ALUMNAE/I

Undergraduate
Focus on
Mark Kmetzko, B.A. 2003

Doctoral Program
Focus on
Gloria Smith, Ph.D. 1979

Vermont College
Focus on
Laurie Kuntz, M.F.A. 1992

LEARNERS
Focus on
Billy Elliott, doctoral learner

FACULTY
Focus on
Dick Hathaway, Vermont College

STAFF/
ADMINISTRATION

IN MEMORIAM
Focus on
Frank Reissman, Vermont College

CROSS CURRENTS WINTER 2004-2005

NOTES ON DOCTORAL PROGRAM ALUMNAE/I

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Doctoral Alumna Gloria Smith Honored as
Distinguished Leader in Nursing and Health

Gloria R. Smith, Ph.D. 1979, received the 2003 International Distinguished Leadership Award from the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools, presented Philadelphia in December 2003. Smith was honored as a “prolific author and tireless healthcare advocate who has led a distinguished career marked by her dedication to nursing education and health development.” Smith earned her UI&U doctorate with concentration in psychology in 1979. Her Project Demonstrating Excellence dissertation was “Liberation through Professional Association: A Case Study of the National Black Nurses Association.”

Smith is recognized nationally and internationally for her contributions to nursing, healthcare education, and public health initiatives. Before retiring in January 2002, Smith was the vice president for programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. During her employment at the Kellogg Foundation, she was responsible for program development and administration as well as program/project evaluation and dissemination.

An accomplished professor of nursing, healthcare, and public health for 28 years, Smith began her career as a public health nurse in 1955. She served on the faculties of Tuskegee University in Alabama and Albany State College in Georgia, and as dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, and dean of the College of Nursing at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Previously, she was director of the Michigan Department of Public Health, Lansing.

Smith has published numerous articles and participated in several research studies involving nursing, public health education, and cultural diversity. She was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1997, and her numerous awards and honors include the 2000 Trailblazer Award by the National Black Nurses Association, the Distinguished Service Award by the Michigan Public Health Association, and several honorary doctorates.

In October 2003 Smith traveled to London for her induction as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, along with five fellows who are nurses from the United Kingdom. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

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2004

Greg Trombly, Ph.D. presented his doctoral dissertation topic, "The Voices of Retention," at two national conferences: the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in New Orleans in March 2004; and the National Association of Elementary School Principals Convention in San Francisco in April, 2004. Trombly is principal at Soule Road Elementary School in the Liverpool (New York) Central School District. He is continuing his research on adults who were retained (kept back) a grade in elementary school. Anyone from the UI&U community who would like to participate in Trombly’s study may contact gtrombly@twcny.rr.com.

2003

Annette M. Burden, Ph.D. was among 100 Ohio higher education faculty members to receive Ohio Magazine’s Excellence in Education Award, which honors professors throughout the state for their achievements and dedication to teaching for excellence. She also was honored as Top Classroom Instructor by the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education (NOCHE) in 2003. Burden developed and teaches the first Web-based asynchronous mathematics courses for Youngstown State University, where she has taught since 1977 and was named Distinguished Professor, Teaching for 2002-2003. She also serves as the beginning algebra coordinator for 500-900 students per term, and has developed a variety of multimedia learning technologies that have raised the pass rate of this course from 35 percent to 85 percent in the last year. Burden also teaches online for DeVry and Salem International universities and will be developing and teaching online courses in linear algebra and numerical analysis for Empire State College in New York.

Danny Goldman, Ph.D. located and returned gold coins hidden since 1941 by a man who was deported to Australia from a Protestant German Templer Colony in Israel during World War II. Goldman learned about the hidden coins during research for his doctoral dissertation, a comparative architectural study about construction and design of homes built in Israel in the 1860s by these German and German-American immigrants to the Holy Land (see Network, Fall 2003). Since the house now sits inside of a restricted military compound, Goldman worked with officials from the Ministry of Defense and the Israel Defense Forces to gain access and, working with instructions from Hugo Wennagel, located the hidden coins. In December 2003, after gaining approval to export the coins, Goldman arranged for Wennagel’s son and daughter to tour the area and take the coins back to their father in Australia. A leading Israeli newspaper covered the story, and Goldman plans to produce a documentary from video taken throughout the recovery efforts, including footage of Wennagel, now nearly 100 years old, receiving the coins he hid 62 years ago.

Ellen Marshall, Ph.D., M.A. 2000, B.A. 1998, ADP took early retirement from the Newark (Delaware) Police Department and is now full-time faculty for the Criminal Justice Department at Delaware Technical & Community College, Georgetown campus. She recently completed her Union doctorate with concentration in psychology, and is the daughter of Katherine Marshall, B.A. 2000, ADP.

David M. Scheie, Ph.D. 2003 (inducted into Union’s 2003 Circle of Scholars) became an independent consultant in evaluation, organizational learning, and collaborative inquiry in May 2004, after 17 years on staff at Rainbow Research in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A skilled evaluator, he worked extensively with citizen empowerment, systems change and multi-sector partnership projects, and has led evaluation projects with community groups, foundations, religious and educational institutions, government agencies; designed adult learning conferences and workshops; and worked on projects locally and nationally, earning a distinguished reputation for his work in neighborhood and community contexts with people of diverse heritage and culture. Scheie now conducts independent projects nationwide from his base in Minneapolis, and will continue to lead Rainbow-affiliated projects and cooperate on new ventures as a senior consultant.

Rea N. Waldon, Ph.D. 2003, B.S. 1988 was named assistant vice president and community consultant in community development banking at PNC Bank in Cincinnati. Waldon works with community-based organizations, developers and businesses, as well as PNC's various lines of business, to provide loans, investments, and other financial services in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Waldon was previously a full-time professor and faculty adviser in the College of Undergraduate Studies Cincinnati Academic Center, and continues to serve as adjunct faculty.

2002

Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D. co-authored and published "Taking the Path Less Traveled: The Non-Traditional Doctorate," in the January 2004 issue of Health Promotion Practice, a publication of the Society for Public Health Education (vol. 5, issue 1). She describes her UI&U doctoral program.

Scott M. Preissler, Ph.D. published “The Need for a Literature Base for Religious Giving” (a chapter from his doctoral PDE titled “A Content Analysis of Literature on the Subject of Religious Stewardship across Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Faith Traditions”) in Capacity Building for Nonprofits: New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising #40 (Jossey-Bass, October 2003). Preissler’s work was selected from among 400 submissions as one of eight chapters published in this leading series in the field. Preissler serves as president and chief executive officer of the international Christian Stewardship Association (CSA), which promotes biblical stewardship, financial leadership, and development for denominations, church leaders, para-church ministry leaders, and Christian lay leaders in America and abroad as an affiliate of the National Association of Evangelicals. Preissler began his 14th year as a CSA member, previously serving as its chief operations officer and vice president.

Curtis J. Sartor Jr., Ph.D. was promoted to full professor and new department chair of architecture at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, GA. He becomes the first African American to lead the program and is one of three African Americans to lead a majority accredited architectural program in the U.S. and Canada. The department currently has more than 400 enrolled students, and ranks tenth among accredited programs within the South by Design Intelligence.

2001

Patricia Brooks, Ph.D. published “The Use of Clinical Hypnosis to Accelerate Soft Tissue Wound Healing” in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, April 2003. The article is based on research she conducted for her doctoral PDE. She also presented at the Brief Therapy Conference by the Bay, December 11-14, 2003, San Francisco, CA and at the 9th Congress of the European Society of Hypnosis, September 2002, Rome, Italy.

Lyndall Hare, Ph.D. published In the Belly of the Beast: South African Women's Lives of Activism, Exile, and Aging (CPCC Press, 2004, www.cpccservicescorp.com), which is based on her doctoral PDE, “Re-Pronounced Women: South African Women's Lives of Activism, Exile and Aging.” Hare is program chair in gerontology at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a graduate faculty member in the gerontology and women’s studies programs at University of North Carolina-Charlotte. A fourth-generation South African, Hare earned a degree in social work from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and has worked with older adults for more than 20 years, both in South Africa and the United States. Before her anti-apartheid activities forced her to leave South Africa in 1986, Hare was a teacher and trainer, community organizer, social worker, case manager, executive director of an adult day health care center, and an advocate for elder issues. Hare’s specific interests in the field of gerontology are women and aging, and multi-cultural aspects of aging. She is also a graduate of the New York School of Interior Design.

Glenn McRae, Ph.D. was appointed director of public policy programs at The Snelling Center for Government in Burlington, Vermont. He is an adjunct associate professor with the Master's of Public Administration Program at the University of Vermont.

Janet Lynn Roseman, Ph.D. is a clinical instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI, where she is involved in research in spirituality and medicine. She also works at the Wellness Community cancer support center in Boca Raton, FL, utilizing spectra-immunology (light and color therapy) with cancer patients. Her new book, Dance was their Religion, The Spiritual Choreography of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Martha Graham (Hohm Press) to be published this year, is based on her doctoral dissertation, " With Spirit in Mind: Reflections on the Spiritual Choreography of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Martha Graham." The second edition of her book, The Way of the Woman Writer (Haworth Press), was released in May 2003, and her chapter on the use of dance therapy in palliative care will be published by Oxford University Press. Roseman has authored several other books, including Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance (Routledge). She can be reached at dancejan@aol.com.

(An incorrect name and graduation year appeared for Janet Lynn Roseman (above) in the Fall 2003 issue of Network. We regret the error.

2000

Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., Ph.D. presented his paper, “North Korean Nuclear and Missile Problem and Regional Security,” at the International Council on Korean Studies conference on The Impact of the 2004 U.S. and Korean Elections on Their Politics, Economies, and Societies, August 6, 2004, in Arlington, Virginia. His article, “North Korean Nuclear and Missile Issues and the ROK-U.S. Collaboration: An American Perspective” was published in Korea Observer (Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 41-62), the oldest international relations journal in Korea. Bechtol is assistant professor at the Department of International Security and Military Studies, Air Command and Staff College, located at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, AL. Previously, he served as the senior intelligence analyst for China, Japan, and Korea with the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (see Network, Spring 2003).

Robert Diemer, Ph.D. was appointed director of the Criminal Justice Graduate Program, Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, FL. Previously, Diemer served the State of Florida since 1999 as chief of criminal investigations for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as state coordinator for the Florida Sheriffs Association Task Force. He was also a detective sergeant with the Narcotics Division, and patrol officer and administrative supervisor for the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.

Audie Gaddis, Ph.D. has served since June 2002 as coordinator of psychological services at Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he is responsible for inpatient and outpatient psychological services with emphasis on psychological testing and assessment. Gaddis also conducts a bi-weekly HIV Support Group.

Keith W. Jones, Ph.D. 2000 and College of Undergraduate Studies adjunct faculty, was honored February 21, 2004 in Baltimore, MD for his Career Achievement in Government at the 18th Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference, the nation's premier career development and employee recognition event for blacks in engineering, science, and technology. The award is sponsored by Lockheed Martin Corporation, DaimlerChrysler Corporation, the Council of the Engineering Deans of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and US Black Engineering & Information Technology magazine, which featured Jones and other honorees in the March/April 2004 issue. Jones is lead engineer, Distributed Mission Operations and Integration Standards, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, northeast of Dayton, where he has worked for more than 23 years. He specializes in electronic warfare, bus architectures, and systems engineering and science at the Aeronautical Systems Center, Training Systems Product Group. In addition to his career at WPAFB, Jones is also a part-time educator, scientist, and science historian focusing on African and African-American involvement in the history of science and technology.

William Theodore "Teed" Rockwell, Ph.D. authored Neither Brain nor Ghost: A Non-Dualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory, to be published by Bradford Books/MIT Press. For a chapter by chapter summary of the book, see his Web site "Cognitive Questions" at www.california.com/~mcmf, created during his UI&U doctoral program. Rockwell is a lecturer at Sonoma State University, CA.

1999

Melvin Gravely, Ph.D. was included in the inaugural edition of Who's Who in Black Cincinnati, 2003, which salutes and features the achievements of African-American men and women who have made their mark in the Cincinnati community. Formerly a large-account marketing representative with IBM, Gravely is a full-time author, speaker, entrepreneur and entrepreneurial coach, and founding president of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Thinking, which published his most recent book, When Black and White Make Green (2003).See www.melgravely.com.

Andrew B. Jones Jr., Ph.D. was appointed in August 2003 to serve on the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology through May 2007. Jones is a clinical psychologist in private practice.

1998

Andrew Berry, Ph.D. is pursuing a Psy.D. degree at Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri.

Don Seastrum, Ph.D. initiated and co-taught the first overseas studio course for Western State College of Colorado-Gunnison, where Seastrum is assistant professor of art. "Drawing in Florence Summer 2004" is a classical drawing course that used a variety of drawing mediums to incorporate the environs of Florence, Italy. The course provided an in-depth investigation into drawing issues facing students in a bachelor of art/bachelor of fine arts degree program.

1997

Mary Bookser, Ph.D. was featured in the Cincinnati Enquirer, January 2, 2004 in “Nun Answers Call on Field and Court,” a story about her position as counselor and confidant to students — especially student athletes — at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. The article reports that Bookser, a Sister of Charity, is the only nun working in such a role at a public institution, according to the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletes. Bookser also works as a part-time counselor and advisor in the College of Business at University of Cincinnati.

Anthony R. Curtis, Ph.D. was interviewed in the September 29, 2003 article “China Bids to Join Exclusive Club of Space Powers” by the Beijing bureau of the Reuters News Group, which distributed story to print and electronic media outlets around the world. Curtis provided expert commentary as editor of Space Today Online. He is professor and chair of the Department of Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Daniel Grego, Ph.D. is executive director of TransCenter for Youth, Inc., a Milwaukee-based non-profit agency that oversees the intermediary program to implement a $17.25 million grant for A New Vision of Secondary Education in Milwaukee, awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last July. The Technical Assistance & Leadership Center (TALC New Vision) project aims to create 61 new small high schools throughout the city of Milwaukee over five years, connecting schools, workplaces, and other community resources in order to improve pathways for youth to postsecondary learning, careers, and effective citizenship. TALC New Vision provides and brokers services to new school founders, convenes key stakeholders under the grant, monitors fiscal responsibility, measures outcomes of the reform efforts, and promotes policies that sustain effective small school options. An international education consultant and author, Grego has served as a high school teacher and principal, co-founder of four small high schools in Milwaukee, and is a founding member of the Alliance for Choices in Education. His UI&U dissertation Project Demonstrating Excellence, “The Tiniest Chill: Explorations of the Confluence of Educational and Environmental Philosophy,” examined issues related to his current work with TALC New Vision. See www.talcnewvision.org.

Ada P. Kahn, Ph.D. published Encyclopedia of Work-Related Injuries, Illnesses and Injuries (Facts on File, Inc., 2004) and Phobias (Life Balance) (Franklin Watts, 2003). Kahn recently appeared on a cable television program in Evanston, IL, a morning television show in Sacramento, CA, and a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Skokie, IL discussing her books.

Ivan L. King, Ph.D. is a staff associate, Office of the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA. In addition to his fulltime position as a social scientist at NSF, King has served as both visiting and adjunct professor at the graduate level for the past six years at George Mason University, and as an adjunct at the University of Maryland’s University College.

Jonathan Lebolt, Ph.D. was appointed adjunct faculty at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work in August 2003. Previously, Lebolt served as an adjunct in social work at Columbia, New York, Fordham, and Adelphi Universities.

Jan Maher, Ph.D. co-authored History in the Present Tense: Engaging Students through Inquiry and Action (Heinemann, 2003). She is the author of several plays including Intruders (winner of Best of Fest honors at the New City Theater Playwrights Festival), Widow's Walk (finalist status in the Actors Theater of Louisville Ten-Minute Play Contest), Ismene, and The Next County Over. She is co-author of Most Dangerous Women, a musical documentary of the international women's peace movement performed in Portland, Oregon in March 2004. Her poems have been published in Bellowing Ark and Lancaster Independent Press. Maher’s first novel, Heaven, Indiana, is published by Dog Hollow Press (2000). She is Seattle site coordinator for Heritage College, where she has taught educational methods, curriculum, and learning theory since 1998. She also teaches for Western Washington University's Urban Teacher Education Program and was a guest instructor at Seattle University.

Carter McNamara, Ph.D. was honored as the Minnesota Organization Development Network’s “Organization Development Practitioner of the Year” for 2004. McNamara is co-founder of Authenticity Consulting, which provides solutions in nonprofit organization and leadership development. McNamara teaches the seminar, "Organization Development and Change," for the Center for Nonprofit Management at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis He is also a nationally recognized expert in peer learning (action learning) programs to facilitate learning and organizational change. See www.authenticityconsulting.com.

Rick Muller, Ph.D. presented the paper, “Archetypal Symbols: The Nature of Wholeness in Corporate Logos” during the XXXII Annual Conference of the Jean Gebser Society for the Study of Culture and Consciousness at New York University, October 2003. Muller is director of outreach and business development at Poudre Valley Health System in Fort Collins, Colorado.

1996

Jean Canonne, Ph.D., recipient of UI&U’s 1996 Marvin B. Sussman Project Demonstrating Excellence Award, co-authored and presented papers including “Valuation Errors Detrimental to Management” online (Association of Management, August 2002); “Les déterminants de la valeur marchande des condominiums horizontaux de l’île de Montréal. Une approche économétrique” (Paris: Etudes Foncières, Sept-Oct 2002); “Les déterminants de la valeur marchande des résidences unifamiliales de l’île de Montréal. Evaluation de masse conjuguée avec les SIG” (Halifax: Revue canadienne des sciences administratives, hiver 2003); and “Valuation without Value-A North American Appraisal” (Grand Forks, North Dakota, Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education of the American Real Estate Society, Winter 2003).

1995

Charles Randy Nichols Jr., Ph.D. was named to the Sloan Consortium as a consultant to advise colleges and businesses on the utilization of online instruction or training. He will consult in the areas of technology use and diversity, selecting content or learning management systems, and on issues involving Internet-based research. An online instructor since 1999, Nichols was promoted in January 2004 from associate dean for online studies at Sullivan University in Louisville, KY to dean for online studies with the Sullivan University System. He is completing his fourth online instructor certification, and was referenced in the "Working It" column in the March 2004 issue of Essence magazine. He recently presented a seminar on "Seeking Employment in the Current Economy" at the state meeting for the Kentucky Association of Blacks in Higher Education.

1994

Dale Karolak, Ph.D. presented a keynote speech titled “Strategies for Embedding Virtual Product Development Practices for a Tier One Supplier” at the 2003 North American Virtual Product Development Conference in Dearborn, Michigan. He is vice president of product development at Intier Automotive, Brighton, MI.

Raymond J. Petras, Ph.D., a specialist in injury management and performance enhancement with Southwest Pain Management Associates in Phoenix, AZ was invited by the American Academy of Pain Management and People to People Ambassador Programs (founded by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower) to be part of a team of professionals specializing in pain management, visiting China and Tibet in July 2004. He participated in Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano’s Call for Action Conference on Healthy Weight for Children and their Families Childhood Obesity Prevention, January 30, 2004, in Phoenix, and was featured in the Youngstown, OH Vindicator’s sports section, December 18, 2003. Petras focuses on mind-body relationships and has devised a “Talk Away Pain™” method to eliminate pain without the use of drugs, surgery, or manipulation, either on site or by tele-medicine, the transmitting of information to reduce or eliminate pain via phone. See www.reliefforyou.com.

Roger W. Wilson, Ph.D. is assistant professor of information systems at Fairmont State University in Fairmont, WV.

1993

Robert Hinson, Ph.D. authored The Riddle from the Creek House Ghost (D-N Publishing, 2003), his latest of 16 books of primarily young adult fiction. He is a member and past president of the Union County Writers Club, and co-founder of the Writers Workshop of Asheville, North Carolina. Hinson teaches English at Lancaster High School, Lancaster County, South Carolina, and is the sponsor of the school’s poetry club. He has taught English and creative writing in the public school systems, colleges, and universities in the Carolinas for more than 20 years.

1991

Lisa Mertz, Ph.D. and Graduate College adjunct faculty, is a full-time associate professor with the new A.A.S. in Massage Therapy program at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York. A licensed massage therapist (LMT), Mertz serves on the board of directors of the New York State Society of Medical Massage Therapists, and is a member of the Exam Review Committee for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. She is the book and video review editor since 1999 for Massage Therapy Journal, published by the American Massage Therapy Association. Her areas of expertise include massage therapy for people with serious illness, hospital-based massage, and cross-cultural spiritual healing. Her Union doctoral studies were focused in anthropology.

1990

Dolores A. Grayson, Ph.D. is founder and co-owner of GrayMill, a private educational consulting agency that distributes the Generating Expectations for Student Achievement (GESA) Program and other equity-related materials. Over 35 years as a professional educator, she has been a science and physical education teacher, a school and district administrator, program developer, grants writer, program specialist with the Midwest Regional Equity Center at Kansas State University, Title IX administrative consultant with the California State Department of Education, and director of the Educational Equity Center for the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Grayson is a founding member and current chair of the governing board of the Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education, formerly known as the National Coalition for Sex Equity in Education; past chair of both Women Educators and Research on Women in Education; member and contributor to the American Educational Research Association and the Association for Supervision of Curriculum Development; and past president of the board of directors for the Alcoholism Center for Women in Los Angeles, which along with the Santa Monica Rape Crisis Treatment Center, recognized Grayson for her community service to high-risk women. Her published articles and books include Infusing Equity into Education (1996), Student Achievement Grounded in Equity, a participant booklet for higher education (2004), Gender/Ethnic Expectations and Student Achievement, A Teacher’s Handbook (co-authored, 1984, revised 1990), and GESA for Parents (1989, revision in progress).

John Francis Paul, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice in Clinton Township, MI. He also serves as a psychological consultant to two nursing homes and is on staff at Mt. Clemens General Hospital, Mt. Clemens, MI.

1989

John E. Imhof, Ph.D. is deputy commissioner of the Nassau County Department of Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Hempsted, NY. Formerly vice president, Behavioral Health Services for the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Great Neck, NY, he is founder and editor-in-chief emeritus of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Imhof is also assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, and adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Margret Rueffler, Ph.D. published Can Collective Violence be Prevented?, a report in book format describing the four-year PsychoPolitical Action Project in Bali, Indonesia. Founder of the PsychoPolitical Peace Institute, New York and Zurich, and the PsychoPolitical Peace Foundation, Staefa, Switzerland, she continues her work in Indonesia (see Network, Spring 2003), providing assistance, skills training, and education about the prevention of collective violence in the children's prison in East Java, a women's crisis center in Surabaya, and Bali’s Tanggayuda village, Bangli area and Kuta slum near the multi-ethnic tourist area targeted by terrorist bombings in 2002. Rueffler is working with various NGO's, universities, and other groups to develop a joint "Peace Building in Multi-Ethnic Communities" program in 2004. She is in touch with several Islamic religious organizations, and was invited to hold a workshop at the Muhammedia University in Gresik, East Java in June. See www.pppi.net.

1988

Sandra L. Bertman, Ph.D., research professor of palliative care at Boston College, was selected as an honorary member of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. Bertman was inducted during a special ceremony at the society’s biennial convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 2003. Founding director of the Program of Medical Humanities at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Bertman was one of the early visionaries in the field of hospice and palliative care; a leader in the field of end-of-life care for the past 30 years; and contributor to the knowledge in the field through publications, films, funded projects, courses, and lectures. As an educator and training consultant in clinical thanatology and palliative care, she pioneered the use of the arts, humanities, and expressive therapies to advance the knowledge of the psychology of loss, suffering, and spirituality. Her research has uncovered the experience of patients, the comfort derived from therapeutic use of the arts, and the arts’ capacity for bringing together shared concerns of those in end-of-life care situations.

Richard Cosby, Ph.D. is director of athletics at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

1987

Barbara Cephas-Dorsey, Ph.D. received the 2004 Distinguished Black Marylanders Award in Social Sciences from the Office of Diversity Resources at Towson University in MD in February. A licensed certified social worker-clinical (LCSW-C), Cephas-Dorsey is director of the Department of Training, one of six administrations within University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) School of Social Work, where she also teaches. She also has a clinical consultation business and develops and presents workshops.

1983

Constance Silver, Ph.D. was appointed to New York University’s board of trustees in a ceremony held at the Kimmel Center, New York, October 9, 2003.

1982

Mel Silverman, Ph.D. 1982 recently received the Bronze Star for his efforts 60 years ago as an Army combat infantryman in the European Theater of Operations during WW II. An engineer, consultant, educator and two-time Fulbright scholar, Silverman teaches online graduate courses in business and management for several U.S. universities. He is at work on his sixth trade book on similar management topics, intended to assist engineers and other technically trained people to make the transition from the objective problem-solving style required to deal with "Mother Nature" to the more ambiguous, problematic requirements of dealing with other people in the management realm.

1980

Laurence A. Becker, Ph.D. produced With Eyes Wide Open, an international award-winning documentary film regarding autistic savant artist Richard Wawro of Scotland, a featured film screened during the International Very Special Arts Festival, Washington, D.C., June 9-12, 2004. Becker, executive director of Creative Learning Environments in Austin, Texas, is credited for working with Wawro and another autistic savant artist, Christophe Pillault, in Artism™: Art by Those with Autism (www.AutismToday.com, 2004). Becker also made several presentations during the eighth National Rethinking Education Conference, held in Irvine, TX in May 2004.

Gerald Haslam, Ph.D. published two op-ed pieces, “We Will Reap What We Sow in the Central Valley,” Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2003, and “Going, Going…Central Valley in Transition,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 2003. He is the subject of a profile in the recently released CaP Cure 2002 Review, the annual publication of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Haslam’s works have appeared in more than 100 anthologies, including his most recent articles, “Growers and Greens Unite,” Outlooks: Readings in Environmental Literacy (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2003), and “The Doll,” Reading for Academic Success (McGraw Hill, 2003). He gave the keynote speech at the inauguration of California State University’s Lifelong Learning Program, Bakersfield, California, November 15, 2003, and was elected vice chair of the Yosemite Association’s Board of Trustees.

James M. Rose, Ph.D., along with Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., UI&U director of Lifelong Learning, were guests on DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour, February 10, 2004, in response to high interest in their book, Black Genesis: A Resource Book for African-American Genealogy (Genealogical Publishing Company, 3rd edition, 2003, orig. 1978) and in observance of Black History Month.

1977

John V. Lonero, Ph.D. was invited to speak at Furman University, Greenville, SC, February 2004, on “Contemplating My Novel.” The nucleus of his talk was his book, I Used to be Italian (see Network, Spring 2003). Lonero has taught in public schools, lectured at the recently completed South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts, and speaks at conferences here and abroad. His publications include short stories, national magazine articles on art education, and “how-to” art packages with workbooks. Lonero paints, sculpts, and operates an art studio in Tryon, NC with his wife, Hedy E. Lonero, who also earned her Ph.D. from UI&U in 1977. See: www.iusedtobeitalian.com.

Joyce Nower, Ph.D. authored Qin Warriors and Other Poems (Avranches Press, July 2003). Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Library Journal, Choice, The Catbird Seat, New Works Review, Slant, Taproot, The Journals, Terminus, Curbside Review, and Grasslimb. Nower writes a bimonthly column, “Intersection,” for The Alsop Review, an online literary magazine, and her articles have included information on Ben Jonson, domestic imagery in poetry, Naomi Shihab-Nye, and the legacy of Emily Dickinson. One of the founders (at San Diego State University) of the first Women's Studies Program in the nation, Nower organized many poetry readings, art shows, community programs, and political events, and was awarded four successive Artist-in-the-Community grants by the California Arts Council. She holds a third degree black belt in Taekwondo, and is a student of Tibetan White Crane Tai Chi. See: www.joycenower.com.

Gene Ruyle, Ph.D. played the role of Basilio in Aurora Theater's production of Pedro Calderone de la Barca's 17th century play La Vida es Sueno that was performed in both Spanish and English. Since his Georgia Shakespeare Festival debut in 1997, Ruyle performed in Candida and in Auntie Mame at Actor’s Express; has worked in theaters throughout Atlanta and elsewhere; provided on-camera narration for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared onstage with the Atlanta Opera. A published author and playwright/composer with theater works of his own in preparation, Ruyle is director of theater arts at Hidden Lake Academy, Dahlonega, GA, the first therapeutic boarding school in the United States to receive full academic accreditation (SACS). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Author’s League of America, as well as an Episcopal priest. Ruyle published his PDE, “Making Sense: The Act of Mind and Body which Forms the Meaning that Fashions Our Lives,”) as Making A Life: Career, Commitment, and the Life Process (Seabury Press, 1984).

Shimon Camiel, Ph.D. published his first book, The Outhouse War and Other Kibbutz Stories (Writer’s Showcase Press, April 2001), exchanging his public health career for a writing career. Camiel, who holds dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship, was stationed with his Israeli military unit on the Golan Heights shortly after the Six Day War of 1967. Camiel lived two decades between the late 1950s and late 1970s at Kibbutz Naot Mordechai, located in the thumb of Israel, near Kiryat Shemona. He divides his time between the kibbutz and his home in San Diego. He is working on his second novel, Zelig’s Odyssey.

1976

Ernest R. Myers, Ph.D. retired from the University of the District of Columbia this spring, after serving for 32 years as a professor in the Department of Psychology and Counseling. He was also nominated to Howard University’s Board of Trustees. Myers is editor and key author of Challenges of a Changing America: Perspectives on Immigration and Multiculturalism in the United States (CaddoGap Press, 2nd ed., 2001), with a new foreword by Danny K. Davis, Ph.D. 1977, U.S. House of Representatives, 7th Congressional District, IL.

Peter Radetsky, Ph.D. is a content developer for Clear Channel Exhibitions, which develops traveling museum exhibits primarily for science, natural history, and children's museums. He is lead developer and installation writer for Saint Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes, representing the largest collection of objects from the Vatican ever to tour North America. The 18-month tour premiered March 2, 2003 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, moved on to the Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale and the Cincinnati Museum Center, and is now at the San Diego Museum of Art through September 4. Formerly a contributing editor of Discover magazine, Radetsky has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and written six books, including The Invisible Invaders: The Story of the Emerging Age of Viruses (Little Brown & Company, 1991), more than 100 articles for national magazines and newspapers, and many television and video scripts.

1975

Joseph Bruchac III, Ph.D., storyteller and writer, received the seventh annual Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, which recognizes an American author or illustrator whose books demonstrate artistic excellence and make a significant contribution to the field of multicultural literature for children and adolescents, presented at the 21st annual Virginia Hamilton Conference at Kent State University, March 2004. Bruchac has written more than 100 books for adults and children, many drawing on his Abenaki Indian culture. He has edited a number of highly praised anthologies of contemporary poetry and fiction, including Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back, Returning the Gift, and Breaking Silence, which won an American Book Award. Among his many other honors are the NEA/PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, and the Paterson Prize for Children's Literature for his memoir, Bowman's Store (Lee & Low Books, Reprint edition, 2001; Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997), which honors his grandfather whose Abenaki ancestry was for a long time a family secret. As a professional teller of the traditional tales of the Adirondacks and the Native peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, Bruchac has performed throughout the United States and Europe at such events as the British Storytelling Festival and the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, TN. He has been a storyteller-in-residence for Native American organizations and schools throughout the continent, including the Institute of Alaska Native Arts and the Onondaga Nation School. Bruchac and his family work extensively in projects involving the preservation of Abenaki culture, language, and traditional Native skills, including performing traditional and contemporary Abenaki music with the Dawnland Singers. His work as an educator includes eight years of directing a college program for Skidmore College inside a maximum security prison. He and his family also founded and operate the Greenfield Review Literary Center and the Greenfield Review Press, Ndakinna Wilderness Project, and the Ndakinna Education Center and nature preserve in upstate New York. See www.ndakinna.com.

1974

Ann E. Smith, Ph.D. received the 2003 Leader Luncheon Outstanding Achievement in Education Award from the Metropolitan Chicago YWCA on October 9, 2003. Smith currently serves as president of the Gamaliel Foundation, an institute that provides training and resources to leaders of grassroots organizations. In 1985, she was elected to the Board of Trustees at the University of Illinois, becoming the first black woman in Illinois elected to office in a statewide election. Smith also served as associate chancellor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to her education experience, Smith has held positions at Prudential Insurance; Cook, Stratton and Company; and Endow, Inc., an insurance planning and consulting firm she co-founded. Currently, Smith serves on the boards of the Illinois Arts Alliance and Foundation, the National Advisory Council for the NAACP ACT-SO, the Duncan YWCA, and the Marcy-Newberry Association.

1973

Thomas Plaut, Ph.D. completed 30 years of college teaching and his presidency of the Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) by co-hosting, with the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, the ASA’s 27th annual meeting in Cherokee, NC, March 2004. “Building a Healthy Region: From Historical Trauma to Hope and Healing” brought more than 800 scholars and activists from across the nation for the three-day conference. Plaut continues to teach sociology and direct the Center for Assessment and Research Alliances at Mars Hill College near Asheville, NC.