The ever-resilient Bison shoulders through a snowstorm.
The ever-resilient Bison shoulders through a snowstorm.
by Paula Cogan Myers
Ancient civilization seems less distant when professors like Kris Trego, classics & ancient Mediterranean studies, humanize the relics they study. The nautical archaeologist has traveled to Turkey for 20 years, exploring shipwrecks and analyzing artifacts, from amphorae used to carry wine to personal items kept on board.
Information lives within these objects, helping Trego piece together the social history they reveal. Patterns are important, and shared methodology is key. “How do we decide to categorize an object as something used by a ship’s crew instead of as part of the cargo?” she asks.
by Paula Cogan Myers
Ancient civilization seems less distant when professors like Kris Trego, classics & ancient Mediterranean studies, humanize the relics they study. The nautical archaeologist has traveled to Turkey for 20 years, exploring shipwrecks and analyzing artifacts, from amphorae used to carry wine to personal items kept on board.
Information lives within these objects, helping Trego piece together the social history they reveal. Patterns are important, and shared methodology is key. “How do we decide to categorize an object as something used by a ship’s crew instead of as part of the cargo?” she asks.
by Heidi Hormel
When he’s not studying ancient texts, Professor Ali Karjoo-Ravary, religious studies, might be cooking up kebabs on his specialty charcoal grill.
They may not live up to the best he’s had, but they’re still his “lifeline” to the ones he had in eastern Turkey, served gyro style with fresh lamb, and another on the road outside Tehran at 11 p.m.
When he’s not studying ancient texts, Professor Ali Karjoo-Ravary, religious studies, might be cooking up kebabs on his specialty charcoal grill.
They may not live up to the best he’s had, but they’re still his “lifeline” to the ones he had in eastern Turkey, served gyro style with fresh lamb, and another on the road outside Tehran at 11 p.m.
MENTORING EMERGING LEADERS: “I met Kathy Wagner ’68 [profiled in the fall issue] in the late ’70s at the Philadelphia Zoo while on an animal behavior class trip. We talked about my career aspirations, and the next day she gave me a lead that became my first job after Bucknell — executive director of the Wildlife Preservation Trust International. Her interest and concern for emerging leaders shaped the rest of my career in environment and foundation philanthropy, and I will always be grateful.”
Ithaca, N.Y.
It made me sick at heart to read the story in your fall issue about neuroscience professor Judy Grisel (“Judy’s Journey”), specifically the animal experiments on drug addiction carried out as part of her Bucknell research and in her classes. I would like to know what efforts, if any, Bucknell is making to move beyond vivisection in the classroom and adopt alternative methods, such as computer modeling.
A 2017 Gallup poll showed that 49 percent of Americans believe all medical experiments on animals are morally wrong, and few people remain under the illusion that animal experimentation is usually any less than torture for the “research subjects” involved. As part of its educational mission, Bucknell owes it to its students to at least address the issue.
Brussels, Belgium
My son, John Chestnut ’14, and I both want to let you know that the redesign of the magazine is outstanding! I’ve spent my career as a finance exec in the media communications world and have had a secondary education in design and communications as a result. The format, layout of articles, quality and volume of content has greatly improved the magazine’s desirability and readability.
Before, I usually only read the class notes and took a quick glance at the feature articles and then tossed the magazine. I now read the issues cover to cover because the way the content is presented and edited pulls you in to engage with each piece. This Summer 2018 issue especially will also be a great recruiting tool, because it showcases the diversity of paths Bucknellians take — finance, craft beers, making MLB “dirt,” etc. Congrats to all of those who were involved in taking the magazine in this direction!
Old Greenwich, Conn.
I was extremely dismayed by the letter from Stephen Doty ’84, published in the Fall 2018 Bucknell Magazine regarding female engineers.
I believe it is erroneous and frankly insulting to insinuate that Bucknell’s commendable focus on encouraging women in engineering is “discrimination” and that the reason for a lack of women in engineering is due to “simple gender preferences or lack of aptitudes.”
There have been studies done proving that abilities are not hard-wired but based on the different ways that boys and girls are socialized. When we grow up expecting a boy to be good at math and science and a girl to be good at nurturing (think science-kit toys marketed to boys vs. baby dolls marketed to girls), it’s difficult to overcome that inherent bias. The only way to reverse this bias is to encourage women from the time they are young that math and science are just as much areas for women as they are for men. That starts with equal representation in the workforce and by extension, in the College of Engineering.
I applaud Bucknell for focusing on diversity in engineering and otherwise. Thank you for creating the B-WISE scholarship. Thank you for showing high-school girls that Bucknell is a place where women will find other women who share their interest in engineering — my chemical engineering class was about 33 percent women, and I am happy to see that number increasing. Thank you for employing professors who care about diversity and inclusion. Bucknell is making the changes that are needed in the greater society, and I am grateful and proud to be a Bucknellian.
Bath, Pa.
I’m writing in response to the fall 2018 letter to the editor by Stephen Doty ’84. I disagree with his letter on all points save one, that bridges do not care about the gender of engineers. Being inanimate objects, it is true bridges don’t “care” about anything. However, being the product of human construction for human use, people do care a great deal about bridges, communication systems, chemical plants, hip replacements and all manner of products of the engineered world. And as it is to all of our benefit to have these objects designed and built in a technically sound, innovative, ethical and sustainable manner, it is to all of our benefit to ensure that we, as a society, have access to the best engineering talent there is, regardless of whether that talent has been previously buried under systemic biases or not. The next great idea might be in the head of a teenager whose guidance counselor just told her that calculus isn’t really for “people like her.” It’s the responsibility of a great educational institution to help her, and those students in similar situations, realize their potential, not for “correctness’ ” sake, but for the sake of the bridges (and everything else) that we all count on every day.
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Rooke Professor of Engineering
Stephen Doty 84’s championing of pure merit-based student selection is about as helpful toward Bucknell’s goal of continuing its tradition of excellence in its engineering program as a person knocking out a load-bearing wall and then complaining to the contractor about why the house isn’t finished.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, female engineers comprise 13 percent of those working in engineering, meaning 87 percent of those active in the profession are men. A recent study states that 40 percent of women who earn engineering degrees never enter the field or leave the profession within five years. The primary reason is the culture. Workplace sexism is first encountered by female engineering students in school. There are few female mentors to encourage new graduates. And seeing people who look like you unable to succeed in the corporate culture can be a huge discouragement.
The idea that female engineering students couldn’t keep up or would be subjected to undue pressure is ridiculous. Surviving four years in the College of Engineering is a trial no matter one’s gender, because engineering is a rigorous field. Female engineers have been under the types of pressures Mr. Doty describes since the moment we wanted Legos for our birthdays and were informed that those were boy toys and offered Barbies instead. We will continue to be under those types of pressures for our entire professional careers, unless things change.
Besides sending more female engineers into the workforce, we also need to prepare males to work alongside female engineers, creating better work environments for both genders. Bucknell is making a concentrated effort to do this. The College of Engineering acknowledges the problem and is taking concrete positive steps to make all of its engineering students better engineers and better people. Such efforts should be encouraged and honored.
Coraopolis, Pa.
In a special supplement to the Summer 2018 issue of Bucknell Magazine, the University proudly celebrated 125 years of engineering education, touting its plan to expand experiential learning, encourage students to create groundbreaking discoveries alongside teacher-scholar faculty, and further efforts to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for the Bucknell engineering community. In his fall 2018 letter to Bucknell Magazine, Stephen Doty ’84 overlooked the first two efforts and mischaracterized the third, referring to diversity and inclusivity efforts as “the new euphemism for discrimination by gender and race.” Mr. Doty is wrong.
Engineers are data-driven. The data makes clear that of engineering and all science fields, the percentage of women workers is the lowest in engineering. (See the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation’s Science & Engineering Indicators 2018.) Likewise, the gender disparity among those with the highest degree in a science or engineering field is greatest in engineering. Certain underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities experience similar disparities. As the National Science Board has stated, “The lower participation [of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities] signals a lack of diversity in the workplace, negatively impacting productivity and innovation.” Similarly, a lack of diversity on campuses negatively impacts the education of all students.
Mr. Doty states that efforts in support of diversity and inclusivity, specifically regarding women in engineering, result in “teachers [being] denied the best students and society [being] denied the best graduates.” As someone who has spent 40 years in engineering education, I can speak with some authority in stating that his assumptions are uninformed at best. Further, they are insulting to the students who work so hard to enter pre-eminent schools like Bucknell and the engineering field, to the faculty who are dedicated to the education of those students, and to the administrators who strive each day to admit the very best students to campuses around the country.
Women are underrepresented in engineering. As is the case with other professions dominated by men, as women sought to enter the field, they faced — and in some instances continue to face — discrimination, marginalization and bias from those who baselessly doubted, or perhaps felt threatened by, their abilities. I am proud of the progress Bucknell has made and of the work we continue to do to address these challenges, to the benefit of all students. To echo Dean of Engineering Pat Mather, engineering a better world comes from the collective efforts of people with diverse views, abilities and experiences. As highlighted in the special supplement, pioneers such as Katherine Owens Hayden ’23, the first woman to study engineering at Bucknell, and Janet Schneider Lahner ’77, M’86, the first woman to teach engineering at Bucknell, helped pave the institution’s way to becoming a leader in this space.
Doty concludes his letter by stating: “A bridge doesn’t care about the gender of its designer.” Agreed! So let’s remove the barriers to women and other underrepresented groups and continue the noble endeavor of building a better world — together.
Professor of Electrical Engineering
President, Bucknell University
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So goes a typical week of the Music and Social Justice class, taught by Professor Annie Randall, music, at the North Central Secure Treatment Unit (NCSTU), a facility in Danville, Pa., for adjudicated female teenagers run through the Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services.
Randall has long been interested in how music and social justice intersect, but when three Bucknell student D.J.s were expelled for on-air racist comments in 2015, she sought the advice of then-Director of Civic Engagement Janice Butler, who helped her consider how to create deeper connections around diversity and to use empathy as a tool in her courses.
416 Market St., Lewisburg
From her office space overlooking bustling Market Street, Student-in-Residence Carolyn Sidoti ’19 enthusiastically tackles projects for Bucknell’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC). The SBDC provides local entrepreneurs and small businesses no-cost consulting and has aided in the success of local favorites such as Siam Restaurant & Bar and Threading Love. Sidoti conducts research, composes reports and collaborates with owners, creating plans to help ensure their success.
What She’s Doing:
Sidoti not only helps her clients advance their businesses, but provides them with tools to help them “get their feet under them” and progress independently. A mathematics and music double major, Sidoti taps into her strengths to find creative solutions that move her clients’ businesses forward. She also hones newfound skills, such as demographic analysis and market research, that she hopes to carry into her career after Bucknell.
Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia
Professor Amanda Wooden, environmental studies, has been immersed in the languages, culture and politics of post-Soviet countries since her first visit to Russia and Belarus in 1992. She has lived in Kyrgyzstan several times since 2001 and returns frequently to her “second home.”
“I care deeply about what happens there, am committed to doing research on environmental topics that concern people and have a responsibility to share what I learn,” Wooden says.
What Interests Her:
Through a Fulbright research grant, Wooden is currently studying the social meaning and political impacts of glacier loss in the Tian Shan mountain range. The project stems from an earlier examination of Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor mine, where miners are removing glaciers to access gold.
About 50 alumni, community members, faculty and staff gathered Nov. 11 outside Rooke Chapel to especially honor the 33 Bucknellians who died as a result of the first world conflict but also to remember the 40 who died in World War II, the eight who died in the Korean War, eight in the Vietnam War and five or more in later conflicts.
Bill Conley, the University’s vice president for enrollment management, says that if schools like Bucknell stress these character qualities, then “we’re getting to truly measure the potential of a human being.”
The Character Collaborative, of which Bucknell is a charter member, is a new all-volunteer organization exploring the qualitative rather than quantitative assets of potential students. The group has united educators and administrators from the likes of Swarthmore, Carnegie Mellon and MIT plus secondary schools and research and testing organizations interested in elevating noncognitive, character-related attributes in the admissions process.
Robert Massa, senior vice president for enrollment at Drew University in New Jersey and interim chairman of the collaborative’s board, says that administrators are searching for better ways to choose students for their classes “because we know that overemphasis on academics is damaging. We want learning to be fun. We want to see [applicants] helping fellow students. Those attributes are more important than loading up on the maximum number of AP classes, for example.”
We have so many talented, funny students at Bucknell, and over the years I’ve taught students from theatre, improv and stand-up groups who naturally wrote in a comic mode. But the majority of student fiction is just the opposite: earnest and serious, as if they feel literary writing must be formal or stuffy. That couldn’t be further from the truth. The greatest writers, from Boccaccio and Chaucer to Shakespeare to our own Philip Roth ’54, have always balanced thematic gravity with rich doses of humor — not to mention profanity and bawdiness. Pushing boundaries is a kind of bravery required of great writers, so I wanted to teach a fiction workshop that explores how comedy helps to unearth and deliver truth.
Comedy is one of the richest forms of human connection, and deepens our understanding of the world. We know what successful comedy feels like. But even in my own writing I’ve never understood what makes a joke work. The more you analyze it, the less funny it gets, right? We try to get to the bottom of how comedy not only entertains but also enlightens, and how it can effectively be used as political, philosophical and social commentary.
Helping to guide the men’s basketball team to two Patriot league championships was no easy feat for Kimbal Mackenzie ’19, especially when it meant often leading from the sidelines. The Ontario, Canada, native underwent surgery midseason last winter for a sports-related hernia, missing 12 games.
Leadership, a role teammates and coaches call Mackenzie’s most valuable asset to the Bison squad, comes easily to the guard. “I’m not afraid to voice my opinions,” he says. “I’m naturally a pretty loud person, so I let that carry over into the basketball realm.”
Leading the team through early-morning wakeups and an intense workout and practice schedule requires Mackenzie to always be on time and the hardest worker in the gym on top of his schoolwork as an economics major. To elicit the same work ethic from his teammates, Mackenzie says, “The work comes first and asking that of my teammates comes second.”
As Bucknell’s farm & garden manager, Jen Schneidman Partica oversees both the Lewisburg Community Garden, an initiative that connects local residents and addresses food insecurity, and the new 5-acre farm that the University launched this fall. She’s also a “vegecator” and has already helped more than 200 Bucknell students learn about and connect with their food supply at the University’s fledgling farm. She shares her tips for making the most of your home garden.
n 2016, so many people researched a single word after the U.S. presidential election that it was named Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year.
But long before “surreal” became the go-to word for life’s strangest moments, it referred to a movement that shoved unsettling ideas at the establishment, begging people to tap their unconscious by rejecting society’s chains.
“People forget the weight, rigor and passion of the political movement behind surrealism,” says Samek Art Museum Director Richard Rinehart. “They tend to just pay attention to the image of a giant fork in a bedroom.”
Those politics are largely unknown today — surrealism is simply the eye candy of Salvador Dalí’s gravity-defying mustache and his liquid clocks.
photographs by Dustin Fenstermacher
photographs by Dustin Fenstermacher
n a gray, rainy fall day, 14 Bucknell students make their way tentatively down a long white corridor, past a sign posted beside a security door:
If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
On their left they pass what looks like a high-school shop class — except all of the “students” working the machines wear brown uniforms with D.O.C. (for Department of Corrections) on the back. The Bucknellians enter what looks like a traditional classroom, with a desk near the door where a prison staffer sits, a blackboard and circle of desks. Seven men, wearing smiles and those same brown jumpsuits, extend their hands to welcome the students. Professor Carl Milofsky, sociology, who teaches this class at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Coal Township, 28 miles from Lewisburg, asks the students to sit between the men.
More than a year ago, Montalvo was the first Bucknell student to enter the prison with Milofsky to lay the groundwork for the course. After a successful trial class last spring, Milofsky selected Montalvo to help lead a more intensive course, through the auspices of Temple University’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.
as told to Robert Strauss
I saw my pastor, the Rev. Richard Streeter, was touching the hearts and minds of a lot of people. I was touching the lives of no one.
I ended up going to the Princeton Theological Seminary, and as fieldwork in my second year, I went to Trenton State Prison as a student chaplain. My work there was simple and straightforward; I would go through two cell blocks of 20 inmates each and just talk to them.
One of the 40 men was Jorge de Los Santos, and he would insist to me day after day that he was innocent of the murder in Newark that he was serving a life term for.
I always thought that the American justice system was infallible. If you were convicted of a crime, surely you must be guilty.
But after listening to de Los Santos and reading his trial record, he really shook me. Could he really be innocent?
They don’t like the practice, Nancy says, because it strips those incarcerated of their names and individuality, but it offers a reminder “that there are people there that need me.”
The Everetts are adamant that “Everybody in prison is a human being and has a story,” according to Nancy. For decades, the couple have made it their life’s work to hear those stories and to be the inmates’ voices outside the prison walls.
Through volunteer visitation programs like the Pennsylvania Prison Society, Walter, a retired Methodist pastor, and Nancy, a retired juvenile prison counselor, make regular visits to nearby prisons and exchange correspondence with incarcerated individuals across the country. They’re also advocates against the death penalty who led a successful campaign to abolish the punishment in Rhode Island.
Massaro looks at how racial disparities in the criminal-justice system contribute to high rates of incarceration in some communities. She analyzes the economic toll, such as how the cost of a bus ticket can keep families from visiting incarcerated loved ones. She believes the prison system can better engage with families and communities to reduce rates of recidivism, saying, “The families of inmates are the system’s best allies in reducing the chances of reoffending.”
Since then Morin has published five books, two of which relate to the prison-industrial complex, 2015’s Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past, co-edited with British geographer Dominique Moran, and 2018’s Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals.
In her latest book, Morin says she took her “interest in carceral geography and expanded it to include captive animals. I find there are many common denominators across the mass exploitation of animals and mass incarceration of humans, which originate in the ‘animalization’ of certain beings.
The late Ben Willeford’s commitment to social justice ran long and deep. Since Willeford arrived at Bucknell in September 1950 to teach chemistry, he was known as a social conscience not only on campus but in Lewisburg, where he joined a group of graying activists most Saturdays in front of the U.S. Post Office quietly advocating for peace on Earth.
Willeford first became involved in prison ministry during the Vietnam War era, and for the last 39 years he visited incarcerated men at the Lewisburg Penitentiary as part of the Prison Visitation and Support program. Shortly before his death at 96 on Sept. 22, Willeford visited the magazine office to speak with Julia Stevens ’20 and me about Bucknell’s — and his — enduring connections to the local prisons. Below is an edited transcript of what is most likely his last recorded conversation.
Built: 1932; Currently Incarcerated: 1,433 (938 at the penitentiary and 495 at the connected minimum-security camp)
notorious Inmates
Al Capone, Jimmy Hoffa, Whitey Bulger, Henry Hill, Bayard Rustin, Alger Hiss
Originally named the North Eastern Penitentiary; Infamous for the 1995 prison riot started by 10 inmates. Resulted in more than 400 inmates being transferred. More than 20 inmates were hospitalized. In 2009, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) designated USP Lewisburg as a “Special Management Unit” to hold the most violent inmates.
Immersed in the bustle of daily life on Bucknell’s scenic campus, students and community members are often oblivious to the reality of those behind bars, who are living less than three miles away in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. Hoping to raise awareness at the University, the Lewisburg Prison Project (LPP) sponsored a screening this fall at the Campus Theatre of From Behind the Wall. The series focuses on the unjust conditions and treatment prisoners face in reform centers across the nation.
“The project’s aim with events like this one is to keep the project and the prison on people’s radar and try to create and maintain awareness that we have this huge federal penitentiary just down the road,” says LPP board member Deirdre O’Connor, Writing Center director.
Suicide rates are much higher in prison than in the general population, and Lefever aimed to identify and respond to inmates who might be at risk for self-harm. But he also worked with many patients who had serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or other psychoses. “Many of the state mental-health facilities have closed down, which meant we were caring for extremely mentally ill people who needed a lot of attention,” Lefever says.
Has Not
Erased
photographs by Andreas Krueger
photographs by Andreas Krueger
ith an autumnal chill in the air and a sense of anticipation written on our faces, the Bucknellians in World War I research team set out for the first task on its second commemorative trip. Our destination: the Henri Rollet Association, now called ESPEREM after recently merging with another organization. The new name — a play on the French words mère (mother), père (father) and espoir (hope) — reflects the changes within the organization, as well as ESPEREM’s goals of providing shelter to young, at-risk women.
On ESPEREM’s leafy Paris campus stands a building that memorializes Katherine Baker, Bucknell Institute, Class of 1892, a World War I nurse who helped found the organization 100 years ago. Over tea, coffee and pastries, we discussed with ESPEREM’s leaders our desire to keep this connection alive by installing a pedagogical garden where the girls can learn to grow their own food. Baker’s impact on the young women seems to only grow with time. When I noticed her portrait, which we gifted during our first visit in 2017, the president of ESPEREM’s board of directors, Véronique Goupy, told us that it’s good for the girls “to have someone they can look up to, a woman, someone they can relate to.”
Juggling Act
Welcome to the great juggling act, the main event in the three-ring circus of modern American family life. For today’s professionals, marriage and children more often than not mean keeping two hands constantly circulating between (at least) three crucial objectives: steering an ambitious career; hands-on parenting; and maintaining a loving, hand-in-hand relationship with one’s partner.
Nobody said it was going to be easy, but has it ever been harder than it is right now? Among the latest challenges: 24/7 connection to employers and clients through mobile devices, ever-expanding extracurricular obligations for today’s busy grade-schoolers, and an increasingly globalized business world that can put partners on different continents at a moment’s notice.
- Doing Double Duty
Now Justin and Catherine are raising three young kids while Justin serves on staff at The United States Military Academy at West Point, in upstate New York, and Catherine pursues a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland. After completing her degree, Catherine will teach at the National Intelligence University in Bethesda.
“Some things are out of our control,” Catherine says. “The military has final say on our assignments and does not have to keep the two of us assigned to the same location at the same time. We do our best to select assignments that will keep us together while also meeting the needs and requirements of the Army.”
Same Track
Same Track
Like the Millers, the Alexanders find themselves in a situation where one spouse — Monique, who teaches at Slippery Rock University, more three hours away in western Pennsylvania — must commute long distance a few days per week to pursue her career. The decision for Monique to take that job, and for Richard to remain at Bucknell, was difficult, balancing career goals and the best interests of the children. But, Monique says, “If we sit back and look at our lives right now, we’re both doing things we really love.”
Caroline is vice present for strategy, defense and space for Airbus, Europe’s leading aerospace company. Her career has taken her family to postings around the world, so much so that their soon-to-be three children will have been born on three different continents — the oldest in Canada, the middle child in Korea, and a little one on the way now in Spain.
Caroline is vice present for strategy, defense and space for Airbus, Europe’s leading aerospace company. Her career has taken her family to postings around the world, so much so that their soon-to-be three children will have been born on three different continents — the oldest in Canada, the middle child in Korea, and a little one on the way now in Spain.
Reading and Remembrance
Some are old favorites. Like many high schoolers in the 1970s, I was compelled to read All Quiet on the Western Front, a classic by Erich Maria Remarque that was made into a devastatingly realistic movie in 1930, told from the German point of view. I reread it often.
Whether it was in the classroom or the Bison, John “Jack” Wheatcroft ’49 nurtured generations of budding writers, putting Bucknell on the national literary map in his 45 years of teaching. With the encouragement of President and Professor of Biology Emeritus Gary Sojka, two of Wheatcroft’s stellar students — Bruce Smith ’68 and Peter Balakian ’73 — have gathered contributions from 18 former students who have gone on to be writers, academics and teachers as well as colleagues and friends such as former presidents Sojka and Dennis O’Brien. The collection celebrates the professor emeritus of English, who published 25 books of fiction, poetry and plays before his death in 2017. Wheatcroft’s most notable work was Catherine: Her Book, a 1983 prequel to Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.
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The aspiring attorney, suddenly drawn to the allure of the stage and to Powers’ dedication to the craft, unexpectedly found himself on a new career path. He also met his future wife, Ruth Liming ’65, who played Lady Macduff to Ackroyd’s Macduff in a campus production of Macbeth.
During a 32-year career in university finance and planning, Ainslie made difficult decisions about how to allocate resources to best support an institution’s mission — providing the best possible education while supporting financial-aid policies that expanded opportunities for highly qualified students from various socioeconomic backgrounds.
Ainslie served two Ivy League institutions — Princeton and Cornell. She spent 22 years at the latter, lastly as vice president for planning and budget, and the past decade as Princeton’s vice president for finance.
“I was always curious about the world, especially while I was at Bucknell. I credit [Professor of English Emerita] Marilyn Mumford for nurturing that within me,” Zakrewsky says. “I feel that the side of me that’s committed to serve was fostered at Bucknell.”
Christian Hubicki ’07, M’11 wanted to survive Survivor, so as soon as he learned he was named a contestant on the latest season of the reality show, he began a Superman-like training regimen.
“I thought, ‘Gosh, what kind of shape am I in?’ ” says Hubicki, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering specializing in robotics at Florida State University. “Within a few months, I was doing 300 pushups a day. I knew I wouldn’t be the strongest one on the island, but at least I wouldn’t be the weakest link.”
Hubicki admits to being a fan of the show since it first aired in 2000. He was 14 then and told himself he’d be on it someday. Over the years he applied, and the fourth time was the charm.
Interviewed before the series ran, September through December, Hubicki was contractually forbidden to say when or if he was voted off the island or if he used his robotics know-how to create any contraptions on the show. However, he believes his science background, which includes his Bucknell mechanical engineering degree, intrigued producers enough to make him a contestant.
Hubicki calls Professor Keith Buffinton, mechanical engineering, his mentor. “He set me on the path to robotics,” he says. “He was very open-minded and encouraged me to follow my passion.”
In May, William Harris ’12 and his girlfriend, Nahia Antoranz, embarked on a trip full of big ambitions — a nearly 7,000-mile journey, not by car, plane, train, boat or even horse but by bike.
Started in Bilbao, Spain, this cross-continental trip will end in Thailand this spring. Their adventure is about more than daily cardio and sightseeing. It’s about giving back and spreading a message.
When Morgan Gisholt Minard ’17 chose an international relations major she didn’t expect it would lead to a journalism career.
“I chose that major because I loved the idea of learning how the world works,” she says. “I didn’t have a real plan for what to do with it. Most people work for government agencies or NGOs or in academia. Those all seemed like they would make a difference in people’s lives.”
Spencer Roberts, Aug. 19, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Betty Hess Jelstrup P’83, July 8, Burlington, N.C.
Joseph Laing, July 3, Arnold, Md.
Adriane Krawit Lorin, Sept. 15, Los Angeles, Calif.
Margaret “Peggy” Soars Sosa P’87, Aug. 19, San Francisco, Calif.
Jean Whitaker-Maharay, July 29, Salem, N.J.
Rhoda Robertson Edwards P’78, Sept. 2, Endicott, N.Y.
Marvin Rombro P’66, Aug. 2, Baltimore, Md.
Ann Alston Ryder, Aug. 22, Mansfield, Pa.
Katharine Voulelis Tsambassis, April 13, Fernandina Beach, Fla.
Cohenca says that JACQUES, the performance-wear brand he launched in 2017, fills a hole in his closet by discarding neon colors and garish logos in favor of unadorned shorts and tees in colors inspired by nature.
“I really wanted to put out a product that was more understated and more sophisticated in its presentation,” he says.
Manufactured in New York City’s Garment District, Cohenca’s clothing line is a reflection of his personality and aspirations, from its low-key chic to the company’s name — an homage to Cohenca’s grandfather, who immigrated to the U.S. from Egypt and started a business.
Through the Undergraduate Executive Intern Program and the Coca-Cola marketing internship, I worked in the athletics department for three years. I helped run the Bison Rec social media accounts, worked on an extensive tailgating project, penned countless thank-you letters to varsity athletics donors and ran our in-game promotions for football and men’s and women’s basketball. If you’ve ever heard, “Hey there, Bison fans!” you’ve heard me. If you’ve seen a woman run around Sojka Pavilion in bright orange shorts, you’ve seen me, and chances are, if you’ve been to a game in the last three years, you know exactly who I am.
Below: Alumni had the opportunity to meet current engineering faculty and students, tour the facilities and observe current engineering students as they provided hands-on engineering activities for children.
Below: Alumni had the opportunity to meet current engineering faculty and students, tour the facilities and observe current engineering students as they provided hands-on engineering activities for children.
The Pause
What was your best service-learning experience at Bucknell?
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Emily Baker ’08
emilycbaker@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of N. Calif.
Phil Kim ’12
thisisphilkim@gmail.com
Douglas Bogan ’13
dmb054@bucknell.edu
Scott Singer ’87
ssinger65@gmail.com
Buz Jones ’64
sjones490@verizon.net
Karen Larson Jones P’90
sjones490@verizon.net
Bucknell Club of Southeast Fla.
Richard Karp ’86
richardkarp64@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Tampa Bay
Peter Christiano ’79
pjchrist@tampabay.rr.com
Eric Brod ’13
ebb015@bucknell.edu
Cassie Greenhawk ’13
cbg011@bucknell.edu
Teddy Mottola ’13
eddy.mottola@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Rochester
Jennifer Shulman ’95
shulmanj73@gmail.com
Shela Giess ’95
shelagiess@hotmail.com
Cara Brillhart Shields ’96
cara@helenadamsrealty.com
Bucknell Club of Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill
Vacant
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Connie Tressler ’62
ctressler@tds.net
Bucknell Club of Harrisburg
Jeremy Spicher ’01
jsspicher@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Lehigh Valley
Emily Conners ’14
eac020@bucknell.edu
Stacey Morrow ’09
staceylynnhaas@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Philadelphia
Grace Ragold ’13
grace.ragold@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Pittsburgh
Daniel Weimer ’10
daniel.weimer10@gmail.com
Jake Hodges ’14
jakehodges8@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Houston
Scott Gosnell ’09
scott.gosnell@gmail.com
Brad Feuling ’03
bradley@kongandallan.com
Bucknell Club of London
Sarah Simmons ’08
sdotsimmons@gmail.com
Emily Baker ’08
emilycbaker@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of N. Calif.
Phil Kim ’12
thisisphilkim@gmail.com
Douglas Bogan ’13
dmb054@bucknell.edu
Scott Singer ’87
ssinger65@gmail.com
Buz Jones ’64
sjones490@verizon.net
Karen Larson Jones P’90
sjones490@verizon.net
Bucknell Club of Southeast Fla.
Richard Karp ’86
richardkarp64@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Tampa Bay
Peter Christiano ’79
pjchrist@tampabay.rr.com
Eric Brod ’13
ebb015@bucknell.edu
Cassie Greenhawk ’13
cbg011@bucknell.edu
Teddy Mottola ’13
eddy.mottola@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Rochester
Jennifer Shulman ’95
shulmanj73@gmail.com
Shela Giess ’95
shelagiess@hotmail.com
Cara Brillhart Shields ’96
cara@helenadamsrealty.com
Bucknell Club of Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill
Vacant
If you are interested, write to
alumni@bucknell.edu
Connie Tressler ’62
ctressler@tds.net
Bucknell Club of Harrisburg
Jeremy Spicher ’01
jsspicher@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Lehigh Valley
Emily Conners ’14
eac020@bucknell.edu
Stacey Morrow ’09
staceylynnhaas@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Philadelphia
Grace Ragold ’13
grace.ragold@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Pittsburgh
Daniel Weimer ’10
daniel.weimer10@gmail.com
Jake Hodges ’14
jakehodges8@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Houston
Scott Gosnell ’09
scott.gosnell@gmail.com
Brad Feuling ’03
bradley@kongandallan.com
Bucknell Club of London
Sarah Simmons ’08
sdotsimmons@gmail.com
Emily Baker ’08
emilycbaker@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of N. Calif.
Phil Kim ’12
thisisphilkim@gmail.com
Douglas Bogan ’13
dmb054@bucknell.edu
Scott Singer ’87
ssinger65@gmail.com
Buz Jones ’64
sjones490@verizon.net
Karen Larson Jones P’90
sjones490@verizon.net
Bucknell Club of Southeast Fla.
Richard Karp ’86
richardkarp64@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Tampa Bay
Peter Christiano ’79
pjchrist@tampabay.rr.com
Eric Brod ’13
ebb015@bucknell.edu
Cassie Greenhawk ’13
cbg011@bucknell.edu
Teddy Mottola ’13
eddy.mottola@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Rochester
Jennifer Shulman ’95
shulmanj73@gmail.com
Shela Giess ’95
shelagiess@hotmail.com
Cara Brillhart Shields ’96
cara@helenadamsrealty.com
Bucknell Club of Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill
Vacant
If you are interested, write to
alumni@bucknell.edu
Connie Tressler ’62
ctressler@tds.net
Bucknell Club of Harrisburg
Jeremy Spicher ’01
jsspicher@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Lehigh Valley
Emily Conners ’14
eac020@bucknell.edu
Stacey Morrow ’09
staceylynnhaas@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Philadelphia
Grace Ragold ’13
grace.ragold@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Pittsburgh
Daniel Weimer ’10
daniel.weimer10@gmail.com
Jake Hodges ’14
jakehodges8@gmail.com
Bucknell Club of Houston
Scott Gosnell ’09
scott.gosnell@gmail.com
Brad Feuling ’03
bradley@kongandallan.com
Bucknell Club of London
Sarah Simmons ’08
sdotsimmons@gmail.com
Ali Reach ’20’s love of geology started with the study of plate tectonics in middle school. When her high-school environmental science teacher gave her a special gift her senior year, her interest grew. Now an environmental geosciences major, she has conducted research at Pennsylvania’s Bear Valley Strip Mine for the last two summers. She also spent spring break in New Mexico with geology professors and students visiting Bandelier National Monument and other sites and also field-mapped the desert landscape of White Mesa and Picuris.
The trilobite is the Pennsylvania state fossil. He knew I was going to school in Pennsylvania, and I’m also from Pennsylvania. The trilobite combines my high-school experience, my home and also what I’m doing here. That’s why it’s my favorite thing.
