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SPRING 2016 | HOW DREW PREPARES STUDENTS FOR THE REAL WORLD IN THE REAL WORLD

LESS SITTING.MORE DOING.

CHALLENGE

What does that mean for Drew and our students? More scholarships, fellowships and internship funds, new research and supervised ministry opportunities, the renovated Ehinger Center and Hall of Sciences and so much more!

At a time when giving to Drew is at an all-time high, we have one important goal to reach: increasing alumni participation.

So here’s a new challenge—our BIGGEST one yet: If we hit 28% alumni participation by June 30, an alumni couple will kick in $200,000 to help meet the campaign’s $80 million goal. That’s the One And All Challenge.

You are a part of One And All. To date, we have raised 97% of One And All’s ambitious $80 million goal.

Meet the Challenge. Make your gift by June 30. All it takes is One And All. drew.edu/challenge

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This issue explores the many ways Drew students benefit from experiential learning opportunities that often take them far from the comforts of The Forest. One feature highlights new and enhanced intern-ships made possible by donors who support the One And All campaign. Another focuses on the cross-cultural experience that is a cornerstone of the Theological School curriculum. And another demonstrates how Drew’s research-based science programs launch graduates toward professional success. Collectively, our stories and photographs under-score Drew’s signature culture: Less sitting. More doing.

Drew students enrolled in the New York Semester on Communications and Media visit the Made in NY Media Center in Brooklyn.

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DREW MAGAZINE Volume 43, No. 1, Spring 2016

PRESIDENT MaryAnn Baenninger, PhD

VICE PRESIDENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING

Kira Poplowski, PhD

VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT Kenneth Alexo, Jr., PhD

GUEST EDITOR Christopher Hann

ART DIRECTOR Margaret M. Kiernan

MANAGING EDITOR Kristen Daily Williams C’98

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Peter Heineck, Rizco Design, Melanie Shandroff

PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANT Lynne DeLade C’12

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS Risa Barisch, Matt Choquette, Kevin Coyne,

Andrew McMains, Kimberly Mollo, Amy Motzenbecker, Shannon Mullen, Renée Olson, Leslie Garisto Pfaff

WEBMASTER Justin Jackson C’05

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERSRobert Benacchio C’98, president,

College Alumni Association Don Wahlig T’09, president,

Theological School Alumni Association

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Views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect official policy of the university.

Spring 2016 I Contents

26For Nadia Ahmad C’99, lab research she conducted in Drew’s RISE program set in motion her career as a doctor.

40Meet Linus, the doggone cutest

creature on campus.

6Donor-supported internships allow

legions of Drew students to learn

on the job.

64Michelle Kim C’16— actress, dancer, intern, scholar—talks back.

18Four Theological

School students and graduates recall the value of the school’s cross-

cultural program.

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As I near the end of my second full year in The Forest, I have begun to feel like I really know this great University. While I still have the pleasure and excitement of discovering something new about Drew’s history, or meeting accomplished alums for the first time, I feel at home here already, and I am very clear on what makes Drew special.


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tower” education, disconnected from the so-called “real world,” and unsuited for preparing students for the life of work and career.

These criticisms of higher education have merit, but they are also short-sighted. A student who spends four or more years getting her undergraduate degree in a vacuum is very likely to struggle with the transition to work and career. Conversely, a student who is trained only for a specific career will be severely limited to that profession throughout his career.

There is another answer, another path, and it is reflected in how our students learn at Drew. The terms I like to use for this kind of learning are authentic, grounded, con-nected and seamless. By the time a Drewid graduates, she or he must feel comfortable in the world of work, and should feel overprepared relative to peers in a graduate school setting.

For our graduates, the first job interview comes after dozensof authentic preparatory experiences: interviewing for several internships, “speed-mentoring” with local executives or sitting on the other side of the interview table in the context of a civic engagement placement. A newly minted science grad walks into the lab after having worked side by side with a mentor-colleague among our faculty, and likely has presented or published her or his work in peer-reviewed publications or conferences. Aspiring actors have auditioned for many—and appeared in some—productions in professional theatres

outside of Drew. Aspiring public servants and attorneys have managed actual ongoing or special projects in the Borough of Madison. Dozens of students over the years have interned on Wall Street. And the list goes on…

The experiences happen through authentic—not artificial—routes just as they happen in the world of work, through productive networking, apprenticeships, fellow-ships, assistantships and in many cases, stiffly competitive processes. They are why 100 percent of recent Drew

alumni and alumnae are firmly “situated” within six months after graduation, in the first jobs of their careers, in highly competi-tive graduate programs and a few in carefully selected and prestigious post- baccalaureate volunteer settings, like Peace Corps and Teach For America. Every step of the way our students are accompanied

on their journey by faculty mentors who serve as guides, as sages, as “Yodas” along the route.

Our faculty support students in grounded, authentic and seamless experiences that aren’t just in preparation for the real world, they are in the real world. That is what this issue of Drew Magazine is about. It is also about the very generous donors who support our students in these pursuits. Drew has inspired them to “pay it forward,” and we are deeply, deeply grateful. —MaryAnn Baenninger

O ne of those things is the quality and pervasive-ness of learning opportunities that take place outside the confines of the traditional classroom.

We’ve become so accustomed to hearing about this kind of learning, with overused phrases like “experiential learning” and “engaged learning” or definitions that describe the form of outside-the-classroom work—internships, undergraduate research, civic engagement, practicum, study abroad—that we take little time to reflect on why these forms of learning are exemplary, especially combined with classroom learning, reflection and other forms of faculty mentoring.

I speak with authority on this subject. I feel mildly embar-rassed to toot my own horn, but I do it to make clear that I’ve spent much of my career promoting this kind of learning and dissecting its attributes. In 2013 I received the national President’s Award for Excellence in Experiential Education from the National Society for Experiential Education. I came to Drew on the heels of winning that award, and my stan-dards were very high. I expected Drew to be good at this kind of learning. What I found instead is greatness, and what I believe to be a national model for preparing students in all three schools for a seamless transition between their degrees and meaningful careers. A phrase I use often is that this kind of learning is found in the DNA of Drew University.

But the words “experiential” and “engaged” are so over-used that we don’t stop and reflect on what they mean, or how or why these practices transform learning. To under-stand this, it’s easiest to describe what most college and university educations don’t do, and why some perceive that there is a crisis in education.

Connected to this is the perception that the kind of education one receives at Drew—a liberal arts education—is an “ivory

I expected Drew to be good at this kind of learning. What

I found instead is greatness, and what I believe to be a national model for

preparing students in all three schools for a seamless transition between their

degrees and meaningful careers.

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Drew’s learning-by-doing culture is built on intrinsic opportunities, from a first-year class trip to NYC, to the Wall Street Semester, to study abroad programs—and everything in between.

President Baenninger, here with Adam Oppegaard C’19, working with Morris Habitat for Humanity.


HELP WANTED. WISH GRANTED.

Each year hundreds of Drew students gain practical, tangible experience in the field with the support of an invaluable collection of funded internships, many made possible by the One And All campaign.

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Investing in FuturesDrew’s internship funds extend across the campus, supporting students in the College of Liberal Arts as well as in the Theological School and the Caspersen School.

The One And All campaign, which to date has raised more than $78 million, has bolstered those funds significantly. Donations from alumni and friends have enhanced existing funds, such as the Joseph Patenaude Theatre Internship, and created new ones, such as the Margaret E.L. “Peggi” Howard Internship Fund for Leadership and Service and the College Class of 1960 Internship.

Many of the funds are tailored to help students in particular fields—science or theatre, health care policy or environmental studies, government or journalism, to name a few. Others support students involved in civic engagement, academic research or social justice. The Margaret and Marshall Bartlett Research Fellowship Fund provides funding to Caspersen students for research into historical topics “designed to promote world peace and to prevent terrorism and genocide.” The Thomas D. Sayles, Jr. Internship Award is reserved for students who might otherwise be unable to accept an unpaid internship.

The internship funds can be crucial, says John Warner, an emeritus professor of English in whose honor the John M. Warner Writing Internship was created, “since many internships aren’t paid jobs, which makes it difficult for students to support themselves while interning.”

The internships enable students to explore potential jobs and attain skills far beyond those learned in the classroom. George Hayward, who recently helped establish the College Class of 1960 Internship, notes that interning “can broaden your horizons and may even lead to a whole new career.” His own Drew internship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute led to two summer jobs there that he prizes to this day. Though Hayward later became a university admissions director and fundraiser, the natural sciences remained a lifelong passion.

Through internships, says Margaret “Peggi” Howard, Drew’s former vice president of administration and university relations and the namesake of a new internship fund for leadership and service, “students learn about the world of work—and about the world itself.”

On the following pages we profile seven Drew students and graduates whose internships gave them invaluable on-the-job training.

JOHN DABROWSKI C’12 discovered his passion for music at Drew, where he joined WMNJ, the University’s student-run radio station. Then a series of three internships opened a vista for him onto the music business and the role he might play in it. Those internships, he says, allowed him “to take music as a passion point and transition to a career.”

As a recipient of two Thomas D. Sayles, Jr. Internship Awards and a John M. Warner Writing Internship, Dabrowski interned with three music powerhouses: Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. The experience helped him discover a fascination for developing and pro-moting new musical talent. These days Dabrowski works as a marketing man-ager at Sony’s ’stache media, where he interned as a sophomore.

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Monty always wanted to work in advertising, so when she learned about an internship in Fox TV’s marketing department from Drew’s career center, she applied immediately. “The best way to build your résumé is to have names on it that people can recognize,” Monty says.

A recipient of the McEvoy Internship for students interested in media, publishing and communications, Monty understood that experience in marketing would be an asset when interviewing for jobs in advertising. Because the internship was unpaid, the McEvoy funds helped defray the cost of commuting, which involved a train into Manhattan and the subway to Rockefeller Center. “I was able to use my own money for food and school supplies,” she says, “instead of putting it toward the commute.”

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As a political science major at Drew, Hepburn was urged by a professor to get in touch with a local agency or elected body “to make political science live for us.” The experience stayed with her, eventually prompting her to sponsor the internship fund established in her name. The fund, made in part to honor Drew political science professor Robert Smith and his wife, Lois, is designed to support internships involving substantive engagement with the community beyond the campus. “I believe that being immersed in a community activity for a long enough period of time adds immeasurably to your understanding of how a community or a government works,” Hepburn says.

How far can an internship fund go? In just the past few years the Mary Hepburn Internship in Civic Engagement has enabled Drew students to teach art classes to disabled students, aid homeless children, apprentice with a municipal engineering office, work with the Red Cross and assist diplomats at the United Nations.

The Ripple Effect

THE DONOR Mary Hepburn C’54

The internship The Adult School of the Chathams

The job Processing class proposals from instructors in the registration system and editing proofs of the catalog.

My internship helped me view myself as someone who could go into an organization and work independently, helping both the organization and the community it served. I still volunteer there.”

The internship American Red Cross

The job Secretary for the youth services director; helped monitor and coordinate the activities of Red Cross high school clubs throughout the greater New York area.

I not only gained valuable life and business skills like networking and working in an office, but I was also able to become acquainted with the city I once fell in love with as a young teenager.”

The internship GLAAD (formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)

The job Helping to advance the group’s faith-based initiatives.

The Hepburn Internship program enabled me to discern future plans and take risks in the real world while still being supported by the nurturing Drew community.”

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INTERN Taylor Tracy C’17

INTERN Patrick Keough C’15

INTERN Devyn Lopez C’16

The internship Village of Ridgewood Engineering Division

The job File maintenance and police accident reports, accident mapping, building code inspections, field inspections, public relations, com-munity utility mark-outs, surveying and a budget research project.

I got to experience engineering for a local town, which gave me hands-on experience in a field that I may want to go into in the future.”

INTERN Jeffrey Van Grouw C’17

The internship Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations

The job Assisting diplomats from the Costa Rican Foreign Service.

The internship was a great opportunity for me to learn about the United Nations, how it works and what it’s like to be there as a representative. It’s definitely a place I’d like to work someday.”

INTERN Sofia Madrigal C’14

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Jenna Deslaurier C’16

With a double major in studio art and anthropology, Deslaurier honed her creative skills and gained an important understanding of human interactions. But it was a Mary Hepburn Internship in Civic Engagement with Artists’ Exchange, a Rhode Island nonprofit that offers art classes for people with disabilities, that showed her how she might fuse her two passions professionally. By working with all age groups and people with different levels of ability, she says, “I was able to learn new methods of teaching and realize where my strengths and weaknesses were.”

Deslaurier qualified for the Hepburn stipend because her internship was unpaid and allowed her to have a positive effect on, and engage with, a community outside of Drew. Getting to her internship was a challenge for Deslaurier, since Artists’ Exchange wasn’t accessible by public transportation from her home in Rhode Island. The Hepburn fund covered the cost of a rental car, which helped make the internship possible. Deslaurier says she could have accepted an internship with another organization. “But I had my heart set on Artists’ Exchange for its unique and inclusive approach to the community,” she says.

MORISSA SCHWARTZ C’15 was an English major with a minor in writing when she was awarded a John M. Warner Writing Internship. The fund, which provides English students with stipends that support internships in industries related to writing, allowed Schwartz to work for a semester at Entertainment Weekly in Manhattan. “It sharpened my writing skills and helped me learn a different way of writing, in a different format,” she says. She credits the confidence she gained at the magazine with helping her complete her first book-length work of creative nonfiction, Notes Never Sent, published last year by VIP Ink.

Kean Enables The former president of Drew and governor of New Jersey helped establish three internship funds.

Once a year, Thomas Kean sits down with the recipients of the Thomas H. Kean Government Internship Program to talk about what the interns have done and what their internships meant to them. “And then,” he says, laughing, “we usually end up with a long political discussion.”

Drew’s 10th president and former two-term New Jersey governor is a politician by avocation and a passionate booster of interning. “On-the-job learning, although it’s often totally different from the classroom, is just as valuable,” he says.

Over the past decade, Kean has been instrumental in establishing three internship funds at Drew, to which he is also among the principal donors. The Kean Government Internship is open to political science majors or minors interested in a career in government or public service. It pays a stipend to students participating in an unpaid internship with a government office, political party or candidate, NGO or related organization. Kean also founded the Joseph Patenaude Theatre Internship and was the driving force behind the Margaret E.L. “Peggi” Howard Internship Fund for Leadership and Service. In 2013, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation honored Kean’s political and academic legacy, along with his dedication to experiential learning, by establishing the Thomas H. Kean Internship in Public Policy.

In addition to hands-on experience, Kean says, internships help students choose—or reject—potential career paths and offer invaluable contacts. But they also benefit employers. “These interns bring a great deal to whomever they work for,” he says, “including Drew’s culture and its values.”

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MARVIANNA GRAY C’17 could not shake the sight of the 15-year-old girl holding her 2-year-old daughter. Throughout the summer of 2014, Gray shadowed her former pediatrician, Dr. Edwina Verner, as part of her internship in the East Orange, New Jersey, clinic she had visited as a child. But it wasn’t until Gray saw the teenage girl with her baby that she decided she would one day work in public health. “I realized that people need advocates to help them get health care and health education,” Gray says. “I thought if I were to go to these urban areas and be a sort of mentor, it could probably lessen certain things, like teen pregnancies and the transmission of sexual diseases.”

Gray’s job that summer was made possible by support from the Thomas H. Kean Internship in Public Policy, a fund the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation created in 2013 to honor the former New Jersey governor and Drew’s 10th president.

Working with Verner convinced Gray she could be an advocate for patients—and eventually a pediatrician herself. Now a junior, she plans to apply to medical school after spending several years in public health, and she discusses her plans in a tone that is as decisive as it is practical. “I’d like to manage public health policy for the whole world,” she says. “But I’ll start small, in East Orange.”

Alex Slotkin C’17

A philosophy and English double major, Slotkin spent a semester working at the Street Smart Outreach Program, a nonprofit assisting runaway and vulnerable children and young adults in Morristown, New Jersey. A Mary Hepburn Internship in Civic Engagement covered his transportation costs. Street Smart provides referrals for housing, food, counseling and educational programs to a population at risk of being victimized by human traffickers.

One winter afternoon, Slotkin visited a woman in her 20s and her young daughter, who couldn’t have been older than 10, living illegally in an unheated garage. The experience was disturbing but also illuminating. “It made me realize that it’s important how stories like theirs are told,” he says, “because if an organi-zation doesn’t get its story out accurately, it might not get the funding it needs.” Inspired by the internship and another at a public relations firm specializing in the health care industry, Slotkin now hopes to pursue a job in health care communications. “If it weren’t for my internships,” he notes, “I wouldn’t have known there was a place for me in the PR world.”

Ornella Corsant-Colat C’16

The Robert G. Smith Internship for Experiential Learning funded Corsant- Colat’s internship with Peace Boat, an NGO that promotes a culture of peace. While writing reports on the group’s campaigns, she says, “I became interested in nuclear disarmament, on which I have focused and done extensive research.” Corsant-Colat published an e-book, Nuclear Weapons: Misconceptions, Challenges and Involvement of NGO Peace Boat, in 2015.

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BEYONDTHE MISSIONFIELD

Every student in Drew’s Theological School embarks on a cross-cultural trip and a year of supervised ministry. As these four profiles attest, the assignments expose them to new cultures, new practices and new ways of thinking.

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“If you haven’t spent the time to be with people who aren’t

who you are, who are different, who tell different stories, you may be missing a major point

of your ministry.”

Sullivan and about two dozen of his Theological School classmates spent two weeks in the Sooner State in 2013 for a real-world learning experience, something all seminary students complete before graduating.

The program they chose, “Native American People and Place,” one of many experiential opportunities the Theological School offers, explores how native people have been affected by Christianity, racial prejudice and cultural imperialism. Traveling in a 3,300-mile loop, the group met with members of several western tribes, including the Chickasaw and Yuchi, who shared their histories, cultures and present-day struggles. The students’ goal was to incorporate what they learned into their ministry.

Sullivan and his project partners were shaken by their visit to Fort Sill, a U.S. Army installation about 85 miles from Oklahoma City. Fort Sill, during the era of Custer and Crazy Horse, was home to the famed black cavalry unit dubbed the Buffalo Soldiers. While many of these black fighting men were undeniably brave and heroic, Sullivan says, there was no denying they helped enforce a government-sanctioned

ethnic cleansing campaign against native people.A snapshot taken of Sullivan and his classmates at the

Fort is telling. “If you look at the picture, none of us were smiling,” he says. Their grave expressions speak to the conflicting emotions the visit stirred, and their questions became the basis for their class project.

Sullivan wondered about the role the first black chaplains played in their work with the Buffalo Soldiers. “What was it that they talked to each other about?” he says. “How did they communicate the faith when folks came back and they were talking about the things that they had to do?”

Sullivan, 44, is still wrestling with those questions. Now an associate minister at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Hackensack, New Jersey, he’s grateful the Theological School places such an emphasis on experiential learning opportunities like the one he had.

“We don’t know it all,” he says, “and if you haven’t spent the time to be with people who aren’t who you are, who are different, who tell different stories, you may be missing a major point of your ministry.”

As an African American, the Rev. Fred Sullivan thought he had a solid grasp of black

history. But he confronted an overlooked chapter of that history—the role the Buffalo

Soldiers played in the subjugation of Native American tribes during the Indian Wars—

during his experience in Oklahoma.

Sullivan is an associate minister at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Hackensack, New Jersey.

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Early in the trip, he recalls, someone pointed him out on the street and said, “It’s Obama!” He wasn’t a minority; he was an anomaly—an experience he says helped him better appreciate what it means to be a true outsider.

“I’ve never been an ‘other’ so much,” he says.Jameson visited Turkey with other Theological School

students, part of Drew’s “Turkey at a Crossroads” program, and met with academics, social activists and Muslim, Christian and Jewish groups. Their focus was on how Turkish people view and experience diversity and multiculturalism.

“I’ve always had this deep-seated interest in Islam,” Jameson says, explaining why he chose the Turkey program, “especially as it relates to Christianity.”

The following year, while still at Drew, he spent a semester in Switzerland, studying and working with the World Council

of Churches. He lived with several dozen students from around the world, and their conversations amounted to another sort of graduate program.

“It takes on a whole different meaning when you’re engaging with people who don’t speak the same language,” Jameson says. “You begin to acknowledge that God’s presence is manifested throughout the world.”

Now the pastor of two Baptist churches in Baltimore, Jameson, 33, says he often draws on the experiences he had abroad as a Drew student.

“It gives you an opportunity to reflect back, and tap into all of your experiences, because ministry is very experience-based,” he says. “Both of these experiences showed me a lot about who I am.”

Greer describes the concept of akwaaba as

“an overwhelming sense of hospitality” that permeates

everyday life in Ghana.The Rev. Gerard Jameson suspected that as a black man he might be something of a curiosity to people in Turkey. He was right.

“It takes on a whole different meaning when you’re engaging with people

who don’t speak the same language.”

Greer works with young people and the homeless at four small congregations in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Jameson is the pastor of two Baptist churches in Baltimore.

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In Ghana, the greeting akwaaba means far more than hello. It conveys a bond, a kinship, a sense of community. Kai Greer experienced akwaaba in a profound way on a learning experience run by Theological School faculty members.

Titled “Ghana: Bible and Urbanization,” the program examines the interplay of biblical worldviews and transnational migrations in sub-Saharan Africa. Greer and her classmates lived in a small village and learned about Ghana’s culture, economy and religious traditions in the nearby capital, Accra.

She describes the concept of akwaaba as “an overwhelming sense of hospitality” that permeates everyday life in Ghana. “We encountered that from the moment we landed to when we departed,” she says.

More than any souvenir, it was that attitude that she most wanted to bring home and share. Greer tries to

incorporate the lessons she learned in Ghana into daily life, particularly in her supervised ministry with Mosaic Ministries, a Methodist church initiative that helps support four small congregations in Monmouth County. Greer helps with youth programs, liturgies and a weekly breakfast for the homeless.

She says she often thinks of her time in Ghana—especially the brilliant blue sky, the rich, red earth, the spicy street food. But a year removed from her trip, some of those memories began to fade. So, in March of this year, she returned. She brought her father, the Rev. Dr. H. Ward Greer, who, she says, was eager to experience akwaaba himself.

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Real-World MinistryTheological School students take 400 hours of training as hospital chaplains—a job that one alumna calls “a spiritual fireman.”

Sebrina Trent T’15 can trace her path to her position as a chaplain at Morristown Medical Center back to a conversation she had with a Theological School classmate.

She remembers being struck not so much by the words he was saying—as he told her about his experiences in the school’s clinical pastoral program—as by the passion in his voice, the light in his eyes.

“He was totally engulfed,” Trent recalls. “He looked like he was satisfied. Like he was living out his calling.”

Trent enrolled in the program, which proved to be as rewarding as it was rigorous. The 400 hours of training she received as a Theological School student at Overlook Medical Center in Summit convinced her this was the kind of ministry she wanted to pursue after leaving Drew.

Today, Trent, 53, is a full-time resident on the pastoral care staff at Morristown Medical Center. She likens the job to being “a spiritual fireman,” rushing from one crisis to the next.

“We’re there to listen, to recognize spiritual strengths, spiritual connections that the patient has,” she says. “You’re there to be a non-anxious presence.”

As Trent and Boram Lim T’14, her colleague at Morristown Medical Center, can both attest, it’s taxing work—physically, spiritually and mentally. Both women say the training they received at Drew helped prepare them for these challenges.

“It is very intense,” says Lim, 34. “Some calls last for hours, when there’s a big crisis and the family is going through intense emotions. That’s where the chaplain needs to be.”

What more could she learn? Quite a lot, it turned out. Working with a faculty supervisor and meeting regularly with a group of congregation members who sat on her teaching committee gave her a fresh perspective on the work she does at the church.

“I’ve found ways to meet people where they’re at,” says Jackson-Loesch, who is 26, “but also, as a leader of the church, how to gently challenge and make sure we’re always improving.”

Jackson-Loesch got real-world practice with the “gently challenge” part when she returned last year from an eye-opening trip to El Salvador with a group of students and faculty from the Theological School. She was eager to share what she had learned about the role the United States played in the civil war that devastated El Salvador for 12 years beginning in 1980. She gave a presentation at the church, hoping to get people thinking about a still-struggling country that America seems to have largely forgotten.

“Drew Theo is big on experiential learning,” she says, “so that you come out a better leader and really just a better thinker. It’s a school that focuses a lot on critical thinking.”

Jackson-Loesch, who is married to fellow Theo student Parker Loesch T’16, hopes to focus on social justice issues after she graduates this spring, perhaps as a community organizer or in some other advocacy role.

“Both my time at Drew and my job at the church have helped me do that, and see how to connect what goes on in the church with what goes on outside of it,” she says, “and, hopefully, be a bridge.”

When it came time for Chelsea Jackson-Loesch to embark on her year of supervised ministry, she was already working at the United Methodist Church adjacent to campus.

“I’ve found ways to meet people where they’re at, but also, as a leader of

the church, how to gently challenge and make sure we’re always improving.”

Jackson-Loesch hopes to focus on

social justice issues after she graduates

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ON THE RISE

Nadia Ahmad C’99 used her laboratory training at Drew to launch a career in science that has taken her from Harvard to Dubai, where today she runs an obesity clinic.

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What she learned at Drew came right back to her. “When I got to the lab again after all those years, I was like, ‘Yeah, I know how to pipette, because I was in Dr. Petrack’s lab,’” she says.

Dr. Petrack is Barbara Petrack, who was Ahmad’s mentor in the Research Institute for Scientists Emeriti (RISE), a program that, since its founding more than three decades ago, has trained more than 350 Drew students. Ahmad had her sights on medical school. Petrack had just retired from a 35-year career as a biochemist for a pharmaceutical company. Together they spent two years in Petrack’s third-floor lab in the Hall of Sciences testing the interaction of various chemicals with nitric oxide, an enzyme beneficial to the body’s immune and cardiovascular systems.

“I would huff and puff walking up the flights of stairs, and she was way ahead of me every time,” says Ahmad, whose Harvard fellowship was in the emerging field of obesity medicine. “If I had not had the RISE experience with her, I would have walked into that lab and it would have been so foreign to me. But I understood research, I understood equipment, I understood all of it.”

Undergraduate science majors who want to do lab research—a skill and a résumé feature increasingly expected by graduate and medical schools—tend to hit two roadblocks. At most small colleges, they encounter a scarcity of opportunities. At large universities, they confront a layer of graduate students insulating them from the professors. Drew’s groundbreaking RISE program, believed to be one of a kind, allows under-graduates to gain invaluable research experience working directly with scientists like Dr. William Campbell, a longtime RISE fellow who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for research he performed before retiring from Merck.

“We don’t understand why other places haven’t followed this path and taken advantage of retired scientists,” says Petrack, who started as a RISE fellow in 1997 at the age of 71, one week after retiring from Ciba-Geigy. She retired from RISE in 2014, but often returns to speak to the students. “Retired scientists have so much to offer.”

Of course, each year dozens of Drew students also collaborate in research with tenured members of the science faculty. For example, students of Roger Knowles, a professor of biology and neuroscience, routinely

participate in Knowles’ research into the mechanisms and treatments of Alzheimer’s Disease, and students of biology professor Tammy Windfelder make biannual marine ecology field research trips to Belize. Moreover, each summer students in the Drew Summer Science Institute (DSSI) perform research with faculty members full time, supported by a stipend. In fact, student participation in DSSI has more than quadrupled since 2001, with more than 50 students involved in each of the past four years. According to Knowles, “My lab and work with my students allows them to fine-tune some of their life goals and career decisions. It is very common for Drew graduates who have done work in my lab to go on to medical school or to get research PhDs.”

The daughter of Pakistani immigrants—her mother is a nurse, her father a pharmacist—Ahmad always wanted to be a doctor, and the enzymology research she found

in Dr. Petrack’s lab seemed a good fit for a medical career. Petrack was as eager to enlist a young assistant to help her continue her research as Ahmad was to learn. “She was just so full of energy,” Ahmad says. “That’s what psyched me most about her.”

Ahmad, a double major in English literature and biology, was drawn to the areas that took her deepest into the stories of her patients’ lives: internal medicine and critical care. “I loved the idea of knowing the whole picture and following the whole patient,” she says. “To me, practicing medicine is like a window into people’s lives and souls, and it’s a privilege to have that window. I loved literature in high school and college for the same reason, that connection to humanity, and this was the same thing. It felt like everything was tying together.”

During her residency, Ahmad grew interested in

obesity, after seeing many of her patients in a West Philadelphia outpatient clinic struggle with their weight. She contacted Lee Kaplan, the director of the Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical School. The institute didn’t have a training program yet, but another young doctor was interested as well, so one was created for them. “That fellowship was life-changing,” Ahmad says. “It’s pioneering work, and it’s a specialty, but it doesn’t make me give up any of my passion for knowing the whole patient and having a holistic approach and having a long-term relationship, because that’s what obesity treatment is all about.”

For the next seven years, Ahmad worked in the lab and with patients at the institute and taught

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As an undergrad at Drew, Ahmad (left) spent two years in the laboratory of Barbara Petrack, then a RISE fellow.

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After completing medical school at New York University and a residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Nadia Ahmad C’99 was about to start a Harvard fellowship in a specialty so new it didn’t have a proper name yet.


at Harvard Medical School, advancing the science on obesity, which the American Medical Association recognized as a disease in 2013. “A very big misconception among laypeople is that someone who has weight issues should just exercise and eat better and it should go away,” she says. “That is a huge myth. The majority of people will lose a little bit of weight and then plateau and then get frustrated and stop, because their body biologically is storing excess fat. The brain regulates how much fat you’re supposed to have, and their brains are inappropriately regulating to a very high fat level.”

She and other obesity researchers have been trying to better understand the complex biology behind that process—energy regulation, fat metabolism, hormones. “This field is just so intellectually stimulating because all this knowledge has been developing at the bench in the last decade, and clinicians just don’t know about it,” she says.

When her family moved to Dubai, Ahmad started her own research and clinical group, the Obesity Medicine Institute, which recently received its first research grant—from Harvard. Ahmad says the grant will fund research designed to improve metabolic disease outcomes for pregnant women and infants. “There’s a lot of data showing that metabolic disease and obesity is programmed in utero,” she says. “We’re just at the tip of the iceberg in understanding all of it.”

The skills she learned in Barbara Petrack’s lab more than 15 years ago help her understand more today. “That’s how it all comes full circle.”

After working and teaching at Harvard Medical School, Ahmad and her family moved to the United Arab Emirates three years ago.

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Gifts of $100,000 and moreThe Andrew W. Mellon FoundationMr. Joseph B. Baker C’69Estate of James C’49 and Beatrice WeddellEstate of Robin Powers C’70Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Novo NordiskDr. Ronald J. Saldarini C’61 and

Mrs. Suzanne Thomas Saldarini C’62Sentience FoundationDr. Jay Tittman C’44

Gifts of $25,000–$99,999Mrs. Ruby deStevensEdward H. Butler FoundationDr. Robert L. Fenstermacher C’63 and

Ms. Anne Clark Jacobson C’75Mr. Philip H. Haselton, Sr.Dr. Albert A. Luderer C’70 and

Mrs. Margaret A. LudererDr. Carrie Hendrickson McMahon C’94Merck

Mr. Eugene I. Meyers P’88,’90 and Mrs. Marci Meyers P’88,’90

Dr. Heinz G. Pfeiffer C’41PfizerPSE&GMs. Leslie D. SmithDr. Robert D. Wickham C’47 and

Mrs. Kate B. Wickham

Gifts of $10,000–$24,999Mr. William E. Clark C’91 and Ms. Julie

Aigner-ClarkDr. Jonathan B. Crowther C’79 and

Dr. Molly Waldron Crowther C’82The Fletcher Jones FoundationIndependent College Fund of New JerseyThe Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation

Johnson & JohnsonQuest DiagnosticsDr. Donald J. Vigliotti C’81 and

Dr. Kathy J. SelvaggiWyethMrs. Yvonne Yaar-Sharkey P’16 and

Mr. Dennis Sharkey P’16

SINCE THE START OF THE ONE AND ALL CAMPAIGN, MORE THAN 20 NEW DSSI AND RISE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS HAVE BEEN CREATED. AMONG THE MORE THAN 250 ALUMNI, FRIENDS, CORPORATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED ARE THE FOLLOWING:

Italicized name indicates donor is deceased.

STARS OF SCIENCE

You learn best when you put your hands on things. Wood absorbed that lesson at Drew, and brought it with him when he started teaching at Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, after he graduated.

Working with his RISE mentor, James Miller, he showed how a new sampling technique for gas chromatography could identify impurities in pharmaceuticals, and published his research. These days he designs similarly practical labs and case studies for his own students—analyzing water samples, for example, to see if a former factory site could become a park.

“One thing I learned at Drew was getting very authentic with what you’re trying to teach—real-world examples, case studies, that’s something I’m very passionate about,” Wood says. “To really discover things on your own, to learn about the world around you, authenticity is key.”

This approach earned Wood the 2015 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. (Another Drew graduate, Kathleen Carter C’95, a math teacher at North Hunterdon High School in New Jersey, also received the Presidential Award for Excellence last year.)

When doing experiments in his high school chemistry class, Wood’s students often use a piece of equipment he brought with him from the RISE program at Drew: a high-performance liquid chromatograph.

“It was ready for the junk pile,” Wood says. Miller saw that he had skills beyond the textbooks, and encouraged him to tinker with the chromatograph. “We scavenged parts from one machine, took them to another and pieced things together.”

He added something new to his classroom recently: a photo of himself with President Barack Obama, taken on his visit to the White House—more proof of the value of his kind of teaching.

DERRICK WOOD C’04MASTERCLASSMeet four more Drew grads who made careers from their work alongside science faculty and their experiences in the RISE program.


“There are a lot of people who go straight from undergraduate to graduate school without having had a real, true lab experience,” says Von Stetina, a postdoctoral fellow in cell and developmental biology at Harvard. “Taking lab as part of a course is not the same thing as doing research, because those labs are usually designed for success, and if you haven’t tasted the bitter sting of defeat as a scientist, then you don’t know if this is for you. There are going to be more downs than ups.”

Von Stetina was hooked on molecular biology and microbiology as a high school student and came to Drew because of its research opportunities for undergraduates. He worked directly with former professor Louise Temple, and soon found himself with his own key to her lab, where he studied a bacterium that caused a whooping cough–like disease.

“I got the bug, the desire that I can’t wait another day to know the results of this experiment, that I have to go in and do this now,” he says. The skills he acquired in the lab led to a job as a research technician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and then to Vanderbilt University for a PhD. “You need that drive in order to stay in science,” Von Stetina says, “and I learned I had that by doing good science with Dr. Temple.”

Barsoom was a neuroscience major at Drew, aiming at medical school. “I was the little 7-year-old with the toy stethoscope and taking people’s blood pressure,” she says. “I just couldn’t imagine doing anything else with my life.”

With RISE and DSSI, Barsoom worked in the lab of Ronald Doll, a former medicinal chemist at Merck, with cells from glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. But first she had to synthesize a blood-brain barrier, which protects the brain from infection, so she and Doll could test which compounds could penetrate it and potentially get to work on the cancer cells. “It was a good day when it worked,” she says, and it was the subject of her honors thesis, “Drug Discovery Efforts Targeting Mutant p53 for the Treatment of Glioblastoma.” This work paid off—at her interview for Thomas Jefferson University Medical School, where she is now a second-year student, she spent 40 minutes of the allotted hour responding to professors’ questions about her research.

Cordovano came to Drew to study biology, but she fell in love with chemistry after taking organic chemistry with Professor Alan Rosan. “He scrawled across all of the boards all these equations and then the end product,” she recalls, “and then he said, ‘This, ladies and gentlemen, is what a pear smells like.’”

She didn’t want to choose between the two subjects, so Cordovano became one of Drew’s first biochemistry majors. Her favorite spot to study was in a small library in the Hall of Sciences, near the RISE program, where she often talked science with the RISE fellows and students. When she later enrolled in RISE, she worked in the lab of microbial biochemist Arnold Demain.

Cordovano earned a PhD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where her research was on a potential new drug for prostate cancer. She later worked with companies to get their products through clinical trials.

She then founded her own company, Enlightening Results, which works in the emerging field of patient advocacy. As the child of Polish immigrants who grew up in heavily Polish Wallington, New Jersey, Cordovano was inspired by her experience translating for a cousin with cancer. “The need is there,” Cordovano says. “It’s actually very frustrating to see how people struggle with navigating the health care system.”

Von Stetina worked at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before landing at Harvard.

Barsoom, now at Thomas Jefferson University Medical School, worked in the labs of both RISE and DSSI at Drew.

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COURSE IS NOT THE SAME

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One of Drew’s first biochemistry majors, Cordovano founded her own patient advocacy company.


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Mayo Performing Arts Center In Morristown

Drew Forum speaker Bill O’Reilly calls the 2016 campaign the most interesting

since Kennedy-Nixon.

Mead HallDrew signs a fourth agreement to recruit honors students from

community colleges—this time with Bergen Community College.

Davies House Front Lawn

Favorite spot for Linus, our Seeing Eye puppy-in-training.

Lawn Between Hall of Sciences and Madison Avenue Wildflowers in the meadow get ready to

bloom in a new, sunny location.

Simon ForumPulitzer-winning historian and

Thomas H. Kean Lecturer Doris Kearns Goodwin brings perspective to the

presidential campaign.

The Concert HallPresident Baenninger interviews political

strategists Donna Brazile and Margaret Hoover, who dissect the 2016 presidential race at the

March 3 Drew Forum.

The CommonsRenovations are under way! The community can expect

a vibrant dining service and new efforts to meed diverse dining

needs on campus.

Crawford Hall Alicia Ostriker, Drew professor

and chancellor of the American Academy of Poets, gives the fifth annual Merrill

Maguire Skaggs Lecture.

Ehinger Center Seventh- and eighth-grade girls tackle workshops designed to nurture their interest in science

and technology. 1867 Lounge On his March 3 visit to

campus, Nobel Laureate and RISE Fellow William Campbell

connects with students during a day of celebration.

LibraryThe library has commissioned 812 pieces of

Thomas Kean–related media to be digitized. The collection documents four decades in the academic and political life of the former Drew

president and New Jersey governor. drew.edu/kean-papers

United Methodist Archives and History Center

An expert panel discusses Shakespeare’s First Folio before the rare book arrives on campus in October, the only New Jersey

stop on a national tour. Athletic Center

In a rare sweep, senior hoops stars Courtney Stephens and Mike Klinger take home Landmark Conference Athlete of the

Week honors—in the same week.

Alumni HouseRegister now for Reunion 2016 on June 3–4, and celebrate the close of the One And All

campaign. drew.edu/reunion

An insider’s guide to what’s happening on campus.

DrewniverseAROUND THE

Upcoming Events

The Concert HallApril 11Physician, artist, writer and Holocaust survivor Dr. Robert O. Fisch delivers the 2016 Karpati Lecture

April 16Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Beethoven, Dohnányi and Dvorák

April 29Drew Chamber Orchestra

April 30Chorale, Chorale Union and New Jersey Youth Symphony: Francis Poulenc’s Gloria

May 1Flute Ensemble Jazz Ensemble

TheatreApril 20–23 Student Dance Show

Spiritual LeadershipToday Workshopsdrew.edu/slt

April 22The Spirituality of Joy: Professor Angella Son

Korn GalleryMarch 17–April 26Robert Yarber’s Sleep Has Eyes

May 6–12Senior Art Show

Words May 6Shakespeare’s First Folio panel discussion

June 18–25MFA in Poetry reading series

For a full list of events, visit drew.edu/events.

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eight feet high and filled with rare books, most of them boxed, and maybe then you’ll understand how a rare first edition of the 1611 King James Bible went unnoticed in Drew’s library archives for decades.

Ah, but what was hidden is now found—a story of luck, sleuthing and joy, beginning with Caspersen School of Graduate Studies student Brian Shetler picking through the stacks at the request of Professor Jonathan Rose.

A Discovery of Biblical Proportion It went unnoticed for decades, but last fall a graduate student discovered a rare edition of the King James Bible, published more than four centuries ago.

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Join us for a new Reunion highlight.

2016 Alumni Achievement Awards and State of the University Address

Make plans to attend Reunion 2016.June 3–4 | 973.408.3229 | drew.edu/reunion

We honor Drew’s best and brightest, and get the insiders’ update from

President MaryAnn Baenninger.

10 a.m.– noon | Dorothy Young Center for the Arts Concert HallPreceded by a Community Continental Breakfast, 8:30–10 a.m.

REUNION2016JUNE 3–4 | ONE AND ALL.


Justice Served Clint Bolick C’79 took an unorthodox route to the Arizona Supreme Court.

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“ I will see what I can do when I go home to try and promote more Malaysian students to come, because I think this is the best place for us to come and study. — Awang Adek Hussin C’77,

Malaysian ambassador to the United States, speaking to Drew political science students February 6.

Overheard

CLINT BOLICK C’79 IS THE 40TH JUSTICE TO BE NAMED TO THE ARIZONA STATE Supreme Court, but he’s the first to be unaligned with either the Democratic or Republican party. It’s a fitting distinction for a lawyer whose career in legal advocacy has routinely defied major-party orthodoxy.

“Clint is nationally renowned and respected as a constitutional law scholar and as a champion of liberty,” Arizona Governor Doug Ducey said in a statement announcing Bolick’s appointment.

Bolick achieved his national renown as the vice president for litigation at a liber-tarian think tank named for the late Barry Goldwater, the arch-conservative U.S. senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate who remains one of Bolick’s political heroes. Yet Bolick cites his opposition to the Iraq War, a venture championed by President George Bush and his Republican colleagues in Congress, as the turn-ing point in his defection from the GOP in 2003. With Jeb Bush, Bolick co-wrote Immigration Wars: Forging an American Revolution, which advocates reforms that con-tradict mainstream Republican thought.

“It’s pretty unusual for someone to be engaged in the type of work I was engaged in to be appointed to the judiciary,” he says, though he points to Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as two notable exceptions.

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A Bevy of BiblesHere’s a short list of other noteworthy Bibles in the Drew Library’s Special Collections:Polyglot Bible (1569) Eight-volume set con-tains the Bible in several languages printed side by side. Bishops’ Bible (1575) Early English translation of the Bible used as the base text for the King James version.Arabic Bible (1591) Early Arabic font allows for the Latin and Arabic text to be read in tan-dem.Syriac Bible (1664) Syriac is closely related to the Aramaic dialect used by Jesus and his apostles. Authorized English Bible (1819) Owned by William Wilberforce, an early abolitionist and a contemporary of John Wesley. Mohawk Bible manu-script (1885) Includes a portion of the New Tes-tament in the language of the Mohawk people.Chinese Bible (1894) Beautifully bound work featuring a Chinese font.

For a course on the history of England, Rose needed books that had been printed there in the 17th century. So Shetler, who works part time in the Archives, pulled anything from that time frame, filling a wheeled cart with little trouble. Among the last books he plucked was the Bible, which was wrapped in a gray box labeled “Bible,” “1611” and “R. Barker”—a reference to Robert Barker, a London printer. Still, Shetler had little inkling of what he had just unearthed.

As the doctoral candidate in book history told The New York Times, which first reported the discovery, “I knew Barker had pub-lished the King James Bible, but I thought there was no way we would have one and not know about it.”

Indeed, anyone who knew of the book is long gone, and its existence is recorded solely in an old card catalog system.

Accordingly, a group of Shetler’s colleagues, among them Theological Librarian Jesse Mann and Methodist Library Associate Cassie Brand, had to rediscover and authenticate the book by confirming a series of 35

points, or peculiarities, in its first printing.For example, this edition had a series of

typos. The most notable is in the Book of Ruth, where Ruth is mistakenly referred to as “he.” Drew’s copy has this oddity,

making it a “He Bible.” That fact alone makes the book more rare: Of the estimated 200 first editions of the Bible still existing, most are “She Bibles,” according to the Times.

More broadly, the Bible is the source of mem-orable phrases that remain in the vernacular today, including “salt of the earth,” “God forbid” and “eat, drink and be merry.” To bibli-cal scholar Donald Brake, author of A Visual History of the King James Bible,

the Bible “is, along with Shakespeare, the most influential book ever published in the English language.”

For Drew, the late-October surprise became an early Christmas present— and a gift that kept giving. For Shetler, the face behind the find, it was simply a joy to discover a buried treasure.

The Bible was wrapped in a box labeled “Bible,” “1611” and “R. Barker”—a reference to London printer Robert Barker.

THE BIBLE IS THE SOURCE OF MEMORABLE PHRASES THAT REMAIN IN THE VERNACULAR TODAY, INCLUDING “SALT OF THE EARTH,” “GOD FORBID” AND “EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY.”


A Philadelphia district that had voted Republican since 1858 sent Edgar, a Democrat, to Congress.

Linus the Lovable Drew’s Seeing Eye puppy-in-training makes The Forest his temporary home.

THE FOREST IS HOME TO INNUMERABLE FOUR-LEGGED CREATURES, BUT SURELY NONE have captivated the campus this academic year like a certain Labrador and Golden Retriever cross-breed puppy named Linus. Amy Sugerman, the assistant director of the Center for Civic Engagement, is raising Linus on behalf of The Seeing Eye,

the Morristown, New Jersey–based nonprofit that trains dogs to assist blind people. She’s had some support. The center’s staff and a dedicated group of Civic Scholars have helped to socialize Linus, who came with a 120-page training manual. Sugerman and her family will keep Linus until he’s 15 months old, when he’ll return to The Seeing Eye for additional training before being paired with a blind person. Sugerman knows the parting will not be easy. She’s asked all the time how she could ever give Linus back. Her response? “He never was mine in the first place,” she says. “We’ve been given the privilege and joy of raising him.”

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Ready to Write After a sabbatical, the Caspersen dean will return to teaching.

AFTER 46 YEARS AT DREW, THE last five of them as the dean of the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Baldwin

Professor of the Humanities and Profes-sor of English Robert Ready is taking a sabbatical, in his words, “to see where I am.”

Ready proudly describes the graduateschool—with its six “sophisticated disci-plines”—as having developed during his tenure “an integrated sense of what it’s doing.” Ready plans to use some of his sabbatical to travel, including a trip to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, where his daughter is a surgery resident. We asked him what else is on his itinerary during his year away from campus.

1. Reading “I have lots of reading in 19th-century Romantic scholarship and Romantic writers I want to do. It’s also time to do indiscriminate reading. I’ll read what I want to, not what I have to.”

2. Writing“There’s fiction I will get back to doing on a more regular basis. Outside of my family, it’s the sentences—the craft—that make me happiest. Most of the writing goes on in my study in my house in New York with the shade down in the middle of the day. We also have a place in Truro, Massachusetts, a 19th-century Cape Cod. It’s across the street from the Highland Light, one of those lighthouses [Edward] Hopper painted. There are times, usually late in the afternoon, when you watch the Hopper light come in. You’re sitting there and you’re in a painting. That is conducive to the otherworldliness that you need to write.”

3. Uncertainty“You know that old Keats phrase: ‘Negative capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties. Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact or reason’? The play of the mind—to get that back and find out where the material is again—is a gift, as is being able to show up when it comes.”

“ I’ll read what I want to, not what I have to. — Robert Ready

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What led you to Drew and the women’s soccer team? I was playing soccer at a showcase and a Drew assistant coach asked if I was interested in visiting campus. Four years later, the best parts of that decision are the family I’ve made here and the experiences I’ve had.

Your penalty kick won the shootout in the 2013 Land-mark Conference Championship game. I have a ring to make sure I never forget. There are times where I feel like a retired athlete and I tear up, but I always come back to the fact that we won that championship. I remember every moment of the game. There are also times where I’m watching penalty kicks in a profes-sional game, and no matter what, I have to sit there and watch. It always brings me back.

You’re a Presidential Scholar and three-time Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll selection. Were academics always important to you? I can blame my parents for that one. Throughout club, travel and high school soccer, I was only allowed to play if I had good grades. I tried hard in school, and I found out that I loved learning new things and it came naturally to me. I love sports, but sometimes my friends forget that I’m a nerd.

Yet your academic path at Drew has been more than just lectures, homework and tests. I was always told that the off-campus and hands-on experiences would shape your college career. I’ve done a semester on Wall Street and met executives from JPMorgan; completed an internship with a law firm; invested real money in the stock market through The Fund, Drew’s student- run investing club; and I am headed to Italy to study finance. There are so many opportunities at Drew. I feel comfortable heading out into the workforce.

INTERVIEW

Melanie Santos C’16 The four-year soccer starter on life as a student-athlete, interning for a law firm, completing a semester on Wall Street and studying in Italy. (And—oh, yeah—winning a conference championship.)

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Santos says she still remembers every moment

of the 2013 conference championship game.

Drew’s athletic department is getting set to field men’s and women’s golf teams, the first in university history and the Rangers’ 19th and 20th varsity programs.

The golfers could hit the links as early as this fall, and starting in 2017 they’ll compete against fellow Landmark Conference teams. Meanwhile, the search is on for a coach and a home course.

Wherever the golfers tee it up, they’ll already have a number-one fan. “As a novice golfer myself,” says Drew President MaryAnn Baenninger, “I’m excited about visiting the course, meeting team members—and maybe picking up a few tips.”

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It’s the final year of the One And All campaign, and Drew’s athlete alumni are competing to see which sport has

the greatest Ranger pride.

Teams with the largest increase in athlete alumni participation by percentage will split $52,500 in prize money awarded toward their teams’ needs and priorities!

Help your team win the Blue & Green Challenge. Visit drew.edu/bgchallenge to learn more and to make a gift.

Support Your Sport

$30,000First Prize

$5,000Third Prize

$15,000Second Prize

$2,500Young Alumni Prize

BLUE&GREENCHALLENGEOctober 2015 – June 2016


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We have reached a milestone—our 70th anniversary! Frank Auld C’46, P’70, Jeanne Larned and Reid Isaac have graciously volunteered to

lead the class. It will be great to welcome classmates back to campus. We hope you will support the annual fund in recognition of this class anniversary milestone.

Shep Shapero C’51, P’84 has volunteered to help with the class outreach for our 65th Reunion. Join one and all back on campus for this very special gathering June

3–4. An anonymous classmate has offered a challenge gift of $1,000 if the class can increase giving this year and reach the goal of endowing our fund. Please support the Class of 1951 Scholarship fund in recognition of this class milestone anniversary year.

After years of faithful service as the Class of ’54 secretary, Mary (Zoghby) Hepburn is taking a well deserved

break. Mary, we thank you for your years of service and hope one of your classmates will step up to keep the news coming. Read about Mary’s ongoing support of Drew students on page 10.

Interested in serving as the class secretary for your class? Please email [email protected]. Thanks!

At the 60th reunion of the Class of ’55 last spring, Dick Semeraro, Peter Riesz and Nish Najarian C’55,

T’59, G’82 and their wives caught up on new

events and enjoyed fond memories of years past. Nish still teaches one class a year in the graduate clinical mental program at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, where he is dean emeritus of the School of Continuing Studies.

Ronald Vander Schaaf [email protected] A CLASS! Once more we are the proud recipient of the “Forest Award” given to the class with 50+ alumni

with the highest rate of participation. We hit the almost-unbelievable level of 74 percent. Thirty-nine names grace the list on page 42 of the fall 2015 issue of Drew Magazine. It is truly an Honor Roll of Donors. Thank you, each and every one.

The two recipients of our scholarship this year are Ashley Alicea C’18 of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Walline Alphonse C’17 of Orange, New Jersey. Ashley is majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology. Walline is digging into anthropology. On June 30, 2015, the book value of the scholarship totaled $254,657. The income available for scholarships was $12,605.

We celebrate our 60th Reunion on campus June 3–4. Jim Bloom, Mimi Hollister, Roy Haynes, Suzanne Hampton and I are hoping many classmates can return to campus for the celebration.

Nate, the grandson of Carole Horncastle James C’59 and Dick James C’56, T’59, graduated from RPI and is working on his PhD. Dick and Carole had a great cruise to the Caribbean in February 2015, followed by a month in Sarasota. They have completed their sixth year at Good Shepherd Village

in Endwell, New York, and keep busy with many activities there.

Dottie Simpfendorfer Noyce and her travel partner, Rich, went to Belize for 32 days, 10 of them spent birding. Two of her grandchildren married. Points of interest on Dottie’s 2015 travelogue include New York, Washington, D.C., Vermont, Nova Scotia and Drew. She was there for the retrospective on Mrs. Korn at Reunion 2015.

Ruth Schubert Haynes and Roy Haynes stayed in several locations in Florida and biked trails in most of them. They also biked a trail in northeast Ohio, where Roy hit the 1,000-mile mark again. Could Roy start an Uber bike business with a tandem and take you wherever you wanted to go? Likely.

Flora Robinson Hullstrung and Bob Hullstrung C’56, T’60 tried to make medical history. Bob is recovering nicely from a medical threat. Flora tripped over an open dishwasher door, which led to a partial hip replacement. Apparently desiring more attention, she fell again and broke two bones in her right ankle. All of that did not in the least dim the celebration of their 56th anniversary in August. For Christmas they were with their son, Greg, who decided to broil steaks for dinner. He opened the oven door to check on them and smoke came billowing out. He turned off the smoke detectors and house alarm but forgot that it was tied to the firehouse. So for pre-dinner excitement what could be better than having three fire trucks with flashing lights in front of your house?

In her Christmas card Pat Brown McQueen asked the question that’s probably been asked by most of our class: “How did we get so old?” Maybe we should change our street

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When Bower enrolled in Drew in summer 1945, he unpacked his belongings inside the only dormitory on the campus at the time. For the next four years, Asbury Hall would be Bower’s home. “It was a wonderful period of my life,” Bower recalls.

After graduation he worked for many years in merchandise display, primarily at the Lord & Taylor store on Fifth Avenue. Later he became a librarian at Borough of Manhattan Community College.

A Gift of RemembranceSEVEN DECADES AGO, LESTER BOWER, JR. C’49 SPENT FOUR “VERY HAPPY” YEARS AS AN UNDERGRAD IN THE FOREST. WHEN IT CAME TIME TO PLAN HIS ESTATE, HE REMEMBERED DREW.

When he planned his estate, Bower honored his alma mater by creating the Bauer and Hahn Family Scholarship. The fund will provide at least $1 million to support undergraduates who have shown exceptional service to the LGBTQ community at Drew and made a commitment to serving the community beyond The Forest.

“I have fond recollections of my time at Drew,” Bower says. “And I want to help make it possible for other people in the future.”

Your legacy. Drew’s future. For more information on planned gifts, contact David Terdiman C’89 at 973.408.3899 or [email protected].

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family has a tradition of creating a crown of candles for one family member to wear as Santa Lucia at the family Christmas gathering. She included a picture in her Christmas letter, and there are four tall candles balanced carefully on the wearer’s head. Jean is also planning to come to Reunion in June.

Bill Onderdonk left Drew before graduation to join the Naval Air Force. He trained in Pensacola and wrote an interesting account of his “check” flight, which is like a final exam. He succeeded eventually. He also had the experience while in training of having an engine quit on him, so he had to crash land the plane. He had 2,000+ flying hours, including carrier qualified. Bill married Mary Lee Forrest in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, on June 18, 1960. They had two children, Jeffrey and Susan. They lived in Houston and moved to California in 1978. In the mid-80s Mary Lee required the amputation of her left leg below the knee. But in the indomitable spirit that Mary Lee was known for, they traveled to England, Hawaii, New Jersey and several times to Northern California. Then in March 1987, Mary Lee

addresses to Wrinkle Way, Lumbago Lane or Cataract Court. She and Bob McQueen C’54 are planning to attend our 60th. We may be old, but we still know how to have fun!

Prunella Read Williams’ personal odometer has undoubtedly passed the multimillion-mile mark. First to upstate New York, where family helped her celebrate her 80th. (She put the question another way: “Where did all of those years go?”) In August she headed west to the national parks. September found her birding in France and taking a short walk to Spain! November was a good month to go to Tanzania, with its “spectacular animals and birds.”

It just came to my attention that Edwin B. Allaire died on September 27, 2013. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas from 1969 until his retirement in 2006. Prior to that he taught at the University of Iowa (where he received his PhD in 1960) and was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and Swarthmore. He is survived by his son, Christopher, and his daughter, Valerie.

Jean Barbour Peterson’s nephew is a first-year student at Drew. Her Swedish

died. A Mary Lee story: The night before the amputation surgery her two doctors came to her room. She asked them to raise their right hands. They asked if she wanted them to take an oath. “No,” she said, “I just wanted to make sure that you knew right from left. Good evening, doctors.”

Eleanor (Sheldon) Stearns [email protected] Johnson plays in the

alumni baseball game every year. Last year it was rained out, but this just inspired him to up his training during the off season. On October 17, 2015, Warner played again at age 79. He was up to bat three times and was walked the first time, grounded out the second and hit a ball hard up the middle the third time—but the shortstop got it and threw him out. He played at first base for three innings. Channel 12 was at the game taking videos and interviewed Warner and varsity coach Brian Hirschberg for the evening sports news.

Sam Olsher congratulated him and said that he played tennis for 60 years until he stopped for health reasons.

My beloved husband, Brent, died on October 16, 2015. At the same time our seventh great-granddaughter was born, and my son saw a double rainbow. The circle of life goes on. During one of his last days he struggled to give me a message: “Keep on … doing … helping others.” So I continue to sing in the church choir, work on the Geneva Theatre Guild board of directors and present my Women of Vision.

If you want to join our class email list, please send me a message at the email above. We’re scattered far and wide, but we can still keep in touch.

John Bordon [email protected] to Ellie Long Hazarian, we

have more details about our Class of 1958 Scholarship recipient, Christiana Tenuto C’17. Christiana is majoring in neuroscience and minoring in classics. She likes Drew for its mentorship and how she’s treated as a student with potential. She is an inductee of Drew’s Tri-Beta Honor Society and is a member of MIND, a Drew club specializing in the neurosciences. Christiana hopes to become a board member of the clubs she is a member of, and looks forward to publishing her honor’s thesis and to qualifying for the dean’s list every semester. Christiana thanks the entire Class of 1958 for making her education possible and for advocating for her right to an education.

Helen Williams was recently entertained by a newborn goat when she visited her son Mark in Boston. The goat can already butt heads with other goats as well as climb a ramp!

Larry Story celebrated Thanksgiving at his daughter’s house in Readington, New Jersey.

Nancy (Baier) and Walt Adams wintered in Florida.

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he visited Peter Rushbrook and his family in a cabin in a state park east of Cooperstown, New York.

Ellen M. deLalla [email protected]’s been a long time between Class

of ’59 Classnotes due to the sparsity of news from all of you. John Norton Moore wrote in September 2015 that he still teaches full time at the University of Virginia School of Law and at Georgetown Law Center in Washington. He was awarded the Morris Liebman Award, the highest award by the American Bar Association, in the field of national security law, for his work in founding this new field of law. He also is a three-time member of the U.S. Masters Bench Press team that competes in the World Championships and the Pan-American Championships; he won bronze in the World and gold in the Pan-Am and set three new American records. He was married last year and welcomes former classmates who happen through Charlottesville. His daughter, Elizabeth, recently graduated from the Berkeley honors business administration program and works as a financial analyst in San Francisco.

Pete Headley was saddened by the death of Clyde Lindsley on November 11, 2014, in Olney, Maryland. Clyde was one of the six of us poli sci majors who sat in Prof. Smith’s living room for our weekly senior seminars (Barbara Jahreis, Walt Lidman, Dick Madigan, Carol Tulenko Irving, Clyde and me). Clyde always had cogent answers—and questions— during our discussions. He served as executive director of the Strand-Capitol Theater in York, Pennsylvania, from 1984 to 1999 and was highly praised by his peers. He is survived by his wife, Sara, his children Christopher and Kelly, and grandchildren Graham, Olivia, Gail and Schroeder.

Pete and Jodi (Della-Cerra) C’60 spent Christmas with their son, Todd, and his family in Vienna, Virginia, with warm weather and no snow; shortly thereafter they visited Charleston, South Carolina, for four days where they enjoyed its “great walk-about” cityscape and its outstanding restaurants.

Joan (Patchen) Naab and her husband, Geoff, traveled last spring to the Drew Forum for the first time to hear Leon Panetta. Her annual Christmas letter told of trips to Montreal—“It was fun to use our passports and get used to other money and signs in French”—to their family cottage in Maine and to Charleston, South Carolina, for the 50th anniversary of the commissioning of the USS Lewis and Clark because Geoff was a member of the commissioning crew. It was “a reunion to remember,” in part due to torrential rains and floods. Christmas was spent in Maryland with their son, Richard, and his family. Granddaughter Sofia is a sophomore at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Elizabeth is a freshman in engineering at Catholic University, Maria is in high school

and Ben is in eighth grade.Our classmate Jim Riordan died on

November 24, 2014. Pete Headley reported that he and Jodi had dinner with him in August 2014. Our deep sympathy is extended to his family.

Enid (Smith) Tate’s husband Sidney T’60 died in October following several health challenges. She graciously sent me printed copies of the remarks made by their two sons, Paul and Philip, and Sidney’s brother, telling wonderful and funny stories about Sidney’s love of his family, his incredible memory for people, his love of basketball and of baseball, especially the Atlanta Braves, and of his “great tenor voice.” I was privileged to be a bridesmaid at the Tates’ wedding in November 1959 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where Sidney was then serving as pastor.

Jack Dempster and his wife, Ellen, hosted a dinner in their Florida home with Jodi (Della-Cerra) and Pete Headley in mid-January. They hadn’t seen each other in probably 56 years! “We had a fantastic walk down memory lane. Reminiscences filled the air as classmates, professors, sports and assorted hijinks were discussed. As they say, a good time was had by all.”

Walt Lidman recounted a tale concerning Dean Raymond A. Withey, Jr., after he left Drew in 1958 to become president of Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont. Walt and his late first wife, Nancy Tabor, were vacationing in Vermont when they came upon a sign for Green Mountain College toward 5:30 or so. Walt and Nancy agreed they simply had to visit, but since it was close to suppertime, they were concerned they would be invited to stay for a meal. Not wanting to impose, the two planned to refuse any polite invitation. Absolutely refuse. They would make up any old excuse.

When they rang, Mrs. Withey opened the door and greeted them with immense élan and widespread arms, followed by now-President Withey. Nancy had been in his religion class, and professors are always delighted to meet and greet former students. Mrs. Withey informed them—and informed them—that they were staying for dinner. Over their protests (she would hear none of

read the giants in his field, Plato, Plotinus, Philip of Alexandria, Nicolas of Kues, Giordano Bruno, Spinoza, Jacobi and Hegel. Rolf studies Greek intensively for 20 minutes every morning. His wife, Luise, retired from a teaching and practicing career in pediatrics in Germany and New York state, has been writing the family biography, which now spans four volumes. His older son, Christopher, is a leading-edge cancer researcher in Philadelphia, and his younger son, Marcus, is finishing his second degree in engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. Marcus is also a working artist and displays his art in Berlin and Riga.

Llew Pritchard was awarded a citation from the ABA in Chicago, accompanied by his youngest son, Bill. Llew continues to travel: next on the timetable are Chicago again and then D.C. Llew continues to be actively involved in the practice of law. As the former president and chair of trustees of the Seattle Symphony, he is helping the band play on. Llew helped his lifelong pal Bill Gates, Sr. celebrate his 90th by assisting in the publishing of a book of life lessons learned from Gates. Llew received the 2016 Fellows Outstanding Service Award in San Diego. Llew’s wife, Jonie (Ashby) C’59, continues to be actively involved in the life of St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle.

Barbara Herber Jordan, winner of Drew’s Alumni Achievement Award for volunteerism at our 50th Reunion in 2008, continues her volunteer activities. Last year she received a citation from the New York State Assembly, proclamations from the Suffolk County legislature and the Town of East Hampton and an award of merit from the Peconic Community Council for her work on behalf of the homeless and for affordable workforce housing via the East Hampton Housing Authority, of which she is vice chair. Barbara’s first love is coordinating Maureen’s Haven homeless program at her church.

Mac Hubbard, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, and his wife, Holly, had a wonderful trip to Venice and London. At Mac’s 80th birthday party, he was presented with a certificate stating that a scholarship had been established in his name at Lander University, where he worked for 20 years.

Joyce and Peter Rushbrook spent Christmas in Nevada! Snow? (But Peter hates to put on chains.)

Casey (Smith) Mollach’s C’58, P’81 new shed is the centerpiece of her farming. In November she traveled to Peru, then spent Christmas on the farm. She started the new year with a trip to Tulsa, followed by Florida and the river. Casey reports a fully engaged life, happy with a positive attitude, lived with great enthusiasm—cushioned by transcendental meditation often twice a day. Casey says she tries “to give it all I got!”

Dave Ossenkop continues working on his book and writing program notes for the Anna Maria Island concert series. Dave and Jan have been visiting family as well as attending the 45th anniversary of the church at which they used to worship. In October

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them) she proclaimed, “I’ve already set out two extra plates, so you can’t leave without eating.”

Over sumptuous roast beef and gravy the Witheys said, “You are our first visitors and we have been here three months. This is New England—and New Englanders do not welcome newcomers and especially not a college president.” Animated dinner conversation followed about Drew and about the new president’s forthcoming challenges.

Said Mrs. Withey, “Now you see why we would not allow you to leave without eating with us.” They certainly did, and they thoroughly enjoyed their visit.

Please send your news.

Barbara Fern [email protected] Anthony Shipley happily announced that he was married to Miss Gwendolyn Franklyn on Christmas Eve

2015. They are now living in Southfield, Michigan. Congratulations, Tony!

Marvel Kay (Richards) Mansfield moved to Kittery, Maine, early this summer to be close to her grandchildren, who are now only a 20-minute drive away. She bought the condo she’d been renting for six months. Selling and buying are not for the faint of heart, she reports. She also claims she will never move again. She had lived in or near New Haven, Connecticut, for more than 40 years and is now a “Maine-iac.”

Marian (Dickinson) Fielder spends a lot of time in New York City with her son and grandson, who moved there in August 2014. Her son, Daniel, has opened his own acupuncture practice, Magnus Wellness. She loves being able to get to NYC by bus in four hours and taking her 5-year-old grandson to shows like Wicked and The Grinch. She still loves being back east.

Ed Daniels reported that Mac Hulslander made his being housebound more enjoyable in that he is able to listen to the CD Mac made of a recording of the Drew Choir during his time with the group. He loves singing along and still remembers the lyrics. Other choir members will remember “Ride the Chariot.”

Florida alum Verta (Rudolph) Sorensen is also recovering from downsizing to a condo. The process wasn’t fun, she noted, but the result was good. She still has room for grandchildren and friends. She has a new knee and took it to Peru in January 2016.

Carol (Magee) Davis had her first vacation in some time the first week of May 2015 when she visited her longtime friend Joann in her hometown of Bath, New York. Joann and her family treated Carol royally, and she also had a mini-reunion with some of her Class of ’57 high school friends. It flew by way too fast. She still keeps in touch with MaryAnn (Kennerly) Clinton.

Sandy (Wilbur) Fleischer noted that much of her traveling with her husband is visiting grandchildren in Ohio, Colorado and California. They must be accumulating lots of frequent flyer points!

June (Kamen) Cowell P’90 and David

Cowell P’90 were in England in 2015; June met up with David in London after he traveled to Northern Ireland with their daughter, Kimberly, who teaches poli sci at American University. He helped her “wrangle” freshmen honor students. They then had 10 more days to explore the country.

Virginia M. Hagler has become very active in supporting a nonprofit horse rescue organization about 60 miles from her in the Mojave Desert. She helps with the website and other communication functions. You can access four live camera feeds at their website, meola.org.

Mac Hulslander and his wife, Peg, spent a month in Japan in fall 2015 for a wonderful reunion with former students and colleagues. Special among the experiences was a week spent with Osamu Takagi and his wife, Chieko, in the heart of Wasabi country in northern Japan, and a visit to the gravesite of Les Banks in the Foreign Cemetery in Kobe. Mac and Les traveled together in 1961 as short-term missionaries after graduation.

Mary (Peck) Davidson C’62 and Bob Davidson are traveling these days primarily to Pennsylvania and Florida to visit children and grands. Mary survived a car accident in October 2015. She fainted about an hour after giving blood. She’ll give in the future if she has a designated driver.

Ed O’Brien and family enjoy their cruises—three in 2015 and two more planned for 2016. Living in Florida must make it easy for them to get on board!

Your secretary, Barbara Fern, visited the Corning Museum of Glass in late June with two of my three sisters. I recently found a postcard I sent to a freshman roommate, Sarah (Prettyman) Valenti, in January 1958 from that museum, which was a stop on the choir tour schedule during intersession.

Lastly, Ron Saldarini, C. Wesley Carson, Jerry Rankin and I are enthusiastic about outreach to the class for our 55th class reunion gathering June 3–4. Please consider designating your annual donation this year to our Class of 1961 Leslie Banks Memorial Scholarship Fund, with the class goal to endow at $50,000 this year.

Ellen Earp Baker, [email protected] were saddened to learn that one of our classmates, Cindy Nylen

Kershaw, who was with us for our first two years at Drew, died on January 8. You all may remember Cindy as a talented writer and seamstress who brought much joy and enthusiasm to us in our early years at Drew.

Other than that, there is no news to report. Please send some news for our column.

the same surgeon. Perhaps they’d give a “twofer” discount! I had a very fast and painless recovery and am now hiking the wooded hills of Vermont, pain free.

Bruce Bristol C’66, P’99, Anne (Batastini) and Joe Clayton, Esther Cid Feigenbaum, Len Fisher, Linda Wolfe Keister C’66, P’92, A’17, David Lindroth

C’66, P’08 and Stuart Nordheimer are leading the charge to contact classmates for this once-in-a-lifetime 50th Reunion celebration. Excitement is building! Other class volunteers are needed to join this team to help plan a successful class gathering. You won’t want to miss this chance to gather with former classmates after 50 years! Let’s try and reach each member of the class and encourage them to attend, and also support our class goal of 50 percent giving participation, with the goal of endowing our C’66 Internship Fund, which we initiated back in 2011 with the goal of reaching endowment for our 50th.

Dale T. Read [email protected] from Dale T. Read to my

fellow Class of ’68 alumni. It is my honor to inform you that I’ve agreed to serve as your new class secretary for our Class of ’68 Classnotes column in Drew Magazine for the next three years. Serving in this role, I shall be reaching out to every class member I can locate. I hope to receive from you a brief history, current news and contact information. I also hope to network among various groups and leverage off of long-established friendships and contacts to reach as many of our classmates as possible before our 50th Reunion in 2018. It is my goal to create a Facebook page and an interactive database, and to pull us together for a most enjoyable and rewarding class reunion in 2018. You may reach me at 1148 Saint Catherine Drive, Annapolis, MD 21409, at 443.221.7534 or at [email protected].

Allen Hood, [email protected] Merchant recently completed a goal he’s held since college: circum-

navigation of the globe on its surface. In his words: “The beginning of my travel was the year I spent at college in Japan, following which I took a small freighter between Japan and San Francisco, then crossed the country. That gave me a respectable start on circling the globe on its surface. The completion didn’t happen until 45 years later, when I took the train from Beijing across Mongolia and Siberia. Reaching the seven continents was haphazard: I would travel here and there, picking up 92 countries along the way, when I finally came across a really good expedition cruise to Antarctica.” He was accompanied by a longtime friend who had been a classmate at the college he attended in Japan when his exploration began.

Naomi Shapiro and partner, Stan, visited five cities in Spain in September—Toledo, Madrid, Seville, Granada and Barcelona—and had a wonderful time seeing wonderful sights, talking to interesting people and enjoying the lovely midday dinners for half the price of the late-night ones. Next year they hope to walk the Scottish Highlands.

Roger Martin recently published Off to College: A Guide for Parents. Roger is the former president of Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. Today he serves on the Board of Education in Mamaroneck, New York, and is president of Academic Collaborations, Inc., a higher education consulting firm. In 2008, Roger spent a year experiencing life as a first-year student at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, which serves as the basis of his book Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again.

I, Allen Hood C’65, P’92, had a knee replacement at the beginning of November. My wife, Kit, and I traveled to the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City with a dear friend from Massachusetts who also needed a knee replacement. We scheduled our surgery dates on the same day by

Jackie (Buckman) Shahzadi [email protected] Scott reports becoming a “mere

shadow” of his former self as a result of losing 65 pounds. Don spent three weeks in Cancun at his timesharing unit. He is doing well and looking forward to getting back to work as minister of visitation at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Palm Coast, Florida.

Gale (Spates) Stevenson and her husband, Drew, headed to Palm Springs, California, for a winter vacation. Once home they look forward to baseball, fully expecting the Pittsburgh Pirates to have another winning season. Come late September they will head to Scotland and England for a month. Gale loves living in downtown Pittsburgh, where she can walk to restaurants, theater, opera and symphony. It’s a great “no car” lifestyle.

Shirley (Kot) Brand enjoyed recent trips to Costa Rica and Holland and was headed to Cuba in March.

Peggy (Kunzle) Everett describes a mini- reunion last summer at the Jersey Shore with Jane (Emery) Awalt, Donna (Mundwiler) Bradley, Shirley (Kot) Brand, Winnie (Garran) Gleason, Judy (Morgan) Hults, Maryarden (Faline) Ludaway and Peggy: “Although we all keep in touch and see each other individually, it was wonderful to all be together and reminisce about Drew and our lives in general. It is hard to believe how many years we have known each other!”

In late October 2015, Linda Connors began her second retirement by hopping on a plane for a river cruise on the Rhine and Moselle from Basel to Amsterdam. She reports, “A great trip! Being interim dean of the libraries at Drew was very rewarding, but it was still work. I’m glad to be retired again.”

Vivian (Bruce) Kessler still lives in South Carolina. She drove down to Fort Lauderdale to visit Judith (Kessler) C’65 and Rodney Grunes C’63 in October 2015.

Karen (Merola) Krueger and husband have been B&B owners for 11 years and really enjoy the guests from everywhere who come to stay, including some who are Drew related. Check it out at orchardinnbb.com. Karen is still an active choral singer with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, and still teaches beginning piano at the community college. She is in touch with Margolyn Young C’63, Martha (Creager) Gilfix C’65 and Jerry Borshard C’66. A treasured lifelong friend in frequent touch is Marion (Ulmer) McCarthy C’64, who was Karen’s sophomore-year roommate.

Your secretary continued the travel theme that our classmates have enjoyed this past year. In December, I led a delegation of university women to Vietnam to study women and leadership sponsored by the Global Engagement Institute. In addition to Ho Chi Minh City, we were able to visit the ancient site of Huế in central Vietnam and cruise overnight on the beautiful Halong Bay in northern Vietnam. We also visited Hanoi, a lively and vibrant city. While in Southeast Asia, I saw the incredible temple city of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. See photos, page 50.

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Charleen Caulk [email protected] everyone! I am just

getting familiarized with being class secretary again. Please send your news to my email address (above), call me at 845.623.8298 or mail to 54 Newport Drive, Nanuet, NY 10954.

I have been fortunate enough to stay in touch with Karen (Nelson) Lawrence and her husband David C’69. My husband, Douglas (art semester, spring 1969), and I attended their daughter Kristin’s wedding and enjoyed seeing Marjorie Nishan, who was Karen’s roommate freshman year. We have met on campus several times for lunch and just enjoying walking around under the beautiful forest.

Susan Staples has also been in touch, and I am looking forward to getting together with her this year.

Doug and I have two children, both married, and one grandson, who is the light of our life, as I am sure other grandparents can attest.

Please get in touch with me for the next issue—or you will have to hear more about me!

You may be hearing from Chris Kersey, David Little, Harry Litwack, Janet Schotta Murphy and Kathy Vandiver, who have all volunteered to

reconnect classmates for our 45th reunion gathering the weekend of June 3–4. Others are welcome to join the committee to help in planning. We also hope to increase our class giving participation and increase the principal of our Class of 1971 Scholarship. When you return to campus, be sure to visit the new ACORN office to see our class naming plaque.

Anne Woodbury [email protected] Class of ’73! We are back!

Frank Carnabuci is in his 25th year as headmaster of the Birch Walthen Lenox School, an independent college preparatory school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He also served on the Drew Board of Trustees and as a trustee of the Prep Lacrosse Assoc-iation. Frank feels that Drew prepared him well for all of these roles!

After working 30+ years for the Common- wealth of Massachusetts as a music therapist/ teacher, Don Hodgkins P’06 recently retired. He is keeping active, however, by holding down three part-time jobs. Don’s son Thomas Hodgkins C’06 married Kaity Ryan C’06 in 2014. The wedding would not have happened, claims Don, if he had not gone to Drew. His son applied to Drew only because of Don. Don keeps in touch with good friend Lawrence Wilson. Don has also recently seen Al Gilbert and Jim Brazell C’75.

Martha (Orlando) Millard recently joined Sterling Lord Literistic. After 35 years as an independent agent, she enjoys having both colleagues and office support. Martha

completed the New York City Marathon in 2011 (at age 60) with a time of 4:43:26. She travels to Berlin several times a year to visit her daughter, who is a professional ballet dancer based in that city. Her older daughter is the founder and creative force behind the New York–based Hazel Village.

Gary Stanton just spent two weeks in Japan with Jon Opper. Gary, married and living in Cambridge, is still practicing neurology in Concord, Massachusetts.

It was great to get a shout-out from Andy Keeney and his wife, Marcia (Bullard) Keeney. They married a week after our graduation and are still going strong!

I also heard from Dale Miller and his wife Sharon (Pulver) Miller. And I got a nice hello from Cindy Howe and also from Fritz Schmidt.

I often see Kaetra (Horton) Pletenyik C’73, T’85. The two of us recently enjoyed a day with Phoebe Pollinger C’71 in Princeton, where there is another New Jersey university.

A note from Bruce J. Mac Donald: After 40 years, I thought it might be good to check in, especially with a big reunion coming up. But where to start? After

Drew, I pursued a career in journalism and, subsequently, in corporate com-munications. By far, the highlights of the journey were the years in London and Paris. Somewhere in there I did a master’s degree in international relations at Johns Hopkins, which ultimately led me, 10 years ago, to Accion, a Boston-based international nonprofit dedicated to financial inclusion. That’s where you’ll find me today, living outside Boston with my wife, Brigid. Only our youngest son, Alex, is still at home; brothers Charlie and Bennett attend the University of Rochester and University of Delaware, respectively. I’m in occasional touch with classmates Claire Appelmans, Jeremy Brenner C’76, P’14 and Nancy Greer; haven’t heard from Geoff Livingston since France; and sorely miss John Green, too long gone. What of Shelley Zipper, Lynne (Ehrlich) McAuley, Dawn (Mc Inerney) Pietropaoli, John Hagerty, Henry Twombley and Kathy Stoner-Lasala C’77, T’07, to name just a few? I hope to see everyone at our 40th, which I definitely plan to attend. In the meantime, please feel free to drop me a line at [email protected].

Annie (Keiper) Bisset, Richard “Quates” Quateman and Martha Mitchell C’76, P’08 have volunteered to help encourage attendance and build enthusiasm for our 40th Reunion. Join with Annie, Richard, Martha—and Bruce—to renew friendships and make new memories. And please consider making a gift to the Class of 1976 Scholarship Fund, and join in raising our class giving participation this year.

Tom Tani, [email protected] nice group of updates for the end of 2015!

Debra (Moody) Bass’s G’90,’02 third book, Journeying Through the Year with God: A Believer’s Daily Conversations with God, is set to be published this spring. She was also appointed the new pastor of Mt. Herman A.M.E. Zion church in Birmingham, Alabama, last September.

Martha Herrmann still does hiking, biking and kayaking as weather allows in the D.C. area. Her three sons are in different stages of their college careers: Her eldest finished grad school, her second finished college and the youngest is starting college.

Martha visited Carol Marshall Allen in Arizona this past spring break (Carol has a place outside Phoenix). She also passed on the news that Marla (Friedman) and Paul Boren have both retired and are in the process of moving to Williamsburg, Virginia. The Borens’ son, Michael, got married at the Jersey Shore this past October.

Martha attended the wedding and got to see Nikki Shomer and her husband, John, and had a fantastic time.

Michael Hoad launched a new academic journal/magazine, Healthcare Transformation, as executive editor, which he says, “sounds like the title for the person who does all the work.”

Ann (Patrick) and Richard Degener checked in from their Cape May, New Jersey, farm (well, actually Ann wrote on behalf of both). Richard is retiring soon from the Press of Atlantic City, and Ann is still with Jersey Cape Realty doing summer and year-round rentals. Their youngest, Elizabeth, 29, is known as the “Cape May Bread Lady” (Google it!). Son Geoff is 34 with three children, so as Ann says, “Richard and I are grandparents times three!” Their eldest, Rick, is flipping houses and head of the Ocean Club Bar in the summers in Cape May. Ann says she and the family love it at the shore and couldn’t imagine living away from the ocean. On the farm they have lots of room for guests. Classmates are welcome to visit!

Rob Evans retired from the Port Authority of NY/NJ last November after 34 years of service, most recently as manager of the leasing and property development division in the port commerce department. There he was responsible for negotiating all the lease agreements for the Port Authority’s marine terminal and related properties. Now Rob is participating in a Mountain View, California (aka Silicon Valley), startup venture, Synapse MX, which develops modern aircraft maintenance software. He looks forward to returning to New Jersey this spring.

In our last update, we noted Freddi (Sylvester) C’79 and Jack Dempsey had just celebrated their 34th anniversary. This time around he’s remembering the 39 years they’ve been together since “I first flirted with Freddi in the Pub.” Jack ended with, “Life is pretty boring, which at this time of life is a good thing.”

Craig Stanford spent the holidays in Thailand and Cambodia with his wife, Erin, and children, Gaelen, 25, Marika, 22, and Adam, 19. Christmas Day was spent

exploring the temples at Angkor Wat. Dawn Thomas attended one C’78

reunion ages ago and had a blast, but has not been in the country for subsequent ones. After Drew, she worked for the Peace Corps in Africa, earned a master of science in agricultural economics and worked as an international commodities analyst (“Yep, a fruit and nut analyst!”). She joined the foreign service at USAID and spent the past 30 years working in international agricultural development.

Dawn retired after her last overseas assignment in Afghanistan, having attained counselor rank in the Senior Foreign Service. She has lived and worked in roughly 30 countries from Ecuador to Egypt, Botswana and Cote D’Ivoire. She also spent about three years back and forth in London as part of the USG delegation negotiating a new international coffee agreement. She’s now comfortably settled in Falls Church, Virginia, learning to play piano, assisting teens aging out of the foster care system and going to lots of concerts. She sends a shout-out to Marla (Friedman) and Paul Boren and would love to get together with them and any other Drew folk in the D.C. area!

My last update is from a first-time correspondent. John Doyle touched base about what Drew meant to him, and I hope to do it justice here. John was going through his late father’s personal effects and found a June 1990 issue of Drew Magazine with a C’78 Classnotes column written by Kathryn Nason- Burchenal, which included a paragraph submitted by his dad, announcing that John and his wife, Caroline, had two sons, Christopher and Daniel. John said it “brought back a flood of memories of the pride shining on my parents’ faces when I received my Drew diploma.”

John is the oldest of nine children and the first on his father’s side to graduate from college at a time when a four-year degree from a private college seemed beyond reach. He applied to Drew at the urging of a friend of his mother, the sister of sociology professor James O’Kane. John was accepted; the scholarship he received, plus the encourage-

were letting him go. It was a terrible blow made worse by the fact that he and his wife, Mary, knew they also had to move out of New York City. Fortunately they found their dream house in Port Jefferson, Long Island, and moved in a year ago. Mary got a new job right away. After some soul (and real estate) searching, Mike, who has collected rare books for 30 years, rented a vacant store in St. James, and on October 8, 2015, he opened Michael Scarola Rare and Used Books. Mike writes, “I always wanted to open a bookstore but somehow life got in the way.” He now loves going to work each day and, even when he’s not there, is working at home to promote the business and keep it relevant.

Bob Duffy is on the board of Drew’s Alumni Club of Boston and would like to hear from classmates in the area who would like to come to any of the events.

Susan Curtin and her husband, Bruce Weaver, a chemical engineer, have lived in Highland Park, New Jersey, for 16 years. This year Sue finally landed her perfect job teaching kindergarten in the school that her own children attended. She has a one-mile commute and is treated like a movie star when students spot her at the grocery store. Sue and Bruce have three girls: Hannah is a junior at Lafayette College, studying theater, psychology and Spanish; Emma is a high school senior who plans to study engineering next year; and Olivia is a freshman in high school. Sue, who is looking forward to Reunion, writes, “I can’t believe it’s been 30 years. Seems like just yesterday we were moving into Welch 1st!”

Congratulations to Amy (Rosta) Boris, her husband, David, and their children, Isaac and Mia, who welcomed a new member to the family. Four-year-old Alyssa came to live with them in September 2014 as an emergency foster care placement. After 14 months of working through the child welfare and legal systems, Alyssa officially became a Boris on November 10, 2015. They are thrilled to have her in their lives.

Marc Scarduffa, Andy Wahl, Sonnie (Hirsch) Carpenter, Brenda Rhodes, David McIntyre and I (Sandi Miller) are on the planning committee for our 30th Reunion. We can’t wait to see all of you on June 3–4. Please also consider making a memorial gift in honor of Ken Rich, whom we lost October 9, 2015.

Gina (Ross) Murdoch joined the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America as president and CEO. Gina

will lead in all areas, including strategic growth, programmatic expansion and corporate development efforts.

Emilio Cordova [email protected], Class of ’90! Last May,

we celebrated our 25th Reunion at Drew. It was great to see many of you to recall old times, spend time at The Pub and walk in The Forest. Here are a couple of updates from our classmates. I hope I will receive

ment of his parents, was invaluable in making his degree possible.

John is still happily married to his high school sweetheart, Caroline. Christopher, 27, Daniel, 25, and Matthew, 23, have filled his and Caroline’s lives—and his father’s as well—with overwhelming joy and pride. All three graduated from college near the top of their classes. Christopher is a shift supervisor for NJ Transit, keeping more than 250 buses on the road at one of the largest facilities in the state. Daniel works for the Department of Justice in D.C. and is pursuing his master’s in international relations at Georgetown. Matthew just earned his master’s degree in homeland security at Monmouth University and is working at an original equipment manu- facturer specializing in computer networking.

John and Caroline have a beautiful home and satisfying careers. John finished an MEd in learning and technology from Western Governors University in 2010 and continued to work in information technology.

He’s now with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Caroline, a registered nurse, continues to work as a liaison for CareOne.

John concluded: “Drew opened many doors for me, and though I haven’t managed to stay in touch, I look back with fondness on many good times!”

And if that isn’t a wonderful testimonial to what Drew means to John—and to a lot of us in the Class of ’78—I don’t know what is!

Have you marked the weekend of June 3–4 to celebrate our 35th Reunion? Andy Baron, Nanci Carney C’81, P’08, Tom Collamore, Mindy Gikas, Rich Onorato, David

Rice and Don Vigliotti have volunteered to help build momentum and encourage attendance for a celebration you won’t want to miss! Don’t forget to support our C’81 Scholarship Fund. Let’s do this! The more of us who come back, the merrier it will be.

Tony Serra started the Serra Law Group, a general law firm helping people in a variety of areas

including family law, elder law, estate planning and administration and disability/personal injury. The group also supports entrepreneurs and those starting and operating small businesses as well as those involved in nonprofit work.

Sue Clark and Monique (Weggeland) Flynn met up in Rome last July. Sue had been touring Italy, and Monique,

who lives in the United Kingdom, was able to meet her in “the eternal city.” See photo, this page.

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And please join us in support of our Class of 1991 Scholarship Fund this year to increase our class giving participation, with the goal of endowing our legacy fund.

Vanessa Allen Sutherland was nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Chemical Safety

and Hazard Investigation in March 2015 and confirmed by the Senate in August 2015.

Katherine Parisky’s essay about transitioning from university research to the elementary school

classroom was published in Independent School Magazine last winter. Birches, her K through 5, nature-based STEAM elementary school, was featured on the cover.

Peter Bruckmann Jr. [email protected]. Note: Drew Magazine regrets that

the C’95 column was erroneously missing from our last issue. Please enjoy a year’s worth of news from your diligent C’95 secretary, Peter Bruckmann.

Thank you to all of you who contributed to our long-overdue Classnotes submission! It was awesome to hear about our 20th Reunion in May 2015 as well as all of your exciting exploits both personally and professionally. Wishing all of the ’95 Drewids a momentous 2016! Please keep them coming! If you feel that I have mistakenly left something or someone out, I apologize, and please drop me an email.

Liz (Knee) Vizard is happy to say that after years of thought and planning, in March 2013, she and her husband bought a café/catering company called AllSpice Cafe & Catering in Arlington, Virginia. The first two years have been a bit of a blur, but things are going great. Her husband runs the day-to-day operations and her two kids can often be found hanging around learning the ropes. Liz celebrated her 15th year at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has held several positions in a few different departments, but presently she’s a manager in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance. Her team provides policy, guidance, and training to federal, state and tribal inspectors involving pesticide, chemical and hazardous waste facilities. In December, Liz gathered in downtown Washington, D.C., with many Drew alumni, including Steph Komsa C’96.

Victor Afanador is an equity partner at the law firm of Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC with offices in Newark, Chicago and Philadelphia. Victor handles federal and state civil and criminal litigation and argued before the Supreme Court of New Jersey last year. He keeps in contact with Jason Wilson, who is living in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and Jeffrey Mayerczak, who lives in Maryland.

Kathleen Minogue ran her own successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and then founded Crowdfund Better, a company dedicated to helping small-business owners,

more information from each of you for the next issue.

David Sizemore has been a secondary educator for the past 24 years, now serving as the academic dean for grades 9 through 11 at his high school alma mater, Xavier High School in Middletown, Connecticut. David and his wife, Nada, live in Cromwell, Connecticut, with their three feline children, Ellie, Sydney and Lincoln.

In 2013, Khürt Williams C’91 ended a 10-year stint in the pharmaceutical industry to start his own consulting firm, Monkey Hill. Khürt’s consultancy provides comprehensive information-security guidance to organizations to protect their high-profile systems in high-risk environments. Bhavna (Raval) Williams is an office administrator at Volition Wellness in Montgomery Township, New Jersey, battling the demons of health insurance. Her entire family recently relocated to the town. Khürt and Bhavna’s son, Shaan, is a junior at Montgomery High School, and their daughter, Kiran, is a freshman.

Finally, let me reintroduce myself. I have

been married for 20 years to my beautiful wife, Ileana. We have two children, Antonio, a senior, and Adriana, a sophomore, both in high school. I am currently the CEO of a drug discovery CRO in Chicago called SAMDI Tech, Inc. I commute to work from Austin, Texas. I am looking forward to catching up with each of you. Please feel free to reach out to me and let me know what is happening in your life and of any event you have participated in with other Drew alumni. You can reach me at the email above or at 765.404.1392.

Is it really time to celebrate our 25th Reunion? Excite-ment is building for our silver anniversary celebration. Paul Coen, Emilia (Nunes) Gale, Andy Hershey, Phil

Morin, Mike Richichi and Suzanne (Mertz) Spero are helping to reconnect classmates for our class gathering on June 3–4. Can you help? Let’s see if we can top the Class of 1990, who had over 40 attendees last year.

creatives and entrepreneurs find the funding they need to make their ideas a reality using crowdfunding. Over the last three years, she has helped numerous clients to run successful campaigns, including fellow Drew alums Jen (Crank) Potts C’92, Damon DiMarco C’93 and Lizzie Rose Reiss C’08. Kathleen has become a leading educator and expert in the industry, speaking on crowdfunding for community economic development centers, university entrepreneurship programs and small business groups, including the Small Business Administration. In partnership with a leading U.K. crowdfunding data company, the Crowdfunding Centre, Kathleen is developing online crowdfunding assessment and education tools to help more aspiring entrepreneurs, especially women and minorities, access capital through crowd-funding.

Gina (Santorelli) Johns celebrated her 20th anniversary at Merck this past year. Her career at Merck has morphed over time, and now she is working in the project management organization and supporting early and late-stage clinical drug development. Gina was married in summer 2013 and welcomed a baby in December 2014. She also has a 10-year-old stepdaughter. She says it’s a really nice change in her life but certainly has been an adjustment. Gina does fitness training on the side—a fun job that also offers her a lot of stress relief.

Heather (Tyndall) and James Orefice live in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, with their three children, ages 14, 12 and 9. James recently celebrated his 20th anniversary at his company, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, a legal publisher in New York City, where he leads an editorial group. Heather works for Adoptions from the Heart, an adoption placement agency in Cherry Hill. James attended our C’95 20th Reunion and had fun catching up with Taylor Huttner, Vanessa (Lattanzio) and Stephen Petrucelli, Amy (Cardone) Bellamente, Kiersten (Crowley) Cole, Andrew Gerber and many others. He remarked that it felt strange to have more than a few beers on campus again. James was also on campus in April for the dedication of the new baseball backstop and plaque in memory of his close friend, Ron Moss, whom he misses terribly.

David Rosciszewski is an attorney practicing in Jersey City for the past 10 years. He and his wife live close to Drew in New Providence with their two sons, ages 6 and 3.

My wife, Shannon (Laudermilch) C’96 and I have been enjoying watching our two children, Lucas, 15, and Olivia, 12, grow up way too fast. We still live in Freehold, New Jersey. It has been great coaching softball with Eric Bossdorf for our daughters (Liv, Abby and Tess), as Shannon and Kate (Feeley) Bossdorf C’93 cheer them on. I also visited Drew Lochli and his wife and two boys down in South Jersey at his parents’ house. He and his wife continue to work for the NCIS in the Washington, D.C. area.

Shannon Tilton Travis [email protected] my C’96 class-mates! It was great to hear from you after my first column in Drew Magazine.

I am glad to know that many of you are doing well—I expected nothing less. Our 20th Reunion is coming up, and I hope you will save the date and plan to attend.

A hearty congratulations to Larry Barisciano and his longtime partner, Ron Dix. After 14 years together they tied the knot on September 19, 2015, in Stevenson, Maryland. The ceremony was officiated by Michelle Moyer Fontaine and attended by several of our Drew classmates, including Eric Rich, best man, and Christine Madajewski Shorr, who performed a special reading. Many other Drew classmates attended. See the photo, above.

I look forward to catching up with each and every one of you and hearing from many more of you. Please share your joys and updates with me and the rest of your classmates. You can reach me at the email above or at 804.397.5195. Happy spring!

Dan Ilaria, [email protected] September, Sarah Ehasz started a new position as a federal

administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration. She recently came back from a month of training in Virginia. During training at the end of October, she was able to visit with Heather Wright and her family. They did some sightseeing in D.C. together. Sarah continues to live in Pittsburgh with her partner and two children.

Brandi D. (Gestri) Russano is now living in Brewster, New York, with her daughter. She continues to practice internal medicine in the area.

Jessica (Hrabosky) Adler is now a

homeowner in Maplewood, New Jersey. She had Marti Winer over for dinner to celebrate her new place.

Kat O’Connor’s C’93 company, Burning Brigid Media, is launching an audio drama podcast in early 2016, Synesthesia Theatre. It’s an anthology serial, and the first story is a steampunk Western mystery-adventure, Iron Horses Can’t Be Broken.

Emily (Danforth) Trudeau adopted a second son, Will, from the Marshall Islands last summer. He is nearly a year old and is a good playmate to Alex, their older son, who is 5.

Alison Kinney’s nonfiction book, Hood, was published by Bloomsbury in January. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, has written about it—“Provocative and highly informative, Alison Kinney’s Hood considers this seemingly neutral garment accessory and reveals it to be vexed by a long history of violence, from the Grim Reaper to the KKK and beyond— a history we would do well to address, and redress. Readers will never see hoods the same way again.”—which was pretty rad. She’s doing a couple events around NYC, LA and London and will be happy to see folks from Drew.

Finally, I got to visit with Josh McKee and Brian Nell over the holiday season. Josh is now the full-time photographer for the Hamilton College athletic department. Brian is working and living in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Kristen Daily Williams [email protected], classmates, from the campus

of dear ol’ Drew, where I continue to work in the Department of Communications. I so enjoy hearing from you—please keep the news coming. And if anyone finds himself or herself in The Forest, please drop me a line so I can get an in-person update.

The Drew Society

Leadership. Enrichment. Commitment.

Drew Society members contributed 59 percent of all philanthropic commitments to One And All: The Campaign for Drew last fiscal year—that’s $7.4 million raised for the annual fund, campus improvements, support for faculty and programs, and other funds that benefit our talented students.

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Stevens Institute of Technology. Cheers, Melissa and Ken!

Lastly, I married Reggie Saldivar at our lovely alma mater on October 17, 2015. The Rev. Vicky Hanjian T’90 officiated the wedding service in Great Hall. Many Drewids celebrated fabulously with a dinner reception and dancing in beautiful Mead Hall. See photo, facing page.

Kristen DeMarco C’03 and Michael Fedorak C’04 welcomed a second daughter, Annabelle, in February

2015. She joins older sister, Amelia Maria, who just turned 4. Michael works as a consumer relations supervisor and Kristen teaches English at an area middle school.

Did you know our 10th Reunion is coming up soon? Please contact Adam Alonso and Jenn Wozniakewicz Alonso, Jamie Baker, Jon Connelly, Julie Agia Hafeez,

Matt McGovern, Sigourney (Giblin) Rodriquez, Amanda Troha and Ben Weisman via [email protected] to volunteer for the class committee and be involved in the plans. We are encouraging gifts to support the Emmeline Brancato Scholarship Fund in memory of Emmy. Please join us!

Cayley (Barlowe) C’10 and Gil Arbitsman joyfully welcomed baby Ayla on May 29, 2015!

Lara Portnoy was featured in The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle for her work promoting a better society

with the external relations and development department of the Peres Center for Peace in Israel. She received her AB in religion and political science, then earned two master’s degrees. Her proud mother, Ellen (Rosenberg) Portnoy, is a C’77 alumna!

Elizabeth Karnash C’09 and Brad Greenman C’05 were married on September 25, 2015, surrounded

by many Drewids. See photo, above. Two months later Brad was celebrated at the 1,000 Point Club at the Rose City Classic game. He scored 1,103 points in Drew basketball from 2001 to 2004.

Matt Altman, David Robinson and Nicole Spiotta are look-ing for more class volunteers to join in helping coordinate our 5th Reunion. We have set a goal to designate gifts this

year to the annual fund. So, please spread the word. See you back in The Forest!

VIP Ink Publishing recently published Morissa Schwartz’s book Notes Never Sent. Morissa thanks Drew for the

incredible education, experience and oppor-tunities she had: “I couldn’t have penned this book without it.” Read more about Morissa at morissaschwartz.com and on page 13.

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Casey O’Donnell has been living in Tampa for the past four years with his wife, Julie, and their two daughters, Marin and Aurora or “Rory.” Casey is working at an orthopedic practice and specializes in spine, sports and musculoskeletal medicine and is also taking classes toward a certificate of training in medical informatics. He’s a certified advanced rescue SCUBA diver and has been volunteering as a medical adviser and chaperone for Stay-Focused, a nonprofit that certifies disabled teenagers to SCUBA dive. Living in Florida has been nice, but there are times when the O’Donnells definitely miss living up north!

Kathy Forrestal says it was great to see Rob Benacchio at the Drew Club of New York holiday party in December. After 13 years, Kathy just left her position as director of education for a semester of student teaching and to finish her MSEd. Once the semester ends and she graduates, a new chapter of her professional life will begin. Cheers, Kathy! Anyone who’s Facebook friends with Kathy knows she spends an awful lot of time hiking in the mountains. In the fall she completed a list of the 115 highest peaks in the northeast United States, and now the hard work of climbing begins. She’s focusing first on New York and New Hampshire.

Like many of us C’98ers, Mary Pasqualino Colwell celebrated her big 4-0. Mary’s was in November, surrounded by family and friends, followed by a family trip to Disney World. She says it was a great way to spend Thanksgiving! She’s expecting her third son in May of this year and is still practicing divorce and family law in Albany, New York, with her husband, Kevin, at the Colwell Law Group, LLC.

In her job at the International Rescue Committee, Suzanne Longley is managing a portfolio of celebrity donors who want to make a difference in the lives of refugees—she can’t name names, but it’s people we’d know. She headed to sunnier climes for

the big 4-0 in February. “Couldn’t face the winter weather and a new decade at the same time!”

Janine Calabro and Peter Herman welcomed Oscar Rocco Herman on June 27. “He’s pretty cute,” says Janine (and I believe her!). Janine is a veterinarian, and a board specialist in emergency and critical care medicine. She runs the emergency and hospitalization service at Friendship Hospital for Animals in Washington, D.C. Peter is finishing a PhD in comparative theology at Georgetown.

Shawn Steinhart is still at the Educa-tional Testing Service, where he’s an English language assessment specialist working on two major English language assessments. He lives in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighbor- hood and is loving the city.

Danielle Paganuzzi had a healthy and very happy baby boy named Logan on September 6, 2015. He is bringing much joy and laughter into Danielle’s and fiancé Matt Garavaglia’s lives.

Kevin Hagan, a seasoned Democratic strategist and a key adviser to many state-wide elected officials, joined the Princeton Public Affairs Group in Trenton in January 2012. Prior to this he was the chief of staff to Senate President Steve Sweeney and deputy chief of staff to Governor James E. McGreevy.

Kevin played basketball at Drew, and he continues to play and coach with the South Jersey Basketball Academy. Kevin and his wife, Darcy, have three young children ages 10, 8 and 2, as well as two pit bulls.

Wonderful news from Chiara (Mastro-domenico) Engström: She was deemed healthy enough to get her chemo port out (yeah!). When the scar heals a bit more, she’s going to cover it with a tattoo—her second (she got the first tattoo on a spring break in Fort Lauderdale with Jen (Huff) Mendez!). Chiara is back running with the NJ Team in Training for a half-marathon on May 1 in Long Branch, New Jersey. She’s also the New Jersey Honored Hero for the spring 2016 race

season. Congratulations, Chiara!In April, my old pal from Brown 1st in

1994 (you, too, right Casey O’Donnell?) Chris Grygo became the Ford Foundation’s first director of talent development. He leads all professional and organizational development efforts at Ford, from new employee onboarding and individual coaching to team effectiveness and culture change initiatives. He was also accepted into the Facilitator Preparation Program at the Center for Courage and Renewal. Chris is looking forward to leading personal growth retreats in the coming year.

Kate (Harvey) Gratto, [email protected]; Jen (Hicks) Tocco, [email protected]; Janet Wong,

[email protected] Perilli is in his 12th year working as a math specialist for the New York City Department of Education, and also serves as a field editor for The Fisherman Magazine. Still living in Brooklyn, he is married to Kathy and has two children, James, 6, and Gia, 4.

David Faris is now chair of the political science department at Roosevelt University in Chicago. In late 2015, David published Social Media and Iran: Politics and Society After 2009 with Babak Rahimi (SUNY Press). David also reports he frequently attends Cubs games with Derick Loafmann C’01, and recently saw Methtacular!, a musical written and performed by Steven Strafford C’99. Living in Chicago, he also spends time praying for winter to end.

Several of our other classmates are educators. Jameel Haque is an assistant professor of history at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Jameel also plays in the town’s official “roller derby band.”

Emily Musil Church lives in Los Angeles with husband Josh, who is a comedy producer,

Drew classmates, alumni and friends in attendance at the wedding of David Lee C’02 and Reggie Saldivar on October 17, 2015: Zarinah Smith from Drew’s Office of Financial Assistance, Arlene Ovalle-Child C’04, Christopher Child C’03, Steph Mazzarella C’02, Sarah Marchitto C’02, Cathy Lomauro C’02, David Lee C’02, Reggie Saldivar, Brooke (Johnson) Campbell C’02, Norm Johnson C’03, Elizabeth Lee C’03, Justin Hotchkiss C’02, Antonia (Altomare) Mecchella C’03, Kerri Small Beekman C’99, G’05 and Phil Beekman C’00. Not pictured: Michael Smullen C’03, Associate Professor of Church Music Mark Miller, Armen Hanjian T’61 and Vicky Hanjian T’90.

and daughter Nora, who turned 3 in Sep- tember. She is the director of education and impact for XPRIZE Learning at the XPRIZE Foundation. Last summer Emily took a group of students from the University of Southern California to Rwanda, where they interviewed genocide survivors and researched reconstruction and reconciliation initiatives. Emily and her students also hiked up the Virunga Mountains to go gorilla trekking.

Chris Chillseyzn has worked for the Nassau County Medical Examiner’s Office in the forensic genetics lab since 2007. He got married in 2008 and moved to Malverne, New York, on Long Island, in 2011. Chris’s wife, Juri, is a registered nurse in the emergency room of Mercy Medical Center. They welcomed their first son, Tobias Joseph, on July 1, 2015. Congrats, Chris!

Courtney (Riordan) Conway and her husband, Chris, welcomed daughter Elise Riordan Conway on October 19, 2015. Congrats, Courtney!

As for us, Kate recently bumped into Professor Bill Messmer in downtown Jersey City, only to discover they live six blocks away from each other! Keep those updates coming!

Are you planning to attend our 15th Reunion celebration the weekend of June 3–4? Maren Watkins Calzia, Colin Lynch, Kristen Santaromita,

Justin Serpone and D.J. Wright are leading

Future Rangers Juliana and Paulo Armando celebrated their first birthday on December 22, 2015! Proud parents are Jessica (Bowler) C’04 and Ricardo Ovani.

our class as we share our memories and accomplishments. Please help with the planning of the class gathering. With a goal to increase our giving participation in recognition of our fabulous class, please make your gift in celebration of our Reunion to support the Jake Stultz Memorial Fund.

David Lee, [email protected] to Maggie (Diggory) Fram and her husband, Dan, who

welcomed their daughter, Lucy Marian Fram, on June 24, 2015. Maggie and her family live in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Maggie has been a communications consultant for a faith-based nonprofit organization. She and Dan celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary this past August.

Sienna Moran and her husband, Joe Nadolny, welcomed their second child, Joseph Stephen Nadolny, on December 17, 2015. Big sister, Ava, is totally in love with her new baby brother!

Sarah Marchitto celebrated 11 years working at New York University Stern School of Business. She has been accepted to Stern’s Executive MBA program.

Also, Peter Cole has been invited to join the faculty at New York University School of Medicine. He will be an adjunct assistant curator and faculty librarian.

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John G. McEllhenney T’59 was one of the principal speakers at the Second R.S. Thomas Literary

Festival held in Aberdaron, Wales, in July 2015. Also, he preached in Saint Hywyn’s Church, Aberdaron, Thomas’ last parish, and went to Wrexham, Wales, to study the mural The Dance of Life, which Thomas’ wife, Elsi, painted in the 1950s. Now he is part of the planning team and one of the speakers for the 2016 Thomas Festival.

Edna Runnels Ranck T’71 spent the past two years co-chairing the 67th World Organization

for Early Childhood Education World Assembly and International Conference held in Washington, D.C., July 27–August 1. Attended by over 550 people from 42 countries under the theme of “Early Childhood Pathways to Sustainability,” the conference offered 346 workshops, posters, papers and plenary sessions. This summer the conference will convene at Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea. Ranck published a book chapter in The Hidden History of Early Childhood Education (2013) that highlighted the status of early care and education in the United States during the 1950s, a decade often ignored in the historical record for early childhood. In 2014, a chapter titled “Past as Prologue: Doing Historical Research in Early Childhood

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book Joyce’s Ulysses for Everyone, Or How to Skip Reading It the First Time (AuthorHouse, 2004) was revised and released as Joyce’s Ulysses for Everyone: Plotting the Narratives (Maunsel & Co., 2013). His book Rilke on Death and Other Oddities (Xlibris, 2007) was revised and released as A New Reading of Rilke’s “Elegies” (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009). Lastly, his book Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, originally published by W.W. Norton in 1975 and reissued twice since, has been in print for 40 consecutive years now and has sold more than 100,000 copies.

Jeff Richards G’83,’85 was the subject of a Q&A op-ed in The Salisbury Post regarding how his book, The Great Journey, dealt with racism. Search for the article at salisburypost.com.

Last summer Charles Selengut G’83 published his latest book, Our Promised Land: Faith and Militant Zionism in Israeli Settlements (Rowman & Littlefield), which analyzes the emergence of the radical Israeli Messianic Zionist movement. The book is available at amazon.com and other booksellers.

Mark R. Fairchild G’85,’89 is professor and chair of the Bible and religion depart-ment at Huntington University in Indiana. Last summer he published his latest book, Christian Origins in Ephesus and Asia Minor, which is available at amazon.com and elsewhere. Though it has been some time since Mark visited campus, he says he keeps Drew in his prayers and is happy to see developments on campus.

Brian Regal G’96,’98,’01 appeared in the History Channel documentary series True Monsters last October.

On June 15, Patricia Palermo G’96,’07 will celebrate the release of her new book, The Message of the City: Dawn Powell’s New York Novels, 1925–1962. Patricia’s book is based on her dissertation (Dean Ready and Professor Merrill Skaggs were her readers). The subject of her book, Dawn Powell, posthumously won an award from the Empire State Association of the Book, and Patricia attended the June 2, 2015, banquet in New York City. Patricia notes that Powell died a pauper and was interred at Potter’s Field on Hart Island, New York. Patricia is due to speak at an event in Brooklyn, attended by some of Powell’s family, about opening the island. She’s also been invited to speak at Lake Erie College, Powell’s alma mater.

Jude M. Pfister G’07 represented Drew University at the inauguration of Sheila Bair as president of Washington College on September 26, 2015.

PhD Victor Svorinich G’09 published the book Listen to

This: Miles Davis and Bitches Brew (University Press of Mississippi, 2015). The book began as his doctoral dissertation at Drew.

Award-winning poet Rebecca Gayle Howell G’10 is the 2015

Marguerite and Lamar Smith Writing Fellow. Each year, the fellow resides and writes from September to December in the Columbus State University Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians. Rebecca’s first book of poems, Render / An Apocalypse (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013), won the Cleveland State University First Book Prize and was a 2014 finalist for ForeWord Review’s Book of the Year. She translated Amal al-Jubouri’s Hagar Before the Occupation/ Hagar After the Occupation (Alice James Books, 2011) and she is the poetry editor for Oxford American. Her other honors include two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and a Pushcart Prize.

Lisa Wujnovich G’10 took part in a poetry reading last July at Poets House in New York City.

Yesenia Montilla G’12 is among the long- listed authors for the 2015 PEN Open Book Award for her work The Pink Box: Poems (Aquarius Press/Willow Books).

Congratulations to Rebecca Rego Barry G’01, whose book Rare

Books Uncovered: True Tales of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places, was published by Voyageur Press last December. Rebecca says the book is a bit like Antiques Roadshow but focused entirely on rare books and manuscripts. She interviewed more than 50 book collectors, booksellers and librarians about treasures found in attics, barns, flea markets and more. For example, a copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle, a beautiful illustrated book published in 1493, surfaced in Utah, where the owner had been storing it under his bed for decades! Rebecca, who worked in the library and University Archives at Drew for a few years, reminds us that Drew owns a Nuremberg Chronicle too.

Paul Kahan G’04 just published his fourth book, The Bank War (Westholme Publishing, 2015), which is available at amazon.com and everywhere. The book chronicles the bitter battle over the charter of the second bank of the United States and its lasting impact on the American economy. Paul teaches history at Ohlone College in Fremont, California.

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Suzanne Geissler Bowles T’79 was promoted to professor of history at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. She also directs the American studies minor. Her new book, God and Sea Power, a biography of naval historian and Episcopal layman Alfred Thayer Mahan, was published last October by the Naval Institute Press.

Timothy M. Smith T’92 was installed as bishop of the North Carolina Synod–Evangelical

Lutheran Church in America on September 12, 2015, at Christ Lutheran Church, Charlotte, for a six-year term.

Thomas D. Johnson, Sr. T’99, the senior pastor of Harlem’s historic Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, has been elected to a four- year term as president of the New York Progressive Baptist State Convention, a denominational body with a 53-year commitment to promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Before coming to Canaan Baptist Church in 2006, he served as senior

pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Danville, Virginia, for 20 years. This was preceded by a pastorate of five years at the West End Baptist Church in Reidsville, North Carolina.

Last August, Mark Karris T’10 published his first peer-reviewed theoretical research article,

“Integrating Emotionally Focused Therapy, Self-Compassion and Compassion-Focused Therapy to Assist Shame-Prone Couples Who Have Experienced Trauma.”

Liz Testa T’11 was ordained a minister of word and sacrament in the Reformed Church in America in September 2013, and served as an associate minister at the Marble Collegiate Church in NYC (where she had been on staff since 2002) until she was called to serve the denomination as the national executive coordinator for women’s transformation and leadership in June 2014. From her office at New Brunswick Theological Seminary, she ensures that women’s gifts and influence are fully included in all areas of church life across the denomination. Having entered Drew at a time when the Theo School had women in all three dean positions, Liz says she is not surprised God called her to serve the greater church in this way: “I learned well from my years at Drew, from many wise faculty and peers whose insights and teachings are with me daily.”

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The Drew community and its alumni associations extend our heartfelt sympathy to the families and friends of those alumni and members of the Drew community listed below. Our ranks are diminished by their loss.

College of Liberal ArtsMary R. Alvey C’45, P’77 graduated with a degree in psychology, but her passion was music. As a Drew student, the lifelong Madisonian began directing the children’s choir at the Madison UMC, and continued with it for decades. She taught piano for 31 years as an adjunct faculty member at the College of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, New Jersey, and continued teaching in her own studio until recently. She died at age 92, on November 8, 2015. She is survived by George, her husband of 65 years, two children, including son David Alvey C’77, and their families, including four grand-children and a great-granddaughter.

Robert Drew Simpson C’45, T’48,’54, a resident of Chatham, New Jersey, passed away peacefully on August 6, 2015, at age 90. A great-great-nephew of founder Daniel Drew, Bob pursued a long career in Methodist ministry, including 25 years at the Chatham (New Jersey) UMC. He also taught at Drew. He served as a Drew trustee from 1977 to 1997, and on many other Drew boards and committees. Bob volunteered at the Methodist Archives on campus for 14 years after his retirement. At Reunion 2010, he was given a Drew Lifetime Achievement Award. Bob was predeceased by wife Megan Demarest Simpson C’46, G’80, with whom he enjoyed over 65 years of marriage, after meeting her at Drew. Bob and Megan are survived by their three children.

Joel Hemmendinger C’46, longtime New Jersey resident, died on August 2, 2015, at the age of 90. After serving as an officer in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War, he spent his career in life

resident of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. While still an undergraduate, Betty married fellow Drew student David Follansbee C’50, T’53. They went on to have three children, six grandchildren and a great-grandson— all of whom survive her today, along with husband David. Betty and David served churches in New York and New Jersey, and Betty taught professionally. She retired in 1992 to sail on Narragansett Bay, and enjoyed active membership in St. Luke’s Church of East Greenwich.

Laurence A. Loftus C’53, T’56 spent his childhood in Mexico City, where his father served with the American Embassy. After undergraduate and theological studies at Drew, he lost his heart to the Northwest, spending 55 years serving Methodist and Presbyterian churches there. He avidly enjoyed the outdoors, once performing a wedding on the summit of Mt. Hood. He died with wife Kate by his side on December 30, 2015, at age 84, a resident of Enterprise, Oregon. He leaves many loved ones, including Kate, six children and their families.

Alice Ann Burgess C’54, a resident of Saranac, Michigan, passed away on November 12, 2015. She was 82. A native of New Jersey, Alice is survived by her six Michigan-based children and their families, including 16 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.

Marion K. Pinsdorf C’54 died on November 12, 2015, as a resident of her beloved Bergen County, New Jersey. She was 83. Marion began her career as a reporter for the Bergen Evening Record. After Drew, she earned a doctoral degree and enjoyed a long career in corporate communications. She

insurance. Joel served as president of the Livingston Kiwanis Club and president of Drew’s College Alumni Association, the Livingston Adult School and the Livingston Welfare Board. He was elected to three terms as a fire commissioner of Monroe Township. He was predeceased by his first wife of 57 years, Helene Hemmendinger. He is survived by his wife, Adrienne Ament, three sons, three daughters-in-law, two stepchildren and seven grandchildren.

Ralph Robert Pfeiffer C’48, a chemist, died on June 21, 2015, at age 89. He leaves his wife, Fay, six children, two stepchildren and three grandchildren. Born in Germany, he relocated to the United States as a baby. He served in Europe with the U.S. Army in 1944–46. He earned a doctoral degree in chemistry at Syracuse University, and became a scientist with Eli Lilly & Co. He contributed to scientific patents and publications. He was a long-standing member of All Souls Unitarian Church in Indianapolis. He enjoyed using his carpentry and design ideas to support his wife Fay’s endeavors as a choir conductor.

Reeve Stone C’49 had a long career in communications with IBM in the Poughkeepsie, New York, region. He returned to his native New Jersey for retirement, and was active in a theater group in his original hometown of Maplewood. In 2014, he relocated to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his son resides. In 2013, Reeve was preceded in death by Anne, his wife of over 50 years. He died at age 91, on November 2, 2015, and leaves his son, along with a niece and nephew and their families.

Elizabeth Dinsmore Follansbee C’53 passed away on September 17, 2015, as a

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2015. After growing up in New Jersey and majoring in economics at Drew, he earned master’s and doctoral degrees at Fordham, and became chief economist and global macro strategist for Standish Asset Management/ Bank of New York Mellon in Boston. He was also known for his love of ocean sports, and for sharing the outdoors with his family. Tom is survived by wife Lori, their four children, his mother, his seven siblings and their families. He was preceded in death by his father.

Janna Noreen Sears C’00 passed away peacefully at the age of 36 on August 2, 2015, following a heroic battle with cancer. Celebrations of Janna’s life were held at Monadnock Covenant Church in Keene, New Hampshire, and at the Humane Society International in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where Janna worked for 12 years. Many members of the Drew community attended both services. In addition to her devoted work for animals, Janna created her own business, Awesomecakes, selling vegan and gluten-free cupcakes, cakes and pies. She is survived by her parents, her brother and his family, two grandmothers and a large extended family.

Jaime Lazcano C’09 passed away unexpectedly on December 16, 2015, at age 28, a resident of Little Falls, New Jersey. Born in Colombia, Jaime attended high school in the United States, and then studied biology and chemistry at Drew. He was also passionate about world history. He is survived by his parents, three siblings, a grandmother and many other relatives.

Theological SchoolPaul E. Brown, Sr. T’50 reached age 99, a resident of Johnson City, Tennessee. Paul served seven Methodist churches as pastor, and was a chaplain and professor at three universities, including his own undergraduate alma mater. Paul is survived by four children and their families, including nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by Pauline, his wife of 60 years (with whom he traveled the world) and two grandchildren.

Willett R. Porter, Jr. T’52 was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, completed undergraduate studies in agriculture at Cornell and then prepared for the ministry at Drew. His 64-year career included many Methodist churches in his home state. He also gave generously of his time to the community, serving as a volunteer fire department chaplain. He died on November 4, 2015, at age 88, a resident of Mahopac, New York. He leaves Shirley, his wife of 62 years, four sons and their families, including six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Richard Pittenger T’53 served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and then became a pastor. He served Methodist and UCC congregations in his native South Dakota and in Massachusetts, eventually retiring to Sioux Falls. Dick ended every golf season by saying, “I finally figured out what is wrong with my swing!” He died at age 89 on November 2,

was published in her field, and also taught at Drew and other universities, including Brown and Fordham. She traveled the world. She is survived by her cousin and godson.

Elsa Milby Singh C’55 of San Marcos, California, passed away on October 2, 2015, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. She was 82. After graduating from Drew, the Baltimore native earned a master’s degree in social work at the University of Southern California, where she also met her husband, Inder. She was an active member of the Methodist church, and taught adult education at Palomar College. Elsa was preceded in death by her husband. She is survived by their three children and their families, which include five grandchildren.

Leon George Harbeson C’57 served in the U.S. Coast Guard upon high school graduation, before matriculating at Drew. After graduating from Drew, Lee pursued a career as a personnel manager for the federal government. A resident of Annapolis, Maryland, he also worked as a substitute teacher in the Annapolis public schools after retiring from the U.S. Department of Energy. Lee died at age 83 on October 22, 2015. He is survived by Pat, his wife of 60 years, their three sons and their sons’ families, including five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Anne Baker Siegel C’58 died on Septem- ber 19, 2015, at age 79, as a 40-year resident of Unadilla, New York. A political science major, Anne became a lifelong advocate for environmental, social justice and animal welfare causes. She suspended her professional life to raise her children, but then resumed employment, serving as a database manager and consultant to nonprofit organizations. Anne leaves Michael, her husband of 57 years, who is professor emeritus of psychology at SUNY Oneonta, along with their three children and Anne’s two brothers.

Janet A. Flood Scott C’60 passed away at age 77 on December 24, 2015, at her home in California. Janet worked at Mattel, Inc. before becoming a counselor, eventually opening her own counseling practice. Janet taught personal growth, parenting and psychology classes at several California learning communities. Janet loved reading, relaxing with her cats and socializing with her large group of friends. She is survived by her brother, Lawrence Flood C’62; sister-in-law Carolyn Morell C’64; sister, Joyce Flood C’67; and son, Kevin. She was preceded in passing by her daughter, Karen.

Amy Margaret Anderson Beveridge C’65, of Bloomfield, Connecticut, died unexpectedly at home on September 9, 2015. She was 72. After graduating from Drew, Amy earned a master’s degree at Norwich University, and worked for 23 years at the Connecticut Conference of the UCC. Amy and her husband, Tom, were dedicated members of Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) in Hartford, Connecticut. Predeceased by Tom and by three of her siblings, Amy is survived by her son, her remaining sister and other relatives.

Jeffrey Ludwig Loeb C’74 passed away on April 14, 2015. A proud alumnus of Drew,

Jeff majored in math and went on to earn a master’s degree in computer science at the University of South Alabama. He pursued a career with companies including Kimberly-Clark. A sports fan, he enjoyed a season as manager of Drew’s JV basketball team. He was an active member of Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego.

Edward M. Small C’76, a resident of Boomer, North Carolina, passed away at age 60, on September 2, 2015.

Kathleen M. Agnelli C’78 died on January 31, 2016, at the age of 59 after a courageous battle with cancer, surrounded by her family and friends. She lived in Vernon Township, New Jersey, for the last 30 years. After Drew, Kathleen received her JD from Gonzaga School of Law in Spokane, Washington. She had her own law practice for many years. She was an animal lover and enjoyed the outdoors, hiking and kayaking. Kathleen is survived by her mother, aunts and uncles.

Betty Ruth Moore McKernan C’79, a resident of Hamden, Connecticut, passed away peacefully on December 5, 2015, just three weeks short of her 90th birthday. Betty initially attended Bucknell University, but interrupted her studies to marry and raise three sons. Years later, she finished her degree at Drew. She worked in radio copywriting and delivered the weather on television in the New Haven market. She leaves three sons and their families, including three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Nancy Ann Nixon Mooney C’79 pursued her own higher education at Drew, after raising her three children and seeing them receive undergraduate degrees. Shortly thereafter, she retired to her native New England with husband Dick, with whom she enjoyed 70 years of marriage. She died on December 5, 2015, at the age of 91, a resident of North Andover, Massachusetts. She leaves three children and their families, including five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Arthur David “Soc” Deacon III C’82, an avid outdoorsman and athlete, died on January 24, 2016. He was 56. He had met his wife, Karen Locke-Deacon C’85, at Drew, where he majored in English and played lacrosse and rugby. Karen and Soc enjoyed 27 years of marriage. A resident of Simsbury, Connecticut, Soc was assistant vice president of Investment Communications at MassMutual. He is survived by Karen, their daughter Ana, his mother, his siblings and many friends and relatives. He was preceded in death by his father.

Kenneth Rich C’86, a 51-year-old physician, perished at the scene of a tragic accident on October 9, 2015. After graduating from Drew, Kenneth completed a medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee. For three years immediately preceding his death, he had practiced medicine in Smithtown, New York (Long Island), where he was known for his compassion and generosity, and for devoting extra time to his patients.

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New Orleans. She returned to New Jersey and lived in Chatham for over 35 years. Joy leaves her two children and their families, including three grandchildren.

Jerome C. Eppler, a former Drew trustee, passed away on December 16, 2015. A resident of Denver, Jerry was 91. A Navy veteran, Jerry went on to the Wharton School of the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, and then enjoyed an illustrious 60-year career on Wall Street and in corporate America. He spent 50 years of his life as a Morris County resident. Jerry leaves his wife, five children, eight grand-children and two great-grandchildren.

Marie L. Garibaldi, the first woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court, passed away on January 15, 2016, at age 81. A tax lawyer in Morristown at the time of her appointment, Marie was selected for the court in 1982 by Governor Thomas H. Kean, who himself later served as Drew’s president. Marie was a member of Drew’s Board of Visitors, and as Drew’s 1983 Commencement speaker, she received an honorary degree. She became known as a prolific jurist, writing more than 225 opinions, including some notable dissents.

Ruby Riemer, a poet and philosopher, passed away on January 27, 2016. She was 91. A retired Drew professor, Ruby was also the wife of Neal Riemer, a fellow faculty member. Their partnership was both personal and professional, as they raised their three sons and co-taught courses in ethics and politics. After Neal’s death in 2002, the Neal Riemer Prize was established at Drew in his memory. When contributions were made to the prize, Ruby expressed her gratitude by personally corresponding with the donors. Ruby and Neal are survived by their three sons, daughters-in-law and five grandchildren.

October 22, 2015. An ordained Methodist minister, he served congregations for over 20 years, and was also involved in senior living ministry. He leaves his wife of 30 years, Donnetta, one son and many family members, including his siblings, their spouses and many nieces and nephews.

Robert D. Joiner, Jr. T’87 was an ordained Methodist minister for 62 years. A native Texan, he served nine churches in his career, and also volunteered as a firefighter. He passed away on August 7, 2015, at age 86. Bob is survived by his wife, Kathryn, four children and their families, including four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and other friends and relatives.

James Arthur Johnson T’91, an Air Force veteran, spent 40 years in parish ministry as an Episcopal priest, and as a licensed marriage and family therapist. Born in Washington, D.C., he served in New Jersey, West Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina, and retired to his wife’s hometown of Tennille, Georgia, in 2012. Jim died on August 8, 2015, at 67. He is survived by wife Betty Jean, two children, two grandchildren and his mother.

James F. Mitchell T’93 was a native Texan and lifelong Episcopalian. An Army veteran, he married Margaret in 1957, and served churches in Texas. He passed away on October 6, 2015, at age 83, a resident of San Antonio. Jim is survived by Margaret, two of their daughters, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a third daughter.

Mack L. Hannah T’98, a native of Georgia, spent over 40 years in ministry, including time at Belmont University, and as senior pastor of Baptist churches in Tennessee and Georgia. Mack passed away peacefully at home in Georgia on August 20, 2015, at age 67, surrounded by family. He is survived by Patricia, his wife of 44 years; two children

and their families, which include five grandchildren; his mother and brothers.

Edward K. Furman T’87, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, spent several decades as a dairy farmer before pursuing higher education. He completed a master’s at Drew at age 60, and entered ordained Methodist ministry. Ed enjoyed nearly 68 years of marriage with wife Betty Lou, his partner in farming, on backpacking treks and in agricultural mission work in Zimbabwe. He died on January 5, 2016, at age 89. Predeceased by Betty Lou in 2015, he leaves their three children, nine grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, his brother and many extended family members. One granddaughter, also a pastor, officiated at Ed’s memorial service.

Caspersen SchoolFrancine Quaglio G’76 passed away at her Bridgewater, Massachusetts, home on December 11, 2015. A New Jersey native, she earned a doctorate at Drew. She then taught, first at Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee, and then for 22 years at Bridgewater State University. She is survived by her partner, Lois, and by extended family members in Florida. Her parents and brother preceded her in death.

Faculty, Staff & FriendsJoy Ann Rollka Chavent, formerly Drew’s assistant director of admissions, passed away peacefully on December 12, 2015, as a resident of New Haven, Connecticut. She was 87. The New Jersey native and her husband raised their two children in eight different states. Joy volunteered and performed in community theater, and rode on Mardi Gras floats while living in

his family, his work, music and the North Carolina mountains. He is survived by his wife, Lurline, and many friends and relatives, including two children and four grandchildren.

Ralph E. Luker T’66 passed away peace-fully at his Atlanta home on August 8, 2015. He was 75. A Kentucky native, he was ordained a Methodist minister. He taught history and religion at several universities, having earned a doctorate in American history at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His support for the civil rights movement in the early 1960s shaped his work. He leaves Jean, his wife of 49 years, and several relatives, including two daughters and one granddaughter.

Alan R. Tulp T’74,’76 served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He received the President’s Volunteer Service Award in 2014. He passed away as a resident of Easton, Pennsylvania, on November 26, 2015, at age 83. He is survived by two children, four brothers, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

James E. Maddox T’76 passed away at age 70, on October 14, 2015, as a resident of Sherrills Ford, North Carolina. A native of Missouri, he became a Methodist minister and served 15 churches in his career, including several in New Jersey and North Carolina. He is survived by his wife, Brenda, two sons and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a third son.

Jay E. Sale T’79, was born in 1931 in Oakland, California, and passed away on December 8, 2015, as a resident of Phila-delphia. An alumnus of the University of California at Berkeley, he pursued graduate studies in Chicago, where he met Virginia, his wife of nearly 60 years. Jay served churches in Michigan, New York state and Pennsylvania as a Presbyterian minister, and attained a doctoral degree at Drew. Jay leaves his wife, Virginia, their two children, two grandsons and nieces.

Gayle M. Woodman T’79 passed away on January 19, 2015.

Thomas A. Dunbar T’82 served as pastor of many Methodist churches across Texas and his native Louisiana. Tommy played high school football, both offense and defense, and also joined the band at halftime on the trombone. He met his wife, Susan, as an undergraduate and together they raised two daughters while pursuing the ministry, from which Tommy retired in 2006. He passed away on October 18, 2015, at age 68, a resident of Alexandria, Louisiana. He is survived by Susan; their daughters and families, which include four grandchildren; his three brothers; and nieces and nephews who learned to water ski from the back of his boat.

Ronald Colquhoun Smeaton T’82 passed away peacefully at home on August 3, 2015, at age 80. A minister with the United Church of Canada, he spent his career serving in many Ontario locations. He is survived by Delores, his wife of 57 years, two children and their families, including three grandchildren. He was predeceased by a third child.

Jon C. Stenberg T’82 passed away at age 59, in his Doylestown, Pennsylvania, home, on

2015. He is survived by wife Dolores, three children and three stepchildren, their children and grandchildren, and many extended family members and friends.

James W. Barrett T’54, a U.S. Army veteran, served in the Pacific during World War II. He then became a Methodist pastor, serving churches in rural New York and Pennsylvania, along with hospital chaplaincy. He enjoyed the outdoors. Jim died a resident of Troy, Pennsylvania, on November 12, 2015, at age 89. He was predeceased by wife Betty, with whom he enjoyed 55 years of marriage. Jim and Betty are survived by two children and their families, including a grandson, two great-grandchildren and a niece.

William A. Speers T’54 passed away in his native Pennsylvania at age 89, on November 25, 2015. After proudly serving in the U.S. Navy, he entered the ministry, serving Methodist and UCC churches in central Pennsylvania for over 58 years. He was also involved in senior living chaplaincy. A resident of Hanover at the time of his death, William is survived by Patricia, his wife of 62 years, and their family, which includes two daughters, four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and William’s one surviving sister.

Arthur Jeffery Hopper T’55 went on from Drew to earn a doctoral degree at Yale University, and became a professor of theology. On Easter Sunday 1964, he was arrested on church steps in Jackson, Mississippi, with an interracial group of Methodist colleagues who were trying to integrate the southern Methodist churches. A resident of Columbus, Ohio, he died at age 85 on July 12, 2015. He is survived by his three children, four grandchildren and two brothers.

John Calvin Wagner T’56 was not stopped by polio, which he contracted in 1945, at age 14. Despite significant, permanent paralysis, he studied at Haverford College, the Sorbonne, Drew, the Yale Divinity School and Ohio State University. With Miriam, his wife of 62 years, he had three children, served congregations in Ohio and taught. He advocated full inclusion in the Methodist church, and protested segregation and wars. He died in his home state of Pennsylvania, at 84, on July 28, 2015. He leaves Miriam, their children and many other relatives and friends, including eight grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Lawrence Andrew Adolph Larson T’59 of New Fairfield, Connecticut, passed away at age 81, on January 16, 2016. An under-graduate at Indiana University, he was drum major in the “Marching Hundred” and then proceeded to seminary at Drew. Initially serving as a Methodist pastor, Larry became ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1968 and served Episcopal parishes in Connecticut and New York state. Predeceased by his first wife, Dorothy, he married again in 1983 and is survived by wife Patricia. He also leaves two children, four stepchildren and their families, including eight grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a sister.

Stephen R. Parr T’60, a native New Jerseyan, became a Methodist pastor and served churches throughout New York state and Pennsylvania.

His youthful interest in music led to playing violin as an adult with the Corning, New York, Philharmonic. Steve passed away at age 80, on November 25, 2015, a resident of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He enjoyed 56 years of marriage with wife Nancy, also a minister. She survives him along with the rest of their family, including two daughters and four granddaughters.

Sidney S. Tate T’60, a resident of LaGrange, Georgia, passed away on October 16, 2015, at age 80. A Methodist pastor, he served many congregations throughout Georgia, and also worked for 17 years in university admissions and financial aid. He completed additional work in gerontology at Georgia State University in 1991, and was involved in older adult ministries until retiring in 2000. He is survived by wife Enid, two sons and their families, which include four grandchildren, and many other friends and relatives.

David C. Steinmetz T’61, a leading scholar of Reformation theology, was also known for his dry wit. After graduating from Drew, the Methodist elder completed a doctoral degree at Harvard and embarked on an academic career. He taught principally at Duke University, with visiting appointments at Harvard, Notre Dame and Emory. A resident of Durham, North Carolina, at the time of his death, David passed away at age 89 on November 26, 2015. He is survived by wife Virginia, two children, two grandchildren and his sister.

Craige A. LeBreton T’63, a native of Connecticut, passed away at his home in Camarillo, California, on August 6, 2015. He was 82. After serving in the U.S. Navy and then graduating from UCLA, he earned master’s degrees at Drew and at the University of Southern California. He served Methodist churches in California. He is survived by Sue, his wife of 57 years, two children and their families, including eight grandchildren.

Dale Patrick T’63 was born to a pioneer Oregon family. He and his wife, Mary, lived and worked principally in Missouri and Iowa, but also in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. An Old Testament scholar, Dale taught at the university level and wrote prolifically. He died on July 27, 2015, in Iowa, and is survived by Mary, his wife of 54 years, and many relatives, including a son, a daughter-in-law and grandchildren.

George C. Schlesinger T’64, a Marine in the South Pacific during World War II, passed away on August 4, 2015, a resident of Toms River, New Jersey. He was 86. George died exactly nine hours after losing Maxine, his wife of 68 years. George considered Maxine an integral part of his long ministry, as they served many Methodist congregations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. George and Maxine were predeceased by one grandson. They are survived by two children and their families, including five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

James W. Fowler III T’65, a professor of theology at Emory University and an ordained Methodist elder, died peacefully on October 16, 2015. He was 75 and resided in Decatur, Georgia. Jim loved

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I was introduced to performing as a child, but it didn’t become an integral part of my life until third grade. My teacher was very fond of creating skits and short plays, and we performed them for other classes.

I was drawn to Drew because of its location. I really wanted to get out of the Los Angeles bubble: I had lived in L.A. all my life. I fell in love with Drew’s campus and its close proximity to New York City.

I came in as an intended theatre major. I joined Drew University Dramatic Society. I’ve performed as a dancer and an actor, and I’ve done sound designing for another show.

Drew’s theatre department gives their students a very well-rounded education: I’ve studied theatre tech, design, playwriting, arts administration and acting.

Growing up, I loved performing. I danced for three years with a studio daily and I was an avid participant in school musicals. Since coming to Drew, I found I needed to focus my energy on one area, which is theatre, but I have been taking voice lessons. I’ve also been very involved with the dance show.

I participated in the London/Edinburgh short-term program and the London Semester. I saw some of the most incredible theatre I’ve seen in my life in London, and I wouldn’t have traded that experience for anything in the world.

In my junior capstone class, Dr. Lisa Brenner asked all of us to write our own theatre manifestos. Mine focused on the misrepresentation and the under-representation of Asian-Americans on the stage as well as in film and TV.

When I went to her for possible internships for the summer, Dr. Brenner put me in touch with the National Asian American Theatre Company. I was also supported by the Patenaude Internship, which allowed me to afford to live in the city.

I learned about the industry firsthand and was a part of a professional show at one of the most prestigious theatre companies in the United States, The Public Theater. I feel I’m better prepared to face my future after graduation.

Through an internship with a New York–based theatre company

and her participation in two study abroad programs, Kim took

full advantage of her experiential learning opportunities at Drew.

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