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JULY/AUGUST 2015 • VOL. 102 • NO. 6

23
IN POSITION
Powerlifter Eliraz Katz
was crowned a national
FEATURES champion in April.

28
THE ORIGINAL
In which we celebrate
150 years of the Creamery
and its world-famous ice
cream. (It was a hard job,
but someone had to do it.)
By AMY STRAUSS
DOWNEY ’04 LIB

38
TRENDING UP
President Eric Barron
reflects on his first year
in office and his priorities
for what’s to come.
Interview by
RYAN JONES ’95 COM

44
THE UNRELENTING
POWER OF ONE
Philanthropist and
Penn State freshman
Neha Gupta is just
getting started.
By RYAN JONES ’95 COM

DEPARTMENTS
ON THE COVER

First churned here 70 years 5 From the Editor 51 Association News

ago, Bittersweet Mint is still
one of the 100-plus flavors 9 Your Letters 57 Class Notes
made at the Creamery today.
See p. 28. 12 Everyday People 65 In Memoriam
photograph by
nick sloff ’92 a&a 15 Penn State Pulse 74 Marketplace
CARDONI

23 Sports 80 Parting Shot

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Congratulations to our 2015 Recipients
The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni Ryan J. Healy ’06
35 years of age and younger for their extraordinary Founder and President
professional accomplishments. For more information Brazen Careerist
on this year’s recipients and lists of past recipients, Smeal College of Business
visit alumni.psu.edu/awards.
Kim Kingsley ’02
Sharifa T. Anozie ’08 Chief Operating Officer
Writer POLITICO
Owner College of Communications
The Sacred Word
Penn State Schuylkill Katherine A. LaBelle ’06
Executive Officer
Rebecca Allen Delaney ’06 Office of Communications
Mechanical Team Leader National Weather Service
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
College of Engineering
Raymond P. Mastre ’04
Christopher Fanini ’12 Director
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer SAP Security/GRC Consulting
Weebly PwC
College of Information Sciences and Technology Penn State New Kensington

Andrew Giffin ’05 Javier Moreno ’07

Lighting Designer Manager
Gifld, LLC External Affairs and Communications
College of Arts and Architecture Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
College of Agricultural Sciences
Aaron M. Gotwalt ’04
Co-Founder KerriLaine Prunella ’01
Orphid Senior Advisor
Schreyer Honors College U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
College of the Liberal Arts

Emilia Speal-Harris ’04

Intellectual Property Strategy Specialist
The Boeing Company
College of Engineering

Each recipient is listed with the nominating

college or campus.

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More Cowbell
With the boss’ retirement, we lose a champion of the magazine—and of Penn State.

SOME YEARS BACK, when many University Rankings, university

of my colleagues at other alumni governance, and the Morrill Land
magazines nationwide were deal- Grant Act, among other topics.
ing with slashed budgets and He’s also a history buff who
having to cut back from, say, four quotes JFK and Churchill and
issues a year to three, my boss reads books about arcane U.S.
asked me if there was any way presidents like James K. Polk.
The Penn Stater could publish A road trip with Roger often
more often. includes his historical commen-
Roger Williams ’73 Lib, ’75 tary—perhaps about the canal
MA Com, ’88 DEd Edu loves the built at the Lewistown Narrows
magazine, and back then he fig- in the 1800s or the role of the
ured if six times a year was good, Susquehanna River in the Revo-
nine or 10 would be even better. lutionary War. Want to know
I thought he was out of his mind who was Peter J. Camiel, name-
(Where would we get the money? sake of a rest stop on the turn-
And the staff?), but I dutifully did pike? Roger’s your man.
the benchmarking and the number- Roger also is a numbers guy,
crunching for him. In the end, he someone who can tell you at any
and I both came to the conclu- given time exactly how many life
sion that expanding our frequency members we have or how our
BLUE BLOOD: Roger Williams wrote his dissertation
wasn’t feasible. And I have to say on the university’s eighth president, and ultimately
dues revenue is trending com-
that I was relieved. But I also loved spent almost his entire career working for Penn State. pared to last year.
the endorsement of the magazine But more than anything, Roger
that his idea represented. is a Penn State guy. He earned
It seems like “Can we do more?” has been Roger’s unspo- all three of his degrees here; he wrote his dissertation on the
ken mantra throughout the 12 years that he’s been executive university’s eighth president, George Atherton; he spent 29
director of the Alumni Association. Actually, he did speak it, years of his 37-year career here. He loves this place more
but in terms of the magazine, he would say it a little differ- than anyone I know.
ently: “More cowbell.” By the time you get this magazine, he will have retired
I think I first heard him say “More cowbell” (a reference from Penn State. I have no idea what he and his wife, Karen
to a classic sketch on Saturday Night Live) back in 2009 Magnuson ’75 A&A, have planned for their retirement. I
after we printed a beefy 104-page issue, a high-water mark haven’t had a chance to ask him, and he seems too engrossed
resulting from a combination of strong ad sales and four in being the executive director right up until June 30 to even
really substantial features. Most of us were exhausted after- consider it. I suppose in retirement he might slow down.
ward, thinking, “Never again,” but Roger was thrilled. I sus- I suppose he might relax his standards a bit. I suppose he
pect he’s secretly disappointed that we never achieved that might stop thinking about Penn State.
pinnacle again. But frankly, I doubt it.
And, speaking of pinnacles, no one was prouder of our Sib-
ley Award in 2007 as the nation’s best alumni magazine than
Roger was. He especially loved pointing out that we were
the first magazine from a public university to win the award
since 1967. To this day I’m still fuzzy on the significance of
STEVE TRES SLER

that, but it doesn’t surprise me that he would pick up on

that sort of detail—this is, after all, a guy with a doctorate in Tina Hay ’83 Bus, Editor
higher education. A guy who speaks fluently about the World tinahay@psu.edu | Twitter: @tinahay

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 2015 Honorary Alumni
The Honorary Alumni Awards have been given by the Penn State Alumni Association since 1973
to honor individuals who are not graduates of The Pennsylvania State University but who
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their contributions to the University.

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To Albert L. Evans Jr. for his longstanding To John P. Kazmaier for his distinguished legacy
support of Penn State Schuylkill and his commitment of volunteer service, inspirational leadership, and
to improving the livability of his community. philanthropic initiatives that have benefitted the
University and Penn State Altoona.

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To Rodrigue “Rod” Mortel for the undeniable To Pasco L. Schiavo for his dedication to
positive impact of his foundation and his the Penn State Hazleton community, including
leadership in the academic medical field. serving as the campus’ chair of
For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students.

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leader in teaching, research, and service and for
himself being a champion for creating and fostering
excellence in engineering education.
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COLLEGE JOBS
Life in East Halls in the late ’70s resembled
a little city. Residents there had their own
university-run pizza shop to satisfy the
cravings and munchies in that neck of the
woods. When the wind was blowing and the
snow was flying, all you had to do was run
to the bottom of Johnston Hall for fresh
subs and hot pizzas. The shop hummed
with activity each evening until late and I
can still remember answering the phone:
“Johnston pizza shop—how can I help you?”
Susan Jacoby Groom ’80 Edu
Winchester, Va.

Thanks for your May/June
feature on college jobs
[p. 32]. Now, years after
graduation, I see my jobs
in a new light from when I
was a blurry-eyed mechani-
cal engineering student. It
wasn’t just about the long
nights running room ser-
vice or fearfully lifting dou-
ble-plated risottos at the
Nittany Lion Inn or Penn
Stater. Or the early morn-
ings to “make the dough-
nuts” at the old Creamery. I
realize now that I saw some
amazing things and met
some extraordinary people,
like when I worked a post-
game tailgate at Joe Pater-
no’s house and watched him
take off those iconic Nikes.
I even managed to sneak a
picture in front of his tro-
phy case—who wouldn’t
have? And while I have all
of those wonderful memo-
ries of unforgettable people,
I still flash back to those
around me who made the
days so special.
Scott Wilhide ’02 Eng
Pittsburgh
THON ON
“A Year Like No Other”
[May/June, p. 19]
acknowledged the many
“firsts” achieved at this
year’s THON, but it
excluded one that should
get a mention: Penn State
Fayette was the first of
the Commonwealth cam-
puses to hit $1 million in
total funds raised since
THON’s inception. This
milestone means even
more since Fayette is one
of the smaller Penn State
campuses and is in one of
the poorest regions in the
state. For 12 of the past 18
years, Fayette’s team has
taken first place for the
most money raised by a
Commonwealth campus.
Hats off to all the donors,
volunteers, and partici-
pants in this great event.
Joseph E. Onesi ’80 EMS
Uniontown, Pa.
SENIOR REPORT
I read with great inter-
est Kristen Strezo’s article
about caring for our aging
society [“When Caring
Takes Its Toll,” May/June,
p. 40] and was thrilled to
see Steve Zarit mention
the PACE programs. The
services provided by these
programs are offered with
no co-pays or deductibles
to medically and finan-
cially qualified individu-
als. Funded through Medi-
care and Medicaid, PACE
provides all needed primary
and specialty care to par-
ticipants through an inter-
disciplinary team of health
care professionals who
assess the individual’s med-
ical and social needs. The
program has been proven
to enhance quality of life for
older adults and their care-
givers. I strongly encourage
any caregiver to reach out
to a local PACE/LIFE pro-
gram for help and support.
Mary Lou Harju ’86, ’87
MS Bus
Aliquippa, Pa.
ANTHRO INK
Thank you for profiling Dr.
Leigh-Ann Bedal’s work
and her PBS feature [May/
June, p. 15]. Her cultural
anthropology class at Beh-
rend inspired me to pursue
anthropology. She is a won-
derful professor and I am
glad to see she is still with
the university.
Claudia Pennington ’06 Lib
Lancaster, Pa.
GRADUATION
MARKS
The picture of President
Eisenhower in the May/
June issue [p. 55] reminded
me of my first day on cam-
pus in September 1956. My
mom and dad were helping
me move into McKee Hall
and my 13-year-old brother
became bored and went
outside to sit on the side-
walk. Not long afterward,
he came back in and said,
“The President just drove
past and waved at me.” My
mom said, “How did you
know the president of
Penn State?” Harry replied,
“Not the president of Penn
State—the President of
the United States.” So my

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YOUR LETTERS
mom said, “What did you
do?” And Harry replied: “I
said, ‘Hi, Ike.’”
Jim McIntyre ’60 Bus
Streetsboro, Ohio
On May 19, 1976, a soaked-
to-the-skin graduating
class filled Beaver Stadium
with dripping umbrel-
las and warped mortar-
boards. While we watched
the raindrops drip off our
graduation tassels, Presi-
dent Oswald did his best
to shield our esteemed
speaker, Sarah Caldwell,
the first female director of
the Metropolitan Opera,
from the downpour with a
single umbrella. Her abbre-
viated speech challenged
the graduating class to
make supporting the arts
a lifetime commitment;
unfortunately, the image
of President Oswald’s dis-
mal attempt to shield the
rotund Ms. Caldwell from
the pouring rain was all any
of us likely remember from
that day.
Bridget Kilgore-Prugh ’76 Eng
Londonderry, N.H.
IMAGES OF SPRING
Thank you so much for
running “Rites of Spring”
[Mar./Apr., p. 32]. Need-
less to say, I was surprised
at seeing my picture on
page 39 shaking my part-
ner’s hand. Lori Bowersox
TELL US YOUR THON STORY!
Have a good story about THON? From crazy canning trips to
dancing or working behind the scenes—we want to hear from
you. Send your story (no more than 250 words, please) to
heypennstater@psu.edu. Deadline: Aug. 3. We’ll print the best
tales in an upcoming issue.
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was a friend of my girl-
friend’s at the time, Kristen
Sween, who was working at
General Electric in a work-
study program. Penn State
was a long time ago and
I remember it with fond
memories.
Bill Dube ’79 Agr
San Diego, Calif.
CLUB FLUB
One of your letters regard-
ing dorm memories in
which the author remi-
nisced about being a mem-
ber of the Simmons Human
Interest Team evoked mem-
ories for me as well [Mar./
Apr., p. 8]. I, too, joined a
rather esoteric organization
while residing in Simmons
Hall, but it was called the
Simmons Hall Interrogative
of Non-Sequitur or Logical
Assumptions. I will never
forget the first meeting as
I inadvertently entered a
room reserved for another
organization. After several
minutes of confusing con-
versations, I questioned
the moderator and he
responded, “Apparently, sir,
you don’t know Simmons
Human Interest Team from
Simmons Hall Interrogative
of Non-Sequitur or Logi-
cal Assumptions.” Can you
imagine my embarrass-
ment?
Bob Lightner ’75 Edu
Cape Coral, Fla.
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CLIMATE DEBATE
I was saddened and con-
cerned to read the letters
disparaging the article
about Michael Mann’s
work [Mar./Apr., p. 7].
The consensus support-
ing human-caused climate
change is overwhelm-
ing: 97% of climate sci-
entists concur, according
to a recent study by the
American Association for
the Advancement of Sci-
ence. The work of the
Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change is so
clear and so important
that they were awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize. The
Union of Concerned Scien-
tists similarly has weighed
in on the impact of human
activity on climate change
and the need for urgent
and thoughtful response
by our citizens and gov-
ernment. Human-caused
climate change is not the
fantasy of some left-wing
kooks, as most of your let-
ters implicate. In the spirit
of “continuing education,”
readers should investigate
the websites of these three
highly reputable and unbi-
ased scientific organiza-
tions. Alumni could make
meaningful contributions
to the future of our planet
by looking squarely at the
vast, worldwide data that
support human-caused cli-
mate change. Penn State
alumni should strive to be
part of the solution, not
part of the problem.
Jane Gitschier ’74 Sci
San Francisco
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that we keep our degrees affordable for students from every
economic background. Over the last three decades, how-
ever, rising costs and declining state support have placed
an increasing burden on students and families. Today, many
undergraduates work multiple jobs while carrying a full
course load, yet students are graduating with an average
educational debt of more than $35,000. These financial
realities are restricting the dreams of far too many students
and families.
Through the Trustee Matching Scholarship Program, you
can become Penn State’s partner in supporting ambitious
and talented undergraduates in financial need. Whether
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 EVERYDAY PEOPLE

Taylor Sweeney
For this future engineer, student service and leadership
are unexpected passions.

CLAIM TO FAME A senior architectural engineering major, Sweeney is executive

director of Fresh START, the day-of-service initiative for first-year students at
University Park.

ON THE RIGHT FOOT Fresh START—Students Taking an Active Role Today—

was launched in 1999 as a way to engage new students and get them involved
in dozens of community service projects around town and on campus. Last
year’s day of service, for which Sweeney was co-director, drew nearly 800
participants. This year’s event takes place on Aug. 29.

SERIOUS ABOUT SERVICE Sweeney is also the training and development direc-
tor for Students Engaging Students, a campus leadership organization, and
a volunteer with State of State, the TED Talk-like speakers’ conference. Her
hyper-involvement now surprises even her. “I definitely came here to just be a
regular student—sit down, do my classwork, that was it,” she says. “But I think
once you get involved, it’s almost addictive.”

SERVE YOURSELF For Sweeney, the draw of such organizations—there are more
than 1,000 official student “orgs” at University Park—goes beyond the service
aspect. They also help shrink a massive campus: “It’s really hard not to find an
organization where you fit in.”

DESIGNING WOMAN When she’s not volunteering, Sweeney works toward a de-
gree in a major that combines her parents’ professions: Mom’s an architectural
designer, Dad is in construction. She cites a passion for historical renovation,
and even in that, there’s a sense of service: Over the past two summers, she’s
interned on expansion and renovation projects at Arlington National Cem-
etery. She calls it, simply, “the coolest thing I’ve ever experienced.” —RJ

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State PULSE

DIY Drones?
Three Penn State employees hope to change the way the world uses drones.
By AMY STRAUSS DOWNEY ’04 LIB

AIRNEST DRONES HAD RATHER
breezy beginnings: Three entrepre-
neurs who work for Penn State Infor-
mation Technology Services—Justin
Miller, Ben Brautigam, and Sherwyn
Saul—were sitting together at lunch
a few years ago when they thought
it would be fun to build a drone that
anyone could buy and operate. “Part
of our work at Penn State is to design
educational technology,” says Miller.
“So we’ve gotten really good at taking
complex tasks and simplifying them.”
Plus, the timing felt right—until then,
drones had been very difficult to fly
due to both airspace restrictions and
complicated technology. But now, the
FAA expects drones to become a $90
billion industry by 2020.
If drones still seem too futuristic
to become mainstream, consider
their far-reaching real-world applica-
tions: a farmer assessing his crops, a
search-and-rescue party looking to
cover ground quickly, a real estate
agent taking aerial images to market
an expansive property, maybe even a
bride capturing her wedding with un-
forgettable videography. “We see a lot
of potential in certain commercial in-
dustries—the list grows every day,” says
Brautigam. “And we’re encouraged by
a solution that’s easy to use and doesn’t
require much training.”
So on their nights and weekends
the inventors started to dream up a
small drone—slightly bigger than a
suitcase—that, along with an app, can
be launched with just a few swipes on
an iPad. The device would use GPS to
follow a predetermined flight path and
then stream high-def footage back to
the owner’s mobile device. The ideas
became a reality after a $10,000 grant
from the Ben Franklin TechCelerator

Illustration by KEVIN HAND J u l y /A u g u s t 2 0 1 5 T H E P E N N S TAT E R 15

Penn State PULSE

incubator program at Innova-

In the News
tion Park enabled them to build
a prototype in December. (The
team actually built three mod-
els that range from $999 to Recent research conducted by Penn State faculty made plenty of headlines—and
$1,799, depending on the type statements—this spring. From The Huffington Post talking about texting to The
of camera used.) And, now, with New York Times covering fracking—here’s what the buzz is all about. —AD
a Kickstarter campaign recently
wrapped—they exceeded their SOUND SEPARATES visible and properly
goal of $50,000 for seed money CANCER CELLS strapped in when us-
in just one month—the Airnest A team of engineers ing sitting or carrying
team is ready to start manufac- from Penn State, MIT, devices.
turing. But their prospects for and Carnegie Mellon
success ultimately hinge on more is working with sound
orders and more outside invest- waves to detect rare
ment. Brautigam acknowledges cancer cells in blood
samples. Their new
acoustic device is gen-
TEXTING IS tler—and faster—than
“All you do is TOO TEMPTING previous cell-sorting
A group of Penn State technology, which
draw a flight psychologists found means that a simple
that college students blood test could, one FRACKING
pattern on understand there is a day, replace invasive bi- CHEMICALS DETECTED
proper time to text, opsies for diagnosis. Tap water from three
your mobile but many are too homes in Bradford
tempted to put down KEEPING BABIES SAFE County, Pa. had traces
device.” their phone: Those sur- Unsupervised infants of a compound found
veyed admitted to tex- sleeping in bouncers, in Marcellus Shale drill-
ting during inappropri- swings, and even car ing fluids. Penn State
that there is already competition ate times like funerals, seats could be at risk geoscientist Susan
in the fast-growing global drone class, showers, sex, and for asphyxia—espe- Brantley, an author
industry—in fact, they had to while in the bathroom. cially if the equipment of the study in the
change their original name, Ares What’s more, approxi- isn’t being used prop- Proceedings of the Na-
Drones, because of another simi- mately 34 percent of erly, according to Erich tional Academy of Sci-
larly named product—but he says the participants said Batra of the Penn State ences, says that this is
Airnest’s hardware and software they sent or received College of Medicine. the “first documented
stand out because they’re both at least 100 texts daily. Based on his study in and published demon-
safe and easy to use. “All you do The findings were pub- the Journal of Pediat- stration” of contamina-
is draw a flight pattern on your lished in Social Science rics, he advises parents tion from chemicals in

F RO M L E F T : I STO C K P H OTO/ 1 0 1 DA L M AT I A N S ; S U S A N B R A N T L E Y/ P E N N STAT E

mobile device,” he says. The app Journal. to always keep children shale gas wells.
takes over from there, placing
altitude caps on known obstruc-
tions (buildings, trees) and reg-
istering no-fly zones (hospitals,
airports). And although the app
doesn’t have object avoidance HEARD on CAMPUS
integrated yet, the team is build-
ing emergency controls so you

“Try Googling ‘Iraqi cellist.’”

can manually stop (and hover)
or make an emergency landing.
“No other drone manufacturer is
visualizing with this advice,” says
Miller. “It’s so easy that anyone —RICHARD BUNDY ’70 Edu, ’87 DEd A&A on the power of music to counter
could use it.” For more informa- violence, during his commencement speech to the College of Arts & Architecture
tion, visit airnest.com. in May. Bundy, the longtime Blue Band director, retired on July 1.

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 Trustee Election Results
Penn State’s Board of Trustees went through a substantial change in composition in May,
with nine new faces set to join the board on July 1. By TINA HAY ’83 BUS
THE ALUMNI TRUSTEES election was
relatively quiet this year, with the race
uncontested and voter turnout corre-
spondingly light. Incumbents Anthony
Lubrano ’82 Bus and Ryan McCom-
bie ’70 Lib were reelected, and new-
comer Robert Tribeck ’91 Lib, chief
legal officer at Post Acute Medical LLC,
earned a seat as well. All three were
endorsed by the grassroots group Penn
Staters for Responsible Stewardship,
and all three ran unopposed. (Alumni
trustee Adam Taliaferro ’05 Lib chose
not to seek reelection.)
Out of 313,000 ballots mailed, just
16,868 alumni voted—the lowest turn-
out since before the Sandusky scandal.
Meanwhile, delegates from agricul-
tural societies reelected Donald Cotner
’71 Edu and elected Chris Hoffman,
vice president of Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau. (Ag trustee Carl Shaffer rotated
off the board.) Two new business and
MARK SELDERS
industry trustees were elected: Robert
Fenza ’80 IDF, recently retired as COO
of Liberty Property Trust, and Mary Lee
Schneider ’84 Com, former CEO of
Follett Corp. They replace Ed Hintz ’59
Bus and Kenneth Frazier ’75 Lib.
The board will also expand by six
members, effective July 1, as a result of
a governance-reform package the trust-
ees passed last November:
Luke Metaxas of Kennett Square, who
will start his junior year this fall, will
join the board as the first-ever student-
elected trustee. (Since the early 1970s,
the governor had traditionally ap-
pointed a student trustee, but the board-
reform vote now guarantees a student
seat—and gives the students a voice in
choosing their representative.) The stu-
dent trustee serves a two-year term.
David Han ’88 Sci, ’05 MS Hershey,
vice chair of the Department of Surgery
at Hershey Medical Center, becomes
J u l y /A u g u s t 2 0 1 5
the first-ever faculty trustee, serving a
three-year term.
Kay Frantz Salvino ’69 H&HD joins
the board as an ex-officio member, serv-
ing a two-year term by virtue of her
position as immediate past president of
the Alumni Association. She is the for-
mer practice administrator for Heimer
Eye Care Associates in State College.
Trustees elected three people for
newly created at-large seats: Kathleen
Casey ’88 Lib, senior adviser at Pa-
tomak Global Partners and a former
gubernatorial appointee; Julia Anna
Potts, executive vice president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation; and
Matthew Schuyler ’87 Bus, chief hu-
man resources officer at Hilton World-
wide. To implement the new seats, the
three will serve staggered terms—Casey
for one year, Schuyler for two, and Potts
for three; subsequent at-large appoin-
tees will each serve for three years.
Tour de
Force
Garth Brooks—and his six
concerts this spring—set a
record for most shows by
an artist at the Bryce Jor-
dan Center. (The title was
actually held by Brooks,
who performed five times
back in ’97.) What’s more,
the first of these shows
sold out in just three
minutes, surpassing Taylor
Swift for the quickest sell-
out in BJC history. —AD
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Air Time
AccuWeather starts its own television network—and creates some atmospheric pressure.
By BLAKE MILLER VOSSEKUIL ’02 LIB

Joel Myers knew it was time. After Not long after, The Weather
50 years in the weather biz, the Channel launched a media cam-
founder and president of Accu- paign that included full-page
Weather decided to take his com- ads in 13 markets that compared
pany to television. The announce- the two networks’ coverage of
ment in March advertised that the major tornadoes that had
the State College-based company, hit Oklahoma City in the spring.
which employs more than 140 (The Weather Channel covered
meteorologists—half of them Penn the twisters; AccuWeather did
State alumni—would start a new not.) Myers explains, saying that
24-hour channel with round-the- Verizon FiOS doesn’t have cover-
clock coverage. “AccuWeather is age in Oklahoma. “Our viewers
focused on local forecasts. It’s all are interested in the weather
weather, all the time,” says Myers where they are,” he says. “They
’61, ’63 MS, ’71 PhD EMS. “We were just trying to find some-
give people what they want—that’s thing to attack us on because
how we became the largest source of weather in the world.” they were sore about losing the contract.”
The decision to go primetime heightened the tension As for the Weather Channel—which, it should be noted,
with another meteo-behemoth, The Weather Channel, also has a strong pipeline of Penn State meteorologists—
which has been a stronghold in TV weather since its debut ratings have dropped by 20 percent over the last four years,
in 1982. When AccuWeather TV launched, Myers’ company according to Nielsen, which is perhaps why this matchup
also landed a major contract with Verizon FiOS TV—a will be so interesting to watch, literally. Will even more cus-
lucrative, exclusive deal previously held by The Weather tomers—and, ultimately, more cable providers—move to-
Channel. The cable provider abruptly dropped The Weath- ward programming that airs all weather, all the time? Just
er Channel from its lineup on March 9 and added the new maybe, says Myers: “A lot of people don’t realize the extent
AccuWeather Network the very next day. of our influence and reach on a global scale.”

The Dream Teams entrepreneurs, like Ira Lubert

Perhaps it was a good problem
to have. Eli Kariv ’15 Bus and
Matt Brezina ’03 Eng (pictured,
left to right) saw too many
great ideas from Penn State
students never fully develop.
So the entrepreneurs came
up with an answer: The Sum-
mer Founders Program, which
backs students to pursue their
entrepreneurial dreams. Last
year, they worked with Presi-
dent Barron to get the program
and six were awarded $10,000
each to work on their ideas in
State College over the summer.
One team is creating a device
so those with nonverbal cere-
bral palsy can communicate.
Another is working on a ro-
botic multi-jointed endoscope
for Hershey Medical Center.
A different group is building a
part to improve the 3-D print-
ing process.
“We’ve seen a lot of other
’73 H&HD, Ed Hintz ’59 Bus,
and Brezina—who has already
sold two internet start-ups
himself—enough funding
has been raised for the first
few years. Kariv adds that
one donor actually gradu-
ated from Yale: “He’s giving
money to Penn State to send
a message to Yale.” Although
accelerator programs exist idea, full-time, with no other
at other schools, Founders distractions,” says Kariv. “This
is unusual because it pushes is going to be the first oppor-
student entrepreneurs to the tunity for most of them to do
EMILEE SPOKUS

created within the university’s universities wanting to do next level. “What that differ- that.” —AD
Division of Student Affairs. this, but few are,” says Kariv. ence in monetary value means For more information, visit
More than 60 teams applied, Thanks to several alumni and is that you can work on your psufounders.weebly.com.

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The world awaits … What’s
at’s your
destination?

Travel the world with the Penn State family in 2016

Revel in breathtaking scenery, exceptional food, expert lectures and tours, and the
convenience of a pre-planned vacation with just the right amount of “down-time.” Whether
you prefer a private evening visit to The Sistine Chapel, cruising around the lands of Paris,
exploring Australia and New Zealand, or indulging in the wonderful food and wine of
California, we’ve got a trip for you. With more than 30 alumni tours scheduled for 2016,
your dream destination is bound to be among the choices. Now’s the time …
Plan to travel the blue-and-white way in 2016 and create memories to last a lifetime!

alumni tours
 alumni tours
2016 Trip Calendar
Land Tours
WINGS OVER TANZANIA
Jan. 18–29 $6,995 plus air
Arusha, Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara
National Park, Ngorongoro Crater Conservation
Area, Olduvai Gorge, Serengeti National Park;
Thomas P. Gohagan & Company
COSTA RICA’S NATURAL HERITAGE
A small group of 24 travelers
Feb. 22–March 4 $3,481
San Jose, Arenal Region, Monteverde Cloud Forest,
Guanacaste; Odysseys
ROME WITH THE SISTINE CHAPEL
A private visit to The Sistine Chapel
with a small group
March 13–19 $4,045 plus air
Rome; Andante
EXPLORING AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
A small group of 24 travelers
March 26–April 17 $8,857
Cairns, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Sydney,
Christchurch, Mt. Cook, Queenstown, Rotorua,
Auckland; Odysseys
Travel with the Penn State Family
ITALY: SORRENTO
March 30–April 7 $3,195 plus air * Small group of 25
Sorrento, Amalfi Coast/Positano, Paestum, Naples,
Pompeii/Herculaneum, Isle of Capri; AHI
MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT
Augusta National Golf Club
April 6–9 (Additional days optional) from
$3,599 plus air
Augusta, Ga.
VILLAGE LIFE IN DORDOGNE
April 28–May 6 $3,495 plus air
Bordeaux/Sarlat-la-Canéda, Rocamadour/
Souillac, Abri de Cap Blanc/Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-
Sireuil/Jardins d’Eyrignac, Lascaux II/Saint-Amand-
de-Coly, La Madeleine Troglodyte Village/Grotte
de Rouffignac, Beynac-et-Cazenac/Domme;
Thomas P. Gohagan & Company
SPAIN: BARCELONA & SAN SEBASTIAN
May 1–10 from $3,495 plus air *
Barcelona, Penedés, San Sebastian, Bilbao,
Pamplona; AHI
IRELAND: WESTPORT
May 17–25 from $2,995 plus air * Lima, Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Quito,
Shannon/Westport, Foxford/County Sligo,
Achill Island, Connemara, Cong/Galway; AHI
THE GREAT WAR: WORLD WAR I
May 20-27 $3,995 plus air
Paris, Ypres, Bruges, Arras, Verdun, Paris; Andante
CELTIC LANDS
May 31–June 9 from $5,895 plus air
Glasgow, Oban, Fort William, Mallaig, Kyle of
Lochalsh/Isle of Skye, Isle of Iona/Tobermory,
Isle of Mull, Holyhead/Caernarfon, Dublin,
Caen/Normandy Beaches, Honfleur, Paris;
Thomas P. Gohagan & Company
NORDIC MAGNIFICENCE
June 6–19 from $4,995 plus air
Bergen, Oslo, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Stockholm;
AHI
ITALIAN RIVIERA
June 11–19 from $2,995 plus air *
Florence/Sestri Levante, Santa Margherita Ligure/
Portofino, Lucca, Genoa/Camogli, Cinque Terre; AHI
MACHU PICCHU TO THE GALAPAGOS
A small group of 24 travelers
June 14–28 from $8,093
Galapagos; Odysseys
LONDON IMMERSION
June 18–29 from $3,995 plus air *
London, Oxford, Bath; AHI
CROATIA’S ADRIATIC COAST
June 27–July 8 from $4,295 plus air
Zagreb, Klanjec, Plitvice Lakes National Park/Trogir,
Split, Hvar, Dubrovnik; AHI
NATIONAL PARKS & LODGES OF
THE OLD WEST
July 27–Aug. 5 $3,995 plus air
Rapid City, Badlands National Park/Custer State
Park, Hot Springs, Spearfish Canyon, Ranch At
Ucross, Cody, Yellowstone National Park, Grand
Teton National Park, Jackson; Orbridge
COASTAL MAINE & NEW BRUNSWICK
Aug. 3–10 from $3,795 plus air *
Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park/Campobello
Island, St. Andrews By-the-Sea, St. Andrews; AHI
BORNEO
Aug. 4–19 from $6,695 plus air
Classic Escapes
MAJESTIC CANADIAN ROCKIES
Sept. 2–8 from $3,795 plus air
Calgary, Banff National Park, Lake Louise, Jasper,
Edmonton; Classic Escapes
WINE & FOOD IN THE GOLDEN STATE
Sept. 10–16 from $3,495 plus air
San Francisco, Nevada City/Lake Tahoe,
Napa Valley, Calistoga, Muir Woods/Sausalito;
Classic Escapes
COASTAL FRANCE
A small group of 28 travelers
Sept. 21–Oct. 2 from $4,595 plus air
Paris/Cabourg, Bayeux/Caen, Normandy Beaches,
Honfleur, Mont-Saint-Michel/Dinard, Dinan/Rance
Valley, Saint-Malo/Cancale, Rennes; AHI
CUBAN DISCOVERY
Oct. 15–23 $5,499 plus air
Havana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus,
Santa Clara; GoNext
Ocean & Lakes Cruises
PACIFIC DREAMS
Jan. 25–Feb. 4 from $3,999
Papeete, Moorea, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Nuku Hiva,
Rangiroa; GoNext/Oceana Cruises
VOYAGE TO ANTIQUITY
* April 21–29 from $3,995 plus air
Malaga, Cartagena, Cagliari, Agrigento,
Siracusa, Taormina, Capri, Amalfi, Sorrento;
Thomas P. Gohagan & Company
GLACIER SPLENDORS OF ALASKA
July 3–10 from $2,915 (includes open bar
and gratuities) plus air
Vancouver, Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Glacier
Bay, Hubbard Glacier, Anchorage/Whittier;
AHI/Crystal Cruises
THE MAGNIFICENT GREAT LAKES
Aug. 22–31 from $4,499 plus air
Montreal, St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario,
Niagara Falls/Welland Canal, Lake Erie, Detroit,
Windsor, Lake Huron, Little Current, Manitoulin
Island, Sault Ste. Marie, Lake Superior, Mackinac
Island, Lake Michigan, Chicago; GoNext
GRECIAN DELIGHTS
Oct. 1–9 from $2,899
Istanbul, Volos, Kusadasi/Ephesus, Patmos,
Rhodes, Santorini, Mykonos, Athens;
GoNext/Oceana Cruises
EUROPEAN EMPIRES OF ARTISTRY
Oct. 14–22 from $2,899
Barcelona, Minorca, Séte, Marseille/Provence,
Portofino, Monte Carlo, Florence/Pisa/Tuscany,
Rome; GoNext/Oceana Cruises
River Cruises
PASSAGE OF LEWIS & CLARK
May 7–15 from $3,995 plus air
Spokane, Clarkston, Tri Cities/Sacajawea State
Park, The Dalles, Stevenson, Astoria, Portland;
GoNext
RIVER LIFE ALONG THE ELBE RIVER
May 26–June 3 from $3,995 plus air
Prague, Bad Schandau, Saxon Switzerland,
Dresden, Meissen/Torgau, Leipzig/Wittenberg,
Potsdam, Berlin; Thomas P. Gohagan & Company
HOLIDAY MARKETS FEATURING PARIS
Dec. 6–17 from $2,995 plus air
Kehl, Strasbourg, Speyer/Worms, Koblenz,
Cochem, Bernkastel/Trier, Luxembourg, Paris; AHI
Land & Water
Combinations
EGYPT AND THE ETERNAL NILE
A small group of 24 travelers
Feb. 25–March 10 $4,297
Cairo, Abu Simbel/Lake Nasser cruise, Nile Cruise,
Luxor; Odysseys
CHINA AND THE YANGTZE RIVER
Oct. 10–24 from $4,995 plus air
Beijing, Xi’an, Chengdu, Chongqing/Yangtze River,
Shanghai; AHI
Study Tours
CLASSIC EUROPEAN GRADUATION TOUR
May 19–30 from $2,845 plus air
London, Paris, Rome; AESU
24TH ANNUAL PENN STATE CIVIL WAR
BATTLEFIELD STUDY TOUR
Fall 2016; dates, location,
and cost TBA
Featuring program leaders Terry Winschel ’77 and
Parker Hills
ICON KEY:
requires walking short distances
often on uneven sidewalks or
paths and transferring to ship
tenders in ports of call.
requires walking distances of at
least one mile on uneven or steep
terrain and steps; may involve
traveling in small boats, zodiac
rafts, or other vehicles.
requires a high level of physical
activity but that may be optional;
may involve traveling in small
boats, zodiac rafts, small planes, or
other vehicles.
* early booking discounts and
special offers may apply; call the
tour operator for details.
For more information
on your destination ...
Visit our website
alumni.psu.edu/travel
2016 Trip Calendar
WINGS OVER TANZANIA IRELAND: WESTPORT COASTAL MAINE & NEW BRUNSWICK
Jan. 18–29 May 17–25 Aug. 3–10
PACIFIC DREAMS CLASSIC EUROPEAN GRADUATION BORNEO
Jan. 25–Feb. 4 TOUR Aug. 4–19
May 19–30
COSTA RICA’S NATURAL HERITAGE THE MAGNIFICENT GREAT LAKES
Feb. 22–March 4 THE GREAT WAR: WORLD WAR I Aug. 22–31
May 20-27
EGYPT AND THE ETERNAL NILE MAJESTIC CANADIAN ROCKIES
Feb. 25–March 10 RIVER LIFE ALONG THE ELBE RIVER Sept. 2–8
May 26–June 3
ROME WITH THE SISTINE CHAPEL WINE & FOOD IN THE GOLDEN STATE
March 13–19 CELTIC LANDS Sept. 10–16
May 31–June 9
EXPLORING AUSTRALIA & COASTAL FRANCE
NEW ZEALAND NORDIC MAGNIFICENCE Sept. 21–Oct. 2
March 26–April 17 June 6–19
GRECIAN DELIGHTS
ITALY: SORRENTO ITALIAN RIVIERA Oct. 1–9
March 30–April 7 June 11–19
CHINA AND THE YANGTZE RIVER
MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT MACHU PICCHU TO THE GALAPAGOS Oct. 10–24
April 6–9 (additional days optional) June 14–28
EUROPEAN EMPIRES OF ARTISTRY
VOYAGE TO ANTIQUITY LONDON IMMERSION Oct. 14–22
April 21–29 June 18–29
CUBAN DISCOVERY
VILLAGE LIFE IN DORDOGNE CROATIA’S ADRIATIC COAST Oct. 15–23
April 28–May 6 June 27–July 8
HOLIDAY MARKETS FEATURING PARIS
SPAIN: BARCELONA & GLACIER SPLENDORS OF ALASKA Dec. 6–17
SAN SEBASTIAN July 3–10
May 1–10 24TH ANNUAL PENN STATE CIVIL WAR
NATIONAL PARKS & LODGES OF BATTLEFIELD STUDY TOUR
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 Penn
State SPORTS

ELIRAZ
KATZ
Three years ago, Eli Katz
got into weightlifting
looking for a challenge
and the chance to make
some like-minded friends.
In April, she became the
first Penn State woman to
win a national collegiate
powerlifting champion-
ship. For more on this
military vet, amateur
dancer, and future
pediatrician, search “Eli
Katz” at pennstatermag
.com. —RJ

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Penn State SPORTS

Fran Fisher, 1923-2015

For friends and fans alike, the Voice of Penn State Football was an
enduring and beloved presence. By RYAN JONES ’95 COM

“SOMEBODY ASKED ME the other
day, ‘Why do you go back so far with
the nostalgia business?’ I said, ‘It’s
because I go back so far!’”
That was Fran Fisher in 2008, a
decade after his second retirement,
in a segment from the short-lived
Penn State Athletics web series Foot-
ball Fridays with Fran. In its twin
senses of humor and history, the quote
summed up almost perfectly the man
who was, for half a century, the voice
of Nittany Lion football. Fisher, Penn
State’s longtime play-by-play man,
died May 13 in State College. He was 91.
Born in Salem, Ohio in 1923,
Fisher spent his childhood in west-
ern Pennsylvania, graduated from
Greensburg High School and spent
a year at Bethany College before
transferring to Penn State. But, as he
told his friend Lou Prato ’59 Com in
a wonderful oral history posted on the
College of Communications website,
Fisher was in State College for a mat-
ter of weeks—just long enough to play
saxophone in the Blue Band—before
he “decided I ought to help end the war
and joined the Navy.” That was 1942.
Nearly 20 years later, married with
two young sons, Fisher found him-
self back in Central Pennsylvania,
where he managed a radio station in
SPORTS QUOTE
“Most races I was the last one in the
1970
AN UNFORGETTABLE VOICE
In his eulogy, Jay Paterno said, “We all know
where we were when we heard Fran call the
big plays in the biggest games.”
Lewistown. It was there, in 1966, that
then-sports information director Jim
Tarman encouraged him to send in an
audition tape for a new position on
the Penn State football radio broad-
casts. Fisher got the job and started
his new gig that fall, a debut that
coincided with that of first-year head
coach Joe Paterno.
Over the next four decades, only
Paterno’s voice was more familiar
to Penn State football fans. Fisher
handled play-by-play duties from
1970–82 and returned to the booth
from 1994–99, providing legend-
ary calls for the Lions’ 1982 national
championship team and the unde-
feated ’94 squad. He hosted Paterno’s
groundbreaking TV Quarterbacks
show, worked as an assistant athletic
director and director of the Nittany
Lion Club, and provided voice-overs
for local TV and radio commercials.
He’s also credited with leading the
group that created the athletic depart-
ment’s iconic “chipmunk” lion head
logo.
The ubiquity of his voice in Happy
Valley was undeniable, but doesn’t
fully explain why Fisher was so be-
loved. That was reinforced after his
death, when Penn State beat writers
universally conveyed the feelings of so
many who knew him, words echoed
by Jay Paterno ’91 Lib, and by Bill
O’Brien and James Franklin, and
felt by generations of fans: Fisher
was kind and generous, sharp and
funny and self-deprecating, a natural
storyteller who made his audience feel
welcome whether they were listening
through radio speakers or right in
front of him.
A few years ago, I was lucky enough
to join Fisher, Prato, and Mike Poor-
man ’82 Com at one of their regular
State College lunch dates, to which
they’d always invite a guest. I’ve
known Poorman and Prato for years,

water, and it was a huge disadvantage. but I knew Fisher only by the radio,
and by a reputation that seemed too
I have to be determined to succeed— good to be true. Based on that hour
P E N N STAT E A RC H I V ES

of mediocre food, great stories, and

in swimming and in life.” almost constant laughter, and by ev-
—MIA PIETROPOLA, a Penn State Erie sophomore who is deaf. She was named erything I’ve heard about Fran Fisher
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference swimmer of the year after winning three before or since, I’m certain his reputa-
events at the AMCC championship meet. Source: Pittsburgh Magazine tion was deserved.

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 SPRING
SPORTS WRAP
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Led by senior All-American Aaron
Russell, the Nittany Lions earned their
17th straight EIVA championship, then
advanced to the NCAA semifinals be-
fore falling to No. 1 Lewis University.
Penn State finished the season 21-10.

LACROSSE
The Penn State women claimed the
inaugural Big Ten tournament title
and reached the NCAA quarterfinals.
Missy Doherty was named Big Ten
Coach of the Year and junior Emi
Smith earned Goaltender of the Year
honors for the Lions, who finished
16-5 overall. The men finished 5-9.

SOFTBALL
A Big Ten tournament loss to Michi-
gan ended the Lions’ season at 29-28,
their most wins since 2011. Junior Lexi
Knief led the team with a .417 average.
BASEBALL
Penn State finished 18-30. Senior
F RO M TO P : M A R K S E L D E R S / P E N N STAT E ST R AT E G I C CO M M U N I C AT I O N S ; CO U RT ESY P O RT L A N D T R A I L B L A Z E R S
MIXING IT UP
Ed Ruth ’14 Lib finished his Penn State career in March as the Nittany Lions’
first three-time NCAA wrestling champion. Turns out he was just getting
started. The top-ranked American at 86 kg and a favorite for the 2016 Olympics,
Ruth in May inked a multi-fight contract with Bellator MMA. He’s expected
to make his mixed-martial-arts debut late next year. —RJ

Aaron Novak hit .326 to lead the

Dually Honored
Lions, who posted season sweeps of
Rutgers and Pitt.

GOLF
Led by junior JD Dornes and his team-
best 72.38 average, the men finished
tied for third at Big Tens and 11th in
NCAA regional play. The women fin-
ished 12th at the Big Ten tournament.
TENNIS
Ranked No. 16 nationally early in
the season—the highest ranking in
program history—the men finished
15-15. The women finished 13-11 overall,
including a 9-4 mark in Big Ten play.
TRACK & FIELD
The men finished fifth and the women
seventh at the Big Ten outdoor cham-
pionships. At press time, eight Penn
State athletes had qualified for the
NCAA championships in Eugene, Ore.
Tim Frazier was still getting settled
in with his new Portland Trail Blaz-
ers teammates when the news
(and the hardware) arrived. In late
April, Frazier ’13 Bus, ’14 Lib was
named Most Valuable Player and
Rookie of the Year for the NBA
Development League. Frazier
spent most of the season with
the D-League’s Maine Red Claws,
where he averaged 16.1 points,
7.1 rebounds, and 9.5 assists per
game. He was twice called up to the big room. Blazers coach Terry Stotts
leagues, first by the Philadelphia 76ers made it clear that Frazier is in the team’s
and then by Portland, where he ended long-term plans. “This is not a playoff
the season—and where his new team- move; it’s a moving-forward move,” Stotts
mates gave him a standing ovation when told local reporters. “He’s the kind of guy
his trophies were delivered to the locker you want in your program.” —RJ

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Penn State SPORTS

WHAT A RUN
Brie Barto (with
the ball) and the
Lions clobbered
Central Wash-
ington en route
to the title.

Champs Again (and Again)

AT LEAST WE KNOW there’s no cover jinx. This spring, the
stars of our May/June issue more than justified our cover-
age en route to the triple crown of women’s college rugby.
The first title was the biggest, as the Lions dominated Cen-
tral Washington University, 61-7, to claim to the program’s
10th Division I national championship. Over the next three
weeks, Penn State also won titles in the USA and college
7s (a seven-on-seven variation of the game) tournaments,
giving the Lions an unprecedented collegiate rugby triple
crown. As sophomore Gabby Catorna told the Philadelphia
Inquirer, “We like to talk about ‘protect the legacy.’ These
past three weeks, we’ve made a completely new one.” —RJ

SINCE LAST TIME

FILLING THE CUP
Five Penn State alumni
were set to take the field
when the Women’s World
Cup kicked off in June.
Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher
’10 H&HD joined defender
and 2011 World Cup vet Ali
Krieger ’07 Com on the
U.S. roster; while midfielder
Carmelina Moscato ’06 Lib
and keeper Erin McLeod ’06
Com suited up for the host
Canadians. The freshest
face in the group: Raquel
Rodriguez of Costa Rica,
who earned all-Big Ten first
Year honors as a Penn State
junior last fall.
LAX FACTS
Nittany Lions are marking
their mark in Major League
Lacrosse. Through early
June, two-time MLL Goalie
of the Year Drew Adams
’09 Com was leading the
league in goals-against
average for the New York
Lizards, while teammate
Greg Gurenlian ’06 H&HD
led the league in face-off
percentage. Rookie Shane
Sturgis ’14 H&HD is also
Matt Mackrides ’12 Lib of
the Chesapeake Bayhawks
and Austin Kaut ’14 Bus of
the Boston Cannons round
out the league’s Penn State
presence.
THE CHOSEN ONES
A trio of Nittany Lions
heard their names called
during the 2015 NFL draft.
Tackle Donovan Smith ’14
Lib went to Tampa Bay in
the second round, followed
in the fifth round by safety
Adrian Amos ’14 H&HD,
who went to Chicago,
chosen by Pittsburgh.
HONORED TO FIGHT
More recognition for Leah
Still and her father Devon
’11 Lib: In July, they’ll be
honored with the Jimmy V
Perseverance Award at the
2015 ESPYs. Leah’s battle
with neuroblastoma has
inspired a wave of atten-
tion and fundraisers since
Devon, a defensive lineman
with the Cincinnati Bengals,
went public with his daugh-
ter’s fight last year. Leah,
now 5, continues treatment
K LC F OTOS

team and Midfielder of the on the Lizards roster, while and tight end Jesse James, for the rare cancer.

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075-+7516/
OCTOBER 9 AND 10, 2015
A LEGACY TO SHAPE THE FUTURE!

FRIDAY’S EVENTS
Student-Alumni Ice Cream Social
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Hintz Family Alumni Center

Homecoming Parade
6:00 p.m. Step Off

SATURDAY’S EVENTS
Huddle with the Faculty
“What is Graphic Medicine? How Comics are
Impacting Patients and Physicians”
8:30 a.m. breakfast, 9:00 a.m. lecture
The Nittany Lion Inn
Alumni Zone Homecoming Tailgate 2015
Immediately following the game until 6:30 p.m.
Indoor Multi-Sport Facility
(between the BJC and outdoor track)

Get more info on all of these events at

alumni.psu.edu/events
 BERKEEYRY
CRE AM
 the 1865–2015

ORIGINAL
THE YEAR 1865 was a time of national
T the Farmers’ High School in State College, Pa.,
unrest, with the Civil War drawing to a close, but
un just 10 years old, acquired a small herd of cows
the country was hopeful, and ready for change. and went into dairy farming. This is the story of
During that time, a tiny land-grant college called
Dur the Creamery’s first 150 years.

By AMY STRAUSS DOWNEY ’04 Lib Photography By NICK SLOFF ’92 A&A

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“ICE CREAM anniversary ice cream flavor for
the menu. (Fittingly, the public ul-
timately voted for Birthday Cake.)

CAN BE
The group takes turns to talk
about different projects across
campus: a big kickoff celebration

FRAGILE IN
scheduled to coincide with the arts
festival; a small exhibit of Cream-
ery artifacts at the library; brand-

ITS FLAVORS,”
new packaging for the cartons; a
glossy new website so ice cream
can easily be purchased online.
Palchak quietly listens to each of
says Tom Palchak ’80 Agr. Palchak, the longtime man- these updates, steadily keeping
ager of the Creamery, is talking about that fine line in one hand on a “Keep Calm and
food science—how things can change very quickly, y for Carryy On” coffee mug. “I think this
ienced
better or worse—something he’s certainly experienced is goin
going to be fantastic,” he eventu-
d-floor
in his 29-year career there. He’s sitting in a third-floor ally sa
says.
conference room in the Food Science Building on Thi is a day that Palchak, and
This
Curtin Road, home to the world-famous Berkey oth
others, could have only imag-
Creamery just downstairs, and it’s spring. Pal- in
ined. Despite its storied past
chak is at the head of the table speaking to a and impact on the industry
dozen university employees, with another two (see “Ice Cream U,” page
on speaker phone, a group brought together to 32), the Creamery was
plan the sesquicentennial celebration of a trea- struggling when Palchak ar-
sured Penn State tradition: The Creamery. The par- riv
rived in 1986. “It was losing
ticular agenda item he is addressing? Choosing a special mone
money, living off a reserve, and

Expert T
For quick tr ip
ip
nearby East s, the
Park
Deck has fr ing
short-term ee

PERFECT
parkin
for up to 30 g
the VISIT THE CREAMERY LIKE A PRO
minutes

ORDER 1 WAIT IN LINE*

During peak weekends—
when the line wraps out
toward Bigler Road and the
East Parking Deck—the wait
could take 45 minutes. But
the Creamery was designed
to move customers quickly:
It takes just a few minutes
on average.
2 KNOW BEFORE
YOU GO
Just inside, look for the day’s
menu on the stand or back
wall. The list includes two
dozen options of ice cream
and frozen yogurt.
3 ORDER
Head to the cashiers. Say
how many cones or dishes
you want. Pay. If you’re
getting a milkshake, tell the
cashier the flavor and move
toward the far station
marked “3.”
4 PICK A FLAVOR
Pick an ice cream flavor at
stations “1,” “2,” or “3.” (Can’t
decide? Ask to try.) You’ll
get two scoops to a
cone—no mixing allowed.
Purists forgo toppings, but
blue and white sprinkles are
available for a quarter.
5 EAT
The salesroom seats 100,
but, weather permitting,
opt for an outdoor table
for an al fresco experience.
* Just want a half-gallon
from the freezer? Grab it
and move to the two
cashiers on the far right.

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 FUN
from COWto F AC
“Donut,” ag T
e9,
Creamery’s is the

CONE
olde
milking cow st

OR, HOW CREAMERY ICE CREAM

IS MADE IN JUST 12 EASY STEPS

[1 ] A herd of 120 [2] Ingredients like

Holsteins is milked cream and sugar, plus
twice daily. Later, the powdered milk and a
milk is chilled, tested, small amount of
and stored in silos. stabilizer, are added.

[ 4 ] The homogenizer [ 3] The mixing tank heats the milk mixture

cools the fluids and breaks and kills off harmful bacteria.
down fat globules into
a smooth texture.

[5] A tank cools the mixture [6] Liquid flavorings

to 37 degrees and holds it (e.g., strawberry, mint)
there for 24 hours. are injected into the vats.

[9] Whole
ingredients like [8] In a long tube, [7] The mix is
fruit, nuts, and dashers (or blades) aerated and pumped
candy are constantly turn so through a processing
proce g
added. the mix thickens. freezer, where
here temps
drop to 21 degrees.

[10] Ice cream is

poured into a range [11] The hardening [12] Ice cream is then
hen
of containers from room—set at a cool 35 moved to a tempering
ring
Dixie cups to degrees below—rapidly room, where it becomes
omes
three-gallon tubs. freezes the product. soft enough to serve.
rve.

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 THE TOP

5
BUSIEST
WEEKENDS
there were conversations about how to close it,” he says. for ice cream and dairy products,”
LAST YEAR
His first order of business was securing a $3 million he says. “Because of that, we’ve
loan from the university to renovate and replace equip- turned from staff serving ice cream
ment in Borland Lab. “We tore it down to a base and to serving people.”
began to build it back up again,” he says. “With proper

P
attention to detail and rigorous milk procedures, we Arts Festival EOPLE WHO ARE WAIT-
July 11–13
turned it around.” It took a year or two, but the Cream- ing in line for ice cream—
20,468
ery started to make money again, and that seven-year transactions even ice cream that is
loan was repaid in three. Once the Creamery turned currently $3.50 per

T I M E L I N E SO U RC E : I C E C R E A M U , BY L E O N STO U T ’ 69, ’ 72 M A L I B ; B/ W H I STO R I C A L ( 3) , P E N N STAT E A RC H I V ES ;

that corner, it never looked back. cone—are generally already pretty
The biggest growth took place in the 1990s and early Football vs. happy. And friendly, too: “The
Northwestern
2000s. A restored relationship with Housing and Food Sept. 26–28 lines are part of the fun and ambi-
Services increased purchase orders. Meanwhile, dozens 9,100 ence,” says Brown. “That’s where
transactions
of new ice cream flavors were created, like WPSU Coffee customers meet customers.”
Break and Alumni Swirl. It was only a matter of time There’s seemingly always a line
before the operation outgrew Borland Lab, and in Au- at Berkey, the largest university

P RO D U C T S H OT S ( 3) B I L L Z I M M E R M A N ; B E R K E Y C R E A M E RY, G R E G G R I E CO
Blue-White
gust 2006 the Creamery left the 75-year-old building Weekend creamery in the nation, where
and moved into a new $22-million dollar facility. April 11–13 more than 700 milkshakes and
The new digs have been good for business—just last 8,591 2,700 cones are served daily.
transactions
year, the Creamery earned $7.5 million in wholesale and “That’s no easy task,” says Palchak.
retail sales. Its roster is around 23 full-time employees “People thought that when we
and 90 part-time students. One of those full-time em- Football vs. built the new store, the lines would
UMass
ployees is Jim Brown, who has spent the last decade Sept. 19–21
disappear.” In fact, when the Ber-
overseeing all of the retail sales, plus the training and 8,436 key Creamery was being designed,
transactions
development of employees. Brown remembers that the architect hired consultants to
transition into Berkey as a key turning point: “Now, figure out how to move customers
we’re talking 3,700 square feet. We can put more than a through quickly. They considered
couple people inside and more than a couple hundred Graduation every detail, from where the cus-
May 9–11
people outside. And, now, people don’t just come here tomers enter the building to the
7,301
transactions

one-story academic College iimprove dairy manufac-

creamery near Ferguson Creamery” tturing, specifically
1865–2015 Building, with cold-storage moves to ppasteurization. Frank
and cream-ripening rooms. Patterson KKnoll is named Creamery

ICE CREAM U
LOOKING BACK AT 150 YEARS
1892 Pennsylvania State
College offers four- and
d
Building, and
produces milk that’s
delivered to the town in
ssuperintendent and
continues in that role for
nearly 40 years.
eight-week dairy short horse-drawn carriages. The
OF CREAMERY HISTORY courses that include new building has modern 1920s Ice cream research
lessons on making ice equipment to study and thrives at the Creamery
1865 The school starts its Main—had just enough cream, making it under the direction of
dairy history with a few room for making cheese the first collegiate 18921892 Andrew Borland 1909 Agr,
cows and small dairy and butter. institution to offer Chester Dahle, and Francis
structure in the College such instruction. J. Doan ’19, ’28 MS Agr.
Barns. The building—be- 1889 The state appropri-
hind present-day Old ates $7,000 for a new, 1904 The “State 1932 The Creamery moves

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CELEBRITY sightings
SOME OF THE FAMOUS CREAMERY CUSTOMERS OVER THE YEARS
C E L E B R I T Y H E A DS H OT S : S H U T T E R STO C K
Bill Clinton
Bob Costas
Bill Cowher
Olympia Dukakis
Jeff Gordon
Franco Harris
Coretta Scott King
1932
down the road to the newly
constructed Dairy Building
(later named Borland Lab),
which is bigger and closer
to dairy barns. Through the
1940s and ’50s, a small fleet
of Penn State Creamery
trucks delivers milk locally.
1955 Dahle retires, but the
University Creamery—as it
is now called—adds
another expert to its staff:
Illustration by JOHN UELAND
location of napkin and spoon dis-
pensers. “The design will not elim-
inate the lines on the busiest of
days,” says Palchak. “But the lines
move very, very quickly. It works.”
Of course, ice cream is always
doled out faster when ordered
properly (see “The Perfect Order,”
page 30) or on a quiet weekend
(see “5 Busiest Weekends,” oppo-
site this page).
“It’s kind of like going to Disney
World and waiting in line to go
onto a ride that you know you
want to go on,” says Brown, adding
that you never know who may be
standing next to you. Shannon
Clymer Barrett ’10 H&HD, who
worked at the Creamery in both
high school and college, remem-
bers Joe Paterno visiting the store
a few times every year. “When he
walked in, everyone stopped what
Joe Pantoliano Todd Blackledge
Ed Rendell Travis “T-Bone” Turner they were doing. One time, he
Tom Ridge Joe Paterno walked up to the counter and or-
Fred Rogers Cast of
John Amaechi “Jesus Christ Superstar” dered his cone—he always ordered
Martha Stewart Cast of Peachy Paterno,” she says. “But this
Lynn Swann Cirque du Soleil
time, he leaned over and whis-
(continued on page 37)
Philip Keeney ’55 PhD 1975 Penn State’s Depart- Agr and a spacious salesroom,
Agr, who teaches the ment of Food Science is becomes the modern processing
short course for the created. sixth manager plant, and plenty of
next 30 years. With the rise in Creamery classroom and lab space.
of supermarkets and 1978 Ben Cohen and Jerry history. The Berkey Creamery is
improvements to home Greenfield take a $5 Penn named after Earl and
refrigerators and freezers, State correspondence 1987 “Peachy Paterno” Jeanne Berkey ’47 Agr, lead
ice-cream demand course on making ice cream debuts after the football donors to the project.
increases. The launching Ben &
before launch team’s second
Creamery, that year.
Jerry’s later th national champion-
offering 24 ship.
flavors, adds a 1986 Tom
salesroom Palchak ’80 2006 The Creamery
along Curtin Agr succeeds moves into the new
Road in 1961 Raymond $46-million Food
for walk-ins. Binkley ’55 Science building with
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SCOOP
AN EXPERT REVIEW OF THE CREAMERY’S
MOST BELOVED FLAVORS
By Phoebe Seiverling DiBello ’04 H&HD
VANILLA
The Creamery’s best-selling flavor
cuts no corners: It uses the gold
standard of pure vanilla extracts,
shipped in from Madagascar.
There’s also no aftertaste, and in
a good way—the sweetness
lingers on your tongue.
COOKIES N CREAM
This flavor tips the scale with its
Oreo add-ins—expect 12 percent
of its composition to be solely
cookie pieces—but they don’t
crowd out the taste of the ice
cream itself.
ALUMNI SWIRL
Candy-like Swiss mocha chips
add interesting texture and
crunch to a creamy blueberry-
swirled vanilla ice cream.
PEACHY PATERNO
Take your time with Peachy
Paterno: The subtle peach flavor
is followed by a delayed nec-
tarine aftertaste. The mouthfeel
includes still-soft peach slices,
and there’s a high—but
pleasant—aroma thanks to its
peach schnapps liqueur.
CHOCOLATE CHIP
COOKIE DOUGH
The infusion of a liquid
cookie-dough flavoring gets you
prepared for the gobs of classic
cookie dough pieces and Wilbur
chocolate chips.
STRAWBERRY
There are few surprises in this
sweet, summery flavor—straw-
berry puree, strawberry sauce,
and strawberry hunks.
14.1
RUSS “DIGS”
percent
nten t
butterfat co y Phoebe Seiverling DiBello ’04 H&HD studied hotel and
in Creamer
ice cream restaurant management at Penn State and graduated
from the Culinary Institute of America in 2005. She
works as a corporate executive chef in Pittsburgh.
34 T H E P E N N S TAT E R
RUSS “DIGS” ROSEBERRY
A complex recipe with strong
fruit flavors: Three different berry
sauces and whole strawberries are
balanced by the vanilla ice cream
and flecks of pure Wilbur dark
chocolate.
BITTERSWEET MINT
A Creamery original. This
70-year-old recipe—which
influenced the mint chocolate
chip flavor worldwide—features
real crème de menthe, mint-
flavored ice cream, and Wilbur
bittersweet chocolate chunks
that carry a velvety release.
BUTTER PECAN
After the butter-almond-flavored
ice cream has melted, large
pecans from southern Georgia—
buttered, roasted, and salted—
add a whole new dimension to
the sweet-meets-saltiness. (A
Creamery staff favorite.)
PEANUT BUTTER SWIRL
The salty peanut butter sauce
from North Carolina holds up
nicely—both literally and
figuratively—to the Creamery’s
vanilla ice cream.
DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
Chocolate flakes, fudge, and swirl
create a thick texture with
explosive cocoa flavor.
KEENEY BEANY
CHOCOLATE
Real vanilla beans from
Madagascar and cocoa beans
from Africa make this the
Creamery’s most expensive ice
cream. The chocolate ice cream
is very dense, which makes for
a slower (and lovely) melt. And
the dark chocolate chips are
pronounced, which makes for
a lasting finish.
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 FROM TOP LEFT Alumni Swirl, Strawberry, Cookies N Cream, Death by Chocolate,
Keeney Beany Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Bittersweet Mint, Vanilla,
Butter Pecan, Peachy Paterno, Russ “Digs” Roseberry, Peanut Butter Swirl
P H OTO C R E D I T S H E R E

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 100% pure
orange juice

Salsa dip
with bell peppers,
onion, and garlic Chocolate
Milk

Boysenberry
the

GOODS
low-fat yogurt

Medium
cheddar cheese
Ice cream may be the crown jewel
of the Creamery, but about 200 other
food and beverage items are
manufactured in the Food Science building.
Here’s a sample of some of the
other favorite products served daily.

Green tea with

ginseng and honey 550,000
gallons
of milk
Vitamin A & D milk

are produced
annually

Cream cheese
with strawberries

Ricotta
cheese
Cheddar cheese
with dill
 ANNUAL
POUNDS
OF RAW
INGREDIENTS
USED IN
CREAMERY
(continued from page 33) ICE CREAM
pered to me, ‘Don’t tell anyone, but my favorite flavor is who developed and led the short
actually strawberry.’ Then he started to laugh.” course for 30 years. Keeney is one

M
of two professors for whom a
OST CUSTOMERS HAVE ONLY VISITED Creamery flavor is named; People
the store. In fact, when I went to inter- magazine once called him the
Peaches
view Palchak, I realized I had walked “Emperor of Ice Cream.” Today, the
16,000
right by his office—just off the store- short course is more popular than
front—many times without noticing. He introduces me ever—there’s already a waitlist of
to a woman wearing a white lab coat and bouffant cap; 60 people for the class next year.
Palchak explains that she is from a major Strawberries It was Penn State’s correspon-
12,000
150
beverage corporation and is using the dence course in making ice cream,
quality-control lab on premises to test a which cost just $5, that gave Ben
flavors of fr
oz
new product. I ask her what she’s work- desserts lik en Cohen and Jerry Greenfield the
e ice
cream and
ing on, but she’s hesitant to say. “Use sh erbe
are served t Wilbur acumen to launch Ben & Jerry’s in
whatever you need,” Palchak tells her as Chocolate 1978. Greenfield couldn’t speak
we leave to find another room to conduct 8,000 highly enough about the experi-
the interview. ence and had this to say at a Penn
There are spaces like these that, behind the scenes, State Altoona lecture back in
are as much a part of the Creamery as a Bittersweet Cocoa 2009: “The Penn State Creamery
Powder
Mint cone. Another example is Berkey’s production fa- 8,000 ice cream is legendary and deserv-
cility that receives tanks of milk daily from 10 p.m. to edly so. Our ice cream isn’t really
midnight—about 5 million pounds of milk annually. classic ice cream. Creamery ice
“We do most of our production when people are sleep- cream is.”
ing,” says Brown. “Things are so integrated and complex Chocolate During my interview with Pal-
Chip Cookie
that you need dedicated guys who are willing to get up Dough chak, a line forms in the store and
Pieces
there early in the morning and late at night to produce extends out the front door. It’s the
7,436
the milk.” Friday of graduation weekend and
Since its early days, the Creamery believed in building the temperature reaches the 80s
the dairy industry—not competing with it—and it still by noon, but, surprisingly, this
firmly practices the values of a public university. In that Peanut isn’t a line for the cones. Instead,
spirit, the Creamery readily shares its famous formula Butter it’s a line for half-gallons—cus-
for ice cream online. And for more than 120 years, Penn 7,290 tomers mostly made up of recent
State has hosted an ice cream short course every Janu- grads, just waiting—and want-
ary, when 100-some students fly in from all over the ing
ing—toto take a taste of the Cream-
Cream
world to spend a week learning about the latest tech- ery home. “More than the
niques and technologies in the commercial ice cream ice cream, this is a place
industry. The course, believed to be the oldest continu- to enjoy Penn State,”
ing education course in the coun- says Brown. “Peo-
try, has been attended by reps ple bring people
from Baskin-Robbins, Breyers, to the Creamery
Haagen-Dazs, and Hershey’s. Re- to show them
search and teaching are the hall- Penn State.”
marks of many involved in the
Food Science department, but
particularly Phil Keeney PhD ’55
Agr, an expert in cocoa chemistry,

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Q
A

TRENDING UP
Looking back on his first
year in office, Eric Barron
talks about navigating
a wide array of challenges,
and about the numbers,
trends, and (especially)
the people that have him
“extremely optimistic”
about Penn State’s future.
INTERVIEW BY RYAN JONES ’95 COM
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHELLE BIXBY

38 T H E P E N N S TAT E R J u l y /A u g u s t 2 0 1 5
 SETTLING IN
Barron’s schedule—and focus on
constant improvement—leave
little time for sitting around.
 HOW DOES ONE MAN MAKE TIME FOR EVERYTHING?
It helps, Eric Barron says, to “live in 15- and 30-minute incre- PS That was a smart answer.
ments.” In May, in a wide-ranging conversation in his Old BARRON And they were all there.
And it wasn’t class time. I listened
Main office, Barron’s knack for compartmentalizing was on to the pitches, and I said, “Oh, that
full display. Looking back on his first year as Penn State’s 18th one’s not going to work. That one is
definitely going to work. That one …
president, Barron spoke about progress on the six topics he
I never would have thought of that,
prioritized upon arriving last spring, highlighted the many but that might just work.” I went to
measures of the university’s health, and addressed lingering rifts IST Startup Week, and I gave out
the awards and listened to the group
in the Penn State community. If there was a theme, it was his projects that are being funded for the
faith in and passion for the students whose success, he says, is summer. And I will tell you, there’s
his top priority. Ultimately, he says, “That’s what we’re paid for.” nothing more fun than listening to
all those bright ideas coming out of
students. So I felt really encouraged
that this is something whose time has
come for Penn State.
PENN STATER You outlined six we keep our place? And the excellence
imperatives upon returning to topic—that’s the sixth one—we expect PS Is your impression that students
campus. What’s their status? to come out in the [next] strategic were waiting for someone to say,
ERIC BARRON Of the six, two have plan. All of the units are saying, “This “Hey, what ideas do you have?”
gone through the entire process and is what it will take for me to become BARRON The energy is there. The
launched. Two have gone through a even better, my college to become attitude is there. If anything, we’re
process of defining the problem, but better, my campus to become better.” a little slow to catching up to it.
the actions are yet to be defined. And This is a new part of America, and
two haven’t gone through the process PS A key facet of the economic the globe. We’re looking at how we
at all—and I think for good reason. development, job creation, and incentivize and support and promote
The ones that have gone all the way career success initiative is the partnerships with the community.
through are access and affordability, university’s role in promoting Second, we’re looking at how we
and economic development, job student entrepreneurism. What create visibility for our intellectual
creation, and student career success. feedback have you gotten on that? property. Third, how do you build an
With those two, a whole series of BARRON It is just overwhelmingly entrepreneurial ecosystem around the
initiatives has been launched, and I positive. I have to say, I have student campus? Fourth, how do you enable
feel really good about them. Diversity after student who wants to pitch their students to be successful? So it’s four
and demographics has had the idea to me. We’re just trying to define pieces, and about 12 items, and an
problem stated, and where we stand it, and the students are saying, “I want investment right off the bat of about
and how we’re doing; and student you to hear what it is we’re doing.” I $30 million. That’ll make a dent.
engagement has had that same had one class that sent a note, “Would
process and is a little farther along. you come listen to about 12 pitches?” PS Do you have a firm sense of what
Technology and curriculum delivery, And Carmella [Mulroy-Degenhart, the payoff might look like?
I kept for last, partly because we his administrative assistant] was BARRON I have several thoughts.
have the No. 1 baccalaureate online kind enough to say, “How much time One, do the licenses that come out
program in the world. So it doesn’t do you need?” “Well, two hours.” of the university, the path from
sound like I’m in a rush to figure that Carmella wrote back and said, “Really, patent to license, or to company,
one out. And we decided that with nobody gets two hours.” They wrote does that start to grow? That’s
that one, we want to take a long-range back: “The class agrees that it doesn’t important, and I expect it will. Do
view. Ten years from now, if we have matter what time of day or night. If we have any bottlenecks that are
45,000 online students, what does Dr. Barron can be there, the students slowing this down? Have we created
that mean for the university? How do will all be there.” a bottleneck that we haven’t thought

“The thing that got me right off the bat is that

Penn State has a hungry feel about it.”
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AROUND THE WORLD
From the growing number of international
students to Penn State’s place in global
higher-ed rankings, Barron thinks big.
about? I also want to have a sense
of how many of those startups end
up in Pennsylvania. Now, I tell every
student, I don’t care where you go
to be successful, I just want you to
be successful. But wouldn’t it be
nice if it was State College or Erie or
Pittsburgh or Wilkes-Barre? A lot
of this effort to build an ecosystem
around our campuses is designed so
people go, “Wow, I don’t have to go
to Silicon Valley to start something.
I can do it much more cheaply here,
and more effectively. And I get to stay
at home.” I’d love it to be that way.
PS You’ve talked about how
different Penn State is from the
university you left in 2006. Which
differences really stand out?
BARRON The thing that got me right
off the bat is that Penn State has a
hungry feel about it. It was there
before, but it’s even stronger now. And
it just hit me in the face. Maybe that’s
because I was at different places,
as opposed to spending 20 years
here and watching the university
evolve. But there’s this hungry
attitude. There’s less of an attitude of
entitlement than a lot of institutions.
I was surprised at the degree to which
college after college is stronger than
what they were when I was here.
PS I’m compelled to ask about the
lingering fallout from the Sandusky
scandal. There remain aspects—the
validity of the Freeh Report, Joe
Paterno’s legacy, the status of the
statue—that a lot of alumni are
passionate about.
BARRON You can have two individuals
who love this institution deeply but
see different paths forward. And these
are all alumni. That passion is deep,
and it’s strong.
Yet, in any quantifiable metric, the
institution is remarkable. A record
number of student applications—last
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Q
year, 126,500. This year, we will beat
131,000. The selectivity is going
up, the quality is going up. We’re
ranked No. 1 in career services. Every
company in the world wants to come
to Penn State to recruit. We had over
1,500 companies this year that came
and interviewed over 9,000 students.
That’s the envy of many, many
institutions. You’ve got a faculty that
is generating $800 million in research
funding four years in a row, and our
grants and contracts are up 18.5
percent. Look at the STEM funding
that drives the economy of the nation.
Penn State is in the top 10 of funding
in 12 different disciplines. That makes
us second in the nation in the number
of top-10 fields we have, tied with
MIT. And MIT’s a pretty good school.
Moody’s comes in and says, “Great
rating, positive outlook.” Higher
education in this country’s not getting
the positive outlook, but they’re citing
our governance and liquidity and
strong students, 176,000 alumni who
gave to a capital campaign. They’re
going through this list of reasons
why this is a good place to invest. In
comes Middle States [Commission
on Higher Education, the higher-ed
accreditation association] and they
say, “We expected, after everything we
read, that this would be a wounded
university.” And we’re going out the
door with 14 commendations, where
you’re above and beyond anybody’s
expectations. They said, “We don’t
give 14 commendations.”
OK, so here’s the ancillary part:
Nobody gets to see Penn State. They
get to see Sandusky. They get to see
conflict over the future, and how
we handle the past. And yet here is
this institution that’s just thriving.
Even the number of need-based
students and first-in-family students
is growing, despite our high tuition,
because they see the outcome of a
great degree. So the thing I didn’t
think about being as big a problem
as it is, is how to get people to realize
the number of compliments this
institution deserves. I could do a long
interview, and the headline will be
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a 10-word sentence that they think
will catch people’s attention. And
it doesn’t have anything to do with
being tied with MIT.
PS A newspaper surveyed 2015
graduates, and the impression was
that while they appreciate Paterno’s
legacy, the statue means little to
most of them. That seems likely to
be more and more true for ensuing
classes. In that way, does time
essentially resolve this issue?
BARRON Everybody’s view of
this institution is based on their
experience. So, 14,000 people
graduated last week, with an
experience for which they’ll always
love this institution. And somebody
else had a different experience, and
they feel a sense of loss. I was here for
20 years. I felt a sense of loss, OK?
But I don’t think time is the answer
for everybody. Closure is—getting
some of these things that are still
hanging out there, that we don’t know
what their outcomes will be. For a
lot of students, certainly for a lot of
faculty, they’re focused on the future.
And we need to make sure we do our
job and keep focusing on teaching
and research and service and enabling
those students to be successful.
PS In line with that: You mentioned
the importance of STEM fields,
where Penn State is traditionally
very strong. How well positioned
is the university for continued
leadership in those areas?
BARRON Well, you need good leaders.
Second, you need philanthropy, and
if you don’t have it, you don’t have
the cream. You cannot operate at the
highest ends of the higher education
spectrum on tuition [alone]. And the
third thing is the environment that
we provide that helps people thrive.
You can track the greatest successes of
this institution to those three things.
Those are the things you have to pay
attention to, when you hire leadership
in a college or campus, that there
are people that care, and that you
can convince people to give you the
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“Nobody gets to see Penn State.
They get to see Sandusky.
They get to see conflict over
the future, and how we handle
the past. And yet here is this
institution that’s just thriving.”
funds to do things that you would
never be able to do otherwise. And
we have an obligation to make sure
our faculty and our students are in an
environment where they can thrive.
So I’m extremely optimistic. I think
we’re improving. And I’ll tell you, if
we add this entrepreneurial, economic
development piece, it’ll pay back this
institution for many decades to come.
PS Given your own background and
the depth of faculty expertise here,
climate research is another area
of strength. How do you view Penn
State’s role on both the research
and advocacy sides of that issue?
BARRON Well, No. 1, what we need
is good research in these areas, and
more of it. People marvel at a college
that both supports the coal industry
and talks about the effects of carbon
dioxide from burning fossil fuels. To
me, that’s a good environment to be
in. That’s the opportunity to balance a
whole group of issues: environmental
security, national security, economic
security. If you look at that from one
viewpoint, I doubt you’ll capture
the future and how a nation or a
world evolves. Individual faculty can
advocate if they want. The institution
should be advocating for the research
and the knowledge to help society
make good decisions.
PS There’s a sense in some circles
that the liberal arts is under attack,
because it’s seen as impractical.
What role do you see for liberal arts
education here in the 21st century?
BARRON I love the liberal arts, so I
don’t look at that question perhaps
the same way as others. What’s the
first thing an employer looks for?
Someone who can think critically
and communicate well. If I took
the executives in the Fortune 500,
my bet is an enormous number of
them have liberal arts degrees. You
want a student who’s passionate
about a particular topic, and taught
by passionate people. And if they’re
good, they’ll be successful. So I
don’t want to give up that part. On
the other hand, we came out of a
recession. And people say, “I want
to see a job at the other end of that.
And we went through a period where
you didn’t have jobs. You weren’t
teaching the right thing.” Now, as jobs
become more plentiful, you watch the
unemployment rate drop, so perhaps
you relax that discussion a bit.
But I could watch to see what
happens to the history major who
doesn’t become a historian. Is there
some way I can facilitate how they
got to point B from point A? For
example, would they benefit from
a business minor? Would they
benefit from something else that
they needed because we see the path
they’re taking into the job market?
We can consciously think about the
outcomes of our degrees, and how
we might facilitate that and be more
successful. Small liberal arts colleges
do that, because they’re trying to
justify themselves: “Here is what
happens to every single degree we
have.” That’s a defensive posture in
some ways. I’d rather take the offense,
because I know these students are
getting good jobs, and I know they’re
being recruited. But what can I do to

advantage them even further? That’s
the way I like to think about this.
PS Penn State is among the
country’s most popular universities
for international students. How
do you balance that growing
international presence with the
university’s mandate as a state-
affiliated land-grant institution?
BARRON The university is richer and
stronger by having you interact with
people from all over the country and
the world. So you have to cherish that
diversity. And truth be told, they’re
subsidizing the in-state students in a
big way. So how do I say no to that?
It’s also harder for them to get in;
therefore the quality of those out-
of-state and international students
is very high. Raising the bar for the
institution is not a bad thing, either.
PS Related, for demographic
reasons, there have long been
questions about the viability of
some Penn State campuses. How
do you assess that?
BARRON I really like the campuses.
They’re an access card to an education
in the top 1 percent of the world,
at $8,000 less per student. Forty
percent of the students coming into
the commonwealth campuses are the
first in their family to go to college.
They might not make it to University
Park. The commonwealth campuses
give them that opportunity. That,
in my mind, is incredibly valuable.
That keeps you as a true public.
The second thing that’s incredibly
important is they’re embedded in
their communities. Now, some might
say, “That campus has not enough
students.” Do we give up? If you’re
consciously thinking about your
enrollment, you get to mitigate a lot
of that. Our campuses are doing OK.
And our overall enrollment numbers
are doing OK. We’ve got some that are
under a little bit more stress, but I’m
willing to bet that in seven or eight
years, it’ll be the opposite. So, do I
want to make my decisions on the
roller coaster of the economy and the
development of particular regions?
Or do I want to have an investment
in quality and an opportunity for
students to get access to a world-class
education? I’m choosing the latter.
PS In December, you were on the
Old Main steps with students
during a “hands up, don’t shoot”
protest, similar to those happening
across the country. You’ve spoken
of that being a conscious decision,
to show students they were being
heard and supported.
BARRON I knew I had to go down
there. They were so thoughtful, so
calm, and so patient. And it was
so important to them. The media
wanted to represent it as “you support
the police or you don’t.” It was
really about whether students feel
vulnerable because they’re different.
A broad segment of this university
said, “Am I more vulnerable because
of what I believe or what I look
like?” That sense of vulnerability is
an awful feeling. A lot of positive
action came out of it. I met with
the president of the Pennsylvania
State Troopers Association, and his
officers feel vulnerable when they go
into different environments. They
understand how vulnerable our
students can be.
I’ve had many groups in my office:
fossil fuel agreements to sweatshops
to everything else. I do think this is
part of my job—to make sure that I’m
listening to students and what they’re
thinking about. I may not always
agree. I’m still going to listen.
PS On another national issue, there
have been recent incidents that
brought added scrutiny to the
Greek system. Do you see a
productive future here for Greeks?
BARRON I do. A lot of great things
have come out of the Greek system—a
lot of great people, and a lot of
leaders. So, how do I make the good
stand out, and how do I get rid of
the things that we’re not particularly
proud of? We’re also in a world where
we’re very conscious of controversy.
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Q
And that’s what gets the press. We’re
talking about 5 percent of fraternities
creating a big news story. I’m a
little worried that in any student
population, there’s a 5 percent.
PS You’ve kept a pretty high profile
since coming back, including a lot
of engagement with students. Is
that something you enjoy?
BARRON The students make you feel
younger. They give you a lot of energy,
and they’re why we’re here. If I have
a rough day, I’ll pick a student event
to go to—I don’t care what it is—and
I’ll leave in a better mood. We’re being
rather deliberate about looking for
opportunities to have that interaction.
Molly [his wife] even said to me,
“I’ve invited the Blue Band over for a
picnic.” I said, “I think there are 450
of them.” And she said, “I know.” And
it was like, OK, I’m clearly not going
to argue with her about this.
PS Molly’s often with you at events,
and she always seems to be having a
blast. Can you give a sense of what
that means to have her as a partner
and sounding board?
BARRON She’s a very intuitive person.
We’ll be at a breakfast with someone
we’ve only known five minutes,
and she invites them to spend the
weekend. I’ll look at her and go, Mol!
But she saw something that she thinks
these people will be interesting to
get to know. She’s never been wrong.
It always works, and these folks
become our friends. You develop deep
friendships with all these wonderful
Penn Staters. And she thinks about
people that way. She gives a lot of
hugs. There is a sense of family about
Penn State, and it’s a very powerful
network, a very powerful sense that
you’re from Penn State and this
means something. She has that, and
it comes very, very naturally. So, given
the responsibility that I have, given
the degree to which sometimes I have
to be very firm, to have a partner
who’s warm and friendly and thinking
about people as people, that’s a pretty
nice combination.
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 When she was 9,
Neha Gupta felt a
calling to help kids
who lacked all the
things she took for
granted. A decade
later, this Penn State
freshman leads
an international
charitable network.
And she’s just
getting started.

the unrelenting

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 A RARE HONOR
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
presented Gupta with the
International Children’s
Peace Prize.

HEN HE WAS A BOY GROWING UP IN

Yamuna Nagar, India, Vikas Gupta was encouraged by his parents to take
part in an altruistic family tradition. Before celebrating any occasion—a
birthday, an anniversary—Vikas and his siblings would first go to a nearby
orphanage to volunteer. “For me, it was a chore,” Vikas admits. “I was doing
it because my father told me to do it. It never really caught on with me.”

Instead, years later, it caught on with his daughter. Born
in New Zealand, where her father worked for a time, Neha
Gupta moved with her family to Philadelphia when she
was 3. From an early age, she cherished the trips to see
lacked—parents, sufficient food and clothing, access to
education—and it was enough to drive Gupta to act. She
started by gathering all the toys she’d grown out of, then
talked her friends next door into doing the same. “They were
P H OTO CO U RT E SY O F T H E K I DS R I G H T S F O U N DAT I O N

her grandparents and extended family in northern India,
trips that regularly included stops at the orphanage. “I got
to play with other kids my age, and I got to see how excited
they were when we’d bring them food,” she says. “It just made
me so happy.”
It wasn’t until the ripe old age of 9 that she realized she
could provide these children with more than an occasional
playmate. “It was about putting myself in their shoes, seeing
beyond myself,” she says now. “I couldn’t compare the big
differences in our lives, but comparing the small things, that
just made it click for me.”
What clicked was an understanding of what these children
my age, and they were triplets,” Gupta says, “so they had a lot
of toys.” The ensuing yard sale at her home in Yardley, Pa.,
raised about $700, and on her next trip to India, Gupta used
the cash to buy books, food, sweaters, and blankets for the
kids at Bal Kunj orphanage.
She still remembers how it felt, the faces and hugs of
the kids whose lives she brightened, and for Gupta, it was
suddenly very simple: “I was hooked.”
A decade later, in the spring of her freshman year of
college, Neha Gupta sits in the recently renovated HUB-
Robeson Center telling the origin story of Empower
Orphans. The precocious girl is a young woman now, and the

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organization she founded as an ambitious pre-adolescent
is now an internationally recognized nonprofit, with nearly
$2 million raised to help thousands of orphaned and under-
privileged children on two continents. That Empower
Orphans exists at all is impressive. That it has grown,
expanded, and thrives belies the challenges Gupta has
quietly overcome along the way.
At the HUB on this warm April afternoon, Gupta is a few
weeks away from wrapping up a freshman year that stalled
before it ever really got started. Last September, barely
a month into the fall semester, she suffered a concussion;
the injury was serious enough that she returned home
and completed just 4 credits last fall (an English class and
pre-med seminar), then took just 6 credits in the spring.
A Schreyer Honors College enrollee with plans to go into
medicine, Gupta was frustrated by the academic false start,
but didn’t dwell on it. “I like to take everything as a positive
experience,” she says. “I think this was actually a blessing,
because I got to focus on Empower Orphans.”
For nearly a decade, from the time of that first yard
sale, her focus on the organization she founded has rarely
wavered. Gupta’s initial donation back in 2005 brought a
wave of attention in India, where she says “people tend to
overlook the poverty, because they’re immune to it—it’s such
a common thing.” Local newspaper headlines seized on the
novelty of a 9-year-old American girl practicing hands-on
charity on the other side of the world. Reactions varied.
“Some people were like, ‘We want to get involved, we want to
help,’” she says. “Some people didn’t take me seriously at all.”
GROWING ALL THE TIME
Since starting Empower Orphans at
age 9 with gifts to an orphanage near
her grandparents’ home in northern
India (above), Gupta has helped fund
projects at Indian schools and orphan-
ages: water wells, libraries, and sewing
and computer centers. She has since
expanded Empower Orphans’ work
to schools, hospitals, and community
centers in Pennsylvania.
She welcomed those who wanted to help and did her best
to ignore the rest, concentrating solely on the opportunities
to do more. When she realized that there were children
outside of India’s orphanages who also needed help, she
expanded the program’s reach, funding a sewing center that
provided equipment and instruction for girls and young
women at one school, a science lab or a new roof at others.
She continued to generate most of the funds herself, making
and selling crafts, hitting up neighbors for donations. As she
approached adolescence, her efforts drew more attention,
and corporate donors took notice. Others did, too.
“Middle school was difficult, because a lot of kids would
really look down on it,” she says. “One day, a company came
in and presented a huge check in front of the whole school,
and everybody was like, ‘Well, who does this girl think she
is?’ I never wanted publicity, and I learned over the years
that it was worth it to help get money for the kids. But when
I was 12 years old, that was a hard thing to know.”
Her parents remember the blowback, and note that
it didn’t only come from fellow students. “She would
participate in craft fairs, and adults would come up to her
and say, ‘Why are you doing that, raising money for people
on the other side of the world? Charity begins at home,’”
her father says. “No one was really willing to listen to her.”
Vikas Gupta says he and his wife, Amruta, made a conscious
decision not to intervene, telling their daughter that she’d
have to learn to stand up for and explain herself. She did
more than that, contacting schools in low-income areas
around Philadelphia; one principal got back to her and
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encouraged her to visit, and not long after, Gupta set up a
library at the school. Today, schools, family shelters, and
even a diaper bank in southeast Pennsylvania benefit from
Empower Orphans’ support.
The response from her own peers and teachers improved
in high school, a level of support and acceptance that inspired
Gupta, and also helped influence her college choice. “The
philanthropy and community service aspect at Penn State
was a big part of my decision,” she says. “The idea behind
THON, of students getting together to make a powerful
impact, is very moving to me. That’s something I strive to do
with Empower Orphans—youth helping other youth.”
Nichola Gutgold ’99 PhD Lib, associate dean for aca-
demic affairs in the Schreyer Honors College, met Gupta
last year when Gupta’s parents hosted an “accepted student”
night for incoming Schreyer scholars. She remembers it
well. “As soon as I said hello to her, I could feel a presence
about her. She’s an extremely poised and focused and goal-
oriented young woman,” Gutgold says. “We look for students
who are going to change the world in a positive way, and
Neha embodies that mission.”
Gupta’s time at Penn State has coincided with a boom in
attention for Empower Orphans. In November, she traveled
to the Netherlands to accept the International Children’s
Peace Prize, awarded annually by the Amsterdam-based
KidsRights organization to a child for their dedication to
children’s rights. (The 2013 winner was Malala Yousafzai,
the Pakistani teenager, education advocate, and Nobel
winner who survived a Taliban assassination attempt in
2012.) For Gupta, the award—presented at the ceremony by
South African civil rights leader Desmond Tutu—meant an
immediately heightened profile for Empower Orphans,

SERVICE AND SCHOLARSHIP

Among the three pillars of the Schreyer Honors College’s official mission is the goal of “creating opportunities for
leadership and civic engagement.” Because of that, says college relations coordinator Beth Kocher Gormley ’01
A&A, “most Scholars are involved in philanthropy or volunteer work—both before, during, and after their time at the
college.” Here, a sampling of Schreyer grads and students making a difference, in Happy Valley and abroad. —RJ

VALERIE HANDUNGE
Helping girls and young
women in Sri Lanka.
In a blog post last year an-
nouncing the creation of the
Malini Foundation, Handunge
’05 Lib, ’05 MA Com wrote,
“I’m a management consul-
tant—or at least I used to be
until three months ago.” It
was late 2013 when Handunge
left a successfull career as
a consultant at Deloitte to
start the Malini Foundation,
a nonprofit dedicated to
“advancing the interests of
girls and women in Sri Lanka
to help them unleash their
potential and transform their
lives through education and
empowerment.” A native
of Sri Lanka, Handunge says
the limitations faced by girls
and young women in her
homeland inspired her career
switch. Malini Foundation
projects include a home for
gifted orphans, classes in
English language and com-
puter skills, and a network
to link various grassroots
women’s organizations across
the country.
RHODA MOISE
Getting a jump on a career
in health education.
It’s hard to pick which aspect
of Moise’s college career is
most impressive. A Schreyer
senior majoring in biobehav-
ioral health, she’s enrolled
in the prestigious McNair
Scholars Program, a step on
her path toward a Ph.D. in
public health. Her honors
thesis is focused on diabetes
comprehension, manage-
ment, and prevention among
diabetics in Haiti, and she
spent last summer on a study
abroad program working with
diabetics in Senegal. Moise
also serves as a campus coun-
selor for HealthWorks, the
peer education and outreach
arm of University Health
Services, with leadership
roles in HIV and alcohol
counseling.
ERIC SAUDER and
SPUD MARSHALL
Partners, innovators, and
“changemakers.”
Sauder ’08, ’10 MS Eng and
Marshall ’08 Eng overlapped
as undergrads, and again dur-
ing their time at Penn State’s
Center for Sustainability. In
August 2010, they partnered
to open New Leaf Initiative, a
nonprofit collaboration space
in downtown State College.
New Leaf, which Marshall
dubbed “the central innova-
tion hub to bridge town and
gown,” was designed to host
meetings of local entrepre-
neurs, community organizers,
and student groups, and also
help attract and keep tal-
ented young alumni in town
after graduation. Sauder is
still there, serving as a direc-
tor and “incubator,” while
Marshall has moved on to a
new project: the co.space,
a residence designed to
literally bring entrepreneurial-
minded undergraduates
together under one roof.
The flagship home is in State
College, and Marshall hopes
to expand co.space to sites
around the globe.
ELEANOR TSAI
Rallying classmates to
feed the hungry.
What began in 2013 as a
freshman honors seminar
called “Leadership JumpStart”
evolved into The Anti-
Hunger Games, a student
organization that holds a
Thanksgiving food drive for
State College-area residents
in need. Tsai, a Schreyer
junior studying economics
and political science, is a co-
founder and president of The
Anti-Hunger Games, which
held a competition among
residence halls to encourage
donations. For Tsai, it’s a con-
tinuation of her days at State
College High School, when
she led fundraising efforts for
the international charity SOS
Children’s Villages.

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SPREADING THE WORD
Gupta spoke about Empower Orphans
at New York’s Dalton School in April.
bringing a rush of media coverage and a partnership with
Microsoft, whose Collective Project highlighted Gupta’s
work. This past March, Microsoft sponsored a “ripple effect”
day of service in Gupta’s name at University Park.
Now, Gupta sees no end to Empower Orphans’ growth.
She’s building what is essentially a franchise model, hoping
to create a network of self-sustaining, student-led chapters
at colleges around the country, and eventually around the
world. The first chapter, for which she drew 70 people to an
informational session in the spring, will become an official
Penn State student organization this fall.
Gupta will be involved with Empower Orphans for
the foreseeable future, but she’s looking forward to fully
immersing herself in the college experience that was largely
denied her last year. The lingering effects of her concussion
all but ruled out a social life, and academically, she still hasn’t
completed a full semester’s worth of credits. It was only in
late spring that she began to feel she was back to normal.
And for Gupta, even “normal” isn’t easy: For
most of her life, she has suffered from an
array of chronic health issues that, if not quite
debilitating, have proven constant drains on
her energy. It’s a given, for example, that her
annual trips back to India will at some point
result in a brief hospital stay. “It’s difficult
sometimes to keep up with everything,” she
says, “but I try to push through as much as
I can.”
Gupta approached her concussion recovery
with similar resiliency. Instead of feeling
sidelined by the injury, she chose to be inspired.
“I learned a lot from my concussion—a lot of
life things, a lot of medical things,” she says.
“It’s actually influenced my career aspirations.”
She was already planning to study medicine
(she had previously shadowed doctors at St.
Christopher’s Children’s Hospital in Philly,
an Empower Orphans partner) but the goal
wasn’t focused. After her injury, she was
assigned a paper for her English class—the
only class she was able to complete last fall—
on paradigm shifts. She chose concussions as
her topic, exploring how the perception has
transformed in recent years from “a knock on
the head” to an understanding of the severity
and potential long-term consequences of even
“minor” brain injuries.
Now, Gupta is planning for a career as a
pediatric brain injury specialist. She planned
to start this summer as a research assistant
with Penn State’s Center for Sports Concussion
Research and Service, and had plans to shadow
the doctors who treated her last fall; she has
already shadowed docs at the pediatric brain
injury department at Penn State Hershey Medical Center.
Not surprisingly, she plans to extend Empower Orphans to
kids at Hershey, as well.
In all of this—helping children, inspiring others, making
the most of her own time and talent—there is the common
thread of Gupta refusing to accept limits. The spirit of that
9-year-old girl, the one who defied the collective assumption
that she was too young to do much of anything, is alive and
well. It’s the same spirit that defies anyone else to make
excuses for not doing the same. “I think the biggest thing I’ve
learned is that everybody has the ability to make an impact
on someone’s life,” she says. “It’s about empowering others to
know they can make a difference, too.”
And yes, even her father has come around.
“When Neha was young, we thought it was a passing fad,”
Vikas says with a laugh. “Then it became a regular thing, and
because she wanted to do it, it became sort of infectious. In a
way, it worked backwards. She taught us.”
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IN MEMORIAM

IN THE SUMMER OF ’68, the brand-

new McCoy Natatorium outdoor pool
was officially open for business. The
heated Olympic-sized pool alongside
Bigler Road was welcomed with open
arms—literally. Although the general
public is no longer allowed to jump
off the 10-meter platform—and cer-
tainly not in tandem—McCoy is still
prime real estate during summers in
State College. —AD
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ASSOCIATION NEWS
A Contested Council
This year’s Alumni Council election brought more drama than usual. By TINA HAY ’83 BUS
TEN CANDIDATES WON seats on
Alumni Council in May, in a conten-
tious election marked by two lawsuits.
This year’s ballot, with 31 candi-
dates, was the most crowded in his-
tory. Ten of the candidates ran under
the auspices of PSAA for All, an
organization claiming that the coun-
cil’s executive board has become too
powerful and that elected members
need a larger say in Association gov-
ernance. The 10 were also endorsed
by the advocacy group Penn Staters
for Responsible Stewardship, which
arose in the wake of the Sandusky
scandal. Nine of the 10 won seats on
the board, as did incumbent Karen
Keller ’00 Sci.
Turnout was light, with 7,587 mem-
bers—about 5.6 percent of eligible
voters—casting ballots. (Last year,
7,152 voted, a turnout of 5.3 percent.)
The election was administered by
Votenet Solutions Inc., of Washing-
ton, D.C.
The original list of would-be coun-
cil candidates numbered 44, although
two later withdrew. The council’s
nominating committee, which vets
the candidates, approved 29 to be on
the ballot, citing criteria that included
past volunteer service to the Associa-
tion and/or its affiliate groups as well
Welcome, New
Alumni Chapters
Two Penn State Alumni Association
chapters received official charters at
April’s Alumni Council meeting. With
these additions, there are now 140
chapters across the United States as
of this spring.
52 T H E P E N N S T A T E R J u l y /A u g u s t 2 0 1 5
Election Winners
Here are the people who begin new three-
year terms on Alumni Council on July 1.
ELECTED
Name Vote total
David J. Paterno ’88, ’91 MS Eng
Elizabeth Ann R. Morgan ’87 Sci
Bradley J. Mitchell ’84 Eng
Karen E. Keller ’00 Sci
Susan Beck Wilson ’71 Edu
Laurie Anne Stanell ’80 Sci
Michael S. Kirschner ’66 Bus
M. Toni Knoll ’70 Lib
James H. Smith ’88, ’92 PhD Eng
Gary L. Werkheiser ’81 Bus
APPOINTED
Wendy Braund ’01 MD Hershey
Darryl Bundrige ’93 Com
Meeten Doshi ’15 IST
Anand Ganjam ’15 Bus
Shawn Hinkle ’01 Berks
Nuria Rodriguez Padro ’01, ’07 MEd Edu
Kerrilaine Clark Prunella ’01 Lib
Greg Sam ’80 Sci
Roxanne C. Shiels ’90, ’93 MS Agr
David Ulmer ’01, ’08 MBA Bus
as demonstrated support of the As-
sociation’s mission. Among those not
chosen were James Smith ’88, ’92
PhD Eng and Elizabeth Ann Morgan
’87 Sci—but Smith sued the Alumni
Nebraska Chapter
Based in Omaha and
Lincoln, the Nebraska
Chapter currently has approximately
50 members. Find them on Facebook
by searching “Penn State Alumni
Nebraska” or on Twitter at
@PSAANebraska.
Association on behalf of himself and
Morgan, arguing that the bylaws al-
lowed them to gain a ballot spot by
submitting petitions. The executive
board didn’t concede Smith’s points,
but agreed to add the two to the ballot,
5,1 35
citing a wish not to “engage in a legal
3,657 battle regarding the petition process,”
3,274 said executive director Roger Wil-
3,042 liams ’73, Lib, ’75 MA Com, ’88 DEd
3,028 Edu.
2,943 Also left off the ballot were four
2,941
members of the Board of Trustees:
2,856
2,658 Ted Brown ’68 Sci, Anthony Lubra-
2,618 no ’82 Bus, Bill Oldsey ’76 Lib, and
Alice Pope ’79, ’83 MS, ’86 PhD Lib.
The nominating committee had deter-
mined that trustees and administra-
tors shouldn’t be permitted to run for
council, because of possible conflicts
of interest and the potential for trust-
ees to wield undue influence on coun-
cil. The four trustees sued the Alumni
Association in hopes of overturning
the committee’s decision, but Centre
County Judge Thomas King Kistler
ruled against them in early May.
After the election, the Asso-
ciation officers made 10 additional
appointments to supplement the
elected members; see sidebar for the
full list of elected and appointed
members.
Laurel Highlands Chapter
The Laurel Highlands
Chapter, which has more
than 100 members to date, covers
Cambria and Somerset counties, plus
parts of Blair and Bedford counties, in
Pennsylvania. Visit psulaurelhighlands
.org for more information.
 PENN STATE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

PRESIDENT
Kevin Steele ’92g
VICE PRESIDENT
Steven Wagman ’82
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Kay Frantz Salvino ’69
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
To be named

A Welcome Return
ELECTED AND APPOINTED ALUMNI
COUNCIL MEMBERS
2015-2018 Term: Wendy Braund ’01g; Darryl
Bundrige ’93; Meeten Doshi ’15; Anand Ganjam
Alumni Reunion Weekend in June celebrated the 50th anniversary of the class of 1965. More ’15; Shawn Hinkle ’01; Karen Keller ’00; Michael
Kirschner ’66; Toni Benedict Knoll ’70; Bradley
than 500 alumni made the trip back for faculty lectures, luncheons, and behind-the-scenes Mitchell ’84 Eng; Elizabeth Ann Morgan ’87;
tours of campus sites like the Arboretum, library, and Old Main bell tower. Brad “Spider” David Paterno ’88, ’91g; Nuria Rodriguez Padro
’01, ’07g; Kerrilaine Clark Prunella ’01 Lib; Greg
Caldwell ’86 H&HD, who became facilities coordinator of Beaver Stadium this January, gave Sam ’80 Sci; Roxanne C. Shiels ’90, ’93g; James
the groups a rare look inside the locker room. Caldwell had retired from his longtime post as Smith ’88, ’92g; Laurie Anne Stanell ’80; David
Ulmer ’01, ’08g; Gary Werkheiser ’81; Susan
the Penn State football equipment manager last year and accepted a job at a Vermont high Beck Wilson ’71.
school, but it was a brief departure: He—like many others—soon found his way home to 2014-2017 Term: Deborah Casamassa Beidel
’76; Michael Catino ’70; Martin Cepeda Jr.
Happy Valley. —AD ’05; Lisa Todd Hart ’97; Randolph Houston,
Jr. ’91; Kathleen Barnett Hume ’96g; Thomas
Kapelewski ’82; Shawn D. Manderson ’03; Kris-
ten McMullen ’88; Ivan Santos ’90; Bradford
Simpson ’03, ’06g; Whitney Stringer ’07; Karen
Kalenak Sweeney ’80.
2013-2016 Term: Sally Hornick Anderson ’98;

Esprit de Corps Kathryn Bartoo ’92; Willie DeShields ’79; Todd

This new Alumni Interest Group shares an important mission.
IN JUST ITS FIRST few months, the Penn
State Marines Alumni Interest Group had
already enlisted around 450 members—men
and women, young cadets and those retired
or on reserve, spread out from State College
to Japan. “From being on active duty and
running into Penn Staters all over the world,
my sense is that the Penn State Marine net-
work is very robust,” says Mike Hendrick-
son ’96 Lib, adding, “It’s hard for civilians to
understand our experience as veterans—this
PENN STATE Past
is why it’s important for us to stay connect-
ed.” So Hendrickson, a lieutenant colonel,
launched the group alongside Erik Orient
’99 Lib and Ed Trainor ’00 Edu last fall.
“This group lies at the intersection of two
great cultures: Penn State and the Marines,”
says Orient. “But the most important thing
that we do is remembering those that we
lost.” For information on the group and its
upcoming events, search “Penn State Ma-
rines” on Facebook. —AD
Dietrich ’04; Kenneth Haas Jr. ’80; Cynthia Ham-
lin ’95; Kathleen Kasperik ’92; Susan Ingham
Martin ’68; Joan McLane ’94; Susan McNulty-
Atwater ’99; Johanna Ramos ’92, ’99g; Thomas
Range ’89; Carl Rosenberger ’81.
EX-OFFICIO (ELECTED BY ORGANIZATIONS
AND ALUMNI SOCIETIES)
Heather Wong, Blue & White Society; Shawn
Lichvar, Council of Commonwealth Student
Governments; Kevin Horne ’14, Graduate and
Professional Student Association; Brandon
Johnson, Lion Ambassadors; Emily McDonald,
University Park Undergraduate Association;
Mohamad Ansari, Faculty Senate Chair; Daniel
Murray ’86, Abington; Eric Cowden ’03, Agri-
cultural Sciences; Shelly Beaver ’01, Altoona;
William Holloway ’82, Arts & Architecture; Julia
McDowell ’04, Beaver; Maria Madigan Palmieri
’98, Behrend; Ann Michele Blood ’96, Berks;
James Brandau ’03, Smeal College of Busi-
ness; Ty McGilberry ’03, Brandywine; Robert
Boulware ’86, Communications; Amy Fatula
’95, DuBois; Chad Wallaesa ’02, Earth & Mineral
Sciences; William Vitori ’73, Education; Michael
Erdman ’69, Engineering; Seth Prentice ’09, Fay-
ette; Krishna Nadella ’04g, Graduate School;
Richard Boclair ’01g, Great Valley; David Paster-
nak ’90, Greater Allegheny; Timothy Ritter ’87,
Harrisburg; Nicholas Roslevege ’88, Hazleton;
Jeffrey Sarabok ’91, Health & Human Develop-
ment; Mark Poblete ’03, Information Sciences
& Technology; Matthew Esworthy ’01g Law;
Larry Trubilla ’98, Lehigh Valley; Ernest Jans-

“The best design is always unpredictable— sen ’65, Liberal Arts; Elizabeth Lange Zarlengo,
’92g, Medicine; Joseph Maiello ’10, Mont Alto;
Timothy Oberlin ’00g, New Kensington; Todd
why do you think Madonna is so popular?” Bacastow ’05, Schreyer Honors College; Rob-
ert Duminiak ’00, Eberly College of Science;
J E N W H I T TA K E R

David Gonzalez ’04, Schuylkill; Susan Biles ’94,

—CHIP KIDD ’86 A&A, graphic designer for Knopf publishers, in 1996. He added that Shenango; James Hummel ’95, ’08g, Wilkes-
Barre; Judy Brague Deacon ’11, World Campus;
if he can imagine a book cover before he starts working, there’s no sense in him doing it. Kathleen Casarin ’92, Worthington Scranton;
Source: The Penn Stater, May/June 1996 William Englar ’03a, York.

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ASSOCIATION NEWS

Stepping Up
Kevin Steele becomes the 79th president of the
Alumni Association. By RICHARD RYS

AS FIRST ASSISTANT district attorney of Montgomery

County, Pa., Kevin Steele ’92 JD Law knows something
about high-pressure jobs. (If you watch the Discovery chan-
nel, you may have seen cases he’s prosecuted—like the mur-
der of a state game warden near Gettysburg—on true crime
shows.) Add in Steele’s campaign for county district attorney,
to be decided this fall, and it’s fair to wonder why he’d volun-
teer for his newest role: president of the Penn State Alumni
Association. Steele laughs at the idea that some may ques-
tion his sanity. “Often times, when you want to get things
done, give it to a busy person,” he says. “We all have a lot MASTER JUGGLER: “We all have a lot going on,” says Steele
of balancing his high-profile job and the Alumni Association
going on. But this is a chance to make an impact on our uni-
presidency. “But this is a chance to make an impact.”
versity, our alumni, and the commonwealth.”
Steele, who succeeds Kay Frantz Salvino ’69 H&HD,
brings a decade of experience, having served as vice presi- he says, is Penn State’s broad influence: “It impacts the entire
dent of the Alumni Association and president of the Gradu- state, and that’s something that gets overlooked,” he says.
ate School Alumni Society. A Dickinson Law grad, Steele “There are great campuses and programs across Pennsylva-
says he will make it a priority to engage the entire Penn State nia—we are all one.”
alumni community. “I hope we can draw more of our alumni With Election Day looming in November, Steele is thank-
base from graduate schools and professional programs,” he ful for the support of his family (wife Tracy ’95 JD Law and
says. “They have a lot to offer.” their three children) in helping him “juggle a few things,” as
Steele has also been a leader in the Grassroots Network, he puts it. As for his Penn State family, he is eager to lead
which marshals Penn State alumni and students as legisla- alumni toward a bright future. “This,” he says, “is an oppor-
tive advocates. But what really opens the eyes of lawmakers, tunity I’m looking forward to.”

New Bylaws for nominations from the floor at council

Alumni Council in April approved an over-
haul of the Alumni Association’s bylaws.
The vote was 55-8, with two abstentions.
The Association’s most recent strategic
plan, developed in 2013, recommended
a fresh look at the bylaws, which hadn’t
been updated since 2005. An eight-mem-
ber committee developed a set of recom-
mended changes, many of them focusing
on the Alumni Council election process.
Previously, those interested in run-
ning for council could be nominated (or
self-nominate) by Oct. 1; the nominating
meetings, and an option for would-be can-
didates to present nominating petitions
containing signatures of 50 Association
members. The latter created confusion
this year, with one candidate claiming that
those who submit petitions should go on
the ballot automatically, even if the nomi-
nating committee didn’t approve them.
The new bylaws eliminate the petitions
and the floor nominations, and set a later
deadline (Jan. 15) to make nominations.
The bylaws also spell out the criteria used
in evaluating candidates: “nominees’ sup-
port of the Association’s mission and pro-
grams; their history of volunteer service
colleges, organized alumni units (including
service as a council member), graduation
years, and geographical areas.”
Another change increases the num-
ber of appointed members per year from
three to 10. There are three reasons for this,
according to executive director Roger Wil-
liams ’73, Lib, ’75 MA Com, ’88 DEd Edu:
to ensure that council is populated with
volunteers who understand and support
the Association’s mission; to include mem-
bers of diverse ethnic backgrounds; and to
ensure that key areas of expertise (such as
finance, technology, and communications)
are represented. The appointments will
now be made not by the Association presi-
ST E V E B OY L E

committee then reviewed the candidates to the university, the Association and to dent alone, but by the officers: the presi-
to determine who would go on the bal- their communities; their leadership experi- dent, vice president, immediate past presi-
lot. The old bylaws also had a provision ence; their diversity and representation by dent, and executive director. —TH

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 CLASS NOTES

Front-Line Fighter
A practicing physician at Brigham &
Women’s Hospital in Boston, an instruc-
tor at Harvard Medical School and an
adjunct professor at Columbia, Ranu
Dhillon ’04 Sci is busy enough. But last
fall he was tasked with a job he couldn’t
turn down: Special Adviser to the Presi-
dent and National Ebola Coordinator,
leading President Obama’s response to
the outbreak in West Africa. We asked
Dhillon about where things stand in the
Ebola fight. —KHALID SALAAM
What’s the latest on U.S. involvement
on the ground in West Africa?
The presence in Guinea, where I’ve been,
has been less intense than in Liberia,
where troops were sent to build treat-
ment centers and help assure security.
Here, the U.S. involvement has been
largely technical, with the CDC playing an
integral role in tracking the epidemic, and
supporting the National Ebola Coordina-
tion Cell in which I work.
Of the impacted countries, which is
having the most success dealing with
the disease?
The three most affected countries—
Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—all
border one another, and the epidemic
has largely taken place across all three.
These countries are interconnected and
one cannot be free from the virus until
the other two have also reached zero. In
Guinea, we’ve made great headway since
October in establishing a coordinated
response to manage each component of
epidemic control—community engage-
ment, surveillance, isolation and treat-
ment, and safe burials. Big challenges
persist and there are measures we’re tak-
ing now to address these. I am optimistic
we will see the results soon.
How close are we to a cure?
There have been several experimental
treatments, but nothing yet that has
been a definitive cure. Ebola infection
requires aggressive “supportive care”—IV
fluids, transfusions, and life support
when needed. This is something we can
do very well in the U.S., but for which the
systems have not yet been established
here. If we build up the systems in these
countries, Ebola can become a manage-
able illness and not the ‘death sentence’
that it has been.

Pioneers
George M. Miller ’53 Agr (Beh-
rend Choir, Golf, Basketball)
named “A True Steward of
Nature” & Brockway Citizen
Man of the Yr. Award, Brockway
Borough. He is ret. teacher, vo-
cational agr., Brockway Jr./Sr. H.S.
He lives in Brockway, Pa. Son:
Gary ’84 Eng/Agr.
John A. Dunkelberger, Jr. ’56 Agr
& wife Shirley M. Schaefer ’67
Agr celebrated 60th wedding
anniversary—Jan. 1, 2015. They
live in Centre Hall, Pa. Daughter:
Judith A. Melville ’78 Agr; Sons:
John ’80 Agr; James ’93 Eng, ’96
MS IDF.
Lewis E. Patterson ’56, ’59 MEd,
’65 EdD & Janice L. Patterson
’65 MEd celebrated 50th wed-
ding anniversary at Nittany
Lion Inn—Sept. 2014. They live
in Avon Lake, Ohio. Daughter:
Elizabeth Supinski ’89 Sci.
Harry Foulkrod ’59 Eng & wife
Sandra celebrated 55th wedding
anniversary—June 11, 2015. They
live in Bellefonte, Pa.
Joel N. Myers ’61, ’63 MS, ’71
PhD EMS (WDFM, Collegian),
founder, AccuWeather, delivered
keynote address, 2015 American
Meteorological Society 3rd
Symposium on Weather & Cli-
mate Enterprise. He lives in State
College. Brothers: Barry ’67 Bus;
Evan ’71 EMS; Children: Bradford
Mason ’90 Com; Daniel ’91 Sci;
Sharon Clapper ’98 MEd Edu.
William Slothower ’62 Bus
(\S6, Choir) & wife Joanne
celebrated 50th wedding an-
niversary—June 13, 2014. They
live in Chambersburg, Pa.
1960s
Scott D. Cunningham ’65
H&HD, owner, Warren’s
Lobster House in Kittery,
Maine, received 2015 Lifetime
Achievement Award, Maine
Restaurant Assoc. He & wife
Claudia live in Barrington, N.H.
James W. Cluck ’69, ’72 MS
Eng (Thespians) ret. Dec. 26,
2014, as VP of property mgmt.
& svcs., Willow Valley Com-
munities. Previously he was
dir. of systems integration,
Armstrong World Industries
Inc. He lives in Lancaster, Pa.
Daughter: Barbara L. McCann
’99 H&HD.
R. Brad Lawrence ’69 Bus (QY,
Skull & Bones) ret. as CEO, pres.,
& chairman, Esterline Corp.—
March 2014. He was named to bd.
of dirs., Moog, Inc., in Jan 2015.
He & wife Donna live in Bellevue,
Wash.
Meyer Simon ’69 Edu (\Y6),
mbr., Rubin, Glickman, Steinberg
& Gifford, P.C., is mbr., bd. of dirs.,
Montgomery County Bar Assn.,
& reapptd. chair of its gen. prac-
tice committee for 2015. He lives
in Southampton, Pa. Daughter:
Stephanie Levinson ’01 H&HD.
1970s
Marc Robert Steinberg ’70 Lib
(\Y6), managing partner, Rubin,
Glickman, Steinberg & Gifford,
named one of Pa. Top 10 Criminal
Defense Attys., Natl. Academy of

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Criminal Defense Attys. He lives
in North Wales, Pa. Sister: An-
drea Steinberg Rongiore ’71 Edu.
James Barrett ’71 PhD Lib re-
ceived 2015 Torald Sollmann
Award, Pharmacology, from
American Soc. for Pharmacology
& Experimental Therapeutics. He
is prof. & chair, dept. of phar-
macology & physiology, Drexel
U. Coll. of Med., where he also
created master’s degree program
in drug discovery & dvlpmt. He
lives in Philadelphia.
O. Philip Shenk ’72 H&HD
(YIL), chairman & pres., bd. of
dirs., Boys & Girls Club of Hbg.,
named 2014 Volunteer of the Yr.
for leadership, United Way of
the Capital Region. He lives in
Lewisberry, Pa. Brother: Michael
G. Shenk ’77 Agr.
Edward J. Harpham ’73 Lib (Phi
Beta Kappa), prof., political
science, & assoc. provost, ap-
pointed dean, the Honors Coll.,
U. of Texas at Dallas. He lives in
Dallas.
Michael L. Weamer ’73 H&HD
(WR\) is pres. & CEO, The
Marfan Foundation. Previously:
exec. VP, American Heart Assn.’s
Founders Affiliate. He lives in
Stamford, Conn.
Bob Angelo ’74 Lib/Com pub-
lished book, Beings in Time, An
Existential Survey of Human
Subjectivity (CreateSpace). He
lives in Mount Laurel, N.J.
James Higgins ’75 MPA Lib ret.,
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washing-
ton, D.C. He & wife Robin live in
Woodbridge, Va.
David Ladov ’75 H&HD (JYJ,
Lion’s Paw, Glee Club), partner,
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell
& Hippel LLP, selected chair,
Domestic Relations Procedural
Rules Committee, Supreme
58 T H E P E N N S T A T E R J u l y /A u g u s t 2 0 1 5
Court of Pa. He lives in Phila-
delphia.
Toni R. Ardabell ’76 H&HD
named CEO, Bon Secours Rich-
mond Health System, a position
that includes oversight of five
hosps. She lives in Henrico, Va.
Joseph W. Bencloski ’76 PhD
EMS received 2014 Ruby S. & E.
Willard Miller Lifetime Achieve-
ment Award, Pa. Geographical
Society—Nov. 7, 2014. He ret. as
prof. emeritus, dept. of geogra-
phy & regional planning, Indiana
U. of Pa., in 2013 after 24 yrs. He
lives in Herminie, Pa.
Terence Foreback ’76 EMS
reapptd., 3rd term, state mine
inspector, N.M. He & wife Ruth
Brenneshotz ’75 EMS live in
Santa Fe, N.M.
Lywinda A. Siegler ’76 Edu pub-
lished Students with Disabilities
& Standards-Based Instruction
(Lambert Academic Publishing).
She is ret. since Dec. 2013, public
edu. She lives in Moon Twp., Pa.
Daughter: Mairead E. Stewart ’11 Lib.
James Lange ’77 Bus, CPA &
atty., wrote book, Retire Se-
cure! A Guide to Getting the
Most Out of What You’ve Got
(Wiley), 3rd edition. He lives in
Cranford, N.J. Children: James
’95 Bus; Greta ’04 H&HD; Erika
’06 A&A.
Pamela DiSalvo Lepley ’77 Com
(Q6, WDFM) inducted to 28th
annual Va. Communications Hall
of Fame—April 9, 2015. She is
VP, u. relations, Va. Common-
wealth U., & chief communica-
tions officer for the U. & VCU
Medical Center. She lives in
Midlothian, Va. Father: Adolph
DiSalvo ’48 EMS; Sister: Susan
Myvold ’80 Com; Daughter:
Sarah ’11 Com.
Ken Plunkett ’77 Sci, ’11 MEd Edu
(NROTC) is B747 captain, Delta
Airlines. He provides human fac-
tors perspectives for computer
tablet operations in airline cock-
pits. He & wife Teresa E. Lynn
’77 Lib live in Horsham, Pa.
Pamela Bocek Murphy ’78
H&HD promoted to VP, sup-
ply chain, Presto Products Co.
She also completed 3rd yr., bd.
of dirs., Penn State HDFS Af-
filiate Program Group, & was
recertified, Pjct. Mgmt. Inst., as
pjct. mgmt. professional. She &
husband George Murphy live in
Neenah, Wis.
Joseph P. Gushue ’79 MPA Lib,
assoc., Volpe & Koenig P.C.,
elected shareholder, & named
“Pa. Rising Star,” Super Lawyers.
His practice concentrates on
monetizing patent portfolios.
He lives in Southampton, Pa.
1980s
Susan Carlin ’81 Com nominated
to Washington, D.C.’s Leading
Assn. & Non Profit Innovators,
BizNow Ventures. She is VP, ad-
min. & audiovisual svces., Natl.
Cable & Telecom. Assn. She lives
in Alexandria, Va. Daughter: Car-
lin A. Corle ’11 Com WC.
Barry Epley ’82 Eng is SVP, John-
son, Mirmiran, & Thompson
Inc., & pres., ACEC/PA. He lives
in York, Pa. Daughter: Lindsey
Lindblade ’10 Com/Lib.
Vickie Williams Kuterbach ’82
Bus (Golden Key) appointed
dean, school of mgmt., U. of
Alaska Southeast. She & hus-
band John ’83 Eng live in Juneau,
Alaska.
Corinne Rebinski ’82 Bus Hbg,
sr. mgr., Brown, Shultz, Sheridan
& Fritz, awarded Robert D. Han-
son Rotary Excellence Award,
Rotary Club of Hbg., for svc.
& leadership to Rotary Club &
greater Hbg. community. She
lives in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Michael Felici ’83 Com (Colle-
gian) is dir., dvlpmt./major gifts
officer, Widener U. He lives in
Blackwood, N.J.
Bob Bodnar ’85 PhD EMS, dist.
prof. & C.C. Garvin Prof. of Geo-
chemistry, Va. Tech, received
honorary fellowship, Italian So-
ciety of Mineralogy & Petrology.
He lives in Blacksburg, Va.
Andrew H. Cairns ’85 Eng
(AROTC), port & marine market
sector leader, AECOM, is serv-
ing as pres.—Coasts, Oceans,
Ports, & Rivers Inst. within the
American Society of Civil En-
grs. He lives in Summit, N.J.
Shelly R. Pagac ’85 Lib (QQK),
partner, Pietragallo Gordon
Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP,
presented at 2015 mid-yr.
meeting, Pa. Bar Assn. She &
husband Andrew F. Barnes ’83
Lib live in Canonsburg, Pa.
Edward A. Dougherty ’86 Lib
is English prof. & dept. chair,
Corning Community Coll., &
earned MFA, Bowling Green
State U. He lives in Corning,
N.Y. Siblings: Margaret Kelly ’76
Edu; Timothy ’81 Bus; Michael
’84 Eng.
Michael Fischer ’86 Lib, pres. &
CEO, Client 1st Financial, LLC,
Fogelsville, Pa., qualified for
ACE Platinum Award for 16th
time. He is mbr., Hall of Fame,
Signator Investors Inc. He lives
in Kutztown, Pa.
Greg Gromicko ’86 Eng (6Y\),
regional mgr., Zephyr Environ-
mental Corp., opened Pa. office.
He, wife Thalia Jones ’86 Bus
(QIV), & children live in York, Pa.
Edward J. Perrino ’89 Bus (Golf)
is head golf professional, Eagle
Rock Resort, Hazleton, Pa. He
lives in Mountain Top, Pa.
1990s
Jeffery J. Dunkelberger ’90 Sci
(6[), physician, Family Practice
Center, RedCedar office, re-
elected to bd. of trustees, Pa.
Osteopathic Medical Assn. He &
wife Brenda Yerkes ’90 A&A live
in Camp Hill, Pa.
Brian Walter ’90 MBA, pres.,
M&T Bank Chesapeake Region
Market, completed Leadership
Md. professional dvlpmt. pro-
gram. He has been with M&T for
25 yrs. He lives in Sykesville, Md.
John F. Conley Jr. ’91, ’95 PhD
Eng elevated to fellow, Inst. of
Electrical & Electronic Engrs.
for “contributions to semicon-
ductor process technology to
improve radiation hardening of
MOS devices.” He lives in Cor-
vallis, Ore.
Ronald E. Hamme ’70 Edu, ’91
MA Hbg is recipient, 2014 Top
Ten Claes Nobel Educator of
the Yr. Award, Natl. Society
of H.S. Scholars. He is ret. af-
ter 44 yrs., art & humanities
teacher, Upper Dauphin Area
H.S. He lives in Elizabethville, Pa.
Brother: Richard B. Hamme ’64
Eng; Son: Christopher F. Hamme
’00 Lib.
Michael Karwic ’91 Agr, ’97
MBA Bus is certified accredited
estate planner, Natl. Assn. of
Estate Planners & Councils. He
focuses on financial transition
planning for critical life events.
He & wife Amanda Slingluff ’92
Agr live in Elverson, Pa.
Maj. Gen. Darrell K. Williams ’91
MS Bus, 1st TSC commander,
U.S. Army, provided “state of
the command” briefing to 1st
Sustainment Command (The-
ater) Operational Command
Post soldiers, non-commis-
sioned officers, & officers at
Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. He lives
in Fort Bragg, N.C.
Matthew Anderson ’92 H&HD
(RA), SVP, Health Care Svcs.,
The Osborn Retirement Com-
munity, named COO—a new
position at the organization. He
& wife Christine Swahn Ander-
son ’91 Bus live in Rye, N.Y. His
brother: Christopher ’93 Com;
Sister: Melissa Barrier ’97 Edu.
Rich Filar ’92 Bus is VP of sales,
Hearing Health Systems. He,
wife Maura, & two children live
in Plum, Pa.
Melissa Tomadelli Keeports ’92
Lib (Golden Key) promoted to
compliance & ethics mgr., Pep-
siCo Inc. She lives in Peekskill,
N.Y. Husband: Brett Keeports
’91 Lib.
Scott Kelley ’92 Eng named prin-
cipal assoc., Erdman Anthony,
where he is team leader, trans-
portation group. He has worked
at the firm for 18 yrs. He & wife
Michele Helman ’90a H&HD live
in New Cumberland, Pa.
Rob Veneziano ’92 Bus is sr.
mortgage adviser, Fairway Inde-
pendent Mortgage Corp., Bos-
ton branch. He has 11 yrs. of ex-
perience in mortgage industry.
He lives in Marlborough, Mass.
Eric Walsnovich ’92 A&A is sr.
project mgr., Wood+Partners
Inc., regional land planning &
landscape architecture firm. He
has background in public & pri-
vate gardens, community plan-
ning, & municipal & commercial
projects. He & wife Joan Chip-
lock ’90 Lib live in Okatie, S.C.
Michael A. Gruin ’93 Lib
(\Q^), admin. litigator, Stevens
& Lee, named a shareholder of
firm. He concentrates his prac-
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He lives in Enola, Pa.
Terry L. Mutchler ’87 Com, first
exec. dir., Pa. Office of Open
Records, joined Pepper Hamil-
ton LLP, where she will spear-
head transparency practice in
the firm’s media & communica-
tions practice group. She is fmr.
award-winning journalist, trial
lawyer, & best-selling author.
She lives in Fort Washington, Pa.
Stephanie Sprenkle ’94 Lib
(Collegian, IM6), partner, Ober-
mayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hip-
pel LLP, elected to bd. of dirs.,
Commercial Real Estate Wom-
en—Philadelphia, & named
Outstanding Mbr. at Large. She
lives in Philadelphia.
Mark Faccenda ’95 Sci (IZ1)
promoted to partner, Norton
Rose Fulbright, centering his
practice on healthcare svces.,
pharmaceutical & medical
device disputes, & clinical in-
tegration initiatives. He lives in
McLean, Va.
Elizabeth Beckman ’96 H&HD
(Blue Band, Parmi Nous, IM6)
wed Stephen Nemenz—June 14,
2014. She works as a pediatric
physical therapist in Erie, Pa.
They live in McKean, Pa. Her
father: Donald ’67 MEd, ’69 PhD
Edu.
Sonya Anne Hall McMullen ’96
Eng (AFROTC) earned Ph.D., bus.
admin., with specializations in
aeronautical science & home-
land security, Northcentral U.
J u l y /A u g u s t 2 0 1 5
She lives in San Diego, Calif. Her
father: David Hall ’69 Sci.
H. David Seidman ’96 Lib is
partner, litigation dept., Ober-
mayer Rebmann Maxwell &
Hippel LLP, & is 2006 “Pa. Rising
Star,” Super Lawyers. He lives in
Philadelphia.
Ty Baird ’97 Bus (JOW) wed
Meredith Zinger—Oct. 18, 2014.
He is CFO & COO, IronBridge
Capital Mgmt. They live in Chi-
cago.
Christopher Dellinger ’98 Eng
promoted to dir., land dvlpmt.
svc. group, Herbert, Rowland
& Grubic, Inc. He lives in Eliza-
bethtown, Pa.
Blaine Rummel ’98 Com (6\, U.
Scholar) is dir., communications,
American Federation of State,
County, & Municipal Employees.
Previously: Edelman PR World-
wide; Fenton Com.; communica-
tions dir., Coalition to Stop Gun
Violence; & regional press secy.,
Democratic Natl. Committee.
He lives in Alexandria, Va.
Jason Dreher ’99 Eng promoted
to principal, Structura, Inc., a
structural engrng. firm. He has
worked for the firm since 1999.
He lives in Germantown, Md.
Mark Erdman ’99 Eng (\Q^)
promoted to principal, Struc-
tura, Inc., a structural engrng.
firm. He has worked for the firm
since 1999. He & wife Allison Er-
ling ’98 Sci live in Baltimore. His
sister: Amy McDonald ’96 Com.
Rosanna McCalips ’99 Lib (U.
Scholar) promoted to partner,
Jones Day law firm—Washing-
ton, D.C. office. She & husband
Chris Vergonis have 3-yr.-old
son, Connor, & live in McLean,
Va. Father: Merle McCalips Jr.
’71 MEd; Sister: Angela McCalips
Kempf ’02 H&HD.
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Patricia Wallace ’99 MS Grt
Vly is prof., mgmt. info sys-
tems, school of bus., Coll. of
N.J. She lives in Southampton,
Pa. Daughters: Jessica Wallace
Rusu ’01 Bus; Brittany Wallace
’07 IST; Courtney Wallace ’14
IST.
2000s
Sean P. Delaney ’00 JD Law is
partner, real estate group, Reed
Smith LLP. He lives in Dauphin, Pa.
Aimee Hagerty Johnson ’00 MA
Lib, children’s book illustrator,
featured in Ladybug children’s
magazine—Feb. 2015 issue.
Twitter: @aimeehj.
Karen M. Sanchez ’00 Bus is
partner, bus. & finance dept.,
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell
& Hippel LLP. She was named
2013 Lawyer on the Fast Track,
the Legal Intelligencer, & “Pa.
Rising Star” in 2007, 2013, & 2014,
Super Lawyers. She lives in Jen-
kintown, Pa.
The Books of Paul
Paul Levine’s
way with words
was evident
from his days
as a Hearst
Award-winning
editor of The
Daily Collegian,
and through
a career that
has included
teaching and
practicing law, Levine ’69
Com never stopped writ-
ing. The latest result of that
prolific run is Bum Rap,
his 19th novel in 25 years.
Bum Rap brings the heroes
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Danielle M. DeFilippis ’01
Lib (Q6) named mbr., Norris
McLaughlin & Marcus, PA. She
focuses her practice on com-
plex commercial & intellectual
property litigation. She lives in
Glen Rock, N.J.
Amy Gioia Denby ’01 Com (]V)
wrote memoir, Dear Babies:
Crazy Life, Simply Explained
(CreateSpace Independent Pub-
lishing), a compilation of letters
she wrote to her twins during
pregnancy. She is fmr. entertain-
ment editor, Seventeen maga-
zine & More magazine, & fmr.
copywriter & photo producer,
J.Crew.com. She lives in Port
Washington, N.Y.;
www.amydenby.com.
Steve Palmer ’01 Eng (RA), pjct.
mgr., Gannett Fleming, received
2014 Pres.’s Award, the Mid-
Atlantic Section of the Inst. of
Transportation Engrs., & also
serves as MASITE’s central area
programming committee chair.
He lives in Marysville, Pa.
of Levine’s
“Solomon vs.
Lord” series
into the world
of Jake Lassiter,
the former
Penn State
linebacker-
turned-lawyer
(and longtime
Levine protago-
nist). Mobsters,
murder, and mayhem all
play a role. We won’t give
away the ending—other
than to say that Levine will
probably write that 20th
novel soon enough. —RJ
Jessica Wallace Rusu ’01 Bus is
dir., EU analytics, eBay Market-
place, London. She & spouse
Mircea S. Rusu ’99, ’01 MBA Bus
live in Brentwood Essex, U.K.
Her mother: Patricia Wallace
’99 MS Grt Vly.
Amit J. Shah ’01 Abgt, ’04 JD Law
named partner, Martin Law, &
focuses his practice exclusively
on Pa. Workers’ Compensation
law. He lives in Philadelphia.
Michael Fox ’02 Bus married
Mara Leibowitz—April 18, 2015,
in Short Hills, N.J. They live in
Hoboken, N.J.
Andrew S. Gallinaro ’02 Lib
(Schreyer) named partner, Con-
rad O’Brien P.C., & focuses his
practice on commercial cases.
He is “Pa. Rising Star,” Super
Lawyers. He lives in Logan
Twp., N.J.
Emily Horos ’03 Com, sports ed-
itor, Cherokee Tribune, elected
vice chair, Southeast Region of
the Associated Press Sports Edi-
tors. She lives in Atlanta. Moth-
er: Jane Van Dyke ’79 Com.
Amy Brewer Kennedy ’03 Eng &
husband Robert have son, Bruce
Allen—born Nov. 25, 2014. She
is sr. process engr., Palmetto
Health. They live in Columbia, S.C.
Lisa M. Schonbeck ’03 H&HD
(Schreyer) elected partner, em-
ployment & litigation practice
groups, Leech Tishman law firm.
She lives in Pittsburgh.
Chris Gibbons ’04 IDF & wife
Annalisa have son, Alessan-
dro—born Nov. 15, 2014. Chris
is partner, Thrivent Financial, &
Annalisa is an economist. They
live in Philadelphia.
Peter Nickischer ’04 Com, lieu-
tenant, Upper Macungie Twp.
Police Dept., awarded Beyond
the Badge award, Officer Da-
vid M. Petzold Memorial Foun-
dation. He & wife Candace live
in Walnutport, Pa.
Elizabeth Tillotson ’04 Lib
(6K) is assoc., litigation dept.,
Brownstein Hyatt Farber
Schreck, Denver office. She
lives in Denver.
Matthew Cuppett ’06, ’08 MS
Eng & wife Melissa Shuckhart
’07 Edu have son, Ethan Jo-
seph—born Sept. 11, 2014. They
live in Uniontown, Pa.
Paul C. Miller ’06 H&HD, pur-
chase mgr., Ernest Maier Block,
wed Ashley Welty—Oct. 2014.
They live in Crofton, Md. His
brother: Ryan ’06 Bus/Lib.
Ryan H. Miller ’06 Bus/Lib
owns several restaurants &
businesses in Md., including
The Deli, Last Call Liquors,
R. Miller Properties, & Café
Perdue, & was 2013 recipient,
Palmer Gillis Entrepreneur of
the Yr. award, Md. Capital En-
terprise. He lives in Salisbury,
Md. Brother: Paul ’06 H&HD.
Andy Hirneisen ’07 Agr pro-
moted to research scientist,
Hershey Co., & received mas-
ter’s degree, mgmt. & leader-
ship, Liberty U. He lives in
Reinholds, Pa.
Howard Hodder ’07 MGIS
EMS promoted to dir., geo-
matics svc. group, Herbert,
Rowland & Grubic, Inc. He lives
in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Ryan Lagola ’07 IST & wife
Michelle ’07 Lib have daugh-
ter Harper Kelly––born Jan. 4,
2015. They live in Reston, Va.
His mother: Cheryl Emerich
Lagola ’79 Bus.
Matthew B. Malamud ’07 Lib,
’12 JD Law is assoc., insurance
 A Rare Chair
Regardless of her title, Jami Wintz McKeon
insists that above all else in her career, she
is a lawyer, practicing law. “It’s what I really
love to do,” she says, “and I think it’s really
important for credibility, both with our
clients and our partners.”
Which is not to say McKeon ’78 Lib un-
derestimates the importance of her “other”
role: recently elected chair of Morgan Lewis,
the Philadelphia-based law firm that, with
some 2,000 attorneys, ranks as the biggest
in the nation. And, with McKeon’s election,
Morgan Lewis is the largest firm in the world
with a female chair. She’s well aware of her
status as a breaker of new ground and glass
ceilings; she’s just too busy to dwell on it.
“From the time I got into law, I don’t think it ever occurred to me
to look at it from a gender perspective,” she says. “My focus was
always on doing a great job.”
She certainly hasn’t lacked commitment: McKeon and her
husband have four kids, and having once
set a record for BlackBerry usage—the
company informed her she was in fact the
busiest user on its entire network—McKeon
has focused not on the challenges of work-
life balance, but on the ways she could make
it work. “It’s the original flex-time job,” she
says. “You can watch your kid’s lacrosse
game and be on call, or have dinner with
your children, put them to bed, then get
back online.”
It’s not just young women with an inter-
est in law who might look to McKeon for
inspiration. At a time when law schools have
taken a reputation hit for the lack of avail-
able jobs, McKeon has a counterintuitive
take for anyone considering a legal career. “Law firm applica-
tions are down, so this is a very good time, because there’s going
to be a deficiency of lawyers. If you like intellectual challenges
and helping people, this is the right moment.” —RJ

industry group, Timoney Knox
LLP. He & wife Amanda ’07 Bus
live in Doylestown, Pa.
Brittany Wallace ’07 IST pro-
moted to sr. dir., digital sales
technology, NBCUniversal.
Mother: Patricia Wallace ’99
MS Grt Vly.
Jordan P. Shuber ’08 Lib is as-
soc., civil & commercial litiga-
tion & family law, Strassburger,
McKenna, Gutnick & Gefsky. He
lives in Butler, Pa.
Kaitlin Gurganus ’09 Lib wed
Stephen Quigley ’11 Worth. She
is Ph.D. student, higher edu.,
Penn State. They live in State
College.
Kirstin Twardon ’09 EMS wed
Donald E. Floyd III ’11 Eng—June
21, 2014. They live in Win-
chester, Va. Her father: Mark W.
Twardon ’72a Eng Alt.
Jason W. Vannoy ’09 Hbg
received professional engr.
license, Commonwealth of Pa.
He is pjct. engr., specializing in
structural engrng., C.S. David-
son, Inc. He lives in Palmyra, Pa.
2010s
Anthony D. DiFiore ’10 Lib is
assoc. atty., family law, real
estate law, & estate planning,
Law Offices of Jennifer J. Riley.
He lives in York, Pa.
Chad Martin ’10 Eng, design
engr., Harrisburg Transporta-
tion Engrng. group, Erdman
Anthony, earned professional
engrng. license, state of Pa. He
lives in Harrisburg.
Angela L. Quigley ’10 Hbg
promoted from sr. assoc.
to supervisor, Smith Elliott
Kearns & Co., LLC, working in
accounting, consulting, & tax
svcs. dept. She lives in Ship-
pensburg, Pa.
Melissa Cardone ’11 Eng wed
Bob Armstrong ’11 Eng—Sept.
13, 2014. They met during
FTCAP, Penn State Worthing-
ton Scranton campus, & he
proposed to her in Old Main
bell tower. They live in Hager-
stown, Md.
Karen L. Larson ’11 Hbg pro-
moted from staff assoc. to
sr. assoc., Smith Elliott Kearns
& Co., LLC, working in audit
dept. She lives in Carlisle, Pa.
Mairead E. Stewart ’11 Lib is in-
take therapist, drug & alcohol
div., Southwestern Pa. Human
Svcs. She lives in Coraopolis,
Pa.
Megan Green ’11 Agr wed Wil-
liam Christensen ’12 EMS—
Sept. 27, 2014. They live in
Eureka, Ill.
DeAnthony Heart ’13 MS Eng
WC, sr. systems engr., The MI-
TRE Corp., recognized at 2015
Black Engr. of the Yr. Awards
& received Modern-Day Tech-
nology Leader Award. He lives
in Arlington, Va.
Spencer Bordner ’14 Eng is
jr. design engr., bridge unit,
transportation engrng. group,
Erdman Anthony. He lives in
Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Christopher C. Clark ’14 MHA
H&HD WC appointed medical
dir., clinical client relations—
Highmark, Inc. He lives in Erie,
Pa.
Courtney Wallace ’14 IST
is technical account mgr.,
Microsoft. She lives in Fargo,
N.D. Mother: Patricia Wallace
’99 MS Grt Vly.

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NEW LIFE MEMBERS

WE’RE NO. 1
Penn State continues to have the nation’s
largest dues-paying alumni association, with
174,379 members. We also have more life
members than any other alumni association,
with a total of 108,585. We welcome the
following new life members.
( Note: This list reflects those who have completed all payments on their life memberships.)

1950s
John Dudash Jr. ’56
Jacqueline Bloom Struble ’58
Raymond M. Maest ’61
1960s
Victor M. Rodite ’62
William P. McCarthy ’63
Robert W. Hunt ’64
Dorothy L. Rodite ’64
G. Thomas Sheffer ’64
Jean Bacsik Anstine ’65
John Bellanti ’65
Lawrence R. Fraley ’65
Suzanne Saxton Harpster ’65
Marilyn M. Simmons ’65
Michael K. Simmons ’65
Phyllis Weisman Bernstein ’66
LeRoy Smigel ’66
Barbara Yocum Bahnsen ’67
Carl W. Long ’67
Jane B. Smigel ’67
Charles M. Lukehart ’68
Terry L. Stambaugh ’68
Margaret L. Thoren ’68
Richard A. Burtnett ’69
Alfred H. Frezza ’69
Bruce J. VanNess ’69
1970s
James R. Chappell Jr. ’70
Terry H. Hack ’70
Gordon D. Irons ’70
Dianne Dorris Moll ’70
Bruce A. Reinhart ’70
Karen Seidel Bartley ’71
Thomas B. Freker Jr. ’71
Lawrence J. Keating ’71
Ronald R. Peterman ’71
Susan C. Earl ’72
James A. Keddie ’72
Stuart E. Kehler ’72
Howard A. Lang ’72
Roger F. Lloyd ’72
Thomas J. Marusak ’72
Anne Desilets Mentz ’72
Robert G. Mentz ’72
Thomas J. Moll Jr. ’72
Richard P. Nekoranik ’72
Ed L. Rohrbaugh ’72
Karen Fetterolf Wank ’72
Jacqueline Barner ’73
Anna M. Edling ’73
Richard M. Garofalo ’73
Gregory L. Rock ’73
Albert J. Romanosky ’73
Carolyn A. Bellanti ’74
Sandra Bowling Bruce ’74
Larry F. Harpster ’74
Billy J. Heyduck ’74
Kathy Krum Holden ’74
Russell F. King ’74
Harold S. Lloyd ’74
Richard R. Maggi ’74
Charles J. Malinauskas ’74
W. David Menzie II ’74
Barbara Shirey-Lloyd ’74
James S. Stack ’74
Charlotte A. T. Wulf ’74
Regina A. Andriolo ’75
Donald L. Bartley ’75
Ronald Fassio ’75
Jacqueline Crawford Hunt ’75
Kenneth B. Kephart ’75
Richard C. Marlor ’75
William J. Rusnack Jr. ’75
Sandra M. Ergen ’76
Jeanne P. Friedman ’76
Ann Louise Gilfoyle ’76
George H. Heisey ’76
Joyce A. Hengstenberg ’76
Sheldon K. Kohr ’76 1980s Teresa L. Ridgeway ’85
Stephen P. Kolodziej ’76 Scott M. Smith ’85
James M. Leighton ’76 Karen Wilson Adomaitis ’80 Katherine Hartman Smith ’85
Carolyn Kruse Menzie ’76 Donna Dispas-Gebert ’80 Frank X. Brown III ’86
Michael Mochan Jr. ’76 Susan Patterson Fox ’80 Timothy G. Buzza ’86
John F. Perry ’76 Frederick C. Gebert ’80 Susan Yearick Hills ’86
Robert J. Roadarmel ’76 Lynn Gurski Leighton ’80 Mary Close Hubner ’86
Eileen M. Rusnack ’76 Shigeru Tanaka ’80 David C. Kunkel ’86
Pamela Shaffer Sica ’76 Paul W. Weibel Jr. ’80 Peter R. Lange ’86
Ralph L. F. Sica ’76 Lana L. Young ’80 John J. Rooney Jr. ’86
Timothy Q. Unger ’76 Joseph R. Fox ’81 Carol L. Rooney ’86
Karen Werwie Ward ’76 Sandra Toth ’81 Michele Meinert Brown ’87
Robert E. Ward ’76 Randall D. White ’81 Roger N. Felch ’87
Carole Shoener Chismar ’77 John R. Butcosk ’82 Karen Blumenthal ’88
Paul Chismar ’77 Glenn C. Metcalfe ’82 J. Patrick Mooney ’88
Charles W. Galbraith ’77 Christopher D. Weller ’82 Stacy L. Reck ’88
Bonnie E. Hack ’77 Mark J. Amman ’83 Cassandra L. Boyd ’89
William F. Kardosh ’77 Bonnie J. Crownover ’83 Scott J. Hine ’89
George P. Karidis ’77 Joseph A. Michelin ’83 Sherman Reeves ’89
Donald J. Kennel ’77 Christopher K. Rossi ’83
James E. Nieder II ’77 Andrea Strauss ’83 1990s
Terry L. Schleicher ’77 Laura Wensel Fennell ’84
John W. Sienicki ’77 Lori A. Michelin ’84 Rebecca Cline-Cole ’90
Stephen P. Fish ’78 Christine C. Nichols ’84 Jay W. Friese ’90
Ferdinand E. Flesch ’78 H. Steven Seifert ’84 Melanie Magruder Kramer ’90
Lisa J. Kohr ’78 David E. Wozniak ’84 Brian P. Ley ’90
Richard H. Mylin III ’78 Mitchell Blumenthal ’85 David H. Albrecht ’91
James R. DeVore ’79 Edward A. Hubner ’85 James P. Valenti ’91

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Kathleen A. Kasperik ’92
Kathryn M. Maxwell ’92
Rachael E. Wright ’92
Barbara J. Gage ’93
Marcia T. Johnson ’93
Robert M. Mignemi ’93
Jacquelyn Riess ’93
Pamela Winter ’93
Deborah D. Wyse ’93
Andrew S. Laughland ’94
Sarah E. McCall ’94
Eric T. Aschenbach ’95
Michael J. Wagner ’95
Joseph J. Dallago ’96
Donna Shearer Galbraith ’96
Rushmi S. Kumar ’96
Kurt M. Malick ’96
Jessica E. Meyers ’96
Che T. Arosemena ’97
William J. Becker ’97
Lynn M. Malick ’97
Christopher I. Maxwell ’97
Jason D. Neely ’97
Tiffany Cresswell-Yeager ’98
Jeffrey C. Rimland ’98
Niraj R. Shah ’98
Christopher R. Sprague ’98
Suzanne C. Day ’99
J. Rebecca Hargrave ’99
Emily L. Rimland ’99
2000s
Candace S. Brown ’00
Courtney L. Brown ’00
Katharine Mitchell Mehle ’00
Rene Unger ’00
Christa E. Daugherty ’01
Jeffrey K. Folkmann ’01
Jason T. Funyak ’01
Lesley Miller Kunkel ’01
Gail L. Martino ’01
Scott F. Martino ’01
Matthew B. Mehle ’01
Lauren S. Shoemaker ’01
Heather M. Walter ’01
Lara E. Billioni ’02
Louise S. Frantz ’02
Michael A. Kocsis ’02
Christie N. Sasso ’02
Julie C. Bosley ’03
Ruchita R. Chawda ’03
Krystle M. Davis ’03
Crystal L. DuBois ’03
Richard L. Grunden ’03
Deborah L. Hewitt ’03
Zoe Martinez ’03
Anna M. Noll ’03
Daniel J. Tascione ’03
Karyn N. Waters ’03
Christopher R. Conroy ’04
Jonathan A. DeRubeis ’04
Kimberly A. Grunden ’04
Michael J. Hargather ’04
Brad M. Hawkins ’04
Kirk S. Hinkley ’04
Brian Klock ’04
Michal L. Moffa ’04
Anne E. Ray ’04
Vijay Wadhwa ’04
Ryan M. Byler ’05
Nick A. Ciarcia ’05
Monica Rao Conroy ’05
Michelle E. Cribbs ’05
James J. Decaro ’05
Michael J. Kovach ’05
Anastas N. Stoilov ’05
Rui Zhang ’05
Eric W. Anderson ’06
Seely Leyenberger Byler ’06
Brian L. Heilman ’06
Marc J. Horwitz ’06
Diana Valtierra Sienicki ’06
Gary J. Sienicki ’06
Jeffrey L. Steinberg ’06
Shauna A. Barnes ’07
Cody E. Chapman ’07
Jennifer R. Chapman ’07
Cara L. Hanks ’07
Timothy G. Hanks ’07
Dale L. Heineman ’07
Amy K. Huff ’07
Sarah J. Kaufhold ’07
Abigail L. Malik ’07
Beth A. Meckes ’07
Kirk S. Simcik ’07
Jessica L. Steinberg ’07
Neel Abraham ’08
Bryan S. Arnold ’08
Theodore M. Feller ’08
Sonali Kumar ’08
Liang Shi ’08
Gina R. Tascione ’08
Ashley S. Bahrt ’09
Claire F. Buechel ’09
Laura C. Campbell ’09
Chase R. Elliott ’09
Mallory L. Feller ’09
Krystal M. Franks ’09
Brandi Hankins ’09
Benjamin J. Keim ’09
Rebecca B. Lantz ’09
Michael R. Leister ’09
Marcia Murphy ’09
Noah P. Davis ’09
Christopher Passodelis II ’09
Jonathan A. Revtai ’09
Damien Troychock ’09
Shirley Walp-Jackson ’09
2010s
Jonathan V. Barr ’10
Caitlin M. Donnangelo ’10
Caleb Hamel ’10
Michael K. Hills ’10
Rosarene D. Kunkle ’10
Kristina M. Mcallister ’10
Amber J. Ridgeway ’10
Derek C. Smith ’10
Noelle St. Clair ’10
Jerod L. Stapleton ’10
Danhong Zhong ’10
Rosiland J. Ball ’11
Kristen M. Campbell ’11
James R. Fennell Jr. ’11
Nathan R. Halenar ’11
Scott M. Hansen ’11
Jonathon M. Pelter ’11
Christopher J. Robinson ’11
Andrew J. Shamp ’11
Heather M. Toms ’11
Chelsea M. Torris ’11
Ashley Benedick ’12
Vanessa A. Bower ’12
Justin M. Bunce ’12
Adam F. Cota ’12
Michael D. Cowden ’12
Tod A. Dechristopher ’12
Zachary B. Diamond ’12
Chelsey Z. Hargather ’12
Anne Jordan ’12
Kory Kiefer ’12
Zena-Marie Lewoc ’12
Kevin Magbitang ’12
Keegan S. McCoy ’12
Joseph D. McLoughlin ’12 Katherine DelGuercio Julia L. Neyhart
Tiffany Mosier ’12 Cortney L. Dlubak Tina Petruzzi
Katy S. Nese ’12 Lori A. Dressel Sally Pillion
Diane Pickle ’12 Joshua B. Drossner John T. Poprik
David M. Revtai ’12 Doris A. Dudash Patricia K. Poprik
Joseph W. Ritzman ’12 Kathryn D. Dutcher Dorothy B. Porcaro
James D. Rogers III ’12 Michelle Folkmann Kenneth M. Porcaro
Krista M. Jennifer C. Friese Elizabeth Reeves
Romanowski ’12 Linda Garner Kelli Regan
Sydney E. Shaw ’12 William J. Garner Carole A. Rhoten
Thomas D. Snyder ’12 Michael B. Geering Linda S. Rogers
Diane M. Weller ’12 Lisa G. Geiselman Elizabeth A. Romando
Harry L. Baker III ’13 Laurie Gualtier-King John J. Romando
Matthew F. Bonczek ’13 John M. Guda David Sadugor
John Churba ’13 Lenea S. Harris Randi Sadugor
Robin M. Keire ’13 Peter Hengstenberg Samantha B. Sadugor
Ryan S. Klosterman ’13 Laura B. Herbe Brandon R. Sharp
Spencer J. Sandy ’13 Michelle Hertel Haley Shaw
Yu Suzuki ’13 Robin L. Howett Patricia R. Sienicki
Matthew A. Thorwart ’13 Mary E. Kardosh Julianne G. Sills
Beth H. Tobin ’13 Lynn Karidis Robert A. Sills
Allison M. Wicks ’13 Michael J. Kennuth Janet T. Smith
Sean M. Brennan ’14 Charles T. King Sarah Snow
Sean J. Cronauer ’14 Michael R. Koon Dave Sorrell
John O. Elkhoury ’14 Tamara L. Krafft Nancy A. Stambaugh
Kody E. Goodge ’14 Jennifer Kurtz Robert M. Struble
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Katia S. Arosemena John W. Monteleone Thomas W. Wulf
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 IN MEMORIAM

K U RT H E R M A N 1 92 9 – 2 0 1 4

Holocaust Survivor and CPA

Kurt Herman ’51 Bus gave hundreds of
talks about how he was rescued from the
Nazis as a boy. Each started and ended
the same way. “I am a lucky guy,” Herman
would say.
At 9, Herman was one of 50 Jewish
children chosen to escape Nazi-occupied
Vienna and begin new lives in the United
States. The audacious 1939 plan, led by a
Philadelphia attorney and his wife, was
portrayed in the 2013 HBO documentary,
50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr.
and Mrs. Kraus. After living in a summer
camp and then with a foster family, Her-
man was reunited with his parents after
they fled to the U.S. His grandparents died
at Auschwitz.
Herman majored in commerce and finance at Penn State
and became a successful CPA in the Philadelphia area. With
his wife of 61 years, Rosalyn—whom he met while a counselor
at a Bucks County, Pa., summer camp—he
raised three daughters. In addition to his
CPA work, he volunteered with the Holo-
caust Awareness Museum in Philadelphia;
served as chief financial officer for the
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
and the area Jewish Community Centers;
and gave time and leadership to Brith Sho-
lom, the organization that had backed the
Krauses’ mission.
He also was a lifetime athlete, compet-
ing and winning medals in several Senior
Olympics.
“Because he was saved,” says Rosalyn,
“he made it a life that was meaningful and
successful.”
Herman (\Y6) died Dec. 13 at the age of
85. He is survived by his wife and three daughters, including
Elise Baylson ’78 Edu and Shari Glauser ’81 Edu. Four of his
grandchildren are Penn State grads. —MERI-JO BORZILLERI

CORRECTION: We 1940s Robert G. Zellers ’41 Agr Yager ’42 Edu (6K)—Feb. Lib—Feb. 24, 2015. Wife:
are happy to report (Z\6)—Feb. 1, 2015. 21, 2015. Mary Long ’46 H&HD;
that Harry J. Smith Douglas S. Sherwin ’40 Children: Susan Biseli ’73
’74, ’76 MS Agr is alive Sci (Baseball)—Feb. 9, Jean Clark Bishop ’42, Elizabeth Smith Geier ’43 Edu; Bruce ’76 Eng.
and well; we inad- 2015. ’44 MS H&HD (QQK)— Lib—Jan. 24, 2015.
vertently listed him Jan. 15, 2015. John L. Bigelow ’46 JD
as deceased in the Janet Story Stanford Edwin W. Hoover ’43 Law—Feb. 13, 2015. Sons:
Mar./Apr. issue. We ’40 H&HD (6K)—March Phillip M. Ittel ’42 Agr EMS—Feb. 28, 2015. John ’76 Lib, ’79 MBA
regret the error. 5, 2015. Daughters: Jean (Baseball)—Feb. 27, 2015. Bus, ’82 MS EMS; Gordon
Jacobs ’66 H&HD; Gail Stuart C. Kines ’43 ’88 JD Law.
1930s Solt ’73, ’75 MPA Lib; Mary Biggy Rigone ’42 H&HD—March 23, 2015.
Betty ’73 A&A, ’00 MEd Edu (O\I)—Aug. 16, Ruth Anderson Clem-
Alexandra Tillson Filer Edu. 2014. Janet Holmes Linsenma- mens ’46 Lib (]1)—
’38 EMS (QQK)—April ier ’43 H&HD (IVW)— March 12, 2015. Son: Wil-
7, 2014. Paul R. Baird ’41 Bus— Agnes Decker Stahl ’42 Aug. 24, 2014. liam ’70 Lib.
Feb. 9, 2015. H&HD—Feb. 3, 2015.
Herbert R. Hazard Husband: Benjamin ’42 Carolyn Fisher Healey Esther Greenes Eisman
’39 Eng (Track/Cross Monica Williams Goett- Eng. ’44 H&HD (]1)—Feb. ’46 Edu (IL\)—Feb. 11,
Country)—March 9, man ’41 Agr—Jan. 31, 18, 2015. 2015. Husband: Stanley
2015. 2014. Robert J. Stupp Jr. ’42 ’48 Agr; Sons: Larry ’71
Eng (\QZ)—Jan. 29, Martha Elston Moore ’44 Lib; Brett ’74 H&HD;
Cecile Metz Reichen- Thomas J. Sica ’41 Bus 2015. Lib (6K)—Feb. 12, 2015. Robert ’79 Bus.
bach ’39 Lib (IL\) (6^, Lacrosse, Blue
—Oct. 4, 2014. Band)—Jan. 25, 2015. Catherine Coleman Daniel H. Kingsbury ’45 Janet Dildine Hause ’46

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IN MEMORIAM

R . B A R RY U B E R 1 9 4 5 – 2 0 1 4

Manufacturing Exec, Private Equity Investor

Throughout a successful business career
spanning more than 45 years, R. Barry Uber
’69 was keenly aware of the importance
of a good education—and the financial
challenges in attending college. He was a
regular donor to scholarship funds at Penn
State Harrisburg, and after his death, his
family requested donations to the univer-
sity’s Student Emergency Support Fund. By
early May of this year, $20,000 had been
raised in his memory.
It’s a fitting legacy for a man who “had a
way of embracing people,” according to his
wife, Kathy. Uber had a successful career
as a manufacturing executive, starting full-
time at Ingersoll-Rand while still an under-
graduate and spending 30 years there, eventually becoming
an officer of the company. Later he was president and CEO of
North American Van Lines and operating executive for Argosy
Capital, a private equity investment firm.
In 1996, Penn State Harrisburg honored
him with the Alumni Fellow Award.
Though Uber was a consummate busi-
nessman, Kathy says “he had a very play-
ful side.” He loved to fish and play golf,
and was happiest vacationing at the Jer-
sey Shore with his family. “He was like an
Italian grandmother, always in the kitchen
cooking for everybody, and he enjoyed
sharing a good bottle of wine from his
collection,” recalls Kathy. “He was an
eternal optimist and believed every day
is a gift.”
Uber, who lived in New Hope, Pa., died
unexpectedly Dec. 31, 2014, while on a
family ski vacation in Vermont. He was 69. He is survived by
his wife Kathy, two daughters, three step-daughters, and five
grandchildren. —ANNA ANDERSEN

Edu—March 11, 2015.
Husband: James ’46 Sci.
Dorothy Jaun Hesley ’46
H&HD (Q6)—Feb. 2, 2015.
Son: Robert ’74 Hbg.
Janet Post Phillips ’46
Lib (Q6)—Jan. 24, 2015.
Daughter: Holly ’76 Lib.
Rosalind Dulberg Yewd-
ell ’46 Lib (Y6Z)—Aug.
19, 2014. Son: Joseph ’73 Bus.
Stanley E. Ziff ’46 Com
(Skull & Bones)—Feb. 19,
2015. Daughter: Marjorie
Ziff-Levine ’74 A&A.
Jeanne Barinott Bradley
’47 Sci (6K)—March 6,
2015.
Jean McCreary Elicker
’47 H&HD—Feb. 8, 2015. ’47 Edu, ’51 MEd, ’85 Ruth Friedman Goldey (6^)—March 9, 2015.
Children: John ’76 A&A; PhD Lib (Q6)—Jan. 3, ’48 Bus—Jan. 30, 2015. Wife: Louise Smith ’48
Janet ’77 Edu. 2015. Lib; Son: John ’73 Bus.
Paul W. Grove ’48 A&A,
Barbara McCleary Richard A. Collins ’48 ’51 MEd, ’69 DEd Edu Joseph N. Succop II ’48
Heisler ’47 H&HD Agr (6OY)—March 5, (6^, Choir, Glee Club, Bus (QY, Swimming/Div-
(QIO)—Feb. 14, 2015. 2015. Skull & Bones, Thespi- ing)—Feb. 9, 2015. Chil-
Daughters: Ann Walsh ans)—Feb. 23, 2015. Wife: dren: Joseph ’80; Nancy
’84 H&HD; Nancy Sopko Jane Smith DeMarco Lois Heyd ’49 Edu. Stremple ’84 A&A.
’85 Nur. ’48 Lib—Dec. 22, 2014.
Husband: Carlo ’50 Sci. Robert W. Hunter Jr. ’48 John H. Thomas ’48
William D. Lawson ’47 Bus—May 9, 2014. Eng—Dec. 3, 2014.
Agr—May 27, 2014. Robert C. Dickey ’48
Eng—March 11, 2015. Harold E. Lowery ’48 Frank S. Zettle ’48 Agr—
Judson H. Long ’47 Eng— EMS (\Q^)—Jan. 13, 2015. March 11, 2015.
Feb. 20, 2015. George W. Foreman ’48
Eng—March 11, 2015. Dale E. Murphy ’48 Dorothy Jansen Ander-
Harold M. Myers ’47 MA Law—April 10, 2014. son ’49 H&HD—Feb. 28,
Lib—Feb. 7, 2015. Robert A. Fredrickson 2015.
’48 Edu, ’52 MEd Lib Jack D. Neilson ’48 Eng
Bernice Spielvogel Rot- (OU, Glee Club)— (WQI)—Jan. 29, 2015. Betty Reed Bergstein
berg ’47 Lib—March 7, March 13, 2015. Wife: Wife: Lynette Lundquist ’49 Lib (QQK)—Feb. 26,
2015. Jane Doner ’48 Lib; ’47 Com. 2015. Sons: Andrew ’74
Brother: Donald ’49 H&HD; Michael ’78 Com,
Virginia Minshall Swartz Eng; Son: Craig ’73 Eng. John L. Olewine ’48 Eng ’94 MFA Lib.

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William A. Bonsall ’49 John C. Miller ’49 MEd Agr—Oct. 2, 2014. 2015. Son: Gregory ’86 Robert S. Wilson ’52 Bus
H&HD (JOW, Cheer- A&A (Y\L)—March 16, Bus. (Q6X)—March 15, 2015.
leader, Gymnastics, 2015. John I. Spangler ’50 Wife: Evelyn Marasovich
AFROTC, Skull & Bones, Eng—Feb. 6, 2015. Harold T. Waddell ’51 Agr ’52 Agr.
Thespians)—Feb. 21, 2015. Richard M. Roeder ’49 (Y], AFROTC)—April 20,
Wife: Jean McCurdy ’48 Eng (6\)—Feb. 1, 2015. Eileen Drennan Starr ’50 2014. Ralph J. Aloi ’53 EMS
H&HD. Edu—Feb. 23, 2015. Hus- (O6])—March 9, 2015.
Floyd E. Romesburg ’49 band: Howard ’51 Eng. James L. Wenzel ’51 Son: Shawn ’85a Eng
Jean Moyer Book ’49 Eng—March 1, 2015. Eng—Nov. 7, 2014. DuBois.
Lib (I]1)—Oct. 18, Ned C. Swigart ’50
2014. William F. Ross ’49 Agr—Feb. 20, 2015. Geoffrey E. Brock ’52 Alfred J. Babecki ’53
Sci—Jan. 29, 2015. MS, ’54 PhD EMS—Feb. EMS—Jan. 17, 2015.
Eric D. Brown ’49 Sci— Charles W. Bert ’51, ’56 19, 2015.
March 3, 2015. Caspar L. Woodbridge MS Eng (AFROTC)—Feb. Gary Bromberg ’53 Bus
’49 MS, ’52 PhD Sci— 3, 2015. John J. Burkhardt ’52 (JYX)—Jan. 31, 2015.
Francis J. Cain ’49 Lib March 14, 2015. MEd Edu—Jan. 17, 2015.
(\QO)—Feb. 23, 2015. Harold R. Downey ’51 Barry C. Fain ’53 Lib
1950s Com (6^)—March 5, Mary McCue Chadwick (IQR)—Nov. 13, 2014.
Mary A. Conahan ’49 2015. Daughter: Beth ’80 ’52 Bus—Feb. 16, 2015. Wife: Virginia Sharako
Edu—Nov. 11, 2014. Barbara Brown Castro- Bus. ’57 Lib.
dale ’50 Edu (K\J, Col- Mary Decker Coleman
Ralph J. Ettinger ’49 Eng legian)—Jan. 31, 2015. Robert C. East ’51 MS ’52 H&HD—March 16, Howard C. Froberg ’53
(O])—March 17, 2015. Sci—Feb. 9, 2015. 2015. Sister: Ann Heber- Bus (WQ\)—April 27,
Philip M. Coolick ’50 ling ’45 H&HD. 2014.
Barbara Porter Grazel Lib—Feb. 22, 2015. Son: Stanford Field ’51 Eng
’49 Edu (QQK)—Jan. 24, Philip ’82 Alt. (WR\)—Oct. 16, 2014. Edward L. Cunningham Jackson G. Horner ’53,
2015. Jr. ’52 Edu—March 2, ’59 MEd H&HD (O],
Alice G. DeLong ’50 Frances Yoffee Green- 2015. Track/Cross Country)—
Richard R. Hastings ’49 MEd Edu—March 14, berg ’51 Com (Y6Z)— March 12, 2015. Wife:
Lib (\QZ, Golf)—Feb. 2015. Son: David ’76 Lib. March 4, 2015. Son: Bruce Walter B. Few Jr. ’52 Bus Lenore Garman ’73 DEd
5, 2015. ’79 MPA Lib. (WQI)—March 10, 2015. A&A.
Elizabeth I. Flake ’50
Herbert A. Houston ’49, MEd Edu—Oct. 20, Donald R. Holland ’51, Kenneth B. Hoover ’52 Henrietta Webb Knecht
’51 Lib (Y\L)—Feb. 26, 2013. ’69 MA Com, ’71 MA PhD Sci—Nov. 3, 2014. ’53 Edu—Feb. 11, 2015.
2015. Son: Lawrence ’80 Lib—Feb. 4, 2015. Wife:
Lib, ’83a Eng Brandy. Bill R. Frye ’50 Eng— Betty Strawmire ’50 Edu; Robert H. Insley ’52 MS Robert C. Moore ’53
Feb. 6, 2015. Son: Kevin ’80 Lib. EMS—March 8, 2015. Eng (Lacrosse)—March
Robert E. Housel ’49 15, 2015. Son: Robin ’76
Lib—March 11, 2015. Son: Richard M. Hall ’50 William T. Loy Jr. ’51 Arthur B. McCarter ’52 Com.
James ’78 H&HD. Eng—Jan. 22, 2015. Agr—Feb. 9, 2015. Son: MEd Edu—Feb. 21, 2015.
Dale ’79 Agr. Daughter: Patricia Lach- Howard Ross II ’53 EMS
Jeune Good Kilian ’49 Alvin Kaufman ’50 man ’71 Lib. (Choir)—Feb. 24, 2015.
MA Bus (Q6)—Feb. 21, EMS—Nov. 23, 2014. Robert G. Mathews ’51
2015. Children: John ’78 JD Law—Oct. 9, 2014. Wesley S. Pfirman ’52 Guy H. Temple ’53, ’59
Eng; Joan ’80 Sci. Theodore G. Lieb ’50 Eng (6Y\)—Feb. 6, 2015. MS Agr—March 5, 2015.
Bus (\QY, Soccer, Lawrence J. Nicholson ’51 Wife: Nancy Broscious
Thomas B. King ’49, ’50 Parmi Nous)—March Lib (Swimming/Diving)— ’52 Lib. Patricia Hathaway White
MS Agr (6OY)—Feb. 19, 2015. March 12, 2015. ’53 Lib (QQK)—Jan. 26,
7, 2015. Wife: Alice John V. Reilly ’52, ’57 2015.
Mendenhall ’49 H&HD; George W. Pyle ’50 Agr Charles G. Ritchey ’51 MEd Edu—Sept. 25, 2014.
Brother: John ’51, ’64 (Q6X, Blue Band)— Bus—Feb. 1, 2015. Charles M. Eyster ’54 Eng
MS Agr; Children: Ann March 14, 2015. Fred L. Royer ’52 Lib, ’54 Wyo—Feb. 10, 2015.
Filmer ’78 Agr; Mark ’78, Nicholas C. Scandale MS, ’56 PhD Edu—March
’84 Agr; Thomas ’72 Lib. Raymond D. Schar ’50 ’51 Eng (\QZ)—Feb. 26, 19, 2015. James K. Hallock ’54a

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IN MEMORIAM

J . M I C H A E L S H A N A H A N 1 9 43 – 2 0 1 4

News Correspondent, Journalism Prof

Last year, 46 years after Michael Shanahan then White House correspondent for
’65 Com left Vietnam after a tour as a U.S. Newhouse newspapers. Among the
Army intelligence officer, he went back, stories he covered were the Kent State
this time as a tourist. But he brought with shootings, the Iran-Contra affair, and
him what could not have been developed several presidential campaigns.
so fully at age 25—an intellectual curios- The move to academia provided
ity deepened by maturity, sharpened him with another opportunity to
through three decades as a journalist, and shine. “Mike was a mentor, friend, and
heightened by the exacting standards he confidante,” says Lauren French, who
impressed upon journalism students at worked closely with Shanahan as the
George Washington University. editor of GW’s student newspaper.
When he returned from Southeast Students were always coming to him
Asia last spring, he wrote a report for The for career advice, she says: “I don’t
Boston Globe, exploring how Vietnamese know how he had the time, but he
people feel today about the war, including took them all on.”
an account from a man who was his enemy Shanahan died Nov. 22 following a
in that earlier lifetime. It began simply: stroke; he was 71 and is survived by
“These days, the former Viet Cong warrior wife Victoria, three children, and four
is balding and gentle.” grandchildren. A memorial service for him at GW was packed,
Shanahan was an Associated Press reporter in Pittsburgh according to French: “Every single person there was there
and Washington; he later became a national political and con- because they felt like he was a mentor to them. He had an
gressional correspondent for the McClatchy Newspapers and incredible heart.” —SALLY ANN FLECKER

Agr—March 14, 2015. ’60 MEd Edu—Feb. 26,
2015.
Lawrence M. Klevans ’54
Eng (ILW)—March 15, Edward Lukin ’55 Lib—
2015. Wife: Judith Ber- Feb. 28, 2015.
man ’57 Edu.
Bernard R. Mazzoni ’55
Ralph E. McConnell ’54 MEd Edu—Feb. 27, 2015.
Eng—Jan. 25, 2015.
Gerritt P. Bean ’56 PhD
Rose Davis Neary ’54 Sci—Nov. 29, 2014.
A&A—Feb. 7, 2015.
Myron R. Gersh ’56 MA
Bruce M. John ’55 Agr— Com—April 24, 2014.
March 15, 2015.
Kent R. Kiehl ’56 Lib
Lee D. Kummer ’55 (AFROTC)—Feb. 26, 2015.
Agr—Feb. 14, 2015. Wife: Wife: Beverly Smith ’56
Rosalyn Sammons ’56 Edu; Brother: Lynn ’61
H&HD. Eng Behrend, ’61 Eng;
Daughter: Kimberlee ’90
Donald R. Lansberry ’55, PhD Edu.
John J. McGarvey ’56 John H. Shreffler ’56 Barbara Orchard Hahn
Bus (Froth, NROTC)— Lib—Feb. 17, 2015. Son: ’57 Edu—Dec. 24, 2014.
Feb. 7, 2015. Wife: Patri- Douglas ’85 EMS.
cia Marsteller ’54 Edu. Joseph P. Kondis ’57
Eugene Andreosky ’57 Agr—Feb. 28, 2015.
William E. Powers ’56 Eng (Thespians)—Dec.
Edu—Feb. 6, 2015. Wife: 29, 2014. Frederick J. Luddy ’57
Carole Hagen ’53 H&HD. Eng—Jan. 12, 2014. Broth-
Henry G. Beamer III ’57 er: Vincent ’47 Eng.
Frank J. Reich ’56 Edu Bus—Jan. 27, 2015.
(\QO, Football)— Dean S. Maurer ’57
March 24, 2015. Daugh- James H. Bissett ’57 Bus Eng—Nov. 20, 2014.
ter: Cynthia Harbold ’82 (\QY)—Feb. 5, 2015.
H&HD. Wife: Virginia Hamilton Raydelle Brown Pavlick
’53 H&HD. ’57 Edu—March 9, 2015.
Harold A. Rothenberger Husband: John ’58 Eng.
’56 MEd A&A—Feb. 23, John R. Crosetto Jr. ’57
2015. Son: Harold ’87 Eng (Acacia)—March 13, Theresa Seboly Reynolds
MBA Hbg. 2015. ’57 MEd Edu—Feb. 16,
2015.
Richard C. Sable ’56a Rodney P. Fairhead ’57a
Eng Worth—Jan. 23, 2015. Agr—March 18, 2015. Alexander S. Skudneski

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’57a Eng Allghy—Jan. 31,
2015. Daughter: Sharyn ’79
Com.
Wilbur L. Sweigart ’57a
Eng York—March 21, 2015.
Sons: Richard ’77 Eng; Wil-
liam ’80 Bus.
Ernest T. Denning ’58
Bus—Feb. 27, 2015.
Daughter: Leslie Johnson
’73 Lib.
George W. Fray ’58 Bus—
Jan. 28, 2015. Brother:
Keith ’73 Eng; Sons: Rich-
ard ’81 Eng; Robert ’81 Bus.
Kenneth O. Graves Jr. ’58
Agr—Jan. 17, 2015. MEd Edu—Feb. 17, 2015. Edward L. Bell Sr. ’59 Jill Cohen Melmed-
MEd Sci—March 13, 2015. Buzzeo ’59 Edu (\Y6,
Kenneth C. Hertzog ’58 David P. Rabold ’58 Collegian)—Feb. 9, 2015.
Bus—Jan. 30, 2015. A&A—Feb. 13, 2015. Judith McFarland Body
’59 H&HD (QQK, Thes- Carol McWhorter San-
Frederick H. Kerr ’58 Lib Kenneth J. Samara ’58 pians)—Jan. 23, 2015. ford ’59 Edu—Feb. 25,
(AROTC)—March 6, 2015. MEd Edu—Feb. 27, 2015. Daughters: Cynthia 2015.
Son: Steven ’83 MPA Lib. Perosa ’87 Bus; Wendy
Mary Hurley Krauser ’86 Bus. Richard E. Senft ’59a Eng
’58 Edu (QQK)—Nov. 2, William E. Taber Jr. ’58 York—Feb. 4, 2015.
2014. Husband: Walter Bus (YW)—March 8, 2015. Mary Higgins Catlin ’59
’58 H&HD; Daughter: Lib—Jan. 29, 2015. Hus- Quayton R. Stottlemyer
Linda McQuaid ’84 Bus. Gustave H. Tillman Jr. ’58 band: Donald ’58 Eng, ’61 ’59 PhD Sci—Nov. 24,
H&HD—Aug. 24, 2014. MA Sci. 2014.
Donald M. Lane ’58
Eng—Feb. 22, 2015. Chil- Robert J. Vietmeier ’58 Donald S. Cunningham 1960s
dren: Brenda Havener Eng—Feb. 7, 2015. ’59 Agr—Jan. 30, 2015.
’80 Sci; Michael ’94 Agr. Robert L. Emerson ’60
John R. Ansman ’59 MEd Ronald J. Marino ’59 MEd Edu—Feb. 1, 2015.
Mary Tyson Lauck ’58 Edu—Feb. 11, 2015. Bus—March 14, 2015. Son: William ’86 Bus.

A L F R E D B L AC K A DA R 1 92 0 - 2 0 1 5

Weather Forecasting Trailblazer

As a child growing up in State College,
Russell Blackadar sometimes accompa-
nied his father, meteorological scholar
and professor Alfred Blackadar, to work,
where the technology seemed like
something from another world.
“I’d go frequently with my father to
the weather station and marvel at the
noisy teletypes and the magical ma-
chines that could print weather maps off
the wire,” Russell ’78 Sci recalls.
Although Alfred served as Depart-
ment of Meteorology head from 1967
to 1981 and was once president of the
American Meteorological Society, he
was always humble about his accom-
plishments. “I hear over and over how
much he did to advance his field, not just in his research, but
also as an administrator and as a teacher,” Russell says. “It’s
been gratifying to hear stories from former students whom he
helped.”
One of those students was Joel Myers ’61, ’63 MS, ’71 PhD
EMS, founder of AccuWeather Inc. Blackadar served on My-
ers’ Ph.D. thesis committee and as a con-
sultant to AccuWeather. “He was highly
respected as a scientist and played an im-
portant role in some of the early weather
forecasting models that were done graphi-
cally,” Myers says. “He was also an expert
in turbulence and taught a great course on
global climate change long before it was
fashionable.”
Jon Nese ’83, ’85 MS, ’89 PhD EMS,
senior lecturer in meteorology, helped put
together a short YouTube video highlight-
ing Blackadar’s contributions to the field.
“His work was absolutely fundamental
to our understanding of how certain fast
winds develop in the lower part of the
atmosphere after dark, winds that used
to be a hazard to aviation,” Nese says. “He explained this phe-
nomenon, called the ‘low-level jet stream,’ in a paper in 1957
that is still frequently referenced.”
Blackadar died Jan. 17 in State College at the age of 94. He
is survived by wife Beatrice; sons Bruce, Russell, and Thomas;
and three grandchildren. —SARA LANGEN

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IN MEMORIAM

Adolphe D. Greybek Eng Allghy—Feb. 14, Henry Katzwinkel ’61 ’63 MEd Edu (AFROTC, Agr—Feb. 16, 2015.
’60 Agr—Nov. 1, 2014. 2015. MEd A&A—Feb. 1, 2015. RA)—Feb. 11, 2015.
Donna Hendrix Furman
Richard C. Hambright William G. Bittner ’61 Eddie H. King ’61 MEd Robert C. Schettig ’62 ’63 Edu (6M)—Jan. 27,
’60 H&HD (Track/Cross MEd Edu—Feb. 25, 2015. Edu—Feb. 2, 2015. Lib (\QY)—Feb. 19, 2015. 2015.
Country)—March 1,
2015. Harold G. Brown ’61 William F. Marshall Jr. ’61, Alan E. Schwartz ’62 Henry M. Maetz ’63 Agr
Bus—Feb. 23, 2015. ’64 MS EMS—March 10, Bus—Feb. 27, 2015. (WQ\)—March 4, 2015.
Robert L. Harding ’60 2015.
Edu (Glee Club)—Feb. Patricia Coughlin Brug- Robert K. Shuttleworth Norman W. Styer Jr. ’63,
3, 2015. ger ’61 MEd Edu—March Norman V. Blantz ’62 ’62 Eng—Feb. 8, 2015. ’77 MS Eng (AROTC)—
24, 2015. MA, ’74 PhD Lib—Jan. March 13, 2015.
Paul N. Kochik ’60a Eng 25, 2015. Paul J. Tracy ’62 MEd
WB—Feb. 9, 2015. Ralph H. Fertig ’61 Edu—March 3, 2015. Ann Palmer Witmer ’63
A&A—July 18, 2014. Robert E. Devon ’62 Bus Lib, ’72 MA Com (6K,
Joseph A. Nitroy Jr. (6^)—Jan. 26, 2015. Robert L. Wenner Jr. ’62 Collegian)—March 8,
’60 Agr—Feb. 25, 2015. Raymond G. Foerster ’61 Bus (WQ\)—Feb. 20, 2015. Husband: Herbert
Children: Ann Dinkel Bus—Feb. 8, 2015. Richard A. Klein ’62 2015. Brother: Richard ’64 Bus, ’71 MPA Lib.
’74 Agr, ’94 MMgt IDF Eng—June 1, 2014. ’70 Hbg.
GrtVly; J. Michael ’98a August D. Jones ’61 MEd Robert P. Fleming ’64
Abgt, ’98 MEng Eng Edu—Feb. 4, 2015. Walter Marriott III ’62a D. Edward Chaplin Jr. ’63 Agr (R]I)—Feb. 15,
GrtVly. Eng WB—Feb. 1, 2015. Law—March 6, 2015. 2015.
Robert A. Jones ’61 Lib—
George J. Senka ’60a Feb. 21, 2015. Frank R. Mascia ’62 Lib, Edward L. Fleck ’63 Joel A. Hartman ’64 MS,

R I C H A R D G O R D O N 1 93 4 – 2 0 1 4

Mining Scholar
Richard Gordon, longtime professor of in 1964 and retired in 1996. Writes former
mineral economics, was “quiet, thought- student Linda Trocki ’83 MS, ’86 PhD
ful––even shy,” says wife Nancy ’75 Lib. EMS: “There was a bit of Aristotle to the
His writing was a different story. A strong way he proved points. He helped one
critic of government intervention in the make important career decisions while
use of resources like coal, Gordon wrote remaining neutral.”
seven books and more than 100 articles on Gordon participated in government
coal, energy, the environment, and public policy studies, such as the U.S. Commis-
lands. He also contributed to Regulation sion on Fair Market Value Policy for Fed-
magazine, a publication of the libertarian eral Coal Leasing, and won accolades from
Cato Institute, where he was an adjunct the American Institute of Mining, Metal-
scholar. “He was writing until a week or lurgical, and Petroleum Engineers as well
two before he went into the hospital,” says as the International Association for Energy
CO U RT ESY O F T H E C ATO I N ST I T U T E

Nancy. “Writing gave him a little time to
think before speaking. It was the perfect
medium for him.”
Gordon’s interest in coal economics
stemmed from his graduate studies at MIT, where he explored
coal use in Western Europe. He joined the Penn State faculty
Economics. When he wasn’t working, he
often listened to classical music and opera
or did New York Times crossword puzzles.
Gordon died on Dec. 1, 2014, in State
College. He was 80. He is survived by wife Nancy; sons Ben
and David; and several grandchildren. —ERIKA SPICER ’13 COM

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’70 PhD Agr—Jan. 22, ’66 Edu (PIW)—Jan. 26, Michael ’99 JD Law. Phillip A. Podolick ’69a Margaret Watchko
2015. 2015. Eng Berks—March 1, Anderson ’72 H&HD
Samuel H. Haggerty ’68a 2015. (K\J)—Dec. 22, 2014.
John F. Meredith ’64 Eng Ronald J. Hajec ’66 Eng DuBois—Jan. 24, Brother: Jon ’76 Sci.
(Golf)—Feb. 22, 2015. Bus—Feb. 2, 2015. 2015. Donald J. Puckey ’69
Wife: Wanda ’92 H&HD; Children: Erica Hajec- A&A—July 24, 2014. Ronald J. Maceyak ’72a
Brother: William ’64 Bus. Hatala ’93 Lib; Gregory Timothy J. Piwowar Eng Fayt—Feb. 12, 2015.
’97 H&HD. ’68 Agr—March 1, 2015. 1970s
James D. Pennebaker ’64 Daughter: Denise Cot- Joseph J. Mikelonis Jr. ’72
MEd Edu—Feb. 28, 2015. Reginald L. Vassar ’66 tom ’99 Edu. William L. Bethune Jr. Bus (Blue Band)—Feb.
MS Eng—March 7, 2015. ’70a Eng Behrend—Feb. 9, 2015. Sisters: Dorothy
William E. Pink ’64 Bus— Michael F. Remish ’68 23, 2015. Stevens ’69 Lib; Emilie
Feb. 22, 2015. Barbara Gershon Wein- Bus (\Q^)—Feb. 14, Scott ’73 Edu; Daughter:
stein ’66 Sci (Y6Z)— 2015. Theodore M. Goring Michelle Allenson ’00 Bus.
Robert J. Yuhas ’64a Eng Feb. 7, 2015. ’70a Eng Behrend—Feb.
Hazlt—Feb. 22, 2015. Robert A. Thomas ’68 21, 2015. Son: John ’08 Russell L. Schetroma ’72
Kenneth A. Barnes ’67 Eng (\QZ)—Feb. 16, Lib WC. JD Law—March 10, 2015.
June H. Crunick ’65 MFA Eng—Feb. 25, 2015. 2015. Wife: Nancy Mc-
A&A—Feb. 18, 2015. Clintock ’69 Lib. Jon R. Johnson ’70 MS Bernadette Wasko
William D. Cooper ’67 Sci—Jan. 17, 2015. Squeglia ’72 Edu—Nov.
James D. Evans ’65 EMS Bus (6], Glee Club)— L. Richard Adamovich 20, 2014.
(I]Y)—Feb. 19, 2015. July 16, 2014. ’69a Eng Fayt—March Robert J. McDermott
9, 2015. ’70 MS Sci—Jan. 20, Richard W. Swendsen ’72
Thomas J. Hannon ’65 Lance D. Gardner ’67 2015. Agr—March 11, 2015.
MS EMS—Feb. 28, 2015. Bus (Z6\)—Feb. 23, Charles H. Ambler ’69
2015. Edu—Dec. 16, 2013. Son: Paul J. Olszewski ’70 Stanley R. Weaver Jr.
James C. Kromer ’65 Gregory ’02 Eng. Eng—March 6, 2015. ’72 Agr—Feb. 16, 2015.
EMS (Thespians)—Feb. William H. Jackson ’67 Daughters: Heather ’09
28, 2015. Sci (6])—Jan. 28, 2015. Janice Henry Bowman Andrew P. Schwab ’70— Com; Tiffany ’12 Nur.
’69 Com—Feb. 20, 2015. Feb. 18, 2015. Brother:
Foster L. Marlow ’65 DEd Howard D. Koup ’67 Bus Brother: Fred ’64 Lib. Richard ’66 Eng. Donald W. Aurand ’73
A&A—Sept. 11, 2014. (YZK, AROTC)—March MS Agr—June 10, 2014.
11, 2015. Carmine V. Dinello ’69 Aldine Franklin Coleman Son: David ’10 Agr.
Truman P. Reed Jr. ’65 Lib—March 11, 2015. ’71 Edu (IQI)—Jan. 24,
MA A&A—Feb. 10, 2015. Stuart Moskovitz ’67 2015. Howard A. Buffington
Lib—Feb. 4, 2015. Thomas Emanuele ’69 ’73a EMS Bvr—March 3,
Russell R. Till ’65 Agr MA Lib—Jan. 24, 2015. Quinton J. Hanssens ’71 2015.
(IKX)—Feb. 11, 2015. Charles T. North ’67 Agr, ’74 MS IDF (IKX)—
Lib—Dec. 27, 2013. Samuel C. Harper ’69 March 27, 2014. Elwood J. Farabaugh ’73
Gregory L. Wapinsky ’65 Edu—Feb. 6, 2015. Son: Eng—Feb. 27, 2015.
A&A—Feb. 1, 2015. Robert K. Reitzel ’67 Samuel ’01 Lib. Roger W. Opdahl ’71
Bus—Feb. 20, 2015. DEd Edu—Feb. 17, 2015. Billie Farquhar ’73 MEd
Wayne M. Clickner ’66 Daughters: Megan Anthony M. Ionno ’69 H&HD—March 8, 2015.
H&HD—Feb. 5, 2015. Crompton ’96 H&HD; Eng—March 5, 2015. Gerard A. Paquette ’71 Son: Kevin ’77 A&A.
Daughter: Rachel Day Merritt ’03 JD Law. PhD Edu—Feb. 25, 2015.
’94 Agr. David L. Miller ’69 PhD Lloyd R. Franks ’73 MEng
Robert J. Wordinger ’67 IDF—Feb. 6, 2015. George J. Rodemer III ’71 Eng GrtVly—Jan. 31, 2015.
Albert A. Dempsey Jr. Agr (Skull & Bones)— A&A—Jan. 30, 2015.
’66 MEd A&A, ’71 DEd Jan. 23, 2015. Ellwood C. Noll Jr. ’69 Lib Barry N. George ’73a Eng
Edu—Sept. 13, 2014. (NROTC)—Feb. 14, 2015. David L. Seyler ’71 Agr— Shen—Feb. 27, 2015.
Wife: Diane Craig ’68 Howard M. Goldsmith Son: Keith ’98 Hbg. April 15, 2014.
MEd H&HD. ’68 JD Law—Aug. 15, Bruce C. Johnston ’73
2014. Wife: Molly Hart- Michael W. Peterman ’69 Michael R. Walsh ’71 Bus (O6], AFROTC)—
Frances Lang Engelhardt man ’70 JD Law; Son: Bus—Feb. 27, 2015. Hbg—March 17, 2015. Jan. 4, 2015.

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IN MEMORIAM

James A. Kolenda ’73 Sons: Michael ’13 MBA
Agr—March 16, 2015. Hbg; Patrick ’11 Hbg.
H. Robert Leese ’73 MEd Leslie W. Johns Carroll
Sci—Feb. 20, 2015. ’74 Hbg—Feb. 1, 2015.
Barbara E. May ’73 Mark D. Lanza ’74 Eng—
H&HD—Feb. 1, 2015. Jan. 25, 2015.
Frank J. Mitchell ’73 Mark R. Peltan ’74 Lib—
H&HD—Aug. 7, 2014. March 10, 2015. Wife:
Barbara Axelrod ’75 Edu.
Paul M. Smoczynski ’73
Sci—March 18, 2015. Larry W. Robison ’74a
Eng Shen—Feb. 13, 2015.
Constance Bowker Stapf
’73 H&HD (Tennis)—Feb. Adrian A. Santella ’74a
17, 2014. Eng Fayt—Feb. 15, 2015.
James W. Wetzel ’73 Dan H. Wise ’74 Agr—
H&HD—Feb. 15, 2015. March 3, 2015. Mother:
Helen Dickerson ’49,
Marc L. Worthington ’73 ’52 MEd, ’68 DEd Edu;
Bus—Feb. 16, 2015. Wife: Brothers: David ’78 Agr,
Catherine Leslie ’78 Edu; ’88 MBA Bus; Dirk ’93
MS Agr; Daughter: Erin Christopher J. Bise ’76 Wanda Shriver Logue
Fisher ’12 Lib. MS, ’80 PhD EMS (Alum. ’77a Lib Alt—Feb. 18, 2015.
Council)—Feb. 15, 2015.
Gregory F. Yagodzinski Sandi L. McCall ’77 Lib—
’74 Bus—Aug. 10, 2014. Benjamin E. McConnell April 19, 2014.
’76 Edu—Nov. 10, 2014.
Dennis M. Brehm ’75 Agr Walter E. Niemczak ’77
(Z\6)—March 8, 2015. Nicholas Rudenko ’76 EMS—Feb. 22, 2015.
Wife: Dorothy Brown Hbg—Jan. 25, 2015.
’76 Sci. Henrietta Portnoe ’77a
Paul G. Abbott ’77 Lib Abgt—Feb. 26, 2015.
Daniel L. Eby ’75 MS EMS—Feb. 16, 2015. Son: Eric ’88 MBA Bus.
Agr—Feb. 18, 2015.
Philip A. Beshore ’77 Timothy W. Irvin ’78
Carl J. Hoke ’75 Hbg— Hbg—Feb. 17, 2015. Eng—March 14, 2015.
Dec. 22, 2014. Son: Zachary ’13 York.
Hsiu M. Huang ’77
Joseph W. Linker ’75 Hbg—Feb. 2, 2015. Richard M. Pencil ’78
Edu—Feb. 15, 2015. Daughter: Li ’83 Eng. H&HD—Dec. 26, 2014.
Children: Kristen Casa-
lenuovo ’04 Com/’04 Richard T. Hunter ’77a Douglas R. Joiner ’79
Lib; Nicholas ’12 Lib. Lib—Jan. 26, 2015. Chil- Sci—Feb. 23, 2015.
dren: Amy Marshall ’91
Edmund E. Benedikt ’76 Lib, ’94 JD Law; Matthew Jeffrey R. Reiche ’79
MEng GrtVly—Feb. 8, 2015. ’03a Eng WB. Eng—June 21, 2014. Wife:

G E O RG E D E M KO 1 933 – 2 0 1 4

Noted Geographer
In 1988, People magazine interviewed George
Demko ’64 PhD EMS, who at the time was
head geographer for the U.S. State Depart-
ment. He explained his job this way: “A lot of
people think geography is knowing the capital
of South Dakota. But that’s like saying math-
ematicians know how to add one and one.”
Instead, he and his staff “charted famines in
Africa, the spread of AIDS in America, and the
location of satellites in outer space,” accord-
ing to the article.
Born in Catasauqua, Pa., Demko fought in
the Korean War before earning a bachelor’s
degree at West Chester State Teachers Col-
lege and his Ph.D. at Penn State. In addition to
serving as U.S. Geographer, he taught at Ohio
State and Dartmouth, and worked on projects
for NASA, the World Bank, and the United Nations.
Daughter Kerstin remembers her father as “larger than life”
and “probably the greatest feminist I’ve
ever known.” She most misses his ready ad-
vice, blunt and to the point: “Don’t do that;
it’s stupid.”
Demko offered advice and support to his
students as well—hundreds over the years.
Cal State Los Angeles geography professor
Killian Ying met Demko at OSU in 1979, and
considers him “the ultimate teacher and
mentor.” Generous, too: In 1983, Ying and
his wife Joan found themselves without
a working car, and Demko loaned them
$1,000, then tore up their IOU “with a big
smile on his face.”
Demko, a Penn State Alumni Fellow, died
Oct. 15, 2014, in Springfield, Pa. He was 81.
He is survived by his wife, Jeanette; daugh-
ters Kerstin and Megan ’88 Sci, and five grandsons.
—ANNA ANDERSEN

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Patrice Melcher ’81 EMS.
Scott P. Walp ’79 Bus
(I]Y)—March 4, 2015.
Sister: Kerry Henry ’90 Lib.
1980s
William F. Gibson ’80a
Lib Alt—Jan. 1, 2015.
Gary D. Thompson ’80
Bus—Feb. 13, 2015. Wife:
Susan Dixon ’80 Edu;
Mother: Trudi Thomp-
son ’65 H&HD.
Michael J. Perry ’76, ’81
Eng—Feb. 23, 2015.
Philip W. Smith ’81—May
2, 2014.
Raymond J. Walker ’81a
Hershey—Feb. 11, 2015.
Kim F. Willman ’81 Lib—
July 1, 2014.
Susan Redic Burdick ’82
Nur—March 11, 2015.
Husband: Thomas ’70
H&HD.
Brian L. Judy ’82 Bus—
Feb. 28, 2015.
Joseph J. Bauer ’83 Edu—
Feb. 9, 2015.
Joseph A. Dutz ’83 Bus—
Feb. 28, 2015.
William H. Tyson ’83a
Eng WB—March 12, 2015.
Curt D. Zihmer ’83 Bus—
Jan. 25, 2015.
Keith L. Klaus ’84 Bus
(Golden Key)—Feb. 9, 2015.
Marie Travaglini Hof-
fecker ’85 Bus—Feb. 4,
2015. Siblings: Frank ’81 MEng Eng GrtVly—Jan. chelle ’94 Lib. Jay T. Schill ’03a Eng Du-
Eng; Anne Enger ’85 Bus; 8, 2015. Bois—Feb. 4, 2015.
Jean Agren ’86 Sci. Sidney R. Winslow ’97
Wayne L. Schraeder ’91 Bus—Jan. 27, 2015. Anastacia Longenderfer
Stephanie Mellinger H&HD—Feb. 7, 2015. Dougherty ’04 Com
Schwetz ’85a Bus Adam L. Miller ’98 (I\)—March 12, 2015.
Berks—Sept. 14, 2014. Carolyn J. Espenshade Edu—Feb. 12, 2015. Father: Roger ’73 Lib.
’92 Hbg—Feb. 5, 2015.
Karen Palutis Zenker Amy E. Winans ’98 PhD Robert M. Farrell ’04a
’85a Bus Worth—Dec. Robert W. Bradley ’93 Lib—March 23, 2015. Brandy—March 11, 2015.
3, 2014. Lib—Feb. 9, 2015. Husband: Windsor ’95
PhD Sci. Aisha A. Goheer ’05 MD
Steven C. Minnich ’86 Joseph W. Connell ’93 Hershey—March 3, 2015.
Edu—Jan. 29, 2015. Com Schuyl—Jan. 21, Gretchen Kline-Dehart
2015. Kline-deHart ’99 BRD Nicholas J. Wolkiewicz
Cynthia Kessel Holling- Behrend (Lion Am- ’05 MBA Bus, ’05 MMM
sworth ’87 Agr (IYI)— Dorothy J. Franco ’93 bass.)—Jan. 12, 2015. IDF—March 9, 2015.
June 17, 2014. MA A&A—Feb. 2, 2015.
Donald R. Smith Jr. ’96, Craig A. Dewalt II ’07
Amy Persky Newman Sabra Wilson Statham ’99 MEd Edu—Feb. 7, 2015. Hbg—Feb. 2, 2015.
’87 Edu (Y6Z)—Sept. ’93, ’97 MMus, ’98 MA
11, 2014. A&A—March 20, 2015. 2000s Dan Hall ’08 Fayt—Jan.
28, 2015.
Susan G. Stever ’87a Lib Richard S. Zettle ’93a Michael W. Cascio ’01
MtAlt—May 22, 2014. WB, ’94 a Eng WB—Jan. Eng—Jan. 13, 2015. 2010s
30, 2015.
John H. Costello ’88 MA Antonio A. Drozeski ’01 Sean E. Baird ’10 Alt—
Lib—Feb. 19, 2015. Lois A. Steele ’94a Lib Bus—Feb. 26, 2015. Feb. 10, 2015.
Shen—Feb. 5, 2015.
Elena M. Schmidt Ditizio Tony G. Parrino ’01 Matthew J. Cunfer ’11
’88 MEd, ’99 PhD Edu— Darius Compton ’95a Abgt—April 1, 2014. Agr—Feb. 11, 2015.
March 1, 2015. Husband: Lib Worth—March 3,
Robert ’87, ’90 MS, ’93 2015. Marianne Aurelia ’02 Abria J. Hairston ’12
PhD Eng. Abgt—Jan. 20, 2015. H&HD—Feb. 11, 2015.
Cindy L. Koser ’95 JD
Eric D. Shade ’88 MS, Law—Jan. 8, 2014. Rebecca A. Kuhn ’02 Erik A. Klingebiel ’12 Agr
’91 PhD Sci—March 28, Bus—May 9, 2014. WC—Feb. 7, 2015.
2015. Jill Altier ’97 Edu—
March 7, 2015. Suzanne Weadon Pizzuto Ronald Reznick ’12
Joseph F. Mc Carthy ’89 ’02 Edu—Jan. 27, 2015. Schuyl—March 14, 2015.
Lib—Jan. 21, 2015. Wife: Sheila E. Swanger ’97a
Karen Grumbine ’90 Bus. Bus, ’97 H&HD—Feb. Derek J. Codispot ’03 Scott Andrews ’14 IST—
27, 2015. Daughter: Mi- Bus—Jan. 31, 2015. March 12, 2015.
1990s
Linda Wassell Johnson
’90 MA Hbg—Jan. 29, SEND DEATH NOTICES TO:
2015. Penn State Alumni Association
Department B
Kevin L. Wert ’90, ’92 University Park, PA 16802-2096
MS, ’96 PhD Eng (U. We rely on family members and newspaper obituaries to inform us of the deaths of Penn State alumni.
We need to verify all death announcements. Because of the volume of material we receive, information
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