IUP’s Kipp Gallery will host artist Justin Shull and his traveling work of art The Porta Hedge: Mobile Observation Lab on December 2 and 3, 2009.

The Porta Hedge is a mobile, artificial hedge that can be entered by spectators. It will be placed in the IUP Oak Grove near the Performing Art Center and open for viewing December 2 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and December 3 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Shull will offer his perspective on his work on December 2 at 5:00 p.m. in Susan Delaney Hall, Room G43. This presentation is free and open to the community.

The Porta Hedge, which can be viewed from the interior, has several eco-conscious design features: solar power, a small physical footprint (two tires and a swivel jack), recycled Christmas trees on the exterior, living plants and wood finishing on the interior, and the sound of birds on the interior and exterior.

It has been displayed throughout the United States. The experiences of the team transporting the hedge are available on the Porta Hedge website.

Shull said that several recent projects involve the reuse of synthetic plants in the landscape.

“This creates an upcycling of the material to provide new social functions as a mobile park, or a concealed observation laboratory. The trees, parks, lawns, hedges, and bushes that I introduce to the landscape purport to alter the ecology of the space, but the target in these projects could also be described as the social ecologies into which the objects insert themselves.”

Bill Strickland, author of the 2009 Common Freshman Reader, Make the Impossible Possible, was on campus to share his personal story in an evening lecture Wednesday, November 17, 2009.

Earlier in the day, Strickland visited classrooms and toured facilities in the College of Fine Arts. He was also honored by IUP’s Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

Strickland is president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation—a jobs training center and community arts program—and its subsidiaries, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center in Pittsburgh.

In his book, Strickland uses his own life experiences and those of others to demonstrate how people can overcome their circumstances and build on their passions and strengths to achieve success and help mentor and inspire others.

Through the Common Freshman Reader program, now in its fourth year, each new student receives a copy of the chosen book and is invited to read it before the start of the school year.

Photos by Keith Boyer

The program, which is free and open to the community, will be presented by Dr. Irwin Marcus, professor emeritus with IUP’s History Department, at 7:00 p.m. in Sprowls Hall’s McVitty Auditorium.

Marcus created the university’s first courses in U.S. labor history, African-American history, and the history of protest movements. His research and publications focus on the history of Pennsylvania coal miners and steel workers, deindustrialization, and globalization.

This lecture is planned in conjunction with the exhibit “A Walk through Time: Western Pennsylvania Coal Culture” currently offered at the University Museum, on the first floor of Sutton Hall.

The series concludes with “Researching Family History with Coal Culture Resources” on December 5 at 4:00 p.m. at the University Museum. Rhonda Yeager, assistant archivist in IUP’s Special Collections and University Archives, will present the lecture.

Yeager served as the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company project archivist for 2006–2007 and continues to assist patrons with research for the collection. She has taught a course on “Introduction to Genealogy” for IUP Continuing Education.

Registration for lectures is preferred but not required. To register or for information, contact Sally Daskivich at the College of Fine Arts at 724-357-2397 or sdaskivi@iup.edu.

The Pennsylvania Coal Culture exhibition will be available through December 5. Find more information about “A Walk Through Time: Pennsylvania Coal Culture.”

The museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday from noon to 7:30 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 4:00 p.m. There is no charge for admission.

Parking on campus and in the IUP parking garage along Grant Street is free after 5:00 p.m. and on weekends.

The exhibit includes artifacts and documents of coal-mining life in western Pennsylvania presented jointly by IUP Special Collections and University Archives, the Tri-Area Historical Society and Liberty Museum in Nanty Glo, the Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County, and private collectors.

The exhibit features artifacts, photographs, mine maps and ledgers that document Western Pennsylvania bituminous coal culture, including the work and lives of miners and their families, the company towns, and community activities such as baseball games.

The show also features photos and items that document the operations of Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company and other companies, mine disasters, coal miner strikes, and unionization.

Atwater is one of fifty people named to the listing. He was selected in the education category.

“I am sincerely honored to receive this prestigious award,” Atwater said. “I have been blessed to enjoy success as a journalist, as a university professor, and as a university president, and I take pride in serving my community and in facilitating the success of others.”

The program, now in its second year, recognizes African-American male executives, business owners, and community leaders who have displayed proven success within their profession, are positive role models whose contributions encourage others, and are active in community service or organizational involvement.

Recipients will be formally recognized at an event November 19, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. at the Rivers Club, Pittsburgh.

Atwater joins Davie Huddleston, a 1968 IUP graduate, as a recipient of the Men of Excellence recognition. Huddleston serves as vice president, Human Resources, College Relations of PNC Financial Services Group.

Other 2009 recipients include former Steelers running back Charles Sanders, owner of Urban Settlement Services; Common Pleas Judge Joe Williams; and Robert Allen Jr., a reporter for KDKA-TV.

Last year’s recipients included Dr. Christopher Allen, cardiologist at UPMC Shadyside Hospital and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh; former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris; Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin; George Miles, president and CEO of WQED Multimedia; and Bill Strickland, president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation and its subsidiaries, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center in Pittsburgh.

Strickland is also the author of IUP’s 2009 Common Freshman Reader, Make the Impossible Possible, and will speak at IUP about his book on November 17 at 7:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

Atwater became IUP’s twenty-fourth president in February 2005. Before coming to IUP, Atwater served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Youngstown State University.

Atwater earned a Ph.D. in communication research from Michigan State University, where he was the recipient of a competitive doctoral fellowship. He completed postdoctoral study in the department of communications at the University of Michigan.

Atwater is a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellow. The focus of his research was news selection behavior in the mass media.

During his tenure at IUP, Atwater has assumed several leadership roles. He was appointed in 2007 by Governor Ed Rendell to serve as a member of the Pennsylvania Tuition Account Program Advisory Board and was selected to serve on the International Student Exchange Program Board of Directors and the American Council on Education’s Commission on Lifelong Learning, a post he held from 2006 to 2009.

He is a member of the Economics Pennsylvania Board of Directors, the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Board of Directors, Indiana County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Greater Indiana Revitalization Steering Committee, and the board of the Indiana County Tourist Bureau. He also is an advisory member of the Indiana County KIZ Partnership Board. A member of the Rotary Club of Indiana, he is a Paul Harris fellow.

In March 2009, Atwater was selected by Pennsylvania Business Central as one of the “Top 100 Business Leaders in Pennsylvania.” In April 2009, he was selected for the Commander’s Award for Public Service, one of the highest civilian service awards given by the United States Army.

Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, has selected Terry R. Carter as vice president for University Relations and executive director for the Foundation for IUP.

Carter has more than thirty-four years of experience in the fundraising, development, and advancement field. He will begin work at IUP on January 1, 2010.

“I am very pleased that Terry Carter will be joining IUP’s executive team as the university’s chief fundraising officer,” Atwater said. “He brings significant professional experience in the field of university development and has generated a track record of approximately $4 billion in external funding over his career. I am confident that he will be able to advance the university’s marketing, development, and alumni-relations efforts.”

This position has responsibility for providing leadership and direction for the university relations program; training and stewardship for the Foundation for IUP Board of Directors, which oversees the operation of the foundation; and serving on the president’s senior administrative cabinet. The University Relations Division is organized primarily to position and market the university, to direct and coordinate private resource acquisition, and to strengthen relationships and goodwill among alumni and other constituents.

“IUP exudes excellence in higher education, and I am very excited about joining such a progressive institution,” Carter said. “There are so many outstanding qualities that ignited my keen interest in becoming a part of the university family—President Atwater’s keen leadership and steadfast commitment to furthering the mission and vision of IUP; the prominent display of IUP’s dedication to its students; the credibility of the President’s Cabinet; the entrepreneurial spirit of the Council of Trustees, IUP Foundation board, and Alumni Association Board; the collegiality of the deans, administrators, faculty, staff, and students who prominently display a willingness to strengthen the university; the dedication of the University Relations team; and the support that is readily evident from the many alumni, donors, friends, businesses, and others. I consider it to be a true honor to become an integral part of a great university and a wonderful community.”

Carter comes to IUP after serving as vice president for development/alumni relations, for the division of medicine at Drexel University, Philadelphia. In that role, he achieved record fundraising totals, increasing private gifts by 34 percent and doubling the giving rate of alumni. He developed a comprehensive fundraising plan for the university’s $200-million campaign and collaborated across the university to market and strengthen the institution’s brand on a national level.

From 2005 to 2008, he was executive director of development and alumni relations for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he played a strategic and management role in a $1.75-billion comprehensive campaign with a goal of $800 million for the medical center. During his tenure, his leadership contributed to increasing total giving to $120 million annually.

Before working at Vanderbilt University, he served as vice president of development for the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Riley Foundation, where he increased private giving by 600 percent within the first six months and by 850 percent in his second year in that post. He also successfully planned and managed a $250-million comprehensive campaign and significantly decreased fundraising costs per dollar raised.

From 1996 to 2003, he served as vice president for development and alumni affairs and president of the Medical Foundation at the University of North Carolina System-Chapel Hill/East Carolina University. In this role, he increased private gifts by 500 percent within two years, secured the largest gift in the history of the university, and increased the endowment by 500 percent in four years.

He also worked as director of external affairs and development at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) and as director of development at the University Health Care Systems/University Hospitals, Medical College of Georgia Affiliate, in Augusta.

He began his professional career as director of health services and assistant field director with the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C.

He is a member of many professional organizations, serves as a mentor for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and received the twenty-year volunteer achievement award from the American Red Cross.

He received a bachelor’s degree in political science/public administration from Augusta State University. He has completed coursework in the MBA program at Augusta State University and in institutional advancement at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Carter and his wife, Lawana, are the parents of Jason and Julie. “We look forward to being active members of the IUP family and the Indiana community,” Carter said.

Lynn Iams Barger, IUP associate vice president for Development, has served since May in the role of acting vice president for University Relations and acting executive director of the Foundation for IUP. She replaced Dr. Robert O. Davies, who left IUP to serve as president of Eastern Oregon University.

The author of IUP’s 2009 Common Freshman Reader will be honored by IUP’s Phi Kappa Phi honor society during his visit to campus November 17.

Bill Strickland, of Pittsburgh, whose book Make the Impossible Possible was chosen for the common reader program, will present his personal story on Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

The lecture is free and open to the community, and a reception and book-signing session will follow.

Strickland is president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corp.—a jobs training center and community arts program—and its subsidiaries, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center in Pittsburgh.

He will receive the Phi Kappa Phi award in recognition of his achievements and the work of the Manchester Bidwell Corporation for “demonstrating and inspiring excellence in learning, creativity and service.”

Strickland has also been invited to become an honorary member of IUP’s Phi Kappa Phi chapter. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and largest honor society for all academic disciplines. Its mission is to recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.

The day of the lecture, Strickland will also visit several IUP classrooms and tour facilities in the College of Fine Arts.

Now in its fourth year, the Common Freshman Reader program was established by Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, to set the tone for academic excellence by encouraging new students to read the same book. Each new student receives a copy of the chosen book and is invited to read it before the start of the school year.

More than thirty faculty members have incorporated Make the Impossible Possible into classroom discussions and activities, and more than 250 students participated in the Provost’s Fall Essay Assignment about the book. The winners of the essay assignment—Sarah Finn, of Ebensburg, and Megan Coffey, of Erie—will introduce Strickland for the lecture.

In his book, Strickland uses his own life experiences and those of others to demonstrate how people can overcome their circumstances and build on their passions and strengths to achieve success and help mentor and inspire others.

In 2009, Atwater presented Strickland with the Presidential Legacy Award for Civic Service at the annual Legacy Gala.

Strickland recently completed the development of a new 40,000-square-foot production greenhouse, created for horticultural training; a 70,000-square-foot medical technology complex; and a 62,000-square-foot facility as a mortgage-free asset for both Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center. The facilities also serve as a demonstration site for Hewlett Packard and Steelcase products.

Strickland was born in Pittsburgh in 1947 and graduated from David B. Oliver High School in 1965. In 1969, he graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in American history and foreign relations from the University of Pittsburgh. He founded the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild while still a student at the university.

Throughout his career, Strickland has been honored with awards for his contributions to the arts and the community. In 1999, he received the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Arts Leadership and Service Award. In 1998, he received the Kilby Award and Coming Up Taller Award, presented in a White House ceremony by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In 1996, he received the MacArthur Genius Award for leadership and integrity in the arts. Strickland was honored by Pittsburgh Magazine as the 2007 Pittsburgher of the Year and by Ernst & Young in 2007 as the Entrepreneur of the Year in Arts and Education.

He has served as chairman of the Expansion Arts Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., and served a six-year presidential appointment as a council member. He has served on the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education and was a trustee at the Carnegie Museums and a consultant with the British American Arts Association in London.

In 2002, Strickland was sworn in as a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. He also serves as a consultant, grant evaluator, and mentor in the field of arts and arts education, community development, and workforce development training.

The “$tart $mart Campus Workshop” will be held in Room 116 of the Northern Suites, located behind Weyandt Hall.

It will include information on how to negotiate better starting salaries and benefits, and participants will practice through role-playing exercises.

The event is free to students, but pre-registration is required. Students may register in the Women’s Studies office, located in Stabley Library, Room 103, or contact Andrea Harms via e-mail at zhgq@iup.edu. Participants should check in the day of the program by 3:45 p.m.

The event is part of a program offered nationally through the Wage Project in partnership with the American Association of University Women. It will be facilitated by the national director of the Wage Project.

Sponsors for the program include IUP Women’s Studies, the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, the Career Development Center, and the Indiana AAUW.

The program was developed to address the issues of gender wage inequality. Nationally, statistics show that women entering the job market often get starting salaries lower than men and that women earn, on average, 80 percent of the salaries of men in equivalent positions.

Other workshop topics include the following:

• Personal consequences of the gender wage gap—what a $1-million loss means over one’s working lifetime
• Resources for benchmarking reasonable salaries and benefits—job titles, their functions and salary ranges, and the impact of market realities on salaries
• How to compare skills and accomplishments to job requirements and the job market to target a realistic salary range
• Knowing your bottom line—how to develop a budget to pay rent, buy groceries, repay student loans, and cover other basic expenses

Students named to the Summer 2009 Dean’s List are listed alphabetically by county of residence and sorted by town, listed with the degree they are seeking and major:

Adams

Fairfield

Samantha Kay Wilson, B.A. in Criminology

Allegheny

Braddock

Terrence Antonius Smith, Mills Avenue, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Cheswick

James Andrew Stewart, Dunraey Court, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Gibsonia

Christina L. Jenkins, Camberly Drive, B.S. in Management
Dana N. Lombardo, Valleyvue Drive, B.S.Ed. in Art Education

Homestead

Tyler Dennison Graham, Mapledale Drive, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Monroeville

Elizabeth M. Buros, Mountain View Drive, B.S. in Communications Media
Amanda Rae Easha, Lincoln Avenue, B.S. in Communications Media

Munhall

Jodie Kathleen Keenan, Alberta Street, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Natrona Heights

Alicia Marie Campbell, Carlisle Street, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Dana K. France, Hawthorne Street, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising

Pittsburgh

Kyle Ryan Allshouse, Creedmoor Avenue, B.A. in Criminology
Jeffrey Martin Andrulonis, Rosewood Drive, B.S. in Human Resource Management
Jonathan Michael Caruso, Amsterdam Street, B.S. in Human Resource Management
Tara Lynn Coats, Weston Drive, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Marianne Marie Durkin, Kendall Avenue, B.A. in Criminology
Nicole Flamgletti, Highland Road, B.A. in Criminology
Brittany M. Fuller, Otillia Street, B.A. in Criminology
John Heyward Louis Fuller, Hudderford Road, B.S. in Communications Media
William James Gasior, Center Avenue, B.S. in Communications Media
Elizabeth Anne Germana, B.A. in Sociology
Hannah Lynn Gutowski, Vernon Avenue, B.S. in Management
Kirk Len Casey-Holloway, Frazier Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Stephanie Alyse McCreary, B.S. in Communications Media
Kimberly Anne Mitchum, Chapel Ridge Road, B.S. in Interior Design
Brian James McElwain, B.A. in Anthropology
Timothy O'Connor, Blue Ridge Road, B.A. in Criminology
Jeffrey M. Paich, Hart Drive, B.S. in Management
John Anthony Slaby, Camberwell Drive, B.A. in English
Jessica Ann Youra, Oak Street, B.S. in Disability Services

South Park

Bruce M. Marchetti, Bristol Drive

Verona

Jason Michael Pare, South Avenue, B.A. in Anthropology

West Mifflin

Michelle D. Griffin, Edgewater Drive, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Wexford

Bradley Geier Ray, Manor Road, B.S. in Communications Media

Armstrong

Freeport

Jessica Lynn Visnesky, High Street, B.A. in Criminology

Kittanning

Richard A. Cogley, Harrison Street, B.S. in Management
Shaina Marie Rupert, Cardinal Drive, B.S. in Finance
Rebecca Lynn Williams, Pony Farm Road, B.A. in Criminology

Leechburg

Samantha Nicole Bond, Beale Avenue, B.A. in Journalism
Brian Christopher Buchanan, White Cloud Road, B.S. in Communications Media
Matthew Kopchak, Terrace Avenue, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Rural Valley

Keisha N. Boston, West Main Street, B.A. in Sociology

Templeton

Ashley Marie Bowser, B.A. in Criminology

Beaver

Beaver Falls

Nicholas James Zenisek, Beachmont Drive, B.S. in Communications Media

Blair

Altoona

Drake Paul Dennis, Beale Avenue, B.S. in Human Resource Management
Brent W. Hughes, Parkway Drive
Monica Marie Ingham, B.S. in Communications Media

Hollidaysburg

Ana Justine Zeek, Condron Street, B.S. in Marketing

Bucks

Bristol

Drew Patrick Walters, Lafayette Street, B.A. in Journalism

Warrington

Kristin Marie Welk, West Cobblestone Circle, B.S. in Accounting

Butler

Butler

Jorden David Beatty, Hoon Road, B.A. in Journalism
Matthew Cody Celestin, B.A. in Criminology
Kali Ann Collins, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Spencer Lee Crouse, Grohman Road, B.A. in Criminology
Francine Graham, Thorn Run Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Michael Shawn Regal, Minteer Road, B.A. in Criminology

Chicora

Joshua Eugene Steiner, Chicora Road, B.A. in Geography

Cranberry Township

Brittany Lynn Bond, Cherrington Drive, B.S. in Communications Media
Beth M. Winter, Chaparral Drive, B.S. in Communications Media

Fenelton

Kayla D. Nulph, B.A. in Criminology

Mars

Samantha L. Goettman, Scenic Drive, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Saxonburg

Sarah L. Hutchman, Ekastown Road, B.S. in Finance

Slippery Rock

Thomas Daniel Austin, Slippery Rock Road, B.A. in Economics

Cambria

Ebensburg

Michael Joseph Sheehan, Reddinger Street, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Gallitzin

Renee Marie Ratchford, Ratch Road, B.A. in Criminology

Johnstown

Scott Patrick Armstrong, Edgehill Drive, B.S. in Finance
William Chad Duryea, Bedford Street
Benjamin Steven Kaseler, Wissinger Hollow Road, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Matthew Allen Kauffman, Saylor School Road, B.A. in Criminology
Ashley E. Nixon, Marhefka Drive, B.S. in Disability Services
Luke Michael Slezak, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Charles John Smith, Beechwood Street, B.S. in Marketing

Nanty Glo

Nicholas Joseph Barber, Finntown Road, B.A. in Theater

Northern Cambria

Ashley Renee Dolansky, Philadelphia Avenue, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Miranda Leigh Kuzio, Goodridge Road, Health and Human Services
Sara J. Somogyi, Daisy Lane, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Patton

Jason D. Kibler, Glendale Lake Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Twin Rocks

Anna Elizabeth Tatarko, Station Road, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Carbon

Palmerton

Amanda Maree Rider, Princeton Avenue, B.A. in Criminology

Centre

Howard

Shannon Danielle George, Sunset Drive, B.A. in Journalism

Chester

Elverson

Michael Field, North Manor Road, B.S. in Marketing

Lincoln Univ

Jennifer Nicole Kruzynski, Oxford Road, B.S. in Management

West Chester

Scott Alan Campbell, Devonshire Circle, B.S. in Hospitality Management

West Grove

Lauren Nichole Brown, Jackson Avenue, B.A. in Philosophy

Clarion

East Brady

Michael Regis Steiner, Kittanning Hollow Road, B.A. in Criminology

Knox

Lindsay Leann Kahle, B.A. in Psychology

Clearfield

Rockton

Karl Robert Simpson, Anderson Creek Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Columbia

Berwick

Zachary Ryan Bower, Foundryville Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Crawford

Townville

Nicholas Adam Graves, Little Cooley Road, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Abby Jane Mailliard, Dewey Road, B.A. in Sociology

Cumberland

Carlisle

Ashley Rhiannon Rutten, Ashton Street, B.A. in Art

Mechanicsburg

Michael Benjamin Singer, Northwatch Lane, B.A. in International Studies
Craig Alan Skelly, B.S. in Marketing

New Cumberland

Samantha Ann Bateman, Swarthmore Road, B.A. in Sociology

Dauphin

Harrisburg

Michelle Adrienne Besic, B.S. in Management
Essence Shante' Hampton-Thompson, Holly Street, B.S. in Communications Media
Jonnee Marquita Tonsel, Pebble Brook Lane, B.S. in Communications Media
Thomas C. Wambach, Huntsdale Court, B.A. in Anthropology

Highspire

Sarah C. Roadcap, B.A. in Criminology

Middletown

Ashley Lynne Campbell, Wheatfield Court, B.A. in Sociology

Steelton

Alaina M. Avery, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Delaware

Upper Darby

Ali S. Crews, Huntley Road, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Elk

Ridgway

Mary G. Kepple, Cook Avenue, B.A. in Sociology

Saint Marys

Caroline J. Cappiello, Vine Road, B.S. in Communications Media
Brian Richard Ferragine, Terrace Road, B.A. in Criminology

Erie

Corry

Amanda Marie Proctor, B.A. in Criminology

Edinboro

Tiffany Ann Mientkiewicz, Waterford Street, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education

Erie

Daniel Robert Grow, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Waterford

William T. Lavery, Circuit Street

Fayette

Brownsville

Lynne Georgeann Oshetsky, South Street, B.S. in Accounting

Connellsville

Lindsey Maxine Weimer, East Crawford Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Greene

Rices Landing

Aaron J. Curtis, Hillcrest Avenue, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Indiana

Blairsville

Kayla Jean Shirley, Maple Avenue, B.S. in Accounting

Clune

Briana M. Arcurio, B.S. in Disability Services

Clymer

Kristi Lynne Falisec, Caravan Drive, B.A. in Sociology
Aaron William Packer, Walcott Street, B.S. in Business Technology Support
Lauren Nicole Ruddock, Morris Street, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education
Allison Kay Weston, B.S. in Management Information Systems

Commodore

Anna Kathryn Brady, Purchase Line Road, B.A. in Criminology

Heilwood

Andrea N. Davis, B.A. in Journalism

Homer City

Brett David Cameron, Ridge Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Andrew Brian Coleman, Elizabeth Way, B.A. in Economics
Stephen C. Sypult, Long Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Indiana

Xiomara Aguilera, Rinkus Drive, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Sydni Marie Arnone, Garman Avenue, B.S. in Nutrition
Lindsey Nicole DePra, Pratt Drive, B.S.Ed. in Art Education
Michael Casimir Drew, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Jeremy R. Gallo, Queen Lane, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Ching Ching Hooi, B.S. in International Business
Evona Marie Huminski, Washington Street, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Andrew Timothy Lannon, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Zwelihle B. Masilela, College Lodge Road, B.S. in Natural Science
Nikolas E. McFerron, B.S. in Marketing
William Malachy McMorrow, Burns Avenue, B.A. in History
Mamuyovwi Gerald Mensah, B.A. in Economics
Giancarlo Morales-Belletti, Church Street, B.S. in Finance
Serafina Marie Musser, Humming Bird Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Matthew Joseph Pierce, B.S. in Natural Science
Cameron Schatz, Washington Street, B.A. in Philosophy
James Dean Smith, Roush Drive, B.S. in Management
Janice Lee Starry, Kauffman Road, B.A. in Psychology
Jason Brandon Sullivan, Locust Lane, B.A. in Political Science
Elise S. Vanderneck, Chestnut Street, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Jing Weng, Hartman Drive, B.S. in Accounting
Scott Eric Whetsell, Ben Avon Street
Kendi Rae Zacherl, B.S.Ed. in Social Studies Education

Saltsburg

Corey M. Trybus, Heinberger Road, B.S. in Communications Media

Shelocta

Susannah Grace Rosenberger, Craig Road, B.S.Ed. in Physics Education

Smicksburg

Tosha Lynn Miller, Hardship Drive, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Jefferson

Brockway

Benjamin Patrick Ammons, Clay Plant Road, B.A. in Criminology

Falls Creek

Lacey Suzanne Meholick, B.A. in Sociology

Punxsutawney

Amy Lynn Adams, Graffius Avenue, B.A. in Psychology
Derek William Lambert, B.S. in Communications Media

Reynoldsville

Allison Marie Holeva, B.A. in Sociology

Stump Creek

Kelly R. Sutter, B.S. in Nutrition

Lancaster

East Petersburg

Sara Marie Ruth, Rainbow Drive, B.A. in Sociology

Lancaster

Paisley Marie Jackson, Hollytree Court, B.S. in Marketing

Mountville

Katharine Marie Schriefer, Spring Run, B.S. in Communications Media

Lawrence

New Castle

David Joseph Piatek, Tuscarora Drive, B.S. in Communications Media

Wampum

Erica N. Chmura, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Lebanon

Palmyra

Brett Timothy Yingst, Center Drive, B.A. in Criminology

Luzerne

Drums

Erika Lynn Hess, West Butler Drive, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Mercer

Hermitage

Isaac James Tarbell, Reiber Road, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Monroe

East Stroudsburg

Ashley M. Ertel, Short Hill Road, B.A. in Sociology

Montgomery

Blue Bell

David Matthew Ober, Valley Road, B.S. in Finance

Hatboro

Cassandra A. Zygmont, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Huntingdon Valley

Jared Matthew Hammer, Buck Hill Drive, B.S. in Finance

Lansdale

Matthew Douglas Wells, Sycamore Drive, Education

North Wales

Jeremy Kevin Fries, Santa Anita Drive, B.A. in Criminology

Plymouth Meeting

Amanda Bell, Everturn Circle, B.A. in Psychology

Telford

Sarah M. Groff, State Road, B.S. in Disability Services

Wynnewood

Alexander J. Miller, Mansion Lane, B.A. in Spanish

Northampton

Bangor

Lindsay B. Frisbie, Richmond Road, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education

Northumberland

Milton

Jemerson Alexander Crouse, Fonda Road, B.S. in Management

Sunbury

Justin Dominic Toter, Lenig Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Philadelphia

Philadelphia

Christopher Philip Daulerio, Lawnton Street, Business
Sarah Marie Gachelin, B.A. in Political Science
Jamilla Shanique Gilliard, B.S. in Communications Media
Tyrone B. Jones, North Bouvier Street, B.S.Ed. in Mathematics Education
Latoya A. McFarlane, Cornelius Street, B.A. in Sociology
Natasha Renee Valentine, McKean Street, B.A. in Criminology

Schuylkill

Schuylkill Haven

Amanda Jane Schuetrumpf, Moonhill Drive, B.A. in Philosophy

Somerset

Meyersdale

Cassie Lynn Buterbaugh, Glade City Road, B.A. in Criminology
Michael D. Smidlein, Salisbury Street, B.S. in Management

Stoystown

Christopher M. Evans, Golf Course Road

Tioga

Blossburg

Krista M. Barton, Joseph Street, B.A. in Criminology

Venango

Oil City

Tiffany Rashell Williams, B.A. in Criminology

Washington

Finleyville

Sarah E. Morrow, Boyka Drive, B.A. in Anthropology

Washington

Jason Thomas Grimm, Woodlawn Drive, B.S. in Accounting
Amanda D. Manes, Willowbrook Drive, B.A. in Sociology

Wayne

Jefferson Township

Stephanie Keating, Brundage Drive, B.A. in Sociology

Westmoreland

Apollo

Daniel Albert Shearer, Highland Avenue, B.S. in Communications Media
Mary Kathryn Watson, Nelson Lane, B.S. in Accounting

Avonmore

Rudy Michael Huskuliak, Schultheis Drive, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Derry

Megan Elizabeth Spangler, B.S. in Nursing

Greensburg

Adam Tyler Norris, Turner Lane, B.S. in Communications Media
Ashley Marie Tomer, B.S. in Marketing
Douglas William Trenk, Alexander Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education

Harrison City

Gabriela Mimi Terente, Redoak Drive, B.S. in Finance

Jeannette

Cassandra L. Stein, Wheatridge Drive, B.S. in Management

Latrobe

Timothy David Lewis, Waverly Drive, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Gregory Francis Stein, Laurelview Drive, B.A. in Criminology

Ligonier

Victoria L. Fadeley, North Saint Clair Street, B.S.Ed. in Deaf Education

Lower Burrell

Jill Elizabeth Egbert, Michigan Avenue, B.S. in Nutrition

Mount Pleasant

Valerie Ann Sibal, Front Street, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education

N Huntingdon

Kaitlyn Elizabeth Hill, Pinewood Road, B.A. in Anthropology

Seward

David V. Domeno, Third Avenue, B.S. in Communications Media

Vandergrift

Timothy Iverson, Franklin Avenue, B.A. in Philosophy
Kendra Lee Ramaley, Clarion Avenue, B.S. in Communications Media
Carrie Start, Dime Road, B.S. in Communications Media

York

Etters

Travis Allen Simms, Dorwart Circle, B.S. in Hospitality Management

New Freedom

Erin Michelle Kalwa, Whitcraft Road, B.S. in Disability Services

York

Brian Thomas O’Shea, Sharon Drive, B.S. in Marketing

Outside Pennsylvania

Colorado

Jarrett Joseph Reed, Ogden Street, Denver, B.S. in Communications Media

Maryland

Ross Davenport Baker, West Pennsylvania Avenue, Walkersville, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Adam Robert Fitterer, Douglas Avenue, New Market, B.A. in Criminology
Leah R. Vogel, Dellcastle Road, Montgomery Village, B.A. in Sociology

New Jersey

Matthew Arthur Alan Nesdill, Drum Court, Howell, B.S. in Management

New York

Cory W. Stelick, Jones Avenue, Groton, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Hugo Jose Villanueva, Congress Street, Westport, B.S. in Biology

Ohio

Jessica Erin Rzepka, Bryden Road, Beachwood, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Virginia

Thomas W. Finnegan, Leesburg, B.A. in Criminology

West Virginia

Laura Lee Benjamin, Huber Road, Charleston, B.S. in Nutrition

International Students

Korea

Sin-Wook Yoo, Yongin Kyonggi Do, B.S. in Hospitality Management

United Kingdom

Kayleigh Ann Thadani, London, B.A. in Theater

Criteria for the award include professional preparation, degrees and certifications, professional experience, scholarship, and service.

“It is gratifying and humbling to receive an honor for doing the work that you are passionate about,” Norris said. “I share this award with all those who have dedicated their time and efforts to teaching, scholarship, and service for improvements in training and high-quality mentoring of both new and experienced teachers.”

Norris received bachelor’s degrees in English and French from Penn State, a Master of Education in language communications, and a Ph.D. in instruction and learning from the University of Pittsburgh, where she received the Outstanding Dissertation Award.

She has been a teacher educator at IUP for eighteen years and directed the undergraduate English education program for the past twelve years.

With coauthor Dr. sj Miller, Norris received the 2007 Richard A. Meade Award from the National Council of Teachers of English, recognizing excellence in English education research for their book Unpacking the Loaded Teacher Matrix: Negotiating Space and Time Between University and Secondary English Classrooms (2007, Peter Lang).

This is the second time the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators has recognized an IUP faculty member with this honor. Dr. Valeri Heltebran, a member of the Professional Studies in Education faculty, won the award in 2005.

The author of Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s 2009 Common Freshman Reader, Bill Strickland, of Pittsburgh, will present his personal story on November 17, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

The lecture is free and open to the community. A reception and book-signing session will follow the lecture.

Strickland will also visit several IUP classrooms and tour facilities in the College of Fine Arts while at IUP. More than thirty faculty members have incorporated Strickland’s book, Make the Impossible Possible, into classroom discussions and activities.

Now in its fourth year, the Common Freshman Reader program was established by Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, to set the tone for academic excellence by encouraging new students to read the same book. Each new student receives a copy of the chosen book and is invited to read it before the start of the school year.

In his book, Strickland uses his own life experiences and those of others to demonstrate how people can overcome their circumstances and build on their passions and strengths to achieve success and help mentor and inspire others.

Strickland is president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation—a jobs training center and community arts program—and its subsidiaries, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center in Pittsburgh. In 2009, Atwater presented Strickland with the Presidential Legacy Award for Civic Service at the annual Legacy Gala.

Strickland recently completed the development of a new 40,000-square-foot production greenhouse, created for horticultural training; a 70,000-square-foot medical technology complex; and a 62,000-square-foot facility as a mortgage-free asset for both Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center. The facilities also serve as a demonstration site for Hewlett Packard and Steelcase products.

Strickland was born in Pittsburgh in 1947 and graduated from David B. Oliver High School in 1965. In 1969, he graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in American history and foreign relations from the University of Pittsburgh. He founded the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild while still a student at the university.

Throughout his career, Strickland has been honored with awards for his contributions to the arts and the community. In 1999, he received the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Arts Leadership and Service Award. In 1998, he received the Kilby Award and Coming Up Taller Award, presented in a White House ceremony by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In 1996, he received with the MacArthur Genius Award for leadership and integrity in the arts. Strickland was honored by Pittsburgh Magazine as the 2007 Pittsburgher of the Year and by Ernst & Young in 2007 as the Entrepreneur of the Year in Arts and Education.

He has served as chairman of the Expansion Arts Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., and served a six-year presidential appointment as a council member. He has served on the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education and was a trustee at the Carnegie Museums and a consultant with the British American Arts Association in London.

In 2002, Strickland was sworn in as a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. He also serves as a consultant, grant evaluator and mentor in the field of arts and arts education, community development, and workforce development training.

The 2009 Common Freshman Reader is Make the Impossible Possible by Pittsburgh native Bill Strickland.

As a result of this honor, Finn and Coffey will introduce Strickland for his presentation at IUP on November 17, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in the IUP Performing Arts Center’s Fisher Auditorium.

The lecture is free and open to the community, and a reception and book-signing session will follow.

Now in its fourth year, the Common Freshman Reader program was established by Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, to set the tone for academic excellence by encouraging new students to read the same book. Each new student receives a copy of the chosen book and is invited to read it before the start of the school year.

The provost’s essay assignment is part of the Common Freshman Reader programming, which also includes films, classroom projects, and discussions. More than thirty faculty members have incorporated Strickland’s book into classroom discussions and activities.

Of the 250 students who submitted essays, eight were selected for special recognition. In addition to the first-place winners, other recognized essay authors were Robert Gearhart, of Finleyville, and Stephanie Pelch, of Pittsburgh, second place, and Grey Berrier, of Pulaski; Courtney Roth, of Lebanon; Catie Shontz, of James Creek; and Lauren Young, of Indiana, meritorious distinction.

All students who submitted essays will be recognized at Strickland’s lecture on November 17.

Strickland will also visit several IUP classrooms and tour facilities in the College of Fine Arts while at IUP.

In his book, Strickland uses his own life experiences and those of others to demonstrate how people can overcome their circumstances and build on their passions and strengths to achieve success and help mentor and inspire others.

Strickland is president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation—a jobs training center and community arts program—and its subsidiaries, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center in Pittsburgh. In 2009, Atwater presented Strickland with the Presidential Legacy Award for Civic Service at the annual Legacy Gala.

Strickland recently completed the development of a new 40,000-square-foot production greenhouse, created for horticultural training; a 70,000-square-foot medical technology complex; and a 62,000-square-foot facility as a mortgage-free asset for both Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center. The facilities also serve as a demonstration site for Hewlett Packard and Steelcase products.

Strickland was born in Pittsburgh in 1947 and graduated from David B. Oliver High School in 1965. In 1969, he graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in American history and foreign relations from the University of Pittsburgh. He founded the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild while still a student at the university.

Throughout his career, Strickland has been honored with awards for his contributions to the arts and the community. In 1999, he received the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Arts Leadership and Service Award. In 1998, he received the Kilby Award and Coming Up Taller Award, presented in a White House ceremony by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In 1996, he received the MacArthur Genius Award for leadership and integrity in the arts. Strickland was honored by Pittsburgh Magazine as the 2007 Pittsburgher of the Year and by Ernst & Young in 2007 as the Entrepreneur of the Year in Arts and Education.

He has served as chairman of the Expansion Arts Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., and served a six-year presidential appointment as a council member. He has served on the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, as a trustee at the Carnegie Museums, and as a consultant with the British American Arts Association in London.

In 2002, Strickland was sworn in as a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. He also serves as a consultant, grant evaluator, and mentor in the field of arts and arts education, community development, and workforce development training.

“You can’t take the public out of the equation,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward said Wednesday evening in Fisher Auditorium. “Democracies die in darkness.”

Woodward, this year’s speaker for the First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture Series, emphasized the need for transparency in government during his program “From Nixon to Bush: What Can President Obama Learn from Presidents Past?”

Woodward, who gained fame as an investigative reporter at the Washington Post for his coverage of the Watergate scandal, highlighted a few “lessons” he learned from his years of reporting on issues faced by various presidents—from Richard Nixon’s resignation and eventual pardoning by Gerald Ford to George W. Bush’s decision to wage war on Iraq to the ongoing challenges of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Woodward also took questions from the audience on topics ranging from President Obama’s relationship with Fox News to the future of investigative journalism in light of the economic hardships faced by newspapers.

Keith Boyer photo

“You can’t take the public out of the equation,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward said Wednesday evening in Fisher Auditorium. “Democracies die in darkness.”

Woodward, this year’s speaker for the First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture Series, emphasized the need for transparency in government during his program “From Nixon to Bush: What Can President Obama Learn from Presidents Past?”

Woodward, who gained fame as an investigative reporter at the Washington Post for his coverage of the Watergate scandal, highlighted a few “lessons” he learned from his years of reporting on issues faced by various presidents—from Richard Nixon’s resignation and eventual pardoning by Gerald Ford to George W. Bush’s decision to wage war on Iraq to the ongoing challenges of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Woodward also took questions from the audience on topics ranging from President Obama’s relationship with Fox News to the future of investigative journalism in light of the economic hardships faced by newspapers.

Keith Boyer photo

Shellenbarger was chosen to serve as a mentor in the Faculty Leadership Mentoring Program of the National League for Nursing and the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future.

The program, which started in 2007, pairs five early and mid-career faculty members with five fellows of the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education who are recognized leaders in nursing education.

The competitive and selective application process matches protégés and mentors based on their interests and experience.

“I am very proud that Dr. Teresa Shellenbarger, a fellow of the prestigious Academy of Nursing Education, received this honor from the National League for Nursing,” Dr. Carleen Zoni, dean of IUP’s College of Health and Human Services, said.

“Dr. Shellenbarger is a nationally recognized leader who consistently demonstrates her commitment to excellence and innovation in nursing education. She is most deserving of being selected for this esteemed mentoring program.”

Protégés and mentors will work together through 2010 on individual leadership development and a group project to be presented at the 2010 National League of Nursing Education Summit in Las Vegas.

The mentorship program was designed to help transform the future of nursing education by creating leadership opportunities for nurse educators and building diversity in the nurse educator workforce, mentorship program officials said.

“The program is a great opportunity to network with other national nursing leaders and to influence emerging leaders in nursing education,” Shellenbarger said.

Shellenbarger came to IUP in 1994. She currently serves as the doctoral program coordinator and teaches courses primarily in the graduate programs focusing on the nurse educator role.

Shellenbarger obtained her Ph.D. from Widener University, her master’s degree in nursing from Southern Connecticut State University, and her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Pennsylvania State University. She is a member of the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education and is a certified nurse educator.

Earlier this fall, master’s and bachelor’s degree programs in the Department of Nursing and Allied Health Professions were approved for unconditional ten-year accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

IUP students continue to excel on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN®). IUP has an overall annual passing average of 92 percent, compared to the national average of 88 percent and Pennsylvania average of 86 percent for first-time test takers during the testing period from October 1, 2008, to September 30, 2009.

The Department of Nursing and Allied Health Professions at IUP includes undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs. Allied Health Professions programs include respiratory care, clinical laboratory service, nuclear medicine technology, and a gerontology certification program. There are two different tracks in the master’s degree programs in nursing and seven bachelor’s degree programs in Nursing and Allied Health (including all tracks).

IUP’s Nursing and Allied Health Professions has approximately 850 students in undergraduate programs and almost eighty students in its graduate programs.

In January 2008, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education approved IUP’s doctoral program in nursing. The first cohort of this program began study during the Fall 2008 semester. A second cohort is to be admitted in Fall 2010.

The program is free and open to the community.

Renyck has taught in a variety of schools, from Indiana to New Hampshire, since graduating from IUP. She has also traveled around the world, participating in earth science research projects on land and at sea. Her most recent research experience was as a member of the National Science Foundation-funded “School of Rock” program.

During the program, she will share advice with current and future teachers about how to discover research opportunities, where to find the time and resources to pursue them, and what the most effective ways are to incorporate personal research experiences back into the science classroom.

For more information, contact the Geoscience Department at 724-357-2379.

Dr. Melissa Swauger, an assistant professor of Sociology, has been selected by Pittsburgh Magazine and the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project (PUMP) for its “40 under 40” recognition.

Developed in 1999, “40 under 40” recognizes forty individuals under the age of forty who are making a positive impact on the region’s development, program organizers said.

Swauger will be honored November 6, 2009, at an event at the August Wilson Center in Pittsburgh. She will also be featured in the November issue of Pittsburgh Magazine.

A panel of twelve judges selected Swauger out of a pool of three hundred nominations. Winners are selected based on passion, commitment, visibility, diversity, and overall impact on the region, Erin Molchany, executive director of PUMP, said. PUMP encourages civic engagement, professional development, recreation, and social networking to advance the Pittsburgh region.

At IUP, Swauger teaches Sociology and conducts research on gender, race, and social class in education and work.

“The goal of my work is to help policymakers and employers see the benefits of investing in the futures of poor and working class girls, providers understand how to meet disadvantaged girls’ unique education and career literacy needs, and girls living in the region become exposed to new and unfamiliar opportunities,” Swauger said.

She also is an active volunteer in projects that promote social justice for poor and working class girls and women, including Gwen’s Girls, offering programming to girls ages 8 to 18; the Steering Committee of the Girls Coalition of Southwestern Pennsylvania; the Consortium for Public Education in Pittsburgh’s Future Is Mine program, serving three hundred high school students in twenty-six school districts; Girls, Math and Science Partnership; and Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s Catapult Program, designed to decrease the gender wage gap by providing training in salary negotiation to working women. She is also an online mentor for youth.

Swauger volunteered for the speakers bureau of the University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics’ Human Capital Policy Initiative and served on the conference organization committee of the 2009 Working Class Studies Association Annual Conference.

Before coming to IUP, Swauger was a faculty member at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, a teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, an adjunct faculty member at the Community College of Allegheny County, and a teaching assistant at Duquense University’s Center for Social and Public Policy.

In addition to the “40 under 40” award, Swauger was honored in 2009 with several research awards and with the Iris Marion Young Award from the University of Pittsburgh’s Women’s Studies Department for promoting social justice for women.

She has secured several competitive grants for her research and for service projects, has published curriculum guides for regional educational organizations, and has been an invited presenter and panelists at many professional conferences, colloquiums, and seminars on the topics of gender, class, and career.

While at Carlow University, she served on several university committees, co-organized the Gender, Delinquency, and Justice Symposium, and was an active participant in the Alternative Spring Break program.

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Freshman Shelby Kelley, of Silver Spring, Md., was selected as the 2009 recipient of the Dr. Tony Atwater and Dr. Beverly Roberts-Atwater Presidential Scholarship.

Kelley, a studio art major, is the daughter of Colette Lancaster, Silver Spring, and Theodore Kelley, Jr., of Germantown. She is a 2009 graduate of Northwood High School, where she was editor of the literary magazine, an honor roll student, and the recipient of several art and academic awards.

Established by Tony Atwater, IUP president, and his wife, Beverly Roberts-Atwater, the scholarship is designed to recognize and support outstanding high school graduates who are first-generation college students. The scholarship also honors students who demonstrate leadership qualities and contribute to their communities.

Kelley received the scholarship at the annual IUP Homecoming Ball on October 9, 2009.

Free tickets are still available for the second annual First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture at Indiana University of Pennsylvania featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter Bob Woodward.

Woodward will present “From Nixon to Bush: What Can President Obama Learn from Presidents Past?” on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in the IUP Performing Arts Center’s Fisher Auditorium.

Tickets are available at the Hadley Union Building ticket window or by calling 724-357-1313.

Woodward is an assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award, including the Pulitzer for his report on the Watergate scandal. He earned a second Pulitzer as lead reporter for the team that reported on the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Of Woodward’s books, three have been featured on 60 Minutes, three have been made into movies, and Newsweek has excerpted five in headline-making cover stories.

In his most recent book, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, Woodward provides his story of the White House and how the Bush administration “avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves.”

Woodward has coauthored or authored more number-one national best-selling nonfiction books than any other contemporary American writer.

The inaugural presentation in IUP’s First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture Series in October 2008 featured political commentators James Carville and Mary Matalin. The lecture is presented in conjunction with IUP’s Ideas and Issues program.

The program “Strike! Lessons Learned from the 1927–1928 Coal Strike at Rossiter,” will be offered Wednesday, November 4, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in McVitty Auditorium, Sprowls Hall.

The presentation, which is free and open to the community, is by Dr. Jim Dougherty, an assistant professor of sociology and director of the Center for Northern Appalachian Studies.

Dougherty is producer of the film The Struggle for an American Way of Life: Coal Miners and Operators in Central Pennsylvania, 1919–1933. He has coordinated oral history projects in numerous mining communities throughout the region.

This lecture is planned in conjunction with the exhibit “A Walk through Time: Western Pennsylvania Coal Culture” currently offered at the University Museum, on the first floor of Sutton Hall.

The museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday from noon to 7:30 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 4:00 p.m. There is no charge for admission.

Parking on campus and in the IUP parking garage along Grant Street is free after 5:00 p.m. and on weekends.

Other lectures in the series are as follows:

• November 14, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.: “Researching Family History with Coal Culture Resources” by Rhonda Yeager. Assistant archivist in IUP’s Special Collections and University Archives, Yeager served as the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company project archivist for 2006–2007 and continues to assist patrons with research for the collection. She has taught a course on “Introduction to Genealogy” for IUP Continuing Education and is the co-curator of the museum exhibition.
• November 18, 7:00 to 8 p.m.: “Unions: Roots of the ‘Democratic Impulse’ in District 2, UMWA, 1919–1943” by Dr. Irwin Marcus. Professor emeritus with IUP’s History Department, Marcus created the university’s first courses in U.S. labor history, African-American history, and the history of protest movements. His research and publications focus on the history of Pennsylvania coal miners and steel workers, deindustrialization, and globalization.

Registration for lectures is preferred but not required. To register or for information, contact Sally Daskivich at the College of Fine Arts at 724-357-2397 or sdaskivi@iup.edu.

The Pennsylvania Coal Culture exhibition will be available through December 5. Find more information about “A Walk Through Time: Pennsylvania Coal Culture.”

Also, find more information about coal culture and mine mapping in the Fall 2009 issue of IUP Magazine.

Dr. Gerald L. Zahorchak, Pennsylvania secretary of education, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and will present remarks during Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s December undergraduate Commencement ceremony.

Zahorchak, formerly of Johnstown, received a Master of Education degree from IUP in 1988.

The recommendation for the honorary degree was approved by the IUP Council of Trustees in September and then by the Office of the Chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.

Zahorchak was nominated by the IUP Senate Academic Committee and recommended for the degree by the IUP Commencement Committee and Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president.

“We take great pride in Dr. Zahorchak’s standing as a proud IUP alumnus,” Atwater said. “His outstanding leadership and vision in advancing education throughout the commonwealth also bring pride to our university. I look forward to honoring him at our December 20 commencement ceremony.”

The ceremony begins at 1:30 p.m. in the IUP Memorial Field House. Zahorchak also will serve as the speaker for the ceremony.

IUP has granted only fifty honorary degrees in its history. Others receiving this honor include U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Andre Previn, James “Jimmy” Stewart, Art Rooney, Fred Rogers, former governor Richard Thornburg, and retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Zahorchak was nominated by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell to serve as secretary of education in October 2005 and was unanimously confirmed by the state Senate on February 7, 2006.

Before his nomination, Zahorchak served as deputy secretary for elementary and secondary education, a role in which he was responsible for the education of more than 1.8-million school children in the commonwealth. As deputy secretary, he worked on the development and implementation of support systems for public schools working to meet the demands set by Pennsylvania and No Child Left Behind targets.

Zahorchak has managed an unprecedented expenditure of educational state funding that included $200 million in accountability block grants that were used for tutoring, math and literacy coaching, the expansion of full-day kindergarten, and the creation of pre-kindergarten classes.

He has led development of the Pennsylvania Inspired Leadership initiative to support the state’s educational leaders and has directed Pennsylvania’s leading role with the Center for Data Driven Reform in Education initiative.

He has worked with Rendell to make investments in early childhood education and has presided over progressive initiatives such as Classrooms for the Future, which will transform teaching and learning by equipping high schools with laptop computers on every student desk in English, math, science, and history classrooms, and “Science: It’s Elementary,” a program to upgrade science education in elementary schools.

As the former superintendent of the Greater Johnstown School District, Zahorchak implemented full-day kindergarten, pre-kindergarten, high school reform, and tutoring programs and hired reading and math coaches to boost student learning.

His leadership and passion for helping students excel academically helped raise student achievement and led all schools in his charge to meet Adequate Yearly Progress during his tenure. Data from his last two years as superintendent analyzed by Standard and Poor’s listed Johnstown as one of the forty-seven outperforming school districts in Pennsylvania.

Zahorchak has worked with students at virtually every level of education as a superintendent, principal, teacher, and football coach. As a member of the Johnstown community, Zahorchak served as president of the Johnstown Rotary in 2003. He also served as an elected official—as a member of the school board of the Greater Johnstown School District and of the Johnstown City Council. In addition, Zahorchak served as deputy mayor of Johnstown.

In addition to his master’s degree, Zahorchak received his doctorate from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s degree from St. Francis University.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania continues its “IUP Plays Pittsburgh” event at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall for the third consecutive year on November 2, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.

This event showcases the talents of IUP faculty and students in the IUP Wind Ensemble, IUP Trombone Choir, the Keystone Winds Brass and Percussion group, IUP Music Theater, and the IUP Marching Band.

Tickets for IUP Plays Pittsburgh are available in advance by visiting or calling the Heinz Hall box office, 412-392-4900 or toll free at 800-743-8560. Tickets will also be sold at the door the night of the concert. Tickets are $16 regular admission, $12 for senior citizens, and $10 for students.

The Department of Music has chartered a community bus for the concert. The bus will leave from IUP’s Cogswell Hall at 5:00 p.m. and return shortly after the concert. Bus seat reservations should be made by contacting Dr. Matt Baumer at 724-357-5646 or via e-mail at Matthew.Baumer@iup.edu. Bus tickets are $10 each and are separate from the concert ticket cost.

This year’s IUP Plays Pittsburgh features a world premiere and a Pittsburgh premiere of performances of works by Richard Danielpour, the 2009–2010 Pittsburgh Symphony Composer of the Year, as well as the world-premiere performance of a composition by IUP student Derek Cooper.

The world premiere of Danielpour’s Voice of the City will be presented by the IUP Wind Ensemble. This composition is Danielpour’s first work for a wind band. It was written in 2005, but only part one was performed. With the assistance of the IUP Wind Ensemble, part two was revised and completed in March.

Voice of the City represents New York City “pre-9/11 and post-9/11,” Grammy Award-winner Danielpour said. The full work is dedicated to Marvin Hamlisch, longtime friend of Danielpour. Hamlisch, IUP’s 2009 Helwig Artist, was in concert at IUP in October.

The IUP Wind Ensemble is conducted by Dr. Jack Stamp, chair of the Music Department and director of band studies. Stamp is also IUP’s 2008–2009 University Professor.

In addition to the Danielpour composition, the Wind Ensemble will perform American Fanfare by James Stephenson.

Keystone Winds Brass and Percussion, also conducted by Stamp, will present the Pittsburgh premiere of Danielpour’s Icarus, which is dedicated by Danielpour to Stamp.

Icarus was commissioned by a consortium of eighteen universities and premiered by IUP’s Keystone Brass Ensemble at the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles International Conference in July. The performance at Heinz Hall marks its second presentation.

The world premiere of “Slide Dances” by IUP student Derek Cooper, of Felton, will be performed by the IUP Trombone Choir. The group, conducted by Dr. Christian Dickinson, will also present “Hornpipe” by Handel and “Over the Rainbow” by Harold Arlen.

IUP Music Theater, under the direction of Dr. Sarah Mantel and Dr. Mary Logan Hastings, will present selections from The Merry Widow, “Vilia-Song and Pontevedrian Dance,” “You’re Back Where You First Began” and “Eh, Voila Les Belles Grisettes.”

Dr. Henry Wong Doe, pianist, will perform Transcendental Etude No. 9, “Ricordanza” by Liszt.

A native of New Zealand, Wong Doe has performed throughout the world and has won “Audience Favorite” prizes at both the Rubinstein and Busoni International Piano Competitions.

The Marching Band, under the direction of Dr. David Martynuik, will present a Billy Joel suite: “This is the Time,” “Downeaster ‘Alexa’,” and “I Go to Extremes” ; a Genesis suite: “Invisible Touch,” “Hold on My Heart,” and “No Reply at All”; “Crimson Xpress”; and “Hail Indiana.” The Marching Band will close IUP Plays Pittsburgh with its signature piece, “Amazing Grace.”

Ted Sohier from WQED will serve as master of ceremonies for the event.

A dessert reception, hosted by Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, will be held in the lobby of Heinz Hall starting at 6:30 p.m. for all concert ticket holders.

There will also be a special reception for alumni before the concert. For more information or to make a reservation for the reception, alumni may contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 724-357-7042 or via the Alumni website.

For more information about IUP Plays Pittsburgh or to make reservations for groups, contact the Lively Arts at IUP by calling 724-357-2547, or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

Students will collect items and hand out informational fliers about ICCAP on November 4, 5, and 6 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Indiana Giant Eagle along Seventh Street.

IUP’s Office of Service Learning promotes professional and personal character development for IUP students through experiential learning opportunities that bridge the curriculum with community service.

The IUP Student Cooperative Association will continue its presentation of a special fireworks display October 31 starting at 7:30 p.m. Fireworks were first offered in 2008 in conjunction with the Cooperative Association’s seventy-fifth anniversary.

Events begin at 9:30 a.m. with the traditional continental brunch in the Hadley Union Building atrium and Ohio Room. Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, and members of the administration and faculty will be in attendance to meet families.

Two special presentations will be offered to visitors at the IUP Planetarium in Weyandt Hall. The programs will be offered at 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. Tickets are free but must be picked up at the registration table.

A traditional highlight of the weekend is the Family Weekend football game. The IUP Crimson Hawks will play Gannon University. The IUP Marching Band will perform at halftime and offer its traditional postgame performance.

Several other events are offered free of charge during this year’s celebration:

• 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.—Office of Housing and Residence Life reception for community assistants, peer mentors, office workers, Residence Hall Association officers, and Residence Hall Council members and their families. Location will be the Suites on Maple West lobby.
• 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.—Bingo, HUB Monongahela Room
• 2:00 p.m.—IUP women’s soccer game versus Mercyhurst, South Campus Soccer Fields
• 4:00-6:00 p.m.—African American Cultural Center reception for families and students, HUB Ohio Room
• 4:30-6:00 p.m.—Robert E. Cook Honors College reception for students and families, Whitmyre Hall Great Room
• 4:00 p.m.—IUP women’s volleyball versus Slippery Rock, Memorial Field House

Events conclude with a performance at 8:00 p.m. in the IUP Performing Arts Center’s Fisher Auditorium by comic Jeff Civillico. Any remaining tickets for the show will be available at the door for $6. The event is free for IUP students with an I-Card.

For more information about Family Weekend, contact the Center for Student Life at 724-357-1264.

The third annual Native American Festival will be held from noon to 5:00 p.m. at the IUP Hadley Union Building Delaware Room.

The featured attraction for the event is the Allegany River Indian Dancers, who will perform at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. The Drums of Native Sisters also will perform during the festival.

Arts and crafts vendors will have work on display, and food vendors will provide refreshments during the event.

In December 2006, the IUP Council of Trustees passed a resolution that the university would dedicate the month of November each year to promoting awareness of, and appreciation for, the history and culture of the region’s Native Americans.

The presentation, which is free and open to the community, is by Dr. Elizabeth Ricketts, an assistant professor of history at IUP.

Ricketts teaches courses in labor and African-American and women’s history. Her research and publications focus on the social, labor, and political history of coal miners in Western Pennsylvania.

This lecture is planned in conjunction with the exhibit “A Walk through Time: Western Pennsylvania Coal Culture” currently offered at the University Museum, on the first floor of Sutton Hall.

The museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday from noon to 7:30 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 4:00 p.m. There is no charge for admission.

Parking on campus and in the IUP parking garage along Grant Street is free after 5:00 p.m. and on weekends.

Other lectures in the series are as follows:

• November 4, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.: “Strike! Lessons Learned from the 1927–1928 Coal Strike at Rossiter” by Dr. Jim Dougherty. An assistant professor of sociology and director of the IUP Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, Dougherty is producer of the film “The Struggle for an American Way of Life: Coal Miners and Operators in Central Pennsylvania, 1919–1933.” He has coordinated oral history projects in numerous mining communities throughout the region.
• November 14, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.: “Researching Family History with Coal Culture Resources” by Rhonda Yeager. Assistant archivist in IUP’s Special Collections and University Archives, Yeager served as the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company project archivist for 2006–2007 and continues to assist patrons with research for the collection. She has taught a course on “Introduction to Genealogy” for IUP Continuing Education and is the co-curator of the museum exhibition.
• November 18, 7:00 to 8 p.m.: “Unions: Roots of the ‘Democratic Impulse’ in District 2, UMWA, 1919–1943” by Dr. Irwin Marcus. Professor emeritus with IUP’s History Department, Marcus created the university’s first courses in U.S. labor history, African-American history, and the history of protest movements. His research and publications focus on the history of Pennsylvania coal miners and steel workers, deindustrialization, and globalization.

Registration for lectures is preferred but not required. To register or for information, contact Sally Daskivich at the College of Fine Arts at 724-357-2397 or sdaskivi@iup.edu.

The Pennsylvania Coal Culture exhibition will be available through December 5. Find more information about “A Walk Through Time: Pennsylvania Coal Culture.”

Also, find more information about coal culture and mine mapping in the Fall 2009 issue of IUP Magazine.

“Helping Teens and Families Manage Self-Injurious Behaviors,” taking place November 13 at the CCAC-Boyce Campus Performance Auditorium in Monroeville, will be delivered by two noted experts in the field, Kim Poling and Dr. Tina Goldstein.

Poling serves as the clinical manager of Services for Teens at Risk, known as STAR-Center. This is a specialty program for suicidal adolescents and a division of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program of the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Goldstein is a licensed psychologist and assistant professor in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

The workshop will cover topics such as distinguishing suicidal behavior from self-injurious behavior, identifying the motivations behind self-injurious behavior, and learning how to aid families of children who self-injure.

The clinical suicidology workshop, which takes place November 20 in the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology Auditorium, will be presented by Dr. David Jobes of the Catholic University of America.

Jobes is an internationally recognized expert on suicide. He is the author the 2006 book Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach and coauthor of Adolescent Suicide: Assessment and Intervention.

His research has appeared in the journals Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior and the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy.

Jobes has served as a subject-matter expert to the Department of Defense on military suicide rates and currently serves as a consultant to the U.S. Air Force Suicide Prevention Program. He has also testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families on the topic of teen suicide.

This one-day program is designed for mental health professionals, college educators, and students. It will cover topics such as having a working knowledge of the theory and research that informs clinical practice with suicidal patients, being able to perform a competent differential assessment of suicidal states, and ethical issues related to suicide.

The IUP Center for Counselor Training and Services offers professional workshops and training for community and school counselors and other mental health professionals throughout the region. It is directed by Dr. John McCarthy, professor in the IUP Department of Counseling.

More information about these and other workshops can be found on the Center for Counselor Training and Services website or by contacting the center at 724-357-3807.

Credit card registrations can be accepted by calling the IUP Research Institute at 724-357-2223.

Her term began October 19 and will extend to January 20, 2015.

“I am pleased Dr. Van Shura’s nomination was confirmed by the state Senate,” Senator Don White said. “Her tremendous experience as an educator will prove to be a very strong asset to the Council of Trustees, and I look forward to working with her to advance the many initiatives IUP has undertaken.”

The Council of Trustees is responsible for financial oversight and ensuring compliance of university policies with state law. Its next regular meeting is in December.

Van Shura will fill the vacancy on the council created by the death of David Johnson in February.

“Dr. Van Shura brings a wealth of experience in both the public education and state government sectors to her role as an IUP trustee,” Atwater said. “I am pleased that she has chosen to join our other distinguished trustees in advancing our excellent university.”

Van Shura is the director of Community Affairs in the office of County Executive Dan Onorato of Allegheny County, a position she has held since 2006. In that role, she is the representative of the county executive for a variety of community issues.

She also serves as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Pittsburgh School of Education’s Administrative and Policy Studies program.

Before her current position, she was the assistant director of the City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Parks and Recreation for ten years.

She has also served as director of the state office for U.S. Senator Harris Wofford; as director of mental retardation services for Step-by-Step Inc. of Pittsburgh; as an elementary school teacher in the Waverly Central Schools in Waverly, N.Y.; and as a consultant for the Diocese of Pittsburgh.

She served as an appointed member of the Pennsylvania Council on Aging, as executive committee member of the Pittsburgh Local Organizing Committee for the 2005 National Senior Games, and as a member of the board of directors for Chatham Village Homes, Inc.

Her additional political leadership positions include serving as the Western Pennsylvania coordinator of the 1992 campaign for former President Bill Clinton; Western Pennsylvania coordinator in 1991 and 1994 for the United States Senate campaign for Wofford; co-chair of the Municipal Cooperation Committee for Onorato’s transition team; member of the Electoral College in 1992; at-large delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1992, 1996, and 2000; and Rules Committee member for the 1980 Democratic National Convention.

Van Shura has a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master of Science degree in educational administration from the State University of New York at Albany, and a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from College Misericordia.

IUP at Monroeville is at 400 Penn Center Boulevard, Building Four, Suite 900, Wilkins Township.

Two courses will be offered each semester for program participants. One course will be offered on line, and one course will be offered Monday evenings at the center.

This major is designed to help students meet the early care and education needs of children from birth through preschool, with additional courses focusing on working with families, adolescents, community agencies, and diversity issues.

The curriculum meets National Association for the Education of Young Children standards for early care and education.

This program is designed specifically for students who have completed an associate degree but is open to any student wishing to obtain a Bachelor of Science degree in Child and Family Studies.

Courses will be taken with a cohort, in which students build and maintain a supportive professional and academic network while moving through their classes as a group. Courses will be taught by doctoral-level IUP faculty members.

For more information, contact Dr. Fredalene B. Bowers, coordinator, IUP Child and Family Studies Program, at 724-357-4046 or 724-357-2336 or by e-mail at fbowers@iup.edu.

The focus of the fair is to provide a service for younger children, including children with disabilities, through activities including pumpkin painting, seasonal storytelling, bean bag toss, and make-a-mask, while maintaining a literacy theme.

The event is free, and children are encouraged to come in costume.

To highlight the importance of reading, books are among the prizes for the children. The fair is held on the national Make a Difference Day, created by USA WEEKEND Magazine as a day for helping others through various projects.

Twenty to thirty IUP student members of the council are involved in the fair each year. Traditionally, the student volunteers are majoring in education or in Education of Exceptional Persons, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Disabilities Services, or Deaf Education.

IUP faculty members Dr. Jan Baker, Dr. Becky Knickelbein, and Dr. Joann Migyanka from the Department of Special Education and Clinical Services are co-advisors of the Council for Exceptional Children.

The presentation, which is free and open to the community, is by Spencer Sadler, a local freelance writer and educator.

Sadler has collected stories and photos through traditional research and personal interviews, court documents, archived newspaper clippings, coal company records, journals, and other materials.

This lecture is planned in conjunction with the exhibit “A Walk through Time: Western Pennsylvania Coal Culture” currently offered at the University Museum, on the first floor of Sutton Hall.

The museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday from noon to 7:30 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 4:00 p.m. There is no charge for admission.

Parking on campus and in the IUP parking garage along Grant Street is free after 5:00 p.m. and on weekends.

Other lectures in the series are as follows:

• October 28, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.: “I Sold My Soul to the Company Town: Company Control in the Coal Patches of Western Pennsylvania, 1910–1930” by Dr. Elizabeth Ricketts. An assistant professor of history at IUP, Ricketts teaches courses in labor and African-American and women’s history. Her research and publications focus on the social, labor, and political history of coal miners in Western Pennsylvania.
• November 4, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.: “Strike! Lessons Learned from the 1927–1928 Coal Strike at Rossiter” by Dr. Jim Dougherty. An assistant professor of sociology and director of the IUP Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, Dougherty is producer of the film “The Struggle for an American Way of Life: Coal Miners and Operators in Central Pennsylvania, 1919–1933.” He has coordinated oral history projects in numerous mining communities throughout the region.
• November 14, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.: “Researching Family History with Coal Culture Resources” by Rhonda Yeager. Assistant archivist in IUP’s Special Collections and University Archives, Yeager served as the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company project archivist for 2006–2007 and continues to assist patrons with research for the collection. She has taught a course on “Introduction to Genealogy” for IUP Continuing Education and is the co-curator of the museum exhibition.
• November 18, 7:00 to 8 p.m.: “Unions: Roots of the ‘Democratic Impulse’ in District 2, UMWA, 1919–1943” by Dr. Irwin Marcus. Professor emeritus with IUP’s History Department, Marcus created the university’s first courses in U.S. labor history, African-American history, and the history of protest movements. His research and publications focus on the history of Pennsylvania coal miners and steel workers, deindustrialization, and globalization.

Registration for lectures is preferred but not required. To register or for information, contact Sally Daskivich at the College of Fine Arts at 724-357-2397 or sdaskivi@iup.edu.

The Pennsylvania Coal Culture exhibition will be available through December 5. Find more information about “A Walk Through Time: Pennsylvania Coal Culture.”

“This positive news again confirms the exceptional academic strengths and rigor of our baccalaureate and master’s degree programs in nursing,” Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, said. “This outcome also attests to the high quality and dedication of the nursing faculty and their commitment to producing highly skilled and capable nursing professionals.”

The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education is officially recognized by the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education as a national accreditation agency.

“The department is thrilled to receive such a positive accreditation review from CCNE,” Dr. Elizabeth Palmer, Department of Nursing and Allied Health Professions chairperson, said. “This accreditation recognizes the quality and integrity of our programs and highlights the effectiveness of our educational practices.”

Earlier this year, IUP was recognized for its passing rate on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN®). IUP has an overall annual passing average of 94 percent, compared to the national average of 87 percent for first-time test takers during the testing period from October 1, 2007, to September 30, 2008.

The Department of Nursing and Allied Health Professions at IUP includes both undergraduate and master’s programs. The Allied Health Professions programs include respiratory care, clinical laboratory service, nuclear medicine technology, and a gerontology certification program.

There are two different tracks in the master’s programs in Nursing and seven bachelor’s degrees in Nursing and Allied Health (including all tracks).

IUP Nursing and Allied Health has approximately 850 students in the undergraduate program and some sixty-five students in its graduate program.

In January 2008, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education approved IUP’s doctoral program in nursing. The first cohort of this program began study during the Fall 2008 semester, with plans to admit a second cohort in Fall 2010.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Eberly College of Business and Information Technology is included in the Princeton Review’s “Best 301 Business Schools,” 2010 edition.

This is the sixth consecutive year that Eberly College has been selected for this annual guidebook.

“This sixth consecutive honor for the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology clearly demonstrates the excellence of our business program and the high quality of the business faculty,” Dr. Tony Atwater, president of IUP, said. “The Eberly College of Business and Information Technology has been recognized for its national academic excellence, and the university takes pride in its success.”

The guidebook accepts no advertising dollars and uses independent surveys from current students, recent graduates, and college officials to determine which colleges and universities merit inclusion. This year’s publication is a reflection of interviews with more than 18,000 business students from across the nation. There are approximately 1,600 schools or colleges of business throughout the United States.

“Being ranked consistently among the top business schools in the nation speaks volumes about our programs, our strong reputation, and the commitment and expertise of our faculty and staff,” Dr. Robert Camp, dean of the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, said.

“The Eberly College has outstanding faculty and one of the most technologically advanced facilities in the country, with more than six hundred work stations, eight computing labs,  and high-tech classrooms throughout the building.”

The facility includes a forty-four-station financial trading room, which allows students to create hypothetical portfolios and track all purchase and sales transactions in order to gauge performance and document trading strategies. The latest additions at Eberly are a digital production studio and lab, where students learn how to create and edit streaming video for training presentations and websites, Camp said.

“Both faculty and students can conduct research using real-time data from markets all over the world,” Camp said.

Guidebook editors quoted students as saying, “IUP’s MBA program is large enough to be widely recognized by employers, yet small enough to allow for many one-on-one learning experiences.”

Editors also noted that students recognized IUP’s numerous partnerships with overseas schools as providing international exposure and offering “a great fit for international students, since it offers a diverse academic program and environment with the opportunity to interact with students from different parts of the world.” Executive Master of Business Administration programs at several urban locations in greater Pittsburgh were also mentioned.

The Eberly College achieved accreditation of its bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in business administration from AACSB International in May 2001. Fewer than one-third of the business schools in the United States and a limited number of schools internationally have earned AACSB International accreditation.

IUP  is included in the 2010 edition of The Princeton Review’s “The Best 371 Colleges” and was selected as a “Best Northeastern College.”
This is the ninth consecutive year that IUP has been selected for this annual guidebook. The “Best Northeastern Colleges” listing identifies “some of the colleges and universities that we feel stand out within each region,” guidebook editors wrote.

Free tickets are available starting October 21 for the second annual First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture at Indiana University of Pennsylvania featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter Bob Woodward.

Woodward will present “From Nixon to Bush: What Can President Obama Learn from Presidents Past?” on November 4, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in IUP’s Fisher Auditorium.

Tickets will be available at the Hadley Union Building ticket window or by calling 724-357-1313.

Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, announced this year’s speaker during the annual State of the University Address on August 27.

“We continue to appreciate the generosity of our friends at First Commonwealth, who have provided a significant financial commitment to IUP to establish its first comprehensive, university endowed lecture series and offer it free to charge to our community,” he said.

Woodward is an assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award, including the Pulitzer for his report on the Watergate scandal. He earned a second Pulitzer as lead reporter for the team that reported on the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Of Woodward’s books, three have been featured on 60 Minutes, three have been made into movies, and Newsweek has excerpted five in headline-making cover stories.

In his most recent book, State of Denial: Bush at War Part III, Woodward provides his story of the White House and how the Bush administration “avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves.”

Woodward has coauthored or authored more number-one national best-selling nonfiction books than any other contemporary American writer. They include All the President’s Men and The Final Days, coauthored with Carl Bernstein; The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, coauthored with Scott Armstrong; Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi; Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987; The Commanders; The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House; Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate; Bush at War; and Plan of Attack.

Woodward was born March 26, 1943, in Illinois. He graduated from Yale University in 1965 and served five years as a communications officer in the U.S. Navy before beginning his journalism career at the Montgomery County (Maryland) Sentinel, where he was a reporter for one year before joining the Washington Post. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Elsa Walsh, an author and writer for the New Yorker. He has two daughters, Tali and Diana.

The inaugural presentation in IUP’s First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture Series in October 2008 featured political commentators James Carville and Mary Matalin.

The lecture is presented in conjunction with IUP’s Ideas and Issues program.

This is the section of Pratt Drive in front of the Sutton Suites—to be named Gealy W. Wallwork Residence Hall.

In order to safely accommodate traffic traveling between Locust and Grant streets, the university has widened Garman Avenue by three feet, repaved the street, and widened the sidewalk along the street.

Garman Avenue is an Indiana Borough street that is parallel to this section of Pratt Drive.

Pratt Drive’s ownership was turned over to IUP forty years ago by Indiana Borough Council.

After becoming university owned, the former dirt road, which ran from South Street to Glass Street, was lengthened to extend from School Street to the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology parking lot. The street has continued to be maintained by IUP. These improvements were made as part of the Residential Revival project and were funded by the Foundation for IUP.

The Pratt Drive pedestrian walkway will be accessible for emergency vehicles at all times.

These safety initiatives were made because the construction of the Sutton Suites, completed in August 2009, created additional pedestrian traffic in this area along Pratt Drive.

The change in vehicle traffic to Garman Avenue also eliminates a sharp turn and a five-street intersection at Grant Street and Pratt Drive that has created traffic congestion and hazards.

In addition to the pedestrian walkway conversion, a parking lot along Locust Street has been added for IUP employee parking.

Monica Rizzo, a 1987 graduate of IUP, will share her experiences about her career in entertainment and journalism. The program is free and open to the community.

Rizzo has covered stories for the Disney Channel and television shows such as Ally McBeal, American Idol, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Dancing with the Stars, Lost, Sex and the City, Spin City, and The Practice.

Rizzo will also speak to several IUP Journalism classes during her visit.

“I am teaching Entertainment PR this year, and I am just thrilled to have an alumna who has made it so far in the industry come to IUP to inspire us,” Dr. Michele Papakie, IUP Journalism professor, said.

The presentation and visit is sponsored by IUP’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America and the IUP Journalism Department’s Sweeney Trust.

The Sweeney Trust was established in 1985 in honor of Elizabeth Ray Sweeney, who was at one time the treasurer of the Indiana Printing and Publishing Co., publisher of The Indiana Gazette.

The trust was established for the IUP Journalism Department to fund symposiums, lectures, and workshops with distinguished journalists for the IUP community. Past Sweeney Trust presenters have included William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well, and reporter Jimmy Breslin. They have focused on topics including managing crisis communications and women in the media.

The presentation, which is free and open to the community, is by Dr. John Taylor, a native of Indiana and a resident paleontologist and stratigrapher in the IUP Geoscience Department.

Taylor was involved in collaborative research with the geology staff of the local Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company through the late 1980s and 1990s, and he has supervised numerous student research projects using the information in what is now the R&P archives collection at IUP.

This lecture is planned in conjunction with the exhibit “A Walk through Time: Western Pennsylvania Coal Culture” currently offered at the University Museum, on the first floor of Sutton Hall.

The museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday from noon to 7:30 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 4:00 p.m. There is no charge for admission.

Registration for lectures is preferred but not required. To register or for information, contact Sally Daskivich in the College of Fine Arts at 724-357-2397 or sdaskivi@iup.edu.

Find more information about the lecture series on the region’s coal history.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania will offer its annual Homecoming celebration on October 9–11, 2009, with alumni, friends, and community members in mind.

This year’s Homecoming Ball will be held at the Indiana Country Club on Friday at 7:00 p.m. Hosted by Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, and his wife, Dr. Beverly Roberts-Atwater, the Homecoming Ball is open to the community as well as returning alumni. The IUP Jazz Ensemble will provide music.

All proceeds from the dinner-dance benefit the IUP Presidential Scholars Fund, which provides scholarships for first-year students who are first-generation college students.

Tickets for the ball are $75 per person and can be reserved by calling the University Events office at 724-357-2145.

The Homecoming parade, with a theme of “Our Global Community: Cities From Around the World,” will start at 10:00 a.m. Saturday. It will feature nearly seventy campus and community units, including five floats depicting the cities of Paris, New York, Las Vegas, Giza (Egypt), New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Indiana.

For the third year, the parade route includes the IUP Oak Grove as a spectator area. The parade will start at Thirteenth and Philadelphia streets and travel east to Sixth and Philadelphia streets, south on Sixth Street to Church Street, west on Church Street to Oakland Avenue, and southwest on Oakland Avenue to Eleventh Street, where the parade will disband. All motor-driven floats will continue southwest on Oakland Avenue to the Robertshaw building for disassembly.

Firing of the IUP Department of Military Science’s howitzer cannon, which will be near the Indiana County Court House, will signal the start of the parade.

Immediately following the parade, more than one hundred IUP student volunteers will work to clean up the parade route.

Three members of the class of 1959 will serve as grand marshals for this year’s parade. They are Robert Cleminson, of Nellysford, Va., a retired marketing executive from ExxonMobil; Ronald Frey, of Mount Laurel, N.J., a retired biology teacher; and Joan Zima Moss, of Johnstown, a retired guidance counselor from Greater Johnstown Vocational Technical School. Moss’s granddaughter attends IUP. Both Cleminson and Frey played football while they were students at IUP.

Five marching bands will be in the parade from the following schools: IUP, Blairsville High School, Indiana Area Senior High School, Marion Center High School, and Purchase Line High School.

IUP’s Homecoming royalty will also appear in the parade.

• Nicole Buzzelli and Dan Fleming, both of Creekside, were chosen by members of the IUP student body as the queen and king of the Indiana campus.
• Jamee Joppy and Billy Harden, both of Harrisburg, were selected as the Homecoming queen and king of IUP at Punxsutawney.
• Vanessa Oren, of Macungie, and Brian O’Shea, of York, are first runners-up for Homecoming queen and king at the Indiana campus.

Also Saturday, the Pre-Game in the Oak Grove festival, free and open to all members of the community, will be offered from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The festival includes the Kidz Karnival, formerly held on North Seventh Street in downtown Indiana. Organized by the IUP Ambassadors student group, this festival features a variety of children’s events, with cartoon characters, games, crafts, and prizes.

Pre-Game in the Oak Grove also will offer music by bands from the parade, music by a disc jockey, and photo opportunities with the IUP cheerleaders and Norm, the Crimson Hawk.

A new event this year for the Oak Grove festival is a story walk, sponsored by the Allegheny Arboretum at IUP, the Friends of the Parks, and the Indiana Free Library. Pages of the book Leaves by David Ezra Stein will be posted throughout the Oak Grove for Saturday’s festival and will remain up for the following week.

Presentation of prizes for parade floats will be held in the Oak Grove at 11:45 a.m.

Judges for the float competition are Claire Hogan, representing Indiana Borough Council; Michael Hood, dean of the College of Fine Arts; Joseph Mastream, IUP student; and Sherry Renosky, an IUP alumna and representative of the Indiana Mall Association.

Sponsoring the float awards are the IUP Alumni Association, first-place award of $1,000; Indiana Mall Association, second place, $900; Co-op Store, third place, $800; Student Government Association, fourth place, $700; Foundation for IUP, fifth place, $600; and American Water, sixth place, $500.

Renda Broadcasting will be in the parade broadcasting live. A re-broadcast of the parade will be shown later in October on WIUP-TV.

Other traditional events include the Crimson Huddle and alumni pre-game tent party, open to all alumni and friends, at 11:00 a.m. in the tent next to the Miller Stadium and the Homecoming football game at 2:00 p.m., in which IUP will face Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

Homecoming royalty and parade float prize sponsors will be recognized during halftime. The halftime show will also feature the IUP Marching Band, under the direction of Dr. David Martynuik. The band will present the post-game show at the stadium immediately following the game.

The Fifth Quarter Celebration, open to all alumni, will take place from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Upstairs at The Coney, Philadelphia Street.

Other weekend events that are free and open to the community include the following:

Thursday, October 8

The African American Cultural Center presents a Mexican cuisine and salsa contest at 6:00 p.m. at Cozumel Restaurant, 626 Philadelphia Street.

Friday, October 9

• A men’s and women’s alumni swimming relay challenge will be held from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Memorial Field House.
• A men’s and women’s alumni soccer event will be held at 7:00 p.m. at the South Campus fields.
• The African American Cultural Center presents a concert by The Image Band, an Afro-Caribbean, reggae, and rhythm and blues band, at the Hadley Union Building from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 10

The IUP women’s soccer team will compete against East Stroudsburg at 1:00 p.m. at the South Campus fields.

Sunday, October 11

The annual Homecoming concert, featuring the IUP Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, and Symphony Band, will be held at 3:00 p.m. at the IUP Performing Arts Center’s Fisher Auditorium.

Tickets for the concert are available in advance at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus. Remaining tickets can be purchased at the door forty-five minutes before the start of the performance. Tickets are $9 for regular admission, $8 for seniors and groups, and $6 for students with I-card and children.

For more information about the Homecoming concert, call the Fine Arts Public Events Office at 724-357-2547 or the Hadley Union Building ticket office at 724-357-1313.

See a complete list of Homecoming events.

IUP is one of five Pennsylvania universities sharing a $2.6-million federal grant for the project, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald L. Zahorchak said.

The Title II grants will be used to encourage more teachers to continue their educations, so they will be better equipped in the classroom.

“Mathematics and science are the foundations for student success in this high-tech era,” Zahorchak said. “We must have knowledgeable, enthusiastic teachers who can challenge our students to excel in these subjects.”

Members of the IUP education faculty will work with regional school districts to provide distance-learning opportunities to math teachers.

“IUP takes great pride in its nationally accredited teacher education program, which is one of the best in America,” Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, said. “Winning this competitive grant award reflects IUP’s expertise in teacher training, our natural sciences program, and the outstanding reputation of our teacher educators.”

At IUP, funding for this proposal will support the development of on-line testing that will identify practicing teachers’ needs in mathematics content and pedagogy.

“This grant combines the use of technology with effective pedagogy to increase the skill levels of teachers in the field and capitalizes on programming and curriculum developed for IUP undergraduates,” Dr. Mary Ann Rafoth, dean of the College of Education and Educational Technology, said. “It is truly a model of university-community partnership.”

Dr. Keith Dils, associate dean of the College and Education and Educational Technology, authored the grant proposal. He will work with Dr. Brian Sharp of IUP’s College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, IUP’s Research Institute, and the Woodland Hills, Laurel Highlands, and Greater Johnstown school districts, as well as other school districts in the region.

The program is especially designed for practicing special-education or regular-education teachers who have not yet been designated as “highly qualified” mathematics teachers at the secondary or middle-school level.

“Once the needs have been identified, funding will support IUP’s delivery of mathematics coursework and Praxis preparation,” Dils said. “We can all take great pride in IUP’s reputation in the field of teacher education and in our pre-teachers’ 100 percent passing rate for Praxis teacher education testing.”

Praxis testing is used by many states, including Pennsylvania, as part of the teacher licensure and certification process.

The program includes three parts: the pretest, skills development, and the post-test. After the pretest to determine a teacher’s skill level, teachers will be given options for improving their mathematics content knowledge. These options include on-campus courses taught in the evening or summer months by IUP faculty, on-line tutoring modules, or a combination of the two.

After teachers complete the skills development program, they will be eligible to retake the Praxis II (subject-focused) test.

“It is our intention that these teachers, after skills development, will receive a score that reflects the ‘highly qualified’ level,” Dils said.

All public school teachers with primary responsibility for direct instruction in one or more of No Child Left Behind’s core content areas are required to demonstrate that they satisfy the definition of a “highly qualified teacher.” This means that they hold at least a bachelor’s degree, hold a valid Pennsylvania teaching certificate, and demonstrate subject matter competency for the core content area they teach.

The efforts of the five partnerships will benefit Pennsylvania’s high-need districts in other ways, including increasing the percentage of core academic classes taught by highly qualified teachers, Pennsylvania Department of Education officials said.

A total of 657 mathematics, biology, chemistry, general science, and other science teachers from northeastern, southeastern, south-central, and southwestern Pennsylvania will participate in programs that will enable them to meet highly qualified teacher requirements.

For more information about Highly Qualified Teachers and the grant program, visit the Pennsylvania Department of Education website.

For more information about IUP’s program, contact IUP’s College of Education and Educational Technology at 724-357-2480.

“With this funding, IUP will have more resources to fight violence against women,” Casey said. “This grant will go towards prevention and education programs for students and more training for campus police, so IUP can more effectively combat these crimes.”

The grant is provided through the Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program, part of the Violence Against Women Act. It will enhance a prevention and education program for all incoming students, fund on-campus advocacy organizations, train campus police to respond effectively, and train campus disciplinary boards to prosecute offenders fully.

The funding will continue and expand the university’s Haven Project through 2011, according to Malinda Cowles, director of Haven. Cowles is associate director of Health AWAREness (Advocates for Well-Being and Respect for Everyone) and interim executive director of the Center for Health and Well-Being.

The Haven Project, funded from 2004 to 2008 with $400,000 from the Department of Justice, is a comprehensive program designed to address the needs of women who are victims of violence and to improve efforts to prevent violence against women.

The Haven Project is a partnership of the Center for Health and Well-Being, the University Police, Indiana Borough Police, Pennsylvania State Police, and the Alice Paul House, a local sexual assault and domestic violence center.

The 2009 funding will be used to improve services for female students who are victims of violence by expanding on-campus counseling services. In addition, the project will expand victim-intervention services and advocacy through the Alice Paul House. The project works to improve campus criminal investigation and adjudication processes.

“This federal award speaks to the significant priority that our university places on prevention and services relating to combating violence toward women and sexual harassment on and off campus,” Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, said.

“This award will strengthen the university’s programmatic efforts to enhance awareness of violence against women and will assist the university in reducing the incidents of violence against women in our university community. Malinda Cowles is to be commended for her leadership on this front and for helping the university to achieve success in competing for this grant award.”

Cowles said that this funding will facilitate the Haven Project’s expanded collaboration with police agencies from Indiana Borough to state and university police. Advanced training for investigators will also be part of the project.

“It is very gratifying to receive continued funding for this important project,” Cowles said. “It is an innovative program in that it offers several different agencies the opportunity to work together to serve persons on our campus who are survivors of violence.

“We remain in partnership with Alice Paul House to offer advocacy services, have counseling service at the IUP Counseling Center, and offer education programs. Every incoming freshman student participates in a Haven Project workshop about sexual violence.”

Since 1988, the Alice Paul House has provided training to the IUP community to assist victims of assault. The Center for Health and Well-Being and the Alice Paul House co-facilitate the Sexual Assault Domestic Violence Task Force in Indiana County. Both groups also provide professional training to law enforcement officers, the community, and IUP employees.

Nineteen individuals will graduate November 3, 2009, from the IUP Eberly College of Business and Information Technology’s MBA Certificate Program for Small Businesses.

The group was organized by Ellen Ruddock, director of IUP’s Center for Family Business. The MBA certificate program is coordinated for the college by the IUP Business Development and Training Services program, directed by Jane Gardner.

According to Ruddock, more than 66 percent of America’s workforce is employed by family-owned businesses

“These businesses need support to grow and continue to provide jobs to our region,” she said. “This certificate program is an excellent resource for small business owners, family business members, managers, and the next generation of leadership preparing for succession in the company.

“This program is designed as an affordable opportunity for small business owners to educate their key people on best practices and management skills.”

Topics addressed in the sixty-hour program include economics, organizational analysis, strategic communication, strategic human resource management, legal environment update, financial management, operations and quality management, e-commerce, and strategic management.

The program is taught by IUP faculty members over ten weekly sessions.

“The program has been comprehensive and current,” Mark Zilner, vice president of Diamond Pharmacy Services, said. “It’s tough to schedule with other responsibilities and travel, but very worthwhile.”

Several members of the Diamond Pharmacy Services management team are participating in the class, including Gib Zilner, vice president and co-owner.

For more information regarding the Center for Family Business, call 724-357-4818 or e-mail center-familybusiness@iup.edu.

Questions regarding the program should be directed to Gardner at (724) 357-4746.

IUP’s Eberly College of Business and Information Technology has been included in The Princeton Review’s “Best Colleges of Business” guidebook for six consecutive years.

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Front row, from left: Ellen Ruddock, Lecia Patterson, Elizabeth Gregg, Jamie Chichy, Dr. Krish Krishnan. Second row, from left:
Rod Ruddock, Robin Maryai, Patricia Ireland, Jamie Pride, Gilbert Zilner, Sean Howard. Third row, from left: Clark Walter, Levent Akbay, Jennifer Ireland, Betsy Lauber, Cathleen Zilner, Dennis Schultz, Paula Cummings.

IUP’s Kipp Gallery will host an exhibition, Imminent and Delicious, by Satan’s Camaro, the artist collaborative team of Lenore Thomas and Justin Strom, October 13 through November 13, 2009.

The artists will also present a lecture on October 15 at 5:00 p.m. in Susan Snell Delaney Hall, followed by a reception in Kipp Gallery at 6:00 p.m.

The lecture and reception are free and open to the community. Kipp Gallery, on the first floor of IUP’s Sprowls Hall, along Eleventh Street, is open from noon to 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. There is no admission charge.

“The goal of our collaboration is to approach and create artwork in a way that is outside of our individual work,” the artists said. “Collaboration requires all parties involved to see things in new ways, to both compromise and push the bounds of the creators and the artwork. The pieces we create combine our individual ideas and aesthetics to make work that, at its most basic, involves opposites. The work also reflects our interest to create characters out of the machines and the drips and to force them into a relationship with each other.”

Thomas, an assistant professor of printmaking at the University of Pittsburgh, received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and can currently be seen at Markel Fine Arts in New York City, Garson Baker Fine Arts in New York City, and Fresh Paint in Los Angeles.

She is a member of No Fun, an artist collective originally based out of Madison. She is also the codirector of Red Rocket Gallery, a virtual gallery space focused on showing the work of emerging artists.

Strom is a mixed media print artist. He is an assistant professor of printmaking and digital imaging at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Strom received a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 and a bachelor’s degree in painting at Columbia College in Columbia, Mo., in 1998.

He has worked as an assistant printer at Highpoint Editions in Minneapolis, Minn., and production assistant at Tandem Press in Madison, Wis.

An Indiana University of Pennsylvania ROTC cadet has been selected as the top ROTC cadet in the nation.

Erik Lloyd, an IUP graduate and current graduate student, was selected for the distinction from 4,700 other cadets following the Leader Development and Assessment Course held this summer for senior ROTC cadets.

This is the first time that an IUP cadet has ranked first in the nation.

“This national honor reflects strongly on the historic excellence and distinction of the IUP ROTC program,” Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, said. “Cadet Erik Lloyd is to be commended for bringing national recognition to his individual performance, as well as to his battalion and to the university. The IUP ROTC program continues to enhance the leadership skills of its program participants while providing exemplary training and preparation for the men and women who will lead the military defense of our nation.”

“While Cadet Lloyd presented outstanding performance at the Leader Development and Assessment Course, this award reflects his career achievements as an ROTC cadet and student leader at IUP,” Lt. Col. Brook Whiffen, IUP Military Science professor, said. “Cadet Lloyd’s number-one ranking reflects outstanding academic performance as a 4.0 student, leadership and military performance, and athletic ability, not just his work in the month-long summer course.”

Lloyd graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and Sport in 2002. He is working on a master’s degree in Adult Education and Communications Technology and will graduate in May. Upon his graduation, he will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree, Lloyd enlisted in the Army and served six years, working part of that time as a medical laboratory technician and biological research non-commissioned officer. During that time, he reached the rank of staff sergeant.

In recognition of his national number-one cadet ranking, Lloyd is entitled to select his branch qualification as an Army officer. He has selected the medical service corps.

Lloyd, thirty-one, and his wife, Kristi,a 2001 IUP Psychology graduate, are the parents of a seventeen-month old son, Blake. They live in Indiana. He is originally from Port Allegany, McKean Township.

Lloyd continues to be actively involved with the ROTC program, spending about twenty-five hours a week working with and training nineteen other cadets who will go through the Leader Development and Assessment Course in summer 2010.

“I had a really good experience as an undergraduate at IUP, so when it was time to choose a graduate program, I decided to consider IUP,” Lloyd said. “When I explored the Adult Education and Communications Technology program, I found that it was a great fit for my career path related to the Army. Since I have been back at IUP, the instructional staff at Army ROTC and the faculty in the Communications Media Department have worked synergistically to help me develop as a person and as a leader.”

IUP’s ROTC program is part of the Military Science Department. The first two years of the Military Science program provide background on the historical role of military forces as well as current national military objectives.

In addition, students develop basic leadership skills in problem solving and decision making and learn survival techniques, map reading, self-defense, rappelling, and marksmanship.

The last two years of Military Science include the advanced course and lead to a commission as an officer in the U.S. Army.

IUP’s ROTC, the Warrior Battalion, includes seventy-six students. Another 350 students participate in the IUP Military Science program through its health and wellness offerings.

The IUP ROTC program has commissioned 1,900 officers in its fifty-nine years at IUP. Seven of those officers have gone on to the rank of general, with an eighth officer recently selected for promotion to general—Col. Bryan Owend. Only 302 Army officers can hold the rank of active duty general at any one time.

IUP generals include retired Maj. Gen. Rodney Ruddock, chairman of the Indiana County Board of Commissioners; Brig. Gen. Leslie Miller Purser, a 1980 IUP graduate and IUP’s first female brigadier general; Brig. Gen. Robin Swan; retired Lt. Gen. Joseph S. Laposata; retired Maj. Gen. Larry D. Gottardi; and retired Maj. Gen. Leonard Hoch.

The senior officer in charge of the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center, Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Csrnko, is also an IUP ROTC graduate. Csrnko will be speaking this November in a lecture for IUP’s Six O’Clock Series.

IUP ROTC graduates are serving in more than 125 countries around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan.

Some Indiana University of Pennsylvania students working with the student-operated television station, IUP-TV, have won a 2009 Silver Telly Award for their short film Fish Eyes.

The film was produced and written by IUP Communications Media student Sam Hakes, of Wellsville.

The Telly Awards is a program that honors outstanding local and regional film and television producers from across the country. A panel of 350 judges chooses the Silver Telly winners.

Fish Eyes was rated one of the best-produced student films and was selected from a pool of eleven thousand entries from all fifty states.

It is a short film about feeling as though your life hasn’t started yet. The main character, Madison, an unemployed college student, spends most of his week watching television and browsing the classified ads. One day he decides to stop waiting around and start living.

“The film is a very thought-provoking and surprising one,” Dr. Erick Lauber, Communications Media faculty member and IUP-TV station manager, said. “Sam’s work has always been very good technically, and sometimes he’s written and produced some excellent comedy, but this project really took his writing and producer skills to the next level. It was exactly the kind of thing that film festival committees love to watch.”

Fish Eyes was screened at local and regional festivals including the Johnstown Film and Wine Festival in 2009 and Iris Film Festival in Huntingdon in 2009. It also aired on WIUP-TV. The film can be viewed on line: Fish Eyes on YouTube.

IUP has won nine Telly Awards in the past seven years, including a 2009 Bronze Telly Award for The Humans 101 Project, a humorous look at people’s tendency to overestimate their own abilities. Lauber’s Communications Media 481 course wrote, directed, animated, and edited the film, and ten students shared credit for the award.

Brook Whiffen, professor of Military Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and chair of the department, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Maj. Gen. Rod Ruddock, an IUP ROTC graduate and chairman of the Indiana County Board of Commissioners, presented the promotion.

A native of Jackson, Miss., Whiffen was commissioned as an aviation officer from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1993.

His previous assignments include Brigade S3, 164th Theater Airfield Operations Group; Operation Iraqi Freedom, Fort Rucker, Ala., and Baghdad, Iraq; Battalion S3, 1st Battalion, 11th Aviation Regiment, Fort Rucker; assistant professor of military science (executive officer and recruiting operations officer), University of Mississippi, Oxford; commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 45th Corps Support Group (Forward), Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; adjutant, 1st Battalion, 25th Aviation (Attack) Regiment, Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii; commander, C Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Aviation (Attack) Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas, and Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii; Flight Operations officer-assistant S3, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, Fort Stewart, Ga., and Operation Desert Thunder, Kuwait; and Cobra Platoon leader, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, Fort Stewart.

Whiffen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering (aerospace) from West Point and a Master of Science in engineering science (aeroacoustics) from the University of Mississippi. His military education includes the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Aviation Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Combined Armed Services Staff School, and the AH-1 Cobra and OH-58D Kiowa Warrior Aircraft Qualification courses.

His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with Second Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal with Second Oak Leaf Cluster, the National Defense Service Medal with First Star, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Iraqi Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Overseas Service Ribbon with Second Numeral, Army Aviator Badge and Parachutist Badge.

Whiffen and his wife have three daughters.

OnStage UpTown will offer four concerts at The Coney on Philadelphia Street’s VIP Lounge, starting October 2, 2009, with Alyssa Graham.

Upcoming shows include Leon Redbone on November 14, Dan Dyer on February 6, and Karla Bonoff on March 5.

All shows begin at 9:00 p.m., and tickets are $10 per person. Tickets are available at the Hadley Union Building ticket window and all Indiana First Bank locations. Tickets can also be charged by phone by calling 724-357-1313.

“We are very excited to offer nationally touring performers in a New York City atmosphere right in the heart of Indiana, at a very economical price,” Frank DeStefano, director of the Office of Arts and Entertainment, said.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m., and patrons should access the VIP Room via a private entrance along Philadelphia Street.

People who become fans of the OnStage UpTown Facebook page will receive special offers, including a two-for-one admission.

Graham, a jazz vocalist, singer, and songwriter from New Jersey, recently released her second CD, titled Echo. In 2005, she began her solo career with “What Love Is,” chosen by All About Jazz as one of the “best new recordings of 2005” and for mention in Jazz’s annual “Women In Jazz” issue.

Redbone, who now lives in Bucks County, has been performing since the 1970s. He became known for his rumpled three-piece suits from the 1920s, a wide-brim hat, sunglasses, and thick mustache.

He released his first album, On the Track, in 1976 and appeared on Saturday Night Live in February and May of 1976. His second album, Double Time, released in 1977, went gold. He began to sing television commercial jingles in the early 1980s. A ballet was created by Elliot Feld for Feld Ballets/NY in 1996 using eleven songs arranged and recorded by Redbone.

Redbone’s vocals were featured in the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside” in the movie Elf with Will Ferrell.

Dyer, from Austin, Texas, started performing in the late 1990s with the band Breedlove. After touring with Breedlove, Dyer found his way into commercial songwriting, with songs placed in marketing campaigns for Budweiser, Chevrolet, Dr. Pepper, and Campbell’s Soup.

Dyer worked in New York City with Lenny Kravitz, who produced and released Dyer’s first solo album in 2005, ...Of What Lies Beneath. His 2008 album, Dan Dyer, was named one of the top ten local albums of 2008.

Born and raised in southern California, Bonoff wrote for Linda Rondstadt in her early years. Her first hit single, “I Can’t Hold On” was released in 1977. She also has written songs for the film About Last Night and sings “Somebody’s Eyes” in the film Footloose.

In 1994, she had a top-ten hit single with “Standing Right Next to Me,” a song from the film 8 Seconds. In 1993, her song, “Tell Me Why,” sung by Wynonna Judd, was the title song to Judd’s second album.

She continues to tour and perform throughout the United States and, in 2007, released a live recording of her work.

For more information about OnStage UpTown, call 724-357-4778.

Nicole Buzzelli and Dan Fleming, both of Creekside, were chosen by members of the IUP student body as the queen and king of the Indiana campus.

Jamee Joppy and Billy Harden, both of Harrisburg, were selected as the Homecoming queen and king for IUP at Punxsutawney.

Vanessa Oren, of Macungie, and Brian O’Shea, of York, were first runners-up for the Indiana campus.

Homecoming royalty will be part of the parade and will be recognized at the Homecoming football game and the Homecoming Ball on October 9, 2009.

Although chosen by the IUP student body, members must be nominated by an IUP organization or regional campus.

Nicole Buzzelli

Homecoming Queen, Indiana Campus

Buzzelli, a Child Development and Family Studies major, is the daughter of Kim Buzzelli, of Creekside, and Ben Buzzelli, of Apollo. She is a member of the IUP Red Cross Club and a volunteer for Meals on Wheels and Creekside-Washington Elementary School.

Dan Fleming

Homecoming King, Indiana Campus

Fleming, a Political Science major, is the son of Monica Fishel, of Indiana, and Dan and Michelle Fleming, of Ernest. He is a member of the Marion Center Area School Board, president of the IUP College Republicans, and a Creekside Borough Republican committeeman. He volunteers with the Indiana County Community Action Program and the Salvation Army.

Jamee Joppy

Homecoming Queen, IUP at Punxsutawney

Joppy, a Communications Media major, is the daughter of James Joppy, Sr., and Jennifer Waters. She is a 2009 graduate of Susquehanna Township High School and volunteers at a daycare center.

Billy Harden

Homecoming King, IUP at Punxsutawney

Harden, an Education major, is the son of Bill and Rena Harden. A 2009 graduate of Harrisburg High School, he serves on the Student Advisory Board of IUP at Punxsutawney.

Vanessa Oren

First Runner-Up, Indiana Campus

Oren, an Accounting major, is the daughter of Rodney and Janice Oren. A 2006 graduate of Emmaus High School, she is a Provost Scholar and a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority.

Brian O’Shea

First Runner-Up, Indiana Campus

O’Shea, a Marketing major, is the son of Tom and Kris O’Shea. He is a 2006 graduate of York Suburban High School and a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.

The presentation is free and open to the community.

Peraino is a retired senior biochemist at Argonne National Laboratory and a noted cancer researcher. Sire is an author and former senior editor at Intervarsity Press.

The program is designed to offer a civil discussion of the deepest differences between a dedicated scientist and a devout Christian.

The program is sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Culture and Religion in cooperation with the Department of Religious Studies and the Religious Studies Club.

For more information, contact professor of religious studies Dr. Jim Gibson at jgibson@iup.edu.

IUP will host the first “Coal Bowl” football game on October 3, 2009, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Coal Association.

The winning team will receive a coal miner’s pail trophy, donated by Barry “Buck” Lippencott, a 1967 IUP Geography Education graduate, and his brother, Bob Lippencott, a 1966 California University of Pennsylvania graduate.

The Lippencotts have each made a donation to their universities to establish a named scholarship for a student-athlete in football at each university. The Pennsylvania Coal Association donation will be added to the scholarship funds.

Bob, a linebacker, and Buck, an offensive tackle, played against each other in 1963 and 1964 California and IUP football games.

“This trophy is to honor the coal miner,” Buck Lippencott said. “Coal miners are a special breed: Every day they face danger, routine hardships and difficult work. They work underground in a dangerous environment doing a job that many do not envy.”

The brothers created the scholarships as a thank-you to their universities for helping them to achieve success in their personal and professional lives, he said.

The Pennsylvania Coal Association is a trade organization representing surface and underground coal operators that produce bituminous coal mined in the commonwealth.

Its membership produces more than 80 percent of the bituminous coal mined each year in Western Pennsylvania to generate affordable and reliable electricity.

“The Pennsylvania Coal Association is honored to sponsor the inaugural Coal Bowl between two of the commonwealth’s finest universities that are located in the heart of the coalfields,” Pennsylvania Coal Association President George Ellis said.

The trophy presentation will take place immediately following the game and will include the Lippencott brothers. Each year, a brass tag—reminiscent of the brass tags worn by miners—will be placed on the bucket with the year, winning team, and the score.

The trophy pays homage to the critical role of the pail in the daily life of a miner, Bob Lippencott explained. The pail consisted of three parts: the larger bottom part for water, the middle tray for sandwiches or other food, and the top for fruit, dessert, chewing tobacco, or other items.

“The pail was more than just a lunch pail. It connected the miner with their family during the period that they were deep underground in the dangerous environment of the mine.”

The Lippencott brothers—Ken, Bob, Buck, and Tom—grew up in the Pittsburgh coal seam in Brownsville. Their father, Chauncey H. Lippencott, Jr., was employed by Roberts and Schaefer Company of Chicago. He built coal processing facilities and worked in the coal industry for more than forty years.

During high school and college, the brothers spent their summer and holiday vacations working in the coal fields with their father. “A strong work ethic and family values of the coal miner were instilled in us at an early age, because our family roots were tied to the coal industry,” Buck Lippencott said.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania hosted members of the Global Spectrum leadership team Monday, September 28, 2009, for a briefing about Global Spectrum’s management of the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex’s Ed Fry Arena.

Doug Higgons, regional vice president, provided information about the company, which manages more than eighty arenas, stadiums, convention centers, and theaters, including eleven university convocation centers and arenas.

Higgons said that it will take about fifteen months for Global Spectrum to announce the first bookings for the event, but the company is actively soliciting some national tours to appear at IUP.

Currently, Global Spectrum officials are working with IUP to develop a booking and scheduling policy.

Remarks were also offered by Indiana County Commissioner Rod Ruddock and Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president.

In July, IUP selected Global Spectrum, a subsidiary of Comcast-Spectacor, to manage, market, and operate the Ed Fry Arena in the KCAC.

Global Spectrum will handle all pre-opening phases of managing the arena. This includes working and consulting on the final stages of facility design and construction; preparing marketing programs and marketing the arena; recruiting and hiring a general manager and all staff for the arena; assisting in the procurement of furniture, fixtures, and equipment; booking the arena; and consulting on the selection of subcontractors and analyzing all operational details.

Global Spectrum will also work with IUP to establish and implement financial and accounting programs and procedures and prepare the arena for its opening. The Global Spectrum staff will handle, upon opening, the day-to-day management of the arena, including booking, scheduling, marketing, maintenance, contracted services, staffing, and other operations.

In addition to serving the needs of men’s and women’s basketball, the new arena will be the site of concerts, family shows, special events, and other attractions for the surrounding community.

The arena was named for Fry, a retired faculty member in the Department of Music and longtime IUP track and field coach, following a $1-million gift from Chad Hurley, a 1999 IUP graduate, in honor of his former coach. Hurley is cofounder of video sharing website YouTube.

Global Spectrum was chosen following a national search by a committee of university and community members.

University officials broke ground in November 2008 for the KCAC, a $53.4-million facility along Wayne Avenue adjacent to the university. The KCAC, named in honor of the Kovalchick family, of Indiana, will also include the 650-seat Christine Toretti auditorium, a conference center, grand lobby, commercial kitchen, and offices for IUP athletics.

Construction for the KCAC began in March and will be completed in June 2011.

Currently, seven major conferences have been tentatively scheduled for the first year of operation of the KCAC. They include a state convention, state youth athletic tournament, and other university and community related events through IUP’s Office of Conference Services.

Note: Gian Pagnucci’s “Open Office Hours” are now live on the IUP Facebook page: Open Office Hours with Gian Pagnucci. 

You are invited to join Gian Pagnucci, IUP’s 2009–2010 University Professor, for a series of “Open Office Hours” offered via Facebook, the popular social-networking site. The interactive, on-line event begins on Monday, October 5, 2009, and will continue through Homecoming.

Pagnucci, a professor of English, will kick off his open office hours with a short video in which he discusses his research interests, including digital technology and the teaching of writing, digital literacy, and graphic novels.

IUP students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the public will then be invited to post comments and questions in response to the video. Pagnucci will respond to those questions in a second video to be posted later in the week.

How to Participate

The event will take place on IUP’s Facebook page. It is not necessary to have a Facebook account to watch the video or see the most recent comments. However, to read all comments and to post questions and comments, a Facebook account is required.

Fans of IUP’s Facebook page will receive a reminder about the open office hours event. Anyone who wishes to receive the reminder can become a fan of IUP on Facebook at any time before the event begins.

Gealy W. Wallwork, a member of the Council of Trustees, has been recognized with the naming of a residence hall in his honor.

The Sutton Suites, completed in Phase III of the Residential Revival, will be named the Gealy W. Wallwork Residence Hall.

The Council of Trustees approved the naming during its public meeting September 25, 2009.

The resolution accepted by the trustees recognized Wallwork’s commitment to IUP and his “considerable expertise and wisdom during a time of university growth that has included development of the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex, the Student Residential Revival, successful fundraising campaigns, and many other initiatives.”

The residence hall, at Pratt Drive and Grant Street, reflects the architecture of Sutton Hall, the university’s main administration building. It includes a number of rooms for meetings and recreation, as well as a multipurpose room that accommodates up to 150 people.

Wallwork, of Kittanning, has served as a member of the Council of Trustees since 1991. An active volunteer for the university, he chairs the Administration and Finance Committee. He has served as a member of the Academic Affairs and University Relations committees and the President’s Formal and Informal Review committees, chairman of the Nomination Committee, and liaison to the Foundation for IUP Board of Directors. 

In 2006, Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, presented Wallwork with the President’s Medal of Distinction, the highest non-degree award presented by IUP. It was established in 1985 to honor citizens of the state and region whose contributions in the areas of professional achievement or public service are of national significance or whose contributions are of special significance to the university.

Wallwork is the retired president and chief executive officer of the Arthur T. Walker Estate Corporation, which served as a holding company for the Shawmut Companies. 

His career spans forty-four years in operation and management positions in the mining business, from mine level through corporate headquarters. A graduate of Lehigh University with a B.S. in Mining Engineering, he earned an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. During his career, he worked for Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company, North American Coal Corporation, and Bethlehem Mines Corporation.

He is a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and serves on the boards of CQ Inc. and Fuelmakers Inc. A member of Rotary International, he serves on the executive boards of the Moraine Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission.

More from the Council of Trustees Meeting

• Photo gallery of resolution presentations
• KCAC Athletic Suites to Be Named for Brattons
• Pidgeon Honored with Naming of Natatorium
• IUP Fairman Centre Gifts Acknowledged with Namings

The Council of Trustees approved the naming during its public meeting September 25, 2009.

In the resolution, the trustees noted that Pidgeon provided “extraordinary support for and commitment to the university’s athletic department,” including a gift in 2004 to establish the John A. Pidgeon Scholarship for men and women swimmers.

The resolution also recognized that Pidgeon was responsible for securing additional contributions to the Pidgeon Scholarship and gave “considerable time in his service as a volunteer coach for the IUP men’s and women’s swim teams and as a volunteer coach of a youth swim team.”

Pidgeon died on May 12, 2008. He volunteered as an IUP swimming coach from 2002 to 2007.

Pidgeon retired from his position as headmaster of the Kiski School in 2002 after forty-five years of service. A native of Massachusetts, he was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and a graduate of Bowdoin College. He held honorary doctoral degrees from Bethany College and Washington and Jefferson College. In addition to his work as headmaster at Kiski, he also taught English and coached several sports teams and numerous prep school All-American swimmers.

Resolutions for the namings were approved by the Council of Trustees during its public meeting September 25, 2009.

The entrance vestibule, lobby, and dining area will be named in recognition of gifts from the Borough of Punxsutawney. The large kitchen will be named in honor of the Punxsutawney Area College Trust.

Two student suites were named in honor of gifts:

• The Linda D. and C. David Deabenderfer Student Suite recognized a gift from the Deabenderfers in memory of Linda Deabenderfer’s parents, Lettie Jean and Alvin C. Drummond.
• The KTH Student Suite was named in honor of a gift from KTH Architects Inc., in memory of Peggy A. Hine-Brady, mother of Ethan Hine, a member of KTH Architects.

On September 18, the Foundation for IUP and IUP celebrated the completion of a $6-million renovation of the IUP Fairman Centre with formal ribbon-cutting ceremonies.

The IUP Fairman Centre, at 101 Mahoning Street in downtown Punxsutawney, is a multiuse, 24,308-square-foot building with retail space currently occupied by Gilson Glass and More, two kitchens, a dining room, lobby, three classrooms with multimedia technology, board room, a 112-seat auditorium with multimedia capabilities and “smart” podium, and twelve rooms for twenty-three students in IUP’s Academy of Culinary Arts.

The renovation and subsequent uses of the center are estimated to create up to sixty new jobs within five years of operation and add the opportunity for three hundred new students at the Academy of Culinary Arts and IUP at Punxsutawney—IUP’s two educational centers in Punxsutawney.

The 106-year-old IUP Fairman Centre is the former J.B. Eberhart Building, which was a retail and business center. In ceremonies held October 27, 2006, the Punxsutawney Regional Development Corporation presented the building to the Foundation for IUP, a nonprofit entity.

The Council of Trustees approved a resolution for the naming during its public meeting September 25, 2009.

In March, Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, announced that the university received a $1-million gift from Bratton for the KCAC.

In approving the resolution, the trustees noted that the Brattons “believe in community-university support for the KCAC” and “are renowned for their significant, long-term consistent vision and wisdom for their generous support of IUP.”

Construction officially began February 16 for the KCAC, a $53.49-million, 150,000-square-foot facility to be located along Wayne Avenue adjacent to the university.

The facility includes the 5,000-seat Ed Fry Arena, the 650-seat Christine Toretti auditorium, a conference center, grand lobby, and commercial kitchen.

The KCAC is a Pennsylvania Department of General Services project, scheduled for completion in summer 2011. It is projected to have a $22-million economic impact on the region during construction and an annual economic impact of $12.5 million in each year of operation.

During the March ceremony to announce the gift, Atwater recognized Bratton for “significant, long-term, consistent and generous support to IUP and the Indiana community,” including efforts to benefit the American Cancer Society, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Indiana County, the Foundation for IUP, Indiana County YMCA, IUP Athletics, American Red Cross, and United Way of Indiana County.

Bratton is the owner of the Giant Eagle store in Indiana.

Other major gifts to the KCAC have included a $2-million donation from the Kovalchick family, of Indiana, for whom the facility is named, and a $1-million challenge gift from Chad Hurley, a 1999 IUP graduate, who made the gift in honor of retired music professor Ed Fry, his former track and field coach. Hurley is one of the founders of video-sharing website YouTube.

(See photos from the event: Residential Revival Phase III Ribbon Cutting Photo Gallery.)

Phase III of this $270-million multiphase project includes the Sutton Suites and Suites on Pratt, offering 1,084 beds for Fall 2009.
The Residential Revival’s continued advancement is symbolic of the investment in IUP’s future, Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, said during ribbon-cutting ceremonies.

“We are committed to maintaining a legacy of excellence while moving forward to secure the university’s future for generations to come. This nationally recognized capital project offers important linkages to the living-learning concept in order to ensure student academic success,” he said.

“These new buildings complement the look of an already beautiful campus in a very unique way. This project not only meets our primary goal of serving our students but also serves the community by attracting jobs and enhancing the economic climate of Indiana Borough and Indiana County.”

Other speakers included David Osikowicz of the Council of Trustees; Frank Kinter Jr., secretary-treasurer of the Foundation for IUP; Dr. Stuart Chandler, professor of religious studies; and student Christina Santiago. Remarks from state Senator Don White were offered by Rod Ruddock, Indiana County commissioner.

The Sutton Suites building, at Pratt Drive and Grant Street, reflects the architecture of Sutton Hall, the university’s main administration building. The Suites on Pratt building is at Maple Street and Pratt Drive.

Sutton Suites will include a number of rooms for meetings and recreation, as well as a multipurpose room that accommodates up to 150 people. It also will remain open during university breaks to accommodate international students.

The Foundation for IUP, a nonprofit entity, owns the completed buildings. It is coordinating construction of the project through developer Allen and O’Hara of Memphis, Tenn. Massaro Corp. of Pittsburgh is the general contractor for the project. The buildings were designed by WTW Architects of Pittsburgh.

The Residential Revival involves the replacement or renovation of fourteen of IUP’s residence halls with buildings that integrate a “living-learning” philosophy into their design. During the four phases of the Residential Revival, IUP will maintain its current bed capacity of approximately 3,800. Whitmyre Hall, home to the Robert E. Cook Honors College, is the only residence hall that will not be replaced.

The project is participating in a federal program called LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. All of the buildings in the project are designed to reflect a “green building” philosophy.

In conjunction with the living-learning emphasis, all of the residence halls reflect a special theme, and many have “clusters” of students with common interests or majoring in specific disciplines.

The themes are global awareness for the Sutton Suites and leadership development and civic engagement for the Suites on Pratt. The Sutton Suites building also has a cluster for Asian studies, global awareness and Piso Cervantes (Spanish).

The Suites on Pratt building has a business cluster, but this focus will shift to the Crimson Suites, part of the final phase of the Residential Revival, when it is completed in Fall 2010.

Phase II, completed for fall 2008 student occupancy, involved the Suites on Maple East, Suites on Maple West, and the Northern Suites. These buildings provide 1,102 beds for students.

Completed before the Fall 2007 semester, Phase I of the Residential Revival included Susan Snell Delaney Hall, dedicated in May 2008 in honor of Susan Snell Delaney, a longtime member of the university’s Council of Trustees, and Donna D. Putt Hall, dedicated in June 2009 in honor of Donna D. Putt, former president of the Foundation for IUP. Delaney and Putt halls offer 746 beds.

To make way for the Phase III buildings, Campus Towers, Esch and Wallace halls, and the Pechan Health Center were razed.

Campus Towers, built in 1971 by a private business, was purchased by the university in 1990. Campus Towers was one of the first two buildings, along with University Towers, to offer apartment-style living on campus.

Esch Hall, constructed in 1973, served the university for thirty-five years as a coeducational residence facility. The building was named after Mary L. Esch, who served as the university’s registrar for fifty years.

Wallace Hall was constructed in 1973 as a mirror image of Esch Hall and, like Esch, served as a coeducational residential building. The facility was named in honor of Florence Wallace, a social studies professor at IUP from 1933 to 1964.

Pechan Health Center was built in 1968 and named after Pennsylvania Senator Albert R. Pechan, a former dentist from Ford City who died in 1969.

At top: Pictured cutting the ribbon were, from left, Lynn Barger, acting vice president for University Relations and acting executive director of the Foundation for IUP; Dr. Stuart Chandler, professor of religious studies and speaker; Dr. Yong Colen, Foundation for IUP board member; Susan Delaney, IUP trustee; Ray Edwards, IUP student trustee; Sandi Gillette, representing state Senator Don White; Carson Greene of the Indiana County Development Corp.; David Osikowicz, IUP trustee; Rod Ruddock, Indiana County commissioner; Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president; Frank Kinter, Foundation for IUP secretary-treasurer; Dr. Rhonda Luckey, vice president for Student Affairs; George Hood, Indiana Borough mayor; Sue McMurdy, Foundation for IUP board member; Gail McCauley, White Township supervisor; Diana Paccapaniccia, Indiana school board; Dr. Ruth Riesenman, Foundation for IUP board member; Christina Santiago, student speaker; and Gealy Wallwork, IUP trustee.

International Education Week is a joint national initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.

Programs are being planned at IUP in collaboration with the IUP foreign language departments and Lively Arts series.

All events are free and open to the community unless otherwise noted.

October 5

• International Education Week luncheon, noon to 1:15 p.m., Crimson Event Center, Folger Hall. The luncheon features music by guitarist and vocalist Terri Sabo, of Indiana.
• International photo exhibit opening at 7:30 p.m. at the Commonplace Coffeehouse, Grant Street.
• Spanish film My Time Will Come, 9:00 p.m., Sprowls Auditorium. The movie is the story of a murder and series of interlocking tragedies that eventually find their way to the city morgue’s Dr. Arturo Fernandez. The story is adapted from the novel De Que Nada Se Sabe, and the movie is directed by Víctor Arregui.

October 6

• Study abroad fair, noon to 4:00 p.m., Hadley Union Building Ohio Room. Students can obtain information, talk to representatives and alumni about IUP reciprocal exchanges, affiliated programs, faculty-led programs, and overseas volunteer and service-learning opportunities.
• Chinese film Getting Home, 9:00 p.m., Sprowls auditorium. This comedy is about Zhao, a middle-aged construction worker, who struggles to fulfill a dying co-worker's last wish to be buried in China’s Three Gorges region. Setting out with his colleague's body in tow, Zhao travels hundreds of miles, encountering a number of colorful adventures and characters.

October 7

• International tea time, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Hadley Union Building Susquehanna Room. IUP international students will share tea, coffee, juice, food, and customs favored by their respective countries.
• French and Arabic film What a Wonderful World, 9:00 p.m., Sprowls auditorium. The movie is about Souad, a prostitute whose best friend is Kenza, a tough traffic cop, and Kamel, a stony-eyed contract killer, Souad’s favorite customer. When Kenza falls in love with Kamel, the two begin a bizarre courtship.

Products from Mi Esperanza, a nonprofit organization that supports the women of Honduras by helping them to create small businesses, will be on display and for sale October 5, 6, and 7 in conjunction with the afternoon events.

Events conclude October 8 with the program “Teaching English Abroad” from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Room G98, the multipurpose room, of the Sutton Suites and a Lively Arts concert at 8:00 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall by the Jones-Maruri Duo, featuring a cellist from the United Kingdom and a Spanish guitarist. Tickets for the concert are available at the Hadley Union Building ticket counter and are $16, $14, or $10.

Hosted by Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, and his wife, Dr. Beverly Roberts-Atwater, the Homecoming Ball is open to the community as well as returning alumni. The IUP Jazz Ensemble will offer dance music.

All proceeds from the dinner dance benefit the IUP Presidential Scholars Fund, which assists promising students in their studies at IUP.

Tickets are $75 per person and can be reserved by calling the University Events office at 724-357-2145.

The event is cocktail attire, black tie optional.

Members of Global Spectrum’s leadership team will present information about the firm’s management of the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex’s Ed Fry Arena on Monday, September 28, 2009, at 7:30 a.m. at the Crimson Events Center.

On hand for the event will be Doug Higgons, regional vice president, and Dan Rubino, director of projects, both of Global Spectrum.

In July, IUP selected Global Spectrum, a subsidiary of Comcast-Spectacor, to manage, market, and operate the Ed Fry Arena (See “Global Spectrum to Manage Convention Center’s Ed Fry Arena”).

The arena was named for Fry, a retired faculty member in the Department of Music and longtime track and field coach, following a $1-million gift from Chad Hurley, a 1999 IUP graduate, in honor of his former coach. Hurley is cofounder of video sharing website YouTube.

A leading firm for managing university arenas, Global Spectrum will handle all pre-opening phases of managing the arena. That includes working and consulting on the final stages of facility design and construction; preparing marketing programs and marketing the arena; recruiting and hiring a general manager and all staff for the arena; assisting in the procurement of furniture, fixtures, and equipment; booking the arena; consulting on the selection of subcontractors; and analyzing all operational details.

Global Spectrum will also work with IUP to establish and implement financial and accounting programs and procedures and prepare the arena for its opening. The Global Spectrum staff will handle, upon opening, the day-to-day management of the arena, including booking, scheduling, marketing, maintenance, contracted services, and staffing.

In addition to serving the needs of men’s and women’s basketball, the new arena will be the site of concerts, family shows, special events, and other community attractions.

Global Spectrum was chosen by a committee of university and community members following a national search.

University officials broke ground in November 2008 for the Kovalchick complex, a $53.4-million facility along Wayne Avenue, adjacent to the university. Named in honor of the Kovalchick family, of Indiana, the complex will include a 650-seat Christine Toretti auditorium, a conference center, grand lobby, commercial kitchen, and offices for IUP athletics. Construction, which began in March, will be completed in June 2011.

Currently, seven major conferences have been tentatively scheduled for the first year of operation of the Kovalchick complex. They include a state convention, state youth athletic tournament, and other university and community-related events.

A series of lectures and programs will be offered in conjunction with the exhibit “A Walk Through Time: Western Pennsylvania Coal Culture” at Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s University Museum.

Except for the presentations September 26, November 4, and November 18, all programs will be held in the University Museum, on the first floor of IUP’s Sutton Hall. The programs are free and open to the community. The schedule is as follows:

• September 26, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.: “Out of the Ground,” a lecture and documentary film by Andy McAllister, to be presented at the Indiana Theater, downtown Indiana. A descendant of immigrant coal miners, McAllister works as the watershed outreach coordinator for the Greensburg-based Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation, a nonprofit organization serving twenty-four counties in the bituminous coal region of Western Pennsylvania.
• October 14, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.: “Life and Times in the Pennsylvanian Coal Swamp: The Origin of Pennsylvania’s Coal Deposits” by John Taylor. A native of Indiana, Taylor is a resident paleontologist and stratigrapher in the IUP Department of Geoscience. He was involved in collaborative research with the geology staff of the local Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company through the late 1980s and 1990s, and he has supervised numerous student research projects using the information in what is now the R&P archives collection at IUP.
• October 21, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.: “Pennsylvania’s Coal and Iron Police: Patch Town Law Enforcement,” presented by Spencer Sadler. Sadler is a local freelance writer and educator. He has collected stories and photos through traditional research and personal interviews, court documents, archived newspaper clippings, coal company records, journals, and other materials.
• October 28, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.: “I Sold My Soul to the Company Town: Company Control in the Coal Patches of Western Pennsylvania, 1910–1930” by Dr. Elizabeth Ricketts. An assistant professor of history at IUP, Ricketts teaches courses in labor and African-American and women’s history. Her research and publications focus on the social, labor, and political history of coal miners in Western Pennsylvania.
• November 4, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.: “Strike! Lessons Learned from the 1927–1928 Coal Strike at Rossiter” by Dr. Jim Dougherty. This program will be held in McVitty Auditorium, Sprowls Hall. An assistant professor of sociology and director of the IUP Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, Dougherty is producer of the film “The Struggle for an American Way of Life: Coal Miners and Operators in Central Pennsylvania, 1919–1933.” He has coordinated oral history projects in numerous mining communities throughout the region.
• November 18, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.: “Unions: Roots of the ‘Democratic Impulse’ in District 2, UMWA, 1919–1946” by Dr. Irwin Marcus. This program will be held in McVitty Auditorium, Sprowls Hall. Professor emeritus with IUP’s Department of History, Marcus created the university’s first courses in U.S. labor history, African-American history, and the history of protest movements. His research and publications focus on the history of Pennsylvania coal miners and steel workers, deindustrialization, and globalization.
• December 5, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.: “Researching Family History with Coal Culture Resources” by Rhonda Yeager. Assistant archivist in IUP’s Special Collections and University Archives, Yeager served as the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company project archivist for 2006–2007 and continues to assist patrons with research for the collection. She has taught a course on “Introduction to Genealogy” for IUP Continuing Education and is the co-curator of the museum exhibition.

Registration for lectures is preferred but not required. To register or for information, contact Sally Daskivich at the College of Fine Arts at 724-357-2397 or sdaskivi@iup.edu.

The Pennsylvania Coal Culture exhibition will be available through December 5, 2009. Artifacts and documents of coal-mining life in Western Pennsylvania are presented jointly by IUP Special Collections and University Archives, the Tri-Area Historical Society and Liberty Museum in Nanty Glo, the Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County, and private collectors.

The exhibit features artifacts, photographs, mine maps, and ledgers that document Western Pennsylvania bituminous coal culture, including the work and lives of miners and their families, the company towns, and community activities such as baseball games.

The show also features photos and items that document the operations of Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company and other companies, mine disasters, coal miner strikes, and unionization.

Some of the company towns in Indiana and Cambria counties that are highlighted in the exhibit are Clymer, Commodore, Coral, Ernest, Heilwood, Iselin, Nanty Glo, Sagamore, and Whiskey Run.

IUP actively preserves coal culture through the Special Collections and University Archives; the Institute for Mine Mapping, Archival Procedures and Safety (IMAPS); and the Center for Northern Appalachian Studies.

The Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company collection is the largest manuscript grouping housed in the IUP Special Collections and University Archives. This collection represents more than one hundred years of local history. R&P was organized in 1881, and the collection is a complete record of the company until R&P was purchased by CONSOL Coal Group in 1998.

More information about the collection is available at the IUP Special Collections and University Archives website.

IMAPS is a multidisciplinary group of faculty, staff, and students who work together to digitize, record, and preserve historical mining maps.

IMAPS has digitized more than five hundred maps, including mining maps from the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company, using a large format Cruse scanner. Institute personnel also are developing a Web-based searchable database of Pennsylvania mine maps. For more information, visit the IMAPS website.

The University Museum is free and open to the public on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday from noon to 7:30 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 4:00 p.m. More information is available on the museum website.

This enrollment reflects an academically strong student body, IUP officials said, with the average SAT scores of new students continuing to rise.

The previous enrollment record was set in Fall 1991 with 14,620 students enrolled at the university.

Enrollment for 2008 was 14,310 students, which included two all-time highs: freshman and new student enrollment of 3,216 and graduate enrollment of 2,382.

Since 2007, enrollment has grown by more than six hundred students, or 4.4 percent, across all IUP instructional sites and campuses. Enrollment in 2007 totaled 14,018, which included 2,673 freshmen and new students and 2,294 graduate students.

“IUP is pleased to have established a new record for enrollment,” Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, said. “These results clearly demonstrate that we are making strides in becoming the university of choice in Western Pennsylvania. It is incredible that, as high school graduation rates are declining in our surrounding counties, we have been able to register an all-time record enrollment.”

Currently, IUP’s out-of-state enrollment is at 7 percent of its overall student population, or 1,043 students.

In August 2007, the Pennsylvania State System Board of Governors approved, at IUP’s request, a tuition differential for academically strong students outside of Pennsylvania. This new policy allows IUP to admit out-of-state freshman and transfer students with a 3.0 grade-point average at 150 percent of in-state tuition.

Enrollment of undergraduate minority students at the university remains at 14 percent (1,712).

Overall, 13 percent of all IUP students (1,852) are minority and 4.8 percent (703) are international, up thirty-nine international students from Fall 2008. More than sixty-five countries are represented within IUP’s international student population.

Enrollment continues to be strong at both IUP’s Punxsutawney and Northpointe (Armstrong County) campuses, with 295 students at Punxsutawney, compared to 294 students in Fall 2008, and 194 undergraduate and graduate students at Northpointe, compared to 159 students in Fall 2008.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for Phase III of the Residential Revival at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, September 24, 2009, in the Sutton Suites courtyard, along Pratt Drive.

Phase III involved the completion of the Sutton Suites, opposite the east lawn of Sutton Hall, and the Suites on Pratt, at the corner of Maple Street and Pratt Drive.

These buildings offer 1,084 beds and opened to students at the start of the Fall semester. The Sutton Suites building also has large meeting rooms for university use and will remain open for international students during breaks.

To make way for the Phase III suite-style buildings, Esch and Wallace halls and Campus Towers were demolished.

The Residential Revival, a partnership of the Foundation for IUP and IUP, is a $270-million project that involves replacing most of IUP’s residence halls with buildings that incorporate campus amenities and services on the ground floor.

The Foundation for IUP, which has coordinated construction of the project with developer Allen and O’Hara of Memphis, Tenn., will own the buildings once they are completed.

Currently under way, Phase IV of the Residential Revival involved the demolition of the Governors Quad residence halls and construction of the Crimson Suites, a 569-bed facility that will open in Fall 2010.

The event is sponsored by the IUP Department of Music, the College of Fine Arts, the Robert E. Cook Honors College, the Asian Studies Committee, and Karma Thegsum Choling, a Tibetan meditation center.

The program is free and open to the community. It will be presented by Tom Schmidt and Lama Tashi Topgyal, who will provide demonstrations of Tibetan instruments and discuss their use and significance in Tibetan Buddhist liturgical music.

Topgyal is from Raktrul Monastery in eastern Tibet. He came to the U.S. in 2003 to teach at Kunzang Palchen Ling, a Tibetan center in Redhook, N.Y.

Schmidt is director of Karma Thegsum Choyang Music, a studio associated with Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, a Tibetan monastery in Woodstock, N.Y. The studio is dedicated to the recording and preservation of Tibetan liturgical music.

In 1997, Schmidt acted as liaison between the monastery and Martin Scorsese’s film Kundun, about the life of the XIV Dalai Lama, when scenes were shot in the main shrine room of the monastery.

In the summer of 1999, Schmidt traveled to Tibet, China, Nepal, and India to study Kagyu sacred music. He produced a benefit concert for the monastery in 2004, with Philip Glass as principal guest artist, and a second benefit concert in 2005 with Lori Anderson. In 2008, he produced a concert with Jack DeJohnette and Pat Metheny.

The workshop will address topics including how to develop new products, problem solving, and the value of observation of potential customers.

Registration for the forum is required by October 7. Cost, which includes the luncheon, is $49.

Sean McLanahan, executive vice president and chief financial officer of McLanahan Corp., will be the keynote speaker for the luncheon.

Other presenters and programs are as follows:

• Tony Palamone, director of the IUP Small Business Development Center, presenting “A Call to Innovate: Problems and Possibilities” at 8:15 a.m.
• Panel discussion on “The Product Development Process: Opportunity Identification, Opportunity Assessment and Opportunity Development” at 8:35 a.m., featuring Matt Beale from Daedelus Excel, Lou Musante of Echo Strategies, and Eugene Bem of Iphimedia LC.
• Tracey Missien, interim director of IUP’s Office of Workforce and Economic Development, presenting “Participants’ Roundtable: Grading Your Organizations’ Readiness to Innovate” and “An Innovation Toolkit: Things You May not Know about IUP” at 10:00 a.m. and 11:25 a.m., respectively.

About the Presenters and Their Companies

Sean McLanahan, McLanahan Corp.

McLanahan Corp. is one of the fifty oldest family businesses in America and was inducted into IUP’s Family Business Hall of Fame in 2004. Sean McLanahan is a native of Western Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Hollidaysburg High School and IUP.

Tony Palamone, Small Business Development Center

Before accepting the position with IUP’s Small Business Development Center, Palamone operated his own consulting practice. He has studied and worked extensively in the areas of product, business, market, and economic development. Palamone holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in city and regional planning from IUP.

Matt Beale, Daedalus Excel

Daedalus Excel provides research, design, human factors, engineering, and manufacturing transition services to medical, scientific, consumer, and industrial product companies. Beale is a principal of Daedalus Design, where he developed the firm’s specialties in augmentative, diagnostic, and therapeutic health-care products. He also teaches industrial design at Carnegie Mellon University and has designed and conducted a series of corporate seminars aimed at improving the safety of medical and industrial devices.

Lou Musante, Echo Strategies

Echo Strategies is a professional services firm specializing in marketing research, training, and innovation services. Musante has thirty years of experience in the marketing research business.

Eugene Bem, Iphimedia LC

Iphimedia develops approaches to launch new products or services, introduce improvements to existing product portfolios, and use new business opportunities. Bem has more than twenty years of experience as a management consultant and investment advisor to senior executives.

Tracey Missien, Office of Workforce and Economic Development

Missien joined IUP in 2007 as assistant director of business development and training services in the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and an MBA from IUP. Her background includes more than twenty years of corporate experience in health care and financial services.

Contact

To register, contact the Office of Conference Services at 724-357-2227.

“The IUP Fairman Centre signals a new era of economic revitalization and growth in Punxsutawney,” Dr. Tony Atwater, president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, said. “IUP enjoys contributing to the welfare and progress of our host communities. We take pride in developing partnerships that bring growth and prosperity to local communities, our region, and the commonwealth..”

Atwater described the project is a “win-win” proposition for all involved. “The community retains this beautiful, historic building in a restored condition that benefits the downtown district, and the university benefits through educational activities and programs that support curricular and workforce education goals.”

The IUP Fairman Centre, at 101 Mahoning Street in downtown Punxsutawney, is a multiuse, 24,308-square-foot building with retail space currently occupied by Gilson Glass and More, two kitchens, a dining room, lobby, three classrooms with multimedia technology, board room, a 112-seat auditorium with multimedia capabilities and “smart” podium, and twelve rooms for twenty-three students in IUP’s Academy of Culinary Arts. The building also has wireless Internet.

The renovation and subsequent uses of the center are estimated to create up to sixty new jobs within five years of operation and add the opportunity for three hundred new students at the Academy of Culinary Arts and IUP at Punxsutawney—IUP’s two educational centers in Punxsutawney.

The Academy of Culinary Arts, along Gilpin Street, is a certification program limited to one hundred students. IUP at Punxsutawney, along Winslow Street, enrolls three hundred students who complete their first-year studies at that campus.

In addition to Atwater, speakers during today’s ribbon-cutting ceremony included Dr. Valarie Trimarchi, dean of IUP at Punxsutawney; Timothy Rupert, vice president of the Foundation for IUP Board of Directors; state Rep. Sam Smith and David Osikowicz, both members of IUP’s Council of Trustees; Hilary DeMane, executive pastry chef at the Academy of Culinary Arts; and Joyce Fairman, representing the Fairman families, of Jefferson County.

In his remarks, Atwater thanked members of the Punxsutawney-area community for their support of the project, including financial supporters Elaine Light, the Punxsutawney Area College Trust, the Borough of Punxsutawney, KTH Architects Inc., and Linda and C. David Deabenderfer.

The 106-year-old IUP Fairman Centre is the former J.B. Eberhart Building, a retail and business center. In ceremonies held October 27, 2006, the Punxsutawney Regional Development Corp. presented the building to the Foundation for IUP, a nonprofit entity.

During that event, Atwater announced a $1.9-million gift from the Alan and Roy Fairman families, of Jefferson County, for renovation of the facility, which was renamed the IUP Fairman Centre in honor and memory of the late Alan Fairman and the late Roy Fairman. The Fairman family gift is the second largest gift in IUP history for a single purpose.

Alan Fairman was responsible for the construction of a youth recreation facility, named in his honor and memory, in Currensville and was a volunteer with youth sports almost all of his adult life. The Fairman families also established the Roy R. Fairman Scholarship for Punxsutawney High School students and have supported other scholarship and educational initiatives in the region and at IUP, including the restoration of McElhaney Hall.

Roy Fairman served as a member of the Foundation for IUP Board of Directors from 1983 to 1991 and the IUP Council of Trustees from 1989 to 1993. The Fairmans own Fairman Drilling Co., based in DuBois.

The Fairman gift added to and leveraged $2,444,500 in grants and contributions from federal, state and local agencies for renovation of the facility, including $2 million from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program Matching Funds, $200,000 from the Appalachian Region Commission, $195,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture-Rural Business Enterprise, and $50,000 from the Borough of Punxsutawney. The building is appraised at $71,500, and renovation costs are estimated to be $4.7 million.

The J.B. Eberhart Building was built by J.B. Eberhart, a business owner from Ridgway who came to Punxsutawney in 1898. At the time of the building’s construction in 1902, it was the largest department store between Punxsutawney and Buffalo, N.Y.

In its early years, in addition to the traditional department store offerings on the first and second floors of the building, seven offices occupied the third floor: Bellefonte Coal and Coke Co., the H.G. Bowers coal interest, the T.M. Kurtz and S.A. Rinn coal and lumber interests, Valier Coal Co., Williams Coal Co., and Watters & Co. brokers.

The building was remodeled in 1928 to include a third floor of “household fixings” with a model home display. A new elevator was added to the building at that time.

As a result of the Depression, the store ended business in 1932, and the building was sold to the G.C. Murphy Co. The facility operated as the G.C. Murphy Co. Five and Ten Cent Store from 1934 until the mid-1980s, when it was sold to a private owner. The building was occupied by the Western Auto Store with Wade Mock’s Photo Lab during the 1980s and early 1990s. It was last occupied in 1992.

In 2001, the Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce approached the Punxsutawney Regional Development Corp. with the idea of a partnership to rehabilitate the building. The building was sold to the partnering groups on August 21, 2001, after the development corporation secured grant funding.

In early 2005, Punxsutawney Regional Development Corp. President Frank Roberts began discussions with IUP about the idea of restoring the building as a viable economic enterprise for the region.

The conference will be held at the Quality Inn and Suites in Indiana. Cost is $20 for adults and $10 for students. To register, contact Brad Wiggins, b.e.wiggins@iup.edu, or Deb Mock, dmock@iup.edu. Transportation for students from IUP to the conference site will be provided free of charge.

The theme for the conference is “Communications Media and Instructional Technology in Economically Changing Times.”

Presentations for September 24

Giving the keynote address for the luncheon will be Dr. Elzar Camper from East Stroudsburg University, who will speak on “The Importance of Public Policy: Technology, Brain Fitness and Neuroplasticity” at 12:15 p.m. on September 24.

The general session keynote presentation is by Michael Young, vice president of KDKA Radio and an IUP graduate, who will speak on “The Resiliency and Relevance of Radio” at 12:45 p.m.

Other presentations that day are as follows:

• 1:25 p.m., Karl Roeper, Matthew McKeague and Jennifer Forrest, IUP:  “The Need for Oral Communications and Presentation Skills in Undergraduate Programs”
• 2:05 p.m., Dr. Mary Beth Leidman and Brad Wiggins, IUP: “Redefining Diversity: A Reassessment of Multiculturalism in the New Age”
• 2:45 p.m., Leidman, McKeague, Matthew Beuker, Benjamin Diehl, Derek Lambert, Christopher Makely, Katie Morgan, IUP: “Lingering Questions: The Fairness Doctrine and Presidential Campaigns in Western Pennsylvania”
• 3:25 p.m., David Pudder and Dr. Richard Lamberski, IUP: “Media Majors’ Weekly Involvement in Mass Media and Social Networking Technologies”
• 4:05 p.m., Dr. Ann Jabro, Robert Morris University: “Working in the Virtual Team: Understanding the Economics of Human Capital”
• 4:45 p.m., Chad Sherman, IUP: “Teaching Advanced Web Design to Non-Computer Science Majors” workshop
• 5:25 p.m., Dr. Jim Lenze, IUP: “Supporting Virtual Networks Through Sociotechnical Systems Theory and Virtual Worlds”
• 6:05 p.m., Yvonne Sacripant Bland, Robert Morris University: “Introducing Virtual Learning Environments: Second Life in Higher Education”

Presentations for September 25

• 10:10 a.m., Dr. Kenneth Gargaro, Robert Morris University: “Creating, Maintaining, and Growing a Theatre Program in a Communication Department”
• 10:50 a.m., Christine Schaeffer and David Bruce Porter, IUP: “The Octo-Mom Phenomenon: An Analysis of Ethics and Media Sensationalism”
• 1:10 p.m.,  Wiggins and George Konetes, IUP: “The Effectiveness of Virtual Teams”
• 1:50 p.m., Lamberski, Dr. Mark Piwinsky and Dr. Jay Start, IUP: “Media Majors’ Preparedness for University Online Production Courses”
• 2:30 p.m.,  Mark King, IUP: “Viral marketing: A low cost and non-traditional advertising approach in today’s economically challenging times”
• 3:10 p.m., Dr. Kurt Dudt and Brandon Gomez, IUP: “R r IUP tdnts using txt msging?”
• 3:50 p.m.,  Cori Dunagun, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania: “Web 2.0: A Mash-up of Technologies”
• 4:30 p.m., Jeff Fratangeli and Sarah Tourtellotte, IUP: “The Impact of Podcasting on Learner Knowledge Retention”
• 5:10 p.m., Dunagun, Roeper and Laurie Grosik, IUP: “Webinar Tools: A Logistical Enhancement to Higher Education or Going Green and Gathering Greenbacks” workshop

The dinner will be held September 20, 2009, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Allenwood Restaurant, on the lower level of Ackerman Hall on the IUP campus. Parking on campus is free on weekends. Ackerman Hall is along Pratt Drive, adjacent to Sutton Hall.

The menu includes a garden salad, all-you-can-eat spaghetti, meatballs, garlic bread, tiramisu and a choice of beverage.

Tickets are $7 and can be purchased in advance or at the door. Takeout orders are available.

For more information or to purchase tickets, call 724-357-2626 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. weekdays.

Pathway Homeless Shelter, an emergency homeless shelter in Indiana County, is designed specifically to keep families intact, providing shelter to men, women, and children.

The Alice Paul House provides free and confidential services, including shelter, to Indiana County victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and other crimes.

The program will be held in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room. It is presented by the Office of Social Equity and Civic Engagement and the Office of Procurement Services, both of IUP.

The program is designed to assist in the development of greater business opportunities for companies owned by women, disabled-service veterans, and underrepresented minorities. The program is also intended to increase business-to-business alliances and initiatives among all IUP suppliers. Approximately twenty businesses are expected to participate in the event.

Presenters include Dr. Cornelius Wooten, vice president for Administration and Finance at IUP; Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president; Elizabeth Bowers, regional director, Pennsylvania Department of General Services; Robert Bowser, director of Procurement Services at IUP; and Jimmy Myers, director of the Office of Social Equity and Civic Engagement.

Other special guests include Donna Putt, broker-owner of Putt Real Estate, and Beth Gregg, president of Environmental Service Laboratory and chair of the Indiana County Women’s Commission.

For more information about the event or to register, contact IUP Procurement Services at 724-357-3077.

Tickets are now available for Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s IUP Plays Pittsburgh event, a concert featuring five of IUP’s musical groups, on November 2, 2009.

The concert will take place at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh at 7:30 p.m. and will be preceded by a dessert reception, open to all ticket holders, at 6:30 p.m., also at Heinz Hall.

This is IUP’s third annual event at Heinz Hall.

The concert includes performances by the IUP Wind Ensemble, Opera Theater, Trombone Choir, Keystone Winds, and the IUP Marching Band.

Ted Sohier from classical music station WQED-FM will serve as master of ceremonies for the event.

Tickets are available in advance from the Heinz Hall box office by calling 412-392-4900 and will be sold at the door the night of the concert. Tickets are $16 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens, and $10 for students.

The Department of Music has chartered a bus for the community. The bus will leave from Cogswell Hall at 5:00 p.m. and return shortly after the concert, leaving Pittsburgh at approximately 11:30 p.m. Those interested in reserving a seat should e-mail Matthew Baumer at Matthew.Baumer@iup.edu. Bus seats cost $10 and are separate from the concert ticket.

For more information, contact IUP Fine Arts Public Events at 724-357-2547 or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the IUP Fairman Centre in downtown Punxsutawney will be held Friday, September 18, at 11:00 a.m.

The Fairman Centre, in the former J.B. Eberhart Building, is at 101 West Mahoning Street, at the corner of West Mahoning and South Findley.

The 106-year-old Eberhart Building was presented as a gift from the Punxsutawney Regional Development Corp. to the Foundation for IUP at a ceremony October 27, 2006, and the foundation started a $6-million renovation the following month.

With the renovation now complete, this 24,308-square-foot building includes retail space currently occupied by Gilson Glass and More, two kitchens, a dining room, lobby, three classrooms with multimedia technology, a board room, a 112-seat auditorium with multimedia capabilities and “smart” podium, wireless Internet, and twelve rooms for students in the Academy of Culinary Arts program.

The renovation and subsequent use of the Fairman Centre are estimated to create up to sixty new jobs within five years of operation and add the opportunity for three hundred new students at the Academy of Culinary Arts and IUP at Punxsutawney.

During the 2006 ceremony to accept the building, Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, announced the receipt of a $1.9-million gift for renovation of the facility from the Alan and Roy Fairman families, of Jefferson County. The facility was renamed the Fairman Centre in honor and memory of the late Alan Fairman and the late Roy Fairman. The Fairman family gift is the second largest gift received by IUP for a single purpose. 

The Fairman gift added to and leveraged $2,444,500 in grants and contributions from federal, state, and local agencies, including $2 million from Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program Matching Funds, $200,000 from the Appalachian Region Commission, $195,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture-Rural Business Enterprise, and $50,000 from the Borough of Punxsutawney. Several private gifts also have been received for the facility.

Constitution Day events are sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and Student Leadership, established in 2005 by Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president. Constitution Day commemorates the September 17 signing of the Constitution, which is 222 years old this year.

Events begin with a public reading of the Constitution by members of the IUP community on September 15 from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Oak Grove. They will start with the preamble and end with the twenty-seventh amendment. Every reader will receive a “We the People at IUP” T-shirt, a pocket-sized Constitution, and a cookie.

From 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., professors David Chambers and Mac Fiddner, Political Science, and Joe Mannard, History, will play the role of Constitution writers Ben Franklin, Charles Pinckney, and James Madison, respectively, for A Conversation with the Framers in Stapleton Library, on the ground floor, next to Java City.

On September 16 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., a lecture on Ensuring Safety or Silencing Dissent: The Constitutional Right to Protest in the Context of G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, will be presented by Jules Lobel, professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and vice president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. The program will be held in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room.

Lobel has been filing court petitions on behalf of various activist groups to protect their right to protest later this month when Pittsburgh hosts the G-20 summit.

From 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Adrienne Laurie, staff assistant to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and a 2003 IUP graduate, will present Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Confirmation. Laurie worked with the Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latino female associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This program will be held in the Hadley Union Building Allegheny Room.

A reception in the Allegheny Room, with Lobel and Laurie in attendance, will follow Laurie’s presentation.

The academy, located in Punxsutawney, is one of only 112 programs in the United States fully accredited by the American Culinary Federation, the maximum accreditation possible for culinary programs in the United States.

Programs with ACF accreditation have met or exceeded published industry standards and are distinguished from hundreds of other post-secondary culinary programs in the nation.

Following is the recognition list. Pennsylvania students are listed first, organized by county of residence, followed by non-Pennsylvania students.

Allegheny

Tonisha Brown, of Dunlap Street, Pittsburgh
John Solomon, of Meadowridge Lane, Gibsonia

Blair

Stephanie Baker, of Bellemeade Drive, Altoona

Butler

Valerie Heitzer, of East Butler
Denver Hoak, Sarver Road, Sarver
Danae Karenbauer, Greatbelt Road, Butler
Gretchen McCormick, Lessner Lane, Butler
Carrie Riddle, Bowman Lane, Slippery Rock

Cambria

Ronald Havyer, of Woodvale Avenue, Johnstown
Rex Hoffman, Ralph Street, Johnstown
Kelly Hollinger, Charlies Road, Summerhill
Ryan Kline, of Otto Road, Hastings
Courtney Piro, Emilio Street, Johnstown
Justin Young, of Strayer Street, Johnstown

Clarion

Cassandra Lander, Oakwood Lane, Shippenville
Caleb McNany, Emleton Street, St. Petersburg

Clearfield

John Breth, of Breth Lane, LaJose
Brandi Turner, of Colonel Drake Highway, Mahaffey

Crawford

Kevin Sawatsky, Meadville

Cumberland

Charles Agnew, of South Madder Drive, Mechanicsburg
Jena Milakovic, Sussex Road, Camp Hill

Delaware

Matthew Plourde, Aston

Erie

Eileen Dengler, Dutchmill Lane, Williamsville
David Loop, Tower Road, Wattsburg
Emily Savage, Parker Road, Holland
Adrienne Wall, Silverthorn Road, Edinboro

Greene

Ralph Bunch, of Waynesburg

Indiana

Jillian MacPherson, Juneau Road, Punxsutawney
Renee Lastner, Melloney Lane, Indiana
Barbara Huey, Brink Road, Glen Campbell

Lancaster

Emily Ellis, of Rineer Drive, Quarryville
Jenni Williams, of Raleigh Drive, Lancaster

Mifflin

Mattea Kauffman, Mountain Lane, McVeytown

Monroe

Adrienna Troisi, Pocono Lake

Philadelphia

Shermain Rodriguez-Cortes, Burton Street, Philadelphia

Potter

Case DeGroff, of Cherry Springs Road, Coudersport

Tioga

Ashley Hurler, Corubb Road, Knoxville

Venango

Justin Stromyer, Seneca

Warren

Jason Snavley, Tidioute, Warren
Cory Seeker, Jefferson Street, Warren

Washington

Shannon Burgan, of Fox Creek Road, Venetia

Westmoreland

Kathryn Benson, of Moss Haven Way, Ligonier
Heather Bertino, of Trailer Boulevard, Lower Burrell

York

Andrew Eppley, Dallastown

The following students are from outside Pennsylvania:

Maryland

Robert Butler, of Greenberry Road, Hagerstown

New Jersey

Ann Colangelo, of Littleton Road, Morris Plains

Texas

Ryan Ng, Knight Robin, San Antonio

Virginia

John Lay, Cardinal Lane, Fredericksburg

The Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, faculty chamber ensembles, an alumni concert band, and jazz band will perform during the event.

The concert will be free and open to the community, but donations will be accepted and will be used to fund the Dr. Daniel and Dorothy DiCicco Rehearsal Hall in Cogswell Hall, home to the Music Department.

DiCicco was a 1954 IUP graduate. He returned to IUP as a member of the music faculty in 1956 and retired in 1989 after thirty-three years of service to the university.

As director of bands, DiCicco directed the IUP Symphonic Band, the Mellowmen, and the Marching Band. He founded the IUP Wind Ensemble in 1961 and began the annual IUP Honors Band program in 1974. DiCicco passed away February 3.

“With the naming of the DiCicco Rehearsal Hall, the Department of Music will recognize the outstanding achievements and unsurpassed dedication of Dr. DiCicco,” concert organizer and IUP music professor Dr. Kevin Eisensmith said. “The naming of the Daniel and Dorothy DiCicco Rehearsal Hall is an appropriate legacy for this legendary figure of IUP’s Department of Music.”

Alumni and friends interested in performing with the alumni concert band or jazz band should contact Eisensmith at 724-357-1246 or via e-mail at tptprof@iup.edu before September 12.  Rehearsals will be held during the day on September 26.

Anyone interesting in making a gift for the hall should contact Shari Trinkley, IUP development officer, at 724-357-0164 or at trinks@iup.edu by e-mail.

Checks, made payable to the Foundation for IUP and marked account 4705, can be sent to the Foundation for IUP, Records Information Manager, Sutton Hall, Room 103, 1011 South Drive, Indiana, PA 15705. Gifts may also be made electronically on the Give a Gift website.

IUP is one of only eleven Pennsylvania universities and the only public doctoral university in the state to be selected for the rankings.

To compile the list, the Washington Monthly editors used three criteria: social mobility, research, and service.

They noted that “America’s best colleges are those that produce new scientific discoveries and highly trained Ph.D.s, help economically disadvantaged students earn degrees, and emphasize the obligations students have to serve their communities and the nation at large.”

Editor-in-Chief Paul Glastris said, “Instead of just measuring what colleges can do for you, we ask, ‘What are colleges doing for the country?’ ”

Included in the rankings were 258 colleges and universities throughout the nation.

“This honor reflects IUP’s continued commitment to civic engagement, community service, and citizenship, and our status as an outstanding, nationally ranked university,” Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, said. “IUP students and faculty members are significantly engaged in research, community outreach, and service learning activities that impact Indiana County, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the nation.”

In 2009, IUP was selected for the 2008 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts to America’s communities.

In July, Atwater established the Center for Civic Engagement and Student Leadership and selected Dr. Caleb Finegan, associate professor of history, as its founding director.

Finegan had served as director of IUP’s Citizenship and Civic Engagement Initiative since 2008. That program was established by Atwater in 2006 to promote volunteer opportunities for students, faculty, and staff.

The primary mission of the new center is to engage IUP students in citizenship and leadership experiences that will significant enrich their university education.

The program is presented by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association Environmental Task Force and is sponsored by IUP’s Zeta Lambda chapter of Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society.

It is open to all interested nurses, students, and other health-care professionals. Cost is $25 for students and $40 for other participants. Registration is requested by September 14.

The event will focus on reinforcing the link between health and the environment, exploring chemical legislative and policy issues, and exploring opportunities for collaboration between state nursing association lobbyists and local environmental organizations.

Program topics include the following:

• “Mercury Emissions from Coal Burning Power Plants,” presented by Kristen Welker-Hood, director of Environmental and Health Programs from Physicians for Social Responsibility, at 8:30 a.m.
• “Nurses’ Hazardous Exposure Survey: Information You Need to Know,” presented by Renee Smith, clinical nurse educator from Geisinger Medical Center, at 11:00 a.m.
• “The Safe Food, Safe Families Campaign: Keeping Antibiotic Medicines Working for You,” presented by Joylette Portlock, Western Pennsylvania outreach coordinator from Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future, at 12:30 p.m.
• “Campaign for Healthy Milk: The Risks of rBGH in Dairy” at 1:15 p.m. and “Nursing Food Back to Health?” at 3:15 p.m., presented by Dianne Moore, manager, Healthy Food in Healthcare Program, Women’s Health and Environmental Network, Philadelphia
• “Environmental Tracking Program,” presented by Jay Devasundaram, principal investigator and program manager from Pennsylvania Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, at 2:30 p.m.
• The welcoming and opening address, “Do No Harm,” at 8:30 a.m. and a program on “Building Green Teams” at 4:00 p.m. will be presented by Judith Focareta, coordinator of environmental health initiatives from Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC.

For more information, contact the IUP Office of Conference Services at 724-357-2227.

The course is a fifty-two-hour, basic-level training program that will prepare fire, rescue, and emergency medical personnel to perform safe and efficient vehicle rescue. The class offers both classroom instruction and field practical sessions.

The course is registered with the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Pennsylvania State Fire Academy. Students who successfully meet all course requirements will be certified as Basic Vehicle Rescue technicians. Students must be age eighteen by the first day of class to participate.

The class will be held at the Indiana County Public Safety Training Center.

Cost is $110, and students must provide a full set of personal protective clothing and equipment for the field practical sessions. Class size will be limited to thirty students, and pre-registration is required.

A $50 non-refundable registration fee must accompany each student enrollment form and be received no later than September 9. The balance is due at the first class session on September 15.

The course may also be used by current emergency medical technicians or first responders to receive 28 continuing-education hours through the Department of Health.

For more information and registration forms, call 724-357-4052 or visit the Emergency Services Training website. 

The program began September 1, 2009, and continues through December 5.

This is a 128-hour course intended to prepare the participant to deliver prehospital emergency medical care.

The course is offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Fee is $375 plus cost of the textbook.

For more information or to register, call 724-357-4052 or visit the Emergency Services Training website.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania will present an anniversary remembrance program on September 11, 2009, at 8:30 a.m. to reflect on the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

The program will be held at the university’s World Trade Center monument in the Oak Grove between Sutton Hall and Stapleton Library. It will be broadcast live on News-Talk 1160 WCCS-AM radio.

The university’s World Trade Center monument includes a thirteen-foot remnant of the World Trade Center, on long-term loan to the university from the Kovalchick family, of Indiana.

The event will include a remembrance of three IUP alumni lost in the World Trade Center attacks: William Moskal, a 1979 graduate; Donald Jones, a 1980 graduate; and William Sugra, a 1993 graduate.

Both Jones and Sugra worked for Cantor Fitzgerald in the north tower of the World Trade Center. Jones was a bond broker from Bucks County. Sugra lived in Manhattan and worked for e-Speed, Cantor Fitzgerald’s electronic trading unit.

Sugra’s family, of Allentown, has established a memorial scholarship in his honor for an IUP student from Allentown majoring in Finance.

Moskal, a Safety Sciences graduate and Johnstown native, was a risk consultant for Marsh and McLennan in Cleveland, Ohio, specializing in heavy construction. He was in New York on the day of the attacks for a meeting at the World Trade Center.

In addition to remarks by IUP President Tony Atwater, the program will include performances from IUP musicians and remarks by Alyssa Stiles, of Indiana, president of the Student Government Association.

The event also will include a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center.

During September, the IUP Library is offering a special exhibition about the attacks. The display, located in the first floor lobby, includes memorabilia from IUP alumni who participated in the cleanup of the site.

In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held in Gorell Recital Hall.

For the thirteenth year, the IUP Ambassadors, an Indiana University of Pennsylvania student group that helps the Alumni Association with events, was honored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Affiliated Student Advancement Programs (CASE-ASAP).

CASE is a national professional organization for advancement professionals at all levels who work in alumni relations, communications, fundraising, marketing, and other areas.

The IUP group’s advisor, Sara Barnett Lawer, assistant director of the Office of Alumni Relations, received international and district recognition as Most Outstanding Advisor. This honor recognizes an advisor’s impact on individual memberships, development and growth of the organization, as well as outstanding dedication to the organization, university, and the student advancement profession, CASE officials said.

“I am honored that the students would think so highly of me, not only to submit this nomination at the district level (mid-Atlantic region), but also at the international level,” Lawer said. “I tell the Ambassadors all the time that they make my job easy! I would not be an outstanding advisor without their energy, passion, and IUP pride.”

Forty-three schools in District II and 293 internationally are eligible to compete for these awards.

The intention of the awards is to recognize the outstanding achievements of students, organizations, programs, and advisors; highlight exemplary programs; further the mission of the CASE-ASAP; and facilitate the sharing of ideas.

Through its fundraising initiatives, the group has donated more than $101,000 to the university over its sixteen-year history. This has included funds to name the IUP Ambassadors classroom in the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex, the IUP library fund, and the IUP Ambassadors Scholarship.

The Ambassadors’ fifty student members serve as liaisons among prospective students, current students, administrators, faculty members, alumni, and friends of the university.

Group members are active participants in Homecoming activities and Alumni Reunion Weekend and host many other activities on campus for a variety of administrative offices, including the Office of the President.

Members of the association are active in admissions recruitment efforts, calling more than fifteen thousand students accepted to IUP since 1994 and assisting with orientation events throughout the year. The group also organizes the Kidz Karnival at Homecoming, distributes a freshman yearbook, and organizes a senior recognition event.

The 2009 awards for Most Outstanding Advisor bring the number of awards to fourteen at the district level and eight at the international level. Other awards include the following:

• Most Outstanding Organization, international level: 1998, 2001, 2006. Most Outstanding Organization, district level: 1994, 1997, 2000. The 2006 international award was due to the group’s recruitment efforts with underrepresented groups within the university’s student population. Ambassadors went through extensive training on minority recruitment to ensure the membership of the group was representative of the constituencies it serves.
• Most Outstanding Advisor, international level: Matt Konetschni, 1998; Tonya Anthony, 2002; Mary Morgan, 2003. Most Outstanding Advisor, district level: Matt Konetschni, 1997; Mary Morgan, 2000 and 2002; Tonya Anthony, 2001; Amanda Gunther, 2006
• Most Outstanding Program, international level: tuition raffle, 2000. Most Outstanding Program, district level: tuition raffle, 1999, 2005. The tuition raffle fundraiser offers a free semester of tuition to one student annually. More than $32,000 in total tuition funds and $2,700 in textbook credit have been given out through the tuition raffle.
• Most Outstanding Program, district level: The Breeze alumni newsletter, 2007
• Most Outstanding Newsletter, district level: The Breeze, 2004
• Spirit Award, district level, 2002

The program is a partnership with the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs of the Pennsylvania Department of Health. In addition to MARTI, other IUP program sponsors are the departments of Nursing and Allied Health Professions, Sociology, Counseling, and Health and Physical Education; the Center for Student Life; Division of Student Affairs; and the Center for Health and Well-Being. The Indiana County Drug and Alcohol Commission is also a sponsor.

A free community program on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders will be offered September 9 at 7:00 p.m. at the Crimson Event Center, Folger Hall, along Pratt Drive. Parking is free on campus after 5:00 p.m.

From 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., health professionals will take part in a free day-long educational program. To register for this workshop, visit the Pennsylvania Department of Health website and select the Training Opportunities page located in the Drug and Alcohol section. Walk-in registrations will be accepted for the workshop.

Officials noted that Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (disorders in children caused by the mother’s consumption of alcohol during pregnancy) are more common than Down syndrome or autism.

The evening program will be presented by Linda Chicka, a drug and alcohol prevention specialist employed by the ARIN Intermediate Unit 28 Prevention Program in Armstrong and Indiana counties, and Kathrine Muller, a drug and alcohol prevention educator at Altoona Regional Health System.

Chicka has worked in the field of prevention for twenty years with the intermediate unit and the Armstrong-Indiana Drug and Alcohol Commission. She has an elementary teaching degree and coaching certification from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. She is also a certified prevention specialist through the Pennsylvania Certification Board and an internationally certified prevention specialist through the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium.

Chicka provides evidence-based drug and alcohol curriculum and trainings to schools, businesses, and community organizations. She conducts the Underage Users Program and trains businesses in drug and alcohol testing policies required by the Department of Transportation. She has also served as a liaison and trainer for the Pennsylvania Student Assistance Program.

At the state level, she is an active board member of the Commonwealth Prevention Alliance, Pennsylvania’s statewide organization of drug and alcohol prevention professionals. She also serves as a consultant and trainer for Instructional Support Team Trainings through the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She has recently become a state trainer through the Pennsylvania Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs and received her training in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders through the national center for excellence.

Muller is a graduate of West Virginia University and holds a master’s degree in education from St. Francis University.

She worked as an early childhood and early intervention teacher and consultant and served as a learning coach for the Hilton Early Head Start Special Quest.

She is a trainer for the Pennsylvania Student Assistance Program and is a board member of the Commonwealth Prevention Alliance. She received training through the National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Center for Excellence and Pennsylvania Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs and continues to work with trainer Dan Dubovsky and a national network of professionals in the area of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.

For more information, contact Deb Browning at the Pennsylvania Department of Health at 717-783-8200 or dbrowning@state.pa.us or IUP’s MARTI office at 724-357-4405.

The second annual First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter Bob Woodward.

The lecture, in conjunction with the Ideas and Issues series, will be offered November 4, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center’s Fisher Auditorium. The program is free and open to the community.

Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, made the announcement during the annual State of the University Address on Thursday.

“We continue to appreciate the generosity of our friends at First Commonwealth, who have provided a significant financial commitment to IUP to establish its first comprehensive, university endowed lecture series,” Atwater said.

Woodward is an assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has won nearly every American journalism award, including a Pulitzer for his report on the Watergate scandal. He earned a second Pulitzer as lead reporter for the team that reported on the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. 

Newsweek has excerpted five of his books in headline-making cover stories, 60 Minutes has featured three of his books, and three of his books have been made into movies.

In his most recent book, State of Denial: Bush at War Part III, Woodward provides his story of the White House and how the Bush administration “avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves.”

Woodward has coauthored or authored more number-one national best-selling nonfiction books than any contemporary American writer.
They include All the President’s Men and The Final Days, coauthored with Carl Bernstein; The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, coauthored with Scott Armstrong; Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987, The Commanders, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate, Bush at War, and Plan of Attack.

Woodward was born March 26, 1943, in Illinois. He graduated from Yale University in 1965 and served five years as a communications officer in the U.S. Navy before beginning his journalism career at the Montgomery County (Maryland) Sentinel, where he was a reporter for one year before joining the Washington Post. 

He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Elsa Walsh, an author and writer for the New Yorker. He has two daughters, Tali and Diana.

The inaugural presentation in IUP’s First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture Series in October 2008 featured political commentators James Carville and Mary Matalin.

After two years of work, the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Campus Preservation Plan is complete.

Begun in August 2007, the project includes a comprehensive survey and plan for restoration and care of the university’s historic buildings and landscapes.

IUP was one of four regional universities to be included in the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation’s second Western Pennsylvania Campus Heritage Study, funded by a Getty Foundation grant.

“IUP is pleased to be included in the project, especially in consideration of IUP’s venerable buildings and our Allegheny Arboretum program,” Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, said. “It is most gratifying to be recognized by the Getty Foundation as a historically important campus and as a cultural resource for our community and the Western Pennsylvania region.

“As we move forward with our renovation and building projects, we have a firm commitment to maintaining the historical character of our buildings and landscaping, and this analysis will serve us well, now and in the future.”

The Campus Preservation Plan includes a complete analysis of IUP’s historic buildings and landscapes, future maintenance, and recommendations for restoration, disability access, and improvements.

The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation’s study at IUP focused on nine of the university’s historic buildings: Breezedale (originally the Sutton-Elkin House), built in 1868; Clark Hall, built in 1906; Fisher Auditorium, built in 1938; Leonard Hall, built in 1954; McElhaney Hall, built in 1931; Sutton Hall, built in 1875; Waller Hall, built in 1928; Whitmyre Hall, built in 1960; and Wilson Hall, built in 1903.

Sutton Hall and Breezedale are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sutton Hall is the university’s original building.

In terms of landscaping, IUP continues to be actively engaged in the creation of the Allegheny Arboretum throughout the campus. The Allegheny Arboretum is a living museum established for the growing and effective display of trees, shrubs, and vines.

As part of the arboretum, specimens on campus are maintained, labeled, cataloged, and mapped. A volunteer community-university board directs the Allegheny Arboretum development and maintenance, which also includes installation of benches and landscaping items including fountains and gardens that were original to the campus.

“The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation has a long and excellent relationship with IUP and its marvelous historic buildings,” Eugene Matta, director of real estate and special development programs from the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation and Landmarks Community Capital Corporation, said.

“Years ago we became active with the effort to save John Sutton Hall from destruction, a magnificent historic building that dominated the campus. We also worked together to save the house on the campus known as Breezedale. We feel that IUP is a vital resource in Western Pennsylvania and one of the principal ingredients contributing to its significance is its architecturally significant buildings and landscape.”

A copy of the Campus Preservation Plan is available through the IUP Special Collections archives in the IUP Library.

For the 16th consecutive year, Indiana University of Pennsylvania has been selected as one of the nation’s top doctoral universities by “U.S. News & World Report.”

IUP is included in the rankings of the magazine’s “Best Colleges” 2010 edition and is one of the top 216 national doctoral universities recognized in the rankings.

This recognition follows IUP’s ninth consecutive year of inclusion in The Princeton Review’s “Best Colleges” guidebook, and IUP’s selection as a “Best Northeastern College” by Princeton Review guidebook editors.

“Coming on the heels of the Princeton Review’s honor of being among the nation’s top universities academically, the recognition by ‘U.S. News & World Report’ again supports IUP’s national status among the best doctoral universities in the United States,” IUP President Tony Atwater said.

In June 2007, “Consumers Digest” magazine selected IUP as number four in the magazine’s rankings of the “Best Values in Public Colleges and Universities.” In February 2007, IUP was ranked at 40 out of 100 colleges and universities selected for "Kiplinger’s Personal Finance" magazine’s “The Kiplinger 100,” a listing of schools that combine outstanding value with a first-class education.

IUP was included in the 2005 issue of “Entrepreneur Magazine” under a listing of the top 73 colleges and universities in the nation ranked for excellence in “entrepreneurship emphasis.”

Eberly College of Business and Information Technology won national prominence in the Princeton Review’s inaugural edition of “The Best Business Schools” in 2005 and has continued to be selected annually for recognition by guidebook editors.

On August 27 at 9:00 a.m., Tony Atwater, IUP president, will present “Through the Storm and Bound for Greatness,” the 2009 State of the University address, in the Performing Arts Center’s Fisher Auditorium. The program, which is open to the community, will be followed by a continental breakfast and reception in the Oak Grove.

Members of the community are also encouraged to attend the Freshman Convocation on August 30 at 5:30 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. This event, which is the formal welcome of new students to the university, will feature Samuel Heastie as the keynote speaker.

Heastie, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, N.C., is president and chief executive officer of Heastie Consulting. He has developed a program called “Successful Start, Successful Finish,” a workshop teaching students how to master memory, study, and test-taking skills. 

A graduate of West Virginia University, Heastie worked as special assistant to the president for diversity at Grove City College before taking his current position in North Carolina.

The convocation program also will feature 2009–2010 University Professor Gian Pagnucci as master of ceremonies and remarks by Alyssa Stiles, president of IUP’s Student Government Association. The president will host a university cookout immediately following the Freshman Convocation ceremony in the Oak Grove.

The first day of classes for the Fall semester is August 31. More than five hundred students arrive on campus August 22 for the College Undergraduate Success Program, a weeklong program of courses, workshops, and seminars designed to help students have a successful transition to university life.

Students new to IUP will move into the Northern Suites, Suites on Maple West, Delaney Hall, Sutton Suites, and McCarthy Hall on August 28 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and into Elkin Hall, Suites on Maple East, Putt Hall, Suites on Pratt, and Sutton Suites on August 29 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. All other students will move into university-owned buildings on August 30.

IUP will continue its Common Freshman Reader program this year with Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland. The program, in which all freshmen read the selected book, is designed to enhance new students’ understanding of the academic climate and what it means to be a member of IUP’s learning community and to build more connections with faculty and fellow students in the pursuit of academic success.

Starting with Fall orientation and Welcome Weekend and continuing through their first year, students will have opportunities to share their views and join in discussions with members of the IUP community about the book. Strickland will be on campus for a presentation in November.

The Phase III buildings of the Student Residential Revival project, the Sutton Suites, and the Suites on Pratt will be open this Fall. A formal ribbon-cutting event to celebrate the opening of the buildings will take place September 24 at 10:00 a.m. in the Sutton Suites quad.

President Tony Atwater selected G. Patrick Williams as vice president for University Relations and executive director for the Foundation for IUP.

Williams, who comes to IUP from his position as senior vice president for development of the Saint Louis Science Center in Saint Louis, brings thirty-one years of experience in the fundraising, development, and advancement field. He will begin work at IUP on September 21, 2009.

“Mr. Williams brings to IUP an outstanding track record in fundraising and foundation board leadership,” Atwater said. “I have unconditional confidence in his ability to advance IUP’s University Relations Division and the university’s development agenda.”

This position has responsibility for providing leadership and direction for the university relations program; training and stewardship for the Foundation for IUP Board of Directors overseeing the operation of the foundation; and serving on the president’s senior administrative cabinet. The University Relations Division is organized primarily to position and market the university and to direct and coordinate private resource acquisition.

“IUP has a rich history of excellence as a distinguished institution of higher education in the state of Pennsylvania and is recognized nationally,” Williams said. “To have the opportunity to be affiliated with this tradition of successful service to the students, the public, and IUP’s 110,000 alumni is a role I look forward to advancing.”

Williams has served in his current role since 2007. During his tenure at the science center, he was responsible for the organization’s first seven-figure annual gift.

From 2000 to 2007, he served as vice chancellor of university relations at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and chief executive officer for the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Foundation. During his work there, he set annual fundraising records for seven consecutive years, achieving a 500 percent increase in giving over seven years. He also achieved record levels in assets, income, endowment, gifts, and donor totals, and, under his leadership, the university received the largest cash gift, planned gift, estate gift, and gift of property in its history.

He also established an integrated marketing and communications division at the university and a “Town and Gown” committee.

As vice president for institutional advancement at Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio, and president and CEO of the Lourdes College Foundation from 1991 to 2000, he successfully developed and implemented the college’s multimillion-dollar capital campaign and increased total dollars raised annually by more than 350 percent. He also increased the college’s endowment investment portfolio by 250 percent. During his tenure there, he established an alumni association and formatted and initiated a marketing and public relations plans that resulted in a 110 percent increase in enrollment.

From 1988 to 1993, Williams worked in executive leadership roles with three home health care system companies, including MCOSS Inc. and Metaplex Management Services Inc., both of Red Bank, N.J., and F.G.A. & Associates of Piscataway, N.J.

Williams began his career as a finance and fundraising director with the Boy Scouts of America Councils in Bloomsburg, Wilkes-Barre, and Oakhurst, N.J. He served in that position from 1978 to 1988.

Williams has a master of science degree in health and human services administration from Misericordia University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Kings College.

He has achieved advance certified fundraising executive status from the Association of Fund Raising Executives (AFP), a designation held by only eighty of the 35,000 AFP members. He has served as national delegate and chairman of the National Government Relations Committee and as chairman of the National Publication Advisory Committee and National Membership Committee of that organization.

He served on the board of directors of the AFP and is the former president of the association’s northwest Ohio chapter.

He has also been active as a presenter and instructor for several national organizations, and hosted a television show on health issues while working with health care companies in New Jersey.

Williams is originally from Kingston, Pa. He is the father of four children: Rudy, 25; Ryan, 22; Jonathan, 22; and Hannah, 15.

Lynn Iams Barger, IUP associate vice president for development, has served since May in the role of acting vice president for university relations and acting executive director of the Foundation for IUP. She replaced Robert Davies, who left IUP for the presidency of Eastern Oregon University.

The list honors institutions that the editors described as “doing the most to embrace America’s veterans as students,” with a “priority of recruiting students with military experience.”

The list was compiled through research, including polling more than 7,000 schools nationwide. Criteria for making the Military Friendly Schools list included efforts to recruit and retain military and veteran students, results in recruiting military and veteran students, and academic accreditations.

IUP offers a Veterans Affairs Office dedicated to serving student veterans and dependents of veterans.

G.I. Jobs is published by Victory Media, a veteran-owned business in Pittsburgh. The company also publishes The Guide to Military Friendly Schools, Military Spouse, and Vetrepreneur magazines and annually rates the nation’s Military Friendly Employers, Military Spouse Friendly Employers, and Best Corporations for Veteran-Owned Businesses.

2010 Military-Friendly School List 

In May, IUP was notified of its inclusion in the national Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program.

The program is a provision of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008. It allows United States colleges and universities to voluntarily enter into an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs to fund tuition expenses that exceed the highest public in-state undergraduate tuition rate. 

Please see the corrected list: May 2009 Graduates.

We apologize for the omission.

Questions about the list of graduates may be directed to the Office of the Registrar.

The IUP chapter president, Lindsey DePra, of Centerville, was elected to serve a two-year term as a national board student representative.
The Gold Torch Award is presented to fewer than thirty-five colleges and universities in the two-hundred-member national organization. Awards are given on the basis of a chapter’s commitment to scholarship, leadership, and service.

The Project Excellence Award was given in recognition of the IUP chapter’s contribution to the national Leading is Reading project. IUP’s Sutton Chapter raised more than $3,100 for the Indiana County Head Start literacy program in partnership with the Indiana Starbucks.

DePra is a 2004 graduate of Middleborough High School. She is an art education and deaf education major with certification in elementary education. She is a dean’s list student, a member of Kappa Delta Pi education honor society, a member of the SignIn American Sign Language Club, Intercollegiate American Sign Language Network Club, and Future Educators of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students. She was also a recipient of a Provost’s Emerging Leader Scholarship.

Darla Barie, of Pittsburgh, the Sutton Chapter president in academic year 2008–2009, served as one of eight conference assistants and was awarded a graduate school fellowship from Mortar Board.

Barie, daughter of Dolly Barie, is a graduate of Cactus High School, Glendale, Ariz. She graduated in May 2009 from IUP with a degree in general studies with emphasis on support services for deaf survivors of domestic violence and is now a graduate student at IUP.

She is a 2007 graduate of the Community College of Allegheny County. While at CCAC, she was selected for the All-USA Academic Team 2007 for community college students and received the 2007 CCAC Super Star Award, the 2006–2007 Coca-Cola Scholars Award, and the 2005–2006 Outstanding Student Journalism Award.

At CCAC, she was president of Phi Theta Kappa’s Alpha Lambda Nu chapter, the international honor society for two-year colleges. She was a writer and photographer for the North Campus Voice, the CCAC student newspaper, for three semesters.

In 2007, Barie raised more than $1,200 through Phi Theta Kappa for the Virginia Tech Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund with a ribbon sale.
She is the 2007–2008 recipient of the IUP President's Outstanding Transfer Scholar Award.

Mortar Board initiates college juniors each year who demonstrate excellence in scholarship, student leadership, and community service at their institutions. Participants continue as active Mortar Board members during their senior year. IUP’s chapter, chartered in 1997, has fifty active members. Mortar Board members are engaged in many community service projects throughout the year.

Since its founding, Mortar Board at IUP has initiated five hundred undergraduate, alumni, and honorary members.  In addition to the 2009 Gold Torch Award and Project Excellence Award and its 2008 and 2000 Silver Torch awards, IUP’s chapter won the 1998 Outstanding Programming Award for work with Indiana’s Center for Family Life and the 1999 Chapter of Excellence Award from the national organization.

The board of directors of the University Museum at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will host a special fundraising gala, the Black Diamond Jubilee, in conjunction with the museum exhibition A Walk Through Time: Pennsylvania Coal Culture, Featuring the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company Collection.

The gala is September 11, 2009, in the Blue Room, on the first floor of Sutton Hall. The event begins with cocktails and the exhibition preview at 6:00 p.m. It will be followed by informal dining and musical entertainment at 7:30 p.m.

The NewLanders will present a concert of American music for this event, offering contemporary songs and stories about our region and nation, with dulcimer, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and bass.

The event benefits the University Museum. Cost is $75 per person, and reservations are due by September 2.

For more information or to make reservations, call 724-357-2397.

The Pennsylvania Coal Culture exhibition will be available from September 15 to December 5. A reception, free and open to the community, will be held at the museum September 19 at 6:00 p.m. to celebrate the exhibition’s opening.

The exhibit is curated by Harrison Wick and Rhonda Yeager of IUP Special Collections and University Archives.

Artifacts and documents of coal-mining life in Western Pennsylvania are presented jointly by IUP Special Collections and University Archives, the Tri-Area Historical Society and Liberty Museum in Nanty Glo, the Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County, and private collectors.

The exhibit features artifacts, photographs, mine maps, and ledgers that document Western Pennsylvania bituminous coal culture, including the work and lives of miners and their families, the company towns, and community activities such as baseball games.

The show also features photos and items that document the operations of Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company and other companies, mine disasters, coal miner strikes, and unionization.

Some of the “company towns” in Indiana and Cambria counties that are highlighted in the exhibit are Clymer, Commodore, Coral, Ernest, Heilwood, Iselin, Nanty Glo, Sagamore, and Whiskey Run.

IUP actively preserves coal culture through the Special Collections and University Archives, the Institute for Mine Mapping, Archival Procedures and Safety (IMAPS), and the Center for Northern Appalachian Studies.

The Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company collection is the largest manuscript grouping housed in the IUP Special Collections and University Archives. This collection represents more than one hundred years of local history. R&P was organized in 1881, and the collection is a complete record of the company until R&P was purchased by CONSOL Coal Group in 1998.

More information about the collection is available at the Special Collections and University Archives website.

IMAPS is a multidisciplinary group of faculty, staff and students who work together to digitize, record and preserve historical mining maps. 

IMAPS has digitized more than five hundred maps, including mining maps from the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company, using a large format Cruse scanner. Institute personnel also are developing a Web-based searchable database of Pennsylvania mine maps. See the IMAPS website for more information.

The University Museum is free and open to the public on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday from noon to 7:30 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 4:00 p.m.

Other exhibitions planned at the University Museum for the 2009–2010 academic year include Emerging Artists: Graduate Art Exhibition, January 31 or February 6 through March 6, 2010, with a public reception February 6 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., and Ron Donoughe: Plein Air Paintings, March 25 through May 1, 2010, featuring landscapes and town scenes in Western Pennsylvania made on site by Donoughe, an IUP alumnus. This show may be extended through June 2010.

Following is a list of May 2009 graduates, with degree information included. Please contact the Office of the Registrar with questions about this list.

Pennsylvania students, organized alphabetically by county of residence and town:

Adams

East Berlin

Katherine E. Bixler, Wolf Road, B.S. in Nursing
Brooke Ivy Shaffer, Pleasanton Drive, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education

Gettysburg

Troy Hampton Litten, North Steeplechase, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Megan Lee Miller, Emmitsburg Road, B.A. in Theater

Littlestown

Brandon L. Bushey, Mehring Road, M.A. in Criminology

Allegheny

Allison Park

Elizabeth Loraine Blumer, Saddle Drive, B.S.Ed. in English Education
Daniel David Cook, Emery Drive, B.S. in Disability Services
Sean Charles Cordell, Countryside Drive, B.A. in Sociology
Heidi Leigh Jurecko, Old Kummer Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jonathan Daniel Stokes, Towne Court, B.S. in Accounting

Aspinwall

Jamie Kathryn Gass, B.S. in Nursing

Bethel Park

Brian M. Binotto, Clifton Road, B.S. in Business Technology Support
Steven R. Bronder, Wilamit Drive, B.S. in Accounting
Bonnie Lynn Cooley, Belmont Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Gregory J. Duray, Rocky Ridge Road, B.S. in Finance
Jeanine Elizabeth Geisler, Fairoaks Street, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Anthony Stephan Johnson, Willow Glen Drive, B.A. in English
Lauren M. Pegher, Wilamit Drive, M.A. in Criminology
Jacob Wharton, Highland Road, B.A. in Computer Science
Tara Marie Zaremski, West Munroe Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Brackenridge

Brian Michael Dorn, Pacific Avenue, B.S. in Accounting
Caitlin Marie Elliott, B.A. in English

Braddock

Jaclyn Dreshman, Grandview Avenue, B.A. in Sociology

Bridgeville

Munir Ali ALQatami, Empire Drive, M.S. in Safety Sciences
Luke Edward Anderson, Deer Watch Road, B.S. in Finance
Emily Arwen Cyphers, Vanadium Road, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Maureen R. Kelly, Hickory Grade Road, M.Ed. in Counselor Education

Carnegie

Matthew Baessler, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Clairton

Matthew Robert Flaus, Snee Drive, M.S. in Sport Science

Coraopolis

Richard Michael Brutt, August Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Steven Anthony Cosnek, Maple Lane, B.F.A. in Music Performance
Nicole Lynn Lang, Ewings Mill Road, B.S.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons

Dravosburg

Amber P. Lennon, M.A. in Counselor Services

Duquesne

Andy Buxton, B.S. in Management

Elizabeth

Angela Lee Anthony, Roberts Hollow Road, B.S. in Natural Science
Jacob D. Greco, Helena Street, B.S. in Accounting
Desiree Leigh Sawyers, Duke Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Etna

Danielle Lee Stokes, Seavey Road, M.Ed. in Counselor Education

Gibsonia

Douglas Ross Arnold, Le Gran Drive, B.S. in Accounting
Steven Ross Arnold, Le Gran Drive, B.S. in Management
Kimberly Ann Barker, Harvest Lane, B.A. in Criminology
Daniel Robert Fialon Jr., Willow Run Court, M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations
Kylie Lynch Miller, Old State Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Nicole Lauren Nowosielski, Oaknoll Road, B.A. in Psychology
Karen Marie Pyptyk, Cheyenne Court, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Amanda Brooke Stein, Cider Mill Drive, B.S.Ed. in Art Education
Janelle Marie Szczypinski, Cheltenham Court, M.A. in Criminology
Mary Elizabeth Weidner, Grove Road, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Helen Mary Wildy, Lakewood Drive, B.S. in International Business

Glenshaw

Brian Leonard Giel, Rosewood Drive, B.A. in History
Jeffrey Robert Meyer, Amherst Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Imperial

Elizabeth Anne Wilking, Forest Glen Drive, B.S. in Interior Design

Jefferson Hills

Brooke Lauren Froehlich, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Leetsdale

Laura Wright, Beaver Street, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology

McKeesport

Jenna Christine Fite, Upston Avenue, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Natalie Ann Jarusinski, Bellaire Drive, B.S. in Nursing
Kristen M. Panchak, Virginia Street, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Gilbert Michael Pohodich, Woodrow Street, M.A. in Criminology
Jill Alana Pry, Old Hills Road, B.S. in Nursing

Mc Kees Rocks

Laura Elizabeth Butter, Greenwood Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Kelly Ann Cropper Hall, Broadway Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jennifer Elizabeth Fleck, Fleming Park Road, B.S. in Nursing
Luis Miguel Turcios-Cruz, Amelia Street, B.S. in Management

Monroeville

Christopher Scott Banks, McMasters Drive, B.S. in Management Information Systems
Kristen Marie Cannon, Fieldstone Drive, B.S. in Nursing
James F. Clark, Oak Pointe Drive, B.S.Ed. in Social Studies Education
Andrew Cohen, Foxwood Drive, B.S. in Computer Science
Martha Pamela Conners, Berkshire Drive, B.S. in Biochemistry
Kenneth Anthony Cymmerman, Tyrolia Drive, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Jamie Leigh Donaldson, Londonderry Court, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Barri June Frederick, Southridge Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jocelyn N. Goldstein, Berkeley Way, M.S. in Food and Nutrition
William Michael Hart, Brinton Street, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Andrew Michael Heidenreich, Westminster Drive, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Haleigh Nicole Jackson, B.S. in Management
Caleb Lee Kyper, Brunner Drive, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jesse Robert Leax, Trotwood Drive, B.S. in Accounting
Patricia L. O'Donnell, Kilbuck Drive, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Krysta Leigh Pampena, Barbara Ann Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Nichole Lynn Poli, Beatty Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Sarah Ann Reinhardt, Brightberry Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Kraig Herbert Riley, Greenvale Drive, B.S. in Communications Media
Matthew J. Sagi, Miller Avenue, B.A. in Anthropology

Moon Township

Nicholas A. Belhumeur, Lansdowne Drive, B.S. in Computer Science
Jamie Allyn Betz, Glenbrook Avenue, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Nicholas James Domenico, McCartney Drive, B.S. in Marketing
Vince Anthony Fasline, Landing Lane, B.S. in Marketing
Sara Jean Fouse, B.A. in Criminology
Tara Lynn Friedl, Brodhead Road, B.A. in Journalism
Phyllis Colleen Henderson, Vanita Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Melissa L. Lonkert, Overhead Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Natalie Jean McCauley, Lansdowne Drive, B.A. in English
William Alan Morrow, Wallridge Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Christopher Michael O'Connell, Dogwood Court, B.S. in Accounting
Melissa Marann Rudzik, Ridgestar Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Matthew V. Setnar, Tiffany Ridge Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Chad A. Trenney, Malcolm Drive, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Munhall

Justin Andrew Kiesel, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Jill Sharon Torma, Hillcrest Drive, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Andrew John Yurechko, Oakville Street, M.S. in Food and Nutrition

Natrona Heights

Nicholas Paul De Angelis, Harbison Street, B.S. in Accounting
Melissa Louise DiCaro, Palm Street, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Timothy Michael Drum, Princeton Avenue, M.A. in Criminology
Mark Anthony Errico, Union Avenue, B.A. in Criminology
Joseph N. Lucchino, Cambridge Street, B.S. in Management
Richard M. Valenti, Natrona Street, B.S. in Accounting
Brad E. Vorp, B.A. in Art

North Versailles

William Joseph Bach, Naysmith Road, B.S. in Management
Chelsea Rae Lynch, James Street, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Kenneth R. Vaughan, Joan Drive, B.S. in Management

Oakdale

Rachel Elizabeth Campbell, Hawthorne Circle, Certification in School Psychology
Logan Andrew Manko, Jonathan Court, B.S. in Nursing
Maria Dawn Mudryk, Center Avenue, B.S. in Interior Design

Oakmont

Jonathan Michael Lear, California Avenue, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Pitcairn

Andrea Nicole Mincks, Hillside Avenue, M.A. in Counselor Services
Alice Marie Panaro, Pitcairn Avenue, M.A. in Criminology
Vincent Algert Wallace, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Pittsburgh

Ashley Ann Arlotti, Lenox Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Darla Jo Barie, Center Avenue, B.S. in General Studies
Angela Marie Basso, Painters Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Diana Z. Becker, Sherbrook Drive, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Danielle Agape Biconik, Cannon Street, M.A. in Sociology
Melinda R. Booher, Greensburg Pike, B.S.Ed. in Deaf Education
Dylan Thomas Borland, Lindenwood Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Danielle Datz-Borraccini, Broughton Road, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Matthew Thomas Brynda, Springdale Drive, B.A. in Art
Summer Jewel Burke, Julian Drive, B.S. in Communications Media
Daniel Robert Callahan, Hamilton Avenue, B.S. in Management
Emily Ann Cannella, Bellevue Avenue, B.S. in Accounting
Vito Kevin Caporal, Walton Avenue, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Catherine Michele Chapman, Milan Avenue, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Anthony Devon Coleman Jr., Laketon Road, B.S. in Management
Joshua M. Cosentino, Sardis Road, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Sibylla Maria Cress, Hayson Avenue, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Ryan Steele Cunningham, Macbeth Drive, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Jody Davin, Valera Avenue, B.A. in Political Science
Anthony Henry DeLuca, Methyl Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Henry John DeLuca IV, B.A. in English
Justin A. DeMaio, Meadowlark Drive, B.A. in Anthropology
Michael Patrick Dunlap, Pine Valley Drive, B.A. in English
Kimberly J. Egart, Augusta Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Nicholas John Eonta, Oregon Avenue, B.S. in Marketing
Ashley Nicole Esposito, Park Avenue, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Elizabeth Lodge Farina, Stratford Court, B.A. in Theater
Sarah A. Filbert, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Amy Elizabeth Filo, Jefferson Avenue, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Matthew Louis Flasco, Pine Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Laura Beth Freund, Love Street, B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education
Sara Nicole Gamble, Meadowlark Drive, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Sanjay Ghosh, Rodi Road, B.S. in Accounting
Jonathan J. Good, Conneaut Drive, M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations
William Robert Haas Jr., Sollinger Lane, B.A. in Criminology
Laura Anne Halbedl, B.A. in Spanish
Rachel Phyllis Hamilton, Georgetown Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Stuart Michael Harris, Bower Hill Road, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Ashley Marie Hewitt, Monterey Drive, B.S.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons
Justin D. Hillebrecht, Fiat Street, B.A. in Criminology
Marisa D. Jamison, Eastwood Road, M.A. in Criminology
George Jones, Traymore Avenue, M.A. in Counselor Services
Brian R. Kellerman, Gordon Street, B.S. in Management
Jesse Charles King, Sylvia Avenue, B.S. in Accounting
Michelle Lindsay Kriss, Sun Valley Drive, B.S. in Accounting
Michael Edward Lach, Darlene Drive, B.S. in Marketing
Jennifer Elizabeth LeJeune, Lucina Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Leah Elizabeth Lenhoff, Grant Avenue, M.A. in Criminology
Michael Thomas Linnert, June Drive, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Kendall Alan Lubay, Brinton Road, B.A. in Music
Jessica Luzier, Simms Street, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Dominic Andrew Marchitelli, Chapparal Drive, B.S. in Finance
Joseph Richard Mathias, New Texas Road, B.S. in Management
Kristy Lynne Mayer, Interboro Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
William Charles McCord, B.S. in Communications Media
Christine K. Miller, Chess Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Charles J. Morris, Pierson Run Road, M.A. in Adult and Community Education
Sarah L. Murphy, Susquehanna Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Andrea Faye Newman, Ben Avon, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Elizabeth Catherine Paladin, Julian Drive, B.S. in Chemistry
Craig William Parks, Glenburn Drive, B.A. in History
Ashley E. Pawlicki, Dewalt Drive, B.S. in Nutrition
David James Perry, Raven Drive, M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations
Michelle M. Perugini, Woodbourne Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Janet L. Pierce, New Texas Road, Ph.D. in English
Thomas R. Plungin, Sebring Avenue, B.A. in Journalism
Michaela Ponder, Hill Avenue, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Ashley Cheri Pope, McKinley Avenue, B.S. in Nursing
Erin Bethel Porter, Duffield Street, B.S.Ed. in Mathematics Education
Lesley Jill Powell, Irvine Street, M.A. in Criminology
Kevin Edward Pupo, Thistle Court, B.S. in Management
Christine L. Ragano, Paul Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Courtney Leigh Rahr, Old Meadow Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Tabatha Eleanor Recker, Hatteras Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Martin Keith Reidell, Locust Street, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Megan Reinecker, Streets Run Road, B.A. in Journalism
Patrick T. Resignalo, Duffield Street, M.A. in Criminology
Valerie J. Riddle, B.S. in Accounting
Kali Jean Rosenberger, B.S.Ed. in Spanish Education
Chelsey Lynn Rosselle, Franklin Drive, B.S.Ed. in Art Education
Caitlin Elizabeth Rossiter, Hoosac Street, B.S. in Accounting
D. Corey Sanderson, Butterfield Street, B.S.Ed. in English Education
D. Corey Sanderson, Butterfield Street, B.A. in Asian Studies
James C. Sapienza, Pioneer Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Adam Franklin Savicz, Republic Street, B.S. in Management
Heather Ann Schaming, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Rachel Scholze, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Nicole Ann Steetle, Tennessee Avenue, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Jessica Ann Sheerer, Jefferson Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Sanja Smailbegovic, B.A. in Criminology
Amy Lynn Smith, Lois Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jacquilyn Nicole Smith, Brighton Road, B.A. in English
Peter Andrew Todaro, Spring Garden Road, B.S. in Natural Science
Brianne Eileen Toole, Pennoak Manor Drive, B.S. in Marketing
Mallory Vaughn, Maple Avenue, B.A. in English
Eric Matthew Waggoner, Dorothy Drive, B.A. in Music
Kylie Ann Walters, Old Hickory Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Zachary Jewell Whitfield, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jacquelyn M. Whittaker, Coast Avenue, M.A. in Criminology
Kaylah Raquel Williams, Gaymor Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Holly Ann Wilson, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Michael John Young, Oak Drive, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Erica Polito Zinsser, Rochester Road, M.Ed. in Counselor Education

Plum

Katie Susanne Buehner, Sierra Drive, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education

Sewickley

Casey Marie Waha, B.A. in Journalism

South Park

Rachel Lauren Boyer, Lindfield Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Brittany Lynn Fields, Royal Park Boulevard, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Anthony M. Guarino, Stanley Street, B.S. in Marketing
Michael Joseph Immen, Westchester Road, B.S. in Human Resource Management
Timothy J. Ryan, Trapper Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Sean Thomas Strauman, Radstock Drive, MBA

Springdale

Traceylynn Rak, Willow Street, B.S. in Nutrition

Swissvale

Tiffany D. Brown, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Tarentum

Heather Marie Brubaker, Dellenbaugh Road, B.S.Ed. in Art Education

Turtle Creek

Luke Gindlesperger, Pine Street, B.A. in Criminology

Verona

Brandy Lynn Kuhn, Mill Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Warrendale

Tracy A. Fisher, Warren Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

White Oak

Kathy Miljus, McCully Street, M.A. in Criminology

West Homestead

Allyse Lynn Mancak, Cascade Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Krystal Katrece Patton, Doyle Avenue, B.S. in Communications Media

West Mifflin

Amy Lynn Howley, Hawkins Avenue, B.S. in Nursing
Jeffrey Daniel Krznaric, Blackberry Street, B.S.Ed. in Mathematics Education
Danette Rochelle Stromyer, Maple Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Wexford

Katelyn Paige Kennedy, Woodbury Drive, B.S. in Accounting
Kathleen Jane Nicholson, Cresswyck Court, D.Ed. in School Psychology
Katie Elizabeth Schwartz, Settlers Grove Lane, B.S. in Nutrition

Armstrong

Adrian

Courtney Nicole Jack, Brush Valley Road, B.A. in English

Dayton

Kezia Anneliese Heilman-Houser, B.S. in Nursing
James W. Iman, East Church Avenue, M.A. in Music
Jessica Lee Nichol, B.S. in Chemistry
Joseph Louis Saxfield II, North Loop Road, B.S. in Regional Planning

Elderton

Adam Thomas Quinn, B.A. in Music

Ford City

Jana Swan Armentrout, Campbell Run Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Michael William Bowser, Meadow Street, B.A. in Journalism
Stacy Ann Burdett, Jordon Street, B.S. in Nursing
Jessica Marie Bure, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Kristopher Andrew Michael Bureau, Logansport Road, B.A. in Criminology
William Alvin Corbett, Oh Fry Drive, B.S. in Finance
Jennifer Dowling, Third Avenue, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Zachary C. King, Prospect Street, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Laura E. Krulikowski, Terrace Avenue, M.A. in History
Lisa Marie Thompson, M.Ed. in Elementary and Middle School Math
Benjamin Jacob Tost, Garretts Run Road, B.S. in Biology
Steven Allen Yount, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Freeport

Ryan P. Fuhrman, Ford City Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Claire Seddon Greenhill, Edwards Road, B.S.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons

Kittanning

Sean E. Crissman, Cedar Drive, B.S. in Finance
Nichole Love Croyle, B.S. in Management
Amanda Sue Haslett, Franklin Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Matthew Kelly Hawk, Pond View Lane, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Lauren Kaye Judge, Reesedale Road, B.A. in Psychology
Mallory J. Lambert, Hazel Street, B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education
Tara Jeanne Lewis, Rear Cleveland Street, A.A. in General Studies
Michael Nicholas Mercurio, Allegheny Avenue, B.S. in Management
Adam Craig Moser, Woodward Avenue, B.S. in Mathematics
Crystal Joy Rosenberger, Red Mill Road, B.S. in Disability Services
Michael A. Skukalek, Penn Drive, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Mariah Danielle Toy, B.S. in Nursing
Bria D. Watterson, Harrison Street, B.A. in Psychology
Bethany Maree Weaver, Sunnyside Road, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Kathleen Janelle Woodside, Green Tree Road, B.A. in Psychology
Lori A. Young, Anderson Creek Road, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Danielle Elizabeth Zellefrow, Orr Avenue, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Leechburg

Ashley Joanna Bittner, Crestline Drive, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Robert Joseph Mattu, Schenley Road, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Thomas John Melvin, B.S. in Biology
Shawn Conor Schwarz, Melwood Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Lindsey Rae Vargo, Sunset Drive, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Matthew D. Zidek, Pleasant Hill Rod, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education

Manorville

Sarah Marie Huba, Manor Street, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology

Rural Valley

Kayla Ann Kirkpatrick, Summer Road, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Shelly Marie McKernan, Knollwood Drive, M.Ed. in Educational Psychology

Templeton

Grace E. Houston, B.S. in Accounting

Worthington

Melissa Dawn Kemp, Craigsville Road, B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education
Amanda Leigh Smith, Craigsville Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Yatesboro

Alicia McLaughlin, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Beaver

Aliquippa

William Edward Barker, Billigen Street, B.S. in Computer Science
Alfred John Bialik, Main Street, B.A. in Criminology
A'asha L. Jeter, Wykes Street, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Marissa Gail Michael, Amy Drive, B.A. in English

Ambridge

Kylie Lauren Erdos, Glenwood Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Nora Taylor Narkevic, Ridge Road, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Jamie Jo Zbrzezny, Oak Avenue, B.A. in Art

Beaver

Jessica Kate Baldinger, Matthews Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Beaver Falls

Stephen James Kretschman, Saint Andrews Drive, B.S. in Nursing

Fombell

Emily J. Linkenheimer, Soap Run Road, B.A. in Psychology
Emily J. Linkenheimer, Soap Run Road, B.S. in Nutrition

Freedom

Shannon Michelle Bilinsky, Ashwood Court, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Andrew David Visnansky, B.S. in Applied Physics

Hookstown

Amber Marie Mineard, Potts Road, B.A. in Criminology

Industry

Julie Lynn Noble, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising

Monaca

Brian Anthony Coladonato, High Street, B.A. in Criminology
Michael Allen Nelson, Center Grange Road, B.A. in Criminology

New Brighton

Chase Robert McNutt, Fairfield Drive, B.A. in Psychology

Rochester

Ashton Laine Jersey, Porter Lane, B.S. in Communications Media

Bedford

Artemas

Samantha Jean Cubbage, Clear Ridge Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Bedford

Jessica Lynn Foor, Horizon Heights Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Joshua B. Leap, South Richard Street, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Clarissa Marie Poland, South Richard Street, B.A. in Criminology

Defiance

Erica Dawn Webb, Six Mile Run Road, B.S. in Nursing

Everett

Sean Wade Foor, Hickory Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Jenna Leigh Pyle, B.A. in Art

Fishertown

Brian R. Barefoot, Valley Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Imler

Timothy C. Swindell, Forest Drive, B.A. in History

Manns Choice

Kristin Vanira Wilkins, Hyndman Road, B.S. in Nutrition

New Paris

Heather M. Corle, McCreary Lane, B.S. in Interior Design

Schellsburg

Chandra Lynne Batzel, B.S.Ed. in Business Education

Berks

Birdsboro

Joshua J. Moss, Amity Park Road, B.A. in Psychology

Boyertown

Jonathan Ryan Crowley, Goat Hill Road, B.A. in History

Fleetwood

Amanda Marie Hack, Ridge Crest Drive, B.S.Ed. in English Education

Reading

Megan Elizabeth Giles, Ashbourne Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Emily Ann Reichard, Sycamore Drive, B.S. in Nursing
Chad Becker Toporski, Patton Street, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Shillington

Megan Lynn Dutt, Rim View Lane, B.S. in Nursing

Sinking Spring

Kyle Jeffrey Hills, Saddle Court, B.S.Ed. in Art Education

West Reading

Mitch Long, Chestnut Street, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Wyomissing

Briana Renelle Stewart, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education

Blair

Altoona

Rebecca Ann Alderiso, M.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons
Erica Marie Askey, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Andrea Marie Baumgartner, Monroe Avenue, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Dennis Anthony Graziosi, Bellemeade Drive, B.A. in History
Shane Russell Kaler, Dixie Lane, B.S.Ed. in Social Studies Education
Lindsey Renee Knab, Aldrich Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Ashley Marie McGraw, Race Street, B.S.Ed. in Deaf Education
Heather J. Merritt, M.A. in Criminology
Thomas B. Otto, Pinecroft Avenue, D.Ed. in Administration and Leadership Studies
Brian Stalter, B.S. in Communications Media
Peter Nickolai Starr, Ph.D. in Administration and Leadership Studies

Bellwood

Jennifer L. Hunter, Loganbell Farms, B.S.Ed. in Mathematics Education
Nicole M. Hunter, Loganbell Farms, B.S. in Nutrition

Claysburg

Katelyn M. Glass, Trophy Lane, B.S. in Human Resource Management
Chelsey Diane Lightner, Bedford Street, B.A. in English

Duncansville

Scott Lewis Garland, M.A. in Criminology
Matthew William Hunter, Lynns Road, B.A. in Psychology
Marcos Antonio Manon II, Brentwood Drive, B.S. in Natural Science

Hollidaysburg

Ashley Diane Bevan, Sylvan Heights Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
John Ross Garlick, Chris Street, M.A. in English
Drew Tyson Moyer, B.S.Ed. in Mathematics Education

Roaring Spring

David A. Crumrine, England Road, D.Ed. in Administration and Leadership Studies

Tyrone

Kari Anne Black, B.S. in Management
Sarah Jessica Stever, B.S. in Marketing
George Brian Toth, D.Ed. in Administration and Leadership Studies
Samantha L. Whetstine, B.S. in Athletic Training

Williamsburg

Jeffrey K. Detwiler, Dean Street, M.Ed. in Business/Workforce Development
Jeana M. Tate, Clover Creek Road, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology

Bradford

Sayre

Chatney Featherson, Lincoln Street, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Brandy Michelle Walter, Mile Lane Road, B.S. in Interior Design
Melissa Ann Webster, Stevenson Street, B.S. in Interior Design

Towanda

Stephanie Mae Kinner, B.A. in Sociology

Bucks

Bensalem

Kelly Ann McDermott, Ginger Court, B.S.Ed. in Social Studies Education

Bristol

Mianna McDaniel Saxton, Beaver Street, B.A. in Theater

Doylestown

Timothy Brannon Muller, John Dyer Way, B.S. in Applied Mathematic
James Randall Pavone, Fieldstone Drive, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Feasterville Trevose

William Robert Gordon, Highland Avenue, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Holland

Christina Arnold, Buck Road, B.A. in Chemistry
Kirsten Hope Quanstrom, B.S. in Nutrition

Levittown

Daniel William Kriger, Dawn Road, B.S. in Marketing
Kelly Lauer, Jolly Lane, B.A. in Psychology
Kelly Lauer, Jolly Lane, B.A. in Anthropology

Newtown

Michael Lundberg, Colonial Drive, B.A. in Political Science
Brendan James Markham, Merion Drive, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Richboro

Ali J. Littman, Ann Drive, B.A. in Anthropology

Sellersville

Kenneth J. Midgett, Boulder Drive, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Gentilina Marie Miller, Lawndale Avenue, B.A. in Criminology

Southampton

Lesley Faye Fili, Jefferson Drive, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education

Spinnerstown

Nathan Jay Shelly, Sleepy Hollow Road, B.S. in Marketing

Warminster

Lindsay M. Walsh, Nemoral Street, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Washington Crossing

Ryan Matheson Winton, Tankard Lane, B.S. in International Business

Butler

Butler

Christine L. Barnhart, Lyn Dale Drive, M.A. in Criminology
Shawn Michael Criley, West Christie Avenue, B.A. in Journalism
Ashlee Lyn Iannotti, West Sunbury Road, M.A. in Criminology
Matthew J. Kalina, Highfield Road, B.A. in Political Science
Ginger Ann Lucas, B.A. in Criminology
Ryan Dale McCandless, Chicora Road, B.A. in Criminology
Sean Keith McMillen, Crossland Road, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Cody Elizabeth Parker, B.S. in Physics
Amy M. Petricca, Art Crest Drive, M.A. in Criminology
Markie Danielle Ponsonby, B.A. in Criminology
Douglas E. Ritson, Jamisonville Road, M.A. in Criminology
Heather Rebecca Ruffel, Oliver Drive, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Matthew B. Smith, Cecelia Street, B.A. in Criminology
Melissa B. Wickline, Fontana Street, B.S. in Nursing
Lindsay Beth Young, Cherokee Drive, M.A. in Criminology

Cranberry Township

Jill Louise Barker, Blue Ridge Drive, B.S. in Marketing
Jessica Lynn Geier, Rolling Road, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Robert C. Miller, Queenswood Drive, M.A. in Counselor Services
Amanda Marie Pribanic, Arrowood Drive, B.A. in Sociology
Michael Andrew Psenick, Quail Drive, B.A. in Psychology
Michael Andrew Psenick, Quail Drive, B.S. in Communications Media
Anthony Jordan Racioppi, B.A. in Criminology
Heather Ellen Weaver, Cottingham Circle, B.A. in English

Evans City

Pamela Sue Krosel, May Lane, M.A. in Criminology

Fenelton

Michael Thomas Dorondo, Forest Lane, B.A. in Criminology

Prospect

Kayla Marie Whipkey, Yellow Creek Road, M.A. in English

Renfrew

Danielle Leigh Kohut, Meadowview Drive, B.A. in Psychology

Sarver

Wendi Alicia Dawson, Shaw Lane, B.A. in Sociology
Katelyn Noel Hanson, Leasureville Road, B.S. in Interior Design
Joseph D. Musloe, Howes Run Road, B.S. in Marketing
Kortnie Louise Schall, Harbison Road, B.S.Ed. in Art Education

Seven Fields

Tracy Nicole Gibbs, Bristol Drive, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Caitlin Ann Ligo, Dorchester Drive, B.S. in Marketing

Slippery Rock

William H. Coyle, Currie Road, M.S. in Geography

Valencia

Kenneth R. Goucher, Mary Lynn Lane, B.A. in Criminology
Katie Elizabeth Kovac, West Cruikshank Road, B.S. in Interior Design

West Sunbury

Margaret R. Gomez, Miller School Lane, B.A. in Psychology

Cambria

Carrolltown

Kimberly Alison Kline, Forest Lane, B.S. in Natural Science

Cresson

Nicholas Allen Filak, Centre Avenue, B.S. in Accounting
Suzanna C. Long, Central Avenue, M.A. in History

Dunlo

Heather Marie Pfeil, Pitcairn Avenue, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Dysart

Michael Robert Morealli, Dysart Drive, M.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons

Ebensburg

Brenda Shetler Ambrisco, Park Street, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Craig Donald Faish, B.S. in Nursing
Craig Donald Faish, B.A. in Criminology
Brennan Michael Long, New Germany Road, B.S.Ed. in English Education

Gallitzin

Alyse Sarah Croll, Saint Marys Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Hastings

Heather Marie Craver, Beaver Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Megan Elizabeth DeSalvo, Main Street, B.S. in Natural Science
Walter S. Depto, Spring Road, M.A. in Criminology

Johnstown

Sara D. Baker, Wyoming Street, B.A. in Criminology
Jilliane R. Bolt, G- Owen Library, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Brittany Madlyn Brubaker, B.A. in Art
Nicole Marie Carney, B.A. in Spanish
Nicole Marie Carney, B.S. in International Business
Teri Lynn Carney, B.A. in Psychology
Teri Lynn Carney, B.A. in Spanish
Gretchen Marie Clegg, Decker Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Spanish Education
Tracy Marie Demchak, William Penn Avenue, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Kyle W. Goisovich, Dolphin Street, B.A. in Geography
Melinda S. Hartfiel, Napoleon Street, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Jennifer Lynn Hershberger, Luna Lane, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Sean Thomas Horn, Berkey Drive, B.S. in Accounting
Michael P. Kane Jr., Krings Street, B.S. in Accounting
Theresa Marie Kessler, Albany Street, M.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Keith Kuckenbrod, Menoher Boulevard, M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations
Jesse Lee Miller, Stonehedge Court, B.S. in Business Technology Support
Nicholas Lee Mish, Albany Street, B.S. in Marketing
Nicole Lynn O'Gorman, Fairfield Avenue, B.A. in Journalism
Stephanie Lynn Porter, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Jessica Marie Sadvari, B.S. in Nursing
Robyn Elizabeth Schultz, Plainfield Avenue, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Matthew Thomas Smith, Mellott Drive, Certification in School Psychology
Ryan A. Tabek, Girard Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Lindsey Marie Toth, Falls Run Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Stephanie Marie Waddell, B.A. in Art
Tara Lynn Wentz, Bloom Street, B.S. in Nursing
Naomi Ann Whinnie, Pudliner Lane, B.S.Ed. in Art Education
Brian Richard Willett, Sunshine Avenue, B.S. in Accounting

Lilly

Allison Marie McConnell, Oak Street, B.S. in Interior Design

Mineral Point

Mallory Ann Dixon, Mallory Lane, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Kevin David Theys, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Carrie Elizabeth Whited, Teal Street, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education

Nanty Glo

Kelly Marie Bober, Cypress Lane, B.S.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons

Nicktown

Chadwick Paul Paronish, Amadei Road, B.S. in Geology
Nicole LeeAnn Wenturine, Alverda Road, B.S. in Marketing

Northern Cambria

Meghan Leigh Amadei, B.A. in Criminology
Ashley Marie Dunchack, Sheredy Drive, B.S. in Nutrition
Erin Renee Woods, Tipperary Road, B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education

Patton

Dr. Luke Joseph Lansberry, D.Ed. in Administration Leadership Studies
Richard Mark Lansberry, Klondike Road, B.S. in Finance
Benjamin J. Stufft, Beech Avenue, B.S. in Geology
Brittany Elizabeth Stufft, Beech Avenue, B.S. in Nursing

Portage

Emily Jean Golden, Munster Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Heather-Lee C. Kline, East Knox Avenue, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Sarah N. Lutz, Jefferson Avenue, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Ashlee Grace McCabe, Elwood Drive, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Andrew Paul Phillips, Orchard Street, B.A. in Anthropology
Floyd Joseph Rousell III, Meadow Lane, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Jennifer Rose Shuty, Front Avenue, M.A. in Music
Maria Nicole Sinosky, Jefferson Avenue, B.S. in Nursing

Sidman

Erin B. Knisley, Fairview Avenue, B.A. in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts
Megan Melissa Wadsworth, Humbert Road, B.S. in Respiratory Care

South Fork

Amanda Sue McVicker, Amsite Road, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Sara Jean Webb, Beagle Road, B.S. in Nursing

Summerhill

Maria Elaine Bodenschatz, Gates Hill Road, M.A. in English
Lindsey Nicole Saksa, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Jacob Thomas Madison, New Germany Road, B.S. in Respiratory Care
Lauren Anne Nedimyer, Buckhorn Road, B.A. in Sociology
Pamela Jean Straub, Second Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons
Emily Elizabeth Theys, Jackson Street, B.S.Ed. in English Education

Cameron

Emporium

Daniel Raistlin Frey, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Kelsey E. Lewis, Sunrise Acres Road, B.A. in Criminology

Carbon

Lehighton

Wendy M. Strohl, Packerton Dam Drive, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Centre

Boalsburg

Paul George Robinson, West Pine Street, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Madisonburg

Jessica Hazel, Hazelwood Lane, B.A. in Psychology

Philipsburg

Ryan Joshua Mostyn, Scott Lane, B.S. in Marketing
Michelle L. Wamboldt, One Mile Run Road, B.A. in Sociology

State College

Cale Y. Clemente, Arbor Way, A.A. in General Studies
Corinne Ann Pelliccio, Highland Avenue, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Ryan A. Tancibok, James Avenue, B.A. in Criminology
Kylie Jayne Whoolery, West Clearview Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education

Chester

Boalsburg

Paul George Robinson, West Pine Street, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Madisonburg

Jessica Hazel, Hazelwood Lane, B.A. in Psychology

Philipsburg

Ryan Joshua Mostyn, Scott Lane, B.S. in Marketing
Michelle L. Wamboldt, One Mile Run Road, B.A. in Sociology

State College

Cale Y. Clemente, Arbor Way, A.A. in General Studies
Corinne Ann Pelliccio, Highland Avenue, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Ryan A. Tancibok, James Avenue, B.A. in Criminology
Kylie Jayne Whoolery, West Clearview Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education

Clarion

Fairmount City

Staci Sue Kriebel, Fairmount Avenue, B.S. in Nursing
Erin Elizabeth Schuetz, Maple Avenue, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education

Knox

Colleen Danielle Griffith, B.S. in Interior Design
Jenna Rae Henry, South Main Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

New Bethlehem

Christopher J. Livengood, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Mitchell R. Smail, Pence Lane, B.A. in Geography

Rimersburg

Pamela Jean Criner, Cherry Run Street, Certification in School Psychology

Shippenville

Bryn E. Pesek, Sycamore Drive, M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations

Clearfield

Clearfield

Stephen Lewis Livergood, Turnpike Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Vocational-Technical Education

Curwensville

Katie R Prisk, Church Street, B.A. in Psychology

Du Bois

Joseph H. Dippel, B.S. in Accounting
Joseph H. Dippel, B.S. in Management
Tori L. Groves, West Weber Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Mathematics Education
Tiffany A. Gump, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Samantha Joy Mollica, Central Christian Road, M.S. in Food and Nutrition
Rachael Joyce Nestlerode, South Highland Street, B.S. in Marketing
Patrick Pomeroy, Quarry Avenue, B.S. in Nursing

Lanse

Michael E. Fry Jr., Maple Street, M.Ed. in Business/Workforce Development

Mahaffey

Erika Lynn Olson, Certification in School Psychology

Morrisdale

Angela M Fenush, Grassflat Avenue, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Olanta

Jamie S. Clutter, Douglas Road, B.S. in Management

Rockton

Sherri Suzanne Muth, B.S. in Marketing

Westover

Michael B. Bakaysa Jr., Church Street, B.A. in Criminology
Crystal Nicole Young, Victory Lane, B.S. in Nursing

Clinton

Lock Haven

Alyce R. Baker, Parrothead Lane, Ph.D. in English

Mill Hall

Reed Aaron Hanna, Palmer Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Columbia

Berwick

Mallory L. Bower, Foundryville Road, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education

Bloomsburg

Laura M. Haile, B.A. in Sociology
Jonathan Michael Sabo, Iron Street, B.S. in Finance

Catawissa

Erin Elizabeth Stellfox, Numidia Drive, B.S. in Nutrition

Crawford

Cochranton

Annie-Marie Colgrove, East Adams Street, B.A. in Anthropology
Caleb S. Judy, B.A. in Anthropology

Linesville

Megan Leigh Jablonski, Airport Road, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Meadville

Courtney Jo Schlosser, Walnut Street, B.S. in Nursing

Saegertown

Christopher John Lyons, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Titusville

John M. McMahon, Drake Well Road, B.A. in Computer Science
Deborah Rose Neu, West Walnut Street, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Amanda Lynn Rectenwald, Keyes Road, Certification in School Psychology

Cumberland

Camp Hill

Caitlin Leigh Miller, Farm House Lane, B.A. in Psychology
Stephen Walter Panko, Grandview Avenue, B.S. in Accounting
Allison L. Yorks, B.S.Ed. in Mathematics Education

Carlisle

Cory James Brady, Regal View Drive, B.S. in Accounting
Timothy R. Corby, Cobblestone Drive, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Sarah Anne Hager, B.F.A. in Music Performance
Sarah Anne Hager, B.A. in Music
Brooke Elizabeth Mathna, Springview Road, B.A. in Psychology
Lauren Elizabeth Merlie, Derbyshire Drive, B.A. in Political Science
Megan A. Patterson, Trindle Road, B.A. in Sociology
Brian Michael Railing, Esther Drive, B.A. in Criminology

Mechanicsburg

Marcus Samuel Hancock, Juniper Drive, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Katee Kessel, Brunswick Avenue, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Rachel Elizabeth Kessler, Williams Grove Road, B.S. in Interior Design
Imran Yazdani, Windsor Road, B.S. in Natural Science
Imran Yazdani, Windsor Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Patrick M. Zang, Widders Drive, B.A. in Political Science

New Cumberland

Sara Catherine Benson, Bridge Street, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Newville

Laureen Ezrow Nelson, Blue Pond Road, D.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction

Shippensburg

Aaron David Treher, Rice Road, B.F.A. in Art Studio

Dauphin

Dauphin

Elizabeth Anna Eshelman, Hillside Lane, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Harrisburg

LaChae Nicole Bryson, B.S. in Biology
Elizabeth S. Carter, Green Street, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Quinton Marcus Cobb, Canterbury Road, B.A. in Criminology
Rory Scott Dillard, Herr Street, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Briana Lorraine Flagg, B.S. in Nursing
Jason Charles Gouldner, Baywood Drive, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Danielle Leann Johnson, B.A. in Criminology
Andrew King, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Diana Monusov, Rowe Lane, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Katie L. Morgan, Willow Spring Road, B.A. in Journalism
Megan Alexandra Rhett, Linn Street, B.A. in Psychology
Brittany Cierra Taylor, Braeburn Lane, B.A. in Criminology

Hummelstown

Grant Alexander Gittlen, Harrogate Drive, B.A. in Political Science
Bethany M. Wickham, East Street, Certification in School Psychology

Middletown

Amanda Michelle Lykins, Shirley Circle, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Millersburg

Sean Andrew Osman, Pine Street, B.A. in Political Science

Steelton

Sonya Elizabeth Blanco, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Williamstown

Amanda Elizabeth Cooper, B.S. in Nursing

Delaware

Brookhaven

Austin Alexander Jensen, Chester Creek Road, B.A. in Sociology

Broomall

Andrea Nicole Gabe, Lyndhurst Drive, B.S. in Marketing

Chester

Marquicia Lenee Scott, B.A. in Psychology

Concordville

Ashley Sook Hee Talley, B.A. in History

Darby

Vanessa M. Ingram, Fern Street, B.A. in Psychology

Drexel Hill

Timothy Yockey, Lakeview Avenue, B.A. in Journalism

East Lansdowne

Chiemezie Austin-Nnaemeka Onyeachu, Lexington Avenue, B.A. in Economics

Folsom

Tara Lynn Pitts, Sylvania Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education

Havertown

Nicholas Michael Wood, Lawson Avenue, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Sharon Hill

Vernon Norman Brundage Jr., Greenhill Road, B.A. in Economics
Victor Marcellis Brundage, Greenhill Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Upper Darby

Abiodun Ofuje Omo-Ogun, Maplewood Avenue, B.A. in Psychology
Nakita L. Ross, Springton Road, M.A. in Adult and Community Education

Wayne

Steven Drake Nakaishi, Colonel Dewees Road, B.S. in Business Technology Support

Yeadon

Ashley Michelle Kornegay, Fern Street, B.S. in Natural Science
Denise T. Sawyer, Cypress Street, B.A. in Criminology

Elk

Brockport

Andrew Earl Crawford, Cross Road, B.S. in Chemistry
Robert John Liddle, Mount Daniels Road, B.S. in Marketing

Johnsonburg

Keith L. Miller, Glen Hazel Road, B.S. in Environmental Health Science

Kersey

Brenda Marie McBurney, Hayes Road, B.S. in Accounting
Sheila Nichole Sidelinger, Hogback Road, B.A. in Psychology
Sheila Nichole Sidelinger, Hogback Road, B.S. in Athletic Training

Ridgway

Jeanne E. Adwell, North Maple Avenue, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Joseph L. Buhler, Grand Slam Road, B.A. in Criminology
Jennifer Elizabeth Fair, Ash Street, B.S.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons
Kayla Sue Fenton, Hyde Avenue, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Justin Andrew Placer, North Broad Street, B.A. in Sociology

Saint Marys

Joy E. Bon, South Ridge Road, M.Ed. in Business/Workforce Development
Julie Anne Swanson, Hemlock Road, B.S. in Management
Jason Daniel Whalen, Reserve Road, B.S.Ed. in Biology Education

Erie

Corry

Shane Michael Gastecki, West Pleasant Street, B.S. in Accounting

Edinboro

Shelly Rae Klinek, D.Ed. in Administration Leadership Studies
Keegan Rae Leehan, Stonehaven Drive, B.S. in Interior Design
Ashley Marie Walker, Hall Drive, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Erie

Michael Browne, B.A. in Sociology
Nancy Marie Cipriani, Avellino Drive, Certification in School Psychology
Shane Patrick Connelly, Madison Avenue, B.A. in Criminology
Patrick Michael Cross, B.S. in Management Information Systems
Lynn Elizabeth Cutshall, Burkhart Avenue, B.S. in Interior Design
Jasmine Sade Durr, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Jacquelyn Shante Esters, B.A. in Criminology
Meghan Colleen Fowler, B.A. in Political Science
Melissa Marie Garrity, Knoyle Road, B.A. in Art
Christopher Michael Thomas Gibson, B.S. in Finance
Allison Emily Haener, Dominion Drive, B.S. in Nursing
Victoria M. Hedderick, Larchmont Drive, D.Ed. in Administration and Leadership Studies
Shenley Hoffman, Amherst Road, B.S. in Interior Design
Kelly Marie Kern, B.S. in Nursing
Austin M. Moore, Ridgewood Drive, B.S. in Accounting
Scott Allen Moore, Wood Street, B.S. in Marketing
Sara Elizabeth Pakulski, Hess Avenue, B.S. in Nursing
Kyler Kenton Rhoades, Lakeview Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Igor Rubinstein, Bison Court, B.S. in International Business
Zachary Christopher Snyder, Delphos Drive, B.S. in Nutrition
David Benjamin Zamperini, Drake Drive, B.S.Ed. in Social Studies Education

Fairview

Melissa E Morgan, Echo Hill Lane, B.A. in Psychology

Lake City

Christopher Lynn DeLeo, Rose Street, B.S. in Applied Mathematics

Mc Kean

Lauren Elizabeth Nupp, Rick Road, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

North East

Elisa M. Lilly, West Main Street, B.S. in Accounting

Union City

Sarah L. Wood, Murray Road, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Waterford

Carol Mae Rosenthal, B.A. in Journalism
Carol Mae Rosenthal, B.A. in English

Fayette

Belle Vernon

Kayla Marie Flook, Vernon Drive, B.A. in Psychology
Graham H. Tripp, Piersol Road, B.A. in Journalism
Casey Lee Vargo, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education

Brownsville

Jesse Adam Harris, Indian Rock Drive, B.S.Ed. in Art Education

Connellsville

Matthew Alan Brooks, East Washington Avenue, B.S. in Finance
Leanne R. Hodge, Spruce Hollow Road, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Katie Mae Saylor, Mount Tabor Road, B.S. in Nursing

Dawson

Christopher Charles Golden, Linden Hall Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Kerri Leah Hiles, Banning Road, B.S. in Nursing

Fayette City

Brittany Ann Molnar, Elwell Street, B.S. in Marketing
Sarah S. Romanchak, Washington Drive, B.A. in Psychology
Sarah S. Romanchak, Washington Drive, B.A. in Criminology

Hopwood

Kira Elizabeth Henry, Hounddog Road, B.A. in History
Kira Elizabeth Henry, Hounddog Road, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education

Masontown

Mallory Morea Malesky, McClellandtown Road, B.S. in Natural Science

Star Junction

Sarah A. Molchan, B.S. in Respiratory Care

Uniontown

Kelly Elizabeth Palya, Virginia Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Dennis Paul Yonash II, Albert Street, M.A. in Criminology

Franklin

Amberson

Elizabeth Ann Frey, Amberson Road, B.S. in Marketing

Chambersburg

Joseph M. Abbott, Nottingham Drive, B.S. in Interior Design
Leeann N. Comfort, Peach Drive, B.A. in English

Fayetteville

Jennifer Lindsey Wetzel, North Blackberry Lane, B.A. in Art

Greencastle

Lydia Ann Mannion, Williamson Avenue, B.A. in Psychology

Waynesboro

Rebecca Dawn Harkins, Dickinson Avenue, B.A. in Spanish

Fulton

Harrisonville

Brittany Lynn Buterbaugh, Sipes Mill Road, B.S. in Chemistry

Greene

Mount Morris

Jason John Young, Blacks Run Road, M.Ed. in Health and Physical Education

Huntingdon

Mount Union

Philip Oscar Morris, West Sheridan Street, B.S. in Management

Robertsdale

Lindsey R. Hann, North Main Street, B.S. in Finance

Indiana

Armagh

Laken Ann Brendlinger, Church Street, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Aultman

Samantha Jane Reeger, B.S.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons

Blairsville

Elise Marie Auvil, La Mantia Lane, B.A. in English
Elizabeth M. Goldberg, Johnson Avenue, B.S. in Marketing
Tara Lynn Gradischek, Toms Lane, B.S. in Nursing
Tristano John Halchak Jr., Mahan School Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Amy Marie Horrell, Certification in School Psychology
Daniel Joshua Kapcoe, Old Indiana Road, B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education
Colleen Wodowski, East Campbell Street, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Cherry Tree

John Cavallo Jr., Bowdertown Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Sara Dawn Pearce, B.S. in Nursing

Clarksburg

Dennis George Bondra, Prymak Road, B.S. in Nutrition

Clymer

Theresa Ann Chambers, Dixon Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Patrick Raymond Christie, Hancock Street, B.A. in Psychology
Kelly Jean Dobson, Raspberry Road, B.S. in Nursing
Kayla Jean Fatula, Dixon Road, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
William Joseph Glassford, Overman Road, B.S. in Biology
Rebecca Marie Kirsch-Lingenfelter, Laurel Run Road, B.A. in History
Emily Anne McCombie, Glory Station Road, B.S.Ed. in English Education
Kayla Marie Rorabaugh, Ash Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Christopher Ray Twigg, Franklin Street, B.S. in Athletic Training

Commodore

Brent R. Brewer, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Dain Joseph Frantz, Alder Road, B.S. in Regional Planning

Creekside

Naysa Lynn Altmeyer, B.S.Ed. in Spanish Education
Peter D. Kazunas, Shelocta Street, B.S. in Applied Physics
Nicole L. Park, Five Points Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jasmine Angeline Romanie, Frech Street, B.A. in Psychology
Michael J. Stadler, M.F.A. in Art

Ernest

Melissa Marie Fisher, M.S. in Food and Nutrition
Megan Nicole Fultz, B.S. in Nutrition

Glen Campbell

Chad M. Gromley, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Jesse W. Laney, B.S. in Management Information Systems
Sarah Jane Reid, B.A. in Economics
Natalie Charlene Small, B.S. in Nursing

Graceton

David Richard King, Neal Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Melissa Lee Mehalick, B.A. in Psychology
Danielle Rachel Smyre, B.A. in Psychology

Heilwood

Darren J. Dalton, B.A. in Criminology

Home

Jason David Miloser, Ruth Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Alicia Michelle Rich, McMillen Road, B.A. in Biology

Homer City

Julie Elizabeth Grejtak, Wayne Street, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Emily Ann Henry, B.S. in Nutrition
Katherine Lynne Maulo, North Lincoln Street, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Nicole Alexis McDowell, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Tina M. McMillen, Waterworks Road, B.A. in Criminology
Christopher S. Patterson, Simon Road, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Indiana

Sheena Elizabeth Abraham, Centennial Drive, M.S. in Food and Nutrition
David Jackson Akers III, Oak Street, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Jennifer L. Anderson, M.S. in Food and Nutrition
Kenneth Edward Ault, Miller Drive, B.A. in Political Science
Melissa A. Bagi, Lilac Street, M.S. in Mathematics
Aaron Thomas Baker, Chestnut Street, B.S. in Accounting
Brandon Paul Balint, Lowman Road, B.S. in Natural Science
Casey Lyn Beck, Washington Street, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
James Raymond Beggs, Laurel Street, M.A. in English
Alyssa Nicole Bopp, Dove Lane, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Dale Tyrone Boston, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Rebecca Lynn Bell Bowers, Birch Lane, B.A. in Psychology
Lonnie Alan Bowman, Oak Street, B.S. in Management
John Michael Bowser, Maple Street, B.A. in History
Roger Lee Briscoe II, Shady Drive, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Jesse Alan Brown, B.F.A. in Art Studio
Joshua Douglas Brown, B.A. in History
Sarah Zeglin Carr, Warren Road, M.S. in Geography
Emily R. Clawson, Clover Lane, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education
John Robert Clements, Zehner Road, A.A. in General Studies
Bryan B. Coleman, MBA
Alisha Mae Dickey, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Andrew J. Dougherty, B.A. in Journalism
James William Ellermeyer III, Dolores Circle, B.S. in General Studies
Emily A. Farren, Blairton Avenue, B.A. in Political Science
Katie Marie Ferguson, Robin Street, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Viktoria Troy Fox, Regency Square, B.A. in Criminology
Michael Robert Frederick, Oak Street, B.S.Ed. in Art Education
Michael Robert Frederick, Oak Street, B.A. in Art
Nathan Daniel Fullmer, Church Street, M.Ed. in Business/Workforce Development
Jane S. Gardner, Grant Street, B.S. in Communications Media
John T. Garzarelli, Locust Street, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Opal Nicola Gayle, Church Street, M.A. in English
Judy J. Geesey, Trim Tree Road, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Jordan L Haines, Valley Road, B.A. in Geography
Christopher Lewis Harkleroad, B.S. in Natural Science
Patrick James Harvey, Chestnut Street, Ph.D. in Criminology
David Anthony Hauge, B.S.Ed. in Physics Education
Lisa Ann Henry, Ringneck Avenue, B.S. in Natural Science
Yat Ming Ho, Roble Drive, B.S. in Finance
Jessica Ann Huey, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Shannon Luray Jackson, Maple Street, M.A. in Sociology
Jolene F. Johnson, School Street, B.S. in Nursing
Kaitlyn Kyle Johnston, B.A. in Journalism
Amanda S. Jones, M.A. in Counselor Services
Pamela Beth June-Rodgers, Byron Court, Ph.D. in English
Eric T. Kerr, Edgewood Avenue, B.S. in Management
Rebekah Sue King, Sexton Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Lisa Marie Kinter, B.S. in Accounting
Rebecca Ann Kirkland, Philadelphia Street, B.S. in Accounting
Kristi Kisiel, Lisa Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Lingshu Kong, Fleming Avenue, MBA
Christina Michele Kretchun, Lazor Street, B.S. in Nutrition
Bethany Anne Lezanic-Smith, Stonebraker Road, M.Ed. in Business/Workforce Development
Bernard Wayne Lockard III, Overlook Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Nicole Lynn Lodge, B.S. in Disability Services
Eric Braden Lutz, , B.A. in Journalism
Germaine F. Big Owl McArdle, Philadelphia Street, M.A. in English
Victoria Leigh McCurdy, M.A. in Adult and Community Education
Jorge Pedro Medina, Washington Street, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Barbara Lynn Miller, Washington Street, B.S. in Nursing
Laura A. Mills, B.A. in Anthropology
Laura A. Mills, B.A. in English
Veronica K. Milner, Apache Drive, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education
Alyssa Soon Hee Mlecko, Gary Lane, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Nina Marie Montgomery, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Benjamin Michael Murphy, Warren Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Thomas P. Nestor, Shady Drive, B.A. in Art
Sarah Elizabeth O'Sullivan, B.S.Ed. in Business Education
Thomas Edwin Olsen, Church Street, B.S. in Finance
Andrew M. Osborne, North Street, B.A. in Theater
Hitesh R. Panchal, B.S. in Finance
Megan C. Phillips, Hamilton Street, B.S. in Interior Design
Paul Arnold Price, Trim Tree Road, B.A. in Geography
David Thomas Pudder, Philadelphia Street, M.A. in Physics
Barbara J. Ray, Edgewood Avenue, B.S. in Environmental Health Science
Nicole Dawn Reed, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Shawn Michael Reming Jr., Pompano Lane, M.A. in History
Benjamin Bruce Roberts, Oakland Avenue, M.A. in English
Drew Anton Robertson, Tanoma Road, B.A. in Geography
Brian Joseph Rougeux, Mansfield Avenue, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Alexandra Lauren Schneider, Warren Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Traci Renee Stevens, Shady Drive, M.Ed. in Mathematics Education
Andrea J. McGraw, Lazor Street, M.A. in English
Stuart Jay Somers, Philadelphia Street, MBA
Erin Marie Suda, Ferguson Road, B.S. in Athletic Training
Tao Sun, Regency Square Apartment, M.S. in Mathematics
Thomas John Tancraitor, Easy Street, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Kelly Anne Thompson, Grant Street, B.A. in English
Willliam Michael Trimarchi, M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations
Renee Brianne Trout, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Marissa Leigh Umbel, Sue Anne Lane, B.S. in Physics
Verushka M. del C. Vazquez Marrero, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Chiyu Wang, Fleming Avenue, MBA
Nicholas Robert Watson, B.A. in Criminology
Jacob Andrew Watta, B.A. in Religious Studies
Kelly Elizabeth Webb, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Nathan Eric Wolverton, Oak Street, B.A. in Criminology
Alissa A. Yerep, M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations
Michelle LeAnn Yett, Ann Circle, B.S. in Nutrition
Cody W. Young, Black Walnut Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Gen Maw Yu, B.S. in Marketing

Kent

Levi Brighton Starr Fisher, B.A. in Criminology
Bethany M. Stewart-Ryan, Mill Street, B.A. in Theater

Marion Center

Matthew James Carney, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Amber J. Stenman, Abel Road, B.A. in Sociology
Michelyn M. Tucker, Bethel Church Road, B.A. in Criminology

Penn Run

Brent James Cameron, Chestnut Ridge Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Cortney Rose Cramer, Cramer Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Nathan D. Strong, Ray Road, B.S. in Business Technology Support
Randall Conner Strong, B.A. in Psychology

Plumville

Carissa Desiree Downey, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Rossiter

Nicole Lou London, A.A. in Business/Associate

Saltsburg

Jennifer Lynn Dick, Weimer Lane, M.Ed. in Elementary Education

Shelocta

Christopher David Carnahan, Ole Mill Drive, M.A. in Adult and Community Education
Christa L. Duncan, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Amanda J. Shock, Millen Road, B.S. in Nursing

Smicksburg

Harmony Leah Ritchie, B.S.Ed. in Art Education
Fallon Elaine Stiteler, B.S. in Regional Planning

Jefferson

Big Run

Jacob Gene Lawrence, B.A. in Art

Brockway

Matthew R. McMinn, B.A. in Criminology

Brookville

Dara Kamran Ehtesham, Sayer Street, B.A. in Religious Studies
Meghan Briane Ferraro, Caldwell Corners Road, Certification in School Psychology
Hayley Marissa Simpson, Rick Simpson Road, B.S. in Human Resource Management
Brian P. White, Hunters Grove Road, M.Ed. in Counselor Education

Corsica

Melissa Marie Simpson, West Stub's Road, B.S.Ed. in Business Education

Falls Creek

Lesa Rae Brosky, Fuller Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Art Education

Punxsutawney

Christina Joann Bianco, Cambria Street, B.S. in Marketing
Aaron Bowser, Milliron Road, B.S. in Geology
Holli J. Carulli, Hadden Hill Road, M.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons
Chanta Renee Craft, Rockland Avenue, B.A. in Criminology
Amy Lynn Dunkel, Willow Road, B.A. in Criminology
Ralph Joseph Ferraro Jr., Elk Run Avenue, B.A. in Economics
Ralph Joseph Ferraro Jr., Elk Run Avenue, B.S. in Management
Jaron Fox, Horatio Street, B.A. in English
Staci Marie Heberling, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Mitchel Paul Janocha, Lower Clinton Street, B.S. in Accounting
Philip P. Limerick, Witherow Street, B.A. in Spanish
Cody William Meenan, Bair Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
William Edward Murray, Pennsylvania Avenue, B.S. in Nursing
Jay Alexander Philliber, Philliber Lane, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Cheyenne Daniel Reed, North Enterline Road, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Jason A. Smith, Horatio Street, M.S. in Mathematics

Reynoldsville

Maria Lynn Duttry, Grant Street, B.S. in Nursing
Miranda Katherine Shoemaker, B.A. in Geography

Ringgold

Alyssa L. Reitz, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Summerville

Ashley Hope Ross, M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations

Lackawanna

Jessup

James Richard Alunni, River Street, B.A. in Psychology

Olyphant

Albert James Gilgallon, North Point Drive, GCOR in Safety Sciences

Scott Township

Mary Alice Thomas, Mostowski Road, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising

Simpson

Amanda Elizabeth Cook, Prospect Street, B.A. in Criminology

Lancaster

East Petersburg

Heather Ann Baker, Vaughn Road, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Emily Eshelman Dick, State Street, B.S. in Nursing

Elizabethtown

Matthew Scott Killian, Turnpike Road, B.S. in Computer Science
Kristen Ashley Savoie, Freys Road, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Leah Claire Smith, Fieldstone Circle, M.A. in English

Ephrata

Katie Marie Sushinski, Heritage Road, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Lancaster

Khoan S. Ly, White Chapel Road, B.A. in Psychology
Adrienne Lynn Radesky, Abbas Avenue, B.S. in Management
Adrienne Lynn Radesky, Abbas Avenue, B.F.A. in Music Performance
John Thomas Sellers, Lampeter Road, B.S. in Management Information Systems
Steven M. Trudel, Olde Hickory Road, B.A. in Religious Studies

Lititz

Chad Edward Buckwalter, B.S. in International Business
Chad Edward Buckwalter, B.A. in Asian Studies
Ariel Ann Shaffer, Hummingbird Drive, B.S. in Nursing

Mount Joy

Kate Angela Sweigart, Greider Road, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education

Mountville

Sean Patrick McCurdy, Ruby Street, B.A. in Art

New Holland

Megan Elizabeth Riehl, Hillcrest Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Quarryville

Jessica Elizabeth Carson, Skyview Drive, B.A. in Sociology

Lawrence

Bessemer

Josie Marie Grimes, West Beechwood Road, B.A. in Journalism

Edinburg

Lyndsay Kathryn Book, Log House Lane, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Ellwood City

Amanda Lynn Carney, Townwood Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Joshua Richard Powell, Glen Avenue, B.A. in Criminology
Matthew Landon Woodworth, B.S. in Marketing

New Castle

Michael William Boston, Mitchell Road, B.S.Ed. in Deaf Education
Kelly Margaret Crowl, B.S. in Respiratory Care
Timothy J. Holler, State Road, M.A. in Criminology

Lebanon

Annville

Emily J. Robinson, Horseshoe Drive, B.A. in Music
Derek R. Scheer, North Railroad Street, B.A. in Criminology

Lebanon

Erica Nicole Croce, Jeffsu Lane, B.S. in Marketing

Myerstown

Samantha Jo Nolt, Shirksville Road, B.A. in International Studies

Lehigh

Allentown

Gregory John Acero, B.S. in Biology
David B. Cohen, M.A. in Sociology
Kayla R. Held, East Federal Street, B.S. in International Business
Jason Hale Mohring, Wenner Street, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Joseph Hassan Moussa, East Green Street, B.S. in Biology
Margaret Elizabeth Eleanor Stoneback, Clear Way, B.S. in Nursing
Matthew James Walsh, East Federal Street, B.S. in Interior Design

Emmaus

Brian Scott Donovan, Newton Circle, B.A. in Criminology

Macungie

Ian Lee Duckworth, Sauterne Drive, B.S. in Management Information Systems

New Tripoli

Elizabeth J. Deck, Flint Hill Road, B.A. in Sociology

Whitehall

Larissa Beth Mann, B.S. in Nursing

Luzerne

Conyngham

Samantha Schugardt, B.A. in Theater

Dallas

Amanda Jean Crane, Meeker Outlet Road, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Forty Fort

Christopher F. Stefanides, Snowden Street, B.A. in Sociology

Hazleton

Amber Elizabeth Gach, B.S. in Athletic Training

Larksville

China Chantel Dickson, Buttonwood Lane, B.S. in Nutrition

Nanticoke

Angela Carina Hart, B.A. in Criminology

Wilkes Barre

Caitlyn M. Chapasko, Oliver Street, B.S. in Interior Design

Lycoming

Cogan Station

Amy Patricia Owens, Airline Drive, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Hughesville

Ellen Marie Steimling, Logan Lane, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Jersey Shore

Lindsay Ann Mertes, Walnut Lane, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Montoursville

Nicholas Edward Lenio, Biddle Road, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Muncy

Amiann Ocie VanDine, Ridge Road, B.S.Ed. in Deaf Education

Trout Run

Lucas E. Gies, Pleasant Stream Road, B.A. in Spanish
Lucas E. Gies, Pleasant Stream Road, B.A. in Philosophy

Williamsport

Tamah Layne Amrom, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Luke Joseph DePasqua, Grimesville Road, B.S. in Accounting
Lindsay Marie Gush, Penn Street, B.S. in International Business
John P. Heitsenrether, Maple Grove Circle, B.A. in Economics
Jeremy David Leidhecker, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Ian Andrew Nelms, Watson Street, B.A. in Criminology
Valerie Ann Trate, Hoover Road, B.S. in Nutrition

McKean

Bradford

Michael Ryan Austin, B.A. in Psychology
Stuart John Morris, B.S. in Management
April Lyn Otto, Fairway Drive, M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations

Kane

Mary C. Sirianni, Bayard Street, B.A. in Journalism

Mercer

Farrell

Aisha S. Weston, Pershing Drive, Certification in School Psychology

Fredonia

Heather Michelle Kendall, Baker Hill Road, B.S. in Interior Design

Greenville

Lacie Karean Buxton, Orangeville Road, B.A. in Chemistry
Michelle Lee Palm, Woods Road, B.S. in Interior Design

Grove City

Brian Douglas Buchan, D.Ed. in School Psychology
Nicholas Jack Leone, Center Church Road, B.S. in Natural Science
Jessamine Jovelina Mozo Montero, D.Ed. in Administration and Leadership Studies

Hermitage

David Michael Buchanan, Panin Road, B.S. in Management
Daniel M. Kelly, Maple Drive, B.S. in International Business

Sharon

Justin Michael Gartner, Spencer Avenue, B.S. in Accounting
Valerie Marie Patton, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Lucas Smith, Elm Avenue, B.A. in Criminology

Sharpsville

Zachary James Neil, South Ninth Street, B.S. in Finance
Steven Michael Perna, Tamarack Drive, B.S.Ed. in Art Education
Daniel Joseph Pustinger, B.A. in Criminology

Wheatland

Jessica Lynn Varcholik, Hamilton Avenue, B.S. in Interior Design

Monroe

Canadensis

Sean M. Dalton, B.S. in Computer Science

Cresco

Jennifer Caral Babaz, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Effort

Michael John Hrbek, Grand Mesa Drive, B.S. in Finance

Saylorsburg

Christopher D. Lutkins, B.S. in Management

Stroudsburg

Alison Tiedemann Barnak, Lessig Lane, B.S. in Interior Design
Tyler Daniel Quinn, Neyhart Road, B.S. in Finance

Montgomery

Ambler

Alexander Patrick Breish, Forest Creek Drive, B.S. in Accounting

Audubon

D. Tyler Sgrignoli, Redtail Road, B.A. in Journalism

Collegeville

Elizabeth Anne Marosky, Mockingbird Lane, B.A. in English

Eagleville

Lilia Kisluk, MBA

Gilbertsville

Benjamin M. Major, Raspberry Lane, B.S. in Finance
Carol Ann Toomey, Marjessa Drive, M.A. in Criminology

Glenside

John Alexander McMurray, Maple Avenue, B.A. in International Studies

Horsham

Jessica Marie Radcliff, Cedar Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Lansdale

Patrick Gregory Sorensen, Sumneytown Pike, B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education

Maple Glen

Pamela Heather Schatz, Chaucer Drive, B.S. in Communications Media

Melrose Park

Britney Lauryn Carroll, Valley Road A, B.S. in Accounting
Britney Lauryn Carroll, Valley Road A, B.S. in Finance

Norristown

Stephen M. Evans, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

North Wales

Jeremy J. Beck, Hopkins Court, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Kranthi Senadhi, Gwynedd Lea Drive, M.S. in Sport Science

Pottstown

William Jordan Apfl Jr., B.S. in Hospitality Managemen
Sarah Ann Deloplaine, Mervine Street, B.S. in Management
Bernadette Elaine Etzler, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Jordon Daniel Haring, B.A. in Criminology
Andrew Joseph Morris, Rose Valley Road, B.S. in Communications Media

Royersford

Brandon Russell Waldo, B.S. in Management

Telford

Gena Beth Gentile, B.S. in International Business

Willow Grove

Raymond Patrick Elliott, Rubicam Avenue, B.A. in History

Wyncote

Katie Ann Grunwald, Waverly Road, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Wyndmoor

Andrew James Sarsfield, B.S. in Marketing

Montour

Danville

Sharon Marie Kuzma, Mill Street, B.S. in Nursing
Sarah Elizabeth Whelan, Maple Street, B.S. in Interior Design

Northampton

Bethlehem

Michael Alan Binkley, Brentwood Avenue, B.S. in Finance
Michael Alan Binkley, Brentwood Avenue, B.S. in Accounting
Jessica E. Kmiecik, Pleasant Drive, B.S. in Natural Science

Easton

Justin C. Patterson, Oregon Street, B.S. in Management
Heather Lauren Thomas, Saddle Lane, B.S. in Nursing

Hellertown

Melissa Marie Gescek, Zimpher Lane, B.S. in Nutrition
Qiana Anita Lightner, Beech Circle, B.A. in Anthropology
Kristen Ellen Mills, Birch Road, B.A. in History
Kimberly Ann Saltsman, Cedar Road, B.A. in Psychology

Martins Creek

Rebecca A. Duane, Abbruzzi Avenue, B.A. in Spanish
Rebecca A. Duane, Abbruzzi Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Nazareth

Jacqueline M. Herbert, Woodline Road, B.S. in Nursing
Erin Kathleen Meseroll, Hemlock Lane, B.A. in Sociology
Kimberly Lynn Panzini, Kesslersville Road, B.A. in Psychology

Northampton

Allison J. Henry, Buckingham Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Wind Gap

Jill Elizabeth Wagner, Ph.D. in English

Northumberland

Dalmatia

Amanda Lee Thomas, Malta Road, B.A. in Criminology

Dornsife

Misty Lynn Ferster, B.A. in Theater

Elysburg

Rachel Lynn Curran, B.A. in Psychology

Herndon

Jestine Marie Letterman, Mahanoy Creek Lane, B.A. in Criminology

Mount Carmel

Arvin Joseph Shicora, B.A. in Criminology

Sunbury

Jessie Brito, Memorial Acres, B.A. in Criminology

Perry

Landisburg

Bryan Mark Keller, Waggoners Gap Road, B.S. in Computer Science
Rachel Shae Lyons, Kansas Road, B.S. in Respiratory Care

Marysville

Scott Michael Harclerode, Linden Avenue, B.S. in Finance
Jessica Lynne Velgos, Brook Lane, B.S. in Interior Design

Millerstown

Joshua Pellman, Persimmon Drive, B.S. in Marketing

Shermans Dale

Heidi Arlene Jones, Spring Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Erica Renee Metz, Church Road, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology

Philadelphia

Aleata Janvier Burke-Summerville, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Donisha Lasha Burke, B.A. in Psychology
Zarinah A. Cogbill, B.A. in Sociology
Teak L. Denard, B.A. in Economics
Danielle Nicole Farina, Churchill Lane, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Andrew T. Hicks, B.A. in Computer Science
Roniesha Lanies Hill, Andale Street, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Nija Shalyn Holder, B.S. in Communications Media
Denae L. Johnson, Elmwood Avenue, B.A. in Sociology
Derrick Maurice Jones, B.A. in Criminology
Tracey Anness Jones, Baltimore Avenue, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Samantha Natasha Lee, Corinthian Avenue, B.S. in Biology
Tatiana S. Mack, Jeanes Street, B.A. in Psychology
Keya Shantay Middleton, B.A. in Criminology
Felicia S. Moore, Page Street, B.S. in Human Resource Management
Donte M. Palmer, Warrington Avenue, B.S. in Communications Media
Jason Patton, Jeanes Street, B.A. in Philosophy
Michael Eugene Jerome Pitts, Broomall Street, B.S. in Management
David Sean Robinson, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Arnetta Ebony Shaw, Howland Street, B.S. in Nursing
Ian Cornell Smith, Ridge Avenue, B.S. in Human Resource Management
Naja R. Taylor, B.A. in Psychology
Ryan M. Williams, B.S. in Management

Pike

Matamoras

Adam Holtzer, Pennsylvania Avenue, M.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Daniel Joseph Sain, B.S. in Respiratory Care

Potter

Coudersport

Sharon Deutschlander, Sharon Lane, D.Ed. in Administration and Leadership Studies
Mark J. Goga, Creek Side Drive, B.S. in Finance
Emily Christine Leber, Brookland Road, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Nicole Rae Shaffer, Ross Street, B.S.Ed. in Spanish Education

Scyulkill

Hegins

Mary J. Sacavage, Valley Road, Ph.D. in Administration and Leadership Studies

Klingerstown

Steven Michael Rose, Ridge Road, B.A. in Criminology

Snyder

Middleburg

Ann Elizabeth King, East Main Street, B.S. in Nursing

Somerset

Berlin

Andrea Lynn Glessner, White Horse Road, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Jill Elizabeth Kennington-Slope, Main Street, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Bethany A. Ritenour, Bear Run Road, M.Ed. in Business/Workforce Development

Cairnbrook

Angie Marie Lane, School Road, B.A. in Criminology

Davidsville

Jennifer Lynne Valentine, Crestview Drive, M.Ed. in Literacy

Hollsopple

Jessica Lynn Marone, Thomas Street, B.S. in Interior Design

Meyersdale

Sara Elizabeth Sanner, Fike Hollow Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Seth M. Thomas, Beachley Street, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Somerset

Hope Ann Beam, West Bakersville Edie Road, B.A. in Sociology
Leanne Marie Berkey, Keysertown Road, B.S. in Respiratory Care
Jessica M. Freas, B.A. in Anthropology
Ashley Lynn Minnick, B.S.Ed. in Deaf Education
Eric Earl Schminkey, Autumn Drive, B.S. in Hospitality Management

Stoystown

Michael Edward Blucas II, Ralphton Road, M.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons

Windber

Tiffany Ann Byers, Village Street, B.S. in Management
Jessica Marie Hadix, Jackson Avenue, B.S. in Human Resource Management
Aspen Brianna Mock, Cambria Avenue, M.A. in English
James P. Mowry, Graham Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Art Education
Molly Siobhan Mulcahy, Park Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jenna Marie Pallo, Cambria Avenue, B.S. in Nursing

Tioga

Wellsboro

Carrie Lynne Abplanalp, Spring Brook Road, B.S.Ed. in Spanish Education
Shenandoah Marie Gilligan, Meade Street, B.A. in Psychology
Eric John Miller, Meade Street, B.A. in Criminology
Sarah Beth Reese, B.A. in Sociology
Cassandra Lynn Shutt, Meade Street, B.A. in Psychology

Union

New Columbia

Danielle Marie Scott, Fornwalt Lane, B.A. in Sociology

Venango

Emlenton

Michelle Renee Hartzell, B.S. in Respiratory Care

Franklin

Jessica Lynn Funk, Pone Lane, B.S.Ed. in Business Education

Oil City

Robert Alan Meehan, Linden Avenue, B.S. in Business Technology Support
Christopher Charles Szabat, Crestview Drive, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Christopher Charles Szabat, Crestview Drive, B.S. in Athletic Training

Seneca

Barbara Ann Feroz, Ph.D. in Administration and Leadership Studies

Utica

Kelly Louise Seibert, Raymilton Road, B.S. in Natural Science

Warren

Clarendon

James Michael Johnson, B.A. in Psychology

Tidioute

Torry Byers Heverley, B.A. in Criminology

Warren

Sarah Michelle Johnson, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Morgan Lee Rizzardi, Creekwood Drive, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education

Washington

Allenport

Kacey Rae Schaum, B.A. in Psychology

Burgettstown

Gary A. Mader, Erie Mine Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

California

Brandon Christopher Jones, Skyline Drive, B.S. in Biochemistry

Canonsburg

Jenna Marie Adams, Duquesne Avenue, B.S. in Interior Design
Jessica Lynn Adams, Duquesne Avenue, B.S. in Accounting
Meredith Ann Bauer, Foxchase Drive, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Brian William Pillar, Greenwood Drive, B.S. in Communications Media

Charleroi

Maggie Motycki, Crest Avenue, M.Ed. in Counselor Education

Lawrence

Anthony M. Mirisciotta, Yorktown Drive, B.A. in Journalism

McDonald

Kristy Ann Burgoon, Pattridge Lane, B.S. in Interior Design
Miranda Lynn Cook, Wall Street, B.S. in Respiratory Care

McMurray

Kathryn P. Harrison, B.S. in Management
Katie Elizabeth Loadman, Sussex Way, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising

Midway

Jessica June Kelly, Willard Street, B.S. in Accounting

Scenery Hill

Katie Leah Zaccone, Daniels Run Road, B.S.Ed. in Family and Consumer Science Education

Venetia

Casey Lynn Correal, Springbrooke Drive, B.A. in Theater
Elizabeth Rae Herring, Brookwood Road, B.A. in English
Shannon Leigh Mangold, McCombs Road, B.A. in Journalism
Sarah Jane Sexauer, Brookwood Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Washington

Jacqueline Nicole Clemons, Vista Valley Road, B.S. in Nutrition
Kenneth Evans Jr., Chartiers Street, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Brian Phillip Pest, Stokely Street, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Wayne

Beach Lake

Christopher Miller, B.S. in Computer Science

Westmoreland

Acme

Jessica Rae Brdar, B.S. in Marketing

Apollo

Brian David Balentine, Woodland Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Daniel Joseph Fabrizi, Shelby Lane, B.A. in Psychology
Amber Leann Geiger, Geiger Road, B.A. in History
Holly Marie Gerardi, Lutheran Church Road, B.A. in Sociology
Ryan Lee Klingensmith, M.A. in Counselor Services
Joshua LaCrone, Garvers Ferry Road, B.A. in History
Robert Kevin Plowman, Fox Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Arnold

Abigail Claire Davis, Alcoa Drive, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jessica L. Nemeth-Silliman, Kenneth Avenue, M.Ed. in Counselor Education

Arona

Anthony Richard Kihn, B.S. in Accounting

Avonmore

Tiffany A. Coffen, Indiana Avenue, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Jordan M. Pacific, Westmoreland Avenue, B.S. in Marketing
Christina Leigh Ritter, Bell Point Road, B.S. in Geology

Derry

Sarah Jean Gower, Fairview Lane, B.A. in Sociology
MaryAnn Nichole Sleasman, B.A. in English

Export

Jennifer Lynn Barie, B.S. in Nursing
Chad Christian Jurica, Story Road, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Kelli Lane Murphy, Timothy Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Amy Jean Siler, Woodmont Drive, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Shelley A. Strobel, Field Stream Drive, Certification in School Psychology
Joel Christopher Zentner, B.A. in Criminology

Greensburg

Nicholas R. Ashley, Westminster Avenue, M.A. in Counselor Services
Amanda Beth Daughenbaugh-Smith, Locust Street, M.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Amanda Jean Dougherty, Athens Drive, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Matthew Thomas Gettemy, Boggs Hollow Road, B.S.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons
Regina Simone Mingle, Waterbury Drive, B.S. in Marketing
Kevin M. Haas, B.S. in Accounting
Ashley Melissa Hague, Janyce Drive, B.S. in Geology
Stephen Charles Hall, Courtview Drive, B.A. in History
Danielle Ashley Hurd, Mohican Drive, B.S. in Management
Evie Mae Jevicky, Harrison Avenue, B.S. in Human Resource Management
Anthony R. Lang, M.A. in English
Brandi Jean Lux, M.Ed. in Elementary Education
Michael Patrick Marvis, Chapel View Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Alesha Marie McCurdy, Bryan Drive, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Brooke Marie Rimel, Wyoming Street, M.A. in English
Adam Michael Palmer, Westland Drive, B.S. in Management
Julie A. Repak, Mohawk Drive, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Benjamin Kocur Saunders, Courtview Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Brent A. Smith, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Katharine Renee Smith, Boquet Street, B.A. in Theater
Louis Theodore Surace, Edna Road, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Glenn J. Toth, Spruce Street, B.S. in Respiratory Care
Douglas P. Trout, Cranapple Drive, B.S. in Business Technology Support
Wayne Allan Yusko, Denton Street, M.Ed. in Elementary Education

Harrison City

Nicolette Lynn Lovato, Whitetail Drive, B.S.Ed. in Speech and Language Pathology Education
Shawn Robert Pratt, Redoak Drive, B.S. in Safety Sciences

Irwin

Daniel Scott Beter, B.A. in Psychology
Michele Lynn Garufi, Wendel Road, M.A. in Criminology
Mary Melinda Hockensmith, Cedar Street, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Stephanie Alane Kimmel, Forest Court, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jonathan R. Lunieski, Sunrise Drive, B.S.Ed. in Mathematics Education
Bethany Rae Masarik, Lorrie Drive, B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education

Jeannette

Maria Rhea Hilty, Harrison Avenue, B.S. in Disability Services
Kayla Joy Mains, Dry Dam Road, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Amanda Marie Missenda, Spanish Villa Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Jennifer Dawn Moore, Claridge Elliott Road, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Erik David Rodgers, B.S. in Computer Science

Latrobe

J. Cortlynd Amanda McWalter Bane, Brennan Avenue, B.A. in Sociology
Jana Jeanne-Tess Blach, Salomon Temple Road, B.A. in Art
Bridget Anne Hornyak, Charles Houck Road, B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education
Keri N. Matson, Lightcap Road, B.A. in Art
Christopher M. Sarnese, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Megan Elizabeth Stahl, B.A. in Art
Megan Elizabeth Stahl, B.A. in Psychology
Andrew P. Thompson, Rachelle Court, B.A. in History
Megan Lynn Trapasso, Certification in School Psychology
Jason Richard Washabaugh, Armel Hollow Road, B.A. in Criminology

Laughlintown

Stephanie Danielle Marcum, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising

Ligonier

Melissa Mae Smithley, Owl Hollow Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Stephanie Marie Urch, B.A. in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts

Lower Burrell

Pamela L. Haley, Princeton Street, B.S. in Nutrition
Robert Charles Johnson Jr, Burrellton Drive, B.S. in Marketing
Michael T. Korns, Montclair Drive, Ph.D. in Administration and Leadership Studies

Mount Pleasant

Jaime Lynn West, M.A. in Music
Alees Marie Splendore, Elm Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education

Mt Pleasant

Jason A. Myers, Braddock Road Avenue, M.Ed. in Mathematics Education

Murrysville

Christian Paul Arnold, Mamont Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Stephen R. Daer, Kilmer Court, B.S. in Management
Matthew D. Gallagher, Forbes Trail Drive, M.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
William Ross Gillespie, Cypress Drive, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Jaclyn Ann O'Leary, Saltsburg Road, B.A. in Psychology
Katy Ann Ringbloom, Ashbaugh Road, B.S. in Biology
Darren F. Stowitzky, Northridge Court, B.S. in Management

New Alexandria

Justin Thomas Canzano, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Justin Thomas Canzano, Tall Timber Lane, B.F.A. in Music Performance
Raina Gabrielle Kellerman, Todd Lane, M.A. in History
Kaitlyn Ann Liprando, Tanager Drive, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Sara Kay Steele, B.S. in Accounting

New Florence

Gregory Lee Hastings, Crawford Road, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Kristin Ann Huczko, Bethel Cemetery Road, B.S. in Management

New Kensington

Brandi Bober, B.S. in Nutrition
Mark V. Boyer Jr., Hulton Road, B.A. in Criminology
Marci Diana Cottingham, Aurora Drive, M.A. in Sociology
Erin Marie Fisher, Upper Drennen Road, B.S. in Respiratory Care
Nicole Ashley Hobbins, Frederick Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Justin Edward Miller, Holly Drive, M.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Jason Joseph Salm, Hulton Road, B.A. in Criminology
Sheryl Marie Schoenfeld, Greensburg Road, M.A. in Counselor Services
Joseph Damian Veltri, Jr., Woodberry Road, B.S. in Applied Mathematics
Michael Edward Wojcik, Esther Avenue, B.A. in Criminology
Alicia Renee Zampogna, Edgewood Road, B.S. in Nursing

North Huntingdon

Leann Marie DeMuzzio, Adele Drive, B.A. in Criminology
Megan Elizabeth McMichael, Charles Drive, M.A. in English
Jessica Jordan Ott, B.S.Ed. in Spanish Education
Jodi Lynn Robinson, Ridge Road, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Lauren C. Srdoch, George Street, B.S. in Nutrition

Scottdale

Nicholas J. Craft, Kingview Road, B.S. in Management
Justin Ryan Polyblank, Orchard Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

Seward

Jacquelyn Ann Allison, McFeaters Road, B.S.Ed. in Health and Physical Education
Simone Therese Marcus, B.A. in Theater
Joshua Thomas Mulligan, Saint Clair Street, B.S. in Accounting
Elizabeth Ann Susick, M.A. in Adult and Community Education
Diane E. Traves, Prides Way, B.S. in Management

Smithton

William M. Peden III, Mendon Road, B.A. in Art

Stahlstown

Jessica Lynn Cameron, B.S. in Child and Family Studies

Tarrs

Fiona Elizabeth Richardson, Certification in School Psychology

Trafford

Evan Lee Bechtold, Hemlock Road, B.S. in Safety Sciences
Jodi Kaitlin Nee, Autumn Drive, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Susan Diane Rothrauff, Simpson Road, M.Ed. in Elementary Education

Vandergrift

Kira Lee Brill, Lincoln Street, B.S.Ed. in Deaf Education
Kalla Marie Catchpole, Airport Road, B.S. in Management
Zachary Nathaniel Clark, Dime Road, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Andrew J. Friday, Myers Lane, B.S. in Biochemistry
Erica Lynn Froncek, Harrison Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
Lisa Lynne Hepler, B.S.Ed. in Business Education
Mara Melissa Iverson, Franklin Avenue, B.A. in History
Mendie McDonald, Poplar Street, B.S. in Respiratory Care
Jena N. Minik, Hamilton Avenue, B.S.Ed. in Art Education

Westmoreland City

Jessica Lynn Corrie, Sumac Street, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising

Youngwood

Christopher Lawrence Peperato, B.A. in Asian Studies
Christopher Lawrence Peperato, B.S. in International Business

Wyoming

Meshoppen

Clarissa Ann Wilson, B.S. in Accounting

York

Dillsburg

Christy Brooke Eichelberger, Bethel Church Road, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising

Dover

Shelby Louise Brown, Jug Road, B.S.Ed. in Art Education

Hanover

Jonathan Daniel Berwager, Fuhrman Mill Road, B.A. in Criminology

Lewisberry

Aimee Millay Fox, Ellencroft Road, B.A. in Art
Kyle Joseph Luvison, Woodburne Road, B.S. in Finance
MaryJane Elizabeth Pechart, Ellencroft Road, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Benjamin G. Pollock, Stonybrook Lane, B.S. in Finance

New Freedom

Kyle Jon Pfeffer, Independence Drive, B.A. in Political Science

Shrewsbury

Dustin Anthony Kapinos, Skyview Drive, B.S. in Athletic Training

Stewartstown

Jennifer Lynn Weaver, Johnson Road, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Windsor

Kari Hunter, Manor Road, B.S.Ed. in Music Education

York

William A. Fetrow, Bonbar Road, M.A. in Sociology
Hadassah Leslie Hilliard, Weldon Drive, B.S. in Child and Family Studies
Erin Sue Moscony, Southern Road, B.F.A. in Music Performance
Erin Sue Moscony, Southern Road, B.A. in Computer Science
Joseph John Ruffini, Country By Way, B.S. in Geology

Non-Pennsylvania students, organized alphabetically by state:

Alaska

Sheri Ann Denison, Palmer, Ph.D. in English

Arizona

James M. Dykun, East Gold Dust Avenue, Paradise Valley, B.S.Ed. in French Education K-12

California

Nicole M. Croly, Sacramento, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Educ
Chris A. Knudsen, Milwood Avenue, Chatsworth, M.S. in Safety Sciences
Christine Van, Alhambra, MBA

Delaware

Mark Everett Kreitzer, Lancaster Road, Lewes, B.S.Ed. in Education of Exceptional Persons
Melissa-Jean Lanman Moore, Foxwood Court, Lewes, B.S. in Natural Science
Erin Elissa Rozumalski, Freedom Drive, Dover, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education

Illinois

Michele Nicole Peterson, West Sunnyside Street, Chillicothe, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Educ

Iowa

Kimberly Dawn Dodson, Valley Ridge Road, Blue Grass, Ph.D. in Criminology
Jahzinga Tracey, Des Moines, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport

Florida

Ebony Erica Baptiste, Dappled Elm Lane, Winter Springs, M.A. in Sociology

Georgia

Ellen Hudgins Hendrix, Statesboro, Ph.D. in English

Maryland

Lauren Jeanine Abbott, Owens Glen Way, North Potomac, B.S. in Mathematics
Lauren Jeanine Abbott, Owens Glen Way, North Potomac, B.S. in Physics
Michael Paul Duda, E Mt Royal Avenue, Baltimore, B.S. in Computer Science
Leslie Ann Eget, Crownsville, D.Ed. in School Psychology
Stefano Leandro Fina, Browningsville Road, Ijamsville, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
M. Ryan Growden, Bedford Street, Cumberland, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Educ
Daniel Gregory Gudelsky, Farmland Drive, Rockville, B.A. in Criminology
Meredith Leigh Hollandsworth, Bradenbaugh Road, White Hall, B.S. in Fashion Merchandising
Justin Michael Lewis, Behun Drive, Cheltenham, B.A. in Criminology
Michael Paul Majurski, Horn Point Drive, Gaithersburg, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Marcia Stela Manuel Mpfumo, Greencastle Ridge Drive, Burtonsville, B.S. in International Business
Alexandra Rose Weaver, Clay Drive, Fort Washington, B.A. in Journalism
Noah Robert Thistle, Broken Timber Way, Columbia, B.S. in Marketing
Diana Jeanine Trujillo, Saint Pauls Church Road, Pylesville, M.Ed. in Counselor Education
Marina Isabel Ruiz, Chagall Drive, North Potomac, B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education/PreK-Grade 6
David Hughes Shellem, Little Brick House Court, Ellicott City, B.A. in Sociology
Elise Lorraine Simon, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Olney, B.A. in Psychology

Michigan

Laura Christine Robinette, Golfside Drive, Commerce Township, B.S. in Marketing

New Jersey

Max Samuel Demianovich, Derby Drive, Cinnaminson, B.S. in Environmental Health Science
Nicole Biglasco, Old Hickory Lane, Edison, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Danielle Joy Botelho, Cregar Road, High Bridge, B.S. in Biology
Ruben Felipe Henao, Stima Avenue, Carteret, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Lisa Marie Horan, Reeds Road, Tinton Falls, B.S.Ed. in Deaf Education

New York

Jason W. Rae, Syracuse, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Jessica Lynn Roberts, Kansas Hollow Road, Bolivar, B.A. in Criminology
Aasta Noel Deth, Castlewood Drive, Cheektowaga, M.F.A. in Art
Stefanie Ann Fitzpatrick, Cornflower Lane, East Northport, B.S.Ed. in Deaf Education
Stanley Edwin Horton III, State Highway, Cherry Valley, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education
Lisa Kilanowski-Press, West Seneca, D.Ed. in School Psychology
Wai fong Kok, Brooklyn, B.S. in Nursing
Beth Marie Leverett, Mickle Road, Carlisle, B.S. in Chemistry
Stacey Lynn Morris, Spencer Road, Candor, M.S. in Speech and Language Pathology
Michele Ninacs, Lewiston, Ph.D. in English
Ashley Chateau, Summit Drive, Yulan, M.A. in Sociology

North Carolina

Stephen Gentry Papay, Lumberton, B.S. in Athletic Training
Carina Michelle Heckert, Cullowhee, M.A. in Sociology

Ohio

Anthony D Blair, South Water Street, Caledonia, B.S. in Finance
Diana Michelle Dupler, Green Cook Road, Sunbury, B.S. in Hospitality Management
Ashley Lynn Orlando, Bloor Street, Conneaut, B.S. in Nutrition
Kara Alaina Peters, Sunstone Drive, Brecksville, B.S.Ed. in Educ of Exceptional Persons
Danielle M. Wright, Anderson Road, Bellville, B.A. in History
Danielle M. Wright, Anderson Road, Bellville, B.A. in Political Science
Stacie Lynn Stockard, Flora Drive, Streetsboro, B.S. in Nursing
Michael Allen Stutzman, County Road, Millersburg, B.S. in Natural Science

Oregon

Daniel Howard Thornton, Newberg, M.S. in Science for Disaster Response
Mari B. Pierce, Ph.D. in Criminology
Samuel Patrick Mucken, Portland, M.A. in Student Affairs in Higher Education

South Carolina

Troy Derik Duffan, Mallard Lake Landing, Myrtle Beach, B.S. in Marketing
Chase Weyer, Glen Street, Summerville, B.A. in History

Texas

Megan Renee' Palmer, Lisa Lane, Wichita Falls, B.A. in History

Virginia

Brian Michael Campbell, Delaware Drive, King George, B.A. in Criminology
Jonathan Alexander Connelly, Green Park Way, Centreville, B.A. in Criminology
SEHEE KIM, Calvert, Alexandria, B.A. in Economics
Amanda D. LaBrecque, Russell Road, Purcellville, M.A. in English
Erik A. Lipscomb, Langton Drive, Alexandria, B.S.Ed. in Music Education
Erin Margaret Polski, Philip Lee Road, Chantilly, B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education
Lena E. Zein, Colonel Lindsay Court, Falls Church, B.A. in Chemistry
Christina Ramona Roll, Hot Spring Lane, Fredericksburg, M.S. in Safety Sciences

West Virginia

Haytham Awad Khalil, Overbrook Road, Charleston, MBA

Wisconsin

Colin Patrick Zinda, Red Oak Drive, Plover, B.S. in Applied Mathematics

Students from outside the United States, organized alphabetically by country:

Bahrain

Wafa Abdel Rahman Shaheen, M.A. in English

Brazil

Raika Luana Aleme, M.A. in English

Burkina

Kabou Nignan, B.S. in General Studies

Canada

Brittany Ann Watkins, Brampton, Ontario, B.S. in Physical Education and Sport
Nicole Victoria Dann, London, Ontario, M.S. in Food and Nutrition

China

Pui-yee Chin, Hong Kong, B.S. in Finance
Wanzhi Li, Shenzhen, Guangdong, B.S. in International Business
Wanzhi Li, Shenzhen, Guangdong, B.A. in Economics

India

Ankesh Agrawal, Aligarh, MBA
Mohammed Zeeshan Ahmed, Bangalore, MBA
Karthik Bharadwaj, Bangalore, MBA
Vaibhav Bhatia, Bangalore, MBA
Shashank Chandra, Bangalore, MBA
Deepesh Harendra Dani, Mumbai, M.S. in Sport Science
Siddhartha Dasgupta, Kolkata, MBA
Srivatsa B. Dwarakanath, Mysore, MBA
Kavya Gopinath, Bangalore, MBA
Halaharvi, Satyanarayana R, Bellary, MBA
Prashant Jain, Jodhpur, MBA
Jebaraj Jenick, Valparai, MBA
Kornipalli, Sabareesh, Gorantla, MBA
Akshay Uday Kumar, Bangalore, MBA
Pratik Kumar, Kolkata, MBA
Smera Surya Kumar, Bangalore, MBA
Sampath Mallidi, Visakhaputnam, MBA
Chethan Mangikuppe Ganganna, Bangalore, MBA
Joy Pankaj Patel, Ahmedabad, MBA
Prajwal, Bangalore, MBA
SavyaSachi Rajendra Prasad, Mysore, MBA
Shah, Paras Ashwinbhai, Ahmedabad, MBA
Arun Shankar Murthy, Bangalore, MBA
Diwakar B. Sharma, Bangalore, MBA
Premanand Sivanandam, MBA
Sripada Sri Sharmila, Chennai, MBA
Pradeep Suryanarayan, Bangalore, MBA
Likhit Rangaswamy, Bangalore, MBA
Chirag Vipinchandra Vegda, Ahmedabad, M.S. in Sport Science
Divya Tejashree Venugopal, Bangalore, MBA
Apeksha Vishwanath Katti, Bangalore, MBA
Suma Haregoppa Venkatagiri, Bangalore, MBA

Indonesia

Handoyo Puji Widodo, M.A. in English

Israel

Galit Regev, Moshav Atzmon, B.S. in Biochemistry

Japan

Tatsuno Chinen, Naha City, M.A. in English
Takuro Ikeda, Tokyo, M.A. in Criminology
Natsumi Kuroda, Hyogo, M.A. in English
Ayumi Shinzato, Okinawa, M.A. in English

Jordan

Mustafa Abdallah Amaireh, Al Salt, B.S. in Marketing

Nepal

Narayan Poudyal, Nawalparasi, M.S. in Physics

Norway

Merethe Grace-Elsie Maberg, Oslo, B.A. in Theater

Pakistan

Bahramand Shah, M.A. in English

Poland

Pawel Glowiak, B.S. in Finance

Saudi Arabia

Amnah Mohammad ALbuloushi, Makkah, M.A. in Adult and Community Education

Taiwan

Li-Te Chuang, Changhua County, M.A. in English
Hung-Lin Shen, Yunlin County, MBA
Hsueh-Hsuan Lee, Taichung, MBA

Thailand

Phongsakorn Methitham, Sukhothai, Ph.D. in English

Picnics are open to the community and are held on Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., weather permitting. Cancellations because of inclement weather will be announced on local radio stations and posted on the IUP website.

Picnickers may bring a lunch or purchase one from the Aramark food carts.

Contemporary music will be played August 5, and the United Way of Indiana County will be the special community guest.

This is the ninth consecutive year IUP has been selected for the annual guidebook. The “Best Northeastern Colleges” listing identifies “some of the colleges and universities that we feel stand out within each region,” guidebook editors wrote.

There are 130 four-year accredited colleges and universities in Pennsylvania and 2,343 in the United States.

The guidebook accepts no advertising dollars and uses independent surveys from current students, recent graduates, and college officials to determine which colleges and universities merit inclusion. The book is a reflection of interviews with more than one hundred thousand college students from all over the country.

“IUP’s unprecedented ninth consecutive rating as one of the top 371 colleges and universities in America reaffirms IUP’s high academic quality and excellence on a national scale,” Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, said. “The university community and especially the IUP faculty again can take pride in this special honor.”

In the category about IUP, students were quoted as saying IUP is academically challenging and students “get more for less.” They said that IUP has “awesome professors who are concerned with their welfare and academic growth,” and that faculty members are “strong educators” who push students to “think critically.”

Guidebook editors wrote that IUP “offers an academic environment unique among most public universities.”

In June 2007, Consumer Digest Magazine ranked IUP number four in its “Best Values in Public Colleges and Universities.” In February 2007, IUP was ranked fortieth out of one hundred colleges and universities selected for “The Kiplinger 100,” a listing of schools that combine outstanding value with a first-class education, in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.

The funding proposal was submitted by Dr. Jennie Bullard, from the Department of Employment and Labor Relations. Funds will be used to help recruit additional students in the Pittsburgh region and to increase the number and variety of practicum sites in that area.

The Master of Science in Health Services Administration degree is a collaborative 36-credit program offered jointly by the departments of Employment and Labor Relations and Nursing and Allied Health Professions. It prepares students for a wide variety of leadership positions within health services organizations in the not-for-profit, for-profit, and government settings. 

The program was approved by the Board of Governors in 2007. The program will complete its first cohort on the Indiana campus this month. 

With the assistance of this grant funding, program organizers plan to offer the next program cohort at IUP at Monroeville, beginning in the Spring 2010 semester.

The funds are from the $800 million H2O PA fund that Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed into law in July. The KCAC is one of five flood-control projects in the state approved for funding.

“We are very pleased to receive this funding from the commonwealth,” Dr. Tony Atwater, IUP president, said. “Not only does it help us to advance this project—it addresses the recurrent flood problem, which has been identified as a critical restriction to economic development in the project area and surrounding commercial properties.”

University officials broke ground in November 2008 for the KCAC, a $53.4-million facility along Wayne Avenue, adjacent to the university.

During the groundbreaking ceremony, IUP celebrated a $1-million gift from 1999 graduate Chad Hurley to name the five-thousand-seat KCAC arena the Ed Fry Arena. Fry, who recently retired, was a longtime IUP Music faculty member and track and field coach. In March, IUP celebrated its third $1-million gift to the KCAC from Indiana businessman Edward Bratton.

The KCAC, named in honor of the Kovalchick family, of Indiana, will also include the 650-seat Christine Toretti auditorium, a conference center, grand lobby, commercial kitchen, and offices for IUP athletics. The facility also includes an adjacent full-service hotel.

Construction for the KCAC began in March and will be completed in June 2011. The KCAC and hotel are projected to have an economic impact of more than $358 million during the first ten years of operation.

The H20 PA funding will be used for improvements to the floodway along Marsh Run, Whites Run, and Stoney Run to reduce recurrent flooding of public roadways, railway, IUP’s Miller Stadium, and adjacent properties.

The floodway improvement project includes the following:

• Clearing obstructions from stream flow paths and widening stream channels
• Removing an undersized pipe culvert in Whites Run and opening the stream flow path to reduce backup into the IUP campus and stadium
• Removing an undersized box culvert along Marsh Run and returning the section of stream to its proper size to reduce flooding along Wayne Avenue and associated commercial properties. The stream section has been designed to improve ecological factors, improve stream hydrology and decrease potential for backflow upstream of the site. A properly sized bridge culvert will be constructed to provide access between Wayne Avenue and site development.
• Removing debris to widen the channel and stabilizing stream banks along Stoney Run to improve flow characteristics of the stream
• Constructing storm-water management facilities needed to reduce impact to local streams currently generated by unrestricted storm-water runoff from roadways, commercial development, and IUP grounds. 

Jonathan B. Mack, of Indiana, was nominated as a new member of the Council of Trustees and the current Trustees chairman, David Osikowicz, of Punxsutawney, was nominated for reappointed by Rendell. Both will serve terms extending to January 2015. Osikowicz has served on the council since July 1997.

The Council of Trustees is responsible for financial oversight and ensuring compliance of university policies with state law. Its next regular meeting is in September.

Mack replaces Robert Hovanec, of Gibsonia, who served as a trustee since 1997 and whose term expired this year.

“The university is privileged to enjoy outstanding leadership by its Council of Trustees,” Atwater said. “The reappointment of Mr. David Osikowicz and the appointment of Mr. Jonathan Mack maintain the quality of advice and stewardship available to the IUP administration and the university at large. The university also is grateful for Mr. Hovanec’s years of service and dedication as an IUP trustee.”

Mack has been an attorney and partner in the firm of Marcus & Mack, P.C., of Indiana since 1998. He served as an attorney and partner at Marcus, Olson & Mack, P.C., of Indiana from 1992 to 1998 and as an attorney with Holsinger, Clark, Armstrong & Supinka in 1991. He was an attorney and partner with Mack and Bonya from 1983 to 1989. He has been a local business owner and has owned and operated businesses in Boulder, Colo.; Tucson, Ariz.; and Spokane, Wash.

Mack received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Toledo School of Law in 1983 and a bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College in 1980 with majors in English and Spanish and a minor in geology. He is a 1976 graduate of Indiana Area Senior High School.

He holds memberships in the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Indiana County Bar Association. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and was elected and served as president of the Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association from 2002 to 2003. He currently serves as a panel member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Commission.

Mack was a member of the Indiana Area School District Board of School Directors from 1999 to 2005, serving as president from 2003 to 2005. He currently serves as a board member of the Seeds of Faith Christian Academy, an elder of the First Assembly of God Church, and a board member of the Indiana Experiment. He has been a trustee for the J.S. Mack Foundation since 1985, serving as its president since 2006.

“It is an honor to be nominated and selected for service on the IUP Council of Trustees,” Mack said. “I am truly blessed to have this opportunity to serve the commonwealth, IUP and the greater Indiana community, which has been my lifelong home.

“Without question, the efforts of the current members of IUP’s Council of Trustees have moved this university forward. I look forward to contributing in a significant way to IUP’s ongoing growth and success.”

Mack and his wife, Kathleen, are the parents of two children, Connor and Katie.

Osikowicz, a native of Slickville, Westmoreland County, has been a resident of Punxsutawney since 1973. 

He is the owner and chief executive officer of Original Fuels Inc., Valier Coal Yard, and Grange Lime and Stone, three Punxsutawney businesses involved in various aspects of the coal and aggregate market. 

Osikowicz received a bachelor’s degree in economics and marketing from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

Osikowicz was president of the Punxsutawney Area School Board from 1995 to 1997. He is a member of the Saints Cosmas and Damian Catholic Church, the Punxsutawney Elks and Eagles lodges, the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, the Knights of Columbus, the Punxsutawney Country Club, and the Punxsutawney Sports Area Boosters Club. He is also a supporter of the Punxsutawney Theater Arts Guild, the Punxsutawney Community Concert Association, and the Boy Scouts of America.

Osikowicz has been involved in coaching in the Punxsutawney Groundhog Little League and the VFW Teener League, for which he was a member of the board. He was also instrumental in establishing the Mahoning Shadow Trail and serves on the board of directors for the Punxsutawney chapter of Rails to Trails. 

He and his wife, Deborah, are the parents of one daughter and two sons.

They were recognized on July 13 at Longue Vue Club in Verona as part of the nineteenth annual IUP Business Golf Classic, which benefits a scholarship endowment fund for IUP students.

Selection for both Eberly awards is made each year by the Eberly College Alumni Awards Committee.

The Eberly Outstanding Business Professional award is presented to an IUP graduate who demonstrates success in leading an organization to new levels of achievement and who serves as an executive in a publicly held corporation, privately owned business, or chartered nonprofit entity.

Leyh, a 1980 IUP graduate, is one of the founders of Enterprise Bank, a commercial niche bank that assists small to mid-sized businesses and specializes in helping startups and distressed companies. In addition to serving as chairman of the board and president, Leyh serves on the bank’s Senior Loan and Finance committees.

Leyh is a certified public accountant and partner in the public accounting firm of Kinol, Sharie, Leyh & Associates. At the firm, Leyh’s focus is on small to mid-sized businesses, with an emphasis on tax accounting, business analysis, and valuations. He has more than thirty years of experience in public accounting.

Leyh also is active in professional organizations. He is the treasurer of the Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers and holds memberships in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Tax Division of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He previously served as a board member of the Atlantic Central Bankers Bank and as chairman of the Audit Committee.

He is a board member and serves as chairman of the Finance Committee and treasurer of the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh.

In addition to his IUP degree, Leyh earned a Master of Science in taxation from Robert Morris University in 1988.

The Eberly Outstanding Entrepreneur award is presented to an IUP graduate who demonstrates success in creating and leading an entrepreneurial venture to a high level of achievement.

Bluemling, of Marshall Township, is a 1985 graduate of IUP. Malin Bergquist—a Pittsburgh Business Times top-twenty certified public accounting firm—has 125 employees in offices in Pittsburgh, Erie, and Greensburg.

In 2004, Bluemling was honored as a Pittsburgh Business Times “Fast Tracker,” one of fifty Pittsburgh-area professionals under the age