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summer
2008
WAGNER
the link for Alumni and Friends
24
Focused Students
4
Intense Years
1
Wagner Plan
Year One:
The Journey Begins
Celebrating the 125th
◆
Finding George Wagner
◆
Men’s Hoops Milestone Year
�Wagner
Magazine
Summer 2008
Contents
D E P A R T M E N T S
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SUMMER
2008
VOL
.6,NO.
From the President
From the Editor
From Our Readers
College & Campus
Putting Wagner First
Sports Roundup
Alumni Link
Class Notes
In Memoriam
Reflections
F E A T U R E S
Campus Events
10
16
Finding
George Wagner
Year One
Wagner College was named for a
student at Wagner today?
young man who died 10 years before
This first part of a four-year
the College was founded. What
series takes you inside a first-
evidences of his life still remain?
year learning community.
What’s it really like to be a
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�Dedication
While rain dampened
commencement this year,
feelings flowed as strong
and sweet as ever.
PHOTOGRAPH
:
NICK ROMANENKO
�From the President
Celebrating the class of 2008
While our cover feature focuses on
Wagner’s first-year class of the past
year, I’d like to shine the spotlight on
our newest alumni, the class of 2008.
Their record of academic
achievement is superb. The 39
graduates selected for Omicron
Delta Kappa, a national honor
“This class
society, boasted a collective GPA
expanded our campus
of over 3.5 and résumés full of
diversity, went abroad
meaningful public service.
to study in 19 nations,
In the sciences, five have done
designed a new academic
significant research with chemistry
honor code, founded
professor Mohammad Alauddin on
the Earth Floor, and
the problem of arsenic poisoning
created a new nonprofit
in the water supply in Bangladesh, a
organization. They are
project funded by the National
prepared for life beyond
Institutes of Health.
Wagner College.”
Nine were accepted into medical school for next year, led by
Charles Nicolais and Stephanie Williams, headed for George
Washington University.
Others demonstrate the versatility of a liberal arts
education. Piotr Czech, a chemistry and physics double major,
will be kicking field goals for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens;
Alla Bronskaya, a dual major in theatre and economics who
also completed an honors project in her minor, physics,
will pursue a graduate degree in international relations at
New York University.
Many business administration graduates are beginning
their careers with premier firms such as
PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG,
Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley,
and Standard & Poor’s.
Others are joining
the Peace Corps or
2
WA G N E R
M A G A Z I N E
AmeriCorps or entering seminary. Many are going into
education, social work, and nursing, including Rebecca
Giannattasio, a physics major who will pursue a master’s in
education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, and
Shara Zaslow, a sociology major heading for Columbia’s
School of Social Work.
This class matched its academic achievements with its
extraordinary leadership in public service. Led by Katherine
Smith, this class founded Wagner’s chapter of Habitat for
Humanity and built homes in Brooklyn and New Jersey as well
as much farther afield, including the Gulf area and El Salvador.
This class expanded our campus diversity by founding
Hillel at Wagner. Enriched by the presence of Wagner
students from 11 foreign nations, this class also went abroad
to study in 19 nations. They designed and implemented a
new academic honor code. They founded the Earth Floor
and pioneered programs in recycling and energy conservation.
Two of them, Christopher and Nicholas Mustakas, created
a new nonprofit organization, Knowledge Is the Cure, to
arrest the spread of AIDS in Africa.
I’m proud to say that the class of 2008 is prepared for
the next stage of their personal and professional lives, built
on a bedrock of solid values and strong personal skills. In the
90 years since the Rev. Frederic Sutter brought Wagner to
Staten Island, so much has changed on this Hill, in this city,
and in the world. But one element remains steady: Wagner
was built to educate persons of uncommon commitment to
free inquiry and responsible citizenship. We are as true to
this mission in 2008 as we were in 1918, and we celebrate
our membership in the Wagner family and our affection and
gratitude for this very special place.
RICHARD
G UA R A S C I
PRESIDENT
P H O T O G R A P H S , A B O V E : PAU L O ’ M A R A ; B E L O W: J O H N B L O C H
�WAGNER
From the Editor
Remembering Lyle Guttu, 1936–2007
I
M A G A Z I N E
Summer 2008 Volume 6 Number 1
●
Editorial
’ve just spent the
past hour reading through
the tributes to Lyle Guttu
on the Wagner Web site
and attempting to write this
column.
At this point, I can do
no better than to point you,
too, to those tributes
(http://wagner.edu/news/
node/841). If you knew
Lyle, read them. If you didn’t
know Lyle, read them. Be
prepared to shed tears.
Be prepared, as you consider
this man’s life, to be
challenged to reflect on your
own walk on this Earth.
I’ll leave you with a few
quotes from the incredible
variety of people who wrote:
Harvard classmates, those
who got into Harvard by his
recommendation, someone
he coached in hockey
40 years ago, parishioners
and family members of
parishioners, Lutheran
ministers from across the
nation, those who were
Wagner students from
1972 to 2007, those who
were Wagner students before
that, parents of current
and former Wagner students,
and Wagner faculty and
staff, current and former,
from every corner of
campus.
“Jewish teaching tells
me that we are all created
b’tzelem elohim — in G-d’s
image. In Lyle Guttu, we
saw a vision of kedushah —
holiness.”
“Aloud or silently,
openly or behind the scenes,
as a one-shot deal or over
sustained periods of time,
he did for so many people so
much that it can only be
repaid by a lifetime dedicated
to doing so.”
“Wagner College will no
doubt hire new people to do
some of the things that Lyle
did, but no one will ever
replace him, nor will anyone
even be able to measure all
of the things that he did to
make our community more
human, more tolerant, more
civil and good-humored.
We are all diminished by the
loss of anyone from our community, but this loss, this
tragic loss, is one from which
we may never really recover.
Laura Barlament
EDITOR
Nina Ovryn
ART DIRECTOR
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Laura Barlament
John Beisser
Joel H. Cohen ’50
Lee Manchester
Brian Morris ’65
Joe Romano
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Vinnie Amessé
John Emerson
Jason Jones
Douglas Levere
Lee Manchester
Paul O’Mara
Nick Romanenko
Greg Schneider
Wagner Magazine
Advisory Board
Lisa DeRespino Bennett ’85
Susan Bernardo
Jack Irving ’69
Scott Lewers ’97
Lorraine McNeill-Popper ’78
Brian Morris ’65
Hank Murphy ’63, M’69
Andy Needle
Nick Richardson
Wagner will forever be
different without Lyle Guttu.”
Now go and read
the rest, and ponder, and
remember.
Laura Barlament
EDITOR,
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On the Cover
Lauren Turkovich ’11 of Bedford, Pennsylvania, perches on the brink of a
mind-opening experience as she begins her Wagner educational journey. Her
learning community is the focus of our cover feature, beginning on page 16.
Wagner College
PHOTOGRAPH: JOHN EMERSON.
S U M M E R
2008
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Arts Letters
zine
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pus
CollegeCam
&
U.S. News
Rankings Report
Guidebooks give Wagner
high marks
Wagner again made a good
of
showing in the new editions
issued
annual college guidebooks
year in
in August. For the fourth
among
a row, Wagner ranked
the top 25 schools in its category
in U.S. News
and World Report’s
“America’s Best
Colleges” guide.
Wagner was placed at
Number 22 in the
also included
Wagner in its
“Programs To Look
For” category, which
focuses on eight key
TO P T H E AT E R
Andrew Eckert ’08 and
academic areas “that
Northern Universities Lilly Tobin ’08 in Oklahoma! are commonly linked
Master’s category. Last
guide
to student success.” The
year, the college ranked
with
lists Wagner among schools
Number 25.
College moved to
I n 1918, when Wagner
New York, the
Grymes Hill from Rochester,
buildings: a barn (no
campus included seven
faculty residences
longer standing); four
houses
cottage, and two frame
(Kairos House, the chaplain's
used for
Hall); the Cunard mansion,
now merged into Pape
House,
space; and Reynolds
classroom and administrative
W I N D OW
O N WAG N E R :
South
(Parker) Hall
cent per year,” Farmer said.
the more than 260 participating
Other institutions participrivate colleges and universities.
529
pating in the Independent
Wagner joins college tuition
is
“Tuition purchased today
Plan include Stanford, Princeton,
savings plan
at the
guaranteed to satisfy costs
MIT, Johns Hopkins, the Universaid
time the child enrolls,”
sity of Notre Dame, Washington
I n a 2006 survey by Young
and
Nancy Farmer, president
of
University in St. Louis, CarnegieMoney magazine, 30 percent
of the
chief executive officer
parWake Forest, and the
Mellon,
college students gave their
is
Independent 529 Plan. “This
college
University of Chicago.
ents a “D” or “F” for
much
true regardless of how
Plan
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The
financial planning.
in
tuition rises or what happens
a
Wagner recently joined
is run by the nonprofit Tuition
the investment markets.
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“In fact, families will pay
to
tered by TIAA-CREF Tuition
parents a way to look smarter
tuition,
slightly less than current
the
Financing Inc. For more informatheir college-bound children:
school
because each participating
or visit
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Independent 529 Plan,
certificates
tuition
the
discounts
tuition
www.independent529plan.org.
allows parents to lock in
perby at least one-half of one
levels
rates at less than present
use.
for their children’s future
Launched in 2003, the
a coopIndependent 529 Plan is
group
erative effort by a national
of private colleges and universithe
manage
ties to help families
rising cost of higher education.
Under the program, individuals
can purchase tuition certificates
any of
for future redemption at
Money Matters
firstexceptional programs for
year experiences and learning
communities.
only
The Princeton Review not
366
includes Wagner in its Best
lists
Colleges guidebook, but also
it in several Top 20 rankings,
including “Best College Theater”
(Number 2) and “Most Beautiful
Campus” (Number 6).
$108,000
Mrs. Parker donated
After Mr. Parker's death,
by her late
a trust fund established
to Wagner College from
will, she estabdied in 1966, and in her
husband. Mrs. Parker
of them was
the principal for all
lished a variety of trusts;
College. The
to be given to Wagner
scheduled, over time,
at one
bequest was estimated
total value of Mrs. Parker's
which served as a dormitory.
com“We must find more room,”
Quarters were cramped.
the move.
H. Holthusen soon after
plained President Adolph
pantry and with an
72 persons without a
“We are taking care of
of five.”
ice box built for a family
for up to
Hall, built as a dormitory
The answer was South
library, and
a kitchen, dining room,
66 students. It included
28, 1922,
was laid on October
laboratories. The cornerstone
the new buildcommunity dedicated
and the Wagner College
time at nearly $10 million.
the spring
a dormitory through
Parker Hall served as
were transfall, the upper three floors
semester of 1971. That
the college's
The basement holds
formed into faculty offices.
for the
labs and two large studios
psychology and sociology
Manchester
arts program. – Lee
{c h a n g e s }
Advanceme nt seeks new
Staten Island Votes
Bill Murphy Top Artist
its own by
Staten Island embraced
profeselecting Bill Murphy, associate
Brighton,
sor of art and native of New
Artist in the
Staten Island’s Best Visual
Readers
Staten Island Advance AWE
Poll, published in August.
Murphy
“Painter/printmake r Bill
element of
finds something about the
said the
decay infinitely interesting,”
may explain
Advance write-up. “That
College,
his upcoming show at Wagner
Island
‘Undead,’ a eulogy to the Staten
to present.
1977
from
work
waterfront,
and
He captures images of shipwrecks
follow the
old, deserted barges. ‘I just
I’m being
muse to where I feel like
pulled,’ says Murphy.”
A
Murphy’s exhibit “Undead:
Waterfront”
Eulogy to the Staten Island
21 at
will run November 7 to December
Union.
the Atrium Gallery in the Wagner
from the
A companion show, “Studies
and
Waterfront,” including artifacts
throughexhibit
on
be
will
memorabilia,
in the
out the month of November
Gallery.
Horrmann Library’s Spotlight
leadership
left Wagner College in
for institutional advancement,
Terry Karamanos, vice president
the Earth Institute at Columbia
director of development for
June for a new position as
of the
oversaw the growth and expansion
four years with Wagner, Karamanos
increased
University. ◆ During her
support for the college and
resulting in increased financial
for $20 milcollege's advancement program,
complete an endowment campaign
friends, and parents. She helped
10-13 for more on the
engagement with alumni,
Wagner College (see pages
$50 million Campaign for
while the college
lion and launched the current
is serving as interim vice president
gifts,
major
of
director
campaign). ◆ Frank Young,
to fill the position.
conducts a national search
1923.
ing on September 16,
then a
1961 that South Hall,
It was not until September
Parker Hall.
its current moniker of
women's dorm, took on
a
George Benedict Parker,
Its new name memorialized
died in 1948.
businessman who had
Staten Island native and
help young
college, he wanted to
Although he never attended
his wife, Anna
education. Parker and
higher
pursue
people
games.
attending Wagner football
“Rita” Halbert Parker, enjoyed
F A L L
PHOTOGRAPH
8
WA G N E R
,
O’MARA
BELOW: PAU L
N
I L L U S T R AT I O
:
2007
9
RO B C O LV I N
“
Stories were told of
the female residents using
the urinals as flower pots
— which made it easy to
water the flowers.
Memories
In your article on South Hall
[“Window on Wagner: South
(Parker) Hall,” Fall 2007], you
said that South Hall was a
women’s dorm in September
1961, when it was renamed
Parker Hall. I don’t know all of
the history of South Hall, but I
know a little bit about its history
from 1949 to 1953, when I
graduated.
I believe that it was originally built as a men’s dorm, as there
were urinals in the bathroom in
1949; but, at that time, it was
being used as a women’s dorm.
EDMUND DIAZ
Stories were told of the female
residents using the urinals as
flower pots — which made it
easy to water the flowers.
At this time, men were
housed in Luther Hall, which
lost its roof to a tornado during
a Thanksgiving break. This
windstorm destroyed
some of the married
students’ apartments,
also.
When Guild Hall
was built, the women
students moved out of
South Hall, and it
became a men’s dorm.
During my senior year
Something’s
Missing
(1952–53), four Alpha Sigma
Phi brothers, including myself,
shared a two-room suite on the
top floor. We had four bunk beds
in one room and used the other
as our living/study room, the
only such room on campus, to
my knowledge.
I have so many wonderful
memories of the time that I spent
as a student at the Bregenz campus in Austria — wow — I was
in the class of 1973/74.
One thing that I miss seeing
in your magazine is any mention
of the Christian heritage of the
school. Wagner used to be a
Christian school and, if I am not
mistaken, there is no mention of
God or our Savior Jesus Christ at
all in your more recent Alumni
Link. Please do not be afraid to
mention him and the wonderful
heritage that is unfortunately not
so clear any longer.
MARK S. RICKER
L E E S BU RG , F LO R I DA
We’d Love to Hear from You
4
We welcome letters from readers.
phone number. The editor reserves
Letters should refer to material pub-
the right to determine the suitability of
Reynolds House, Wagner College
lished in the magazine and include the
letters for publication and to edit them
1 Campus Road, Staten Island, NY 10301
writer’s full name, address, and tele-
for accuracy and length.
WA G N E R
M A G A Z I N E
’53
VIA E-MAIL
”
M A G A Z I N E
Early 50’s
During my time on campus,
I lived in Luther Hall, Cunard
Hall (after the windstorm),
North Hall (now Reynolds
House), and South (now Parker)
Hall. I don’t know when South
Hall switched back to a women’s
dorm, but it had to be after the
class of ’53 graduated.
Write to: Laura Barlament, Editor
e-mail:
laura.barlament@wagner.edu
�&
College
ampus
C
Learning, teaching, giving
and achieving on Grymes Hill and beyond
Happy Birthday, Wagner!
Special events commemorate the 125th anniversary
H ow do you celebrate a 125th birthday?
WAGNER
In 2008, Wagner College is answering
that question by offering a host of
events — on campus, around the state, and around
the country.
The College was founded in 1883 in Rochester,
New York, as the Lutheran Proseminary, dedicated
to training pastors for German Lutheran congregations.
(A couple of years later, the trustees renamed the
institution Wagner Memorial Lutheran College;
read the complete story beginning on page 10.)
In honor of that German heritage, Wagner
kicked off the year’s celebrations with a Germanthemed festival at Winter on the Hill on March 1. At
Reunion Weekend in early June, alumni celebrated
Wagner’s first decade on Staten Island, the Roaring
’20s. The Alumni Office is taking the celebration on
the road to various locations throughout the country.
(See page 32 for more details.)
More events on campus and at the site of
Wagner’s founding are coming up this fall:
125TH
( Continued on next page )
PHOTOGRAPH
:
PAU L O ’ M A R A
S U M M E R
2008
5
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Wa g n e r
CollegeCampus
WAGNER
125TH
( Continued
from page 5 )
•
History Forum: At Home-
coming on September 12, there
will be presentations by Lee
Manchester, Wagner’s director
of media relations and unofficial
historian, and three alumni who
have studied different aspects
of the College’s history: The
Rev. Harald Kuehne ’49 will
speak about its religious heritage; Walter T. Schoen Jr. ’58
will address Wagner’s early
years; and Brian Morris ’65 will
speak about the Rev. Frederic
Sutter.
•
Archival Photo Exhibit:
From September 12 until
October 15, archival photographs and documents will be
displayed in the Horrmann
Library.
Founders Day: On October 15, the date on which the
College was founded in 1883, a
special event on campus will
honor Wagner’s history, inaugurating a new annual tradition.
Rochester, New York,
Anniversary Event: Wagner
will remember its roots with a
special event in Rochester, including dedicating a new apple
tree on the site where Wagner’s
founders first met to discuss
starting a college.
More information will be
available through mailings and
www.wagner.edu.
•
•
{L o s s e s }
A Season of Sadness
Wagner loses beloved chaplain and
promising student-athlete
The transition from the year 2007 to 2008 was a tough one for
the Wagner community, which suffered the untimely loss of two
dynamic members in December and January: the Rev. Lyle R. Guttu,
College chaplain for 35 years, and student-athlete Nicholas
Magaraci ’09 of Norwood, New Jersey.
Guttu died on December 16, one day after he was struck by a
car while crossing a busy intersection on Staten Island.
Guttu was born in 1936 in Red Lake Falls, Minnesota. His
path to Wagner went via
Harvard College, where he
received an A.B. in history
in 1958; Union Theological
Seminary, where he received a B.D. in 1965; and
ordination in the Evangel-
Wagner Anniversaries in 2008
ical Lutheran Church in
America. He not only
10
served as chaplain at
The Wagner Plan for the Practical Liberal Arts
curriculum is instituted in 1998.
Wagner, but also as dean of
I N M E M 0 R I A M The garden next
students (1975–85 and
65
1990–92), special assis-
to Chaplain Lyle Guttu’s former
house was dedicated in his memory
in April. Plans are to convert the
house into an ecumenical worship
and meeting space.
Wagner’s nursing program begins as
the Nursing Cadet Corps in 1943.
75
Wagner becomes coeducational in 1933.
tant to the academic vice
president (1985–88), vice
provost (1992–2000), and special assistant to the president
(2000–07). See pages 42–43 for a memorial to Guttu.
Nick Magaraci was found dead in his off-campus apartment
90
Wagner moves to Grymes Hill
on Staten Island in 1918.
125
Wagner is founded as the Lutheran
Proseminary of Rochester,
New York, in 1883.
6
WA G N E R
M A G A Z I N E
on January 26. His death was ruled a suicide.
“A model Wagnerian, Magaraci was socially active as a member of the Delta Nu fraternity and an accomplished member of the
Seahawk wrestling squad,” reported The Wagnerian on February 6.
“He was working toward a major in sociology.”
PHOTOGRAPH
:
PAU L O ’ M A R A
�From Loser
to Leader
Kurt Landgraf ’68 gives
commencement address
Sounds Good to Us
Wagner garners kudos
SEE US ON TV: Wagner College
was featured on the new Association of American Colleges &
Universities TV. You can view the
video at www.aacu.org/aacutv/
index.cfm?wagner=1.
NATIONAL PRESS: USA Today
cited Wagner on November 4 in
“What Schools Across the USA
Are Doing to Engage Students.”
The article focused on “colleges
that report higher-than-average
levels of engagement.… Since
Wagner College in New York City
Disarmingly describing himself as “one of the great losers of
all time,” Kurt Landgraf ’68 H’08
delivered the commencement
address to Wagner’s 610
newest alumni on May 16.
Landgraf is president and CEO of ETS, a
company best known for
standardized tests like the
SAT and GRE. Previously, he
was chairman and CEO of
DuPont Pharmaceuticals.
Landgraf told a little of his
own story before giving the graduates some words of advice.
After graduating from high
school, he played on a minor
league baseball team before being
recruited to Wagner College. He
was far from being an eager student, he said, and had no high
opinion of his own abilities.
“I ran into one professor
T H E M E N TO R ’ S TO U C H Kurt Landgraf
receives his honorary degree from Claire Maher,
widow of the late Professor William Maher.
here, Dr.
William Maher. For reasons I
don’t quite know, he decided I
was worth something. … Then I
decided I was worth something,
and it changed my life,” he said.
In honor of this special
relationship, Landgraf received
the hood for his honorary degree
from Claire Maher, widow of
William Maher, professor of
economics, who died in 1993.
“Do what you believe is
right, recognizing that the short-
term consequences may be
unpleasant,” Landgraf went on
to tell the graduates. “Set your
principles and follow them.”
Also receiving special honors at commencement were the
Rev. Dr. Stephen Bouman; the
late Rev. Lyle Guttu, represented
by his children, Allison and
Mathias Guttu; and the Wagner
family, represented by MargaretAnne Milne, the great-greatgranddaughter of John Wagner,
the College’s founding benefactor.
adopted learning communities on
a broad scale a decade ago, the
ratio of students leaving before
graduation has dropped from one
New Views
in four to one in 10.”
Morning mists hover over the
PRESIDENTIAL HONORS: Wagner
mountains north of Hanoi,
won a spot, with distinction, on the
Vietnam, one destination of the
President’s Higher Education Com-
2008 Expanding Your Horizons
munity Service Honor Roll. Wagner
travel and study program at
students invest 80,000 hours
Wagner. This group compared
each year in community activities.
views of the Vietnam War.
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Pape House
Most Wagner alumni remember the two near-
were being used for the admissions and security offices. A
ly identical Prairie-Style cottages opposite
few years later, admissions had taken over both.
Cunard Hall. After all, they were two of the
original buildings on the Grymes Hill campus.
metamorphosis. Henry V. Pape ’36, a career civil servant,
Those two cottages and Reynolds House (as it’s
dedicated about $300,000 to refurbishing buildings from
known today) were built on the Cunard estate while it was
his days on campus. This gift allowed the College to add a
being operated as a summer hotel in the early 20th centu-
connecting structure between the two cottages and to
ry. When the College bought the property in 1917, it winter-
build a new porch and exterior. The resulting enhanced
ized the cottages to make them serviceable year-round.
home for the admis-
For many years, two professors and their families lived
sions office is one of
in each cottage. One of those occupants was William
the simplest, most
Ludwig, the only faculty member to move with the College
attractive buildings on
when it migrated from Rochester to Staten Island. Even
the campus.
years after he retired in 1936, his former home was known
as Ludwig Cottage.
Dedicated in
October 2002 to the
After World War II, Wagner began using the cottages for
memory of Ann C. Pape,
new purposes. In the 1956 college catalogue, one of them
Henry’s late wife, the
was identified as the Senior Honor House, home to seven
Pape House was born
female students. By 1958, Ivy House (as it came to
be called) was a residence for 14 women.
By the early 1980s, the old cottages
New Leadership
Myra Garcia committed to
‘Putting Wagner First’
Myra Garcia, formerly associate vice president for development
at Seton Hall, has been appointed
vice president for advancement
at Wagner College.
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WA G N E R
today,” says President Guarasci.
Noting recent progress in
Wagner’s advancement area,
Garcia says she is thrilled to have
the opportunity to take the program to a new level. “We have a
strong alumni relations effort,
but innovative new programs will
make it stronger. The annual fund
has been growing, but we need to
raise our alumni participation to
competitive levels,” says Garcia.
“Our campaign, Putting
Wagner First, launched in
October 2007, is already nearing
M A G A Z I N E
as a welcoming center
for future Wagner students. — Lee Manchester
Thunderbird Graduate School
of Global Management.
A native of Montville, New
Jersey, Garcia holds a bachelor’s
in music performance from
Montclair State University and a
master’s in education from Seton
Hall. She serves on the boards of
the Council for Advancement and
Support of Education District II,
Joseph A. Unanue Latino Institute, and the New York City
chapter of Women in Development. She also works with the
Phoenix Philanthropy Group.
the $40 million mark, as alumni
and friends generously step up
to support scholarships, endowment, and the construction of a
new academic building. I am
committed to building a stateof-the-art advancement effort
to match our well-recognized
undergraduate programs.”
Garcia previously served as
director of development for a
community arts school and for
the Elisabeth Morrow School in
New Jersey, and as regional
development officer for the
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A Wiki for Wagner
Write your own Wagner history
I f you’re one of the millions of
people for whom the Internet
has become an indispensable
reference on anything and
everything, you’ve undoubtedly
looked at a few pages on
Wikipedia, the Web-based
encyclopedia that features
collaborative, user-generated
content.
This winter, Wagner
debuted its own version:
Wagnerpedia is live on the ’Net
and open for contributions.
Located at wagnerpedia.
wagner.edu, it was the brainchild
of Jeffrey Gutkin, director of academic computing at Wagner. He
initially envisioned it as a way
for students and faculty to share
experiences and photos from their
trips abroad through the Expanding Your Horizons program.
Soon, he realized that such
a site could offer much more —
students could post their academic work for collaborative
review; alumni could contribute
to ongoing research; student
clubs could document their
activities; alumni could share
class histories and Wagner memories; community members
could work together with students and faculty on projects;
and so on.
“The more people that look
at it, the more people will want
to use it,” Gutkin says. “You
don’t know where it might go.”
Wagnerpedia is built on
the same technology as
Wikipedia. Anyone in the world
can go to the site and easily
build or edit pages. Because
“wiki” technology tracks and
saves all changes that are made,
users can see when pages are
added or edited, and even
restore changed pages to a previous version.
Study of poetry and
visual culture wins award
“Who but Donne would have thought that
a good man is a telescope,” complained
the irascible Samuel Johnson about one
of John Donne’s famously mind-bending
poetic images.
Professor of English Ann
Hollinshead Hurley includes this quote in
her most recent book, John Donne’s
Poetry and Early Modern Visual Culture
(Susquehanna University Press, 2005),
recipient of the 2008 John Donne Society
Award for Distinguished Publication.
Hurley’s study illuminates Donne’s verbal
style by placing him in the context of the
visual culture of his day.
A member of Wagner’s English faculty since 1996, Hurley teaches Shakespeare
and his contemporaries, advanced drama,
and a senior seminar on the European novel
and narrative theory. With art professor Jebah
Baum, she has taught a first-year learning
community on literature and the visual arts.
Her next book, Women Editing/ Editing
Women: Early Modern Women Writers and
the New Textualism (forthcoming from
Cambridge Scholars Press), deals with
two other Hurley specialties: women
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writers of the 17th century, and the
study of rare books and manuscripts.
Sneak Peek: Nicolais House
Earlier this year, work was completed on a renovation
and expansion of the Wagner College president’s residence, Nicolais House. Funded by a generous gift from
Margaret and Mike Nicolais ’49, the work included the
addition of a large space for entertaining, featuring a
spectacular view of the lower bay of New York Harbor.
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women: one elderly, one in mid-life, and one a teenager. In
the center of the photograph hung the well-known portrait
of John Wagner.
The few strands of hair I have left on my head stood up
as my intuition told me this was something important, possibly the golden key to the puzzle I was trying to unscramble.
“The portrait was presented to the College by Mrs.
Mark G. Clark, Geneva, N.Y., the only grandchild of the late
benefactor [John Wagner],” said the October 1947 Wagner
College Bulletin. “Mrs. Clark was accompanied by her daughter and granddaughter, Mrs. Laurence Gracey and Margaret
Ann, both of Geneva, N.Y.”
Descendants of our founding benefactor — wow! After
The Founding Gift
ABOVE, John Wagner’s granddaughter unveils his
photograph in 1947, with Rev. Sutter looking on.
RIGHT, the handwritten receipt from Wagner
College co-founder Alexander Richter for John
Wagner’s $12,000 gift, which bought the school its
first permanent home. OPPOSITE PAGE, TOP LEFT, an
engraving of the building bought with John
Wagner’s founding contribution.
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61 years, was it possible that any of them might still be alive?
If so, would they be able to tell us anything about their
famous forebear, or add to the lore of our founding? And
might they have a family photograph containing an image,
even a small one, of young George Wagner?
An Internet Odyssey
knew there was no chance that Mrs. Mark G.
Clark, already elderly in 1947, was still alive. But
perhaps I could find her daughter or her granddaughter.
Now that I had names to work with, my search could move
into the 21st century: I fired up my computer and logged on
to the Internet.
The custom of identifying women by their husbands’
names might have proved a hindrance, but I got lucky. Shortly
after sitting down at my computer, I was able to locate a
Lawrence W. Gracey (our 1947 editor had misspelled his
name) of Geneva, New York, and the name of his wife: Elsie
C. Gracey. With Elsie’s name, I hit the jackpot.
Elsie Gracey had owned a landmark homestead outside
Geneva. Now known as the Barron-Gracey Mansion, it was
on the market, and its eager realtor had conveniently
created Web pages about the house and its most recent
owner — including stories from the local newspaper about
Elsie Gracey’s life and her 100th birthday on April 16, 1998.
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Milne,” said the voice at the other end of
the line — and, yes, she was the greatgreat-granddaughter of John Wagner.
Treasure in a
Cardboard Box
wo weeks later, at her invitation,
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I was knocking on the door of Mrs.
Milne’s Rochester townhouse.
“You must be from Wagner College,” she said, smiling,
as she opened the door, showing me inside. At the dining
room table she introduced me to her daughter, Susan Milne
Carney, who had just lifted the lid off a mediumsized cardboard box. Inside was a stack of
folded, yellowed papers, a photo album,
and several small, framed photographs.
Before delving into it, we talked
about what the two women remembered
of their family’s history — especially of
John and George Wagner’s stories.
Referring to a list she had once made
from gravestones in the Wagner family plot
george wagner
in Rochester’s Mount Hope Cemetery,
Margaret-Anne gave a brief rendition of
the early years of the Wagner family in America.
The Wagner patriarch, Johann Georg Wagner Sr., left his
native Bischmisheim, in what is now southwestern Germany, in
1838. His son and namesake, the John GeorgeWagner who
became the founding benefactor of Wagner College,
was 14 years old at the time his family settled
in Rochester, where he picked up the
carpentry trade. John married a girl named
Catherine and, by the time he’d turned 23,
had fathered the first of five children.
“But my great-grandmother, his
daughter Caroline, was the only one of the five
to make it to her 20th birthday,” Milne said.
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being alive were virtually nil, those articles helped me find
the next clue: the married name of Elsie Gracey’s daughter.
The teenaged girl who had visited
Grymes Hill in 1947 had grown up to
be Margaret-Anne Milne.
One more round of Internet
searching revealed not only that Milne
was an active member of her community (she had even been named
“woman of the year” in 2000), but also
that she worked as an organist —
and she had a personal Web site that
invited inquiries about her services.
I picked up the phone,
punched in the number, and …
“Yes, I’m Margaret-Anne
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their first year; another son died at age
12. The last to pass on was John George
Wagner III. At the age of 19½, young
George was stricken with typhoid fever.
He died on October 15, 1873.
Ten years later, to the day — on
October
15, 1883 — two ministers
Hattie Voshall and
founded the school that was shortly
her father
thereafter renamed in George’s memory:
Wagner Memorial Lutheran College.
Caroline, the only surviving child of John Wagner, married
her father’s business partner, Charles Voshall, and the couple
had one child: a girl. This was Hattie, the Mrs. Mark G. Clark of
the 1947 photo that had sent me on my search.
Hattie also had only one child, Elsie, who likewise had only one child, Margaret-Anne
— the result being that all the Wagner
family papers and photos were passed
down from mother to daughter to granddaughter to great-granddaughter, undivided and intact, a historical treasure trove.
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Only after I returned to Staten Island with computer scans
of the document was Veronica Knight, a native of Germany
who works as an administrative assistant at the Horrmann
Library, able to determine its exact nature: a resolution by the
College’s Board of Trustees thanking John Wagner for his generous gift and renaming the College in young George’s memory.
Another scrap of paper found in that cardboard box
in Margaret-Anne Milne’s dining room contained a handwritten receipt — in somewhat fractured English — from
Wagner College co-founder Alexander Richter acknowledging
John Wagner’s gift to the school.
We scanned document after document, photo after
photo, into my laptop computer, working our way through
The German Connection
BELOW is another treasure from the Wagner family
archives, connecting the modern generation with
its German roots. This document is the cover page
of the passport issued to Johann Georg Wagner Sr.
when he and his family left their homeland for
“Nord Amerika” in 1838.
Hattie Voshall
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George Wagner Found
he box on Mrs. Milne’s dining
room table included a few old
documents written in German on thick, crackly sheets of
folded parchment. It was easy to figure out what some of
them were: travel papers replete with Prussian
tax stamps, official seals, signatures and
counter signatures documenting the
Wagner family’s exodus to America.
One of the documents, however,
was almost impossible to decipher. Dated
1886, it was written in a 19th-century
German cursive script now out of use.
Enough could be puzzled out, however,
to convince us that it had something to
Clark Gracey
do with John Wagner’s gift to the College.
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the box until all that was left was a small album of family
pictures, all by itself at the bottom of the cardboard carton.
That last item in Mrs. Milne’s family treasury, it
turned out, was the crown jewel of the entire collection.
“I was going through this album this afternoon,”
Milne said, pulling out the antique book of photographs,
“and I found a picture of young George. It’s the first time
I’ve ever seen it.”
The photograph on the opening page of
the album had been neatly labeled in pencil,
“Uncle George Wagner,” by Milne’s grandmother.
An unsmiling young man looks directly at the
camera, lips slightly parted. His dark hair,
although slicked down, curls around the edges.
He’s dressed like his father in formal coat and
tie, but — as if anticipating future growth —
the jacket and vest are just slightly too big for
the boy. It’s a picture of youthful promise.
Susan Carney confirmed her mother’s identification of the photo, recognizing it from its
similarity to an oil portrait that hangs in her
dining room, another element of the treasure
trove handed down from generation to generation in the Wagner family.
“You can tell it’s the same man,” Carney
said, noting that he’s gained the nickname “Waggie”
in her household. “I wonder if the portrait was
painted from that photo? The hair is very similar, and he was about the same age.”
The photo, which I scanned with all the rest
into my laptop computer that evening, was the first
image Wagner College had ever acquired of the
person for whom it had been named so long ago.
At last, we had found George Wagner.
Closing the Circle
INSET, LEFT, are two of the Wagner women who
brought John Wagner’s photo “home” to Grymes Hill in
1947, great-granddaughter Hattie Clark and her daughter Margaret-Anne. A B OV E , Margaret-Anne Milne, her
daughter Susan Carney, and a portrait of the young man for
whom Wagner College was named, George Wagner.
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ABOVE: DOUGLAS LEVERE
W a g n e r
Lee Manchester, Wagner College’s media relations
director, is author or editor of six books on regional
history, including The Plains of Abraham: A
History of North Elba and Lake Placid
(Utica, N.Y.: Nicholas K. Burns Publishing,
2007), winner of a Special Appreciation Award at
this year’s Adirondack Literary Awards program.
Contact him at lee.manchester@wagner.edu.
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�In this first installment of a four-part, four-year series,
YEAR
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community, the beginning stage of the Wagner Plan. Story
The Wagner Plan
centers around
“learning communities”
that integrate
practical experience
with academics.
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TO P ROW : L AU R E N T U R KOV I C H , N I C K B O G H O S , S A M A N T H A S I E G E L ;
M I D D L E : S A M A N T H A TOW N S O N , A N N A LYS E N KO ;
B OT TO M : A L I C I A VO N L E N T H E C A M P O S , PAT R I C K H E F F E R N A N .
�Ten years ago this
fall, the College
adopted a bold new
curriculum: The
Wagner Plan for the
Practical Liberal Arts.
Wagner Magazine will introduce you to a first-year learning
What does the
Plan mean for
today’s Wagner?
What’s it really like
to be a student at
Wagner today?
by Laura Barlament. Photographs by John Emerson.
TO P ROW : P E T E R W E ST WO O D , B R I A N N A ST I M P S O N ;
M I D D L E : K Y L E G L OV E R , S A M H O E R D E M A N N ; B OT TO M : K AT I E J O
YO U N K I N S , JA R E N H A L E Y, C O L L E E N H O F F M A N .
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n Friday afternoon, August 24, 14 brand-new Wagner students
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The Wagner Plan
make their way to Main Hall room 11 for the first meeting of their
reflective tutorial. It’s the first day of orientation for the fall semester of 2007, and understanding what exactly a “reflective tutor-
ial” is supposed to be is only one item on a long list of new things to figure out.
Their day began with moving into their dorm rooms. They’ve been
buried in information on everything from residence-hall rules to dining plans to Internet connections. They’ve said good-bye to their
families. Whether they came from Tottenville, Staten Island, or Torrance,
California, they have one thing in common: They’re overwhelmed.
One by one, the students enter the room and take a seat at the
tables, arranged in rows, facing the front. No one talks. No one
switches on the lights. They wait in the dark to meet their first
college professor.
It’s the beginning of a journey into college life.
First Taste of College
A
professor of religion at Wagner College since 1971, Walter
Kaelber is clearly in command when he enters a classroom.
“You are probably tired, so I want to make this easy,” he says
as soon as he walks through the door in his trademark cowboy
boots. First, he tells them to move the tables into a U-shaped
arrangement. “So you can look at each other,” he says.
Kaelber, a veteran teacher of first-year learning communities,
takes an easy, bantering tone as he gets the meeting rolling. “I went
over your files, and almost everyone picked this LC as their number-
I wasn’t a big fan
of Dr. Kaelber on the first day.
He acted like he knew
everything. Later, I found out
he did know everything.
NICK BOGHOS
one choice,” he says. “Which says to me that you’re certifiably insane.”
All first-year learning communities include a reflective tutorial
and two courses from different disciplines, related to each other by
a common theme. In this case, the theme is “Perception, Illusion,
and the Social Construction of the Self,” and the classes are Religion
105: Religions of the East, taught by Kaelber, and Sociology 203:
Principles of Social Psychology, taught by Laura Martocci, a sociology
faculty member and assistant dean of experiential learning.
Kaelber’s group will join the 14 students in Martocci’s reflective
tutorial to compose Learning Community 5.
Kaelber reviews the basic outline of the learning community,
but then goes back to the personal. “Here’s what I know from reading your files. Don’t worry, there’s no damaging information about
what you do late at night. I know your names, your birthdays …” He
shuffles through his papers, then blurts out, “Where’s Kyle?” A guy
with a striking mane of curly sandy-colored hair raises his hand hesitantly. “You, Kyle, have the same birthday as my wife,” Kaelber says.
From the files, he continues, he also knows something about
their anticipated major, career direction, and athletic participation.
“Hopefully I’ll get to know a bit more about you today,” he adds, “if
you choose to volunteer that for me and your fellow journeyers here.”
Starting at the top of the list, Kaelber calls on Nick Boghos.
When Kaelber hears that he’s from Boston, he asks, “Red Sox fan?”
“More of a Patriots fan,” Boghos replies. Kaelber confirms that Boghos
is on the wrestling team. “I’ll keep my distance,” says Kaelber. When
he was in college at Bucknell, Kaelber explains, his roommate was a
wrestler. “During wrestling season, he would go on a diet that made
him mean!” He lowers his eyebrows and shakes his head at the thought.
One by one, Kaelber focuses on each student. Ben Pratt, also
from Boston, specializes in card tricks. Brianna Stimpson, a theater
major, comes from Freehold, New Jersey, and goes by “Bree.”
Three students are from California. “How do you feel about
�Arnold?” inquires Kaelber mischievously of
Patrick Heffernan, also a theater major,
who’s from Orange County. “I like The
Terminator,” Heffernan says nonchalantly.
“Terminator III is pretty good.”
Besides teaching these students in two
courses this semester, Kaelber will also be
their academic advisor until they declare a
major. All of this contact aids him in advising
the students, Kaelber says. “Every school says
we have a professional and caring faculty. It
really is true at Wagner.”
Nevertheless, Nick Boghos later confesses that he wasn’t thrilled with his introduction
to academic life at Wagner. “I was thinking,
‘I can’t believe I have to do all this reading,’”
he recalls. “I wasn’t a big fan of Dr. Kaelber
on the first day. He acted like he knew
everything, and that turns me off.”
That first impression didn’t last long,
though. “Later, I found out he did know
everything,” Boghos says. “And I ended up
wanting to do the reading. I actually raised
my hand a lot and shared my opinions. Dr.
Kaelber made me want to participate.”
In fact, by the end of the semester,
says Boghos, “Knowing Dr. Kaelber was
the most important thing I got out of the
class.”
For his part, Kaelber grins when he reflects on teaching freshmen. “It’s kind of cool
to have a classroom full of these newly minted
freshmen. It’s their first time away from home,
and they’re nervous and excited. They’re all
in that same mindset. They’re worried about
everything — from what they’re wearing to
whether they can do the work. And you have
the chance to give them a good taste of what college should be like.”
“
It’s kind of cool to have a classroom full of these
newly minted freshmen. You have the chance to give
them a good taste of what college should be like.
Breaking the Ice
F
our days later, at the first meeting of Kaelber’s Religions of the
East, the ice has clearly been broken among the 28 students.
”
WA LT E R K A E L B E R , A B OV E
Everyone is chatting, about everything from textbooks to lip balm.
For Kaelber, one of the primary functions of a learning community is that it gives students a place to bond. “That may be the
single most important thing it does. They may be complaining, but
they’re complaining together. At least they’re bonding. They have a
common enemy,” he says with a laugh.
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The Wagner Plan
The LC also creates a built-in academic support group in
an environment of raised expectations. The students study
together, check their understanding of assignments with each
other, and keep each other on track in general.
They’ll need this peer group, because Kaelber makes it
clear that they’re here to think for themselves, not to be spoonfed. He has assigned them two textbooks to give them two
different perspectives on the material. His lectures will present yet
another perspective. “There will be apparent contradictions,” he
warns. “When you notice these, ask about them.”
Furthermore, Kaelber emphasizes, they will be responsible for
their own pace and style of learning. “I don’t care in what order you
do the readings, or when you do the readings,” he says, “but when
you show up for the quiz on September 20, you need to have that
material mastered. It’s a short quiz, but it’s brutal.”
Having set up these ground rules, Kaelber plunges into a freewheeling lecture on the origins of Hinduism. All the while, he
relates the events, which took place thousands of years ago on the
other side of the globe, to the students’ lives today. Breaking down
boundaries — between the past and present, peoples and places,
religion and sociology — is the other main point of learning
communities, says Kaelber.
“If the learning community is done properly, they get
to understand how disciplines are interrelated,” Kaelber says.
“Knowledge is a piece. Boundaries between disciplines are
artificial. They can apply what they learn in one class to
other classes. Knowledge is not hermetically sealed. That’s
very important.”
From the students’ perspective, the lesson of “interdisciplinarity” may not come across as such. But one thing they
do know: This stuff that Kaelber is teaching them is strange
and fascinating.
“I had no background in religious studies,” says
Heather Philben, an aspiring biopsychology major from
Massachusetts. “I don’t even know much about my own
religion. In Dr. Kaelber’s class, I have learned more about
my own beliefs. There are certain ideas about Buddhism
and Hinduism where I have said, ‘Oh, I believe that, but I
didn’t know it was part of a religion.’”
Or, as Kyle Glover simply puts it, “It really does make
you think, and it messes with your head.”
I ask (students) to write about questions
“
like, ‘Do you have free will?’ Philosophers have
been debating that for centuries. I set the bar
high, and they meet those expectations.
”
L AU R A M A RTO C C I , B E L OW
Mental Calisthenics
“R
eality is created in exchanges between people.
Reality is not something out there.”
It’s September 19, and Martocci is reviewing the concept
of the “self ” in social psychology — one of those ideas that
most people take for granted. Martocci makes the students
engage with the material through writing and discussion. In
the first meeting of Laura Martocci’s social psychology
course, the students had to write their own definition of
“the self,” their own identity, and their own obituary.
�“I make the distinction for
Yesterday I taught
them that in high school, they had to
fourth-graders about
memorize stuff,” says Martocci. “I’m
perspective. I couldn’t have
here to exercise their thinking musdone that if I didn’t really
cles. They have to make arguments
understand it myself.
to support what they say. There
ALEX MALLILO
isn’t one right answer.”
Martocci knows that turning
unconscious assumptions into intellectual concepts can be alternately boring and frustrating for the students. “The problem is that
students tune out because they think it’s stuff they already know,”
she explains. “They think, ‘Oh, we’re just talking about emotions.’ It’s
like driving on black ice — you find out when the test comes that
you’ve lost control of the car. I’m taking what’s intuitive and packaging it intellectually.”
Beginning a new topic, she asks them to write their own
definition of “family.” For a few minutes, quiet reigns in the room,
and then they share their ideas. The students’ idea of family centers
around a caring community of people. Martocci then reads the
Federal government’s definition of family: “Two or more persons,
including a householder, related by birth, marriage, or adoption,
who live together as one household.” In other words, she says, this
public definition of “family” is more about economics than ties of
affection. This sparks a firestorm of discussion — What is “family”?
And do our ideals match the realities of our lives?
“She gets people involved,” says Ben Pratt. “It’s a lot more
interesting than just sitting and taking notes.”
“Every semester I push my students harder,” says Martocci.
“This semester, I pushed them the hardest ever. I mean, these are
freshmen, and I give them writing assignments about the meaning
of life. I ask them to write about questions like, ‘Do you have free
will?’ Philosophers have been debating that for centuries. I set the
bar high, and they meet those expectations.”
The Wisdom of the Aged
E
very reflective tutorial requires students to spend 30 hours in
learning opportunities outside of the classroom — i.e., “experiential learning.” In Martocci’s RFT, students are going to local nursing
homes, in teams of two, to talk with senior citizens about their life stories
and memories. The students’ goal is to create a biography of their interview subject, and in the process gain new insights into concepts they’re
learning in social psychology — self, family, gender, race, and so on.
For Heather Philben and Alexandra Mallilo, this assignment is a
joy. They are working on the story of Sally Romagnano, an 82-yearold grandmother and great-grandmother, originally from Brooklyn.
The chemistry between Mallilo and Romagnano is obvious on
a visit one day late in the semester. Mallilo, as aspiring education
major from Long Island, is returning a photo album she had
borrowed from Romagnano. Sitting together on the bed, they flip
through its pages. Mallilo knows a story behind almost every
photo; she knows Romagnano’s family members, friends, and pets.
“We’re her friends,” says Mallilo. “It’s nice, because you’re
getting credit for something you want to do.”
An additional motivation for the students is that they will
present their findings to the seniors and their families at the end of
the semester. “You don’t want to disappoint the family or the
residents after you’ve spent so much time with them,” says Mallilo.
“This assignment is more than just for us — it’s for the family, too.”
Despite the students’ worries, the presentations do not disappoint the large crowd of visitors who gather in Spiro Hall on a Saturday afternoon in December. The seniors and their families listen
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�appreciatively to the students’ rich and detailed
portraits of the seniors’ lives.
For the students, this project did more than
improve their skills in researching, writing, and presenting information — it gave them an expanded view
of where learning and wisdom can be found.
The Wagner Plan
In the words of Annie
Powers and Samantha
Siegel during their presentation about
71-year-old Livio DiCamillo: “He’s a
friend and a mentor, a person we aspire
to be like. We’re very proud of him.”
yeAR
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to fully immerse myself in hopes it’ll make me a better person.”
Kaelber leads the class not with answers, but with questions.
Drawing on what students have understood, he sparks discussions
that lead to a greater level of understanding.
“You’d go into class with one opinion on [the book], and walk
out of class with another opinion on it,” says Nick Boghos. “Class was
more like a thinking exercise, working
with other kids on what was real and
fake in the books.”
A New Voice
W
A Spiritual Quest
M
eanwhile, Kaelber’s reflective
tutorial has taken a more
inward, spiritual focus.
Deepening their knowledge and
appreciation of Eastern religions, the
students have toured several New
York museums’ collections of Asian
art. In class, they’ve probed deeply into
literature and films that reflect on the
mystical themes of Eastern religions
within a Western context, especially via the works of turn-of-thecentury German author Hermann Hesse, three of whose novels
they’ve read this semester.
By the time of their final discussion on Hesse, the students still
find the works baffling. But, as Kaelber notes after reviewing their
quizzes, they have read the assigned book, Journey to the East, with care.
Indeed, this class has become quite personal for many of the
students. “I like to think I’m on my own journey right now,” says
Kyle Glover, echoing one of the semester’s big themes. “I’ve chosen
orking with others on figuring
out what’s real and what’s fake
— that may be the best description
of what Wagner is trying to give
students through the Wagner Plan: a
collaborative experience of questioning,
of thinking critically, of testing ideas.
In the process, students learn,
above all, to trust their own ideas and
to express their new-found voices.
“I never thought I’d get so much
out of a semester of college,” says
Heather Philben. “Whether it was
from the classes or just being away
I never thought
from home for the first time or having
I’d get so much out of a
Manhattan right outside my window,
semester of college. I’ve never
I felt like I’ve never grown so much
grown so much in such a
in such a short amount of time.”
short amount of time.
“I really haven’t had an opportuH E AT H E R P H I L B E N
nity to use my brain like this before,”
adds Kyle Glover. “I’ve blossomed mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I’m grateful to Wagner for that.”
The Big Picture
What are Wagner students required to take these days?
● Learning Communities After the first-year LC, students take an intermediate
LC before the end of their junior year. It can take a variety of forms, from interdis-
General education requirements fall into four categories:
ciplinary seminars to study abroad programs. The senior LC is tailored to each
● Foundations Writing, math, computer sciences, and speech courses hone stu-
major, and it combines coursework with a reflective tutorial that includes 100
dents’ skills in communications, information technology, and quantitative reasoning.
hours of field experience.
● Intercultural Understanding These courses help students to understand and
● Disciplinary Perspectives These courses give students a breadth of knowledge
work well with diverse peoples. Required are an “international perspectives”
in the humanities, sciences, and the arts. Required are three units of social sci-
course and an “American diversity” course.
ences, three units of humanities, two units of the arts, and two units of sciences.
�WAGNER
Putting
Newsletter of The Campaign for Wagner College
first
In This Issue:
PAT ’57 AND MARION DUGAN
Charity Navigators
◆
CAMPAIGN FOCUS
The Annual Fund
◆
CAMPAIGN PROFILE
Walter Baumhoff ’59
◆
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Chris Mustakas ’08
Charity Navigator Founder Pat Dugan ’57
Makes Leadership Gift to Campaign
I
n April, Wagner
regarded Web-based char-
announced that en-
ity evaluator, this gift is an
trepreneur and
important vote of confi-
philanthropist Pat Dugan
dence in Wagner College.
For Dugan, Wagner
’57 and his wife, Marion,
made a $1 million com-
College was a place of sec-
mitment to The Campaign
ond chances. “My grades
for Wagner College.
in high school were pretty
The gift will endow a
poor, and I shouldn’t have
scholarship fund for stu-
gotten into college at all,”
dents with academic prom-
says Dugan. “I also had
partial scholarship. I am
which provides services in
ise and financial need.
no money. But Dean Adolph
indebted to Wagner.”
pharmaceutical marketing.
Coming from the man
Stern, who lived in my
Dugan also says he
In 2001, Dugan found-
who founded Charity
neighborhood, arranged
was struck by the College’s
ed Charity Navigator
Navigator, a highly
for my acceptance and a
improvements and achieve-
(www.charitynavigator.org).
ments since the late 1980s.
It provides free, unbiased
“I got the impression that
information about the
they were doing well and
financial health of more
deserved help,” he says.
than 5,000 charities.
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education is, in fact, a theme
worked in pharmaceutical
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sales and advertising be-
diverse initiatives in the for-
fore starting his own med-
profit and not-for-profit
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worlds.
Out of that business, he
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January 1, 2004, and March 31, 2008.
A Legacy of Excellence.
Helping others achieve
teriology at Wagner. After
Now, he is extending
spun off PDI Inc., now a
that generous spirit toward
publicly traded company,
Wagner students as well.
A Future of Distinction.
�WAGNER
first
Putting
Campaign Events: Regional Gatherings
Campaign Executive
Committee Members
John H. Myers, Co-Chair
ALUMNUS ’67 H’02
CELEBRATING WAGNER’S 125th
anniversary and the Putting
Wagner First campaign, alumni and
friends gathered around the country.
Left, good cheer around the table in
Sarasota, Florida. Below right, alumni
and friends on a tour of the wine country
in Napa Valley, California. Bottom left,
President Guarasci speaks with Ellen
Rosato-Keane ’76 and Rita Meehan at
the zoo in Naples, Florida.
WAGNER
Robert C. O’Brien, Co-Chair
125TH
ALUMNUS ’66 H’95,
LIFETIME TRUSTEE
Donald & Evelyn Spiro,
Honorary Co-Chairs
ALUMNI DONALD ’49 H’88,
E V E LY N ’ 4 9 H ’ 9 2
LIFETIME TRUSTEES
Michael & Margaret Nicolais,
Honorary Co-Chairs
ALUMNI ’49
Margaret Bambach
Buck Reynolds,
Honorary Co-Chair
ALUMNA ’40 H’98, TRUSTEE
Walter H. Baumhoff
ALUMNUS ’59, TRUSTEE
Tad Bender
ALUMNUS ’06
Howard Braren
ALUMNUS ’50
Kinsey Casey
ALUMNA ’02
Jeffrey D. Forchelli
ALUMNUS ’66, TRUSTEE
Richard Guarasci
PRESIDENT
Jay P. Hartig
A L U M N U S ’ 6 7, T R U S T E E
Richard Herburger
ALUMNUS ’66, TRUSTEE
Louise Repage Kaufman
ALUMNA ’75 M’78, TRUSTEE
Gregory P. Knapp
ALUMNUS ’66 H’00,
LIFETIME TRUSTEE
Fred W. Lange
ALUMNUS ’53 H’06,
LIFETIME TRUSTEE
Donna Mollica New
ALUMNA ’68, TRUSTEE
Frank H. Powers
PA R E N T, T R U ST E E
Warren R. Procci
ALUMNUS ’68, TRUSTEE
FRIENDS OF WAGNER Barry Smith ’69
and Michele Smith in Houston
(right, center), and Claire Arnold ’69
and Cynthia Olcott in Boca Raton,
Florida (right, below).
WAGNER FACT: Certain kinds of planned gifts allow you to invest in Wagner’s future and produce a lifetime income for
yourself and a beneficiary. Call Frank Young, director of major gifts, at 718-420-4494 for more information.
A Legacy of Excellence.
A Future of Distinction.
�A Growing Factor: Annual Fund Totals, 2004–08
C
“
The president and senior staff
have renewed my interest and
made me feel that my support, of
any size, is important. In such
an environment, giving is fun.
”
WA LT E R BAU M H O F F
’59
S
D O L L A R
2008:
O F
$1.1 million
(as of March 1)
and growing
2004
2005
2006
2007
The Annual Fund has risen steadily over the past few years. You can be a part of this year’s Annual
Fund by making a gift before August 31, 2008. Call toll-free 1-888-231-2252, visit www.wagner.edu/
institutional_advancement/gift_clubs, or use the envelope enclosed in this magazine.
Fund have contributed
nearly $1 million per year
for this purpose.
The Annual Fund also
has the flexibility to
accommodate donors’ individual interests, from the
library to the theatre.
Alumni also target their
annual gifts for special purposes. The class of 1958,
for example, is endowing
a scholarship in honor of
their 50th anniversary.
Whatever your interest and ability to give, the
Annual Fund has a place
for you.
Campaign Profile: Walter Baumhoff ’59
Unforgettable Lessons: Though it has been nearly 50 years since his graduation, Walter Baumhoff ’59, who lives
in Palm Springs, California, clearly remembers lessons he learned from Sigvart Steen, chair of Wagner’s music department.
◆ As choir manager, Baumhoff helped to organize tours locally and around the Eastern seaboard. “Professor Steen taught
me focus, discipline, and the joy that comes with having done something especially well. He had exacting standards,” says
Baumhoff. “Yet, he was kind and patient in the supervision of my work, and he taught me the value of humor. I count my
PHOTOGRAPH: GREG SCHNIEDER
entire Wagner experience.” ◆ A former student life administrator at institutions
such as St. Lawrence University, Dominican College, and the Buckley School,
Baumhoff maintains close ties with Wagner as a trustee and donor. ◆ “I believe
money does the most good by being spread around,” he says. “To me, endowment
giving has the longest possible return.” Baumhoff is also working with his classmates on a 50th reunion gift. He says he has always been able to match his giving
interests with Wagner’s needs. “The president and senior staff have renewed my
interest and made me feel that my support, of any size, is important. In such an
environment, giving is fun.”
A Legacy of Excellence.
A Future of Distinction.
$12,000 in 1886.
years as a music minor and choir member as among the most satisfying of my
WAGNER FACT: Wagner’s founding benefactors, John and Catherine Wagner, gave
ontrary to popular
belief, it’s not just the
select few who are
able to make million-dollar
gifts to Wagner College.
Through the power of the
Annual Fund, everyone has
the chance to participate in a
million-dollar gift every year.
The Annual Fund is
Wagner College’s yearly
fund-raising program, and
its primary purpose is to
raise money for student
scholarships. Over the past
several years, these unrestricted gifts to the Annual
N S
M I L L I O
The Annual
Fund: Everyone’s
Opportunity to
Make a Difference
�Student Spotlight: Chris Mustakas ’08
A Passion for Teaching
The First Braren Scholar
C
hris Mustakas ’08, the first recipient of the Howard
’50 and Ruth Traeg ’56 Braren Scholarship, did
not expect to find a passion for teaching when he
entered Wagner four years ago.
“I had no idea about going into education,” says
PHOTOGRAPH: JASON JONES
Mustakas. “But I took an education class and loved it. Then,
I took a special education class. The next thing I knew, I
wanted to be a special education teacher.”
Inspired by education professor and autism specialist
Mapy Chavez-Brown, Mustakas spent a semester teaching
and doing research at the New
York Center for Autism
Charter School. He presented his findings at an
international conference in Chicago right
after his graduation.
The Brarens
gave this scholarship in memory of
their parents,
Ralph and
Margaret Braren
and John and
Lucy Traeg.
“We had been
talking about it
for a long
time,” says
Howard, “and
decided now is the
time to do it because of
the campaign.”
A Legacy of Excellence.
A Future of Distinction.
�Wa g n e r
Sports Roundup
Back from
the Brink
Life’s promise was restored to aWagner senior By John Beisser
I
magine you’re a perfectly healthy 18year-old, a freshman at a prestigious college,
out on your own for the first time. You’ve
been a top athlete your whole life, in addition to being a serious student. Classes are
going well. You’re on the football team.
Now, imagine that a few short months
later, you’re being told by a team of doctors
that your heart is irreparably damaged —
that, in order to live, another must die.
For Alvin Grant ’08, this scenario was his
dream come true transformed into a living
nightmare — one from which he almost did
not wake up.
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:
PAU L O ’ M A R A
A strapping 6-foot-2-inches and 205
pounds, Grant was the model of fitness, a
high school standout in three sports — football, track, and basketball. He was also an
excellent student who had his pick of colleges
following his senior year at Albany (New York)
High School. When he entered Wagner in
the fall of 2004, he began pursuing an art
degree and competed on the junior varsity
team, with an eye toward earning a spot on the
lineup as a linebacker in the spring of 2005.
It was late November 2004 when the
symptoms first surfaced: a general feeling of
lethargy with occasional shortness of breath.
Grant figured it was simply a chest cold.
“I felt fine for a couple of days, but then
it gradually came back. When I went home to
Albany on winter break, it just progressively
got worse,” he recalls. “There was no pain at
first, it was mainly the breathing and lack of
energy. I couldn’t do much of anything. I
could barely walk to the mall if I wanted to.”
Grant was staying with a friend over
that winter break, as his mother lives in his
family’s native country of Jamaica, and his
father is deceased.
“It was maybe a day or two after New
Year’s, and I knew something wasn’t right,
that I wasn’t getting any better,” he says.
He went to Albany’s Memorial Hospital
and, following a battery of tests, was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a serious disease
of the heart. The disease results in an abnormal enlargement and thickening of the heart
muscle, which weakens its pumping power.
Grant is the third of five children, only
one of whom, a brother, lives in the U.S.
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With his mother in Jamaica, Grant’s support
group consisted of his brother, his aunt, his
girlfriend and her parents, along with
cousins and uncles.
“After I received the diagnosis, I really
wouldn’t give it too much thought throughout
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the day,” he recalls. “I tried to distract myself
with drawing or reading. I didn’t really think
about death. I just didn’t let it envelop my mind.”
His condition rapidly deteriorated, and
it became obvious he had to take the spring
semester off. In late January 2005, he was
transferred to the Heart Institute at the
Another Scare
Basketball standout Jamal Smith also recovered from serious heart ailment
A
lvin Grant is not the only current student-athlete at Wagner to have suf-
fered from cardiomyopathy. Standout basketball player Jamal Smith ’08 also
received the devastating diagnosis in 2004. ◆ Whereas Grant’s was a slow,
deteriorating disability, Smith’s was a sudden attack. One day in December
2004, he was running sprints in practice with the basketball team when he
blacked out. ◆ A battery of tests and doctor visits followed. Finally, Smith
had his case examined by specialists at Johns Hopkins in his native
Baltimore. They restricted him from all physical exertion.
◆ “Eventually I
asked them if I could play basketball again,” Smith says. “That’s when they
told me I probably never would play ever again.” ◆ Fortunately, the doctors
were wrong. About eight months after Smith was diagnosed, doctors discovered that his ailment, brought on by a viral infection, had healed itself. ◆ “It
was the day before practice (in October 2005) that I got a call from the doctors, and they cleared me to play," Smith said. “That was the happiest day of
my life.” ◆ Smith has become a cornerstone player in the Seahawk program.
Named team captain for the
2007–08 campaign, he helped
the Seahawks to a school-record
23 wins, and he is on pace to join
the 1,000-point club as a fifthyear senior in 2008–09. He graduated in May with a bachelor’s in
business, and plans to finish his
master’s degree in marketing in
2009. — J.B. with reporting by
Albany Medical Center.
“That’s when they started talking to me
about a possible transplant,” he says.
Although Grant says he was never told
specifically how long he could live without a
transplant, he could read between the lines.
He knew the clock was ticking.
“I was also told that should I go onto the
list, I’d shoot basically to the top,” he says.
On February 12, his name was placed on
the waiting list for a heart transplant with the
United Network for Organ Sharing. Late in
the evening on April 16, he got the news.
There had been a car crash in Vermont; a
young woman was brain dead. Her data was
entered into the system. It was a match.
Grant received his new heart in a
four-hour procedure at the medical center.
“As soon as I woke up, there was this
warm sunlight coming through my window,”
he recalls. “I felt real good, kind of a surreal
sort of thing.”
After weeks of arduous physical therapy,
his strength and energy returned. Amazingly,
he returned to his studies in the fall. Today,
Grant is a senior at Wagner with his sights set
on a career in graphic arts. He can do anything
and everything that most other people do —
with the exception of playing tackle football.
Grant has never spoken directly to the
family of the young woman who was killed
in that crash, the 22-year-old aspiring nurse
whose death gave him life. With the hospital
acting as a liaison, he has written the family
letters of thanks.
If there’s one message 21-year-old Alvin
Grant would like to be heard regarding his
ordeal, it is simply this: “Please check off the
box on your driver’s license indicating you
are an organ donor. It could save someone’s
life. It saved mine.”
Sean Brennan
John Beisser is Wagner’s assistant athletic
director of media relations.
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�On the Horizon
S W E E T V I C TO RY The Seahawks defeated Sacred Heart 100–92 in an epic double-OT win on Valentine’s Day.
Men’s basketball sets new
record for season wins
Seahawks delivered a memorable
milestone season in 2007–08
Guided by its talented senior trio of guard
Mark Porter, center Durell Vinson, and forward James Ulrich, the Seahawks compiled a
sparkling 23–8 record and a second place
finish in the Northeast Conference (NEC).
The 23 victories are a school record, besting
the old mark of 21, reached in 1967–68,
1978–79, and 2002–03.
During the campaign, head coach Mike
Deane became just the 29th coach in NCAA
history to eclipse the 400 career-win mark.
The season contained its share of nailbiting moment. Five times, Wagner and its opponent went into overtime; in all five games,
Hit the Links for
Wagner Athletes
The 2008 Sal Alberti Golf Tournament
will take place at the Deal Country Club in Deal,
New Jersey, on September 22. The 2007 event
generated over $75,000 for scholarships for
student-athletes. Lunch, cocktails, dinner, and
a gift from the pro shop are included.
Call 718-420-4008 to sign up.
the Seahawks emerged victorious. Five games
was the longest winning streak of the season,
but the Seahawks reached four in a row on two
other occasions.
Porter delivered a team-high 16.3 points
to lead the squad, while also handing out a
team-high 5.5 assists per outing in earning
First-Team All-NEC honors. The 6-foot-2inch guard finished his career ranked among
the top 10 in Wagner history in 10 statistical
categories, including career scoring, where he
finished eighth with 1,577 points.
Vinson, a 6-foot-7-inch center and a
former high school teammate of Porter’s at St.
Augustine Prep in Richland, New Jersey, was
also a First-Team All-NEC performer. He
averaged 13.6 points and an NEC-leading
11.5 rebounds, a figure which ranked him
third in the nation. The fourth-leading
rebounder in Seahawk history, Vinson ranked
25th all-time in scoring with 1,144 points.
Ulrich, a 6-foot-7-inch forward, finished
his career 35th all-time in scoring with 1,023
points. He averaged a career-high 10 points
per game as a senior.
Wagner also received major contributions
from a number of other players, including a
pair of juniors: team captain and forward
Jamal Smith (11 points per game) and guard
Joey Mundweiler (10.3 points per game).
Seahawks
Football 2008
Sept. 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Stonehill College
Homecoming/Hall of Fame Day
Sept. 13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iona
Sept. 19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Marist
Family Weekend
Sept. 27. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bryant College
Oct. 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Central
Connecticut State*
Oct. 11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monmouth*
Oct. 18. . . . . . . . . . . at Saint Francis (Pa.)*
Oct. 25. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Morris*
Nov. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Sacred Heart*
Nov. 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duquesne*
Nov. 15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Albany*
For tickets
Call 718-420-4039
F A L L 2 0 0 7
* conference
games
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Events, opportunities, and celebrations for the Wagner family, both near and far
{ from
the
hill
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Dear Alumni,
H A N D O F F Wagner’s 125th anniversary party at Winter on the Hill
was outgoing alumni director Gail Kelley’s ’97 (far right) final event
in that role. Jake Browne ’05 M’08 (beside Gail) was appointed
alumni director in June. Also enjoying the fun are (left to right) Ken
Krista; Kristen Krista, major gifts officer; and Darby Biggart ’06, a
Wagner staff accountant.
New alumni
director named
Jake Browne ’05 M’08 has been
named Wagner’s new director
of alumni relations, replacing
Gail Kelley ’97. After seven
years at Wagner, Kelley left in
March to launch her own
company, Dunn & Overwith
LLC, a personal concierge
service.
Browne arrived at Wagner
College in August 2001 as a
first-year student from Logan
Township, New Jersey. He
graduated in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in history and a
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French minor and immediately
joined the staff of the Office
of Admissions. Browne will
receive his MBA from Wagner
in August.
“Jake has proven himself
a capable member of the
admissions office, successfully
bringing in significant numbers
of new students and recruiting,
training, and managing volunteers,” says Myra Garcia, vice
president for institutional
advancement. “He will bring
professionalism, a strategic
focus, enthusiasm, and maturity
to his new role.”
M A G A Z I N E
The Office of Alumni Relations has been extremely busy
this year celebrating Wagner College’s 125th anniversary.
From Grymes Hill to the hills of San Francisco to the Texas
Hill Country, we’ve been taking our show on the road.
Check our listings on page 32 for upcoming events!
As a 2007 Wagner graduate, I’d like to highlight how
active our young alumni are in supporting the College.
We’ve had several well-attended happy hour events, including
one at Ristorante 110, owned by George Gaspar ’88. During
Songfest on April 5, more than 125
attended the young alumni happy
hour. Not only was much fun had
by all, but more than $1,300 was
contributed to the Douglas M.
Krueger ’03 Scholarship Fund. The
class of 2008 has already stepped
up to the plate, too, raising money for a scholarship as their
senior class gift (see page 32).
I am excited about the events coming up this summer
and fall. I love meeting alumni and swapping stories and
memories. My favorite is learning just how many of you
have sledded down the hill on a lunch tray.
I look forward to hearing more stories and seeing you
at upcoming events!
From the Hill,
KARA MCGANN
’07
A S S I S TA N T D I R E C T O R O F
A L U M N I R E L AT I O N S
718-420-4165
K A R A . M C G A N N @ WA G N E R . E D U
P H OTO G R A P H S , A B OV E L E F T : V I N N I E A M E S S É ; B E L OW R I G H T : PAU L O ’ M A R A
�Alumni Opportunities
R E V I S I T B R E G E N Z The Office of Alumni Relations is leading a trip
to Bregenz, Austria; Munich, Germany; and Prague, Czech Republic,
September 27– October 6. Visit www.wagner.edu/alumni/bregenz2008
for complete information and itinerary.
B L AC K A N D L AT I N O A LU M N I A S S O C I AT I O N Black and Latino alumni are invited to join a new group focused on professional networking, reigniting old friendships, and assisting Wagner College
with special projects. The first official gathering will be held during Homecoming, September 13. Contact Daymon S. Yizar ’82
for more information: dyiz@aol.com or 914-682-0205.
Wagner’s 125th birthday
celebrated German-style
WAGNER
125TH
T H E WAG N E R U N I O N
was transformed
into a festive
Hofbräuhaus for
the 125th kickoff
celebration on
March 1. Guests
included (top right)
Ken ’59 and
Frances Goehl;
(bottom right) Ken
Nilsen ’88 and
Lauren Patsos ’07;
and (bottom
left) Rebecca
Murdock ’10,
President Guarasci,
Phil Pallitto ’09,
Brandon Tarpey ’08,
and Morgan
Scott ’08.
With over 300 people in attendance at this year’s Winter on
the Hill, it was an amazing way
to kick off the 125th anniversary of Wagner. The day started
with a matinée performance of
The Mikado and a women’s
basketball game. Then everyone
headed to the Union for a
reception and dinner for alumni,
friends, faculty, staff, and
students. The dining hall was
converted into a traditional
Hofbräuhaus complete with a
German-style dinner. Carl
Westerdahl ’59 hosted the
event, including a polka band
and German dancers. We
ended the night with the men’s
basketball win.
P H OTO G R A P H S , A B OV E : G E O F F R E Y H A M M O N D ; B E L OW: V I N N I E A M E S S É
S U M M E R
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‘Zum Wohl!’
�Senior class
leaves the gift
of opportunity
For the past several years, the
senior class has worked to leave
behind a significant gift to
Wagner as part of their legacy.
This year’s senior class chose to
help a fellow student make a
dent in his tuition bills and
achieve what the seniors
are now enjoying: a valuable
college degree.
T H E S E N I O R L E G AC Y
Derek Blauser ’09
received the Class
of 2008
Scholarship.
With the 16-member Senior
Gift Committee leading the
charge, the class raised money
for the Class of 2008
Scholarship. Events such as the
Spring Break Cruise, 99
Nights Until Graduation, and
a Homecoming 50/50 raffle
were fun as well as profitable.
The scholarship was awarded
to Derek Blauser ’09, a business
administration major from
Barnegat, New Jersey.
Blauser won’t be the only
recipient of this graduating
class’s largesse. The class of 2008
hopes to keep up the momentum and raise $100,000 to
endow their scholarship by 2023.
“I am so pleased to see that
this year’s senior gift is not
something physical, but instead
the gift of education,” says
Morgan Scott ’08, president of
the Student Government
Association and member of the
Senior Gift Committee. “I
think this is a sign of the change
that is taking place within our
school’s culture, that the class
of 2008 has chosen to give
back to future students the
education and experiences that
we have enjoyed here at
Wagner through a scholarship
that will continue on for years.”
Upcoming
Events
For each of the cities and states
listed below, the Office of Alumni
Relations will bring Wagner’s 125th
anniversary celebration to your
area. Mark your calendar and watch
your mailbox for more information,
or visit www.wagner.edu/alumni.
July 17
Long Island
•
July 19
Alumni Trip
to the Bronx Zoo
•
August 2
BarAnticipation
in Bel Mar, N.J.
•
September 13
Homecoming
THE NAPLES ZOO
provided a picturesque locale for
one of Wagner’s
regional 125th celebration gatherings,
proving that
President Guarasci
(top left) feels comfortable talking
about Wagner in
any setting. Top
right, Janet Merkel
’57 checks out the
lion’s den; below
left, she enjoys the
boat tour with Pat
Peterson. Gail Kelley
’97 is waving goodbye at bottom right.
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September 27October 6
Bregenz/ Munich/
Prague Trip
•
October 2
Philadelphia
•
October 3
Washington, D.C
M A G A Z I N E
�New members
and officers join
NAA board
•
Under the Tuscan Sun
Wagnerians bask in ‘bella Italia’
This spring, 27 alumni and friends of the College enjoyed a spectacular trip to Italy, with a Wagner twist.
•
The travelers toured
Florence, the Tuscan countryside, Rome, Sorrento, and Pompeii.
Mitchell Shenker, senior director of dining services at Wagner,
arranged for a wine-tasting at the picturesque Villa Vignamaggio in
Chianti. Before departing, the group sang Wagner’s alma mater at
the farewell dinner at Ristorante Galeassi in Rome. For some, the
trip didn’t stop there: A remnant of insatiable globetrotters
remained to spend a few more days in Venice.
•
The next oppor-
tunity to travel abroad with the Wagner Alumni Association will be
September 27-October 6, with the destinations of Bregenz, Austria;
Munich, Germany; and Prague, Czech Republic.
•
•
•
Alumni Link
The National Alumni Association Board of Directors welcomed
two new members and two new
officers during the Reunion
Weekend luncheon on June 7.
New NAA board member
Joel Richardson ’02 M’07 works in
pharmaceutical sales in Brooklyn.
He holds a B.S. in business administration as well as an MBA
from Wagner. He’s also the
founder of Soul Joel Productions,
which produces weekly comedy
shows in Brooklyn, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and Staten Island.
He has been working with the
Alumni Office to co-sponsor several upcoming young alumni events.
Don Browne ’83, another new
board member and Wagner business major, is a CPA working in
Manhattan and living in New
Jersey. Besides representing the
class of 1983 as the class fund
agent, Don works with the Office
of Academic and Career
Development to provide internships for current Wagner students.
Don and Joel will serve on
the NAA board until 2014.
A member of the NAA
Board since 2003, Lisa DeRespino
Bennett ’85 was elected board
president. She had served as vice
president for the last year and as
chair of the Communications
Committee before that. Lisa
holds a B.A. in theatre
and speech and is a vice
president and senior
communications manager
with JPMorgan Chase.
Two of her three stepdaughters
are currently attending Wagner.
Tad Bender ’06 became the
NAA board’s vice president. He
graduated with a B.S. in business
administration and a B.A. in
economics. An analyst in the
Corporate and Real Estate Restructuring Group of Credit
Suisse, Tad also serves Wagner
as a member of the Capital
Campaign Executive Committee
and as a class fund agent.
B LU E S K I E S and
beautiful sights
made the spring trip
to Italy a delight.
Pictured above
is one of Venice's
famous canal-lined
streets. Left, the
group in Pompeii.
For Inquiring Minds
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on at Wagner with the monthly EBlast,
brought to you by the Office of Alumni
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PHOTOGRAPH
,
ABOVE: BETTY MCCOMISKEY
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�ClassNotes
Updates from old friends across the generations
1939
Class Fund Agent: John D. Barbes
85 Cloverdale Ave., Staten Island, NY
10308, 718-984-8547
He appeared in a photo in The
Bernardsville (N.J.) News along with a
third-grade class from the Millington
School in Long Hill Township, all
happily holding their new reference
books. Norman lives in Chatham, N.J.
1941
1950
Dorothee Holmstrup-Bryant self-published
a book of her devotional writings,
Rest Stops: Meditations along Life’s
Highway, for personal or small-group
use. Her work has appeared in
Lutheran Woman Today and daily
devotional publications such as Christ
in Our Home and The Upper Room.
If you’d like a copy of her book, which
costs $12.95, call her at 201-796-6386.
Class Fund Agent: Robert S. Peirano
67 Meisner Ave., Staten Island, NY
10306, 718-351-8535
1942
Class Fund Agent: Theodore W. Gibson
778 Ynez Circle, Danville, CA 94526
1949
Class Fund Agent: Margaret Christie
Nicolais 1215 Latham Court,
Livingston, NJ 07039, 212-570-1049
Dr. Norman E. Schaefer is active with the
Dictionary Project of Charleston, S.C.
1951
Class Fund Agent: Harry A. Volz
64 Linden Street, Massapequa Park,
NY 11762, 516-541-5517,
hvolz@optonline.net
1952
Class Correspondent: Fred Brockmann
3949 Wilshire Court, Sarasota, FL
34238, 941-922-1879,
fredleebrock@comcast.net
Fred Brockmann ’52 M’54 and Lee
Schriever Brockmann ’53 have moved
to Sarasota, Fla. Fred notes that for
many years the class of ’52 has not
had a correspondent, so he has volunteered his services in this area. He is
interested in hearing from you by
e-mail or phone about your present
whereabouts and activities so he can
send them on to Wagner Magazine.
Please contact him at the information
listed above. George Handley wrote to
us with memories of his years at
Wagner, inspired by the College’s
2008 calendar that featured historical
photos in honor of Wagner’s 125th
anniversary. He also enclosed a new
publication, Profiles in Mission, issued
by the Lutheran Archives Center of
the Northeast Region, of which he is
chairman. It features an article about
the history of Staten Island’s Trinity
Church. George celebrated the 50th
anniversary of his ordination in 2006.
He lives in Falls Church, Va.
1953
Class Fund Agent: Albert Tosi
70 Woodcliff Lake Road, Saddle River,
NJ 07458, 201-327-3448
Lee Brockmann and Fred Brockmann ’52
M’54 have moved to Sarasota, Fla.
1954
Class Fund Agent: Manfred W.
Lichtmann 3112 Lahinch Drive, Myrtle
Beach, SC 29579, 843-903-5715
Wanda Schweizer Praisner ’54 M’57
of Bedminster, N.J., was awarded two
poetry fellowships for residencies
at the Virginia Center for the
Creative Arts in Amherst, Va., in
the fall and winter of 2007. In
January 2008, she was a participant
in the Palm Beach, Fla., Poetry
Festival. She has received many
awards for her poetry, which has been
published in The Atlanta Review,
Journal of New Jersey Poets, and
New York Magazine, among others.
Her book of poems, A Fine and Bitter
Snow, was published in 2003 by
Palanquin Press.
1955
Class Fund Agent: Allan K. Brier
67 Round Cove Road, Chatham, MA
02633, 508-945-3729
The Rev. Russell B. Greene Jr. ’55 M’62
celebrated 50 years as a Lutheran
pastor last year. He received his
bachelor of divinity and master of
divinity degrees from Mt. Airy
Lutheran Theological Seminary in
Philadelphia. He began his pastorate
at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
in Norwalk, Conn., in 1962, and he
still serves there. He lives in
Norwalk with his wife, Marion.
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Submit your news and photos:
Publication policies:
class years of all alumni pictured; birth date, parents’ names,
E-mail: classnotes@wagner.edu
Deadlines: This issue reflects news received by April 1.
and class years with photos of children; and dates and locations
Web: www.wagner.edu/alumni/class_notes_update_form
The submission deadline for the fall 2008 issue is September 1.
of all events.
Mail: Alumni Office, Reynolds House, Wagner College
Content: Wagner welcomes your news and updates, and we
Photo Quality: Digital and print photos must be clear and of good
1 Campus Road, Staten Island, NY 10301
will happily share them with the Wagner family. We ask that you
quality. Prints should be on glossy paper with no surface texture;
Or contact your class agent, whose address is listed with your
send us announcements of weddings, births, and graduations
they will be returned at your request (please attach your address
class’s notes. If you would like to volunteer to serve as a class
after the fact.
to the photo). Digital photos must be jpegs of at least 250 pixels
correspondent, please contact Laura Barlament, editor of Wagner,
Photos: We accept photos of Wagner groups at weddings
per inch; low-resolution photos converted to a higher resolution
at laura.barlament@wagner.edu or 718-390-3147.
and other special events. With the photo, send the names and
are not acceptable.
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1961
1963
Class Fund Agent: Phyllis Donahue
20 Pinebrook Drive, Neptune, NJ
07753, 732-922-2139
Class Fund Agent: Alma Costie Vincent
3115 Stowe Lane,
Mahwah, NJ 07430,
201-760-2703
Class Fund Agent: John Donovan
141-A Main Street, Tuckahoe, NY
10707, 914-282-8982,
jvd@concordia-ny.edu
1962
1964
Class Correspondent: Rita King
5801 E. Edgemont Ave., Scottsdale,
AZ 85257, 480-947-3693,
ritabee@att.net
Class Fund Agent: Butch Savage
1130 Morningside Ave., Schenectady,
NY 12309, 518-372-9422,
bsavage@prudentialmanor.com
1960
George Lewis ’56, in Guatemala
1956
Class Fund Agent: George E. Lewis
5043 Kelsie Court, Florence, OR
97439, 541-997-7778,
mrclor@charter.net
George Lewis,
1957
Class Fund Agent: Marie Attonito
Alberti 109 Patio Drive, Endwell, NY
13760, 607-754-3400
Janet Merkel has
a one-year-old granddaughter, Maia Merkel-Leavitt. See
Crib Notes on page 41 for a photo.
1958
Class Fund Agent: H. Milton Keen
10581 Lees Mill Road, Warrenton,
VA 20186, 540-439-1262,
mk10581@copper.net
Julia Sinisgalli Barchitta ’64
‘Look, Guys!’
The family of the late Chester Sellitto ’50 M’52 gathered to remember him at the Roger T. Ling/Chester Sellitto Memorial Award in the
Spiro Sports Center. Pictured are his sister, Carmela Labetti; his
widow, Patricia Sellitto; and his son Pete with his wife, Edelyn, and
their children, McKenna and Mason. A member of the Wagner Athletic
Hall of Fame, Chester was head Wagner basketball coach, 1965–72,
and a history teacher at Curtis High School. Edelyn wrote: “His family
is ever so grateful for the memorial award plaque. It is even more
meaningful when I can show it to his grandchildren and say, ‘Look,
guys, that was your grandfather.’”
M’81 was
honored by Soroptimist International’s
Staten Island chapter with the
Soroptimist Woman of Distinction
Award, “in recognition of her outstanding voluntary and professional
accomplishments in the program area
of education.” Julia is dean of learning
communities and experiential
learning at Wagner College, which
allows her to introduce students to the
place she has called home since she
entered Wagner College as a student
herself in 1960. She works with many
not-for-profit, cultural, political, and
health-related organizations in meeting
their needs and providing learning
experiences for Wagner students.
1965
Co-Class Fund Agents: Barry Faden
4637 Torrey Pines Drive,
Chino Hills, CA 91709,
909-606-2005, bifmarla@msn.com
Jack Felver 25244 Pelican Creek Circle,
Unit 201, Bonita Springs, FL 34134,
239-495-8861, jrfelver@aol.com
1966
Class Correspondent: Gerry Magliocca
gerrymaglio@aol.com, 908-407-3104
The late John Drennan was inducted in
April into the Staten Island Sports
Hall of Fame as an Unsung Hero.
He was a member of the Seahawks’
1964 undefeated team and served
for years as head football coach of
Tottenville High School on Staten
Island. He also had a celebrated
career with the New York City Fire
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retired from a stint in
professional baseball and 36 years as
a stockbroker, lives in Florence, Oreg.,
where he has become involved in
humanitarian work through the Rotary
Club. Under his leadership, his local
club has prospered, gaining membership and being named Most Outstanding Club in the district. Two years ago,
he volunteered to go to Guatemala on
a mission to improve the health of extremely poor people by installing
cooking stoves in their homes. A fellow
Rotarian from the Guatemala Sur
Rotary Club informed him of the
great need for clean drinking water
in Guatemala. Over the past few
years, George’s club has raised
$360,000 for water filtration systems
and has recruited other local Rotary
clubs to join them in the effort. Visit
www.cleanwaterguatemala . net for more
information and photos.
Class Fund Agent: Peter Welker
P.O. Box 485, Caroga Lake, NY
12032, 518-835-3198,
pwelker@nycap.rr.com
�Department and lost his life in a
1994 fire. Robert C. O’Brien was inducted
into the 2008 Alumni Hall of
Distinction by the Commission on
Independent Colleges and Universities,
an organization of more than 100
institutions of higher education in
New York state. Wagner College
nominated Bob to this honor, which
pays tribute to men and women who
bring honor to the state of New York.
A lifetime trustee of Wagner College
and co-chair of the Campaign for
Wagner College, Bob is managing
director of Credit Suisse First Boston.
exposure to bigger ideas than what I
saw on popular TV shows or discussed
on local street corners.” He received
his M.D. from the University of
Wisconsin in 1972, completing his
psychiatric residency there in 1974.
In addition to his private practice as
a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in
Pasadena, Calif., he is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA
Medical Center. He also teaches psychiatry at the University of Southern
California School of Medicine. He
remains involved with Wagner as
a member of the Board of Trustees.
1967
1969
Class Correspondent: Maureen L.
Jockey Hollow Road ,
Bernardsville, NJ 07924-1312, 908953-2939, mrobidwolf@aol.com
Class Fund Agent: Philip Straniere
3 St. Austins Place, Staten Island, NY
10310, 718-447-4717
Robinson 160
1968
Class Fund Agent: Richard W. Ball
13 Jeffro Drive, Ridgefield, CT 06877,
203-431-6062
Robert J. Malone was named to the
Connecticut Superior Court earlier
this year. He is a partner at the law
office of Coughlin & Malone in
Milford. Dr. Warren R. Procci has been
elected president of the American
Psychoanalytic Association. After
serving two terms as the association’s
treasurer, he will preside over the organization through its 100th anniversary in 2011. “To be elected president
of one’s professional association represents a capstone career accomplishment,” said the Staten Island native.
“I feel a never-ending gratitude to
Wagner, because here was my first
Dr. Warren R. Procci ’68
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Cliff Oster left his position as director
of operations for Glaceau Vitamin
Water and joined Skinny Nutritional
Corp. as director of operations. He will
be in charge of product development,
purchasing, and production of Skinny
Water, “the only zero-calorie, flavored
water that suppresses your appetite,”
according to the company. Richard
Salinardi was inducted in April into
the Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame
as an Unsung Hero. Read more about
him in our profile on page 37.
recipient of the Greater Tacoma
Peace Prize, awarded on September
29 at the Scandinavian Cultural
Center of Pacific Lutheran University
in Tacoma, Wash. “Pastor Ron,” as he
is known in his community, founded
the Salishan Eastside Lutheran
Misson in east Tacoma, where he has
served as a pastor and leader since
1985. He describes “Salishan” as “a
linguistic term that embraces the
languages of the South Puget Sound
Indian tribes. … In the Salishan community, many languages are spoken:
Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laotian,
Russian, Ukrainian, Moldavian, various Slavic tongues, Tongan, Samoan,
Spanish, and the dialects of Native
Americans, African Americans, and
Caucasians (some with a Norwegian
accent).” According to the press release
about the Peace Prize, Salishan is the
largest Federal housing project on the
West Coast. “It was once awash in violence, drugs, prostitution, and ethnic
tensions, but [Vignec’s] hard work has
helped drop every measurable crime
statistic in Salishan,” the release said.
1971
Class Fund Agent: Kathy O’Donnell
3322 Woodland Drive, Tobyhanna,
PA 18466, 570-894-4731,
katcod0221@yahoo.com
1970
1972
Class Fund Agent: Gregory Gulbrandsen
2184 NE Meadow Lane, Bend, OR
97701, 541-382-6910,
greg@cascadecreative.com
Michael Tadross last year added to his
considerable filmography by serving
as an executive producer of I Am
Legend, starring Will Smith. Michael
also worked with Will Smith in
Hitch (2005).
Edward Leibfried has
retired from a
more than 30-year career as a
teacher, guidance counselor, and
administrator in the Point Pleasant
School District, N.J. The local newspaper reviewed his career, noting that
his final position was as assistant superintendant. The paper reported that
he plans to spend more time with his
family — his wife, Sandy; his two
children, Reed and John; and his grandson, Cole (2) — and to stay active
by kayaking, a longtime hobby. The
Rev. Ron Pierre Vignec was the 2007
M A G A Z I N E
1973
Class Fund Agent: Henry E. Gemino
5 Strickland Place, Manhasset, NY
11030, 516-467-4191,
pipe.ny@prodigy.net
Ed Bray received
the Award of Merit
from the Colorado High School
Press Association, the Staten Island
Advance reported. He has taught
English at Cañon City High School
for 32 years, and has taught the
yearbook class for 25 years.
1974
Class Fund Agent: Diane R. Recio
11 Holly Place, Larchmont, NY
10538, 914-833-0202,
nrc917@aol.com
Bob Schnurr was inducted in April into
the Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame
as an Unsung Hero. An accountant
by profession, he has served as a
statistician for many Wagner athletic
teams ever since he came to Wagner
as an undergraduate in 1970.
1975
Co-Class Fund Agents: Richard G.
McKay Drive, Bridgewater,
NJ 08807, 908-218-1418
Patricia Martin 1341 NE Market Drive,
Apt. 355, Fairview, OR 97024,
503-669-8421, phood@mhcc.edu
DePaul 8
1976
Class Fund Agent: John M. Zawisny
56 Howard Ave., Staten Island, NY
10301, 718-447-4290,
jzawisny@aol.com
Dr. E. John Lentini was appointed by
Massachusetts Governor Romney
to the advisory committee to the
Health Care Quality and Cost Council.
The council will establish health
care quality improvement and cost
control goals. The council was created
as part of the new law mandating
universal health care in the state.
John is the past president of the
Massachusetts Academy of Family
Physicians and is now a delegate to
the National Assembly of the Task
Force for the Valuation of Physician
Services and the task force on Medical
Cost Control with the Massachusetts
Medical Society. He is a family
medicine specialist in private practice
at Braintree Family Physician Inc.
in Braintree, Mass. He lives with his
wife, Grace, in Hull, Mass.
�1977
‘The Purest Form of Teaching’
Richard Salinardi ’69 sees potential where others see problems
Class Fund Agent: Jeanne DelaneyMalikian 6
Walden Street, Somers, NY
As an intern at Willowbrook State School, Wagner education major Richard Salinardi ’69 faced a choice. In his
10589, 845-277-8571
words, “Get out, or stay and accomplish something.” ◆ “It was barbaric,” Salinardi recalls of the infamous Staten
1978
Island institution. Intended to serve as a home for mentally retarded children, Willowbrook became a
Class Fund Agent: Maria Lind Jenkins
31 Gower Road, New Canaan, CT
06840, 203-966-5999
neglect, and overcrowding as early as the 1960s (Sen. Robert F. Kennedy visited in 1965 and called
it “a snake pit”), it remained in operation until the mid-1980s. ◆ Where others saw hopelessness, however, Salinardi saw potential. Not only did he complete an internship there, but he also
1979
Ernie Eckstein and Linda Greco Eckstein
dumping ground for anyone viewed as out of the norm. Although it had become notorious for abuse,
stayed on as a full-time teacher and recruited 20 other Wagnerians as interns. ◆ “We were
’80
1980
Co-Class Fund Agents: Edward L.
Garlock 132 Highland Drive, Bedford,
PA 15522-9766, 814-623-1124,
legarlock@earthlink.net
Billy K. Tyler 1807 North Gramercy
Place, Apt. 5, Los Angeles, CA
90028, 323-462-7111,
billyktyler@aol.com
and Ernie Eckstein
’79 welcome their first grandchild,
Knox Frederick Roegner, on May 11,
2007. Their children are Kristina
(26), Katilin (22), and Mark (14).
Linda teaches middle school English,
and Ernie is a senior allocator for
J.C. Penney. Claire Regan captured first
place among New York state newspapers with circulations between
50,000 and 125,000 in the Brightest
Headline category of the 2006–07
New York State Associated Press
Association writing and graphics
contest. The article, shouting the
headline “CALL IT FATTEN
ISLAND,” reported on alarming statistics citing Staten Island as the
New York City borough with the
highest obesity rate. Claire also
cates for people who didn’t count, whose existence seemed pointless.” ◆ Salinardi and his interns
faced significant hurdles. One of their goals was to integrate residents into the Staten Island community. But
when they escorted them outside Willowbrook, frightened people would cross the street. ◆ “They don’t anymore,” says Salinardi, who has remained an advocate during a long and productive career. He went on to earn a
Alumni Link
welcomed their first grandchild,
Knox Frederick Roegner, on May
11, 2007. Their children are Kristina
(26), Katilin (22), and Mark (14).
Ernie is a senior allocator for J.C.
Penney, and Linda teaches middle
school English.
extremely idealistic, all-knowing. It was the last time I was a ‘genius,’” he jokes. “We became advo-
master’s in special education at Fordham and taught at P.S. 3 and the Occupational Training Center (now the
Hungerford School). He currently serves as executive director of Lifestyles for the Disabled, a non-profit agency
he founded 14 years ago to provide enriching services and opportunities for developmentally disabled adults. ◆
He and his staff of 75 — including Wagner interns — serve 200 “consumers” (as the organization’s clients are
called). Consumers are “proud of the real work they do,” Salinardi says. They prepare and serve food in a café;
grow and deliver flowers; cook, deliver, and serve food to a thousand seniors annually; and sell woodwork they
craft on sophisticated machinery. ◆ Meaningful work can spark
remarkable transformations, says Salinardi. “One [consumer] hardly
spoke, was usually angry, sometimes violent,” he recalls. “But as soon
as he was put behind the café counter, he changed completely — he
Linda Greco Eckstein
smiled, relaxed, became talkative, and suddenly could do things we
never imagined.” ◆ The first in his family to attend college, Salinardi
came to Wagner on a football scholarship. Later, he coached
Seahawks football for 10 years. Today, he integrates his background
in sports with his passion for special education through his work with the Special Olympics — he coordinated
Staten Island’s games and chaired the organization’s New York board. ◆ Working with intellectually challenged
people is “the purest form of teaching,” Salinardi says. “They’re so eager to learn.” — Joel H. Cohen ’50
designed the page, which wrapped
the text around an anonymous man’s
paunch. John Springstead is teaching
software engineering at the Guilin
University of Electronic Technology
in Guilin, China, after having been
an adjunct in Wagner’s computer
science department for the previous
six and one half years. John is at Guilin
University on a one-year contract.
He wrote in February, “I have been
here six weeks, and I am enjoying
it greatly; but I do miss teaching
at Wagner a bit, so at the end of
this contract I will decide if I am
going to stay or not.” View photos at
http://prof-s.com/inChina. Billy Tyler
appeared on page 13 of the March
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�31 issue of Life & Style magazine,
as he was shooting a scene with
Adam Sandler for the movie Bedtime
Stories. Rob Weening was appointed
chief financial officer of Velocity
Commercial Capital in Westlake
Village, Calif., in April. Rob has
more than 25 years of experience in
the financial and mortgage industry,
including most recently serving as
vice president of financial planning
and analysis at Credit-Based Asset
Servicing and Securitization LLC
in New York.
Danischewski,
on October 28, 2007, at
Trinity Lutheran Church on Staten
Island. Tristan’s grandmother was
the late Ruth Danielson Danischewski ’50.
1987
Class Fund Agent: Meredith Acacia
5 Aspen Court, Jackson, NJ 08527,
732-928-8452
1988
Class Fund Agent: Kenneth Nilsen
807 Castlepoint Terrace, Hoboken, NJ
07030, 201-222-0182,
knilsen@stevens.edu
1981
Class Correspondent: Lauretta Zitano
732-449-4883
Good Eats
George and Gabriella Lepore Gaspar, both ’88, along with their
Sharon Stakofsky Davis has
been
serving as marketing and sales
coordinator for the Simon Family
Jewish Community Center in
Virginia Beach, Va., since last year.
She has been married for 25 years
and has two sons. Her older son
is studying material chemistry at
the University of Virginia, and the
younger plans to study economics
at New York University.
1982
Class Fund Agent: John Spadaro
117 Old Town Road, Staten Island,
NY 10304, 718-987-5073
1983
Co-Class Fund Agents: Donald T.
St. Marks Place N., Apt.
1B , Staten Island, NY 10301,
718-556-2508, dbrowne100@aol.com
Linda Romani 40008 N. Integrity Trail,
Anthem, AZ 85086, 623-551-9136,
momofdm@qwest.net
Browne 90
1984
has been employed
with the Administration for
Children’s Services for the last 23
years. He has served in the capacity
of borough director overseeing
Kinship Foster Care Services for
James Brock Harris III
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daughter, Isabella, show off their restaurant, Gasparino’s, located at
308 East 6th Street in New York, N.Y. The Web site Time Out New
York says, “As the lone Italian joint on a block of curry houses,
Gasparino’s stands out — noodles, sausages, and tasteful decor
instead of rice, spice, and Christmas lights.” Find their hours and
menu at www.gasparinos.com. Or, check out their newest locale,
Ristorante 110 at 110 John Street.
the boroughs of Brooklyn,
Manhattan, and Staten Island. He
also runs a youth program in
Harlem called Youth Step. The
program is offered to adolescents
throughout the five boroughs,
and all programs and events
associated with Youth Step are free
to the public. Alan MacKenzie has been
named executive vice president
of Takeda America Holdings.
He has been with the Takeda
companies for 22 years, and
previously served as president of
TAP Pharmaceutical Products and
of Takeda Pharmaceuticals North
America.
1985
Class Fund Agent: Andrew G. Williams
5192 Round Lake Road, Apopka, FL
32712, 407-889-3524,
Andy799062@aol.com
M A G A Z I N E
was named to the Board
of Managers of the Philadelphia
Foundation, a community foundation that administers 750 charitable
trusts and awards $21 million in grants
and scholarships annually to area nonprofit organizations. Negrin is vice
president, associate general counsel,
and a member of the Executive
Leadership Council of ARAMARK.
He was named a “Super Lawyer” by
Philadelphia magazine and a “Minority
Rising Star” by the Legal Intelligencer.
Previously, he was a litigator with
MorganLewis and a prosecutor in the
Major Trials Unit of the Philadelphia
district attorney’s office.
Richard Negrin
1986
Class Fund Agent: Wade C. Appelman
6 Aaron Road, Lexington, MA
02421, 301-869-6508,
wadeapp@yahoo.com
Steven Peters is a lieutenant with
the Ocean Township, N.J., Police
Department, and he was featured in
his local newspaper in January.
It reported that he was honored
by the Monmouth County Traffic
Officers Association for his work
in investigations of serious traffic
accidents. He is also the public
information officer for his department. In March, he attended an
11-week training program at the
FBI Academy in Quantico, Va.
Gretchen Busch Wolfrum, Christine Ottway
Tani, and Arne Abrahamsen attended
the confirmation of Tristan
Danischewski, son of Lorraine Warnke
1989
Class Correspondent: Jennifer Solaas
Castlepoint Terrace,
Hoboken, NJ 07030, 201-222-0182,
ramsjord@yahoo.com
Nilsen 807
Laurie Merhi ’89 M’93 welcomed a
baby boy, Ryan Omar Merhi, on
June 2, 2007.
1990
Class Fund Agent: Levent Bayrasli
72 Kyle Drive, Phillipsburg, NJ
08865, 908-213-9598,
sonicbros@verizon.net
Maria Giura wrote four one-hour episodes of New Morning, which aired
on the Hallmark Channel in October,
�November, and December 2007.
“Produced by Lightworks Producing
Group,” Maria says,“New Morning
explores the journeys of the human
spirit.” Ken Levy married Rachel Olin on
December 23, 2007, in Miami Beach,
Fla. The couple lives in Coral Gables,
Fla. Patricia Smith Amis self-published
her autobiography, entitled Snatched
from the Fire: A Young Woman’s Life
Consumed by Darkness. She describes it
as follows: “This is a personal testimony
of how Jesus Christ delivered me from
a world of domestic violence, alcohol
abuse, depression, and witchcraft. I am
also in the process of getting a film
produced, based on the book.” The
book is available at Authorhouse.com
and other online booksellers.
1991
1992
Class Fund Agent: Natalie Migliaro
510 DB Kellyway, South Amboy, NJ
08879, 732-952-8577,
natmig@rci.rutgers.edu
Marybeth Morrison Gallagher is busy as
a mom of three little girls:
Elizabeth (4), Allison (2), and Kelly
(15 months). She is employed as a
senior physical therapist for Staten
Island Hospital. Ovies Cortizo Guadalupe
and her husband, Cesar, announce
the birth of Amanda Nicole on
August 3, joining her big brother,
Sebastian (2).
has a new
daughter; see Crib Notes on page
41 for more information and a photo.
41481 NYS Route 180,
Clayton, NY 13624, 315-778-8419,
harrypotter71674@yahoo.com
1995
and Nikki Tobias Murphy
’97 have a new baby; see Crib Notes
on page 41 for more information
and a photo. Gerard Sheehan and
Christine Meilan-Sheehan ’97 also have a
new baby; see Crib Notes on page 41
for more information and a photo.
Michael Murphy
Class Fund Agent: Nancy L. SalgadoCowan 185 Heywood Court, Matawan,
NJ 07747, nursenancy1@hotmail.com
Sal Cowan sent in a photo of his new
baby; see Crib Notes, page 41.
Tracey Sorrentino Sheedy ’95 M’97 has
become the first physician’s assistant
for obstetrics and gynecology in the
New Milford, Conn., area, according
to an article from last August in the
News-Times of Danbury, Conn. “I
can bring a woman’s empathy, a
woman’s perspective to my work,”
she told the newspaper. She received
her P.A. degree from Catholic Medical
Center in Queens. Tracy and her
husband, Chris, have two young
children, Matthew and Meaghan.
1996
Class Fund Agent: Rebecca Wallo Rose
1997
Class Fund Agent: Alison N. Boyd
14 Essex Drive, Ronkonkoma, NY
11779, 631-451-8220
1998
Class Fund Agent: Tara Yeo Lagana
11465 Harlequin Lane #504, Fishers,
IN 46038, 765-748-9088,
TLLagana@hotmail.com
Class Correspondent: Darren L. Greco
24 Daniella Court, Staten Island,
NY 10314, 718-761-6069,
dgreco25@mac.com
1999
’97, M’00 and Brad
Levine have announced their
engagement. Julie works as a social
studies teacher at P.S. 39 in Staten
Island. Brad is a science teacher at
Tottenville High School. They are
planning a July wedding. Christine
Meilan-Sheehan and Gerard Sheehan ’96
have a new baby; see Crib Notes on
page 41 for more information and a
photo. Nikki Tobias Murphy and Michael
Murphy ’96 also have a new baby; see
Julie Firestone
Crib Notes on page 41 for more
information and a photo.
Class Fund Agent: Vinnie S. Potestivo
226 Shippen Street, 2nd Floor,
Weehawken, NJ 07087, 201-558-7922
has annouced his engagement to Robyn Dobbins. John
works as the director of physical
therapy with Northeast Spine &
Wellness Center in Clark, N.J.
Robyn works as a physical therapist
with Staten Island University
Hospital. They are planning a
September wedding.
John Lugo
A Playwright to Watch
Pia Wilson’s devotion to writing earns artistic kudos
Pia Wilson ’93 was selected for the Emerging Writers Initiative of The Public Theatre of New York, N.Y. Out
of 700 applicants, only 12 won spots in this program that nurtures the artistic growth of playwrights early
in their careers. Pia also works as an editor and designer for the non-profit WHY
1993
Class Fund Agent: Stuart Plotkin
211 Brighton 15th Street, Apt. 4D,
Brooklyn, NY 11235, 718-982-6898,
SPlotkin@pclient.ml.com
(www.whyhunger.org), is a columnist for
Jersey Woman Magazine, and publishes an
online magazine, Pia Quarterly. “Theater is
the number one focus of my life,” she
says. “I really care about the art of the
1994
Class Fund Agent: James J. Hickey
4209 Route 516, Matawan, NJ
07747, 732-290-3900 ext. 3905,
james.hickey@obps.org
work, the craft of writing.” Learn more at
www.piawilson.com.
Wilson (inset) and The Public Theatre in New York City.
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Alumni Link
Class Fund Agent: Jennifer A. NortonMantegna 802 Schley Avenue, Toms
River, NJ 08755, 732-458-1412
Veronica Schron DiMeglio
�2000
Class Fund Agent: Erin K. Donahue
5 Inverness Court, Wading River, NY
11792, 516-463-9070,
edonahue45@optonline.net
Karolyn Dunn Sliger M’00 is raising a
couple of stars in the making. Her
son, Ryan (3), appeared (atop Thomas
the Tank Engine) in a magazine advertisement for the Oragel Training
Toothbrush, and he also performed in
commercials for Pampers diapers and
Cheerios cereal. Karolyn’s daughter,
Sydney (2), is a model for Baby Gap.
Maddy Sliger of Wagner’s Office of
the Dean of Campus Life is the proud
grandmother of Sydney and Ryan.
2001
Class Fund Agent: Simone Diaz
1655 N. Colony Road, Unit 19,
Meriden, CT 06450, 203-639-4855,
simoneamcbride@yahoo.com
Anthony Canova and Lauren Garetano
Canova ’03 announce the birth of
their second daughter; see Crib Notes
on page 41 for more information
and a picture. Bret Shuford made his
solo cabaret debut in January at the
Laurie Beechman Theatre at
Westbank Café in New York City.
He performed contemporary and
Broadway favorites, as well as com-
positions from multi-award-winning
musical director Michael Holland.
As announced in the last Alumni
Link, Bret is the understudy to Prince
Eric in The Little Mermaid, which
opened on Broadway last November.
He wrote about his experience:
“Understudying, you never know when
you will go on — unless, of course,
the actor that plays the part is on
vacation. I’ve gone on twice this year.
Both times, it was a blast. I love getting
to kiss Ariel, of course, at the end.
The audience always applauds. I also
love getting to sing ‘Her Voice’ on an
empty Broadway stage. It’s a rush.”
2002
Co-Class Fund Agents: Peter J. Herbst
24 Bethke Road, Killingworth, CT
06419, 203-314-6465,
Herbstpe@bc.edu
Renee M. Sudol 764 Constitution Drive,
Brick, NJ 08724, 732-840-2069,
nay537@yahoo.com
Cindy M. Sforza Maley
Christina DeCicco was performing the
role of Glinda in the U.S. National
Tour of the Broadway hit musical
Wicked from January to November
2007. Wicked ran for three months in
Philadelphia last year, and a feature
about her in the Sunday Times of
Primos, Penn., recounted her story
of how she got the part of Glinda:
“Being a brunette, I went to audition
Teachers’ Night Out
On a cold February night, seven teachers got a holiday from their students
by going out for dinner and a show on Broadway: Ashley Voss ’05, M’07;
Mara Caputo '06, M'08; Kerry Jaeger ’05; Jaime Leston ’06; Denielle
Diodato ’06, M’07;
Heather Hudson
’05, M’07; and Tina
D’Onorio DeMeo ’05,
M’06. Please see the
class notes to read
more about them.
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M A G A Z I N E
for Elphaba (the ‘wicked’ witch) or
Nessa Rose (Elphaba’s sister). When
I sang, the director asked, ‘Are you a
soprano?’ I answered yes, of course. He
said something like, ‘Sure, you played
Maria in West Side Story.’ The next
thing I know, I was given music, Glinda’s
music, and asked to learn it and come
back in 10 minutes. Instead of the
‘green girl,’ I am the girl in sparkles.”
2003
Co-Class Fund Agents: Cari A.
173 Van Cortlandt Ave.,
Apt. 1, Staten Island, NY 10301,
917-873-7808, cchristo@wagner.edu
Robert J. Hamm 14 College Ave., Staten
Island, NY 10314, 718-981-0515,
bobby7770@yahoo.com
Nicole Lopes Steed 2218 2nd Ave.,
Toms River, NJ 08753, 732-2703660, nlopes55@yahoo.com
Christopher
Lauren Garetano Canova and Anthony
Canova ’01 announce the birth of their
second daughter; see Crib Notes on
page 41 for more information and a
picture. Jennifer Zafarino ’03, M’05 and
Robert Szot have announced their
engagement. Jennifer is pursuing a juris
doctorate from New York Law School
in Manhattan and is a clinical research
specialist with Merck & Co., Inc., in
Rahway, N.J. Robert works for Accutest
Laboratories in Dayton, N.J. They
are planning a June 2009 wedding.
2004
Class Fund Agent: Alexis D. Hernandez
4066 Albatross Street, Apt. 24, San
Diego, CA 92103, 619-269-2702,
lex382@aol.com
is engaged to Bridget
Schrader, a school psychologist. Erik
works as an Internet marketing executive at Peterson’s. They plan a May
2009 wedding. Jenny Ludvigsen married
Matthew Madden ’05 in Newport News,
Va., on October 20, 2007. Jenny works
as head staff coordinator for Home
Instead Senior Care, and Matthew
works as a national acquisitions trainer
for Ferguson Enterprises. Carolyn Palinkas,
a math teacher and adviser to Susan
Wagner High School’s chapter of the
National Honor Society, Arista, has
Erik R. Johnson
been singing in a rock band, A Little
Something Refreshing, which she started along with guitarist Matt Giordano
and drummer Andrew Syvertsen.
2005
Co-Class Fund Agents: Jacob Browne
935 Castleton Ave., Apt. 1, Staten
Island, NY 10310, 718-876-9390,
jbrowne@wagner.edu
Melissa D. Powers 313 Vesta Court,
Ridgewood, NJ 07450, 201-394-2408,
powers.mel@gmail.com
Class Correspondent: Matthew L.
Sheehan 114 Farmstead Ln.,
Glastonbury, CT 06033, 860-659-0247,
msheehan05@gmail.com
’05 M’06 is a special
education teacher in a first-grade
Cooperative Team Teaching setting
at Public School 22 on Staten Island.
She is engaged to be married to
Gianfranco DiGrigoli on August 9.
Heather Hudson ’05 M’07 is also a special
education teacher in a first-grade
Cooperative Team Teaching setting
at Public School 186 in Queens. She
is also engaged, to her college sweetheart, Stephen Depasse. They plan to
marry in July 2009. Kerry Jaeger has
been a special education teacher at
Public School 188 in Brooklyn since
September 2006, in a fifth-grade CTT
setting. Matthew Madden married Jenny
Ludvigsen ’04 in Newport News, Va.,
on October 20, 2007. Jenny works as
head staff coordinator for Home
Instead Senior Care, and Matthew
works as a national acquisitions trainer for Ferguson Enterprises. Elizabeth
Pawlowski was the subject of a feature
in the Sioux City (Iowa) Journal in
March for her role in the traveling
production of The Producers, in which
she played Ulla. “Hired in 2006,
Pawlowski had barely graduated from
New York’s Wagner College,” the article
said. “Because she’s a native New
Yorker, she wanted to see what life
on the road was like.” It also reported
that after almost two years with the
show, she planned to end her Producers
run in April and begin auditioning
again. Danielle Torchio married Darren
Heal on February 16, 2008, on Staten
Island. She is teaching elementary
school and also working on a master’s
degree in elementary and special
Tina D’Onorio DeMeo
�education. Darren is a firefighter in
Brooklyn and a former professional
baseball player with the Toronto Blue
Jays organization. Ashley Voss ’05 M’07
has been working as a general education teacher at Public School 6 on
Staten Island since September 2007.
She teaches fourth grade in a Cooperative Team Teaching setting. Her
team teacher is Mara Caputo ’06 M’08.
Crib Notes
Classes of 2027 and 2028
Some of the newest faces to join the Wagner family
2006
1.
Co-Class Fund Agents: Leandra
43rd Street, Long Island
City, NY 11105, 718-843-0042,
laguirre@wagner.edu
Tad Bender 21-41 35th Street, 3rd Floor,
Long Island City, NY 11105,
603-673-6003, tbender@wagner.edu
Dana Guariglia 1882 Ensign Court, Toms
River, NJ 08753, 732-929-1373,
dana.guariglia@wagner.edu
Aguirre 20-31
2007
was crowned Miss New
Jersey USA 2008 last fall and was
named second runner up in the Miss
USA Pageant in April. A registered
nurse, she took leave from the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell
Medical Center for the competition.
Joseph Gilmore lives in Warwick, R.I., and
has been directing local children’s
theater productions in the community
and in the schools.
Tiffany Andrade
2.
4.
3.
3. Christine Meilan-Sheehan ’97 and
Gerard Sheehan ’96 announce the birth of
Gerard James Sheehan IV on December
24, 2007.4. Nikki Tobias Murphy ’97 and
Michael Murphy ’96 announce the birth of
their daughter, Evangeline Violet, on
March 28, 2007. 5. Sal Cowan ’95 and
his wife, Michele Melillo-Cowan,
announce the birth of Alyssa Marie on
December 10, 2007.
Alumni Link
Mara Caputo ’06 M’08 has been a special
education teacher at Public School 6
on Staten Island since September
2006. Mara is engaged to be married
to John Fahim in July 2009. Denielle
Diodato ’06 M’07 has served as a special education teacher in a first-grade
Cooperative Team Teaching setting
at Public School 4 on Staten Island
since last September. Jaime Leston is a
special education teacher at Public
School 373 on Staten Island. Christina
Stagliano and Michael Giordano M’06
have announced their engagement.
Christina is pursuing a Master of Arts
in speech-language pathology from
New York University. Michael is a
retail management associate with
HSBC in Brooklyn. They are planning a September 2009 wedding.
1.
1. Veronica Schron DiMeglio ’94, along
with her husband, Louis, and her
son, Ryan (7), welcomed Emma Rose
on April 19, 2007. 2. Janet Merkel ’57
has a one-year-old granddaughter, Maia
Merkel-Leavitt.
5.
6.
6. Lauren Garetano Canova ’03
and Anthony Canova ’01 announce
the birth of Ava Alexandra
on December 15, 2007. She
was also welcomed by her
big sister, Gianna Marie.
We’d love to see your baby’s face. Please see page 34 for publication guidelines.
S U M M E R
2008
41
�In Memoriam
The Rev. Lyle Guttu
For 35 years, he was
Wagner’s chaplain and resident
Renaissance man
Editor’s Note: The following is an abbreviated version
of President Richard Guarasci’s eulogy at the memorial
service for the Rev. Guttu, held at Trinity Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Staten Island, on December 21, 2007.
Guttu died on December 16. Read more on page 6
and at http://wagner.edu/news/node/841.
Alumni
Lt. Col. Edward H. Meiser M’64
Mr. Ernest Graewe ’40
Mr. Bruce C. Andrus ’65
Mr. Frank E. Reynolds ’43
Mr. Allen H. Beyer ’65
Mr. Arthur R. Collier ’45
Mr. Charles R. Daly ’65
Mr. William R. Fuhlbruck ’45
Mr. Warren R. Haring M’65
F
Mr. Donald W. Ahrend ’46 M’57
Mrs. Jean Cambria Gowski ’66
our master of ceremonies, counselor, confessor, travel
Mrs. Janet Johnson Little ’46
Dr. Carolyn G. Plonsky ’67
guide, teacher, and connoisseur of the arts and books. He
Dr. Ralph E. Betancourt ’49
Mrs. Janet Skinner Polay ’67
Mrs. Miriam Fielding Debus ’50
Dr. Sandra Lanasa Wertz M’68
Mr. Paul M. Kane ’50
Mr. Maurice “Mo” Shaw M’69
Mr. Walter Barth ’51
Mr. Nicholas Netti ’71
Mr. Mel Lichtig ’52
Mrs. Joyce Levine Abecassis ’73
Harry August Schildt ’54
Mr. Norman Robert Ferren ’86
Mrs. Doris Ahrens Roehrich ’55
Mrs. Elizabeth Malloy Hartell ’88
Rev. Robert J. Furreboe ’56
Mr. Nicholas Magaraci ’09
Mrs. Elizabeth Hammel Hall ’56
Mrs. Patricia A. Hill Graeff ’58
Mrs. Carolyn Rosa Hart ’58
Former Employees
and Friends of Wagner
College
or Wagner College, Lyle Guttu was the ultimate
Renaissance man. Beyond the many official roles
he held since 1972 — chaplain, dean of students,
vice provost, special assistant to the president — he was
was the perfect host, always opening his home and his heart
to newcomers. Beyond our campus, he served as pastor
of St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brooklyn for
nearly 30 years. On top of that, he was a former ace
hockey player in his hometown of Thief River Falls,
Minnesota, and at Harvard College, where he earned his
undergraduate degree. But most of all, he was our friend.
How could one man be so many men; how could he play
so many roles with such grace, discretion, and good humor?
For me, one hint of his remarkable human skills is
Mr. Walter Schick ’61
Mr. Kenneth R. Behrins ’63
Ms. Annabelle Diamond
Dr. John D. Lawson ’63
Mr. Wellesley “Wess” Bowdish
Mr. John G. Ottenheimer ’63
Rev. Lyle R. Guttu
Mr. Nicholas J. Reuter ’63
Mrs. Judith Kyros
Ms. Karen Falborn Cernik ’64
Mr. Irving Lieberman
Ms. Marilyn E. Gurney ’64
Ms. Eileen Matera
Mrs. Margaret A.
Mr. Andrew Soboleski
“Peggy” Mangogna ’64 M’69
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Mrs. Thelma Callahan Whitney
M A G A Z I N E
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�{r e m e m b r a n c e s }
visible in a Sacred Place: his office. Located on the
finding peace within the chaotic swirl of emotions and
fourth floor of the Union, it is a breathtaking pastiche
events that surround our everyday lives.
of books, memos, catalogues, notes, letters, photos,
I have been having a conversation with Lyle for the
magazines, newspapers, stationery, picture frames, and
last three days, and one of the stories we keep discussing
other forms of kitsch and exotica. At first blush, you
is just a single, typical moment with Lyle — an evening
might wonder how so much clutter could be humanly
spent together in Manhattan.
assembled in piles that formed such serious challenges to
Surreptitiously, I had discovered that he was
the law of gravity. Lyle had taken dis-
approaching his 70th birthday. I
order to a higher plane, one unknown
told him to choose any restaurant
even to experts on chaos theory.
he liked and we would celebrate
together.
But the more I pictured it, the
He diligently searched Zagat’s
more I realized that this office repre-
guide and other reference materials
Seemingly disconnected, upon reflec-
for a great place, preferably one
tion we see that all of his roles and all
previously undiscovered by either
of his eclectic constellation of
of us. It turned out not to be a
friends were, like his office, held
very good place — but, as was so
together by a magnetic inner core
typical of Lyle, he was the perfect
of rock-solid, small-town Minnesota
companion. We talked about our
values of resiliency and stability,
hopes and dreams, our families,
personal decency and compassion,
children, and friends. It was a sim-
coupled with a Harvard education
LY L E G U T T U in 2005
that taught him to never stop learning.
These core values and his religious faith helped him
ple celebration of our friendship.
Somehow, this nondescript
Midtown Manhattan restaurant with a disappointing
to pastor Wagner through many challenges and conflicts.
menu was transformed into another Sacred Place.
They helped him counsel so many students, colleagues,
That was Lyle’s magic. He made you and your life feel
and friends in times of turmoil. And they helped him
important, special, and sacred.
overcome his own shortcomings and traumas. In short,
—Richard Guarasci,
he was a good man, a very good man, with a talent for
president, Wagner College
Alumni Link
sented the essence of Lyle Guttu.
B E L O W , left to
right: The Rev.
Lyle Guttu in his
first year as
Wagner chaplain,
from the 1973
Kallista; Guttu as
dean of students
in the Kallista of
1978 and 1979;
three unmarked
photos, probably
from the 1990s,
showing Guttu in
his various
ceremonial roles —
making an award,
officiating at
commencement,
and praying at
baccalaureate.
S U M M E R
2008
43
�Wa g n e r
Re f le c t ions
Losing History
Recalling 16 hours with a Wagner legend By Brian Morris ’65
I
t was 1968 — the spring of that year, I believe — when
I arranged to sit down with the Reverend Dr. Frederic Sutter
to record his oral history of Wagner College, which was then
celebrating 50 years on its Staten Island campus.
At 94 years old, with declining eyesight, strained hearing, and failing stamina, Dr. Sutter became as animated and
energetic as a man 50 years younger while speaking about
his beloved achievement. He spoke for nearly 16 hours over
the course of four afternoons in the parlor of the parish
house of Trinity Lutheran Church in Stapleton, Staten
Island, where he had served as pastor since 1907.
Oh, how I wish I had retained those audio tapes,
instead of discarding them or taping over them for a later
interview with someone whom I no longer remember. I am
a history nut, after all,
and preserve whatever I
can get my hands on,
especially items of Staten
Island history. Why I did not value those 16 hours of tape I
can never explain. Maybe one could rationalize such a
choice by thinking that if you’ve just heard a story, then it
isn’t truly history. But that explanation only satisfies me
sometimes, and not very much any longer.
I was apprehensive when I entered his parlor on the
first of those four afternoons: This was the founder of
Wagner College on Staten Island; this was the man whose
impact on the culture of this community was measured
in superlatives; this was a man considered to be “God’s
ambassador.” Yes, I was in awe. And fueling my anxiety was
the knowledge that he was 94 years old, probably with little
valuable information that he could mine from his brain.
Oh, how wrong I was — what remarkable vitality!
What keen wit! What
humility as he willingly spread credit for
Wagner’s accomplishments among so many
others who had contributed through the years. He lauded
presidents, deans, and faculty — especially faculty.
At the end of the little book that was prepared from
my 16 hours with Dr. Sutter, I included a statement that he
uttered during the first minute of our first day: “I wonder
what the Lord has planned for me to do next. He’s pretty
well used me up, but I’ll be ready for anything He wants me
to do … especially if He plans it for Wagner College.”
I have that in writing. But, I wish I still had it on tape.
Oh, how I wish I had
“retained
those audio tapes....
”
T H E R E V. S U T T E R
Brian Morris ’65 worked in public relations for Wagner
College from 1967 to 1972. Retired as vice president for
hospital and community relations for Staten Island University
Hospital, he now teaches and serves as a marketing consultant.
and Wagner President
Adolf H. Holthusen
at the laying of South
(now Parker) Hall's
cornerstone in 1922.
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Highlighting a few coming attractions at Wagner
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July 16, August 7
Summer Overview Visit Days
July 10 & 22, August 13 & 18
Fall Campus Visit Days
October 5, November 1 & 16
Alumni and Parents
Homecoming and Hall
of Fame Induction
September 13
DaVinci Society
Scholarship Dinner
September 25
Family Weekend
September 27
Founders Day
October 15
P H OTO G R A P H : PAU L O ’ M A R A
Winter on the Hill
February 21
Annie Get Your Gun
Wagner Theatre
October 1–4 & 8–11, 8 p.m.
October 4, 11 & 12, 2 p.m.
Main Hall
Viva Italia! Finale Concert
Wagner College Choirs
October 26, 4 p.m.
Campus Hall
Fall Choral Concert
Wagner College Choirs
November 2, 4 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
Tick Tick Boom
Wagner Theatre
November 5–8, 12–15, 8 p.m.
Stage One
The Dance Concert
November 12–15 & 19–22, 8 p.m.
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Main Hall
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Wagner College Jazz Ensemble
November 16, 3 p.m.
Main Hall
Arts
As Bees in Honey Drowned
Wagner Theatre
September 24–27, 8 p.m.
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Stage One
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Wagner College Concert Band
December 7, 3 p.m.
Main Hall
Holiday Concert
Wagner College Choirs
December 7, 7 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
Master Class
Wagner Theatre
February 18–21, 25–28, 8 p.m.
Stage One
Three Penny Opera
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An account of the resource
This collection contains the publications created for the alumni of Wagner College. Starting in 1948 and known as the Link, this series has gone through a variety of name and format changes and is currently known as Wagner Magazine.
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Wagner College Digital Collections
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wagner College Alumni Publications
Description
An account of the resource
This collection contains the publications created for the alumni of Wagner College. Starting in 1948 and known as the Link, this series has gone through a variety of name and format changes and is currently known as Wagner Magazine.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
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Wagner College Digital Collections
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wagner College Alumni Publications
Description
An account of the resource
This collection contains the publications created for the alumni of Wagner College. Starting in 1948 and known as the Link, this series has gone through a variety of name and format changes and is currently known as Wagner Magazine.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
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A name given to the resource
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An entity responsible for making the resource available
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
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U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this work. It is provided by Wagner College for scholarly or research purposes only. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
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Wagner College Digital Collections
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wagner College Alumni Publications
Description
An account of the resource
This collection contains the publications created for the alumni of Wagner College. Starting in 1948 and known as the Link, this series has gone through a variety of name and format changes and is currently known as Wagner Magazine.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
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A name given to the resource
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
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U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this work. It is provided by Wagner College for scholarly or research purposes only. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
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Wagner College Digital Collections
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wagner College Alumni Publications
Description
An account of the resource
This collection contains the publications created for the alumni of Wagner College. Starting in 1948 and known as the Link, this series has gone through a variety of name and format changes and is currently known as Wagner Magazine.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Link
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
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Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this work. It is provided by Wagner College for scholarly or research purposes only. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
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Wagner College Digital Collections
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wagner College Alumni Publications
Description
An account of the resource
This collection contains the publications created for the alumni of Wagner College. Starting in 1948 and known as the Link, this series has gone through a variety of name and format changes and is currently known as Wagner Magazine.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Link
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
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Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this work. It is provided by Wagner College for scholarly or research purposes only. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Is Part Of
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Wagner College Digital Collections
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