Spring 1989, Vol. 7, No. 2

Mercyhurst magazine

O i l t h e C O V e n On February 3,1989, Mercyhurst College marked its 20th year of coeducation with a day long celebration. Ten of the original 16 men who enrolled at Mercyhurst in 1969 returned to celebrate the occasion with their President Sr. Carolyn Herrmann. Also returning were eight of the nine trustees who made the historic decision.

The original men were introduced to the Erie community at a news conference, honored by the Mercyhurst Family at an afternoon cocktail reception, and later were the guests of college President Dr. William P. Garvey for dinner at the Laker Inn. Joining them at the anniversary banquet were current faculty and administra­tors who were with the college at the time of the coeducational change.

Cover photo by Ed Bernik. See story and photos on pp. 2-4.

1. Sr. Carolyn Herrmann 2. James E. Sabol '70 3. Russell W. Sundy '71 4. Mark R. Santia '73 5. Robert E. Dillemuth '72 6. Larry H. Rice '72 7. Thomas P. Richter '73 8. William F. Taft '72 9. John R. Grazier '71 10. Gary L. Bukowski'73

Not pictured: Daniel V. Burke '69

Spring1989, Vol. 7, No. 2

Chairman of the Board of Trustees James A. Zurn

President Dr. William P. Garvey

Editor Mary Daly '66

Alumni Editor Bonnie Clark '84

Sports Editor Greg Yoko '85

Contributing Writers Michelle Bush '90 Bonnie Clark '84 James Dixson, Sr. Joanne Druzak Connie Ferry Dr. William P. Garvey Jack Grazier '71 Kevin McHugh '92 Christopher J. Kovski '89 Karen Sampson '91 Lloyd Schrecengost '75 Robi Taylor '91

Photography Ed Bernik Louis Caravaglia Lance Lavrinc '83 Judith Wieczorek '61 Times Publishing Co

Production David Agresti/MetroDelta Design Group

Production Assistants Gloria Knox Dr. Charles Kolb Karen McGuire '92

Printing Seneca Printing, Oil City, PA

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

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Between the pages:

Twenty Years of Coeducation 2

Academic Celebration '89 4

WMCE-FM Goes on the Public Airwaves 8

Mercyhurst Career Institute: Helping People Help Themselves 9

Faculty Focus: Barry McAndrew 10

Staff Feature: The Middle Age Jinx 11

Lord Mayor of Dublin Visits Mercyhurst 12

Laker Sports 14

Alumni News 16

Class Notes 19

Performing Arts Calendar IBC

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20 years of Coeducation by Dr. William P. Garvey

It was 20 years ago, February 3, 1969, that Sister Carolyn Herrmann and the board of trustees surprised the Erie com­munity with the announcement that Mer-cyhurst College would begin accepting men after a 43-year tradition as a prestig­ious women's college.

The decision to become a coeducational institution was made by seven Sisters of Mercy and two lay trustees. For many, it was an unpopular decision. But the record has shown that the decision was not only an historical one, it was the beginning of unprecedented growth - growth so dra­matic that it sometimes has been called Mercy hurst's "Second Spring".

In the past 20 years, the Mercyhurst student body has grown from 628 stu­dents to a record breaking enrollment this past year of 2,066 students, including 940 men.

In 1969, we enrolled 12 freshman males and 173 freshman women, compared to this year's statistics of 205 freshman men and 220 freshman women, which also is the largest class in the history of the col­lege.

Our financial growth is equally impres­sive. In 1969, the college had an operating budget of $1,264,622. Today, the college has an operating budget of more than $14 million, including a college endowment that has increased by $2 million in the past several years.

"In 1969, we enrolled 12 freshmen males and 173

freshman women, compared to this year's

statistics of 205 freshman men and

220 freshman women.../'

Likewise, our fundraising efforts have increased dramatically since coeducation. In 1969, the college received $137,127 in support from all of its constituencies. Last year, the college raised over a million dollars in outside support, and it has raised over $8 million since 1980. Alumni giving alone last year totalled approximately $100,000, a figure that has doubled in the

past five years. Over the past two decades, the physical

plant of the college also has grown dra­matically from a three building complex to one of 13 buildings valued at $35 million. Since 1969, the college has constructed the Hammermill Library, Campus Center, Baldwin Hall, three on-campus student apartment buildings, eight townhouse units, Sullivan Hall for the hotel-restau­rant program, the $1.5 million D'Angelo School of Music building, a new mainte­nance building, and three athletic fields. In addition, the college has purchased eight apartment buildings on Briggs Avenue.

Yet even with this phenomenal plant growth, this year's record enrollment has nearly exhausted the college's available facilities. It is for this reason that college trustees have decided to cap the freshman class at approximately 400, and the total college enrollment at about 2,000. In plac­ing these limits on the college enrollment, Mercyhurst has opted for a higher quality student body consistent with its long-range goal of becoming one of the premier col­leges in the tri-state region. Perhaps one of the most significant turn of events aca­demically as a result of the change to co­education was the reinstatement of our business department which trustees had closed in November, 1969. Today, busi­ness is the largest single major at Mer­cyhurst College, and it is the top drawing card among new students, enrolling al­most 300 students.

Other new programs added since co­education include: criminal justice, spe­cial education, computer science, interior design, fashion merchandising, graphic design, sportsmedicine, geology, hotel-restaurant & institutional management, communications, dance, music, and reli­gious studies, as well as graduate pro­grams in criminal justice administration and in special education.

In the mid-70's, the college also began an Adult College for students returning to college; in the 80's it began a Career Insti­tute to assist in job retraining for the unem­ployed of Erie County; and a few years ago, it opened the Mercyhurst Corry Center to service the educational needs of the Corry-Warren area.

As we added programs, we broadened

our placement services to carefully track employers' needs while monitoring the marketability of our alumni. Among graduates in the Class of 1987,94.1 % either found employment in their area of study or are attending graduate school. The preliminary report on the Class of 1988 is just as encouraging, showing a similar trend in high job placement among our May graduates.

"Through all this change that has characterized

Mercyhurst... the college has attempted to retain a

traditional sense of elegance and a stron

commitment to both the liberal arts and to the

importance of moral and ethical values in

education."

In 20 years, Mercyhurst also has gone from being a college without intercolle­giate athletics to one that fields 18 varsity teams for men and women. Since 1969, the college not only has a national tennis cham­pionship to its record, but also in the past year, our women's soccer team was a semi-finalist in the NCAA National Cham­pionships.

Through all this change that has charac­terized Mercyhurst over the past two decades, the college has attempted to re­tain a traditional sense of elegance and a strong commitment to both the liberal arts and to the importance of moral and ethical values in education.

The Mercyhurst coeducation story was certainly one of high risks, but the long term effects have positioned the college well to meet the challenges of the next cen­tury. For this, Mercyhurst will be forever indebted to Sister Carolyn Herrmann and to her visionary trustees and advisory board members, who in 1969, "seized an opportunity" to greatly advance the Sis­ters of Mercy dream of building a "great college on the hill."

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ONE OF THE FIRST GUYS LOOKS BACK FONDLY AT ALL THOSE GIRLS by Jack Grazier 72

The one thing that really sticks in my mind about being one of the first guys at Mercyhurst College is that there were girls all over the place.

Tall girls, short girls, thin girls, fat girls, and beautiful girls everywhere you looked.

And I can remem­ber one overriding question that came crashing into my mind about halfway through my first day of classes: Is there a men's room in this place?

I joined the school by accident. I had gone to Gannon University for two years when that school's student body was mostly unattractively male. Then I almost got drafted. At my second draft physical, however, the one where you took your suitcase and $15 and sat listening to a bunch of other draftees, standing around in a big room in their underwear and talk­ing about killing communists in Viet Nam, I made what was probably the best move in my life.

I flunked the physical. "Please excuse John from the Army due

to his allergies and asthma," was the gist of the note Dr. E. Ralston had written to the Army.

The Army doctor who examined me agreed with Dr. Ralston's assessment that I was a rather unhealthy wimp.

'You'll be getting a 1-Y," he said. What's that mean?" It means you're next in line after Lady

Bird Johnson," he said. I remember trying to look extremely

disappointed. A thought began to take shape then in my mind that since I wasn't going to die, I deserved to resume the rest of my life at an all-girls' college.

Moosehead Lake I think the best time I ever had at the

school was when ten girls and I took off in the school's station wagon and headed for Maine. We'd been given permission to use the car to visit a former Mercyhurst teacher, a Mrs. Cirks, who lived in Farmington, and who had a cabin at nearby Moosehead Lake.

We started out at about 5 a.m. one day, as I remember, and about 248 rest stops later, we were somewhere in the middle of Maine in the middle of the night, looking

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for Farmington. The girls were sleeping quietly in the

car, with the exception of one or two. I was driving. Outside, it was a blizzard. The drifts were blowing over the road, and there wasn't the slightest sign of human habitation anywhere.

We were in the middle of the famous desolate Maine Tundra, an empty, frozen area where few girls had gone before.

"It's like a desolate frozen Tundra out there," I said, trying to peer through the windshield which was icing up. "If the car quits now, we're in real trouble."

Peggy Edwards, a beautiful redhead with hair that went down to the middle of her back, gasped.'"Don't even think it/' she said.

"The engine is making strange sounds," I said.

She had a look on her face that said, DO MOOSE EAT MEAT?

We drove on a few more miles until we were really in the middle of nowhere. The radio was making that quiet, comforting static-sound it always makes when the nearest radio station is Point Barrow, Alaska.

"I think the best time I ever had at school was

when ten girls and I took off in the school's station

wagon and headed for Maine/'

These girls had led a very protected life at the school. Some told stories of putting talcum powder on the surface of the water in their bathtubs so they wouldn't be able to see their own reflections.

Honest. Suddenly, the car engine sputtered and

quit, and the old station wagon coasted to a stop in the middle of a drift.

"Oh-no!" I said, pseudo-alarmed. 'What's the matter?" someone gasped. 'I think there's something wrong with

the car," I said. "It's the engine, probably." Talk about a cacophony. Tall shrieks,

short shrieks, thin shrieks, fat shrieks and choking, gasping noises from beautiful Peggy.

"OH MY GOD, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?" the ten of them said in

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unison. "We just have to wait it out, I suppose,"

I said. "HOW DO YOU WAIT OUT A BRO­

KEN ENGINE?" This went on a good 20 minutes. Finally,

I reached down for the ignition key. "Enough of this," I said, and started the

car again. "You girls are easy." I'll leave what happened then to your

imagination. It wasn't pretty.

Toward authenticity What's the most memorable moment of

my years at Mercyhurst? It had to be the time I was sitting in Dr.

George Kovacs philosophy class. We were talking about man's quest for authenticity. Fifteen minutes into the class, the most gorgeous girl I'd ever seen burst through the door, huffing and puffing because she'd run all the way from her art class across campus.

"I was taken with her in­stantly .... your genes

match perfectly! THIS IS THE ONE."

She had long brown hair and little beads of perspiration on her upper lip that glis­tened seductively under the fluorescent lights. She dropped her metal tackle box containing art supplies onto the floor with a clang and then tried to become incon­spicuous for the rest of the period.

I was taken with her instantly. She must have been exuding a torrent of genetically programmed hormones that rushed through my nose to my subconscious, tell­ing it, "Your genes match perfectly! THIS IS THE ONE."

I spent the rest of the class turning around to look at the back of the room as if there were a clock on the wall, which there wasn't, and then dropping my eyes to look at her.

Debbie Korowicki. I learned her name later.

It took five years for me to persuade her to marry me.

One thing's for sure. Without her and Mercyhurst, I wouldn't be nearly as au­thentic or be where I am today.

Jack Grazier, a reporter at the Erie Daily Times for 18 years, graduated from Mercyhurst College in 1971. He was one of the first men ivho enrolled at Mercyhurst in 1969.

Reprinted with the permission of the Erie Daily Times.

CONGRESSMAN RIDGE DELIVERS KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "Reflections on Vietnam and Israel"

by Michelle Bush '90

It is America's duty to help the Amera-sian children in Vietnam, U.S. Representa­tive Tom Ridge said in his keynote address at the college's third annual Academic Celebration.

Fathered by American servicemen in Vietnam, these children would be Ameri­can citizens but for their birth there, and their fathers' failure to register them at the U.S. embassy, according to Ridge.

The Republican from Pennsylvania's 21st district reflected on his recent trips to Vietnam and Israel. He said that the United States wants to be responsible for the Amerasian children in Vietnam.

Ridge, who was elected to Congress in 1982, is the only enlisted Vietnam combat veteran in the House. He has therefore taken an interest in military affairs and returned to Vietnam to help the plight of the Amerasian children.

"They know we are very interested in assuming the responsibility for the Amera­sian children who are the lowest of the low in Vietnam," Ridge said. He added that the Vietnamese don't want them and call them "children of the dust."

Although the United States is interested in Amerasians, Ridge said the Communist party in Vietnam doesn't know how to deal with the United States yet concerning the children and prisoners of war.

"We know that they've got several hundred POW remains in a warehouse in Hanoi," Ridge said.

"In South Vietnam and in Saigon there were bright

colors. There were flowers ... there was still a promise

of something better/'

However, Vietnam is still hesitant to release these remains to the United States, according to Ridge, who said he doesn't think any prisoners of war remain alive in Vietnam.

To better relations with Vietnam, Ridge

and Senator Robert Mrazek are calling for a controversial legislation that establishes an interest section in Vietnam, Ridge said.

"We establish a presence in Hanoi/ and they establish a presence in Washington

the country confirmed Ridge's observa­tion that little difference exists between Vietnam today, and the Vietnam he knew during the war. "There were still two Vietnams."

through a third party embassy where we agree to try to resolve these humanitarian issues," he explained.

The representative added, however, that he is not actively promoting the plan to Congress because the Vietnamese have gone back on their word concerning Amerasians and prisoners of war. "Until they show good faith," he said, "we are not inclined to promote it and we have not reintroduced it in this session of Congress.

When Ridge got off the plane in Hanoi, he observed that nothing had changed. "My first reaction was that the country was still frozen in time," he said. "You got the feeling, if not of despair or hopeless­ness, of an acceptance of a way of life that was very difficult and very demanding with very little hope for the future."

Traveling to Vietnam, in Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City), the atmosphere changed, according to Ridge. "In South Vietnam and in Saigon there were bright colors. There were flowers," he said. "There was still a promise of something better."

But the gap between these two parts of

Ridge, who was recently re-elected to his fourth term by a wide margin, also spent five days in Israel. His first stop was at the Holocaust Memorial. "It is clearly in my mind one of the two or three most intense couple of hours that I have spent in my lifetime," he said.

"Through a series of photographs and presentments of one form or another, you relive the terror and horror of the Holo­caust not only in Germany but throughout all of Europe."

The people of Israel also are concerned about their fragile democracy and their freedom, according to Ridge. "They are in a constant state of alert, and you just can't miss that."

The concern for their government leads them to be involved in it. "Everybody is a politician," Ridge said. "People in Israel eat, sleep and think government."

After seeing Vietnam and Israel, Ridge compared their governments and culture. Vietnam has been around in some form or another for centuries, Ridge said.

Although their country is relatively stabilized, the stabilizing is in the eye of

the beholder Ridge said. "To some it has meant oppression, famine and forced la­bor."

Israel is different because it's a new country, founded about 40 years ago. Even its military is new. "The one thing that impressed me is that nothing is gold-plated. They don't worry about spit-shined boots," Ridge said. "They worry about having good soldiers and machines and equip­ment that work."

He also added that Israel is in a defen­sive position and spends 15 percent of its GNP to protect its fragile democracy.

Comparing their economies, however, the Vietnamese are among the poorest in the world, according to Ridge. Their tech­nology isn't advanced, and it will be a long time before they look to the West for help.

Israel's economy is growing, and it is using modern technology from the West, such as building sophisticated aircraft equipment, Ridge said.

Although hostile countries surround Israel, Ridge said, "They all want peace, but won't give it away."

He added that the trip to Israel re­minded him of how fortunate the United States has been. "What a luxury we have in terms of who our neighbors are, their perceptions of us, and our ability to peace­fully coexist," he said.

Ridge said he didn't have to go away to appreciate his life here, but it did reinstate his idea of what it means to be an Ameri­can.

Michelle Bush is a junior English/Commu­nications major from Union City.

THE JOURNALIST'S AGENDA UNDER GEORGE BUSH

by Kevin McHugh '92

When something goes wrong, it will be easy to point the finger at President George Bush because he gives the impression of being in charge, according to a journalist speaking at the third annual Academic Celebration.

" He pointed out how early he came to work and how late he left," said Bob Guerrein, editorial writer for the Morning News (Erie), who was one of a panel of journalists and community leaders dis­cussing the Bush presidency. "This air of brisk efficiency and decisiveness means that he can be blamed for decisions. Re­agan couldn't because it was nap time for eight years."

Guerrein, whose "News Inquest" col­umn appears regularly in the Times Week­ender, cited a recent incident involving Bush's chief of staff, John Sununu, as an immediate area for concern. Sununu complained to reporters about Congress leaking plans to put a 25-cent fee on every $100 deposited in a savings and loan ac­count. The plan was dropped as soon as it hit the press, according to Guerrein.

"This displays the most incredible naivete in a man who has been in politics for how long?" Guerrein said. "He doesn't realize that if you give Congress an idea like this, they're going to babble on you, isn't that amazing?"

Complaining about information leaks to the press is like complaining about the "rising of the moon or the heat of the sun," according to Guerrein. "This kind of attitude is going to cause Bush problems/' he added.

"Bush appears to enjoy meeting with reporters," Drexler said. "In the first week he held a 40-minute press conference which was unheard of in the Reagan days. Thirty minutes and it was out the door."

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"Complaining about information leaks to the press is like complaining

about the 'rising of the moon or the neat

of the sun'....

Gerd Brueggemann, U.S. economic correspondent for the West German newspaper Die Welt, also discussed the question of leaks in the government. "Leaks are a legitimate way of spreading information and, for a lot of journalists, are the only way to get information," he said.

He added that using leaks puts a lot of responsibility on the journalist. "Every­body who leaks information does it for a purpose and the purpose is seldom to get the truth out in the open," Brueggemann said. "The journalist has the responsibility to find out why the information was leaked and then decide how to use it.

All of the panelists agreed that major differences exist between the Bush and the Reagan administrations.

Reagan was a very detached President and was often sheltered from the press to prevent him from making public blun­ders, according to Steve Drexler, news director for WJET-TV, the Erie-based ABC television affiliate.

As an example of a Reagan blunder, Drexler cited Reagan's announcement during a radio broadcast that the bombing of Russia would begin in five minutes. Reagan thought the microphone was switched off, ac­cording to Drexler. Bush may have a different relationship with the media, he added.

"Everybody who leaks information does it for a purpose, and the purpose is seldom to get the truth

out in the open...."

If Bush continues to allow reporters greater access to information, it will be the best and healthiest thing for all of us, not only journalists," he said.

However, nobody knows how Bush is going to behave with the press because we don't know how successful he will be, according to Guerrein. "A President's relationship with the press depends on how well he does in office/' Guerrein said.

If Bush complains that the press is against him, he's got problems, Guerrein added. "What that means is that he's being asked difficult questions. He blames the messenger or in this case, the bearer of bad questions," Guerrein explained.

"Reagan was a special case because he specialized not in being a bureaucrat or even a politician, but in exploiting the glamour of the presidency. Nobody ex­pected him to do much else. So when lapses occurred, no one cared. Bush does not give that impres­sion:

Richard Ruth, an American Civil Liberties Union attor­ney, discus­sed the legal im­plications of Bush's administra­tion. "There is a more re­strictive atti­tude toward the First Amend­ment

and this is cause for some concern/' he said. "However, to think that the Supreme Court is on a right wing turn is probably overblown" he added.

Ruth cited the recent Gerry Falwell, a televangelist, verses "Hustler" magazine case as a victory for the First Amendment. A cartoon in the magazine depicted Fal­well committing incest in an outhouse with his mother.

"A President's relation-ship with the press de­

pends on how well he does in office/'

Falwell sued the magazine, and lower court awarded him $200,000, not for libel, but for a civil claim that "Hustler" com­mitted an intentional infliction of emo­tional distress. The case went to the Su­preme Court, which voted 9-0 that the award made by the jury was an infringe­ment of "Hustler" magazine's right to free speech.

However, Bush may replace three Su­preme Court judges who are close to re­tirement and, in doing so, could give the Supreme Court a more conservative tone, according to Ruth. Those justices are Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun and William J. Brennan, Jr., and they are considered to be liberals.

The meeting, entitled "The Journalist's Agenda Under George Bush," showed a consensus among the panelists that the government should not set the agenda. They agreed that it should not be solely up to the government to decide what topics should be covered by the press.

Ruth and Drexler said the agenda should be set by a combination of both journalists and the government. Guerrein said it should be determined by a responsible media and by events that take place.

Kevin McHugh is a freshman communica­tions major from Donegal, Ireland

1992: UNITED STATES OF EUROPE

by Robi Taylor '91

Contrary to the beliefs of American businesses and government officials, the 1992 Free Trade Agreement between 12 European countries will benefit countries on both sides of the Atlantic, according to Gerd Brueggemann, economic correspon­dent for the West German newspaper, Die Welt.

There will be numerous benefits for U.S. businesses in dealing with the 12 countries as one group, now called the European Economic Community (E.E.C.). Instead of having to negotiate with each government with different regulations, one group speaks for the entire community. By making deals with a central office, exports from the U.S. would be available to all of the 320 million consumers living within the European community.

Importing products from the commu­nity will be easier for U.S. companies, Brueggemann said. The agreement en­courages outside companies to make pur­chases from any company in any member nation by lifting the import-export restric­tions in the separate countries. The agree­ment gives the same benefits to businesses wishing to invest money in European busi­nesses.

"European companies are only competitive in this

country if their prices are what the consumers are

willing to pay..."

Part of the agreement under which the community will operate states that the equal treatment of outside companies would allow the same trade benefits within the European Community that companies already in the E.E.C. currently have, Brueggemann said during his speech at the third Academic Celebration of Mer-cyhurst. "But," he added, "the companies from outside the community would have to follow the same regulations that are imposed on insider businesses - much the same way foreign banks follow U. S. regulations when they set up offices in this country."

One problem currently splitting the U.S. and the European Community concerns the import of American beef treated with growth hormones. Since the Europeans banned the import of hormone-treated

beef, the U.S. government has been claim­ing that it is being discriminated against by the Europeans. "The truth," according to Brueggemann, "is that the ban is against all beef-producing countries who use hormones, not just the U.S."

"We are each others best customers .... what unites us is greater than what

divides us"

This type of problem is all that remains between the U.S. and the European Com­munity. "Talks between the two sides are working the problems out, "he said, "but it is going to take a lot of time and a lot of effort on both sides."

'The new European Market will be the largest in the world," Brueggemann said. "It will be larger than the market of the U.S. and three times larger than the market of Japan, establishing itself as the third economic power next to the U. S. and Ja­pan." The estimated annual exports from the E.E.C. will be about $400 billion with a trade deficit of $18.5 billion per year.

European companies are only competi­tive in this country if their prices are what the consumers are willing to pay, Bruegge­mann said after the speech. "For American companies, it's the other way around. The Europeans hope that the removal of some of the red tape will cause price reductions and give Europeans a stronger place in the world market."

The European Community of 1992 will have open doors and not barricades. To shut themselves off from the rest of the world would isolate them from possible markets, such as the United States. For the sake of its own interest, the Community will not shut itself off, according to Brueggemann.

"We are each others best customers, "he said, "what unites us is greater than what divides us."

Robi Taylor is a sophomore communica­tions major from Erie

The third annual Academic Celebra­tion took place at the college January 30 - February 1. There were no classes scheduled so that the Mercyhurst and Erie Communities could participate in the more than 50 special events

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WMCE-FM goes on the Public Airwaves by Christopher J. Kovski '89

There's a new stereo FM station in Erie, operating at 88.5 on the dial. WMCE (Mercyhurst College Erie) is a 350 watt non-commercial station that went on the air February 3.

The format for the new station is classic rock. According to Richard Ragan, direc­tor of the college's communications de­partment and faculty advisor to the sta­tion, "We'll be playing quite a bit of music from the 60's and 70's like old Heart, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, The Rolling Stones, and some Doors. We'll also be interspersing some current hard rock hits like Guns 'n Roses, Van Halen and Metallica," Ragan explained.

For a change of pace, the Mercyhurst station features alternative community programming on Saturday evening and Sunday. This programming includes Christian rock, ethnic music, rock and roll from the 50's, big-band music, and classi­cal music.

"Training for the students was the major reason for acquiring the station..•.

we wanted to offer them a professional level experi­ence with a wider based

audience/'

In addition, the station will carry most of the Laker sporting events. Ragan said that the key to the new station is service. "We want to serve the Mercyhurst and Erie communities," he explained. "We've counterprogrammed for greater variety, in an attempt not to duplicate anything the other stations are offering."

Brian McAndrew, a senior communica­tions major at the college is the station manager. "Training for the students was the major reason for acquiring the sta­tion," explained Mercyhurst President William P. Garvey. Before the acquisition, the college relied on its AM on-campus station, WMCY, to train its communica­tion students. "We wanted to be able to offer our students a professional level experience with a wider based audience/' Garvey said. At Mercyhurst, the radio

station is an integral part of the college's communications program. Students are required to work on the station as part of their undergraduate training in commu­nications.

It took five years of effort on the part of the Mercyhurst board of trustees with Mr. Ragan spearheading the project for the college to launch its FM station.

"The story of five years of setbacks can now be told."

According to Ragan, "When I came to Mercyhurst, one of Dr. Garvey's goals was to see if there were an available frequency for a non-commercial FM station. We hired an electrical engineer and a commu­nication lawyer," Ragan explained. The first step was to have the engineer do a computer search of the area, listing all of the FM stations including those in Ash­tabula, Ohio and Canada. The search nar­rowed the field down to two available fre­quencies, 88.1 and 88.5. Ragan said that it was decided to try for the 88.5 position because it was higher on the dial.

When Mercyhurst first applied in 1983, it was assumed that no one else had ap­plied for the remaining frequencies. As it turned out, Family Stations, a Christian Broadcasting Network out of California, had filed for 88.1, and the Martin Luther King Center in Erie had also filed for 88.5.

Since a station operating at 88.1 would cause interference for a station at 88.5 , the three parties attempted to work out a solu­tion among themselves. Over the next few years, a variety of ideas were pursued, including each of the parties' effort to buy out the others, paying all legal fees and costs incurred, but to no avail. In the meantime, further complicating an already complicated situation, the FCC placed a six-month freeze on all applications for licenses in the lower part of the band, as Canadian television stations near the bor­der had complained about interference from existing stations.

Things began to resolve themselves about a year and a half ago, when the Martin Luther King Center sold its interest to Mercyhurst College. This left the Hurst

and Family Stations each wanting a fre­quency.

It took over a year for the engineers to work out a plan which would cause mini­mal interference (less than 10%).

However, once again, the FCC ruled against the arrangement as the zone of interference was in the center of the city. To overcome this barrier, Mercyhurst moved its proposed tower five miles south­east, while Family Stations moved its site five miles west. This placed the interfer­ence to the south of the city. The FCC approved this arrangement in August of 1988.

There was still another hurdle. The FCC approved application was sent to the Canadian government which has to ap­prove any station built within a certain distance of the Canadian border. That approval came in January 1989. Mercyhurst was issued a construction permit that al­lowed it to go on the air in February. And if there are no problems, the college will be issued a license in the next few months.

"Basically, the FCC waits to make sure that there are not any complaints from other stations," said Ragan.

With the help of Donald Kelly, owner of Erie station Classy 100 (WXKC), Mercyhurst's transmitter is located at Classy 100's tower. The studio transmitter link is located on campus and carries the signal by microwave to the Classy 100 tower. A unique solution was worked out for this rental. Mercyhurst has established a scholarship in Kelly's name to be given to an Irish student majoring in communi­cations.

Christopher Kovski is a senior English major and editor of the campus newspaper, The Merciad.

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Helping People Help Themselves

MERCYHURST CAREER INSTITUTE

by Robi Taylor '91

The way life used to work was that if you weren't rich when you graduated from high school you went to your first job, if you happened to be a boy. If you hap­pened to be a girl, the next step in your life was to marry your high school love usu­ally within a year of graduation. There were other options, but college was more than likely out of the question.

Now the jobs that you had when you were 18 are being eliminated by foreign competition, or the economy won't allow you to work any longer at the only job you ever knew.

When this happens, the need for new skills surfaces. Because the world has changed and high technology is here to stay, basic reading, writing and arithmetic are still essential, but not enough. Train­ing in the fields where the jobs are is needed.

In March 1983, Mercyhurst saw this need, and worked to fill it by developing the Mercyhurst College Career Institute (MCCI) to answer the growing career development needs of the Erie County labor force. By offering one year of gov­ernment-sponsored free job retraining through the Job Training Partnership Act, students qualifying for admission may take 30 credit hours in certificate programs ranging from accounting and business/ medical office, sales, computer program­ming or foodservice/hospitality, to mu­nicipal police training and travel-tourism.

In addition, developmental and reme­dial courses are offered for students when testing shows that there is a deficiency in the basic areas of math, reading and writ­ing. This comes as a godsend to some students who may have "slipped through the cracks" during their early school days. Likewise, there are classes more advanced in the basic subjects for the students who show skill in these areas.

Also offered are elective courses, such as public speaking and life career plan­ning, that are taught to make students more skillful in the areas of interpersonal communications. The course in life career planning also helps by teaching job hunt­ing and interviewing techniques that some

day can make the difference between get­ting an unemployment check and earning a paycheck.

The Institute offers an employment service open to all of its students. The average placement rate for MCCI students completing the program is between 70-80%, according to John T. Nesbit, who has directed the Institute since its founding six years ago. According to Nesbit, all credits from MCCI classes can be used toward a degree program at Mercyhurst and most can be transferred to other schools for use in obtaining a degree. Many MCCI gradu­ates do continue their educational pur­suits after successfully testing the waters.

Nesbit said that sometimes the immer­sion into college is all that may be needed to get persons back on track and further­ing their education and their future.

The college's Career Institute is housed at St Mark's Center at the top of the hill on East Grand view Boulevard. However, MCCI students are not isolated from the traditional students and in fact take classes on the main campus. They are also en­couraged to join student organizations and to participate in student activities to en­hance the quality of their collegiate life.

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» 9 * V Sometimes the immer­sion into college is all that

may be needed to get persons back on track and furthering their education

and their future/'

Each year, approximately 300 students are enrolled in the MCCI programs and in July, 209 will graduate at special com­mencement ceremonies.

The Mercyhurst College Career Insti­tute carries on in spirit and in mission the goal of the Sisters of Mercy who have always extended a helping hand to people in need. The Career Institute gives an unemployed person or adult in transition a push toward a better life, a chance to, work for something that may have been out of reach in their youth.

Robi Taylor graduated from the Mercyhurst College Career Institute last summer. He is continuing his education at the college.

CAREER INSTITUTE GIVES NEW LEASE ON LIFE

by Connie Ferry

When I began classes at the Mercyhurst College Career Institute (MCCI) the end seemed very far away. My first thought was I will never survive, I am not smart enough. That was ten months age, and not only did I survive, I did it with above average grades.

The Career Institute was a milestone in my life. A difficult one, but at the same time, a very rewarding one.

I was married and a mother by the time I was 16 years old; I had two children and then I was divorced. Having no education left me to support myself with meaning­less jobs. I had to go on welfare to raise my children.

In 1984,1 decided to take my GED test without attending classes, and to my sur­prise, I did pass it. When I found out about Mercyhurst I was thrilled! I thought maybe there was a chance for me yet. In 1988,1 enrolled in the classes at the Mercyhurst College Career Institute. And yes, there was a chance for me.

The classes at Mercyhurst were any­thing but easy. I stayed up many nights working or studying the assignments. The hardest instructor I had was Mrs. Barbara Rider. She was very demanding and at times I actually hated her. But now that it is all over, I thank God for her because she cared enough to be the strict instructor she was. I definitely learned that she was strict for a reason: she wanted us to leave her classes with the knowledge of what she had taught. Every day that passes, I am faced with a problem that I could not have handled without the help of Mrs. Rider's class.

After completing six classes I got a part-time job at Country Fair Headquarters doing data entry and computer work. It is the first job I am actually proud of, and I owe it all to the Career Institute.

Thanks to the Career Institute I can now stand on my own two feet without the help of public assistance. I will never be that tenth grade dropout again.

Faculty Focus: Barry McAndrew

If Barry McAndrew were to die today, he would want his gravestone to read: "He loved his family, his job, and his school." Luckily for his wife, Elaine; sons, Marc (Mercyhurst, Class of 1987) and Brian (Mercyhurst, 1989); and his students, McAndrew is alive and sharing his love for literature and teaching here at Mer­cyhurst College - something he has been doing since 1964. McAndrew teaches several classes within the English Depart­ment. "Since 1964, I've taught just about every English course that we've ever taught here in one year or another," McAndrew said.

"Students are responsible primarily for their own

education. As a teacher, I am responsible to give all that I can possibly give to

the students in the best manner I can give it. n

His field of expertise and favorite course is William Shakespeare. "Sister Eustace and I trade off every year on Shakespeare," as a way to keep both Shakespeare lovers happy, McAndrew explained. His favor­ite work by the bard is "King Lear." McAn­drew admires Shakespeare because of "his insight into the human condition" and ranks him among his heros. "He just seems to have understood the human animal better than anyone else," McAndrew said.

The reason McAndrew has remained at Mercyhurst for almost 25 years is that he enjoys the community. "I think the essen­tial reason is the people - not only the people that I work with, but the students that I work for," McAndrew said, "I still enjoy driving in the gates everyday."

He has also enjoyed watching Mer­cyhurst grow and expand both in acade-mia and size, and feels that the Sisters of Mercy have been major contributors to this change. "When I came here," McAn­drew explained, "it was still all girls -roughly 450 young girls. Five years later, Sister Carolyn was willing to take an enormous risk by making Mercyhurst a coeducational school. It obviously paid off."

According to McAndrew," the school has been consciously grappling with the idea, 'What is best for the student?' and 'What would be the best way to deal with it (a problem)?' and it's always been that way." McAndrew added, "I like the idea that the faculty genuinely wants the students to do well,and that the school is pri­marily a teaching college. At least for me, that's where the joy comes in," he said.

McAndrew keeps his love for literature and teaching alive by constantly researching and updating information. He has no fear of getting "stale" or "burning out" because, every class of every day has a differ­ent response and attitude to the material. "Part of staying fresh is that every class is different," McAndrew says, "and I don't necessarily mean freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors. Every class from an 8:15 to a 10:20 can be different, precisely be­cause the students can react differently. Over the 24 years or so that I've been here, how you do it is you keep reading, you try to keep current, you try to change - at least interpretations because you don't want to change for the sake of changing. But if new information or new understandings come along, you try to pass those along to the kids. I try to make the students become part of the learning process." McAndrew added that he always tries to give the students his own sense of excitement.

"I think that one of the most important things

that we, as teachers, can pass on to our students is the love that we have for

what we do."

McAndrew enjoys acting and views it as an extension of his education in litera­ture. He has been involved in the Erie Playhouse, making commercials, and Mercyhurst's Canterbury Feast, which is a medieval dinner theater held on campus

by Karen Sampson '91

every summer. The actors do the singing, the acting and the serving of food eaten without utensils.

Throughout his teaching career, McAn­drew has developed several philosophies on life and learning. He believes in disci­pline and in each person taking responsi­bility for him or herself. "Students are re­sponsible primarily for their own educa­tion. As a teacher, I am responsible to give all that I can possibly give to the student in the best manner I can give it. What lasts with us, longer than our four years here, is the discipline of always attempting to be the best that we can be."

Barry McAndrew is a man who truly loves his roles of husband, father and teacher. His love for his work radiates to his students and to the rest of the Mer­cyhurst Community. "I think that one of the most important things that we, as teach­ers, can pass on to our students is the love that we have for what we do," McAndrew said. "Many students won't remember dates or they may not remember names, but what they might remember is that prof who really loved what he was doing." Barry McAndrew does.

Karen Sampson is a sophomore communi­cations major from Parma Heights, Ohio.

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Staff Feature: The Middle Age Jinx by James Dixon , Sr.

Editor's Note: Under the auspices of the Greater Erie Community Action Committee Senior Aide Program, Jim Dixon, Sr. joined the Mercyhurst College staff in 1984. The Senior Aide Program helps people over 50 years old who are seeking employment. After one season as equipment manager for the foot­ball program, Jim was hired full time by the college's maintenance department, working primarily as a painter. His story tells of the dis­ruptions that can occur in an employment career arid the difficulties that result in adjust­ing to sudden and unforeseen change.

I am an average American citizen who believes that his country was built and became great on the principles of equality and opportunity. I am now 60 years old, have been married 40 years, and we have raised three children.

"Persons between the ages of 45-60 can get caught in a 'dead zone' when they

lose their job"

After completing high school and one year of college, I took a job in 1955 at a foundry for 90 cents an hour. The pay and benefits were good and improved annu­ally, so I eventually decided to work for the foundry until retirement. I worked hard, did a good job, and steadily ad­vanced. By 1981, my salary was $8.50 per hour with excellent fringe benefits for myself and my family.

The foundry employed 140 persons in 1981 and was planning a $500,000 expan­sion. Many of my co-workers took out loans, expecting a secure future.

While the plant was shut down over the Christmas break that year, a decision was made to permanently close immediately. All employees were abruptly out of work and no support systems were available to help them find other employment.

I was 53 years old and in good health when this happened to me. But unfortu­nately, the economy in the area was sag­ging and good paying industrial jobs were almost impossible to find.

Even though I was receiving unemploy­

ment benefits, my situation quickly dete­riorated. Not enough money was coming in to pay the bills, no benefits were avail­able, and I was at an age where future employment possibilities seemed non­existent. I was not eligible for social secu­rity benefits until age 62, and my unem­ployment compensation ended after 39 weeks. Meanwhile, financial pressure such as property taxes on my home, monthly mortgage payments, utilities and insur­ance payments remained. My financial problems mounted rapidly, and misery, stress and tensions grew. Being in this situation was degrading and created prob­lems for my marriage. Not only was I not able to bring home money to support my family and home, but I was home a lot of time which caused bickering, nagging, and arguments - most of the time because of financial problems. Many of my former foundry co-workers were unable to cope with the pressures and conditions, and experienced problems of alcoholism, sepa­ration or divorce, and violent and deviant behavior.

After three years, I was able to find a job at Mercyhurst College where I hope to remain working until I retire.

The point I would like to stress is that job disruption during the ages between the mid-forties and fifties can be very trau­matic, especially after investing a long time in a job. One's skills are often limited to what has been done over the previous 20 years, and it becomes hard to develop new skills. Furthermore, a new job often means starting at the bottom of the organization at considerably lower pay and few bene­fits, that is, if you can find a new job. Companies often prefer young people for entry level jobs.

"I believe that society needs to pay greater at-

tention to people caught in this bind, which I call the

middle age jinx."

The employment situation I am describ­ing is a growing social problem. Govern­ment can be very insensitive to people

who suffer economic hardships. Persons between the ages of 45-60 can get caught in a "dead zone" when they lose their job. The futility of the situation can be wors­ened when race, socio-economic class, or ethnic background are negatives.

I believe that society needs to pay greater attention to people caught in this bind, which I call the "middle age jinx." The American Dream should not end for those who lose their jobs, especially through no fault of their own, after they are 45 years old. The government needs to take a more active role in assisting these individuals to find meaningful work, or at least receive enough assistance to maintain a reason­able standard of living until they can gain employment or receive Social Security.

I was lucky to connect on to a new job through GECAC and Mercyhurst College. However, I depleted all of my savings and picked up considerable debt during the three year hiatus between the foundry closing and when I joined Mercyhurst. Now I am once again able to look forward to being employed until retirement, but it has been a hard road that I didn't expect to have to travel.

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The Lord Mayor of Dublin Visits Mercyhurst by Kevin McHugh '92

On a tour of 19 major United States and Canadian cities that included Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Denver, Boston, New York City, Detroit, Dallas, and St. Louis, the Lord Mayor of Dublin Ben Briscoe visited Mercyhurst College and Erie, Pennsylva­nia to promote the Irish American Partnership (IAP) on March 29.

His five week tour that criss-crossed the States was made to promote tourism, investment in Ireland, to encourage Americans to buy Irish goods, and to raise funds for the Irish Ameri­can Scholarship Program.

While in Erie, he was honored at a $100 per per­son dinner held at Mer­cyhurst and hosted by col­lege President Dr. William P. Garvey, Bishop Michael J. Murphy, Dr. Gertrude Barber, and Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. McCormick. The dinner raised $10,000 for the organization's schol­arship program that under­writes the cost of Irish stu­dents studying in America. Currently there are 17 Irish students at Mercyhurst College.

According to Dr. Garvey, who is a member of the national board of the IAP, "The Irish American Partnership has helped the college by supporting students who otherwise would not be studying at Mercyhurst. The Partnership's scholar­ship program has enriched Mercyhurst's John F. Kennedy Scholarship Program designed for Irish students, by enabling us to widen the pool of Irish students at the college."

Briscoe said that he was very proud of the 17 Irish collegians attending Mer­cyhurst and noted that six of them have received IAP scholarships. He said that when Americans see these Irish students, they know that their subscriptions and memberships to the Irish American Part­nership have been well spent.

Briscoe, 55, was elected to the Irish Parliament in 1965, continuing the family representation that began with his father's

election in 1927. His father, Robert Bris­coe, made a promotional tour of the United States as Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1959. He was also responsible for inviting President John F. Kennedy to Ireland for his cele­brated visit in 1961.

"I have always had only one ambition in life," said Briscoe, "and that was to become Mayor of Dublin. I wanted to do as much as I could to help my country."

Briscoe is Jewish, yet he was elected to the office by the people of Dublin who are 95% Catholic. "If you deserve something, no matter who you are, you will be re­warded, even in Ireland," Briscoe said.

A visit to Europe without visiting Ireland is like a visit to India without

visiting the Taj Mahal/'

"The Lord Mayor has all the skills of a master politician," Dr. Garvey said. "He is a natural. The Lord Mayor told me that he particularly liked Erie because of its small town warmth, and that is what we tried to capitalize on during his visit to our city

and to our campus. He said he felt more at home here than in any other U.S. city."

During remarks to the 105 members of the Erie Irish Community invited to the dinner, Joseph Leary of Boston, President of the Irish American Partnership, told of

the problems that the people of Ireland face. "When young Irish men and women reach the equiva­lent of their junior or senior year in college, they fre­quently must decide what country to emigrate to, rather than what job they will seek," he said. "Those who stay must suffer a 20% unemployment rate, as there are simply not enough jobs to go around. That is where the Irish American Partnership is directing its efforts. Close to 50% of the population in Ireland is under 25 years of age, and these young people are des­perate for opportunity and education," Leary ex­plained.

Garvey said that the col­lege plans to recruit another five or six Irish students next

year, bringing the number of Irish stu­dents at Mercyhurst to 22. He added that 25 is the maximum number of Irish stu­dents the college could support at this time.

Briscoe hopes that a lot of Mercyhurst College students will visit Ireland. "A visit to Europe without visiting Ireland is like a visit to India without visiting the Taj Mahal. I think it is important that Ameri­cans travel more than they have. Only 10% of Americans hold passports," he ex­plained.

The Scholarship Benefit at Mercyhurst began with a champagne reception fol­lowed by dinner prepared by the college's hotel-restaurant program. Entertainment was by the Irish American Championship Dancers of Erie and the D'Angelo School of Music.

Kevin McHugh was one of the 17 students from Ireland who attended the scholarship dinner as a guest of the college president.

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Explanation of Partnership

The Irish American Partnership, conceived in Ireland, is a nonprofit organization led and directed by Irish and American corporate ex­ecutives to develop American sup­port for "Ireland's passage through these vital years," according to the president of the I. A.P. Joseph Leary.

Formed in 1986, the Partner­ship's motto is "Ireland, it's part of your past; be part of its future."

"Americans are being asked to support the Partnership's mission including high technology/educa­tion entrepreneurial loan projects, and business training programs for Irish youths in the United States," Leary said. "The I.A.P. intends to make a difference both in the north and south of Ireland," he added.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin Ben Briscoe said he was happy with the way the Partnership is progress­ing.

In the first three months, they have exceeded last year's total in­come of $450,000 by over $50,000," Briscoe said.

Mercyhurst President Dr. Wil­liam Garvey said that more prog­ress is needed to make a difference in Ireland. "For an organization that is only in its second year, it is making very good progress," he said. "It will meet its $1 million target this year, but we need to move at a faster rate. There are high expectations in Ireland, and together we would like to see faster progress made."

The Partnership has its Ameri­can headquarters in Boston and national headquarters in Dublin.

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Sports by Greg Yoko '85

WOMEN'S SOCCER ADVANCES TO NCAA FINAL FOUR

In only its second year of intercollegiate competition, the Mercyhurst women's soccer team earned an invitation to the NCAA Division II National Champion­ships in Miami, Florida.

The Lady Lakers, _ under the auspices of Head Coach Andy Roth, started the sea­son with a ten game winning streak. Mer­cyhurst, which had upset the University of Buffalo 1-0 in the season opener, rolled through the schedule before stumbling to Allegheny College.

Mercyhurst pro­ceeded to win its next six games to finish the regular season at 16-1. Freshman Veron­ica Sansom, a gradu­ate of Mercyhurst Prep, was the offen­sive standout for the Hurst during the regular season. San­som recorded 29 goals and eight assists for 66 points in the 17 games.

The Lady Lakers met California State -Hay ward in the NCAA semi-final contest and dropped a 6-0 decision. Cal State went on to claim the NCAA Division II title when it defeated Barry University (FL) in the championship game.

Junior Joni Connelly, a native of Roch­ester, NY, was honored for her play in the semi-final contest by being named to the All-Tournament team.

The Lakers reeled off five consecutive wins at the start of the season and sported both a regional and national ranking. Victories over Duquesne (38-10) and Buf­falo State (63-14) highlighted the opening streak.

A tough 35-7 defeat to another nation­ally ranked squad, Dayton, in Mercy hurst's Homecoming contest proved to be the Lakers first loss of the season.

The 1988-89 Mercyhurst women's soccer players show their awards from Miami, the site of the NCAA Division II Women's Soccer National Championships. The Lady Lakers tied for third in the country.

LAKER GRIDDERS FINISH 6-3

Head Coach Ken Brasington guided the Mercyhurst football team to a 6-3 record in his first season at the helm.

The Lakers then traveled to face Lafay­ette, a Division I-AA opponent. Mer­cyhurst was handed a 50-18 setback by the Leopards.

A split in the final two games, a win against Waynesburg and a loss at Geneva, gave the Lakers a 6-3 final slate.

Lady Lakers: FROM PRETENDER TO CONTENDER!

It wasn't long ago, three years to be exact, when the subject of women's bas­ketball at Mercyhurst resulted in chuckles and jeers from outsiders while insiders bowed their heads in embarrassment. In three seasons, the Mercyhurst women's squad won a total of three games.

That has all changed now! It has been three years since Head Coach

Luke Ruppel and junior forward /center Lisa Maxson began their respective ca­reers at Mercyhurst. After a 9-12 record over the 1986-87 season, and a 7-16 mark last year, the Lady Lakers generated numerous cheers this season as the Hurst team surprised everyone with a 21-8 rec­ord.

Many "firsts" and/ or "bests" were ac­complished this sea­son.

The 21-8 final rec­ord is the best mark in the history of the pro­gram. It is also the first time the women's team ever won more than 15 games in a single season.

At the conclusion of the campaign, Mer­cyhurst received its first post-season bid when the Eastern College Athletic Con­ference (ECAC) in­vited the Lady Lakers to the ECAC Champi­onships in Keene, NH.

The 1988-89 team also ended an eight

year losing streak against Gannon. The Lady Lakers topped that by defeating Gannon twice this season.

Leading the way on the court was junior Lisa Maxson. The 6'1 forward finished the season with a whopping 651 points for a 22.5 scoring average, among the NCAA's best efforts, and a school record. She was honored as the Mideast Collegiate Confer­ence (MCC) Player of the Year.

Maxson had plenty of support this sea­son. A lot of it came from a pair of long range shooting guards, namely freshman Cheryl Tomczak and junior Nancy Di-Lallo.

Tomczak finished the year as one of the nation's top three point shooters. She was the team's second leading scorer with a 14.1 scoring average. Tomczak connected on 91 long range bombs, a new school record.

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Joining Tomczak behind the arc was junior point guard DiLallo. Besides dish­ing out 107 assists, DiLallo netted another 73 three-point shots, also among the nation's leaders. She was named to the MCC Second Team.

The Lady Lakers opened the playoffs with a 58-54 semi-final victory over Kutztown. Mercyhurst dropped the cham­pionship game against host Keene State.

A 21-8 final mark for the 1988-89 cam­paign is stunning. Consider first that the 21 victories this year surpassed the num­ber of wins for the past five seasons (19 from 1983-88.)

Secondly, there are no seniors on the Lady Lakers squad. In fact, there were six newcomers on the 11-player Mercyhurst roster. Everyone will return for next sea­son, including Michele Beale, a freshman who transferred to Mercyhurst during the year.

LAKER CAGERS FINISH 8-20

Head Coach Dr. Barry Copeland cer­tainly never expected his first season as a head coach to be this difficult. The top two guards from the previous season chose to transfer while the leading scorer and re-bounder, Todd Lee, had graduated.

The lone remaining star, junior forward Phalon Bass (16 points per game), missed the initial 25 games of the season.

Bass was not the lone academic casu­alty. Junior Patrick Odhiambo, a transfer to Mercyhurst from the junior college ranks, also failed to gain academic eligibil­ity until late February.

Then, Mercyhurst's leading scorer after the first nine games, Vinnie DiMella (17.4 ppg), was dismissed from the team for dis­ciplinary reasons.

Yet, despite the early setbacks, Coach Copeland was able to deal a 7-7 mark after the first 14 games. Impressive upset victo­ries over Westminster, Pace, Cheyney State, and Edinboro were included.

The Lakers had high hopes and showed the possibility of being a Mideast Confer­ence contender through January and Feb­ruary.

However, the Hurst had already played its best card. They had run out of power and dropped 13 of the last 14 hands. Three of the defeats came on the table of cross-town rival and nemesis, Gannon.

Mercyhurst did not go down without battling. Perhaps the best two games during the latter portion of the season were against the Golden Knights of Gan­non.

After dropping a 78-61 decision in the

Gannon Hammermill Center earlier, Mer­cyhurst seniors Rich Lipscomb and Eric Franos each netted 19 points in the second meeting to spark the Lakers. A 29-29 half time deadlock had the Erie Civic Cen­ter crowd of over 3,000 on edge. Foul trouble doomed the Blue and Green in the second half, and a 76-69 defeat resulted.

The two teams met again in the first round of the Mideast Conference Tourna­ment. It marked the first time the two clubs had ever met in post-season play. The winner would advance to the MCC final four while the loser would call it a season.

This contest, played back at the Ham­mermill Center, featured another tight first half as Gannon held a 35-34 lead but was unable to shake Mercyhurst. Freshman Dave Constantino was the lone bright spot for the Hurst in the second half as Gannon pulled away to record a 92-69 win. Con­stantino scored 22 points for Mercyhurst, including four three-pointers.

The season ending loss gave the Lakers a final record of 8-20 and a ten game losing streak. Both, unfortunately, are new school records.

LEISERING RESIGNS AS ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

John Leisering, Director of Athletics since September 1,1986, has resigned from the position effective June 30th of this year. Leisering cites personal reasons for his decision.

'The increasing demands of the athletic director's position," explains Leisering, "coupled with family obligations, made this decision necessary. I have a youngster already in fourth grade and another due to begin first grade next year. My dad was always on the go when I was growing up. I simply would like to be able to spend more time with my wife and children."

During Leisering's tenure as athletic di­rector, Mercyhurst has experienced sig­nificant growth within the athletic depart­ment. Varsity programs in hockey, women's soccer, and women's cross coun­try were added during Leisering's admini­stration bringing the number of intercolle­giate sports to 18. The College also initi­ated a men's volleyball team at the club level. All of the aforementioned increases resulted in the number of student-athletes rising from 330 to more than 400.

Greg Yoko is sports information director at Mercyhurst.

MEMORIES OF AN OLD SEADOG by Lloyd Schrecengost '75

Author's Note: 1 have written this short note in response to the "Let's Hear It From the Men" column in the last issue of the Mercyhurst Maga­zine. While not knowing a lot about the Big Boy caper, I was a member of one of the first coeduca­tional classes at the Hurst, and a member of the Laker Crezo of 1971. I respectfully submit the following article as part of Mercyhurst History.

The old man stood on the shore of the bay and squinted into the cold northwest wind. After all, he was pushing 40 years old and the rain was turning to snow.

He remembered. It was almost 20 years ago at the bottom

of Sommerheim Drive and the weather was much the same, cold and wet. It seemed that it was always cold and wet on the bay.

Behind the pump station, the "Cornell" lay upside down on two sawhorses, cov­ered with a ragged canvas tarp. Inside the pump station between two massive pumps stood eight, maybe, twelve, much used standard sweep oars. He had been told that last year, they had no racing shells or any oars. So progress had been made.

He remembered some of the nicknames: North, Wodilly, Zielinski, Fitty, Simkiss, Sport, Sal, Felix, and The Man. These were the first to feel the biting wind of the day. They were short on experience, but big on determination. They were the experienced freshmen from Monsignor Bonner high school in Philadelphia: Dartnell, Egan, Murphy, Durkin, Vogelman, Daley, Frei-dei, and more experienced in their cox­swain, Bill Lonergan from Buffalo. Round­ing out the roster was Mylett, along with three transfers: Doyle, Belovarac, and himself.

He remembered the coaches: Jack Gart­ner and Bob Angelucci, who always made time in their busy lives to be at every practice. Most of all, he remembered head coach Larie Pintea, a man with a dream and no-nonsense method of making that dream a reality. He was the one who had the greatest influence on the Old Man while at Mercyhurst.

He remembered the running, the weight training, the early mornings and the late afternoons, the surprise flu shots, the sur­prise flu; the defeating of Buffalo State, and the defeat by Buffalo State. He re­membered how much hard work it was, and how it was all worth it somehow.

He remembered the Mercyhurst crew in the beginning.

Fellozo oarsmen can zorite Lloyd Schrecen­gost at Box 248 Liberty Street Extension, Meadville, Pennsylvania 16353.

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Alumni News by Bonnie Clark '84

WHAT'S NEW IN ALUMNI RELATIONS?

The Office of Alumni Relations is cur­rently in a period of expansion. With our two big fall events behind us, Homecom­ing and Parents Weekend, we set our sights on the future. With that in mind, several new alumni programs were devel­oped over the past few months.

Acting as an advisor, Bonnie Clark, director of alumni relations, has formed a Student Alumni Association. The associa­tion is a dues-paying member of the CASE Network. The purpose of the Student Alumni Association is to promote hands-on assistance from current students. The Association was responsible for recruiting teams for the Parents Phonathon and did the same for the Alumni Phonathon. In addition, they hope to have input into Homecoming '89 and be involved with other campus events. At a recent meeting, Senior Diane Erzen was chosen President of the Association. Junior, Maria Bavi-sotto, was elected Vice-President and Junior, Michelle Douma, was chosen to act as Secretary/Treasurer for the group.

A branch organization of the Student Alumni Association is the Senior Giving Committee. The Committee, consisting of 35 seniors, was organized to promote involvement by the senior class in pur­chasing a class gift. The Committee chose as their project a stained glass window depicting the College seal, recently erected in Sullivan Hall. The window will be a lasting tribute to the College by the senior class of 1989.

The Class of '89 will also become the first class to be formally recognized as members of another new group - the Young Alumni Association. The organization for alumni the first ten years out 1979-1989 is called the G.O.L.D. Club. G.O.L.D. stands for Graduates Of the Last Decade. It is hoped that special events can be planned just for young alumni. We would love to have suggestions from the G.O.L.D. Club­bers regarding the types of activities they would like to see. Look for more about the G.O.L.D. Club in the future.

CLUB NOTES:

Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh area alumni gath­ered at Mario's Southside on Saturday, September 24, 1988 to "gear-up" for the Mercyhurst versus Duquesne game at South Stadium. About 30 people attended the get-together which was organized by Alumni Board President, Lance Lavrinc, himself a resident of Pittsburgh. After an enjoyable couple hours of socializing and "catching up" on each other's news, the group moved on to the stadium to watch the Lakers demolish the Dukes 38-10.

Buffalo: A post-game get-together was held at Cole's Restaurant in Buffalo on October 8,1988 following the Mercyhurst versus Buffalo State football game. We would like to have another Buffalo event in the spring to celebrate the end of winter. If you live in the area, we would like to hear from you with ideas for this get-together. If interested, write or call the Alumni Office at 814/825-0538.

Erie: Erie area alumni from the classes of 1940-1965 were invited to a special dinner on campus. Our own Hotel Res­taurant Management students prepared and served a Thanksgiving meal in the new Grotto Dining Room. The meal was part of the Quantity Foods class, and was one in a series of dinners which the class presented for the benefit of the College community. Over 50 alumnae, spouses, and friends attended the dinner and many stayed on campus to attend a special per­formance by visiting D'Angelo violinist, Maria Bauchman. This get-together was very successful, and we are hoping to repeat it again in the spring, inviting dif­ferent classes to attend.

Orlando: A small, informal gathering of Orlando area alumni was held on Wednes­day evening, December 7,1988, at the Omni International Hotel. Bonnie Clark, Direc­tor of Alumni Relations, who was in Orlando to attend an Alumni Workshop, hosted the get-together.

HOMECOMING HIGHLIGHTS

Close to 500 alumni from as far away as Texas, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Michigan, and Illinois traveled to campus this past fall to participate in Starfest '88, Mercyhurst's Homecoming/ Alumni College Weekend. The festivities began on Friday evening, September 16th for the Golden Anniversary Class of 1938 with a special dinner at Lee Kontis Restau­rant in Erie.

Saturday's activities brought the tradi­tional football and soccer games in the afternoon. Other highlights of the day included a President's Reception for spe­cial anniversary classes, an alumni crew race at the new boat house, Artfest, a cele­bration of the arts, with poetry and Shakespeare readings, tours of the new D'Angelo wing and the Cummings Art Gallery, and the Sisters of Mercy Recep­tion.

CIRCLE YOUR CALENDAR HOMECOMING/ALUMNI COLLEGE 1989

October 6,7&8

Special Anniversary Classes will be '39, '44, '49, '54, '59, '64, '69,' 74,'79, '84.

The evening began with cocktails in Sullivan Hall followed by dinner in the new Egan Dining Hall. Over 200 alumni were entertained by speeches from Pauline O'Laughlin Hergenrother '38, Reinette Boling Jackovic '63, and Tony Quint '78. In addition, Patricia J. Liebel '53 was pre­sented the Distinguished Alumna of the Year Award by Alumni Board President, Lance J. Lavrinc '83.

In summing up the weekend, one alumna put it this way, "Seeing classmates that I have not seen in 25 years was the highpoint, but no less important was being able once again to experience the spirit of generosity, graciousness, and excellence that is Mercyhurst."

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COMING HOME TO CELEBRATE....

...25th Year Reunion Class of 1963

Front: Sandra Valicenti Burckart, Reinette Boling Jackovic, Evelyn McLean Brady, Virginia Gamble Bertges, Mary Lou Cuddyre Ghezzi. Back:Kathryn Reese Guhl, Carolyn Anderson Ruth, Kathleen Lynch Murphy, Colleen McCafferty Moren, Rita Strobel Bajura, Amy Skinner Sargent.

...50th Year Reunion Class of 1938

Front: Sr. Carolyn Herrmann, Mary Massello Pirello, Florence Costello Daye, Pauline O'Laughlin Hergen-rother, Annette Miller Greiner. Back: Helen Durkin, Catherine Gill Smith, Margaret Thompson Kinuin, Margaret O'Sullivan Lardie, Mary Rita Brennan, Ellen Heintz Munson, Jean Nuber Kennedy.

...10th Year Reunion Class of 1978

Front: Roberta Donley Bukowski, George Venuto, Joan Wheeler, Jean Urash Bundy, Joseph NeCastro. Back: Patrick Weschler, Sue McNally Orloff, Susan Kilgore Bliley, Mary Pat Fink, Cindy Fargo Cifelli, Tony Quint.

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PARENTS WEEKEND 1988

The theme for this year's Parents Week­end was "God Made Us a Family." In keeping with that theme, the weekend kicked off with the "Gathering of Friends and Family/' a reception to welcome par­ents and students to campus. Following the reception, many parents and students were entertained in Zurn Recital Hall by the ever-popular hypnotist, Ed Barron.

Saturday's festivities included football and soccer games, an International Lunch­eon Buffet in Sullivan Hall, and tours of the Cummings Art Gallery by Roger Clark, director. Perhaps the high point of the day was the Faculty Reception in the Zurn student union. The reception afforded parents an opportunity to meet and talk with faculty members in an informal set­ting. Over 40 faculty members were pres­ent, making this the most successful par­ent/teacher reception yet.

ATTENTION PARENTS! CIRCLE YOUR CALENDAR

PARENTS WEEKEND 1989: OCTOBER 20,21, & 22

On Saturday evening parents and stu­dents donned their "Sunday best" and dined and danced the evening away at the Quality Hotel Plaza.

Sunday morning's Mass was a time for families to gather once again in the beauti­ful Christ the King Chapel to celebrate God and family. The Mass was followed by the traditional Sunday brunch, after which parents departed with warm feel­ings about the good times spent with family and friends.

ALUMNI EMPLOYMENT

The Office of Career Services in coop­eration with the Office of Alumni Rela­tions has put together a policy statement regarding alumni participation in career placement services. Any alum who is currently seeking employment may regis­ter with the Career Services Office by completing a credential file. Alums may then participate in on-campus recruitment interviews in accordance with the follow­ing guidelines:

I. Seniors will be given priority as there are a limited number of interview slots (13) available.

II. Criteria for selection of prospective candidates is dictated by the respective companies and not Mercyhurst College.

III. Alums and current seniors who are not able to be placed on the interview list will be put on an alternate list.

IV. When openings are available on the interview schedule, the alternate list will be used to fill these vacancies.

V. In order to be considered for an interview, you should update your cre­dential files, as well as register for our job locator service by completing the gradu­ate/alumni registration card, which can be obtained by calling the Career Services Office.

VI. If you are currently seeking employ­ment, you should complete and/or up­date the graduate/alumni registration card on an annual basis. As positions are brought to our attention, we will attempt to match your credentials with company prerequisites. We will use this source to

contact all qualified candidates. The above recruitment policy applies

mainly to entry-level positions. If you have any additional questions

regarding this policy, please contact Ty­rone Moore, Director of Career Services and Co-op Education at 814/825-0426, or Bonnie Clark, Director of Alumni Rela­tions at 814/825-0538.

TRAVEL CARD OFFERED

Quest International is making a special offer to Mercyhurst alumni to purchase a Quest Travel Card. (See ad on the inside back cover) The card offers 50% savings at participating motels/hotels throughout the country. If you travel for work or pleas­ure, this is a terrific offer. I have used my card several times, and it paid for itself the first time I used it.

HURST ALUMNA TO GIVE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

Dr. Linda Colvin Rhodes, Secretary of Aging for the Commonwealth of Pennsylva­nia and a 1970 alumna of Mer­cyhurst College, will deliver the commencement address at Mercy hurst's 61st graduation scheduled Sunday, May 21 at 2 p.m. in the Campus Center.

Rhodes, the first gerontologist to hold the post, was appointed to the state cabinet by Governor Robert P. Casey in January 1987.

A native of Pittsburgh, her past experience includes manager of Mature Market Services for Forbes Health Systems in Pittsburgh; dep­uty executive director of the John F. Kennedy primary health care cen­ter in Erie; and president of Rhodes and Brennan, a research and organization development consulting practice specializing in mature market development.

She received her bachelor's degree in sociology from Mercyhurst, a master's degree in education from Edinboro University, and her doctor­ate in applied human development/gerontology, from Teachers Col­lege, Columbia University, NYC.

Secretary Rhodes has two children, Brennan 3 and Matthew, age 5. Her husband, Joseph, is a former state representative from Pittsburgh.

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Class Notes by Joanne Druzak

' 3 7 Sr. MARY MIRIAM REILLY, RSM and Sr. MARY IGNATIUS SCHLAAK, RSM '50 celebrated 60 years of religious service this past September. Both Sisters reside at the Mercy Motherhouse, 444 East Grandview Boulevard, Erie, PA 16504.

' 4 6 MARIE (GOULD) SEATON has retired after 30 years as associate professor and chair­person of the business and law department at Bay Path Junior College in Longmeadow, MA. She and husband, Kenneth, reside at 58 Robin Road, Longmeadow, MA 01106.

' 4 7 DOROTHY (DONATELLI) CIBULAS has been promoted to the position of director of cooperative education at Robert Morris Col­lege in Pittsburgh, PA. She and husband, Jo­seph, reside at 1830 Perrott Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212.

' 6 1 MARY (ZIMMERMAN) DOOLIN was one of ten women nominated to the honor of The Erie 80's "Woman of the Year." Now in its second year, the annual award is dedicated to women who have helped and inspired other women in the Erie community. She is the founder of PROPS (Parents Reaching Other Parents in Sorrow), a support group for be­reaved parents. She is active in other commu­nity groups, and is a former faculty member of the Mercyhurst Preparatory School, where she initiated career awareness programs and adult readiness seminars. Mary resides at 4304 Vil­lage Street, Erie, PA 16506.

ELEANORE (HERTEL) GAMBLE is a research chemist at the Uniformed Service University for Health Science in Bethesda, MD. Eleanore writes that her daughter, Teresa, is working at the Max Planck Institute in Germany; daugh­ter, Susan, is studying at Mt. Holyoke and will be going to medical school; and daughter, Kathleen, is at Cornell University and is plan­ning on a career in law. Eleanore resides at 18537 Bowie Mill Road, Olney, MD 20832.

' 6 2 Sr. JOAN CHITTISTER, OSB was in­vited by the President of the Chautauqua Insti­tution of New York to join the 300-member American delegation to the Fourth General Chautauqua Conference on US-Soviet Rela­tions, held September 19-23. Sister Joan was one of two American religious leaders to speak with Soviet religious leaders during the confer­ence at Tbilisi in the Georgian SSR. Sister is the prioress at Mount Saint Benedict, where she resides at 6101 East Lake Road, Erie, PA 16511.

' 6 3 ALICE (WELTE) KRAUSE writes us she is assistant to the dean and academic advisor with the College of Business at Valparaiso University of Indiana. She and her husband, Robert, have three children in college: Alison is at Georgetown Medical College, Doug studies

at John Carroll University, and Maura is a student at the University of Notre Dame. The family resides at 215 Shorewood Drive, Val­paraiso, IN 46383.

' 6 5 JOYCE SAVOCCHIO was named "Woman of the Year" by the Italian American Women's association last September. At a re­cent dinner honoring Joyce, she was applauded for her service to various organizations, and her unselfish dedication to family, friends, and those in need. In November, Joyce was also one of ten women nominated for the Erie 80 "Woman of the Year" award. The independent nominating committee is comprised of mem­bers of Erie's Council of Women's Organiza­tions. Joyce is assistant principal of Strong Vincent High School in Erie, and a member of the Erie City Council. She is also a member of the Carpe Diem Society at Mercyhurst. Joyce resides at 4015 Allegheny Road, Erie, PA 16509.

' 6 8 MAUREEN (GOOD) DALTON man­ages the process development department at Dewey & Almy Chemical Division of N.R. Grace & Company in Lexington, MA. After receiving her BA in chemistry, Maureen went on to earn an MS from the University of Roch­ester and an MBA from Boston University. She resides at 66 Indian Hill Road, Medfield, MA 02052.

' 7 0 GEORGE HUGHES is director of vocal music at Chaney High School in Youngstown, OH. He re­sides at 43 McArthur, Youngstown, OH 44512.

' 7 3 THOMAS FRANK has a new position with the Chicago Tribune in Illinois. He works in the corporate security area training security officers. When not working, Tom is in training for marathon running. He and wife, Mary Jane, and sons, Patrick and Brendan, reside at 603 North Pine Street, Mt. Prospect, IL 60056.

' 7 4 GEORGETTE (URGO) SCHRIEFER gave birth to a baby girl in early August and named her Danielle. They reside at 4809 Wood Street, Erie, PA 16509.

' 7 5 TOD ALLEN, this past fall, was inducted into Penn State- Behrend's Chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, for his work in Crime Prevention and Drug Awareness. Tod has been with the Behrend Campus Police since 1985. He and wife, Barbara, have three children: Emily is eight, Molly is five, and Tracey Cecelia was born last June.

KATHLEEN (JURKIEWICZ) BUKOWSKI is a part-time instructor at Mercyhurst. She teaches a developmental reading course to education majors. While not at the College, Kathy concen­trates on her job as director of elementary education and middle schools of Millcreek township. She and husband, DANIEL BUKOWSKI, and their twin sons reside at 5349 Gardner Drive, Erie, PA 16509.

' 7 6 WILLIAMGLINKA has been appointed assis­tant regional commissioner for anti-smuggling activi­ties for the eastern United States by the Immigration and NaturalizationService. As part of his new position, Bill will be responsible for the detection and prosecution of organized alien smuggling operations in his area. He has been with INS for 12 years. Bill and wife, Susan-Rae, have a son, David, who is five years old.

STEVEN MORAN wrote telling us he received his MS in human organiza­tional science-criminal jus­tice from Villanova Univer­sity of Pennsylvania. He was also promoted to the rank of sergeant in the Bensalem Township Police Department.

' 7 7 JUDITH (MA- * HONEY) STREICH in­forms us she and husband, Dennis, have two children: Heather is three and Stephen is one and a half years old. Judy works part-time as a dental hygienist. She would love to see any Class of '77 alumni passing through the Phoenix area. The Streichs reside at 3530 East Long Lake Road, Phoenix, AZ 85044.

' 7 8 DANIEL FRANKS has joined the Hunt­ington Mortgage Company's commercial real estate division in Cleveland, OH. The mort­gage company is a subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares, Inc., an $8.8 billion regional bank holding company headquartered in Colum­bus, OH. His responsibilities are in the busi­ness development and construction lending areas of commercial real estate in northern Ohio. Dan is currently enrolled in the MBA program at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is a member of the American Heart Association, American Lung Associa­tion, The Athletics Congress, National Associa­tion of Accountants, Mortgage Bankers Asso­ciation, and the Mentor Soccer Club. Dan and wife, Janet, reside at 7384 Amanda Place, Con­cord, OH 44077-2247.

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SUSAN (SCHELLHAM-MER) LIMON has been promoted to the position of design project manager at Inventory Networking, Inc. of Phoenix, AZ. She and husband, Mark, reside at 1320 West Roma, Phoenix, AZ 85013.

ROBERT RADZISZEWSKI, a financial ana­lyst with Erie Insurance Exchange, has been awarded the Associate in Insurance Account­ing and Finance (A1AF) designation and di­ploma, by the Insurance Institute of America, for successfully completing four national ex­aminations which test for the individual's knowledge of insurance company accounting, operations, systems, and finance. Rob was also recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Erie unit of the American Cancer Society, where he will serve as chairman of the Youth Public Education Committee. He and wife, PATRICIA (KOHLER) RADZISZEWSKI '79, became first-time parents to Quinn Erin. She was born August 24, weighing 7 lbs. The fam­ily resides at 4018 Beech Avenue, Erie, PA 16508.

' 7 9 DONNA (BIETTE) ELMORE and hus­band, James, have two sons: Matthew, who is one and a half, and Brian, just a few months old. Donna worked as an elementary teacher for eight years, while Jim is currently a me­chanical engineer for DuPont. The Elmores reside at 1080 Pepper Ridge Drive, Lugoff, SC 29078.

MICHAEL HELLER and NANCY (KNOBLOCH) HELLER announce the birth of their fourth child. Bridget Lee was born on November 11, weighing 7 lbs. 13 oz. The Hell­ers reside at 719 East 43 Street, Erie, PA 16504.

COLLEEN (HEHER) KERR currently works as a part-time allergy technician for Allergy & Asthma As­sociates of Northwestern ^ ^ ^ Pennsylvania. I lusband, ^ ^^w^^m Richard, is a computer operator for American Sterilizer Company (AMSCO) of Erie. Their two children are Abby, who is five years old, and Ryan, who is almost two. The Kerrs reside at 3124 Morningside Drive, Erie, PA 16506.

FRANK MEHLER, Jr. was appointed market­ing director of Senior Living Services for Hamot Health Systems of Erie. He will oversee staff­ing, training, and promotional programs for Springhill, a senior living community. Before joining Hamot, Frank was vice president of marketing for Mace Electronics and had been owner of F. Mehler and Son Formal Wear, both located in Erie. He was also a sergeant with the US MarineCorps. Frankand wife, MARIANNE (DiCARLO) MEHLER'76,resideat5135 Exeter Road, Erie, PA 16509-2437.

PATRICK SABOL informs us that in February 1988, he and his family moved to Illinois so that he could begin a new job as com­puter programmer/analyst for United Airlines. He and

wife, MARY (MALLOY) SABOL '82, have two handsome sons: Brian is five and David is two. The Sabols reside at 852-E Colonial Drive, Wheeling, IL 60090.

KATHLEEN SELLERS-HANSEN is the proud mother of a two-year-old girl named Ashley. Kathy is a special education teacher at the Carroll County Education Center. They reside at 402 Piney Run Court, Sykesville, MD 21784.

HOLLY (CHIAPPAZZI) VILLELLA writes that since graduation, she has taught at St. Patrick's School, The Erie Business Center, and the Cathedral Preparatory School. She has been involved in the Erie Playhouse, having acted in "Private Lives", and is currently assistant director of "Orphans", produced by Artworks Theater. Married in 1985 to Attorney Gerald Villella, she and Jerry are the proud parents of their first child, Gerald Joseph, II (J.J.), born August 18. The family resides at 3512 Maple Street, Second Floor, Erie, PA 16508.

' 8 0 H. WAYNE ANDERSON, Jr., a marine captain, has reported for duty at Quantico, VA. After receiving has bachelor of arts degree from Mercyhurst, Wayne joined the Marine Corps in May of 1980. His address is C/O Marine Corps Combat Development Com­mand, Quantico, VA 22134.

PAMELA (WOLFE) BOLEN and husband, James, announce the birth of Spenser Haight, born July 21. Pam is a learning disabilities teacher in Spotsylvania, VA. The family resides at 452 Laurel Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA 22410-1518.

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BONNIE (MORTON) GEORGE wed Harold George on September 24. Bonnie is assistant food service director at Mercyhurst, where Harold is director of maintenance. They reside at 7892 Lake Pleasant Road, Erie, PA 16509.

MARSHALL LILLIE, director of safety and security at Thiel College in Greenville, PA. , conducts a Security Officer Certificate program there. His credentials include an MS in criminal justice administration, 14 years of experience in campus security and law enforcement, and he is an active practitioner in Pennsylvania crime prevention. Marshall served as the director of security at Olivet Nazarene University in Kankakee, IL and had developed and taught a Security Officer Training course for that uni­versity. He has written and compiled standard operating procedures manuals for three col­leges and is a member of two professional organizations: the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, and the Northeast Colleges and Universities Secu­rity Association. Marshall resides at Thiel Col­lege, 104 College Avenue, Greenville, PA 16125.

MICHAEL MEfcHAN writes that he gradu­ated from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in the Spring of 1988. McGeorge School is located in Sacramento, CA. Mike earned his JD through the evening program while employed as a software engi­neer by Exploration Logging, Inc. He notes the highlight of his law school experience was being

taught Constitutional Law by Justice Anthony Kennedy before the judge was appointed to the US Supreme Court. Mike currently works as a software consultant in Columbus, IN. While not as yet practicing law, he plans on moving back to California to begin his career as an attorney sometime in 1989. Mike resides at 2330 Applegate Drive, Columbus, IN 47203.

RICHARD MOLDER has joined Hammermill Paper Company as a systems analyst in the Corporate Information Services Department. Richard resides at 9730 Crane Road, Cranesville, PA 16410.

COLLEEN (WALSH) ZACZKIEWICZ mar­ried John Zaczkiewicz in a double-ring cere­mony at St. Elizabeth Church in Corry, PA. Colleen is employed by the Corry-area school district as a teacher of the learning disabled. Her husband attended Penn State-Behrend College and is employed as a draftsman at the Kitchen Village, Inc., of Corry. Following a honeymoon trip to Ogunquit and Portland, ME, the couple reside at 49 East Bond Street, Corry, PA 16407.

' 8 1 KAREN (BOWLBY) NASCA gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on July 14. Maria Rach-ele weighed 6 lbs. 14 oz. upon delivery. Karen and husband, Michael, reside at 1043 West 10 Street, Erie, PA 16502.

PIERRE PRIESTLEY, JD, CPA is a senior tax analyst with the Marmon Group, Inc. Pierre writes us that he is enjoying his move to Chi­cago, IL, where he has recently started working on an MBA at the University of Chicago. He would love to hear from any of his classmates. Pierre resides at 6610 North Sheridan Road, Apartment #210, Chicago, IL 60626.

RICHARD SEIBEL has been appointed chief internal auditor at Northwest Savings Bank of Pennsylvania. He will be responsible for man­aging and coordinating the internal auditing function for the entire operation. Richard is a certified public accountant, he is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs/ and has been an instructor for the Erie chapter of the Institute of Financial Education. Rich resides at 5330 Cherry Street, Erie, PA 16509.

WILLIAM SERAFINI, Jr. wed the former Ms. Joyce Shovlin Papuzek on July 9. Bill is a detec­tive lieutenant with the Erie Police Depart­ment. The couple spent their honeymoon at Niagara Falls and Toronto, ON, Canada.

' 8 2 SCOTTBARRINGERisdirectorofplan­ning at Sharon General Hospital of Sharon, PA. Scott resides at Pine Tree Apartments, Apart­ment #222, Rt. #318 - RD #4, West Middlesex, PA 19156.

GEORGIA BOTINOVCH is program coordi­nator for Erie County's Driving While Intoxi­cated program. As coordinator, Georgia sched­ules and oversees the work of evaluators and instructors in the state-certified education program required of all offenders convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol or con­trolled substances. She was recently invited to France to give a lecture to 6,000 Parisian police officers on the topic of DWI... of considerable interest to the world's number one wine-pro-

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during country. During her three weeks in Paris last spring, Georgia met with the chief of police, attorneys, judges, and other authorities to discuss educational programs and goals. She resides at 1109 Appletree Lane, Erie, PA 16509.

KELLY (WELSH) GLASS gave birth to Ryan Matthew on August 4. She and husband, Mat­thew, reside at 23612 Londonderry, Novi, MI 48050.

' 8 3 LISA GUNTHER-RAINEY wed John Rainey on September 30 in Christ the King Chapel on the Mercyhurst Campus. Lisa is director of training and development at the Joseph B. Dahlkemper Company, Inc. of Erie. Husband, John, is a medic at EmergyCare, a welder at General Electric, and captain of the Belle Valley Volunteer Fire Department. The Raineys reside at 5021 Cider Mill Road, Erie, PA 16509-3918.

BRUCE MILLER and MARYGRACE (YAKOVAC) MILLER proudly announce the birth of their second child, Clark Jeffrey, born September 22. Mother and child are both doing well.

' 8 4 GLEN ALLEN, Jr. and wife, Lori, an­nounce the birth of their baby boy, Lucas Adam. Lucas was born October 25, weighing 8 lbs. 3 oz. Glen has informed us he recently received a promotion to the position of program supervi­sor at Specialized Treatment Services of Mer­cer, PA. The Aliens reside at RD #2 - Box #549-A, New Wilmington, PA 16142.

CARLA ANDERSON informs us she was graduated magna cum laude, this past May, with her master of arts degree in communica­tion from Fairfield University in Connecticut. Carla currently serves as assistant coordinator of admissions/financial aid for the Cattarau­gus Campus of Jamestown Community Col­lege in Olean, NY. She resides at 39 Medbury Avenue, Apartment #17, Cuba, NY 14727.

STEVEN AYERS and RENA ZICARELLI-AYERS '86 were united in matrimony on June 18 at St. Peter's Church in Conneautville, PA. The wedding party included alums ROBERT STUTZMAN '84 and RONALD ROSIN-TOSKI '85. Rena, a cum laude art graduate of the College, has been chosen to be featured in the Encyclopedia of Living Artists in America, Third Edition. Only 200 professional artists were chosen from slide/resume submissions. Rena's popular acrylic painting, entitled "Leap," won this national recognition for her. The couple reside at 511 1/2 East Avenue, Erie, PA 16507.

Sr. REBECCA BURKE, RSM professed tem­porary vows during the Eucharistic Liturgy celebrated as part of the Sisters' Summer Com­munity Days. Sr. MAURA SMITH, RSM '48 superior, accepted Sr. Rebecca's signed prom­ises to live for three years as a Sister of Mercy under the congregation's approved constitution. In 1983, at the Easter Vigil, she was baptized and confirmed in the Roman Catholic faith. About the same time, while teaching in St. Titus Grade School in Titusville, PA, Sister expressed an interest in the life and ministries of the Sisters of Mercy. She entered the local congregation in 1985 and was received as a member in 1986. Sr. Rebecca teaches grades seven and eight at St. George School in Erie. She resides at St. Hedwig Convent, 525 East 3rd

Street, Erie, PA 16507.

JAMES DANIEL has writ­ten us that he earned a fed­eral commission with the US Army National Guard by successfully completing a vigorous ten-week Offi-cerCandidateSchool course at Fort Benning in Georgia. Jim is now a Second Lieutenant serving with the Pennsylvania Na­tional Guard in Erie. He and wife, NANCY (CLUTTER) DANIEL, reside at 401 Millcrest Drive, Edinboro, PA 16412.

BRIAN DOUGHERTY wed the former Mich­elle Rys at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Erie during an October 2nd ceremony. Brian holds a seat on the Erie City Council, having been elected last year to a four-year term. I [e also works at the Gertrude Barber Center of Girard, PA. After obtaining his BA in history from Mercyhurst, Brian decided to continue his education at Edinboro University of Penn­sylvania, working towards a master's degree in child psychology. Michelle, while employed by the Erie school district as a teacher's aide, is pursuing an MA in education, also at Edinboro. The couple reside at 1015 Reed Street, Erie, PA 16503.

SUZANNE (DAILY) ESPOSITO and husband, Mark, are proud to announce the birth of their first child, Mark Francis. Mark was born on August 9 and weighed 7 lbs. 15 oz. The Esposi-tos reside at 1401 Wood Grove Circle, Richmond, VA 23233.

SUSAN (TARNO) MITCHELL and Air Force sergeant, Mark Mitchell, exchanged marriage vows July 23 at the First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. A reception followed at the Erie Yacht Club. Susan is director of vocational programming at the Developmental Services of Strafford County in New Hampshire. Her husband is a student at the University of New Hampshire. He is stationed at Pease Air Force Base in Portsmouth, NH. Following a honey­moon in Nova Scotia, Canada, the Mitchell's reside at 36 North Shore Road, New Durham, NH 03855-2112.

WILLIAM NELSON sent us a postcard from Paris, France recently. Over a year ago, he changed his profession from working with the Department of Education to a position with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In May 1988, Bill received an MPA from George Wash­ington University in Washington, DC. He re­sides at 430 M Street, SW, Apartment #705, Washington, DC 20024.

ROBERT ROCHE wed the former Jeralinn MacBlain in an August 20 ceremony at the Eastminster Presbyterian Church. The bride is a waitress at the Plymouth Tavern, and Bob is a machinist at Erie Wheels. Following a wed­ding trip to Toronto, Canada, the newlyweds reside at 1902 Lakeside Drive, Erie, PA 16511.

Lt. MICHAEL SCHELLHAMMER and wifeA KAREN (GENS) SHELLHAMMER announce the birth of their son, Sean Aston, on May 30 at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital. Sean weighed 8 lbs. 11 oz. The Schellhammers have temporarily relocated to Arizona, where Mike is attending a military intelligence advance course at Fort Huachuca. The family resides at

4225-B Calle Barona, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635.

8 5 WILLIAM BALL is an attorney associ­ated with the law firm of Gefsky and Lehman of Pittsburgh, PA. His area of practice is corporate business transactions, and estate planning and administration. We have no current address for Bill.

STEVEN BOROWSKI and the former Denae Cullen were united in matrimony on August 13 at St. Bernard's Church. Steve is employed by Nabisco Brands as a sales representative, while Denae is a student at the University of Pitts­burgh at Bradford, PA. Following a wedding trip to the Bahamas, the couple reside at 39 Main Street, P. O. Box #51, Lewis Run, PA 16738.

STEPHEN FIEDLER wed the former Janice Moore at the First Congregational Church in Canandaigua, NY on September 10. Steve per­forms work as a senior auditor at Arthur Andersen & Company in Raleigh, NC. Wife, Janice, is a graduate of Mount Union College in Alliance, OH. Prior to her marriage, she was an assistant to the corporate controller at Oer-likon-Morch Corporation in Cleveland, OH. The couple shared a wonderful honeymoon in the Hawaiian Islands. We have no current address for the Fiedlers.

PAMELA (HENRY) VRENNA and husband, Donald, are proud to announce the birth of their first child: daughter, Amanda Jean, was born June 17, weighing 7 lbs. 10 oz. Pam is a registered nurse at St. Luke's Regional Medi­cal Center in Boise, ID. Don manages sporting goods for Payless Northwest, Inc., also in Boise. The Vrennas reside at 15489 McDermott, Nampa, ID 83687.

GREG YOKO has been accepted into the Slip­pery Rock State University graduate school. Greg, who serves as the director of sports infor­mation and publications assistant, has already completed 12 hours of a master's of education degree in physical education, with an empha­sis in athletic administration. Greg resides at 822 West 5th Street, Erie, PA 16507.

' 8 6 CHRISTINE (MACK) ARNE was mar­ried to Arion Arne on July 16 in her hometown of Sharon, PA, since Arion's hometown is North Pole, Alaska! Chris is manager of the Early Learning Centre, which is an educational toy store in McLean, VA. Her husband is manager of Domino's Pizza Team Washington in Washington, DC. Following a honeymoon cruise to Bermuda, the couple reside at 3309 Rose Lane, Falls Church, VA 22042.

JOHN BILETNIKOFF married the former Angela Heisler in a civil ceremony at the Solano County Courthouse in Fairfield, CA. John is a Marine Lance Corporal stationed at Mare Is­land in Vallejo, CA. His new bride attended Solano Community College, and is an employee of Carl's Jr. Restaurant. The Biletnikoffs reside at 118 McDougal Street, Vallejo, CA 94590.

DENISE (SOSINSKI) BURNS wed Steven Burns at St. Luke's Catholic Church on July 2, with a reception following at the Siebenbuerger Club of Erie. Denise is a first-grade teacher at St. Andrew's School, while her husband works at

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Red dog Industries - Erie Division. The happy couple spent their honeymoon in the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina, and now reside at 629 East 36 Street, Erie, PA 16504.

LAURA (DeCAROLIS) CALDWELL gave birth to daughter, Amanda Elizabeth, at Ha­rriot Medical Center on July 6. Amanda weighed 7 lbs. 1 oz. and was 20 1/2" long. Laura had been previously employed by Advanced Busi­ness Systems of Erie, but decided to become a full-time mom and "would not give it up for the world." She and husband, Timothy reside at 1650 Kuntz Road, Erie, PA 16506.

AMY (ROWAND) DENNEN has married Craig Dennen. The September 10 ceremony took place at the St. Julia Catholic Church of Erie, with a reception following at the Zukor Club. Amy is an insurance clerk at Saint Vin­cent Health Center, while her husband, a Gan­non University graduate, works as a sales rep­resentative at Hamilton Lumber Company. Fol­lowing a wedding trip to Indianapolis, IN, the Dennen's reside at 4421 West 28 Street, Erie, PA 16506.

JO-ANN (ISRAEL) LANZILLO has joined the college's Career Services Office. She is the new cooperative education/internship coordinator. Husband, RICHARD LANZILLO '83, has just been admitted to the Erie County Bar Associa­tion. They reside at 3723 French Street, Erie, PA 16504.

MICHAEL PARIS and the former Kimberly Froess were united in marriage on June 25 at Christ the King Chapel on campus. Mike works as the loss prevention manager at J. C. Penney in the Millcreek Mall. His wife, a student at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, is a stu­dent nurse technician at the Veterans Admini­stration Medical Center in Erie. Following a honeymoon trip to Virginia Beach, VA, the couple reside at 2656 West 38 Street, Apart­ment #1-A, Erie, PA 16506.

PHILIP PITONYAK wed the former Denise Wagner in a July 16 ceremony at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Harborcreek, PA. After graduating from Mercyhurst, Phil went on to earn a master's degree in business ad­ministration at the University of Pittsburgh. He is employed in the Financial Management program at theGeneral Electric Company. Wife, Denise, is a Gannon University graduate and is a systems specialist at Erie Custom Computer Applications. The couple spent their honey­moon in Freeport, Bahamas and now reside at 229 West 7 Street, Apartment#2, Erie, PA 16502-1626.

' 8 7 JENNIFER (MAUTHE) BOND and Curtis Bond exchanged nuptial vows in the First United Methodist Church on August 13. A reception at Peek 'n Peak in Clymer, NY fol­lowed. Jennifer is a fifth-grade teacher at Our Lady's Christian School. Curtis is a salesman at Roth Cadillac of Erie. Following an exotic honey­moon in the Hawaiian Islands, the couple re­side at 2105 Union Avenue, Erie, PA 16510.

DAVID HEWETT and the former Elaine Sto-larski exchanged wedding vows at St. George Catholic Church on October 1. David is a certi­fied publicaccountant with McMahon,OTolka, Guelcher and Associates of Erie, while Elaine is

a current student at Mercyhurst. She is a cost analyst at International Paper Company. The Hewetts reside at 4058 Zimmerman Road, Erie, PA 16510.

MARY (TYLER) MORETTI became the bride of Matthew Moretti, Jr. on October 8 at St. Stephen's Church in Oil City, PA. Mary is employed as a special education teacher for Allegheny BOCES of Belmont, NY. Matt, a graduate of Buffalo State College in Buffalo, NY, is employed as program director for WJQZ in Wellsville, NY. Following a wedding trip to Seven Springs, PA, the newlyweds reside at 165 Madison Street, Apartment #20, Wellsville, NY 14895.

PATRIC PATTERSON and the former Laura Still were wed in a double-ring ceremony at Hope Lutheran Church in Mars, PA. Brother of the bride, Rev. Walter Still, officiated. Patric is employed as a production manager at the Sala­manca Press in Salamanca, NY. Laura, who attended Villa Maria College in Erie, is a gradu­ate nurse at Bradford Hospital in Bradford, PA. The newlyweds honeymooned in Boone, NC and reside at 181 Wildwood Avenue, Sala­manca, NY 14779.

JEFFREY SCHNEIDER and wife, Sheila, an­nounce the birth of a second child. Son, Shane Alan, was born October 25, weighing 8 lbs. 9 oz. Shane joins sister, Haley, who is three years old. The Schneiders reside at 116 East 5 Street, Oil City, PA 16301.

' 8 8 ALLAN CARPENTER, a communica­tions graduate, recently won an award for "Best Sports Article" in The Merciad's Journalism Excellence competition. Al is an on-air person­ality at WRIE Radio Station in Erie. He resides at 12853 Hood Road, Waterford, PA 16441.

PAULINE GARVIN, having earned a BA in business administration, has joined the Mer­cyhurst administration, doing work as a gen­eral accountant. She resides at 2820 Sigsbee Street Apartment #4, Erie, PA 16508.

JENNIFER (DOUGHERTY) HELD wed Brian Held on August 20 at St. Peter's Cathedral. Prior to her marriage, Jennifer was manager of the Erie Gym. Brian attended Pennsylvania State University, Beaver Campus, and is a stu­dent at Kent State University, College of Busi­ness, in Kent, OH. He is an assistant manager for General Cinema Theatres in Akron, OH. Following a honeymoon in Nova Scotia, Can­ada, the Helds reside at 4457-J Woodglen, Kent, OH 44240.

ANN JOHNSON, an English graduate and the 1987-88 news editor for TheMerdad, won three awards in that newspaper's Journalism Excel­lence competition. She won first place in the categories of "News Stories," "Editorials," and "Features." Ann is a clerk and freelance re­porter at the Times Publishing Company of Erie. She resides at 616 Wyngate Road, Erie, PA 16505.

AMEE (COSTELLO) LILLY married Andrew Lilly in Mercyhurst's Christ the King Chapel on November 25. Amee is an assistant director/ preschool teacher at Little U. Daycare/Pre-school of Erie, PA. Husband, Andy, is a Gan­non University graduate who works as a client

support representative at Mifax of Erie and a news photographer for WSEE Channel 35 TV. Following a honeymoon trip to Walt Disney World in Florida, the newlyweds reside at 4342 Miller Avenue, Erie, PA 16509.

JOHN WIECEK is a part-time instructor in the criminal justice division at Lakeland Commu­nity College in Mentor, OH. He teaches the History of Criminal Justice in America and also has specialized classes in Law Enforcement under the direction of the Ohio Peace Officers Training Council. John informs us that Nor­man Raasch, former faculty member at Mer­cyhurst, is now Director of the Criminal Justice Division at Lakeland. John resides in Concord, OH.

JULIA ZAJAC was one of 201 students named to the Dean's List at the College for outstanding academic achievement during the 1987-88 school year. She resides at RD#1, Columbus, PA 16405.

CLASS OF '88 CAREER PLACEMENTS

GREGORY ALLEN is an assistant manager with the Marriott Corporation - Harvard Busi­ness School of Boston, MA. He resides at 1904 Broughton Drive, Beverly, MA 01915.

ELIZABETH ALTILIO is a nutritionist at the Oak Orchard Health Center of Rochester, NY. She resides at 3248 Winton Road, South, Apart­ment #K-22, Rochester, NY 14623.

JEROME ANDERSON is a music teacher with the Millcreek School District of Erie, PA. He resides at 9434 Lucille Drive, Erie, PA 16510.

MARY ARANGO is a management trainee at the Stouffer Hotel of Cleveland, OH. She re-sidesat27600ChardonRoad,WilloughbyIIills, OH 44092.

NITA BALMAS is a home economics teacher at North Syracuse Central School of North Syracuse, NY. She resides at 4750 Woodard Way, Apartment #1-8, Liverpool, NY 13088.

DENISE BERDIS is chief clinical dietitian at the Marriott Corporation of Pulaski, VA. She residesat516Second Street, Radford, VA24141.

KIM BERGAMASCO is a substitute teacher at Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit of Edinboro, PA. She resides at 2846 Homer Avenue, Second Floor, Erie, PA 16506.

TIMOTHY BEVERIDGE is a security officer at Sears & Roebuck Company of Erie, PA. He resides at 3002 Liberty Street, Erie, PA 16508.

PAULA BRUNO is a vendor and freight spe­cialist at Dahlkemper Incentives of Erie, PA. She resides at 3604 Allegheny Road, Erie, PA 16508.

CYNTHIA CARLSON is a hotel coordinator at the Westpark Hotel of Arlington, VA. She re­sides at 4250 Fox Lake Drive, Fairfax, VA 22033.

KIMBERLY(MEABON)CHESLEY isa teacher at Northwest Tri -County Intermediate Unit of Edinboro, PA. She resides at 9372 Station Road, North East, PA 16428.

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DEBBY D'ALESSIO is a reporter and editor/ producer at WSEE TV Station of Erie, PA. She resides at 2525 Peach Street, Erie, PA 16502.

LISA ANN DIPLACIDO is a community edu­cation counselor at the Erie County Rape Crisis Center, and a store detective at Kaufmann's Department Store of Erie, PA.

LAWRENCE DOMBROWSKI is a police offi­cer at Presque Isle State Park of Erie, PA.

PATRICIA DONZE is associate director of re­ligious education at the Diocese of Erie, PA. She resides at 355 West 31 Street, Erie, PA 16508.

KATHERINE DOWLING is a clinical dieti­tian with Marriott Health Care - St. Luke's Me­morial Hospital of Utica, NY. She resides at 3871 Oneida Street, New Hartford, NY 13413.

MATTHEW DURST is a culinary student at Walt Disney World in Florida. He resides at 1949 American Boulevard, Apartment #43-B, Orlando, FL 32809.

RICHARD DYER is a staff tax accountant at Arthur Andersen & Company of Cleveland, OH. He resides at 4504 West 154 Street, Cleve­land, OH 44135.

PAMELA (CERNE) ELITHARP is an interior designer who is self-employed. She resides at 10 Pershing Avenue, North East, PA 16428.

MAUREEN FALLON is a substitute teacher with the board of education of Niagara Falls, NY. Maureen resides at 4609 Terrace Drive, Niagara Falls, NY 14305.

TIMOTHY FEENEY is shipping foreman at the Wheatland Tube Company of Wheatland, PA. He resides at 505 Buhl Boulevard, Sharon, PA 16146.

JOSEPH FESSLER is a salesman at LeMac Packaging, Inc. of Erie, PA. He resides at 356 East 29 Street, Erie, PA 16504.

MARIA FIORINA is a chemist at Earth Sci­ences Consultants of Murrysville, PA. She re­sides at 184 Maryland Avenue, Vandergrift, PA 15690.

NANCY (LOPER) FISCHER is a religion teacher at Mercyhurst Preparatory School of Erie, PA. She resides at 5295 Old Sterrettania Road, Erie, PA 16506.

MARY (HERZING) FORTIN is a designer at Millington Lockwood, Inc. of Erie, PA. She resides at 226 Myrtle Street, Girard, PA 16417.

MARIA FUHRMAN is assistant manager at the Lane Bryant Company of Erie, PA. She resides at 2116 East 40 Street, Erie, PA 16510.

ERIN (LORINGER) GALLAGHER is an in­spector at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in Lansdale, PA.

DEBRA (HENRY) GIEWONT is a sales agent at Burton Funeral Home in Erie, PA. She re­sides at 917 Washington Place, Erie, PA 16502.

MARGARET (CEHOVIN) GLANCE is a sec­retary at Smith Meter, Inc, of Erie, PA. She resides at 1405 East 30 Street, Erie, PA 16504.

Mount Sinai Medical Center of Cleveland, OH. She resides at 2459 Overlook Road, Apartment #9, Cleveland Heights, OH 44106.

TERENCE HUDEC is a police officer at the Police Department of Rocky River, OH.

MICHELLE (LANG) JOSLIN is a staff account­ant at Brown, Schwab, Bergquist and Company of Erie, PA. She resides at 3925 Lewis Avenue, Erie, PA 16504.

MICHAEL KELLY is food service manager at the Marriott Corporation of Cleveland, OH. He resides at 13590 Cedar Road, University Heights, OH 44118.

MARY (WINGERTER) KNIGHT is a juvenile counselor at the Edmund Thomas Detention Center of Erie, PA. She resides at 11682 Route #97, Lot #9, Waterford, PA 16441.

ROBERT KRAFT is an administrative assis­tant at the Mercyhurst College Corry Center. He resides at 221 North Center Street, Apart­ment #410, Corry, PA 16407.

MARY KRAUZA is a teacher assistant in reme­dial math/reading at Fredonia Elementary School in Fredonia, NY. She resides at 32 West 4 Street, Dunkirk, NY 14048.

KAREN KUBAN is a designer at Penstan Sup­ply, Inc. of Erie, PA.She resides at 2660 West 38 Street, Apartment #6-C, Erie , PA 16506.

LEV KUBIAK is a salesman at New Motors of Erie, PA. He resides at 2534 East 33 Street, Erie, PA 16510.

KATHY KUNKEL is a copy editor at Don­nelley Directory of King of Prussia, PA. She resides at 525 North 25 Street, Reading, PA 19606.

LORETTA LAYER is a drama and French teacher at the Charles City board of education of Waldorf, MD. Her address is P.O. Box #672, Waldorf, MD 20604.

ELAINE LEWIS is a social worker at Braeview Manor of Cleveland, OH. She resides at 13590 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118.

MARIA (DeLUGT) LEWIS is an admissions secretary at Mercyhurst College of Erie, PA. She resides at 4135 Briggs Avenue, Erie, PA 16504.

KAREN MACKENNA is a teacher at the Ger­trude Barber Center of Erie, PA. She resides at 3907 Lewis Avenue, Apartment #4, Erie, PA 16504.

PATRICIA MANION is a nurse at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA. She resides at 425 Oneida Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15211.

LAURA MARTIN is a management trainee at First Investors Corporation of West Seneca, NY. She resides at Chapin Road, Box #440, Silver Creek, NY 14136.

KIMBERLY MASTRIAN is a fourth grade teacher at the North Allegheny Schools of Pitts­burgh, PA. She resides at 2425 Clubhouse Drive, Wexford, PA 15090.

RENEE HAMILTON is a clinical dietitian at SCOTT McCLINTON is assistant housekeep­

ing manager at the Marriott Hotel of Marco Island, FL. He resides at 1512 Main Sail Drive, Apartment #8, Naples, FL 33961.

KAREN (THOMAS) McGRATH is a student services representative at Mercyhurst College of Erie, PA. She resides at 3828 Briggs Avenue, Apartment #1, Erie, PA 16546.

EDWARD MENAPACE is a ballet dancer with the California Ballet of San Diego, CA. He resides at 3104 Meade Avenue, Apartment #6, San Diego, CA 92116.

MILDRED MERSKI is an elementary teacher with the Fairview School District of Fairview, PA. She resides at 659 Nagle Road, Erie, PA 16511.

LISA MINZENBERGER is an elementary edu­cation teacher at St. George's School of Erie, PA. She resides at 720 Mineo Drive, Erie, PA 16509.

MARK MONAHAN is kitchen supervisor at the Holiday Inn of Dayton, OH. He resides at 1431 Wilmington Avenue, Apartment #215, Dayton, OH 45420.

TAMMY MONTGOMERY is a kindergarten teacher at Basic Primary School of Virginia Beach, VA. She resides at 4708 Greenlaw Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23464.

KEITH MORRIS is a financial management trainee at the General Electric Company of Erie, PA. He resides at 157 Park Street, Corry, PA 16407.

MARYANNE (FEYAS) MULLIGAN is food service supervisor at Brevillier Village of Erie, PA. She resides at 667 Payne Avenue, Erie, PA 16503.

MICHELLE NADER is a registered nurse at Allegheny General Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA. She resides at 5711 Pavilion Court, Wexford, PA 15090.

GREGORY NOON is a stock broker at Blinder, Robinson and Company of Fort Lauderdale, FL. He resides at 4229 SW 70 Terrace, Davie, FL 33314.

MAUREEN PERCY is a teacher at Saint Boni­face School of Erie, PA. She resides at 1117 East 34 Street, Erie, PA 16504.

DONNA (BAVA) PERINO is a secretary at the General Electric Company of Erie, PA. She resides at 650 West 40 Street, Erie, PA 16509.

JONATHAN PETERS is assistant manager at the Atlantic Corporation of Erie, PA. He resides at 907 West 9 Street, Erie, PA 16502.

JAMES POGUE is a management trainee at Hoss's Steak House of Meadville, PA. He re­sides at 2204 June Street, Erie, PA 16510.

KEREN POULTER is a social worker at Hope House, and a child care worker at the Sarah Reed Children's Center of Erie, PA. She resides at 16 West 32 Street, Apartment #2, Erie, PA 16508.

LAURA PRESUTTI is a music teacher at Markham's Music School of Erie, PA. She re­sides at 321 Shenley Drive, Erie, PA 16505.

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CATHERINE REYNOLDS is a learning dis­ability resource room teacher at Riverfield Elementary School of Fairfield, CT. She resides at 140 Sunnie Holme Drive, Fairfield, CT 06430.

MARYLYNN ROTE is a counselor at Perseus House, Inc. of Erie, PA. She resides at 3119 Pine Avenue, Erie, PA 16504.

MICHELE SCHROECK is a second grade teacher at St. Joseph's School of San Fidel, NM. Her address is P.O. Box #370, San Fidel, NM 87049.

CHRISTINA SEMENTELLI is a registered nurse at the Cleveland Clinic of Cleveland, OH. She resides at 8751 Cliffwood Court, Mentor, OH 44060.

MATTHEW SEYMOUR is the manager at the York Restaurant of Beverly, MA. He resides at 1904 Broughton Drive, Beverly, MA 01915.

YVONNE (VENESKY) SHARBAUGH is an interior designer who is self employed. She resides at 305 Greenhurst Drive, Erie, PA 16509.

LISA SLOMSKI is an internal auditor at Ma­rine Bank of Erie, PA. She resides at 2101 Ash Street, Erie, PA 16503.

GARY SMITH is a football coach with the Millcreek School District of Erie, PA. He resides at 8715 Kirsch Road, Erie, PA 16510.

KIMBERLY SNYDER is the assistant manager at Hoss's Steak and Sea House of Erie, PA. She resides at 9825 Bateman Avenue, Cranesville, PA 16410.

JEAN (ADAMS) STEARNS is a buyer for the Lord Corporation of Saegertown, PA. She re­sides at R.D. #2, Saegertown, PA 16433.

MARK SUTKOFF is a police officer at the Po­lice Department of Tampa, FL.

JULIE (JASKOLSKI) TABAJ is a music teacher with the board of education of Lakewood, OH. She resides at 3717 Woodway, Parma, OH 44134.

SUZANNE TRUMBULL is a management trainee at Casual Male of Erie, PA. She resides at 3520 West 26 Street, Erie, PA 16506.

AMY WARD is sales manager at the Biscayne Bay Marriott Hotel of Miami, FL. She resides at 535 North Victoria Park Road, Fort Lauder­dale, FL. 33301.

TRACY WASSON is an English teacher at Venango Christian High School of Oil City, PA. She resides at 810 Cornplanter Avenue, Apart­ment #2, Oil City, PA 16301.

TIM WINBUSH is a counselor at Harborcreek Youth Services of Erie, PA. He resides at 2811 Schley Street, Erie, PA 16508.

KATHLEEN WINSCHEL isa dietitian at Metro Health Center of Erie, PA She resides at 5407 Somerset Drive, Fairview, PA 16415.

LORIZAMPOGNA is a human resource com­puter operations administrator at the First National Bank of Erie, PA. She resides at 725 Saint Clair Avenue, Erie, PA 16505.

DECEASED

KATHERINE "KAY" BARRETT '33 Sr. MARY GERTRUDE SIMMONS, RSM '35 PAULINE (URICH) JAGEMAN '37 Pauline Shanor, mother of

PAULINE (SHANOR) NEUBURGER '37 RITA MALEY '38 HELEN (GOWANS) SLACK '38 Sr. MARY FRANCINE BUTLER, RSM '45

JOAN (LUTZ) MALARKEY '47, sister of GLORIA LUTZ '43

Esther McCarthy, mother of CATHERINE (MCCARTHY) BARREN '55

JEAN (LEE) MANGOLD '56 Sr. MARY ISABEL SHAFTIC, RSM '62 Donald L. Smith, Sr., father of MARLENE

SMITH '73 Ralph F. Datz, father of GARY DATZ '76 and

SUSAN (DATZ) FOLTYN '86 Stanley Kozlowski, father of REGINA

(KOZLOWSKI) SMITH '81. William P. Collins, father of MARY

COLLINS '83 ERIC PEEK '85 George L. Smith, father of WILLIAM

SMITH '86 Cornelius de Lugt, father of MARIA (de LUGT)

LEWIS '88 Marilyn J. Viglione, mother of JEAN

VIGLIONE '90 MARY BETH BIERBAUER '91

Bernard Clark, father of W. ROGER CLARK who is a campus minister and art teacher Eileen (Kallaher) Louis, mother of F. BRADY LOUIS who is chairman of the President's As­sociates. Mary L. McHugh, mother of BRIAN McHUGH who is the education department chairperson Florence M. Bojarski, sister of MAR Y M ROZOW-SKI who works in the housekeeping depart­ment Andrew Roth, father of ANDY ROTH who is director of admissions

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D'Angelo Visiting Artist Mas­terclass by David Stock, composer, Zurn Recital Hall, 3 pm

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Dance Performance: Don Quixote, Tech Memorial Auditorium, 8 pm ($6 adults, $3 students/senior citizens)

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