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Pathways
While working in Beijing for the University of Maryland’s business school, he fractured a rib amid a smog-induced coughing fit, which prompted something like an epiphany: “Having experienced the effects of pollution due to rapid industrialization, I thought clean energy could be something to focus on.”
Pathways
While working in Beijing for the University of Maryland’s business school, he fractured a rib amid a smog-induced coughing fit, which prompted something like an epiphany: “Having experienced the effects of pollution due to rapid industrialization, I thought clean energy could be something to focus on.”
Pathways
“My family’s Puerto Rican, so it was a very strict household,” she says. “My mother had so much invested into me, and the one thing she asked in return was to see me walk at graduation.”
Contreras did graduate and entered Lehigh Carbon Community College near her hometown of Whitehall, Pa. A professor recommended that she apply for the highly competitive Bucknell Community College Scholars Program, where, after completing a six-week summer session, students may qualify for free tuition for their junior and senior years.
Pathways
“My family’s Puerto Rican, so it was a very strict household,” she says. “My mother had so much invested into me, and the one thing she asked in return was to see me walk at graduation.”
Contreras did graduate and entered Lehigh Carbon Community College near her hometown of Whitehall, Pa. A professor recommended that she apply for the highly competitive Bucknell Community College Scholars Program, where, after completing a six-week summer session, students may qualify for free tuition for their junior and senior years.
Gateway
Letters
Los Angeles, Calif.
Folklorist Korson’s Daughter Reflects
Thank you for sending the interesting Summer 2021 issue with the article, “Folklorist of the Coal Mines,” about my father, George Korson. Although I was very young when we lived in Lewisburg, I still have some vivid memories of the town and some of the experiences there.
We lived in a first-floor apartment not far from campus. My father was away on one of his many scouting trips for folk festival talent when the town experienced a flood, and my mother and I were rescued by several students in a boat. If it were not for them, I probably would not be alive to write this letter!
I am proudly showing the magazine to family and friends. The article was very well-written and made me very proud.
Bethlehem, Pa.
A GREAT DUO
Wimauma, Fla.
Magazine lacks contemporary art
As an artist, curator and activist for 40 years, I ask you to examine the use and images of artworks in the Summer 2021 issue. Two questions: Were you afraid of Joe Blaustein ’47’s paintings of personal agony? (Are alumni still embarrassed by Philip Roth ’54’s exploration of sexuality?) Do you believe that grandmother artists are not contemporary artists? (Have you ever seen the last 50 years of quilt-making? “The creative risk paid off.”)
So I examined your other use of art — three 19th-century-style sculptures: the stone MLK Memorial in Washington, D.C., the bronze bust of Edward McKnight Brawley, Class of 1875, M’1878 and a mediocre stone sculpture of a bison. Well, you do have one 21st-century artwork: the back cover with students engaging in a libation and planting ceremony. In all four images, the artist who made the work remains unrecognized.
Delray Beach, Fla.
Writing Is Inspiring
Despite the tech age, oldsters like me love reading your magazine. I was encouraged by the comment by Betsy Neary Sholl ’67, P’93 in the Summer 2021 issue’s “Finding Life in Language” — that writers in local towns are growing their literary skills.
After going to prep school, where I had a superb English teacher, I benefited from Bucknell’s legendary English Department Chair Willard Smith. Our class dedicated the graduation book to him.
I’m now Zooming with a group of writers (many published) organized by the Westhampton Beach (Long Island) Library. I’m learning by the second how to write — and rewrite as often as I have breakfast — my novel, You Can’t Hear My Heart Beat. It’s a story about how, by accidental meeting, two attractive people interact, disintegrate, reconnect; he leaves her, and finally, she confronts him after becoming sober five years later. So, I’m obsessed. Enjoying every deleted sentence and paragraph.
Westhampton, N.Y.
Recalling a Superstar Bison
I enjoyed David Driver’s article, “Have Game, Will Travel,” in the Spring 2021 magazine, and I congratulate Bucknell’s international athletes for their notable achievements.
Permit me to recall my favorite Bucknell international athlete: the remarkable Jon Robert “J.R.” Holden ’98. My son and I had season tickets to CSKA Moscow’s games in 2006 when J.R. led the team to the EuroLeague basketball championship. During his years with the club he ran the offense and led the team to nine Russian- league championships, two EuroLeague championships and many playoffs. He was voted to the EuroLeague All-Decade Team (2000–10). He was a victorious on-court presence who brought all his teammates up to a higher level by his play: smooth and slippery as the ice outside the arena. President Putin granted him dual citizenship, and he became a genuine national basketball hero. The announcers loved his name, drawing it out and trilling the ‘R’s’ Russian-style. It took them a full five seconds to proclaim it. Thank you, J.R. Holden, for the gift of your game. My son has your jersey.
Virginia Beach, Va.
On ‘A World Exploding’
A decade after Joe Blaustein ’47 attended Bucknell, things had changed a great deal for Jewish students, with rejection lessening. However, the overall feeling was still one of being outsiders.
I was a member of “Sammy” and was prior [fraternity leader] in my junior year. There were two or three other fraternity houses that accepted Jewish students. I don’t think full acceptance was an actuality, but I do think it was getting better.
I was lucky enough to be a member of Sammy with Ed Samek ’58 and Stu Berelson ’59, both of whom have left their mark on the University. The article was on target about classes and environment, and I am so proud of my four years in Lewisburg, being a Sammy and a Bucknell graduate.
New York, N.Y.
Correction
The Editor’s Letter in the Summer 2021 issue contained two errors. The name of an alumnus lost in 9/11 contained a misspelling. His correct name is Mark Ryan McGinly ’97.
Kim Berry Haisch’s correct class year is 2003. We deeply regret the errors.
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Technology-rich Building Opens
It’s the perfect visual metaphor for the building and — more broadly — for Bucknell’s model of education. Here, top-tier liberal arts and professional programs don’t just coexist; they speak to and redefine one another.
Under construction since 2019, the 78,500-square-foot classroom building on Coleman Hall Drive features an array of modern, technology-rich spaces for teaching management and the arts. All together, more than 1,000 students per year will study, collaborate and create in Holmes Hall.
DEMOCRATIZING AI
Joseph Tranquillo, professor of biomedical engineering and associate provost for transformative teaching & learning, was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. AIMBE’s mission is to advocate for biomedical engineering innovation through public policy initiatives.
In Lewisburg and far afield, Bucknell’s students and staff make a positive and palpable difference.
Milton, Pa.Kathi Venios never pondered her place in history before the COVID-19 pandemic transformed life as she knew it — from prioritizing safety while grocery shopping to doing her administrative assistant work for the Bucknell Humanities Center (BHC) from home. “Suddenly, it struck me that we’re living out history as it’s happening, and 200 years from now, people are going to wonder how we got through,” she says.
To provide future generations with an answer, Venios and her Bucknell colleagues partnered with the Milton Public Library on a summerlong project to capture local residents’ pandemic stories.
In Lewisburg and far afield, Bucknell’s students and staff make a positive and palpable difference.
Homer, Alaska
After intense careers with leading-edge technology companies in California, Brenda Crouthamel Adams ’68 and her husband retired early and sought a location that would be less frenzied and have lower taxes. Thirty years later, she runs a boutique garden design and maintenance business outside the scenic coastal town of Homer, Alaska, with three international garden design awards to her credit.
Why She Chose Alaska
A friend said they couldn’t decide where to retire without visiting Alaska first. On a long drive south from Anchorage, they stopped at a popular overlook, with a sweeping view of Homer and Kachemak Bay.
Making a Splash
by Sherri Kimmel
Bucknell’s Class of 2025 is a talented bunch, but only one first-year student is a veteran of the world’s premier sporting event — the Olympics. Boati Motau ’25 arrived in Lewisburg from Tokyo, after a short stay in her hometown of Johannesburg, South Africa, as a key player on her nation’s first-ever Olympic women’s water polo team. She’s the second Bucknell student to compete as an enrolled undergraduate.
“The Olympics is something I’ve dreamed about since childhood, and I always told myself I’d get there,” Motau says. “I just never imagined the dream would come true so soon.”
Board Adds 6 New Trustees
Carolyn Neely Ainslie ’80 of Seattle is chief financial officer of the Gates Foundation. Before joining the foundation in 2018, the biology major had a 32-year career in university finance and planning, including 10 years at Princeton and 22 years at Cornell. Her spouse is fellow Bucknellian Timothy Ainslie ’80.
Chief risk officer at General Atlantic J. Frank Brown ’78 had a 26-year career with PwC before joining the global growth equity firm in 2011. An accounting major, the Rye, N.Y., resident also served as dean of the Fontainebleau, France and Singapore- based INSEAD graduate business school from 2006 to 2011. Like Ainslie, he married a classmate, Susan Stoner Brown ’78.
What I’m Reading
What I’m Reading
Ghislaine McDayter
This text was chosen as the 2021 Common Reading for Bucknell’s first-year class, and I am absolutely absorbed by it. I’ve always enjoyed fiction that offers the nitty-gritty details of our historical past, and so I love Coates’ ability to create a vibrant world that straddles the historical and the fantastical with such fluency. There are some moving passages that manage to simultaneously communicate the most harrowing of human experiences and the power of our capacity to love. Fingers crossed that our students enjoyed it as much as I did!
This summer two of my students and I constructed a role-playing computer game based on an 18th-century masquerade ball. One of the characters is modeled on the heroine of this novel. I love teaching this book, and I enjoy rereading it whenever I can; it offers a fascinating glimpse into the cultural debates around race and gender in the Romantic period. The story describes the courtship and marriage of a young mixed-race heiress from Jamaica who is traveling to England to meet her future husband for the first time.
This text is truly a fun beach read as it describes some of the most notorious and scandalous moments ripped from the pages of British periodical publications in the long 19th century, narrating everything from the outrageous exploits of the Prince Regent (George IV), to the most poignant tragedies of the courtesans of Covent Garden. There is something remarkably comforting in reading about past idiocies and political fiascos — if we don’t exactly learn from history, we at least share it in good company.
Pop Quiz
Chloe Chou ’15
Cross-pollination
Cross-pollination integrates the professional perspectives of a visual artist and a botanist, introducing foundational concepts in these fields and encouraging students to integrate different systems of knowledge and explore their intersections. The course highlights floral anatomy and the diversity of floral reproductive strategies that can be observed. What makes this course different is that these concepts are taught through a series of studio-based projects and critiques that compare the creative sexual strategies of flowers to the often stifling and restrictive vocabulary our culture perpetuates around human sexuality.
No Stopping Dom
But Lyles, in a show of self-effacement, wants to qualify the accomplishment. He hit the mark in large part, he says, because Lehigh was preoccupied with fellow wide receiver and co-record holder Brandon Sanders, who had his own big game a week earlier against Lafayette.
Understanding the Stock Market
Investing in financial markets can seem intimidating and risky for the ordinary person. Ron Baron ’65 is chairman, CEO and portfolio manager of Baron Capital, which he founded in 1982 and is famous for its annual investment conference featuring performers such as Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand and Chris Rock. Baron says regular investors can use a fairly simple approach to take advantage of the power of the U.S. economy and achieve long-term financial success. 
Embodying Resilience
efore he died on 9/11, Brad Fetchet ’99 kept a journal. Its front page showcases a quote from the German poet Goethe: “You can tell the character of a man by what he does for the man who can offer him nothing.”
To honor his memory and that of the nearly 3,000 people who were killed that day, Fetchet’s parents, Mary and Frank, founded the Voices Center for Resilience, formerly known as Voices of September 11th (VOICES). For the last 20 years, the Voices Center and its staff of 10 have provided over 180,000 hours of social-service support for victims’ families, first responders and survivors through counseling, workshops, webinars, trainings and annual symposia. They also share their expertise with communities affected by other mass-casualty tragedies in the U.S. and abroad.
“I didn’t want another mother to lose a child in a terrorist attack,” says Mary, the center’s executive director. “If you’ve been directly affected, unless you take steps and use your voice to influence people to do the right thing, it can and will happen again. Even as we approach the 20th anniversary, we’re still contacted by individuals seeking assistance for the first time. Our work is more important than ever.”
From Academic Dean to Artistic Visionary
Q. What made you leave academia behind?
Q. It wasn’t a direct line from academia to Immersive Art Space. What else did you explore, and how did that prepare you for what you’re doing now?
Features
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Broadening the Circle
hen a designer creates a new technology, who might use it — or misuse it? Who could be left out, unable to use it? Whose life could it improve? And whose life could it make worse?
Professor Evan Peck, computer science, wants his students to ask those questions every time they write a new piece of software code, so it becomes a professional practice. Technology designers can unwittingly embed unfairness or other bias into their increasingly powerful and pervasive inventions. Peck uses an exercise to reveal how bias can sneak past students’ best intentions.
“In my Introduction to Computer Science class, students create a form for a website, which requires the user to provide a phone number,” says Peck. “The form must reject any ‘bad’ phone numbers. Students almost always write a program that accepts phone numbers from the United States but not from almost any other country. One of the first semesters I did this, a student from China spoke up: ‘This form wouldn’t work for me.’ ” Her phone number in China would have been rejected because it was considered bad input.
Designing Across Disciplines
That concept underlies Bucknell’s approach to teaching design, where it’s infused in courses throughout the University’s three colleges. It’s also the guiding principle behind a reimagined student club that was relaunched in the last academic year.
Formerly a graphic design club, the Bucknell Student Design Group aims to help student designers from across majors contextualize and improve their craft at each stage of their careers.
5 from 2025
The Time-less Beauty of Soccer
“I’m just the ball boy and the birdhouse fixer,” my dad says as he sits down to repair the birdhouse that lies on the kitchen table in two pieces.
“Why do you bother to fix it? You know she’s just going to break it again,” my mom says.
When I’m not playing soccer at an organized practice or game, I still manage to find time to play more soccer, but things get broken in the process. When I was juggling a ball in the living room, I lost my footing, and the ball smacked into the middle of a framed 1,000-piece family jigsaw puzzle. I scurried away with the evidence, hoping no one would notice the missing pieces. My parents didn’t need to see the missing pieces; they had heard the ball bounce off the wall seconds earlier. Another time, after attempting to “nutmeg” a red metal chair in the basement, I snapped off a chair leg. Now it’s taped together with red duct tape. Yet another time, I chipped two wooden fence panels in the backyard after my shot went wide, deflected off a window, and fired back at the fence. Once, I even took down an entire 6-foot tree branch with a shot that blasted over the net. That evidence I could not hide so easily.
Power in a Small Package
I was known as the short Chinese girl throughout my time in elementary schools. Kids would mainly make fun of me because of my height, while my ethnicity was just the cherry on top. I was your average shy 4-year-old. I had pigtails, a My Little Pony T-shirt, jean shorts and pink Velcro Converse. But I was 3 feet, 3 inches tall going into kindergarten. For years, I would be pushed around so easily that some of my friends thought I would break like a porcelain doll. I would be laughed at when I couldn’t reach a book on the middle shelf or when I couldn’t put a star-shaped sticker next to my name on the “good behavior” chart. I was overlooked, literally and metaphorically. By the time sixth grade came around, I was lean and about 4 feet, 2 inches tall. I was still known as the short Chinese girl, but kids would soon learn I wasn’t someone to mess with.
The Hangry Games
In the tranquility of the early morning or the chaos of the commute home from school, the feeling plows into me like a rhinoceros in a territorial battle.
I’m hangry.
I’ve been hangry my whole life. In fact, my mom tells me I was born hangry. The placenta wasn’t attached properly, so even though I was born a healthy baby, I occasionally had missed out on a free-flowing feast of nutrients. Eighteen years later, I’m still making up for that. And even though my newborn self expressed hangry feelings through a healthy set of lungs and vocal cords, my more recently evolved self tends to brood and pace quietly.
Embracing Amish Roots
Both of my parents have Amish backgrounds. In fact, my father actually grew up Amish and received his eight years of Amish education in a one-room schoolhouse.
My mother, on the other hand, wasn’t as “plain” as my dad was and earned a diploma from a Mennonite high school. As a result of my parents’ upbringing, Amish culture has had a large influence on my life and has affected me in positive and negative ways.
I credit my Amish background for giving me my work ethic. The Amish are very hard workers and extremely efficient when it comes to literally any trade. All one needs to do to experience this is to witness a barn frolic. Entire barns can be put up within a week when several hard-working Amish workers are on the job. I carry this same mindset and apply it to the work that I do.
The Amish also value family and community. This can be seen in the way that they willingly give their time to help a neighbor. Family is one of the most important things in my life, and I am forever grateful for the blessing of growing up the way I did.
Conquering the High-five
The words “Let’s play Ring Around the Rosie” struck fear into my 7-year-old heart. Aside from it being a dull activity, a teacher usually initiated it, which meant I had no choice but to participate. My fear stemmed from hyperhidrosis, a condition I had been diagnosed with that causes excessive sweating from my hands and feet. The symptoms are exacerbated in times of stress, such as tests, tennis matches and playing the piano, making it quite an inconvenience. On the rare occasion my hands were dry, I would worry about them sweating, which would cause them to sweat even more. Social situations were awkward, primarily due to the “dreaded handshake” with adults or high-fives with friends. Frequently, I would have to wipe my hand on my shirt, which had to be made of absorbent material, and hope the other person didn’t respond with disgust. I often hesitated, not wanting to make others uncomfortable, or worse, damp.
As I got older, I became more involved with activities and met more people, and my dripping hands started to impact my self-esteem. For example, during piano recitals, people scheduled to perform after me often had to wipe down the piano due to the sweat I left behind. During tests and speeches, my papers would often be wet, blurring the ink. This made it difficult to concentrate and made me anxious, which affected my motivation. At times, my condition was almost unbearable; as a result, I quit playing the violin, which I had played for five years, and almost quit the piano.
Living History
recall the
campus buzz
during
turbulent
times
Being and Nothingness
I knew about Sputnik because Professor W. Norwood Lowry had a physicist’s spasm over someone sending a rocket out of the earth’s atmosphere. “I never thought in my lifetime that something so spectacular could occur,” he said enthusiastically. All students taking sophomore physics attended weekly lectures that we dubbed “magic shows.” I didn’t see Sputnik, but my late wife, Suzanne, who was a student then at the University of Rochester, did. Optics, optical engineering and physics were part of the culture at Rochester, so she and her dormmates went to the dorm roof to watch Sputnik pass over in October 1957. Sputnik 2 followed with a Soviet space dog, Laika, aboard in November 1957; the U.S. launched Explorer two months later.
Generosity,
from Generation to Generation
Preserving a Trailblazer’s Intellectual Legacy
Now a new book by Professor Nina Banks, economics, is bringing this champion and exemplar of Black American accomplishments into the public eye. Released on June 15, exactly 100 years after Alexander became a newly minted Ph.D., Democracy, Race, & Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T.M. Alexander, has led to a rediscovery of a woman whose observations about democracy, civil rights and economic opportunities were visionary and remain relevant to today’s political, social and economic challenges. Banks’ book is the first in-depth exploration of the intellectual thought of an African American woman economist.
Robert A. Scott ’61
I entered Bucknell intending to become a minister, supported by an American Baptist Association scholarship. I was the first in my family to attend college. Over time, I have stayed close to Bucknell, even serving as president of the Alumni Association and a member of the Board of Trustees. On the Board, I met William R. White ’26, who had been Board chair when I was chairman of the Men’s Judicial Board. He remembered my visit to his office on a stormy January day in NYC to protest a decision by President Merle Odgers H’64 that overturned a Judicial Board action.
As a sophomore, I had doubts about why I was in school and whether I could afford to stay.Fortunately, Mildred Martin H’85, my English professor and adviser, talked me into rethinking my decision to leave and urged me to see Dean Charles Meyn about additional scholarship assistance. Together, they helped me determine how I could stay financially and why I should stay intellectually. I have been indebted to them and to Bucknell ever since.
I majored in English and worked in Bertrand Library 20 hours per week, mostly on Saturday afternoons, which meant I could read books on reserve without many interruptions. However, I did not miss out on the evening social life. I remember listening to Johnny Mathis singing “Chances Are” on the jukebox at the Bison and dancing at the Sweet Shoppe.
The Ellen Clarke Bertrand Society
The gifts of Bertrand Society members strengthen every facet of the University.
Laura and Daniel Bourdeau P’95
Gail Grootemaat ’70
Nancy Prial ’80
James Burke ’78
William D. Bandes Jr. M’58
Pamela Schrader Boerner ’67, P’94
Fannie Wood Brown ’33
C. Harold Cohn ’45
W. Edward Frazer Jr.
Harry Garvin
Keith Kenyon ’71, M’71
Robert Malesardi ’45, P’75, P’79, P’87, G’08
Donald Manning ’52, P’78
C. Graydon Rogers ’51, G’09, G’13
Ellis Rosenzweig P’96
Richard Skelton ’60, M’70, P’92
Margaret Farrell Smith ’41, G’91, G’18
Eugene M. Toombs P’92
Sylvia Beauregard Van Cleave ’59
Catherine Albright Ziegler ’49
Two Anonymous Members
Laura and Daniel Bourdeau P’95
Gail Grootemaat ’70
Nancy Prial ’80
James Burke ’78
We celebrate the legacy gifts made by members no longer with us:
William D. Bandes Jr. M’58
Pamela Schrader Boerner ’67, P’94
Fannie Wood Brown ’33
C. Harold Cohn ’45
W. Edward Frazer Jr.
Harry Garvin
Keith Kenyon ’71, M’71
Robert Malesardi ’45, P’75, P’79, P’87, G’08
Donald Manning ’52, P’78
C. Graydon Rogers ’51, G’09, G’13
Ellis Rosenzweig P’96
Richard Skelton ’60, M’70, P’92
Margaret Farrell Smith ’41, G’91, G’18
Eugene M. Toombs P’92
Sylvia Beauregard Van Cleave ’59
Catherine Albright Ziegler ’49
Two Anonymous Members
Accounting for Taste
People want their beverages to be delicious, healthy and natural. And they want the company behind the product to be environmentally responsible, socially aware and committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
That’s a lot to ask of a beverage company, but Bob Gamgort ’84, P’16, chairman and CEO at Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), is up for the challenge. Under his leadership, the company has evolved the beverage giant’s portfolio with more low- and no-calorie choices, become a leader in the premium water category and significantly ramped up its green-focused efforts. All of KDP’s coffee pods are now recyclable, its brewers include postconsumer recycled material (PCR), and the company is transitioning its beverage bottles (which are already recyclable) to be made from PCR, reducing the need for new plastic.
A Bridge to Success
Equity Meets Strategy
As a founding partner and chief operating officer of the firm, Crisi coaches Coston’s C-suite clients on everything from business strategy and marketing to the systematic integration of DEI into companies’ core missions.
“Everyone brings their identity and experience of the world into their work, and we all want to be in a place where we feel like we belong,” says Crisi, who is part of the LGBTQ community. “To accomplish that, organizations must connect sincerely to the principles of DEI. It’s such a privilege working with them on a daily basis to make real changes.”
Embracing the Spaces
Her first semester in Bucknell’s Arts Residential College flipped that perspective.
Olympic Efforts
“I’m pretty small compared to most of my competitors,” the three-time All-American says. “Most people assume that I’m a runner.”
But don’t let her size fool you. In June, she finished third at the NCAA Division I Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., where she hurled a career-best 185 feet, 4 inches on her second throw. That broke her own school record and earned Fiamoncini, of Mount Carmel, Pa., a First-Team All-American citation. She also notched Bucknell’s highest-ever NCAA Championship finish on the women’s side.
PA Party Wheels
“My husband began collecting VWs as a student at Dickinson College and never imagined there would be a market for renting these cars; it was just a hobby for us,” Tadich confesses. “But when a photographer friend came to take photos of our new baby daughter in May 2020, she saw our vintage VWs and told us people were always looking for them to use in photo shoots and at events.”
Career Clusters
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That’s the driving force behind two new tour options for visitors. Unlike student-led tours (which continue to be offered, albeit with some pandemic-prompted capacity limitations), these tours are available all day, any day.
The first is a driving tour, where visitors follow a recommended route past seven key spots on campus. At each stop, visitors pull over and press play on the accompanying audio, where a student describes what’s inside the nearby buildings, why they chose Bucknell and what sets the University apart.
Says Kevin Mathes ’07, Bucknell’s dean of admissions: “We’ve made it easier than ever for prospective students to explore Bucknell whenever, however and wherever they want.” — Bryan Wendell
Witty Winners
Gaming? Just give it a rest!
OK, I do yell
Hooray for Bucknell!
Gonna ace it by doing my best.”
Watercolor Quilt
Assistant Director of Admissions KRISTIN MORROW is an avid quilter. Before coming to Bucknell in 2011, she ran a custom quilt-making business called Quilt Traditions. For more than 15 years, she restored antique and vintage quilts, and fulfilled orders for commemorative quilts made from clothing such as wedding dresses, T-shirts or clothes from a deceased loved one.
Assistant Director of Admissions KRISTIN MORROW is an avid quilter. Before coming to Bucknell in 2011, she ran a custom quilt-making business called Quilt Traditions. For more than 15 years, she restored antique and vintage quilts, and fulfilled orders for commemorative quilts made from clothing such as wedding dresses, T-shirts or clothes from a deceased loved one.
photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
