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ENGINEERING AN ANNIVERSARY
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BY WAY OF BUCKNELL
ENGINEERING AN ANNIVERSARY
Tours of Breakiron Engineering Building will be offered during the 125th anniversary of engineering celebration. See this issue’s special supplement for more details.
If you would like a reprint of this photo, please fill out the form at bucknell.edu/bmagazine. We will send you a complimentary 8-by-10 print.
photograph by Emily Paine
Pathways
From Bucknell to South Sudan typography

by Matt Hughes

South Sudan has a grip on Professor DeeAnn Reeder’s imagination that even conflict and heartbreak can’t shatter.

While on a humanitarian trip in the early aughts, the biologist glimpsed the incredible diversity of bats filling the country’s night skies, and knew instantly she had to return as a scientist. A leading authority on bats and mammals, Reeder began studying South Sudan’s biodiversity in 2008, and has kept coming back even as civil war has torn the country apart.

Pathways
Pathways with DeeAnn Reeder
From Bucknell to South Sudan typography

by Matt Hughes

South Sudan has a grip on Professor DeeAnn Reeder’s imagination that even conflict and heartbreak can’t shatter.

While on a humanitarian trip in the early aughts, the biologist glimpsed the incredible diversity of bats filling the country’s night skies, and knew instantly she had to return as a scientist. A leading authority on bats and mammals, Reeder began studying South Sudan’s biodiversity in 2008, and has kept coming back even as civil war has torn the country apart.

Pathways
From Brazil to Big-Budget Films typography

by SUSAN LINDT

Cristiane Maia ’13 was only 9 when her family relocated from Brazil to Long Island.

“All I knew about the U.S. was Disney,” she says.

So she’s more surprised than anyone to work at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the international visual effects company founded by George Lucas. In recent years she’s worked on Ready Player One, Deepwater Horizon and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Pathways
Pathways with DeeAnn Reeder
From Brazil to Big-Budget Films typography

by SUSAN LINDT

Cristiane Maia ’13 was only 9 when her family relocated from Brazil to Long Island.

“All I knew about the U.S. was Disney,” she says.

So she’s more surprised than anyone to work at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the international visual effects company founded by George Lucas. In recent years she’s worked on Ready Player One, Deepwater Horizon and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Gateway
Letters
ACHIEVING THE DREAM:
My mother, Claire Marshall McLean ’55, and father taught me that it’s a privilege to be an American and to live in America. It’s the responsibility of this great university to teach the youth that they will be in charge of the future, letting all achieve the dream.
Chari Raye McLean
Annapolis, Md.
MORE BALANCE NEEDED
I was interested to see your article “Animal House: Bucknell’s animal behavior program celebrates 50 years as a top undergraduate program of its kind” in the Spring 2018 issue of Bucknell Magazine. Of particular interest to me were two statements quoted in the piece. One was Professor Emeritus Douglas Candland’s suggestion that “we wouldn’t do anything to [the primates studied in the program] we wouldn’t do to ourselves.” The other was Glen Tullman ’81’s opinion that “deep science” is compatible with the researchers’ “profound respect for the animals we cared for.” Having hosted an animal rights conference at Bucknell on March 3, I would have wished for a more balanced reflection on the very active controversy on the Bucknell campus regarding the ethics of animal experimentation. After all, we don’t confine human beings in cages the way we confine a variety of nonhuman animals for the purposes of experimentation, and the question of whether animal experimentation is genuinely compatible with “profound respect” for nonhuman animals is a matter of great controversy. That the University is open to this controversy is amply attested to by the fact that the offices of the president, the provost and the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences provided well over half the funding for the March 3 conference that I hosted.
Gary Steiner
Presidential Professor of Philosophy
A Premier Prize PRESENTER
I was delighted to see the story and video about David Sayer ’59 in the spring issue. I thought the trick of letting the readers follow him on a next drop-off of $10,000 was clever. I remember him as a gentle, careful soul who loved the arts. Though I was a scientist in the making, we connected via music. I enormously respect what David has done and how his career developed — a true entrepreneur before most Americans knew the word, among other things.

I also noticed in the spring edition the numerous positive letters from readers about the redesign. That, too, was a testament to a great magazine.

Doug Neckers ’60
Perrysburg, Ohio
OVERCOMING THE ODDS
The spring cover story led me to consider my own opinion on the American Dream today. I think many people still view the American Dream as the opportunity for any individual, to do anything one sets his or her mind to doing, through hard work and perseverance.

I’m not sure how much harder it is today to achieve the American Dream. I don’t think it was easy for the Puritans to cross the Atlantic Ocean to rugged, undeveloped terrain. (And I don’t think it was easy for Native American people to receive them.) I don’t think it was easy for millions of black people, brought to America against their will and sold into slavery. I don’t think it was easy for immigrants who faced ethnic prejudice and discrimination when they joined the American melting pot. I don’t think it was easy for Americans during the Great Depression, facing widespread poverty and uncertainty. Nor do I think it was easy for Vietnam War draftees to take arms and lose their lives, without choice. I don’t think it has been easy for the millions of Americans who currently live in poverty or the millions of refugees who desperately pray for sanctuary in the U.S.

Each generation has faced adversity, if not insurmountable odds, against its chances of reaching the American Dream — that beautiful, ethereal belief that “I can be anything I set my mind to being.”

What I do know is that no one can achieve the American Dream alone. And, while I admire those able to achieve their dreams, I hold in highest regard those individuals who commit themselves to furthering the dreams of others. In my mind, it is family, mentors, teachers, providers and leaders — who give their time and resources to those in need — who truly keep the American Dream alive and well. Thanks to you, the dream will never die.

Susan Douglas Wilson ’00
Greensburg, Pa.
Table of Contents
The sun sets over the Breakiron Engineering Building.
From Bucknell to South Sudan.
From Brazil to Big-budget Films.
GATEWAY
Our readers share their thoughts.
Peter Balakian ’73, P’10 returns as a Weis Fellow.
In Lewisburg and far afield, Bucknell’s students and staff make a positive and palpable difference.
Class of 2018 receives degrees at 168th Commencement.
Documentarian Ken Burns speaks about his Vietnam War series.
The Scratching Post opens downtown.
President Bravman’s contract is extended.
Kyi English ’19 reveals her faves.
Jeff Boison ’95 oversees graphic novel publishing for Image Comics.
Professor Craig Kochel teaches geomorphology.
Distance runner Colleen Buckley ’19 smashed many records.
Yubo Du ’21 offers tips for playing badminton.
Grant McKnight ’94 has revolutionized infield dirt.
Grace Shelton ’84 concludes her career as a diplomat.
FEATURES
Treasure trove of photos depicts bygone Bucknell era.
Lifelong shutterbug Norm Weber ’54 is still a shooting star.
Scandinavian-style weaving is a passion and a calling for Norma Skow Smayda ’55.
Alumni brewers help spur the craft-beer revolution.
Bill McShea ’77, P’09 is keeper of the country’s favorite bear.
’RAY BUCKNELL
Ever and always, for the students.
Climate Leviathan by Joel Wainwright ’95.
Peter ’60 and Anne Wagner Silberfarb ’62 put their hearts into conservation.
Toni Schaefer James ’60 built a career as a United Way leader.
Networking led to real estate success for alumni.
Playwright W. David Hancock ’84 immerses audiences in interactive worlds.
Jim Marshall ’88 scores big with sports marketing career.
Kimberly Wilson Welty ’93 leads the Bucknell University Alumni Association.
Eva Lipiec ’10 keeps Congress briefed on threats to the coastal U.S.
Bryan Richman ’14 develops the personal-care product LiteWipes.
Becky Snelson ’15 strides out in the Boston Marathon.
Alumni reflect on the late novelist, Class of ’54.
Alumni award-winners and more to celebrate.
Your opportunities to get involved.
Robert Drew ’59 has 250,000 postcards in his collection.
ON THE COVER:
A picnic and a pyramid at the Cowan retreat center capped a day of 1950s fun for Bucknell students.

Photograph by Norman Weber ’54.

ON THE BACK COVER:
Frank Davis ’82, P’13 (center) with wife Elena and son Michael ’13 at the dedication of Davis Hall, a building in the South Campus Apartments that was named to honor their $5 million gift. It supports diversity initiatives as well as the construction of Academic East and a new building for the Freeman College of Management.

Photo by Gordon Wenzel.

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Peter Balakian is the first Bucknellian to become a Weis Fellow
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Peter Balakian is the first Bucknellian to become a Weis Fellow.
Prized Poet Comes Home
by Christina Masciere Wallace
A warm glow filled Bucknell Hall on April 5 as family, friends and admirers of Peter Balakian ’73, P’10 welcomed the poet back to his spiritual campus home, where he became the 13th Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters.

In presenting the award, President John Bravman noted that Balakian is the first Bucknell graduate to be named a Weis Fellow. The honor recognizes the highest level of achievement in the craft of writing within the realms of fiction, nonfiction or biography. Previous recipients include Edward Albee, David McCullough, Derek Walcott, Tom Wolfe, Salman Rushdie, John Updike and Toni Morrison.

The Weis Fellow honor is the latest of many for Balakian, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Service to Humanity Award from the University at Reunion this June. Balakian is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English and director of creative writing at Colgate University.

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ACADEMIC EAST UNDERWAY
Bucknell broke ground on Academic East, an interdisciplinary lab and classroom center, in April. The 78,000-square-foot engineering and education building, which will complete a new quad behind Bertrand Library, is slated to open for the fall 2019 semester.
CONCUSSION TO COMMENDATION
Neuroscience major Ian Vogel ’19 won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for excellence in math, science or engineering. Vogel’s fascination with the the brain began in high school, after he suffered a concussion while snowboarding.
SEWING AWARENESS
Art collective Díaz Lewis brought its unique brand of politically motivated pillow-making to campus as the inaugural Ekard Artists-in-Residence. The couple, Cara Megan Lewis and Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perera, are making 34,000 pillows to represent the number of detained immigrants confined in U.S. detention facilities.
AROUND TOWN AND AROUND THE GLOBE
’burg and Beyond
In Lewisburg and far afield, Bucknell’s students and faculty make a positive and palpable difference.
Becca Mooney ’20 dishes out a hot meal
Photo: Emily Paine
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Becca Mooney ’20 dishes out a hot meal.

" "Community Harvest, Milton, Pa.
When she began volunteering at Community Harvest, a hot-meals program run by Bucknell’s Office of Civic Engagement, Becca Mooney ’20 had a revelation. “I was always surrounded by people aged 18 to 24, and it was so nice to interact with older people and younger kids and get to know another side of the community.”

The biomedical engineering major from Nazareth, Pa., knew she wanted to do everything she could in college, coming to campus the summer before her first year to do biology research as a STEM Scholar and joining the Social Justice Residential College. For her Foundation Seminar volunteering requirement, she chose Community Harvest.

AROUND TOWN AND AROUND THE GLOBE
’burg and Beyond
In Lewisburg and far afield, Bucknell’s students and faculty make a positive and palpable difference.
Lisa Perrone with a copy of the letter to Jefferson.
Photo: Emily Paine
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Lisa Perrone with a copy of the letter to Jefferson.

" "National Central Library of Florence, Italy
Three summers ago, Italian studies professor Lisa Perrone visited the library to research Carlo Bellini, hired in 1779 by Thomas Jefferson to teach modern languages at The College of William & Mary, Perrone’s alma mater. Nothing surfaced for Bellini, but she found another thread that led straight to the third U.S. president.

Another friend of Jefferson’s, Filippo Mazzei, piqued her interest. A political philosopher, physician and Italian patriot of the American Revolution, his name frequently appeared in Jefferson’s and Bellini’s correspondence. A letter Mazzei had written offering health tips to an unknown recipient looked intriguing. As she transcribed it, one place name stood out: Monticello.

168th COMMENCEMENT
Navigating life’s ‘twists and turns’
by Matt Hughes
A few short years ago, Jackson Pierce-Felker ’18 (top left) imagined a track ahead that was safe but conservative: a college close to home, a business degree and “any job that would pay enough to support my family.” Four years later, delivering the graduating class response at Bucknell’s 168th Commencement, the psychology and creative writing major from outside Washington, D.C., reflected with pride on how much he gained by straying from the obvious path.

Pierce-Felker delivered his remarks May 20 to the 868 members of Bucknell’s Class of 2018 on Malesardi Quadrangle Sunday. Among them were the inaugural 137 graduates of the University’s new Freeman College of Management, which was elevated to a college in 2017.

Ken Burns takes questions from students before his Bucknell Forum appearance.
Photo: Emily Paine
Ken Burns takes questions from students before his Bucknell Forum appearance.
“Whatever division we want to make, we’re certain to superimpose that over everything.”
‘A Certain Humanity’
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns sorts through the past to explain the present
by MATT HUGHES

Before Ken Burns’ Bucknell Forum appearance April 9 — where he shared insights from his career chronicling the American experience, discussed the challenges of portraying a subject as multifaceted as war, and brought the crowd to its feet — the documentary filmmaker sat down with Bucknell Magazine to discuss his 10-part series, The Vietnam War, which aired on PBS stations last fall. Following are edited insights from that conversation.

On lessons from a gold-star mother
“We are all so dialectically preoccupied right now. Everything is red state or blue state, white or black, male or female, gay or straight. Whatever division we want to make, we’re certain to superimpose that over everything. And actually what a gold-star mother — and I hope the experiences of the soldiers, and of the people who were protesting — shows you, is that sometimes they cancel each other out. That it’s not really that dialectic. There’s something bigger.”

Lewisburg Cat Café? Meow.
by Paula Cogan Myers
A café denizen hangs out.
A café denizen hangs out.
Photo: Emily Paine
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Sarah Kline M’06 (left) and Angie Brouse at the downtown Lewisburg cat café.
A café denizen hangs out.
A black-and-white tuxedo cat called Leo slips out from underneath the sofa and jumps up to check on his sister Phoebe, who is taking a nap in a colorful box affixed to the wall. A little girl and her mom follow his path, wondering if he’ll be the one. The scene is Lewisburg’s new cat café, The Scratching Post, opened by Sarah Kline M’06, Bucknell’s associate director of prospect management and analytics, and Angela Brouse, former regional director of leadership gifts.

Colleagues and neighbors, Kline and Brouse often shared stories of the kittens and cats they rescued. Brouse kept hearing about cat cafés in major cities and mentioned it to Kline, thinking they’d laugh it off, but Kline had recently started her own nonprofit, Cherished Cats Rescue Alliance, and saw it as a great adoption platform.

Bucknell leaders look to the future
by Andy Hirsch
Bucknell’s Board of Trustees set the stage for the continued evolution of the University during its April meeting. The board and President John Bravman agreed to extend Bravman’s contract through June 2025. At the conclusion of the extension, Bravman will be the third-longest-serving president in Bucknell’s history; he began his tenure in 2010.

“The Board of Trustees unanimously believes that, under John’s continued leadership, Bucknell will capitalize on its forward momentum and advance its position as one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher education under his direction,” said board chair Ken Freeman ’72.

The meeting marked the last for Freeman, who will step down from the board in June following 17 years of service, including nine as board chair. During their eight years together, Freeman and Bravman have led Bucknell through a number of historic accomplishments, including the completion of the $513 million WE DO Campaign, the establishment of the Freeman College of Management and a number of significant construction and renovation projects designed to strengthen Bucknell’s residential education.

Kyi English Illustration
Illustration: Joel Kimmel
Kyi English ’19
Psychology major and
women’s basketball standout
from East Orange, N.J.
What I'm watching Logo for Bucknell Magazine
13th, a 2016 documentary directed by Ava DuVernay. The 13th amendment freed slaves and prohibited slavery; however, slavery was still a form of punishment used if a black individual committed a crime. This film analyzes the relationship between justice, race and mass incarceration in America and uses people such as Angela Davis, Cory Booker and Van Jones to gain insight on issues based on the criminalization of African-Americans and the corrupt prison system in America today.
The Illusionists media cover
The Illusionists, a 2015 documentary by Elena Rossini. This film focuses on the marketing of unachievable beauty throughout the world. Rossini shot this film in eight countries. Through the data she finds in these different cultures, the audience gains insight into how cultures utilize media and other forms of marketing to force specific beauty images onto the culture’s population.
Seven Seconds Netflix poster
Seven Seconds, a Netflix series by Veena Sud. Seven Seconds is loosely based on the life of Brenton Butler, an African-American teen. One morning, while driving, a white male police officer accidentally hits and severely injures Butler. Police are then called to the scene and decide to cover up the accident due to the belief that Butler is dead. This miniseries raises racial awareness as the story follows the lives of Butler and his family as well as the lives of the police officers.
What I'm watching Logo for Bucknell Magazine
Kyi English Illustration
Illustration: Joel Kimmel
Kyi English ’19
Psychology major and
women’s basketball standout
from East Orange, N.J.
13th, a 2016 documentary directed by Ava DuVernay. The 13th amendment freed slaves and prohibited slavery; however, slavery was still a form of punishment used if a black individual committed a crime. This film analyzes the relationship between justice, race and mass incarceration in America and uses people such as Angela Davis, Cory Booker and Van Jones to gain insight on issues based on the criminalization of African-Americans and the corrupt prison system in America today.
The Illusionists media cover
The Illusionists, a 2015 documentary by Elena Rossini. This film focuses on the marketing of unachievable beauty throughout the world. Rossini shot this film in eight countries. Through the data she finds in these different cultures, the audience gains insight into how cultures utilize media and other forms of marketing to force specific beauty images onto the culture’s population.
Seven Seconds Netflix poster
Seven Seconds, a Netflix series by Veena Sud. Seven Seconds is loosely based on the life of Brenton Butler, an African-American teen. One morning, while driving, a white male police officer accidentally hits and severely injures Butler. Police are then called to the scene and decide to cover up the accident due to the belief that Butler is dead. This miniseries raises racial awareness as the story follows the lives of Butler and his family as well as the lives of the police officers.
Pop Quiz
Jeff
Boison ’95
Director, Publishing Planning, Image Comics
Boison still has the rejection letter from DC Comics when, at age 11, he sent the comic book publisher some sketches. Twenty-five years later, the English major joined DC as an executive director and today oversees Image Comics’ English language graphic-novel sales to bookstores worldwide.
Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters Portrait Image
Photo: Owen Boison
Geomorphology students traverse the Susquehanna
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Geomorphology students traverse the Susquehanna.
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Geomorphology students traverse the Susquehanna.

Geomorphology

What Class?
Geomorphology
Who Teaches It?
Professor Craig Kochel, geology & environmental geosciences
Most labs take place outdoors, where students get hands-on experience making observations, collecting data and learning how to apply these to situations they will likely encounter in environmental consulting firms, government agencies or graduate school. My approach takes advantage of Bucknell’s location and focuses on developing observational and interpretive skills in the field.
Distance runner, Colleen Buckley competing in the NCAA East Preliminary Meet in Tampa
Photo: Marc Hegemeir
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Buckley smashed the 10K outdoor record in the NCAA East Preliminary Meet in Tampa, Fla., May 24—26.
Running Ahead of the Pack
by Kathryn Nicolai ’20

Bucknell distance runner Colleen Buckley ’19 is approaching a future career with animals as fast as she does the finish line at her track & field and cross-country meets.

Since childhood, Buckley has dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. This made Bucknell and its distinctive Animal Behavior Program an attractive choice.

“At a lot of schools you can only take biology, but I wanted something that would get me in with animals in my undergrad,” says Buckley, of River Edge, N.J.

Buckley splits her time between running and working hands-on with animals as a research assistant at the primate lab. She also studies the impulsivity of dogs belonging to Lewisburg residents and Bucknell professors for her Research Methods in Learning course.

Ask the Expert text
How to Break into Badminton
Yubo Du Illustration
Illustration: Joel Kimmel
" " Back home in China, where the sport is more popular and competitive than in the U.S., Yubo Du ’21 was the captain of his high school’s badminton team. Upon arriving at Bucknell he joined an informal group of badminton players from around the world, who this summer took their play to the next level by becoming an official student club. He offers tips for getting into this rapid-fire, acrobatic sport.
Grant McKnight surveying his red-clay mix at his Grove City, Pa. facility
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Grant McKnight with the red-clay infield mix at his Grove City, Pa., facility.
digging his job
Fielder’s Choice
Grant McKnight ’94 has revolutionized infield dirt for the Major Leagues and beyond
by Michael Agresta
I

t was Game Five of the 2008 World Series, and the rain was coming down hard. The Philadelphia Phillies led 2-1 in the top of the sixth inning, but B.J. Upton of the Tampa Bay Rays stood on first base, representing the tying run. It seemed inevitable that the game would be suspended soon due to weather, yet somehow the infield was still playable. As Cole Hamels wound up to pitch, Upton took off on the base path, sprinting into the driving rain. He executed a perfect slide, finding no muddy resistance in the infield dirt despite the wet conditions. Upton beat the Phillies catcher’s throw to complete a successful steal of second base and put himself in position to score the crucial tying run.

“It was at that point I knew that we had something special,” says Grant McKnight ’94, founder of DuraEdge Products, who had engineered the infield at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park, his first Major League Baseball client.

Wide view of Pittsburgh Pirates PNC Park
Grant McKnight working on a field
Photos: Pittsburgh Pirates; Copyright ©, Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, 2018, all rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
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Top: Grant McKnight has furnished dirt for 22 pro baseball infields. Bottom: Grant McKnight with the red-clay infield mix at his Grove City, Pa., facility.
“If you can play through that, and the whole surface doesn’t fall apart, you have the ability to push the envelope,” McKnight says. “If you can play in the rain, they can get the game in, and they can generate their gate, their revenue for the evening. For professional baseball, it’s all about money — TV contracts and gates. They have to play the game in order to get the revenue.”
Q&A
Grace Shelton Illustration
Illustration: Joel Kimmel
Grace Shelton ’84
A Post-to-Post Journey
by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux
Grace Shelton ’84’s career as a diplomat has taken her all over the world and given her a front-row seat for crucial global transitions and conflicts, most recently as U.S. consul general in Karachi, Pakistan. As she prepared to retire from the State Department at the end of April, we spoke with Shelton about her life as a diplomat.
Features
TREASURE TROVE KEEPING A FOCUS ON THE FIFTIES
photograph of Norman Weber ’54 by steve boxall
Claiming Their Place typography
Treasure trove of photos depicts a bygone Bucknell era
by sherri Kimmel
Norman Weber ’54 and Nancy Scarlett Cole ’57, all dolled up for the 1954 Homecoming Dance.
Time it was
And what a time it was
It was a time of innocence
A time of confidences

Long ago, it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They’re all that’s left you

Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel

Claiming Their Place typography
Treasure trove of photos depicts a bygone Bucknell era
by sherri Kimmel
Norman Weber ’54 and Nancy Scarlett Cole ’57, all dolled up for the 1954 Homecoming Dance.
Time it was
And what a time it was
It was a time of innocence
A time of confidences

Long ago, it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They’re all that’s left you

Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel

F

or some people today, the 1950s conjures images of small-town parades with marching bands led by high-stepping majorettes wearing tall white hats and fringed costumes. Boys in rolled-up jeans cruised the Dairy Queen in long-finned cars alongside girls with perky ponytails, poodle skirts and saddle shoes. Small children — neighbors — walked a half-mile, unsupervised, from what we now call mid-century modern homes to the downtown theatre where a triple feature of Three Stooges could be had for the Saturday-matinee price of 10 cents. In the small towns of America, everybody knew everybody — and everybody’s business.

I grew up in just such a town in the Midwest, but I’d wager life in 1950s Lewisburg was much the same. But in Lewisburg there was Bucknell — arrayed on an idyllic hill topped with red-brick Georgian architecture, a place where brothers didn’t watch TV at the fraternity house, because televisions were a rarity. Instead, they talked, laughed and sang long into the night. Their interactions with women were limited by curfews (for the women) and other rules. Homecoming was formal yet festive, and the marching band was a brash, vigorous presence on campus. How do we know this? Well, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. And do we ever have pictures — 100 of them. But first, how did we get those photographs?

The Man Behind the Camera
Lifelong shutterbug Norman Weber is still actively shooting at age 85
by Sherri Kimmel
Norman Weber with his camera
Photo: Steve Boxall

When Norman Weber ’54 made the journey from Maplewood, N.J., to Lewisburg in 1950, he brought along his love of photography as well as a desire to excel in his major, commerce and finance. But his first room assignment seemed destined to doom his study plans. How could one concentrate in a room occupied by 30 to 40 other first-year men?

What was then known as Steel Dorm — now the site of the Animal Behavior Lab on the west side of Route 15 — was a 40 foot by 100 foot steel building provided by the federal Public Works Administration in 1947.

’50s Bucknell
Photos: Special Collections/University Archives; Wikimedia Commons
President Horace A. Hildreth (1949-1953)
  • Above: President Horace A. Hildreth (1949-1953)
  • Succeeded by Joseph Welles Henderson (interim president 1953-1954)
  • Succeeded by Merle Middleton Odgers (1954-1964)
Traditions
Dad’s Day
Celebrated as a way for fathers of undergrads to “get on the inside of The Bucknell Way of Life,” according to Bucknell Alumnus. President Hildreth told a 1950 Dad’s Day audience: “I want to state for all the young men and women who come to our campus the emphasis will be on opportunity not security.”
May Day
This three-day spring celebration had the theme Sidewalks of New York in 1951. An annual highlight: The previous year’s May Queen crowned her successor.
May Queen: Sally Spencer ’53
Sally Spencer ’53
The Mr. Ugly Man Contest
In 1953, Art Kinney ’56 won after receiving the most change, $113.20, dropped into his milk bottle. The money went toward the Mortar Board Student Aid Fund for students in financial need.
Looking Outward
On Nov. 5, 1953, 90 guests arrived on campus to attend the sixth annual Burma-Bucknell Weekend. Until 1965, these yearly gatherings brought together the worlds of university, community, religion, government and business in mutual understanding across diverse ethnic groups.
1958 Weekend guests of sixth annual Burma-Bucknell Weekend
1958 Weekend guests
The campus radio station WVBU had a jam-packed schedule. Two of the most popular programs in 1953 were the 7-8:45 a.m. Jam for Breakfast show, featuring tunes to rev up the day, and its bookend, The Bitter End request show, 9:45 p.m.-1 a.m.
Farmiculture
Bucknell had two University Farms (one between Route 15 and the golf course and another on Route 45, west of Lewisburg) to supply students with “fresh pasteurized milk in abundant quantities.”
Bucknell had two University Farms
FUN ’50s FACTS
1950
Costs: Tuition: $500; room and board for men: $1,010-$1,240; women: $1,133

1952
Student body: graduating seniors: 452 total students — 302 men, 150 “girls.” Most popular majors: 113 commerce and finance, 75 engineering, 44 education, 42 biology

1952
Homecoming: A record 11,000 people attended

President Horace A. Hildreth (1949-1953)
  • Above: President Horace A. Hildreth (1949-1953)
  • Succeeded by Joseph Welles Henderson (interim president 1953-1954)
  • Succeeded by Merle Middleton Odgers (1954-1964)
Traditions
Dad’s Day
Celebrated as a way for fathers of undergrads to “get on the inside of The Bucknell Way of Life,” according to Bucknell Alumnus. President Hildreth told a 1950 Dad’s Day audience: “I want to state for all the young men and women who come to our campus the emphasis will be on opportunity not security.”

May Day
This three-day spring celebration had the theme Sidewalks of New York in 1951. An annual highlight: The previous year’s May Queen crowned her successor.

May Queen: Sally Spencer ’53
Sally Spencer ’53
The Mr. Ugly Man Contest
In 1953, Art Kinney ’56 won after receiving the most change, $113.20, dropped into his milk bottle. The money went toward the Mortar Board Student Aid Fund for students in financial need.
Looking Outward
On Nov. 5, 1953, 90 guests arrived on campus to attend the sixth annual Burma-Bucknell Weekend. Until 1965, these yearly gatherings brought together the worlds of university, community, religion, government and business in mutual understanding across diverse ethnic groups.
1958 Weekend guests of sixth annual Burma-Bucknell Weekend
1958 Weekend guests
The campus radio station WVBU had a jam-packed schedule. Two of the most popular programs in 1953 were the 7-8:45 a.m. Jam for Breakfast show, featuring tunes to rev up the day, and its bookend, The Bitter End request show, 9:45 p.m.-1 a.m.
Farmiculture
Bucknell had two University Farms (one between Route 15 and the golf course and another on Route 45, west of Lewisburg) to supply students with “fresh pasteurized milk in abundant quantities.”
Bucknell had two University Farms
FUN ’50s FACTS
1950
Costs: Tuition: $500; room and board for men: $1,010-$1,240; women: $1,133

1952
Student body: graduating seniors: 452 total students — 302 men, 150 “girls.” Most popular majors: 113 commerce and finance, 75 engineering, 44 education, 42 biology

1952
Homecoming: A record 11,000 people attended

The Fiber of Life
Scandinavian-style weaving is a passion and a calling
by Julia Stevens ’20
Norma Skow Smayda ’55 with her date, Fuller Blunt ’55, at the Homecoming dance in 1954.
Today Smayda spends her time teaching and weaving. Here she fashions a piece on the loom in the silo of her weaving school, which has 40 floor looms.
Norma Skow Smayda ’55
Norma Skow Smayda ’55 with her date, Fuller Blunt ’55, at the Homecoming dance in 1954.
Today Smayda spends her time teaching and weaving. Here she fashions a piece on the loom in the silo of her weaving school, which has 40 floor looms.
Norma Skow Smayda ’55
Photos: Norman Weber ’54; inset right, Jan Prager

Norma Skow Smayda ’55 is pictured here with Fuller Stanton Blunt ’55, her date to the Homecoming dance. Smayda graduated from Bucknell with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry, but her second career took her from science into the arts and crafts. While living in Norway with her first husband in the late 1960s, Smayda saw a flyer for a local weaving school. She became fascinated with the craft and learned all she could while in Norway. Smayda returned to the United States and pursued an MFA in visual design at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. In 1974, she established the Saunderstown Weaving School in Rhode Island, where she teaches beginning and advanced weavers. In 1982 she married Andrew Staley, who helped her develop the school into the unique place it has become.

A Brewing Revolution Badge
From Fizzy to Refined
Through science and artistry, beer is evolving
by Matt Brasch ’96
 Jen Yuengling ’93, helps lead the family brewery, which was founded in 1829.
A Brewing Revolution Badge
From Fizzy to Refined
Through science and artistry, beer is evolving
by Matt Brasch ’96
 Jen Yuengling ’93, helps lead the family brewery, which was founded in 1829.
Photo: Dustin Fenstermacher
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Alumni brewers help spur the craft-beer revolution at home and abroad
The American beer scene today is a veritable fountain of beer styles and flavors, with the industry experiencing exponential growth in the number of new breweries during the last 30 years. As the industry has expanded, the perception of American beer and its culture has shifted dramatically from workingman’s grog and party fuel to a sophisticated, wine-like elixir. Bucknellians have been involved in all aspects of the craft-beer revolution, whether as brewers, owners (Glenn Bernabeo ’95 of Riverhorse Brewing Co.), brewery operations managers (Tim Ohst ’95 of Sly Fox Brewing Co.), business administrators (Peter Kasper ’10 of Yards Brewing Co.) or in support of breweries through education and sales (Morgan Ross-Smith ’03) and accounting (Chad DeHart ’96).

The current craft-beer renaissance is the most recent step in a long recovery from the effects of Prohibition, which left only 331 breweries on its repeal in 1933, compared to 669 when it was enacted in 1920. In the 1940s and ’50s, most surviving breweries followed the market trend that called for beer with an American identity. This led to the dominance of one style of beer — the yellow, fizzy liquid now referred to as American adjunct lager, typified by Budweiser and Miller — and a market consolidation that dropped the number of breweries below 100 in the late 1970s.

 Passionate about wild animals, McShea works to conserve large mammals such as giant pandas, takin and Asiatic black bears in the bamboo forests of China.
Don’t Call Him ‘Panda Guy’
Bill McShea ’77, P’09 is so much more than just the keeper of the country’s favorite bear
by Michael Blanding
photographs by James Kegley
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f you run into Bill McShea ’77, P’09 at a cocktail party, ask him about the star-nosed mole. Ask him about the golden takin, a powerful moose-sized goat native to southern China. Ask him about the sun bear, a resourceful ursid from Southeast Asia that uses massive claws to shinny up trees to get at the fruit they love. Just don’t ask him about the giant panda. “As soon as you tell someone you work with giant pandas, they say, ‘That’s fantastic! I wish I could do that,’ ” McShea says with a deep sigh. “They say, ‘Oh, it’s so cute!’ ”

It’s not that McShea doesn’t like pandas — as a wildlife ecologist at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute it’s his job to study wild pandas to aid the bears’ keepers at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C — he just doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. In a TEDx Talk McShea gave in 2014, titled “A Sickness Called Panda Love,” he turned Yogi on his head, describing the species as just an “average bear.” After all, pandas spend almost all of their waking hours sitting around eating bamboo, a plant so ill-suited to their digestive systems that they have to eat 20 to 40 pounds of it a day to get the nutrition they need.

INTO THE FUTURE: Amarachi Ekekwe ’18 graduates to a job at CNN.
Photo: Timothy Sofranko
From the President department heading
Illustration of John C. Bravman, President
Illustration: Joel Kimmel
Ever and Always, for the Students
Commencement is an emotional event each year — for the members of the graduating class and their families, for our faculty and staff, and, yes, for me as president. As our seniors cross over from student to graduate and prepare to leave this special place they have called home for four years, the same exuberant but bittersweet sensation grips me anew each and every time.

Yet after all of the names are called, speeches delivered and mortarboards tossed to the sky, I see the joy and optimism in our newest graduates’ faces, and I am reminded of why one dedicates his or her life to academia: faith in our future — faith in our students, for whom, ultimately, Bucknell exists.

Book Talk
books
Climate Leviathan
by Kathryn Nicolai ’20 and Sherri Kimmel
Joel Wainwright ’95 is a geographer by trade, but one who dove deeply into the classic foundational texts of Western political philosophy to develop a political theory that addresses the challenges of resolving climate change. The result is Climate Leviathan.
Joel Wainwright author headshot
Photo: Ohio State University
Joel Wainwright’s book grew out of a talk he gave at Bucknell.
GEOGRAPHERS AS PHILOSOPHERS
Wainwright, an associate professor at Ohio State University, and his co-author, Geoff Mann, director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, make their living by teaching geography, but they read Hobbes, Locke, Hegel and Marx to inform their writing, because they didn’t feel there was a coherent political theory undergirding efforts to rein in global climate emissions.
PROFILE
Loving the Land
Peter ’60 and Anne Wagner Silberfarb ’62 put their hearts into conservation
by Heidi Hormel
Accidental preservationists 50 years ago, Peter ’60 and Anne Wagner Silberfarb ’62 were more deliberate in 2013 when they donated easements to the Vermont Land Trust from the 196-acre parcel they bought in the late 1960s as a getaway spot.
Peter and Anne Wagner Silberfarb on their land
Volunteer conservationists Peter (right) and Anne Wagner Silberfarb on their land.
“While searching, we saw a property that looked untouched by logging, and we bought it,” explains education major Anne Silberfarb, who retired in 2000 after a decades-long career working in special education. “It was a very special forest we bought unknowingly” in Sharon, Vt.

The couple later discovered the property was adjacent to nearly 2,000 conserved acres, which support needed wildlife corridors and also contain the increasingly rare vernal (seasonal) pools where amphibians breed.

WAYFINDER
Toni Schaefer James ’60
In 1979, nearly 20 years after I graduated from Bucknell, and when times were were rough financially for me and my young son, my dad told me that that his gift to me — paying for Bucknell — was like money in the bank. In my student days (the 1950s) it cost $2,000 per year to attend Bucknell. That included tuition, room and board, and $500 for books, clothes, etc. My degree was in English literature, hardly an immediate pathway into a profession, but Dad paid it all.

In the late ’50s, a woman didn’t automatically think of working after college. Most expected to get married and raise a family. I applied for a job with the CIA so I could travel the world, but I quickly found that it took six months for them to do a background check on me, so off I went to work in Philadelphia. Unbeknownst to me, my parents were selling my childhood home and moving to Florida, 1,100 miles from me. Yikes! I wasn’t ready for that, and I left for Florida.

A DIRECTOR AT 23
There I found a job as a secretary for a newly created United Way. As it turned out, my boss, the executive director, quit in six months. At 23, I was left to run the place. What did I know about such things? Long story short, I ran the United Way for 4 ½ years, until I married and did what all young women did in those days: I stayed home and hoped to get pregnant. Six years later, I did. But nine years after that came a divorce and a bankruptcy. That’s when Dad made the statement about Bucknell being money in the bank. My bachelor of arts degree at Bucknell was the ticket to being hired back at the United Way as the executive director, and I stayed there for another 26 years, leading annual fundraising drives from $300,000 in 1980 to $2.5 million in 2006, when I retired.
Career
Clusters
Steven Kohn ’81 landed his first job in real estate through a Bucknellian. During high-school summers, he worked for Pasta and Cheese, a food company owned by former trustee Henry Lambert ’57. Lambert offered him a job at his real-estate business after Kohn’s Bucknell graduation. Now a vice chairman for Cushman & Wakefield, one of the world’s largest real-estate firms, and a Bucknell trustee, Kohn has followed a path that exemplifies the power of the Bucknell network.
Career Clusters graphic
Career Clusters graphic
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt/BloodHorse
PROFILE
The Human Laboratory
Playwright W. David Hancock ’84 immerses audiences in interactive worlds.
by Michael Blanding
You enter a gallery filled with unusual artworks by a forgotten African- American artist called Uncle Jimmy, who spent his life obsessed with a radical reimagining of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. As you examine the works, the late artist’s estranged son stands up to make halting remarks about his father’s art. The artist’s estranged wife, who is white, is here too, and as the tension grows between them, a complicated picture of race, regret, art and grief emerges.
W. David Hancock at a French production of one of his plays
Photo: Kristin Newbom
W. David Hancock at a French production of one of his plays.
A fortuitous circumstance or a play by W. David Hancock ’84? Sometimes, it can be difficult to tell. “I like creating the feeling that you stumbled across this magical world that nobody else knows about,” says Hancock, who has spent two decades creating scenarios that blur reality and fiction. His play, Master, was named a best theatre performance of 2017 by The New York Times. In some works, the audience determines the performance, as in 1998’s The Race of the Ark Tattoo, set in a flea market, where the story unfolds according to which objects audience members touch.
PROFILE
Making His Goals
Jim Marshall ’88 scores big with sports marketing career
by Benjamin Gleisser
Working with owners and executives from NFL and National Hockey League franchises is just part of the daily routine for Jim Marshall ’88. As vice president of sports and entertainment at JPMorgan Chase, he helps plan and analyze major sponsorships that boost the firm’s marketing.
Jim Marshall in a suit in his office
Jim Marshall has parlayed his interest in sports to his career.
“Sports has always been part of my life,” says Marshall. “In middle school, I knew I was never going to compete, but I wanted to stay connected to sports, so I became the equipment manager for my high school’s football, basketball and lacrosse teams.”

Born with cerebral palsy, Marshall had six operations as a youngster. “They enabled me to eventually walk with a pronounced gait,” he says. “My dad, Dan, was a New York City fire captain — a big man — who taught me to strive to be like everyone else. Growing up, I always saw myself as just one of the guys, part of the team.”

Flashback
Kimberly Wilson Wetty headshot
The New Leader
Ask Kimberly Wilson Wetty ’93 how Bucknell has influenced her life, and she’ll tell you the University gave her the freedom to discover who she wanted to be as a person and as a professional. Wetty, the co-owner and co-president of Valerie Wilson Travel Inc., became president of the Bucknell University Alumni Association Board of Directors in June.
1. How did Bucknell shape your career?
At Bucknell, I found my self-confidence, mastered the skill of critical thinking, took on leadership roles and, most importantly, learned that mistakes create an opportunity for growth and advancement.
2. What class opened your eyes the most?
My psychology classes by far! Professor Joel Wade was my favorite teacher and become a lifelong mentor and friend. Being able to better understand people and learning the art of communication and active listening has served me well.
Profile
Coast Guard
Eva Lipiec ’10 keeps Congress briefed on threats to the coastal U.S.
by Andrew Faught
When Superstorm Sandy lashed the East Coast in 2012, the Rockaway Beach, N.Y., childhood home of Eva Lipiec ’10 bore some of the worst of the devastation. The tragedy set Lipiec on a new career path.
Eva Lipiec in front of the capitol
Photo: Dylan McDowell
During her Sea Grant fellowship last year Eva Lipiec ’10 advised congressional representatives.
“I’m a big fan of the beach, a big fan of the lifestyle,” says the once-aspiring archaeologist. In February she became an analyst for the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress that provides nonpartisan analysis to lawmakers, who can use the information to address coastal issues.

For the CRS, Lipiec studies ecosystem restoration and coastal resilience. (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates there are 95,471 miles of shoreline in the United States, a figure that includes the edges of lakes, bays and rivers.)

Entrepreneur Spotlight
Bryan Richman headshot and packaging design for LiteWipes
Photo: Rahul Goyal
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richman says his Bucknell education taught him the importance of diving in and seizing opportunities.
LiteWipes
by Matt Hughes
“Clean is confident” is how entrepreneur Bryan Richman ’14 explains the value of LiteWipes, the personal-care product he began selling in November. “I guarantee they will make you feel cleaner than toilet paper alone,” the Bucknell management grad declares, “and one will come in handy when you least expect it.”

Richman, who is taking a pause from his consulting job at Deloitte to attend Columbia Business School, launched a side business selling individually wrapped, pocket-size flushable wipes through Amazon.com in November, and had already moved more than 50,000 wipes to more than 1,000 customers in the first six months.

Richman concedes his isn’t the only product of its kind on the market — flushable wipes are already a multibillion-dollar industry — but he says what sets his wipes apart is their packaging — discreet, gender-neutral and, most important, small enough to easily fit in a wallet or purse. Smart search-engine optimization has also helped him land his wipes among the top search results in the travel wipes category on Amazon — a key to his early success. He adds that the fabric in LiteWipes has been independently certified to exceed flushability guidelines to alleviate plumbing concerns.

PROFILE
See How She Runs
Becky Snelson ’15 strides out in the
Boston Marathon
by Robert Strauss
When the day dawned for her first Boston Marathon, Becky Snelson ’15 was ready, even though the day barely dawned.

“The weather was always somewhere between a steady rain and a deluge, in the low 40s and windy,” says Snelson. “Weather is one of those things you can’t control. My coach said to stay with packs of runners and dress for the winter.”

Snelson persevered and ran her best marathon time — two hours, 49 minutes, 50 seconds — to place 14th among women, less than 10 minutes behind the winner.

“In a couple of places there were pools and streams of water,” she says. “Once your shoes are totally soaked, it doesn’t really matter — although if you stepped in a puddle, you got a shock of cold.”

Becky Snelson running in the rain
Despite fitful weather Becky Snelson ran a stellar race.
Reflecting on Roth Badge
Recalling a Literary Lion
by Sherri Kimmel
Philip Roth with Jack Wheatcroft in 2008
Photo: Special Collections/University Archives
Philip Roth (right) with Jack Wheatcroft in 2008.
The Bucknell alumni and campus communities were astir early on May 23, as news of the passing of Philip Roth ’54, one of the most eminent Bucknellians and a leading light of American literature, broke in major newspapers around the world.

We sought out several friends of the author of Portnoy’s Complaint, American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America and nearly 20 other novels, for comments, including his fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner, the poet Peter Balakian ’73, P’10 who spent an afternoon talking with Roth at his Manhattan apartment last fall. “I found Philip warm and friendly — and happy to reminisce,” says Balakian. “I asked him a lot about his college days, and he said, ‘I have nothing but good feelings about Bucknell — the place did a lot for me.’

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.
1937
Martha Knights Carey P’71, Feb. 28, Williamsport, Pa.
1943
Eleanor Greene Byrnes P’68, Feb. 10, Milford, Conn.
Marlin Sheridan, Sept. 2, Coldspring, Texas
1945
Gabriel Fackre, Jan. 31, Centerville, Mass.
1946
Dorothy King Anderson, Feb. 4, Lake Worth, Fla.
Richard White, March 9, Hingham, Mass.
1947
Doris Lyngaas Caldwell, March 17, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Charlotte Schultz Custer, Jan. 23, Springfield, Va.
Alice Fenstermacher Fegley, Jan. 22, Northumberland, Pa.
Harold Kullman P’69, G’94, March 19, Livingston, N.J.
1948
Jean Kohler Duerig, April 10, 2017, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Adair Appleton Lazell, Jan. 15, Torrance, Calif.
1949
Dorothea Kayhart Ax P’77, March 2, Manchester, Vt.
Marilyn West Barrick, Feb. 20, Bensalem, Pa.
William Bastian, March 11, Lycoming County, Pa.
David Kirschstein P’84, Aug. 26, 2016, Chappaqua, N.Y.
Juliet Mason Wheeler, Nov. 17, Venice, Fla.
Franklin Wolf, Jan. 23, 2017, Plant City, Fla.
1951
Dorothy Winterstella Bergman, Feb. 7, Wilmington, Del.
Susan Reinoehl Miller P’70, March 24, 2017, Richmond, Va.
Robert Rose, March 21, 2017, Morrisville, N.C.
Reunion Weekend
Reunion Weekend
A Time to Celebrate
More than 2,400 alumni and their families came home to Bucknell for Reunion 2018.
Mascot Giving Out High Fives at The Reunion Weekend Event
A Time to Celebrate
More than 2,400 alumni and their families came home to Bucknell for Reunion 2018.
Setting the Standard for Service
by Mike Ferlazzo
Four alumni were recognized during Reunion, May 31–June 3, for their career contributions to Bucknell and society. A committee of current and past Bucknell University Alumni Association Board members, Bucknell Club representative and previous recipients chose the annual winners. Honored were:

LOYALTY TO BUCKNELL AWARD
Joann Golightly Brown ’48: The 1948 Class Reporter for the last 70 years, Brown has attended every Reunion since graduation and is a perennial volunteer for her Reunion committee. She established a scholarship in memory of her late sister, Eleanor Golightly McChesney ’46, and annually attends the Scholarship Day Luncheon to meet the recipient. After graduation, Brown worked at the Newark office of the FBI, where she met her husband, Jim. In 1957 they launched the insurance agency James A. Brown Agency Inc. in Roselle Park, N.J., where she was the office manager and bookkeeper for 58 years.

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The Bucknell community around the country joined hands and hearts for this year’s Bucknell CARES (Clubs Annual Regional Events of Service) spring projects.
From distributing food to helping neighborhoods in need to cleaning up parks and helping children with disabilities learn athletics skills, Bucknell alumni, parents, students and friends this year will participate in 21 events across the country. The Bucknell CARES program is sponsored by Bucknell Regional Clubs and the Alumni Association, and events are planned by regional volunteers to celebrate National Volunteer Month. Last year, more than 320 Bucknellians participated, and 2018 is on track to break that record.
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Five Bucknellians posing in front of the ocean

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Witty Winners
Here are our favorite caption submissions from the last issue:
“Do you think people will get it if we name this song ‘ ’ray Bucknell?’ ”
Sam LaCapra P’20
“Are you sure this is how Joan Baez does it?”
Professor Brian Williams, chemistry
“The music department budget leaves a lot to be desired.”
Mark Lipstein ’70
“Here’s another idea — let’s use the radiator as an accordion.”
Cort Steel ’77
“Are you sure you can’t play ‘Free Bird?’ ”
Allison Spencer ’79
Submit your caption for the retro photo on Page 61 to bmagazine@bucknell.edu or facebook.com/bucknellu by Aug. 1
Vintage photograph of a woman by a type writer
Photo: Special Collections/University Archives
 My Favorite Thing graphic
Photo: John Carl D’Annibale/Times Union
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Top: Drew sorts through his carefully catalogued collection. Bottom: Drew’s favorite Bucknell card depicts the library.
Bertrand Library Postcard

" "When you’ve collected 250,000 postcards, neatly shelved in your Albany N.Y., house, it’s hard to conjure a favorite. Robert “Bob” Drew ’59, a retired administrative law judge, has been buying postcards since right after World War II, when he was 10. The deltiologist (fancy name for postcard collector) has 30 to 40 Bucknell-themed cards in his collection.

Photo: John Carl D’Annibale/Times Union
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Left: Drew sorts through his carefully catalogued collection. Right: Drew’s favorite Bucknell card depicts the library.
I have large numbers of cards for just about every subject, whereas most collectors specialize. If I’m at a garage sale or somebody’s cleaning out an attic, I’ll offer a bulk price and take the whole box, knowing I’m going to have a lot of duplicates that I then give away to kids or use for trading with other collectors.

I have in front of me a pen-and-ink drawing sketch by the artist Alex Close of the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library. That’s my favorite because it’s the prettiest building on the campus. It brings back memories from the late ’50s, when there were more restrictions on the women than the guys in mid-week. Freshmen women had a 7 o’clock curfew to be back in the dorm, unless they had had a scheduled activity or if they were at the library, which was open till 10 p.m. I’d go study there, and when people were taking breaks, you could socialize.

Frank Davis ’82, P’13 (center) with wife Elena and son Michael ’13 at the dedication of Davis Hall, a building in the South Campus Apartments that was named to honor their $5 million gift. It supports diversity initiatives as well as the construction of Academic East and a new building for the Freeman College of Management. Photo by Gordon Wenzel. See more Reunion Weekend photos here.

Frank Davis ’82, P’13 (center) with wife Elena and son Michael ’13 at the dedication of Davis Hall, a building in the South Campus Apartments that was named to honor their $5 million gift. It supports diversity initiatives as well as the construction of Academic East and a new building for the Freeman College of Management. Photo by Gordon Wenzel. See more Reunion Weekend photos here.

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