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Editorial Staff Kelly Alsedek Jasmine Ammons Bucher '97 Lauren McCartney Cusick P'08 Dr. Tom Hanrahan Cindy Progin '04 Christie Stratos '09 Writers/Contributors Jasmine Ammons Bucher '97 Marianne Clay Lauren McCartney Cusick P'08 Dr. Scott Eggert Mary Beth Hower Jeff lntoccia '02 Christine Brandt Little Charles McElwee '11 Anita Williams, Class Notes Laura Wood Designer Tom Castanzo Primo 106 Marketing Communicatons, Inc. Production Manager Kelly Alsedek Photography Kelly Alsedek Michael Crabb Tim Flynn 'OS Bill Johnson Stuart Leask Matthew Lester Dr. Owen Moe Send comments or address changes to: Office of College Relations Laughlin Hall Lebanon Valley College 101 North College Avenue Armville, PA 17003-1400 Phone: 717-867-6030 Fax: 717-867-6035 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] The Valley is published by Lebanon Valley College and is distributed without charge to alumni and friends. The deadline for submission of information for The Valley is approximately five months prior to being received by its readership. Class Notes news received after the deadline will be included in the next issue ofthe magazine. LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE MAGAZINE 12 Liberal Use of the Liberal Arts A pre-professional, liberal arts education at Lebanon Valley College prepared these graduates for careers they had never imagined. They took advantage of opportunities while at LVC that helped open new career doors. Editor's Note: You spoke and we listened. This issue ofThe Valley marks a fresh look for the magazine that developed as a result of the feedback received from the 2007 Alumni Survey. You will notice more stories on your classmates, a cleaner separation between sections, and several other changes made in response to your suggestions. Thank you for taking the time to make your magazine even better! Departments 2 Valley News & Notes 19 Class News & Notes 3 7 In Memoriam On the Cover: Dr. Daniel Meyer '81 finds that his liberal arts degree in music performance not only enriches his life, but also helps him forge connections with his patients at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J. FALL 2008 1 Valley News & Notes Commencement LVC awarded diplomas on May 10 to the largest class in the history oft he College when 392 graduates received their degrees. In addition to some 350 seniors, there were 23 master's degree students in business and 14 master's degree students in science education. Nine students earned doctorates in physical therapy. Jeanne Donlevy Arnold (right) of Lebanon was awarded a doctor of humane letters, the highest academic award given by LVC. She is a well-known philanthropist, community volunteer, and LVC benefactor. Dr. Phil Billings, a professor of English at LVC for 38 years, was the Commencement speaker. He told the nearly 400 graduates he would not offer them advice. Instead, he The top student honor. the reminisced about what his students had taught him over H. Anthony Neidig Award, went to the years." ... thank you for all the teaching and all the two students, Gregory Strohman '08 inspiration that you have lavished on me over the past four, of Lebanon, a music and physics going on 38 years ... " he said. major who is continuing his education in a master's program in music at Dr. Jane Yingling, associate professor of education, won Temple University, and Julia Cupp Phil Billings The Thomas Rhys Vickroy Award for teaching, the College's '08 of Pottstown, a biochemistry top teaching award for a full-time faculty member. The and molecular biology major who prestigious honor is announced and presented each year at has been awarded a two-year post the Commencement ceremonies, and according to tradition, baccalaureate fellowship at the that winner will deliver next year's Commencement address. National Institutes of Health in Yingling was described as "the rock of the Education Washington, D.C. After she completes Department" who "brings out the best in everyone lucky her fellowship, she plans to attend enough to be her student or colleague:• medical school. Joe Mixon of Bethlehem, an adjunct instructor in the Music Department for 17 years, won the 2008 Nevelyn J. Knisley Award, which goes to part-time and adjunct members of fane Yingling the College faculty. Mixon was cited for his "enormous dedication to his students who have benefited from master classes and performance opportunities as a result of his numerous connections to significant artists in the guitar world:' Tom Strohman '75, associate professor of music and the father of Gregory Strohman '08 (right), a Neidig Award winner, won the Educator of the Year Award, which is voted on by the students. Strohman, a well-known jazz musician with his own band, Third Stream, has taught at LVC for over Tom Strohman '75 20 years; he also won the Educator Award in 2004. julia Cupp '08 Gregory Strohman '08 2 THE VALLEY •rom a. rermuo ~~ ~ There is a new "big man" on campus this fall whose presence has been colorful and entertaining. The almost 400 members of the Class of 2008 decided to revive the long-dormant tradition and raised a record-setting $31,000 to purchase a new Flying Dutchman costume. The Flying Dutchman's flowing yellow hair has already been spied during football games and several other campus events. In fact, rumor has it that the Flying Dutchman and the Red Avenger ran into each other during OktoberfestWeekend I dispelling myths that both were Greg Stanson '63. For a complete story on the Flying Dutchman by Jeff lntoccia '02, visit www.GoDutchmen.com. FALL 2008 I 3 Valley News & Notes Orchestra Director Dr. Johannes Dietrich, LVC's Symphony Orchestra Award conductor and an associate professor of music, was honored in April with the 2008 Pennsylvania/Delaware String Teacher's Association (PAD ESTA ) Outstanding Orchestra Director Award. This annual award was given at the PADESTA meeting, held in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Annual Convention in Hershey. Dietrich was chosen after the winter District 11 Orchestra Festival for out standing high school musicians at The Hill School in Pottstown. The award is designed to recognize outstanding achievement as an orchestra teacher and conductor. The fellow string teacher who nominated Dietrich wrote, "We immediately respected Dr. Dietrich for his clear musical vision, clean and expressive conducting technique, knowledge and familiarity with the com positions, and adaptable nature to presenting the best visual as well as expres sive sound interpretation of the music. At all times, Dr. Dietrich had an excellent rapport with the students ... simply put, Dr. Dietrich prides himself on creating an atmosphere of enjoyment and fun with the students while working the music to maintain high standards of performance." U.S.News and Princeton Review Recognize LVC Again For the second consecutive year, LVC was rated among the top three colleges in the North in the "Great Schools, Great Prices" category among "Best Baccalaureate Colleges" in U.S.News & World Report's 2009 edition of America's Best Colleges. LVC retains its ranking as eighth overall among the 70 comparable institutions in its regional category. The College is recognized as a national leader in important indicators of academic quality. Among the 319 institutions overall in its category, the College is ranked in the top one percent for enrolling Freshmen from the Top 25 percent of their High School Class; in the top three percent for Average Freshman Retention Rate (meaning the students return for their sophomore years); and, top three percent for Average Graduation Rate. LVC also is one of the best colleges according to The Princeton Review, which again selected the College as one of 212 institutions it recommends in the "Best in the Northeast" section of its PrincetonReview.com feature, 2009 Best Colleges Region by Region. It also profiles the Valley in The Best Northeastern Colleges: 2009 Edition (Random House/Princeton Review Books). 4 THE VALLEY round was broken in May for Stanson Hall on the corner of Sheridan Avenue and Railroad Street. Named for Gregory Stanson '63, vice president emeritus for enrollment and student services, the 148-bed residence hall will provide a mixture of single and double rooms configured to foster a sense of community while still providing privacy. The building, which echoes the roofline of the Vernon and Doris Bishop Library, will be ready for occupancy at the beginning of the fall 2009 semester. As LVC President Stephen C. MacDonald told members of the College family, community officials, and neighbors at the 13th Annual Opening Breakfast at the end of August, "Stanson Hall, once it is completed, will represent the latest in a series of capital construction projects stretching back over the past decade and a half-a roughly 15-year period that has witnessed a physical transformation of this campus. In that short period of time, we built or rebuilt the Bishop Library; the Heilman Center; the north-side athletic fields; the Fasick Bridge; the Peace Garden; the Sheridan Avenue reconfiguration; two new residence halls [Marquette and Dellinger]; the new gymnasium; the remodeled Lynch Memorial Hall; and, most expensive of all, the Neidig-Garber Science Center, which was completed just this past spring and was brought in on time and under budget. ... Add to these Stanson Hall, and we will have about $75 million worth of construction in 15 years- an astonishing rate of institutional growth and renewal." FALL 2008 5 Valley News & Notes Alumni LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE The 2008 Lebanon Valley Dr. Thomas B. Carmany, M.D., College Distinguished '58 received an Alumni Alumnus Award was pre Citation. He was widely sented to The Honorable recognized in New Mexico Thomas W. Corbett '71, for his work to reduce attorney general of Penn alcoholism and drug abuse. sylvania. Since taking He served the U.S. Public office in 2005, Corbett Health Service as chief of has made it a priority to pathology at the Gallup prosecute drug crimes more Indian Medical Center. efficiently, arrest Internet Carmany built a successful child predators, protect private pathology practice senior citizens, defend and served as director consumers, and safeguard of laboratories for two the environment. He Gallup community hospitals. Before returning to Annville also created the Public after retirement in 1991, he was named the New Mexico Corruption Unit to investigate and prosecute corruption Citizen of the Year. He purchased the historic home of Dr. among state officials and government employees. At LVC, Clark Carmean H'85, the late dean of admission at LVC, Corbett met his wife, Susan Manbeck '72, and was an avid and Dr. Edna Jenkins Carmean '59, H'85. He now serves lacrosse player. He credits Professors Glenn Woods '51 and organizations devoted to the arts, health, social services, his the late Dr. Alex Fehr '50 for helping to shape his life. church, and, of course, LVC. Gregory Stanson '63, Dr. Glenn Moser '65 received vice president emeritus for an Alumni Citation for enrollment and student his distinguished work as a services, was awarded an chemist. Moser investigated Alumni Citation for service solutions to modify the to his profession and to properties of rosin and its Lebanon Valley College. derivatives. He also helped During his 43 years with the develop various types of College, he greeted almost polypropylene, which 13,000 entering students. eventually gave rise to the He instituted the Alumni familiar triangular recycling Ambassador Program that symbols on plastic products. has brought hundreds of Moser worked for Hercules, Inc., a global manufacturer of highly qualified students to campus. In the early 1970s, chemical specialties based in Delaware, and subsequently Stanson helped to admit 13 South Vietnamese refugees from joined Eastman Chemical Co. in Tennessee from which Fort Indiantown Gap on full scholarships to LVC. Stanson's he retired in 2004. Now back in Wilmington, Del., he inimitable wit is now bringing more smiles as he takes fills his life with musical and artistic endeavors including on new responsibilities as part-time ambassador-at-large the trombone. He is closing in on 1,000 performances in for the Advancement Office. The construction of LVC's community and dinner theaters. newest 148-bed residence hall, named in his honor, will be completed in 2009 (seep. 5). 6 THE VALLEY In recognition of her many ~ The 2008 Young Alumni years of teaching abroad, Award was presented to Mary Mahaffey Roth '43 Sandra Fauser '93, the was the recipient of the assistant principal at Eastern 2008 Dr. June E. Herr Lebanon County Middle Award for excellence in School. She is a longtime education. The wife of a member of LVC's Alumni naval officer, she taught Athletic Committee, and she in Korea and Japan before contacted her classmates Guam became the couple's about their 15th reunion. permanent home in 1960. In 1993, she was LVC's She taught high school Female Athlete of the Year Latin, English, and social for her prowess in basketball studies, retiring with many honors in 1974. Twenty years and field hockey. She earned later, Mary was inducted into the Phi Delta Kappa Hall of All-America honors for the Fame. In 2006, Guam made her an honorary member of the latter. Fauser has helped to coach both sports at LVC and is Ancient Order of the Chamorri, and the Governor of Guam also a member of the College's Athletic Hall of Fame. designated her as an honorary ambassador-at-large of his country. Kenneth S. Levinsky '78, a keyboard player, composer, Through her work as a and conductor, was teacher and community honored with the 2008 volunteer, Janet Gessner Creative Achievement Roberts '68 encouraged Award. A pianist for more countless young people to than a dozen Broadway consider attending LVC. For shows, he also has made these efforts, she was given piano recordings and given the 2008 Carmean Award live performances with in Admission. Recently, she guitarist John Pizzarelli's retired from her position trio at major jazz festivals as an instructional coach in the United States and for incoming teachers in abroad. Levinsky worked the North Penn School with Woody Allen on his District near Philadelphia. films Radio Days and Everyone Says I Love You. Levinsky's In addition to her volunteer theme and background recordings have been heard on activities with the Trinity Lutheran Church, the United Way several major television networks. In 2007, he backed up board, and other community organizations, Roberts will classic rock stars Joe Lynn Turner, Eddie Money, Mark continue to promote LVC as an LVC Alumni Ambassador. Farner, Robin Zander, and Buck Dharma. He credits his alma mater and particularly his piano instructor, Dr. Dennis Sweigart '63, with helping give direction to his life. FALL 2008 I 7 Valley News &N otes In the early 1990s, the first Taylor is best known in this area for 1he Silo Projections (2006-2007), which captured the public's imagination commercial corn maze in the United when he successfully projected 75-foot images at night on States, the "Amazing Maize Maze," was grain silos at several farms throughout central Pennsylvania. built in the cornfields adjacent to the The unannounced and unfamiliar projections of items such as giant ears of corn and school buses caught passersby College. This fall, LVC's Dr. D. Grant unaware and generated a great deal of interest. Taylor's Taylor, an Australian artist, created a new latest work, which has been two years in development, twist on the ancient concept of the maze explores the artist's response to the distinctive fall season in rural Pennsylvania. Central to various celebrations and and revealed his work at the Suzanne H. rituals that accompany the coming of the fall is the corn Arnold Art Gallery. Taylor, an assistant maze, which has a rich heritage in Lebanon, Lancaster, and professor of art history and digital commu surrounding counties. In addition to exploring the rituals of the fall season, the installation highlights the towering white nications, used another ancient architec church steeples that are visible throughout the south-central tural form-the steeple. Each of his exhi Pennsylvania landscape. The artist employs the region's bition's 65 clean, white steeples measured unique church vernacular to evoke notions of liminality and spirituality. Other familiar architectural forms are present, more than seven feet high and were arranged including an object filled with water. in a room-sized labyrinth around a central Taylor completed his undergraduate and doctoral degrees baptistery. A variety of special lighting and at the University of Western Australia. He has exhibited his audio effects enveloped the viewer in a film, installation, and digital work regionally and nationally multi-sensory experience. in Australia. 8 THE VALLEY