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Sept. 24Athletic Hall of Fame Induction (see page 15 for details)

Ice Cream Social 7 p.m. Pre-registration is required.

Family Movie: “Toy Story 3”8 p.m. Pre-registration is required.

Sept. 25Honors Convocation 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Ceremony honors students named to Dean’s List and Honor Society.

Field Hockey vs. Marywood University11 a.m.

Family Activities: Caricaturist, Magician and Big Chair Photos11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Campus Picnic 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Pre-registration is required.

Greater Kensington String Band11:45 a.m.

Men’s Tennis vs. Alvernia UniversityNoon

Women’s Soccer vs. Marywood University1:30 p.m.

State of the College with Cabrini President Marie George1:30 p.m. Pre-registration is requested.

Presidential and Faculty Meet and Greet (includes Living and Learning Community faculty and representatives from the Center for Teaching and Learning)2:30 p.m. Pre-registration is requested.

Volleyball vs. Baptist Bible College4 p.m.

Clue Mystery Dinner Theatre5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Dinner Buffet; Tickets are $10 each. Pre-registration is required. Space is limited.

Big Prize Bingo 8 p.m. Pre-registration is requested.

Sept. 26Mass 11 a.m. Pre-registration is requested.

Brunch 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. $6 for adults; $4 for children under 10; Registration is required.

Kite Festival Noon – 3 p.m. Free kites and snacks for children 10 and under, while supplies last.

Soccer Clinic2 – 3 p.m. Mini-clinic for children 14 and under. Pre-registration is required. Fa

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Sept. 17Cabrini Night at the Phillies Details at www.cabrini.edu/phillies

Sept. 26Flutist Mimi Stillman and Pianist Charles Abramovic 3 p.m., Mansion Details at www.cabrini.edu/fineartscalendar

Oct. 22010 Women’s Leadership Conference: “Powerful Lessons for Success”Details at www.cabrini.edu/gps

Nov. 4“Lend Me a Tenor”Cabrini College Theatre presents ken Ludwig’s “Lend Me a Tenor,” opening Nov. 4, at 8 p.m., in the Cabrini College Theatre in Grace Hall. Shows also at 8 p.m., Nov. 5-6 and Nov. 11-13, and 2 p.m., Nov. 14. Free admission, but tickets are required. information: 610-902-8328

Nov. 7 Pianist Karen Walwyn3 p.m., Mansion Details at www.cabrini.edu/fineartscalendar

Nov. 8-12Cabrini Week annual celebration of Cabrini’s heritage and mission honors the College’s namesake, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini. Details at www.cabrini.edu/fineartscalendar

Dec. 3-4Cabrini Contemporary Dance Company 7:30 p.m., Cabrini College Theatre Details at www.cabrini.edu/fineartscalendar

Dec. 5Cabrini College Christmas Choral Concert3 p.m., Grace Hall atrium Details at www.cabrini.edu/fineartscalendar

Graduate Programs Fall Open Houses: Oct. 12, Nov. 10 & Dec. 9Cabrini offers a Master of education, a Master of Science in organization Leadership, and several teacher certifications.

To register or to schedule an appointment, visit www.cabrini.edu/gps or call 610-902-8500.

Cabrini Night at the Phillies

Karen Walwyn Mimi Stillman

Complete details and registration at www.cabrini.edu/familyweekend

All events are free. Event details subject to change. To verify information, and see other campus activities, visit: www.cabrini.edu/calendar

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ContentsS U M M E R 2 0 1 0

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CABRINI Magazine is published three times a year by the Marketing and Communications Offi ce at Cabrini College.

EXECUT IVE ED ITORGene Castellano

EDITORAmy Coleman

WRITERS/CONTRIBUTORSRichard Bader Brian BeachamDaniel DiPrinzioKristen Hampton

GRAPHIC DES IGNERAllison Curry

PHOTOGRAPHYComstockD. Sharon Pruitt Pink Sherbet PhotographyHollie Havens ’98Matthew Holmes ’02Linda JohnsonJohn JordanKelly & MassaNorman Y. LonoBrian W. O’DohertyJody Romano ’87Heather Shanley-FullertonJerome Zurek, Ph.D.

CABINET MEMBERSMarie Angelella George, Ph.D. President

Gene Castellano Vice President for Marketing and Communications

Dennis Dougherty, Ed.D. Interim Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies

Jeffrey Gingerich, Ph.D.Interim Dean for Academic Affairs

Dennis M. KellyVice President for Enrollment Management

Stephen J. Lightcap Vice President for Finance and Administration

Sharon Kerrigan LomanVice President for Institutional Advancement

Christine Lysionek, Ph.D. Vice President for Student Development

Anne Skleder, Ph.D.Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

George Stroud Dean of Students

Contents 2010 © Cabrini College. All rights reserved.

No part of this magazine may be reproduced or otherwise

utilized without the written permission of the publisher.

Please send e-mail to: editor@cabrini.edu.

Address all correspondence to:

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On the cover: In community research, online resources,

teacher curricula, and donor support—Cabrini leads in

domestic violence education.

COVER STORY

16 Ending the Abuse

by Richard Bader

Even the White House takes notice

of Cabrini’s work to help victims

of domestic violence.

FEATURES

10 50th Commencement

More than 400 bachelors and

700 masters degrees add up to

Cabrini’s largest graduation ever.

22 Alumni Profile: Norma Garbo ’72

Garbo’s the name and music’s

her game—’72 alumna makes her

mark in the Big Apple.

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14 Athletics

24 Alumni Weekend

26 Alumni and Class Notes

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Because I knew you…

Father Michael Bielecki, OSA ’05

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Earlier this year, the College’s Board of Trustees adopted a revised and more concise mission

statement, Education of the Heart (above). The revised mission statement is the result of more

than 1-1/2 years of study, discussion and discernment led by a 10-member Mission Task

Force but encompassing input from the entire campus. This process revealed a community

eager to continue the dialogue around the College’s mission and Catholic, Cabrinian identity.

Energized by the revised Mission Statement and by the College’s leadership role in social

justice education, and to help us realize fully the challenges and opportunities of our Justice

Matters core curriculum, last month I announced the President’s Initiative for Mission

Integration. I have asked three senior leaders from the faculty, staff, and administration to

engage the campus community over the next two years in dialogue, reflection and action

around the College’s mission, core values and foundational documents. We will close the

initiative by publishing a document describing the process and the outcomes.

The President’s Initiative on Mission Integration is funded by my office, by the initial

distribution from the President Antoinette Iadarola Fund, established in part to allow

continued development of mission-driven academic programs and exploration of new

opportunities that foster an “education of the heart;” and by the endowment established for

the Wolfington Center, which promotes service learning and civic engagement, spirituality

of service, and Catholic social teaching.

It is my intention to have this initiative result in action that helps us realize the vision of

Cabrini College, and I encourage all members of the Cabrini College community—students,

faculty, alumni, staff, parents, and friends—to be involved in this dialogue as it occurs over

the next two years.

With deep appreciation and in anticipation of your participation,

Marie A. George, Ph.D.

President

Education of thE hEart

Cabrini College is a Catholic institution of higher education

dedicated to academic excellence, leadership development,

and a commitment to social justice. The College welcomes

learners of all faiths, cultures, and backgrounds and prepares

them to become engaged citizens of the world.

President Marie George has named three vice presidents to a leadership team with distinguished academic careers and background in national and international service.

Anne Skleder, Ph.D., founding dean of Chatham College for Women at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, was named pro-vost/vice president for Academic Affairs. Skleder is deeply committed to leadership development, civic engagement, and the principles of Catholic Social Teaching.

Vice President for Institutional Advancement Sharon Kerrigan Loman joined the College during the 2009-10 academic year. In her first year, Loman helped the College surpass its overall fundraising goal of $1,035,000 by more than $30,000, and she led efforts to allo-cate gifts made to the Cabrini Fund to student financial aid. Loman brings to Cabrini 20 years of fundraising experi-

ence, most recently as vice president of Development and Alumni Affairs at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dennis Kelly was named vice president for Enrollment Management. Before join-ing Cabrini, he was vice president for Enrollment at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, N.J., and prior to that associate vice president for Enrollment Management at Marywood University in Scranton, Pa. In 2006, Kelly’s team at Marywood was honored by the higher education consulting firm Noel-Levitz for marketing recruitment excellence; last month the team he led at Georgian Court received Noel-Levitz’s award for excel-lence in student retention. Kelly is one of a handful of higher education profession-als to have won both these prestigious awards.

“These appointments to the President’s Cabinet have the experience and exper-

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tise to enroll the right students for the College, provide them with the best aca-demic experience, and fully engage them as alumni,” said President George.

Skleder, who also will hold the rank of professor of psychology, began at Cabrini July 1. Her previous academic positions include vice provost at Alvernia College (now University), where she was found-ing director of the Center for Community Engagement; and teaching assignments at Lafayette College and DeSales, Lehigh and Temple universities.

Skleder earned master’s and doc-toral degrees in social and organizational psychology at Temple University, and studied at Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Management. She was a University Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Loman held director-level positions at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and the Archdiocese of New York. In 2000-2003, she served in Peru with the Maryknoll Mission Association and helped to implement medical and social programs for indigenous people of the Andes. She earned a master of business administra-tion at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and a bachelor of arts at Iona College.

Kelly’s 30-year career also includes enrollment and academic positions at Centenary College (Hackettstown, N.J.) and Berkeley College (West Paterson, N.J.). A Vietnam-era veteran, Kelly was recognized by the White House and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for developing educational opportunities for families of American troops serving in Iraq. He holds a master of business administration and a bachelor of arts from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Three vice presidents join Cabrini’s leadership team. Left to right: Sharon Kerrigan Loman, vice president for Institutional Advancement; Dennis Kelly, vice president for Enrollment Management; and Anne Skleder, Ph.D., provost and vice president for Academic Affairs.

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Throughout the summer, David Dunbar, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, and Melinda Harrison, Ph.D., assistant profes-sor of chemistry, helped design science lessons and test experiments at the presti-gious Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Va. Dunbar and Harrison worked through the HHMI’s Science Education Alliance (SEA) to develop col-lege courses in molecular biology and biochemistry focusing on genetics, viruses and proteins. Cabrini College is one of three schools chosen from among 27 that applied to the program.

Two from Cabrini Faculty Chosen to Develop Research-Based Science Courses on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry

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David Dunbar, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, and Melinda Harrison, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Dunbar and Harrison developed a cellular and molecular biology course in which students examine phage genes and determine which are essential for the virus’s survival. In a biochemistry course, students will purify and characterize the proteins produced by the genes to deter-mine their function.

“We want to incorporate an all-research-based model into the cell, molec-ular biology and biochemistry laboratories which we teach,” said Harrison.

The summer research will build on the work of the SEA’s National Genomics Research Initiative. The research-based

laboratory course on phage—viruses that infect bacteria cells—provides beginning college students with a research experi-ence to teach them how to approach sci-entific problems creatively.

While at HHMI, Dunbar and Harrison presented “Undergraduate Research Student Peer Mentoring in an Introductory Biology Laboratory: Using a Phage Genomics Course as a Case Study” at the Institute’s second annual Science Education Alliance Symposium.

“We want to sustain student interest in cutting-edge undergraduate research after their freshmen phage genomics experi-ence,” said Dunbar. “One way for us to do this is for Dr. Harrison and I to incor-porate additional cutting-edge experi-ments in our upper-level courses build-ing on work they have accomplished their freshmen year.”

Beginning in 2008, the HHMI recruit-ed 44 colleges and universities nation-wide to join SEA, which is changing how freshmen learn about science by provid-ing them with an authentic, classroom-based research experience. With the SEA “sabbaticals,” the Cabrini faculty members will join professors from the University of Louisiana, Monroe, and the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, to help create the next generation of research-based courses that will extend the pro-gram’s reach to upperclass students.

The new courses will be evaluated during the next academic year. If promis-ing, the courses will be refined for broad adaption and disseminated by the SEA. Tuajuanda Jordan, director of the SEA, said that some of the classes could be available to the larger science education community by the 2011-2012 academic year.

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Cabrini and CRS Extend PartnershipOn April 7, Joan Rosenhauer, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Executive Vice President for U.S. Operations, and Cabrini President Marie George signed a Memorandum of Understanding renewing the partnership originally signed in April 2005. Cabrini was the first college to sign a partnership agreement with CRS to support the organization’s global outreach programs.

Since 2005, the University of Notre Dame and Seattle, Santa Clara, and Villanova universities have signed agreements with CRS, the official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic Church.

Through CRS, Cabrini students have become actively engaged in making a long-term difference on world-wide humanitarian issues through the CRS Ambassadors program, legislative advocacy campaigns, domestic and overseas internships, collaboration on fair trade with Sodexo Campus Services, and the Global Solidarity Network, a national program initiated by Communication Department Chair Jerry Zurek, Ph.D., that links classrooms with CRS representatives.

Fifteen Cabrini College students culminated a semester-long study of immigration with a trip to the nation’s capital Friday, April 23 to meet with senate aides to discuss the need for comprehensive immigration reform.

The students met with staff at the offices of Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), Senator Robert Casey (D-Pa.), and Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.).

To prepare for their Senate visit, the students carefully researched a variety of viewpoints in order to develop their own points of view. The students focused their discussions on several key aspects of the issue: a “path to earned citizenship” for undocumented persons in the United States; reform of employment-based and family-based immigration systems; and the need to address root causes of migration.

Students worked closely with staff at Catholic Relief Services and the Justice for Immigrants Campaign of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The class is part of Cabrini College’s new core curriculum, Justice Matters, which prepares students to be engaged in important societal issues. Over the course of their four years, students develop life-long skills for civic engagement in the pursuit of social justice. The class trip also was featured on www.jesuit.org, the website for the Society of Jesus in the United States.

Students Lobby Congress for Immigration Reform

Joan Rosenhauer, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Executive Vice President for U.S. Operations, announces the renewal of the Cabrini-CRS partnership.

Students visit the nation’s capital to discuss immigration reform. From left to right: Katie Bonanni ’11, Arielle Friscia ’11, Katharine Engell ’11, Brian Loschiavo ’11, Amanda Carson ’11, Monica Burke ’10, Eric Gibble ’11, Gianna Shikitino ’11, Gabrielle Gorbey ’11, Connor Logue ’11, Patrick Gallagher ’11, Joseph Stafford ’11, Samantha Neighbor ’11, and Megan Kutulis ’10. Not pictured: Christopher Catagnus ’11.

cates of social justice, and use their professional skills to bring international attention to urgent issues in society,” said Jerry Zurek, Ph.D., chair of Cabrini’s Communication Department.

The students traveled to Las Vegas in April to receive the award at the Broadcast Education Association’s annual conven-tion. “Road of Insecurity” also has received an International Silver Davey Award, a Philadelphia College Air Award, and was nominated for a College Broadcasters National Production Award.

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A radio documentary created by three students on the global food crisis was named Best of Festival winner in the 2010 Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts. The documentary, “Road of Insecurity: The Global Food Crisis,” was one of 16 Best of Festival winners chosen from nearly 900 audio and video entries.

Created and produced by Mallory

Terrence ’10, Gillian Davis ’10, and Caitlin

Friel ’10, the documentary explores a cri-sis that affects more than 900 million peo-ple worldwide, and what is being done to fix the problem. It takes a critical look at what the U.S. government is doing to solve global hunger, and how those efforts could be improved.

“No single canned-food drive, char-ity project or amount of money donated will change the course of this crisis,” said Terrence. “High school students will not be able to cure world hunger, although the support of the people is much needed.

Students Earn Top National Award for

Documentary on Global Food Crisis

The pressure needs to be put on large governments, who need to make efforts to help guarantee people will no longer go to bed hungry or die from hunger-related diseases.”

The development of “Road of Insecurity” started more than two years ago, when Terrence wrote stories and editorials on food insecurity for Cabrini’s student newspaper, The Loquitur. Her research continued in a class, “Working for Global Justice,” where she was joined by Davis and Friel. The three continued the project in an “Advanced Radio Practicum” course, using hours of research, interviews and audio clips to produce the documentary. In April 2009, the students lobbied in the U.S. Senate on the Casey-Lugar Bill, “The Global Food Security Act of 2009.”

“This award is the most graphic evi-dence of how students, over four years, can be transformed into effective advo-

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Mural Arts Program’s

Golden Receives Ivy

Young Willis Award

On March 9, Jane Golden, executive director of the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program, received the College’s 2010 Ivy Young Willis Award—an award that recognizes women who have made contributions in the field of public affairs.

Under Golden’s direction, the Mural Arts Program has created more than 3,000 works of public art and is now the nation’s largest mural program.

Left to right: Caitlin Friel ’10, Gillian Davis ’10 and Mallory Terrence ’10 take home the 2010 Best of Festival award in Las Vegas.

Jane Golden, executive director of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, explains how the mural program unites artists and communities in Philadelphia.

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College Unveils Re-designed WebsiteThe College unveiled a completely re-designed website (www.cabrini.edu) March 4, and by June 4 the former alumni website (www.cabrinicommunity.org) was integrated into the newly re-designed site.

Developed in partnership with mStoner, a Chicago-based designer of higher educa-tion websites, the new website provides users with an easy-to-navigate interface provid-ing intuitive access to information while clearly conveying the College’s key messages.

There were three goals for the more-than-400-page re-design:• Appeal to prospective undergraduate and graduate students.• Provide alumni a convenient means to re-connect with the College and with

other alumni.• Give current students, faculty, and staff easy access to password-protected

features they use regularly.“We wanted to produce a visually attractive website that would serve the entire Cabrini

College community,” explained webmaster Matthew Holmes ’02. “On a number of occasions, some feature that we thought was ‘cool’ ended up testing poorly with those who would be using the site … so we had to make adjustments all along the way.”

The home page of the Cabrini College Alumni Association (www.cabrini.edu/alumni) displays a prominent link to Cabrini Commons, the new alumni community that connects alumni via social networking services such as Linked In, Facebook, Flickr, and others.

Readers of Cabrini Magazine are invited to offer feedback on the website; please email webmaster@cabrini.edu.

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Student NewsThe International Foreign Language Honor Society Phi Sigma Iota granted funding of $150 each to Traci Beltz ’10 and Jenn Prutzer ’12 in recognition of their work in Guatemala, Norristown, and Kennett Square. The stu-dents also published essays in the society’s yearly journal, “The Forum.” (Beltz published “A Hometown Service Project and a Trip to Guatemala Inspire a Library Program,” and Prutzer published “From Community Project to Social Justice.”) The funding was used for materials for their projects and to create presentations for Cabrini’s Undergraduate Arts, Research and Scholarship Symposium.

Students Help Launch Norristown Arts Festival Cabrini students worked on various tasks to help facilitate the Norristown Arts Hill Launch Festival on April 24. Eric Malm, Ph.D., assistant professor of business administration, and his SEM 300 class partnered with the Arts Task Force in marketing, fundraising, logistics, and real estate committees. They also created a website, www.norristownartshill.org, to help promote the event.

“I think [the students] got a sense about how grassroots community organizations work,” said Malm, “while getting some good applied business experience.”

Homepage of Cabrini College’s re-designed website, www.cabrini.edu.

Michelle Costa ’12, Danielle DiBartolo ’12, Melissa Moore ’12, Ross Salese ’12, Jade

Spence ’13, and Communication Department Chair Jerry Zurek, Ph.D., appeared in feature segments on NBC’s “The 10! Show” (pictured above) for five Wednesdays in March and April as part of the Justice Matters Essay Contest. The profiles focused on how the students are living a philosophy that “Justice Matters.”

Four “You Ought to Know” segments appeared on NBC 10 in March and April dur-ing the network’s 5 p.m. news. Each seg-ment featured a student and faculty member discussing the educational experience at Cabrini: Melissa Terlecki, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, and Lauren Galonski

’10; Seth Frechie, Ph.D., chair of the English Department, and Rachel Buttaro ’11; Michelle Filling, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, and Tyler Rooke ’13; and Darryl

Mace, Ph.D., assistant professor of history and political science, and Amy Rodden ’13. Jeffrey Gingerich, Ph.D., interim dean for Academic Affairs, introduced each segment, and spoke of how Justice Matters frames the educational experience at Cabrini.

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Students Present Research at State Capitol on Ecology of Crabby Creek, Biology of Bacteria

Matthew Cusmiani ’11, Neil Gogno ’11, Ryan Pashley ’12, Melissa Phillips ’12, Amanda Rosica ’12 and graduate student Cynthia McGauley presented research on the ecology of Crabby Creek at the Undergraduate Research at the Capitol’s State Posters on the Hill event in Harrisburg, Pa., in March. The presentation, “The Community Speaks: Crabby Creek and Our Backyard,” summarized a class project, “Detailed Macroinvertebrate, Chemical and Community Attitude, Studies of Crabby Creek, Post-Stream Restoration.

The students studied the effects recent housing has made on the creek water, sur-veying Crabby Creek neighboring residents to assess awareness. Testing and analysis showed that Crabby Creek is in an acceptable ecological condition, though fecal coli-form bacteria counts are a concern. Faculty advisors for the presentation were David Dunbar, Ph.D., associate professor of biology; Melissa Terlecki, Ph.D., assistant profes-sor of psychology; and Caroline Nielsen, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology.

Crabby Creek is a tributary to Valley Creek, a trout stream that flows through Valley Forge National Park to the Schuylkill River. Cabrini faculty and students have worked with community members for years on the project, “Collaborative Research-Watershed Citizenship Learning Community.” The project, funded by a National Science Foundation grant, builds on the Crabby Creek Stream Monitoring Project, which is directed by faculty members Dunbar, Terlecki, Nielsen and Susan Gill, Ph.D., educa-tion director of the Stroud Water Research Center. The monitoring project began in 2007 with funding from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Matthew Doyle ’13, Steven Forrester ’10 and Catherine Mageeney ’10 also presented at the Posters on the Hill event. The phage genomics students presented “Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Mycobacteriophage,” or viruses that infect bacteria that represent the most abundant life form in the biosphere. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute served as research sponsor for this project. Doyle and Mageeney also spoke with Pennsylvania State Representative Bill Adolph (R-165) about their genomics research.

Faculty advisors for the genomics presentation were Melinda Harrison, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, and Dunbar, who also serves as co-chair of the Posters on the Hill event.

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Sherry Fuller-Espie, Ph.D., associate pro-fessor of biology, was named correspond-ing secretary and membership chair for the Pennsylvania Academy of Science.

Michelle Filling, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was elected to the executive committee of the Philadelphia Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), and helped host the National WPA Conference in July.

James Hedtke, Ph.D., chair of the History and Political Science Department, was quoted in a story on CNN.com about how U.S. presidents have historically addressed the country’s dependency on oil, and how the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could affect Barack Obama’s presidency.

Melissa Terlecki, Ph.D., assistant pro-fessor of psychology, has been appointed to the editorial board of Sex Roles, a Journal of Research (peer-reviewed psychology journal on gender issues in psychology). Terlecki also completed a database of more than 1,000 slides for the textbook, Introducing Psychology (Schacter, Gilbert and Wegner, 2010).

Communication Department Chair Jerry Zurek, Ph.D., and Kharisma McIlwaine ’06 were featured on CBS 3 in a “Talk Philly” segment, which focused on the educational experience at Cabrini and the importance of internships.

David Dunbar, Ph.D., associate profes-sor of biology, and Melinda Harrison, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, presented “Undergraduate Research in the Classroom: How to Engage Freshmen in a University and a Liberal Arts College Setting” at the 2010 Council of Undergraduate Research National Conference at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

Faculty News

Steven Forrester ’10 (left), Catherine Mageeney ’10 and Matthew Doyle ’13 participate in the 2010 State Capitol Posters on the Hill event.

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Cabrini College has elected four new Trustees: Mary Kathryn Burke ’69, president and CEO of White Horse Village, a $30 million not-for-profit life care community for seniors in Newtown Square, Pa.; Thomas P. Nerney ’77, president and CEO of United States Liability Insurance Group (USLI), an organization headquartered in Wayne, Pa., that specializes in underwriting low premi-um, low hazard specialty insurance products; D. Jamie Miller Prince ’84, executive board mem-ber and co-budget chair of the Anderson School PTA, a K-8 public school in New York, for intel-lectually gifted students; and Marvin L. Stewart, retired UPS Human Resources Manager.

“The College’s newest Board members bring a wealth of knowledge, expertise and experi-ence in education, the financial industry, health care, and community engagement,” said Board Chair Theresa Cavanaugh ’74. “We are delighted to have them on the Board, and look forward to working with them in continuing to prepare stu-dents to become engaged citizens of the world.”

Mary Kathryn Burke ’69 Burke oversees a staff of 240 full-time employees, and is responsible for the company’s strategic plan, capital and operating budget development, and the planning, financing and oversight of a $30 million campus expansion. A licensed nurs-ing home administrator in Pennsylvania and Delaware, Burke is a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Non-Profit Homes for the Aging, the American Association of Homes and Services for Aging, and the International Association for Homes and Services for Aging. She earned a master’s degree in healthcare administration from West Chester University. She served an adminis-trative residency in healthcare administration at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pa.

Thomas P. Nerney ’77Nerney heads USLI, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that earned an A++ rating from A.M. Best, a credit rating organization for the financial services industry. Nerney is a founding member of the not-for-profit organizations Good Sports of Wayne, A Front Row Seat to Learning, and

the Nerney Foundation. He has earned several awards including the Philadelphia Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter’s Franklin Award for outstanding achievement and contributions to the insurance industry. Nerney earned a master of business administra-tion from the Haub School of Business at St. Joseph’s University and CPCU designation from the American Institute of Property and Casualty Insurance in Malvern, Pa.

D. Jamie Miller Prince ’84 Prince is responsible for developing an $830,000 annual budget from contributed funds to sup-port the Anderson School budget. Prince previ-ously served as vice president at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking, one of Europe’s main financial services companies, and at Bayerische Vereinsbank A.G., the second-largest private German financial institution. She was president of the Cabrini College Alumni Board from 2000-04. She earned a master’s degree in international business and Spanish at the University of South Carolina.

Marvin L. StewartStewart served as human resources manager for UPS in Philadelphia, where he worked for more than 20 years. At UPS, Stewart was respon-sible for the company’s community relations for the Metro Philadelphia District, including the “Neighbor to Neighbor Program,” through which nearly 10,000 employees organize food drives, mentor youth and improve impover-ished communities. He chaired the company’s annual United Way campaigns, which raised more than $1 million annually over the past six years. Stewart is an ordained deacon at Saint Paul’s Baptist Church in West Chester, Pa., and has volunteered to assist victims of hur-ricanes Katrina and Rita, and at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, Md. He earned master’s degrees from Eastern University and West Virginia University, and a bachelor’s degree from Fairmont State University in West Virginia. His son, Matthew, is a sophomore at Cabrini.

Three Alumni and a Parent Named Trustees

Mary Kathryn Burke ’69

Marvin L. Stewart

D. Jamie Miller Prince ’84

Thomas P. Nerney ’77

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1,100 Graduates Make 50th Commencement a Record-Breaker

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More than 400 bachelor’s degrees and 700 master’s degrees—the largest graduating class in Cabrini College history—were awarded at two sun-soaked Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 16. It was the College’s 50th Commencement.

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C., received an honorary doctorate of humane let-ters and delivered a Commencement address at the undergraduate ceremony, while Dawn Middleton, Ph.D., Faculty Emerita and former chair of the College’s Education Department, received an honorary doctorate of humane letters and addressed the graduate ceremony in the afternoon. Thomas Balshi, DDS, Ph.D., FACP, husband of former Board Chair Joanne Kovacs Balshi ’69, was

awarded an honorary doctorate of science at the undergraduate ceremony. Balshi is a board certified prosthodontist and founder of the Institute for Facial Esthetics in Fort Washington, Pa.

Graduates, honorary degree recipients, and guests were treated to an inspiring and humorous Commencement address by Cardinal McCarrick, whose message was infused with how proud he is to now be an official member of the Cabrini College Class of 2010.

“I hope all who heard the Cardinal’s address reflect on his message of love, dignity of the human family, and how proud he is that Cabrini College, built on a foundation of justice and peace, continues to prepare students for lives of engaged citizen-ship,” said President Marie George.

From L-R: Kimberly Birts G’10 (left), an instructional supervisor at Riverside Elementary School in Reading, Pa., and Stacey DeMott, a teacher at Schuylkill Valley School District, earn master of education degrees with concentrations in education leadership. DeMott also received Cabrini’s St. Catherine’s Medal for scholarship and service at the Graduate Honors Convocation on April 14. Valedictorian Shannon Winters addresses more than 400 graduates earning bachelor’s degrees. Christopher Jones G’10 receives a master of education degree.

Left: Sara Trzuskowski ’10, recipient of the Mother Ursula Award, and Fran Carusi Brooks ’82. Right: After degrees are conferred, graduates shift theirtassels to the left.

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LEGACY PROGRAM

When Anthony Casazza ’84 and Kathleen Lyons ’84 arrived at Cabrini College, they likely had no idea they would later marry and start a long-lasting legacy at the College. Kathleen’s sister, Anne ’88, began her first year at Cabrini in 1984, right after Kathleen graduated. That same semester, Anthony’s brother,

Peter ’88, began his first semester at Cabrini, where he met Maureen Murray ’87. They married in 1992.

And now, a second generation of Casazzas have come to Cabrini. This year, Anthony Casazza Jr. ’10 graduated, and his brother, Matthew ’13, completed his freshman year.

The Cabrini College Legacy Program recognizes families for their continued support and helps legacies stay connected through special programs and events. If you are a Cabrini legacy, visit www.cabrini.edu/alumni and click on Legacy Program.

A Lasting Legacy: The Casazza Family

Maureen Murray Casazza ’87

(Sister-in-law)Anne Lyons Hay ’88

(sister)Anthony

Casazza Sr. ’84Kathleen Lyons

Casazza ’84 Peter Casazza ’88

(brother)

Anthony Casazza Jr. ’10

(son)

Matthew Casazza ’13

(son)

The Casazza family at this year’s Commencement ceremony (from left): Matthew Casazza ’13, Anne Lyons Hay ’88, Kathleen Lyons Casazza ’84, Anthony Casazza Jr. ’10, President Marie George, Anthony Casazza ’84, Maureen Murray Casazza ’87, and Peter Casazza ’88.

At the 21st Annual Cabrini Classic, on May 24, the College welcomed current students, alumni, donors, trustees, faculty, staff, and friends to Waynesborough Country Club in Paoli, Pa., despite the threat of rain. A cocktail hour and silent auction preceded dinner honoring Sr. Mary Louise Sullivan, MSC ’63, Ph.D., and live auction. Lori Staneruck Zytkowicz ’94 served as auctioneer.

Cabrini Classic Supports

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CabriniNEWS

Committee co-chairs accept gifts from the College honoring their dedication to the Cabrini Classic. From left: trustee Frank Emmerich Jr. ’92 of Conrad O’Brien PC, Kenneth Adelberg of HiFi House Group of Companies, and Eric Putsch of Maven Benefits Partners.

COCKTAIL RECEPTION SPONSORThomas P. Nerney ’77 and Jill Chambers Nerney ’77

DINNER SPONSORMontgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP

APPAREL SPONSORMaven Benefits Partners

LUNCHEON SPONSOREdith Robb Dixon HON’80

PRINTING SPONSORProsit Print Solutions

PLATINUM SPONSORSAnonymousBodnar Financial Advisors, Inc.Joan M. Buzzallino ’66C.F. Holloway, III & CompanyComcast Business ServicesConrad O’Brien PCDANJOLELL Memorial HomesDevine Brothers, Inc.Drexel UniversityFollett Higher Education GroupHiFi House Group of CompaniesJohn and Barbara (HON’08) JordanKing Carpet MartSodexo Turner Construction CompanyUnited States Liability Insurance GroupStephen E. Westhead ’87Willis

GOLD SPONSORSCSI International, Inc.Devine + PowersFirst Cornerstone BankGrant Thornton LLPGary and Patricia HollowayJoseph P. Melvin CompanyPella Window & Door Co. The Philadelphia PhilliesQuadratec, Inc.John and Elizabeth SchanzTurner Investment Partners, Inc.UPS Regional

SILVER SPONSORAmerican Catholic Historical Society

BRONZE SPONSORDr. Tom Balshi HON’10 and Joanne Kovacs Balshi ’69

INDIVIDUAL SPONSORSArchoustics East, Inc.Armstrong, Doyle & Carroll, Inc.Brinker CapitalChester Valley EngineersCollegiate Insurance ResourcesKimmel Bogrette Architecture + Site

DRIVING RANGE SPONSORJ. J. DeLuca Company, Inc.

PUTTING GREEN SPONSORWaynesborough Country Club

REGISTRATION SPONSORSAchristavestMayoSeitz Media

CAR SPONSORJohn Kennedy Auto Group

HOLE SPONSORSBentley RowlandCarr & Duff, Inc.Entech Engineering, Inc.Independence Blue CrossSun Life FinancialWallace, Roberts & Todd, Inc.

BENEFACTORSMr. and Mrs. Louis J. BaldwinRaymond Bell and Elizabeth Riley Bell ’69Blockhouse FurnitureMr. James Brown and Dr. Dorothy BrownJ. John BuscoC. Caramanico & Sons, Inc.Sr. Eileen Currie, MSC ’66Deborah Gentile Cylc ’77Shirley Dixon ’84, G’89The Guardian Life Insurance Company of AmericaKelsh Wilson Design, Inc.Conrad and Anne KruseCabrini Boggiano Lepis ’61Lincoln Financial GroupMain Line TrophySr. Francesca Onley, Ph.D., CSFNEdda Pitassi CE’77Dr. and Mrs. Eugene PrincipatoMichele RollinsRumsey ElectricSague Bus ServiceMary ShieldsSisters at Mother Cabrini ShrineDeb TakesRodger and Judith Van Allen

ADVERTISERSAnthony Rental & SalesEd Forde Service Center, Inc.Entech Engineering, Inc.Hugh Gillespie & Son, Inc.J.P. Mascaro & SonsKEM Partners, Inc.Missionary Sisters and Cabrini Mission FoundationmStoner, Inc.Penn Liberty BankSchultz & Williams

The Classic raised $180,000, which will be allotted to

scholarship aid. Thank you to all of the members of

the 21st Annual Cabrini Classic Committee, who helped

make this event such a success.

Auctioneer Lori Staneruck Zytkowicz ’94 (right) seeks more bids at the Cabrini Classic Live Auction.

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Your generosity will have a direct impact on financial aid for new and returning Cabrini students.

Every dollar makes a difference…every gift counts.

Thank you again for your continued support.

Congratulations to alumni, students, parents, faCulty, staff

and friends for meeting the goal of the 2010 Cabrini fund.

Cabrini College has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the high-est federal recognition a college or uni-versity can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. Cabrini was one of 43 col-leges and universities in Pennsylvania to be named to the Honor Roll, which is administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Cabrini has appeared on the Honor Roll every year since its inception in 2006.

Cabrini was honored for initiatives in fair trade, microfinance, immigra-tion reform, and youth empowerment; and for the College’s core curriculum. Justice Matters, the new core, defines

the contemporary Cabrinian educa-tion through academic excellence, social justice, and transformational learning. Also, the College’s local, regional, and international partnerships with the city of Norristown, Catholic Relief Services, and the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus offers students, faculty and staff opportunities to work in Appalachia, Central and South America, and Africa.

“Being named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for a fourth time is a testament to the work Cabrini students, faculty, staff and alumni continue to make in our local and global communities,” said President Marie George.

The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll recognizes

institutions of higher education that sup-port innovative, effective, and exemplary community services programs. Honorees are chosen based on a series of selection factors, including the scope and innova-tion of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses.

The Corporation for National and Community Services oversees the Honor Roll in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Campus Compact and the American Council on Education.

For a complete list of Honor Roll recipi-ents, visit www.learnandserve.gov.

for fourth Consecutive year, Cabrini receives national recognition for Community service

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CabriniAthletics

The Cabrini men and women’s lacrosse teams concluded the 2010 seasons in a familiar envi-ronment—the NCAA Tournament. Four All-America selections fueled the Cavalier men’s team’s 10th straight trip to the national postsea-son. Senior Casey Grugan was named the pro-gram’s first ever USILA First Team All-American and was selected to the USILA North-South Senior All-Star Game. Juniors Steve Heaps and Paul Skulski and sophomore John McSorley received USILA Honorable Mention accolades.

The senior trio of Amanda Alexandrowicz, Erin Nollen and Kate Schmid earned IWLCA Metro Region accolades and guided the Cavaliers to their eighth appearance all-time in the NCAA Tournament. Alexandrowicz was named to the Metro Region First Team, while Nollen and Schmid shared second-team distinc-tion. Alexandrowicz and Schmid participated in the Under Armour/IWLCA North-South Senior All-Star Game on June 12.

Cabrini men’s basketball team claims the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) Championship after victory over Neumann University.

Men’s/Women’s Lacrosse Postseason Honors

For the fourth straight year, and for the sixth time in the last nine years, Cabrini finished atop the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) Overall President’s Cup standings. The Cavaliers won seven confer-ence titles in 2009-10, beginning with four at the inaugural CSAC Fall Championship Festival on Nov. 7 at Immaculata University.

The Cabrini field hockey, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and volleyball teams captured the conference championship and punched their tickets to the NCAA Tournament all in one day at the CSAC Fall Championship Festival. The Cavalier men’s basketball, women’s basketball and men’s lacrosse programs also claimed the conference hardware and advanced to the national playoffs in 2009-10.

Cabrini placed first in the CSAC Women’s President’s Cup stand-ings, earning the honor for the fifth time overall and for the fourth time since the 2004-05 campaign. The Cavaliers missed a clean sweep for the second straight season after the men finished second in the CSAC Men’s President’s Cup standings behind Gwynedd-Mercy College by just 0.6% of the possible points.

CSAC President’s Cup Standings

Senior Casey GruganSenior Amanda Alexandrowicz

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Former Men’s Basketball Head Coach and Director of Athletics John Dzik will be officially inducted into the 2010 Cabrini Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, Sept. 24 in the Nerney Field House at the Dixon Center. Dzik will be honored as the sole member of the Cabrini Athletic Hall of Fame’s fifth class and the 23rd person enshrined.

Dzik led the Cabrini men’s basketball program for 25 seasons from 1980-2005, guiding the Cavaliers to 16 conference championships and 11 appearances in national tournaments. In his final season with the Blue & White in 2004-05, Cabrini listed sec-ond all-time among winningest NCAA Division III programs.

At the beginning of the 2009-10 regular season, Dzik ranked 34th among winningest NCAA Division III head coaches all-time. He posted a 481-216 (.690) career record at Cabrini.

“I am delighted to be welcomed into the Cabrini College Athletic Hall of Fame,” Dzik said. “I share this honor with the many fine student-athletes and coaches whom I was blessed to work with during my tenure at Cabrini. I have devel-oped many wonderful friendships and possess many lasting memories of Cabrini Athletics. I look forward to revisiting both at the Hall of Fame ceremony.”

Dzik made an immediate impact when he assumed the head coaching responsi-bilities at Cabrini for the 1980-81 season, guiding the Cavaliers to three consecutive Keystone Athletic Conference titles from 1981-83.

Under Dzik’s tutelage, Cabrini made four straight appearances in the NAIA Tournament from 1983-87. During that four-year stretch, the Cavaliers captured four NAIA District 19 championships and three Eastern Pennsylvania Athletic Conference titles.

Dzik helped usher Cabrini into full-time membership with the NCAA and Eastern States Athletic Conference (ESAC), beginning with the 1987-88 campaign. In five seasons, he aided the Cavaliers to four ESAC Tournament appearances, ultimately hoisting the hard-ware in 1988.

Beginning with the 1992-93 aca-demic year, Cabrini joined nine other private, four-year colleges in Eastern Pennsylvania in forming the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference (PAC). Dzik played an integral role in coordinating the for-mation of the new conference and also served as its first President (1992-94). All told, Dzik coached the Cavaliers to eight PAC titles, including a run of six straight from 1992-98.

Cabrini advanced to nine NCAA Tournaments with Dzik as head coach. The Cavaliers reached the second round of the national tournament in consecutive seasons from 1994-96. Cabrini marched all the way to the “Sweet 16” round in 2001-02.

During his time at Cabrini, Dzik coached the Cavaliers to 14 20-win seasons and an extraordinary 24 appear-ances in the postseason in his 25 years at the helm of the program. He mentored Cabrini to a then-school record 24 victories in a single season three times.

Dzik was twice named the NAIA District 19 Coach of the Year and also

earned the PAC Coach of the Year distinc-tion four times. He was inducted into the Philadelphia Area Small College Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.

In addition to his coaching responsibil-ities, Dzik served the College as director of men’s athletics (1980-86), director of athletics (1986-2003), director of admis-sions (1983-86), and special assistant to the president for athletic advancement (2003-04).

“The name John Dzik is synonymous with Cabrini Athletics,” Director of Athletics and Recreation Joe Giunta said. “Coach Dzik has paved his way into the Cabrini Athletic Hall of Fame with 25 years of excellence in athletic administra-tion, coaching and mentoring of student-athletes.”

John Dzik: 2010 Cabrini Athletic

Hall of Fame Inductee

ANNUAL ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

INDUCTION OF COACH JOHN DZIK

Friday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m.

Tickets to the dinner and ceremony are $55 per person. To purchase tickets, visit www.cabrini.edu/alumni or call 610-902-8256.

John Dzik

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ending the abuse.Domestic violence is a huge problem that affects the lives of millions in the U.S. each year. Several projects underway at Cabrini show how education can help.

by Richard Bader

in ways not unlike the way her stepfather treated her. Eventually she was kicked out of one school. Around seventh or eighth grade she began smoking pot, and later she started doing other drugs. “It was an escape,” Helen says. “I don’t regret it. That was the only refuge I had.”

The whole time, Helen kept her home life a secret. She didn’t tell teachers, didn’t tell her principal, didn’t tell the school psychologist. Why should she? she rea-soned. Her mom didn’t want to leave her stepfather. “We just had to deal with it.”

It was only as an adult that Helen began to come to grips with her past and the effect it had on her. “Maybe all of this has been DV related,” she says, using a short-hand term for domestic violence. “Maybe all of my anxieties are because I was on eggshells at home. Maybe all of who I am is because of what happened back then.”

Helen was about six years old when it started. Her mother, a Philadelphia-area single parent raising Helen and her broth-er, met a guy, and “he was wonderful,” Helen says. Until he wasn’t. A promising start for this newly reconfigured family began to turn sour after they moved from Philadelphia to Trenton, N.J.

“That’s when the abuse started,” recalls Helen (whose last name is withheld to protect her privacy).

When her mother and stepfather would fight she would sit on her mother’s lap to try to get it to stop. Sometimes that worked and sometimes it didn’t. When the abuse escalated, Helen and her mother would go stay at shelters.

School was a struggle. Helen had dif-ficulty focusing. Her teachers didn’t know about her home life, and some of them would tease and scold her, treating her

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Domestic violence—the abuse of one member of an intimate partnership by another—is a huge national problem. One in four U.S. women and 7.6 per-cent of men will be raped or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, partner, or date. One in three adolescent girls is a victim of abuse by a dating partner. Some 15.5 million U.S. children live in families where partner violence occurred in the past year, and in nearly half of those families, the violence was severe. And because only a fraction of the cases of domestic violence ever get reported, these numbers don’t capture the full magnitude of the problem. But whatever its size, its impact is enormous, and Cabrini College is working to do something about it.

“Teachers really are first responders” to domestic violence issues in students, says Assistant Professor of Education Colleen Lelli ’95, Ed.D.

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Helping tHe ‘Silent VictimS’Children like Helen, who grow up living with domestic violence in their homes, are among those most affected by the problem. A 2009 study by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention found that nearly one in 10 children age 17 and under had been exposed to family violence in the previous year, and there are esti-mates that one in four children will witness family violence in their lifetime. These chil-dren may not be on the receiving end of the violent behavior, but living in a home where it occurs has consequences.

“It literally changes their brain,” says Colleen Lelli ’95, Ed.D., assistant pro-fessor of education. Being a witness to

domestic violence can inhibit the develop-ment of the part of the brain responsible for language, Lelli says, and this can lead to difficulties processing information. And if children are especially vulnerable victims, she notes, then schoolteachers are in an ideal position to help. She is developing a curriculum to give teachers skills to help children living with domes-tic violence.

“Teachers really are first respond-ers,” Lelli says. “They see kids every day. I want to broaden their awareness of domestic violence so they can help students in the classroom.”

Diagnosing domestic violence by observ-ing schoolchildren is complicated because

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This past spring when Yeardley Love, a student and women’s lacrosse player at the University of Virginia, allegedly was murdered by her boyfriend, a member of the Virginia men’s lacrosse team, it brought national attention to the problem of violence in dating relationships. It’s a problem that Cabrini stu-dents have been examining for years.

That examination takes place inECG 300: Dating and Domestic Violence, a course conceived and taught by English instructor Amy Lee Persichetti. In the course, students design and carry out research that adds to their—and our—understanding of the phenomenon.

The course is a collaboration with the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, domestic violence agency Laurel House (www.laurel-

house.org), and the research is designed to give Laurel House information it can use in carrying out its work. During spring semester, when Laurel House wanted to learn more about teen dating and domestic violence—specifically, about where student victims go for help—Persichetti’s class set out to research the issue. They developed a survey, used Facebook to distribute it, and recorded responses from nearly 300 high school and college students.

About a quarter of respondents said they’d been pushed, grabbed, or shoved by a dating partner. Forty-three said they’d had something thrown at them. Eight said they’d been threatened with a knife and four reported being threatened with a gun. As for where victims went for help, by a wide margin of those who discussed their abuse with others said they went not to the police or a counselor, but to a friend.

The research process immerses students in the topic in ways no lecture or textbook can, and sparks lively class discussions. “I don’t want to sell injustice to them,” says Persichetti. “It’s not me telling them what I believe. It’s them doing research to find out what’s out there and then figuring out what they can do about it.”

MEASURING THE ABUSE

• Nearly one in four U.S. women and 7.6 percent of men will be raped or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, partner, or date in their lifetime.

• One in three adolescent girls in the U.S. is a victim of physical, emotional, or verbal abuse from a dating partner.

• 15.5 million children live in families where partner violence occurred in the past year. In 7 million of those families, the violence was severe.

• Women experience 2 million injuries from domestic partner violence each year.

• 248,300 rapes were reported in the U.S. in 2007, a 30 percent increase over 2005. That works out to 680 rapes every day.

• Women who are victims of assault by an intimate partner are assaulted an average of 6.9 times by that same partner.

Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Justice, Family Violence Prevention Fund, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence

enough to have money, you may be able to get away to the safety of a hotel. But if your spouse punches you and you’re broke and have three kids at home, you’re stuck.

The main goal of Persichetti’s class is to help students become smarter about avoid-ing or leaving abusive relationships in their own lives. A second goal is to help them learn to help others. Their own research showed that if victims turn to anyone, they’re likely to turn to a friend. Those who take Persichetti’s class end up becoming extremely savvy friends who are in a very good position to give good advice.

Persichetti says that what her class ulti-mately is about is empowerment: “Students are here to learn about themselves and how they fit into the world. At the end of college, you may not remember the details of what you learned, but you’ll remember what made you feel validated as a human being.”

To help them figure out what they can do about it, a Laurel House staff mem-ber would visit the class several times a semester and teach the students strategies for preventing and ending abuse. Those who take Dating and Domestic Violence even have the option of becoming pro-visionally certified as domestic violence counselors. Twenty-seven of the 37 stu-dents who took Persichetti’s course during the past two semesters earned provisional certification.

The dynamics of an abusive relation-ship can be complex. To an outsider, it might seem easy for victims to simply walk away, but in reality many don’t. Students in Persichetti’s class do exercises that put them in the shoes of those who feel trapped in an abusive relationship. One such exer-cise is modeled on the children’s game Chutes and Ladders. In the exercise, if your spouse punches you and you’re lucky

HITTING CLOSE TO HOME: A CABRINI CLASS RESEARCHES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN DATING

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The teacher’s main role with children who are witnesses to domestic violence, Lelli stresses, is not so much to be a coun-selor, but “to help kids learn.” If teachers suspect that the child himself or herself has been abused, however, they are legally obligated to report it.

While developing her domestic violence curriculum, Lelli has consulted some of the leading experts in the field, including Jeffrey Edelson, Ph.D., director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse, and Ellen Pence, co-founder of the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, Minn.

Lelli expects to finish work on the cur-riculum this fall, after which she hopes to use it as a professional development pilot project for teachers in the Norristown (Pennsylvania) Area School District, most likely during the 2011-2012 school year. From there, she plans to reach out to school districts nationwide to encourage them to use the curriculum as part of their professional development programs.

Her efforts, she says, are an attempt to help children whose need for help can be overlooked. “Children are the silent vic-tims. They’re the forgotten ones because they’re not physically harmed. People think they’re okay, but they’re not.”

Children as WitnessesLelli’s curriculum is one component of a multifaceted Cabrini initiative called the Children as Witness Project, which aims to give educators, social workers, and oth-ers who work with children the resources they need to help kids living in house-holds where domestic violence occurs. It’s a partnership with Laurel House, a comprehensive domestic violence agency in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a partner in Cabrini’s curriculum projects.

Lelli also is developing a course on domestic violence for Cabrini undergradu-ates aspiring to become teachers, social workers, or counselors. Laura Groves, Ph.D., assistant professor of social work, is developing an undergraduate course that looks at how exposure to domestic violence affects child development.

For another part of the project, senior Communication majors developed a Children as Witness website (www.cabrini.edu/domesticviolence) to inform educa-tors and others about domestic violence. The website includes facts about domestic violence, video testimonials from victims, insight from experts in the field, and a range of other useful information. Lelli and Associate Professor of Communication Catherine Yungmann advised students who developed the website as part of what’s known as the Convergence Project, an annual initiative in which Communication majors use multimedia tools to address a social justice topic.

“It was definitely a rewarding experience,” says Diana Trasatti ’10, who worked on the proj-ect. “Domestic violence is an important issue that many people are not aware of, and victims need help.” Trasatti also has been assisting Lelli with her cur-riculum work, and in the fall will begin a graduate program in counseling and men-tal health at the University of Pennsylvania.

Funding for Children as Witness has come from the U.S. Department of Justice and from the Barbara and John Jordan

the symptoms—which may include aggres-sive or violent behavior, bullying, social withdrawal, inability to organize informa-tion, or difficulty reading and problem-solving—can be similar to those of other problems, such as Attention Deficit Disorder or depression. And the problems aren’t the same with all children. One child living in a home with domestic violence might be falling asleep in class; another might be hyperactive. Lelli’s curriculum is designed to help teachers recognize symp-toms and intervene appropriately.

For example, a child witness of domestic violence might have difficulty recalling the sequence of events in a story he or she has just read. Struggle with reading, and you’ll struggle with test-taking. Struggle with test-taking, your grades will suffer. If your grades suffer, you’re at higher risk for drop-ping out of school. One problem leads to another, starting a chain reaction that can seriously undermine student prog-ress. One intervention in this case might be for the teacher to cut up comic strips into frames and have the child try to reassemble them in the correct order.

Diana Trasatti ’10

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Communication majors created a multimedia website about domestic violence (www.cabrini.edu/ domesticviolence).

When Cabrini President Marie George and Assistant Professor of Education Colleen Lelli ’95, Ed.D., were invited to the White House in May to speak with Lynn Rosenthal, President Obama’s lead-ing advisor on violence against women, they owed a debt of thanks to Barbara and John Jordan, longtime advocates of efforts to combat domestic violence, who had arranged the meeting.

It’s just one of the ways that the Jordans have helped advance the College’s work on domestic violence. Another is the Barbara and John Jordan Domestic Violence Education Program, an endowed fund they created to support Cabrini’s efforts. The fund is one of the key sources of financial support for the Children as Witness Project, and it will allow Cabrini to expand its work in this field and sustain it over time.

The Jordans divide their time between Philadelphia and Naples, Fla., and in those and other cities they serve on boards and are active with organizations working to alleviate domestic violence. John is co-chair of “Gentle” Men Against Domestic Violence. Barbara is a founding board member of the Shelter for Abused Women and Children in Naples. Both have served on the advisory board of Laurel House,

Cabrini’s Norristown, Pa., community part-ner. Their work has made them knowl-edgeable about both the problem and what’s being done about it, and they are excited by what they see at Cabrini.

“What Cabrini is doing is far ahead of anything we have found out about,” says Barbara Jordan, who received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the College in 2008.

“They’re being proactive in trying to make a change,” adds her husband. “They’re not just reacting like other col-leges after a very sad incident occurs.”

The incident John Jordan was referring to was the alleged murder in early May of Yeardley Love, a senior women’s lacrosse player at the University of Virginia who was found dead in her apartment. Her former boyfriend, a member of the Virginia men’s lacrosse team, has been charged with the crime. That tragedy was still fresh on the minds of the Jordans when they accom-panied President George and Lelli to their meeting with Rosenthal at the White House.

“The day we went to the White House, Yeardley Love was on the cover of USA Today,” says Barbara Jordan. “It felt like we should be there that day. It felt like our work had tremendous purpose.

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SUPPORTING A ‘TREMENDOUS PURPOSE’

Lynn Rosenthal (second from left), White House Advisor on Violence Against Women, meets (left to right) Barbara Jordan, supporter of domestic violence education, President Marie George, and Colleen Lelli ’95, Ed.D., assistant professor of education and director of the Children as Witness Project.

Domestic Violence Education Program, an endowed fund supporting Cabrini’s domestic violence efforts. The Jordans are a Philadelphia-area couple active in domestic violence projects in a number of cities (see sidebar), and staunch advocates of Cabrini’s work.

“Barbara and John Jordan speak pas-sionately of the role that education plays in the domestic violence movement,” says Cabrini President Marie George. “We are blessed to have the Jordans supporting the Children as Witness program and ensur-ing that the College’s commitment to this cause continues long term.”

DOING WHAT CABRINI SHOULD BE DOINGIn May, President George, Lelli, and the Jordans traveled to Washington to meet with Lynn Rosenthal, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women. The meeting was arranged by Barbara Jordan, and she and her husband also participated.

President George and Lelli told Rosenthal about Cabrini’s longstanding commitment to social justice and the College’s partnership with Laurel House, about Amy Persichetti’s course, the Children as Witness Project, and the cur-riculum work Lelli is doing. A scheduled one-hour meeting stretched toward two.

The visitors were thrilled to hear Rosenthal tell them that Cabrini’s effort on domestic violence was some of the best work being done by colleges. “It was a rock-star moment,” Lelli recalls. “She saw what we’re doing as being on a par with the top experts in the country.”

For President George, an endorsement like this from such a highly placed and influential authority filled her with hope and left her with a sense of responsibility. And it came as a reminder that this kind of work is exactly the kind that Cabrini should be doing.

“It all starts with the charism of our found-ing order,” she says. “Cabrini’s founders were all about asking, ‘Where are the needs?’ Those roots remain strong. This is about the betterment of the human family. It’s about promoting the Common Good.”

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22 www.cabrini.edu““Cabrini brought me to the point where I

knew I could teach,” Garbo says. “Teaching

is similar to performing. Whether it’s a great

song or words of wisdom, unless you grab

your audience’s ear, you can’t be heard.”

Norma Garbo ’72 is the voice of the music iNdustry

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Garbo was president of Cabrini’s Women’s Chorale for three years. She then attended Villanova University’s theatre program. The next summer Garbo met her ex-husband, a professional studio musician in New York, and packed her bags to move to the Big Apple.

Vocal lessons with renowned instructors helped refine her singing, and taught her how to read and write music. Soon she was booked to record advertising jingles. Then she landed back-up gigs with superstars like Billy Joel, reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, and disco artist Gloria Gaynor. Garbo’s friend, composer Artie Resnick (who penned chart-topping hits “Under the Boardwalk” for The Drifters and “Good Lovin’” for The Rascals) in 1978 asked Garbo to provide vocal instruction for his wife, Susan. She became Garbo’s first student, and Garbo’s practice grew by word-of-mouth.

Today, Garbo’s students devote the first portion of each lesson with a series of 14 exercises that correct breathing and use the body to project the voice. Students then warm up singing scales with piano accompaniment. Students use the remainder of the 45-minute lesson to sing pieces they are preparing to perform, as Garbo coaches them on proper position of the jaw and tongue, pronunciation, and vocal techniques.

Garbo credits her Cabrini education—including a minor in secondary education and student teaching experience—with giving her the confidence and ability to become an instructor.

“Cabrini brought me to the point where I knew I could teach,” Garbo says. “Teaching is similar to performing. Whether it’s a great song or words of wisdom, unless you grab your audi-ence’s ear, you can’t be heard.”

In the late 1980s, the Manhattan School of Music contacted Garbo regarding an open position as instructor of jazz and pop music. She accepted, and was a faculty member for 16 years. While teaching, she continued to perform at high-profile venues such as the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass.; the 1989 Inaugural Ball for President George H.W. Bush; and upscale Manhattan hotels such as The Plaza, The Waldorf-Astoria, and The Pierre.

One of Garbo’s former students from the Manhattan School is launching the International Music College from her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia, and she appointed Garbo head of the commercial vocal department. In her new role, Garbo soon will be teaching voice—via Skype—to students all over the world.

Today, Garbo sings with a few notable orchestras in New York, including The Peter Duchin Orchestra. She says it keeps her fresh because it provides variety.

“On these jobs, I do music from the Great American Songbook to rock ‘n’ roll and R&B,” says Garbo. “I get to do a whole gamut of styles.”

And after more than three decades, Garbo says she still beams when a student uses the knowledge she tries to impart, and improves vocally.

“To see a student grow to the extent where they become a star, or become better than their potential, is so rewarding,” she says.

“The Norma Garbo Technique,” a comprehensive vocal lesson, is available on CD. For information, contact normagarbo@aol.com.

In a converted factory in New York’s Union Square neighborhood, a woman’s delicate voice floats from a

spacious fifth-floor apartment outfitted as a music studio with a baby grand piano, microphones and sound

system, and electric keyboards. Every so often, the voice halts, awaiting instruction. A vocal student is

practicing with vocal coach and singer Norma Garbo ’72. Garbo reveals that her studio is where she coached

country star Taylor Swift and “American Idol” judge and songwriter Kara DioGuardi, and where the rock

band Scissor Sisters currently trains.

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Will Harmon ’05 and Kristi McConnell ’07 bring daughter Grace Ann to meet their Cabrini friends at the young alumni event at

Kildare’s Irish Pub in King of Prussia. Alumni gather at the Class of 1990 Party in the Xavier Hall Great Room. From left:

Paul (Dean) Magalon ADP’90, Mike Stevenson ’89, Rob Bell ’90, Mike Feeley ’90, Lee Clowers ’87 and Carlos Chamorro ’90.

President Marie George with Young Alumni Award recipient Vincent Prestileo ’04, and his wife, Heather Graci Prestileo ’04. Alumni and faculty mark the 10th Anniversary of the Exercise Science and Health Promotion Department. From left: Katherine

Bartosik ’02, Cabrini Fitness Director Jessica Huda ’01, Department Chair Tony Verde, Ph.D., Associate Professor Maria Elena Hallion,

Ph.D., Brent Benner ’07, Jennifer Euganeo ’07, Jane Mingey CE ’05, Elizabeth Wackerle ’07 and Gina Treml ’04. From left:

Shondra Smalls ’01, Brenda Czuzado ’00 and Damarys Diaz Shearer ’00 catch up at the Young Alumni Happy Hour at Kildare’s.

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Alumni Weekend 2010, June 4-5, put a fun twist on a

traditional reunion.

The weekend began with the Alumni Awards Luncheon

where four alumni were honored for their service to Cabrini,

the community and for their professional accomplishments.

At the Family Fun Fair, clowns painted children’s faces and

made balloon art. Following an all-alumni class dinner, the

weekend wrapped with a Gala in the Mansion and a Class of

1990 party in Xavier Hall’s Great Room.

At the Family Fun Fair, a clown creates colorful balloon art for Amanda Campbell Holloway ’02, her husband, Paul, and son,

Jimmy. Saturday evening’s Mansion Gala featured a dedication to Philosophy Professor Joseph Romano, Ph.D., for his 50 years

of service to Cabrini College. From left: Anthony Tomasco, Ph.D., Psychology Department Chair; Sr. Mary Louise Sullivan, MSC ’63, Ph.D., President Emerita; Greg Pasquarello ’77, former philosophy professor; Joseph Romano, Ph.D.; Jerry Zurek, Ph.D.,

Communication Department Chair; and Theresa Cavanaugh ’74, Chair of the Board of Trustees. Kelly and Brianna O’Doherty,

daughters of Jackie Kueny O’Doherty ’89, giggle on the moonbounce at the Family Fun Fair. From left: Eileen O’Shea Cameron ’70, Regina De Paolis ’70, Mary Cavanaugh Mingus ’70, Florence Ruggiano ’70, Joan Radano Federico ’70, and Linda Fernandez Cennamo ’70 enjoy a shady spot on campus.

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ALUMNI AWARD RECIPIENTSClaire Roth ’69 (Martha Dale Award

for Distinguished Service)

Kathleen Daniels Sciandra ’72

(Distinguished Achievement Award)

Andrew Virtue ’00 (St. Frances X.

Cabrini Award for Community Service)

Vincent Prestileo ’04

(Young Alumni Award)

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Dear Fellow Alumni:

As my term as Alumni Board President comes to an end, I reflect on the past six years as a member of the Alumni Board and in particular, the last two years as your President, and I am truly awed by what was achieved.

The endowment of the Alumni Association Scholarship in its first year was a testament to the dedication of Cabrini alumni. The continued growth of that fund through successful events like Team Trivia Night and the Commencement flower sale supplemented your individual contributions. Alumni were an integral part of the Inauguration of President Marie A. George, and made an indel-ible mark on a new chapter in Cabrini College history. More alumni are making an impact on the lives of current Cabrini students. They act as men-tors, provide critical information, and listen to stu-dents’ hopes, dreams and fears for the future. So many are giving back to this wonderful institution.

The people who have touched my life in the past six years, and their wisdom, friendship, guid-ance and love are things I will cherish forever. So, as my journey as president of this group comes to a close, I want to leave you with a verse from Sofia McNellis’ poem “The Heart.” It truly captures my feelings for our alma mater and those who have mentored, guided and befriended me along the way.

Beating, ticking, constant, true, strong, steadfastLife’s caregiverOffered unencumbered, without censure, malice or conditionRespect it, bond with it, love it, bring fulfillment.

Thank you for your friendship and support.

Fran Carusi Brooks ’82Alumni Board President Emerita

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Message from the Alumni Board President Emerita

AlumniNEWS

Second Annual Team Trivia Night Draws a Crowd, Raises Scholarship MoneyOn a chilly early spring evening, the Thomas P. Nerney Field House at the Dixon Center was alive with healthy competition. Nearly 200 people com-peted in Cabrini College’s Second Annual Team Trivia Night on March 27. Returning emcees John Keating ’82 and Faculty Emeritus Jolyon P. Girard, Ph.D., led contestants in a trivia-based race for cash prizes. The event raised nearly $4,000 for the Alumni Association Scholarship, which will be awarded to two rising juniors this year.

Team Trivia judges tally the scores for each round. Back row: Kristy Burke ’00, Michelle Burke Fabrey ’01, John Fabrey, Bret Illig ADP ’07. Seated: Andy Burke ’98.

A team of alumni from the Class of 1990 enjoy their first place victory. Front row: Hillary Hoch Chybinski ’90, Siddiqa Padget (Kristin Kroll) ’90, Melissa McLaughlin ’90. Back row: Larry Kilcullen ’90, Laura Marino ’90, Carlos Chamorro ’90.

Alumni Weekend 2011June 3 & 4

Classes of 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006 celebrate a milestone!

Jim Hedtke, Ph.D., chair of the History and Political Science Department, hosted a “green” wine tasting on Earth Day, April 22. Nearly 70 alumni and guests sampled six organic wines. Hedtke guided guests through the wine tasting pro-cess, providing valuable information on the varietals and sug-gestions for wine and food pairings. Students from Cabrini’s EARTH Living and Learning Community led tours of Cabrini’s “green” building—the Antoinette Iadarola Center for Science, Education, and Technology—which features solar panels, an eco-roof, and other energy upgrades.

Alumni Sip ‘Green’ Wine

Left to right: Lisa Ratmansky, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, and Melissa Waters G’10, director of Diversity Initiatives, pour organic wines for Margaret Mary Anderson and Jane Mingey ’05.

Greg ’77 and Lisa Pasquarello (left) sample organic wines with Becky Duprat and Michael Walczak ’77.

Judy Hedtke (left) catches up with Noel ’00 and Terrance Sanchious.

On March 18, 2010, alumni, parents, and friends gathered at Bent Creek Country Club in Lancaster County to fete Philosophy Professor Joseph Romano, Ph.D., for his 50 years of services to Cabrini College. Romano spoke about the impact former students have had on him, and he remind-ed the group that alumni are part of Cabrini’s present and future as much as they are a part of its past.

Alumni and friends gather to celebrate Joseph Romano, Ph.D. Left to right: Donna Doyle ’73, Roger Serfass, Deborah Fonash ’70, Tony Ciro ’83, Diane Ciro ’83, Brian Scelzo ’08, Elana Kousisis ’08, Joseph Romano, Ph.D., Dennis Dougherty, interim dean of Graduate and Professional Studies, Karen Fitzgerald ’93, President Marie George, Kevin Sorgi ’94, Carole Kirchner ’88, and Renee Sorgi.

Alumni Join Dr. Romano in Lancaster County

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1994Amy Wechsler Foran ’94amyforan@comcast.net

1998Lisa K. Mininno Carnesi ’98lisacar01@hotmail.com

Hollie Havens ’98holliehavens@hotmail.com

1999Susan Wechsler Coyne ’99, G’04spwex@comcast.net

2007Elizabeth Brachelli ’07elizabeth.brachelli@gmail.com

1982Fran Carusi Brooks ’82flbrooks2@yahoo.com

1983Carol Hasson Lynch ’83bclynch86@aol.com

1984Kathleen Lyons Casazza ’84kthru8@comcast.net

1985Jean Findlay ’85findlay@upenn.edu

1986Margaret Paris Baker ’86mtbaker@verizon.net

1987Loretta O’Fria Cellucci ’87littleretta@verizon.net

1989Loretta Krewson ’89315-696-0294

Donna Dougherty Pascali ’89donnapascali@yahoo.com

1992Mark Gudas ’92googieman@comcast.net

1964Denise Hodgkins Call ’64DHCall@aol.com

1966Joan Buzzallino ’66jmbuzz03@optonline.net

Ann Marie Parisi Riggio ’66 973-575-9449

1969Claire Roth ’69 crw2001@hotmail.com

1970Linda Fernandez Cennamo ’70 thefourcees@aol.com

1974Christine Dillon McCarthy ’74stoneharborsun@gmail.com

1976Sharon Shipley-Zubricky ’76sharon.zubricky@ww-p.org

1977Frances MacDonald Gordon ’77frangordon@hotmail.com

1981Donna Montanari Moyer ’81donnam123@comcast.net

ClassNOTES

Your Cabrini Class Agent serves as your direct connection to your alma mater. These dedicated volunteers are responsible for keeping you connected to the College.

Class Agents write to their classmates at least once a year with updates on the College and members of their class. They

also play an instrumental planning role during reunion years. As you may notice, some classes do not have a class agent. If

you are interested in serving for your class or if you simply have a question but no class agent to contact, e-mail the Alumni Office at alumni@cabrini.edu and we will be glad to assist you!

Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Who’s My Class Agent?

2010-2011 ALuMNI BoARD offICeRS

President KAtHy REARDOn EvEREtt ’68

Vice President CRAiG vAGELL ’05

A group of Cabrini alumnae and friends celebrated Cinco de Mayo 2010 with a Mexican feast and sangria. Back row: Mary Kathryn Stanbach Burke ’69; Elizabeth McNerlin Collins ’71; former alumni director Martha Dale; Hollie Havens ’98; Stacey Caiazzo ’98; Jacque Tague Murray ’69; Judith H. Tague ’74, G’86; and former alumni director Christy Baxter. Front row: Nancy Gorevin Costello ’71, director of Province Communications and Vocation for the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Carolyn Downing Morgan ’69; Elizabeth Kanaras-Cade ’83; Cabrini Education Instructor Shirley Dixon ’84, G’89; Angela Abbonizio Zager ’64; Claire Roth ’69; and Sheila Ross Breen ’69.

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1984Rose Battiato Katkocin ’84 and Ron

Katkocin ’80, Esq., celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary on July 28, 2010.

1990Joyce Mundy ’90, principal of New-Hope Solebury Middle School in New Hope,

1967Darlene Boyd ’67, Ed.D., presented her paper, “Coming of Age in the Modern Community: Women of Legend and Sustainability of Worth,” at the 2010 Singapore Management University’s annual international conference. She is director of the Gifted Students Academy at the University of California, Irvine.

1970Barbara Bradfield ’70 retired from teaching in 2006. She married Robert Tiley in 2007 and currently resides in Killington, Vt.

Pa., was named the 2010 Pennsylvania Middle School Principal of the Year. She was featured in the Bucks County Courier Times, the Bucks County Herald and the Bucks County Intelligencer.

1994Mary Ann Cook ’94 received an MBA from Rosemont College in 2009.

CLASS NOTES SUBMISSIONS Send news or updates! Log on to www.cabrini.edu/alumni,

e-mail alumni@cabrini.edu, or mail your updates to Cabrini College Alumni Relations, 610 King of Prussia Road, Radnor, PA 19087.

Electronic images must be at least 2”x 3” at 300 dpi (dots per inch). “TIF” or “JPG” fi les acceptable.

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1996Ronette Holt-Jones ’96 and her hus-band, Kenneth, welcomed a son, Coleton Kenneth, on April 1, 2009 (pictured above).

1999John Czech ’99 is assistant property manager at Emory Hill Real Estate Services, Inc., in New Castle, Del. Terry Rotolo Niemann ’99 was named Co-Teacher of the Year at Rupert Elementary School in Pottstown, Pa., for the second consecutive year. She is married to Drew Niemann, general manager of Cabrini Dining Services.

2000Michele Labant ’00 was featured in the St. Mary’s Daily Press (April 17, 2010) for her work as a soldier, dispatcher with the Pottstown Police Department, and fire-fighter. She was deployed to Iraq in 2006-07 as a Sergeant with the Pennsylvania National Guard.

Jamie Ann Lewis ’05 married Ryan Reynolds on Sept. 25, 2009, at the Church of the Epiphany in New York. The reception was held at Tribeca Rooftop in New York (pictured above).

Gina Peracchia ’05 married Derek Nash on April 24. Cristin Marcy ’05 was a bridesmaid. Gina is the marketing coordi-nator for Portico Systems in Blue Bell, Pa., and the couple resides in Norristown, Pa.

Kendall Neil ’05 and Mike Sofia ’05 were engaged at Disney World. A June 2011 wedding is planned.

2006Jacqueline Small ’06 married Dr. Scott Knowlton on Oct. 17, 2009, at the Radnor Hotel in Radnor, Pa.

Amy Pia ’06 is engaged to marry Jamie Clark. A July 9, 2011, wedding is planned for Wilmington, Del. The couple lives in Arlington, Va.

2007Kristina Bisacquino ’07 is engaged to Matthew Fisher (pictured below). An Oct. 9, 2010, wedding is planned.

2001Brian Casey ’01 and his wife welcomed a daughter, Emma Jean, on May 21, 2009.

2002Michael Demarest ’02 was married in September 2007 and is expecting his first child.

Julia Marie Teti Simpson ’02 and her hus-band, Michael, welcomed their first child, Kalli Alyssa, on March 20. Kalli (pictured below) weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces. The couple resides in suburban Baltimore.

ClassNOTES

2003Heather Tu Mager ’03, G’08, and Sebastian Mager ’01 welcomed a son, Brennan, on December 15, 2009. Brennan weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces, and joins big brother Damian.

2005Danelle Kressirer Matlack ’05 and her husband, Ian, welcomed a son, Liam Thomas, on October 9, 2009.

Elyssa McFadden ’05 is engaged to marry Joseph Patrick Fineran in August 2010. Elyssa is employed by Paoli Hospital and is studying radiology at Immaculata University.

Left to right: Robert and Cheryl Boyce with their son Matthew Rowe ’10. (Matthew’s brother, Shawn Boyce ’06, sisters-in-law, Stasia McGrath Boyce ’05 and Elizabeth Baumstark Boyce ’91, and aunt, Regina Sullivan ’63, are also Cabrini alumni.); Marcia Okunski Stuart ’72 with her daughter Jennifer ’10. (Jennifer’s sister, Michelle ’09, is also a Cabrini alumna.); President Marie George; Gina Mulranen ’10 with her parents, Peter and Diane, and sister Dana. (Gina’s aunt, Mary Mulranen Walkowiak ’73, is also a Cabrini alumna.); Robert Spence III ’08 with brother Joseph ’10, mother Michelle, sister Taylor ’13, and father Robert.

Katherine Brachelli ’07 and Daniel LeHart are engaged (PICTURED LEFT). A Sept. 4, 2010, wedding is planned.

Kristi McConnell ’07 is engaged to Will Harmon ’05. An Oct. 9, 2010, wedding is planned. The couple welcomed a baby girl, Grace Ann, on March 10. (SEE PHOTO ON PAGE 24)

2008Brian Scelzo ’08 is engaged to marry Elana Kousisis ’08 (PICTURED RIGHT).

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2010Legacy Graduates Honored at the 50th Commencement

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A s my time at Cabrini College comes to an end, I want to thank the community, which has been

my family for these past eight years. At the College’s farewell gathering I summed up my sentiments in the words of a song from the musical Wicked: “Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.”

Thank you for allowing me to be “changed for the good” and for your kindness in journeying with me and sharing your faith lives with me. My wish and prayer is that Cabrini will continue to do extraordinary things because of the extraordinary people who are part of the community.

Upon the announcement of my depar-ture from Cabrini College, Danielle Alio ’12 an active member of Campus Ministry, interviewed me for the College newspa-per, The Loquitur. (Jason Moran ’10 also filmed the interview for the newspaper’s web edition, Loqation.) She asked me what was the overriding feeling I had about being at Cabrini as I looked back over the past eight years.

My immediate reaction was that I have a great sense of gratitude for all that has been. These past eight years have been full of many wonderful people and experi-ences. I have enjoyed attending various campus events and meeting guest speak-ers, such as Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel and “Dead Man Walking” author Sister Helen Prejean. I have cheered on the Cavaliers at basketball games and applauded our students at plays in the Cabrini Theatre.

Probably the greatest sense of satisfac-tion for which I am grateful came from the celebration of the Sunday evening liturgy. I was always lifted up by those celebrations. The sense of the presence of the Lord during those celebrations was a deeply spiritual experience.

The faith sharing groups I facilitated my first years here were so refreshing. Frequently because of student input I rewrote my Sunday evening homily.

I am also grateful for the honesty and openness of the students I have encoun-tered. Having been in parish work previ-ously, and dealing mainly with adults, my experience was that frequently they would tell me what they thought I wanted to hear rather than the truth. The honesty of the young people at Cabrini was so refreshing.

While being around students, faculty, staff and administration was always the most enriching experience for me at Cabrini, the renovation of the Bruckmann Memorial Chapel of St. Joseph was a high point. When I arrived the chapel seemed in need of attention. President Emerita Antoinette Iadarola had plans for renovating the entire chapel space, and

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Et CEtEra etc.Because I Knew You

By Father Michael Bielecki, OSA ’05, College Chaplain (2002-2010)

we quickly moved forward with the first phase to create a welcoming space for prayer, reflection and celebration. Then in 2007, with the generous assistance of Suzanne Horn Ganse ’71 and the Ganse Family Foundation, the second phase—the renovation of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel—was completed.

Perhaps it is wishful thinking on my part, but I really feel that the chapel’s pres-ent configuration contributed to making the Sunday evening celebration truly reflect what liturgy symbolizes. The word liturgy means “work of the people,” and attending the liturgy on Sunday evening made that obvious. We all minister to one another by our presence, but we also need others to assist with its celebration. I am so grate-ful to the many students, faculty, staff and administration over the years who have attended the liturgy and those who took an active part in the ministries.

Father Michael Bielecki, OSA ’05

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