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Students are at the core of everything we doat Hartwick. They are our reason for being.

They drive our daily decisions, guide our long-termplanning, and inspired this comprehensive campaign.

Our goals are their goals. —President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12

Please contact Vice President Gregg Fort to learn how you can endow ascholarship for tuition support or J Term experience: 607-431-4026 [email protected].

Not ready to endow your own fund? Grow an existing scholarship instead. Find out about current and pending scholarships at www.hartwick.edu/giving/scholarships-and-funded-awards.

The Campaign for Hartwick Students is complete—record dollarswere raised in record time—yet the need for scholarships continues.

Our students truly appreciate your interest in their effortsAND your investments in their future.

Counterclockwise: Student leaders at A Toast to Success in The Campaign during True Blue, enjoying the Taste of Wick club fair, celebrating after a win, and welcoming new students during Orientation.

My mother was a lifelong student of organizations. A tireless worker and dedicated community volunteer, sometimes she followed and sometimes she led. After I became President of Hartwick she would often gauge my resolve by asking, “Why do you work so hard? I thought you were a president.”

Of course, she already knew how I would respond. In my view, leadership is a gritty, grounded, roll-up-your-sleeves enterprise. Leaders are glistening icons only when you view them from a distance.

Far from the limelight, our campus leaders are dressed in skirts, ties, sweaters, khakis, and sweatshirts that say “Hartwick.” Leadership at Hartwick is expressed in the dedicated service of our employees, students, and volunteers, including Board members. I recently convened a round table dialogue of campus leaders to discuss the future of the College and the liberal arts. I hope that you find this conversation to be as engaging and enlightening as I did. This fall we celebrated the successful conclusion of The Campaign for Hartwick Students: It’s Personal. So many individuals chose to step forward and make a difference with their generous gifts. I, and our students, are deeply grateful for their leadership.

Our alumni are leaders who marshal their personal and intellectual resources to advance their workplaces and communities. Whether in healthcare, government, big business, athletics, or the military, Hartwick graduates are anticipating, managing, and creating change for the better. As you will learn from those who are highlighted here, they are acting on their values-fueled dreams and are making a difference.

In a message that I sent after the presidential election I reminded our community that in order to preserve our values we need to be introspective and take intentional, individual action. That’s where leadership really finds its full expression—when you and I express our role in our community to our fullest and best effect. I hope that this issue of The Wick inspires you to step forward whenever you are able, and especially on the days when you don’t think you can. Your leadership matters.

Best,

Dr. Margaret L. Drugovich P’12President

Leadership Matters

EDITOR AND FEATURES WRITER | Elizabeth Steele P’12

SENIOR DESIGNER | Jennifer Nichols-Stewart

PHOTO EDITOR | Cindy McKown

CONTRIBUTORS | Alicia Martinez Fish ’91, Chris Gondek,Sabrina Lawrence ’13, David Lubell, Vernon Burnett

PHOTOGRAPHERS | Gerry Raymonda Photography, Emma Tannenbaum, and submitted

WICK ONLINE | Stephanie Brunetta

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARDDr. Margaret L. Drugovich P’12, PresidentGregg Fort, VP for College AdvancementKaren McGrath, VP for Enrollment ManagementDr. Meg Nowak, VP for Student AffairsDr. Michael G. Tannenbaum P’14, Provost and VP for Academic AffairsAlicia Fish ’91, Senior Director of Engagement

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Fall 2016 | Volume LVIII: No. 3

The College MissionHartwick College, an engaged community, integrates a liberal arts education with experiential learning to inspire curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, personal courage, and an enduring passion for learning.

LEADERSHIP

1PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE Leadership’s full expression across this campus and well beyond

8BREAKTHROUGH Professor Mary Allen collaborates on an HHMI grant and learns about herself as an educator in the process

28LEADING THROUGH CHANGEAlumni perspectives on regional healthcare, Olympic sports, corporate responsibility, music in the military, government service, and more

Engage with Us.Be a fan. Like us.www.facebook.com/hartwickcollege

Connect with us.www.twitter.com/hartwickcollege

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16ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION College leaders share their ideas on the future of Hartwick and the liberal arts

10CAMPAIGN SUCCESS On campus and off, celebrations turn the spotlight on donors and the students who inspire them

5REGIONAL RECOGNITION Hartwick named Breakthrough Business of the Year and Partner of the Year; Demi Manesis ’17 named Intern of the Year for her work with the fire department

6IN THEIR OWN WORDSTwo students share the lasting benefits of working as an entrepreneur with Simon Baker ’93 and on a team internship with Doug Stone ’83

4EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITIES University Innovation Fellows; government position papers for Steve Green ’59, H’15; summer online is now for alumni

COMMUNITY

22REUNION & HOMECOMING Nearly 1,000 alumni, family, and friends return to campus to enjoy traditional gatherings and create new favorites

34ATHLETICSA banner season for women’s soccer and field hockey; men’s soccer is an academic powerhouse; the new Dick Miller Memorial Locker Room

36ALUMNI NEWSRecognition for exceptional graduates and friends; Alumni Board elections; Save-the-Date for True Blue 2017

38CLASS NOTESPromotions and relocations, marriages and babies, get-togethers and getaways; remembering those who have passed away

Francis Landrey P’06, Chair Arnold Drogen, Vice Chair Edward Droesch ’82, Treasurer Betsy Tanner Wright ’79, Secretary Margaret L. Drugovich P’12, President

Carol Ann Hamilton Coughlin ’86 Elaine Raudenbush DiBrita ’61 Virginia Elwell ’77Kathleen Fallon ’88 Michael Finnerty ’92 Keith Fulmer Keith Granet ’79 Robert Hanft ’69, PM’06

Sarah Griffiths Herbert ’88 Thomas Johnstone William Kitson III ’86 Dorothy Milligan Lewis ’65 David Long ’83, H’14 Charlene McCutcheon Marx ’77, P’10, P’15 Bertine Colombo McKenna

Janet Mitchell ’71 Neal Miller ’72 Evelyn Milne Moore ’83 Joel Patterson ’96Marina Mikhailova Regelman ’95Sarah Otto Sanders ’11 Steven Suleski ’76

49VOLUNTEER HIGHLIGHT Joel Patterson ’96 added 20th reunion co-chair to the ways he’s involved at Hartwick

ON THE COVER: Brittany Sutliff ’17, Matt Randall ’20, and Katie Evans ’17—and more than 850 of their classmates, teammates, and friends—celebrated the successful conclusion of The Campaign for Hartwick Students at a special event on campus this fall. (See page 11.)

Hartwick College Board of Trustees

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CAMPUS NEWS

The College’s first University Innovation Fellows—Jackie Davis ’17, Christine Hughes ’17, Stephanie Sacco ’18, and Kelly Sprague ’17—have joined a national movement of emerging leaders determined to effect change in higher education and well beyond.

Hartwick’s four are among 169 new University Innovation Fellows (UIF) from colleges and universities across the country. Each competed to participate in the training provided by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school).

“This is the first year that liberal arts schools are part of UIF,” says Sacco, noting that initially the program was primarily for engineering students. “What we’re trying to do is very different, very exciting. This will be groundbreaking.” During one creative exercise at a “meet-up” of participating schools at Georgia Tech this fall, she says, the Hartwick team’s problem-solving business thesis was noted as an example for others.

Hartwick’s interest in UIF started with Trustee Keith Granet ’79, vice chair of the Board of Trustees’ Strategic Innovation

Committee. As a management consultant to the design industry, Granet was acquainted with the d.school and its concept of a “makers space” to foster innovation and entrepreneurship. He arranged for President Margaret L. Drugovich to tour the d.school last spring and she was soon integrating the concept into Hartwick’s plans for a Center for Collaboration and Innovation. Granet underwrote the team’s substantial application fee, and the President asked Professor of Economics Carli Ficano and Assistant Professors of Business Pauline Stamp and Dan Vo to work with 14 teams who competed for a place in the program. These faculty continue to mentor the students chosen for the UIF experience.

In March all 49 college and university teams are invited to Stanford to share the plans they’re making and the progress underway. In the meantime, the Hartwick team is working with their faculty mentors and keeping the President apprised to ensure that their best ideas about how to build a culture of innovation become grounded in the College’s plans for the future. (See back cover for more.)

“It is November 2016 and you (not Donald Trump) have just been elected President. What are the first two to three things you would do as the 45th President of the United States and why?”

This is the question posed to 15 Hartwick students by Steve Green ’59 in the fourth Stephen L. Green American Governance Essay contest.

Participants developed their position statement, then met with New York City real estate mogul Steve Green and his brother, author and political activist Mark Green, to discuss their ideas. The students will now spend months preparing in-depth research papers to support their point of view. The intellectual process is its own reward, but so is the honor of winning the contest and a cash prize—the result of a fund Green endowed in The Campaign for Hartwick Students.

The political science faculty facilitates this opportunity for students in any major. Professor Laurel Elder coordinates the program and serves as an advisor along with Assistant Professor Jim Buthman; Professor Amy Forster Rothbart and Assistant Professor Caleb Goltz serve as faculty judges. Steve Green will make the final review of submissions in consultation with his brother and will name the winners at a campus event this spring.

Students take on innovation and entrepreneurship at HartwickOut in Front

Critical Thinking in the Context of Power

Hartwick student participants with Steve Green ’59 H’15 in his Manhattan office.

Hartwick initiatives that support the region’s economic vitality are being recognized. The Hartwick College Center for Craft Food & Beverage (CCFB) recently was honored with the Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield Breakthrough Business of the Year Award from the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce.

The opening of the CCFB was “a breakthrough moment in the College’s history,” President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12 said in accepting the award at a Chamber event. “In 2015, it was a growing reality that the craft food and beverage industry presented what could be a breakthrough moment of its own for the economy of this region. Hartwick understood what was needed to meet the needs of a growing array of producers who wanted to assure the quality of their products.”

Last summer, Hartwick was named Partner of the Year by Otsego Now, the hub for economic progress in Otsego County. Otsego Now Chief Executive Officer Sandy Mathes, Jr. commended Hartwick for “the launch of its Center for Craft Food & Beverage, its participation as a StartUp New York program campus, and its emphasis on creating STEM-based experiential opportunities for its students.”

Hartwick’s 4th Summer Online:

An Opportunity for Lifelong Learning

(It’s not just for college students anymore.)

WHO:College students; Hartwick alumni,

parents, and families;community members in

courses taught by Hartwick faculty.

WHAT:22 course options, including business

computing, controversial social issues, digital media, international relations, logic, microeconomics, organizational

behavior, physiology, psychology,rock music, social media marketing,and writing. (And more—check online.)

WHEN:SESSION 1: June 5- June 30 SESSION 2: July 3- July 28

SESSION 3: July 31- August 24

WHERE:Home, office, library—it doesn’t matter.

Classes are held completely online.

HOW MUCH:$299 / credit hour

(most courses are 3 credits, labs are 4)$199 non-refundable deposit due with registration

MORE INFORMATION:www.hartwick.edu/summeronline

Good for Business Hartwick Named Breakthrough Businessof the Year and Partner of the Year

Hartwick College is committed to leveraging ourintellectual and educational resources in a way that

advantages economic development in the region.—President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12

Demi Manesis ’17 was recognized by the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce as the 2016 Hartwick College Intern of the Year for the work she’s done with the Oneonta Fire Department to conduct a risk assessment of properties in Oneonta. Manesis is pictured (center) at the annual Chamber awards dinner with Director of Career Services Melissa Marietta, President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12, Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney, Hartwick CCFB Director Aaron MacLeod, and Professor of Economics Carli Ficano.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN.CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED, SO ACT NOW!

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By JUSTIN HOSKINS ’17

Three-year degree student, business administration major, finance minor, beneficiary of two summer internships funded by gifts to The Campaign for Hartwick Students

I aspire to do great things in life, and so I seek adventures that will bring discovery and, ultimately, transformation. That’s exactly what happened with my entrepreneurship experience as a Hartwick Baker-Simpson Fellow in San Francisco, California, last summer.

It was an absolute honor to represent Hartwick College as I took on an internship in the field of venture capital with Rothenberg Ventures for 10 weeks. I experienced things and reached places and limits that I’d never imagined possible. My entire experience wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for the gracious and generous support of Simon Baker ’93, Barclay and Sharon Simpson, and the Opportunities Fund at Hartwick.

My summer was filled with fast-paced fun and adversity within the challenges of living and working in a new city, across the country, in a new and exciting field. Through my internship I gained professional skills in analytics, investment analysis, portfolio management, and professional networking. My experience with Rothenberg Ventures has added extreme value to my career path after Hartwick. I plan on entering the fields of either investment banking or management consulting in which I will need to utilize an analytical mind and distinctive work ethic.

Outside of the office, I was overwhelmed with the opportunities to make ever-lasting memories. I visited bucket-list locations such as Los Angeles, Hollywood, Venice Beach, and Malibu. I had the pleasure of trying new foods from various nations around the world. My fellow Baker-Simpson students and I often rented bikes and rode along the beautiful shoreline and across the magnificent Golden Gate Bridge. I visited the Point-Reyes National Seashore and witnessed breathtaking views of many natural beaches, hiked the desert terrain of Mission Peak Mountain across the bay, visited national monuments, and enjoyed good times with visiting friends and family.

The many special people I encountered both in and out of the office during the summer gave me unique insights on life, adventure, personal discovery, and much more that I believe I will remember for a very long time. My sponsor and friend Ish Simpson shared his experience in football, life, and business over many friendly lunches and dinners in an effort to teach me what is required to become successful.

It is my philosophy that in order to grow and discover who I am and what kind of values I want to live by, I need to be exposed to new experiences and uncomfortable challenges. In order to transform, I have to move out of my element and take advantage of unknown opportunities. Hartwick’s Baker-Simpson Fellowship Program gave me those opportunities. The investment of time, money, and mentoring by Hartwick College, Professor Penny Wightman, Simon Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, my family, and my peers will be with me forever. I am very grateful to them for allowing me to spread my wings and reach places I’d never imagine I’d go.

Learning to be Successful

In order to grow and discover who I am and what kind of values I want to live by,I need to be exposed to new experiences and uncomfortable challenges.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Students Share the Impact of Extraordinary Opportunities

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A Hybrid’s View of the WorldBy MEGHAN SHEA ’17

English and business administration double major, social media intern in the Enrollment Management Division, and E-Board member of Student Senate

Four of the disciplines that define a Liberal Arts experience are represented at a conference table on a Monday night. “Economics” sits beside “Art” and across the table from “Business” and “English”; the students chosen to participate in the Brand Launch and Development Internship might be said to embody their majors.

Our leaders are Doug Stone ’83, CEO of the For-Lovers brand; Professor Carli Ficano (economics); Professor Susan Navarette (English); Professor Pauline Stamp (business); and Professor Joe Von Stengel (art). Stone identified the skill sets he hoped to draw from in working with Hartwick, and last summer the professors selected two students from their respective departments to be a part of this yearlong project. I am one of those students, representing business in addition to my double major in English.

Stone was a student on Oyaron Hill some 30 years ago, where he double majored in management and psychology. He chose us to help advance his brands because he saw, “the ability to tap into the energy that was created by Hartwick’s Center for Craft Food & Beverage and to take it from a scientific level to an interdisciplinary level.” He established the For-Lovers brand

within an evolving online marketplace, his original intended audience being “lovers” of whiskey. Twenty years later, the brand consists of two websites, ForTequilaLovers and ForWhiskeyLovers, and each brand focuses on three key aspects that, in combination, occupy a niche place within the market: ecommerce, user-generated content, and expert-generated content.

Two teams—one per brand and each comprised of four students representing four academic disciplines—met in September to refine Stone’s marketing strategies. I’m working on the tequila team, along with Adam Abreu ’17 (economics), Kevin Blake ’17 (English), and Sergio Cisneros ’17 (art). We also work to improve Soltado Tequila, a relatively new product, and the only infused añejo tequila in the USA. We have been concentrating on creating brand image and target markets for both brands. The whiskey team—consisting of Tom Gillon ’17 (English), Bree Jefferds ’17 (economics), Rosa Maun ’17 (art), and Lloyd Oliver ’17 (business) —has been tasked with strengthening the look and message of the ForWhiskeyLovers website.

I am known in the group as the “hybrid;” my experience with literary analysis has allowed me to read consumer behavior and advertisements just as I might a literary text. My training in business has afforded me an understanding of the diverse ways in which consumers engage in, and with, a marketplace.

At this mid-year point in the internship, I am learning to take risks and stand up for my opinion. Most of all, I’m learning that the real world does exist on our academic campus. We are not separated from reality merely because we are still students; rather our training gives us the twin advantage of perspective and insight into problems that those outside of the school do not always have the license or creative energy to realize.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Students Share the Impact of Extraordinary Opportunities

We are not separated from reality merely because we are still students; rather our training gives us the twin advantage of perspective and insight…

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Across the Unites States, college students once identified as non-traditional are rapidly growing into the “new majority,” a term coined by Carol Geary Schneider, president emerita of the American Association for Colleges and Universities. This is happening at Hartwick, where enrollment of first-year minority students doubled from 10% in 2008 to 21% in 2015. More than 20% of all incoming Hartwick students in 2015 were the first in their families to attend college and 42% come from low-income families (compared to 23% in 2008).

I noticed these changes among the students in my classes, but had not grasped the magnitude or implications of the demographic shift until I began to think about how Hartwick could increase capacity for inclusion of our new majority students. An expanded capacity for inclusion is necessary because new majority voices will play an essential role in finding solutions to the biggest challenges of our future.

For the past year I have worked with a remarkable group of colleagues* on a proposal to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) 2017 Inclusive Excellence: Undergraduate Science Education Grants program. In December of 2015 our team submitted a pre-proposal on behalf of Hartwick. We were one of 511 institutions to enter the competition and among 91 selected to submit a full proposal this fall. HHMI is evaluating those proposals now and will award 30 grants in the first round of the competition, providing each institution with one million dollars across five years. The purpose of the Inclusive Excellence competition is “to challenge institutions to develop effective ways to increase their capacity for inclusion to engage all students and ensure that their success in science is not limited because they have different backgrounds or started at different entry points.”

BREAKTHROUGH

By MARY ALLEN, PhD Professor of Biology

The Role of Social Capital in College SuccessHow contributing to a grant proposal changedthe way this professor approaches her work.

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* Allen’s HHMI grant proposal colleagues: KinHo Chan, professor of psychology; Mark Kuhlmann and Laura G. Malloy, professors of biology; Kevin Schultz, assistant professor of physics; and Margaret Arthurs, former director of corporate, foundation, and government relations.

Although HHMI’s focus is the natural sciences, working on the proposal led me to understand that inclusivity will not be achieved with a single action, change, or initiative and that it cannot be focused only on pedagogy and curriculum. Inclusivity extends well beyond a diverse population of students to identifying and removing barriers to student success, and continues with change in the culture of departments, interdisciplinary programs, and the wider college community. New majority students arrive on campus distanced from the cultural and family heritage that built their confidence and supported their earlier successes. When they encounter insufficient opportunities to access similar social capital at college the results are often isolation, decreased academic engagement, and lower rates of persistence and graduation. Thus I realized a need to create more opportunities for my students to access social capital, and to build into my teaching a greater focus on topics relevant to the new majority. Inclusivity also requires we find ways to connect academic content to the social capital of our students outside of the classroom.

While developing the proposal, our team gathered information from nearly 40 members of the Hartwick community, including many who interact with students outside of the classroom. Their perspectives led me to recognize that achieving real inclusivity at Hartwick will require effective integration of curricular and co-curricular structures in ways that emphasize the interdependence of academic and sociocultural factors. I hope

that with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute we can begin with the creation of a comprehensive structure for building a sense of belonging in the form of inclusive learning communities focused on the challenges addressed in our new interdisciplinary majors (Public Health; Environment, Society and Sustainability; Global Studies).

For me, teaching is about constant adaptation and growth that includes learning new technologies, remaining knowledgeable in a field of specialty, and changing the ways I instruct students in response to what we learn about approaches that have the greatest meaningful, long-term impact. My involvement with preparing the HHMI proposal helped me to recognize an equivalent need to learn about the cultural and social heritage of my students. For me, this is an exciting challenge, but not one I will overcome easily. The backgrounds and perspectives of the new majority are not only diverse, they are also very different from my own, meaning I can no longer assume that our experiences overlap. So learning about these students and listening to their voices has become essential to my ability to help them access the social capital that will support strong, meaningful relationships of mutual respect and mentorship that characterize a Hartwick education. By building their leadership skills and strengthening community connections in such an environment, I can provide the best opportunities for learning to all of our students as I help them prepare to address the big challenges of the 21st century. n

Inclusivity willnot be achieved

with a singleaction, change,

or initiative.

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CAMPAIGN NEWS

Ours is a great success story. Hartwick is now a stronger, more robust, more vibrant college and community than it was just a few years ago. Together we have made history!

—President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12at the Campaign celebration for major donors

The Campaign for Hartwick Students has changed every aspect of the student experience. From tuition scholarships to study abroad, athletics to the arts, environmentalism to exercise, and everything in between, grateful students are benefiting from the generosity of others.

A gift to the Opportunity Fund component of The Campaign pushed us past goal. Sharon Simpson made a major investment in the Baker-Simpson Entrepreneurship Experience, which was initiated by her husband Barclay Simpson and his friend Simon Baker ’93. (See page 6 for one student’s insight into these extraordinary internships.) Commitments made long ago literally paid off in this Campaign. With the passing of a few generous alumni and friends came more than $1 million in realized bequests. Generations of Hartwick students will be grateful to these forward-looking members of the College community.

Celebrations of the people who wrote this success story—our generous supporters—and those who will benefit the most—our students—punctuated the fall semester. The parties began offsite with regional “thank you” events for donors: Doug Rivenburgh ’89 kindly hosted the first reception in his New York City loft, then came a dinner celebration in Washington DC, and David Long ’83 and Stephanie Isgur Long ’84 generously hosted a dinner in Boston. The festivities moved on campus for a toast at True Blue, a wonderful celebration of our greatest supporters, and finally a celebration of our students, for whom The Campaign was designed.

$34.7MILLION RAISED

OUR SUPPORTERS:

4,248Alumni

2,370Parents

1,219Friends and

community members

603Corporations, foundations,

organizations

250Employees

1,029Hartwick students

AND THEIR IMPACT:

160 new or increased scholarships fortuition assistance or off-campus study

4 NEW SPACES:William V. Campbell H’10 Fitness CenterSally Griffiths Herbert ’88 Aquatic Center

John Christopher’s CaféHartwick Center for Craft

Food & Beverage

5 MAJOR RENOVATIONS:Anderson Center for the Arts

Binder Center for athleticsStack Lounge

Pine Lake Environmental CampusJohnstone Science Center

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“Your generous gifts open amazing

possibilities at Hartwick.”

—Duffy Ambassador Melissa Gifford ’17

“Thank you for investing

in us.”—Two-sport athlete Courtney Coons ’17

The most successful fundraising drive in Hartwick history closed with a celebration of its purpose: the students.

On October 25, students were joined by faculty and staff for a special community event in the Commons. The Aramark dining staff outdid themselves, serving 880 enthusiastic dinner guests an exceptional array of foods in just two hours! It gave new meaning to the term “free-for-all” when no meal pass was required. Come on in and enjoy… and they did!

Every guest was welcomed by Student Senate President Chris Shaw ’17, Hartwick President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12, Swoop, and Student Senate E-Board members Mae Shea ’17, Adam Abreu ’17, and Tajera Morgan ’17.

Menu choices aligned with Campaign goals: tailgate classics for the Binder Center, international foods for J Term destinations, farm-to-table specialties for the Pine Lake Challenge, and gourmet desserts befitting an Anderson Center art opening.

The Commons looked like never before, thanks to fun photos of students in action and decorations aligned with Campaign objectives.

By evening’s end, diners has consumed 660 pounds of chicken wings; another 110 pounds of burgers, dogs, and sausages; 120 pounds of fruit; 100 pounds of vegetables; 500 desserts; and so many flatbreads, salads, and sautés!


“Hartwick meant everything to D,” says Chrissie Semenenko of her late son, Dylan Clark ’09. “From the moment he came here it was his home. The connection ran so deep.”

Dylan was an artist who specialized in metal. His “Tusk” sculpture stands on the hillside overlooking Anderson Center for the Arts, the place where he developed his talent. His mother is still drawn to that site and to the art studios where he worked. She remains close to his friends and his former faculty and makes connections with current faculty and students.

“It’s such a joy to come to campus,” she says. “Hartwick was a multifaceted and profound experience for D. His spirit lives here and in the hearts of his friends.”

Over time, her relationship with Hartwick has become her own. Semenenko never misses the annual Partners in Scholarship Luncheon because “I so love meeting with the students and learning about what they’re doing,” she says. “It’s like

GENEROSITY

Chrissie Semenenko P’09

PORTRAIT IN PHILANTHROPYBy ELIZABETH STEELE P’12

Honors her Son by Supporting Others


I want to directly and concretely help Hartwick students.—Chrissie Semenenko P’09

having my child here again by proxy, or even a grandchild. I feel very invested in their travels, learning experiences, and growth, especially at this time of their lives.”

Semenenko’s gifts to The Campaign for Hartwick Students include an endowed J Term fund for art students. Thanks to her generosity, Nicky-Ann Duncan ’17 and Madison Paz ’18 will study Geology in Art in Hungary this winter. “Scholarships are a big add-on for kids who are not able to travel on their own without support,” Semenenko says, noting that her son loved to travel and went on numerous J Terms abroad with Hartwick. “I’m so glad this J Term component has expanded at Hartwick; it opens the students’ views.”

This J Term fund is just one expression of Semenenko’s generosity. In addition to supporting the Hartwick Fund and scholarships, with her son she established the Semenenko Clark Award for Excellence in Art and Art History and the Semenenko Clark Excellence in Art and Art History Materials Fund. These endowments support both individual student initiatives and faculty efforts to create the most challenging and engaging programs. “Hartwick professors care deeply about the students and are very invested in their wellbeing,” she says. “As I became more familiar with their own creative work, my interest mushroomed.” Semenenko’s appreciation for the arts developed during her five years in art school. “My interest has always been in the value of art,” she says, referring to the many benefits of living a creative life. “Art also has an incredibly valuable role in people’s psychological wellbeing.” A spiritual person who can be pragmatic, she knows how difficult it can be to make a living as an artist. “It is so important that young artists develop their talent while in college and are prepared to continue to express that after they graduate,” she notes. “They have to be able to bridge from the enclave of college to the outside world.”

Her generosity helps build such bridges. “I want to directly and concretely help Hartwick students and improve their ability to

continue to express their art,” Semenenko explains. “It gives me an ongoing participation in something so vital. I was inspired to contribute to Hartwick because I was shown there was a need. Improving things for the students—that’s the impetus behind my gifts.”

Improving things… it’s an attitude she learned from her father. Serge Semenenko was vice chairman of The First National Bank of Boston and a brilliant financial strategist with interests in the entertainment industry. He was renowned for forging business deals that strengthened companies. “Daddy’s intent was always to make things run more smoothly and efficiently,” says his daughter. “He was creative in his work and saw himself as a person who mended things. He was generous and kind and humble.”

Like father, like daughter. Chrissie Semenenko never seeks the spotlight; instead she steps back, appreciates others, and helps them reach for greatness. She calls Hartwick’s art faculty “inspiring,” the students “full of talent,” and President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12 “enormously accomplished, articulate, and devoted to both Hartwick and its future.” The combination is powerful. “Everybody participates in this odyssey at Hartwick,” Semenenko says. “It all adds up to an institution that’s dynamic, works well, and offers so much.” n

PORTRAIT IN PHILANTHROPY

Chrissie Semenenko P’09 and some of her Hartwick friends: with President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12 at Dylan’s “Tusk”; being congratulated by the President when her J Term gift to The Campaign reached endowment level; at the Celebration of Success in The Campaign for Hartwick Students with Beth Steele P’12; on Oyaron Hill this summer with her son’s good friend, Ethan Elston ’07, who wrote the dedication plaque at “Tusk”; and at a Partners in Scholarship luncheon with JCH Scholar Honour Harlowe ’16, who earned the Semenenko Clark J Term Scholarship to study in London and Paris and is now teaching in Seoul, South Korea.


The Future of Hartwick and the Liberal Arts Campus Leaders Share

Their Perspectives[ DISCUSSANTS]

Margaret L. Drugovich, President of the College and parent of Liz Kelly ’12

Cherilyn Lacy, Faculty Chair and Professor of History

Francis Landrey, Chair of the Board of Trustees and parent of Owen Landrey ’06

Chris Shaw ’17, Student Senate President and Baker-Simpson Intern

Point of View


Hartwick College has done a great job evolving the liberal arts experience. —Chris Shaw ’17

y PRESIDENT DRUGOVICH: The trustees, the faculty, and our students have expressed their respective confidence in your leadership. Each of you, therefore, will contribute to the capacity building that will lead to our future.

A lot has been written in recent years about the relative value of a liberal arts education. Is there an associated issue that needs further consideration?

y LANDREY: What was once part of a standard liberal arts curriculum is not anymore. We are evolving, but we still need to consider what is essential.

A broader base skill set than just expertise in a particular area is critically important and yet it can get lost in the discussion. There’s a broader realm of knowledge and thinking that’s critical to our future as a society and for the careers of our students.

y SHAW: I think Hartwick College has done a great job evolving the liberal arts experience to allow more science, math, and engineering into our curriculum, looking beyond the traditional, creative, and communication skills that a liberal arts education really leans on.Hartwick is really involving more of what is demanded in the market today. You can see that through our nursing program and the restructuring of the computer science program.

y DRUGOVICH: Do you see the progression toward preparing more nurses or

preparing more people for business as in any way detracting from the educational experience here, even as we preserve the liberal arts core?

y SHAW: No, I think that it’s really an evolution of what liberal arts is going to mean. Not only now, but in the next 20 years and positioning ourselves to creating the next generation of young minds to tackle some really big issues.

y LACY: The thing that dismays me is how much people focus on short-term thinking about cost. They don’t think about the long-term investment in what you actually learn, which is how to think and how to synthesize information from across numerous disciplines. I am very encouraged that we still emphasize the interdisciplinary connections at Hartwick.

Value has to do with developing habits of mind and the ability to think about issues from multiple perspectives using multiple types of information. Value is how an education prepares you for a full, rich lifetime.

y LANDREY: Over the next half century, a lot of the disciplines that people are learning today will evolve and change completely. Having a better foundation and more flexibility will be extremely important.

y LACY: Our students engage in learning and growth and development on so many different levels in so many different fields, regardless of their major. I think Hartwick does an excellent job of that.


y DRUGOVICH: Dr. Lacy has pointed to the fact that this broad-based education is what portends and predicts people’s ability to be successful. How do you look at that challenge?

y LANDREY: The reality is that we cannot change the marketplace, we can only try to influence that marketplace to understand our value proposition. To a certain extent we have to be attentive to the fact that parents are saying to their children, “Show me how this major is going to get you a job.” That’s where we’ve been trying to press through, working with the faculty and addressing new academic programs to create career directions that, yes, will still have that liberal arts foundation.

y DRUGOVICH: People can get distracted by the idea of the major as opposed to the overall education. What we’re really trying to do here is make sure that no matter what you major in, you have a really broad educational platform.

y SHAW: I have a double major in political science and economics and minor in environmental science and policy. I think that kind of interdisciplinary study exposes you to things that you wouldn’t have known otherwise. That really has value. It increases your human capital.

y DRUGOVICH: Part of the short-term thinking says that what’s important is your first job. Whereas we know that it’s in your early 40s that this kind of education really pays off.

y LACY: For people to think that the very first job they get out of college

is the defining moment of their lives ignores all the evidence that people and institutions are constantly evolving. What a liberal arts education does is prepare students for a life in which they will change and take new career paths. They will have the ability to be nimble.

That’s really the value of what we do. We prepare students to be in the driver’s seat to take charge of their course.

y DRUGOVICH: Let’s now look at social media. It’s become part of the way we evolve as a community. It’s shaping us, or is it? What role do you see social media playing in our community today?

y SHAW: Social media has brought the world together in how we communicate and the way that information is spread very quickly across borders.

Maybe it does not have the impact of bringing us together for events, maybe it’s not a very good advertising medium, but it does bring information right to you, to your cell phone. Social media adds new perspectives and I think that’s really important.

y DRUGOVICH: Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information that comes to you through these channels?

y SHAW: For sure, but we have to be able to filter out what’s important and what can be integrated later. Every human has to decide. It’s easy to get overloaded in any subject; it’s easy to get overloaded if you read too many books. It’s always about moderation and how smart you are in using it.


y LANDREY: My perspective might be a little different. I see social media as having a lot of impacts and effects that aren’t realized yet; we’re still working on ways to integrate it into our system. Among them is the way we type something without as much thought as would be appropriate. It’s a stream of consciousness that we send out there into the universe. We don’t spend enough time, some of us, to shape our thoughts in a way that really presents what we want to say. Social media is changing the way we communicate.

y DRUGOVICH: As a president—and many of my colleagues think about this, as well—I sometimes feel pressured by social media to react to what is being done rather than to respond thoughtfully. As you suggest, Francis, responding takes time, thinking through takes time, and in this atmosphere there’s a tremendous pressure to move quickly. If you pause, your audience may believe you don’t care.

y LACY: I think of social media as one among many indications that, in the 21st century, our notion of community is rapidly changing and that is going to affect who we are as a college. Increasingly we need to focus on how we’re all connected.

It means that as an institution, increasingly, we will have to think not just about what we are on this hill, but who we are as a community that can extend around the world. Learning can connect all of us, not just here, in this location, at this particular time, but beyond graduation and beyond physical constraints. That’s what I see in social media.

y LANDREY: The networking opportunities are enormous and very valuable. I also want to focus on how we relate to each other in person. I worry sometimes about how technology affects our interactions.

y LACY: The communities that will thrive and flourish in the 21st century will be those that think, “Here is a transitional moment. How will we define ourselves as a community and how do we do that mindfully so that all the aspects of technology don’t shape us? Instead, how do we take charge of this to redefine how we interact as a community and go forward?”

y DRUGOVICH: Chris, one of the things that seems true about your generation of learners is that they feel much less tied to place. Yet the way we’ve done learning in the past, we’ve developed relationships with one another in person in the process. We’ve come to depend on one another. A growing number of students start at one college and graduate from another, so they don’t get that sense of permanency of place. How do you look at that?

y SHAW: The way that students perceive where they belong is not the same as it was even 20 years ago. On my phone I have the Student Senate Instagram account. When I switch over to the Senate account and look through the pictures, I see the experiences that students are having on campus and off campus.

It’s so interesting to see what connections and what networks all these students are coming from and what they’re planning on doing in the future. Through Student Senate we’re really trying to hash out the current traditions. It’s not like what was happening in 1797 when students were coming in on horseback. We’re finding 97 things to do at Hartwick College before you graduate. I’m really excited to see that students are coming back from around the world and discussing their Emerson and Duffy scholarships or their entrepreneur ventures in San Francisco. With a global list of experiences, students are saying, “This is the Hartwick experience.”

Value is how an education prepares you for a full, rich lifetime. —Cherilyn Lacy


y LANDREY: A lot of that personal transformation happens in the classroom, a lot of it happens outside of the classroom, and a lot of it’s about interaction with your fellow students, faculty members, staff, and administrators. The physical place, where that’s all happening, is a critical part of what Hartwick has to offer because it provides the environment that is conducive to a great deal of personal growth in a very important time in the lives of our children.

y DRUGOVICH: I’m curious what you think our future might look like. Education has always been a principal mission of Hartwick College and yet the practical expression of that mission has taken different forms over the last two centuries. We’ve always had the same core values, we’ve always wanted to educate well, but the way we’ve done that has changed over time.

In 30 years, in 2047, we’re going to celebrate our 250th anniversary as an educational institution, which makes us rather rare. There aren’t very many institutions in the United States that have been at the business of education as long as Hartwick. What do you imagine Hartwick will be in 30 years?

y LANDREY: It’s so hard to conceive of where we, as a society and as a college, will be given that technology is changing at such a rapid pace. How will that affect what the college does in terms of educating; will it be much more of an online experience? Because technology is so rapidly evolving, it’s hard for us to foresee how that will affect the way people will become educated.

y LACY: The printing press transformed university education as Europeans knew it, but it didn’t kill it. People predicted that movies in the early 20th century would explode the way we

delivered education. It changed the way they educated, but it still did not eliminate the human desire for face-to-face interaction. I think that with social media’s ability to extend our network, we really will be a community that involves more than our current members on campus – students, faculty, and staff. Alumni may be even more integrated than they already are today.

y DRUGOVICH: What about you Chris? Can you see 30 years out into the future?

y SHAW: I’ll be 52 years old in 30 years, so that’s really hard for me to imagine.

My hope is that in 30 years we’ll have an alumni base that is stronger in Oneonta, that we’ll retain students to stay here and to make a living here. I’m really hoping that the change we’ll see is that we develop the economy in ways that young intellectuals will want to stay here. They’ll grow an economy and they’ll grow the college.

My hope is that my generation of Hartwick learners will be willing to take up the large task of preserving what we have created here for the next generation. Looking at the fundraising campaign that just ended and seeing that as an inspiration, our responsibility in 30 years will be to give back to the college in more than one way.

I can’t tell exactly what Hartwick’s future is going to be, but I’ll be a part of it.

y DRUGOVICH: That’s great, the idea being a part of change. As leader of Student Senate, what is your role in creating our future?

We are evolving, but we still need to consider what is essential. —Francis Landrey P’06


y SHAW: It’s fostering many leadership possibilities for people who are interested in many different things. It’s really providing a platform where people feel comfortable advocating for themselves and promoting the things that they’re really enthusiastic about. My role is to offer the possibility for students to find it, within themselves, to reach out and become that change in Hartwick that we all understand that we need.

y DRUGOVICH: Cherilyn, as faculty chair, what is your role in Hartwick’s future?

y LACY: My moment right now as a leader is really dependent on the faculty themselves. I am not here because I applied for a job and was hired. I’m in this position at this moment because of the faculty. My job, first and foremost, is to listen to them and to try to support initiatives that they might want to bring forward. It’s the exact same thing, Chris—listening to people and doing whatI can to facilitate anything positive they may want to build.

There are many leaders; there are many people with good ideas. The more I can support bringing those good ideas to fruition, the more I will have done my job and been faithful to the charge.

y DRUGOVICH: Francis, of course the board is held at a very high level of accountability for the welfare of the college and for the future of the college, as well. How do you look at the challenge for you?

y LANDREY: The challenge for me is to keep an eye both on the present and the future. We have to deal with our finances, our budgets, and to understand from the president and the vice presidents and the faculty our present day concerns while at the same time thinking about the future.

I see my job as the chair as keeping an eye out for all constituencies and how we deal with both our present and ensuring the future that we’re envisioning.

But I’m not here for those 30 years. My job is to keep that process going and to continue to engender a culture within our board of finding ways to be proactive in achieving the mission and achieving a vibrant future for the college.

y DRUGOVICH: For me, legacy has always been making sure that this period allows us to go to the next. I feel really strongly about that. One of the ways we do that is by getting support for the college, by inviting a lot of people in.

y LANDREY:We can’t lose momentum, it has to keep going.

y DRUGOVICH: Change has been a recurring theme in this discussion. Of course, that’s not surprising to any of us. We all know that communities aren’t static, that there’s constant change.

Like all of you, I’m very optimistic about our future. n

We all know that communities aren’t static,that there’s constant change.—President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12

22 THE WICK MAGAZINE Golden Jubilee Reunion / 50 Year Club Induction

Golden Jubilee Reunion / 50 Year Club Induction

THE WICK MAGAZINE 23Golden Jubilee Reunion / 50 Year Club Induction

A Celebration ofHartwick Spirit!

A jam-packed, fun-filled weekend for nearly1,000 alumni, family, and friends.


25th Annual WAA Golf Classic

Edward Clough ’60 Scoreboard Dedication

Record-setting reunions; a toast to the success of The Campaign for Hartwick Students; dinners, receptions, andthe Golden Jubilee; awards for careers of note and service with impact; Brooks’ BBQ, tailgating, sporting events, and more!

Alumni at the Forefront


25th Annual WAA Golf Classic

Edward Clough ’60 Scoreboard Dedication

Record-setting reunions; a toast to the success of The Campaign for Hartwick Students; dinners, receptions, andthe Golden Jubilee; awards for careers of note and service with impact; Brooks’ BBQ, tailgating, sporting events, and more!

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Alumni at the Forefront

HARTWICK ALUMNI move out into the world, ready for the opportunities and challenges ahead. At this school of the liberal arts, they have prepared with interdisciplinary study, experiential learning, creative problem solving, and collaborative effort. Now they excel in business and science, music and art, nonprofits and government, and more. Sometimes their title evokes “leader;” more often it is their actions that tell their story. Always, they do their alma mater proud.

These five alumni run the gamut. Betsy Tanner Wright ’79, a hospital CEO with 17 years on the job, succeeds in an industry in flux by anticipating change and communicating, always. Bronwen Knox ’08 is an Olympic medalist and team captain who’s now focused on inspiring the next generation of athletes while she builds a career out of the pool. Lt. Col. Domingos Robinson ’95 is a teacher by training, a musician at heart, and a soldier (when needed) who now conducts on an international stage. Jim Seward ’73, H’99 started his career in public service while still a student and, more than 30 years later, is still on course. Susan Schroeder Warner ’84 is a corporate vice president who advances her company by engaging thousands of employees in helping others.

THEIR MANY LESSONS LEARNED TRANSCEND INDUSTRY AND GENERATION.

By ELIZABETH STEELE P’12

LEADING THROUGH CHANGE,FOCUSED ON PEOPLE



JIM SEWARD ’73, H’99 is right where he belongs: serving the citizens of central New York. Newly elected to a 16th term representing the 51st Senate district, he is well positioned “to have an impact on what happens in New York and in my region.”

The work is personal for this Oneonta native, who says, “Being able to improve the lives of people who call this region home; that’s what motivates me. I have a real opportunity to be of assistance to our communities.”

In more than 30 years, Seward has been able to affect nearly every aspect of life in his district, which spans an area nearly the size of Connecticut. Recent committee assignments include chairman of the Senate insurance committee, the Senate standing committees on health and mental health, the Senate standing committees on education and higher education, the agriculture committee, and the finance and rules committees.

A proponent for economic development throughout New York, Seward is taking a critical look at how state monies are distributed. It’s an example of upstate-downstate tension and just one facet of what Seward calls “the challenge of getting results in a state with so much economic, political, philosophical, and geographic diversity. We are always working toward compromise; sometimes it doesn’t work.”

Despite the occasional frustrations, and his wish for “more hours in every day to reflect and prepare to meet the broad range of needs of my constituents,” Seward calls his job, “very satisfying work.” Whatever concerns his constituents concerns him. “Government has a tremendous impact on our daily lives, like it or not,” he observes, citing “everything from budget decisions to speed limits.”

Over the years Seward twice considered running for national office, but chose impact over ambition. “States are great laboratories of innovation in policies and practices,” he explains. “At the federal level, one size fits all and each representative is just one voice among 435. On the local level you’re often carrying out what comes down from federal and state.” Seward stayed where he knew his seniority and experience would make the most difference, noting, “As time went on, it became harder to walk away from that.”

Seward’s career began while he was still in college. “We had no formal internship program then,” he recalls, “but Professor John Lindell helped me develop an internship with Majority Whip Donald Mitchell in the New York State Assembly.” After graduation Seward went on staff with other legislators, then into the Senate. In 1986 he ran for a Senate seat himself, won, and has been returned to the office by his constituents ever since.

His formative years at Hartwick happened at “a very tumultuous time in this country,” Seward recalls, noting the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. “I took a different path, rather than protest. First as a staff member and now as a senator, I have a seat at the table where decisions are being made.

“I had intended to go to law school, but I haven’t gotten there yet,” Seward adds, with his trademark smile. “I got involved in making the laws instead of interpreting them. That’s my way of making a difference.”

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Jim Seward ’73, H’99 advocates for this region. The resulting legislative grants for community development and economic initiatives include Hartwick’s Center for Craft Food & Beverage. He is pictured speaking at its opening with Board Chair Francis Landrey P’06 and President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12.

Being able to improve the lives of people who call this region home; that’s what motivates me.


BETSY TANNER WRIGHT ’79 is bucking an industry trend. At a time when the average tenure of a hospital CEO is 3.5 years, she has been at the helm of WCA Hospital for 17. Wright is, by far, the senior hospital administrator in western New York, and yet, she says, “I am just as excited and enthusiastic

as the first day that I stepped into the CEO role.” Her enthusiasm for her work, her staff, and her community keeps it fresh; her calculated problem solving in a very competitive industry keeps her in demand.

The secret to her longevity? “I never ask anyone to work harder than I’m willing to,” Wright says. “And my ability to communicate with people and keep them informed is critical. I spend most of my time and energy working with our Board, physicians, employees, and our community.”

After 35 years in healthcare administration, Wright remembers when hospitals “operated as silos.” That’s in the past. “Over the last 15 years in particular, there have been a lot of improvements in collaboration and integration,” she says. “Now hospitals and physicians are working together, hospitals are talking to each other, and hospitals are working with other community agencies. We are seeing more and more affiliations and mergers.”

Wright just completed six years planning a transition for WCA Hospital and two years negotiating an agreement between it and UMPC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center). “The affiliation will assure high-quality care for this community for years to come,” she says, clearly pleased with the result. As one who is “always scanning the horizon for what’s coming at us,” Wright says, “We had to become part of something bigger to ensure our ability to continue serving our region.”

WCA has been an independent hospital for 131 years and “this community was rightfully proud of that,” Wright notes. In order to protect this healthcare resource for the Jamestown, NY, area, she assessed all options and made financially sustainable choices. “We’re taking this action at a time when many hospitals are closing or downsizing.” Instead, WCA is innovating with such programs as robotic surgery and bariatric surgery.

The successful conclusion of such a complicated process depended on extensive collaboration and extraordinary effort on the part of this CEO, who earned a BS in medical technology from Hartwick and an MBA from the University of Rochester. Wright’s contributions to this critical deal included “communicating and keeping the Board, medical leadership, and employees apprised of where we are and where we’re going; building support and positive energy within the workforce and the community; and positively and deliberately communicating with the regulatory bodies,” she says.

Wright’s job is demanding; “No doubt about it,” she says. The financial pressures alone are considerable and include “meeting the demands of patients, investing in technology, and managing the rising cost of healthcare. We must continue to meet the needs of the community while lowering the overall cost. My job involves breaking down such barriers to success.”

The context of her work more than balances the challenges. “By securing the future of the hospital, I am making a difference to people in our community,” Wright says, citing just one example. “Together with the hospital board, physicians, employees, and our supportive community, we are truly transforming regional healthcare. That certainly makes me feel good about what we do.”

MANAGINGChange

Hospital CEO, and Hartwick Board secretary, Betsy Tanner Wright ’79 has twice been named one of the Most Influential Women in Western New York.

I’m always scanning the horizon for what’s coming.


SUSAN SCHROEDER WARNER ’84 crosses disciplines. A strategic communicator, she works in the technology sector on engagement tools to create brand advocates. Warner is a vice president of worldwide communications at Mastercard and the senior manager responsible for

global internal communications and employee volunteerism. This Hartwick English major describes herself as a “people leader, collaborator, and storyteller”—in that order.

Her job is all about people, whether she’s influencing them through her communications programs or they’re influencing her. “Throughout my career I’ve been fortunate to work with the most fascinating people,” she says. “At each place, from each person, I’ve learned so much and have benefited from their knowledge.” This includes her team of 10 and several communications colleagues worldwide. “We get together virtually and try to always move as one,” she says, noting that cultural sensitivity is important in all communications. “What works in New York might not work in Brazil or Singapore.”

Warner has built her communications career in consumer goods, entertainment, telecommunications, and now technology. (She describes Mastercard as “a technology company in the payment space; we move data all over the world.”) The context has changed, but her approach is constant. “Good communication skills transcend industry,” she says. “And good instincts for employee engagement trump everything.”

A communications VP responsible for employee engagement? Absolutely. “Employees are always your #1 brand advocates,” Warner explains. “If they don’t believe, no one else will.” Under Warner’s leadership, engagement includes outreach. “Doing well and doing good go hand-in-hand,” she says. “Volunteering in the community gives employees opportunities to be inspired and that’s critical to any company’s success.”

Warner’s eight years at Time Warner Cable brought two promotions and responsibility for keeping 47,000 employees in 33 states informed and engaged. Her purview extended to Time to Read, then the largest corporate literacy and mentoring program in the world, before she created two award-winning STEM education programs for the company.

When Warner moved to Mastercard, she brought her commitment to employee engagement and added a global scope and a focus on girls. The initiative in corporate responsibility became a good workforce development plan. “Eighty percent of jobs in the next 10 years will be STEM-related,” Warner explains, “but only 30 percent are currently held by women and there is declining interest in STEM among 10-to-11-year-old girls worldwide.”

Her efforts became Mastercard’s signature STEM program: Girls4TechTM. More than 1,000 employees—women and men—serve as role models and mentors for more than 11,000 girls in 13 countries. Using a hands-on, inquiry-based curriculum that was developed by company engineers and technologists, “We showcase that it takes all sorts of skills to be successful in STEM,” she says.

Warner personalizes this approach. “When I introduce myself to Girls4TechTM participants, I say, ‘I’m a writer. My job is to take what’s complicated and make it easy to understand.’” As a mentor, she considers her unlikely early influences, including Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, PhD. The featured speaker at Warner’s Hartwick graduation more than 30 years ago was a founder of the COBOL language and a pioneer in technology. “I saw what this tiny lady had done and was incredibly inspired,” she recalls. Now Warner does the same for girls worldwide.

SPHERESof Influence

Susan Schroeder Warner ’84 on campus this fall and in Pune, India, introducing one of her favorite employee engagement initiatives: Mastercard’s Girls4TechTM STEM program.

Doing well and doing good go hand-in-hand.


DOMINGOS ROBINSON ’95 melds two very different worlds: music and the military. A lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, he is also the Commander of the Eighth Army Band stationed in the Republic of Korea.

“At the beginning of my career, I definitely saw myself as a conductor first and officer second,” says Robinson, who auditioned for the military while studying for his master’s in conducting at the New England Conservatory of Music. “As I gained more experience, I realized that they’re not in competition with one another. To be successful, I have to be balanced.”

Robinson studied music education in college and quickly gained experience. “Hartwick threw you in the deep end from the beginning,” he says of student teaching. “I liked that.” He also appreciated dedicated faculty such as Dr. Thurston Dox, whom he calls “one of the biggest influences in my life.”

His broad-based education supports the demands of his work. “Conducting isn’t just what you see when you go to a concert; that’s maybe five percent,” Robinson explains. “A large percentage of conducting is solitary, studying the music; it’s also working with the musicians to help them reach their potential as an ensemble and to perform the work as you envision it. That takes two-way communication, leadership, teaching skills, and, of course, conducting skills.”

Robinson’s ambition of “making music meaningful to people” is being realized. At home, he sees the Armed Forces bands as “the standard bearers for our American and military heritage.” He has contributed to history as it’s being made, conducting at the inauguration of President George W. Bush, the state funerals of Presidents Reagan and Ford, the dedication of the World War II Memorial, after the attacks of 9/11, and more.

Overseas, Robinson sees the band’s role as quite different. “Internationally, we serve as ambassadors,” he explains. “There are places our leaders can send a band that they can’t send anyone else. We can set the conditions for strategic talks or make a foreign population feel more at ease with the Americans based in their country.” One example: when the Eighth Army Band played at a relocation and education center for North Korean refugees. “We were the first Americans they had ever seen in the flesh,” Robinson says. “I can’t give that feeling justice.”

Robinson leads the only American military band on the Korean Peninsula. Traveling the country in support of US forces and Korean allies, he has a diverse set of duties. “As Commander, I’m responsible for the training, well-being, and morale of my soldiers,” he says. “I’m also responsible for supervising all music support to US Forces Korea and our ROK counterparts. And, being forward deployed in a country that is technically still at war with the North, we also have to be ready to perform our security mission if the armistice is broken.”

The military context of making music presents challenges, including short assignments in any one location. “Although I’m the Commander of the Eighth Army Band, it isn’t my band; it’s the Army’s,” Robinson explains. “I’m a steward of the Army’s unit. A leader is supposed to set the conditions for success. I ensure that success will continue when I’m gone.”

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Lt. Col. Domingos Robinson ’95 leads musicians in their support of patriotism and international relations.

To besuccessful,I have to be balanced.

Australian Olympic team captain Bronwen Knox ’08 also captained the Hawks’ D1 water polo team in 2005-06, the year she led the nation in scoring. In 2012, she was inducted into the Hartwick College Athletics Hall of Fame.


OLYMPIC ATHLETE BRONWEN KNOX ’08 is a multifaceted woman. An exceptional water polo player, persistent student, and ambitious professional, she admits that balancing these competing demands “is not always easy. There are times when my sport takes the lead track and

everything else comes in second. At other times it’s study that’s the lead running, and so on. I am constantly reevaluating my priorities.” Knox makes it work with “some great time management; a supportive team of friends, family, and colleagues; and open and honest communication.”

Knox studied nursing at Hartwick and biomedicine back home in Australia; then came a postgraduate degree in public health and now she’s studying law. It’s all getting her ready for “the day when I will have to give up international competition and enter the ‘real world’”, she says. “My goal is to go into health promotion and health policy, especially within minority communities.”

For years Knox’s life has centered on her sport. This three-time Olympic competitor helped Australia win bronze in Beijing in 2008 (12 goals) and again in London in 2012 (four goals) before she captained the Aussie Stingers in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. She was Australia’s captain when she played her 300th international game—this time at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Russia. (“To lead my fellow teammates out on the pool deck for our national anthem is one of my proudest moments,” she says.)

“Being team captain is very different from being a player,” Knox explains. “In the water you’re making the tough decisions and leading the team through action, but the responsibilities don’t finish there. I’ve found that to effectively lead you cannot be afraid of failure. If we never fail, we can never know what we may be truly capable of.”

Success has brought intense scrutiny. “Pressure always comes with competing at this level, whether it’s from the media or from performing for selection,” Knox says. “Predominantly the pressure I feel comes from myself and my need to always be performing at my best. Whenever I feel the pressure building, I take a step back and return to the basics, back to what I know I am good at. That makes things simpler.”

Last year’s complications included a fractured collarbone that threatened her Rio appearance. “I considered quitting international sport then,” Knox recalls. “I wasn’t sure if I could get back to my peak performance and I didn’t want to continue just to play; I wanted to excel. I like to think of it as bouncing forwards, rather than just bouncing back.”

As she takes a year off from competitive play, Knox has her sights set on the future of her sport. “I hope to be able to inspire and develop the next generation of water polo players,” she says. “I would love to be a part of developing and implementing programs across my country and internationally that help promote gender equality, cultural differences, respect, and self-esteem. I believe sport is a great platform that can help break down barriers and create fun and supportive environments where people may thrive.” n

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AMONG BEST IN NATION | Billy Pine ’17 and Koree Reed ’18 finished the season leading the country in several statistical categories. Pine led the nation in both total offense (388.2 yards/gm.) and passing yards per completion (17.92). Reed completed his season ranked first in receiving yards (1,606) and receiving yards per game (160.6) and he was third in total touchdowns (17) and yards per reception (27.69). He was named an AFCA First Team All-American, an Empire 8 First Team pick at wide receiver and a Second Team All-Purpose selection, and D3football.com First Team All-Region. Running back Tito Pichardo ’16 joined Reed on the First Team. Pine and Brad Garcia ’18 each received honorable mention.

BEST SINCE 2002 | Hartwick women’s soccer squad claimed an Empire 8 playoff spot for the first time in 14 years. The Hawks registered back-to-back 10-win seasons for the first time since 1991 and 1992, finishing this season 10-5-3 overall. Madison Miller ’19, the league’s Defensive Player of the Year, was selected First Team Empire 8 and First Team All-Region. Rachel Weir ’19 received Second Team honors and was named to the Empire 8 All-Tournament Team while Casey Boucher ’18 garnered Empire 8 Honorable Mention. Sierra Bentley ’18 also was named to the All-Tournament Team, received Honorable Mention for the third time, and set both career (23) and single-season (13) records for assists. BEST SINCE 2009 | The field hockey team

enjoyed two winning streaks and closed the season 13-5. The most wins in a season since 2009 brought the first Empire 8 league playoff appearance since then. A quintet of Hawks drew praise: Maria Stalder ’20 headlined the selections as Co-Rookie of the Year, Sarah Ryan ’17 and Shannon Carter ’17 E8 First Team and All-Region Second Team while Mikaelan Cucciarre-Stuligross ’17, Lex Richards ’18, and Stalder earned E8 Second Team honors. Ryan and Stalder were also named to the Empire 8 All-Tournament Team.

EMPIRE 8 RECOGNITION | Volleyball’s Hannah Armstrong ’18 is an Empire 8 Honorable Mention pick. Her team-best 320 kills ranks seventh in a single season in program history and her 808 total kills puts her eighth all-time in career kills.

SECOND STRAIGHT E8 PLAYOFF BERTH | Women’s tennis secured a spot in the Empire 8 Conference semifinals for the second consecutive season with performances that equaled both their overall (8-5) and Empire 8 (5-3) record from 2015. Heidi Rice ’18 was the Hawks’ first Empire 8 Second Team selection since 2010 after an 8-3 singles season. Kelly Napolitano ’18 earned Honorable Mention for the third consecutive season in singles and garnered Honorable Mention doubles with partner Kelli Ryan ’18.


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Friends Gather to Celebrate Miller Friends and fans of Dick Miller —former president of Hartwick College and former mayor of the city of Oneonta—gathered in the Binder Center in November to dedicate The Dick Miller Memorial Locker Room. Pictured at its doors are: President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12, Mary Sapienza Miller ’72 and trustee Neal Miller ’72, Craig Van Cott ’75, Vinne Avanzato, Karen Elting, and Rick and Michelle Eastman. The Dick Miller Memorial Locker Room was named with a lead gift to The Campaign for Hartwick Students from Bob Spadaccia ’70, who served on the Board of Trustees throughout Miller’s five years as president. At the dedication ceremony, Miller’s friend Rick Eastman said, “Dick will always be a part of Hartwick College, Oneonta, and all the people who knew him.”

Academic and Athletic RecognitionDI men’s soccer has ranked in the national top 10 in team GPA each of the last four years. This season the squad secured a 3.45 team GPA, tying for third in Division I men’s soccer along with Fordham, Northwestern, Seattle Pacific, and The University of Detroit Mercy. For the third consecutive season, Hartwick earned the Sun Belt Conference’s Men’s Soccer Academic Award for having the highest average GPA. Forward Mike Rood ’17 was selected for the CoSIDA Academic All-District Men’s Soccer First Team.

Men’s soccer went as high as fifth in the Southeast region rankings this season and the team ended its season 9-6-4 overall, earning a spot in the Sun Belt semifinals. Hamish Ritchie ’20 was named Sun Belt Co-Freshman of the Year, earned Second Team honors, and was selected to the Sun Belt All-Tournament Team. Johnny McBeth ’18 and Elliott Bentley ’20 were First Team selections. Mike Rood ’17 and Jack Donaldson ’17 earned league recognition for the second consecutive season and were Second Team picks. Rood was also named NSCAA Third Team All-Southeast Region.

ALUMNI NEWS


A Message fromSCOTT HOLDREN ’80ALUMNI BOARD PRESIDENT

Holdren was unable to join the leadership round table (see page 16), so was asked to answer one question from that discussion: What is your role in helping Hartwick get to its future?

My role isn’t too different from that of any graduate. We look back at our Hartwick years and remember what it offered us and those special moments that really made a difference and shaped us. As alumni, we should give the same back to the College and its current students. If there was someone who helped you get through a tough time, offer to be that person for a current student. EMail, Skype, sponsor a student for a job shadow…. If Hartwick helped with funds to close your financial gap, offer those funds to today’s students. Make an annual gift to the Hartwick Fund; make a gift to the Legacy Scholarship; support your favorite on-campus affinity….

For the next couple of years I get to wear the name badge “President, Alumni Board of Directors.” When approached about this role, I had been in the secondary education world for 32 years, teaching in a high school, and had sent 110+ students to Hartwick. My wife and I are regular supporters of the Legacy Fund and Hartwick is in our wills. What I saw with this role was the chance to personally reach out to fellow alumni at a new level and to spearhead new initiatives to re-engage the Hartwick alumni body.

My bottom line? Hartwick helped shape my future and I want to employ my talents to help create its best future. Many of us remember that moment we stepped on campus and had the immediate “This is the place for me” feeling. We should all give a bit of our best to ensure that Hartwick continues to be that place for many future generations.

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The Votes Are InAs a result of this year’s election, the following alumni will be joining orre-joining the Alumni Association for four-year terms:

Michael Doherty ’73 > Cody Fiduccia ’12 > Shanlee Ginchereau ’91 Alexis Mays-Fields ’04 > Brianna Mckenzie ’16 > Addison Muller ’16 Joseph Pellegrino, Jr ’13 > Amanda Robinson ’16 > William Rogers ’77

For more information on the work of the Alumni Board or to contact any of its members, visit www.hartwick.edu/alumni-and-friends/alumni-board/

Save the Date! October 6-8, 2017Start making your plans today! Visit www.Hartwick.edu/TrueBlue17

for information on activities and accommodations.

Meet the 2016 Alumni Award WinnersEvery year, the Alumni Association honors individuals for their career success or service to the College.The 2016 class of honorees was announced and recognized at True Blue Weekend and will be honored individually in their hometowns this spring. Watch for your invitations and help us celebrate these members of the Hartwick community.


Neal Miller ’72 [ Meritorious Service Award ]Miller earned the highest award conferred by the Alumni Association for his outstanding loyalty and service to the College. He is a member of the Hartwick College Board of Trustees, a past president of the College’s Alumni Board, and a long-serving member of the Citizens Board. A history major at the ’Wick, Miller volunteers tirelessly on behalf of the College and demonstrates his commitment to Hartwick students in a variety of known and unknown ways. He and his wife, Mary Sapienza Miller ’73, reside in Oneonta.

Susan Schroeder Warner ’84 [ Distinguished Alumna Award ]The vice president of worldwide communications for Mastercard, English major Warner has held critical communications positions at companies including Time Warner Cable and Allied Domecq. She has been dedicated to corporate social responsibility throughout her career. In 2014, Warner launched Girls4TechTM, Mastercard’s signature curriculum for young girls around the world, and at Time Warner Cable she created two award-winning curricula that engage employees and children in 21 states on science, technology, engineering, and math. Warner was nominated by her husband, James Warner ’82.

Ryan Smith ’06 [ Outstanding Young Alumnus ]Smith is the representative of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the World Communion of Reformed Churches at the United Nations. He graduated magna cum laude from Hartwick in 2006 with a triple major in economics, political science, and German,

earning departmental distinction in each. He did an Emerson International Internship in Tanzania and taught in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar. After graduation, he earned a master’s in diplomacy and international relations from Seton Hall University.

Thom Meredith ’73 [ Outstanding Volunteer Award ]Meredith has served on the Hartwick College Alumni Board, the Philadelphia Alumni Network, and the College Athletics Task Force. He attends, and often hosts, regional alumni events and also regularly attends admissions events on campus. A political science major, Meredith built a career in event operations managing events for men’s and women’s World Cup Championships and Olympic soccer tournaments. He most recently served as the Philadelphia venue director for Copa America 2016, the world’s oldest international soccer tournament staged for the first time in the United States.

Harry Bradshaw Matthews [ Outstanding Employee Award ]Matthews is the associate dean and director of the College’s Office of Intercultural Affairs, as well as president and senior fellow of the United States Colored Troops Institute (USCTI). He regularly mentors students on genealogy research projects and he established the Harriet Tubman Mentoring Project, which has been recognized as a best practice for campus support programs and services for student persistence and success. Matthews’ work is published nationally and internationally, and he is a frequent speaker and commentator on issues of race and pluralism.

President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12 (left) and immediate past president of the Alumni Board Steve Suleski ’76 (right) congratulate Susan Schroeder Warner ’84, Neal Miller ’72, Thom Meredith ’73, and Harry Bradshaw Matthews.


1944Send your updates to your class correspondent: David Trachtenberg, [email protected]

1950Call your class correspondent with your updates to: Dick Schoof,334-798-2440

Raymond Davis is still living with his daughter and enjoying life.Maggie Field Rose is doing well and lives in Oneonta. 1957Send your updates to your class correspondent: Donald Michel, [email protected]

1958Alice Heling Gridley says, “I am tickled to have spent the summer ‘working’ as a co-host at the Unitarian Universalist Denominational House on the grounds of Chautauqua Institute in western New York. Hope to hear from Hartwick friends in classes of ’58 and ’59.”

1962Send your updates to your class correspondents: Sharon Conway at [email protected] or Dinah McClure at [email protected] Caple and his wife, Elaine, are mostly full-time Florida residents now. They enjoy the lifestyle in Florida: golfing, boating, fishing, bridge, and volunteering. They see Dick Clapp and his wife, Carol, once in a while when they are in Florida. Neal says “a special hello to all my TKE ‘brothers’”.Emory Ford and his wife, Susan Rogers Ford ’63, have moved to Wayland, MA. “I am still working with MTI (Materials Technology Institute) as emeritus director and MTI Fellow and mentoring a Senior Engineering Design Class at Missouri Science and Technology in Rolla, MO. Out of our home my grandson and I are working on 3D printing and additive manufacturing of custom designed parts. More than 50 years at Hartwick in chemistry and physics and I am still engaged in science.”Norma Trottere Grimaldi says “Joe and I continue living in Murrells Inlet, SC, enjoying the coastal life and all it has to

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A NURSES’ REUNION: Members of the nursing Class of ’62 never miss a chance to get together. Pictured: Merry Baker Boening, Ann Collson Johnson, MaryLu Wade Eshelman, Emily Walter Mikulewicz, Karin Karlsson Engkvist, Dinah McClure, and Carol Beecher Brown.

CATCHING UP: Marjorie Hatlee Macy ’68 and Suzanne Wilson ’68 connected with each other after 42 years! Majorie says, “In so many ways we former roommates showed that we still are alike. We think we look pretty good for ’68 grads!”


offer. We live in Puerto Vallarta for three months in the spring, enjoying the wonderful weather and friendly people. I am working on completing my travel bucket list, exploring wonderful places in both the US and Canada. Such beautiful places and such memories made. At Hartwick I earned a degree that allowed me to pursue many different opportunities in the field of nursing for almost 50 years and now I am enjoying a retirement filled with all I looked forward to during the time I worked.”Emily Walter Mikulewicz was one of seven nurses from the class of 1962 who got together for their 54th annual reunion at the home of Merry Baker Boening and Bob Boening ’61. The conversation that began 58 years ago as freshmen continued with the vigor, joy, and intimacy common to long-term friendships, Emily says, noting that it was their time at Hartwick that cemented their friendship.John Ressmeyer is still living in Norman, OK. He is active with his local cycling club, riding about 200 miles a week and participating in local cycling races up to 100 miles. He recently qualified for the 2017 Senior National Games in the cycling time trial event. He also still stays in touch and annually visits with Ken Buechs ’61 and Ray Peiser.

1965Carol Gaillard is active with the Upper Hudson Library System and serves as director of Cheney Library in Hoosic Falls, NY. Bill Gaillard is still active with the Lions Club and the rescue squad, and he serves as director of the Hoosic Falls, NY, community band and jazz band.

1966Send your updates to your class correspondent: Bill Cassidy, [email protected]

Twenty-two members of the class enjoyed a celebration of their 50th Class Reunion at True Blue 2016. Class ambassadors Janet Sullivan-Wilson and Bill Cassidy presented each classmate with a 50 Year Club pin to commemorate the reunion.

1967Send your updates to your class correspondent: Bruce Cameron, [email protected] Bruce Cameron and Nancy Vogelsang are the co-chairs for the Class of 1967 50th class reunion. They are already planning communications and activities to encourage all classmates to attend. The Golden Jubilee Dinner and 50 Year Club inductions will be held on Friday, October 6, 2017.

1968Send your updates to your class correspondent: Judith Elving Bethe, [email protected] Ken Hoglund writes that he has had some big changes since 2012, which included selling his companies to his biggest competitor and, sadly, losing his wife to cancer. Ken remarried last December and lives in Charlotte, NC, with his new wife, Beth. She is the director of human resources for the new F1 team, Haas Formula 1. Thanks to her international company, the couple has been doing a great deal of travel, including to the UK, Italy, France, Austria, Panama, Aruba, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the Cayman Islands. Ken reports the future is bright with more travel planned. They are now full-time residents of Boynton Beach, FL.

1969 Michael Wolfe retired from academia and consulting to spend time with his six grandchildren.

FRATERNITY BROTHERS: Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity met for a Brothers’ Reunion at the lake house of Neal Miller ’72 and Mary Sapienza Miller ’73 in September. A good time was had by all! Pictured: (back) Neal Miller ’72, Michael Adair ’72, Lynn Davenport ’69, Steve Wright ’69, Graydon Woodworth ’71, Thomas Russell ’71, William Kretzmer ’69; (middle) Dale Pensgen ’72, Robert Bloom ’73, Peter Martin ’74, James Maziarz ’73, David Chadbourne ’72, Richard Taylor ’72, Paul Conboy ’73, John Wardle ’72, John DeAngeles ’71; (front) Andrew Ashworth ’74, Joseph Nortz ’74. Not pictured: Fred Aron ’69, Edward Clayton ’76, Steven Mallor ’69, Brian Sarant ’75, Peter Schaber ’69, David Ward ’74, and Steven Young ’76.

KAYAKING FUN: Jim Parsons ’70 found his passion for kayaking while in retirement!


1970Jim Parsons says, “I have been retired for a number of years and have found my passion in retirement with kayaking and leading history hikes along the Hudson Valley. For the past five years, I kayaked throughout northeastern United States and Canada. Last August, I explored the 100 wild islands in the North Atlantic off the coast of northeastern Nova Scotia. These islands are unchanged since formed by the last glacier.”

1971Send your updates to your class correspondent: Barbara Vartanian, [email protected]

1972Send your updates to your class correspondent: Nancy DeSandolo, [email protected] Fred Stoss was again a mentor at a Climate Reality International Training Workshop, assisting attendees in presenting Al Gore’s climate change presentations. Fred received the NY State Library Assistants Association’s Ray Murray Award for supporting library assistants. He also received the Center for Environmental Initiatives’ Environmental Excellence Award (NGO/Education) and the first Friend of the National Library of Aruba Award for his work establishing the Caribbean Energy, Environmental, and Sustainability Education Program. Fred was cited among “Librarians as Sustainability Advocates, Educators, and Entrepreneurs” in The Entrepreneurial Librarian: Essays on the Infusion of Private-Business Dynamism into Professional Service.

1973Send your updates to your class correspondent: Ronald Stair, [email protected] Mike Doherty, a retired Army colonel and his wife, Kristine Kingery, traveled to England in April 2016. They flew in an Air

Force KC-10 tanker aircraft and spent six days in the country. Mike has accepted a six-month detail to Headquarters, US Marine Corps as its environmental planner. The couple resides in North Potomac, MD, and invites any Hartwick alumni to come see them when in the DC area. Susan Maude Petrosky cleaned out her desk and found pictures that brought back many Hartwick memories. She found some old photos of a pajama party that was held on the fourth floor of Alumni Hall in the 1970s. She says, “Susan Lindsey, Carolyn Q, Barb Aurieau, Jan Horton, and I fondly remember that pillow fight we had!”Stephen J. Silverberg has been selected to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list as one of the top New York metro area lawyers for 2016. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the New York metro area are selected to receive this honor. Stephen has been named to the Super Lawyer list for 10 consecutive years.

1974Glenn Mayerschoff has been wood sculpting through the Alexandria, VA, Art League since retiring. He has been in classes for four years and has done 13 abstract pieces, entered eight juried shows, and sold two pieces. He says he really enjoys the process of mallet and chisels to the wood.

1976Karen Gilmore Sackett says “Glenn and I, along with our twin daughters, Heather and Hannah, Charlie and precious grandson, Adrian, live in the Charlotte, NC, area. Our daughter, Hillary, is a professor of economics at Westfield State University, in Massachusetts. I’m still working at a Marriott Courtyard. Our retirement is a few years off, depending on health issues. In my spare time I have play dates with my grandson. Family is everything!”

FOREIGN TRAVELS: Mike Doherty ’73 and his wife Kristine Kingery at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, England.

VACATION FUN: Barbara Pyle Shipman ’83, Bob Shipman ’83, Mark Lewis ’83, Megan Shipman ’11, and Michaela Shipman ’14 enjoyed their yearly summer vacation and some Allagash beer in Ocean Park, Maine. (Not pictured: Barb Shipman.)

HAPPY NUPTIALS: Douglas Stanton ’89 was married on November 2, 2013. He and his wife, Haruko, met in 2008 while he was on a business trip to Tokyo, Japan.

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1978Harout DerSimonian, PhD was appointed chief scientific officer at Biostage, Inc., a biotechnology company developing bioengineered organ implants to treat cancers and other life-threatening conditions of the esophagus, bronchi, and trachea. Dr. DerSimonian will direct and manage the cell biology, materials science, and other scientific research that forms the basis of Biostage’s Cellframe™ technology platform.

1981Send your updates to your class correspondent: Larry Tetro, [email protected] Steve Bedzis is in his second year of graduate study at the State University at Albany. He is pursuing an advanced graduate certificate in the School of Education’s program in educational administration and policy studies.

1983Barbara Pyle Shipman, Bob Shipman, Mark Lewis, Megan Shipman ’11, and Michaela Shipman ’14 enjoyed their yearly summer vacation and some Allagash beer in Ocean Park, Maine.

1986Send your updates to your class correspondent: Rob DiCarlo, [email protected] Greg Howard has been named executive director of Ulster County Community Action. Greg has been vice president of human resources and former board president of the United Way. He has 30 years of human resource experience primarily in the healthcare market, but also with other not-for-profits, including United Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County, Inc.Robert R. Tyson recently received two professional honors. He was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2017, a peer-review publication in the legal profession, and was recognized

in the 2016 Upstate New York Super Lawyers. Bob is the chair of Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC’s property department and an environmental and energy attorney. His practice includes New York State and federal regulatory compliance, environmental enforcement and litigation, and environmental issues in business and property transactions.

1988Send your updates to your class correspondent: Kathy Fallon, [email protected] Terry Connaughton writes that his son, Conor, graduated from Westwood High School and is now enrolled at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Cape Cod, MA, where he is studying international maritime business. Kathy Fallon shares that she has joined the Hartwick College Board of Trustees and looks forward to giving back to Hartwick because it gave so much to her.

1989Send your updates to your class correspondent: Dorothy Kehm Holt, [email protected]

1991Send your updates to your class correspondent: Rena Switzer Diem, [email protected] Daggs reports she was blessed to teach for the 2015-2016 school year at Squaw Valley Academy in Olympic Valley, CA—the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. In addition to teaching music, Carol was invited to perform at the Apollo Theater in New York City.

1995Send your updates to your class correspondent: Louis Crocco, [email protected] Crocco will be touring the country again this winter with the National Tour of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. This holiday season tour stops include Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Omaha, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco. Louis says,

HARTWICK AT THE LANES: Pam Perlman ’71, Eric Shoen-Ukre ’99, Jennifer Smith ’99, and David Shoen-Ukre gathered in New York City for a fun night of bowling!

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: Longtime Hartwick friends celebrated their 50th birthdays in style in Sweden. Pictured: Michelle Brown Keyer ’87, Sally Griffiths Herbert ’88, Jean Marie McEvilly ’88, Kathy-Ann Foth Campbell ’88, and Julie Van Steenwyk ’88. (Not pictured: husbands Tim Herbert, Andy Campbell, and Steve Keyer.) The group had an amazing time sharing memories from the good old days and making new ones in Sweden.


“Please come and say hi! It’s always fun meeting up with alumni from around the country!” For more information go to www.irvingberlinswhitechristmas.comMark Stratton has been named the new superintendent of the Corinth School District.

1996Send your updates to your class correspondent: Amy Krasker Cottle, [email protected] Gregg Bocketti recently released a new book, The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil.

1999Send your updates to your class correspondent: Kristen Falk, [email protected] Geno Carr will be featured on Broadway as one of the principal performers in Come From Away starting in March 2017.

2000Send your updates to your class correspondent: Kristin Hall, [email protected] Ambrose earned a PhD in American studies from the University of Iowa in December 2014. This past summer, she accepted a position as director of the Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center at Hamilton College. She’s excited to be back in the Northeast, working at her dream job, and close enough to visit Hartwick again!Charles Cantania writes “I have been pretty busy here in West Chester, PA. My family and I moved into a new home on six beautiful acres of country land within the last year. I am still medical director for Willow Tree Hospice and continue to maintain my busy medical practice at Gateway Family Medicine. I recently received a scholarship toward educational debt through

Tandigm health for continued dedication toward primary care in the extended Philadelphia area, and more recently was named a Top Doc in the area for family medicine. Life is great, I miss Hartwick, and my nephew may be an incoming freshman in 2017, which is very exciting!” Brigitte Fielder and her husband, Jonathan Senchyne, welcomed their first child, Ezra Francis Fielder-Senchyne in July. The couple continue to work as professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but are looking forward to the 2017-18 academic year, when they have research leave and will relocate to New York City. Brigitte will be a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow and is especially excited about opportunities for archival research on the east coast and to introduce Ezra to friends from Hartwick, Syracuse, and Cornell. Ria Megnin is pursuing a dual master’s degree in social work and public affairs from The Ohio State University after 15 years in journalism. She reports receiving extraordinary support from her husband, Adam Lucas Megnin, their beloved chocolate lab Emma, and their cats Sam and Tib. Lindsay Silverman is proud to be running her fifth Boston Marathon (and 11th marathon overall) for the American Liver Foundation in April 2017. Svetlana Zakharchenko and her partner Carlos Sanchez celebrated their son’s second birthday in September and are awaiting the arrival of their second boy in January.

2001Send your updates to your class correspondent: Jessica Hyde, [email protected] Faust Checho will star as Jones in the new Brian Klemesrud film, Dead Draw.Jim Kozubek is a staff scientist at the Brigham and Women’s

WEDDING FUN: Dr. Ashley Bacchi ’04 and the Rev. Dr. Daniel London said “I do” on May 20, 2016, on the labyrinth of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA. Pictured: Chris Ehlinger ’06, Dawn Jacobsen ’05, Lindsey Colella-Cabezas ’05, the bride, Lisa Kettunen ’06, Rachel Dorsey ’07, Anna Sickler-Ehlinger ’06, and Brenna Hanrahan ’05.

THEY DO: Christopher Soto ’11 married Jennifer Barton at Lakeview Events Center in Oneonta on September 10, 2016. The couple now resides in Oneonta where Chris is employed as an operations accountant for ACCO Brands. Pictured: (front) Molly Wagner ’13, Samuel Weinstein ’14; (center) Lindsay Pallay ’17, Katie Curran ’04, Corinne Yanis ’15, Amaranta Henriquez ’15, Netanya Gelfand ’11, Dani Gelfand ’08; (back) Elizabeth Schantz ’15, Doug Carney ’14, the groom, Robert Mullen ’15, Ed Newman ’15, and Pablo Sanchez ’15.


Hospital with affiliation to the Broad Institute of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His first book, Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9, has just been published by the Cambridge University Press. His science writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, and Scientific American.

2003Amanda Stenske Aiello writes that she is married with a four-year-old son. Many things have changed from when she was a student here. She is working as an RN and staff educator at a company that cares for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities—a big change from her music education degree from Hartwick. She is also teaching Autism Movement Therapy classes and working on obtaining her developmental disabilities nurse certification. Amanda has been chosen to participate in a local program called Leadership Mohawk Valley. She still enjoys singing and participating in local theater events near where she lives.

2004 Dvera Saxton worked with students and two interns in the summer of 2015 in a creative workshop that led to the conceptualization and design of two farmworker-themed video games. These games will be digitized and ready for their public debut online by winter 2016.Amanda Rosenthal Tucker was promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer at Old Dominion National Bank, overseeing the bank’s enterprise risk management, compliance, operations, and marketing programs.Dr. Ashley Bacchi was married in May. Ashley received her PhD in Jewish History and Culture in the Greco-Roman World from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, in 2015. She

has presented her research across the US and abroad, published articles, and works as the events coordinator for the UC Berkeley Library while completing her book manuscript.

2005Send your updates to your class correspondent: Nate King, [email protected]

2006Send your updates to your class correspondent: Brian Knox, [email protected] Fern Beckhorn Barker and her husband recently moved to Portland, ME, and started a property management company. She continues to paint.Brian Knox and his wife, Andrea Bilello, welcomed their beautiful baby girl Caroline Emi on May 8, 2016.Amanda Stone married Clay Hagwood on December 22, 2014.Jessica Valluzzi married Wes Williamson in August 2014. She also earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University in 2014. Jessica is now a licensed clinical psychologist in California working at UCLA with Operation Mend as a part of the Operation Mend Intensive Treatment Program for veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, and their families.

2007Send your updates to your class correspondent: Joanna Cacciola, [email protected] Kraemer started a comedy podcast in 2016 (www.twojews.co) and graduated from law school in 2014. He is currently living the dream in Miami, FL. He wants to share a special hello with his old roommate, Ben Sheridan.

A ’WICK WEDDING: Gregg Ducey ’09 and Richelle Schmidt ’09 were surrounded by generations of Hartwick graduates at their wedding celebration. Family members included the mother and aunts of the groom: Laurie Baird Ducey ’75, Carolyn Baird Chamberlain ’79, and Heather Baird Lashier ’74. Friends included Hartwick Swim Coach Dale Rothenberger P’00, P’02, P’05; his wife, Cathy McGrath Rothenberger ’88, P’00, P’02, P’05; and many alumni, including friends from fraternities and sororities.

WEDDED BLISS: Classmates Steven Sayles ’11 and Sarah Holmes ’11 met at Pine Lake during Awakening and were married at The Bella Vista at Casa Larga in Fairport, NY in July 2015.


2009Send your updates to your class correspondent: Nicholas Forst, [email protected]

2010Send your updates to your class correspondent: Wyatt Uhlein, [email protected]

2011Steven Sayles and Sarah Holmes celebrated their marriage at The Bella Vista at Casa Larga, Fairport, NY, in July 2015. Eric Goble, David Esposito, Billy MacElveen, Jon Stein, and Grace Encherman Conklin ’12 joined them to celebrate.

2012Send your updates to your class correspondent: Holly Sayman, [email protected]

2013Send your updates to your class correspondent: Joan Carregal, [email protected]

2014 Jack Pace and Katie Toomey ’15 are engaged. Jack is a marketing analytics engineer at John Wiley & Sons in Hoboken, NJ. Katie is pursuing a graduate degree in nonprofit management and leadership at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy in Albany, New York. The couple plans to relocate to New York City. An August 2017 wedding is planned. Shiva Senthil was hired by the Clarkson University Athletic Department as the new assistant coach for the men’s basketball program for 2016-17.

Catherine Winters is working as a chemist with the US Environmental Protection Agency two years after completing an undergraduate EPA GRO Fellowship as an Environmental Chemistry student under the advisement of Hartwick’s Dr. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad. Catherine and Zsuzsanna have stayed in touch since graduation. Catherine says, “While at Hartwick, students have the opportunity to make connections that will last beyond graduation.”

2015Nicholas Hills set off on a backpacking trip after graduating in December 2015. He has been to Puerto Rico and throughout Europe, and is now traveling thoughout the USA and Canada. He recently accepted a volunteer position in Colombia for six months beginning in January 2017.Gavin Jenkins began graduate school in September 2016 at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. Gwen Mathias was recently promoted to digital assistant media planner at Maxus Global in Los Angeles, CA. Maxus is an advertising agency, and NBC TV is a client. Monica Prager graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as a nurse practitioner, earning her master’s degree. Victoria Rooks has been accepted into the Peace Corps and departed for Swaziland in June to begin training as a health volunteer. She is living and working in a community to educate her neighbors on HIV/AIDS prevention, safe water accessibility, and nutritional advances.Tanya Streeter, RN, has been named nurse manager of the Cardiac Catheterization (Cath) Lab at the Mohawk Valley Health System.

THEY DO: William French ’09, son of Steven French ’80 and Debra Fischer French ’80, married Erin Elisabeth Brady on June 15, 2015, in York Harbor, ME. Among the Hartwick alumni who joined the celebration: Sean Covert ’09, Fern Beckhorn Barker ’09, Eileen Davidson Tanner ’09, the groom, Sheryl Niehbuhr Bernhard ’79, Steve Bernhard ’80, Deb French ’80, Matt Shellard ’09, Steve French ’80, the bride, and Steve Tanner ’09.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER: Elizabeth Lummie ’13 celebrated her wedding to Joe Kramer on June 4, 2016, in West Point, NY, surrounded by friends, family, and of course her Hartwick family. (Back) Sean Hoyt ’13, Ericalynn Cullen ’14, Katie Pennings ’14, Colin Blydenburgh ’14, Mark Smith ’13, Britney Lintner ’13, Aaron Rexford ’14; (front) Jenn Davis ’13, Tasha Bradt ’12, the bride and groom, Brandy Huppert ’13, and Maria Mastroianni ’13.


ALUMNI

1937 | Thomas G. O’Neil, Esq. passed away July 29, 2016. He received his BS in political science from Albany Law School. He served as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II, first in the Pacific and later as a member of the JAG. He was elected mayor of Sidney, NY, and was a member and president of the Delaware County Bar Association, the Sidney Hospital Board of Directors, and the Sidney Chamber of Commerce. He was predeceased by his brother James G. O’Neil Sr. ’47 and is survived by three children, eight grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren.

1947 | Ella Thibado Cunningham passed away May 30, 2016. She received her BS in nursing from Hartwick College and her BA in education from SUNY, Oneonta. She worked as a registered nurse at the Marcy Psychiatric Center, and then at the Rome Developmental Center for more than 20 years. She is survived by three children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

1947 | Mildred Gray Campfield passed away April 29, 2016. Before earning her BS in mathematics from Hartwick College, she taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Lena. She was employed by Prudential Insurance Company and retired from the NBT Bank trust department in Norwich, NY. She is survived by several nieces and nephews.

1949 | James T. Sherpey passed away March 5, 2016. He served in the Air Force during WWII and earned the American Defense Service Medal and the Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon with a Bronze Star. At Hartwick he met his wife Dorothy R. Washburn ’48, was a member of the Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity, and graduated with a degree in physics. He received his master’s from the University of Rhode Island and worked as an engineer in semiconductor manufacturing. He is survived by his three children, including his daughter Deborah Sherpey Werrbach ’72 and son-in-law Robert R. Werrbach ’72; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

1953 | Joan Servis Clayton passed away June 19, 2016. She graduated from Hartwick with a BS in nursing before receiving her CAS from Fairfield University in school psychology with national certification. She worked as an operating room nurse at Glens Falls before working in the Ridgefield Connecticut Public School System as a guidance counselor and school psychologist. She is survived by one brother, five children, and six grandchildren.

1954 | David M. Samatulski passed away August 7, 2016. He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Hartwick College, was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and excelled in several sports. He was pursuing a career in professional baseball when he was drafted into the Army. He was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, and was awarded a national defense service medal. He worked in insurance and investment services, including more than 20 years with the Metropolitan Insurance Company. He is survived by his four children and two brothers.

1956 | Robert H. Hyzer passed away June 26, 2016. He received his BA in history and prelaw from Hartwick College. He retired from Bendix, ECD Division, as a senior analyst of production requirements and inventory control after 29 years of service. He also worked part time for 30 years at the Showcase Cinema in Oneonta. He was predeceased by his brother, Dr. Jarvis E. Hyzer ’52. He is survived by his three children, nephew Rudy J. Hyzer ’75, six grandchildren, and his long-time companion.

1956 | Shirley Gillespie Tiffany passed away June 24, 2016. She received her BS in nursing from Hartwick College, then earned her master’s degree in community health nursing from the University of Rochester and her degree as a nurse practitioner from

IN MEMORIAM

Roy Rowan H’95, P’84 | Author and journalist Roy Rowan passed away September 13, 2016. A former foreign correspondent and a writer and editor for Life, Time, and Fortune magazines, he covered Mao’s revolution in China as well as the Korean and Vietnam wars. He authored 10 books during his 70-year writing career and was the recipient of the Henry R. Luce Award for lifetime achievement in journalism.

In Asia, working as the Hong Kong bureau chief for Time, Inc., Rowan covered the opening of China under Presidents Nixon and Ford and was one of the last journalists to evacuate Saigon in 1975. Back in the United States, he joined Fortune magazine as an editor and senior writer whose projects included a groundbreaking cover story on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Rowan earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Dartmouth College and served in the US Army. He was awarded an Honorary Degree by Hartwick College in 1995 in recognition of his exceptional career and his service as a Hartwick trustee for nine years.

Many of his papers and photographs now comprise the Roy Rowan Manuscript Collection in the Paul F. Cooper, Jr. Archives in the Stevens-German Library. (Visit www.hartwickcollegearchives.org.)

He was predeceased by his wife, Helen, and is survived by their four sons, including Marcus Rowan ’84, and one grandson.

Gifts in memory of Roy Rowan may be made to The Helen R. Rowan P’84 Scholarship for the Arts at Hartwick College, which was established in 2012 by Marcus R. Rowan ’84.

To make a gift in memory or in honorof an individual, go online towww.hartwickalumni.org/give;contact Senior Director of Engagement Alicia Fish ’91 at [email protected] or 607-431-4021; or mail your gift to: Hartwick College Office of College Advancement, PO Box 4020, Oneonta, NY 13820. Thank you.


Upstate Medical. She worked at various hospitals in the area, the Tioga County Health Department, and co-founded the Community Care Network of Nichols, NY. She received the Senator Thomas Libous Nurse of Distinction Award. She is survived by her husband, Clarence C. Tiffany ’57; three children; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

1957 | Thomas A. Brown passed away May 25, 2016. After earning a bachelor’s degree in music education at Hartwick and his master’s at SUNY Potsdam, he taught music at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School and the College of St. Rose. He was a musician on the Earle Pudney TV show and founder of the Eastern U.S. Music Camp at Colgate University. He is survived by his wife, two children, and three grandchildren.

1958 | Martin “Marty” G. Decker passed away August 17, 2016. He joined the Army after high school and then earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Hartwick College, his master’s degree from Springfield College, and his doctorate from Boston University in education. He met his wife, Martha Decker ’59, while playing in the Hartwick College band. He worked as a psychologist for most of his career; taught psychology at Trinity College; and was a career counselor, mediator, consultant, and clinical psychologist until he retired. He is survived by his wife, three children, and four grandchildren.

1959 | Shirley May Lord passed away July 25, 2016. She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Hartwick College and her master’s degree from SUNY Cortland. She taught math for 35 years at Elmira Academy. After retirement, she joined the retired teacher organization and pursued her love of singing. She is survived by her sister and many extended family members.

1963 | Howson “Hap” A. Hartley passed away May 26, 2016. He served during World War II and was a recipient of the Purple Heart. He graduated summa cum laude from Hartwick College with a bachelor’s degree in political science and earned a master’s degree from SUNY Oneonta. He was a dedicated educator, continuing to teach at Hartwick and SUNY Oneonta after his retirement. He was very involved in local and county politics, serving as a town councilman and town historian. He is survived by four children, seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

1963 | Robert F. Stone passed away August 12, 2016. He received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Hartwick College and taught for Stratford School for 17 years. A veteran of World War II, he proudly served in both the Marines and the Navy, as a medic in Guam. He was a pre-seller for Portraits International for more than 15 years, specializing in sepia and color. He is survived by his companion and several step-children, step-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

1966 | Reta Williams Merrill passed away July 7, 2016. She raised three children and worked as a professional seamstress and

teacher before returning to college in 1964. She graduated from Hartwick College with a degree in English and became an English teacher at Norwich Junior High, where she was known for her innovative practices including individualized assignments and the integration of multiple disciplines into student coursework. She is survived by her husband, three children, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

1968 | Paul J. Kent passed away September 8, 2016. He graduated with a degree in biology from Hartwick College. He served in the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command, separating in 1973 as a captain. He began his career with the American Can Company in their plastics group, proceeding to senior positions in sales, marketing, and manufacturing. He began a career in private equity management, running five diverse companies as CEO over a 25-year span. He is survived by his wife, Carol Kent ’68; their sons, and eight grandchildren.

1968 | Christine Gettman Stephenson passed away September 6, 2016. She graduated from Hartwick with a bachelor’s degree in English. A trained opera singer, she performed with the San Francisco Opera before moving to New York City, where she continued to perform and was a vocal coach. She held a variety of positions including assistant to the chairman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is survived by her daughter and two grandchildren.

1970 | Jan Davis Marshall passed away September 6, 2016. She graduated from Hartwick with a bachelor’s degree in general science before beginning her career as a research assistant at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. She was a senior professional assistant and genetics coordinator for Alstrom Syndrome Studies. She worked with families of children afflicted with Alstrom, leading to the discovery of the disease gene. She and her husband founded Alstrom Syndrome International (ASI), a charitable foundation dedicated to treating and curing the disease. Her lifetime awards include the Galileo Galilei Surgical Theater Medal for Scientific Achievement by the University of Padua. She is survived by her husband, Robert Marshall ’70; a daughter; two granddaughters; and one sister.

1976 | Eric C. Larson passed away January 2, 2016. He studied English at Hartwick College before graduating from the University of Massachusetts. He started in insurance and auto sales before becoming an IT specialist for a number of real estate-related companies. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and numerous extended family members.

1979 | Deborah Carr Bernhard passed away February 16, 2016. She received her BS in nursing from Hartwick and practiced at Saint Clair’s Hospital in Schenectady, Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua, Myers Community Hospital in Sodus, and Rochester General Hospital. She worked very hard at taking care of her patients and family, as well as rebuilding the family


homestead and orchards on the shore of Lake Ontario. She is survived by her husband, Greg Bernhard ’80; their two sons; and one daughter.

1981 | Anne Bookhout passed away May 28, 2016. She graduated with a BS in nursing, worked in various capacities in the healthcare field in Oneonta, and earned her master’s in healthcare administration from Cornell University. She founded and served as CEO of the Visiting Nurse Service of Ithaca and Tompkins County. She later founded Quickland Stables, a commercial equestrian riding and boarding facility at her residence, and assisted her husband in running a commercial trucking fleet. She is survived by her husband, two children, three grandchildren, and four siblings.

1981 | Thomas E. Conrad passed away July 6, 2016. He received his bachelor’s in business management from Hartwick. He was the IT director for Pall Trinity Micro for 27 years. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and a grandson.

1989 | David L. Jenne passed away June 27, 2016. He graduated from Hartwick with honors and a bachelor’s in management. He worked at Sheffield Products and its successors for more than 35 years. He is survived by his wife, two step-children, seven siblings, and many extended family members.

1991 | Matthew R. Cox passed away July 10, 2016. He received his bachelor’s in management from Hartwick College. He was an exclusive buyer’s agent realtor and an athlete. He is survived by two sisters.

2000 | Michael R. Andriski passed away Sept 15, 2016. He attended Hartwick College before joining Tri-State Painting/Advanced Marine Preservation. He is survived by his wife and their two children.

2001 | James Craig Sauers passed away August 8, 2016. He graduated from Hartwick with a bachelor’s in anthropology and earned his master’s in marine affairs and policy from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. He was a commercial captain with a 500 Ton Master License. He is survived by his wife and their two daughters.

2003 | Deirdre L. Mestoik passed away September 1, 2016. She attended Hartwick College for nursing before transferring to Hudson Valley Community College. She was employed by Fusco Personnel and most recently by Health Related, Inc. (HRI) in Menands as a file clerk for vital records for the New York State Health Department. She is survived by her mother and sister.

2011 | Stacy L. McLam passed away June 6, 2016. She earned a BS in nursing from Hartwick, where she was on the Dean’s List all semesters and inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for Nursing. Throughout college she worked as an

emergency room technician at Central Vermont Hospital and she was part of the UVMMC Critical Care internship, finishing at the top of her cohort. After graduation, she worked as an RN in the medical intensive care unit at UVMMC. She is survived by her mother and three sisters.

2012 | Shane E. Tanzosh passed away September 13, 2016. He played basketball for Hartwick College before graduating from Shenandoah University. He was a sales representative and project manager with Green Mountain Services. He is survived by his parents, a brother, and a sister.

FAMILYKerry Flynn passed away September 6, 2016. She was a project and business leader at MVP Health Care, CDPHP, and Blue Shield of New York for more than 25 years. She is survived by her husband; two daughters, including Bailey Motala ’18; and one brother.

Elinor Goodwin passed away November 8, 2015. She entered the Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital nursing program in New York, quickly achieving registered nurse status. During World War II, she became head nurse on the ear, nose, and throat ward of Columbia Presbyterian. She is survived by two sisters; two sons, including Stuart W. Goodwin ’75; and one daughter.

Dr. Roger Hickey passed away July 27, 2016. He was a devoted and enthusiastic professor at Hartwick College and a passionate physicist. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Science Discovery Center of Oneonta and the Advisory Board of Oneonta Newman Foundation. He had numerous papers published in The Physics Teacher, research publications in the American Journal of Physics, and publications in Physics Education. He also marketed the computer programs “Galileo,” an adventure-type game in physics, and “PhysWiz,” a collection of 37 interactive pedagogic programs. He is survived by his wife, Paula Hickey ’82; daughter, Sharon Hickey ’88; and a brother. He was predeceased by a son, Kevin D. Hickey ’91.

Raymond O. Hollis passed away August 1, 2016. He enlisted in the Army after graduating high school and spent two years in Germany. He worked at Liberty Mutual, but his passion was helping children learn to read. He started a program at the local elementary school matching older adults with first- and second-grade students having difficulty with reading and continued that work for 25 years. He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Deborah Hollis Blue ’74, and her husband, Pine Lake Operations Manager Peter Blue; a son; four grandchildren, including Solvei A. Blue ’01; four great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews; and a sister.

Dr. John W. Jack passed away August 27, 2016. He worked as a fiscal and research economist for the State of New York and received a National Institute of Public Affairs award to attend Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He placed a high value


on living a life of service to others and expressed that by serving as adjunct faculty in the graduate programs of Union College and Russell Sage. He is survived by his wife, Sally Edwards Jack ’59; their two children; and three granddaughters.

Walter Pope Maharay passed away June 26, 2016. He served as a radioman in the 18th Infantry of the “Big Red One,” 1st Armored Division, and was awarded a Purple Heart as well as the FAME Theater Ribbon. He enjoyed a successful career with The Beneficial Finance Company until retirement in 1978. He is survived by his wife; his son, Walter F. Maharay ’74; two granddaughters; four great-grandchildren; one sister; and one sister-in-law.

George J. Muehl passed away on April 25, 2016. He led an active life, owning and operating a dairy farm in Schenevus for 23 years and opening and running the Lake View Motel on Otsego Lake. He is survived by one brother; his wife, Olive Root Muehl ’40; two sons; and four grandchildren.

V. Clark Switzer passed away on June 10, 2016. He was the youngest of eight children. He is survived by his wife and seven children, including Rena Switzer Diem ’91.

John Taylor passed away May 7, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Lynda Potter Ewen ’65; a sister, Christina Potter Moraski ’70; three daughters; one son; and one foster son.

Selma Trachtenberg passed away March 17, 2016. She taught in New York State public schools and was a substitute teacher until she was 85. She is survived by her husband, Dr. David Trachtenberg ’44; two sons; four grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.

FRIENDS

William Bjorness passed away July 22, 2016. Hartwick’s head men’s lacrosse coach for 17 years, he was one of only two coaches in the history of the program to amass more than 100 victories, leading his Hawks to seven ECAC Tournament appearances and two Empire 8 playoff berths. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where he helped win a national championship in hockey, was a three-time All American in lacrosse, and was inducted into the RIT Athletics Hall of Fame. At the international level, he coached at the ILF World Championships and for the Iroquois National Team. He is survived by his two children and three sisters.

Marni Nixon McEathron H’15 passed away July 24, 2016. She is best remembered for having lent her voice to the film productions of My Fair Lady, West Side Story, and The King and I, among others. She was an accomplished soprano who accompanied Victor Borge and Liberace, an acclaimed concert singer, a specialist in contemporary music, a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, a recitalist at Carnegie Hall, and a featured singer

on one of Leonard Bernstein’s televised young people’s concerts. Celebrating her legacy and her vital role in the American musical tradition, she was awarded an honorary degree from Hartwick College in 2015. She is survived by two daughters.

Janet Westlund Bresee passed away August 16, 2016. She was a lifelong dancer and friend to Hartwick College who taught at the school for more than 35 years and founded the College’s Orchesis Dance Club. She was a devoted fan of Hartwick’s basketball teams, the art department, and the Yager Museum. She is survived by her daughter, son, and two grandchildren.

Maureen Dugan passed away February 14, 2016. She joined the American Women’s Voluntary Services during WWII and was an active member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Uniondale Fire Department. She continued her compassionate outreach, even with a family of eight, opening her home to international high school and Hartwick College students. She is survived by her eight children and 17 grandchildren.

Pamela Karwan passed away July 30, 2016. She worked in public relations and fund development for 30 years in Nashville and Maryland before returning to Upstate New York. She worked as director of media relations at Hartwick College before joining Bassett Healthcare and the Friends of Bassett, serving as a fund development and PR liaison with Bassett Hospital of Schoharie County and O’Connor Hospital. She is survived by her husband, daughter, two granddaughters, and one brother.

Clarence D. Rappleyea H’92 passed away September 4, 2016. He earned a BA from SUNY Albany and taught at the South New Berlin Schools before earning his JD from Cornell University. He was chairman of the New York Power Authority, leading the nation’s largest state-owned public power enterprise. Hartwick College awarded him an honorary degree in 1992 in recognition of his commitment to public service as the Norwich city attorney, minority leader of the New York State Assembly, chairman of the New York Power Authority, and trustee emeritus of Hartwick College. He is survived by his wife, three daughters, seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Carroll Sousa passed away May 24, 2016. During a brief retirement from MetLife, she worked as the director of the Hartwick College bookstore. Upon her return to MetLife she relocated to Florida, where she became an active volunteer and was nominated for Florida State Park’s Outstanding Volunteer of the Year. She is survived by her mother, husband, two children, six grandchildren, and three siblings.

Susan Woodworth passed away September 3, 2016. She graduated with a BA in English from Middlebury College and went on to engage her life in ministry, through a wide variety of meaningful work that included serving Hartwick College as campus minister. She is survived by her husband, children, and grandchildren.

By MARINA CINAMI, Alumni Engagement OfficerVOLUNTEER HIGHLIGHT

Joel Patterson ’96 is a very busy man, but his work hasn’t kept him from his alma mater. Patterson has been an active volunteer with Hartwick for nearly as long as he’s been an alumnus, beginning as a host for the MetroLink program just a few years after graduating. He continued hosting students in New York City until he moved to California in 2014.

Distance didn’t keep him from staying involved. In fact, Patterson increased his volunteerism considerably when he accepted President Margaret L. Drugovich’s invitation to become a Hartwick trustee in 2015. Patterson says, “The ability to give back… how could I resist?” Now in his second year on the Board, he most values “connecting with students, faculty, and staff as well as impacting the culture of campus.”

As if being a trustee weren’t enough, this year Patterson took the lead in planning the class of 1996’s 20-year reunion at True Blue Weekend, an event he co-chaired with classmates Brian Chandler, Brian Kuk, and David Bruno. “I was lucky to have co-chairs who were just as involved and motivated as I was,” he says.

For Patterson, reunion was “like dessert after a long meal.” The co-chairs spent nine months planning their reunion, right down to re-creating their freshman orientation T-shirts and class photo on Frisbee Field. The image was symbolic for Patterson, who says, “It’s all about reconnecting with classmates.”

Class of 1997 take note: There are lessons to be learned from Patterson’s experience. When it comes to planning and promoting, he says, “Start now!” And take varied approaches. For example, his class’ high participation in a Facebook group “started an organic conversation,” and the co-chairs made sure their mailed letter had “a lot of heart.”

Patterson is already taking his own advice. “We’ll use these approaches again for our 25th,” he says, noting that the Hartwick 96ers Facebook group continues to be a space for classmates to connect, share, and reminisce.

It’s All About ReconnectingTrustee Joel Patterson ’96 added reunion co-chair to his volunteerism this fall

1996 Reunion Co-Chairs Brian Kuk, David Bruno, Joel Patterson, and Brian Chandler celebrate after being recognized for highest participation by a reunion class at True Blue Weekend.

u Joel Patterson ’96, a theatre major, is the founder and executive producer of Letter 10 Productions. As the former executive producer of History Channel’s Pawn Stars and the creator of History’s Counting Cars, Patterson has also produced shows for CBS News, MSNBC, A&E, IFC, and Discovery. He recently released the forensic investigative documentary special The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima on the Smithsonian Channel. The special premiered last July and garnered attention from The New York Times, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News.

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The student group has a shared objective: to foster lasting innovation at Hartwick. Initial ideas include creating an ongoing, multidisciplinary “makers space” on campus; bringing regular TedX Talks to Hartwick; incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship into the curriculum; and securing funding for original projects.

Each member brings her own perspective to the process. (L-R) Christine Hughes ’17 is a nursing major and political science minor who is concerned about global health disparities; Jackie Davis ’17 is a political science major and environmental science & policy minor who is passionate about reversing the trends of climate change; Kelly Sprague ’17 is an ISP environmental science major and three-year degree student who is an advocate for sustainable agriculture; and Stephanie Sacco ’18 is a business administration and political science double major who is focused on innovation in the military.

(See page 4 for more on their work and the innovation initiative.)

With its team of University Innovation Fellows, Hartwick is one of the first liberal arts colleges to join the innovation and entrepreneurship program at Stanford University’s d.school.

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