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The ball that has the town talking.

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Contents
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November, 1982 Volume 1, No. 1 Editor Mary Daly '66 Assistant Editor Stephen J. Frisina '80 Alumni Editors Gary L. Bukowski '73 Regina Kozlowski Smith '81 Art Direction Judy Olowin Tucker '78 Design and Illustrations Cheryl J. Aron '82 Photography Richard Forsgren '83 Contributing Writers Dr. Ludlow L. Brown Randolph A. Byrd 7 4 Corrine Halperin '80 James LeCorchick Dr. Michael J. McQuillen John T. Nesbit John Yates ; :.

Nuclear Weapons: To Freeze or Not to Freeze? by Dr. Michael J. McQuillen

Are the nuclear freeze advocates correct in their call for an immediate halt to the arms race or is the Reagan Administration accurate in its view that to freeze now would be dangerous?

Vitamins Against Cancer by Randolph Byrd '74 and John Yates

A biologist who is also a Sister of Mercy has found that Vitamins C and Bl2 can spell doom for malignant cells.

A Day at Mercyhurst in the Life of a Philosopher by Dr. Ludlow L. Brown

The exterior of Old Main is as hard and immobile as the bricks in its walls and slate on its roof, but its interior is as soft and pliable as the stream of ideas which flow through its classrooms and halls.

Alumni Association
Officers Dario Cipriani '74, President Michael E. Heller '79, Vice President Regina C O'Connor '80, Secretary Directors to 1983 Dr. Barbara Chambers '60, Mayfield Heights, Oh. Kent L. Koch '77, Mars, Pa. Joyce Metzler McChesney '69, Pittsburgh, Pa. Margaret Hirsch Whyte, '56, Fulton, Md. Directors to 1984 Dario Cipriani '74, Erie, Pa. Michael E. Heller '79, Amherst, N.Y. Regina C. O'Connor '80, Tonawanda, N.Y. Directors to 1985 Deborah S. Duda '77, Palo Alto, Calif. Joan Kostolansky Evans '60, Erie, Pa. Thomas D. Heberle, Esq. '74, Erie, Pa. Regina Scura '77, Rochester, N.Y.

Mercyhurst's Enrollment Reaches Record Breaking Numbers

This fall's enrollment at the Hurst soared to an all time high of 1,532 students at a time when many colleges across the country were feeling the pinch of fewer students.

Building Expansion Highlights '83

Trustees approve a $1.5 million expansion to Zurn Hall for the D Angelo School of Music Wing and Recital Hall and a $200,000 addition to the Campus Center.

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Lakermania: Celebrating the Birth of the Ball by Jim LeCorchick

Building relationships, earning respect, developing character is what athletics is all about "on the hill. "

Departments
8 College News 9 Community Education 11 Sports 12 Alumni News 14 Class Notes \6 Gifts and Bequests

Mercyhurst Magazine is published twice yearly in November and April by the Office of External Affairs at Mercyhurst College, Glenwood Hills, Erie, Pa. 16546. Copyright 1982 by Mercyhurst College. All rights reserved. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. Unsolicited manuscripts, art and photography are welcome. All news items, manuscripts and photography should be sent to the Assistant to the President for External Affairs. Send change of address to Mercyhurst Magazine, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pa. 16546. External Affairs Office 814/825-0285 Alumni Relations Office 814/825-0246

Premier Issue. Mercyhurst College has been committed to intellectual, social and spiritual growth since its founding 57 years ago as a Catholic liberal arts college. The Mercyhurst Magazine is the latest vehicle of that process. The goal of this new publication is to provide a showcase for faculty talents and to serve as a library of news about the college, its alumni, parents, and friends.

Nuclear Weapons:
To Freeze or Not to Freeze
Dr. Michael J. McQuillen Ever since last spring's Ground Zero Week the Nuclear Freeze Campaign has been enjoying a groundswell of grassroots support that has surprised even the movement's organizers. Given the general public apathy that greeted the presentation of the SALT II Treaty three summers ago, many were startled this June when 750,000 people attended a profreeze rally in New York's Central Park. Those three-quarter of a million freeze supporters constituted the single largest political gathering in our nation's history! Just this past August, a nuclear freeze resolution narrowly missed passage in the House of Representatives (defeated by a vote of 204 to 202)and only after a major effort had been mounted by the Reagan Administration to block its passage. Clearly a lot of people think that the advocates of a nuclear freeze have a "better idea." Ted Kennedy and Mark Hatfield, who have introduced a freeze resolution in the Senate, think so. So do the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Council for a Livable World, the National Council of Churches, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 135 Catholic Bishops, 97 Nobel Laureates in Science, 444 New England Town Meetings, and the governing bodies in over 200 cities, 50 counties, and 10 states across the country. Ronald Reagan, however, most definitely does not think so. Nor do
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Caspar Weiberger, George Schultz and Henry Kissinger. The Committee on the Present Danger doesn't think so. Jack Kemp, Jerry Falwell, William Buckley, Edward Teller, Evans and Novak, and a gaggle of other politicians, journalists, educators, scientists, entertainers, and defense specialists don't think so either. Most Americans would prefer not to think about nuclear weapons at all, frozen or unfrozen. But a combination of factors have served to push the thought of nuclear weapons and nuclear war into the forefront of people's consciousness. The rise of the freeze movement, the decline in U.S.Soviet relations, the debate over modernizing nuclear weapons in Europe, increasing discussion about fighting limited nuclear war, and the Reagan Administration's plans for a massive military buildup all have contributed to the emergence of a new "urgent national issue"to freeze or not to freeze? Many feel a sense of responsibility to establish a position on this issue. But where to stand? Thoughtful Americans often turn to "experts" for advice on contentious and complicated issues. But here (as on most issues), Americans find to their dismay that the experts disagree, often sharply and bitterly. No matter where one turns to find guidance on this issue,

one is met by a bewildering array of discordant voices, conflicting advice, horrifying scenarios, and impassioned rhetoric. What's the layman to do when the experts disagree? To begin with, one needs to get a clear understanding of just what is being proposed. Immediately a problem arises. As the freeze movement gained strength an avalanche of "freeze proposals" came tumbling down from the political heights. The most commonly discussed proposal is the Kennedy-Hatfield resolution (or one of its many variants). This proposal calls on the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to immediately halt the arms race. This would be achieved through the negotiation of a "mutual and verifiable" agreement to halt the testing, production, and deployment of all nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. Both sides would then negotiate mutual reductions in their existing arsenals. This proposal does not call on the United States to unilaterally disarm; it does call on our government to bring an end to the nuclear arms race that many feel has us racing like lemmings to the brink of disaster. It is easy to see how such a proposal could catch the public's fancy. It is short, simple, and appealing. SALT II, with its stupefyingly complex and technical provisions, left people yawning out of boredom or rubbing their eyes in bewilderment. The fate of SALT II demonstrated that

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the arms control advocates need the support of a mass movement. And you cannot rally a mass following unless you have a goal (and express it in a language) that ordinary people can understand. A nuclear "freeze" is just such a goal. How can one possibly be against it? With nearly 10,000 strategic and over 17,000 tactical nuclear warheads already in our arsenal h o w could we possibly need any more? Why not stop now? Simple, says the President, if we freeze now then we freeze ourselves into nuclear inferiority, the Soviets into superiority, and both of us into the ridiculously large arsenals we currently possess. As Reagan and his advisers see it, the "freeze n o w " proposal would be to the problem of nuclear weapons what laetrile is to the problem of canceran illuDoes sory cure. President Reagan hastens to note that he is also for a freezebut not just yet. First we must START (i.e., negotiate significant reductions with the Soviets), then we can freeze. Unfortunately, the President adds, before we can reduce and then freeze we will first have to build up our arsenal to a higher level. Congress and the American people must commit themselves to adding the Bl and Stealth bombers, the MX missile, the Trident II submarine-launched missile, and the ground-, sea-, and air-launched cruise missiles. Once this is done, we can hope to negotiate lower levels of weapons through START; then, and only then, can we safely freeze. Why? Simple again, says the President. The Soviets now have a "definite margin of superiority." If we freeze first and then seek to reach an agreement on arms reductions with them, they will have no real incentive to agree on equal lower limits. We must show the Russians that we mean business, that we are not afraid or unwilling to race, that we have not lost our will and determination to be, if not #1, then at least "second to none" (as Richard Nixon used to put it). Once the Russians are convinced of our intention to catch up to them, they will see the futility and expense of another lap around the arms-race track and readily agree to "equal and verifiable" arms reductions. Ideally, we won't have to build up very

been relatively restrained." This is an old argument that was frequently heard during the debate on the SALT II Treaty. It is simply not true. To be sure, the Soviets have engaged in a massive buildup over the past ten years. But we have not been standing still or acting in a very "restrained" manner. Over this same period we have actually added more warheads than have the Soviets; we have also significantly improved the accuracy of our missiles, upgraded the yields on our Minuteman III ICBMs, and brought along several systems designed to strengthen all three legs of our strategic TRIAD (the MX, the Trident submarine and Trident I & II SLBMs, and the air-launched cruise missile). Not to freeze now would be to reward both sides for racing. The second erroneous assumption made by the Presiit really matter whose gun is bigger? dent is that the Soviets have achieved a "definite margin of superdon't the freeze advocates buy this iority" over the United States. This position? Why do they insist on going claim is closely linked with the Presitheir own way? Why do they label dent's frequently-voiced concern about Reagan's approach "voodoo arms the so-called "window of vulnerabilcontrol"? ity" which has been opened up (the Simply put, the freeze advocates idea that the Soviets could launch a question the Reagan Administration's first-strike against America's nuclear assessment of the current strategic deterrent force that would effectively balance and doubt the likelihood of the paralyze our ability to retaliate). President's path as leading to anything other than a speed up in the arms race, The President bases his case for pushing us and the Soviets not only to Soviet "superiority" on the fact that the higher levels but also into an even less Soviets possess more land-based secure world than we live in now. If ICBM's (1,398 to 1,052), more SLBMs we are both roughly equal, they note, (989 in 84 subs to 576 in 36 subs), more and if the United States embarks on a "heavy" missiles (608 to none), more further buildup, the Soviets will throw-weight (3 to 1 advantage in doubtlessly feel compelled to respond missile payload capability), and more or find themselves slipping into "inmegatonnage (4 to 1 advantage in exferiority. '' This Soviet buildup will then plosive force of missile warheads) than be used to justify a new buildup of our we do. But the President neglects to own forces, as it has for nearly forty mention that we possess more total years. warheads (9,500 to 7,600), more SLBM Which side is correct in this warheads (4,750 to 1,900), and more debatethe Reagan Administration or bombers (376 to 150) than the Soviets; the freezers? As the situation now in addition, our weapons systems are stands it appears to me that the freezers more reliable and more accurate than have the stronger case. their Soviet counterparts; our submarines are much less vulnerable to Three false assumptions underlie the detection than Soviet subs; the U.S. is Reagan position. The first assumption far ahead in cruise missile technology; is that over the past decade the Soviets and the Soviets must concern themhave been racing hard while we have selves with the British, French, and been standing still. As one of the PresiChinese nuclear forces as well as the dent's advisers put it: "To impose a American. It can be easily argued that freeze at this time would be to reward "superiority" is in the eye of the the Soviets for a massive buildup and beholder. penalize the United States, which has 3

much higher at all, depending on how long it takes for the Soviets to get the message. This all sounds reasonable and prudent, though a little trickier and more complicated than we might like; still, a good way to approach those crafty and deceitful Soviets (who, as the President reminded us last January, do not hesitate to "lie and cheat"). So why

Space does not permit a detailed investigation of the various claims and counterclaims about whether the Soviets' advantages in ICBM numbers, in throw-weight, and in megatonnage gives them any kind of meaningful superiority. It can be argued (correctly, I think) that these advantages are at least offset by our advantages in warheads, reliability, and accuracy. But even if this were not true, even if the Soviets did possess some kind of "marginal superiority", so what? As Henry Kissinger once remarked, "What in the name of God is nuclear superiority? What is the significance of it? What do you do with it?" One must seriously question the view that any kind of "marginal" superiority in the area of nuclear weapons gives the country that has it a "usable" advantage. As for Reagan's "window of vulnerability," the complexities and risks involved in any Soviet first strike against America's nuclear forces are so great as to make such a scenario highly improbable. Not only would such a strike necessitate a remarkable degree of precision in planning and execution (which can never be rehearsed) and a highly unlikely degree of system reliability, the Soviets would L also have to contend with , i a host of factors that / 1 \ would degrade

accuracy and limit the effectiveness of the strike (e.g., weapons have never been tested over polar trajectories; the "fratricide" effect would result in the first several exploding warheads destroying later arrivals). Moreover, even if the Soviets were to ignore the uncertainties associated with the timing, reliability, and accuracy factors, they would still have to assume the enormous risks that the United States would not "launch-onwarning' ' (leaving no missiles in their silos to be destroyed) and would not retaliate against the Soviet Union, despite the loss of at least 20 million American lives and despite our having at least 5,000 warheads available in the submarine missiles and bombers that would escape destruction (assuming the worst). It is incredible to think that the Soviets would run such risks and accept such uncertainties merely in order to achieve some "political" gain. This leads me to Reagan's third questionable assumption, namely, that the Soviet leadership rejects the idea that nuclear war is "unthinkable" and instead follows a nuclear strategy based on fighting and winning a nuclear war. Reagan and his advisors are desperately worried about Soviet leaders they see as ready and willing to use nuclear blackmail, even to resort to nuclear war, in order to have their way. I read the Soviet leadership differently. I see them as ready and willing to expand their power whenever possible, as long as it does not entail risking the loss of what they already have. Are they expansionistic? Yes, but cautiously, not recklessly so (witness Soviet restraint in the recent Lebanese conflict). I see them as aware of and fearful about the effects of a nuclear war, as determined to maintain the "parity" they now see as existing, and interested in reducing the burden of the arms race on their economy.

Keep in mind that the freeze proposal really commits the Reagan Administration to nothing more than seeking a "mutual and verifiable" freeze with the Soviets; that is, to talking. Admittedly, the Reagan Administration is doing that now (the START negotiations began this June). But this is only because of the "heat" that the freeze movement placed on the President. Unless the President's strategists and negotiators change their views about Soviet "superiority" and what an "equal" treaty is, there is little likelihood that START will ever stop the arms race. Growing support for the freeze has the advantage of pressuring the Reagan Administration into adopting a more flexible position and a more compromising attitude regarding arms control. It is frequently argued that this is precisely the problem with the freeze, that all of the pressure is on us while there is no comparable movement in the Soviet Union pressuring its leaders. It should be noted, however, that it is the Reagan Administration and not the Brezhnev regime which has rejected the freeze. Brezhnev has stated on several occasions that the Soviet Union is willing to freeze immediately and to discuss reductions in existing arsenals. Aha! you might think, the President's right after all; if the Soviets want to freeze now, then they must be ahead. But if the only time we will believe that the Soviets are not favored by a treaty or a proposal is when they reject it, then how will we ever get an agreement? We must accept the fact that no agreement is possible unless both sides see it as in their interest. We must be wary of dismissing a proposal merely because the Soviets favor it. While both proposals involve taking certain risks, it appears to me that the freeze proposal is the less risky of the two, based as it is on a sounder analysis of the current strategic balance between the Superpowers.
Dr. Michael]. McQuillen is an associate professor of history at Mercyhurst College, director of the history and political science department, and a tenured faculty member. Dr. McQuillen joined the college in 1971 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

Vitamins Against Cancer

Randolph Byrd John Yates Important advances may take place in the most underfunded, understaffed lab. Dedication and inspiration sometimes get results that money can't. The work of Sister Mary Eymard Poydock, Ph.D., professor of biology and director of cancer research at Mercyhurst College is a case in point. The Mercyhurst labs are not large or well endowed. But 20 years of painstaking work by Sister Eymard and her associates have now produced results which indicate that a combination of vitamins C and B ] 2 may have a powerful effect against cancer. While Sister Eymard's work has been confined to laboratory animals, the implications for further research are obvious. For 20 years, Sister Eymard has been testing a substance that had been advanced as a possible anticancer agent. The first results were promising, and the name "Mercytamin" (from the Sisters of Mercy) was applied to the substance. Mercytamin was actually a combination of vitamins C, B12 and a variety of enzymes. Through scientific testing of the solution, the enzymes and other chemical additives were eliminated as possible active agents. Finally only the vitamins remained, and in 1978 the name Mercytamin was dropped. Sister Eymard held back on publishing her findings until she was certain the results she was getting were true. "We've done enough experiments now, testing hundreds of mice, to establish that it works," Sister Eymard says. "We've got it down to a point now where if you do it according to the 'recipe,' it will work every time." Sister Eymard and her research staff implanted three common types of cancers into laboratory mice sarcomas (cancerous growths of connective tissues), carcinomas (cancers of skin-like tissues), and leukemias (cancers of the blood-forming organs). Those cancerous tissues were implanted both in the abdomens and under the skin of the mice. The mice were then injected with the mixture of vitamins C and B 12 (in a ratio of one part B 12 to two parts C) near the site of the tumor transplant. Within four days, some of the tumors from the abdomens of the mice were removed, and the cells were examined under the microscope. There was a dramatic change in the tissue. The cancerous cell division had stopped completely. Tumors Didn't Grow The tumors growing under the skin were treated the day after implant with the C/B12 combination. The results were similarno tumors would grow. In the control animals (those mice with transplanted tumors which were not given the C/B12 combination), the tumors continued to grow at a rapid rate. cent survival rate after the controls were dead. Most of the treated mice outlived the controls two or three weeks." To be sure that it was really the C/B12 concoction and not an unknown factor present in mice that was responsible for her results, Sister Eymard conducted experiments on free-living cancer cells growing on a culture medium. The vitamin C/B12 complex was used as a treatment on three types of cancer cells, and on healthy cells as well. The treated cells, the untreated control group and the healthy cells were left to incubate. At the end of the incubation period, the untreated control group was infested with cancer cells. In the treated group, however, not one cancer cell of any of the three types was to be found. The healthy, noncancerous cells were unaffected by the C/B12 complex. It appeared that Sister Eymard had found a cancer-inhibiting agent that not only stops many kinds of cancer, but does so with absolutely no side effects in healthy tissue. Sister Eymard also tested each vitamin separately to determine if either was primarily responsible for the anticancer effects. The combination of the two vitamins, however, always performed much more effectively than either one alone. Tests showed that the combination might be working by boosting the animals' immune systems to fight the cancer. Sister Eymard is confident that with more experimentation, especially on larger mammals and humans, the vitamin C/B12 combination could prove to be a useful preventive weapon in the fight to eliminate the second leading cause of death in America.
Reprinted by special permission of Prevention Magazine/Rodale Press.

A biologist who's also a Sister of Mercy has found that C and B12 can spell doom for malignant cells.
Inhibiting tumor growth was only part of the results of Sister Eymard's experiments. She also wanted to see if the C/B]2 mixture would prolong the lives of animals already suffering from cancer. To find out, Sister Eymard and her colleagues injected the mixture into the abdomens of diseased mice near the cancerous growths for seven successive days. Treated animals lived longer than those mice not given C and B 12 . In fact, all the treated mice outlived the control group. It appeared that the combination of C and B12 not only inhibits the growth of cancer cells, but also prolongs the lives of animals impregnated with cancer. "There are few things presently on the market that will insure a 100 percent survival rate with cancer," Sister Eymard says, "but we had a 100 per-

Randy Byrd is a 1974 graduate of Mercyhurst College where he majored in environmental studies. He is a free-lance writer and born naturalist. John Yates is a former senior editor of Rodale Press.

A Day At Mercyhurst College

In The Life

of a Philosophy Professor
Dr. Ludlow L. Brown Ed: One of the important features that impact a student's decision to attend a college is the atmosphere of the institution. Dr. Ludlow Brown reflects on some of the ingredients that combine to form a collegiate mixture that is uniquely Mercyhurst. Tuesday. It's one of those gray sky, gray snow November mornings, the beginning of a day which will make everyone temporarily equal as it paints the yellow '82 Cadillac and the rusting '72 Pinto with the same stucco road grime. On such a day the world deals with us on its terms. There will be nothing flashy to hide behind. It promises to be a good day. Swinging through the main gate at the College, Old Main looms above me, its exterior as hard and immobile as the bricks in its walls and the slate on its roof, its interior as soft and pliable as the stream of ideas which courses through its rooms and halls. Old Main will wear this day comfortably. We are all learners. Old Main is a place in the world to learn; those are its terms. I dump an overstuffed briefcase in my office, notice that my angel plant is showing signs of mortality, water it, wish it eternal vitality and head for the Campus Ministry. A half dozen faculty members and as many students are already basking in the warmth of 8:00 a.m. coffee. Classes start at 8:30. That leaves thirty minutes to idle engines. Occasionally someone revs up with a casual observation or a joke. I like that about Mercyhurst. It has a sense of humor. I know a lot of people with a sense of humor. How many institutions possess one? The Campus Ministry is a nice place to start the day. Actually, it's just a nice place. It's full of windows, bright, warm. So are the people there. Open people, cheerful people, human people. Throughout the day I will return, ostensibly to fetch a cup of very good 15* coffee. The coffee is probably an excuse. universal generalization rule. He might make UG mistakes in the future but they will be careless mistakes, not conceptual errors. We get down to the business at hand. Two hours later we are all exhausted but the mental fatigue is tempered by a sense of accomplishment. Progress has been won. I stroll down the stairs with Mary. "I'm thinking about computer science next term." "Why?" I'm her advisor. I want to know how she sees a computer course fitting into her education at Mercyhurst. "Well, it seems like I should have a computer course. Isn't it sort of like logic?" "Logic will help. You'll find writing programs easier having had a logic course, but I want to know how you see such a course benefiting you." She thinks for a moment. Mary is an English major. "I would think that the publishing industry must use computers extensively. Don't people write books on them too?" Now she's beginning to get clear about how the course would fit with her overall educational plan. "Besides, I think I'd enjoy it." "Sounds good to me," I reply, "let's try for it at registration." In the student union a student stops me and asks if I'll be playing table tennis that evening. "I wish I could, Peter, but I'm not teaching an evening course this term. How's the table tennis club?"

"/ like that about Mercyhurst. It has a sense of humor. I know a lot of people with a sense of humor. How many institutions possess one?"
I love logic. As I drove to school I wondered whether the students had grappled successfully with the morning's assignment. My own struggle with one of the problems had ended near midnight in a hard won victory. As I enter the classroom I see that we had all triumphed. Eight minds had refused to surrender and are now copying the fruits of their tenacity on the blackboards which surround me. I find an error in one of the proofs. "Ah hah!!" I go to the proof in question. "Do I detect an error on line thirteen?" It is ideal. I had hoped that someone would make precisely that mistake. It's so easy to make. I've made it myself. "Where?" Fred cringes. "You tell me." Fred sits down near the proof and studies it. "I see it! The v in v on line twelve is free in the consequent on line five, right?" "You're asking me?" "No, I'm telling you." Fred has taken control of the

"Great, Dr. Brown. We've got a lot of people and several very good tables." "I wish I could join you. Maybe next term." It's 10:40 a.m. I sit with five students and another faculty member. We're in a seminar room in the basement of the library discussing the twenty-third chapter of Einstein's little book on relativity theory. We're here because we share an interest in learning about the theory that revolutionized man's picture of the universe and about the incredibly simple thought experiments by which Einstein arrived at some of his most startling concepts. This is not a course. None of us pay or get paid for it. It won't appear on the students' transcripts. There are no grades, no exams. A student is explaining something. ". . . so Einstein says let's put a man in a large box, attach a hook to the box, a rope to the hook and begin to pull the box through empty space with a rocket. We'll give the box a constant acceleration. Now suppose you're in the box. You've got some objectsa couple of wrenches. You don't know that you're being pulled by a rocket. You let go of the wrenches. They fall to the floor. We who are outside of the box and can see that the rocket is pulling it say that the floor of the box accelerates upward and meets the wrenches. You, inside the box, think that gravity is pulling the wrenches downward toward the floor. Who's right? Einstein says that we're all correct. He concludes that gravity and acceleration are the same thing." The workshop is the first in a new series of workshops at Mercyhurst. They provide an opportunity for people with similar interests to get together to discuss ideas. "Attach a flashlight to one wall of the box. Now we can show that light must travel in a curved path in our accelerating box and thus that light must curve in the presence of a gravitational field." Another of the students expands on a suggestion which Einstein makes.

"How?" A third student doesn't see it. "Let's work that out as a project for next time." We break up at 11:45 a.m. My stomach is complaining and I look forward to lunch. Outside the library Tuesday is only half a day old and still gray. Old Main peers down at me through its arched windows. The two students walking with me turn toward the cafeteria. "See you next week, Dr. Brown." As I approach the great oak door of Old Main I stop for a moment. Below me lies Erie and then the Lake. I can't imagine any place or person I'd rather be at this moment. Really, how can I be so lucky? In my office the angel plant looks revitalized. Marvelous how little some things ask of life. I wish I could look that good on a few drops of water and a wish. "Lunch?" "Right." I stand at Barry's door waiting for him to finish what he's doing. Barry is a professor of English. Like so many faculty at Mercyhurst he's not just a teacher at the College, he is the College. Best of all, he's an inquiring mind. He and I have in common a novice's love of science, Barry through science fiction, I through the philosophy of science. "Tell me about the cloud they found." "What cloud?" "They found a cloud that seems to be a mystery. It was in the news last

I had missed the news item. "What's it made of, do they know?" "No," Barry replies, "just that it's too big to be the result of a volcanic explosion, although that's the most likely explanation for it." "Maybe it's something more exotic," I speculate, "perhaps a colony of alien microorganisms - intergalactic algae." "Yes. That's probably what it is, Bud." "On the other hand, it might be a message." "A message?" "Sure. If you lived somewhere far off in the universe and wanted to send a message, say an advertisement of some sort, what better way to do it than to send a cloud. Now all we need to do is figure out what it says. Think of it!! A whole new science born during our lifetime. Cloud reading. Only one would have to give it a more pretentious name. Cumulexicography." "Or stratodeciphrology?" "Experts would be known as mistmasters." "Sometimes 'hazeheads'." The salad bar is excellent. In fact, food in the cafeteria is nearly always a pleasant surprise. I've eaten in many college cafeterias but at Mercyhurst I always look forward to lunch. In the dining room I sit at a long table already crowded with faculty and conversation. As I attack my pizza those around me are in the middle of soup and El Salvador.

OnTheHill
'Hurst Brings In Record Enrollment
Mercyhurst College has a record number of 1,532 students enrolled in college credit courses this year, including its most qualified freshman class in the past 12 years. Dr. William P. Garvey, who is in his third year as president said, "There are 21 valedictorians and salutatorians in our 351-member freshman class, including a National Merit Scholarship winner, and 32 Egan honor scholars. Garvey also noted that 51 of the Mercyhurst freshmen had been student government officers in high school, 57 had been members of their yearbook and newspaper staffs, and 135 had participated in at least one high school varsity sport. Garvey added that these enrollment gains have occured despite increasingly selective admission policies that resulted in the rejection of 144 applicants for the freshman class. "We are making gratifying progess towards our goal of true academic distinction for Mercyhurst in the 1980's" said Garvey. "There will always be support for a school committed to quality in everything it does and that is what we want a Mercyhurst College education to mean to the Erie community." Garvey also noted that there are over 700 men studying at Mercyhurst this year bringing the college into true coeducational status. While the Mercyhurst President acknowledges that football has been very instrumental in the enrollment success story at Mercyhurst, he is quick to explain that the attractiveness and quality of the college's academic programs and atmosphere are the final reasons why a student chooses a college and more importantly, remains there for four years. This year over one half of the Mercyhurst freshmen are majoring in either business, hotel-restaurant management, criminal justice, computer management information systems, education, art or music. Garvey also said that the college has a record enrollment in its Adult College. "We have 380 Erieites over 21 years of age taking credit courses through our Adult College, which is a 22 percent increase over last fall and a doubling of the adult enrollment in just three years."

Meeting the Challenge

Editorial Comment reprinted with the permission of the Erie Daily Times If this is ' 'the best of times,'' it is as Charles Dickens said over a century ago in "Tale of Two Cities, " also the worst of times as Mercyhurst President Dr. William. Garvey reminded an Erie Kiwanis Club audience recently. Take Mercyhurst, for instance, The college this year has a record enrollment of 1,532 students. For the ninth year out of the last ten it has a budget surplus. The college board scores of Mercyhurst students are up by 80 points. What more could you want? Well, the problems come in looking down the road. The coming few years are expected to be a period of declining enrollment for American colleges. There is also the federal withdrawal of college aid of various kinds, including aid to students. There's also, as Dr. Garvey frankly admitted, the potential for an "oversaturated college market." A similar "best of times, worst of times" scenario might be drawn for the nation as a whole, Dr. Garvey continued. The United States still leads the world in many key areas, including economic strength. But there are also all kinds of clouds on the horizon. What's needed in both areas, of course, is leadership. And in providing this leadership Dr. Garvey sees a vital role for colleges, at least those colleges who move to meet the responsibilities of coming crisis. As Dr. Garvey sees it, an essential for colleges like Mercyhurst is to create what he calls "the good man, the good woman," the broadly educated individual. "Quite frankly, we've gone too far toward just turning out technocrats. We needflexible minds if we are to deal adequately with the future. And that means greater emphasis on the liberal and creative arts.'' According to Dr. Garvey, if the nation is to have "an educational Camelot, " business has to insist on having "literate and well trained" individuals entering the labor market. To that we can only add, Amen.

Comparative Report of Fall Enrollments

1982 TOTAL Undergraduate enrollment FTE (based on credits) Budget FTE Certificate Students Corry Enrichment Center Male Female TOTAL Graduate enrollment Criminal Justice Administration Special Education TOTAL ENROLLMENT 1481 1283 1204 33 43 578 903 51 30 21 1532 1981 1452 1189 1172 60 37 562 890 37 37 N/A 1489 1980 1338 1202 1103 43 N/A 470 868 27 27 N/A 1365

'Hurst Focuses on Community Education

Corrine Halperin The newly created Office of Community Education at Mercyhurst umbrellas the functions of a conference center, administrator of special interest non-credit classes, and catalyst for special programs such as the popular "Good Morning, World," breakfast series and the new "A Woman's Place is in the World" dinner series. Additional responsibilities for the office include working with business and industry to encourage adult students to return to school to further their professional development. "Good Morning, World" has become a favorite among Erie professionals and executives. The winter series begins in January and by request will be moved back to Thursday mornings at 7:30. Sharing a bountiful breakfast and an interesting discusison once a month at Mercyhurst has become a calendar regular for 50 or more Erieites since the series began three years ago. Subjects and topics for the 1983 program will include Congressman Marc Lincoln Marks talking on "Reflections on Washington," Dr. Ludlow Brown, from the college faculty speaking on "Censorship: Right Goal, Wrong Means," and Sr. Carolyn Herrmann, former Mercyhurst College President and currently director of the Senior Citizen Advocate Office, who will address the subject "Social Security: What Lies Ahead." In addition, the topic of international relations and its impact on America has been scheduled for the spring. Cost for the four lectures is $ 10 for continental breakfasts or $18 for the full breakfast option. Individual tickets are also available for $2.75 and $5. "A Woman's Place is in the World" promises to be an exciting complement to the "Good Morning World" series. The "Woman's Place" series is scheduled to kick off in January with dinner and discussion groups meeting monthly for presentations by panels of prominent women in the corporate, financial, political and art worlds. The selected panelists will share their rise within the traditionally male bastions. Cost for the dinner series will be $15 each. For further information on these and other community education programs offered by Mercyhurst College, call 825-0296, and ask to be put on our mailing list.

Curtain Up On College Theatre

The Greensleeve' Players of the college will light up the Little Theatre marquee with two productions winter term. TIN TYPES (a dinner-theatre production) December 9-12 in the Blue Room of Old Main. A musical kaleidoscope of songs from the turn of the century by such favorites as Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, and George M. Cohen. The production features Hurst alums John Burton '80, Karen Bowlby '81, and Paul Urbanowicz '81. The buffet dinner will begin at 7:30 and showtime is set for 8:30. Dinner-theatre ticket price is $16 per person or $6 for the show and dessert. THE MIKADO February 18-20, 24-27 at 8:30 with Sunday matinees at 2:30. This Gilbert and Sullivan classic, set in the mythical Japanese village of Titipu, will be directed by Igor Stalsky with musical direction by Roberta Stoughton. For reservations, call the Little Theatre box office at 825-0253.

Corrine Halperin, director of the Office of Community Education, is a Mercyhurst graduate in business, who received her degree magna cum laude in 1980 as an adult student.

Tower Lighted
The college Tower built in 1932 has become the focal point of identification with the Mercyhurst campus. Now lighted at night, the Tower is visable to cars east and west bound on East 38th. The College community gratefully acknowledges the generosity of its trustee, who has asked to remain anonymous, for underwriting the lighting costs.

Building Expansion Highlights '83

The Mercyhurst board of trustees has approved plans for a $1.5 million expansion of Zurn Hall to provide a new base for the performing arts at the college and a $200,000 addition to the Campus Center to meet the total needs of its student body. The Zurn expansion will enlarge the existing recital hall from its present 240-seat capacity to an auditorium with seating for more than 500. A new stage will be constructed providing a major performance facility for dance and theater productions and music recitals. A music wing to house the D'Angelo School of Music will also be built giving the department an additional 6,000 square feet for practice facilities, instrument and chorus facilities, classrooms, as well as providing space for a music library and faculty offices. The planned Campus Center expansion will provide an additional 4,000 square foot prefabricated steel building running the entire length of the back wall of the center. Among the facilities to be added will be a fitness center containing both Nautilus and free weights, a crew tank, classroom facilities, and possibly a racquetball court. Construction will begin on both expansion projects as soon as the college has secured a bond issue. College officials are hopeful of a spring construction date.

Family Plan
Special family tuition rates are available to Mercyhurst students who have a brother, sister, or parent attending Mercyhurst and who can demonstrate financial need. The eldest member pays full tuition, while all other family members pay only half tuition for as long as more than one family member is attending the College.

Speakers Series
The student government association of Mercyhurst College each year sponsors the College Lecture Series, which is open to the public for their enjoyment and continued learning. Lectures are held at 8 PM in the Zurn Recital Hall. Admission is $1. Playwright Ed Graczyk will appear in May 1983. Date to be announced.

Greeley

Ginsburg

Brown

December 2 Father Andrew Greeley. Topic: Catholicism and the Young Adult. Andrew Greeley is a priest, a sociologist, a journalist, and a novelist. He has been a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago for twenty-seven years and does weekend parish work in addition to his other responsibilities. Among his many religious publications is the new Catechism called The Bottom Line. As a sociologist, he is a professor at the University of Arizona and a Senior Fellow at the National Opinion Research Center in Chicago. His sociological work focuses on religion, ethnicity, and Catholic Education. His novel, The Cardinal Sins, a Literary Guild selection, was on the national best seller list for eight months and his new novel Thy Brother's Wife is also a Literary Guild selection. January 27, 1983 Alexander Ginsburg. Topic: The Continuing Struggle for Human Rights. Alexander Ginsburg, b o r n in Moscow in November of 1936, has been active in the human rights movement in the USSR from its very inception. On April 27, 1979, Mr. Ginzburg was released from a Soviet labor camp and exchanged, along with fellow political prisoners Eduard Kuznetsov, Mark Dymshits, Valentyn Moroz, and Pastor Georgi Vins, for two convicted spies. This widelypublicized event captured the attention of the world. February 24, 1983 Tony Brown. Topic: New Directions for the 80's. For ten years, NBC-TV producer Tony Brown has been the most respected black TV commentator in

the United States. His show, Tony Brown's Journal, is the longest running black affairs show, which he describes as a "documentary series about black people for all people."

Judy Flander of The Washington Star described Tony Brown as "Articulate, profoundly self-confident as . . . often . . . he swims against a tide of Black and White opinion. . ."

Cinema Events Focus On Peace and Justice Theme

The college's popular Films for Discussion Series will feature seven movies winter term. Films will be introduced at 7:30 and shown at 8 in the Zurn Recital Hall. Refreshments and discussion to follow films. Discussion leaders will be members of the college faculty. General Admission $1.00. January 12 "The Atomic Cafe" (1982 American, Kevin Rafferty, director). A feature length anti-Nuke documentary complete with old newsreel footage marking the doomsday drama of nuclear development.
Leader Dr. Michael J. McQuillen, department. history

the confusion of a war in which everyone is a victim. Leader to be

announced.

February 9 "Cries and Whispers" (1972 Swedish, Ingmar Bergman, director). In this penetrating drama, Bergman refines a theme that has dominated the cinemathe quest for spiritual peace in a seemingly godless world. The director visualizes this quest through three sisters and their servant, all of whom are trying to shield themselves from reality by elaborate self-delusion. Leader vivetta
Petronio, English and modern department. languages

January 19 "The Conversation" (1974 American, Francis Ford Coppola, director). Using the theme of eavesdropping and wiretapping, but focusing on the personal life of an electronic surveillance technician rather than on his victims, Coppola creates a sheer thriller, a psychological study, and a political comment. Leader John Nee, criminal justice
department.

February 16 "All Screwed U p " (1976 Italian, Lina Wertmuller, director). The story of a group of rural immigrants in bustling, crowded Milan who are drawn together in a communal apartment. Each is scrambling for a decent life, but finds only frustration and hunger. Leaders
Christine Gagliano, sociology/social work department and Derek Price, psychology department.

January 26 "Best Boy" (1979 American, Ira Wohl, director). An uplifting d o c u m e n t a r y about a 53-year old retarded man who learns to lead an independent life through the help of his film-maker cousin, Ira
W o h l . Leader Dr. James Heaney, department. education

February 23 "Black and White in Color" (1976 French, Jean Jacques Annaud, director). Set in colonial West Africa in 1914, this film tells the story of a mini-war fought by the French colonials against the German colonials, with each side using the local black tribesmen as soldiers.
Leader Joy Kolb, sociology/social work.

February 2 "Circle of Deceit" (1982 German, Volker Schlondorff, director). Set in the rubble of Civil War-torn Beirut, this movie is a compelling and thoughtful vision of the tragedies of war. Bruno Ganz plays a journalist whose dazed eyes mirror 10

The Films for Discussion Series is directed by Dr. George Garrelts, associate professor of religion at Mercyhurst. Garrelts was the director of the Cultural Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for the three years immediately prior to his affiliation in 1979 with Mercyhurst College. He received a Ph.D. in religion and culture from Syracuse University.

Sports
The Ball That Has The Town Talking
Jim LeCorchick Football has been very, very good to Mercyhurst College. W h e n college President Dr. William P. Garvey announced that the former all-girls "school on the hill" was going to field a football team the snickers were heard loud and far. But no one is laughing now. In a time when many schools are dropping the gridiron sport because of skyrocketing costs, the Hurst has made the sport a successfuland funventure. Dr. Garvey doesn't hedge the question one bit as to why Mercyhurst wanted a football team. The main reason was to increase the male enrollment. And that is what it has done. Coach Tony DeMeo has brought in over 100 players that would be attending college elsewhere, if not for football at the Hurst. With the NCAA Division III status of the sport at the college it means that every player on the team is paying his own way. In Division III, a school is not allowed to give financial aid in that sport so the athlete must take care of the cost of college himself. A lot of "experts" felt that the Hurst should wait a year and get organized before scheduling any games, but DeMeowho coached nationally ranked teams at Iona and assisted at Pennfelt the Hurst w o u l d be competitive from beginning. And he was right. The Hurst stunned the football world by opening its first-ever season with a 28-0 win over St. John Fisher and the Lakers went on to post a 4-2-1 mark in their initial voyage.

The second year has been equally exciting on the field. Despite playing a bigger and better schedule the Lakers have posted a 4-4 record this fall including a shocking 21-20 victory over highly regarded Gettysburg in the season opener. Heading into the season final against arch rival Edinboro, the freshman-sophomore

laden Lakers are well on their way to making history on the hill.
Mercyhurst 21, Gettysburg 20; Mercyhurst 6, John Carroll 19; Mercyhurst 34, St. Francis 13; Mercyhurst 7, Frostburg State 10; Mercyhurst 12, Glenville State 10; Mercyhurst 28, Niagara 12; Mercyhurst 13, Buffalo State 53; Mercyhurst 12, Kenyon 23.

Jim LeCorchick is director of sports information and promotions at the college. Jim is the radio host of a popular sports program on WEYZ.

Basketball: Lakers Ready for Season Opener

Mercyhurst College basketball coach Billy Kalbaugh enters his second season at the Laker helm with guarded optimism. The Lakers have not had a winning season in their last three efforts, compiling marks of 11-18, 10-16 and 11-14 in Kalbaugh's initial season. However, the former St. Bonaventure star and long-time assistant has set a modestand realisticgoal of getting over the break even mark for this year's edition. "I'm looking forward to watching this team play," Kalbaugh explains. "I feel we have the ingredients of a winning team and an exciting team. "It appears we have a perfect mixture of wise veterans and youthful enthusiasm, and the kids are anxious to put Mercyhurst back on the plus side of the ledger."
LAKERS BASKETBALL Nov 22 Walsh Nov 29 St. Francis( PA) Dec. 1 Alliance Dec 4 Daemen Dec 6 Buffalo State Dec 8 Slippery Rock State Dec 11 St. John Fisher Dec 13 Edinboro State Dec 18 St. Bonaventure Jan. 6 Walsh Jan. 8 U. of Pitt/Johnstown Jan. 10 Clarion State Jan. 14 Cheyney State Jan. 17 Fairleigh Dickinson Jan. 19 Coppin State Jan. 22 Wheeling College Jan. 26 U, of Pitt/Johnstown Jan. 29 Robert Wesleyan Jan. 31 Mansfield State Feb. 2 U. of Pitt/Bradford Feb. 5 Gannon Feb. 7 Edinboro State Feb. 9 Mansfield State Feb. 12 Behrend Feb. 17 U. of Pitt/Bradford Feb. 21 Coppin State Feb. 23 Clarion State Feb. 26 St. John Fisher H 8 pm A 8 pm H 8 pm H 8 pm H 8 pm H 8 pm H 8 pm A 8 pm A 7:30 pm A 7:30 pm H 8 pm H 8 pm H 8 pm A 8 pm A 7:30 pm A 8 pm A 8 pm H 8 pm H 8 pm H 8 pm A 8 pm 8 pm H A 8 pm H 8 pm A 8 pm H 8 pm A 8 pm A 8 pm

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Alumni News
Mary Catherine Sherwood Lieb Memorial Established
Regina Kozlowski Smith The Mercyhurst Community lost one of its dearest friends, dedicated employees, and loyal alumna with the death this past summer of Mary Catherine Sherwood Lieb. Everyone knew her as "Mary K," a nickname given her by fellow members of the Class of '42. Mary K received her degree from Mercyhurst in commercial education. She taught high school following graduation and later taught business courses at the college on a part-time basis. In 1965 she was appointed director of development services at the college, in 1973 she was named "Distinguished Alumna of the Year" for her work as six-term president of the Alumni Association, and in 1979, Mary K. tried to retire. But things didn't seem quite the same in the offices at Mercyhurst without her, nor did they run quite as smoothly as when she was there shoring up the edges. We asked her to come back on a part time basis in 1980, and it didn't take any arm twisting to convince her to return to what had become her home away from home. Lieb's dedication to her Alma Mater was recognized during Alumni Reunion '82 by Dr. William P. Garvey, college President, who announced the formation of the Mary Catherine Sherwood Lieb Memorial Scholarship. Garvey explained that the scholarship, valued at $1,000 annually, will be awarded to a deserving junior or senior year business student whose academic record and personal character reflect the professional and Christian ideals that always characterized the life and person of Mary K. Lieb. We are richer for having known herwe are all poorer for her passing. But in spirit, Mary K will always be with usencouraging, scolding, smiling, and working as the perfect alumnus for which all colleges hope. The first recipient of the Lieb Memorial Scholarship was Patrick Paparelli, a senior from Erie.
Regina Kozlowski Smith is a 1981 business graduate of Mercyhurst College. She is the administrative assistant for development at the college. Previously, she was the administrative assistant to the director of administration, County of Erie.

Golden Graduates
Mercyhurst alumni travelled from all parts of the country to visit the Alma Mater this summer and to help make Alumni Weekend 1982 a grand success. The summer event featured the graduating class members whose years ended in 2, 3, 7, and 8 and who were celebrating their tenth, fifteenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth, up to fiftieth year reunion. Representing the Class of 1932 was Mary Cronin Foht from Boynton Beach, Florida and Cleveland Driscoll Kelly from Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania, who were joined for the occasion by Margaret Hanna Checrallah of Springfield, Massachusetts, Margaret Blair Maclnnis from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and Dorothy Morard of Naples, Florida from the Class of 1933. (See picture.) Celebrating their Silver Reunion were graduates from Classes of 57-58: Dolores McGaughey Bensur, Lake City, Pennsylvania; Joyce Baker Bowen, Girard, Pennsylvania; Noel Jaeger Burgoyne, Erie; Patricia Kuharsky Kreger, Lake City, Pennsylvania;

Anne McGinnis Minnium, Medford Lakes, New Jersey; Mary Lou Theobald Schwartz, Lyndhurst, Ohio; Marcia Meagher Shramek, Penfield, New 12

York; Mary Ann Bittner Simpson, Prospect, Kentucky; Rita Walter Weiss, Stamford, Connecticut; Linda M. Collin, Erie; Vivetta Petronio, Erie.

Alumna Award Presented

SISTER M. EUSTACE TAYLOR, fifth President of the college, was named Mercyhurst's "Distinguished Alumna of the Year," at the awards banquet highlighting Alumni Reunion '82. Sister received the award from Dr. William P. Garvey, who recognized her as a "woman who has distinguished herself as a religious and educational leader, and as the keystone of the liberal arts at Mercyhurst College." Respected by her students of English language and literature for her love of the letters, Sister Eustace taught on the faculty of Mercyhurst College for 38 years. She is a former chairman of the English department and served as President of the college from 1954-60. DR. TAYLOR has been the general coordinator (major superior) of the Sisters of Mercy for the past seven years. She was mother assistant from 1948-1954, Mother Superior from 1954-1960 and Vicar General from 1963-1969. She is a member of the board of directors of DuBois Hospital, serves as a trustee of Mercyhurst College, and is a director of the Mercy Center on Aging and the Mercyhurst Preparatory School. The cadet teaching programthe first form of financial, aid at the Hurst was planned and initiated in 1954 under Sr. Eustace's leadership. Also during Sr. Eustace's term of leadership, Mercyhurst received its first grant from the Ford Foundation used to improve faculty salaries, and its first federal funding which supp o r t e d the construction of the McAuley Residence Hall in 1959. An educator, a leader, but most importantly, a woman, Sister Eustace Taylor's life reflects her commitment to the liberal arts . . . recognizing, educating, and calling on every ounce of potential of the Total Person.

Sister M. Eustace

Taylor

17th Fund Appeal Underway

The 17th Alumni Fund kicked off July 1 and will run until June 30, 1983. The 1982-83 goal has been set at $40,000. The Alumni Phonathon will get underway in early February.

During her tenure as the fifth president of the College, financial aid both to students and to the institutionhad its beginnings at the hilltop school.

Alum Giving Soars To New High

The 16th Annual Alumni Fund ended June 30 with a total of $36,679 raised from our alumni body. Once again we surpassed our goal, this year by over $1,500. Nine hundred and sixty alumni contributed to last year's fund appeal and we had 36 matching gifts. Dollar giving over last year was up 22 per cent and the number of donors increased by nine per cent. As a result of that showing of alum support, the college was chosen as a finalist in the Improvement Category of the 1982 U.S. Steel Alumni Giving Incentive Awards Program sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. The majority of the money raised from the 16th fund went to the Sisters of Mercy Departmental Scholarship fund which benefitted 19 freshmen from ten academic departments.

From the Archives

1969 was the year of the coeducational change at Mercyhurst and also the year of graduation for Daniel V. Burke, the first Mercyhurst alumnus. Burke joined the college faculty following graduation, and today he is the director of the art department. He holds a master's degree, is a tenured faculty member of the college and in September, 1982, was promoted to full professor. Dan and his wife, the former Jane Craig '70, are the parents of four children.

Sister Carolyn Herrmann,

Daniel

Burke

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Class Notes
1969 1943
SISTER EYMARD POYDOCK, RSM celebrated her 50th anniversary as a member of the Erie Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy. Sister Eymard is a professor emeritus of biology and director of cancer research at Mercyhurst College. MARY ANN BRABENDER is a partner (with Holly Knauer Welte, class of 1971) in "Message from the Heart," a new message delivery system. PAUL D. YOCHIM received a Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) degree in June from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. He is interning in Erie at Doctor's Osteopathic Hospital

1977 1971
MARY KAY ZAMPOGNA FRANK was commissioned Eucharistic Minister in April, 1979 at Columbus, Ohio. On Mother's Day 1982 she administered First Communion to her son, Michael. Mary Kay earned an M.A. in Early & Middle Childhood education from Ohio State University in 1976 and is currently a substitute teacher in the Wellsboro Area School District. Her husband, Steve, is a Company Accountant with Borden. The Franks also have a daughter, Monica. MARYANN SCHNEIDER YOCHIM was recently elected a member of the board of directors of United Way of Pennsylvania. Maryann is director of public relations and advertising for National Fuel Gas Co., Erie. She is also a member of the President's Associates Board at Mercyhurst College. DENISE A. CORBIN is engaged to Richard S. Order of Worcester, Massachusetts. Denise has danced with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater and is currently employed as a Legal Assistant with the New York City law firm of Kelley Drye & Warren where Mr. Order is an attorney. The wedding is planned for May 29, 1983. ATTY. ROSEMARY DURKIN and her husband JEFFREY BEST hosted a get together for alumni in the Cleveland area recently. The couple is trying to reorganize the Cleveland Chapter. Rosemary is in private practice specializing in taxation law. Jeff is self-employed as the owner of a traffic and parking contract products company. KATHY KELLEHER participated in the Pennsylvania Opera Festival in Pittsburgh over the summer. The festival was sponsored by the Opera Workshop, Inc.

1953
PATRICIA H. CURRAN has been chosen to participate in a state-wide program co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The program is a two year experiment in integrating the visual arts into the teaching of traditional subjects. Projects developed by participants will be organized into a book for publication, which will serve as a national guide for this type of program. PATRICIA LIEBEL was honored by the Erie Chamber of Commerce as the recipient of the Chamber's "Person of the Year" Award presented in recognition of Liebel's outstanding contributions made toward the revitalization of the Erie organization. Pat, who is the business administrator of the City of Erie, is the Vice President of the Erie Chamber and chair of its membership committee.

1974
LAURETTA M. CAPONE has been promoted to Assistant Vice President at North Carolina National Bank, which is the major subsidiary of NCNB Corporation, the largest holding company in the Southeast. RUSSELL J. FELIX is marketing manager for the Erie Smart Shoppers Association.

1978
MATTHEW J. HILL was presented the Jaycee "Springboard" award. The award goes to the individual most involved with Jaycee and community activities within the first 60 days of membership. Matt was rated first in District 7, Northwest Pennsylvania and finished second in the state. STEVE RYAN has been promoted to director of sales at the Dallas Marriott Hotel in Texas. SUSAN SCHELLHAMMER is a decorating consultant with Desert Interiors in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she works with Bert Winterble who has designed and fabricated draperies for the United States Senate, the Executive Office Building and Office of Management and Budget, as well as totally redecorating the South Korean Embassy. MATTHEW J. SIUDA is now married and working with the U.S. Border Patrol in Chula Vista, California where he resides with his wife Shirley and baby boy.

1966
MARY DALY has been awarded the Erie Advertising Club's President Bowl for her leadership role in the organization. Daly was the first woman president elected to head the club in its 63 year history.

1975
JANE BASSETT ADAIR and husband Jeff are featured dancers at The Lido de Paris at Las Vegas' Stardust Hotel. GRETCHEN KRAMPF DAMERON has three children, Rory Anne, Ryan Ashleigh and James Michael. They live in Gaithersburg, Maryland. LAURA ANN GROTZINGER received a Master of Arts in history in June, 1982 from the University of Delaware.

1967
BEVERLY HEINTZ DiCARLO has been named Vice President of Human Resources, with the First National Bank of Pennsylvania in Erie.

1968
MARY ANNE ZEITLER HANNIBAL has been named director of the child development laboratory at Mercyhurst. For the past two years, she had been affiliated with the Maryvale Pre-School Kindergarten Program in Erie. She and her husband Alan are the parents of two sons, Matthew, 10, and Joshua, 5. MARLENE DiTULLIO MOSCO was the featured speaker in October at the YWCA's "Woman to Woman Talk series. Mosco is the vice president and director of marketing at the Marine Bank of Erie.

1976
MICHAEL A. DIACO worked for the United Way of Erie County on the "Loaned Executive" Program this year.Mike is Alumni Referral Coordinator at Mercyhurst College. JOHN DONOFRIO recently passed the Texas bar exam. He is affiliated with Alvin M. Barrett & Associates of Houston, Texas.

1979
JOANNA NEZOVICH received her Juris Doctorate degree in June from Duquesne University School of Law. KEVIN J. ROZICH received his Juris Doctorate degree from Dickinson School of Law on June 5, 1982.

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JOAN NORRIS SWANSON is a bookkeeper in the Mayville, New York office of Helmut's Enterprises. She is still employed as a substitute teacher and private piano teacher.

Remember In Your Prayers

Paula Sabol Behan '72 Mrs. Nackie O'Brien, mother of Alice O'Brien Bell '58. James R. McWilliams, father of Ellen McWilliams Doane '69 and Mary Jane McWilliams Smith '75. Patricia A. Eisert '55. Robert Gloekler, father of Suzanne Gloekler Esser '62, Patricia Gloekler Sulkowski '67, and Ellen B. Gloekler '73. James Canali, father of Anne Marie Canali Hermann '68. Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Hoebreckx Jenkins, mother of Sharon Jenkins '68. Mary K. Sherwood Lieb '42. Victor Panciera, father of Sister Rita Panciera '53. John Sargent, husband of Rosemarie Irrang Sargent '57. SISTERS OF MERCY Sister Sister Sister Sister Sister Mary John Brown Mary Leonarda Dina Joan Prenatt Mary Claudia Rich Jean Marie Sullivan

A Day in the Life of a Professor, continued

Philosophy

1980
JANE MCLAUGHLIN BLACKBURN and her husband, Terrance, live in Sterling, Illinois. Jane is employed by Morrison Hospital and her husband works for Northern Illinois Gas. POLLY KOCH is with the Burroughs Corporation in Irvine, California. MELANIE R, TITZEL has been promoted to unit manager at the Gertrude Barber Center.

1981
PAUL URBANOWICZ, now doing postgraduate work at Mercyhurst, was recently presented a scholarship sponsored by the Erie Theater Arts Institute.

"The bottom line is that we can't continue to support a government which brutalizes its populace." "It's just not that easy. If we've learned anything from the last twenty years it's got to be that relinquishing a country to communism is bad strategy. Sure we made mistakes in Iran and Vietnam, but look what happened after we threw in the towel." "Don't blame Iran on communism." "I'm not . . . yet. But when the mullahs have collected enough rope they'll hang themselves and you know who is waiting in the wings." "So what shall we do? Maybe we could ask the army very nicely if they could please restrict their slaughter to their own peasants and stop killing reporters and nuns." "I think we have more control than you think. We can reshape that government in time. There will be some casualities in the process, but eventually El Salvador can be cleansed." Two seats down someone is extolling Georgetown's chances for the NCAA playoffs. On my other side I can hear the end of an evaluation of a recently seen Broadway play. Lunch is a smorgasbord. It leaves you wishing that you could have had it all. It's nearly one o'clock. At my office door a student waits to walk me to class. The class is Philosophy. The student wants to talk about Descartes' dream argument. Has the day been real, or have I been dreaming the whole thing? I collect my briefcase and, with my companion, head for the second half of Tuesday.

It's A Boy
Brian Matthew to Lee (Pitonyak '74) and Allan Belovarac '73. Sean Francis to John F. and Roseann (Quain) Daley 7 6 . Sean Michael to Lynn and Vince Doran '72. Timothy Ryan to Dennis and Anne (O'Laughlin '68) Greene. Michael James to David and Marikae (Sorvelli '67) Moraski.

It's A Girl
Sarah Ann to Jean and Frank Abate, Jr. '75. Rory Anne to James and Gretchen (Krampf '75) Dameron. Elizabeth Rachel to Richard and Anne Marie (Canali '68) Hermann. Heather Dorothea to Richard and Dorothea (Volzer '71) Skowron. Angela to Cathy and John Wojdyla '74.

Send news for the Class Notes section and Letters to the Editor to the Mercyhurst Magazine, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA 16546. Please include your class year, maiden name (if applicable), address and telephone number. We welcome black and white pictures with alumni class notes.

Moving
Include the Mercyhurst Magazine on your list of publications to receive your address change.

Marriages
JoAnn Alexander '80/'81 and Robert Delia Rocca '82. Rita V. Banic '68 and Joseph T. Pyrdek. Connie L. Boyce '82 and John P. Perdue. Gary L. Bukowski '73 and Roberta M. Donley '78. Bruce A. Chase '75 and Barbara A. Headman. Jennifer Donnelly '81 and Lt. Richard C. Krahe. Andrea Herrmann '82 and Paul Michali. Stephen J. Frisina '80 and Linda First '81. Paul J. Huber '79 and Diane Damico. Ellen Lynch '77 and Bill Carty. Rebecca Martin '82 and Robert C. Porter. J. James Milhisler '80 and Kathleen M. Joint. Debra E. McLaughlin '82 and Brian D. McCaleb. Jane McLaughlin '80 and Terrance Blackburn. Nancy J. Niederriter '74 and Christian L Buckleitner. Bradley Richter '79 and Jeanne Barger. Ann Marie Rock '81 and Donald L. Milhoci.

Graduation Date Set

The 1983 Commencement at the college will be held Sunday, May 29. Commencement speaker and the weekend of activities will be announced in the spring issue of the Mercyhurst Magazine.

Campus Ministry
Campus Ministry has received several requests for current news on the organization. Not all letters included a return address. Alumni who would like to receive on-going news on the activities of Campus Ministry are asked to send their names and addresses to: Ken Paul, Campus Ministry, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA 16546. 15

Dr. Ludlow L. Brown joined the Mercyhurst College faculty in 1974. A Cornell University graduate with an undergraduate degree in philosophy, Brown earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from S. U.N. Y. at Buffalo. He is an associate professor at Mercyhurst and is the director of the Philosophy Program at the College.

Gifts & Bequests

provides the charitable organization with funds for immediate use.

Planned Giving: An American Tradition

John T. Nesbit To preserve the memory of a loved one; from a sense of moral obligation; out of gratitude for a service well-performed; to demonstrate deep-felt humanitarian concerns for one or more of these reasons thousands of people each year contribute their money, time and talent to America's charitable, educational, religious, and health-care organizations. Indeed private philanthropy is the foundation of every charitable endeavor. However, given the fluid state of today's economy, and the increased complexity and scope of our Nation's tax structure, the judicious planning of one's charitable gifts is vital. The need for planning is twofold: to ensure that the gift will be put to the best possible use, and to ensure that the gift fits the donor's financial needs and objectives. To encourage the voluntary support of charitable organizations, Congress has provided numerous tax incentives for charitable gifts. In effect, the United States Government will share in the cost of your gift. The extent of the tax benefit depends on the type of property given and the form of the gift. From a tax standpoint, certain types of gifts may be more advantageous than others. Consequently, carefully planning your gift to secure the maximum tax benefit is an important step. Allow me to outline some of the different types of gifts you may want to consider. GIFTS OF CASH . . . A gift of cash is the most popular way of making a charitable contribution. A cash gift can generate an immediate income tax deduction for the donor, and it

APPRECIATED PROPERTY . . . An alternative to a gift of cash which deserves careful consideration is a gift of long-term appreciated property. Substantially greater tax benefits result because the tax on the unrealized appreciation is avoided. PLANNED CHARITABLE BEQUESTS . . . Many estate owners have found bequests to be an excellent method of making a meaningful gift to Mercyhurst College. With careful planning, an estate owner can realize the personal satisfaction that comes from knowing the gift investment will permit us to maintain our standard of excellence without in any way jeopardizing his or her family's financial security. Any of a number of various types of bequests may be used by an individual to memorialize his or her interest in the College. But the choice of the specific mode of making a gift, in all instances, depends completely on each person's unique circumstances and personal and financial objectives. GIFTS OF LIFE INSURANCE . . There are literally trillions of dollars of life insurance in force in this country. And for good reason; life insurance is a remarkably versatile asset. A gift of life insurance to our institution can be especially meaningful for a number of reasons. Life insurance allows you to make a substantial gift on an installment basis via a series of modest payments during your lifetime. A gift of life insurance is certain, and the proceeds are paid promptly without going through the time-consuming process of p r o b a t e . Depending on the arrangement of your gift, life insurance can create a number of favorable tax consequences. GIFTS OF REAL ESTATE . . . Family considerations sometimes do not permit the making of an outright gift. This is often the case where the gift is a personal residence or farm. Even 16

though you retain the right to possess and enjoy the property for so long as you (and your spouse) live, you'll obtain a current income tax deduction for the present value of our remainder interest. TRUSTS . . . Because of its flexibility, the trust has become a multifaceted estate and financial planning device. In its simplest terms, a trust is an arrangement under which a person holds legal title to property, and manages it for the benefit of someone else. Consequently, an individual can enjoy the benefits of property ownership without all of the burdens of managing the property and at the same time commit it to the charitable organization of choice. As you count down the days left in 1982, you should be taking stock of your financial situation and comparing earnings and expenses to see where you stand. It's a good time, also, to consider your end-of-year giving to charitable institutions. The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 affects taxpayers for the first time this year, making changes you need to know about before you give. In many cases, you may be able to give more, benefiting both yourself and the cause you support. If you would like more information on how you can make a gift through any of the gift opportunities mentioned above - please contact my office for our detailed pamphlet on these and other giving strategies. We would be delighted to assist you in selecting the gift mechanism that best suits your objectives.

John Nesbit is assistant to the president for institutional advancement. He has been with the college since 1974 and is a specialist in the area of grants, government relations, and deferred giving. Office number 814-825-0270.

SHADES OF FALL AT MERCYHURST

Crew on Presque Isle Bay

Fall Dance Concert

English Garden on south campus planted 1982

Pond on southeast campus dug in 1974

Lakermania at the Stadium