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LycomingCollege
AlumniAssociationExectiveBoard
President Erman E. Lepley. Jr. '78
Angela R. Kyte "73 Franklin W. Noll HI '89
Vice President James G. Scott '70
Julie Hottle Day '88 Otto L. Sonder "46
Linda Porr Sweeney '78
Secretary
Sa\miz Biiz Bear Julie Makatche '92 Jay Thomson '86
Ronalee B. Trogner '69
Margaret S. Beardslee '93 Jon C. Vande\'ander '79
Robert L. Bender '59 David A. Walsh '76
Daniel W. Bythewood '68 Kristi R. Yerger '95
Robert P Crockett '61 Dennis G. Youshaw '61
D. Keigh Earisman '58 Veronica L. Buttari '99
Helen H. Fultz '57 Molly A. Curtis '00
4 Deer vs Forest Kathleen Tighe Gaye "75 Casey B. Barnes '99
5 Founder's Day Patricia M. Krauser "68 Jill Schroeder ()()
William R. Lawry '64
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6 Green Careers
9 Tribute to Jim Sheaffer
10 152nd Commencement
12 At Lycoming
16 Alumni News
19 The Way We Were
"Yat Esool" School Spirit
and Resurrecting Football
20 Faculty News
23 Class Notes
32 Philosophy:
The Ideal Pre-Med Preparation.
Sjyi'cial ihaiiks InplKiUifiiaphcrJenniferJiihii.soii
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Bill Worobec '70 100 years of were caught in a day. with
walked along Trout Fishing many fish exceeding 12 ^ffiaerIHS AfiiBance ofDr.
Mel Zimmerman,
Big Bear Creek, The Dunwoody Club was inches in length."
one ofthe few But by 1923. the trout had Lycoming College has
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FEATURE LYCOMINGCOLLEGEMAGAZINE•SUMMER IX)
out stream will try to Dunwoody lent itselfto Even now. lookingathis
repair itself. This, becoming a wonderful large- handiwork, he notices a log
however, takes a long scale experiment. First, the placement as .several degrees
time. entire watershed is essen- offhis original mark.
Rosgen's solution tially privately owned, He and Bob Wayne built
for badly eroded offering a controlled environ- 14 structures that year by
streams is to assist the ment. Second, as a non- hand. They worked and
natural process by profit entity. Dunwoody survived four "bankfull
carefully installing could solicit support from events" ofhigh water.
structures such as public as well as pri\ate 'Bill is a real Renais-
single vanes, cross sources. And finally. Bill was sance man." says
vanes and J- hooks. sure he could interest a Zimmerman. "He's a self-
These stnictures number ofeducational taught conser\ationist and a
mimic naturally institutions in helping to very good hydrologist."
occuring configura-^^Sl!SSelevate the project to a well- As a student. Worobec
tions in stable rivers. designed experiment. The had started out in pre-med,
Bill saw a possible 3.5 miles ofBig BearCreek, rethought his career, and
solution to the between Dunwoody and the switched to economics.
problem of Big Bear Loyalsock Creek, could Away from Dunwoody, he is
Creek, but he saw that become an outdoor.class-,^^ now a stockbroker and
Bill Worohec '70 exami>if\ some the Dunwoody project manager ofthe local First
ofthe creek's veiiflalioii. Photo: had the potential to be much Bill had first met DrMel Union Securities oftlce.
JenniferJohnson
more. It could become the Zimmerman, professor of .,, Apart from his role as
sedimentation and an prototype for majorstream biology at Lycoming ^.g^s cheerleader, Worobec's
unstable streanibed. restoration. College, 18 years ago when genius has been to put
Big BearCreeiv had Apart from depleting the Mel's class did a small togethera very effective
undergone a series of native brook trout, the project on Big BearCreek. collaborative partnership
traumas. Hurricane Agnes in damaged streams in Pennsyl- Bill also knew Dr. Ed Gabriel between his club, the
1972 and Hurricane Eloise in vania are carrying sediment and Dr. Bob Zaccariaofthe Commonwealth ofPennsyl-
1975 ripped out the banks that is creating a major biology department as fellow vania, and the U.S. Fish and
and made it widerand ecological problem through- members ofthe ski patrol at Wildlife Service.
shallower, a habitat which is out the Chesapeake Bay Ski Sawmill. Through his persuasi\e
unfavorable to trout. basin. As early as 1993, "Dr. talents. Pennsylvania Power
In 1980 a downstream Zim" led his students out to and Light, under its "Com-
landownerconstructed a dam Dunwoody to conduct a munity Volunteers" program,
that allowed sedimentation to biological baseline survey. is providing employees to
build up in the centerofthe They examined Big Bear assist in the planting and re-
stream. In 1991 a lOO-year- Creek at length, counting the vegetation ofthe stream
old dam at the top ofthe fish and otheraquatic life in banks. The department of
stream was removed, a real hands-on laboratory. Civil Engineering at Penn
allowing a century of State, under Dr. Peggy
.sediment to inflict more Applying Textbook Johnson, is studying the
damage on the stream. The to Stream design and performance
crowning blow was the flood In 1996. Bill Worobec and characteristics ofthe \arious
of 1996 which devastated the Bob \Va\nc. a Williamsport structures.
stream banks once again. atlorncN and club member, Those first hand-built
Wt)robec began reading began appl\ing the tech- structures attracted enough
Dave Rosgen's Applied River niques of tluxial geomor- attention from conservation
Mf)rplu)logy and beiie\ed phology. Faraway from the groups, state and federal
that the stream could be put textbook. Worobec and agencies that Worobec was
right again by using a Wayne found ihemsehes able to engineera $6.0(){)
WRAP
technique called applied Clanking large logs into the grant from the
fluvial geomorphology in streanibed with an old Depailment of En\ironmen-
combination with the gasoline-powered winch. tal Protection.
WRAP
theories ofnatural stream backbreaking v\nrk for two In 1999. using the
hydrology. weekentl outdoorsmen. grant and 1.500 tons oflarge
According to Rosgen's /)/". ;V/(7 Ziniiiiernuin. ]uotessi>r i>f rock donated by Glenn O.
study, over time a washed- hioloi;y. Pholo: JtnnilerJohnson Hawbaker. Inc.. Bill was
LYCOMINGCOLLEGEMAGAZINE•SUMMER 0(1 FEATURE
Photo:JenJohnson
he was completing
minors in both
en\ironmental science
and chemistry. In
addition to his 4.0
GPA. he had already
done a summer
internship with the
Department of
Environmental
Protection and another
with Cromaglas, a
manufacturer ofwater
treatment systems.
It was a good fit.
Jud felt right at home
with the project. An
avid hunter and
Jiul Kralzer is in tlic PliDprogram in fisheniian. his hobbies
FisheriesBiologyalthePennsylvania
Srale Universitywherehereceiveda includedtaxidermy and tying
leachini; ussislantshii'. flies. continue forthe next four $10,000 forLycoming
abletorestore4.000feetof "Jud is very meticulous." years, the results ofthe first College to purchase some
stream with 38 different Zimmerman said, "and that is year were good. The monitoring equipment and
a requirement for the careful
structures built with large construction on the creek had watertesting supplies and to
boulders. tabulation ofaquatic life." no detrimental effect on covera summer student
Kratzer selectedacontrol
That same spring, the aquatic life. stipend.
site above the construction,
Dunwoody Club stopped
fouradditional sites at Growing The Trout Return
stocking trout, an extraordi-
nary show ofrestraint by a intervals throughout the Greener Grant On an early April Sunday.
construction, and a control
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the stream, pointing with
began to build the structures and March of2000. They restoration. "I must con-
that would help re-channel measured the stream width stantly remember John parental pride to new growth
the creek, Worobec saw the and depth, tested the chemis- Maynard Keynes' comment, ohnowtheeabcahnckosnsatnrducetxipolnaining
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project needed to yield real the population density. His administration. In January
anyone.
data that could be used in its team performed their work in Worobec received news that
"I used to be an avid
evaluation. accordance with the EPA"s he had been waiting for: the
Mel Zimmerman thought Rapid Bioassessment project had received a fisherman." Bill reminisced.
he had a good candidate in Protocal V, commonly known $376,000 grant from the "Over the years. I have been
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conservationist."
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chuckled. ""I told him. I've brown trout, slimy sculpin. clean up pollution from package. It is a baby native
got aproject foryou, and and longnose dace along abandoned mines." trout, less than two inches in
here it is."" with the brook trout. The grant guarantees that length with its egg sack still
Jud had the academic Although the testing Worobec can finish the attached.
credentials. A biology major. program will actually project. It also includes The trout are coming back.
JefTreyProwant '80
punches a slide up onto the
screen in the Heim Biology
and Cheniistn Building.
The picture shows
sunlight filtering through
the trunks oftall trees. On
theground is acarpetof
leaves. One can see far into
the forest. "It looks like a
park," Prowant tells the
students and people from
the community. "But llial'-s
an unhealthy forest," says
the District Foresterforthe
The deerhave grown to trees,jeopardizing notonly treetogrowsixfeet,you're
Tiadaghlon State Forest.
numbers that are wiping out the health ofthe forests but a O.K." says Prowant.
"And here's the culprit."
all the small seedlings, as future cash crop ofhard- Feeding deerthrough
Prowant exclaims. It's a well as wildflowers, (lower- woods. stands ofcom—so they don'i
herd ofdeer. —
Prowant grew up in the ing dogwoods and all the At present, deerhunting feed on young trees is
woods and spent a lot of underbrush that healthy does little to control the another. \erv expensive
forests need to regenerate population problem ofthe tactic and not an ecological
time with his father at a
and support small game. deer herds, because hunters resolution.
hunting camp in the How did this all happen? want to take only trophy Prowant feels that a
northern part ofLycoming
Cbiooulnotgyy., aHndewmhaejonrehed in EBuerfoopreeatnhse,cdoemeirnhgerodfstwheere bwurcoknsg..""DPorno'wtangettsmayes. " I sthoeluGtiaomnewiCllomcmoimses.iIonnfahcats,
considerably smaller. The old like to hunt, too." worked with the Bureau of
realized that he wanted to
mature forests didn't have Butthe bucks are not the Forestry on many occasions.
make acareerout of
the quantity of\oung plant problem. The onh' way to Betterdeer management will
forestry, he pursued a
life to sustain large numbers slow the population growth actually mean better hunting
master's degree in forestry
ofdeer. As the old forests ofdeeris to remove the ones in the long run.
at West Virginia Uni\ersity. were cut down and young that are doing the reproduc- Prowant recommends
Prowant, who now —
vegetation as well as farm ing namely, the does. The more doe licenses and
manages 700,000 acres of —
crops the kind ofbrowse ideal ratio betwccn buck and moving away from allot-
private forestlands as well —
that deer love began to doe should be 50-50. says ment of licenses b\ county
as 220,000 acres ofpublic,
grow in its place, the deer Prowant. (Now it averages so that more licenses will
sees the deerpopulation as
having a significant impact herds grew larger. By 1920, between 20-80 and 10-90.) go to the counties with the
deer hunting had become a Faced with the deer most deer.
on the forest industry.
"Having a good deer- popular sport and. with it. problem, the Department of ""Ifthe hunting commu-
public pressure not to do Conservation and Natural nity doesn't do a betterjob
management system is
anything that might diminish Resources has resorted to a on deer management, then a
crucial to maintaining the
delicate balance ofthe the deer herds. numberoftactics to reduce judge will end up doing it for
It's been Deervs. Forests the destruction, such as the us," Prowant says, referring
ecosystem ofthe state's
ever since. fencing ofacreage until the to dain, farmers who might
forests," Prowant says.
With subdivisions young trees have achance to sue the state fordamages
Every deerneeds about
four pounds of "browse" a replacing familand. the deer grow. But it'sa very costly by deer.
have been pushed back into program.
day. Prowant explains.
the forests. Now. more of "The trick is to help
"Browse" is the young them are munching on voung trees grow above the
vegetation that is easily young oak. maple and ash browse line. ""Ifvou can set a
within reach ofdeer.
A T U
Ben Crever Day
forthe firsttimetwosummers
Founder's Descendent ago.
Returns to Lycoming "I was doing research into
my heritage and into the
Done Heckman, the
history ofthe Lhiited
great-great granddaughter of Methodist Church and my
the Rev. Benjamin H.
family's part in it,"
Crever, considered the Heckman explains.
founder ofDickinson
Heckman can also trace
Seminary, came to campus herlineage back to the
to help kick offacelebra-
Barratt family, the earliest
tion honoring Ben Crever.
family ofMethodists in
Doric portrayed Susan
the United States.
Caroline Crever, the wife Heckman has por-
ofthe Rev. Crever, at a trayed Susan Crever
special concert of 19th - before at the Crever
century American music on
United Methodist Church
Friday April 9th as partof
in Petersburg. Pa., a church
the College's Concerts at that Ben Creverendowed in
Noon series. memory of
Doric was dressed in a
his wife.
costume she had made "It is an awesome
herselfthat was trimmed in feeling to be walking in
19th-century Irish lace. the steps ofmy ancestors
"We're delighted to have who have done such great
Doric Heckman come to things to serve theirGod,
campus," said Molly
theircountry and their belief
Costello, director ofcollege
in education for all people,"
relations forLycoming says Heckman.
College. "It's wonderful to
Crever, acircuit-riding
have a part ofourhistory
minister with big vision.
come alive." walked for two days through
Like Susan Crever, Done the spring mud from Milton
Heckman is also a minister's to Williamsport to size up the
wHiefcek.mMaanr,risehdethoelRpesv.hiDmave facility. In 1848 he pur-
chased the Williamsport
serve five small rural Academy on behalfofthe
churches near Glasgow, Pa. Methodist Church. Through
The 19th-century Susan
his perseverance, the
Crevertaught in the Semi- Academy reopened as
nary before following Ben
Williamsport Dickinson
Creverwhen his careertook Seminary that fall, providing
him to a military hospital as highereducation to both men
chaplain during the Civil War and women.
and to the Minnesota
wilderness as a missionary. Crever Festivities
Susan Crever is buriedjust The CreverConcert was
three blocks from Lycoming the beginning ofa weekend
College in the cemetery on honoring the founder. On
Washington Boulevard next Sunday, the College hosted a
to her husband and three Bill Hiii;aii. Dean ofStiulen! Affairs, as the Rev. Crever. Dorie Heckman Sprint Triathlon, a Creverfest
children who died before as Susan Crever. amiMolly Curtiss. President ofthe Student Senate, decorate with three live bands, and an
reaching adulthood. Crevers grave. indoor barbecue.
Heckman visited the campus
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C^m ^a1 reerByAmandaPsetennan'00
Lycoming College
Defusing alumni are helping to year, has away into approved landfills.
Hazardous Waste keep the become a pail ofthe largest "One ofthe rewards ofthe
hazardous waste disposal job is knowing that you"re
On his very firstjob after environmental company in the world: the making a difference and
college, there here had to be French-owned Vivendi. cleaning up the world for our
green and clean.
days when John Dyer '93 As part ofOnyx. John has children," says John. "I
wondered what college had Meet four helped to clean up oil spills definitelv think we are
—been all about. Here he was at Three Mile Island as well catching up [to the problem]."
clothed head to foot in different as the more recent oil spill Leaving acleaner world
protective gear with an along the Potomac Ri\er. He for the next generation has
environmentalists.
oxygen tank on his back and has worked for research just become more important
a toxic meteron his chest facilities, universities, private to the Dyers (she is Kristin
scmbbing out acid tanks. industries, and governmental Rhinehart Dyer "94) since
"1 think Dr Gabe" and installations in Pennsylvania. the birth oftheir first child.
"Dr. Zim,' were a little taken majored in biology with a Maryland and Washington Logan Tanner
concentration in environmen-
back at the time." John D.C. At the moment, he
reflects. Althouuh he had tal studies. Dyergot into the spends most ofhis time Keeping
hazardous waste
overseeing disposal ofnon- Princeton
field "by mistake."
hazardous and hazardous
John te)ok thejob University
chemicals at Aberdeen
because he had to Green and Clean
Proving Grounds in
start repaying his
student loan. He Maryland. Bob Ortego '82 was so
soon realized, One ofhis responsibilities impressed by Dr.
however, that doing is to .see that the chemicals Zimmemian's lectures on
the dirty work was are properly packaged and saving drinking water that
the key to getting transported according to after graduation he decided
ahead in the hazard- both Department ofTrans- to pursue a career in the
ous waste disposal portation and Federal environmental sciences.
regulations. 'Ihe process can "College was great for me
field.
In the seven years mean, for example, different at the time." Bob said. "We
since graduation, vehicles for chemicals that had the hands-on experience
things have gotten could have explosive reactions and small classes that other
better He is now an should an accident occur. colleges didn't have."
The chemicals are shipped Dr Mel Zimmerman made
environmental
specialist with Onyx to disposal tacilities across sure that his students worked
l-jnironmcntal the country, where they are on real-life problems,
Services (York. Pa.), carefulh treated b\ incinera- beginning with water
Kwriitshtinnew(Rhsioinw.hiirll and John Dyer which in the past tDiyoenr)(,threebceysctlemdetohrotdu,ckseadys s"Yaemaphl,inagndasIlaolcawlaycsregeokts.the