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Fall 1989, Vol. 7, No. 3

Chairman of the Board of Trustees James A. Zurn

President Dr. William P. Garvey

Issue Editor Mary Daly '66

Copy Editor Kimberly Dillon

Alumni Editor Bonnie Clark '84

Contributing Writers Bonnie Clark '84 Mary Daly '66 Kimberly Dillon Joanne Druzak Dr. William P. Garvey Gloria Knox Karen R. Merkle '84 Dr. Linda Colvin Rhodes '70 Dr. Kirk W. Steehler, DO Greg Yoko '85

Photography Louis Caravaglia Bonnie Clark '84 Mary Daly '66 Mercyhurst Archives Lisa Giersal '89 Times Publishing Company

Design/Production David Agresti Director of Graphic Design

Production Assistant Karen McGuire *92

Printing Seneca Printing, Oil City, PA

The Mercyhurst Magazine is published by the Office of External Affairs at Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA 16546.

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Oft the Cover: Bonnie Clark, director of alumni relations, cap­tured the cover photograph of the new stained glass window in Sullivan Hall, a gift of the Class of 1989. See story on Page 6.

Between the pages:

Commencement Address Be Affected by the Wounds of Others 2

President's Message to the Class of 1989: "TheHappy Warriors" 4

Panes of Glass: A Gift of Love 6

13"'D'Angelo Competition 7

People in the News 8

Mercyhurst History: Artists Burke and Cummings 10

Faculty Focus: Dr. Marilynn Jewell 12

On the Hill 13

Mercyhurst Author Jack Grazier '71 16

Alumni News 18

Class Notes 19

Performing Arts Schedule outside back cover

Be affected by the wounds of others by Dr. Linda Colvin Rhodes 70

Editor's note: Dr. Linda Colvin Rhodes is the Secretary of Aging with the Common­wealth of Pennsylvania. She graduated from Mercyhurst College in 1970 and received her doctorate from Columbia University. Rhodes was the 1989 commencement speaker at Mer­cyhurst College.

It is truly an honor to be able to come back to Mercyhurst College to give this commencement address. It is also an honor to be invited by two people I respected very much when I was a student here in the late 60s—President Garvey and Pro­fessor Wieczorek.

I have fond memories of Dr. Garvey's history and political science classes. He had a special gift for making those classes come alive. I also have fond memories of Professor Wieczorek who was my mentor as a sociology major at Mercyhurst. I think the test of a truly gifted teacher lies in his or her ability to allow you to believe in yourself. "Wiz," as we affectionately called her, did that for me. I had some humble aspirations of going on further with my studies. Professor Wieczorek was the one who inspired me to do it. For that inspira­tion and on-going friendship through the years, I will always be grateful to her.

After feeling honored by the invitation, after romanticizing the past, and after recovering from the fact that this day for you is 19 years ago for me, I began to search for a theme for this commencement address. In doing so, I found it helpful to reflect on why you are here today.

This day is one of both celebration and acknowledgment. Your parents are cele­brating your achievements, and your family and friends are very proud of you. It also is a day of recognition: That you have acquired advanced knowledge, that you have gone beyond what society re­quires of you and that this knowledge, and your chosen profession, will allow you to accomplish even more.

Whether you are in teaching, hotel res­taurant management, sociology or busi­ness, the beneficiaries of your knowledge will be your profession and the public you serve through that profession. When you receive your degree this afternoon, you become a bonafide trustee of knowledge. However, you did not acquire that knowl­

edge by yourself, and we do not expect you to keep it to yourself.

As I began to put pen to paper to write this commencement address, I found the best way for me to assemble my thoughts was to personalize this event and ask myself, "If my son, Matthew, were a mem­ber of the 1989 graduating class at Mer­cyhurst College, what would I tell him?7'

Be wary of scientism, Matthew. In our quest to be scientific, we have robbed our educational system of our human side. I

"Community requires the ...capacity to be affected by the wounds of others, to be wounded by their wounds. rr

hope it has not robbed you of yours. In some respects, scientism has made us ster­ile by leading many of us to believe that true thought, pure thought, is somehow devoid of feelings and values. Scientism persuades us to think that if we are going to do good research or be good business-people, we can't afford the clouded vision that emotions yield. Even those of us in human services and the human sciences find ourselves secretly yearning to be more scientific because it somehow legitimizes what we do. Although this college is a wonderful wellspring of thought, learn­ing and experience grounded in the hu­manities, I am sure this scientism has still found its way onto our campus.

In my position as Secretary of Aging, I have an obligation to serve the public and do the public good. But this position, if not carefully served, could do the public harm. I think the most common way to inflict harm in a public service position comes from being negligent. Negligence allows you not to care, and sometimes that means choosing not to know. There are all kinds of ways to hide behind the shield of negli­gence. You can insulate yourself behind a desk, you can surround yourself by people who will tell you there are no problems and, of course, you can become "scien­tific" by immersing yourself in rules and regulations rather than addressing the social issues that required the need for the rules in the first place. As a result, the

scales weigh in on the non-feeling side. If you don't feel, there is nothing to tug at your conscience.

As it is, you, too, will need to achieve a balance. Besides the knowledge you have gained, you also have acquired a number of skills like how to balance a budget, how to work with colleagues, how to negotiate, how to use a computer. Hopefully, you will have learned judgment—in particu­lar, to actualize the feeling part of you that will lead you to judgment with compas­sion. The other day, I was reading a wonderful book by M. Scott Peck on community making and peace. The name of the book is The Different Drum and, in it, Peck says, "Community requires the ... capacity to be affected by the wounds of others, to be wounded by their wounds." Without this capacity, your judgment is sterile.

Let me share with you one experience where I allowed myself to be affected by the wounds of another. It involved a woman named Cassandra Life. Her trag­edy was told in a much publicized article in The New York Times. Cassandra, in her late 80s, was beaten to death by her two older sisters.

Her death came a few weeks after our General Assembly had passed a law deal­ing with elderly abuse. We were shame­fully the last state in the

country to enact such a law. Although the law was too late for Cassandra, our de­partment was now charged with the re­sponsibility to draft rules and regulations that would put this new law into effect. As I thought about the task that lay ahead of me, Cassandra's death, how she died and why she died kept tugging at me.

If we could turn back time, how could yet unborn rules and regulations prevent her death? How could we protect our­selves from writing rules that might be perfectly correct but lack the judgment and vision to equip those who would have to follow these rules to do what is right? My chief counsel came to me with the suggestion that perhaps we should read the coroner's inquest report on Cassandra. And so we did. In cold black-and-white print, the description of her injuries and all the missed opportunities to have helped her slowly became wounds to me. After reading it, I cried. I cried because the system—one that is entrusted to me— failed her.

Within a short time, all of our key staff read the inquest and it provided the moti­vation to drive our work during the next several months. Because we allowed ourselves to be affected by the wounds of another, I think we have produced one of the best set of regulations engaging abuse and neglect of older people in the country.

After telling Matthew to become open to the wounds of others, I would tell him to be brave enough to see the world through "soft eyes." I share with you this soft eyes lense from which to view others from Scott Peck, who also went on to say in The Different Drum, that, if we are to build community, we will need to see the world very differently. And how would we see things, if we saw them from soft eyes? Let me share with you a blend of my interpre­tation of Peck's message, what it says to me and how I would share those thoughts with my son on his graduation day.

To see the world through soft eyes means to allow yourself not to know. Today, we

"J/ you don't feel, there is nothing to tug at your conscience."

are celebrating all that you know, but it will be important in your future to accept that there are certain things that you will not know. Learning and knowing come through others. It is the work of a lifetime. If we saw the world through soft eyes, government would be run very differently. Those of us who run bureaucracies in the public eye know full well how much we

pretend and convince ourselves that we know everything. We don't.

To see the world through soft eyes means that we would finally put John Wayne to rest. He is the symbol throughout our country of "rugged individualism." An image that was important at one time in this country, but it no longer functions in today's complex world. It is the kind of thinking that encourages people to "fake it" to pretend that they have all the an-

. swers. They don't need others. It fosters leaders who will manipulate others to buy into those answers. For them, it becomes then just a matter of marketing.

The "rugged individual" tries to con­vince others to follow his or her path no matter what, instead of being open to the

"Seeing the world through sop eyes means we need to create safe places so people can be­come a community. It means celebrating differences among us."

grow, to find themselves. It doesn't mean handing them solutions. For those of you in business, it means while you're in the conference rooms, you will allow safe places for your colleagues to think, to grow, to have differences and to raise questions no one else wants to hear.

Pictured I - r: Bishop Michael Murphy, Dr. Linda Colvin Rhodes, secretary of aging, Dr. William Gatvey, president and James '/Mm, chairman of the board of trustees.

ideas and contributions of those they are leading.

The concept of "soft eyes" also has a special message for women and that is: Do not fall into the trap of becoming super-women, because you, too, will be forced to fake it. You will lead yourself to believe that you can have it all—a smashing ca­reer, the perfect marriage and adoring chil­dren. Trying to be a superwoman means you don't need others. You do.

Seeing the world through soft eyes means we need to create safe places so people can become a community. It means celebrating differences among us. It means being inclusive and not exclusive. For those of you who will be therapists, it means you will need to allow those under your guidance the space to feel safe to

And what would my final words to Matthew be this day? They would simply be: With this knowledge and with these skills, I wish you much success and happi­ness. But, most of all, I hope you will use them, my son, with the softness and vul­nerability that only the courageous know.

The Happy Warriors: Class of f89 by Dr. William P. Garvey

Editor's note: Excerpts from the Presi­dent's message to the Class of 1989, a class he calls "The Happy Warriors," is reprinted at the request of the graduates.

You made it after all! After 40 courses, 100 exams, 1,500 classes, and, at least, 250 parties, you've made it to graduation day — to your honor, to the pride of your parents, with the assistance of the faculty and to the relief of the administration.

It is a great achievement and a memo­rable one — and an outcome that was by no means certain four years ago when you were sitting in the Grotto during your Freshman Orientation. Do you remember how you felt that day? What was run­ning through your m i n d s - t h o u g h t s like, "What am I doing here? Will I like it here? Will I make new friends? Can I do college work? How am I going to survive without my friends, parents, boyfriend or girlfriend? What should I major in? Who is going to do my laundry?"

And, you may recall I did not make you feel much better when I pointed out that you should look around. That you or your neighbor probably would not sur­vive. That 50 percent of your class would not be around to come up over the hill from the Grotto to the gym to graduate. I said then that those who did make it would do so because they would connect with college, they would find meaning in col­lege and they would become a member of the Mercyhurst community—Mercyhurst would become a second home, a way of life.

That happened for and to you because you made it happen. You connected, you found a home, and you found meaning and significance in your college experi­ences.

And so, today, you are here to begin to reap some of the rewards. You are about

to enter the 20 percent of Americans who hold a college degree, and, if the statistics hold true, you will make a half-million dollars more in your lifetime than the non-college graduate as a result of your degree. And, the chances are now very good that you will be among the 75 percent who comprise the managerial class in America. Even better, if your Mercyhurst education worked reasonably well, or took hold at all, you will vote more, hold more civic po­sitions, be more socially conscious, read more and live better than those who did not go or finish college.

That is, if you make those things hap­pen. A college degree does not guarantee

Honors and a hefty pension? Our faculty, administration and trus­

tees, along with your friends and family, wish all of these things for you. But, we also know that there is something even

Dr. William P. Garvey

you success. It just positions you for success...however you define it. I suggest that you who are about to graduate, and those of us up here on the stage, might define success differently.

"It is our great hope that you will translate that energy, en­thusiasm, and ambition you now possess into making the world a better place, not just for yourself, but for others/'

Is it a $50,000 a year job? A BMW? A yearly vacation on the Riviera? A beauti­ful wife? Home? Children? Or, is it good health? High esteem in your profession?

"You are a true group of happy warriors. You, the Class of'89."

more important for a successful life—and that is a meaningful existence. One marked by constant self-renewal and growth and a spirit that is always optimistic.

This last quality is ever so important for, without it, the world can be a difficult and even depressing place. The world is, in the final essence, just what you make it or how you view it. Many view the world as the ancient Egyptian did 4,000 years ago when he penned the following poem while con­templating suicide:

To whom can 1 speak today? The gentle man has perished. The violent man Has access to everybody. To whom can I speak today? Evil smites the land. It has no end. To whom can I speak today? There are no righteous men. The earth is surrendered to criminals.

This is hardly a philosophy with which to face the future, to live a rich and mean­ingful life. How much better is it to be the "Happy Warrior" of William Wordsworth, the English poet, who wrote:

Who is the Happy Warrior? Who is he? That every man in arms Should wish to be? It is the generous spirit who, When brought Among the tasks of real life, Hath wrought Upon the plan that pleases his thought Whose high endeavors are An inward light That makes the path before him Always bright Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, Is diligent to learn! Whose high endeavors are

An inward light That makes the path before him Always bright

How much better a message to live by, especially for the Class of 1989, who have among you so many happy warriors.

For isn't this the class: •That raised over $2,000 to provide the college with that magnificent stained glass window of the college seal in Sullivan Hall; • That played an important role in send­ing our women's soccer and basketball teams to National Finals; •That produced winning records in foot­ball, baseball, women's softball and ten­nis, men's tennis, and a regional cham­pionship in crew; • That produced the best literary maga­zine and the finest college newspaper in Mercyhurst history; • That is sending its members to gradu­ate school at the University of Virginia, Columbia, Notre Dame, Case Western and a host of other fine schools; and • That produced the most enthusiastic senior parties that we thought would never end.

Yes, you are a true group of happy war­riors. You, the Class of 1989. And, it is our great hope that you will translate that en­ergy, enthusiasm and ambition you now possess into making the world a better place, not just for yourself, but for others.

Remember what Swiss poet and phi­losopher Henry Fredric Amiel said:

President's Associates Achievement Aioard winners (l-r): front row: Danielle Bogan, Pamela Woodring, Shelley Ferguson, M. Christine Wiesen. Back row: Christopher Collins, Jeffrey Roessner, Eric Flecken, John Saxon.

"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an unsuitable and silent propaganda...which, in its power, tends to transform the universe and humanity into its own image. Every man's conduct is an unspoken sermon that is forever preach­ing to others."

What will your sermon be, or, have been, when the tumult and the shouting has ended for you someday?

For such a class of happy warriors we hope that the sermon will be no less than that you have won at least some small victory for humanity. That is what will make us and those who love you most, proudest of all!

And, now go forward, in the words of English poet Lord Tennyson, "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Top Senior Honors The college presented its top awards at the 1989 commencement to;

Diane Erzen, Verona, PA Carpe Diem Award

Jeffrey W. Roessner, Titusville, PA Archbishop John Mark Gannon Award for General Scholastic Excellence

Christopher J. Kovski, Fairview, PA Sister M. Eustace Taylor Leadership Aioard

Michael E. Falk, Erie, PA Susan M. Lanzel, St. Marys, PA Sister Carolyn Herrmann Senior Service Award

Susan E. Zimmer Dean, Erie, PA Mother M. Catherine McAuley Adult Student Award

Shirley Williams, Erie, PA James V. Kinnane Graduate Award

Erzen receives highest student award

In a year when Mercyhurst College began to actively encourage and foster leadership potential in her women students, the top honor presented at commencement was awarded to Diane Erzen, an accounting major from Verona, PA.

Erzen received the Carpe Diem Award, the highest student award given by the college, as the graduating senior who best exemplified the college motto, "Seize the Opportunity," by her scholarship, leadership and service to Mercyhurst College.

Erzen had worked on the parents and alumni phonathon for four years, was the 1988 chairman of Parents Weekend and, the year before that, was co-chairman of the event. Carpe Dim wimer Diane Erzen wilh Dr' mUam Carv^'

Diane was a dean's list scholar, a member of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, and Delta Mu Delta, the national honorary business society.

In her sophomore year, she was the treasurer of the business association, and she completed her senior year at Mercyhurst as the president of the Student Alumni Association.

Mercyhurst will remember her for her many contributions, but, most especially, for her class leadership this past year that resulted in the re-institution of a lost tradition at Mercyhurst—the senior class project.

The class of 1989 gave the college a 36-square-foot stained glass window depicting the college seal in Sullivan Hall as their class gift. Along with her co-chairman, James O'Connor of Cleveland, OH, the window represents her vision, her dream and her legacy to Mercyhurst College.

Panes of glass: A gift of love by Kimberly Dillon

The leaves outside were turning brown. A small group of seniors sitting in the college cafeteria was reminiscing about their college exploits as if graduation had already occurred. Suddenly, the idea that would make this class historic was born — a gift from the Class of 1989 to the school that had given them so much.

Once ignited, the fire to leave their mark on the college grew into a flame. With the assistance of Bonnie Clark, director of alumni relations, a committee of about 40 students was formed. This dedicated group canvased about 250 seniors in only four months. Over 100 contrib­uted raising $2,000 — an average of $21 per student — for a stained glass win­dow. An additional $200 was raised for a c o m m e m o r a t i v e plaque displayed next to the window inside Sullivan Hall.

"We underesti­mated the kind of in­tensity that a proud people can bring about," said Dr. William P. Garvey, president of Mer-cyhurst College, at the dedication cere­mony for the 36-square-foot stained glass window that embodied 63 years of dedica­tion and service. "This window is a sym­bol that you were here. That you cared...Now you've become a historic class."

The window, located on the south side of Sullivan Hall, is a focal point on the campus overlooking Garvey Park. The students conceived the idea, approved the design and secured the artist. After the committee decided on using the Mer-cyhurst Seal, they went to John K. Reitin-ger, owner of Head Lines Stained Glass Studio, with a draft of a design. "The artist turned our dream into a reality," said senior Diane Erzen.

The window is 550 pieces of glass sol­dered into one single piece weighing about

300 pounds. It is done in the original Mercyhurst Seal colors. The red center is etched in German flash glass. The white cross was sandblasted out of the red glass. The lettering Carpe Diem is etched in. One hundred and ten pieces of amber glass form the rope in the center medallion. Each piece of glass in the center is lined in copper foil. Once soldered, the foil pieces the glass together like a puzzle. Glue-chip glass (hot glue poured over clear glass that dries and forms a pattern) was used for the white background. The glass is zinc chan­

nel. Most of the glass was hand rolled in K o k o m o , I N . "Hand-rolled glass was used because it has a texture all its own," said Reitinger, who added, "I also soldered a brand new copper penny into the brace to date it." It took the artist over 250 hours to complete and two hours to install. "John got more and more involved in the project as it went along," said senior Jim O'Connor. "That window is worth more than what we paid. "

"This work was nurtured throughout the whole process by the students, " said Reitinger. "I feel an affinity with the col­lege now. The kids are my friends."

Seniors Diane Erzen and Jim O'Connor, who worked in the alumni office, co-chaired the project, which began in late October. "When you start a project of this size, you're worried whether people will participate," said O'Connor. But, fortu­nately, most of the students really believed in the project said Erzen. "We all pulled together to make it work and have some­thing to leave behind. The Class of 1989 made it happen. We left our mark," she added proudly.

At the ceremony on April 12,1989, the students dedicated the window to the Sisters of Mercy. Carpe Diem—to seize

the opportunity—a motto the graduates of 1989 took literally.

Kimberly Dillon is the new director of pub­lications at Mercyhurst. She becomes editor of the magazine with the next issue.

THE HISTORY OF THE SEAL

1 he seal of Mercyhurst College derives its form and symbolism from two early sources: the habit of the Fathers of Mercy, founded by Peter Nolasco in 1224, and the shield of Mercy, designed by Catherine McAuley when she founded her order, the Sisters of Mercy, in 1831.

The Fathers of Mercy wore a white habit on which was shown a red cross inter­woven with the royal arms of Aragon to acknowledge their gratitude to their bene­factor, King James of Aragon. This king had aided Peter Nolasco, a Spanish noble­man, who, in response to a vision of Our Lady of Mercy, established the Fathers of Mercy, especially dedicated to the ransom of Christian captives, at that time victims of the invading Moors.

Catherine McAuley greatly admired the work of Mercy set i n place by Peter Nolasco in the 13"' century and likely saw her own vision of Mercy, in the 19"', akin to his. Each was answering a need of the times— he, the ransom of Christian captives; she, the Christian education of youth and serv­ice to the poor and the sick. Both the name—Sisters of Mercy—and the Mercy shield, a white cross with red stripes on a field of gold—express her sense of spiri­tual kinship with Peter Nolasco.

In 1926, in designing an official seal for Mercyhurst College, the founders chose the Mercy Shield with a cross and vertical bars as center. They added the date of founding, 1926; and the place, Erie, PA. They chose for a motto a phrase from the Latin poet, Horace, "Carpe Diem." Trans­lated literally, the words mean "Seize the moment (or opportunity)"—a motto fitting for those committed to the service of human minds and spirits.

The words that follow in the Horatian line ".. .quam minimum credula postero"(...relying as little as possible upon tomorrow)adcl significantly to the need to use well the present moment.

Horatian Odes, Book 1, Ode 11, 1.8.

From an original document prepared by Mother M. Borgia Egan, first president of Mercyhurst College. '

Annual D'Angelo Young Artist Competition

Once they began to play, there was no turning back. Out of 36 contestants, only one would walk away with a $10,000 first prize and several performance awards. The competition was fierce with pianists from all over the world, including the United States, represented. It began Fri-

Anthony Padilla

day, July 14, in Mercyhurst's Zurn Recital Hall and ended, for the first time this year, with a 60-piece orchestra accompaniment in the Warner Theater before an audience of 2,100.

You could glimpse the pressure to reach the semifinals and finals on their faces, but the determination to win, you could hear as their hands danced along the keyboard. The competition was the 1989 D'Angelo Young Artist Competition in Piano.

Winning one of the most lucrative international fl music competitions

in the country was

Anthony Padilla, 23, of Rich­land, WA. He played a piece by one of the foremost com­posers of the 19th century, Johannes Brahms, whose Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra in D minor Opus 15 was as captivating as the lad himself. Since 1983, Padilla has won six other first-place awards.

The $5,000 second place prize went to Eun Soo Son, 25, from Seoul, Korea. She performed the Second Piano Concerto by the Russian composer, pianist and con­ductor, Sergei Rachmaninoff-his most popular and frequently performed work.

Third place went to Lorraine Min, 19, of Vancouver, Canada. She received $3,000 for her rendition of Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in C major Opus 26 by the Russian composer Sergei Prokof­iev, best known for Romeo and Juliet, Cin­derella and the C major concerto.

Each competitor prepared 2-1/2 hours of music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and works from the Romantic and contempo­rary periods. In addition, competitors prepared a piano concerto by Beethoven

"You could glimpse the pres­sure to reach the semifinals and finals on their faces..."

and a second concerto by either a Roman­tic or contemporary composer. A tradi­tion at the D'Angelo competition is a com­missioned piece by D'Angelo School of Music's composer-in-residence, Al­bert Glinsky. This year the

piece was entitled "Silver Blue," a 10-minute solo piano work that was

performed at the I finals by Wen-

YiLo.

Winners of the 13"'D'Angelo Young Artist Competition ore pictured with competition benefactors Dr. and Mrs. George D'Angelo (center). They are (l-r): Third-place winner Lorraine Min; grand prize winner Anthony Padilla, and second-place winner Eun Soo Son.

In addition, for the first time this year, WQLN-TV and the Pennsylvania Public Television Network filmed the entire weekend's activities starting with the com­petitors arrival. WQLN will produce a one-hour documentary on the competi­tion to be aired in the fall.

On a sad note, Steven DeGroote from South Africa, who won first prize at the first D'Angelo Young Artist Competition in 1977 and three months later the Grand Prize in the Van Cliburn In­ternational Pi­ano Competi­tion, died in May. His success led him to en­gagements with most of America's leading orchestras. He also taught music at Arizona State University. He

was 36 years old.

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People in the News by Gloria Knox

As a college dedicated to academic growth and personal fulfillment, Mercyhurst is proud of its faculty and administrators for their commitment to life-long learning. Their growth and development are shown by the honors they have achieved and by the wide-range of activi­ties participated in during the past academic year.

KEN BRASINGTON, head football coach, attended the American Football Coaches Association Convention in Nash­ville, TN, and spring football clinics at West Virginia Univerisity, Pitt., and West Point Military Academy. He also attended the Pittsburgh Steelers mini-camp. In addition, Brasington spoke at numerous gatherings including Holy Trinity's and St. Paul's father-son communion break­fast; Bradford Central Christian, Cambr­idge Springs, Strong Vincent and East high schools athletic banquets. He also directed the Laker football coaches clinic and instructional camp (grades 6-12), Laker football 12th-man golf class, the Mercyhurst College football hall-of-fame banquet and the first annual Erie city-county football recruiting fair.

DANIEL BURKE, professor of art, had his work exhibited at the Associated Art­ists 78th Annual Exhibition; Juried Paint­ing Exhibition at the Three Rivers Arts Festival; Hoyt National Painting Show in New Castle, PA; thel4th Annual Meadville Council on the Arts; Erie Art Museum's 65lh Annual Spring Show and The Artist Gallery in Buffalo. He received the 1988 NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the 78th

Annual Exhibition Purchase Award and the Northwestern Pennsylvania Artists' Association award. In addition, Burke has

been commissioned by the Doyle Com­pany to create a permanent painting at 100 State Street.

DR. J. MICHAEL CAMPBELL, assis­tant professor of biology, and VERNON WHERRY, assistant professor of criminal justice, attended the First Annual Summer Academy for the Advancement of College Teaching. The Academy was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Academy for the Profession of Teaching and the State Sys­tem of Higher Education Faculty Profes­sional Development Council.

DR. BARRY COPELAND, head basket­ball coach, spoke to the Erie Rotary Club on increasing business performance through motivation. He discussed how Mercyhurst maintains academic standards for its athletic programs at an Erie Kiwanis Club meeting and at the Erie Chapter Ser-toma Club.

DR. THOMAS DONAHUE, assistant professor of philosophy, presented a pa­per on promoting excellence at the Second Annual Mid-Atlantic Conference on Col­lege Teaching and Classroom Research. He wrote an article for the Hartford Cour-ant on the abortion issue and wrote two other articles for professional trade maga­zines. This summer, he reviewed a forth­coming philosophy textbook for Macmil-lan Publishing Co.

DR. DIANE DUDZINSKI, assistant pro­fessor of biology, attended the American Association for Cancer Research meeting held this summer in San Francisco.

ALBERT GLINSKY, assistant professor of music and composer-in-residence, re­ceived a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts to create a new work

for the Erie Philharmonic to celebrate its 75,h anniversary. The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble presented the American premier of Glinsky's work Masquerade in April. Also, his piano solo Elegy had its New York premier at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Glinsky's work Toccata-Scherzo, written for the 1988 D'Allgelo Competition, was performed on tour by violinist Maria Bachmann. Glinsky also founded the D'Angelo Artists Series, which held concerts and masterclasses last year.

CHARLENE GEE-GLISPY, associate professor of foods and nutrition, was elected chairman of the Pennsylvania Dietetic Association's Council on Practice and co-chairman of its Committee on Continuous Education. She attended the Pennsylvania Dietetic Association's an­nual spring meeting, the conference for Food Service Management, and the an­nual meeting of the American Dietetic Association, Council on Education Re­gion VI.

DR. FRANK HAGAN, director of the criminal justice administration graduate program, wrote two books entitled Devi­ance and the Family and Research Meth-ods in Criminal lustice Criminology. His book Introduction to Criminology: Theo­ries, Methods and Criminal Behavior is in its second edition. He also wrote an article for the "Journal of Security Administra­tion."

DR. FREDERICK KECK, assistant pro­fessor of religious studies, attended the College Theology Society's annual con­vention in the spring and presented a paper entitled, "Toward a Socially Respon­sible Spirituality." He also wrote an article/'Witness to Spirituality," in Review

Brasington Campbell Copeland Hagan Kolb Leise ring Lintsen Lorenz

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for Religious. Keck also reviewed two books for Horizons.

DR. CHARLES KOLB, formally direc­tor of research and grants, now acting assistant director of the Hammermill Li­brary, co-chaired and organized symposia at the American Anthropological Associa­tion Annual Meetings. He also attended the Northeast Mesoamerican Conference, the Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University symposium on Teotihuacan, and the Pro­fessional Archaeologists, American Eth­nological and Pennsylvania Archaeology societies conferences. He had papers pre­sented at the annual meetings for the Soci­ety for American Archaeology and the American Anthropological Association, at the First Joint Archaeological Congress and at the Eriez and Allegheny chapters of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology. He reviewed eight periodicals for profes­sional trade publications. He is on five committees with the Pennsylvania Hu­manities Council, two as chairman. In addition, Kolb gave the opening address at the council's annual conference.

SR. ELISABETH LINTSEN, director of campus ministry and foreign student advisor, was one of 38 people selected as Most Outstanding Advisors and Counsel­ors in 1988-89 by Who's Who Among Inter­national Students in American Universi­ties and Colleges.

JOHN LEISERING, formally director of athletics, now station manager of WMCE-FM, attended the annual NCAA Conven­tion in San Francisco, the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Convention in I Iyannis, MA, and made a presentation at the ECAC West Division when Mercyhurst's Ice Hockey team was admit­ted.

DR. BRENNA LORENZ, assistant pro­fessor of geology and chemistry, published "Lexemes Into Names" in Literary Ono-mastic Studies.

DR. LEWIS LUTTON, associate profes­sor of biology, participated in a summer faculty research program funded by the U.S. Air Force. He worked at Wright-

Patterson AFB at the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories, Human Engineer­ing Division. While there, he researched mental fatigue and work loads to improve pilots performance through training pro­grams, studied heart rate variability to determine how our internal physiological and biochemical clocks affect data collec­tion, and created a model of his research.

DR. GARY MYERS , assistant professor of English, taught three workshops for Mercyhurst's Summer Writers Institute for High School Students.

JOI IN NEE, associate professor of crimi­nal justice, wrote an article on security education curricula for the Academy of Security Educators and Trainers. He also reviewed two books on security admini­stration.

SALLY ONDREJCAK, assistant profes­sor of human ecology, attended the Ameri­can Association of School Psychology conference in April.

DR. DAVID PALMER, special assistant to the president, co-founded the Dance Connection, a group of dance enthusiasts in Erie, to promote coordination and ex­pansion of dance in the city. He was also re-elected president of the board, Booker T. Washington Center, and appointed to the board of the Primary Health Services of Northwestern Pennsylvania and to the Erie Arts Council. He attended several education workshops, as well as editing a book for the English department on evalu­ating style and grammar for non-English teachers. He coordinated several campus events including the 1989 Academic Cele­bration, 1988-89 Academic Enrichment Grants and the Adopt-a-School program with Lincoln School.

HOWARD PAUL, assistant professor of business, helped several businesses through the Small Business Institute with market research and implementing ac­counting systems. The project was funded by the Small Business Administration and Mercyhurst College. He also spoke about businesspeople assessing their business image in a competitive environment at a

breakfast lecture series sponsored by Mercyhurst's Small Business Institute.

SR. EYMARD POYDOCK, director of cancer research, had a one-woman art show at Mercyhurst's Hammermill Library Cummings Gallery. She also attended the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in San Francisco.

DR. KENNETH SCHIFF, assistant pro­fessor of English, directed Mercyhurst's Summer Writers Institute for High School Students.

DR. MARY HEMBROW SNYDER, as­sistant professor of religious studies, wrote a book entitled The Christology of Rose­mary Radford Ruether: A Critical Intro­duction. She also wrote an article on "The Ideas of God and Suffering in the Political Theology of Dorothee Soelle" in the lour-nal of the College Theology Society. Snyder presented papers to the Women Religious of the Diocese, to the Erie Benedictines and to the Chautauqua Society for Peace.

DAVID THOMAS, associate professor of geology, taught a course for gifted sec­ondary students. The course discussed major discoveries in all the sciences that stimulated technological progress in our standard of living. The course was di­vided between research, lectures, field studies and hands-on lab experience.

JOHN WOLPER, chairperson of hotel, restaurant institutional management, spoke on the need for businesses to estab­lish a public relations and marketing pro­gram to foster good customer and em­ployee relations at the 1989 Educational Conference/Expo in Pittsburgh.

DR. JAMIE YULE, professor of human ecology, attended an academic seminar on microdynamics in Dallas and the Human Ecology Conference at Michigan State University.

Gloria Knox is the arts publicist at Mer­cyhurst and a research reporter for the maga­zine.

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Mercyhurst History: Two artists recognized by Dr. Kirk W. Steehler, D.O.

Dr. Kirk W. Steehler, an ear, nose and throat specialist, is on the staff of Metro and Saint Vincent health centers. As president o the Erie Art Museum, he felt there was a need for information on Erie's art history from 1820tol945. Excerpts from his manuscript on Mercyhurst artists Dan Burke and Sr. Angelica Cummings follows. Full text available in the Mercyhurst archives.

D A N I E L B U R K E

In the prime of his artistic career, Erie, PA, native Daniel Valentine Burke has merited more than 25 awards in national and international juried exhibitions.

Born April 21, 1942, he is the son of Joseph (Przybycin) a Polish emigrant, and Joanne Wisniewski Burke. Dan's father was a master machinist and his mother worked as a seamstress. There is no heritage in the arts in Burke's lineage.

As a youth, Dan attended St. Stanislaus parochial school. He went to Cathedral Prep for one year and then to Tech Memo­rial High School, where he studied art under the local master Joseph Plavcan. Following graduation in 1960, he pursued art at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio for two years, majoring in magazine illustration.

His art studies were interrupted for a three-year tour of duty with the U.S. Army. While still in the military, he submitted art work to two Erie Art Center spring shows in 1963 and 1964. His oil painting "Phase One" took second prize in the 1964 show.

After his discharge from the service, Burke enrolled at Gannon College in a co­operative program which let him take art courses at Mercyhurst College, then an all-girls' institution. The college turned co­educational in 1969, and Burke registered as a full-time art major at Mercyhurst.

He studied drawing and painting un­der Sister Angelica Cummings who fo­cused his direction. In later life he would comment, Sister was "a lady who knew order and balance; the lofty and the real; the place of knowledge; the role of disci­

pline; the importance of care and how to make time grow."

In December of 1968, Burke joined with seven other Erie artists in a group display presented at the National Design Center in New York. Reviewed in the January 1969 issue of Art News, his three mixed-media pieces were critiqued as "full of informa­tion, but nevertheless somehow manage to retain great visual integrity." For New York tastes, the show was described as "adventurous and anything but provin­cial."

At age 27, he was the first male graduate of Mercyhurst and received a B.A. degree at commencement in June 1969, along with 126 women.

Soon afterwards, the college offered him a teaching position on the art faculty be­ginning in the fall, which he accepted.

Realizing the importance of continuing his art studies, Dan enrolled as a part-time student at Edinboro State College in the graduate art program. He received his master's degree in art education from Edinboro in 1972. At the conclusion of 1969, he had won 10 prizes for oils, water-colors and graphics in 15 competitions.

The year 1970 proved fulfilling for Burke both personally and professionally. On September 9, he married Jane Craig '70/ '89 formerly of Wayne, NJ. They are the parents of four children: Kate, Ellen, Timothy and Matthew.

Dan received the first of two fellowship residencies in 1970 to the MacDowell Colony, a 300-acre compound in Peterbor­ough, NH. The colony was established to foster creative talent in the arts and hosted a limited number of artists, writers and musicians in a setting conducive to pro­ductivity. He returned to the colony for another summer residency in 1973.

Burke's early paintings reflected cubist and pop art style and evolved into experi­mental compositions. He kept notebooks of ideas and files of objects for visual re­sources. He planned a painting configura­tion first in miniature then transferred his ideas to graph paper and then to canvas.

Adept in all media, he added color to the final designs by brush, and the motif resulted in a high degree of abstraction.

In 1971, Burke was tapped for inclusion in "Outstanding Young Men of America."

This was the first of many listings to come in indexes such as the Dictionary of Inter­national Biography (1973), Notable Ameri­cans of the Bicentennial Era (1976), and in other volumes and subsequent editions.

Throughout the mid-1970s, Burke's compositions were seen and/or won prizes at shows in Seattle, New Orleans, St. Paul, MN; Charleston, SC; Chautauqua, NY, and other locales. They won purchase awards for the permanent collections of IBM Cor­poration in Austin, TX; the North Carolina National Bank in Boone, NC, and the Laguna Gloria Art Museum which pur­chased his acrylic "REM" in 1974.

Promoted to associate professor at the college in 1975, Dan became involved in local art as co-executive director of the newly formed Northwest Pennsylvania Artists Association.

In 1977, he completed a portrait of Martin Luther King. The portrait was hung at the MLK Center at 312 Chestnut and unveiled at commemorative ceremonies on the 11th

anniversary of the slain civil rights leader's death.

From the 1980s on, Dan channeled his energies toward new works seen in a se­ries of one-man shows. The first major exhibit of this period was presented at Williams College Museum of Art in Wil-liamstown, MA, in 1981. By 1983, he had amassed 19 national and international awards.

In Februaryl984, he contributed four mixed-media works to a memorial show in the Cummings Gallery following the death of Sister Angelica, his mentor and long-time associate. Titled "Voicing,,mThe

Dan Burke with Sr. Angelica

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Anointing/'*' The Calling/' and "The Gift/' his art showed a somber tone and was re­viewed in light of religious connotations.

Following the Cummings Memorial Show, Burke resumed exhibiting in na­tional and group shows regularly. He has been accepted for membership in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and en­tered its 1987 show called "Low Art" held at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Also in 1987, he won the first Joesph M. Plavcan Award given by the Erie Art Museum annual for a mixed-media work called "The Slab," which was also exhibited at the Pitts­burgh Three Rivers Arts Festival.

Burke's work has been purchased by numerous private collectors. His ink draw­ing "Accident" is in the Erie Public Library's circulation collection.

Today, at age 47 and a tenured full professor at Mercyhurst, Dan divides his time among educational responsibilities, teaching and the creative process.

Burke's mentor, noted painter Sister Mary Angelica Cummings founded the fine arts department at Mercyhurst Col­lege and enjoyed a teaching career that spanned nearly 50 years.

Born July 6,1900, in Punxsutawney, PA, she was the daughter of James and Rose Anne Donnelly Cummings.

She attended elementary school at Altman, PA, and took religious instruc­tion from the Sisters of Mercy. In high school she prepared for secretarial work, and after graduation went to Washington, DC, with a group of friends, where she performed office work.

She was employed in the capital when she decided on a religious vocation, a decision she never regretted. Upon enter­ing the Sisters of Mercy congregation in Erie, PA, in July of 1922, she took an apti­tude test which showed art as her strength. Mother Borgia, superior of the order at that time, encouraged education of the sisters. Within four years, Mother Borgia would establish Mercyhurst College, and the need for trained instructors was ap­parent.

Sister Angelica was sent to Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh to study art. Upon graduation she went to Cleveland, OH, for graduate work at West­ern Reserve University. And with Mother Borgia's approval, Sister Angelica went to New York City to study the old masters at the Art Students League under George Bridgman, Robert Brackman and Robert Philip.

Over time she also would take courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Starr School of Painting in East Glouc­ester, MA, Academia De Belle Arti in Venice, Italy, and at theTraphagen School of Fashion in New York City.

With the founding of Mercyhurst Col­lege in 1926, she returned to Erie to be­come the school's first art professor and molder of its fine arts curriculum. She took final vows as a religious of the Sisters

. of Mercy on January 1,1927. While teaching her first generation of

art students, Sister Angelica was and ac­tive painter of merit. Her early works concentrated on liturgical art, however, many works she exhibited in public were secular. Her reputation quickly reached beyond Erie County.

In the early 1950s, she received a com­mission from the Barton Cotten Company of Baltimore to paint a likeness of a newly canonized saint, Maria Goretti, a child martyr of Italy.

For another religious publisher, Sister received a commission to paint 15 scenes from the life of Jesus Christ, known in Catholic faith as the Mysteries of the Ro­sary. The works were done between fall 1951 and the spring of 1952. Color repro­ductions, 8 X10 size, were displayed at the National Catholic Education Association Convention in 1952 at Kansas City, and later were sold nationwide in booklet form.

Shortly afterwards, she completed a painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus which won favor with several provinces of Jesuit Fathers. In Erie in 1951, she undertook a major restoration of 14 paintings depict­ing the Sta tions of the Cross in Saint Peter's Cathedral.

At Mercyhurst, she directed art students who painted six murals to decorate the school walls in the early 1950s, and Sister Angelica accepted two commissions for murals. She designed and painted reli­gious adaptations for the sanctuary of Holy Rosary Church in Johnsonburg, PA, an interpretation of the Blessed Virgin en­throned, and another at Saint Joseph Chapel in Titusville, PA. She also directed the interior decoration of the Mercyhurst Little Theatre after construction.

The exact dates of her earliest exhibits are not available, but she was known to participate in at least one show a year. In 1958 and 1959, the Erie Public Museum showed 23 views of her New England piers, fishing vessels and harbor scenes in a solo exhibit. A few years later, Sister-displayed 21 oils at the Pittsburgh Play­house in May 1964. Half of the works were sold at that showing and the proceeds benefitted the Mercyhurst Development Fund. Her work also found favor at

Chautauqua exhibitions, Thiel College in Greenville, Galerie International in New York City, and her art became known in European galleries as well.

Sister Angelica preferred contemporary to abstract art and obtained her best re­sults in oils, although she did some water-colors and drawings.

In 1964, Sister Angelica began the first of several European sojourns for study and travel on the continent and in Ireland. After several decades as chairman of the Mercyhurst art department, Sister stepped down in 1971 and pioneered the college's Junior Year Abroad program. Under her direction, third-year students were eligible for study at museums and galleries in Florence, Italy. The first year she accom­panied 32 students from Mercyhurst and other schools who eagerly signed up for the experience.

Meanwhile, her credits expanded at home. For the college's Golden Anniver­sary celebration in 1976, Mercy hurst's Cleveland Alumni Club sponsored a Sis­ter Angelica One-woman Show in the gallery of Higbee's downtown department store. More mixed-media local shows continued into the 1980s, one in particular was called "Ireland Remembered" at Gan­non University in 1977.

Sister Angelica disdained the notion that religious life suppressed one's talents and her accomplishments proved that.

Sister Angelica retired from teaching in 1974, but accolades were still to come. That spring, she was listed in Artists Interna­tional a publication designed to introduce American artists to the European market. She was the only religious among 102 American artists featured in the guide, which was distributed to museums and galleries on the continent.

At the 1974 commencement of Mer­cyhurst College, Sister was named the college's "First Lady of the Arts," and a Sister Angelica Senior Award for creative excellence was established to recognize yearly an outstanding senior art major.

In 1983, Gannon University's William Penn Society honored her as a distin­guished Pennsylvania artist and teacher.

The final capstone to her illustrious career came on January 15,1984, when the art gallery in the Mercyhurst library was dedicated as the Cummings Gallery.

Illness had befallen Sister Angelica in her advanced years. Twelve days after the gallery dedication she died at the Sisters of Mercy Motherhouse in Erie on January 27, 1984, at age 83.

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Faculty Focus: Dr. Marilynn Jewell by Karen Rene Merkle '84

Forty-five years ago, Marilynn Miller Jewell began her association with Mer­cyhurst College. "Mercyhurst has done so much for me throughout the years/' she explains. But ask any of her hundreds of students, colleagues and friends, and you will find that as a teacher and administra­tor, she has given back as much as she has received.

For 23 years she has taught English and foreign languages at the college. She has taken her students on voyages of discov­ery—both those who have traveled abroad with her, as well as those students who have experienced the excitement of intel­lectual discovery in her classrooms.

Jewell was one of the pioneers of the Mercyhurst Intersession in the late 60s. Her offerings took students on field trips to West Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

This past spring, she completed her final year of a two-year term as president of the Mercyhurst College Senate. In the fall, Jewell will become head of faculty devel­opment at the college. But years before she became a force on the faculty, Erie native Marilynn Miller was a Mercyhurst

student, graduating in 1948 as the valedic­torian of her class.

"I love Mercyhurst the way it is today, but I think one of the things that we have lost through the years is a sense of ritual. It goes along with what has happened in many segments of our society," she says. "Ceremonies—such as seniors floating candles across the pond that was located where Garvey Park now stands, or the weekly academic meetings where every­one dressed in cap and gown—gave me time to reflect, to think about what was happening," Marilynn adds. "Such things had an importance to me that I didn't realize at the time and are more important in retrospect. Things seem to happen so fast now, and the students don't have time to reflect on everything going on around them."

After seven years as a teacher in the English department at the college, her duties were expanded to include adminis­trative service as assistant, to then presi­dent, Dr. Marion Shane. She taught Ger­man part- time and worked in administra­tion part-time for seven more years.

Then, in 1979, after her children were through college, Jewell took a sabbatical to study for her Ph.D. in higher education.

I went to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After I'd been in the program for awhile, I said to my husband, This is a lot harder than I thought it would be/ And he said, ' This is a lot more money than I thought it would be.'" But it was money well spent, and with the help of her professors, Jewell finished her doctorate in an almost unheard of 2-1/2 years.

"When I returned to Mercyhurst, 1 re­turned to teaching full-time. And now

5^ I can't imagine myself in administra­tion. "The rewards in administra­

tion don't equal the headaches, and I realize now how important the interaction with students is to my own happiness.

"I love studying and learn­ing about almost anything I can," she enthuses. It is that sort of enthusiasm, coming from one of their most re­spected professors, that has encouraged the college to re-evaluate the impor­

tance of the study of languages and cul­tures. The language department recently became an entity unto itself, offering not only more language courses, but also some of the culture courses that are part of the core curriculum. There is no language major as yet, but it is something that Mari­lynn and many others are hoping for.

Jewell says that learning a language takes motivation. The big question is:

"The rewards in administra­tion don't equal the headaches, and I realize now how impor­tant the interaction with stu­dents is to my own happiness."

how much motivation do Americans have for learning languages? Jewell said that she thinks a lot of college students have had bad experiences in high school with language, so they have a negative attitude toward it. "It's different in Europe, where you drive for an hour or two and you're in a different country with a different lan­guage," she explained.

"Americans have a tendency to think that everyone in the world speaks Eng­lish. And that is the truth: almost every­where we go we can find people speaking English. Even though there are great advantages in this, there also are some disadvantages. If we only understand English, then we don't really understand the way other people think. We get quite arrogant in our ways, and self-satisfied, and that affects the way people of other countries look at us."

It is Marilynn's understanding of Earth as a global community that she has tried to impress upon her students during her years at the college. "We can't afford to be so na­tionalistic, so provincial in our attitudes. We are all part of planet Earth."

Karen Rene Merkle is a freelance writer in Erie, PA, and a regular contributor to the Mercyhurst Magazine.

On the Hill

Third wave of improvements begins

Dr. Cm vith helpe)

"J believe the fun is in building...in bringing new things to life. We never do the same thing * twice...We're always opening new doors." — Walt Disney

Like Disney, Mercyhurst officials are finding excitement in building and opening new avenues to enhance the quality of life for students. In the spring, college trustees approved a $6.8 million bond issue as part of a three-year planning project to upgrade the 80-acre campus facilities. According to Dr. Wil­liam Garvey, college president, "This is the third wave in a four-year period of improvements for Mercyhurst." Out of the $6.8 million, $3.5 million was allot­ted for new construction; about $2.5 million for renovations to existing structures and another $800,000 to retire debt. Since 1986, the college has put $17 million into its campus — the largest amount of money any local college or university has put into its facilities in such a short period of time.

"The most exciting part of the construc­tion is the student union," said Garvey. "Every president since 1969 has pushed for a student union. Our students have been asking for one for 20 years. They are fi­nally getting it," he said.

The 23,000 sq. ft. student union will open in September 1990 at an approximate cost of $2 million. The Tudor Gothic-style facility will be located on the brow of the hill overlooking the Grotto. "We hope to make it the center of campus life," said Garvey, who continued, "It will create a quad between the residence halls and the apartments. So it will be right in the center of the living complex." The three-story handicapped-accessible building will house a bookstore, a convenience store, a reading room, post office, snack bar, cof­feehouse, rathskeller, a unisex hair salon, campus ministry, a small chapel, TV room, offices, small party and recreational rooms, plus a great room with cathedral ceiling

~oe\j and Candy jaruszeivicz, director ofthe Maura Smith Child LearningCenter, S at the ground breaking for the center.

for a social lounge. College officials identified housing as

another top priority to bring the campus to the finest state possible. "With 1,000 stu­dents living on campus this fall, our resi­dence halls needed to be in good condi­tion," Garvey said. "Since residence hall living is very important to the students, we wanted to repair and update our resi­dence facilities, in particular, McAuley Hall and South Briggs apartments," he added. McAuley residence hall received new showers, carpeting, mattresses and furni­ture — about $260,000 worth of repairs. Four South Briggs apartment buildings were given new bathrooms and kitchens, new plumbing, carpeting, plastering and windows at a cost of $650,000.

Another important development for the college is a new day-care center located on the southeast campus. Licensed for 82 children, the Maura Smith Child Learning Center is designed around a color-coded system that will tell youngsters what room -or materials belong to their age level. The 4,800 sq. ft. facility costing $257,000, an attractive benefit for students, faculty, staff and administration, will be a training labo­ratory for the school's early childhood,

human ecology and psychology majors.

Plans also include a new Cummings Art Gallery located between the Zurn and D' Angelo buildings at an estimated cost of $300,000. "We have needed an art gallery for years," Garvey said. The Cummings Gallery had been housed for the past five years in Hammermill Library. "We want this new gallery to be one of Erie's finest," Garvey said, add­ing, "This will give the art de­partment the kind of gallery they have needed for 20 years."

In addition, a third floor will be added to Preston Hall for $718,000. This will give the busi­ness division a new home with 12 offices and three classrooms. The current square building will be given an arched slate roof to

continue Old Main's Tudor Gothic look. Other construction and renovation plans

include: Expansion of athletic facilities —

$525,000; An addition to Baldwin Hall for football

locker rooms, shower rooms, communica­tion department classrooms and gas con­version of the building — $325,000;

Air-conditioning, heating, carpeting and furniture for Hammermill Library — $177,000;

Renovation and repairs of heating and electrical systems and window replace­ment in Old Main — $275,000; and

Landscaping for Zurn Hall/D'Angelo School of Music — $165,000.

"The beauty of our campus is a major attraction," Garvey said. "It's a major rea­son why people choose Mercyhurst Col­lege and a significant reason people have an emotional commitment to the school," he concluded.

All of these changes have begun and will be visible to the 2,100 students ex­pected to enroll this year, except for the student union for which ground will be broken this fall.

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Russo named director of athletics

Pete Russo has been named the new director of athletics, replacing John Leis-

ering who is now an in­structor in communica­tions and gen­eral manager of the campus radio station.

Russo joins Mercyhurs t after 25 years in Erie County government.

He served as director of Parks and Recreation from 1964 to 1982 before becoming director of administration under County Executive Judy Lynch. In addition to his administra­tive credentials, Russo has been a college basketball official for 18 years and was in­ducted into the Erie Chapter of the Penn­sylvania Hall of Fame for Basketball Offi­ciating last year.

Russo began his duties at Mercyhurst on August 14.

Pete Russo

Kinnane award presented

Mercyhurst College officials presented the 1989 James V. Kinnane Criminal Jus­tice Award to Coroner Merle Wood and Erie policeman Raymond "Skip" Powell.

The award, named after the late founder of Mercyhurst's criminal justice program, is given annually to law enforcement offi­cials who have distinguished themselves in the profession.

Wood has been coroner for 30 years in Erie. He is past president of the Pennsyl­vania State Coroners Association and is currently its secretary-treasurer. He is past president of the Erie County Crippled Children's Society, the Center for Learn­ing Disability and the Kiwanis Club.

Powell has been on the Erie police force since 1968 and is currently a county detec­tive with the district attorney's office. He obtained his bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Mercyhurst, and earned a master's degree from Gannon University. He teaches at both Gannon and Mer­cyhurst.

The awards were presented at an hon­ors luncheon as part of the conference on "Policing in Northwestern Pennsylvania in the 90s." Fifteen of the past award re­cipients were on hand for the Kinnane awards presentation.

Business students, community leader honored

Fourteen Mercyhurst College students and col­lege trustee Myron Jones, owner and president of the JET Broadcasting Company, were inducted into Delta Mu Delta, the national honor society in business administration.

The students were honored for their supe­rior scholastic achieve­ments. Jones was recog­nized as a community leader in the broadcast Delta Mu Delta members from Mercyhurst include (l-r) sealed: Melissa Rossi, Diane Erzen, inHiiQfrw for r h p m<;r 4 ^ Jennifer Kaler, Ann Melqitist. Row two: MaUhexoTriola, Tracy Dennis, Lynda Sue Kelky, James

J * fc Herdzik, trustee Myron Jones. Roto three: Dr. Robert Cisek, chairman ofthe business divisiofi, John yea r s . Co l l ege t r u s t e e Saxon, Ian Hessel Gerald Hoi wan. J. Robert Baldwin, a past Delta Mu Delta awardee, gave the convocation address.

James A. Zurn

Trustee spotlight

James A. Zurn, senior vice-president of Zurn Industries, has been re-elected chairman of the board of trustees at Mercyhurst.

A graduate of Dartmouth College with an A.B. in geol­ogy, he holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Zurn began his affiliation with Mercyhurst in 1971, when he was named to the president's board of associ­ates. He was elected to the board of trustees in 1977, and and served his first two-year term as chairman begin­ning in 1987. He was the co-chairman of the Campus Center Campaign in 1975-76.

Zurn serves as a director of the First National Bank of Pennsylvania and as an advisory board member of the Allendale Mutual Insurance Company. He has been a trustee at Saint Vincent Health Center since 1978, and a member of the board of trustees for the Chautauqua Institution since 1981.

Also re-elected to the board were Albert F. Duval as vice chairman and F. William Hirt as secretary. Duval is chairman of the board of Penn Bank, and Hirt is chair­man of the board of Erie Insurance.

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r Crew shell dedication

In memory of 23-year-old Chrissy Hoffman '86, who died on August 16, 1987, Mercyhurst College raised $20,000 to purchase an eight-person shell and expand the rowing crew's boathouse at the foot of Sommerheim Drive. Hoffman, a U.S. Army Lieutenant, was killed in Detroit on Northwest Airlines Flight #255, returning from a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hoffman of West Gore Road in Erie.

Jack Gartner, coach of the Mercyhurst Prep crew team, and Henry Mayer, director of building and grounds, were co-chairmen of the fund raising event. James Zurn, chair manof the board of trus­tees, worked behind the scenes, as did Mary Collins '83 and Nina Serrins '86, who were on the same crew as Hoffman.

The boat house expansion, which cost $8,000, began in March of 1988 and was completed in September of that same year. The addition gives more storage capability, as well as more accessibilty to equipment. The shell cost $12,000.

The Hoffman family and a host of friends attended the dedication of the shell on Sunday, April 23. Over 125 alums, crew members, Carpe Diem and friends of Mercyhurst donated on behalf of Hoffman, who was characterized as always setting high standards for herself while inspiring others to do the same.

Members of the Hoffman family at the Chrissy Hoffman shell dedica­tion: Thomasand Gary Hoffman (parents), Amy Hoffman Moore (sister), and Chrissy's coach Jack Gartner.

Fund raising efforts receive national recognition

The $5 million fund raising Campaign for Mercyhurst College in 1985 received national recognition in two fund raising publications recently.

In full-page ads bought by Campbell & Company, fund raising consultants to our campaign, the Mercyhurst success story is told.

The ad called, "Our Clients Speak for Themselves," ap­peared in the May is­sue of Fund Raising Management, which has a mailing list of 12,000 college, univer­sity and hospital de­velopment officers; and in the June CASE Currents, which is read by an estimated 45,000 college and university advance­ment professionals.

Mercyhurst was the only client in the ad series representing successful fund raising efforts by a small private college.

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Through the ef­forts of our advance­ment office, members of the Mercyhurst College family (and that means anyone who receives the magazine) will soon be able to apply for a Mercyhurst College VISA card. The "af­finity" card, which depicts the college tower, as drawn by

Jim Sabol '70, will be available through the First National Bank of Northwestern Pennsylvania. (See ad on page 24.)

N e w scholarships announced

The Institutional Advancement Office raised more than $150,000 in endowed scholarships during the 1988-89 school year. Some of the new scholarships are:

DON KELLY IRISH SCHOLARSHIP — Established by Don Kelly to promote better Irish-American relationships in the broadcast industry. Reserved for Irish students enrolled in communications.

CLASS OF 1938 SCHOLARSHIP FUND — Established by the members of the Class of 1938 to support an academi­cally qualified student who is in need of financial assistance.

MARINE BANK SCHOLARSHIP — Established in the name of Marine Bank, an affiliate of P.N.C. Financial Corpora­tion. Awarded to a financially worthy or highly qualified academic individual from Erie, Crawford, Mercer, Warren, Forest, Elk or McKean counties.

MARRIOTT CORPORATION AN­NUAL SCHOLARSHIP — Established by Marriott Corporation to demonstrate the company's long-time commitment to the school's hotel and restaurant manage­ment program. Awarded to an upper-classman demonstrating exceptional dedi­cation to the hospitality industry.

MERCYHURST COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP — Endowed through annual donations by the trustees, presi­dent's associates, Carpe Diem Society, faculty, administration and staff. Benefits academically qualified students from the eight academic divisions — business, education, social science, humanities, natu­ral science and mathematics, performing arts, human development, and hotel, res­taurant institutional management. First preference is given to tri-state area stu­dents.

CLARENCE A. AND EUGENIE B. SMITH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND — Established in memory of Clar­ence Smith, who was an advertising ex­ecutive for the Times Publishing Com­pany, and his wife, Eugenie B. Smith, who was a well-known local poet. Two schol­arships are given, one to an academically gifted student majoring in marketing or related areas, and, the other, to a student interested in poetry and/or creative writing.

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The Jack Grazier Story: Give God room to work by Karen Rene Merkle '84

In one of his favorite parts of his new book about faith healing, The Power Be­yond, author Jack Grazier 71 tells his wife what to do in the event some tragic injury leaves him in a coma.

"Debbie, dear wife, please take note/7

he writes. "If I ever have a cerebral vascu­lar accident that leaves me in a coma, I want you to pray, and I want you to try every conventional means of bringing me around you can.

"Then when your conservative Repub­lican neurologist gives you a sly wink and tells you, ' I'm sorry, Mrs. Grazier, but your husband will always be a Brussels sprout, have you got plans for tonight?', I want you to go see a Democrat."

"...Call every research center you can (you'll find a list of these under our mat­tress, along with instructions on how to care for my tropical fish) and learn from these centers the latest techniques for coma arousal....If the scientific approach fails, go a step further: Try parascience....But don't give up on me.

"The bottom line is, if you believe in God,give Him room to work."

That line rather succinctly sums up what Jack is trying to say in this, his first book. The passage also gives y o u a brief

idea of what kind of book this is: provoca­tive, inspirational, intelligent, and, to no small degree, funny. The Power Beyond: In Search of Miraculous Healing is not a book only a Mercyhurst graduate like Jack could have written; but he is the first to admit that, in his case, a Mercyhurst edu­cation provided him with the necessary spiritual and intellectual foundations.

Mercyhurst began to play an important part in Jack's life in the late 1960s, when the

"The mainpurpose of the book isn't to provide a magic faith-healing cure-all...It's more to get people started on their own personal search.'9

Erie native was one of the first handful of men to begin attending classes on the hill. It was at Mercyhurst he met Debbie Kor-owicki 70, who came to the college from New Kensington, PA, and it was Mer­cyhurst that prepared both of them for the incredible events that were to come.

He graduated in 1971 and they were married in 1973. Debbie taught home eco­nomics for many years before retiring to run an antique store; she now works part-time as an interior decorator. Jack joined the staff of the Erie Daily Times 18 years ago, and after reporting for many years, he is now an editor. Daughter Stacey was born 11 years ago. But it was when Stacey was seven, some four years ago, that their desire for another child led to the couple's first experience with faith healing.

For six years Jack and Debbie had tried unsuccessfully to conceive. Then, a few months after their 1985 encounter with faith healers Charles and Frances Hunter

I at a Jamestown, NY, convocation, Deb-I bie became pregnant; Ian Christian I Grazierisnowthreeyearsold. Whether ^ a coincidence or a miracle, the event

was intriguing enough to prompt Jack to document it in an article forMcCall's Magazine entitled "A Faith Healer Gave Us Our Child." The reader re­sponse to the piece was the greatest in the magazine's history and encour­aged Jack to begin a full-blown in­vestigation into the phenomenon of

faith healing. After a year of research and writing, the result, The Power Beyond, was published in June.

The book is a combination of personal anecdotes, biographical information about healers and people who have been or are hoping to be healed, and historical data. Erieites will recognize the stories of liver transplant patient Eric Danowski and tor­nado victim Robbie Snyder. Encounters with football star Dexter Manley and for­mer presidential press secretary James Brady are related. And in perhaps the most powerful and talked about sections of the book, Jack writes about the battles of Erie Mayor Louis Tullio and the late Pitts­burgh Mayor Richard Caliguiri against the rare disease amyloidosis, and their visit with the Hunters in an attempt to arrest the illness.

"What this book does," Debbie ex­plains," is show how this sort of crass, hard-boiled newsperson started his own personal spiritual journey and happened

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to drag a lot of people along with him. Hopefully, it'll lead people who read it to start their own journeys, to come to some conclusions of their own."

"The main purpose of the book isn't to provide a magic faith-healing cure-all so that people can read the book and then learn how instantly to be healed," Jack adds. "It's more to get them started on their own personal searches, asking about God, and does God intervene, and is there healing. Personally, I believe there is. I don't think it's predictable, because God is

sovereign, and who's to say what's in God's mind? He can very often use a physical illness to prod the spiritual growth we need. Spiritual growth is ultimately the goal."

No one is more surprised than Jack that his first literary effort should be a book about such a spiritual and controversial subject. He has, after all, described him­self asoneof those "eastern, liberal, pseudo-intellectual reporters" who can be "crass, crude, coarse, tasteless, hardened, cynical, sarcastic, sneering, foul, disagreeable, ill-tempered, mean-spirited, unrefined clods." But he gives Mercyhurst much of the credit for allowing him to be open enough to undertake the project.

"I think the liberal arts education I got at Mercyhurst was invaluable," he says. "I probably would have been too narrow-minded to even think of writing a book about our experiences had it not been for my Mercyhurst education. It helped a lot as far as giving depth and perspective to my writing—a historical perspective, a literary perspective, a theological perspec­tive, a philosophical perspective—that you just don't get when you concentrate your studies solely in a specialized field." Mercyhurst also helped him become tech­nically proficient as a writer, gave him the confidence and knowledge necessary to

"Grazier brings a reporter's skepticism to the subject, which makes his stories of healings all the more fascinating and con­vincing"

deal with the people from all walks of life that he would meet in researching the book, and taught him the ability to sift through and condense all the material for a quality publication. "I also think going to a small college makes you more confi­dent that you can achieve something, because there is always so much support for you there," he adds.

Both Jack and Debbie remember phi­losophy professor Dr. George Kovacs as one who provided such support. "He was really wonderful," Jack says. "He taught us how to think and strive for authenticity and achieve our full potential. He taught us the critical faculty of being able to ex­amine ideas and judge what was sound and what wasn't." They also fondly re­member classes with Sister Eustace, who would only call Jack 'John.' "She'd say to me, 'John, you have a lot of potential but you're lazy and if you don't watch it, that's going to be your downfall.' And that was

true," he laughs. One chapter in Jack's book, which deals with Satan, had its roots in a theology paper he did for Sister Ma­ria—a paper on which he got a B+.

Though reviews are trickling in, most critics have been giving The Power Be­yond marks higher than a "B." Fred Bar­nes of The New Republic said, "Grazier writes like a dream and he's not a religious nut. He brings a re­porter's skepticism to .the subject, which makes his stories of healings all the more fascinating and con­vincing. I can't recom­mend (it) highly enough." "Pragma-tists, cynics and non-believers beware," warns Sylvia Sachs of The Pittsburgh Press. "Jack Grazier uses a breezy, anecdotal style to describe his personal journey on the road to belief in divine healing, and...he has the talent to pull the reader along with him." And as a testimonial to the lightness and humor to be found in the book, Julia Duin of the The Houston Chronicle says, "Jack Grazier is a good storyteller. I laughed and laughed at his true-to-life depictions. Grazier's droll wit hits the spot."

But even with such glowing testimoni­als, the Graziers still must work to publi­cize the book, and, as they are not public people, they are finding this to be the hardest part of the process. Following publication of the McCall's article the family appeared on the Regis Philbin show in New York. And now weekends are often spent on the road, in such cities as Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo or Detroit, doing television, radio and newspaper interviews. On August 22, they appeared on "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson and there is a possibility they will be fea­tured on "Geraldo" in September. "There's as much work promoting it as there was writing it," Jack says. "Neither one of us can get over the change in our lifestyle. There are more demands and much more public exposure than we ever expected." "I think the attention has been the hardest part so far," Debbie concurs. "Jack is not what you would call a public speaker. I re­member in college standing outside Sister • Eustace's class just before Jack was to give a speech. He was ready to bolt, so I opened the door and shoved him in. Sister Eustace saw him and that was it, he was caught, he had to give the speech."

"I was really phobic about it," Jack continues. "But you just have to do it. The more you do it the easier it gets. But if somebody had told either of us that we would have to get up on "The 700 Club" or do the Regis Philbin show on national TV...that is the last thing in the world that I would want to do. I don't like doing it." He would much rather be working on his

Jack and Debbie Grazier

boat, or puttering around the house. But the attention may be something the

family has to get used to. Jack is planning a second book, but this time it will be a novel, although he says that any book he would write now will have a spiritual message and deal with that ultimate real-ity.

"The ultimate question in life is,'Is there a God, and, if there is, to what extent does He intervene in our lives?' That's a ques­tion you can't ignore. And if we're going to college to learn, that's the one thing we've got to address... I think you have to talk about ultimates.

"This book is just a beginning of a life­long quest. So I guess that in the sense that it's a continuation of the educational proc­ess- the book is a continuation of my edu­cation at Mercyhurst."

Grazier's book, The Power Beyond: In Search of Miracles,

(Macmillan, 1989), is available at both religious and secular book­stores across the country. You can order it at your favorite local bookstore or at any Waldenbooks, or B. Dalton Bookseller.

Cost of the publication is $17.95.

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Alumni News by Bonnie Clark'84

Sister Damien

Sister Damien honored

At its May meeting, the alumni board of Mercyhurst College made a special pres­entation to Sister M. Damien Mlechick '56 "For Outstanding Service During Phonathon '89." Sister Damien raised

nearly $8,000 during last year's phonathon, beat­ing all others and surpassing her own previous high individual total by nearly $3,000. Because of her outstand­ing achievement, the board felt that

special recognition was in order. Board member Jim Sabol '70, a local

artist and creator of many pen-and-ink prints of the college, had one of his laser-etched plaques of the Tower especially engraved for Sister Damien.

Spotlight: Syracuse Chapter

Under the able leadership of Martha McNulty Cuddy '56, Syracuse is the only Mercyhurst Chapter currently in existence that meets on a regular basis. The Syracuse alums meet twice a year—once in the spring for a luncheon and once in the fall for a brunch or dinner, which includes spouses.

In addition to their annual meetings, the Chapter also has supported the Gloria McQuillen Williams Scholarship Fund for many years. The fund has been growing and, in 1988-89, the first scholarship from the fund's interest was presented. This year's recipient was Lynn Brayman.

For the spring get-together, a represen­tative from the college's admissions office and I traveled to Syracuse to meet with the alumnae and bring them up-to-date on the admissions picture and various other aspects of the college.

In attendance were: Barbara Stone Perry '57; Mary Ellen Linney Avery '43; Eliza­beth Smith Hartnett '49; Gloria Heberle Sullivan '44; Sheila Sullivan Coon '72; Patricia Schramm '72; Jean Shirley Okun '72; Margaret Peck Trojanowski '47; Kristin Herskind Trainham '58; Dorothy O'Hara

Downs '43; Mary Ellen Johnson Burns '46; Lorraine Enright Rogers '56; Patricia Maley Burns '56; and Martha McNulty Cuddy '56.

Saint Catherine Medal presented

MercyhurststudentJillPrichard'91 was recently presented the Saint Catherine's Medal for outstanding service to the col­lege, her fellow students and the commu­nity.

The medal is awarded annually by Kappa Gamma Pi, the National Catholic Honor Society, to an outstanding sopho­more student. The award is endowed by

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Pictured I - r: Rita Goebel, Jill Prichard '91, Margaret Anne Ending '37

Mercyhurst alumna Margaret Anne Mooney Emling '37 in memory of her sis­ter, Catherine Mooney.

Jill received a congratulatory letter from the national president of Kappa Gamma Pi, Mary Jo Rief, and was presented the medal by Margaret Anne Emling, her sponsor, and Rita Goebel, the local Kappa Gamma Pi president. As a recipient of the Saint Catherine Medal, Jill will be eligible for membership in Kappa Gamma Pi as a senior. She is a dean's list student, mem­ber of the freshman honorary society, and majors in interior design/fashion merchan­dizing. Jill is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Loren J. Prichard of Erie, PA.

Official Mercyhurst watch

The Mercyhurst College alumni asso­ciation has appointed the Seiko Time Corporation to create a limited issue of the official Mercyhurst watch. The watch will come in both men's and ladies' styles and will carry a richly detailed three-dimen­sional recreation of the Mercyhurst Col­lege Seal in 14 karat gold on the face. The

watches will make excellent gifts and are sure to be treasured for years to come. Watch your mail for a full-color brochure.

College Seal in cross stitch

The alumni office is selling a beautiful counted cross stitch kit of the Mercyhurst College Seal. The kit, which comes with 14" aida cloth, blue and green floss, a needle, graph and instructions, costs $7.50, which includes shipping and handling. Finished size of the work is 8" x 10."

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Kits can be obtained by calling the alumni office, at (814)825-0538. A com­pleted, framed seal, such as the one pic­tured, will be on display at Homecoming.

CIRCLE YOUR CALENDAR

HOMECOMING/ALUMNI COLLEGE 1989

October 6, 7 & 8 Special Anniversary Classes '39, '44/49, '54/59, '64, '69, '74,79, '84

ATTENTION PARENTS Parents Weekend 1989 October 20,21, & 22

Bonnie Clark is director of alumni relations.

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Class Notes by Joanne Druzak

6 0 JANET (KUSS) MARTIN was named Outstanding Post-Secondary Busi­ness Teacher of 1988 for the State of Florida by the Florida Business Education Asso­ciation. She also was selected to receive the Teaching Excellence Award given by Pensacola Junior College, where she is professor of business. Janet has been with Pensacola since 1969. She and her hus­band, William, have two children: Scott, 21, and Chris, 19. The Martins reside at 1238 Tecumseh Trail, Pensacola, FL 32514.

' 6 1 MAUREEN (SCHEDLIN) NICKEL and husband, Ron, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary May 6. Maureen is a teacher of elementary gifted education and computer usage. In addi­tion, she is presently taking interior deco­rator coursework. Ron is an eighth grade English teacher. The couple has two sons: Tim, who is in pre-chiropractic studies, and Ron Jr., who is a graduate in commer­cial art. The Nickels reside at 7010 NW 40 Street, Coral Springs, FL 33065.

EVELYN (RINN) PERSONETT-MITZEL is a substitute teacher with the Piano Independent School District in Piano, TX. She was recently elected president of the Piano Chamber Orchestra League. Husband, Les, is customer relations man­ager with the Chevrolet Division of Gen­eral Motors Company. The couple reside at 1501 Aylesbury Lane, Piano, TX 75075.

' 6 4 GERALDINE (WALKO) ALLISON teaches kindergarten at the Clarkston Community Schools. She com­pleted her MAT in early childhood at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Geri and her husband, Lewis, have two daugh­ters: Caroline, 15, and Kristin, 18, who will be attending Boston College this fall. The Allisons reside at 8498 Heritage Drive, Clarkston, MI 48016.

' 6 5 PHYLLIS AIELLO began her new position at the college as director of freshman studies on July 1. She started her career at Mercy hurst in 1973 as a hall director and French teacher. For the past 15 years, Phyllis had been the director of housing. In 1980, she also assumed the duties of safety director. Phyllis resides at 2207 Wagner Avenue, Erie, PA 16510.

JOYCE SAVOCCHIO won the Demo­cratic primary this past May in a bid to

succeed six-term Erie Mayor Louis J. Tullio in the fall. Joyce, a two-term city councilwoman and assistant principal at Strong Vincent High School, credits her win to broad-based commu­

nity support and a positive issue-oriented campaign. She resides at 4015 Allegheny Road, Erie, PA 16509.

' 6 9 DANIEL BURKE and SHELLE (LICHTEN WALTER) BARRON '74 were featured at the Artists Gallery in Buffalo, NY, during the month of April. The two-person show consisted of recent mixed-media paintings and showcased large -scale narrative drawings done in collabo­ration. The artists received a 1988 Mid-Atlantic NEA Regional Fellowship for works on paper, which was one of only 20 grants awarded. More than one thousand artists from Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, West Virginia and Penn­sylvania applied. Dan and his wife, JANE (CRAIG) BURKE '70/'89, reside at 223 East 6th Street, Erie, PA 16507. Shelle and husband, GERARD BARRON '74, reside at 3401 Argyle Avenue, Erie, PA 16505.

' 7 0 ROSEMARY BLIESZNERisco-author/co-editor of Older Adult Friend­ship - Structure and Process (Sage Publica­tions), which is based on her doctoral re­search. Rosemary is associate professor in the department of family and child devel­opment, and associate director of the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Poly­technic Institute and State University of Blacksburg, VA. She resides at 70 Indian Meadow Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060.

' 7 1 CLAUDIA (WEEKS) SEEGRABER and husband, William, are adjusting nicely to parenthood. Their first child, Elizabeth, was born at the end of May 1988. The family resides at 22 Sherman Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215.

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' 7 3 DENICE MANUS and her sis­ter, STEPHANIE MANUS '79, have pur­chased the Atlantic Plus franchise located at 12th and French Streets in Erie. The store is called the Manus A-Plus Mini Market. Denice received an administration degree from Indiana University while working on her doctorate. She is a reading teacher and substitute principal for the Erie School District. Stephanie is directress of human development - physically and mentally handicapped adults in Erie group homes. She is in the process of adopting a baby girl she will name Julie Elizabeth. Denice re­sides at 4326 Carney Avenue, Erie, PA 16510 and Stephanie resides at 2401 French Street, Erie, PA 16510.

ROBERT PARKS has been named publisher of The Chapel Hill Newspaper in Chapel Hill, NC. Parks is a 14-year vet­eran of Ottaway News­papers, a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Co., Inc. Parks had served as gen­eral manager of the Ashland Daily Indepen-dant since June 1985. He and his wife, LINDA (STANOS) PARKS 73, are the parents of three children, David, 8, Mat­thew, 5, and Jocelyn, 2.

' 7 4 GERARD BARRON has re­ceived an Indiana University of Pennsyl­vania (IUP) doctoral foundation fellow­ship. The fellowships are intended for persons who demonstrate strong academic preparation, potential for excellence in teaching and research, and the energy and intellect to contribute to the community of scholars at IUP. He is studying for a doctorate in psychology. Barron earned a BA in psychology from Mercyhurst and received an MA from Edinboro Univer­sity of Pennsylvania. He and his wife,SHELLE (LICHTENWALTER) BAR­RON, reside at 3402 Argyle Avenue, Erie, PA 16505.

CECILIA (KELLY) EVANS, received her MS in reading from St. Bonaventure University of New York in 1988, and is presently teaching Spanish in the Batavia City School District. She writes that son, Frank, is 11 years old. The family resides

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at 9214 Fargo Road, Stafford, NY 14143.

KAREN (HUNT) KOZA will begin a new job this fall as fifth-grade teacher at the Valley School of Ligonier, PA. She and husband, Casey, have two children: Mi­chael, 7, and Kathryn, 4. The Kozas reside at 212 Linda Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601.

JAMES MANDO has been named di­rector of the Chautauqua Fund at Chautauqua Institution of New York. Most recently, Jim served as associate executive director of the United Way of Erie, where he was responsible for total resource development functions, the communi­cations program and data processing. Under ^ ^ _ _ his direction, the United Way of Erie raised $4.7 million in 1988. In his new position, he will design and im­plement the planning necessary to under­write the institution's programming through corporate, foundation and indi­vidual giving. Jim and his wife, DONELLE (DAVEY) MANDO, reside at 3305 Rustic Lane, Erie, PA 16506.

7 5 JOHN CRUPI and PATRICIA (MALLOY) CRUPI '76 had a baby boy, Daniel Malloy Crupi, on April 14, 1989. The Crupis reside at 4145 Dundee Drive, Murrysville, PA 15668.

JOHN WELSH has started a catering business called Custom Catering, which serves the Pittsburgh, PA, area. He ex­tends a 10- percent discount to Mercy hurst alums. John resides at 103 Locust Court, Pittsburgh, PA 15237.

' 7 6 CHARLES BOLE works with the U.S. Department of Labor/ OSHA in Harrisburg, PA, as an industrial hygienist. The May and June issues of PCM Magazine contain articles by Charles on computer programs. His spouse, LAURA (SMILO) BOLE '78, is employed by C-P Converter of York, PA, as the customer service man­ager for a manufacturer of flexible packag­ing. They reside with their daughters Tamara, 8, and Melissa, 2, at 80 White Oak Lane, Etters, PA 17319.

JULIA CUTLER is an immigration programme officer with the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. She had been with the Canadian Consulate in Buffalo, NY, for seven years. She would welcome hearing from alums in the D.C. area. Julia residesat4555McArthur Boule­vard, NW, Apartment G-2, Washington, DC 20007.

' 7 7 VALORIE (McINTYRE) CATALANO wed husband, Edmund, on August 27. The couple spent their honey­moon in the Bahamas. Valorie is a busi­ness/computer teacher at Fredonia High School in Fredonia, NY. Edmund is the owner of Clearwater Aquarium. The Cata-lanos reside at 628 Stowe Street, Jamestown, NY 14701.

MARK FOLLAND has been promoted to maintenance administrator at Alcas Cutlery Corporation. He and his wife, Shelly, have three sons: Jason, 7; Brian, 3; and Brandon, 4 months. Mark would like to hear from his old McAuley buddies. The Follands reside at 530 First Avenue, Olean, NY 14760.

THOMAS HUBERT was the recipient of the Jurors Award for his "Standing Vessel," shown at the Erie Art Museum's Spring Show. Hubert has been a part-time instructor in the art department at Mer-cyhurst for the past nine years. He and his wife, Maureen, welcomed their third son, Jeffrey Sean, to the Hubert family on April 15. They reside at 1975 West Dutch Road, Fairview, PA 16415.

DEBORAH STURM has been accepted into the doctoral program in clinical psy­chology at the Indiana University of Penn­sylvania. Debbie will be juggling her stud­ies with a new job at the Indiana County Guidance Center, where she serves as child specialist coordinator of Children/Ado­lescent Services. Sturm holds masters' degrees from Mercyhurst College and from Frostburg State University. She lives at 1662 Philadelphia Avenue, Apartment #2, Indiana, PA 15701.

' 7 8 DEBORAH DOMBROWSKI has a new baby girl. They reside at 307 Hawk Ridge, Painesville, OH 44077.

PAUL LAURITO has purchased a den­tal practice in Philadelphia, PA. He gradu­ated from the Temple University School of Dentistry in 1984, and has been practicing in Philadelphia since that time. Paul and his wife, Jill, reside at 11 Pin Oak Court, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444.

GEORGE VENUTO and wife, Sharon, are the parents of baby girl A my Elizabeth, born November 12. The Venutos reside at 61 Greenleigh Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080.

' 7 9 SCOTT BRECHBUEHL has been appointed assistant vice president and manager of the Manheim Township Office of Commonwealth National Bank, which is a Mellon bank, located in Lancas­

ter, PA. Scott gained banking and lending experience as the branch manager for Norstar Bank, N.A. in Franklinville, NY. He has completed courses sponsored by the American Institute of Banking and Robert Morris Associates, a nationwide educational organization of bank credit and lending officers. He and his wife, Belinda, and their two sons have relocated to the Lancaster area.

RAYMOND GRUSS is in his final year at Cleveland Marshall School of Law. He and his wife, LINDA (RAVENSTAHL) GRUSS '80, are the parents of three daugh­ters, Julia Rae,l, Emily, 6, and I Hilary, 4. Linda's sister, Joanne Ravenstahl, is a junior at Mercyhurst. The Grusses reside at 2044 Wascana Avenue, Lakewood, OH 44107.

TERRY KELLY is supervisor of grants and administrative services at Pennsburg School District in Fallsington, PA. His wife, DONNA (SWEENEY) KELLY '80, has been promoted to chief clinical dieti­tian at Mercer Medical Center in Trenton, NY. Donna supervises a staff of five dieti­tians, two diet technicians and support personnel. The Kellys have two children: Meghan Colleen, age 4-1/2, and Kevin Patrick, 2. The family resides at 251 Lake­side Drive, Levittown, PA 19054.

SCOTT KUNKEL made a career move in 1988 joining Lever Brothers Company as a quality assurance chemist at the company's Hammond, IN, facility. He and his wife, Lisa, welcomed their third child, Nicholas Alexander, on January 31. Nicholas joins brothers, Raun Scott, 8, and Donald Lewis, 5, at the Kunkel residence at 3010 Western Avenue, Park Forest, IL 60466.

MELISSA (McMURRAY) NORTHEY and her husband own Northey Trucking Company. Melissa also is owner and operator of a women's clothing store in Brookville, PA. They reside at 139 Mabon Street, Brookville, PA 15825.

8 0 SUSAN FUSS is promotions co­ord inator and the senior member of the promotions team for Delmar Publishers, Inc, an international company that pro­duces vocational and technical textbooks. She joined Delmar's as a manufacturing assistant, and before this most recent pro­motion, was a copywriter in the advertis­ing and promotions department. Sue lives at Fenimore 6-C, Watervliet, NY 12189.

WALTER GREEN has joined the staff of Thresholds/The Bridge in Chicago, IL,where his responsibilities include out-

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reach, home visitations, and crisis inter­vention to persons with histories of re­peated hospitalization for psychiatric ill­ness. He is also assisting with the training of students and professionals from other mental health agencies in the Chicago area. His spouse, Cheryl Devall, can be heard on National Public Radio, where she is a midwest bureau correspondent. The Greens live at 4457 North Beacon Street, Apartment #2, Chicago, IL 60640.

MARY (RUSSELL) GUTWILL writes us that marriage to an international tech­nical representative of an industrial ce­ramics corporation has resulted in much travel abroad. In 1987, while living in West Germany, she and husband, Wolfgang, were blessed with their third child, a girl they named Karen. The family recently returned to the states and plan to settle here. Mary is a dietitian with the Catholic Hospice Network of Northeast­ern Ohio, working on a consulting basis. She also works with a weight manage­ment program at St. Vincent Charity Hospital in downtown Cleveland. Mary lives at 380 Parkside Drive, Bay Village, OH 44140.

CHRISTINE (HIGGINS) SMITH has joined the interior design staff at Suniland, a Houston-based fine home-furnishings retailer. A member of that store's sales staff for the past seven years, Chris will provide residential interior design serv­ices from Suniland's main showroom. Suniland, recognized as a home furnish­ings leader, has been operating in Hous­ton since 1927. The store's Studio of Inte­rior Design, the largest professional de­sign staff in the Southwest, has approxi­mately 50 designers and planners who have created beautiful homes and offices throughout Texas. Chris and her hus­band, Jeffrey, reside at 15335 Mondrian Drive, Houston, TX 77083.

BRIDGET (BECK) WILLIAMS and ROBERT WILLIAMS '81 are the happy parents of twin daughters born August 3, 1988. Allison Beck weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces at birth, while twin sister, Ashley, weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces. They join brother, Christopher Robert, 6, and sister,

Megan Bridget, 4, at the family residence at 875 Windbourne Street, Gahanna, OH

• 43230.

' 8 1 THOMAS DORE Jr. and wife, Pam, are the proud parents of their second child, Jonathan Thomas. Jon was born on June 8, 1989, and weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces. He joins brother, Patrick Joseph, at the family residence in Erie.

PATRICIA (McSHEA) PONGIBOVE was recently promoted to assistant vice president of corporate accounting at PNC Financial Corporation of Pittsburgh, PA, where she is also manager of the corporate consolidation department. She and hus­band, Pete, have purchased a home in Forest Hills, where they reside at 549 Filmore Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15221.

CATHERINE (VILARDO) STROBL and husband, Mark, are the new parents of their second child, a daughter named Jenna Marie, born October 3,1988. Jenna joins brother, 4-year-old Brad, where the family resides at 136 Runnemede Drive, Board-man, OH 44512.

MARY JO (CLINE) SZEWCZYK wed Edward Szewczyk on May 5, 1989, at Lawrence Park United Methodist Church. Mary Jo is working as a caseworker at the Erie County Office of Children and Youth. She recently received her master's in coun­seling from Gannon University in Erie. Her husband is self-employed as a sub­contractor. The couple just built a new house at 305 Shomont Road, Harborcreek, PA 16421.

ALDA WALKER has been promoted to director of program and training for the Hudson Valley Girl Scout Council head­quarters in Delmar, NY. Alda worked for two years as a council field executive, serving the volunteer membership of the Northeastern New York Council, before moving to her current post. As director, she will be responsible for council-wide programs for the girls and adults served' by the Hudson Valley Girl Scout Council, as well as training for its adult volunteers. Alda is involved in numerous community groups, including the Northeastern New York AIDS Council and the Albany Ro­

man Catholic Diocese's Farano Center for Children with AIDS. She and her 15-month-old foster daughter, Nikki, live at Fenimore 6-C, Watervliet, NY 12189.

' 8 2 JANET (RUYAK) CHROS-TOWSKI exchanged nuptials May 6 with Christopher Chrostowski at Christ the King Chapel of Mercyhurst College, with their reception following at the Erie Maenner-chor Club. Janet received her BA in food nutrition from the college, and went on to earn a master's degree in public health nu­trition at the University of Michigan. She is the Optifast program manager at Hamot Medical Center of Erie. Chris attended Mercyhurst and is now employed at Char­les H. Fry Construction Company. Fol­lowing a honeymoon trip to Disney World in Orlando, FL, the two reside at 3063 West 24th Street, Erie, PA 16506.

ANDREA (HERRMANN) MICHALI and husband, Paul, are the proud parents of daughter, Kayla Marie, born March 9,1989. They reside at 1499 Wellington Road, Manchester, NH 03140.

GERALDINE MONTEFORTE is em­ployed by Kidder Peabody & Company, Inc. of Boston, MA, as an assistant stock­broker in the retail market. Geraldine resides at 37 Noble Street, Revere, MA 02151.

BONNIE (JAMES) SHAKER will re­ceive her MA in English from Case West­ern Reserve University, Cleveland,OH, in December. She will continue teaching at Case when she begins the Ph.D. program in English in January. Bonnie, a news-woman for WJET-TV following gradu­ation, maintains her ties with television by doing freelance commercial work. She and husband, Christopher Shaker, Esq., reside at 2129 Quail Run Drive, Cortland, OH 44410.

RANDY VOILES is employed by the Federal Aviation Administration as an air traffic controller, while wife, MARGA­RET (WIRTZ) VOILES, is busy at home raising Bobby, 4; Michael, 2, and Joseph, 1. The family resides at 45 Ridge Lane Drive, Decatur, IL 62521.

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' 8 3 GINA (FRISINA) ADAMS be­came the bride of Mark Adams in May. She works at Primary Health Care Serv­ices of NW Pennsylvania as chief financial officer, and plans on being a 1990 graduate of Gannon University's MBA program. Her husband is a systems engineer with Smith Meter, Inc. of Erie. The couple re­sides at 5914 Quirk Drive, Erie PA 16509.

RICHARD LANZILLO, Esq., is an as­sociate with the law firm of Knox McLaugh­lin Gornall & Sennett, P.C. Rich is a member of the American, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Erie County bar associations. He received his Juris Doctorate in 1987 from the University of Pittsburgh, summa cum laude. During law school, he was a member of the Order of the Coif and articles editor for the University of Pittsburgh Law Re­view. Rich spoke before the Mercyhurst College Pre-law Society on campus in the spring on "Preparation for Law School/' "Survival at Law School" and "Life as a Lawyer." Spouse, JO-ANN (ISRAEL) LANZILLO '86, is the coordinator of co­operative education and internship pro­grams in the Office of Career Services at the college. They reside at 3723 French Street, Erie, PA 16504.

' 8 4 LINDA (WEINZIERL) GROFF has a new job with National Rehab, a company in Pittsburgh, PA, which spe­cializes in physical and occupational ther­apy equipment. Linda and husband, Chip, who have been married since November 1985, reside in their newly purchased home at 690 Shade Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202.

MARY KIRK will be teaching in a pri­mary school in the Pimlico region of Lon­don, England, this fall. She returned to school (Indiana University of Pennsylva­nia and Penn State) to obtain her teacher certification in elementary education. Mary will complete this program in De­cember 1989, when she meets her teaching requirements in Pennsylvania and Eng­land. Mary resides at 301 South Main Street, DuBois, PA 15801.

JOSEPH MARKIEWICZ works for Kaufmann's Department Store as the loss prevention manager. The company, a Fortune 500 company, grosses $5 million annually. He also is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. Joe is currently pursuing his master's degree in criminal justice administration at Mercyhurst. Wife, Terri, recently gave birth to their first child, Joseph Brian. The family resides at 424 Kendora Court, Gi-rard, PA 16417.

VIRGINIA (FROST) MONTOWSKI exchanged wedding vows with Philip Montowski June 10 at St. George's Church in Erie. Their reception was at Holiday Inn-South. The couple resides at 22800 Rockside Road, Apartment #208, Bedford OH 44146

ANTOINNE(Twan) THOMPSON ex^ changed vows with the formei Ivonne Marchena at St. Mary's Church in Pater-son, NJ, on June 25, 1988. They honey­mooned on Paradise Island in the Baha­mas. Twan works for the Ricoh Corpora­tion as a coordinator, and is also a fine jewelry consultant at Macy's department store. His wife is a line inspector at Houmet Turbine Corps of Dover, NJ. The couple resides at 112 Pomona Avenue, Newark, NJ 07112.

' 8 5 TERESA (THOMPSON) BAKER was married to Thomas Baker on Septem­ber 17. She has been promoted to the position of job cost accountant for ALCOA subsidiary, Lancy International, Inc. Ter­esa currently attends graduate school at LaRoche College, Pittsburgh, PA, in pur­suit of a master's of science degree in human resource management. Tom at­tended Clarke College in Dubuque, IA, and is manager of equipment at Kesco, Inc. The Bakers reside at Hickory Hill, Box 301-2, Zelienople, PA 16063.

KATHERINE CLARK has moved to 401 West 31s1 Street, Erie, PA 16508.

MARK PETRASEK and LEIGH (KENNEDY) PETRASEK '87 welcomed their second child in June. Daughter, Este Simone, joins her 3-year-old sister, Alexis Leigh. The family resides on 316 Ligonier Lane, New Kensington, PA 15068.

JILL (SNYDER) RUZBACKI married husband, John, at the First Lutheran Church in Apollo, PA, on June 18,1988. Jill works at the YMCA in southeast Roches­ter, NY, and John is store manager of K-Mart in that city. The Ruzbackis reside at 84 Webster Manor Drive, Apartment #8, Webster, NY 14580.

BETH (FARNEN) VALKOSKY gave birth to Mary Rose, 8 pounds, 11 ounces, on June 2. She and husband, Edward, reside at 3534 Stoughton Road, Erie, PA 16506.

WILLIAM WHEELER II is a patrol­man with his home town police depart­ment in Hampton Township. Bill previ­ously served eight months each with Ohio Township in Pittsburgh, PA, and Butler

Township in Butler, PA. He did his intern­ship with Hampton during the summer of 1984. Since being appointed patrolman, Bill has completed training in defensive driving, Intoxilyzer 5000, Identi-kit, Speed Check, VASCAR, and Drug and Narcotics Investigations. He plans to attend the University of Pittsburgh this fall to work toward his master's degree in police sci­ence.

8 6 LAURA BYHAM has accepted a teaching assistantship at the University of Delaware, where she will complete her MS in human nutrition. For the past three years, Laura has worked as a full-time renal dietitian, with renal nutrition being the focus of her thesis research project. Laura tells us that 50 chronic hemodialysis patients were selected for thesis research. Byham has co-authored an article in the Journal of Health Values on "Compliance and Health Promotion." Laura resides at Sea Aire Apartments #C-12, Hamilton Drive, Somers Point, NJ 08244.

MICHELE (FLASHER) GIULIANI wed Dr. Michael Giuliani on October 15, 1988 at the Heinz Memorial Chapel on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Michele is a research associate at the University's Department of Behavioral Neuroscience. Michael is a graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, and the Ohio State University School of Medicine. He com­pleted his residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and is currently assistant professor of neurology at Pitt. Following a wedding trip to the outer banks of North Carolina, the Giulianis reside at 3 Orange Street, Oil City, PA 16301.

GARY LAURNOFF is an animation consultant for Filmation Associates. He works on such programs as "He-Man," "She-Ra," "Brave Starr," and "Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles" by assisting in the creation of most of the characters. He has been offered a position on the animation film staff at the new Disney-MGM Studios at Disney World in Orlando, FL. His mailing address is c/o 343 Sparkhill Ave­nue, Erie, PA 16511.

' 8 7 SCOTT BENSINK, of the ac­counting and auditing staff of Root Spitznas & Smiley, Inc. in Erie, has passed the certified public accountant examina­tion. He has been a full-time member of the firm for two years and was with their internship program while attending Mer­cyhurst. Scott is involved with several firm committees and is a member of the Sherman, NY, Masonic Lodge. He resides at 162 East 35,h Street, Erie, PA 16504.

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THERESA (KIRIK) BULLEN is con­tinuing her studies to obtain elementary education certification. She is a private tutor, a substitute teacher and a licensed foster parent. She spends her free time with husband, Charles, who is a member of the U.S.Air Force, son, Michael, 2, and foster daughter, Crystal. The family re­sides at 168-4 Sirocco Drive, Minot AFB,ND 58704.

PHILIP GUTH has been promoted to associate analyst in the business analysis and information management unit of the Product and Lender Marketing Depart­ment of the Federal National Mortgage Association in Washington, DC. He has finished his second semester of the MBA program at American University in the District of Columbia. Phil resides at 7721 Inversham Drive, Apartment #132, Falls Church, VA 22042-4442.

ROBERT SCHNEIDER Jr. wed the former Stefanie Casey in a civil ceremony this past march. Bob is manager of Gen­eral Mills Restaurants, Inc. of Newington, NH. His wife is office assistant II at Liberty Mutual Insurance in Portsmouth, NH. The couple reside at 302 Plaza Drive, Apart­ment #6, Dover, NH 03820.

FRANK VICTOR, along with his brother, Michael, acquired Pyramid In­dustries, Inc. of Erie. Pyramid is a pioneer in the^manufacture of underground con­duit and PVC pipe and employs approxi­mately 60 people. As vice president of sales and marketing, Frank brings an en­trepreneurial background to the company, most recently serving as president of Vic­tor Brothers, Inc. and as executive vice president of Paradise Development Cor­poration. Before his management/own­ership involvement, Frank was a commer­cial realtor with an Erie realty firm. He is also a member of the Society of Plastics Engineers. Frank resides at 259 West Grand view Boulevard, Erie, PA 16508.

8 8 MICHAELCAINJr.andJEANNE (McCLURE) CAIN were married on Oc­tober 22,1988, in their hometown of Sala­manca, NY. Michael is the loss prevention manager at K-Mart West in Erie and Jeanne is assistant manager for Kay Jewelers in

the Millcreek Mall. The Cains reside at 1807 Treetop Drive, Apartment #6-B, Erie,

• PA 16509.

KIMBERLY (MEABON) CHESLEY and Todd Chesley were united in matri­mony at Christ the King Chapel on cam­pus last November 12. Following a recep­tion at Peek 'n' Peak ski resort in Clymer, NY, the couple honeymooned in Niagara Falls. Kim is a teacher at the Northwest­ern Intermediate Unit in North East, PA. Todd attended Heston College and Indi­ana University in Bloomington, IN. He is an auctioneer/farmer for Raliegh & Todd Chesley Auctioneering. They reside at 9372 Station Road, North East, PA 16428.

GINA (CAPPELLETTY) CHESNES teaches grades 1-6 in remedial math at Mt. Morris Central School in New York. She and husband, Chuck, are expecting their second child in October. Their daughter, Sarah, is 4 years old. The family enjoys country living in their log home at 8002 Union Corners Road, Mt. Morris, NY 14510.

PAUL CHURCH wed the former Carolyn Rzomp on August 5, 1988, at Mount Calvery Church in Erie. Paul is restaurant manager at Courtyard by Mar­riott in Dublin, OH. The couple plans to relocate to Columbus, OH. They cur­rently reside at 391 Springboro Lane, Worthington, OH 43085.

TIMOTHY HARRINGTON will re­ceive his MA in history this fall from Provi­dence College in Rhode Island. He hopes to teach at the secondary level in Erie upon graduation. Tim resides at 462 East 36th

Street, Erie, PA 16504.

MARY (WINGERTER) KNIGHT has been hired as a full-time juvenile coun­selor at the Edmund L. Thomas Adoles­cent Center of Erie, where she had been working on a per-diem basis. She and husband, David, have a son named David II. The Knights reside at 11682 Route 97-Lot 9, Waterford, PA 16441.

PATRICIA MANION works as a nurse at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA, on the neurosurgical /liver transplant floor. She resides at 425 Oneida Street, Pitts­

burgh, PA 15211.

PATRICIA PLISIEWICZ has been pro­moted to executive assistant at the Inter­national institute of Erie. She started at the Insti­tute in March 1988, fol­lowing her cooperative education placement at the institute. She resides at 3355 West 32nd Street, Erie, PA 16506.

THERESA RUTSKY is a social work counselor at Greenhurst Health Care Center in New York. She resides at 388 South Main Street, Jamestown, NY 14701.

GARY SMITH works as a world cul­tures/ geography teacher at the Abraxas Foundation in Marienville, PA. Gary writes he is very happy working with troubled adolescents, giving them new directions to help take their lives away from drugs and alcohol. He also noted that his boss there is GRETCHEN (FALLER) McFARLAND '66 . Gary re­sides at Star Route, Box 5-A, Cooksburg, PA 16217.

KELLEY (MOORE) WAGNER be­came the bride of Jeffery Wagner on April 29 at Saint Peter's Cathedral in Erie. Kelley is the assistant general manager of the Comfort Inn. Husband, Jeff, is a nuclear engineer with the U.S. Navy. Following a honeymoon in Key West, FL, the Wagners reside at 4135 Canterbury Drive, Erie, PA 16506.

BRIGID (NEE) WILCOX and David Wilcox II were united in matrimony on December 30, 1988, at Christ the King Chapel on campus. Brigid is a juvenile counselor at the Edmund L. Thomas De­tention Center. David, a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University at Erie, Behrend College, is a systems analyst at Hamot Medical Center. Following a Baha­mas cruise, the couple resides at 3939 Briggs Avenue, Apartment #2, Erie, PA 16504.

JANET WYNNE has joined Engel & Tirak of Erie as a graphic artist/illustrator. She previously worked as a graphic de-

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signer in the advertising department of Dahlkemper's Catalog Showrooms and served an internship with Ted Benson ADsociates Inc., also of Erie. Janet resides at 1206 Spring Valley Drive, Erie, PA 16509.

8 9 MARTIN HOENES has joined Cook & Bensur Advertising of Erie as a graphic artist. His responsibilities include design and production of advertising, pro­motional and three-dimensional art. Martin's experience includes extensive studio recording work, design and layout of interior and exterior design systems at Lake Shore Industries,Inc, and project de­sign and coordination at Beco Interiors, Inc. He recently won several first-place awards in local art competitions. He spe­cializes in creating architectural scale models. Martin resides at 948 West 31st

Street, Erie, PA 16508.

CAROLIN SCRANTONwasnameda Mercyhurst Honor Scholar at graduation. She resides at 416 Gothic Street, Con-neautville, PA 16406.

CYNTHIA SUROVIEC was also cited as a Mercyhurst Honor Scholar during recent award ceremonies at the college. Cindy resides at 9450 Perry Highway, Waterford, PA 16441.

DECEASED Thomas Lymph, husband of HELEN

(CUMMINGS) LYMPH '32 (deceased) and father of NANCY (LYMPH) SOLI-WODA '61

Josephine Bellotti, sister of INEZ BEL-LOTTI '37

Robert Ladd and Margaret Sullivan, husband and mother of BRITTA (SULLI­VAN) LADD '38

RUTH (SCOBELL) BARRETT '39 mother of BARB ARA (BARRETT) SCHU­MACHER '63

CATHERINE "KAY" (SINS) Le-FAIVER '39

Francis Hopkins, husband of AMELIA (O'DAY) HOPKINS '42

Harvey L. Ashton, husband of, ELIZA­BETH (FITZGERALD) ASHTON '47

MARYANN (GUSTAFSON) BO-LAND '53

Robert Murphy, brother of Sr. ROSE­MARY MURPHY *57

Sr. MARY BERNARD PYNE '60, cousin of VERONICA PYNE '32 and Sr. Mary Maurice Pyne

Joanne Burke, mother of DANIEL BURKE '69

MARK LLOYD '74

BETH (ESTES) FROMKNECHT '80

Elizabeth Cohen, mother of DR. WIL­LIAM COHEN, who is the college physi­cian.

Gertrude Schroeck, sister of FRANK SCHROECK, who is the college carpen­ter, and Sr. Agnes Therese.

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This year's celebration attracted an esti­mated 15,000 people to the hilltop campus. 'Fourth of July at Mercyhurst has become

part of our tradition on the hill," explained Dr. William Garvey, college president. "I have always felt that a college should do more than merely offer courses and de­grees. It should be an invaluable resource for the area and a source of civic pride. Mercy hurst's Fourth of July celebration is our gift to the city and her people. It's our way of extending our appreciation to the community for the support we receive throughout the year," Garvey added.

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Performing Arts Calendar - Fall Season 1989 September

10 Art Exhibit, Marianne Neuber, Cummings Gallery, reception 3 - 5 p.m., until October 2 12 Films for Discussion: Gorillas in the Mist (American), Zurn Recital Hall, 8 p.m. 14 Lecture by Joanne Tanner, Communicating with Animals: Crossing Cultures with Koko,

Zurn Recital Hall, 8 p.m. 25 D'Angelo Visiting Artists performance by Neil Rutman (pianist), Zurn Recital Hall, 8 p.m. 26 D'Angelo Visiting Artists masterclass by Neil Rutman (pianist), Zurn Recital Hall, 3 p.m. 26 Films for Discussion: The Thin Blue Line (American), Zurn Recital Hall, 8 p.m.,

($2 admission) 29 D'Angelo Visiting Artists masterclass by Relache, Ensemble Room,

D'Angelo Music Building, 7:30 p.m.

1 October

D'Angelo Concert Recital Series: Susan Dunn (American soprano), Tech Memorial Auditorium, 2:30 p.m.($5 admission) Films for Discussion: Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown (Spanish), Zurn Recital Hall, 8 p.m. ($2 admission) Art Exhibit, Catherine Joslyn, Cummings Gallery, reception 3 - 5 p.m. until October 30 Films for Discussion: Voices ofSarafina (South Africa), Zurn Recital Hall, 8 p.m. ($2 admission) D'Angelo Faculty Vocal Recital, Paul MacPhail and Jing Wei, Zurn Recital Hall, 2:30 p.m. Films for Discussion: Pelle the Conqueror (Danish), Zurn Recital Hall, 8 p.m., ($2 admission) Drama: The Merry Widow, Little Theatre, 2:30 p.m. ($6 adults, $4 students/senior citizens) D'Angelo Visiting Artists Series: Aston Magna Academy Program (Restoration England-Lecture, Music, and Dance), Zurn Recital Hall, 9:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1:45-5 p.m. Drama: The Merry Widow, Little Theatre, 2:30 p.m., ($6 adults, $4 students/senjor citizens) D'Angelo Visiting Artists Series: Aston Magna Academy Program (Restoration England-Dance Presentation: 12:30-1:45 p.m., Concert: 2:30 p.m.), Zurn Recital Hall Films for Discussion: Otello (Italian), Zurn Recital Hall, 8 p.m. ($2 admission) Drama: The Merry Widow, Little Theatre, 8 p.m., ($6 adults, $4 students/ senior citizens) D'Angelo Concert Choir Performance, Christ the King Chapel, 2:30 p.m. Films for Discussion: Lightning Over Braddock (American), Zurn Recital Hall, 8 p.m. ($2 admission)

November Art Exhibit, Nicolette Azicri, Cummings Gallery, reception 3 - 5 p.m., until November 27 D'Angelo Wind Ensemble Concert, Zurn Recital Hall, 2:30 p.m.

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