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Pathways
From LA to Bucknell

by Julia Stevens ’20

Rashid Mills ’21, an L.A. native and Posse scholar, has delved deeply into campus life since his first day on campus. He’s been president of the African Student Association, a Student Government class senator, a member of the President’s Sustainability Council and a Swartz Hall residential adviser. Last year, as a University Innovation Fellow, he tackled the University’s storage-space issues.

Having recently discovered a passion for Africana studies and geography, Mills decided to limit other activities to focus on academics. He says his research, overseen by Professor Jaye Williams, Africana studies, investigates August Wilson’s plays and the black experience in Pittsburgh. Mills also works with Professor Vanessa Massaro, geography, studying support systems of incarcerated individuals, mass incarceration and how parole has affected its evolution.

As Mills continues juggling a full plate of responsibilities, he’s planning a teaching career and may pursue a Ph.D. In the meantime, he’s making the most of his Bucknell time, especially one-on-one opportunities to interact with professors. “I really enjoy hanging out with my professors and asking for more readings and topics to do research on,” he says.

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Pathways
Rashid Mills ’21
From LA to Bucknell
by Julia Stevens ’20
Rashid Mills ’21, an L.A. native and Posse scholar, has delved deeply into campus life since his first day on campus. He’s been president of the African Student Association, a Student Government class senator, a member of the President’s Sustainability Council and a Swartz Hall residential adviser. Last year, as a University Innovation Fellow, he tackled the University’s storage-space issues.

Having recently discovered a passion for Africana studies and geography, Mills decided to limit other activities to focus on academics. He says his research, overseen by Professor Jaye Williams, Africana studies, investigates August Wilson’s plays and the black experience in Pittsburgh. Mills also works with Professor Vanessa Massaro, geography, studying support systems of incarcerated individuals, mass incarceration and how parole has affected its evolution.

As Mills continues juggling a full plate of responsibilities, he’s planning a teaching career and may pursue a Ph.D. In the meantime, he’s making the most of his Bucknell time, especially one-on-one opportunities to interact with professors. “I really enjoy hanging out with my professors and asking for more readings and topics to do research on,” he says.

photograph by dustin fenstermacher
Gateway
Letters
sustaining: I read the magazine with interest each quarter. Let me add my congratulations on the new format. You frequently feature articles on the environment and sustainability initiatives. One in the summer issue, “Farewell to a River,” focused on development impacts in the Mekong Delta. They are a reminder of an observation by my father, Frank Duffryn Burns ’44: “No consequential discussion of ecology can occur without serious consideration of population growth.” The topic seems to be universally absent in dialogue about humanity’s future survival.
DOUGLAS BURNS ’77
Jordan, Minn.
Table of Contents
You can own this sparkling photo.
From Los Angeles to Bucknell
GATEWAY
Our readers share their thoughts.
Sherri Kimmel goes on the record.
Bucknell opens Academic East, a beacon for innovation and exploration.
In Lewisburg and far afield, Bucknell’s students and staff make a positive and palpable difference.
Majors in many disciplines learn the fundamentals of management.
Professor Michelle Johnson, anthropology, reveals her faves.
Six Bucknellians, who majored in an array of subjects, have joined the Board of Trustees.
Country singer Sheridan Gates ’14 follows her passion.

Professor Christopher Magee, economics, explores globalization.

Physics and engineering aid Bison’s star punter.
Patricia Perazzini ’82, P’15 tells how to hold a winning mini-reunion.
Professor Emeritus Jai Kim maintains a passion for old bridges.
Enhancing student well-being is Dean Amy Badal’s goal.
FEATURES
Bucknell scientists work to increase the public’s scientific literacy.
‘The Celluloid Ceiling’ is no barrier to Bucknell women in showbiz.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling CEO Harold Meij ’86 gladhands the fans.
’RAY BUCKNELL
It’s been 60 years since C.P. Snow set off a flurry of debate with his lecture, “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.”
Kate Nowak ’01 chats about Primates in Flooded Habitats.
Randolph Osman ’64 reflects.
Bringing fast food to Russia has been an action-packed pursuit for Jim Gansinger ’67.
Andrew and JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell ’75 have a foundation that supports education worldwide.
Building high-end boats is a passion project for Herbert “Burr” Shaw III ’83.
Digital strategist Beth Jacobs ’89 shares her answers.
Christine Yaged ’09 formed a startup, Launch Potato.
With the University’s collaborative approach to science, it’s no wonder that a number of alumni are working to find treatments and ultimately a cure for cancer — sometimes as partners.
A piano piece by Ashlee Mack ’03 and James Romig was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Surgery to overcome epilepsy has transformed Terna Ityokumbul’s life.
Payne Fellow Rose Quispe ’18 has her eye on a foreign service career.
Remember your friends, family, classmates and others. Tributes to Professor Carmen Gillespie and Frederick Shehadi ’54.
Your opportunities to get involved.
Why does Carolyn Meyer ’57 love her charm bracelet so much?
ON THE COVER:
Nakea Tyson ’11 (left) and Nadia Sasso ’11 are riding the media wave in fast-paced LA.

Photo by
Shayan Asgharnia

Editor's Letter
On the Record
Many thanks to the 850 readers who recently took the time to respond to the CASE Magazine Readership Survey. Developed by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, the survey helps CASE members evaluate how readers view their institutions’ magazines. Because of you, not only can we assess how our readers feel about our magazine, but we can also benchmark against our national counterparts.

While it’s always important to periodically gauge how a magazine is landing with its readers, we felt it was especially critical for Bucknell Magazine to do so 18 months after a major redesign.

According to our new survey results, Bucknell Magazine exceeds the national norm in many categories. A greater percentage of our readers rate our content, writing and photography as excellent or good. We are just below the norm for ease of reading, layout and design, and your narrative comments tell us that small type size is an issue in some parts of the magazine. Some prefaced their remarks with, “I know I’m an older reader, but …” And yes, 75 percent of our respondents are over age 50 — 23 points higher than other schools’ respondents. But older or not, we feel you make a good point. And we plan to do something about it.

Sherri Kimmel
Sherri Kimmel,
Editor
For questions or comments, contact me at sherri.kimmel@bucknell.edu
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Volume 12, Issue 4

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Academic East, Bucknell's newest building
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Academic East, Bucknell’s newest building, provides state-of-the art spaces and equipment to the College of Engineering and the Department of Education.
A Student-centered Hub
Bucknell opens Academic East, a beacon for innovation and exploration
by Matt Hughes
Dan Cavanagh, chair of Bucknell’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, has a piece of advice for high school students touring college campuses. When they show you their labs and their state-of-the-art equipment, make sure to ask, “When do I get to use that?”

Academic East opened in August. Funded by a combination of University resources and private support, it is a center for high-tech innovation with 25 labs and research equipment found at few other colleges or universities. What also sets the building apart is that undergraduate students get to use it all, starting their very first year on campus.

“We’re proud to be an institution that values expanding the worldview of our students as much as we do and shaping the world through groundbreaking research,” says President John Bravman. “With Academic East, we intend to do both.”

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ENGAGING NEW LEADER
New to Bucknell in May, Theresa Cusimano directs the Office of Civic Engagement’s seven-person team, working closely with Faculty Director Coralynn Davis. Cusimano’s charge is to advance transformative learning and cultural competencies within the Bucknell community.
PROJECTS FOR PEACE
Bucknell was one of just 10 schools with two Davis Projects for Peace awards: Shehryar Asif ’21 will provide solar backpacks to Lebanese refugee camps. Nancy Ingabire Abayo ’19 and Assumpta Gasana ’20 will bring lab equipment to their native Rwanda. Davis awards $10,000 to undergraduates for projects anywhere in the world that promote peace and address the root causes of conflict.
CELEBRATE INNOVATION
New this fall, Innovate Bucknell is a series of educational and networking opportunities that encourages students, alumni, parents and friends to share their interests in entrepreneurship and innovation at every stage of life and career. Details at bucknell.edu/innovate-bucknell.
AROUND TOWN AND AROUND THE GLOBE
’burg and Beyond
In Lewisburg and far afield, Bucknell’s students and staff make a positive and palpable difference.
Arsh Noor Amin conducts research at the Lewisburg Community Garden
Photo: Dustin Fenstermacher
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Arsh Noor Amin ’21 (left) conducts research at the Lewisburg Community Garden for a project suggested by Professor Philip Asare (right).

" "Lewisburg, Pa.
For the last two summers Arsh Noor Amin ’21 has been a familiar face at the Lewisburg Community Garden, not only volunteering to keep the weeds at bay but conducting a study to glean what volunteers gain from their garden experience.

What He Did
Tablet in hand, Noor Amin interviewed community volunteers, ages 18 to 70. He also encouraged them to tell their stories on the garden website’s blog. “You see that some find the garden’s tasks relaxing, and some find them very challenging,” he says.

Professor Philip Asare, electrical & computer engineering, proposed the project to Noor Amin in 2018, and a Library & Information Technology grant provided funding. “Digitally capturing daily activities and telling a story through media can help bring the garden to life in a different way,” Asare says.

A Successful Launch
Majors in other disciplines learn the fundamentals of management
by Marielle Miller
Ben Iwaoka ’21, an electrical engineering major from Charlotte, N.C., knew he wanted to explore the managerial side of his field, but he wasn’t sure how to approach doing so.

Curiosity led him to Bucknell’s Summer Management Institute, a new initiative aimed at teaching the basic principles of management to students who are not management majors. Nine weeks of exploring the nitty-gritty world of consulting and decision-making concepts provided Iwaoka a clearer sense of his career options.

“After meeting with executives and working on our project, I had a better insight into what I could do,” Iwaoka says of his institute experience. “It really piqued my interest into the managerial side of my major.” After graduation, Iwaoka intends to pursue an MBA and become a project consultant in the engineering field.

Iwaoka was in the institute’s inaugural class of eight students who took management classes, networked and developed an action plan to address a real-world client’s real needs as a final project.

That client was The Champions Community Foundation, a nonprofit serving young adults with disabilities founded by Rick ’79, P’08 and Nancy Murphy Thompson ’79, P’08 and led by Tom Hislop ’78, P’20, P’22. Students developed marketing strategies, fundraising advice and a budget plan to finance the technology required to meet the client’s goals.

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YOUTHFUL
INNOVATION

AGILE MIND. CREATIVE IMPULSES.

Does that remind you of someone? We’re on the hunt for enterprising young alumni. If you know individuals age 35 or younger who you feel have innovatively leveraged their Bucknell degree — started a business, created a product, etc. — as an exceptional entrepreneur or spurred innovation within a company or institution, please send us their name, class year and a short description of their accomplishment. We’d like to highlight several young innovators in the spring edition of Bucknell Magazine. Email us at bmagazine@bucknell.edu or mail to Bucknell Magazine, One Dent Drive, Lewisburg, PA 17837.
Board adds 6 new trustees
by Sherri Kimmel
Six Bucknellians, who majored in an array of subjects, have joined the Board of Trustees.

Frank Davis ’82, P’13 of Kennesaw, Ga., is the president and CEO of Horizon Services Corp. A diversity-owned business, Horizon is a technology-focused project, program and materials management firm with a primary focus on the automotive industry. A former member of the Bucknell University Alumni Association, Davis majored in electrical engineering.

Another engineering major, Annie Seibold Drapeau ’88, recently became chief people officer at Toast Inc., a Boston-based software company that serves the restaurant industry. A member of the Freeman College of Management Advisory Board, she also is the chair of the Boston advisory board for the Posse Foundation.

Alexandra Ahrens Jung ’92, who majored in economics and Spanish, was most recently a partner and head of Europe for Oak Hill Advisors and currently is a senior adviser, in addition to her several corporate board roles, including for NVR Inc. In 2017, Hedge Fund Journal designated her as one of its 50 Women in Hedge Funds, and in 2016 she received the 100 Women in Hedge Funds’ European Industry Leadership Award.

Editor's Letter
Michelle Johnson
Michelle Johnson
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY
What I'm Reading
Ghana Must Go, Taiye Selasi.
Since I adore African fiction and co-directed Bucknell in Ghana in spring 2018, I was drawn to this beautifully written book that spans three continents. When a successful surgeon, who abandoned his family, dies suddenly in Ghana, his wife asks the children to return to bury him. The story moves back and forth in time and space, depicting the multiple conflicts, traumas and losses that have divided the family, and highlighting the challenges of transnationalism, the complexity of family and the power of ritual to transform and heal.
Cora DuBois:  Anthropologist, Diplomat
Cora DuBois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent, Susan Semour.
Cora DuBois helped shape the discipline I love and was a key figure in the 1930s Culture and Personality school, which explored the relationship between anthropology and psychoanalysis. She conducted fieldwork in what is today Indonesia and with indigenous peoples in the United States and was the first woman tenured in Harvard University’s anthropology department. Her pioneering struggles against discrimination are humbling and inspiring.
Mindful Parenting
Mindful Parenting, Kristen Race.
Useful for parents struggling to achieve work/life balance, this book explores how stress affects children’s brains and suggests children should slow down and replace TV, phones and video games with more mindful activities. Mindfulness, Race says, can help destress overscheduled, overstimulated, attention- fragmented and perfection- obsessed children. The book also is a compelling case study for my professional interest in cross-cultural perspectives on parenting.
Michelle Johnson
Michelle Johnson
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Ghana Must Go, Taiye Selasi.
Since I adore African fiction and co-directed Bucknell in Ghana in spring 2018, I was drawn to this beautifully written book that spans three continents. When a successful surgeon, who abandoned his family, dies suddenly in Ghana, his wife asks the children to return to bury him. The story moves back and forth in time and space, depicting the multiple conflicts, traumas and losses that have divided the family, and highlighting the challenges of transnationalism, the complexity of family and the power of ritual to transform and heal.
Cora DuBois:  Anthropologist, Diplomat
Cora DuBois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent, Susan Semour.
Cora DuBois helped shape the discipline I love and was a key figure in the 1930s Culture and Personality school, which explored the relationship between anthropology and psychoanalysis. She conducted fieldwork in what is today Indonesia and with indigenous peoples in the United States and was the first woman tenured in Harvard University’s anthropology department. Her pioneering struggles against discrimination are humbling and inspiring.
Mindful Parenting
Mindful Parenting, Kristen Race.
Useful for parents struggling to achieve work/life balance, this book explores how stress affects children’s brains and suggests children should slow down and replace TV, phones and video games with more mindful activities. Mindfulness, Race says, can help destress overscheduled, overstimulated, attention- fragmented and perfection- obsessed children. The book also is a compelling case study for my professional interest in cross-cultural perspectives on parenting.
Pop Quiz
Sheridan
Gates ’14
Singing has been a lifelong passion for Sheridan Gates; country music is a newer pursuit. Since moving to Nashville in 2016, the theatre and pyschology major has embraced the city’s teeming music scene, collaborating with other young performers as she writes and records her own songs.
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What’s your essential tool for songwriting?
 
a. Piano
b. Guitar
c. Pencil and paper?
Lyrics are really my thing, so for me, it starts with a pencil and paper.
2
Which female lead in A Star is Born is your favorite?
 
a. Judy Garland
b. Barbra Streisand
c. Lady Gaga
I adore all three as performers but only know the most recent version. I admired Ally, Lady Gaga’s character, and how she ends up staying true to herself.
5
What iconic stage would you most like to perform on?
I think everyone in this town wants to perform at the Ryman Auditorium. The history of country music in that building is just mind-blowing.
6
Which performance at Bucknell prepared you best for writing and performing songs?
Being in Two Past Midnight was my first experience of having a solo and getting to perform as myself, not just as a character in a show. I remember at my first Christy’s concert I had my first solo, singing “Lucky,” a duet by Colbie Caillat and Jason Mraz, with Alex Pastena ’11. These days, I do a lot of touring with two other artist/songwriters, and we sing harmonies on each other’s songs. Singing a cappella definitely trained me for that.
Cool Class
The Globalization Debate
What Class?
The Globalization Debate
Who Teaches It?
Professor Christopher Magee, economics

“I developed this class because I love issues involving international trade, particularly the politics of trade. There are many controversial topics surrounding globalization, such as its impact on the environment and developing nations, that lead to engaged discussions.

“In this class, we hold debates on difficult questions that challenge students to consider the benefits and hazards of an increasingly integrated economy. Does globalization harm or help the environment? Should the United States forcefully encourage other countries to become democracies? Should our nation allow more or fewer immigrants into the country? Students read arguments on both sides of an issue, and a few write opinion papers advocating for one point of view. The writers lead group discussions, then the entire class comes together for a debate.

Alex Pechin
Two-time Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year Alex Pechin ’20 employs his science knowhow when perfecting his punts.
Getting His Kicks
by Andrew Faught

Get ready for some fancy footwork this fall, Bison football fans: Punter and two-time Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year Alex Pechin ’20 plans to harness his engineering prowess to drive his team to victory.

“Being able to understand biomechanics and physics is pretty important in punting, especially with your leg swing and how you make contact with the ball,” says the dual major in biomedical engineering and management for engineers. “If it’s windy, you know you’re going to have to hold the ball differently. A lot of things really make sense when you think about them in terms of physics.”

Pechin, named to four Preseason All-America First Teams, is considered one of the best punters in program history. He holds the school record in career punting average (43.7 yards), and — at 71 yards and 70 yards — he struck the third- and fifth-longest punts in school history.

Ask the Expert
HOW TO THROW A WINNING mini-REUNION
Patricia Perazzini

" "Patricia Perazzini ’82, P’15 so enjoyed co-chairing her 30th Reunion Committee that she abandoned her accounting career and began a new career rallying Fairfield University alumni. Perazzini generates good vibes among alumni chapters to keep the Fairfield Stags coming back.

Perazzini still gushes about her own 35th Reunion — an event so perfectly strategized, it herded more Bison back to Bucknell than any other 35th-year Reunion class in at least the last decade.

Real-World Engineering
Building a Legacy
Professor Emeritus Jai Kim maintains a passion for old bridges — and Bucknell engineers
by Michael Gentilucci
W

hen Professor Jai Kim and his family moved around South Korea during the early 1950s to avoid the war, he had dreams of coming to America to study engineering. But when he finally got here, he never imagined he’d spend the rest of his life in the United States, including more than 40 years teaching civil and environmental engineering at Bucknell. Though he retired in 2009, Kim still actively consults on steel-truss bridge restoration projects — an area where he is considered one of the country’s foremost experts.

Kim’s arrival in the United States in 1955 began inauspiciously: During his voyage on a cargo ship headed to San Francisco, he learned the school in Texas that had admitted him didn’t have an engineering program. Disembarking with $150 in his pocket (about $1,400 today) and barely speaking English, he was determined not to give up his dream. He made his way to Oregon State University, where he was able to convince the school to admit him. He graduated 60 years ago.

Jai Kim’s work on this historic bridge in Stuyvesant Falls, N.Y.
Jai Kim working on this historic bridge in Stuyvesant Falls, N.Y.
Photos: Jai Kim
Orange Triangle
Top: Jai Kim’s work on this historic bridge in Stuyvesant Falls, N.Y., won an award for Excellence in Highway Design in 1997. Below: Another project was the restoration of Oregon’s Worthington Bridge.
Q&A
Amy Badal
Amy Badal
Fritz Family
Dean of Students
Enhancing Student
Well-being is her goal
by SHERRI KIMMEL
Most people have a dream job in mind while attending college. Amy Badal was no exception. Badal came to the University as assistant dean of students 18 years ago. Four years ago, she became Bucknell’s dean of students. Dream achieved. This spring, her position was endowed with a $3 million gift from Lance ’85 and Julie Crenson Fritz ’85 and named the Fritz Family Dean of Students. The endowment will expand student support services.
Features
ILLUMINATING IDEAS: SCIENCE LEARNING GOES PUBLIC
photograph of fireflies by CARLA LONG
The Planet
Whisperers
On everything from climate change to fireflies, Bucknell scientists are working to increase the scientific literacy of the public
by Michael Blanding
The Planet
Whisperers
On everything from climate change to fireflies, Bucknell scientists are working to increase the scientific literacy of the public
by Michael Blanding
P
icture a place — any place in the world that has special meaning to you. Got it? Good. Now, picture that place affected by extreme weather or climate change. Once you have that firmly in mind, picture what you’d like that place to look like in 40 or 50 years. Finally, imagine one thing you can do now to make that 40- to 50-year vision a reality.

If you’re like many people, that last question in the exercise is hardest, says Professor Mick Smyer, psychology, who has queried many people in workshops during the past few years. “I have asked more than a thousand people, and everyone has a place they care about, everyone knows what the threat is, and everyone knows what they’d like it to look like,” he says. “But the question of what to do about climate change stumps 50 to 80 percent of people.”

Smyer began creating programs around climate change after Hurricane Katrina decimated his hometown of New Orleans in 2005, amid increasing research showing that climate change influences the severity of hurricanes. As a longtime gerontologist who has studied the psychology of aging, Smyer started focusing on older people, calling his program Graying Green. Seniors are often overlooked when it comes to climate- change education but can be a powerful group when motivated.

Festival of Lights
Biology professors Sarah Lower and Gregory Pask brought students from their Bucknell labs to western Pennsylvania to do research and outreach to the general public this June at the annual Pennsylvania Firefly Festival.
Professor Sarah Lower hunts for Chinese lantern fireflies in the vegetation
firefly festival visitors watching a close-up video of a firefly larva
Lourenço Martins ’21 shows Sarah Bain ’21
Hanh Tran ’20 verifies the identity of a firefly
Tuning In
Reaching
for Parity
‘The Celluloid Ceiling’ is no barrier
to Bucknell women in entertainment
by Eveline Chao
Tuning In
Reaching
for Parity
‘The Celluloid Ceiling’ is no barrier to Bucknell women in entertainment
by Eveline Chao
Photo: Shayan Asgharnia
Close friends at Bucknell, Nadia Sasso ’11 (above) and Nakea Tyson ’11 live near each other in Los Angeles, where they are making their way in the new-media landscape.
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Alumnae Are Making Waves in Film, TV and Entertainment
The last few years have been a dramatic time for women in show business. On the one hand, the industry has celebrated a slew of new milestones: Just this past year, Sandra Oh became the first Asian woman to host the Golden Globes — and win several of the awards herself — while Lena Waithe became the first black woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. On the other hand, such moments are celebrated precisely because they’re unusual: Is it a triumph or a travesty that it took until 2006 for Katie Couric to become the first woman to solo anchor a Big Three network news show?
One of Harold Meij’s objectives when he joined New Japan Pro-Wrestling in 2018 was to see the company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He met that goal in late July.
No Holds Barred
New Japan Pro-Wrestling CEO Harold Meij ’86 gives the fans what they want — access to the stars
Photo: Irwin Wong
One of Harold Meij’s objectives when he joined New Japan Pro-Wrestling in 2018 was to see the company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He met that goal in late July.
No Holds Barred
New Japan Pro-Wrestling CEO Harold Meij ’86 gives the fans what they want — access to the stars
Photo: Irwin Wong
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by Rob Goss

icture the scene: A camera pans over New York, the skyscrapers illuminated and glistening at night, before the director cuts to a plush hotel room overlooking the city. Inside, a svelte man in his early 50s relaxes in his white bathrobe on a couch — cola in hand and Japanese wrestling livestreaming on his laptop.

Then his phone rings. When Harold Meij ’86 answers, he receives an offer no Japanese wrestling fan could refuse — the opportunity to become the CEO and president of Japan’s largest and most popular wrestling organization, New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Meij said yes, and in 2018 became the organization’s first non-Japanese leader.

In most companies, new appointments are announced with an internal memo, a press release or maybe even a press conference. With all the showmanship one would expect of professional wrestling, Meij starred in an introductory video, one that ends with the Dutchman delivering a statement of intent to the sport’s ever-growing legion of fans: “I want to bring New Japan Pro-Wrestling to the next level.”

Why did Meij get that call? The answer, as he explains during an interview at his office in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward, is that New Japan Pro-Wrestling wanted someone equally at ease with business not only in Japan but throughout the rest of the world. The multilingual Meij fit that bill, having been raised in Japan and Indonesia by Dutch parents before attending Bucknell as an international student.

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by Rob Goss
icture the scene: A camera pans over New York, the skyscrapers illuminated and glistening at night, before the director cuts to a plush hotel room overlooking the city. Inside, a svelte man in his early 50s relaxes in his white bathrobe on a couch — cola in hand and Japanese wrestling livestreaming on his laptop.

Then his phone rings. When Harold Meij ’86 answers, he receives an offer no Japanese wrestling fan could refuse — the opportunity to become the CEO and president of Japan’s largest and most popular wrestling organization, New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Meij said yes, and in 2018 became the organization’s first non-Japanese leader.

In most companies, new appointments are announced with an internal memo, a press release or maybe even a press conference. With all the showmanship one would expect of professional wrestling, Meij starred in an introductory video, one that ends with the Dutchman delivering a statement of intent to the sport’s ever-growing legion of fans: “I want to bring New Japan Pro-Wrestling to the next level.”

P
by Rob Goss
icture the scene: A camera pans over New York, the skyscrapers illuminated and glistening at night, before the director cuts to a plush hotel room overlooking the city. Inside, a svelte man in his early 50s relaxes in his white bathrobe on a couch — cola in hand and Japanese wrestling livestreaming on his laptop.

Then his phone rings. When Harold Meij ’86 answers, he receives an offer no Japanese wrestling fan could refuse — the opportunity to become the CEO and president of Japan’s largest and most popular wrestling organization, New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Meij said yes, and in 2018 became the organization’s first non-Japanese leader.

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FALL SPLENDOR: Liv Cabrera ’21 makes her way on Malesardi Quad.
photograph by Emily Paine
From the President
John C. Bravman, President
Illustration: Joel Kimmel
Riding the Range

IT’S BEEN 60 YEARS since C.P. Snow set off a flurry of debate with his lecture, “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.” Back then, Snow’s concern was the inability of scientists and humanists to bridge the divide between their specialized disciplines and adequately communicate with one another.

Lamentably, the retreat into hardened boundaries between disciplines has only accelerated since Snow wrote, “It is dangerous to have two cultures which can’t or don’t communicate.”

In the ensuing decades, the drive to specialize has become even more intense as the world has become more complicated. In Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, science writer David Epstein decries the rush to specialization that many colleges and universities advocate. He notes that “narrow vocational training” won’t equip students for careers “in a complex, interconnected, rapidly changing world.”

Book Talk
BOOKS

Primates in Flooded Habitats

Photo: Phyllis Lee

Kate Nowak ’01 in the Uzi Island mangroves of Zanzibar.
by Susan Lindt

Monkeys aren’t known for their water sport, but that may change.

In her recent book, Primates in Flooded Habitats: Ecology and Conservation, Katarzyna “Kate” Nowak ’01 shows there is such a thing as the secret aquatic life of primates.

“Primates are a high-profile group, and we know a lot about them in a typical terrestrial tropical forest,” Nowak says. “But there weren’t any books that combined the subjects of primates and water-logged habitats.”

Alumni Books

Sharon Chamberlain ’71
A Reckoning: Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).

This book provides an authoritative assessment of war crimes trials convened by the Philippine government after World War II. It explores the legal challenges faced by that newly indepen- dent country and the divergent views of Filipinos and Japanese regarding the trial outcomes.

Aaron Hanlon ’04, M’06
A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism (University of Virginia Press, 2019)

Combining literary history and political theory, Hanlon clarifies an ongoing and immediately relevant history of exceptionalism, of how states from golden-age Spain to imperial Britain to the formative United States rendered themselves exceptions so they could act with impunity. In so doing, he tells the story of how Don Quixote became exceptional.

Students Books
Emily Bayuk ’21

The Fundamentals of Circuits Made Easy (self-published)

Bayuk, an electrical engineering major and Russian minor, wrote and illustrated this book designed to teach and inspire middle school and older elementary students about circuits using fun visual aids and easily comprehensible explanations.

Faculty Books

Alexander Riley (sociology) and Alf Siewers (English)
The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution (Lexington Books)

Essays in this book explore the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution, its contribution to the spread of totalitarianism and the responses it inspired among American and Western intellectuals.

John Enyeart (history)
Death to Fascism: Louis Adamic’s Fight for Democracy (University of Illinois Press)

Author Louis Adamic, who died in 1951, played a leading role in a coalition of black intellectuals and writers, working-class militants, ethnic activists and others who worked for a multiethnic America and against fascism.

Alumni Books

Sharon Chamberlain ’71
A Reckoning: Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).

This book provides an authoritative assessment of war crimes trials convened by the Philippine government after World War II. It explores the legal challenges faced by that newly indepen- dent country and the divergent views of Filipinos and Japanese regarding the trial outcomes.

Aaron Hanlon ’04, M’06
A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism (University of Virginia Press, 2019)

Combining literary history and political theory, Hanlon clarifies an ongoing and immediately relevant history of exceptionalism, of how states from golden-age Spain to imperial Britain to the formative United States rendered themselves exceptions so they could act with impunity. In so doing, he tells the story of how Don Quixote became exceptional.

Students Books
Emily Bayuk ’21

The Fundamentals of Circuits Made Easy (self-published)

Bayuk, an electrical engineering major and Russian minor, wrote and illustrated this book designed to teach and inspire middle school and older elementary students about circuits using fun visual aids and easily comprehensible explanations.

Faculty Books

Alexander Riley (sociology) and Alf Siewers (English)
The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution (Lexington Books)

Essays in this book explore the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution, its contribution to the spread of totalitarianism and the responses it inspired among American and Western intellectuals.

John Enyeart (history)
Death to Fascism: Louis Adamic’s Fight for Democracy (University of Illinois Press)

Author Louis Adamic, who died in 1951, played a leading role in a coalition of black intellectuals and writers, working-class militants, ethnic activists and others who worked for a multiethnic America and against fascism.

Alumni Photo Gallery
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This photo of some members of the Class of ’55 was taken September 1951 by Betty Elliott Butler ’55. Pictured are the late Nan Thurnall Meyer ’55, Janet Lovett Bowen ’55, Ellie Mackie Pigman ’55, Bette Lerch Vasta ’55, the late Bobbie Moore Hutchinson ’55, Betsy Bice Knox ’55, Pat Mansfield Nixon ’55, Nancy Daddow Gemmell ’55, Ros Potts Piede ’55, Chris Hill Killough ’53, the late Barb Crothers Lake ’55 and Nat Duysters Henderson ’55.
At the Class of ’64’s 50th Reunion, Norm Kiken ’64 donated a three-liter bottle of Reverie Vineyard’s wine to be consumed at the 55th Reunion in 2019. Karen Abel Jones ’64 had possession of the bottle and brought it to Reunion. Pictured from left are: Karen, Norm, Bob Hull ’64 (with the bottle), Jeff Nemerov ’64 and wife Susan, and Dow Fenton Malnati ’64.

Photo: Gordon Wenzel

Hiking: A Bucknell hike at Jacksonville (Fla.) Arboretum and Gardens was led by Bill Armstrong ’70. Pictured from left are an unidentified couple, Gail Grunewald Arrowsmith ’71, David Leach ’70, Gail’s husband Roger ’71 and Bill and Peggy Wilson Armstrong ’69.
Outdoor patio, bar: The Northeast Florida group had its first NeighborHERD social at Black Sheep Restaurant. Pictured from left: Julianne Mammana ’13, Peggy Wilson Armstrong ’69 and husband Bill ’70, and David Leach ’70.
Baseball game, stands: Pictured from left at the alumni outing to the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp vs. Montgomery Biscuits baseball game are back row, Julianne Mammana ’13, Carolyn Yankowski Klimtzak ’00 and Eric Klimtzak; middle row, Jeff and Liz Pendleton Stoddard ’05 and Bill ’70 and Peggy Wilson Armstrong ’69, and front row, Ona Broussard and Lizzy Klimtzak.
Catch up with Bucknell alumni in pictures.

Submit your own photos to Bucknell Magazine by contacting your class reporter or emailing classnotes@bucknell.edu

The Ellen Clarke BeRtrand SocieTY
Bucknell appreciates the many alumni, parents, friends and staff who have included the University in their estate, tax or financial planning.
The gifts of Bertrand Society members strengthen every facet of the University.
We welcome the following new members this year:
Richard Andrews ’78
Algin Garrett ’74
Kenneth ’67, P’93 and Rande Greiner P’93
Douglas Grove ’72
Roger ’69 and Patricia Heinemann
Marilyn Kviljord Jones ’70
Nelson ’58 and Susan Smith
Garry Thaniel ’04
We celebrate the legacy gifts made by Bucknellians no longer with us:
Margaret Bortz Andrews ’40
Edward Brenneman
Barbara Paulison Byerly ’53
Yvonne Day P’97, P’04
Betty Shuster Kiely ’51, P’83
Bruce LaBar ’54
Jane Brown Maas ’53, P’86
Annabel Kreider Schnure ’40, P’66, P’69, P’72
Frederick ’54 and Carol Shehadi P’81, P’84, P’89, G’14, G’15, G’17
Marilyn Pieper Shelley ’59, P’88
Dorothy Derr Snyder ’41, P’74, P’75, G’12
Margaret Soars Sosa ’46, P’87
Charlotte Stratton ’51
Alex Webb ’44
Bennett Willeford
Alice Healey Wolpert ’40
We celebrate the legacy gifts made by Bucknellians no longer with us:
Margaret Bortz Andrews ’40
Edward Brenneman
Barbara Paulison Byerly ’53
Yvonne Day P’97, P’04
Betty Shuster Kiely ’51, P’83
Bruce LaBar ’54
Jane Brown Maas ’53, P’86
Annabel Kreider Schnure ’40, P’66, P’69, P’72
Frederick ’54 and Carol Shehadi P’81, P’84, P’89, G’14, G’15, G’17
Marilyn Pieper Shelley ’59, P’88
Dorothy Derr Snyder ’41, P’74, P’75, G’12
Margaret Soars Sosa ’46, P’87
Charlotte Stratton ’51
Alex Webb ’44
Bennett Willeford
Alice Healey Wolpert ’40

If you have a plan that qualifies you for membership or you would like additional information about the Bertrand Society, please contact the Office of Gift Planning at 570-577-3271 or giftplanning@bucknell.edu.

WAYFINDER
RANDOLPH OSMAN ’64

I came to Bucknell in 1960 from New Jersey and quickly got caught up in the social scene. By 1963, my junior year, I had left fraternity beer-party life and befriended a group of very talented and gifted students who seriously studied art, drama and literature. English Professor Joseph Guerinot was at the center of this group. Joe’s apartment on the banks of the Susquehanna River was a meeting place for some of us. Talk centered on art, literature, history and French cooking. This was a new and inviting world for me. Alice Hooker, daughter of Ward Hooker, a professor of English, was a member of the group. Alice commented affectionately over a glass of red wine: “Joe, you don’t talk talk; you speak prose.” And indeed he did.

Randolph Osman
Photo: Randolph Osman ’64
Randolph Osman ’64 lives in Falls City, Ore., where he enjoys fly fishing and writing. He is the principal of Osman Associates Art Appraisal.
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A Tasty Venture
Bringing fast food to Russia has been an action-packed pursuit for Jim Gansinger ’67
by Matt ZENCEY
When Jim Gansinger ’67 and two partners launched a fast-food franchise in the world’s largest Communist country, he says “the driving force was not so much making money but how fascinating it would be.”

It was 1991, and the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev was just opening for private Western investment. “We had a bit of the ‘do-gooder’ instinct,” Gansinger says.

It would be years before their venture would make Gansinger and his partners any money, but there were plenty of fascinating adventures.

Early on, Gansinger was scoping business opportunities in a small Soviet rust-belt town when word came that the Soviet Union had officially dissolved.

It took another three years before Gansinger and his partners could work through Russia’s chaotic economic and political transition to open their flagship Subway sandwich store in St. Petersburg. Unbeknownst to them, their Russian venture partners were mafia thugs, who would soon come in with guns drawn and literally steal the store from them. It took eight years of legal struggle to get it back. At times, Gansinger traveled under an assumed name for self-protection.

Jim Gansinger
Photo: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo
Jim Gansinger ’67, speaking here at a global conference, says he could have opted for the Subway franchise in Britain, “but that wouldn’t have been as interesting.”
PROFILE
A LEVER TO SUCCESS
Couple’s foundation supports education worldwide
by PATRICK BROADWATER

In the early 2000s, when JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell ’75 repatriated to the U.S. after working abroad, she and her husband, Andrew, felt compelled to act.

She had been president and CEO of AT&T Asia/Pacific in Hong Kong, but during decades of international travel, the couple witnessed many impoverished children lacking access to education, and they were moved to take action.

Viewing education as a critical lever to success, they established in 2002 their aptly named charity, Give Something Back International Foundation.

JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell
Photo: Donna Campbell

JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell ’75 developed a global perspective at Bucknell, which she has employed in her career and philanthropy.

PROFILE
NOTHING BUT BLUE SKIES
Building high-end boats is a passion project for Herbert “Burr” Shaw III ’83
by Lori Ferguson
As a young boy, Herbert “Burr” Shaw III ’83 was enchanted with boats. His happiest hours were spent sailing and building models. Meet him now and one realizes little has changed.

As head of design for Hinckley Yachts in Trenton, Maine, for the last 20 years, Shaw is still following his passion, albeit on a bigger scale. He says there have been many career highs, but none greater than designing and building a custom picnic boat for the late philanthropist and banker David Rockefeller.

Custom Picnic Boat
One of Burr Shaw’s passion projects was a custom picnic boat, shown here under construction.
Flashback
Beth Jacobs
Photo: Gittings Legal Photography
The Digital Strategist
Recently named vice president, digital strategies, for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Beth Jacobs ’89 has spent more than 25 years helping companies maximize their digital and mobile businesses. She credits the strategic and critical thinking skills that she cultivated at Bucknell as a key to her success.
1. How did Bucknell shape your career?
My majors, international relations and Japanese and East Asian studies, helped me land my first job at AT&T in public affairs and trade policy.
2. What class opened your eyes the most?
My most interesting, provocative and intellectually challenging class was my senior-year IR capstone, a political theory course with Professor Tom Travis. It really forced me to go deeper analytically and think more unconventionally.
3. If you could go back to college, what would you do differently?
I would take advantage of a couple of classes in Bucknell’s top-notch management program.
Entrepreneur Spotlight
Christine Yaged
Photo: Courtesy of Christine Yaged
Launch Potato
by Julia Stevens ’20

As the world becomes more technology based, a new sector of business has emerged. Digital companies are on the rise, and entrepreneurs like Christine Yaged ’09 are forming their own startups — offering analytical services so these emerging digital brands can measure their success.

In 2014, Yaged and her co-founders started Launch Potato, a marketing technology company that connects consumers to digital brands, in order to build a work culture that was different from the corporations for which they had previously worked. Since its founding, the company has launched and scaled six companies such as the personal finance site FinanceBuzz.

Based in Delray Beach, Fla., Launch Potato is a modern company in every sense. Yaged explains that employees have the option to work remotely, which allows the company “to hire the best talent no matter where they are in the world.”

This contemporary business model earned Launch Potato South Florida Business Journal’s 2019 Best Place to Work award. According to Yaged, majoring in management taught her many of the skills she uses in her business today, but it also instilled in her “the importance of a company’s values and culture.”

Career
Clusters
With the University’s collaborative approach to science, it’s no wonder that a number of alumni are working to find treatments and ultimately a cure for cancer — sometimes as partners. For instance, Kirsten Elzer Bryant ’07 and Conan Kinsey ’02 are collaborating with Kenneth Olive ’98 on a novel treatment regimen for pancreatic cancer.
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A MELODIC MARRIAGE
A piano piece by Ashlee Mack ’03 and James Romig was a Pulitzer Prize finalist

by DAVE ALLEN ’06

From a trailhead in Everglades National Park to concert halls and museums throughout the Midwest, pianist Ashlee Mack ’03 has made Still, a composition by her husband, James Romig, a staple of her repertoire.

Mack played the piece’s premiere in 2017 and in more than 20 concerts since, which made April’s announcement that Still was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music particularly exciting. “We hadn’t collaborated on a project in a long time,” Mack says. “We were stunned, to say the least.”

Still draws inspiration from the works of American artist Clyfford Still and his stark, massive canvases. Since giving the premiere at Western Illinois University, where Romig teaches, and recording it at Knox Col-lege, where Mack is the director of piano studies, she has played it in U.S. National Parks and at the Denver museum that bears Still’s name.

Ashlee Mack
Photo: James Romig
Ashlee Mack ’03 and her husband were recognized as one of the 2019 finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Music.
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GAME PLAN FOR GOOD HEALTH
Surgery to overcome epilepsy has transformed
Terna Ityokumbul’s life
by ALEXANDER DIEGEL
When Terna Ityokumbul ’13 was 17, he was set to fulfill his dream of entering the Naval Academy — until an epilepsy diagnosis caused him to pause for a year to consider his next steps.

His decision to attend Bucknell turned out to be the correct path, as he found help coping with seizures that were becoming increasingly severe. What had begun as “going blank for a minute or two” had now advanced to grand mal seizures that were so severe one caused him to dislocate his shoulder. Ityokumbul, who played tight end and fullback on Bucknell’s football team, says the support from coaches and athletics trainers helped immeasurably. “Our trainer, Mark Keppler, and Coach [Joe] Susan were big advocates for me,” says Ityokumbul, a management major who’s now a senior buyer at Veritiv, a Fortune 500 company in Atlanta.

Terna Ityokumbul
Photo: Emory Health
Now nearly free of epilepsy, Terna Ityokumbul ’13 has a new lease on life.
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The Road To Diplomacy
Payne Fellow Rose Quispe ’18 has her eye on a foreign service career
by Paris Wolfe

Rose Quispe ’18 had already experienced a bit of the world when she arrived at Bucknell.

Born in Peru, her family immigrated to the United States when she was just 8. The Posse Foundation’s leadership program eventually led her to Bucknell, where she took service-learning trips to the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. While distributing medical supplies and interpreting for English-speaking physicians and their Spanish-speaking patients, Quispe saw something she could not forget.

“Those two experiences solidified my interests in international development,” says Quispe, who majored in economics and French. “I saw the differences between low-income life in the U.S. compared to low-income life in developing countries. Such disparity exists.”

With a well-developed mission to change the world, Quispe applied for the USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program, which pays for a master’s in international development or other field relevant to the U.S. Agency for International Development and offers fellows a path into USAID foreign service after graduation.

Rose Quispe
Photo: Beverlie Lord, Satsun Photography
Rose Quispe ’18 is on her way to a career in the U.S. foreign service.
IN MEMORIAM
Remember your friends, family, classmates and others by posting a comment on our online Book of Remembrance. Go to bucknell.edu/bmag/InMemoriam.
1942
Betty Grim Louis, April 10, Verona, Pa.
1943
Catherine Bunnell, July 10, Ocean Grove, N.J.
Bill Pugliese P’77, April 28, Cary, N.C.
Kathryn Millward Tyson P’70, May 26, Lewisburg, Pa.
1944
Sybil Haire Hale, June 23, 2018, Lakewood, Calif.
1945
Richard Ash, May 3, Barrington, Ill.
Wayne Blessing, Jan. 4, Greensboro, N.C.
Caryl Cooper, June 25, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Lila Kravis Moross, March 16, West Babylon, N.Y.
1947
Tamara Gurvitch Goldman, May 16, Englewood, N.J.
Richard Goss P’74, May 24, Portage, Mich.
William Toplis M’52, May 7, West Chester, Pa.
Dot Schneider Wagner, Oct. 4, 2018, Francestown, N.H.
1948
George Bullock P’82, April 14, Doylestown, Pa.
Bernard Fong P’76, March 13, Honolulu, Hawaii
Joe Levi, March 31, Surfside Beach, S.C.
1949
Fred Haas, May 23, Ocean City, N.J.
Mike Kronisch P’79, P’82, P’87, G’15, June 21, Mount Arlington, N.J.
1950
Marge Fleishman Haas, Dec. 28, Ocean City, N.J.
Jerry Mazel, Feb. 1, Boca Raton, Fla.
Jeanette Simon Morrow P’74, G’13, April 5, 2018, Denver, Colo.
William Taylor, June 10, Arcata, Calif.
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Our New .EDU
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If you stopped by the Bucknell website this semester, you noticed a big change. Here are three things you can do on the all-new bucknell.edu.
Explore
Bucknell’s new website has an intriguing, modern design that represents the innovation, discovery and creativity happening here every day. We also rewrote and reorganized pages to help our users find what they need in the simplest way possible. So poke around! You’ll find plenty of surprises, including stunning photography of Bucknell’s campus, ambient video and interesting stories to share.
Find Content Curated Just for You
The new website features audience pages especially for alumni, parents and families that you’ll want to bookmark. Here, you’ll find regularly updated information about the latest news and events you’ll want to know about, and links to help you stay connected to Bucknell. Click the “More” button in the upper right corner to get started.
Tell Us What You Think
Love the new site? Have ideas for improvement? Can’t find something you’re looking for? Please let us know! There’s a link to a feedback form at the bottom right corner of every web page.
Witty Winners
Here are our favorite caption submissions from the last issue:
“The last graduate of Bucknell’s Circus Arts program prepares for final exams.”
Robert McGarry ’88
“Wow. Bison bikes has really expanded their fleet …”
Jake Schaeffer ’20
“SO THIS IS WHAT THEY MEAN BY HIGHER EDUCATION.”
Diane Lowe ’76
“Sadly, before Bucky the Bison came along, our school mascot was Jimmy the Juggler.”
Dave Koerner ’92
“Steampunk was born at Bucknell.”
Bernadette Ventura Williams ’83
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Submit your caption for the retro photo on Page 65 to bmagazine@bucknell.edu or facebook.com/bucknellu by Nov. 1.
Riding a unicycle
Photo: Special Collections/University Archives
My Favorite Things
charm bracelet
Carolyn Meyer
Photos: Russell Maynor
Orange Triangle
The charm bracelet sparking a thousand laughs (and Carolyn Meyer’s one-woman show) anchors her Most Useful Girl Award and several Bucknell charms, among them, Sigma Tau Delta and Alpha Lambda Delta.
Charm Bracelet

" "In the ’50s, when Carolyn “Callie” Meyer ’57 finally won the coveted charm anointing her “the Most Useful Girl” in her high school, she never imagined it would become the rallying cry of her one-woman stage show 60-some years later. After a late foray into standup comedy, this prolific author (60-plus books!) leveraged the charm as the closing punch line of her show. Following 13 sold-out performances that drove audiences wild in her hometown of Albuquerque, Meyer’s piece was selected by the United Solo Theatre Festival for an Oct. 27 off-Broadway performance.

Your Gift Your Impact
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Your Gift Your Impact
Our Thanks
14,917 alumni
More than 14,917 alumni, parents, students and friends of the University made gifts to Bucknell in fiscal year 2018–19.
$40 Million
Thanks to their generosity, the University received nearly $40 million dollars — all of which will directly enhance our students’ educational experience.
Whether you support scholarships, facilities, research and travel experiences, athletics or another designation, your gifts make a daily impact on Bucknell students.
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