauren Kelly Lawn; 1948 Stirling Drive; Lansdale,<br />
PA 19446-5561; laurenlawn@aol.com<br />
Diane Hvizdak Taylor; 89 Fieldst<strong>on</strong>e Drive;<br />
Springfield, NJ 07081; dianektaylor@hotmail.com<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
In September Wendy Tretheway C<strong>on</strong>dr<strong>on</strong><br />
was inducted into Stroudsburg High<br />
School’s Hall of Fame for her individual suc-<br />
cess in field hockey, basketball and softball.<br />
Her high school recognized her as “best<br />
female athlete.” Wendy is an eighth grade<br />
math teacher.<br />
1986<br />
James and Lynda Farrell Swartz; 153 Lilac Drive;<br />
Allentown, PA 18104; lfswartz@rcn.com<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Jeffrey Ethan Lee, a critically acclaimed<br />
and award-winning poet, was <strong>on</strong> campus<br />
last fall to read his work. Lee is a professor<br />
of creative writing at the University of<br />
Northern Colorado. He has had over a hundred<br />
poems, stories, and essays published,<br />
as well as a full-length poetry collecti<strong>on</strong><br />
entitled Invisible Sister.<br />
1985<br />
Lynn Muschlitz LaBarre; 651 L<strong>on</strong>g Lane Road;<br />
Walnutport, PA 18088; labarrefam@fast.net<br />
Paula Colizzo Lewinski; 118 Springdale Lane;<br />
Lansdale, PA 19446-3529; pjlewinski@comcast.net<br />
1984<br />
Dianne Sciabica <str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>dry; 9 Vista Court;<br />
Phillipsburg, NJ 08865; mandryd@fast.net<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Laurie Ann Yeisley-Drogin was installed<br />
as a minister of Resurrecti<strong>on</strong> Lutheran<br />
Church in Roxbury, Mass., <strong>on</strong> September 10,<br />
2006. She is the parish’s first female minister.<br />
She finds this ministry both exciting and<br />
extremely rewarding.<br />
1983<br />
Dawn Bullaro Stawiarski; 47 Chestertown Road;<br />
Sicklerville, NJ 08081; dawnstar@comcast.net<br />
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classnotes<br />
1982<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> Homecoming 2007<br />
October 19-20<br />
Lori Vargo Heffner; 1481 Sanbrook Court; Bethlehem,<br />
PA 18015; laheffner@veriz<strong>on</strong>.net<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Bruce Bender currently works at Sea<br />
River Maritime and was promoted to utility<br />
cook in 2000.<br />
1981<br />
Craig “Kegger” Bartlett; 2405 W. Bayberry Drive;<br />
Harrisburg, PA 17112; cbavfco@aol.com<br />
1980<br />
Molly D<strong>on</strong>alds<strong>on</strong> Brown; 1906 Wenner St.; Allentown,<br />
PA 18103; unsinkable@fast.net<br />
From Molly:<br />
John E. “Woody” Snyder recently accepted<br />
a positi<strong>on</strong> at Cardiff University School of<br />
Engineering, in Cardiff, Wales, as a senior<br />
lecturer (equivalent to associate professor<br />
in the United States). Woody recently was<br />
employed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s<br />
Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University as<br />
an associate scientist. Woody wrote, “Wolfs<strong>on</strong><br />
Centre for Magnetics at Cardiff University<br />
is expanding, with new faculty hired, and<br />
lots of new state-of-the-art equipment to be<br />
purchased, and my former group leader in<br />
Ames is the new centre director, so I decided<br />
to make the big jump. Any <strong>Moravian</strong> people<br />
coming to the U.K. or passing through—feel<br />
free to give me a shout!”<br />
1979<br />
Steve Vanya; 3119 Red Lawn Dr.; Bethlehem, PA<br />
18017; van0087@enter.net<br />
From Steve:<br />
C<strong>on</strong>gratulati<strong>on</strong>s are in order for Ken<br />
Rampolla and Ann McCandless-Rampolla,<br />
who received the 2006 Gillespie Award for<br />
outstanding support of Greyhound athletics.<br />
Nice job! Your dedicati<strong>on</strong> and commitment to<br />
service are commendable and appreciated.<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Robert H<strong>on</strong>or is the director of career<br />
development for the Tisch School of the Arts,<br />
New York University. He was the 2003 and<br />
2005 distinguished administrator nominee<br />
resp<strong>on</strong>sible for career development programming<br />
and event planning for 3,500 currently<br />
matriculating Tisch students and 4,000 active<br />
alumni. He also acts as industry liais<strong>on</strong><br />
and is resp<strong>on</strong>sible for job development and<br />
career programming for Tisch.<br />
1978<br />
Dawn Allen; 7 Shelby Hill Lane; Danville, CA<br />
94526; Dawnallen726@gmail.com<br />
From Dawn:<br />
Kathy Ozzard Chism ’77 sent a ticket to<br />
me for her first gala fundraising event for<br />
the charity n<strong>on</strong>profit she created, Dream<br />
One World, Inc., so I drove several hours to<br />
attend. It was a beautiful affair. You can see<br />
all the photos from it <strong>on</strong> the “Past Events”<br />
page at www.dream<strong>on</strong>eworld.org. I was able<br />
to meet Susie Hyer ’76, who had flown in<br />
from Colorado to volunteer for the evening<br />
and had d<strong>on</strong>ated a lovely painting for the<br />
silent aucti<strong>on</strong>. Paintings were also d<strong>on</strong>ated<br />
by Jeff Epstein ’76 and Harry Douglas ’75.<br />
You can see more of their artwork at Kathy’s<br />
w<strong>on</strong>derful charity art gallery at www.galleryoffriends.com.<br />
Kathy told me that Bill<br />
Savoth ’76 recently saw Jeff Epstein’s work<br />
<strong>on</strong> the Gallery of Friends site, c<strong>on</strong>tacted Jeff,<br />
and purchased a painting! Twenty percent<br />
or more of all art sales from the gallery site<br />
gets d<strong>on</strong>ated to Dream One World, Inc. Even<br />
Mark Felt (“Deep Throat” from Watergate)<br />
and his daughter, Joan, attended and spoke.<br />
It was a very inspiring evening, and I was<br />
really proud to be a part of it.<br />
Dave Wilmer is back in C<strong>on</strong>necticut after<br />
spending his yearly six m<strong>on</strong>ths in Canada<br />
as innkeeper to his two lovely establishments<br />
<strong>on</strong> Prince Edward Island. He is now<br />
an empty-nester with both children in college—Andrew,<br />
a junior at the University of<br />
C<strong>on</strong>necticut, studying communicati<strong>on</strong>s, and<br />
Cristina, a freshman at the University of Delaware.<br />
And speaking of kids in college, Judy<br />
Primiano Bream is happy to report that her<br />
daughter, Allie, is settling in very nicely at<br />
Northwestern University as a freshman.<br />
Please pay attenti<strong>on</strong> to my new e-mail<br />
address. I am happy to say, though, that<br />
there have been a few reports of rekindled<br />
friendships since some of you have been<br />
writing in, so come <strong>on</strong> Class of ’78—what<br />
have you been up to? Please take just a few<br />
minutes to drop a line.<br />
1977<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> May 18-19, 2007<br />
John Fauerbach; P.O. Box 162; Chester, MT 59522;<br />
johnjfauerbach@yahoo.com<br />
1976<br />
K. Dale Zusi Scolnick; 45 Lake Trail East; Morristown,<br />
NJ 07960<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Jeff Zettlemoyer was recently appointed<br />
borough manager of West East<strong>on</strong>, Pa. He<br />
comes to the job with more than 17 years of<br />
municipal experience. In additi<strong>on</strong>, Jeff is a<br />
certified building inspector and does work<br />
for two c<strong>on</strong>sulting firms part time.<br />
1975<br />
Susan Bacci Adams; 402 Willow Road West;<br />
Staten Island, NY 10314; sba402@aol.com<br />
1974<br />
Cyndee Andreas Grifo; 6988 Crystal Springs Rd.;<br />
Cincinnati, OH 45227; Cgrifo@zoomtown.com<br />
1973<br />
Dennis J<strong>on</strong>es; 833 Hoover Drive; Apollo, PA<br />
15613; dj<strong>on</strong>es@keyst<strong>on</strong>e-auto.com<br />
Priscilla Barres Schueck; 703 W. Goepp Street;<br />
Bethlehem, PA 18018<br />
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1972<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> May 18-19, 2007<br />
Terrell Mc<str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>n; 712 Fire Lane; Bethlehem, PA<br />
18015; mcmann1@enter.net<br />
1971<br />
John Madis<strong>on</strong>; 5749 Blue Grass Trail; Coopersburg,<br />
PA 18036-1835; Aretiredst8ie@aol.com<br />
C<strong>on</strong>stance M. Sokalsky; 1441 Hillcrest Court No.<br />
210; Camp Hill, PA 17011-8021; C<strong>on</strong>nie_sokalsky@<br />
hilt<strong>on</strong>.com<br />
1970<br />
Denise Maday Greiner; 309 High Street ;<br />
Catasauqua, PA 18032-1428; damg1210@aol.com<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Garry Earles is a licensed independent<br />
clinical social worker. He has returned to<br />
Massachusetts after living in Pennsylvania<br />
for a few years. He c<strong>on</strong>tinues to pursue his<br />
career in working with children and adolescents<br />
challenged by neurobiological/developmental<br />
disorders such as attenti<strong>on</strong> deficit/<br />
hyperactivity disorder, obsessive compulsive<br />
disorder, bipolar disorder, and Tourette’s<br />
syndrome, am<strong>on</strong>g others.<br />
He is gaining a nati<strong>on</strong>al reputati<strong>on</strong> as an<br />
expert speaker <strong>on</strong> impulse c<strong>on</strong>trol difficulties<br />
and executive functi<strong>on</strong>ing, the core feature of<br />
ADD, as he tours the country presenting seminars<br />
to mental health professi<strong>on</strong>als and educati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
pers<strong>on</strong>nel. His website, www.bridgingthechasm.com,<br />
is dedicated to informing<br />
and assisting others to better understand the<br />
intricacies of these disorders. The website<br />
also lists his seminar schedule. He would love<br />
to hear from his old classmates.<br />
1969<br />
Caroline Funk Rabold; 232 Oxford Circle; Stroudsburg,<br />
PA 18360; ccrabold@yahoo.com<br />
From Caroline:<br />
I talked with Greg Fota at Homecoming<br />
this past fall. He lives in Bethlehem with his<br />
wife, Georgia. They raised two daughters:<br />
Catherine, a vice president for Wachovia<br />
Bank, and Lauren, a doctoral student at the<br />
University of Delaware. They have a granddaughter,<br />
Alis<strong>on</strong>, and are awaiting the birth<br />
of their sec<strong>on</strong>d grandchild. After graduating<br />
in 1969 with a B.S. in biology, Greg went to<br />
Wagner <strong>College</strong>, Staten Island, N.Y., for an<br />
M.S. in microbiology. He worked for several<br />
Lehigh Valley hospitals for the next nine<br />
Gulf Update<br />
More than a year later,<br />
Katrina moments still linger<br />
The storm is l<strong>on</strong>g g<strong>on</strong>e, and the aftermath<br />
doesn’t command nati<strong>on</strong>al media attenti<strong>on</strong><br />
anymore. But at the University of New Orleans<br />
(UNO), hurricane Katrina still looms large in the<br />
lives of faculty, staff, and students, says Mora-<br />
vian <strong>College</strong> alumna Janice Thomas ’84.<br />
As the director of UNO’s Office of Inter-<br />
nati<strong>on</strong>al Students and Scholars, Thomas had<br />
to keep track of some 800 students displaced<br />
by the hurricane’s August 2005 landfall—while<br />
she and her staff were themselves scattered to<br />
the proverbial four winds. “I ended up in New<br />
Jersey for six weeks, hosted by Brookdale Com-<br />
munity <strong>College</strong>,” she says. “Their internati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
center provided me with a work space and<br />
other necessities.” In the first days post-Katrina,<br />
Thomas and her coworkers formed a virtual<br />
office c<strong>on</strong>nected by ph<strong>on</strong>e, fax, and e-mail as<br />
they worked to reestablish c<strong>on</strong>tact with their<br />
charges. Being unable to meet face-to-face<br />
with students was perhaps the hardest part,<br />
she adds. “You forget how much of what we do<br />
in academe is <strong>on</strong> a pers<strong>on</strong>al level. One young<br />
woman called me and was in tears because I<br />
couldn’t meet with her in pers<strong>on</strong>.”<br />
While young people far from home and fam-<br />
ily might seem especially vulnerable to a disaster<br />
of this magnitude, Thomas says her students<br />
were well-equipped to cope with the trauma.<br />
“<str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>y come from countries that also deal with<br />
hurricanes, or with earthquakes or tsunamis,”<br />
she says. “And if you’ve chosen to come halfway<br />
around the world to study, you’re in a group of<br />
resilient risk-takers.” Even so, the incident did<br />
take a toll. “<str<strong>on</strong>g>Man</str<strong>on</strong>g>y students lost their apartments<br />
and everything in them. Some weren’t able to<br />
evacuate and had to be rescued by boat or<br />
helicopter.” On the other hand, the generos-<br />
ity of the larger academic community yielded<br />
some unexpected opportunities. “Some of our<br />
students got a chance to take courses at institu-<br />
ti<strong>on</strong>s they wouldn’t otherwise have attended, like<br />
MIT, Berkeley, or Penn,” says Thomas.<br />
The University of New Orleans experienced<br />
flooding and wind damage, but was able to offer<br />
courses at its satellite campuses in fall 2005. The<br />
main campus reopened in January 2006. Never-<br />
theless, many in the UNO community are still af-<br />
fected by Katrina. “My home came through fine;<br />
it was the luck of the draw. I have colleagues<br />
and staff still living in trailers, still fighting with<br />
insurance companies and the state to get m<strong>on</strong>ey<br />
to rebuild,” says Thomas. “There’s still a lot of<br />
work to be d<strong>on</strong>e, homes that need to be gutted,<br />
families that need assistance—we could use<br />
busloads of folks coming down to help.” One<br />
sign of Katrina’s lingering presence is how often<br />
the disaster comes up in casual chats. “We call<br />
them ‘Katrina moments,’” she says. “And I think<br />
all of us are l<strong>on</strong>ging for the day when we can go<br />
to a social gathering without Katrina becoming a<br />
topic of c<strong>on</strong>versati<strong>on</strong>.”<br />
Thomas suggests that readers who’d like<br />
to volunteer for relief work in the New Orleans<br />
area c<strong>on</strong>tact the Louisiana United Methodist Di-<br />
saster Recovery Ministry (www.laucstormrelief.<br />
com), the Associati<strong>on</strong> of Community Organiza-<br />
ti<strong>on</strong>s for Reform Now (ACORN, www.acorn.org)<br />
or Operati<strong>on</strong> Helping Hands (Catholic Charities,<br />
www.catholiccharities-no.org/operati<strong>on</strong>_help-<br />
ing_hands.htm).<br />
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classnotes<br />
years as a clinical microbiologist. In 1979 he<br />
left to take a positi<strong>on</strong> with the Morning Call<br />
in Allentown, Pa., as a photography lab technician<br />
and part-time photographer. He gradually<br />
started his own freelance photography<br />
studio, Fotagraphy, in Bethlehem, working for<br />
AT&T, Sports Illustrated, Lafayette <strong>College</strong>,<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>, Cedar Crest <strong>College</strong>, and<br />
the Pennsylvania Stage Company, to name<br />
a few. Greg took an early retirement from<br />
the Morning Call in December 2005, after 27<br />
years as the photo lab supervisor and photo<br />
assignment editor. He now works for Pittman<br />
Photography in Northampt<strong>on</strong>, Pa., as a<br />
photo editor and event manager for the youth<br />
sports photography secti<strong>on</strong>. He also exhibits<br />
his art photography in local Bethlehem galleries.<br />
Several of his photos have w<strong>on</strong> juried<br />
awards. And of course he still shoots alumni<br />
events at <strong>Moravian</strong>. We would appreciate<br />
more updates from other alums like Greg. It’s<br />
fun to read about what other classmates have<br />
been doing.<br />
1968<br />
George Berger; 107 Mohawk Drive; Johnstown,<br />
PA 15905; berger@vms.cis.pitt.edu<br />
Jill Stefko; 671 Ferry St., #1; East<strong>on</strong>, PA 18042;<br />
ravenfirephd@yahoo.com<br />
1967<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> May 18 -19, 2007<br />
Kathie Broczkowski Klein; 1734 Sycamore St.;<br />
Bethlehem, PA 18017; cklein6886@aol.com<br />
1966<br />
Fay Stover Iudicello; 1659 Kirby Road;<br />
McLean, VA 22101; Fax: 703-827-0431;<br />
fay_iudicello@ios.doi.gov<br />
David Berg; 2058 Quaker Way, #45; Annapolis,<br />
MD 21401; dgberg@erols.com<br />
1965<br />
William F. Horwath; 22300 Maplewood Drive;<br />
Southfield, MI 48034; will@m-m-s.com<br />
1964<br />
Kathleen Cavanaugh; 448 King’s Highway East;<br />
Hadd<strong>on</strong>field, NJ 08033; katcav1@gmail.com<br />
1963<br />
Bill Leicht; 16819 N. 59th Place; Scottsdale, AZ<br />
85254; Fax: 602-493-1949; Leicht1@cox.net<br />
1962<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> May 18-19, 2007<br />
Merr Trumbore; 1040 Ebenezer Church Road; Rising<br />
Sun, MD 21911; merr@dol.net<br />
Emma Demuth Williams; 1013 Nicholas Street;<br />
Bethlehem, PA 18017; eldw@ptdprolog.net<br />
1961<br />
Sam Maczko; 14 Sunrise Way; Towaco, NJ 07082;<br />
sfmaczko@yahoo.com<br />
From Sam:<br />
The Sixth Annual Gus Ramp<strong>on</strong>e Scholarship<br />
Fund Golf Tournament was a huge success.<br />
The turnout was the largest to date. Our<br />
class was represented by Jim Kritis, James<br />
McCrudden, Joe Castellano, Ken Sepe Barry<br />
Gaal, and me. Mike Pay<strong>on</strong>k ’59 and T<strong>on</strong>y<br />
Matz, with his s<strong>on</strong>, represented the class of<br />
1959. Pete Chimera ’88 did a commendable<br />
job of organizing the entire affair.<br />
I have received some nice e-mails from<br />
Chuck Merkel in Illinois who is well and enjoying<br />
retirement. He sends his best regards<br />
to all. If any<strong>on</strong>e is in the area of Wheat<strong>on</strong>,<br />
Ill., Chuck would like to receive a call and<br />
get together with them. You can e-mail him<br />
at merkel@speakeasy.net.<br />
The weather cooperated for Homecoming<br />
this year and the day was enjoyable. The new<br />
tailgating arrangement seemed to work out<br />
favorably and all who participated appeared<br />
to have a good time. The football team made<br />
the day complete with a win. Joe Castellano,<br />
Ken Sepe, and I volunteered with the parking<br />
at the tailgating area before the game.<br />
We met Barry Gaal and John Bregman and<br />
his wife and two grandchildren. I think the<br />
grandkids are prospective students, judging<br />
by the new <strong>Moravian</strong> shirts and jackets they<br />
were wearing. John and Melissa are expecting<br />
their eleventh and tweflth grandchildren<br />
this fall. Barry Gaal is enjoying retirement<br />
and keeps active with community affairs and<br />
his family. Ken Sepe and John Bregman will<br />
be leaving for the warmer climate of Florida<br />
as the holidays approach.<br />
Joe Castellano and I attended the <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> Athletic Hall of Fame inducti<strong>on</strong><br />
cerem<strong>on</strong>y <strong>on</strong> October 27, 2006. We were<br />
primarily interested in the inducti<strong>on</strong> of Paul<br />
Calvo ’52 and the posthumous inducti<strong>on</strong> of<br />
Gus Ramp<strong>on</strong>e ’59. Paul was our offensive<br />
line coach in football. In additi<strong>on</strong> he played<br />
football and basketball at <strong>Moravian</strong>. He also<br />
served as an assistant football coach for<br />
the Greyhounds from 1954-1971. Gus was<br />
a teammate of mine and pers<strong>on</strong>al friend<br />
and fraternity brother to Joe and me. Gus<br />
was awarded the Robert Martin Herbstman<br />
Award in 1998. He served as co-captain in<br />
1957 and captain in 1958 of the football<br />
team. He earned several ECAC Weekly Team<br />
h<strong>on</strong>ors during his playing days. On the<br />
wrestling mat, Gus became the first wrestler<br />
in <strong>Moravian</strong> history to make the MAC finals.<br />
T<strong>on</strong>y “M<strong>on</strong>k” Morelli ’59 and T<strong>on</strong>y Matz<br />
’59 presented the inducti<strong>on</strong> speeches for<br />
Gus and Jean, his wife, accepted the award.<br />
M<strong>on</strong>k, T<strong>on</strong>y, and Jean each gave a moving<br />
talk <strong>on</strong> Gus’s behalf. Also at this affair was<br />
Jack Finelli ’58 who was a teammate of Gus.<br />
Jack came up from Florida for the inducti<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Jack is still working as a barber in Fort<br />
Meyers, Fla. Charles Bartolet ‘60 was in attendance.<br />
Charles is kept busy with his work<br />
as a member of his local board of educati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Jim Kritis ‘61 was in attendance, since he<br />
was coached by Paul and was a teammate of<br />
Gus. The accomplishments of all of the inductees<br />
were extremely impressive and their<br />
affecti<strong>on</strong> for <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> came through<br />
in all of their acceptance speeches.<br />
1960<br />
Peter French; 7018 H<strong>on</strong>eysuckle Terrace; Bradent<strong>on</strong>,<br />
FL 34202; french@sar.usf.edu<br />
1959<br />
Kathy Werst Detwiler; 1383 N. Allen St.; State<br />
<strong>College</strong>, PA 16803; wld2@psu.edu<br />
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From Kathy:<br />
Fall greetings from your class corresp<strong>on</strong>dent<br />
in Happy Valley. This seas<strong>on</strong> Wayne and<br />
I did again cheer <strong>on</strong> our Li<strong>on</strong>s at all home<br />
football games; we also attended the Notre<br />
Dame and Ohio State away games. It is so<br />
much fun to travel, now that Wayne and I are<br />
retired—but we do primarily “theme” travel.<br />
We enjoyed touring New York during the<br />
colorful changing of the leaves, visiting the<br />
Fenimore Museum display of Grandma Moses<br />
and taking a boat ride through the Erie<br />
Canal Locks. We have been planning to attend<br />
Christmas Vespers at <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
with family this year. Your holiday messages<br />
with your news for our next column are enthusiastically<br />
awaited. Bye for now.<br />
1958<br />
Daneen J<strong>on</strong>es Phelps; 1547 B<strong>on</strong>nie Drive; Bethlehem,<br />
PA 18018; dhphelps@ptd.net<br />
1957<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> May 18-19, 2007<br />
Pearl Stein; 3 Tulip Court; Marlt<strong>on</strong>, NJ 08053;<br />
steinpearl@msn.com<br />
From Pearl:<br />
May 18-19, 2007! Save that special date<br />
for our 50th Reuni<strong>on</strong> at <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
The reuni<strong>on</strong> committee has been meeting<br />
regularly, planning events that will surprise<br />
and delight you. If you have not been back to<br />
visit the campus, you will be so impressed<br />
by the facilities available to students today.<br />
The committee members are: Pearl Stein,<br />
Pat Miller Helfrich, Carl Ackerman, Shirley<br />
Kunsman Bilheimer, D<strong>on</strong> Bortz, Irene<br />
Breslin Genther, Bev Love and Jerry Potter<br />
’61, Gord<strong>on</strong> Sommers, George Toth, and Earl<br />
Zeiner.<br />
Following our meeting with Bertie<br />
Knisely, alumni director, <strong>on</strong> November 10,<br />
the female members of the committee were<br />
invited to pour at a tea for female faculty,<br />
administrators, and students in the beautiful<br />
atrium of the Priscilla Payne Hurd Academic<br />
Complex. Pat, Irene, and I were joined by Bev<br />
Bell ’56, Anne Frankenfield Howlett, Dani<br />
J<strong>on</strong>es Phelps ’58, and Carolyn Edwards<br />
Simm<strong>on</strong>s. What a lovely and relaxing setting<br />
to meet and greet students and faculty! All<br />
this and <strong>Moravian</strong> sugar cake, too!<br />
1956<br />
Robert Gray; 98 Mill Run North; Augusta, SC<br />
29860-8704; bobsrs@aol.com<br />
Renee Johns<strong>on</strong> Dragotta; 341 Biery’s Bridge<br />
Road; Bethlehem, PA 18017<br />
From Renee:<br />
Our 50th reuni<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> May 19-20 had<br />
grand events from start to finish. Some women<br />
started early Friday morning by meeting<br />
at the president’s house <strong>on</strong> Church Street for<br />
the Founder’s Day celebrati<strong>on</strong>. After coffee<br />
and sugar cakes there we proceeded to the<br />
chapel for a speaker, entertainment, and a<br />
lovefeast. The morning ended with a lunche<strong>on</strong><br />
in the South <strong>Campus</strong> dining room. On<br />
Friday evening all the men and women from<br />
our class joined together for the Reuni<strong>on</strong>fest<br />
recepti<strong>on</strong> and dinner in Johnst<strong>on</strong> Hall. This<br />
was the time we learned who came back to<br />
celebrate being away for 50 years.<br />
Saturday started with our class members<br />
attending our first 50+ Club Breakfast. Dr.<br />
Rokke introduced each of us individually<br />
and called us to the stage to receive our new<br />
50+ pin. From there, the Parade of Classes<br />
began, the route being from North <strong>Campus</strong><br />
to South <strong>Campus</strong> al<strong>on</strong>g Main Street. Our<br />
class led the parade, some walking, and<br />
some riding in c<strong>on</strong>vertibles. At the judging<br />
stand we acted out our class reuni<strong>on</strong> theme,<br />
“North Meets South.” The women wore<br />
purple and gold sashes and men wore blue<br />
pants and <strong>Moravian</strong> gray shirts. The women<br />
and men then greeted each other and joined<br />
to sing to the <strong>College</strong> alma mater. All of this<br />
was d<strong>on</strong>e with such enthusiasm that we w<strong>on</strong><br />
the “Most Creative” award in the parade. We<br />
also w<strong>on</strong> an award for the highest percentage<br />
of attendees for a reuni<strong>on</strong> class.<br />
Following the parade we all attended the<br />
Alumni Grand Reuni<strong>on</strong> Lunche<strong>on</strong> where Dr.<br />
Rokke gave his “last” state of the college address.<br />
We then sang both alma maters to finish<br />
this part of the festivities. Late in the afterno<strong>on</strong><br />
there was a veteran’s reuni<strong>on</strong> where<br />
Dr. Rokke was h<strong>on</strong>ored. The day ended with a<br />
Class of ’56 recepti<strong>on</strong> and dinner in the HUB.<br />
The following 29 classmates c<strong>on</strong>nected again<br />
and talked of the past and present.<br />
Marietta Schwartz Banach is a medical<br />
technologist working part-time at Sacred<br />
Heart Hospital. She is proud of her daughter,<br />
Kelly, a judge of the Lehigh County Court of<br />
Comm<strong>on</strong> Pleas.<br />
Beverly Bell retired after many years<br />
with Bethlehem Steel and is presently active<br />
in many <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> functi<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
Richard Benner and Pauline Ritter<br />
Benner deserve the credit for guiding our<br />
class to a successful class reuni<strong>on</strong>. Dick is<br />
a retired pastor and Pauline was a teacher.<br />
They love their new home in a retirement village<br />
in Hanover, Pa.<br />
Jeanette “Bobby” Marossy Brady and<br />
Elenor Beck Schleicher with her husband,<br />
Henry, returned to the campus for their first<br />
reuni<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Jack Burke and wife Pat ’71 and Richard<br />
Stine are retired from the Bethlehem Area<br />
School District.<br />
Stanley Banach is a retired physician<br />
who c<strong>on</strong>tinues to lecture <strong>on</strong> the impact of<br />
exercise and nutriti<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> chr<strong>on</strong>ic degenerati<strong>on</strong><br />
disease.<br />
There are more retired teachers:<br />
Gail Dangler Miller, from the Pottsgrove,<br />
Pa., school district, presently is a tour escort<br />
for a travel agency.<br />
William Marsh, living in Carolina<br />
Shores, N.C., retired from the Hillside Board<br />
of Educati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Renee Johns<strong>on</strong> Dragotta and her<br />
husband, Vince, taught mathematics and<br />
computer programming for 40 years at Phillipsburg<br />
High School in New Jersey.<br />
Gil Stelter and his wife Sally and T<strong>on</strong>y<br />
Kochenach are retired university professors.<br />
Gil and Sally made the trip from Ontario,<br />
Canada. T<strong>on</strong>y and his wife, Marie, attended<br />
as well.<br />
Jim Johns<strong>on</strong> and his wife, Edith, came<br />
up from Charolette, N.C. Jim retired as a<br />
CEO of United Family Services. Also coming<br />
from North Carolina was Roger Kimbal, a<br />
retired <strong>Moravian</strong> pastor, and his wife, Mitzie<br />
Penningt<strong>on</strong> Kimbal ’57.<br />
Others seen at the lunche<strong>on</strong> were: James<br />
Ovady, Bob Brennan, R<strong>on</strong> Saderholm, Rudy<br />
Kresh, Millie Siftar Kimock, Art Jolley,<br />
Harold Frack, Jay J<strong>on</strong>es, Bill Stifnagle, and<br />
Joan Boyer Rathb<strong>on</strong>e, who now lives in<br />
Biltmore, N.C.<br />
Joanne Albright Hoodmaker spends<br />
most of her time as a soloist for the Bethlehem<br />
Area Church Women United and as the<br />
vocalist for the Hanover Township <str<strong>on</strong>g>Big</str<strong>on</strong>g> Band.<br />
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classnotes<br />
Tom Labert came with his wife, Nancy.<br />
He retired after 40 years from the finance<br />
department of Bethlehem Steel and has been<br />
a realtor for 13 years.<br />
Fred Woitscheck and his wife, Wanda,<br />
are probably used to being last in a list and<br />
he is again. Fred is CEO and owner of his<br />
family business, Hi-Way C<strong>on</strong>crete Products.<br />
1955<br />
Helen Varady Keyser; 2038 Kemmerer Street;<br />
Bethlehem, PA 18017<br />
1954<br />
Helen Desh Woodbridge; 3574 Browning Lane;<br />
Bethlehem, PA 18017; lig<strong>on</strong>@enter.net<br />
From Helen:<br />
Dottie Ruyak was in Bethlehem in<br />
August and came for a cookout at my home<br />
with another high school classmate, Anne<br />
Enright ’52 Secretarial.<br />
The Bach at No<strong>on</strong> c<strong>on</strong>certs performed in<br />
Central <strong>Moravian</strong> Church by the Bach Choir<br />
of Bethlehem and the Bach Festival Orchestra<br />
attracted, am<strong>on</strong>g others this fall, classmates<br />
Lois Lutz Geehr and her husband,<br />
Fred, Shirley Beck Dutt and her husband,<br />
Karl, and Bev Bell ’56. We were sorry to hear<br />
about the death of <strong>on</strong>e of Lois’s sisters, Martha<br />
Lutz Samuels ’50, but were glad to hear<br />
that Lois and Fred enjoyed attending the<br />
Shakespeare Festival in Canada this summer.<br />
Our s<strong>on</strong> John, from Michigan, was home<br />
for this dad’s 85th birthday in early November,<br />
and our s<strong>on</strong> Rob and his family of four were<br />
home for Thanksgiving. A highlight of their<br />
visits here was a trip to Hawk Mountain with<br />
lunch atop the north lookout. Both grands<strong>on</strong>s<br />
will graduate this spring, Tim from Purdue<br />
University and Brian from high school.<br />
1953<br />
E. Allen Schultz; 1601 43rd St. North; Unit 230;<br />
St. Petersburg, FL 33713-4666; e.allen.schultz@<br />
worldnet.att.net<br />
Polly Rayner; The Court, Apt. 2-F; 2830 Linden St.;<br />
Bethlehem, PA 18017<br />
1952<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> May 18-19, 2007<br />
Mary T. P<strong>on</strong>gracz; 321 W. Fourth St.; Bethlehem,<br />
PA 18015<br />
1951<br />
Andy Jasso; 35 W. Greenwich St.; Bethlehem, PA<br />
18018-2439<br />
Carol Buechner McMullen; 9 Magnolia Ave.;<br />
M<strong>on</strong>tvale, NJ 07645; cbmcmullen@aol.com<br />
From Carol:<br />
June Shafer Scholl recently moved to an<br />
apartment at <strong>Moravian</strong> Village in Bethlehem.<br />
On September 21 she invited a group<br />
of classmates to join her for lunch at the<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> Village dining room. Present were<br />
Vanita Egge Marvin, Betsey Freas ’50, Jane<br />
Kincaid Missimer, Fern Bachman Koplin,<br />
Harold Gesell and his daughter Anne Marie,<br />
Lois Shafer Smith and Dick, Janet Fabian<br />
Andre and Paul with their daughter, June,<br />
and myself. We enjoyed a delightful lunch<br />
and admired June’s new home.<br />
As I write this, Thanksgiving is almost<br />
here. I hope all of our classmates have much<br />
to be thankful for.<br />
1950<br />
Bob Scholl; P.O. Box 5083; Bethlehem, PA 18015<br />
1949<br />
Norma Boldt Wynne; 1570 Glen Hardie Road;<br />
Wayne, PA 19087-1002; nbwynne@aol.com<br />
Thomas F. Keim; 335 Spring St.; Bethlehem, PA<br />
18018<br />
From Tom:<br />
I received a nice note from Bernie Terzigni.<br />
He says that he is enjoying his family<br />
and all the “good things God has given us.”<br />
Retired from medicine, he does c<strong>on</strong>sult with<br />
his boys and daughter-in-law as they are<br />
practicing. He is busy finishing his book, A<br />
Satire <strong>on</strong> the Motel Business. It c<strong>on</strong>tains carto<strong>on</strong>s<br />
and many funny stories based <strong>on</strong> the<br />
experiences he and Joyce had during their<br />
17 years as hotel owners in Wildwood Crest,<br />
N.J. He still hopes to take that cruise <strong>on</strong> the<br />
QE2 someday.<br />
1948<br />
Jean Baxter McCracken; 490 Penllyn Pike;<br />
Blue Bell, PA 19422-1628; Charleyandjean1@<br />
veriz<strong>on</strong>.net<br />
From Jean:<br />
I received the following e-mail from<br />
Edythe Steers Smith, who regrettably was<br />
with our class for <strong>on</strong>ly <strong>on</strong>e year, yet we all<br />
enjoyed her presence. Thanks so much, Edie,<br />
for resp<strong>on</strong>ding.<br />
“Hi, Jean, I’m answering your request<br />
to hear from old classmates. Kip Voorhees<br />
Pels and I met last Tuesday <strong>on</strong> L<strong>on</strong>g Beach<br />
Island, N.J. This was our fourth meeting in<br />
four years. It’s so good talking old times<br />
and catching up <strong>on</strong> current times. Last year<br />
our grandchildren played together. Who<br />
would have thought we’d do that sixty-odd<br />
years later? Kip and her husband, Al, are<br />
still very active in their community in New<br />
Hampshire. They look great. On a sad note,<br />
my sister Ruth died March 7. She hadn’t<br />
been sick, so it was a shock. Fortunately, she<br />
didn’t suffer. I hope all is well with your and<br />
family. Take care.”<br />
Charley and I are still active, he painting<br />
and I busy with a chair caning business.<br />
These activities keep us both out of trouble.<br />
We d<strong>on</strong>’t travel much, although I did spend a<br />
week in Cancun <strong>on</strong> a missi<strong>on</strong> project—most<br />
likely my last. Our daughter Faith took a<br />
teaching job in New Zealand last February—<br />
teaching English. It has been a hard year for<br />
her, but she loves it there. Daughter Julie<br />
and I went to her in July, and I survived the<br />
twenty-hour plane trip!<br />
Our 60th reuni<strong>on</strong> will be coming up in<br />
2008, so I hope to see some of you when you<br />
come to celebrate!<br />
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1947<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> May 18-19, 2007<br />
George Kirkpatrick; 11250 Caravel Circle, No. 308;<br />
Fort Myers, FL 33908-5236<br />
Peg Loveless Browne; 256 Medford Leas Way;<br />
Medford, NJ 08055; Pegbrownenj@medleas.com<br />
Mary Jean Spangenthal has decided to take<br />
a break from being class secretary, and Peg<br />
Loveless Browne has agreed to take over.<br />
From Mary Jean:<br />
We’re ba-a-a-ck!! Thanks to some communicati<strong>on</strong><br />
glitches, we lost an issue or two,<br />
but I think we’re <strong>on</strong> track again and the<br />
first order of business is a mighty thanks to<br />
Helen Kanuskey Canfield, Charlotte Unangst<br />
Schisler, Kitty Nies Geiger, and Jean<br />
Achey Schrader. They compose our reuni<strong>on</strong><br />
committee and were very helpful in getting<br />
informati<strong>on</strong> coming to me for this column.<br />
Your letters reflect an effort to settle in<br />
comfort for this next period in life, a move<br />
to retirement communities or a rearrangement<br />
of family members so that pers<strong>on</strong>al<br />
independence can be preserved al<strong>on</strong>g with a<br />
feeling of being cared for. Everybody sounds<br />
upbeat and forward looking, accepting<br />
resp<strong>on</strong>sibility for doing as much as possible<br />
for ourselves to maintain good health and<br />
to c<strong>on</strong>tribute to the world in which we still<br />
live.<br />
Mickey Coleman Silverberg is living at<br />
Country Meadows, a retirement community<br />
in Allentown, while Kitty Neis Geiger is still<br />
maintaining her home and herself in ways<br />
that will enable her to stay in her own home<br />
a very l<strong>on</strong>g time. She says she feels cared for<br />
by the young families living near her.<br />
Jean Zehner Lombardi isn’t driving<br />
much anymore, but her s<strong>on</strong> has moved in<br />
with her since the death of her 95-year-old<br />
mother. She is active in two senior groups,<br />
and frequently goes <strong>on</strong> trips with them. She<br />
says that winter is coming and she’s ready for<br />
it, since she w<strong>on</strong>’t have to drive in the snow.<br />
June Urffer Moyer and Bob are quite<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tent in California. They remain very active<br />
in spite of Bob’s macular degenerati<strong>on</strong><br />
and manage to maintain the trip schedule<br />
they have enjoyed for many years, including<br />
a trip east to visit with their s<strong>on</strong> and<br />
daughter.<br />
Unfortunately, some of us are limited by<br />
physical problems, visi<strong>on</strong> being a major <strong>on</strong>e.<br />
Doris Trine Kennedy has had cataract surgery<br />
and a recent procedure for her macular<br />
degenerati<strong>on</strong>. She said it was an arduous<br />
process but she is doing well.<br />
Betty Riegel Mesner, who lost her visi<strong>on</strong><br />
many years ago, recently had two knee replacements,<br />
but expects to be dancing again<br />
in six weeks. She obviously has accommodated<br />
to her handicap, for she knits caps for<br />
babies and is learning to play a new Lowery<br />
organ with special butt<strong>on</strong>s for automatic<br />
A Guide for Life<br />
After leaving <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
with a bachelor’s degree in<br />
ec<strong>on</strong>omics, Jean Sun Shaw<br />
’75 saw the business world<br />
from many angles. “I held staff<br />
and line positi<strong>on</strong>s in different<br />
corporati<strong>on</strong>s and different<br />
sectors: commodities trading,<br />
management c<strong>on</strong>sulting,<br />
technology,” she says. But<br />
she came to realize that what<br />
she really wanted to do was<br />
offer guidance to the corporate<br />
professi<strong>on</strong>als she’d been<br />
working with. So, equipping<br />
herself with advanced degrees<br />
in counseling, she created<br />
Life’s Journey LLC. “I’ve had an<br />
interest in psychology since high<br />
school, so the career change<br />
was really coming full circle to<br />
an earlier interest,” she adds.<br />
In her New York City-based<br />
counseling practice, Sun Shaw<br />
works with mid-life professi<strong>on</strong>als<br />
who seek to make meaningful<br />
change in their lives. Rather than<br />
simply offering c<strong>on</strong>venti<strong>on</strong>al<br />
wisdom about networking and<br />
transferable skills, Life’s Journey<br />
also helps clients grapple with<br />
deep questi<strong>on</strong>s like “Who am I,<br />
really?” and “How do I express<br />
myself more fully in my career<br />
play. This is all in additi<strong>on</strong> to her work and<br />
activity in her church and family.<br />
But the overwhelming theme of the mail<br />
was family: accomplishments of children<br />
and grandchildren and the joyous anticipati<strong>on</strong><br />
of new members being born. Janet<br />
Parks Weinland and Bob seem to lead the<br />
pack with four daughters, eight grandchildren<br />
and seven great-grandchildren! Three of<br />
the four children and families live within an<br />
hour and a half away.<br />
Doris Trine Kennedy, Charlotte Unangst<br />
Schisler, Ruth Heitz Bachman and I<br />
also are enjoying the “great” generati<strong>on</strong> and,<br />
in my case, a sec<strong>on</strong>d is <strong>on</strong> the way. Charlotte,<br />
by the way, is still riding her horse, Rusty,<br />
<strong>on</strong>ce or twice a week. In her words, “It helps<br />
my morale and old muscles.”<br />
Jean Achey Schrader and her husband<br />
spent the last year looking forward to the<br />
next dinner event h<strong>on</strong>oring their granddaughter,<br />
Jackie, who obviously is a very<br />
talented pers<strong>on</strong>, both academically and<br />
sportswise. Her sister, Jessie, occasi<strong>on</strong>ed<br />
more celebrati<strong>on</strong> by marrying in June.<br />
Helen Kanuskey Canfield had very different<br />
news to send us. Her husband D<strong>on</strong>, a<br />
veteran of the Battle of the Bulge in World<br />
War II, has an e-mail relati<strong>on</strong>ship with a<br />
Belgian doctor whose grandparents lived<br />
in the battle area and had great admirati<strong>on</strong><br />
and my life?” This approach<br />
yields a more meaningful<br />
process for both client and<br />
counselor. “It’s very gratifying<br />
to walk with my clients through<br />
the explorati<strong>on</strong>,” she notes. And<br />
her time at <strong>Moravian</strong> seems to<br />
have influenced Jean’s ability to<br />
help her clients find their paths.<br />
“My college years allowed me<br />
to experience a wide variety of<br />
subjects,” she says. “I met lots<br />
of people, and had rich, diverse<br />
experiences that gave me an<br />
appreciati<strong>on</strong> for the different<br />
walks of life people are called<br />
to take.”<br />
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classnotes<br />
for American troops. On a visit to Belgium<br />
six years ago the Canfields met D<strong>on</strong>’s e-mail<br />
partner <strong>on</strong> the night of the birth of the doctor’s<br />
sec<strong>on</strong>d s<strong>on</strong>, who was given D<strong>on</strong>’s name.<br />
In May of this year, the doctor and his family<br />
spent five days visiting Helen and D<strong>on</strong> in<br />
Bethlehem. Though language was a problem,<br />
I’ll bet communicati<strong>on</strong> was not.<br />
Kitty Nies Geiger is very busy with her<br />
volunteer work at Lehigh Valley Hospital in<br />
the gift shop. She also helps at <strong>on</strong>e of her<br />
church services each week.<br />
I know Jean and Ruth will not be at the<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong>, but I hope some classmates who<br />
didn’t write this time are going to be there.<br />
See you in May!<br />
From the Alumni House:<br />
Peg Loveless Browne moved back to<br />
New Jersey after living in Dev<strong>on</strong>, Pa., for<br />
41 years. She currently resides in a Quaker<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tinual care community in Medford, N.J.,<br />
where she has her own apartment. It is a<br />
lovely community in a beautiful wooded area<br />
and located close to town and stores. She<br />
currently tutors foreign students at a local<br />
community college and is involved in a news<br />
discussi<strong>on</strong> program. She has been traveling<br />
a lot lately, primarily to watch her granddaughter<br />
play field hockey at the University<br />
of Iowa. She even went to Chile last fall to<br />
watch her granddaughter play <strong>on</strong> the U.S.<br />
Team in the World Cup champi<strong>on</strong>ships. It is<br />
very enjoyable for her to watch these games<br />
because she played in high school and at<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong>, watched her three daughters play,<br />
and refereed for 25 years! She misses the<br />
college c<strong>on</strong>tacts and visits hockey games<br />
provided her.<br />
1946<br />
Ada Zellner Flower; 834 Hilltop Road; Oyster Bay,<br />
NY 11771<br />
Ileen Whitehead Birnbuam; 4167 Green P<strong>on</strong>d<br />
Road; Bethlehem, PA 18020<br />
From Ada:<br />
Dotty Wilmer Schlottman spent the<br />
summer keeping house and garden “in reas<strong>on</strong>able<br />
order” while Al went to Priest Lake,<br />
Idaho, to do lookout tower duty.<br />
Marie Holt Nash suffers from severe osteoarthritis.<br />
She’s had <strong>on</strong>e knee replaced and<br />
is c<strong>on</strong>sidering when to have the other knee<br />
replaced. She is surrounded by children and<br />
grandchildren who are most helpful. She’s<br />
proud to have two great-grandchildren. She<br />
says, “Bless them all!”<br />
Frank and I made a brief visit to <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
recently. We learned that Phyllis Clark’s<br />
piano and music library have arrived there<br />
and will be used in the Music Department.<br />
(Phyllis’s death was reported in the last<br />
magazine.)<br />
We also learned that the <strong>College</strong> has<br />
employed a part-time archivist who would<br />
welcome memorabilia c<strong>on</strong>cerning our time<br />
at <strong>Moravian</strong>. Original materials such as<br />
photographs, scrapbooks, albums, diaries,<br />
journals, small artifacts, and school publicati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
such as yearbooks and catalogs are<br />
encouraged. Examples of coursework such as<br />
essays and art/sketches are also valuable.<br />
If you are interested in c<strong>on</strong>tributing to<br />
the archives call the archivist, Jan Ballard,<br />
at 610 861-1594 or e-mail jballard@moravian.edu.<br />
1945<br />
Jane Smith Ebelhare; 805 Buckeye Street; Ft. Collins,<br />
CO 80524; jebelhare@aol.com<br />
From Jane:<br />
Eleanor Beidelman Kline and her<br />
daughter went to Charlottesville, Va., last<br />
summer where they enjoyed the beautiful<br />
scenery and toured the James Madis<strong>on</strong><br />
homestead. The spent a w<strong>on</strong>derful visit with<br />
Eleanor’s sister while there, and the timing<br />
was most fortunate. When they returned<br />
home, they received the sad news that<br />
Eleanor’s sister had passed away shortly after<br />
they had left. Eleanor still goes to water<br />
aerobics three times a week. She c<strong>on</strong>tinues<br />
her civic duties, having just completed the<br />
“yard of the m<strong>on</strong>th” selecti<strong>on</strong>s, with the<br />
judging of the Christmas decorati<strong>on</strong>s in her<br />
subdivisi<strong>on</strong> in the near future.<br />
Dorothy Stump Lied is improving her<br />
skills in the game of mahj<strong>on</strong>g, which originated<br />
as a Chinese gambling game. Dottie<br />
first heard of it in the movie Driving Miss<br />
Daisy. Then her daughter-in-law, who had<br />
learned to play it from a neighbor, taught<br />
Dottie and a friend of hers. Now Dottie and<br />
her friend play just for fun, or at least that’s<br />
what she says. Dottie still keeps busy painting,<br />
knitting, and making peanut butter cups,<br />
which are big sellers at the local bazaar. She<br />
also does a lot of reading, and especially<br />
enjoys novels about the Amish, a people she<br />
very much admires.<br />
Jackie Stout McGiffert spent three<br />
weeks in September in the East attending<br />
reuni<strong>on</strong>s with a friend, but she was back in<br />
Missoula, M<strong>on</strong>t., in mid-October when she<br />
wrote to me. She will be leaving for Florida<br />
in January.<br />
Janet Moyer Paulus‘s daughter and<br />
older s<strong>on</strong> have settled in comfortably in<br />
what Janet calls their basement, the “Hyatt<br />
Regency.” They have been staying there<br />
while c<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong> is completed <strong>on</strong> Janet’s<br />
daughter’s town house, which has been<br />
promised for early December. Also, the<br />
younger s<strong>on</strong> was to visit for Thanksgiving. It<br />
sounds like great fun. Janet’s husband, Dick,<br />
was to undergo cataract surgery in October,<br />
which hopefully will bring improvement to<br />
his visi<strong>on</strong>. Janet “imposed <strong>on</strong> a hornets’ nest<br />
in August and felt their revengeful sting.”<br />
She has recuperated, but now is “armed with<br />
an EpiPen,” an automatic injector of epinephrine.<br />
Florence Fritts and Jackie Bauder<br />
joined Janet for lunch last summer, and they<br />
had their usual happy reuni<strong>on</strong>. They will try<br />
to make it again before getting snowed in for<br />
the winter.<br />
Lois Moser Harke reports the Marguardt<br />
Village, the complex where she lives in Watertown,<br />
Wis., has opened a hospice unit. Of<br />
course they need a lot of volunteers, so Lois<br />
is helping with clerical/office work. She says<br />
that she “has folded lots of paper” lately.<br />
I got a short e-mail from Beryl Harris<strong>on</strong><br />
saying that “everything is status quo” and<br />
that she is fine and healthy.<br />
Jackie Haas Bauder sent a great e-mail.<br />
She menti<strong>on</strong>ed the lunche<strong>on</strong> in September<br />
with Florence and Warren Fritts and Janet<br />
and Dick Paulus at the Minsi Trail Inn, where<br />
they caught up with every<strong>on</strong>e’s news. Florence<br />
still has a daughter living in East<strong>on</strong>, so<br />
when they come to the area, they have a nice<br />
place to stay. Jackie said that Florence had<br />
just had surgery for a deviated septum but<br />
was still going <strong>on</strong> as usual. Jackie attended<br />
her 65th high school reuni<strong>on</strong> in September,<br />
and there were sixty people at the lunche<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Lillian Stefko Schaedler and some of her<br />
friends were instrumental in organizing<br />
the lunche<strong>on</strong>. Jackie says that the age of<br />
the group was showing “in the number of<br />
walkers and canes present.” Jackie stays in<br />
touch with Doreen Coburn Walters. Doreen<br />
and her husband, D<strong>on</strong>, live in Sarasota, Fla.<br />
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They missed the high school reuni<strong>on</strong> because<br />
they had planned to visit a s<strong>on</strong> in Cedarburg,<br />
Wisc<strong>on</strong>sin. Two other s<strong>on</strong>s and a grands<strong>on</strong><br />
joined them for a “great family mini-reuni<strong>on</strong>.”<br />
Jackie and Betty Wachstetter Griffis went<br />
to the Muhlenburg Festival and plan some<br />
other activities. She says that Betty is now a<br />
“proud great-grandmother.” Jackie was leaving<br />
<strong>on</strong> October 24 <strong>on</strong> a trip to Washingt<strong>on</strong>,<br />
D.C., to accompany a friend whose daughter<br />
is at American University. She was anxious<br />
to see the Indian Museum again and hoped<br />
to see the newly-reopened Nati<strong>on</strong>al Portrait<br />
Gallery and the new Smiths<strong>on</strong>ian American<br />
Art Museum. As she says, “naturally my children<br />
and grandchildren are part of it too.”<br />
Then the following week, there was a family<br />
get-together in Pottstown, Pa., where her<br />
granddaughter, Amy, was to be married.<br />
Gloria Gately Chipman and husband,<br />
Frank, enjoyed the cruise which they took<br />
last July around the British Isles. They went<br />
to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, Dublin,<br />
Belfast, Wales, and Western Britain. Then<br />
when they returned, their oldest daughter,<br />
Ann, was married <strong>on</strong> the beach at Atlantic<br />
Beach, N.C. They were leaving <strong>on</strong> October 28<br />
for Florida to take a seven-day Caribbean<br />
cruise. One of their stops will be at Grand<br />
Turk and Caicos, which is a new port to<br />
them. On their return, they will visit their<br />
youngest daughter in Deerfield Beach, Fla.,<br />
before driving home.<br />
In August, Alice Joyce Yeager’s husband,<br />
Bob, was diagnosed with prostate cancer.<br />
He is facing a series of radiati<strong>on</strong> treatments<br />
followed by seed implants, which has been<br />
shown to be an effective treatment with good<br />
results. Alice and Bob are very optimistic.<br />
They visited their daughter, Robin, and her<br />
husband in Tennessee in July. Robin came to<br />
visit them in Florida this summer also and<br />
while there, impressed every<strong>on</strong>e at Alice and<br />
Bob’s church with her marvelous singing<br />
voice. Alice battles chr<strong>on</strong>ic fatigue immune<br />
dysfuncti<strong>on</strong> but keeps going. She and Bob<br />
have tickets for the West Coast Symph<strong>on</strong>y<br />
c<strong>on</strong>certs, and the plays at their Little Theater<br />
have been great. They also enjoy the local<br />
restaurants.<br />
Andy and I leave <strong>on</strong> November 9 for our<br />
annual trek to Wellingt<strong>on</strong>, Fla. We should get<br />
back home about the sec<strong>on</strong>d week in April<br />
after an even busier schedule than ever. I<br />
will send you our home address and ph<strong>on</strong>e<br />
numbers after we get there.<br />
1943<br />
Margaret L. Albright; 129 N. 11th St.; Allentown,<br />
PA 18102<br />
June Bright Reese; 801 N. Wahneta St., Apt 203;<br />
Allentown, PA 18109; bjreese@webtv.net<br />
From June:<br />
Members of the baccalaureate and<br />
secretarial classes recently met for lunch at<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> Village. Betty Adams Roach and<br />
Betty Karte deserve a big “thank you” for arranging<br />
the meeting. After a delicious lunch<br />
in the Village dining room, we visited Betty<br />
Karte in her lovely apartment.<br />
Betty Roach is still tutoring, and she and<br />
her husband, Jack, enjoy playing bridge. Marian<br />
Carty Durkee spent ten days vacati<strong>on</strong>ing<br />
with her daughter and family at the Outer<br />
Banks. Janet Williams Sander and her husband<br />
spend a lot of time in L<strong>on</strong>g Beach Island<br />
with friends. They have four grandchildren,<br />
<strong>on</strong>e of whom, Amanda Seyfried, has been in<br />
several movies, including Mean Girls. She is<br />
also currently in <str<strong>on</strong>g>Big</str<strong>on</strong>g> Love <strong>on</strong> Home Box.<br />
Peggy Mas<strong>on</strong> Marcks spent her 14th<br />
seas<strong>on</strong> working at Yellowst<strong>on</strong>e Park. She<br />
drove there and back al<strong>on</strong>e, stopping <strong>on</strong> the<br />
trip home to visit her s<strong>on</strong> and grands<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Betty Karte recently had a surprise visit<br />
from Grace and Lee Schuchardt, who were<br />
in the area to see relatives. Mary Lou Patt<strong>on</strong><br />
“Pat” Phillips joined us for lunch. She and<br />
husband Jim are still in their big house.<br />
Sadly we report the passing of Marie<br />
Fehr Goodyear’s husband, Jack. In additi<strong>on</strong><br />
to his wife, he is survived by two daughters,<br />
twelve grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.<br />
He was predeceased by a daughter.<br />
We extend our deepest sympathy to his<br />
family.<br />
Let us hear what is happening in your life.<br />
1942<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> May 18-19, 2007<br />
Mary Kuehl C<strong>on</strong>cevitch; 1036 Center St.; Bethlehem,<br />
PA 18018<br />
From Mary:<br />
A note from Avis Gord<strong>on</strong> states that<br />
she sold her home in Bethlehem and moved<br />
to <strong>Moravian</strong> House II <strong>on</strong> Main Street. She’s<br />
close to downtown and especially the<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> Book Shop. From her window<br />
she watched the <strong>Moravian</strong> Mile parade <strong>on</strong><br />
Alumni Weekend 2006, from <strong>on</strong>e campus to<br />
the other. She hopes to see us in 2007 for our<br />
reuni<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Two letters from Peggy Lutz Gray are so<br />
full of activities that it’s a miracle she had<br />
time to write. After m<strong>on</strong>ths of writing and<br />
rehearsals they presented “L<strong>on</strong>gwood Radio<br />
Hour II”—Peggy wrote the commercials<br />
(<strong>on</strong>e was to the tune of Chiquita Banana’s<br />
theme s<strong>on</strong>g). Her new computer arrived,<br />
so now she’ll be busier than ever! Another<br />
classmate, Ruth Schantz Fortino, and her<br />
husband, Pat, have moved to an apartment<br />
at <strong>Moravian</strong> Village in town. Remember<br />
2007—our 65th!<br />
1941<br />
Ruth Hemmerly Kelly; <strong>Moravian</strong> Village; 526<br />
Wood St.; Apt. 104; Bethlehem, PA 18018<br />
From Ruth:<br />
A nice note from Dottie Ritter Comegys<br />
brings us up to date <strong>on</strong> her activities—involvement<br />
with health problems of relatives<br />
and leaving <strong>Moravian</strong> Hall Square and<br />
moving back to Main Street in September.<br />
She was in Durnstein, Austria, and learned<br />
of Zinzendorf’s c<strong>on</strong>necti<strong>on</strong> with the area<br />
of Wachau (Wachovia), where his ancestral<br />
home was located. Dottie suffered the loss of<br />
her daughter two years ago and we extend<br />
our sympathy to her and her family.<br />
Ruth Overfield Fidorack and Mike<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tinue their travels back to Tahiti and they<br />
are now planning a cruise around South<br />
America.<br />
In September there was a huge reuni<strong>on</strong><br />
of former students of Fountain Hill High<br />
School held at Lehigh University’s Stabler<br />
Auditorium. There were <strong>on</strong>ly two members<br />
of the class of 1937 there: Le<strong>on</strong>a Quinn and<br />
I, both members of <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> for<br />
Women’s freshman class that year.<br />
I am enjoying life at <strong>Moravian</strong> Village,<br />
involved in puppet shows, of which we did<br />
four this week for kindergarten and first<br />
graders at D<strong>on</strong>egal School. It was the notorious<br />
Three Little Pigs and the Wolf, a very<br />
intellectually stimulating producti<strong>on</strong>, just<br />
off Broadway (South Side of Bethlehem).<br />
Bey<strong>on</strong>d that I did some traveling, a<br />
cruise of the Mediterranean a year ago, and<br />
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classnotes<br />
last July another of the Baltic with stops in<br />
St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, etc.<br />
Please classmates, if you want this<br />
column c<strong>on</strong>tinued, send notes to me about<br />
yourselves and your families.<br />
Men of 1941-46<br />
Lloyd Fatzinger; 8434 Braewick Dr.; San Ant<strong>on</strong>io,<br />
TX 78239; Mlfatzinger73@sbcgolobal.net<br />
1939<br />
Arlingt<strong>on</strong> A. Nagle, M.D.; 12 Orchard Hill Rd.;<br />
Robes<strong>on</strong>ia, PA 19551; jgrabold@att.net<br />
1938<br />
Christine Roberts Fraley; 800 Hausman St., Apt.<br />
208; Allentown, PA 18104; grandmaf@mymailstati<strong>on</strong>.com<br />
From Christine:<br />
There is very little news that I am able to<br />
report for the Class of 1938. Please send me<br />
a line to let me know how you are doing so<br />
that I can report it.<br />
Olivia Musselman Barnes is settled into<br />
her new home at Country Meadows here in<br />
Allentown. In my note for Fall 2006 I mistakenly<br />
said that Olivia was in the assisted<br />
living secti<strong>on</strong> of Country Meadows; she is in<br />
the independent living secti<strong>on</strong> and enjoying<br />
it very much. She has kept her car for the<br />
present and is still actively engaged in community<br />
affairs and bridge.<br />
Mary Fabian Strock is well and told<br />
me that she still keeps in touch with Rose<br />
Beidler Polentz. Rose lives in Richland, Wa.<br />
and says she is still upright. I, also, am still<br />
upright but use a walker when I leave my<br />
apartment.<br />
1937<br />
Reuni<strong>on</strong> May 18 -19, 2007<br />
Bertha Finkelstein Cohen; 11 Island Ave. Apt.<br />
1404; Miami Beach, FL 33139-1326<br />
1935<br />
Wilma Kistler Uhrich; 300 Willow Valley Lakes<br />
Dr.; Apt. A-319; Willow Street, PA 17584<br />
Comenius Center<br />
Sherr<strong>on</strong> Quinn M.B.A. ’00; 222 Bushkill Terrace;<br />
Nazareth, PA 18064; Shquinn222@yahoo.com<br />
From Sherr<strong>on</strong>:<br />
Greetings from the <strong>Moravian</strong> M.B.A. I<br />
heard from Janette Roman ’05. She has a<br />
new additi<strong>on</strong> to her family, s<strong>on</strong> Alexander<br />
James Roman, born <strong>on</strong> June 5, 2006. Janette<br />
is enjoying every minute of baby Alexander.<br />
The M.B.A. Advisory Board has started a<br />
newsletter; all M.B.A. graduates should have<br />
received a copy in November. Please c<strong>on</strong>tact<br />
the M.B.A. office or drop me a line if you did<br />
not receive <strong>on</strong>e.<br />
The fall 2006 Networking Night was<br />
held <strong>on</strong> November 16 at the Edge restaurant<br />
in Bethlehem. Some of the M.B.A. alumni in<br />
attendance were Chris Szutar, Rich Goch,<br />
Rick Subber, Gretchen Walters, Kevin<br />
Boucher and Rob Wentling. Save March 22,<br />
2007, for the spring networking night also at<br />
the Edge.<br />
Please send me your news!<br />
Changes<br />
Marriages<br />
2004 Melissa Sadecki and Jeff Micari,<br />
September 9, 2006.<br />
Jennifer Strobel and Jas<strong>on</strong> Barnes,<br />
September 20, 2006.<br />
2003 Maribeth Ealey and Jas<strong>on</strong> Pfeifer,<br />
September 20, 2006.<br />
2002 Julie J<strong>on</strong>es and Philip Shilane,<br />
August 13, 2006.<br />
2001 Brooke Dancho and Brian Swinteck,<br />
June 10, 2006.<br />
2000 Elizabeth DiFebo and Jas<strong>on</strong> Drott,<br />
October 14, 2006.<br />
1999 Katy Fiandaca and John Dwyer,<br />
September 16, 2006.<br />
1998 Rebecca James-Poole and Daniel<br />
Michalski, November 24, 2006.<br />
1974 Carol Goldfeder and Philip D.<br />
Moskowitz, September 3, 2006.<br />
Births<br />
2004 Lauren Castellano Compitello and<br />
Joseph, a daughter, Sophia Nicolette,<br />
August 14, 2006.<br />
2003 Jen Tori Shick and Ryan Schick, a s<strong>on</strong>,<br />
Cohen Lee, September 22, 2006.<br />
2001 Maddie Awad Abboud and Kenneth,<br />
a s<strong>on</strong>, Nathaniel Kenneth, October 7,<br />
2006.<br />
1998 Melissa Hege Ayala and Mario, a<br />
daughter, Aurora Irene, October 29,<br />
2006.<br />
1993 Betty Terry Snyder and Michael, a<br />
s<strong>on</strong>, Levi, August 1, 2006.<br />
1991 Kate Bochnak Burke and Sean, a s<strong>on</strong>,<br />
Christopher Fitzpatrick, August 1,<br />
2006.<br />
Deaths<br />
1983 Robert A. Kurtz, October 13, 2006.<br />
1973 Susan Sargent Riggins, September 2,<br />
2006.<br />
1972 Lester E. Brookfield, October 4, 2006.<br />
1960 Richard S. Casey, September 28, 2006.<br />
1955 George G<strong>on</strong>da, June 26, 2006.<br />
1953 Joyce B. Hains Timm, September 5, 2006.<br />
1950 Martin Black, September 11, 2006.<br />
Martha Lutz Samuels, February 20,<br />
2006.<br />
1941 William A. K<strong>on</strong>rad, October 21, 2006.<br />
1938 Miriam Schaeffer Romig, October 10,<br />
2006.<br />
Comenius Center<br />
1997 Edward John Cummings, August 26,<br />
2006.<br />
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Who will be be the <strong>Moravian</strong> Idol?<br />
Or c<strong>on</strong>tact:<br />
On June 30, 2007, our first-ever <strong>Moravian</strong> Idol will be crowned.<br />
Will YOU be in the running? All graduates of the last ten years (1997-2006) are eligible!<br />
Here’s how it works:<br />
1. Become a c<strong>on</strong>testant by making a gift to the <strong>Moravian</strong> Fund.<br />
2. Tell friends, family, coworkers and classmates to log <strong>on</strong>to www.moravianidol.com<br />
and vote for you. Each vote costs <strong>on</strong>ly $1.00, with proceeds going to the <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
Fund.<br />
3. Scores are determined by adding each c<strong>on</strong>testant’s <strong>Moravian</strong> Fund gift to the<br />
number of votes he or she received. Every m<strong>on</strong>th, the highest-scoring alums to date<br />
are profiled <strong>on</strong> the <strong>Moravian</strong> Idol website. In June 2007, the alum with the highest<br />
total will be named the 2006-2007 <strong>Moravian</strong> Idol!<br />
Go to www.moravianidol.com to make your gift, to vote, or to see the awards that will<br />
be to the <strong>Moravian</strong> Idol and runners-up.<br />
The MOravian FUnd OFFice<br />
<strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
1200 Main Street • Bethlehem, PA 18018<br />
800 429-9437 • 610 861-1339<br />
moravianidol@moravian.edu<br />
With a dollar and a dream, it could be you!<br />
WINTER 2007 MORAVIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE 21
The Liberty Bell visited <strong>Moravian</strong>’s south campus?<br />
Probably not, unless you’re class of 1777.<br />
In that year, the Liberty Bell was trekked<br />
from Philadelphia to present-day Allentown<br />
to keep it safe from British forces. Al<strong>on</strong>g<br />
the way, a broken wag<strong>on</strong> wheel forced<br />
the bell’s keepers to stop in Bethlehem,<br />
practically <strong>on</strong> the grounds of the <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
Seminary. The <strong>Moravian</strong> community of 1976<br />
witnessed a reenactment of this event <strong>on</strong><br />
Founder’s Day (then held <strong>on</strong> September<br />
24). The ’76-77 yearbook tells us that the<br />
Liberty Bell Trek—a wag<strong>on</strong> train carrying<br />
a full-sized Liberty Bell replica and about<br />
140 costumed reenactors—arrived at Main<br />
and Church streets at about 12:30 p.m.<br />
Following speeches and a performance by<br />
the <strong>Moravian</strong> <strong>College</strong> Band, “an Ox Roast<br />
was held behind Main Hall for all <strong>Moravian</strong><br />
Students, faculty, alumnae and Trek<br />
members.”<br />
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