IUP Magazine, Fall 2025

Time to Reflect and Spring Forward

As we continue celebrating IUP’s 150th anniversary, we stand at the intersection of memory and momentum.

This milestone is more than a marker of time—it’s a tribute to generations who have shaped our university through leadership, philanthropy, and enduring successes and who have built IUP into a launchpad for the next chapter of innovation and impact.

This issue of IUP Magazine is packed with that spirit. We’re spotlighting our Impact 150 campaign, which launched last summer alongside our sesquicentennial celebration. It’s more than a fundraising effort—it’s a bold vision for the future, powered by the same passion and generosity that have defined IUP for generations.

There is also a memoir by Marianne Dougherty ’70, who takes us back to her student days. Her memories—sharing one hallway phone in Sutton Hall, discovering new music in the Student Union, waiting tables at Lefty Raymond’s College Inn, and navigating the dating scene with a 5:1 female-to-male ratio—are funny, vivid, and deeply nostalgic. They remind us that while campus life has changed, the heart of IUP hasn’t: it’s still a place where students grow, connect, and find their path.

That same energy is driving us forward today. You can read about the Crimson Core curriculum redesign, the exciting progress on our proposed college of osteopathic medicine, and a series of noncredit classes offered for adult learners seeking additional training to further their careers. It’s all part of the future we are building together—in which every student has opportunities to succeed and make an impact.

Anniversaries like this one are a chance to reflect—but they’re also a springboard. We’re not just celebrating our past; we’re shaping our future. And we’re doing it together—with alumni, donors, students, faculty, and friends all playing a part. And that includes you.

IUP’s story is one of impact. It’s written in the lives of those who have walked these halls, taught in our classrooms, supported our mission, and carried our values into the world. And now, as we look to the next 150 years, we do so with excitement, determination, and deep gratitude.

Thanks for being part of the IUP story. Let’s keep building together.

Michael Driscoll
President

Distinguished Professor

Alex Heckert, professor of sociology, was named IUP’s Distinguished University Professor for 2025–26. A faculty member for 33 years, he is known for his research on domestic violence, addiction, and other mental health and public health issues. In 1998, Heckert became a research fellow at the center now known as the Mid-Atlantic Research and Training Institute, which he has directed for the last four years. He also chaired the Sociology Department for 18 years and coordinated the Administration and Leadership Studies PhD program.

During his year as Distinguished University Professor, Heckert plans to introduce a new theoretical framework, called the integrated anomie framework, to the sociology and criminology fields and to work with IUP colleagues to develop a new concept pertaining to identity work done by parents on behalf of their children.

Senate Awards

Last spring, the University Senate presented the following faculty awards:

Distinguished Faculty Award for Creative Arts to Chauna Craig, professor of English and director of the Cook Honors College, who joined the faculty in 2000.

Distinguished Faculty Award for Research to Varinder Sharma, professor of marketing, a faculty member since 1996.

Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching to Jeffrey Santicola, chair of the Hospitality and Employment Relations Department, who came to IUP in 2014.

Honorary Doctorate

At May Commencement: Provost Lara Luetkehans, Barry Gasdek, and President Michael Driscoll

At its May commencement ceremonies, IUP awarded an honorary doctor of public service degree to keynote speaker Barry Gasdek ’64, a retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army who earned many of the nation’s highest military honors for his service in Vietnam. Originally from Westmoreland County, he now lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where he remains active in military and service organizations. He is a 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient and a 2012 IUP Athletics Hall of Fame inductee.

Volunteer Awards

In April, IUP presented its Award of Excellence in Volunteer Leadership in four categories:

• The Advancement Support award went to retired IUP administrator Donna McCrea Griffith ’74, M’77, who spearheads the Women’s Basketball Education Day program. Over the past seven years, the program has brought more than 5,000 area students to IUP to engage with women’s basketball team members.

• The Regional Impact award went to Blane Dessy ’73, a regional alumni ambassador who assisted the marching band in attending an IUP football game at Mercyhurst and who has opened his Erie home to incoming IUP students, their parents, and others for send-off events.

• The Aspiring Alumni award went to Kaylee Becker-George, a May graduate and an alumna of the Cook Honors College whose contributions as a student included serving as Student Government Association president and assisting with an archaeology project that explored an early multiethnic settlement near Johnstown.

• The Affinity Service award went to Alan Luckey ’87, M’89, and retired IUP vice president Rhonda Luckey. For the university’s 150th anniversary, they donated special commemorative versions of a weaving tool of Alan’s design made with wood from felled Oak Grove trees.

Keynote speaker for this recognition event was Kevin Bailey ’86, M’90, vice chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a member of the IUP Alumni Association board, and a 2019 recipient of IUP’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

Carnegie Honor

Last spring, the Carnegie Foundation and the American Council on Education designated IUP a “Higher Access, Higher Earnings” institution, which recognizes colleges and universities whose graduates earn 50 percent more than their peers from other schools. The designation also recognizes the access these schools provide. Only 20 Pennsylvania public institutions and 16 percent of all colleges and universities nationwide received this honor.

Accreditation

In August, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, a global institutional accrediting agency, reaffirmed IUP’s accreditation. This followed the university’s submission of a comprehensive self-study and visits by a Middle States evaluation team to IUP instructional sites, including in India. The accreditation has been consecutively reaffirmed since it was first awarded in 1941.

Alumni Board

Over the summer, the IUP Alumni Association Board of Directors welcomed two new members: Matthew Kovatch ’88 and Channing Porter Moreland ’10, M’13. The board also appointed the following officers: Mary Morgan ’91, president; Sara Barnett Lawer ’06, M’08, vice president; Valerie Sutton ’88, M’96, treasurer; and Chad Jurica ’07, M’09, secretary.

Bringing Cheer

I was looking through my IUP Magazine when, to my delight, I discovered a picture of my late father, Edward R. Marian, when he was a cheerleader in 1935 [from “When Yearbooks Became History,” Spring 2025]. My father is on the left. He was a French major at Indiana. I am a 1973 graduate in Spanish Education, so I am especially pleased to see my father remembered.

Sadly, my father did not become a French teacher. He discovered that his Italian temperament was not well-suited for the teaching profession. He ended up doing government civil service during the war and then served as an accountant in various places. Interestingly, his roommate at Indiana was S. Trevor Hadley [’37]. Charles Davis [’34], of Swing Out fame, was also a classmate. I remember visiting Dr. Hadley when I first visited campus, and, when Dad went to see me perform in Kismet, he had a chance to visit with Prof. Davis, so our connection to Indiana is strong. His sister, Evelyn Marian Stevenson [’33], also attended Indiana and went on to teach in the Latrobe/Jeannette area for many years.

Erma Marian MacPherson ’73
Pittsburgh

Going for Gold

My husband, Ted McQuilkin, and his friend, Blair Schrecongost, were art students at Indiana State Teachers College, and they worked on the 1949 yearbook as seniors. They were excited, because it was so innovative to use gold leaf on the cover, and they were very proud of that yearbook.

Ted and Blair were both local boys who did design work for the King Leather Company catalog to earn money for college. King Leather manufactured products like wallets, purses, and belts.

They were also World War II veterans. As students, we were warned to stay away from those “nasty veterans.” I thought it was funny, because we all ended up marrying them.

Jo-Anne Couch McQuilkin ’51
Indiana, PA

Aid That Endures

I was shocked to read about the death of Mr. William “Bill” Srsic. When I enrolled at IUP in 1982, Mr. Srsic handled my financial aid. He explained the various types of financial aid, including student loans. He handled my financial aid packages in a very courteous and professional manner.

When I graduated in 1987, I always kept in touch with Mr. Srsic. I sent him postcards from the various places I visited when I enlisted in the US Navy. And when I came home on leave, I always dropped in to the Financial Aid office just to say hello. I will miss Mr. Srsic very much.

Natalie Balitski Duggan ’87
Sandusky, OH

By Matthew Burglund
Photos: Justin Eaton/IUP Athletics

The IUP Athletics Hall of Fame added nine individuals and one team to its roster at its annual induction ceremony in September at the Kovalchick Complex.

The IUP Athletics Hall of Fame inducted its Class of 2025. Front row, from left: Frank Condino, Dennis Stover, Regina Dressel Stover, and Kerri McIntyre Joyce. Back row: IUP President Michael Driscoll, Zack Kempa, Rob Zinsmeister, Denise Raymond Erb, Allyson Mitidieri-Washick, Bob Johnston, James Welker, Eric Shafer, and IUP Athletics Director Todd Garzarelli.

Established in 1996, the hall of fame now has 340 members. Inductees are selected based on athletic achievement, contributions to IUP sports, and postgraduate accomplishments.

The 2025 class includes Allyson Mitidieri-Washick ’14, M’16 (swimming), Denise Raymond Erb ’86 (gymnastics), Kerri McIntyre Joyce ’99 and Eric Shafer ’91 (cross country and track and field), Zack Kempa ’14 (golf), Rob Zinsmeister ’13 and Bob Johnston ’72 (baseball), and James Welker ’89 (tennis). Frank Condino, a longtime coach and administrator, was chosen in the coach/administrator category.

The 1974 women’s tennis team was inducted into the IUP Athletics Hall of Fame in the team category. From left: IUP Athletics Director Todd Garzarelli, Barb Beatty Patterson ’78, Lynn Roser Wagner ’76, and IUP President Michael Driscoll.

The 1974 women’s tennis team, which had a combined singles and doubles record of 59-1 under coach Mary Louise Eltz, was selected in the team category.

Regina Dressel Stover ’75 and Dennis Stover ’76 were recognized with the Honorary Bell Ringer Award for their longstanding support of IUP Athletics.

Made in the PSAC

As part of its 75th anniversary celebration, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference recognized 75 “former student-athletes that have gone on to influential careers after graduation” with its “Made in the PSAC” designation.

Among them are six IUP-affiliated honorees: the late Frank Cignetti ’60, M’65, former standout football and basketball player (1957 to 1960), director of athletics (1982 to 1998), and head football coach (1986 to 2005), who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2013; Frank Condino, who came to IUP as an assistant football coach in 1984 and eventually served as director of athletics from 1998 to 2014; Chad Hurley ’99, cofounder of YouTube, who ran cross country at IUP; Matt Kohler ’83, a three-time All-America swimmer and retired three-star Navy admiral with 36 years of service; Rodney Ruddock ’65, M’75, who played baseball at IUP from 1962 to 1965 and went on to careers in the military (retiring as a US Army major general), in public education, and as an Indiana County commissioner; and John Wingfield ’85, M’88, a member of the IUP swimming team who went on to coach the US Olympic diving team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Making Headlines

After coaching the Indiana High School baseball team to its first-ever state championship, Dan Petroff ’12 was named 2025 High School Coach of the Year by the Pittsburgh Union Progress. In his second season as coach, Petroff led Indiana to four extra-inning wins in the playoffs before his team beat Montoursville for the state championship. Petroff works in the IUP Office of International Education.

Fresh off winning the Arena Football One Offensive Player of the Year award, Duane Brown signed a contract with the Memphis Showboats of the United Football League. With the AFO’s Albany Firebirds last spring, Brown scored 30 touchdowns in 10 games and caught 61 passes for 909 yards. Brown was a standout wide receiver and running back at IUP from 2017 to 2022, catching 176 passes for 2,884 yards and 38 touchdowns and rushing for 655 yards and 12 scores in 43 career games.

Former IUP basketball player Gina Adams ’24 has put away the high-tops for a new sport. She recently signed with the WWE’s Next in Line program, joining a group of collegiate athletes transitioning into the world of professional wrestling. The Next in Line program teaches its students the basics of wrestling and serves as a proving ground that could lead to a contract with WWE’s main wrestling company.

In April, four IUP alumni were inducted into the Armstrong County Sports Hall of Fame: former football player Tye Desiderio ’07, M’11, University of Ashland athletics director and former IUP sports information assistant director Al King M’83, Belmont Complex director Gary Montebell, and football player Paul Noonan ’69, M’85, a member of IUP’s 1968 Boardwalk Bowl team.

In May, Mickey Curtis ’78 was announced as one of nine inductees into the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Hall of Fame. Curtis served as Westfield State University’s sports information director and later as its associate athletic director from 1987 to 2014.

John Rajaski ’65, who was the men’s head basketball coach at Cecil College from 1983 to 1995, was posthumously inducted into the college’s Athletics Hall of Fame in July. In addition to coaching basketball at the Maryland community college, Rajaski coached tennis and golf and taught physical education until he retired in 2009.

Making Moves

Former Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles executive Brandon Hunt ’03, M’06 was named vice president of player personnel for the Las Vegas Raiders. Hunt, who played football at IUP, has been in the NFL in various roles since 2005.

Former NFL player Kris Griffin ’14 recently accepted a position as athletic director at the Saint Constantine School in Houston, Texas. Griffin, who played football at IUP from 2002 to 2004, played for the Kansas City Chiefs, Cleveland Browns, and Jacksonville Jaguars between 2005 and 2010.

Kalista Gioglio ’19 was named director of executive operations for the Division I Atlantic Sun Conference, based in Jacksonville, Florida. As a member of IUP’s field hockey team, she was a four-year letter winner and a four-time National Field Hockey Coaches Association scholar-athlete. She joined the Atlantic Sun after serving as a special assistant to the athletic director at Jacksonville University.

In Memoriam

Billy Hunter ’50, who played six seasons in the major leagues in the 1950s and later managed the Texas Rangers for two seasons, died July 3, 2025, at 97. A native of Punxsutawney, he was a three-sport star at Indiana State Teachers College in the 1940s and, after his playing days, was the athletic director at what’s now Towson State. He was inducted into the IUP Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997.

(Photo credits: Justin Eaton/IUP Athletics)

The university community is grateful to the following donors, who made gifts totaling $25,000 or more to the Foundation for IUP between January 1 and June 30, 2025.

• Stephen Abel ’73, gifts to support the IUP Veterans Assistance Fund; IUP Food Pantry and Help Center; Fund for IUP; Office of Alumni and Friends; dean’s innovation funds for the College of Arts, Humanities, Media, and Public Affairs, the College of Education and Human Services, and the Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; enhancement funds for the History, Geography, and Regional Planning programs; Army ROTC Fund; and matching gifts

• American Culinary Federation, a gift to establish the ACF Groundhog Chapter Sweet Success Scholarship for full-time students pursuing a degree or certification in culinary arts or baking and pastry arts in the Academy of Culinary Arts

• An anonymous gift to support the creation of a college of osteopathic medicine at IUP

• An anonymous planned gift to establish a scholarship for full-time students pursuing an undergraduate music degree

• An anonymous gift to support the Eberly College of Business Dean’s Innovation Fund

• An anonymous gift to support the IUP Alumni Veterans Scholarship for Athletics

• Beaumont Foundation of America, C. Edward Keller ’74, and Judy Keller, a gift to support the C. Edward Keller Scholarship for students pursuing a degree in criminology

• Jack and Linda Brose, a gift to establish the Dr. Jack and Linda Brose Medical Scholarship for students in the proposed college of osteopathic medicine. Preference will be given to students from rural Pennsylvania.

• Tim Cejka ’73 and Debra Phillips Cejka ’73, a gift to support the Crimson Scholars Circle and Promising Scholars programs

• Miriam Chaiken and William Conelly, a planned gift to support the Drs. Phillip and Sarah Neusius Scholarship for Anthropology

• Fairman Family Foundation, a gift to support the creation of a college of osteopathic medicine at IUP

• Glenn Fitzgerald ’69, a gift to the Kathleen Rankin Fitzgerald Scholarship for Elementary Education for students pursuing an elementary education degree and to the Glenn Fitzgerald Scholarship for Natural Science for students pursuing a natural science degree

• Frederick Garbinski ’65 and Judith Garbinski, gifts to support the Fred Garbinski Family Scholarship and the 1964 Football Team Scholarship

• Larry Kubala ’68 and Barbara Bentrim Kubala ’68, M’73, a gift to establish the Kubala Athletic Fund to provide support for the golf team and for football facility improvements

• The Estate of Dorothy McKinney, a gift to support the creation of a college of osteopathic medicine at IUP

• Dennis Popovec ’77 and Ann Marie Popovec, a gift to support the Popovec Outstanding Student Athlete Scholarship for full-time students in the Eberly College of Business who are members of an NCAA-recognized IUP athletic team

• The Robert and Nellie Reynolds Fund, a gift through the Pittsburgh Foundation to the Student General Scholarship Fund. Both Robert Reynolds and Nellie Byers Reynolds were members of the Class of 1948.

• Rodney Ruddock ’65, M’75 and Ellen Sylves Ruddock ’66, a gift to support the creation of a college of osteopathic medicine at IUP and to support the IUP Army ROTC, the football and men’s basketball programs, and IUP Special Collections and University Archives

• Thomas Smith M’76, gifts to establish the Margaret “Peg” A. Smith English Education Scholarship, the Thomas R. Smith Counseling Enhancement Fund, and the Robert L. Smith Economics and Finance Scholarship; a gift to support the creation of a college of osteopathic medicine at IUP; and gifts to support the Dave LaPorte Memorial Enhancement Fund, Fund for the IUP Libraries, Legend Club, Career and Professional Development Fund, IUP Food Pantry and Help Center, Fund for IUP Athletics, and Fund for IUP

• Stephen Sterner, a gift to support the Kralik Family Scholarship for full-time students in the Human Development and Family Science, Family and Consumer Sciences Education, Interior Design, or Fashion Studies programs

• Mary Swinker, a gift to support the Culinary Academy Enhancement Fund

Make a gift to a fund of your choice using the Online Gift Form at IUP.edu/makeagift.

Proposed Medical College Update

In August, IUP’s efforts to establish a college of osteopathic medicine reached a critical milestone when the proposed college was awarded “candidate status” by the American Osteopathic Association’s Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation. This status recognizes that IUP has met the qualifications and has the resources necessary to work toward the next step in the accreditation process: pre-accreditation status. Acquiring that status takes up to 16 months and involves steps including site visits by COCA’s accrediting team. With pre-accreditation status, IUP can begin recruiting medical students.

Securing clinical training sites for students is another requirement for accreditation. Typically, students in colleges of osteopathic medicine spend their first two years in the classroom and their next two at clinical sites in the community. In October, IUP secured its eighteenth clinical training site, providing well above the number of spots required for accreditation.

In September, the IUP Council of Trustees accepted the proposed college’s mission statement, which centers on increasing the number of physicians to meet the healthcare needs of Pennsylvania’s rural and underserved areas.

As of October, IUP had secured more than $34.3 million in private and government funding for the proposed college, a key component of IUP’s Impact 150 comprehensive fundraising campaign. Find the latest news on the proposed medical college. 

Professional Growth Badges

In the spring, IUP will pilot a variety of noncredit learning opportunities, or badges, to help adult learners advance in their professions or explore other interests. Topics are expected to range from data analytics and generative artificial intelligence to sales, marketing, project management, and business administration. In-person and online learning options will be available. Watch for more information at IUP Badges.

Fall Enrollment

IUP’s total enrollment for fall 2025 remained steady at 9,082—up one student from fall 2024. In light of Western Pennsylvania’s declining number of high school graduates, the fall data showed positive signs. More than 78 percent of new, first-time, full-time, bachelor’s degree-seeking students who entered IUP in fall 2024 returned for fall 2025. That’s an increase of nearly 3 percentage points over first-year retention from fall 2023 to fall 2024 and 7 points from fall 2022 to fall 2023. Also, the number of new undergraduates this fall totaled 1,887, an 8.3 percent increase from fall 2024. As of October, fall enrollment included 7,118 undergraduates, 1,632 graduate students, 332 career preparation program students, 855 veteran and military-affiliated students, 125 dual enrollment students (high school students taking IUP classes), 321 international students from 64 countries, and 1,803 (20 percent) who identify as minority students.

Marching Band Leadership

In August, William Sugg became director of the IUP Marching Band and associate director of bands. Previously, he was assistant director of bands at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his doctoral and master’s degrees in wind band conducting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his undergraduate degree in music education from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He succeeded Cassidy Nalepa ’03, who served as director from August 2024 to July 2025.

Eighth Street Initiative

Over the summer, Indiana Borough officials launched an initiative to improve the physical connection between IUP and downtown Indiana. The borough’s website calls for transforming Eighth Street into a “safer, more vibrant, and more connected corridor” between School Street, just north of the former Pratt Hall site, and Philadelphia Street. In September, planners held a two-day workshop at various downtown locations to collect community input on the project. Partners on the “Eighth Street Initiative” are Downtown Indiana Inc., the Indiana County Office of Planning and Development, and IUP, including its Student Government Association and Planning Student Organization. Learn more about the Eighth Street Initiative.

Branching Off

Jerry Pickering with a red oak donated in his honor on the East Lawn
Courtesy of Jerry Pickering

After 25 years as executive director of the Allegheny Arboretum at IUP, Jerry Pickering stepped down from that voluntary role at the end of June. The arboretum consists of the entire Indiana campus, which is home to 1,200 trees representing more than a hundred species. Under Pickering’s leadership, the arboretum grew in both number and diversity of trees and achieved Level 1 accreditation through the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program. Pickering also led the establishment of Fern Hollow, a niche garden just north of Kopchick Hall, and led efforts still in progress to develop Confluence Discovery Park, south of the Kovalchick Complex. These projects prioritize education, which was Pickering’s main goal for the arboretum when he first pitched the idea to President Lawrence Pettit in 1999.

In May, the IUP Council of Trustees recognized Pickering’s contributions with a resolution of appreciation. Succeeding him in the arboretum’s leadership are codirectors Barbara Hauge, a local landscape architect, and Michael Tyree, professor of biology. Pickering retired from IUP as a professor of biology in 2004 after 35 years of service.

Science and Sports Skills

Pothen Varughese at Kennedy-King Park in October
Credit: Andy Zhou

In his 30 years of teaching chemistry, Pothen Varughese also researched quaternary ammonium salts and their antibacterial applications. Retired since 2004, he finds that the same discipline, patience, and problem-solving skills needed in science also apply to sports. In the National Senior Games pickleball tournament, Varughese has won five gold medals in men’s doubles. He earned his most recent title in July, with partner Bill Hunsberger, in the 85+ bracket.

But he’s done more than chase medals. After playing pickleball for the first time on a trip to Arizona in 2008, he returned to Indiana, where he introduced the sport at the YMCA and later helped establish six courts at Kennedy-King Park. He also cofounded the Indiana Pickleball Club, now approaching 300 members. The sport’s benefits, he said, extend beyond love of the game, especially for seniors.

“It’s heart-healthy and brain-healthy. You’re exercising your muscles and your mind,” he told physics professor Andy Zhou, who wrote a story on Varughese for the Madia Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics website. Read Zhou’s story about Pothen Varughese.

Pipe Organ Crawl

In October, Organ Studio Director Christine Clewell led six students on a “pipe organ crawl” in and around Manhattan. The trip started with a performance at First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Connecticut. Over the next two days, studio members explored instruments at the West Point Cadet Chapel, home of the world’s fourth-largest pipe organ; St. Patrick’s Cathedral near Rockefeller Center; Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on the Upper West Side; Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side; St. Paul’s Chapel, which served as a hub for rescue workers after the 9/11 attacks; and finally St. John’s Lutheran Church, back in Stamford.

“To have this full-immersion experience of visiting, playing, and learning about the history of the instruments and the churches that house these magnificent instruments” was incredible, Clewell said. A week before the tour, students joined Clewell in a performance celebrating the installation of a new pipe organ at Worthington Lutheran Church in Armstrong County. She has been a member of the IUP faculty since 1999.

Faculty and Dean Deaths

• Timothy Brown, a professor emeritus who retired from the Academy of Culinary Arts in 2006 after nine years of service, died February 12, 2025.

• Malcolm Day, a professor who retired from the English Department in 1992 after 22 years of service, died January 6, 2025.

• Alice Dickie, a professor emerita who retired from the Health and Physical Education Department in 1994 after 28 years of service, died June 1, 2025.

• Eleanor Mihalyi Gallati ’54, a professor emerita who retired from the Home Economics Education Department in 1989 after 22 years of service, died April 19, 2025.

• William Habacivch D’21, who taught in the Sociology Department between 2013 and 2015, died April 18, 2025.

• Richard Kolaczkowski, a professor who retired from the Chemistry Department in 1997 after 30 years of service, died April 7, 2025.

• Ronald Mabon ’79, M’85, an instructor in the Journalism Department in the 1980s and a longtime administrator, died October 20, 2025. He retired as director of the Design Studio in the Office of Marketing and Communications in 2022 after 27 years of service.

• Kathleen Millward, who taught English at the Punxsutawney Regional Campus from 2004 to 2014, died May 12, 2025.

• Patricia Scott ’81, D’06, who retired as dean of the Northpointe Regional Campus in 2010 after 20 years of service, died September 5, 2025.

• John Scroxton, a professor emeritus who retired from the Chemistry Department in 1994 after 30 years of service, died July 27, 2025.

• Frederick Seinfelt, a professor emeritus who retired from the English Department in 1986 after 26 years of service, died August 6, 2025.

• Emma Lou Shaffor ’60, who taught in the Mathematics Department for four years, died August 18, 2025.

• Thomas Van Dyke ’73, a faculty member who retired from the Hospitality Management Department in 2013 after 22 years of service, died May 11, 2025.

• Rosemary Voelker, who retired from the History Department in 1999 after 18 years of service, died April 16, 2025.

• Donald Walter, who taught in the Health and Physical Education Department, died May 7, 2025.

President of Indiana University of Pennsylvania:
Michael Driscoll

Editor: Elaine Jacobs Smith ’93

Contributing Editors: Karen Philippi Gresh ’67, Bob Fulton ’75

Namedroppers Editor: Matthew Burglund ’98

Contributing Writers: Mary Ann Slater, Jason Levan ’97

Design: Meghan McMeans Strittmatter ’13

Photography: Brian Henry

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