Big Man on Campus - Moravian College

classnotes
1982
Reunion Homecoming 2007
October 19-20
Lori Vargo Heffner; 1481 Sanbrook Court; Bethlehem,
PA 18015; laheffner@verizon.net
From the Alumni House:
Bruce Bender currently works at Sea
River Maritime and was promoted to utility
cook in 2000.
1981
Craig “Kegger” Bartlett; 2405 W. Bayberry Drive;
Harrisburg, PA 17112; cbavfco@aol.com
1980
Molly Donaldson Brown; 1906 Wenner St.; Allentown,
PA 18103; unsinkable@fast.net
From Molly:
John E. “Woody” Snyder recently accepted
a position at Cardiff University School of
Engineering, in Cardiff, Wales, as a senior
lecturer (equivalent to associate professor
in the United States). Woody recently was
employed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s
Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University as
an associate scientist. Woody wrote, “Wolfson
Centre for Magnetics at Cardiff University
is expanding, with new faculty hired, and
lots of new state-of-the-art equipment to be
purchased, and my former group leader in
Ames is the new centre director, so I decided
to make the big jump. Any Moravian people
coming to the U.K. or passing through—feel
free to give me a shout!”
1979
Steve Vanya; 3119 Red Lawn Dr.; Bethlehem, PA
18017; van0087@enter.net
From Steve:
Congratulations are in order for Ken
Rampolla and Ann McCandless-Rampolla,
who received the 2006 Gillespie Award for
outstanding support of Greyhound athletics.
Nice job! Your dedication and commitment to
service are commendable and appreciated.
From the Alumni House:
Robert Honor is the director of career
development for the Tisch School of the Arts,
New York University. He was the 2003 and
2005 distinguished administrator nominee
responsible for career development programming
and event planning for 3,500 currently
matriculating Tisch students and 4,000 active
alumni. He also acts as industry liaison
and is responsible for job development and
career programming for Tisch.
1978
Dawn Allen; 7 Shelby Hill Lane; Danville, CA
94526; Dawnallen726@gmail.com
From Dawn:
Kathy Ozzard Chism ’77 sent a ticket to
me for her first gala fundraising event for
the charity nonprofit she created, Dream
One World, Inc., so I drove several hours to
attend. It was a beautiful affair. You can see
all the photos from it on the “Past Events”
page at www.dreamoneworld.org. I was able
to meet Susie Hyer ’76, who had flown in
from Colorado to volunteer for the evening
and had donated a lovely painting for the
silent auction. Paintings were also donated
by Jeff Epstein ’76 and Harry Douglas ’75.
You can see more of their artwork at Kathy’s
wonderful charity art gallery at www.galleryoffriends.com.
Kathy told me that Bill
Savoth ’76 recently saw Jeff Epstein’s work
on the Gallery of Friends site, contacted Jeff,
and purchased a painting! Twenty percent
or more of all art sales from the gallery site
gets donated to Dream One World, Inc. Even
Mark Felt (“Deep Throat” from Watergate)
and his daughter, Joan, attended and spoke.
It was a very inspiring evening, and I was
really proud to be a part of it.
Dave Wilmer is back in Connecticut after
spending his yearly six months in Canada
as innkeeper to his two lovely establishments
on Prince Edward Island. He is now
an empty-nester with both children in college—Andrew,
a junior at the University of
Connecticut, studying communications, and
Cristina, a freshman at the University of Delaware.
And speaking of kids in college, Judy
Primiano Bream is happy to report that her
daughter, Allie, is settling in very nicely at
Northwestern University as a freshman.
Please pay attention to my new e-mail
address. I am happy to say, though, that
there have been a few reports of rekindled
friendships since some of you have been
writing in, so come on Class of ’78—what
have you been up to? Please take just a few
minutes to drop a line.
1977
Reunion May 18-19, 2007
John Fauerbach; P.O. Box 162; Chester, MT 59522;
johnjfauerbach@yahoo.com
1976
K. Dale Zusi Scolnick; 45 Lake Trail East; Morristown,
NJ 07960
From the Alumni House:
Jeff Zettlemoyer was recently appointed
borough manager of West Easton, Pa. He
comes to the job with more than 17 years of
municipal experience. In addition, Jeff is a
certified building inspector and does work
for two consulting firms part time.
1975
Susan Bacci Adams; 402 Willow Road West;
Staten Island, NY 10314; sba402@aol.com
1974
Cyndee Andreas Grifo; 6988 Crystal Springs Rd.;
Cincinnati, OH 45227; Cgrifo@zoomtown.com
1973
Dennis Jones; 833 Hoover Drive; Apollo, PA
15613; djones@keystone-auto.com
Priscilla Barres Schueck; 703 W. Goepp Street;
Bethlehem, PA 18018
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1972
Reunion May 18-19, 2007
Terrell Mc<strong>Man</strong>n; 712 Fire Lane; Bethlehem, PA
18015; mcmann1@enter.net
1971
John Madison; 5749 Blue Grass Trail; Coopersburg,
PA 18036-1835; Aretiredst8ie@aol.com
Constance M. Sokalsky; 1441 Hillcrest Court No.
210; Camp Hill, PA 17011-8021; Connie_sokalsky@
hilton.com
1970
Denise Maday Greiner; 309 High Street ;
Catasauqua, PA 18032-1428; damg1210@aol.com
From the Alumni House:
Garry Earles is a licensed independent
clinical social worker. He has returned to
Massachusetts after living in Pennsylvania
for a few years. He continues to pursue his
career in working with children and adolescents
challenged by neurobiological/developmental
disorders such as attention deficit/
hyperactivity disorder, obsessive compulsive
disorder, bipolar disorder, and Tourette’s
syndrome, among others.
He is gaining a national reputation as an
expert speaker on impulse control difficulties
and executive functioning, the core feature of
ADD, as he tours the country presenting seminars
to mental health professionals and educational
personnel. His website, www.bridgingthechasm.com,
is dedicated to informing
and assisting others to better understand the
intricacies of these disorders. The website
also lists his seminar schedule. He would love
to hear from his old classmates.
1969
Caroline Funk Rabold; 232 Oxford Circle; Stroudsburg,
PA 18360; ccrabold@yahoo.com
From Caroline:
I talked with Greg Fota at Homecoming
this past fall. He lives in Bethlehem with his
wife, Georgia. They raised two daughters:
Catherine, a vice president for Wachovia
Bank, and Lauren, a doctoral student at the
University of Delaware. They have a granddaughter,
Alison, and are awaiting the birth
of their second grandchild. After graduating
in 1969 with a B.S. in biology, Greg went to
Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y., for an
M.S. in microbiology. He worked for several
Lehigh Valley hospitals for the next nine
Gulf Update
More than a year later,
Katrina moments still linger
The storm is long gone, and the aftermath
doesn’t command national media attention
anymore. But at the University of New Orleans
(UNO), hurricane Katrina still looms large in the
lives of faculty, staff, and students, says Mora-
vian College alumna Janice Thomas ’84.
As the director of UNO’s Office of Inter-
national Students and Scholars, Thomas had
to keep track of some 800 students displaced
by the hurricane’s August 2005 landfall—while
she and her staff were themselves scattered to
the proverbial four winds. “I ended up in New
Jersey for six weeks, hosted by Brookdale Com-
munity College,” she says. “Their international
center provided me with a work space and
other necessities.” In the first days post-Katrina,
Thomas and her coworkers formed a virtual
office connected by phone, fax, and e-mail as
they worked to reestablish contact with their
charges. Being unable to meet face-to-face
with students was perhaps the hardest part,
she adds. “You forget how much of what we do
in academe is on a personal level. One young
woman called me and was in tears because I
couldn’t meet with her in person.”
While young people far from home and fam-
ily might seem especially vulnerable to a disaster
of this magnitude, Thomas says her students
were well-equipped to cope with the trauma.
“<strong>Man</strong>y come from countries that also deal with
hurricanes, or with earthquakes or tsunamis,”
she says. “And if you’ve chosen to come halfway
around the world to study, you’re in a group of
resilient risk-takers.” Even so, the incident did
take a toll. “<strong>Man</strong>y students lost their apartments
and everything in them. Some weren’t able to
evacuate and had to be rescued by boat or
helicopter.” On the other hand, the generos-
ity of the larger academic community yielded
some unexpected opportunities. “Some of our
students got a chance to take courses at institu-
tions they wouldn’t otherwise have attended, like
MIT, Berkeley, or Penn,” says Thomas.
The University of New Orleans experienced
flooding and wind damage, but was able to offer
courses at its satellite campuses in fall 2005. The
main campus reopened in January 2006. Never-
theless, many in the UNO community are still af-
fected by Katrina. “My home came through fine;
it was the luck of the draw. I have colleagues
and staff still living in trailers, still fighting with
insurance companies and the state to get money
to rebuild,” says Thomas. “There’s still a lot of
work to be done, homes that need to be gutted,
families that need assistance—we could use
busloads of folks coming down to help.” One
sign of Katrina’s lingering presence is how often
the disaster comes up in casual chats. “We call
them ‘Katrina moments,’” she says. “And I think
all of us are longing for the day when we can go
to a social gathering without Katrina becoming a
topic of conversation.”
Thomas suggests that readers who’d like
to volunteer for relief work in the New Orleans
area contact the Louisiana United Methodist Di-
saster Recovery Ministry (www.laucstormrelief.
com), the Association of Community Organiza-
tions for Reform Now (ACORN, www.acorn.org)
or Operation Helping Hands (Catholic Charities,
www.catholiccharities-no.org/operation_help-
ing_hands.htm).
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